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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-04-15
DYE. ]. SWEET,
ID Real Estate Broker and Auctioneer
Sill Seventh ST., OPP. United States Post once.
TRUSTEES SALE OFTwO NEAT TwO-STORY
ERAME DWELLINGS,, WITH BACK BUILD
NUE. BETWEEN AND T STREETS NORTH
WEST, AT AUCTION.

WEST, At AUCTION.
By virtue of two deeds Of trust, dated February
4, A ID. 1S73 and March s. A. d. 1873 respectively,
duly recorded in Liber No. 73 folio ., Ct and
Llber No. 75, folio "a ct sea- OF the land records
OF Washington county In the District Of Columbia,
and at the request OF the parties secured we will
sell at public suction, in front of the premises,
WEDNESDAY, April Is, 1874, at 5o'clock p. m,
all those pieces parcels Of ground situate in the
city of Washington, d. c., known and designated
as lots numbered fourteen CD and eighteen CIs) in
square three hundred and thirty-four, (3s4,) each
mont avenue, and running through TO Tenth CI0th)
street west and improved by two-story frame
dwelling, with q one-story back building.
Terms: $500, with 10 per cent. interest from Au-
gust L. 1873 to day of sale and expenses Of sale on
lot 49, and 500, with 10 percent interest from Sep
tember s, ls13 to day Of sale lot II, in cash; bal
at six and twelve months, for which the notes
OF the purchaser, bearing interest from day OF sale
and secured by deed OF trust on the property sold
will be taken; 500 will be required as deposit
each house at time Of sale. All conveyancing at
purchasers cost. If terms or sae are not compiled
with In seven days the trustees reserve the right
resell the property at the risk and cost of the de-
faulting purchaser, amer five days, advertisement
In some one or more newspapers published In Wash
-BfIRaAiNiRD h. WARNER, ,r,..
GEORGE w. STICKNEY, SIrustees-
mhso-MWF&ds E. j. SWEET, Auctloneer.
81 THE ABOVE SALE IS POSTPONED UN-
TIL WEDNESDAY. April 2 1874. same hour and
place. BRAINARD b. WARNER, (Trus,se.
GEORGE W. STICkNEl,
ap15-WFM&ds e., ], SWEET, Auct,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-04-15
GOVERNMENT SALES.

promptly by frst-class workmen. 'dec22-iY
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-04-15
NAVY DEPARTMENT,

PROPOSALS FOR MATERIALS TO BE
L SUPPLIED TO THE NAVY YARDS UNDER
THE GOGNIZANCE OF THE BUREAU OF
CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-04-15
AUCTION SALES.
by B. H. WARNER,
Feoefh BulldlnEs, corner Seventh and sts. n. w.

Future Days.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-17
A Wonderful Motor.

IF Mr.. Kelley, of Philadelphia, sue
ceeds with his new motor, the transporta-
ton business of the country will certain
Iy be revolutionlzed What it is re-
mains mystery to any but the inventor;
but if it be all Mr.. Kelley claims for it
the scientific world has been in ignorance
of a very powerful agent or a most po-
tent combination of agents already
known. He says that with two gallons
of water he can generate sufficient force
to draw train of cars from Philadelphia
to San Francisco and back, and yet he
uses no fuel nor does he employ chem
icals of any kind, electricity or magnetic
currents. 1t is surmised that the force
must be obtained by the rapid decompO-
sition Of water into its constituent gases,
but he denies that he uses any Of the
customary methods to accomplish that
result. In the machine he is now con-
structing he has developed, he asserts,
a pressure of 1000 pounds to the
square inch; and when it is remembered
that the pressure to which steam boilers
are subjected Is seldom more IMAM ZUO'
pounds to the square inch the enormous
leap Mr. Kelley claims to make with his
new motor may be partially appreciated.
1t is plain that should such powerful
be added to the resources of man
steam engines and much Of our present
machinery would become antiquated af
fairs; coal would lose its Importance;
mountains could be tunneled or leveled
like ant-hills, and in fact all the processes
of civilization would be changed; unfor-
however, for those who would
indulge in rOseate anticipations Of our
future, Mr.. Keeley's ma
chine, as he calls it, is still unfinished,
and it may be long time ere his dreams
are realized.-ABany IN. ~ Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-17

The rules adopted to improve the civil service
of the Government have been adhered to as
closely as has been practicable with the opPo-
sitiOn with which they meet The effect OF Il
has been beneficial on the whole and has
tended to the elevation of the service; but 1t IS
impracticable 10 maintain them without the di-
rect and positive support of Congress. Gener-
ally, the support which this reform receives is
from those who give it their support only to find
fault when the rules are apparently departed
from. Removals from Office without preterring
charges against parties removed are frequently
cited as departures from the rules adopted, and
the retention of those against whom charges are
made by irresponsible persons and without good
grounds is also often condemned as VIC
latiOn of them. Under these circumstances,
therefore, announce that, if Congress adjOurns
without positive legislation on the subject of
civil service REFORM I will regard-such ac-
ton as a disapproval Of the system, and will
abandon ii. Except so far as TO require examina-
tiOns for certain appOintees 10 determine their
fitness, competitive examinations will be aban-
doned.
The gentlemen who have given their services
without compensation as members OF the Board
to devise rules and regulations for the govern
ment of the cOuntry's civil service have shown
much zeal and earnestness in their work and TO
them, as well as TO myself it will be a source of
modification if it is TO be thrown away. But
repeat that it is impossible 10 carry this system
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-27
One OF the Vir2inius Crew.

Mr.. Thomas Price, of the Swan Hotel, Cir
encester, England, has received through
Lord Derby, parcel from the Foreign Office
containing a watch and chain and append
ages belonging to his only son, shot at Santi-
ago through his connection as sea man with
the Virginius. The whole was wrapped in
sheet Of note paper upon which was writ
ten in bold hand, the following letter:
"SANTIAGo DE CUBA, Nov. I, 1c73.-My
darling parents: l am now near my last
hour. | am to be shot this afternoon at
three o'clock. There are about thirty OF
u.s. NV God it is a fearful thing to shoot
innocent men My dear parents, have al
ways been bad boy: but l never thought
to bring this great sorrow on your heads.
Give my love to darling Alice. Tell her
loved her dearly, and hope God will bless
and prosper her. l shall try to get my
watch and chain sent home and if you re-
eeive it, my dear parents, | would like dear
Alice to have the lockets to keep in remem-
brance of poor Walter Kind love to all
my relatives and friends, and tell them
die like an Englshman should die. And
now, dearest parents, | conclude this heart
breaking letter, hoping that we shall meet
in better land where there are no sorrows,
troubles or cares. remain, your ever-loving
son. Walter +. Price. May God have mercy
upon my SOUL
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-27
GOV. KEMPER's VISIT TO GRANT.

In our Geographic column will be found
q statement that movement is on foot
among politicians of various political COM
plexions, to push Grant forward for the
third term. As fact bearing upon this
statement, which the reader can take for
what it is worth, we quote the following
from the Petersburg Dispatch
Gov. Kemper being in Washington on
other business the visit was proper. 1t was
a visit of courtesy, such as has been gener-
ally paid the Presidents by Governors of
the States when in the Federal city. True,
everybody has his right to think what he
pleases of it and to express his opinions
about it but we can see no improperly i'll
it. On the contrary. we discover in 1T ex-
actly that manifestation of respect for the
Chief Magistrate of the nation which should
be made by Governor of a State whenever
a suitable opportunity presents itself.
The visit itself being proper, what said
Gov. Kemper in the interview with Gen.
Grant that committed him or his State in
the slightest degree to the policy of Gen,
Grants administration or to a third term
for the General Why nothing-absolutely
nothing.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-27
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A DHNET AT SIGHT.

We have read Of the many incidents af-
fecting the sight of individuals. which have
from time to time been given to the public,
but the purchase of a mans own eyes was
left to this city to develop. 1t occurred re-
Gently, on one of our public thoroughfares
and the operators comprised an eN-excise-
man and ii successful broker. The victim
profession the members of which are cele-
brated for their disregard of the truth in
connection with the extraction of teeth-and
sometimes the entire jaw-of their patients.
Whether the subject of conversation on the
occasion had anything TO do with the re-
spective business of the gentlemen concerned,
we are not prepared to say, but it must have
certainly been ali-absorbing to the victim OF
the practical Joke resulting therefrom.
At a certain period of the conversation,
the professional man, observing a hand
some pair of goid-mounted eyeglasses in
the hands of the broker, asked to look at
them-a fair request, which was readily
complied with, and, as luck would have it,
lucN Stlbct lHS Uottol
"What are you doing with these glasses p"
asked the doctor of his friend.
40, nothing" was the answer; 81 want
to get rid of them"
What will you take for theme'
81 will sell them cheap" replied the
broker; g two dollars and half"
Why" said the doctor, en- connaisseur,
"they are gold, and have the French
stamp, and are worth fully eighteen or
twenty dollars"
To make a long story short, the barter
was struck, and the doctor, who had forgot
ten his own spectacles at home, paid over
two dollars and half, the price asked, and
became the happy possessor of the glasses.
The money was soon literally spent by the
broker at a neighboring saloon, the doctor
sharing copiously in the libations.
1t was not until the next day that the
doctor, after vainlv searching for his own
glasses to compare them with those that he
had purchased. became convinced that he
had bought his own property which had
been distracted but few minutes before
from his vest pocket by the third party, the
excise man, and turned over to the broker
to perpetrate the joke.
The doctor, however, believing that it is
dull joke that has not two edges, be-
thought himself of repaying the trieksters
in their own coin, when it suddenly arose in
his mind that he had purchased a horse for
one hundred dollars from the abstractor of
his glasses, and. although having possession
of the animal, he had not yet settled for the
price. The next day came, and the excise
man was not q little surprised to receive a
cheek for ninety-seven dollars and a half,
with the information that if the amount
was short, it was entirely due to the short
sightedness of the debtor
1t is understood that the matter is not en-
tirely settled, and will not be until some
one of the two treats to a fish dinner at the
lake, at which, it is hoped, the Bulletin shall
be represented
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-27
JUDGE CAMPBELL's STATEMENT.

This is portion of Judge John A. Camp
BELLS statement of what occurred on that
occasion
l was engaged by Mrs. Allaine to have
proceedings set aside, and Il night session
was appointed for an argument of the case !;
the papers had got hold OF this matter in
some previous discussion and made good
deal of it f.: | went into the court. and one OF
the counsel moved to adjourn saying that
the discussion should be made in the day
time; this was night session and very nn-
usual. the only one | ever knew of; | refer
red to the remarks i'll the papers, and stated
the aspersions of them had nothing to do
with the administration Of instice i'll this
case. and thereupon the Judge broke out III a
very loud and very insulting tone, assuming
that | had prepared these pieces in the news
papers and sgni wing that | should not over
ave the court: | rose to reply to him and he
turned his face to me: / saw ut once that he
was drunk and | made no reply, and he adj
.iourned the court: Of course had nothing
to do with the newspapers or any publica-
tions concerning him in them.
G. You did hot inform him that you had
nothing to do with tie newspapers
A. Nothing at ali he adjourned the court
instantly, before had opportunity; saw
he was drunk and | hesitated an instant,
but he Immediately adjourned the court.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-27
ABOUT THE OPERA.

AS usual the solemn character of Holy
Week will, for few days, deprive the
habitues of the Opera of the handsome
entertainments which Mr.. Canonge provides
for them. A large portion of the company
will leave this city on Sunday morning for
Galveston, where they will give a series of
operate performances, under the manage
ment of Mr.. Grunewald. We regret for the
Galvestonians tina! untoward circumstances
may prevent our great baritone, Mr. De-
voyod, from accompanying the troupe; but
there will, nevertheless, be a sufficient
number of the prominent members of Mr.
Canonge's company to give refined and
intellectual treat to our Texas friends.
Rumors are already rife concerning the
projects of our opera manager for the next
opera season. From what we have learned
we can say that the time OF closing the
opera season, in the latter part of May next,
is even too remote to permit of any deter
mination on the part of Mr. Canonge.
There IS no doubt in our mind that every
thing will be done to retain Mr. Momas, the
HltStcf-nanu VINO mas SO DrllllanulN leu luc
| orchestra during the season. and his talent
ed assistant Mr. Fursch-Madier. To retain
the latter implies also the re-engage-
ment of Madame Fursch- Nader,
who has contributed to the success
of our opera with a zeal and talent that have
made her a great favorite here. 1t is scarce
ly necessary to say that the entire music
loving public are enlisted in favor of Devo-
yod than whom no more finished actor and
singer had ever trod the lyrical stage of this
country.
But as we have intimated, Mr.. Canonge,
acting as an intelligent manager, must close
| ly survey and study the field i'll which he is
engaged before arriving at any conclusions
Whatever may be his determination, we re-
main satisfied that his additional experience
in opera management, will, together with
his well known sagacity, secure for us still
more brilliant company next summer.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-27
Yachting Notes.

The iovial yachtmen of the Third Dis
triet are locking forward to the summer
time with pleasurable anticipations as to
Yachting. The ':Meteor," which came, and
saw, and conquered, last year, is done up in
lavender. and ready for another season; and
we learn that number of gentlemen of the
s.Od Third y have ordered a new 90 feet
boat to be ready for the opening of the
yachting campaign. How is it that the
"Tbird" monopolizes all the yachting spirit
enterprise ?
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-27
BY TELEGRAPH.
From Washington.
The St. Phillip Canal Fixed Fact
Discomforture of Eads.
rs. ecial to the Bulletln.l

WASHINGTON, March -. IL A. Mt is
stated here to-day ON the best authority,
that the arg lments yesterday before the
Transportation Committee resulted in con-
vincing the members of the Committee that
the Jetty system advocated by Captain
Eads, as applied to the mouth o. the
Mississippi, was entirely impracticable'
The argument of Forshee was mastery
and exhaustive, while that of Herberts
was more rhetorical and scholarly.
Forshee completely upset the ridiculous
theories of Eads relative to the action
of the current upon the bars, and
showed that even if it were possible to con-
struct the jetties, the labor of centuries
would be requisite to follow up this work.
That the committee will report against
the Eads' scheme is deemed certain, and the
canal may be regarded as certainty.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-27
A Leak at the City Hall.
WHO Is TO BLAME Z

that quite number of Metropolitan war
rants which were received by the Sheriff for
taxes, and by him paid into the city treas
ury. have been hawked about the streets fol-
sale. When it is known that all warrants
turned in to the city are supposed to be can
celed at once and reduced to mere waste
paper, the matter becomes very serious, and
the question at once arises, "WhO is to
blame?" We call Mr.. Schneiders attention
to the matter in order that the leak may be
stopped and the subject investigated.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-27

INSURANCE ASsOCIATION.-The attention
of our readers is called to the partial list of
members in the above association published
elsewhere. The company thus far has met
with only two.losses, and its large augment
class that is of membership limit ed tt
600. The fact that I. N. Marks is its Presi
dent, and r. w. Young Secretary, is the
best guarantee that the affairs of the COM
pany will always be carefully and faithfully
administered
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-27
NINETY-THR EE.

Victor Hugo's last production, Quartre
Tingt Trei1e, has come out IN the vernacular
in the New York Courier DIES Etats Unis,
which publishes four pages of the first chap
tiers in its last issue. A perusal of the first
pages confirms the exalted appreciation OF
the Courier concerning the great old mans
latest work. 1t is nothing like the recent
novels of the same writer in point of style
or ideas, but recalls forclbly the freshness
and vigor which We're dffused throughout
the earlier works Of the master in French
literature. The novel, as its title indicates
refers to the stirring episodes of the French
revolution of 1898.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-27
Social Equality on its Test.

Mrs. Ames, the wife of the Governor of
Mississippi, and daughter of the notorious
Ben Butler, went into the Executive Man
sion of that State, as its mistress theoreti-
cally sound on the question OF social equal
ity. After several weeks OF patient practice
Of the Radical theory, Mrs. Ames has become
Disguised with it, and can no longer tolerate
the Afrioue de sent. Her hot house theories
of social equality have withered in her
throbbing bosom, that so vehemently heaved
responsive o the socially down-trodden sons
and daughters of Afric's geneial cline.
Practical social equality has 80 sonred
upon the gushing feelings of Madame Ames,
that she is preparing to vacate the mansion
to take private board where colored callers
are not expected or received. This is
quiet way of socially ostracising the colored
admirers of the lilliputian appendage known
as her dear Adelbert, the sOcailed Governor
of Mississippi, elected by mob Of negroes
controlled and managed by the bad white
men of that State.
Now is good time tor the usual Radical
howl to come in to vindcate the social
rights of the 'colored troops who fought
nobly" and their black wives and dang tiers,
who are thus snubbed by one of their own
party. This thing cannot always be. 1t
should arouse general indignation IN the
Radical camps.-ROme Courier.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-27

Hon. Edwin DeLeon delivered a lecture IN
Mobile Thursday night, on ''The Egyptian at
Home" Many of our readers will remember
Mr.. DeLeon as the efficient Consul General
of the United States at Egypt. The Mobile
Register, in highly eulogistic notice, says:
ave do not propose to introduce the lee
turer to our readers. His name has been
familiar to many Of them since the days
when The Southern Press was tirebrand
in Washington, and Edwin DeLeon was its
editor"
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-27

Senator Schurz, who has been selected to
deliver the Sumner memorial Grafton, may
be expected to surpass all his previous
oratorical efforts upon that occasion. A
Washington correspondent remarks that he
will have the experience of Charles Francis
Adams before him as an admonition, and hi
will take good care not to pluck roses from
other great mems graves to plant upon that
of Mr.. Sumner.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-27

Miss Alice Harrison opens on Sunday
next, in her new speciality entitled "Strata
gen. in which she personates five characters
introducing new songs and dances. This
will also be the last night of the Black Crook
Burlesque. Monday first appearance OF
Miss Leona Dare, the wonderful trapeze
artist, Miller and Goodrich song and dance
and character artists. Will Conway in Ger
man specialties.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-27

When in the Spanish strte Bilboa was
captured, Mariones the Rept and General
utterly defeated, it was thdt the war had
taken new turn and thAe tide of tri-
umph had at last set in ew dire elton.
But not SO. Neither part competent to
push the campaign or carry country with
them.
The conclusion is graduI forcing itself
upon observers that Spain ( is profoundly
indifferent, if not openly HE, to the two
factions of anarchy and asracy that are
warning respectively undeie respectable
names of Republic and Kin
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-27

The new spring fashion in ladies' bonnets
is simple and inexpensive. Take last years
hat, sleep in it for night or two, sit on it half
half an hour, then get some reliable friend
to knock it endwise after you have it on
and presto-yon have very love of bon
net in the newest spring style.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-27

The greatest anomaly il city W hich
cannot give its population and work is
the high prices that one has bay to obtain
respectable meal. The ci4 a provision
depot, and yet living is vel lear. There
is no restaurant here wherq hnger can be
satisfied for less than a DIR, or where
even cup of coffee with bf and butter
can be obtained for less tia quarter of
that amount. The mystery all the more
singular as the dishes that Id cost more
than dollar can be obtainet every first
class coffee house for nothin4 hen one calls
for drink. 1t is all nonsenSo talk about
cheap labor for workingme4r any body
else, in city which has nlheap eating
houses.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-27

Emperor William sends contribution
to the Autograph Album, ihe Germania
Museum at Nuremberg: rst consider,
then venture. To every on, own. Listen
to both parties. God with. Let these
precepts be present to your It's and minds,
and not only be on your tots and at the
tip of the pen, then WHAT you may I'M
dertake you may Confident await the re-
suit. In the third year of tscitated Ger
many-Wilhelm, Imp. Rex.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-27
What We May Expect.
Special to the Bulletin.


WASHINGTON, March 26.-lt is current
here that the President has avowed his adj
hesion to the initiation policy. There is
considerable sensation in the Senate, ana it
is not improbable some reference to the EX-
ecutive will be made.
Nav Political Movement.
Especial to the Bulletin
WASHINGTON, ID. c., March ga secret
movement is ON foot among certain class
of politicians to bring Grant forward the
third time as a candidate for President.
A number of prominent leaders OF the
Democratic party have been approached as
well as officers in the army, whose influence
is thought best worth having. The scheme
meets with much opposition from his old
opponents. who have seen enough of his
laundering and inlbecility, and who do not
care about having the country saddled with
his administration auy further.
1t is, however, contendcd on the other
hand that Simmons confirmation was only
assured through the support of opposition