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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-07-21

THEY ARE COMPLAINING In one of the In.
terror countries Of the state Of iIlness brou Oh,
upon several pertons recently present ct 4
kept In cloee room, and almest An ffocated IN
order that, through the aid Of ARTIFICIAL light
the oecasion might seem more obrilliant %
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-07-21

NAVAL URDRRs.-Acting Carpenter VIM. A.
Barry has been ordered to the Worcester. De-
tached-Lieut. Commander George NJ. Bache,
from the navy-ysrd, Philadelphia, on the 9th
instant, and placed on waiting orders; Assistant
Surgeon Chas. W. Gravatt, from the Pawnee,
9th instant, and placed on waiting orders; Car
penter Peter A. Ward, from the Worcester, and
placed on waiting orders
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-07-21

ANOTHER nEUGGIsr's MfsrAKE-Two POI
soning cases Occurred In Stanford, Boyle county.
Ky, last week, which were seemingly caused
by the csrelesSness OF some wholesale druggist
The particulars are given by the LOUSY Tie
Courier-Jeurnsl, Of Saturday, A. follows; Z" DR.
George McRobcrts, Dot feeling well after riding
al night visiting patients, went early Wefnes-
cay morning 10 a Drugstore In that village and
TOOK a dose nom . bottle marked 'quinine'
stSndlne en- . shelf tie then went % his
brothers house - ireakfast. but was taken
violently sick on arriving st the hoase. He
asked for an emetic, and shortly after taking u
he dtd. The pksaciAn Who wAs with htm
tboush be died OF neuralgia Of the heart, As he
Use In delicate health. The merit day while
the funeral vN passing out Of town. William
kmbry, q boy Of about eight year, Of sse, died
suddenly, AFTER taking some enlnine out Of the
bottle from which DR.. McRobers procur ed his
dose. This was the last ecstle Of quintne re-
naming In the store. The death Ct Young
Embry excited the suspicious OF the friends Of
Dr. Nc Roberts ~ Ia the cause OF his death. Mr..
Oliver MeRoberk sent TO Louisville. BY Drs.
Bailey and Peyton. the bottle and one 81 the
powders given 90 fmbry, that the drug may be
ansly ned by some chemist OF this city. QuiniDe
and strychnine resemble each other In appear
ance and taste, and IL thought that the latter
drug was put into the ouinine bottle BY mistake
for the former by the drnggSs y no sold the
bottle. Dr. Mckoberts vss = bachelor about
forty years OF age He hsd q large number OF
friends In and about Stanford, where he has
been practicing for twenty wears"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-07-21

MAsoN1C TROUBLE IN A METHODIST CHURCH
There 10 great excitement In Apple river, ILL.,,
In the Methodist church, over the Masonic
question. The pastor 10 Mason, and Q few
days ago travelling lecturer arrived In town 70
show up the order. The trustees gave him per
missien to use the church, but the pastor rsfus
ed 70 LET him enter the pulpit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-07-21

DEATH OF AN EsTIMABLE LADY.-The Buff
falO Commercial Advertiser of the 10th instant
chronicles the death at Lake View. Y. Y, on
the eth inst, of Mrs. Susan Marvin Walden, re-
lict of the late Judge EbeneZer Walden, of
New York. The deceased was a lady of educa-
ton and refinement, and eXcelled In the prac-
tce of Christian virtues. Mrs. Albert J. Myer
of this city, wife of Gen. Myer, chief sign 81
officer of the army, is the only surviving daugh-
ter OF Judge and Mrs. Walden.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-07-21

ORDERED FOR Duty AT WEST PoINr.-The
following-named officers have been ordered o
report in person on the 2sth of August, proximo,
to the superintendent of the U. s. military
academy at West Point, for duty in that insti-
tution:-Capt. W. A. Rafferty,, 9th cavalry;
First Lieut.. Edward S. Curtis, 2d artillery, and
Second Lieuts. Clarence A. Postley, Sd artillery.
w. s. Wyatt, 9Th infantry, and Geo. b. DAVIS,
5th cavalry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-07-21

GRAND SELECT EXCURSION
"
GEORGETOWN HlBERNIANS To ST. mi
GOES, POINT LOOKOUT AND
CHESAPEAKE BAY.
SATURDAY, AUGUST ID, 1873.
Steamer LADY OF TIE LAKE will leave High
street wharf at p III sharp, and 9th
street wharf at 10 p. m returning E.s63Lz-H
NJ nday al a. m. A brass ard string sxzEfEezx<s
Band has been engaged for the occasion. T e COM
mlttee Will spare no effort to make the occasion en-
mems tickets. IS; lady's 81; children free ard
welcome. Tickets positively limited; to be had II
the members of the committee, and at VIM Cary's
corner 1th street and Louisiana avenue For state
rooms snd tickets apply to Il. L. Talbot, No. 6s
High street.
yIg2w D.F ROBERTSON, Chairman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-07-21

AMUSEM ENTS.
INHE ENTMEs FOR THE RUNNING RACE,
Friday 18th, for purse Of SlOO 50
Will ciose WEDNESDAY EVENING ASESA-
AZ the Plney Branch Race Course. ~SAU Xxx
start. llt-I AMOS FOX, Proprietor.
OBJ no On Exhibition and Sale NEwSo.
5IH sIi - VIM ST.
No. 439 7th street, bet~e and streets, Gig ht
doors above Odd Fellows Hall.
Choice Oil Paintings, Engrsyines, Chromos, &c.
Also, largest stock Paper Hanging, Window
Shades, Pictures, Frames, Picture Cords and Tas-
sell, kings, Nails, &C., in the District.
STKRhs CASH.
HPiease remember Name and Number. jelly
a LII KINDS OF CAsT-OFF WEARING AP-
"A PAREL can be sold to the very best advantage
by addressing calling on JUSTH
o49 ID street, between 9Th and 7th n w.
Notes by mail promptly attended to. Dash paid fl3
nLD GOLD, SILVER, BRASS, COPPER, Ere.
" bought at fair prices for Q New York house
Household Furniture bought and sold. Notes by
mail promptly attended to by AUGEESTEIS
laos Pennsy lyania avenue. dsl-lyr
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-07-21

FEERALIsM IN SPAIN.-Dispatshes from
Madrid state that the provinces Of Andalusia
claimed themselves Independent cantons, in an.
ticipation Of the new federal Constitution. De
elarations Of Independence were Issued ct Re
vile, CadiE, and barcelona. A republican vol
unteer has shut himself mp In the powder mag
azine at Estella, Spain, and threatens TO blow
u up rather than surrender TO the Carlisle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-07-21

THE WINNKBAGoEs REFUSE TO go WEST"
A special dispatch to the Chicago Tribune from
Sparta, Wis, July II, says "At a conference
held this afternoon, IN which the Winnebagoes
were advised by T.. p. Smith, Indian commits
sioner from Washington, to leave the state and
go TO their reservation in Nebraska, the dele
CATION firmly refused to leave under any con-
slider ration whatever, although informed that il
they did not force, would be used to compel
them. The Indians LETT the council-tent and
went.back to their grounds, refusing to have
any further talk with the commits sioner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-07-21

The NEW NATIONAL BANK NOTES.-The
plates for the new fve-dellar national bank
note have been completed at the Bureau Of En-
craving and Printing Of the Treasury depart
ment, and the work Of printing the new issue
will he commenced in q week or ten DAYS,
though they will not be ready for circulation
for q month or six weeks. The size Is the same
as the present note, but In the lett hand corner.
covering America there Is o viguette head OF
Rufus King, one Of the FIRST United States Sem
ators from New York. In the right end of the
note, instead Of the reprcse utation OF P0cahon-
tas and Smith, there il q neat piece of ges met
rical lathe work, with the figure five engraved
on Its face in white. Bencath this Is the seal
of the United States in green. At the top Of
the note are the words "circalatinc note, ma
tional currency" in roman letters, forming Q
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-19
THE REALMS OF LONG AGO.

The day, with its sandals dipped in dew, =
Has passed through the evenings golden gates,
AID single star in the clOudless blue
For the rising moon in silence waits
While the winds that sigh to the langJlid hours
lullaby breathe Ger the folded flowers.
The lilies nod to the sound of the stream
That winds along with lUlinT hOw,
And either awake half in a dream,
pass through the realms Of Long ago,
While faces peer with many a smile
From the bowers Of MemOry's magical isle.
There are joys and sunshine, sorrows and tears.
That check the path of Hfe's April hours,
And longing wish for the coming years
That hope ever wreaths with fairest flowers:
There are friendships guileless-love as bright
And pure as the stars In the halls Of night.
There are ashen memories bitter pain,
And buried hopes and q broken VOW
And an aching heart by the restless main,
Aud the sea breeze tanning paIld brow,
And 3 Wanderer on the shell-hned shore,
Listening for voices that speak no more
There are passions strong and ambitions wild,
And the fierce desire to stand in the van
OF the battle Of Hfe-and the heart of the child
Is crushed in the breast Of the struggling man;
But short the regrets and few the tears
That fell At the tomb Of the vanished years.
There's quiet, and peace, and domestic love,
And joys arising from faith and truth,
And love unqusstioning, far above
The passionate dreaming of ardent youth
And kissing Of children on lip and cheek, -.
And the parents bliss which no tongue can speak.
There are loved ones lost There are little graves
In the distant dell, meath protecting trees,
Where the streanllet winds and the violet waves,
And the grasses sway to the signing breeze:
Aud mourn for the pressure Of tender lips
And the light of eyes darkened in earthfs eclipse.
And thus as the glow Of the daylight flies.
And the nights first look to the earth is cast,
I gaze meath those beautiful summer skies,
AT the pictures that hang on the wall Of the past
o SORROW and joy chant mingled lay,
When to memOry's wildhood We wander away.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-19
pings.
Gable Receipts.

The Journal of the telegraph publi-
shes a table showing the average daily
receipt of the angIo-Americau, French
Atlantic and Newfoundland telegraph
companies, under the various tariffs,
from the beginning of the operation
of the first cable, July %, 1866, to Au-
gust ], ,.1873, and says: every reduc-
ton of the rates from 800 for twenty
words, to S16 81 for ten words, was fol-
lowed by an increase in the number Of
messages sent sufficient to maintain and
even slightly augment the receipts.
The decrease to go, however, was fol-
lowed by a loss Of twenty-three per cent.
IN receipts, while further reduction 10
81 80, coupled with the increase In the
traffic, caused by the war between
France and Germany, was followe by
an increase of 100 per cent. in the num-
Der Of messages and ffty-one per cent.
in the receipts. Owing to the breaking
of two of the cables in the autumn Of
1870, the tariff was increased to sl5, ia
order to reduce the traffic and enable u
to be carried over the remaining cable,
and resulted in a decrease Of seventeen
per cent. IN the number Of messages,
and an increase of ffty-seven per cent.
In the receipts. In the summer f 1871
the broken cables were repaired, and
the tariff reduced to 80 per message,
causing an increase of thirty-three per
cent. in the number Of messages and
decrease of six per cent. in the rec ipts.
In May, 1872, the rate was made 81 per
word, irrespective of the number OF
words sent, and was followed by an in
crease of about thirty per cent. IN the
number Of messages, and Of sixteen per
cent. in the receipts. Two OF the cables
were broken IN the spring of 1873, when
the rate was increased to 81 30 per word,
and resulted in reducing the number of
messages to nine per cent, and in
creasing the receipts twenty-three per
cent. One of the cables having been
gubseduentIy repaired, and a new one
laid the tariff was again reduced to
81 per word, causing decrease Of thirty
four per cent. in the receipts. The re
cepts IN 1872 were larger than IN any
previous year, and the companies paid
dividends Of twelve per cent, but the
seriOus hreakagss since have demon
strHted that the dividends should have
been less. gnd a largsr sum put 10 re-
serve.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-19
Rome and Naples COntrasted.

What a contrast between the cam
pagna of Naples and the campagna of
Rome In the one is unity, and in the
other variety; in this is the sublime,
and in that the beautiful hers the
majesty and there the grace in Rome
is heard the melody of a lament like
the harmonious psalmody of the bibl-
cal prophets, and In Naples the choir of
the ancient Greek divinities. But, if
the contrast is great between country
and country, how much greater Is it BE-
tween city and city 4 Let the sworn
enemies of 1pOntiAcals Rome say what
they will, it appeared to me, when com
pared with Naples, severe, a most
severe city. At least there reign in
Rome sadness and silence. It's inhabi-
tants seem to look upon darkness. Their
faces have a certain solemn sadness, like
that Of sovereign, but of a dethroned
race. The innumerable converts. the
mHltitudes of monks, the chapels which
arise on all sides, the statues which or
naments the corners of the streets, all
show that the Romans are a people sub
missiVe to theocracy ; while the cries in
the streets of Naples, the continual vo-
alterations, the gay groups standing
around, the universal gayety, the dances
on one side, the open-air concerts on
the other, the conoourse of people to
the water-stalls and cafes, show you are
in a civil city where life is a continual
festival. And there is no longer the
same number of religious pictures as
formerly. For the image of the Saviour
they have substituted the portrait of
Garibaldi. To worship is a necessity
for the Neapolitans, to Worship fervent-
Iy whatever be the object of their adora-
ton to worship devotedIy among
blows and Uutcries, with huzzas and
shouting; with all the exaltation COM
mon to highly-nervous temperaments,
and with the fanaticism which accom-
panies the excitement of southern pas
sions kindIed by the intense heat of the
There is something of Vesu-
vius, something of its burning fires,
something of its eruptions, something
also of its changeableness in the tickle
and ardent nature of the Neapoitans-
of those degenerate Greeks who dwell
always with a smile upon their lips
upon the borders of death threatened
by their volcano with doom similar to
that which buried the cities of Pompeii
and Herculaneum. -EnliZiO CASTELAR,.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-19
The Velocity of Light.

Olaf ROemer, an eminent Danish as
trOnomer, while observing the eclipses
of Jupiter's satellites, in 1916, found
that light occupied about sixteen minu-
tes and twenty-six seconds in passing
through the diameter of the earth's
orbit, and assuming the distance of the
earth from the sun to be nearly %, OOO,-
600 miles, he determined the velocity of
light to be 1872, $50 miles in a second.
In 1928, Bradley, an English astrono-
ner, discovered the alteration Of light,
and determined its velocity to be 191,-
513 miles per second.
In 1849, Mr. Fizeau invented an ap-
paratue for measuring the velocity of
light between terrestrial stations, and
determined it to be 1874, SIT miles a
second.
NJ. Foucault, with substantially the
same apparatus, determined the velocity
to be 1S5, III miles per second.
Quite recently NJ Fizeau has pub
ished the particulars of long series of
experiments made between stations
about six miles apart, using the rays
from a o1yhydrogen light and he gives,
as the mean of $50 good observations, a
velocity of 1s6,363 miles per second.
The result obtained by Roemer IS usual
ly given in test books, and, in fact, is
commonly quoted as the correct velocity
of light. But the close agreement of
the more recent researches Of MN.
Feueault and Fizeau, and the elegant
methods Hsed by these philosophers IN
their researches, render 1t nearly GER
tain that the velocity Of light II the air
is between 1885, 1T and 1s6?3GS miles
per second. ScisHtsT5c american.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-19
The Power of a Locomotive.

When the first locomotive was pat
ented, driving only one car, if lightly
loaded, it did very well but when the
load it drew was heavier than its own
weight, its wheels would not bite, that
is, they would turn rou I'd and round
without advancing. Hence a cow-catcher
was needed behind to guard against cat
tie running into it in therear. 1t seemed
at first impossible to make a less weight
move q greater on an up grade; and for
some years no one invented an engine
able to draw three times it's OWE weight.
At the present day, however, locomo-
tives sweep along with trains more pom
demons by fifteen or twenty times than
they are themselves. One means of
gaining this vast increase of power for
the locomotive, was by dividing the load.
It was found, that an engine. powerless
to stir FIVE times its weight of freight
when concentrated in one car, could
readily draw it when distributed in a
dozen cars loosely shackled together. 1t
was heavier than each single car and
it had overcome the inertia of each
one monument before it encoun-
tered the inertia of another. 1t was
thus more than match for each car
taken singly; and, pulling them sue
cessively. it drew after it train as long
as a comet, and the farther it ran the
more strength it had to run further.
Here was the story of little David over
again. Ordinarily, the STRIPPING weight,
as he told Gohah, was one hundred and
twenty, but whenever he got mad he
weighed a ton. Moreover, the engine
forced the momentum acquired by ev-
cry car it had started, to swell its own
potency in overcoming the resistance OF
all that remained still motiOnless.
HoUGHToN has this new story Of sgd
ney Smith: He WAS good-natured and
tolerant; but when Lord Melbourne,
whom he had gone to see upon some
business, interIarded his conversation
with much eursing and swearing, he
quietly remarked, g Let us assume that
everybody and everything are damned,
and proceed to the subject. " sa-a
To THINK what We 40 not feel, is -
| lie TO ourselves.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-19
FORETqN LNTELL1GRNcK.

An English parliamentary return repO-ts
the number of deaths from starvation within
the London metropolitan district during the
year 1872. There were in oil eighty-three
dismal cases within the circuit specified, be-
sides thirteen in the eastern division of Mid
dlesex-
The Duke de Broglie, French minister Of
foreign affairs, in a letter to the Paris cham
Der of commerce, says the governments of
France and the United States are still engaged
IN negotiations for postal conyention be-
tween the two countries.
1t is reported here that the German gov
srnment has subcribed for five million addi-
tional new five per cent. United States bonds,
making altogether seventeen millions sub
scribed for by that government. r.r .... .
Madrid-The situation here and through
out the country is improving; large portion
of the reserves called out has been assembled,
aud its equipment is progressing. The gov
eminent is capable of putting 98O.COO forces
into the field. The command of the army of
the North has been cOnfided to GenI ZobIeo
Genl FuTon Will enter upon a vigorous cam
paign in Catalonia with ten thousand men
The resources of the northern provinces have
been exhausted by war, and the exactions of
tho Carlists. The necessaries of life even
have become scarce, and thousands of families
are reduced to indigence. The Carlists keep
to the mountains, eing without cavalry They
do not dare descend to the plains in any num-
berR.
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LOOK


The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that youI sub
scriptior is out or unpaid, and that
you are requested TO pay up at once.
We would take great pleasure IN extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons,
but cash alone viii pay expenses, ami
we are forced to adhere to a strict call
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such 3
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.
e We enter no new names or our
books without the money IN adrlr c.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-19
Wedded Bliss.
From the panburv News. ]

You know her. She lives on your
street. Her features are either pinched,
or full and frowsy. Her dress is wet,
i'll fitting and of no particular pattern
her slippers are broken down !; her hair
is uncombed; her voice is either shrill
or coarse. You have seen her stand out
in the back yard, and put bare arm up
to her eyes, and under it peep out to the
fence or barn, where a man in an i'll
fitting coat is searching for something,
and have heard her shout John,
can't George bring me some wateT?"
And you have heard him cry back: d" If
he don't get that water will take every
inch of flesh from his bOnes?' And
when you have looked at her again does
it seem possible that those angry eyes
have dropped in maideniy reserve, or
raised in coquetish light to the face of
the man in the Ill fitting coat? Can
you, by any possible wrench of the
imagination, conceive of his tenderIy
passing peppermints to her, of his TAX
ing that hand in his and bsshfulIy
squeezing it? But it was so. Many a
''God bless you has been uttered above
that bare head many kiss pressed on
that uncombed hair. The tightly com
pressed lips have lovingly framed ten
der invitations to him to take another
bite of cake and pickle. The hands
that are now par-boiled aud blistered
and marked with scars from the bread
knife, and scratches from the last setting
hen, were once twined lovingly about
his neck, and the nose which is now
peaked and led, and looks as if it would
stand on its hind legs and scream with
rage, once followed the figures of his
vest pattern, or bore heavily against his
iugular vein. As little probable as this
seems to you, it seems less to her. She
has forgotten it. She won't hear it
talked of by others. She cannot bear
TO see it acted by others Two lovers
are to her ''a parcel of fools" And
George is rubbing his head, and We turn
aside while our heroine readiusts her
slipper. .E-<H .-#
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-19
News of the Week.
EAST

New YOrk-A request having bsSa made
by the London Sunday-school union that the
sabbath-schools in the United States should
unite with the schools in foreign countries in
observing October 18th as day of prayer,
the sabbath-schooIs in this city and elsewhere
are to observe that day, the lesson for the oc-
casion not to be omitted however.
Utica n. Y.-The entire herd OF short
horned cattle owned by s. Campbell of New
York mills, was sold at auction last week
Buyers were present from England. Canada,
and all parts of the United States. One hum
drsd and fifteen cattle were disposed of, the
total receipts being about $3.50, 600. The high
est figure paid was $40, 600. This bid was made
by Mr. p. Davis of Gloucesterzhire, England.
Thirty-fve, twenty-five and twenty thousand
dollars were bid for single cows. One seven
months old calf sold for S27, 600, and another
for $40, 900. This sale is probably the largest
on record.