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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-02-05
An Honest Living.

+ rom Tie DS'rOtt FJ'ee Press
Two or three days ago "a young DetrOIter
was com tl3lGiug 20 an Old business man that
he had nothing 10 do. no show of employ
ment, and sCundly beTatei the hard times.
"If were 4 young man | wouldn't to- idle
a day. replied the business man. $50 10
Work at auyihing-take anything that Of
fers-keep busy, even If you don't MAKE
enough 10 replace your boot leather"
Taking this way, the business man firoi
the young mas heart He felt encourages.
Other men had made fortunes from small be
ginniAgs. and grit would win over adversely
He rushed around for two or three days more,
and then bought twenty boxes OF blueing ana
started TO peddle them out from house "a
house His experience as related by himself
was as follows:
First house: mo, sir; we don't want aay
blueing; we don't wear blue clothes here"
Second house: "Bluelng" No, sir, It's
GOOD thing for YOU my husband isn't a
home! You lCok just like the man who stole
cur COg!'
Third house: The door struck his toes and
he was landed on the ground with such force
that his spine was Jared two inches out O;
lire.
Fourth house: "Bluning!" al believe you
belong TO a gang of bU n drs, and are skuIk-
ing around 10 steal the door Keys! Git out,
sir"
Fifth house "Ten cents box! You are an
eXtortioner, sir, and if you don't get out oi
this yard I'll have my sons help You ont!
want you TO understand that haven't kept
house twenty eight years and don't kno =
that the bluest kind o. blueing is sold for 81 Y
cents box and bar of soap thrown I'M"
Sixth house: Woman pressed her nose
against front window until il was as fat
as single, and squeaked out: Here's an
other o them agents-call the dog!'
That young man has stopped work. No
business man can fire his heart again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-02-05
W as 1T L.

In the uorninR the light breezes shIver.
Toe -Oit olpndlet- fat DER thu Ky.
WI ran 10 her mirth b. the river,
Want j v as 4
" hose voice rang out, a. clear and gay,
~ the JOyOu, breath OF toe wax ming asy;
y Cheered the dog 20 the flaming teap-
Dr. re the pebbles stOHe aud tue banks were steer
W o. iaJ on the daisies & vsfCb lne LARA
Lose IT. Ia mixing wing ia ths great ttus arc
n Ia Ehed AT tie brown hsCes dartlng by
Nasttl. NSsiil
II the sunset the 1.-THE willows culver,
Tn 80 tint J. fJOdiug the sEb,
v D. iofrered - ola b. tue riyeTs
WssitI, WASH -
h. watC he'd the blue forget me- nots CLEAN,
And ~s-er lfiIIes n al the stream,
" h blushed as TO 70 arm drew them near
srd a lOS voice hi ered close dear.
Ia ftir the MAX n q stTs wrnld ,hH
Nid the golden sTaids / q the ball Rooms GLOW
o. III" harry silence, hushed and shy
Was j Na-it
The b!sCf D. Q bands crsckle and shiver,
As the psls WIutsy -rn lIghts tue say,
W mo sta IL by tue cold slIivH TiSeT.
L ~ l. Isu y
Q tair that l. touched By the .llen snow
sIu . -i- 2 thai YES eager ,"f ago,
A q nj siuC- then - f.tferluE tfett
h 81 'olls we'd the train 4 hei,>' Il dead,
= ud ts- i-.rHt hs at mr. CHuti ~ va =,
40 mus: needs z cody al . DAYS.
And memory 81 d pa'i "a 7ig1.
itva,l. ttltl Az re var kCgHf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-02-05

AN INCIDENT OF THE Waffle Spring
field (Ill.) Journal prints a communication,
which reads thus: "a democratic news
paper of Springfield, Ill, tells of a young
lawyer from that city who, during the re
belliOn, found himself on one of General
Banks steamboats, on Red river, when an
order was issued TO put all civilians ashore;
but who, refusing to be put ashore, had him
self placed under arrest, and taken TO the
headquarters of General Banks. There he
was given pass by the general and set at
liberty. One day he was in the tent of the
provost marshal, when an old lady came in
and complained OF the destruction OF a
large amount OF cotton. The provost mar
shall introduced her to the young lawyer
who undertook her case, took the proofs,
shook the dust OF Alexandria from his feet,
bid his friend, General Banks, adieu, and
left for the north. He prosecuted his CLAIM
successfully, taking 1t from the district
court in Springfield 10 the Supreme Court in
Washington, and back again 10 the district
court, where il was decided. He recovered
every dollars worth OF the cotton says the
paper, and the old lady gave him one third,
amounting TO $4,000, and thanked her stars
that she had ever been introduced TO VIM.
NJ. Springer, who now sits side by side wi In
that same General Banks in the 4ith Con-
gress.' On this same income OF $1,000 Mr..
springer refused TO pay his income tax, was
prosecuted, and his fine homestead was sold
by the L. s. marshal TO satisfy the execution
in behalf OF the government. The young
lawyer is now trying 10 persuade the u. =.
court to restore his property. Time will de-
termine as 10 how he Will succeed"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-02-05

AwRITIR in the Pail Mall Gazette con-
cludes an article upon Woman and Her
Boots" as follows-Her boots are far too
thin for walking purposes, and IL was only
last week that an inquest was held on the
body of young lody, who, owing TO q nail
piercing the sole of her boot, received such
an injury that she died of lockjaw. Woman,
moreover, now that she takes so active q
part in the business OF life and is almost
ubiquitous, requires to be strongly IL not
ponderously ehod, SO that, when necessity
arises, she may hold her own with man, re-
turning kick for kick with that fascinating
but foolish creature. A few words from the
pulpit would perhaps induce her TO take the
question of boot reform into her serious con-
sideTa,ion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-02-05

ONE MAY DAY, between ninety and one
hundred years ago, John, tenth Earl OF
Westmoreland, while dining with Mr.. Child,
the banker, said: "Give me your opinion /
this case. Suppose you Were in love with a
girl, and had no hope OF getting her fathers
consent To your marrying, what would you
dor" To which the unsuspecting banker re-
piled, "Do! why, run away with her, to be
sure" A night or two afterward Lord West
morelaud eloped with Miss Sarah Anne
Child in post chaise and four. The posi-
chaise took Miss Sarah Ann on board some
where near Berkeley Square House. An
alarm was given by the watchman, VINO
found the hail door open. Mr.. Caild at once
posted in pursuit, on the North Road, and
managed to gain on the runaways. 1t was
not, however, until Northumberland was
reached and entered that the second post
chaise came within sight or the first, and
then Lord Westmoreland, standing mp IN
his carriage, shot one OF the leading horses
of Mr.. Child's vehicle, which was capsizei
in consequence TINS bold proceeding gave
the lovers time 10 cross the border and get
married by the Gretna Green blacksmith
During the short interval between this m sich
and the Death of Robert Child, he never for
gave Lord and Lady Westmoreland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-02-05
/ HE PERsIMMoN.-Af few days ago we re

HE PERsIMMoN.-Af few days ago we re-
subscriber, Mr.. j. e. Evans, of Harlem, NJ O. :,
nearly dry, that are equal 10 foreign da les.
II is astonishing that the thousands Of bushels
of this fruit that annually 60 10 waste should
not be dried and sent to market. There are
groves OF persimmons in the country that
would warrant the erection of a distiilery to
convert them into brandy, thus turning the a
to account. Not that we would encourage
the consumption OF ardent spirits; but IL will
be used, and when made out Of perish able
fruits instead OF grain that will make bread,
we think Ii advisable. 1t may not be known
that this fruit has medicinal qualities. The
fresh fruit will act as purge, while the
seeds will cure C0iatds's Rural
World
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-02-05

@New York passepjares say they won't
pay any fares 10 the conductaires of the
horse-cairs unless they are given seats. They
do not want to stand and be counted, for
they claim that when they stand they ought
not TO be counted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-02-05

was with the greatest difficulty brought up
% me about O'Clock. too late for me TO
APPEAR Ia calico in the dIniDg-room; so |
went 10 bed linking of the astonishmeut %
Ton OF Ton, as had mentally christened my
mon ing.
But my letter is already very long, even t.
a old frierd like you, and as have made ii
clear To you how and why have turned my
back on he hay fever, will close. Write
e. me, but be careful 10 dress Miss Betty
White, although shall sign myself, yours,
ever, BkCKIE GRAY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-02-05

I'ERkl Biz DULL TIMES.
DRY GOODS STILL COMING DOWN
alO yards q rest CALICO. -,
Sr srd- at beet BLACK DALIDO.CIz
et0 yarcs good COTTON
Boo yards very wide SuEETIT @. IS
90 ards very ide pillow case COTTON, u
80 yards very beet Feather proof BED TICK.
IAG.B
CARRIERS, sOs Market Space.
So ysrds B.eached Damask TABLE LINEN, g.;
Wprth a..
lO dozen BlescHed Dsmask Linen TOWELS n .
go ygIGs double tod Back ALPACA, IS, worth
40 yards Black CASHMERE. over one yard
wide, 81.
an q our UEEss GOODS, sHawLs. BLAN
KITS, ~ almost any 2 ice our Gust ner- may offer
ioT them Az ~ or BLACh SILKS Sis, ol.SC /,
Sl7s, S2l0 Jauls IN
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FROM AUCTION.

FROM AUCTION.
$4,000 YARDS
HAMBURG EDGING snd INSERTING bought
at bsf tn~T real val and viii efisr the Above
GOODS SC the FOIL wing low figures:
cs, Isrd- at cents ESQ yards ~ u cents,
90 Yards ~ ~ cents, eD yards ~ ~ ceats,
S,tD yards NJ l. cents, LOO yards st * oents,
All worth double the money.
We hsys the sseney Tor the Economy Shoulder
Made OF best MaInsutta Cotton and Rio rstsor
Family Linen.
Equal 20 any ss Shirt in the sity,
kyery Shirt warranted 90 At perfectly.
The purchaser has only 90 have the stud or Bot.
ton holes worked, aud the Shirt IL ready for use.
Price, Sl.2, or oH per dozen.
The balance q! our DRY GOODS and OARPEra
vii be closed out az about cost until February lOth
4. n. rOWSON CO.,
lsn2e-eotr $50 Penna. avenue, south side
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4 Ook At ms.

L.ook At rms.
GOODS DAMAGED BY FIRE
AT LESS THAN HALF PRICE.
Zine Linens Cor SIC . worth SIS
Wool Bisntet- : 60. worth Ssng
Wool Blankets $3.50, worth o 10.
Eie6Ched trttou- lnc., worth ibc
haIseiiies quilts : . 50. wurthsa0J
Table Dan s-ks 3Sc worth 45c.
Bleachsd 4 Ole namask- SO worth IS
Black silks g. %, worth g. 81.
GKEAT REDUCTIONS FOR 40 DAYS ON
ALL CLASSES or ROOFS
OUR ENTIRE STOCK ~ WINTER GOODS
MUST b. SOLD BEFORE MARCd Ter.
EVEN YTRIYG UNDER THIS HEAOAT
SACAIFlCE
.. q. wIswsLL a CO.,
jsu2s t $40 I'm 81 near Pa. ave.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-02-05

like the dear old girl you are. and hear all
have 10 say. Good by! As ever,
BECKIE GRAY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-02-05

bTTRbL . WINE,
CORNER 20rH ST. AND rESSA AVENUE
sre of~tiuE beautiful Priut. at g.. cents.
Beet goods IN rh'rtinE- AZ Cent,
Spi"Udid Cotton. "a hl-ached aud brown. Il ranta.
oEe case brown Cot t1n, cents.
B ards AlpAca, 81 SCENTS. worth s..
reduce stock.
CsmbIic f3girC- aad luserttncs very cheap:
ttautiiUl a-a1I' fltut Of tashmsrD La 80
tArpsfs ~ e 81, Blankets az cost aud their eutiro
Etsck q Sn.Ats ~ lowest cash prices.
Cell and scr Tor yOursslyls.
jar29s." isso P.1n-yl' 80, sss
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Office OF REMOVAL.
THE STOCK 90
NAIES a MITCHELL

- n Low doors above -nn-ylyanta avenue,
here, IN the charge % " n Brown ehn Win
rrceiptf any hts due the late nrm a -su o. the
taisnce ~ thr ock ~ piices much below thtr
Cnst - sctusl Nalu" The entire business bous ht
OF the hssiglce ~ fhe very low gure q hty csnes
ca the dollar and vii be sid % c.sh hsscrs Of
price, less than cust q impo-tA'isu
In the as N ert Will BE- f1und-
500 yards Black ant Graz Skirtiug Ct - worth Il
so yaTds black aud bite Dre-s voods a. & cheap
ats
100 ards " hits Csmbrtc shifting ., sc worth O.
80 ards STRIP 4 snd Ptsd Nsnsook. a. half price
$50 Arfs Paid o. &. udie- ~ . std ~ c~uts
~ pieces Swiss Ptaids Ia satin - pas with full
LINE ~ v title q 4. cd. - ali kines
81 yards . Itch Black eilk 81 set haN IL. value
t00 ard Irish Linens ia short engi a. and ~
yard pieces
Black Siiks, Blsck Cashmere. Plaia aud Plaid
Dress Goods, U.s. flzi uels, as-sitnere@ Cor men
aud boys. iuu stock q Domestic 0.,sls OF ali
kirds. ksmfn l. b. ln~sfion-
No 3l< -th STREET NORTHWGsT.
frbl I'm Near paunst Iva u. avenue.
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M BRINo UEDERWgAR gunoxly reduoea d
lS1 Price In order 70 close out our large otocE,
the cheapest store IL the city, COANOLLYB, 0ol
9Th street, opposite Patent once. yan1l-0
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-02-05

OCTOBER
Home agatnl / did not to finish my letter
here, but seem 10 be doing IL. have slept
every morning for week until O'Clock In
celebrate the iact that am not in q CARR e.
and need not get up at sunrise. My mother
expected TO see me filled with the fruit of my
own devices. So am, but not un pleasantly
Life is not without its re wards. By my skill
ful strategy 1 saved myself much misery OF
body. can set a table for a clam bake or the
shah's wedding breakfast; nv English Sarah
has nice place in your family, thistle
down Ellen has blown over a lev leaf, has
interested Mrs. Seers in her. and is going to
stay with her all winter, learning how TO
keep house nicely. i earned money enough
10 pay my passage home and repay my
father, who advanced the money to Ia Ike me
up there; my busiuess-like promptitude in
the last mentioned act astOnished the gentle
man, did IL with such an air as of ma q to
man and asking no favors. But / must tell
You about that journey home. On the LIST OF
OCTOBER there was grand breaking I'D at
the - house. Servants and guests went
II together. Cook AID walter, lady and
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-09-21
WASHINGTON NOTES.

President Grant has instructed Gen. Hum
phreys, who has charge of the river and har-
Dor improvements, not to expend more than
two of the five millions appropriated by Con-
gress at its last session and in compliance
with the order Gen. Humphreys has adopted
the general rule to reduce each individual ap-
preparation 60 per cent. Persons interested In
the improvements contemplated by the appro-
priations are deluging the Secretary of War
with letters, asking him to sanction the full
expenditure.
The Treasury -Der,o1 tIneut is INFORMED unftG
the subscription to the new loan already largely
exceeds the $40, 000 600 taken by the Syndicate.
It is expected that the entire amount OF the
bonds of this issue will be taken before the
Syndicate option expires, March 1.
The centennial visitors are relic-hunters.
The Speakers desk of the House of Represen-
tatives has been nearly Clipped to pieces.
Since the passage of the act authorizing the
redemption of the fractional currency in sub
sidiary coins there has been issued in silver
coins $18, 1856. 1856. OF this amount there was
issued to redeem fractional currency $40, 910,-
242, and in exchange for legal-tender notes
and checks, $7,375, 643. The amount issued at
Cincinnati was 81, $50, OH at Chicago, ST. $751;
1873; at st. Louis, 1884, $50.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-09-21
POLITICAL POINTS.

The Ohio Greenback Convention, which met
at Columbus on the 18th inst, decided not
to nominate ticket for State officers.
The Democrats of Delaware met in conven-
ton at Dover last week, and nominated James
Williams, the present Congressman, for re-
election. John FL. Rodney, w. FL. Sharp and
James Wilton were chosen Presidential Elect
ors.
The Independent Greenbackers of Connect
cut have nominated Charles Atwater for Gov
ernor.
John J. Baker has been nominated by the
Woman Suffragists for Governor of Massachu-
sets.
Horatio Seymour having declined the nomi-
nation for Governor of New York, rendered him
by the Democratic Convention, that body re-
assembled at Saratoga, on the 18th inst, and
supplied the vacancy at the head of the ticket
by nominating Lucius Robinson by reclamation.
Mr.. Robinson Is the present State Comptroller.
The Republicans of the Seventh Massachu-
sets District have nominated Benz. F. Butler
for Congress.
The Republicans of South Carolina have
nominated Gov. Chamberlain for reelection.
The Greenbackers of Arkansas have nomi-
mated an electoral ticket.
All the Democratic Congressman in Georges
have been nominated for reelection.
The Maine Legislature will stand: House
100 Republicans, 81 Democrats. Senate, Is
Republicans, Democrats.
Many Northern cities are responding to the
call for aid from the fever-stricken city OF
Savannah, and contributions are going forward
! llberallY.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-09-21
The Wheat Crop.

A correspondent signing himself
" Granger" writes as follows to the Chi
cago Tribune:
"The wheat crop of the United
States and Europe is now
nearly all garnered. What are the facts
In the caseg The winter crop is not over
two-t thirds average yield, with the ex-
pectation of California, where it is said
to be an average.
Spring wheat is but trife, if any,
over one half an average yield, leaving a
shortage of fully 100000 bushels of
the entire crop of America, calling the
average yield 3OO,OOO,0OO bushels for
the past four years. The quality and
condition is excellent beyond question.
The old stock now in store in New
York, Chicago and Milwaukee amounts
to about 100000 bushels in round
numbers. The stock remaining back is
variously estimated at from 100000 to
100000 bushels in Minnesota. It mat
tiers not whether it be six or eight mil
lions left of the old stock, it is fast 60
ing into consumption-the millers con-
verting it into flour for which there is a
good, healthy demand, with fair living
pFOuU-SOu0Gu1uS We udVOu h6hu 1O1
many months.
European crops are far below an aver
age. The wants of the United King
dom for the past three years have been
about 10O,000,000 bushels annually.
The requirements this year will be more.
From the best information that can
be arrived at, I would advise the farm
ers of the northwest to go slow. Hold
your wheat for higher prices; you are
bound to get it; higher prices are inevi-
table.
A war in the Old World is now in
progress, which bids fair to be a repeti
ton of the Crimean war OF 1854. Should
this be the case, $1.5 per bushel would
be cheap. At that time it was worth
that in Wisconsin. Without war, it
is bound to sell in this market at $1.25
per bushel before February, 1877.
Therefore, farmers and brother Gran
gers, hold your wheat. Sell everything
you have to spare first. Wheat to-day
is fifteen to twenty cents per bushel
cheaper than the average has been for
the past twenty-five years, with the
cheapest freight to the seaboard ever be-
fore offered. GRANGER
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-09-21
Homeless Passion.

To have the consciousness suddenly
stepped with another's personality, to
have the strongest inclinations possessed
bv an image which retains its dominance
in spite of change and apart from WORTH
ness-nay. to feel q passion which clings
the faster for the tragic pangs inflicted
by cruel, recognized unworthiness-is
a phase of love which, in the feeble and
common minded, has a repulsive like
ness to a blind anirnalisn, insensible to
heaven-lit admiration. But when this
attaching force is present in anature not
of british unmodifableness, but of a
human dignity that can risk itself safely,
it may even result in devotedness not
unfit to be called divine in higher
sense than the ancient. Phlegmatic ra-
tionality stares and shakes its head at
these unaccountable prepossesslons,
but they exist as undeniably as the
winds and waves, determining here
wreck and there triumphant voyage
George Eliot's s'Ddniel DerOnd0.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-09-21
More Turkish Grimes Revealed.
bucharest Cor. London Times.]

lbucQaroSG COT. LOnQOn IlmeS.J
I have just arrived, after riding all
through Bulgaria on horseback. left
Mr.. Schuyler at Galnova, going south,
and recrossing the Balkans. see from
the papers that Mr.. Barring reports sixty
villages burned and IL, 900 people killed.
This estimate does not include the dis
trict north of the Balkans, which was
not then visited, nor the District of
Sophia. Forty villages were burned
north of the Balkans, and seventy south,
not including the District of Sophia.
MIR. Schuyler has not yet completed his
estimate Of the people killed. In the
District of Philippopolis alone there
were ZOO. I see that the friends of
Turkey made much of the statement
that only the Bashi-Bazouks committed
the atrocities, not the regular troops.
This is untrue. Wherever there we're
troops, as at Olluk-Kui, they rivaled the
Bashi- Bazouks in cruelty. There is no
doubt in my mind that the massacres
were committed with the sanction of the
authorities.
The present condition of the country
is deplorable. Complete anarchy pre-
walls. Life and property are nowhere
safe. Everywhere people came to us
with fresh saber cuts from Mussulman
neighbors. They are obliged to work
without pay. Their horses and cattle
are taken; the women are violated.
These things are occurring now. The
authorities we're disposed to do justice,
but are powerless. The Governor of
Philippopolis says he must have cavalry
to quell the Mussulman population.
Some Kalmakams and Mudirs say that
the Zaptichs threatened by the Turks
are afraid to execute there orders.
Mr.. Schuyler thinks their is imminent
danger of more massacres. He will sug
gest to his Government to insist upon
the following measures: First, the
hanging of Achmed Agha, Fassoun Bey,
Chefket Pasha, and another Achmed
Agha; second, the disarming of the
Mussulman population; third, the re-
building Of burned villages at Govern
ment expense, and payment for the
stolen CATTLE The execution of these
measures cannot be left to the Turkish
authorities He will, therefore, propose
the appointment of a Foreign Commits
sion to see the measures executed. 1
this be not done, he thinks that mas
sacres surprising all yet committed may
occur any day, especially if the Turkish
arms meet with reverses. Kiani PashaI
mission is farce.