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WashfngtOn stock Exchange, Aug m
Qnotatio1s Jarnisbed By Middleton 4 Co., 6aakers.
The following were the prices bid and a,ked II
the meeting OF the WASHINGTON Stock EXCHANGE a.
day:-U..e gold, le9as bid. U. = Bouds-5 rJ's,
Isb, J.. 10 old; 90. lSS, j J., los bid; do.
I51, a j., 1oss bid. Bans slocks-Ns,iona al
BANK OF Republic, rs asked; National Metropolitan
Esiners' aud Hechsnios' National Bank OF G4or .e-
town, 10 bid, ID asked. City Passenger Ball
rosds-meiropolitan stock, 20 bid p ssked; OoIum-
bia stock. 16 bid 10 ssk ID. Sandy List-Sst Al
Theatre bOnfs, J. q J., per eIt 80 bid, 81
sskedi Ms,onic Temple Bonds, +. Al D c. eSld ,
rsk j; WashingtoH City Gas Stock, IS bid: Goat
fsis Ice co 20 bid; Msriposs La and M'x % !,
bid; d., bid: Chesapeake ssd Ohio anal ,
IRA herds. rs bid; lis asked Arlington Fne In, a,
Geo. %: SIX 1S5ssked. District securities- Dis
tfIet OF CGlnmbisSWn. Co. 8. BIDS, "a, J. 4 j ,
lS5, 20 BID, q rNkC1; Permanent in grove ne Mt g..
:. :, lSel, lo0 c1Eed; do. & J, 1891, s. bii
S's ske1, Market sock bonds, rs. ]. J.. ls2 II
bd, u sskec waite, stock bonds, J lO9', 81 bid !:
do, Ee3, & bid. 81 eIked. (wasningtoa ,-wster
stock, o., j. o ls's: % asked; /" Five
bid; "T.n Year bonds, "6s, j. 81, lSS 30 bid, 81
ssSee; Fund Loan bords, LLeg. yss g., NJ. 3 m,
1917, 90 ak 7; Certificates OF stock. lsl3. S. J. A.
J D. "a bid, ~ a,kei (Georgetowns -GsseraI
stt CT, 81, U. ISL 80 lid; do, Ga, D., st
pl Jre, y bid; bounty 1ck, 6s DO. at pie s.u-e
Is bid; maize s.ccs IS do. at pleasure, 721S bid
Board Of Public WoIss-Certifcates GenT Improve
IS bid. 50 ssked; do: lS76. q hid, e ssked; 10.
ISL, IS bid, asktd DO l1s 50 bio, Is ash ed; Ger
tihc les, Sewer, S., j., 1874 50 bid. 6I,i asked
do. LIS, 90 hid. 20 ask L. do. 1876 50 bid, 20 ssSei
do 1871, f9 BID 0Tst 4; DO. ISs, 81 hid, 60, c1ked
Water certificates, SIS, 1871, 81 bio. IS asked.
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THE AMALGAMATKD HOUSE CARPENTERS
AND JoINERs met last night; Mr.. j. P. McMa-
hen in the chair, and Alexander Wright cecre-
tery pro tenn, and the amendments to the ror-
and which were adopted at q recent meeting OF
the Grand Council at Manchester, England,
were tsken up clause by clause, considered sen.
arately, and generally adopted,
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A MEETING OF LABoRING MEN YVES held at
the Labor League hall lest evening; John
Meme mara Chairman, and Il. G.. Mailman sec-
retry. A set of re-o,utions expressive of .he
opir ON of the laborers Of the District touching
the new COVE. lment and their relations there
to, offered by Matt. Mcnamara, were uuani-
mously adopted. A committee Of six was or
Ger to present the resolutions to the Commits
siorers for the District of Columbia. The
con uittee consists of three white and thr.e
colored men-Dennis Fitzgerald, John McNa-
nara, Mat Mcnamara, Joshua King, Alex
r~ter Armstead and Robert Harris,
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Wall Alreel Ia-dax.

NEW YORK, August n.--9 yseTrmeDt ,nis TO-
active, viii prices ~bcrt yess~dsy. In southern
state bends there WE gos business in 'he various
SORTS were also si'~pg In toe stock make 50 =
riAtiye shares Cpentd is15s below yesserdavs o.
igg, except p. cifc Msu aud Ohio, which we're
ST. Ohlos 'rmediately became weak
While the remainder Of the markeS wss
barely st, sdy until after ths FIRST board
when 1t beesTe belvy. ard has so continued
Money can still be hr silly at 23 per cent on call
loans, and TO on FIRST class mercantile paper,
rates being gr; iusted TO the time the lper runs
al saeI OF gold no to 1910 At l09 since which
sales have been a. lCy74. On gold loans the rates
nave beep lGl1s rsr cent per annum for carrying
and "nat. Foreign exchange is steadier than yes
terdsy, and business is basis of 4SjlS 1iS7 ana
4.VCd& Tor prime bankers sterling.
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HSargeant Bates has been aptly dubbed
"the ag-t0ting fend."
DIn Chicago a notorious yaeabond has
been sentenced, 1t is said, to the common coun.
Gil for two years.
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THE NATIONAL SAVINGS BANK, corner of
New York avenue and 18th street, pays per
cent. per annum on deposits for each calender
month. Banking hours, 8 to 4. SATURDAYS, 9 to
and to 8. 2It3,litl6
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MORE WORK, better work, and a greater va
riety of work can be done on the Wheeler and
Wilson Sewing Machine than on any other. Be
convinced of this by calling at No. 461 Pennsyl-
Vania avenue. 7,3,l:
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Buy THE ELASTIC TRUSS, 235 PENNSYLVANIA
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$40 TO $1,000 invested in stocks and gold pays
two hundred per cent a month. Send for par
tculars. Tumbridge s. Co., Bankers, Wall
street. New York. Ill q.
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To HAVE elegant light Il Biscuits, Rolls, Buck
wheat Cakes, Fruit DumpIings. < c., you should
use DoOley's Yeast Powder. Ask your grocc
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CRILULoID CORAL EARRINGS, buttons, studs
match, receiyed Ut Prigs's this morning,
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Buy YOUR Gas FIXTURES of Hamilton &
Pearson, Y. Nj. q. a. Building, corner 9th and
ID streets. They keep the largest stock and
finest assortment in the District, and at tie
lowest prices. All fixtures put up By expert
enced hands in neat and wOrkmanlike manner
One tblrd saved in gas consumption by using
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WEEKS DoIEGs IN WALL STRERr.-Explains
stock operations on small capital without risk.
Copy sent tree. TUMBRIDGR & Co.,
1921 MSll street. New York.
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MCBDERoCs ASSAULT ON SLEEPING
WoMAN.-AbOut y O'Clock last right a colored
woman, named Mary Bedford, came to the
9Th precinct station house in her night clothes,
her head bleeding profusely rendering her
features hardly recognizable, and stated that
the wounds had been made by a colored man
named John ii. Deyaughn, with a heavy oak
strip from bale of hay. Sergeant johnson
and Officer Sbimoneck started out at once in
search of the brute and found him In a shanty
between + and + and North Capitol streets,
where the assault was made. They found the
bed clothes saturated with blood, and eyery-
Struggle of the woman In defending HERSELF.
DeyauShn was taken TO the station house and
Locked up, and DR.. Magruder was summon 4.
Ihere we've four very bad cuts on her head ,.om
two 10 SIX inches long and ID the skull This
morning he WIS te ken before Judge Dawson,
where .ser he airing he WIS commit ed , jaii
TO arswer the charge Of assault " 18th intent to
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popular favor; for Dyspepsia, Ind digestion, Con-
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The SINeKR SEWING MACHINE sales ofisI2
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THERMOMETERS and Barometers are repaired
and made TO orderly Hempler near Ak street.
THk COMMUNITY at large appreciate the use
fulness OF Singers Sewing Machine. Is
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I AND b sTRKsTs N. W.
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TRAINS zRRlFE AT
WASHING TON.
c:l3 O. m,Hev York M.
Pres, dsiig.
$50 o. IN. Fast Line
Daily.
1O:40e m. sccommoda-
ton daily eK. Sunday.
gao p. m, Baltimore
and Philadelphia ex-
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4:O3 D.. m. Limited Ex-
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caused by defective brick walls aud leaky metallic
roofs, provided the paint Is applied bY my Cgn
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kesio snce s9l 8th street northeast Speciality, TIN
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BALTIMORE & p
~ DIPOT CORNER 6rl
AFTER June 18th. lS74.trI
TAAlNS LEAVH FOH
q. BAL TIMORE.
800 .. M. northern ex.
press, daily.
500 o. m, hccommods.
ton, daily.
S:s5 8. m, Limited Br-
press for New York,
daily e2. Sunday. Par
Tor car train.
100 q. m, Fast Line
W est daily, en-. Sunday
S:4Op. m, AccommCda-
ton, DAILY, ex. SUNDAY
$40 .. m. fer Pittsburg,
Cincinnati, ans South
west, daily. For the
North daily, except
Saturday.
$50 D. m. Tor Philadel-
phia, daily.
1900 D. m. accOmmOce-
ton 90 Baltimore DAILY
except Sunday
S:Oe D. m, daily, New
York NfGEt Exprees.
, 1874-03-29
PROF. SWINGS PUBLIC CHURCH.

The possibility that Prof. Swing will preacl,
once each sunday in some large and central hall
instead Of his own church is significant sign
It puts III concrete form two or three noticeable
facts. 4 man nowadays cannot well be both
preacher and pastor. The time when the minis
trY formed peculiar Intellectual caste, led men
by force OF exclusive knowledge, has passed
away. White theological training has remained
substantially the same, and while the perceut-
age Of coIege-bred men who study theology
hiss steadily decreased, instruction in
other branches Of learning has found
countleas new 4 facts to teach, and
has invented NOW: methods Of teaching them,
snd has taught. from year to year, more and
more men. 70 keep even abreast OF his congre-
CATION, much more to keep ehead OF it. the MIL
ister Of to-day needs to study far more than lla
grandfather ever dreamed Of doing. II ne is to
play the pastoral part, and an endlesszound OF
visits, and push forward Dorcaa clubs and se*-
idR-societies. snd chuzch.fxiss, be cannot. sa7s
, 1874-03-29
THE suNDAY-AFTERNoon LECTURE So

To-day will witness the Inauguration in Chi
cago OF q movement without parallel in this
country, and with but one in England Society
knows TINT ignorance is tho great cause Of
misery and crime. It knows that I'LL the up
pliancea Of education might almost as we'll not
exiat, az far as workingnen and women nre COZ
cerned- They cannot 60 to school. They can
not 60 to the courses OF lectures given each win
ter, for they cannot afford to pay Is OF 50 cents
for an hour or two Of amusement or instruc-
ton, nor have they any desire to
1eazc anything in the evenings that
follow long hourB Of hard work Society
knows, too, that the vast majority Of people
Of all ranks of life will not use their Sundays in
going to church. This may be q sorrowful fact.
It ia nevertheless a fact. Society knows that
Sunday is the day on which saloons and other
places Of vile resort reap their richest hArveeta.
1t knows that one great reason Of this is that
the people have nowhere e1se to go. Knowing
all this, it has yet neglected to provide the plain
and easy remedy. The people want knowledge.
They cannot pay much for it. Their only
leisure time is Sunday. Il no pleasant means
OF instruction and amusement are pro-
vided for them On that day, they will
spend it in idloness, or worse, Ergo. instruction
and amusement, both Of the highest possible
kind, should be furnished on Sunday at prices
which would put them within the roach OF every
one. Acting on this plain fact, the Chicago Sun
day-Afteruoon Lecture Society has gone to work.
It's members have spent their time and money
freely. Mechanics and merchants have united
in the task. It has hired hail On the West Side,
in thickly-settled region which is comparatively
destitute OF churches. It has remembered that
ekil1ed mechanics are earning now only half Of
what they we're year ago, and it has therefore
sold twenty-five tickets, each good for any lee
tu1e, for 81. It thus gives an afternoons en-
ter1ainment, combined concert and lecture,
fo1 cents! It's members, whose yearly tickets
cost but 81, pay only 2 cents for each Sundays
enjoyment. The Society is not especially de-
signed for the working classes. It is for erery-
body. It will provide the best possible lectures
and the best possible music at the least possible
cost. It's London prototype has boen Literally
sustained It hopes for as liberal a support
here. Only 500 members are needed to insure
its SUCCESS. II it obtains larger numbor it will
give lectures in half~a~dozen different halls, and
10 put knowledge, with it's inevitable results OF
comfort and immunity from crime, within the
reach Of tens of thousands.
, 1874-03-29

lawful hppling, occasioning the private meetings
Of profane persons whereby youth is draw1 aside
to 1ewdness tue good creature Of God notor.ousls
abused, the hearts Of good people much sad
dened, the profession Of religion scandalized,
and the Lord greatly dishonored," etc. The
General Court OF Massachusetts Of that year had
no harsher term for wine than the good crea-
ture Of God"
Two years later, in 1647, meeting of the
ministers and Elders Of the Colony took place
at Cambridge when the General Court passed
tho following @ote: "The Corte thinke it con-
venient that order be given to the Auditor to
send twelve gallons Of sacx, and Elk gallons OF
white wine, as 3 small testimony OF tbs Corte's
respect to the reverend assembly at Cambridge n
These wera the complimentary auspices under
which religious conventions we're held at that
time. Ono OF the first Laws Of the Colony was
to prohibit the sale Of stimulating drinks to ths
Indians; but, when wines became 30 abundant
the Court, in November, 1GA4, passed an order
that ' The Court, apprehending that it is not fit
to deprive the Indians Of any la,eful comfort
1ohich God allotceh 10 al men by the Of tcine,
do order that it shall be lawful for all such es
are or shall be allowed license to retail wines, to
sell also to the Indians so much as may be fl for
their z,eedf ful Use and refresninq."
Even in those days arose the perple1ing ques-
ton, What constitutes tipphng-house, and
what is a stipple"? The General Court defined
these questions by 3 Law which required that no
man should tipple longer than half an hour, or
drink more than half q pint at q time. A tip
pllng-houae Was to be prosecuted in case man
was seen drunk in it and this led to another law
to prevent drunken men from being hidden from
sight in tippling-houses. It should be remom-
bered that this wine WAS good; it was pure and
unadulterated. The wine in those days Vas
drank from pewter pots Of various sizes. In
those days, too the use Of wine at the sacra-
mental table was iberal to the point OF being
shocking to the notions Of the present day. The
church records show that tho usual supply in
the administration Of the sacrament WIS half
pint to each Communicant! The writer con-
cludes that the annual consumption Of wine in
those days averaged more than two barrels to
each family in the Colony.
, 1874-03-29

capital, to secure the independence ct Euch
English laborers IS refuse to join the unions,
and to see to it that capital intellect, and educa-
ticn arc represented In the National Councils
The Congress- at Sheffield passed unanimous
resolution condemning war as means OF settling
international disputes, on the ground Of its bar
barism, inel6cieucy, aud ekpensiveness; and ad-
yocated the esta tabliahnasnt Of IN international
tribunal instead Among the friends Of
tue Congress are many men we'll known
in England, large manufacturers even, and mem
berB OF Parliament These men have hitherto
exercised a very benefcent influence over the
unions, and held them in check. 31uch Of the
moderation and good sense which characterized
the Congress in January il owing to their in1u-
ence. Whether they will be able to control organi-
cations Of the character OF these uniona when
party passions run high, is another question.
The tendency Of these organizations is even now
revolutionary. Year after year they are becoming
more radical socially. He would be bold spe:u-
lator who would dare predict in what the conflict
between the trades-unions and the T. National
Federation Of Employers will end, moderate
as the former profess to be, and resolved, as the
latter are, to act only On the defensive.
, 1874-03-29

its dirninution in volume less rank growth OF
vegetable forms prevails. The action OF ice 1T
the present time is less productive Ct results
than in the glacial period, but the method ia the
same.
But re have wandered somewhat from our
subject. which is, Is living matter now orig
iAated de oro from organic matter, or la it mere
" descendant Of previons living matter, orig
mated. we know not how Or when, in the past ?
It is an interesting question, and ne can only
briefly direct attention to it. At the extreme
end OF EYoIutionists stands Dr.. H. Charlton
Bastian, distinguished English scientist, who
has for some years been investigating the eub-
ject. In his " Beginnings.ot Life" (1872), he
has given at length his views and expert
,nents upon the question Of A1chcbiosis (ife-
origination), in which work are many grave
facts and not few startling assertions. He
claims to have proved the originatioo of living
beings from organic and non~lviug matter, and
sufficient corroborating testimony has been
given by other scientific men to tho effect that,
ii life is not produced de noco, it has at least
been produced under conditions which were
previously held to negative its existence.
Iu the last number Of the II Popular Science
Monthly" Dr. Bastian, in review Of the posi-
ton Of Spencer, Euxley, and other Evolution
lists, brings forward come new arguments to
compel their acq1liescence in the theory of
A1chebiosis, which are certainly very effectively
presented. He looks upon their danial Of
the present occurrence OF Archebiosis, while
admitting ita possibility in the past, as unwar-
ranted, and as assimi1atug it to nact of special
creation, the very notion Of which they reject.
The diverse conditions of temperature, and
earth; the great abundance OF dead organic
matter, lacking in the beginning, but now fur
nishing easy starting point for life-evolution;
the admission that carbon, hydrogen, oxygen,
and nitrogen, all lifeless bodies, when brought
together under certain conditions give rise to
protop1asn, this protoplssm exhibiting the
phenomena of life tie division ct solid sub
stances under two forms Of aggregation, crys-
E1-1S6oA!k7
and looked upon as the primary source Of the
force appearing in the phenomena Of vitality;
the multiplication OF effects which are ut work
upon the simplest forms Of life. and must inev
itably modify them, 30 thAs it we're absurd to
suppose that such strnctu1eless organisms as
amnba shon1d baye existed unchanged through
l1mitless past time; these and other reasons
seem sufficient, in the view Of DR.. Bastian, to
prove, and, indeed, to necessitate, the fact Of
the origin Of living beings no less to-day than at
any previous time in the earth's history.
Experimentation on this difficult question has
as yet been desu1tory, and the facts are not suf-
fcient at present to do more than indicate the
result. DR.. Bastian is, perhaps, the most sau-
guine Of the many investigators but, aside from
the dasEs and retorts OF the laboratory there are
other arguments which may aid in finally set-
Ting this vexed question, and thereby giving q
completeness to the hypothesis Of Evolution
which it does not now possess.