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SPECIAL NOTICE

VI
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Attention il called TO the provision OF Law requIr-
ing the supply of water to be cut ot from all prem
i-s here reat- remain paid at the expiration Of
Thirty DAYS after the same bscemss due, viii Oh
timo expires
FEBRUARY 1, ls74.
Imme diatey after the above da.e this law Will be
pc-i;ivey emf reed
tend during the DAY. this office will be open every
evening during tbs week eHding J .nuarV 81, 1874
between the hours of and O'Clock, for the receip
Of water reLts.
TIMOTHY LUBEY, Water Registrar.
Water Registrars Office, Jauy "a, 1874 Jaa27-d
rFBoARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
Wy District OF COLUMBIA,
WASHINGTON, January 20, 1874.
Notice is hereby given, that all petitions for dam
ages to real estate sustained by reason of public
iative Assembly approved June o. Ig2,i must be
flt d Of the Office Of the Board of Public Works on
or before FEBRUARY 9TH, 1874.
by order Of the Board.
Iar2S.d IChron Rep &Uritio Secretary.
% ANNAPOLIS, ME-. , January Is, 1874
due January, lS59, on tho Preferred Construction
viii be paid at the BANKING House Of Me.srs. Alex.
Sons @ SS sRd ae inst
Wy WASHINGTON GAS LIGHT COMPANY
i9r ELECTION OF DTeetors; will be held at the once
February !, 1874, between the hours q Il m and i
PAN isS,s.a CHAs, B. BAILEY LEY
nF NATIONAL SAVINGS BANK, WASH.
Wy INGTOH, ID c., JanV1yy IL, 1874. The rate
Of interest deposits made in this bank from and
A'''' FIVE PEI CENT KIN Pe PER ANNUM,
and sl money on deposit up to March lst, will draw
SIX PER GENT. PER ANNUM,
until July lst after which period the interest allow
FIvEPER GENT. PEP ANNUM,
until otherwise ordered
Interest in all cases is computed and allowed for
each full calendar month.
lenl2eotyl W. sTICKNEY, President.
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Wy hEMOPED WITH HEAD COMPLETE
IN A FEW HOURS.
AT No, 2OOa SEVENTH STREET, NORTHWEST,
where specimens can be seen.
Consultation free. decls-ly'
Wy has never been known to fail II frees the
scalp rom Dandrun, Restores Gray Hair 70 FL
the Hair from falling cut, and reproduces IL when
gone; II Is the finest Hair Dresser known. For sal
by all Druggists. jyl1-ly
RFsCHEHCKy MANDRAhE PILLs.-Thes-
Ingredients, and although they entirely superssd,
tss use Of mercury DO not leave Of ts urioss
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Ing from q disordersd state of that organ, Live
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THIS Is To GIVE NOTICE, That the subscriber
has obtained from the upreme Court of the Dis.
trct OF Columbia, holding Special Term letters OF
administration on the personal estate Of CHARLES
Bt Rms, late Of Washington city, ID. o., de-
Ceased All persons having claims against the sail
De- ased are hereby warned to exhibit the same,
win the vouchers thereof to the subscriber, on or
before the "a day Of January they may other
wise by law be excluded from all benefit the said
estate Given under my hand. this 9th dav Of jan
uary 1874. AMELIA M BURNS,
y,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-01-28

'I'HIS is TO GIVE NOTICE, That the subscriber
Il has obtained from the Supreme Court of the Dis.
trct Of Columbia, holding q Special Term, letters
~ adm straion on the personal estate OF JOHN
BADEN. late Of Washington city, D. O. de.
ceased. All persons having claims against the said
deceased are hereby warnedto exhibit the same, with
the thereof to the subscriber on or before
the 9th day OF January next: they may otherwise
tate Given nndsq nv hand thiS o oae sao es
1874 ANN c. BADEN
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TIE NEW CAFE

fHB NEW CAFE,
Tor Ladies And Gents, Connected Win TIE unh.r
kestauI ant, will be open for the Ontertainment n
guests SATURDAY, January Slth. Ths proSrtsto ~
has spared neither trouble nor pense In III e6ort
TO make his Saloons comfortable aud coey-in ors
Just the place for lady gent to Ireakfsat a.
Lunch, Dine or take Tea. Entrance 10 the nav
CAFE, 9th street, three doors north OF Psnna ava
nue.. VIM. j. MARTIN, Man Arsr
JaD0-lw Rep. 6Ohrou.1
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LOST AND FOUND.

Lust AND FOUND,
IL one 80. one a 100 two a5's and a ri and half
dollar bills The party finding same will be
JANIS IT O. M WILCOX
/ OsT-On Monday afternoon, Jan 10Th, on M
- street, corner Of 18th, northwest, MINK FUR
COLLAR The finder will be suitably rev ardad
~ returning the same to 1ll5 n street, corner
18th, northwest. ian28 St.
4 0ST-Between 7th and streets northwest and
IL Maryland avenue AID 18th street, or in the
market, q CAMEO BREASTPIN. The finder will
receive the thanks of the owner and reward by re-
turning il to 4O5 18th street southwest, above
Maryland avenue. JANIS ST.
If ANY ONE FOUND POOE EFT BOOK BE
L tween Psrker's book store and 7th and streets
will return it TO this Office he may retain the cur
rency and receive the thanks OF the owner j27.2L-
OsT.On Pennsylyania avenue, a heavy GOLD
LCHAlN BRACELET, pearl setting. A liberal
reward for its return will be paid by B. H. COL
LINs, Internal Revenue, Treasury Depart
ment ian27- Pr
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INTHK sUPBEMK C0URTOF THE DISTRICT

HO,d,rs SPECIAL T,,m, January Tna, 1874.
admin, traitor Of GARRoGI I'n T. wISs hs1SS,
dect ssed, the administrator aforesaid has, with
the APPRECIATION Of the Supreme Court Of
the District Of Columbia Aforesaid, appointed
TUESDAY,, February 2Ath, A. p, 1874, for
the final settlement and distribution Of the personal
estate Of said deceased and of the in hand as
far the have been collected and turn into
money; when and where all the creditors and heirs
Of said deceased are notified to attend, with their
claims properly vouched, or they may otherwise BY
law be xcluded from all benefit in said decsaseds
estate: Prortded,a copy Of this order be published
previous to the said day. Test:
N0TICE.-The copartnership heretofore exist
ing between the undersigned, under the nrm
name q OARTER Co., n hi: dsE dissolved by
Al, Claims on the late nrm will be settled 6y NIB
gro. r. KEEN.
" eshlogton, 2. Q Dec. 10, 1873. Jan17 -at'
W. LOH PREMIUM FAMILY FLOUR.-Oon.
SAMMY receiving direct from the mills this
..,.f, I'M, nen have sold for years with great
Jen24-0 n w RUROuRU,V,
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LIS THE SUPREME C0URTOF THE DIsTKTCT
OF COIUMRIA

HsIItHx n OPscfnI ItTm, J1nH1Ty Nth, IN4.
In the case Of James W Decide, executor OF
THOMAS BROWN, deceased, the executor afore-
said has with the appreciation Of the Supreme court
81 the District OF Columbia aforesaid, appointed
TUESDAY, February "a, A. ID. 1874, for the final
settlement and distribution of the personal estate
ofsad deceased and of the assets in hand a. far
the same have been collected and turned into money
when and where all the creditors and heirs OF said
deceased are notified TO attend, with their claims
properly vouched, or they may otherwise by law be
excluded from all benefit in said deceased's estate
Proctded, copy of this order be published once Q
week for three weeks in the Evening Star previous
TO the said day. Test:
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Attention il called 10 the provision OF Law requIr
ing the supply of to be cut eff from all prem
here rents remain paid at the eN pir ION
THIRTY DAYS after the same bscem 80 due who
TIM eN pirts
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DUILDERS, ATTENTION

CAL aud examine prices Of those fine BU HIDING
LOTS on lfh, ., h, a. Corc0ran streets fu -Irara
No. go. livery newly finished house IN the neigh
bothOOd has been sod aud he demsnd D. Increasing
rapidly. T. persons "a capital, who will improve
The ground BY huiltinR brick dwellings, great in-
ducemeuts viii be offered
STANLEY JONES
lau.b-6t N Oh I'm - orr 4 % n.pg
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-11
Specie PAYMENTS in Texas.

A Texas correspondent of the New
York Times writes Upon the first oc-
casion that had to make any payment
in Texas-it was for a nights entertain
ment at the house of a farmer-I asked
how much / owed. Six bits" he
replied, and I innocently handed him a
dollar greenback. "Hain't you got any
silver ?" said he. "Silver," said I,
"what are you thinking of? We haven't t
come back to specie payments yet, have
we p I was a long way from home,
and did not know what might happen !;
a hard money revolution or something
of the sort was possible. "Well, -
said he, "here in Texas we never
did take no paper money, even after the
war, but them plaguy railroads has kind
o brought them in upon us. Hows'-
ever, if you amt got no silver, Ill cen
take your bill, and give you change.
So saying, he fumbled in an old buck
skin purse filed with quarters at one
end, and with half dimes at the other,
and handed me three half dimes, having
deducted one dime for the premium
This rather annoyed me, because there
is a difference between the premiums of
gold and silver, and I could have easily
supplied myself with silver at ShreYe-
port. But | never dreamed of coming
to place in the United States where
legal tender was not legal-tender.
" How much," I inquired of the old
man, "have you got in that old purse?"
" Reckon I've got over one hundred
dollars in quarters, and mebbe few
dollars in half-dimes. "Don't you find
it rather heavy? ?" "Not half heavy
enough" said he with grin. 81 wish
as my puss was twice as heavy as tits !;
ha fower times as heavy" he bawled
after me as l rode away.
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Savant versus Servant.

Sauvier writes in his "Causeries
avec mes Eleves :" ga French savant,
member of the academy, wished to
ascertain the progress of the teaching
of languages at one of the English uni
versities. Having some friends among
the professors, he announced to them
his visit and the object of it. His Eng
lish friends determined to give the
academician high idea of these stud
les, and for this purpose resorted to
rather extraordinary means. They
chose twenty of the students best ac-
quainted with Greek, Sanscrit, French,
Spanish, and SO on, and ordered them to
dress as peasants and go out on the
road at some distance from the univer-
sity to meet the stranger. He was pro-
ceeding quietly along, rejecting upon
the high Importance of the study of the
languages, and the pleasure that he had
experienced since he was upon English
soil of speaking with the inhabitants,
peasant, apparently. approached Linn
and asked him, in Latin, if he could
render him any service. Soon another
accosted him in German, then third
and fourth, and finally whole troop
of peasants addressed him in all the
languages of the world. The academi-
clan was overwhelmed with astonish-
ment, and arrived at the university full
of admiration at this phenomenon.
Messieurs,' said he to the English pro-
fessor, "I have no further need to ex-
anime your teaching you are unques-
tionably the first masters in the world.
Your learning has spread through
all the surrounding places, and your
peasants even know more of the Ian
guages than our students at Paris. ,"
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InsuferabIe Moltke.

One reason why Count Moltke is no
more of favorite, according to an Eng
lish writer, and he is anything but
popular, is that he is an insufferable
prig, and ostentatiously wraps himself
up in a mantle of self-conceit. 1t is
told of him that when a simple colonel
he astonished the members of his mess
by regularly taken ten Friedrich d 'ors
out of his pocket at the beginning of
dinner and laying them beside his plate.
Regularly after dinner he repocketed
the gold, buttoned up his coat, looked
soarly around and disappeared. It was
resolved to ask him the meaning of this
strange behavior. "Well," he said,
"I have noticed that from the time /
entered this regiment the conversation
at table has always turned on women,
or cards, or horse racing, and had de-
termined to make a present of the ten
pieces of gold to the first man who
should start sensible subject. No one
has yet earned them" Even on con-
genial topics Moltke is never very talk
ative, being famous for holding his
tongue in ten different languages. Aud
when he does open his mouth it is
sometimes TO make such extremely un-
pleasant remarks that the wonder is
that his career was not long ago abbre-
waited by duel.
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Bret Harte in the Supreme Court
Room.

"Gath," in the Chicago Tribune,
says Bret Harte told me a good story
about his visit TO Washington year
ago. He had not been in the city at any
time previously.
"I was delighted with the capital, I"
he said. "It is so wide-reaching, 80
pure, 80 worthy of the country.
strolled up and down, knowing little
about it all, until / saw sign, CLERK
of the supreme court Then, guessing
the door, ] entered that awful tribunal
Of which / had heard so much. Sure
enough, there they we're in their silk
gowns-large, grave, Greek-looking
fellows, and all in row, with one law
yer talking, two listening, and no spec
tators.
"I sat down, the solitary intruder,
in far corner. The sounds OF the
pleader, monotonously arising, made the
only disturbance besides.
"In a few minutes, one Of the judges,
automatically turning his head, looked
at me. He said something TO the next
Judge the next TO the third. So along
the whole line the mysterious commune
cation went. They all faced from the
advocate and looked right at nae. Then
the Judge nearest me winked. i could
not have believed it, but no winked
twice
"I blushed like Anne Page when Fall
staff winked.
"The awful presence winked three
times.
Suddenly remembered that il was
Field. This was the bench he was on.
/ had been acquainted with him in Gall
ifornia."
"Well, Harte, il is the first time a
Joke ever went around the supreme
court. They couldn't even take the joke
of Cushinp's confirmation"
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The Effects of a Sunbeam.

IF the curious things in science were
communicated rather than the materi-
alistic, as presented by Professor Tyn-
dali and others, both profit and great
pleasure would be the result. TAKE in
It's contrast the effect of a sunbeam, for
example, and one sees the grand result
Of the most gentle and powerful, and
vet variable and versatile forces. As
painted by an artist pen, we see that the
most delicate slip of gold leaf exposed
as target to the suns shafts is not
stirred to the extent of hair, though
an infants faintest breath would set it
in tremulous motion. The tenderest of
human organs-the apple of the eye
though pierced and buffeted each day by
thousands of sunbeams, suffers no pain
during the process, but rejoices in their
sweetness, bIesses the useful light. Yet
q few of those rays, insinuating them.
selves into a mass of iron, like the Brit
annia tubular bridge, will compel the
closely-knit particles to separate, and
will move the whole enormous fabric
with as much ease as giant would
straw. The play of those beams upon
our sheets of water lifts up layer after
layer into the atmosphere, and hoists
whole rivers from their beds, only to
drop them again in SHOWS upon the hills
or in fattening showers upon the plants.
Let but the sir drink in little more
sunshine at one point than at another,
and it desolates whole region in its
lunatic wrath. The marvel is that
power which is capable of assuming
such a diversity of forms, and of pro-
ducing such stupeDdous results, should
come to US in so gentle, so peaceful and
so unpretentious a manner.
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A Woman at the Bottom of the Eng
lish Agricultural Strike.

A woman was at the bottom of the
agricultural strike in England, says Kate
Field, and this was the way of it: Mrs.
Vincent, wife of the editor of the Lean
ington Chronicle (who, by the way, lived
many years in Massachusetts, and got to
be quite Yankee), was running that
paper in her husbands absence, one day
in February, 1872, when a farm laborer
walked into the office and said "We're
going to have a good meeting tonight,
and we hope the Chronicle will send a
reporter to make England hear u.s."
" l don't see the necessity" exclaimed
the assistant editor-a man. 81 do"
replied Mrs. Vincent. ''There is no.
body to send" argued the assistant edi-
tor. "Some one must be found" an
swered Mrs. Vincent. Some one was
found, and the report did make Eng
land hear, and the revolution followed
Hodge for the first time called for his
rights, and took long step toward get
ting them. Kate, who grew a redder
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In Berlin.

A correspondent of the Jewish Mes
sepoer writes "Berlin at once strikes
a visitor as a great city. The streets
are noisy, busy crowd is filing past on
the sidewalk the stores are filed with
customers, and stages, cabs, and postal
wagons rumble over the roads. Thepeo-
pie wear the garb of all nations. English
sWeils, in velvet coats and bulging trou-
sers; American tourists, of course
Cahem D, dressed like gentlemen, with
perfect taste and propriety, and with
the bearing of freemen and the dignity
of kings quaint looking peasants, with
their smocks and head gear of con-
vulsing nature; Berlin fops with heavy
canes and eyeglasses, ruddy faces, fat
hands, and tight pantaloons adorning
stout legs lean artists, with hair flow
ing down their shoulders with Cnrin-
THAN Iuxuriance, and Gaping the eli
max with caps sufficiently broad for a
race-course; German women with Sc
raphic faces and kitchen costumes
pretty flower-maidens, fierce soldiers,
courtly old gentlemen, pale-faced chill
dren, dusty laborers-all pass MS as we
stand by the palace in part of Berlin
which gives the best view of most OF Its
beauties. A few moments more, and we
post ourselves by the monument OF
Frederick the Great. Before we enter
Unter den Linden, which is Immediate
ly in front, let us turn to view the scene
in the opposite direction. We can see
readily the broad Opernplatz, upon
which the sun is shining with scorching
force, the Fpalaces of the laiser and the
crown prince, before which sentries are
slowly pacing; the opera house, be-
sieged by ticket-seekers and specula-
tors. the library in the rear of the en-
peror's palace, the university, academy,
arsenal, in close proximity, and then a
little in the distance the museum and
the old Schloss with the Schloss bridge.
of notable men are seen IN
various points, on the bridge and on the
sides of the plaza, while dome-crowned
churches are Ginning forth the hour of
the day with the correctness to be ex-
pected from such timepieces."
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/. By improving their education gen.

l. By improving their education gen
orally as well as professionally.
2. By using the means which science
has pointed out as the best for the cul-
tivation of the soil and It's permanent
Improvement.
8. By keeping only the best breeds
of domestic animals, and feeding and
caring for them in the best manner.
4. By the use of the most approved
labor saving machinery, that is, sub
stituting machinery as much as posi-
BILE for human labor.
5. By raising those crops which, with
reference to soil, climate, means of
transportation, markets, supply and de-
mand, promise the greatest amount of
success and profit and
6. By demonstrating to cultivated
men, that farming is an agreeable and
enlightening occupation, and that the
farmers dwelling can be made the
abode of taste, culture and refined
manners
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DEAD IN HIS RED.



Only man dead in his bed-that IL ali
stark stif and ri sid-white face to the aaT.
Come out Of yesterday. somewhere, TO here
Well, no. don't think he'd friends anywhere neas.
Wanted employmeni-thAt's what he said:
NO work to give hfm-next thing he's dead.
What did he die of, sir7 Can any one ten?
A ft, did they think il was Last night he well.
Heart liseaseg Maybe. What was his name?
Don't know; didn't register, sir, When he came.
LAud'nuH, they said it was, there On the stand
No, stranger; don't reckon, haaaszd fair hand.
suicidef Yes, that's What thescoroner said
seoopea out vas what put the thing in his bead.
Money? Guess not, sir2 why he hadn't enough
To pas for this hole in the sod, Of the stuff.
Frtnds, did you afk7 Oh, yes sometime or other
ReSkon, Of course, the boy once had mother.
lgher rough on him, pard but where's it to end.
Wen you're panned out OF cash, and can't count
on a friend?
Down to thC cala5oose-thats where they took him !;
Good enough place when mans moneys forsook
Fun'ral2 Just you see that express at the eoron-
County don't pay for no hearse nor no mourners
Well, stranger, you'vo got mel Can pray, if you
Rather late in the day. when mans dead and still
Strikes me it DOM count to this, under my spade;
And Is for the rest Of hial-stranger that's piaysd
No -ohense, sir; beg pardon. But, strikes one as
fair,
And pretty sure way to get answer to prayer.
Better give a poor deviI lift while he's here
lhan wait till he's passed IN his checks over there.
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Editorial Tribulations in Paris.

Partisan editors are having very
lively time just at present. They are
not only constantly censured for the
publication of on dts of the widest
description, but every few days are
severely punished for giving currency
to scandals. A short time since, a
French bohemian, named Canonne, in
vented scandal and sold it to several
papers, all of which eagerly published
it. The result was that five editors
we're fined 100 fir. each Ducret, of the
Paris Journal, and Massey, of the
Figaro, 300 Fl. each, and Fraysinnaud,
of the Soir, 500 fir. and six days i'm
prisonment. Canonne, the originator
of the scandal, received as his portion
500 fir. fine and imprisonment of fifteen
days. Notwithstanding the severity of
the punishment, it is more than prob
able that every one of them will get
caught in the same trap again at the
first opportunity.
"A bushel of wheat weighing sixty