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V,IIE COMMERCIAL
Bu4INESS SCHOOL,


OPPOSITE LINCOLN HALL,
southeast corner Of Ninth and d streets, Washing.
ton, ID. O.,
will be opeu for the reception Of students
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER u, ls73
Board OF Directors-Gen. U. o. Howard, z Rich.
ards. esd, John Y. Cook, eel.. @. 4. Baker. esG,
TIeasursr, i ). i. Johnson. osq: Principal. Prof
l.. TwitchelL
days excepted)
give lessons In French,
Terms, payable ~ advance: frst month. in any
or all studies, o.; second and each subsequent
moth, o.; full course, (ten InonthsJ s2a stA.
toncry will be furnished students at cost. Further
information may be obtained by calling upon any
Of the board Of directors, or at the School buldns
Au2su
THE PINKNEY INSTITUTE, 1903 NEW
HnEk avenue; The Then misses 8 q Bargsss VII re re.
so3d2w w&eodaw'
n 6NZAGA COLLEGE, STREET, BETWEEN
" North Capitol and First strsets Scholastic exe,'
l-Ia, lAulStOctll JAMES CLARK, President.
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b,AERT,s INSTITUTE.

Miss NJ. A. Il. PHILLIPS boarding and Day
School for young ladies has remoyed to the larger
and more elegantly arranged building, No d East
fifIieth street between Madison aud Firth avenues.
tied TO fourteen, will bo received into the family
and enjoy the privileges Of rehnsd and beautiful
LID, Rcy. Henry Ward Beccber, Rev. ferd q.
Ever, ID. D., aud many others. kindergarten De
partment for little children. Application may be
made by letter. or personally. rs above au2Sam
nor Of MaHHachusetts avenua Circulars ut Book.
eealawlli MIRA 4. L. FULLER
National Republican., 1873-09-24
RALTiMoRK AND POTOMAC RAILROAD.

u
bEpor CORNER SIXTH AND STREETS
After AUGUST n s9saHSEsr ss1 ils1s Yin run a. follow,
ThAisS hsiIiNSht hEAHh ron rnAaNss AiIyk AT
' pres. d.yN Ni's,r. Er 's Erss. nd d,S ksw York si
5:0j A. m. New York Ell. rs a. m. daily, except
.coommoa,,op Sos;S ssd E1gsss. Tss; dsg t.EI
II IS = M, Fast Line u 70 a, M, hccommoda-
West, daily, except Sun. tiun from Baltimore. .
LIS 3 IN. New York e,. sdaiy.eiesp. sunday.
s.. Baltimore express. daily. I eicept !, sunday. '
sso 2. N, naitinore Ae. s.9 y M. daily. except
oommodAnon' com daily ex' sunday. ,.p- ,..
fsPs n sanSSsSi SSSciup. or; Ssiy eissP fss%
Bress. daily. except Sun. snday. from West and
s%S e.; ,,,, daily New 10 - y: m: a: Southern
10 =. m, Paclhc II. II 20, New York express.
Trnine IcsvinT washinsto at % q M. and 60
p. m connect At Bowie with trains for Marlboro.
leaving Bowie at ~ and II q nl Us y. m, arrv
ins At Marlboro at iG 80 and II rs =. m and 6stb
Trains arriving at Washington at II % .. m. "a
and sSs y. m connect at Bowie with trains leaving
Mhrlboro' At IS a m, 9; ~ and ~ P. IA. o,..
northwest corner Thirteenth and Pennsylyania ave
nue., northwest corner Sixth and Pennryl ave
nue. can have their baggage called for and checked
- hotels and residences to all points North and
West Through tickets to Cincinnati, Cormbur,
Indianapola. Loui.yiile, ", Louis, New orleans.
East, West, North and South.
Il L. DuIlhRHY. Clep Sumo pertntsndent
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FOR ANNAPOLIS
At6.B Q. N. and bp, m; bnt not en- Sunday.
FOR NORFOLK


A''s. m. .i sSS SSs SsSASSEis sSasSfR Sunday
rSs foisF u SFi RGSS aSS 6
sSR' E. sSSs ( q & q q r. 80 A. md
ASEIEsBusss IA H55ERSSt5EAS
sspns ssl. S1Sasa q & sns ''
wSin6n sS ss:n + Psis i. ssS q &:
sesaas s y Ave-
af Sss sa Z as sfsn e
n ss BOSTON, 3D.
n'''ft Z Il Il TSsesIRip0rt'u'n. SeIpp
asPsJ'l aSE5. ! IlS5Sss K5Ssfss sAfssn.
Tea General Agent. Wsshinston.
1INHROuGH LINE BETWEEN WASHINGTON
Train. be,ysen w.sSihston and Ssw New TGis are
Leave daily tsIcspt sunday at sio a. M. 30. and
FOR PHILADELPHIA.
Leave daily Except sunday ats i0A.m.. % and 9
Leave for New Yor. sIS!iS y. m. and PhiladelphiA
Sleeping cars for New York on the els T. m train
ssss sss p ssS Yrrs I. ssH, sns
Of the day, Also at the company's Office, US Penn.
See Baihmore, and Ohio Railroad advertisements
sSssasS sna shs %ss An
A-''''' Master Of Transportation.
fS s9&tSo SfaSrs Ssaa, gsssS no.
w AsNiSSiRE ssb dREAT II souTnRRs uis, RAItBoAD
81 ma SsSa.SiSssS saa Dinv' Railroad
D9uBLE DAlIX ThhiSs, , tsrseIFt Ists dnabie day
eonnsetions Be SetsSsh %sshaSs and and
in sSs .MS Ps s
and Ohio railroad at S3LdS9hs'd shd Iii t6e ns n
e ths OHIO hi % river and Wet -.,n,,, ,n. m
The Chcsapeake and Ohio rsirSaa % nrn rmns ne train
wfssW% TssTs %sshinston BY Potomse Ferry Sompany's
seventh sai .iTi't .fs sni ss and
Union @ streets. andria st 80 m: and 70 N:
SFirss scsS y Wei ana
psssS5RSITr %RST 'sf M, aay. sissptins Sunday
Pullman Palace Cars from Alexandria TO New Or.
easRslss sRsis & eas 3 avenue and At
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Dsppt Mashinst2n.
O or at Ale1andriA' corner Oh hihs ana Union
Omnibus LPS make. rsEa sss be
is BTeSfiss. and supper ferry boats for through
plsssshsef' sps I'M BRoADUs. q. I. A;
HENRY It. SIGAHLE,
ARCHITKCT,
TO x Street, Opposite Pest once Depart
i.isu
las. u. ILEfiANh, Il. Ls bhAhA
81 U. g. Commissioner
and Examiner In
in OhAncery.
ClEpHANE & BRAllE,
a BHoRTHANp WRITER'S AND Law hEp99h,rhisii ~ ,iloni
| OMces-Eo llO o street, between htrtt anu beSiI'
] tots,isotnG 1rdianaayenucs pn''
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F9HAss a:S SiR Fs!saHsrT seEsrn,snasen' fsSne

A LRxANDRA AND WASHINGTON RAIL
"A ROAD AND ALEXANDRIA AND FREDE
pEfSf fSoia aEa SixIil AMP sTEEIETs; ;EIGas =
H. y aiindnis % y RGHa Siy ali Gitsrs d.s sa %
q ,koes trsins leave Ale1andri. As. tcrIovs, 8. :.
j a. m. and ,. m. from Alexandra daily; ali other
frains thus eSnnec, with trains on w,sh
6UxsTi6O sccoinmodaton leaves Warrington
kRf fassf sGftfhEfs Eaf{Ess vi, Richmond.
e.yss Msshinyt9n u AZ 2 m daily except SUNDAY
.yenue. and Thirteenth and Pennsy lvsnia svspue.
gage TO be Sssefsd q" q ali hotels and rssiashcsc
h5SSss Yys to destination ,p.r, p,sssnss9 q nses.
| REAT PENNSYLVANIA ROUTE
osonyuwEsT. s5tTH - Tht ND SOUTHWEST.
On aud afler July y. iss5. trains viii leave a.
wAshinston.... s!s, . m B.ltimore...... - m.
. ... SIS .. NJ :. sees, .,s3sp. m.
THE aiiRhr bS6HHfbLl BE- III TRACK Y0trE. p IL.
with elegant scenery. Palace state-room. day and
| Two hundred miles saved 10 Western An Central
The sa a. IN. to Niagara Falls daily. c.oep, Sun.
day; the i 10 a. m daily. except Sunday, north
west: the siSp. m. daily. except Sunday; lo.p. M
MAKE CONNECTIONS
through from Warrington to Rochester and Fits
Tickets BY tSis route can be procured at the once,
corner Of Sixth street Penhsy avenue, and
rhir,eenth street and Pennsylyani. avenue. where
| cure accommodations In Palace Cars for PittsDurs
Corner Sixth st, and Penn. ave.,
Ed. B. YOUNG. General Passsnssr sis,,I,a4 AseSSS,
The true northerner., 1873-10-10
That Irrepressible Danbury Boy.

There was a boy in Nelson stree
yard cutting wood, yesterday, and he
worked at it in strikingly natural man
ner. First he set the stick on one end
and prepared to strike it, when it tum-
bled down. Then he stood it up, and
put a silver under the weak side to sus-
tain it, and lifted the axe for the blow,
when it tumbled again. As he had got
the axe up quite a ways this time, and
was fairly quivering with expectation,
the reaction was not pleasant. 1t APP
peared to weaken him, and before an
other trial, he leaned on the axe and
looked around on the scenery. At the
third trial he put several slivers under
the stick, and was some five minutes
doing it. Then he raised the axe care
fully, deliberately took aim, and
brought the blade down with terrible
force, and within about an inch and
half of the stick, which Immediately
tipped over. This surprised him. He
looked at the axe, then at the stick, and
then around at the houses to see if any
body was looking. He was ten minutes
propping the stick up the fourth time.
When he got it so it would stand with
out being held, he took up the axe, and
after several mock motions so as to get
the right aim, he swung the implement
down again. The blade struck the
stick with terrible force within about q
sixteenth of an inch from the edge, and
took off slip about five inches long.
We don't suppose there is anything
quite so aggravating as this. Splitting
your shin open to the bone is pastime
in comparison. The Nelson street boy
stood that stick up again without any
ceremony, and with tie least display in
the world swung the axe over his
head and brought it spitefully down.
The blade this time chipped off half
inch chip, and then swung around with
such momentum as to throw the boy off
his feet and drive him headlong over
pile OF other sticks, every one of which
he struck with his knees or face. We
don't think We ever saw any boy get on
his feet as quick as that boy did. And
we were not in the least surprised to see
HIM snatch up that axe, and, with
screams and sobs, beat that stick until
he was exhausted. With this unpleas-
ant duty performed, he flung the axe in
among the tomato vines, and went in
the house for piece of cake. e.--Danbury
NeUs.
The true northerner., 1873-10-10
YOU CAN NEVER TELL.

You think il il easy your steps 10 retrace
Before the last pitfall In gained
That a man can STOP hort of crushing disgrace
And still find his honor unstained;
But SIN is so mighty and conscience 80 weak.
And under so tempting spell,
That though you may wish other pleasures To seek,
Your weakness you never can tell
The ocean of evil you never can sound
Its depths you can never discern,
But under your feet there is treacherOus ground,
N away from the good land you turn,
You see not the danger, you fear not the foe,
You whisper the soul, Ii is well! !"
And think that you know just how far you may co.
But you never, no. never can tell
You never can tell at what moment you'll slip
Into snares that cruelty laid
Bv those who are willing another should trip
Where they were foully betrayed.
A moments indulgence may lead you to crimes
That merit prisoners cell
That quench the hot fever OF passion betimes,
For its power you never can tell!
You never can tell at what moment you'll hear
The signal of Death at your gate,
Whose touch will arrest your wild, thOaghtless
career,
And bring you repentance too late.
Stand firm, then, to-day the allurements OF sin
With pride and persistence repel,
And strive for prize that Is worthy TO win,
And whose glory no mortal can tell
The true northerner., 1873-10-10
Pith and Point.

THE diamonds of the late Duke of
Brunswick are estimated to be worth
five million francs.
SMITH thinks o dentist is the favorite
operator in real estate. He relieves peo-
pie of their achers.
A LADY was asked the other day why
she chose to live a single life. She
naively replied, because I'm not able
to support husband.
"MIKE, why don't you fire at those
ducks, boy-don't you see you have got
the whole flock before your gun ?"
know 1 have but when get good aim
at one, two or three others will swim
right up between it and me.
An inebriated lrishman, on being
kindly questioned in very narrow lane
across which he was reeling, as to the
length of the road he had travelled, re-
piled "Faith it's not SO much the
length of it as the breadth of it that
tired me.
"WHERE was Bishop Latimer burned
to death ?" asked teacher in a COM
manding voice. "Joshua knows" said
a little girl at the bottom of the class.
well" )" said the teacher, "if Joshua
knows, he may tell. :" In the fire,
replied Joshua, looking very grave and
wise
FRESH DANBERRIEs.
They say the largest English settle
ment made in this country is in Kansas,
We thought it was the Alabama.
Dumb bells at jewelry stores for the
exercise of those who contemplate the
new style of sleeve studs, wouldn't be
bad idea.
Probably more boys would learn
the trade of carpenter if it wasn't for
slipping between the floor timbers and
rasping their shins.
An Essex street man bought pig
Saturday. ''What do you feed your
pig?" asked a neighbor. Corn" he
said. "Do you feed it in the ear ?"
asked the friend "Do you think l am
fool p said the Essex street man, sar-
castically.
season was given, last Sunday, when
one of the congregation, being nudged
with the contribution box, abruptly
cried out, "Drop them melons, blast
ye - Then he awoke, looked around,
blushed and scooted
Mr.. Etheridge has put up hand
some monument on his lot in the Slaw-
son cemetery. He has his name and
birth on its face, and beneath the space
left for the death is this beautiful and
somewhat premature observation
"None knew him but to love him.
Did you ever stand on bench to
reach something. and have the bench
give out? Not smash down, but shoot
out behind and fling you. That is what
happened to North street man, Mon
day night, while he was putting up pic
ture, and when he went down he made
gully in the wall with his nose nine
inches long, and nearly turned that val
liable organ bottom upward.
The true northerner., 1873-10-10
Following the Sun Round the World

The journey round the world is
scarcely more of an undertaking at the
present time that trip to Europe was a
few years ago. "The actual travelling
time, as Rev. DIR. Prime states in the
preface to his Around the World"
just published by the Harpers, "has
been reduced to seventy-tive days, dis
tributed as follows From New York
to San Francisco, by rail, six days from
San Francisco to Yokohama and Hong
Kong, by steamship, twenty-seven days
from Hong Kong to Calcutta, by steam
ship, twelve days from Calcutta to
Bombay, via Allahabad, by continuous
rail, a journey of 1,450 miles through
the heart of India, three days from
Bombay to Suez, by steamship, eleven
days from Suez to Paris or London, by
steamship and rail, six days from Lon
don to New York, ten days" One
would not like to spend less than six
months on the tour, which, if his plans
were carefully laid out in advance,
enable him to glance at the chief points
of interest en- route. What he can ac-
complish if he takes year for the Jour
ney, DIR. Primes book will show and
ohciC siic uItNuiituSto III ucNollHS JiSu
that period to the tour. BY starting at
the right time (about the first of Au-
gust, nd going westward with the sun,
"the traveller will be in each country,
and on every sea, at the most favorable
season whereas longer period would
inevitably bring him into some oriental
region in midsummer, when the heat
is almost intolerable even for residents,
or among tie thyphoons and cyclones of
the tropical seas In this way the cir
cult of the earth may be made as safely
and comfortably as an ordinary summer
excursion to Europe. California, Japan,
China, India, Egypt, and Palestine, may
thus be visited in turn, and time enough
will remain for a run through Italy,
Switzerland, Germany, France, and the
British Isles, before the year has
elapsed. -BOSton Journal Of Chem
iSf1'U
The true northerner., 1873-10-10
SERVED OUT.

In the year 1888 there lived at Bor-
deaux the last, or one of the last, of n
long line of scoundrels who made that
part of France infamous Ito our ideas)
by succession of cold-blooded MUIR
ders. committed under the sanction of
what the people were pleased to call the
Code of Honor. There was a certain
Comte de V, a man of great physi-
cal strength, imperturbable sang froid,
and relentless cruelty. Not bad sort
of a companion, as some said, when the
dueling fit was not on him, but this
came on once in about every six months,
and then he must have blood, it mat
tered little whose. He had killed and
manned boys of Is, fathers of families,
military officers, journalists, advocates,
peaceful country gentlemen. The cause
of the quarrel was of no Importance if
one did not present itself readily, he
made one always contriving that, ac
cording to the code aforesaid, he should
be the insulted party, thus having the
choice of weapons and he was deadly
with the small sword. 1t is difficult for
us to realize a society in which such a
wild man could be permitted to go at
large but we know it to be historically
true that such creatures were endured
in France just as we are assured that
there were at one time wolves in York
shire only the less noisome vermin had
a harder time of it, as civilization pro-
gressed, than was dealt out to the hui
man brute.
The last exploit of the Comte de
V, previous to the story am about
to tell, was to goad a poor student into
a challenge and when it was repre-
sented to him that the boy had never
held sword in his life, he replied that
"fools sometimes made mistakes with
pistols" and, the next morning, ran him
through the lungs. The evil fit was ON
him: but the blood thus shed quieted
him for another half year, and rather
more. for public opinion was unfavora-
BILE. and the air of Bordeaux became
too warm for him.
But the scandal blew over after time;
he came back to his old haunts, one OF
which was q cafe by the river side,
where many used to spend their Sun
day. Into the little garden of this es-
ta6lishment our wolf staggered one fine
summer afternoon, with the heavy dark
look and nervous twitchinR of the hands
which those who were acquainted with
him knew well meant mischief. The
evil fit was on him ; consequently he
fonnd himself the center OF circle
which expanded as he went on. This
did not displease him. He liked to be
feared He knew he could make a
The true northerner., 1873-10-10
The Ashe Family.

The Ashe family, of North Carolina,
for luck in official honors, cast the
Washburne family into the shade. One
member of the family, John b. Ashe,
was elected Governor in 1895, but he
died before his Inauguration, and his
father, Samuel Ashc, was elected in his
stead. John Ashe was member of the
Assembly for the southern portion of
the Province of Carolina in 100; his
son, John Baptiste Ashe, of the Colonial
Assembly in 1925, and Speaker of that
body; his son, Samuel Ashe, of the
Assembly of 1777, and Speaker of the
Senate branch his son, Samuel Ashe,
of the General Assembly of 1902 his
son, William s. Ashe, of the Legis-
lature of 1916; and his son, S. A. Ashe,
OF the General Assembly of 1870.
The true northerner., 1873-10-10
That strawberrv-eater remained a

That strawberry -eater remained a
month at Bordeaux to fulfill his promise
of giving the Count his revenge. But
then, again, the bully met more than
his match. The strawberry -eater had
had Angelo for a master as well as
Owen Swift, and after few passes, the
Count, who was too eager to kill his
man, felt an unpleasant sensation in his
right shoulder. The seconds inter-
posed, and there was end to the affair
1t was his last duel. Some one pro-
duced sketch of him as he appeared
being thrown out of the hotel window,
and ridicule-so awful to Il Frenchman
rid the country of him. The straw
berry-eater was alive when the battle of
the Alma was fought, and is the only
man to whom the above facts are known
who never talks about them.
The true northerner., 1873-10-10
Postal Telegraphy.

There is no subject of greater i'm
portance to the public, where a reform
is more imperatively required or so
easily effected, as in the telegraph.
1t is now monopoly with rates so
high as to prevent the public from using
the telegraph, and reserves it as lux
ury to the rich or TO the speculator,
while only the large daily papers in the
largest cities can afford it, and these
form an alliance offensive and defensive
with the Telegraph Company in oppo-
sition to every plan of reform.
Two systems have been proposed for
remedying these evils-one by the Post
master General, who desires to buy and
operate all the lines of telegraph. This
plan is opposed by many friends of a
reform on account of the great outlay
required for the purchase and extension
of the lines, and of the great increase of
power that it would confer on the Ex-
ecutive.
The other plan was proposed by
Gardiner G.. Hubbard. and adopted by
committees of the Senate and House of
Representatives, to which both plans
were referred at the last Congress. BY
this system kilograms will be received
and delivered through the postoffice as
letters are everywhere, and as telegrams
are abroad, transmitted to their place of
destination by telegraph, by parties
owning and operating lines of telegraph,
at rates fixed by Congress-as letters
are now transmitted over the railroads.
This plan requires no outlay by the
General Government, involves no liza
bility for buying, building, or operating
lines, and will not increase the powers
of the Executive.
The rates proposed are % cents for
telegram of % words each 500 miles if
it is transmitted by day, and each / 200
miles by night-a reduction of over 80
per cent. on the present rates, and an
increase OF so per cent. in the length of
the telegram. The press rates are
equally reduced, and are SO low as to
permit every weekly paper to receive a
telegraphic summary, bringing its news
down to the hour of its issue.
This plan proposes as great q reduc-
tion as the other can afford, and gives a
cheap telegraph to the people without
cost to the Government. Competition
has been tried and abandoned, and, by
the failure of the independent and COM
peting companies, has resulted in plac-
ing all the important lines in the country
under the control of n single interest, of
which Mr.. Vanderbilt is the represent
ative.
1t remains for Congress to say whether
the telegraph shall be made an aux
iliary to the postoffice, freely used by
the people, or the ally of the railroad
monopoly, welded only for its own
interest. Chicago Lamp.
The true northerner., 1873-10-10
Old Iron.

The business of stealing iron from
railroads in the vicinity of Columbus,
o., has grown to such proportions that
detectives have been out for some DAYS
lacking for the guilty parties. 1t was
found that the material when stolen
was run into blooms and shipped East
over the roads from which it was
stolen. Many thousand dollars worth
of this stolen iron has been shipped
during the past year, and it has become
necessary for the railroad authorities
to issue orders forbidding the shipping
of old iron unless the agents are rea-
sonably sure that it has not been stolen
from railroad company.
The true northerner., 1873-10-10
VOudOuism.

Faith in Voudouism is not confined to
the negroes of the extreme Southern
States, but colored people III Virginia
have as firm belief in the efficacy OF
Voudou spells as any of their race III
Louisiana. An illustration of this fact
was recently afforded in Richmond. An
old colored woman, acting IN very sus-
picious manner, was seen to throw akeg
or box into the river and then t19e pre-
cipitately, which led to an investigation
by the police. 1t was found that the
woman's daughter had been suddenly
taken ill and was rapidly growing worse,
when the mother accidentally discovered
that she had been Voudoued. The dis
covery, according to the old woman S
story, happened in this wise: While
cleaning her yard her attention was at
tracted to nail sticking out of the
ground. She attempted to draw it out,
but found it so hot that it paralyzed her
right arm, which fully satisfied her that
there had been couluring going on
about her place, whereupon she pro-
cured spade and dug 1T up. A pecu-
liarity of the nail was that 1t had snake
head, and was pointing toward the
house where the sick daughter lay. With
great presence of mind the old woman
made q mixture of copperas, cayenne
pepper. red onion, and fish brine, and
placing the Devils nail, with others
found near it in keg, she poured the
mixture upon them and then pitched
the whole into the river. The result
was the breaking of the spell, and 1t is
gratifying to learn that not only is the
daughter recovering, but the mother has
regained the use of her paralyzed arm.
THE most EXPENSIVE and fashionable
The true northerner., 1873-10-10

THE most expensive and fashionable
jewelry in Denmark is said to be made
from fish-bones and scales. 1t is more
costly than articles of gold.
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