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IRVING FACING THE DBrRoTIvBs-The San
francisco chronicle Of September u gives an
account Of the meeting between John r. Irving
and the New York detectives. The prisoner
knew both officers, and they at once pronounced
MN 70 be the person whose identity he claimed.
The ON GERS expected to spend few dsy. in San
Francisco before returning. Irving, in CONVEX
sation with Q reporter, reiterated his former
story, and asserted again his ability to make
good his statement when brought east
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NAVAL ORDERs.--Lieut. g. e. West to ord
nance duty at the New York navy yard; Mid
shipman VIM. Winder to the North Pacific
station; Rear Admiral Charles Steedman has
reported his arrival home, having been relieved
from the command of the South Pacific station
in the I'D ult., and has been placed on waiting
orders; Commodore +. q. Parrot from the
command of the Boston navy yard and ordered
to command the Asiatic station, per steamer LIST
November next from San Francisco; Capt. John
II. Upshur from the command of the Pensacola
on the I'D ult., and placed in waiting orders;
Lieut.. Commander Charles H. PendletOn from
the Pensacola on the 22d ult., and placed on
waiting orders; Master Andrew McNechan
from the Saranac and placed on waiting orders;
Medical Inspector Edwin X. DENLY from the
Pensacola on the I'D ult., and placed on sick
leave.
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A CAUTION TO AUCTIoNRKRs.-we under
stand that our county court last week decided a
point that particularly interests the auctioneer
the bidder and the person making the sale. The
case was this: A farm was knocked down" to
bidder, who afterwards refused 70 comply with
the terms because no one but the aucttoneer
bid against him. The case was taken into
court. The auctioneer was q witness, testi-
ned that the purchasers statement was cor
rect, and the court declared the sale q fraudu-
lent one and not valid. The su distance Of this
decision is, In plain words, that an auctioneer
has no right to "run up property on q bidder
simply toimake good sale.-Lt6erty FIRED. Co.
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1T HAS HERETOFORE BEEN ANNOUNCED that
Lieutenant Godfrey Hunter, L. s. navy. son of
the Hon. VIM. Hunter, of the Department of
State, died on board the U. s. flagship Wabash,
on September &c, 1873, at Barcelona, Spain.
my while 1t was at Newport, X. L., in Septem-
Der, 1861, at the age of Ii years. He entered
upon active service as an officer OF the navy at
the age of eighteen years, and won the esteem
of his superiors by his gentlemsnly bearing and
his proficiency as an officer. His death has cast
gloon over his family and large circle OF
admlring friends.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-10-06

DRY GOODS.
NEW AND CAOICE DRY GOODS
IL AT
BOGAN & WYLIE'S,
1Ols and 1910 18th street northwest
500 new and beautiful SHAWLS, at IS each,
STYLISH DRESS GOODS
At very low prices.
Graz ahSirs, 371z and 50 cts; Cancels Hair Cloth
So C. aud IS ct; all wool Oashmeres, new shades as
cts. A. immense stock OF Cassimores, Cloths Flau-
neis, Wafer Proofs, Blankets, &c &c
STRICTLY ONE PRICE.
BEGAN & wYLIE,
Agency :OT Nine. DemOrest's Reliable Patterns
seT5J-tr
EMORY BAXTER's
PRICE LIST:
ALL WOOL FLANN sU.. .......... - Sc yard
WHITE LINEN HAEDkERCHIEFS..-c. piece
h1SEN nD1 LIE dozen.
WHITE t6IION lIOSE ...-..-....... IL pair
BARGAINS IN ALL KINDS OF DRY GOODS.
EMORY BANTER,
sepll-tr 1920 Pennsylvsnia avenue.
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The European balloon yovaxe

DIRECTION.
NEW YORK, October 6.-Donaldson,s trans
atlantic balloon started from the Capitoiine
grounds, Brooklyn, at O'Clock this a. m. taE-
d. II, Donaldson, George washington Lunt.
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JAY COOKE AND TIE AMxRIcAHs IN PARIS
A Paris correspondent Of the Pan Mall Gazette
under date Of September 81. writes: "The lare,
American colony here Is in an intense state O
excitement, owing to the failure Of the house Of
Cooke, OF New York. 1t appears that most o.
the Americans on the continent are heay,
losers, and ind themselves without funds,
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PERsoNAL.-Gen. Mp. Chapman, and Judges
Miller and Strong, of the Supreme Court of the
United States, arrived in New York this morn
ing from Liverpool, by the steamer City OF
Brussels. Gen. Chapman will arrive in this
city on Thursday next. ''''E. G. Banfield
Solicitor OF the Treasury department, returned
to Washington this informing. flames II
Saville, who for three menths has been rusti-
eating, returned to Washington this morning
and resumed his official duties as chief clerk OF
the Treasury department. Mr.. j. T. Hall,
long known to those who have business in the
Third Auditors Office, has been assigned to the
Office Of the Secretary of the Treasury. Mr.. G.
way, is no sinecure. Judge Louis Dent, who
mas been indisposed for several months past
was taken seriously Ill about ten days ago, and
now lies in critical condition at his residence,
noon,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-10-06

The CARLIsrs fired on the English zach
Eothen In the harbor of Santander.
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THB TRANSIT OF VRNUs.-Prof. Newcomb,
Of the naval observatory, who was sent to EQ-
rope to consult with astronomers Of the variou.
nations preparing expeditions to observe the
transit OF Venus, has returned. The meeting
took place at Hanover. So far as astronomical
measurements are concerned there can be little
difference in the plans adopted. The main diff
ference is in the methods OF photegraphng the
sun. The French will use the American method
invented by Prof. Winiock, director OF the Har-
ward observatory. Lord Lindsay, Scotch no
blemaD, who is fitting out private expedition,
has also adopted this method. So far as now
known there will be forty-one stations occupied
with parties of observers, furnished with the
best equipments which modern science can sup
Ply. OF these stations the United States will
occupy eight, England and France six each A..
Germany FIVE, Russia fifteen, mostly in Siberia
and Lord Lindsay one, the latter on an island
OF the east coast of Madagascar.
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TIE HEALTH Of the Pope continues to i'm
prove.
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SOUND FEET

SOUND FEET
are Indispensable TO health, comfort cheerfulness
usefulness, and long life, and in this busy age The
feet being used 80 constantly 1T is ouad to be mat
ter OF economy as well comfort to give them occa
slonai attention in order to guard against the de-
rangements to which they exposed, or IL ailng
g. obtain the quick relief afforded by one specially
sklled IN their treatment: and IL Is a Welt known
Tact that thousands Of persons among them any of
the most eminent medical, Judicial and political dig
nltaries and others Occupying the highest positions
IN public and private life pstrOnize Dr. WHITES
establishments No. 535 l5th street, opposite the
). Treasury, Washington, ID. q.
Dr. White successfully treats Germs, Buninns
troublesome Nails, Vascular EIcresences, Chill
blains, snd other ailments of the feet His fee Ia
the general public is 81 per visit CTR special
treatment by the year or otherwise, the fee is from
ness during Office hours Dr. White is unable to visit
patlenis at residences except after p. m. Office
hOuIs from "a. m 10 p. m sepT-tr
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nOoTS AND SHOES
- WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
We have inst received a large stock OF BOOrs
SHOES, CATERS and RUBBERS, whtchSet,.
We Will sell very low. Call and see &3l
JOHN AN9ERMAN q SON, NV
serzg lm AIS 7th street northwest ~
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ADJUSTMENTS.
VALL's NEW OPEKA HOUSE

WALLS NEW OPERA HOUSE.
. $1,000.
d. CLAY fORD...-........ Business Manager.
EVERY EVENING AND SATURDAY MATINEE
THE FASHIONABLE SEASON
Engagement of the Peerless Artistic
and General Favorite
LOTTA.
IN SIN DIFFkRENT CHARACTERS
First appearance Of the Talented Young Comedian,
MR. Il. 4. LOCKE.
MONDAf AND TUESDAY EVENINGS, OCTO-
BER AND1,
THE LITTLE DETECTIVE,
GRAND Lolita MATINEE SATURDAY
PRICES OF ADMISSION.
Orchestra, 11rst fOOr......,,,,,,, - al %
GaIi,IIrS soCoiiu Ipor'. 10
Reserved seats % cents extra ocf6 n
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-10-23
The Cotton cattsrpillar.

The agricultural department has is
sued a circular which It has mailed to
all its correspondents in the southern
states, asking answers to the following
questions
1. What is the result of your expe-
rience or observations as to the efficacy of
Paris green, or other arsenical COM
pounds, mixed with -four or plaster, for
the destruction Of the cotton catterpil-
lar2
2. In what proportions, and IN what
mode, time, and frequency of applica-
tion have experiments been madeg
3. Have any injurious effects of the
poison been observed, either upon the
plants of the soil, or in human poison
ing IN its application, or in the destruc-
tiOn of beneficial insects, as bees. etc.
(. Have you used any other remedies,
or means of extirpation, such as fires
or torches in the fields 10 destroy the
perfect moths Oh their first appearance,
and with what success I?
Ii is stated that the total loss by the
cotton caterpillar sometimes amounts TO
s40. .e0a. 900 or $50. .O0o. 600 IN a year. and
that loss OF $50, 600 bales In a year
when the insects prevail would be
deemed q light infiiction. Paris green
and -four, mixed, have proved very eff
cacious IN destrying the potato bug
The same mixture has been used for
the ostton insect bus with what result
Is not establiskad. Profess8r Glover,
the entomologist, desires the most earn
est cooperation of cotton planters IN
siding the department 20 recommend
some Trustworthy protection against The
Tavages of the caterpillar.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-10-23
A Struggle with a Devil-hsh-A
Diver Nearly Crushed.

MIR. Charles B. Brainerd of Boston,
in writing to the Scientific American
about shecimens of the devil-fish, re-
lates this inter sting incident
The strength which these crea-
lures possess is almost beyond compre-
hension, as is evenced by what took
place when my pet C1 was captured.
He had seized hold of a submarine di-
yer, at work in the wreck of q sunken
steamer off the coast of Florida. The
man was powerful Irishman, who
claimed to weigh three hundred pounds,
His size and build fairly verified his
statement, and, to use his own Ian
guage, the,baste landed on top of my
shoulders and pinned my arms tight
1 felt my armor and myself being
craled into a jelly" It seems that he
was Just about being brought to the sur
face, else the monster would have killed
him, for he was suffering so from the
terrible embrace that he could not move
no part of himself. When dragged on
to the raft from which he had de-
soended, and finally released, he had
tainted. The men on the raft seized
the fish by one of its wliggling arms
and tried to pull it OFF. but could not
break the power of a single one of the
suckers. The fish was only removed
by being dealt heavy blow across the
sack containing the stomach. This
sack stood stifly up above the eyes,
while the eyes stood ont like Holsters
eyes, and cleaned like fire. The mon
ster is, all in all, one of the most fright
ful apparitions it could be the fate OF
man to meet. y fulflls in every
particular the horrible features attri-
buted it to Victor Hugo's Sc TOilers OF
the Sea" Notwithstanding the sever
ity with which the able Frenchman has
been criticised for " creating a monde
script with his weird Imagination, the
truth must be granted that his monde
script" has an actual existence as is
evidenced by the specimens in Briton
aud Hamburg, as well as my own.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-10-23
The Battle Of Business.


Henry Ward Beecher Iectured on
Thursday evening in Music Hall, Bos-
ton, on the g Battle of Business" BE
gave it as the result Of his observation
that no other occupation nade such de-
mands on the nervous energy of men,
was 50 beset with inducements to dis
honesty. as mercantile life The fault
is not that men do not want to be hon
est, but that the majority of them do
not know how to be. They think it is
all right to do as others do; or, more
likely, they initiate without thinking at
all of the moral quality Of the act.
Mr.. Beeeher was especially severe on
stock gamblers, saying that they de-
serFed the halter if any criminals did.
The only consolation IN reviewing the
career of these men was the assurance
that few Of them kept their ill-gotten
wealth long. He had lived to see six
or eight kings of Wall street dethroned.
Ia the shife Of business men regard
only the end, and do not scruple much
about the means. If it seems neocessa-
~ to buy legislature TO insure the
prosperity of their schemes they buy
one. All the great corporations know
the price Of the old members Of alegis-
Iature, and quickly find out what the
new ones can be had for. The men who
are bought the easiest over, the cheap
est, are the farmers, not because they
are In fact more venal, but because in
their simplicity shey are compromised
and involved before they know it. The
lawyers and merchants, more accus-
toned to the arts of schemers. are more
wary. They have to be fished for 1nore
patiently, and are only secured at
large expense.
Speaking of the power of the great
corporations of the country, Mr..
Beecher declared that If the New York
Central. Erie and Pennsylvania Central
companies should conspira to do it,
they could elect the president of tho
United States.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-10-23

FATALITIES FROM LIGHTENnG. The
human mortality from Tightening is not
generally on a large scale, and might be
much reduced by precaution on the part
of the builders so thinks the Building
News. Arago estimated that the number
of deaths from this cause amounted in
France TO about 20 in the year; Bondin
calculated that from 1895 to 1852 ], ,3OS
so persisted none IN November, Decem-
Der, January, or February, but most
IN June'and August. The lowest rate
is assigned to Belgium, and the next to
Sweden, the United States and Eng
land being about on par. As rule,
however, these fatalities do not occur
inside a structure of any kind. The
peril, as experience shows, is less in a
crowded town than in a village or in the
open country, and, naturally, the more
elevated structures are the most liable
to be struck. Fuller, indeed, in his
60 Church History" asserts that there
scarcely ever existed a great aDDey III
England which had not been, at one
time or another, wholly or partially de-
stroyed by Tightening, and his citations,
taken IN comparison with the records of
our own times, are certainly remark
able. m all cases it is the spire, the
tower and the dome which has been
mutilated. As to ordinary habitations,
all sorts of theories are in vogue on the
subject of danger and safety. Some
rely on thick glass in the windows, and
some ON register stoves; others reco-
mend stone roofs instead of slate, and
others tell timid people that they should
live III a hollow. II is contended on
this side that there should be the least,
possible admixture of metal in the COM
bination of an inhabited structure and
on at, that all the bells beneath the
roof should be kept continually ringing,
just as, in obedience to an old super
stition, cannon are fred at sea. The
mass of evidence upon this topic points,
however, to the one conclusion already
suggested, that a good lightning con-
Tiuctor is the solitary safeguard but
that, unless good, it is worse than none.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-10-23
His Day In.

"Once IN a while" says the Daabary
News, "there is q day when man is
out of work, and he stays at home. Af-
ter breakfast is eaten and the dishes
are removed, be pulls out the family
drawer, and dumps the contents on the
table, to look fora paper of suddenly
acquired importance. Having got a
chair which has lost leg, and for that
reason has been. set aside where nobody
viii be apt to get into trouble with it,
he drops into it, and it Immediately
comes apart, and deposits him under
the table. Hejumps to his feet at once,
and kicks the chair into the hallway,
to the. imminent danger of his wife and
the wOman.who lives In the other part
of the house, both of whom, being. IN
der the impression that one of the. child
rem had fallen from the mantlepiece
and broken its back, have started to the
rescue. He Immediately asks his. wife
what kind of an idiot she is to leave a
broken chair where any one can sit down
on it and jeopardize life and limb, and
sarcasticaIly inquiries if she wanted to
kill him, or merely cripple him for life,
and scouts with scorn indiscribable the
intimation that the chair was placed
where no sane person would ever think
of looking for one. After that he gets
a new chair which he is confident will
throw him and hurt him, and says so,
and pores over the paper again Pretty
soon he is attended by one of the child
rem who is making herculean efforts to
scale one of the table legs with a view
to getting. on the top to see what is go
ing on. As the little round head, with
the swelling check and bugling eyes
and tumbled hair and very dirty mouth,
appears above the top, and beams up
at him, he neryously cries, Hey, you,
now, come out of that and start after
your mother; she wants you. But the
child knows that its mother doesn't
want him, and SO does he, and being at
a loss to explain why, he falls to work
at the papers again. In a very little
while, one very chubby arm is thrown
on top of the table, and the eyes have
reached the level, and ere taking in the
wonders of the display. There is ar
other move up, then a sudden weakness
in the legs that are tightly hugged to
the tablets legs, then a desperate but
hopeless clutch at the papers for safety,
and the little head disappears with light
ening velocity. and then an ominous
bump, and then a scream, and the mis-
erable man is on his feet again, holding
the suffering child wrong side up,
and screaming for help. The moment
it is in its mothers arms, and the cam
phor is in reach, the man, who stays at
home because he has nothing to dc, puts
on his coat and hat and beats a hasty
retreat, leaving the wife to calm the
distracted breast of the child, and to
set the table to rights. When he has
another day to himself, he dumps out
the drawer again, and goes over a SIM
liar performance.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-10-23
The Musical Pitch.

/ have waged war for years against
our present most unreasonable musical
pitch. No one can be more disposed
than I to vindicate the claims to musical
taste and feeling of this country. EDg-
land) but I cannot arrogate to it the
monopoly of wisdom. It is a simple
matter of fact that the normal diapason
accepted at Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Brus-
sells, Naples, Florence, etc, is one and
the same, aud considerably lower than
the British. Mdlle Patti-or, should
rather say, Madame la Marquise de
Caux ?-declined Encouragement at
Covent Garden, London, last season,
save ON the express condition that the
general musical standard of the world.
with one or two exceptions, should be
adopted. Her wish was complied with,
and all the instruments were modified
accordingly. The Argument put for
ward to prevent the adoption of the
normal pitch has always been that such
a course would involve the manufacture
of new instruments, etc. This seems to
be quite forgotten when the change is
to be made in the wrong direction.
Again, it has been alleged that, with a
lower pitch than the present, military
bands could not be employed. 1t would
be pity to impair the brilliancy of the
famous Austrian bands or of our own,
for which certain martial charac er is
highly desirable, by restricting them to
the pitch of the Viennese conservotoire ;
but It would be surely still greater
mistake to make the grand orchestras of
the world, or the organs, the humble
followers Of the military bands, in order
70 obtain very occasional advantage.
I know tiaat almost ali srtists of note
think with mo in this matter, and see
too plainly that. unless q stand Is made.
the present evil state of things viii be
perpetuated, or even heightened, for
many years to come. Sim Reoues.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-10-23
Free Marriage and its Apostles.

As for our own day, and its progress
sive doctrines on this subject, they hide
ousIy combine the spirit Of feudal IL
cense and classic sophistry with some
insufFerable new mixture of pharisaism
proper to the spoilt Puritan. This last
trait, by the way, crops out in some
remarkable methods of attack by the
reformers, which we pause to notice.
Taking their stand as high moral accu-
sers, they not only hurl unlimited
charge of hypocrisy ON the marriage in
stitation because some who are under
its VOWS break them by leading lives Of
covert immortality, but they sweep into
the same catalogue of periured sinners
all those who, entirely faithful In life
and conduct, yet wander in any inmost
thought from perfect allegiance 70 their
married mates. Their favorite proof
text for this dogma Is a saying Of our
Lord, rebuking gross imaginetions,
whose monstrOus perversion to such an
application is a sufficiently fatal betray-
al of what Is their conception Of love.
And on this dogma they raise an un-
speakable creed, whose whole practical
outcome, 50 far IS IL can be spoken, is,
that inasmueh as by the wandering
thought above described marriage is in
stantly broken, and inasmuch rs TO re-
main in a broken marriage IL a deadly
sin. therefore the aforesaid wandering
thought Of another is not merely per-
mission, but Of the nature Of a divine
Injunction to flee out Of the false bonds
into the new ones, as from the wrath to
come. And such 3 programme Of virtue
Is wound up by one Of the reformers
with the sober assertion, We are
aussere moralists on marriage" So was
Henry the Eighth he austerely cut
of the heads Of his series of wives as
fast as they dropped out Of his fancy
ii there was anything that pure spirit
was scrupulous about. II vas % have
the old love veil murdered as soon as
he fell 10 with the new.-!Sorf5ns.r's
AFaOn-fne.
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BEFORE THE LEAVES FALL.

~ EaReAREr Z. sASssTE.
Wonder Il oak and maple,
Willow and elm and an.
Are stirred at heart by the coming
or tha day their leaves must fafi
Do they think Of the yellow wlirlNiad,
Or know Of the crimson spray
That shan be when chill November
Bears al their leaves away2
PeVhaps-beside the water
The willow bends, serene
As whom her young leaves glistened
IN = mist Of golden green.
But the brave old oak Is flushing
To wine-red dark and deep,
And maple and elm are blushing
The blush Of child asleep.
" II die We must tho leaflets
Seem one by one to say,
We VIII wear the oolors Of gladncs
Until we pass away.
No eyes shall see us faiter
And before we lay i down,
Wen wear, IN the sight OF all the earth.
The years most kiDgly crown.n
So, trees Of the stately forest.
And trees by the trodden way,
Tou are kindling into glory
This soft autumnai day.
And we who gaze remember
That more than all they lost.
To hearts and trees together,
May come through the ripening frost.