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"BETsEY AND | ARE OCT.''-An old man
named Thomas Green has filed a petition FOX
divorce a Blensd et hord from his wife. Bridget
G cen. In his petition he alleges that SOM
years ago he was induced to give his wife the
entire control and ownership of his property.
No. SO Thames street, worth some seven thou
sand dollars, but since that time she had treat
ed him with GOODNESS and cruelty, and that be-
ing now an old man, and unable to stand any
longer the treatment to which he has been sub
jected, he prays that he and his wife may be
divOrsed meRSa and that the property may be
sold, provisions made for two daughters, anil
the balance be equally divided between him and
the old woman.-BdH. american, 23d
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1Two-thirds OF the light portion of the cargo
Of the City Of Washington has been recovered.
ga consistory will be held to-morrow, in
Rome, for the nomination Of bishops.
0Instructions have been issued from the
Vatican to the Cardinals not TO receive the Cure
OF Santa Cruz on his arrival in Rome.
SJames Brown, q Georgia veteran OF the
war of 1912, was reserved for q very ignoble
death. Last week he was tripped up by hog
and died in consequence.
ga wisconsin girl has saved the lives OF
seven boys this year, but IL going TO retire from
the business unless those who fall in the Wate,
hereafter have perceptible mustache.
~The Cincinnati Commercial saws IL the
democratic party will only take its dead CARCASS
out OF the way the ssliberaisn can carry the
state OF Ohio. The hour Is ripe and the tina
has come. This confession that the '.liberaiso
cannot move o corpse, does not speak yery well
for the strength Of that party Springfield
O-The Petersburg Index has chaneed hands,
having been purchased by Mr.. j. A. II. St.
Andrews, of the Farmyille Commonwealth and
Southside yirginian. The price said TO have
been paid for Il was s95, 900 of which s1eo 600
was cash down. IL Ia rumored that this sale is
preparstory to another Journalistic combination
IN that city.
1"Fourteen years for stealing horse and
five yesn for killing Q man is the schedule Of
pensltiesin Texas." This looks . little curious
at the 6rst blush, but you must remember that,
while horss viii cost you hundred dollars in
Texas, yop can buy o man-a member OF the
legislature, for fnstaDce-for one third OF the
amount oHrier yosrHs1.
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SLAVERY OF ITALIAN CHLDRBN.-At the
trial OF GliOne. the Italian padrone, before the
city court of New Haven yesterday, four boys
testified that they had been In this country
twenty-one months, and had been kept in the
Crosby street den, in New York, until they
were brought to New Haven that they were
beaten and kicked unless they brought,a pre-
told by Glione to steal If they could not earn the
money. The contracts under which the padrone
claims right to hold the boys were translated
and laid befOre'the court, and It appeared that
the boys services had been sold to him by their
parents for four or five years, at an average
rate Of $40 per year, and that with the pro-
vision that the parents should pay for medical
services, and should forfeit the wages and
fire Of $50 If the boys should run away during
the term OF service.
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THE GOODRICH MURDEREss SUED AS A
WIDow.-A suit has been brought in New York
against Lizzie King, alias Kate StOddaTd, the
object of which Is the release of mortgage ON
one of GoOdrich's houses in Degraw street,
Brooklyn. She is made a party to cover any
rights she may have in the premises as widow er
Charles Goodrich When the papers were read ,
and it was explained to the prisoner that the
object was TO cut off her claim to the property.
she said she had no desire to get dollar out Ct
GoOdrich's estate, nor does she propose to claim
anything, but she does wish to get certain
trinkets which deceased presented her with ,
and which she says are now in his father :
pOSsessiCD.
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From Europe To-day.

GROWING DECENTRALIZATION IN SPAIN.
MADRID, July PA collision between the
inhabitants OF Valencia and the republican
troops in that city is apprehended. Desertions
from the government forces continue.
MORE SEVERE STORMS ENGLAND.
LONDON, July 24.-The western and northern
counties OF England were visited bv severe
thunder stor ms yesterday, causing great dam
age to propeI ty and crops.
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SHOCKING CRUELTY TO A CHILD.-If all the
stories told be true, and they appear to be well
authenticated, the worst abused child on the
American continent lives on Lafayette street
in this city. The child, who is only eight years
old, is under the control of an unfeeling father
and is subjected to the tyranny of a harsh step
mother. She has been seen to take it up and
throw it into a corner of the ROOM a distance of
six feet from where she stood. He has been
known to hang 1t up by the thumbs and leave it
there for hours. The child is one mass of bruis-
es. and its flesh Ia frightfully lacerated by the
blows it has northumberland Mel Ere.
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WALL street T0-fIaV

NEW YoBIc, July 24.-Gold opened at II5x
sold at l1j7s, and has since declined to II5s-
abby. The money market continueseas with
as the rulir rate on call loans Government
bonds. owing to the decline in gold, are lower
than yesterday.
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The Put Up Job to Put Up prices Of

NEW YORK, july 2i.-At a meeting of coal
operators and miners III Pittsburg YESTERDAY,
rates were determined upon which il Is believed
will result in another strike next week, which
will bring about another advance in coal.
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PREPARING FOR ANOTHER FIzzLE-A prize
fight was arranged last night between Peter
Ian of Dublin. They signed articles to fight
for 81 600 within fifty miles of this city, at I36
pounds, on the ith of August, according TO the
LONDON rules OF the prize ring. A forfeit of
chosen final stakeholder. A large crowd of
sporting men we're presently. Y. San, 22d.
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MArsARD Roors.-A determined war agains
NJ snesrd roofs 10 being waged by the board Of
Underwriters Of this city. To force the owners
Of such roofs to remove them this year and re-
place them by rosfs Of less infammable nature
The board has decided to levy an additional
premium OF one per cent upon all Mansard
roofs after Jan l, 1874. The action of the board
causes considerable excitement among builders
and property huiders.-N. r. Times.
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The steamer PeunsyIvania heard
from.

PHILADELPHIA, July IA cable dispatch
announces the steamer PENNSYLVANIA as passing
Reaches Point, near Queenstown, at midnig hit
last light, on her second outward trip in a Jog.
All well.
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MURpRR IN MORNoNDow- Sa

MURDER IN MoRNoNDog.-In Salt Lake CITY
Utah, Jerry Sullivan shot and mortally wound
I'd Henry Gsrvey Tuesday evening. Garyey
lived ten minutes after he was shot. There had
been brief personal encounter between the
parties on account OF a mining difficulty,
when they were separated. Sullivan returned
TO the saloon where the quarrel began, opened
the door and shot Garyey in the back. II -
universally considered a cold blooded murder.
Sullivan was arrested
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That Great Battle which was Never
Fought.

NEW YORK, July 2i.-The Austin, Texas,
Jpurndt OF the 10th inst, says letter from Gen
efal MacKeI zie dated the 18th inst TO the
government Of Texas makes no mention Of the
battle which was rumored to have taken place
several days previous to the date of MacKenzies
letter.
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CHOLERA Notes.-The cholera panic in Mt.
Vernon, Indiana, is over. Two deaths were re-
ported yesterday. The stores are being opene |
and business resumed, and q more cheerful
eighteen deaths from cholera at La Grange,
Ky, during the last three days. Two cholera
deaths were reported at Carmonville, H., yes
siding near Princeton, Ind. The disease has
also penetrated a. far east as Wheeling, there
having been one death in that city Yesterday
Event If, as asserted, the disease is only a severe
portions Of an epidemic, and preparations to
meet its possible advent ought to be made in
the eastern cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-07-24

YOUNG GIRLS from ten and fifteen are par
tcularly injured by this sort of life, saws a
Long Branch letter. Rising at 10 in the morn
ing. breakfast at ION or II, dawdling through
the day talking and playing croquet until 3,
then dressing for dinner at 6, then a drive, and
after that the evening hop, is a programme for
the day. The young girls are not satisfied with
the attention of gentlemen or boys of their own
whom TO exercise their destinations, Little
chrts of ten or twelve walk around the halls on
the arms of men old enough to be their fathers,
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COOP GRoUyps FOR SUsPICIoN.-An old
lady named Anna Stephenson, who lived alone
in Lower New ALBANIA, Ind, In January of last
year was found dead in her room with the lower
part Of her person burned to a crisp. Ii was
supposed at the time that she fell into the fire
In q 1t and was burned to death. A few DAYS
ago abox or clothing saturated with blood WAS
found In blackberry thicket near the place,
and suspicious of foul play are awakened.
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LORD MASSEY AGAIN AT CAFE MAY-The
irrepressible Lord Massey 90 again turned up
at Cape May, but this time his stay was but
brief. He landed at the Cape at noon last Sat
urday, and remained there untfl five p. m of
the same day, but finding that the Philistines
were In waiting for his lordship, he hastily
made up his mind to seek pastures new, and left
at nightfall, after pawning his watch for 81.
laberer on the Cspe's farm, near Westchester,
and the successful manner IN which he 1aired"
himself while at this arist9cratic watering place
is yet a matter of astOnishment to many.
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SUICIDES THs CBBAPKsr.-A late coroner's
inquest on a n ordered man in Miami county,
Kan, cost $50 20, while an inquest on suicide
cost but s36.iJ, Whereupon the Paela Spirit,
which is noushtful kind Of paper, remarks:
ait lie prayfully hoped by our tax payers that
inste sd OF MURDERS"
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SPoILfIG Al ELoPzMKNr TRUNK.-Charles
Jones made arrangements % elope with young
. trunk to pack her goods in. Her stepfather
smashed her trunk into kindiing wood, and
Charles left town alone just before ii was dis
covered that he had one wife and two child
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STATE CONFERENCE.-The Mississippi re-
publican state convention has been called to
meet at jackson, August q. The candidates
to be nominated are for governor, lieutenant
governor, secretary of state, attorney general,
auditor, treasurer and superintendent Of edu
cation.
The New York colored republican state COM
mittee has issued . call for . state convention
To meet at Saratoga, August 8. On the evening
Of the same day . mass convention will be held
at the same place, in which all, without dis
tinction of party, race or color, are invited to
participate and give expression to their appre-
citation of the passage of the civil rights bill by
the legislature Of New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-07-24

CoNsCIESCE.-Treasurer Spinner to- day re-
ceived from an Anonymous source in New York
fifteen dollars, to be credited to the conscience
Hr,n
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MANsARDs IN BosToN,-After aluding to
the additional rate of one per cent to be added
in the insurance of buidin IS in this city having
MaDsard roofs, the Boston Advertiser SAYS
underwriters may adopt q similar resolution
Their charge at presents, we believe, one half
Of one per cent. extra OF account of wood NJ an
sard roofs, but this does not seem to have all
the effect Oh builders and o Sners of warehouses
that would naturally be supposed, especially in
tie light OF our recent fires. In New York a
large number OF buildings mounted with these
roofs have been changed: bat we do not know
OF one completed building this city in which
this alteration has been male. In many of the
new buildings they have been left OFF; but
there are enough of them built up to make
those uninterested wonder that the lesson of
November should be so soon forgotten.
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INTERNAL REvENUE.-The receipts from this
ource day were s257 ,25i.77
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The DOUGLAS EsTATE-A number OF suits
are now being brought against the Douglas bows
TO make them account for moneys which NAV
have passed into their hands from their fathers
estate The receipts from that source are
largely exceeded by the boys hduciary claims
which they hold against the estate. Dis
tinguished lawyers hold that the one NAV hold
against the other, and that the residue is a lust
cause for action.-Chicd0o In,er-O Ocean, yaIy 81
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The Z. s. STEAMER KANSAS has arrived in
New York. This is the vessel which conveyed
the Virginius to and out of the reach of the
guns of the Spanish war vessel Bazan
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TIE -GrBBRNAToRIAL NOMINATION N
MIYKKsoT A dispatch from st. Paul asserts
Davis was not fairly nominated for governor al
the ne cent republican convention in Miunesofa
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SWELLING THE CENsUs.-A note received In
this city from New Haven yesterday states that
the family of Gen. Francis A. Walker, superin-
tendent of the 9th census, has been increased bv
one-a girl-and that Mrs. Walker lis doing a.
we'll" &c.
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PROF. HENRY ofthe Smithsonian Institution.
strongly endorses the proposed European aro-
nautic voyage of Col. De Alma. letter to
that effect was read at public meeting OF
those interested in the project, held in Phil a.
delphia, last night.
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EIeHHxH ooNvIcre escaped fromthe jefferson
CITY, Missouri, penitentizry on Tuesday nieht
One YVES shot and the ethsri reeaptured,
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FORTRESS MONROE, va, July 23.-General
VIM. +: Barry, commandant of the artillery
school left last evening for the White Suph ar
Springs, on sick leave.
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BRUTAL MURDER OF AN OLD LADY IN W.T.
LIAMsroRT, PA.-Isabella Mcbride, aged 10.
living with her husband on a farm about seven
miles from WilliamspOrt, Pa, was brntaly muir
dered on Tuesday night by beng shot through
the head. Her husband, John Mcbride, was
knocked down with a club, and received seven
severe cuts in the head. The old people lived
alone, and were supposed to have large sum
OF money. Three thousand dollars were found
in the house. There is no clue to the murderers
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EXPLOSION ANDFIREIN CLRvELAND.-C1r ly
yesterday morning an explosion occurred in V.
Fries s. Co.'S distillery, on james street, Cleye-
land, Ohio. One man was blown into the mid
die of the street, and another was blown from
the second story window against another build
ing; but neither of them were badly injured.
Immediately following the explosion an extern
sive fire broke out, totally destroying the large
fve-stOry brick block occupied exclusively by
Fries & Co. On account of so much infamma-
bic material the fire spread with great rapidity,
involv ing loss of upwards of $50, 900.
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The L. g. STEAMER NIPsIc, now at New
J ork, has been ordered out of commission.
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FATAL APBRAY IN OHIo.-Yesterday Mar
shall BoRgs, Of Greenfield, Ohio, attempted to
serve 0 writ OF jectment on one johnson, who
assaulted him and inflicted two terrible cuts on
Boggs with an axe. He then assaulted Deputy
Marshal Medley With an axe, and Neeley sh OF
him through the lung. 1t is thought that both
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FRANCE 10 very nearly rid Of German troops.
Gen. Manteuffel and his staff are still ct Nancy,
and the foreigners still hold the Verdun dis
trict, but with their departure, which will not
be later than September, the army Of occupa-
ton will take its farewell Of French soil, and
the terrible debt Incurred by Louis Napoleon
will have been paid OF.
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CITY RECORDS SToLEE-At Ypsilanti, Mich.
on Sunday night the Office of the city clerk and
justice of the peace was entered, and all of the
city records, files of LOO chattel mortgag
police dockets, papers and books belonging to
the once, taken prohibition war is being
waged there with considerable success and it
opposed to the efforts being made to close
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CONDITION OF EX-SENATOR HALR.-Adyices
from Dover, n. H., state that John P. Hale's
surgeons deem it unadvissble TO attempt to set
his hip, and it is considered doubtful If he can
recover. He suffers extreme pain, and is able
TO lie in only one position.
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The BRooKLYM Trust COMPANY. -
petition In bankruptcy has bean 6led against
the Brooklyn Trust company. The company
state that upon IN exAWinati0n Of affairs the
directors are confident that the receiver VIII be
able to pay adividend Of nfty per cent on the
amount due depOeitorg August II,
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The RECENT DECBAsE of Mrs. Mary Maui
Washburn, the amiable and accomplished wife
OF Hon. Israel Washburn, jr., of Portland, Me-,
has brought deep sorrow and mourning to her
family and to a wide and devoted circle of So
clal friends in this city and New England She
died in her tOrty-ninth year. and for twent v
two years had shared the fortunes of her has
band.
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WAsHINGTON's HEADQUARTKRs.-The first
weeks subscription to the Washington Head
quarters fund reaches nearly ST., 900. Among
the leading new subscribers are Secretary
Jacob Vanatta. George Danforth, and Senator
Cutler. The Historical society will hold its
September meeting at the headquarters, and
take possession with appropriate ceremonies.
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~Henry Ward Beecher has sent six thou
sapd dollars to the Congregational church ct
Seneca Falls, to help pay for their new edihce,
which It was reared Woah have 70 be sold.
pipe With eunpovdef, and tust after the display
bffreworks the cid gentleman called mp his
elassin dancing and kept time with halter
strsp.
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COMMODORE AMMEN, U. s. N, leave to- night
on an inspecting tour among the navy-yards in
the northern and eastern cities During his
absence Commodore Reynolds will act as chief
OF the bureau of navigation. The inspection is
in accordance with the law of Congress requr-
ing chiefslof bureaus to make annual inspection
OF navy-yards
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
Fine old Rye whisky,
Fine Old Rye Whisky,
Fine Old kye whisky,
Fine ord Bye Whisky,
Fine Old Rye whisky,
Fios Old Rye WHISKY,
Fine old Rye WHISKY,
wARRASrED WARRlNTED WARRANTED
PURE PURE PURE
AND UNADULTERATEU,
FU General and Medicinal U.s..
Ihls 10 the article We have now sold for upwards
OF hye years with universal satisfaction; put NO in
iArge oodleeM One Dollar per bottle, can be had
in any quantity.
~ Notice, that we will return the money il this
WHISKY does not give satisfaction prove repre-
scented by us.
Also an excellent stock Of California wines-Port,
sherry, Angelica, M uscatel Hook and Clsret; also
Nelly Island CatawbN and imported Liquors of all
kinds ARTHUR NATTANs, Druggist,
yyl2-tr Corner Of ID and ID streets northwest.
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MEETING of cigar manufacturers was held
in Philadelphia last night to protest against the
enforcement by the revenue department Of the
use of the patent cigar box, which the depart
ment proposes to introduce. The innovation
was condemned strongly, and committee
appointed to meet Commissioner Douglass in
Washington at 10 O'Clock Friday morning.
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~The 9Th Maryland regiment left Baltimore
for Cape May last night, -
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RAILROAD SUIT AGAINST THE UNITED
STATES. - Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Douglass has been notified by United States
Collector WalcOt, of Columbus, Ohio, that the
Columbus and Indiana Central Railroad Com
pany have entered suit against the United
States to recover fifty-seven thousand dollars
the amount of United States tax claimed to
have been enormously assessed against the
company by the government. The Columbus
and Hooking Valley railroad have entered a
similar suit, claiming over Sc 900.
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THE FOLLOWING PROMOTIONS were to-day
made in the Treasury department, office of the
Secretary: 4th class-W. II. Larner, Andrew
johnson, II. y. Gassaway, Chas. II. Miller
Geo. Simmons. Sd class-Constance n. Trevitt
Geo. y. Lamphere, David ). Green, Chas III.
Dow, Daniel S. Foster, James NJ. Cladsey. u
ciass-James A. BalsOn, Geo. L. Coffin, w. A.
Galley, Jos. l.. Enderle, ID. s. Ward, Henry h
Simpson, James f.. wilkins, Walter 8. Eaton
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iTHH PRussrAN TAX ON GER1
NxwsrAprRs.-A statement having been e1-
tensively published to the effect that the new
Sta ties is so framed as to discriminate against
the German American press, the object being
to discourage the circulation in Germany OF
American newspapers published In the German
Language, it u proper to Say that the same Is
without any foundation In fact. The existing
POSTAL treaty with Germany makes no such dis
termination. The attention of the Postmaster
General having recently been called to the chr
eunstance that in the Kingdom OF Prussia
law exists which imposes tax not only on
newspapers published there, but also On fereieu
newspaper in the German lam
euase coming INTO Prussisn territory, he has
Sddretsed- an official communication to the
general post Office at Berln,s eating that the
fevying and collection o. sueh eax, not neing IN
violation or the PROVISIONS Of the postal tfeaty
and requesting that the collection OF said tax
In the Kingdom Of Prussia on prepaid. news
papers from The United States may be diseon-
tinued.
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GRAND SELECT EXCURSION
~
GEORGETONN HlBERNIANS TO ST mi
GOES, POINT LOOKOUT AND
CHESAPEAKE BAY,
SATI EDAY. AUGUST 2D, 1873.
Steamer LADY OF THE LAKE will leave High
street wharf at p. III sharp, and 9th
srtet wharf at 10 ?. m, returning 3 .fatar-Zi II
Monday at S a. III. A brass and string fx71xz7zsa
Band has bee engaged for the occasion Tne COM
hittee Will spare no effort to make the occasion en-
Joyatle to all their fir ends and patrons Gentle
mems tickets. S.; lady's So; children free and
welcome: Tickets positively limited: tn be had Il
The members of the committee, and a, WIN Cary's
corner IN street and Louisiana avenue FOR stat
rooms 4. arr tickets apply 10 h. (. Talbot No, o.
Jlg2w D. T. RORERTsON Cboirroor