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The Markef.hOuse War.

without unuerlaklDg 10 decide upon the
merits Of the controversy between the market
men and the Center Market Company, we may
say that il viii be a matter of serious regret
should this market be broken up as the great
central market of the city, through failure on
either side to deal with the questions az issue
with good temper and spirit of fairness and
justice. This old market-piace. which dates
from the earliest history of the city, has come,
by the central convenience of its position, as
well as from habit and association, to be recos-
nized a. The great general market of Washington
Situated at the junction of the two main bust
ness streets Of the city, Pennsylvania avenue
and eth street, and with lines OF street railroad
radiating nom this central point to every part
of the city, and to Georgetown, Mount Pleas
ant, UnioDtown, &c, &C., il of course has ex-
ceptioIal advantages Of position for the accom-
modstion OF the public. And it also affords
convenient central market place for country
men coming In by all the leading county roads.
the 9Th street, Bladensburg, Tennallytown,
Aqueduct Bridge, Long Bridge, and Navy ard
roads. as well as landing place for produce by
the Potomac boats, the Baltimore and Potomac
railroad, and the railroads South.
If, with all these advantages, and with the
additional advantage Of one OF the most spa
cious, substantial and convenient market build
ings in the country, the marketcompany should
come to such serious disagreement with the
stall holders ss to cause the latter to abandon
the market and seek less convenient and CEN
rsl quarters elsewhere, it would seem to show
sad lack OF temper and discretion on the part
OF somebody. 1t is hardly to be supposed that
that the marketmen would make this change at
so much loss and inconvenience to themselves
unless they felt they had serious grievances to
complain Of at the hands of the company. IL
IL probably time, as the company assert.
that the law authorizes them to resell the stands
at this tine, but in consideration of the large
bonuses paid for the stalls two wears ago, and
the dullness Of business at present we think
the company as matter of fairness and
equity, should have been content with get
ting regular rental from the dealers.
until, at least, a sufficient time had ELAPSED
TO give the latter some return for the
heavy bonus already paid for the stalls. The
law allowing the company the right to resell
was perhaps necessary to give them requisite
legal control over their property, but 1t seems
to us hardship in the matter OF equity, and
biunder In the way OF policy to enforce
that right summarily upon the dealers.
The Washington marketmen are, Is a class, a
''solid," self-Tespecting class OF men, and any
attempt TO cOerce them is a great mistake. We
only express the general wish of the community
in hoping that a fair and equitable adjustment
of the difficulties between the dealers and the
company, and that We may speedily see the
marketmen back again at the old, familiar
stands.
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ali the preceding 5Cnedule OF IumDer must be OF
the very best quality of their respective kinds,
shakes, and defects, all clean, straig DC
and regularly sawn to the different thicknesses
called fer.
The eouthern Pine Rails and Flooring must all be
teart stu free from all defects, 81 other will
be accepted.
The whole msst re delivered in such lengths ana
In such quantities ss will be called for by the Su-
perinterdeIt
SAMPLES of the woods proposed to be furnished
Payments will be made the delivery and nc
ceptar Of material deducing per centum until
the completion OF the contract.
All bids must be accompanied by the penal bond
OF two responsible perso In the sum of thou
san1dollars ,000D hat the bidder will accept and
perform the contract if awarded him; the sufcieucy
OF the security 80 be certified by the United States
Judge, CLERK of the United States Court, the
Dist let Attorney of the district wherein the bidder
resides.
Bidders at liberty to bid for one OF all of the
divisions enumerated above.
The Department reserves the right to reject any
or all bids if it be deemed for the interest Of the
Government to do so, or to subdivide the different
divisions among different bidders at its optfoD and
any bid that Is noE msde the printed form to be
obtained at this office, and does not conform in
every respect to the requirements of this advertise
ment will not be considered; neither will any pro-
posal be received from parties who are not them
selves engaged In the lumber trade, and who have
not the necessary facilities for furnishing the mate
risl
Proposals will be enclr sed in a sealed enyeIope,
endorsed " Proposals for Lunbe for the u g. COURT
House and Post ONCE at Columbia, 8. o." and
iy6 lat fHOs Il. oAKsHoT. Superintendent.
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where Co Advertise.

THE STAR has now q circulation very much
larger than that Of all the other city papers
combined, reaching every household In the
District and a wide range outside. The result
Is that The STAR affords unsurpassed advan-
tages as a medium OF communication between
all classes Of the community, in the way OF the
adjustment OF demand and supply.
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We shall expect to hear that good deal of
damage WAS done to the growing crops in the
country on the track of the storm SATURDAY.
evening.
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The Star by Mail.

Persons leaving the city for the summer. or
any portion OF it, may have The STAR sent to
their address for such time "a they desire, at
the rate Of nfty cents per month. Orders, &C.
companied by the money, should be sent to the
business Office of the paper
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"TERNL.TUS."

"TER.NLfUS."
THE END is NIGH.
COME NOW
OR BE TOO LATE.
STILL FORCING. STILL RUSHING.
STILL DRIVING. STILL PUSHING.
NO CESSATION. NO LET UP.
EVERITH MUST,
EVERYTHING SHALL,
EVERYTHING WILL BIZ SOLD.
COME NOV. COME BUY.
e13 90 FULL SUITS. ONLY 900
$1,000 FULL sUITS..--...FOR ONLY $1,000
$500 FULL sUITs.....-...FOR ONLY SI20O
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@I. o. o. F.-GRAND LODGE-rhs regu-
SS2 lar quarterly meetIng will be held on
WEDNESDAY EVENING, Sth instant, nj 8
O'Clock, in the HSlc room, Odd Feilows' Hall
U0-I p. III. SWEET, Or. Sec.
nFTHE BLGULAR BOARD MEETING Of the
Wy MONEYS CHRlSTIAN ASSOCIATION
vail be ht u At the Heme, l3t street TT ESDhY
July ., 81 click y. IN. Devotional meeting 81 Il
o'clock.
II MBS. W. y. BAeOOM, Secretary.
rs TEE HIBERNIA BUILDING AsSoCIA-
Wy TON vii bod its secOEd monthly meeting
On WEDNESDAY EVENING, july 3, - O'Clock,
IN the sShool-room attached 70 the Charch corner
eth and streets northwest,
The Books are still open for .ubscrip ions to
stoek. lne-Stl Q. w. MULLALl. eec'y.
hFIHE MEETING OF THE
Wy MEDICAL SOCIETY of the District of Co.
lnmbia will be held on MONDAY, July 6th, az
O'Clock D. m. JOHNSON ELIOT, NJ ID Pres
h. A. kLEIHsOHMIDr, 4. d, SEC. vast
nFsPfSIhL IssTauGrI0N IL PENMAN.
Wy sdIP, BOOKKEEPING and CORRESOND-
kkCk. morning and evening, during the summer
months, at the Business College, corner Tan and l.
streets. Also, PRIVATE LESSONS, during these
montns OlJJ. iel-u
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T II Z E n ID is NIGH.
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GsNUINE IMPORTED GINGER AL
METROPOLITAN DOLLAR STORE.

just RECEIVED:
Liner Sill, Gilt Stick, Painted, Ivory Stick and
Jspsnt Sc large Fans, from SEQ. up to g.:
Fen ChaiIs. 25to Soc handsome Leather Belts &c 2
Black Silk and Leather Belts, Soc;
Fine Beaded Belts, Rubber Buckles, 81;
Lace Scarfs, 81 and 81 80;
Scotch Bingham Bun Uo brellas, 81;
Ladies Skirts, 76c., q, ol.Ie and o.;
Beautiful Long Gowns, 81 to ~;
Cheuises in large variety, 81, 81 30 and 81;
Embroidered Riss Tuck Drawers, 81;
Excellent Shawl Straps, soc
Travelling eatcheli and Baskets, 81;
Splendid Umbrellas, 81, 81 rs and 81;
Ladies' and 8hildren's Hose, Handg erchiefs of all
kinds, Toilet Articles, &C., in full variety;
fire German Cologne, genuine "Johann Maria
Farins," 25c. and SOC. per bottle-no more re-
fIeshing Perfume In existence, at
LVERBHRG'9
METROPOLITAN DOLLAR STORE,
S1S TIN fTRKKT, MAR PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE
HSCroquet at reduced prices Ladies, and Mems
Gauze Underwear, very cheap. jy6-tr
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pR0P0SALs FOR LgMBIR FOR TIE
Pos Tt dFF sTAfk az 6 S9Hkf RI HopsE AND
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT,

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT
COLUMBIA, q. o., july 6, 1874 (
ssaled Proposals will be received at this once
until y IN. Of the 20TH DAY OF July, lS7I,f.r
furnishing and delivering the following schs dule of
Once, Columbia, 9. o.
DIVISION L.
Bidders Will submit bid for furnishing the follow
ing items In either Spruce or White Pine:
SO feet b. m. (more or lessl AIS Sc ant'ing.
100 feet y. M. (more or lessD 6x3 yoists.
So feet B. II tmore or less) l2N2 yoists.
10 COO feet b. ~. (mere less linch Boarding.
5000 feet b. III. (more Isssl Ia inch Boa ding.
DIVISION III.
5000 feet B. M. (nore lee Soutnernl Pine Rails,
saNn2 BY inches.
Is 600 feet b. NJ (more less southtrn.Pne Floor
ing, grooyed and tongued, planed one sid g, Ia
inch thick, aud in widths not exceeding
600 feet B. NJ (mOre or Ies.) White Pine X inch
SOfret D. NJ. (more or iess) White Pine, y inch
thick.
$500 feet NJ. (more or Iess) White Pine, inch
thick.
600 feet b n. more or Iess) white Pine, u inch
thick.
loo feet B. M (more or Iess) White Pine, IL inch
thick.
2.OcO feet B. (more or less) White Pine, 2 inches
thick.
500 feet D. NJ. (more or Iessy White Pine 8 inches
thick.
DIVISION III
biccers v i'll submit bids for furnishing the fol-
lowing items in either Black Walnut, Ash or But
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BOARDING.

HANDSOME ROOMS, en- suite or single, with
flheT CLAsS BOARD. je29-6t"
DLEAsANT SOUTH FRONT FURNISHED
l. ROOMS WITH BOARD. In q very pleasant
and healthy locality: Northeast corner Msssachu-
sets Avenue and 10th street northwest. Jell Avs
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COME. CONE. COME.
Buy! Buy!!
. LIABLE BROTHERS.
MERCHANT TAILORS q FINE CLOrBJERS
jy6-tr Corner 7th and ID streets NV.

Vo-u COruer 1tn anu ~ streets N. w,
V'HIsI Is TOGIyENOTICE, That the subscriber
has obtained from the Supreme Court of the Dis
trlct OF Columbia, holding q Special Term, letters
Parliamentary on the personal est ate of ELIZABETH
:. VAN WICK, late Of W ashington city, ID. O. de-
deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same,
with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber or
before the S0th day Of June next: they may other.
wise by law be excluded from all benefit Of the said
estate. Given under my hand. this 3Oth day OF June
1874 PHILIP " g. VAN WYCK
NHIs Is TO GIVE NOTICE, That the subscriber
District OF Columbia. holding q special term, let
tiers Of ed Tin istration the personal estate of
JOrHUA HAYWARD, late OF Washington CITY,
y o., deceased. All persons having claims against
the said deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the
same. with the vouchers thereof. to the subscriber
on or before the 3Oth day OF June next: they
may otherwise by be excluded from all benefit Of
the said estate. Given under my hand this 3)th
day OF June, 1874 ESTHER HAYWARD,
Oomr5t Administrative.
g rORAGE.-Parties desiring Storage, in any
~ quantity can obtain Il BY applying to
WIN. l.. WALL Co, Auclioneers,
Y3-t Cor 9th street and Pennsylvania ave.
I IEFE LAWNS LINEN LAWNS 1000
II ards WHITE LINEN LAWN, warranted all
linen, at Is cents, worth 30 cepts.
JyS-S WIN. b. Riley, us Market Space.
X Z NOV Al.
Iu order to rebuild and refit my store No. It's
Marx 81 Space, shall this day move my stoox. to
18th streets where will be pleased to see
all OF my customers, and the public in general.
telling of at and beI0p Cost. 8. HELLER,
jyl Sw Ills Pennsylvanis avenue.
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Whole Tickets, go; Half Tickets, rs: Ouarter
Tickets, 81 50; Blesen Whele Tickets or a Half
Tickets for 100. No discount on less AMOUNT
no INDIVIDUAL BIHBFIrs.
This Concert 10 strictly for MASONIC purposes
ana will be conducted with the same lfberalty hon
esty. and fairness which charactevfysd the rs en-.
terprise. JOHN l.. ROPER, Pres's.
Tor Tickets and Circulars giving full information.
address, H1neI v. MOORE, Secretary,
Masonic Relief Association, Norfolk, Va
AEeais wanted Eroytchre. jsn m,wxim
Oo0LnIYA ou1 P0MDHRs e vaFTaa1s6
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-11

country is bare of goods. The country
trade is growing very active, however,
and the largest jobbing house in Chicago
is doing a heavier business than ever
before. It's members say that their col
lections in the country were never so
good, and that their trade this year will
probably amount to $40, O,OOO,O A
large firm of pork packers and grain
commission merchants, having houses
both in Illinois and Indiana, expressed
similar views, saying that in twenty
years experience they had never known
such favorable prospects for the crops
throughout the West. The prospects
for the railroads and for business gen
orally are said to be correspondingly
favorable.
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AMERICAN Hrv0BIsrs.

The living American humorists, who
seem to hold the most prominent place
in the worlds regard. are Mark Twain,
Bret Harte. Orpheus @. Kerr, P. V.
Nasby, Josh Billings, the Danbury
Nes0s man, Nym Crinkle. John Hay,
and Eli Perkins. Mark Twain (Mr.
Clemens) is well known through "The
Jumping Frog" "The Innocents
Abroad" Roughing It." and his last,
but decided failure, 'The Gi1ded Age. p
His humor is dry, his character shrewd,
and his physique lank and wiry His
home is in Hartford, Conn. Bret Harte,
a New Yorker by birth, Californian
first estate, has scarcely borne out the
great reputation which he carried while
connected with the Overland 1font1sky.
Orpheus @. Kerr (NIr. NewelD is one of
the editors of the New York World.
His sketches during the war, written
for the Sunday Mercury, were very
humorous. Nasty (Mr. Locke is editor
of the Toledo Blade. His letters for
long time were the rage. Josh Billings
is the son of a Poughkeepsie farmer.
He sends his ill-spelt fancies to the
New York Weekly. His name is Shaw,
and like true humorist, is very grave
and sober man. Mr.. Bailey, of the Dan
bury NeUs, has made his pile, and he
doesn't care now whether the world
laughs or cries at his jokes. Nym
Crinkle (Mr. Wheeler) is also
connected with the World. He is
a spicy, graphic, and attractive
writer. John Hay was the Private Sec
retary of President Lincoln. He is now
connected with the New York Tribune.
Like Mark Twain" the most humor-
Gus thing he has done. SO far as his own
personal fortunes are concerned, was to
marry rich wife. Ell Perkins" on.
Langdon), of New York, is chiefly
known by his gossipy letters. Humor
in America is paying business. Nearly
all of these men are rich. You do not
find the needy author jesting through
his rags. We have no Sheridans ha-
ranguing their creditors from the roofs
of houses, nor Go1dsr1iths selling the
works of immortality to pay lodging
house keeper. Our Hoods, our Lambs,
our Sidney Smiths know trick worth
two of cultivating literature on a little
oatmeal"
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TYPE WORK OF A NEWSPAPER.

TYPE WORK OF a NEWSPAPER.
The Pofghkeepsie Eagle, in an arti-
Gle on show mistakes happen in news
papers" figures up the number of type
used in paper the size of the Eagle at
600, 900, j. e. the actual number of bits
of metal arranged or rearranged, every
day, in preparing newspaper of that
size for the press. We suppose few
persons think of the printing trade as
one of the most exact and particular of
all the handicrafts, but it is. In MAX
allowed in the finest machinery would
render the type useless. It is very
rarely that type furnished by two sepa-
rate foundries can be used together
without great deal of trouble, though
they try to make them after the same
standard. We read once in while of
a wonderful piece of cabinet work, or
mosaic work, containing ten, twenty, or
fifty thousand pieces, the maker of
which has spent months, or even years,
of labor in producing it, and people go
to see it as a great curiosity; but the
most elaborate and carefully fitted piece
of work of this kind ever made does not
compare with that which the printer
does, every day, for minuteness of de-
tail and accuracy of fitting. The man
who does the first is looked upon as an
artist-a marvel of skill, and if hun
dred of his pieces are put in wrong side
up or turned the wrong way, it is not
observed in the general effect-but if
the printer, in fitting ten times as many
pieces together in single day, puts one
where another should be, or turns one
the wrong way, everybody sees it, and
is amazed at "the stupid carelessness
of those printers. -
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a DANGEROUS CLINE.

A tricolor flag on the summit of Metz
Cathedral, which has been a constant
eyesore to the Germans, has just been
removed, a reward of 100 thalers having
been offered for the feat, which was at
tended with considerable danger, as af-
ter the top of the Gothic tower was
reached, two balls had to be scaled to
reach the flagstaff. Demange, house
painter at Metz, accomplished the feat.
He had provided himself with two
planks for scaling the balls, and on sur
mounting the first he staggered, and
everybody expected to see him fall
but he recovered himself, reached the
flagstaff, lowered the French tricolor,
and substituted German flag of black,
white and red. Previously, seven Ger
mans had failed in the task, two of
whom lost their lives.
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an absolute fact-a naked truth-which
it would be well for both liquor advo-
Gates and prohibitionists to turn over in
their minds, digest well, and draw IA
tional conclusions therefrom. A crusade
against whisky as beverage would be
legitimate and benefcent war, which.
if crowned with success by the extnpa-
ton of the accursed fluid from the entire.
Union, would be most inestimable
public blessing. AS temperance
measure, the tax on whisky should be
quadrupled, while that on light wine
should be reduced to one-tenth of the
existing imposts. Medilta Lett
ter in the Chicago Tribune.
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A BIC GISTERN

The foundation is now being laid at
the new Palace Hotel for the biggest
cistern in the world. There are up
ward of a hundred men engaged in
laying the brick-more than a million
in number. The foundation is laid in
cement. and the engineer in charge says
it will be one of the finest pieces of engi-
neering on the continent. SO How much
water will it hold % asked a Chronicle
reporter yesterday of Warren Leland,
whom he saw watching the men at their
work. "Lemme see," said Warren,
taking short stub of pecil and pink
envelope out of his pocket, Sky times
100000 ought from ought you can't,
twice ought is oughty ought, and divide
it by nine; four from seven is three,
and add that to six, and then we'll have
it-6. .3OO,O 900. That's it, I guess. Yes,
100000 gallons. Big cistern, amt
it?" and Leland returned the stub of
the pencil to his capacious pocket. San
Francisco Chronicle
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BONNER is not much of a horseman,
after all. His fastest specimen OF
equine feetness, Dexter, is now sur
passed in trotting record by a half
dozen animals. Goldsmith Maid, with
her mile in 2:144 the American Girl,
with time but little slower Red
Cloud, who has just circled the track in
2:17, and Lula, who has spun around
the course ia 2:162, are all SO many
pangs of envy in the soul of Bonner.
The day has flown in which any one
man could hope to secure for his private
stable the best trotting stock of the
country. It has been a red-letter sea-
son in the history of American racing.
Horses of known swiftness have eclipsed
their previous records, while animals
hitherto obscure, as in the case of Lulu
and Lucille Golddust, have dashed
down the most astonishing of figures.
ga two-forty gait, once the symbol of
supreme feetness, has become a mere
turtle pace.
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HOT AIR AND cool RooMs:

Because, when the air of the streets
marks 80 or 40 degrees in the Fahren-
heit scale room over-warmed by fire
can be cooled by opening the windows
the average British householder adopts
the ready conclusion that whenever
room feels hot the way to cool it is to-
let in the external air. Accordingly in
these piping times he, and still more
often she, opens the sunny side OF the
house, and Let's in air at temperature
carrying from 100 to 12O degrees or 80.
Then, because in very short time the
room, naturally enough, becomes much
hotter than it was, it is considered that
the windows are not opened widely
enough, and the supposed error being
remedied, still larger quantity of hot
air is let in. And SO we find ma
terfamilias sitting with very light
muslin upon her frame, and great
deal of perspiration upon her upper lip,
her face the color of an Orleans plum,
and her condition of mind to the last de-
gree detected, simply because she per-
sists in disregarding the most elemen-
Cafy pr1uClp16S Oh udbtlTd1 puIOSOpdy>-
We tell her that if she will open. the.
windows on the shady side of the house
only, and keep the others closely shut,
her dwelling will be at least not hotter,
than the shady side of the street, where
as by her arrangement it acquires the
heat of the sunny side. We tell her,
also, that if her house be large and the,
inmates few, she may live in delighs-
full state of GOODNESS by only opening
the windows at night and keeping them
closed during the day. Her house viii
then be some 10 or 15 degrees lower in
temperature than the streets, and con-
vey very much the refreshing effects OF:
cool bath npon entering it. We tell
her'all this, and she is very much in
terested. At our next visit we find.
every window open and the house full
of red-hot air. 1T stands to reason,
she says triumphantly, that you can
not possibly cool house without plenty
of ventilation. .''-Lancet.
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CROPS AND BUSINESS IN THE WEST.
The New York EUeaaisag Post says that
member of one of the oldest banking
houses in that city has just returned
from tour of 1000 miles through New
York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illi-
nois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan and
Minnesota, undertaken for the express
purpose of learning the conditions of
the country by personal observation,
for which he had special facilities.
AS the result of his travels and in
vestigation, he reports that present in
dications promise the largest crops ever
raised in the West. This applies not
only to grain, but to all other staple
products. The farmers who secured a
good crop last year, and obtained the
cash for it, are now, he says, generally
free from debt and in a most satisfac-
tory condition. Stimulated by their
success last season, they have planted a
much larger area than ever before, and
their labors have been seconded by un-
usually favorable weather. The crops
are now SO vigorous and far advanced
that it is thought no subsequent change
of weather can seriously affect the har-
vest.
He reports business in the Western
cities as generally dull, but not nearly
SO dull as in New York. Both merchants
and customers have, as a rule, been very
cautious in their purchases, and the