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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-10-14

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Lowell and Hartford best quality of Two Pys.
new patterns, So cents WV Ai'' D
new patterns. WV ' pi' OH
Cottage Carpets Is and 25 cents
Ingram Carpets, new patterns 80 az 30 6O y,
cents. O' ''' w. w. ~
Floor Oil Cloths. all widths
$50 Per pair. '' Aioni
Bed Comforts from IS cents
Nottingham Lace. from 25 cents
Dry Goods and Carpets at bottom prices.
c. NJ TOWSON'S
6S6 Pennsylvania urenue,
octI2tr South side near 7th ST
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DROPERTY FOR RENT.
L By r. o. HOFFMAN.
Real Estate Agent and Auctioneer.
10Th and 4. SITS. n. W.

II. W.
FOR SALE
HOUSES and LOTS in every section of the city at
prices to suit the times and terms that will suit
customers. Call and see my list before purchasing
elsewhere.
Money to loan in sums to suit, Real Estate at 8
per cent and at per cent on first class centrally
located real property.
oetl4 tr R. O. HOLTZMAN.
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Soc. second quality, 75c and a large var; -
ETY. Of BRUSSELS, 75c.
He has also new assortment of
PARLOR AND CHAMBER FURNITURE. -
and a full line of INTERIOR DECORATIONS in.
ciuolDg Raw Silks, CretOnnes. Jutes and an endless
terias. ~ no o. ct ia
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A New Dress.-What it Means.

II any evidence were needed as to the wide
circulation of THE STAR and the high rate at
which its machinery is required to be driven in
order to place its large and constantly increas-
ing editions before the public, it is abundantly
furnished in the fact that it is found necessary
to renew all the material with which 1t is
printed In less than eleven months since it ap-
peared in its last new dress. 1t is easy for
newspapers to claim wide circulation, but few
are able to produce such convincing proof in
support OF their assertions as THE STAR pre-
Sents today.
This much it seems proper to say in con-
nection with the new dress in which this issue
OF the parer appears,-not in spirit of boast
fulneSs, but rather as a thankful acknowledge
ment of the very generous patronage it receives
from the people of Washington, and as an earn
est also that it will always keep pace in i'm
provements and enterprise with the liberal sup
port extended to it. In other words no effort
Or expense will be spared to make THE STAR
continually worthy the reputation it has so
long and so universally enjOyed,-that OF being
the most widely read newspaper and the best
advertising medium in the District of Columbia
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-10-14

oct5tr 9S9 Pa. are. bet 9Th and 10
CHEAPEST CARPETS IN CITY.

Ingram Carpets *. 30. 81 to 40c.
Wool Ingram CARROTS. 62Lc.
Brussels. good sty les, CSC. best quality 30,
Paper Lining, SC, to close out.
Large White Blankets 81 only.
Dry Goods at lowest bottom prices
Good Black Cashmeres %. 3, 30, 81. T5c, 81
Large stock Dress Goods, 12Ls to Doe
Black and Colored Silks, 62c up.
Cheapest House in city on Wool Elannels
just dealer 20 all So give us a trial, as stock
large and prices low.
L. y. NAUDAIN,
Ocfltr 700 Nu,I.st
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SOMETHING NEW.
ERESIDE STOVE POLISH.
BEST IN MARKET. Try SAMPLE
,aaa. FRANK HUME
sepAAeo"s' WASHINGTON, p. 9.
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Mr.. Representative Potter will please take
notice that if he wishes to save his committee and
its proceedings from the contempt of the whole
American people, without regard to party, he
must promptly and thoroughly investigate the
cipher kilograms in the Florida election case, as
translated and published by the New York Tri-
JrEe. Nothing less than this will satisfy public
opinion. The entire history of corruption in
politics can show nothing equal to the depths
reached in that matter, and unless Mr. Potter
ard his colaborers probe it to the very bottom
the country will accept it as confessed that
what they wanted was not to uncover fraud
and EXPOSE the guilty, but to make party CAPT.
tai This is now out of the question. The best
thing that can be done. therefore, even from
MIR. Potter's partisan point of view, is to yigor-
ously expose the whole gang engaged in the
d1sgraceful business, no matter who may be
hurt. As for Mr.. Tilden and those acting i'm his
interest, they are past saving no matter what
may be done or left undone
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-10-14

ENOR SALE-Second-hand COUPE, in frst-rate
II condition. 5000; second-han LAN-o-S
RRAULET, in splendid order; made nSH&k
PARk so PHETON, built by Wood Bros Bros. New York,
cost S.OO as GOD az new Prise 800 second -hand
cheap to close out. ROBERT H. GRAHAM, Repos-
itory and Factory, 4l04l6 Sth st. NV, between D
and E. oct3-3m
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Mr.. Butler, from the select committee on
the Presidential election, made a report on
the subject of Senator Mathews's refusal to
obey the subpoena of that committee and TO
give testimony before it. After reciting the
steps already taken by the committee in the
matter, the report goes on to state that Sen
ator Mathews has failed to appear in answer
to the summons, and that 1T may be because
his duties as senator and the eXigencies of
the public service require his presence in his
place as senator, and it ends by resolving
that the house shall send the folio wing mes
sage to the senate IN that behalf:
''The house of representatives requests the
senate to give leave to Hon Stanley Mathews,
senator from the State of Ohio, to attend be-
fore the committee Of the house now charged
with the investigation of frauds In the cleo
tons in the States of Louisiana and Florida,
to give such evidence of facts concerning the
subject matter of said investigation as may
be in his knowledge or possession, as he may
be required to do"
Mr. Butler said this was in the exact
form laid down in the ways of parliamentary
practice.
Mr.. Hale and other Republicans re-
marked informally that the resolution was as
mild as it could be. to which Senator Butler
responded that it would be unfair to Secretary
Sherman if Mr.. Mathews did not 60 be-
fore the committee.
Mr.. Banks expressed the opinion that as
the investigation tended possibly toward an
impeachment, and as this senator would be
judge in such a case, he could not be required
to testify in such an inquiry
To this Mr.. Butler replied that he had
three judges from the bench to testify in the
cases before them.
The resolution was adopted.
Mr.. Cannon reported that the conference
committee ON the post-route bill had been
unable to agree. A new conference was Or
dered
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The value of the Earth worm.

EncyclOpedia Brittanica: The common
earth worm, though apt to be disposed and
trodden on, Is really useful creature In its
way. Mr.. Knapp describes it as the natural
manure of the soil, consuming on the surface
the softer part of decayed vegetable matters,
and conveying downward the more woody
fbers, which there molder and fertilize. They
perforata the earth in all directions, thus
rendering it permeable by air. According to
Mr.. Darwin's mode of expressions, they give
kind Of under-tlllage to the land, perform
ing the same below ground that the spade
does above for the garden, and the pillow for
arabic soil. 1t is, In consequence chiefly of
the natural operations of worms that fields
which have been overspread with lime, burnt
mari, or cinders, become in process OF time
covered by fnely-divided soil, fitted for the
support OF vegetation. This result, though
usually attributed by farmers to the work
ing down OF these materials. is really due to
the action Of the earth-wo as may be seen
in the innumerabe casts of which the initial
soil consists. These are obviously produced
by the digestive proceedings of the worms,
which take into their intestinal canal large
quantity of soil IN which they feed and bur-
row, and then reject in the form of so-called
casts. ''In this manner" says Mr.. Darwin,
'a field MANFRED with mari has been covered
in the course of eighty years with a bed of
earth averaging fifteen inches in thickness. !"
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| free passes everywhere, and the pleasure oil
| their company is contended for by the elite oil
| the city.
Among the leading requirements are the
| following:
He must be able to cook up from the New
articles and special telegraphic dispatches.
He must be familiar with the use of ency-
clopRdlas and guide books, in or1'r 1" re
special correspondence from U.a..' a $
and Berlin
He must be able to expand te. "a :
dent into a half-column disaster, with L,4d-
Ings to match.
He must be sharp enough, if the paper gets
"a little dry, in his description of public men
and their doings to FIX" his repor'~ &c IN
SO as to tempt the said D. In. (,
and afford spicy editorial comm -. =
communications.
He must be shrewd enough To crcd. Is .e-
cially bright things which he has to copy.
Sex, or "a cOtemporary," or daily paper,
from.
He must be on hand for paragraphs about
Clara Morris, Barnum's caravans, and Kate
Field; ready to reduce half-column puffs of
dry goods and clothing advertisements to two
sticktuls, and write out interviews with men
who refuse to be pumped.
He must be patient under the request of a
three-dollar advertiser for ten dollar puff of
a sparring exhibition, travelling lecturer or
new invention. He is expected to be up all
night and wide awake all day; to catch peo-
Pile at meal times, and therefore, give up his
own; be thoroughly posted in fires, theatre
calls, city and congressional affairs, mechan-
les, physics, astronomy, algebra, politics,
geography, Latin, the classics, dancing,
French, patter the flash, science, zoology, the
Beecher trial, the Tilton confessions and
election hands.
He must be ready at all times to sing a
song with Moody and Sankey, accept an in
vitation to step in and see a man with po-
htlcal candidate at Parker's, make a speech
at the Papyrus, crack a joke with circus
clown, discuss divinity with a divine or acting
with an actor; criticise with a councilman,
argue with an alderman, rant with repre-
sentative, maneuver with the mayor and Cos
sip with the governor.
No man who denominates an establish
ment "a store" carnival of crime "a fight
in bar-room," a terrific conhagration a
''serious fire. temple of fashion mil
lnery shop" an eloquent orator a ''stump
speaker" distinguished member of the bar
"a lawyer" an eminent artist "a stock ac-
tor" an auction sale of works of art ''a sale
of oil paintings" cantatrice IAN opera
singer" or a tonsorial artist ga barber"
will stand any chance of obtaining the place.
Our brethren of the press will OBSERVE that
we have only indicated few of the requisites
for the position referred to- the great bulk of
the others will readily suggest themselves to
every thinking mind
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-18
Qualifications OF Able Editors.

Boston Commercial Bulletin: There is to
be vacancy on the staff of one of the city
dallies for an assistant editor, and as we have
got hold Of some of the qualifications re-
CURED, we print them for the benefit of young
men from the country who may be int ending
to become connected with the press. We can
assure all such that it is a most fascinating
employment, does not require any previous
education or preparation, and pays enormous
ly.
The principal occupation of leading editors
is to receive enormous brides for leading ar
ticles; to attend theaters, concerts and other
places of public resort, occupying the best
places, of course, and to inform political lead
ers how they should regulate affairs.
Assistant-edltors and reporters, who are
scarce at three hundred and sixty. five dollars
week, generally work four hours a day
when they are not away on vacations, have
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-18
MEDICAL.
BY Universal Accord,

AYERS CATHARTIC PILLS are the best of all purga
tives for family use. They are the product of long,
aborious. and successful chemical Investigation,
and their extensive use, by Physicians in their prac
tice and by all civilized nations, proves them the
best and most effectuaI purgatve PHI that medical
cienee car devise. Being purely vegetable no harm
arise from their use In intrinsic value and Gu
rative powers no other Pills can be compared with
them, and every person, knowing their virtues, Will
employ them, when needed. They keep the system
in perfect order, and maintain in healthy action the
whole machinery of life. Mild, searching and
eectual they specially adapted to the needs Of
the digestive apparatus, arrangements of which
they prevent and cure, If timely taken. They are
the best and safest physic to employ for children
and weakened constitutions, where a mild, but
efectual cathartic is required
For SALE BIZ ALL DEALERS.
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NWINFfIV NVaFI UT N1
Il. j. BLACK.

With pride we point to this ticket. Every
man Is known TO the people of Shelby, and
what Is more, known to be worthy of the cor
dial, Jealous, aud enthusiastic support of the
honest tax-psying masses. No combination,
no bartering or trading can concoct a mon
grel ticket that will compare to the Demo
cratic nominees, which is a happy combina-
ton of honesty, integrity, competency, age
in its serene wisdom and youth in its impetu-
ositv. The convention has worthily filled
the demands and expectations of the people.
With such a ticket we caunot fail to secure a
brilliant victory on the first day of August.
1t is unnecessary to invoke harmony, as the
party is already united, but work, active, un-
ceasing and untiring work, from this time
forward is the duty in hand. Meetings should
be held in every part of the county. The
Radicals, the Independents, and the disap-
pointed office-seekers will have full ticket
IN the field, and in preparing it they will
place on it the Democratic nominees which
they believe cannot be defeated. But the
Democrats must see to it that their entire
ticket is elected. The ticket selected is the
equal Of that presented by the Bartlett move
ment, which was elected by four thousand
msjoyity, and if the Democrats are true to
their duty, and will stand firmly by the mag
nifcent ticket which they have selected, their
triumph will eclipse that Of four years ago.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-18
Narrow Escape of an Entire Family
fr0El Eleath hY Poisoning

NASHVILLE, June I'D. q. Bailey, a
well-known merchant, his family and SER
wants, including, in all, twelve persons, were
poisoned this morning, but not fatally The
food prepared for the morning meal was put
out last night and left in the kitchen, the
door to which was left unlocked, and it is be-
lieved that some evil-disposed person came
in and put arsenic in the food, which was
cooked and eaten. The poison was In such
a large quantity that it acted as an emetic,
and thus were all saved from death.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-18
Marine Intelligence

BosToN, June 17.-Arrived-Mara
from Liverpool.
FARTHER POINT, n. Y, June l7-Passed
-Waldensian, from Liverpool.
NEW YORK, June 17.-Arrived-Steam-
ship The Queen, from Liverpool.
LONDON, June 17.-Arrived out-Steam-
ships Lessing, from New York; Illinois, from
Philadelphia; Bavarian, from Boston; Somer-
set and State of Georgia, from Spain; Aca-
dla and P. Calond, from New York.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-18
Mexican Troops Moving on General
n'Aenzte.

NEW ORLEANS, June ia Galveston
Ne,os special from Eagle Pass, Texas, says:
The Mexican government having discovered
that General NJ 'Kenzie is on their soil with
American troops has ordered Colonel Nuncio,
falsely reported dead. TO take hundred SOL
diers and go after NJ Kenzie. Nuncio's troops
being poorly mounted, it is not expected he
will overtake NJ Kenze. General Narango Is
expected to arrive at Piedras Negras in few
days to assume command of the department,
rice General Falcon, deceased. The general
impression is that the revolution is failure. ="
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ShOn-windOwS.


Julian Hawthorne in AppLetOns Journal,
for July: 1t seems open to question, blythe
by, whether the mania for display which IS
the religion of modern shop-wIndows be wise
from a merely polite point of view. Does
not curiosity, In other words, yield the shop
keeper a larger profit than wonder and adj
miratlon? If he took as much pains to keep
his wares out of sight OF the passer-by as he
does to obtrude them upon his notice, would
not the passer-by be more apt to cease to be
such, and to become passer-in? As things
are now, everybody outside of the interior Of
Africa knows that when he has examined a
shop-window he has seen the cream of the
shop; but, under the arrangement proposed,
every shop would be mystery, whose ret
icence would argue all manner of delightful
possibilities. But that It sounds cynical, we
might say that curiosity would draw more
customers than admiration, because the lat
ter is the more generous sentiment, and
therefore the less prevalent and Influential
But let shopkeepers look to it; their advan-
tage is no business of mine; though | might
bid them take leaf from the novelist's book
who would find but a small market for his
novel were he to explain his plot in the in
troductory chapter, and become less and less
interesting thence to the close. A novel is
the novelist's shop. Business profits aside,
the disappearance of shop-windows would be
an architectural gain; for, to say nothing
more Of it, the upper stories of the most adj
mired and fashionable warehouses have the
appearance of resting on air, or at most. on
thin sheets of glase. The only drawback
would be the intense stupidity of the business
thoroughfares; some notion of the way things
would look might be obtained by passing
along those streets of Sunday. But life Is
COMPACT of conversations and reVenpes.
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Eating Is a Torture,

And sleep often a mere travesty of repose, to the
dyspeptIc. Appetite Is coIrespondingly impaired by
this most prevalent Of maladies, and headaches,
biousness constipation, poverty of the blood loss
of flesh and OF vitality, and thousand annoying
and ndescribable sensations, are its concomtaHts.
Ii Is, moreover. the progenitor of numerous and
formidable bodily disorders: Obstinate as 1t Is,
however Its complete eradication may be effected by
the persistent use of Bostetters Stomach Btters,
medicine which communicates both vigor and regu-
larity to the organs Of digestion and secretion,
lakes the bowels gently but thoroughly enrches and
purieS the blood, Jmoes appetite, and gives tran
guilty to the nervous system. Persons of weakly
constitution and feeble physique who use this superb
tonic infalby derive from IL the stamina of which
they stand much In need and 1t Is invariably sue
cessful In remedying and preventing malarial
diseases.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-18
ARaaRainataA

WHEELING, June 16.-Last night at two
O'Clock as two German residents of this city,
named Krouss and Bochn, were going home
they were suddenly and without provocation
fred upon by an unknown party of drunken
men. Krouss was fatally and Bochn serious
ly wounded. The assailants escaped and are
unknown.
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THEINDIAN OUTBREAK.
Progress Of Preparations for the Cam
paign against the BannOcks-A
General Uprising Believed
to be IUminent.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 16.-A Boise City
dispatch says: Nothing important has
tlanspired or been learned here since yester-
day in military quarters. Preparations for
the campaign are going forward quietly, but
earnestly. Experienced Indian fighters and
frontlersmen believe that there is a general
throughout southern Idaho and eastern Ore
gon, and that they will be able to muster at
least one thousand warriors. The emigrant
train which Was detained at Payne's ferry,
arrived here to-day under the escort of Cap
tain Bushes volunteers. There have been
no stages through from Winnemucca since
the raid. The kelton and Boise City road
has not been disturbed since the raid on King
Hill station on the thIrty-frst of May. This
route is considered safe, and stages are run
nlng regularly. t. is rumored that large
band of horses was discovered yesterday on
the south side Of Snake river, between Merith
Bruneau and Mundy' ferry. This would in
dictate that the Indians were endeavorlng to
get with their stolen stock back to the lava
beds from which they started. The prevailing
opinion here is that the Indians will concen-
trate III the neighborhood of STEMS noun
tain, and there either await the coming up of
the troops, or divide into bands for raiding
exposed settlements.
Later.-General Howard scouts report the
hostiles concentrating in large force on
STEMS mountain, ana the general Is moving
his troops in that direction. General Growers
expedition to the Comas prairie, with Colonel
Sanford's, Summers and Bendlne's compa-
MES, will be turned back, and go directly to
Stems mountain.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-18

REPORTS of meditated attemp. upon the
life of Crown-Pnnce Frederick William, OF
Austria, caused the arrest Of about one hun
dred and City socialists in Vienna, yesterday.
The affair caused profound sensation.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-18
Condition of the Crops of the Country.

WASHINGTON, June I7.-The june returns
to the department of agriculture indicate an
increase of fully three per cent. in the areas
planted in cotton. The percentages. as com
100; North Carolina, 101; South Carolina,
lob; Georgia. 119; Florida, 100; Alabama,
1O4; Mississippi, 100; Louisiana, l01; Texas,
Is; Arkansas, SO; Tennessee, SO. The con-
dition of the crop is better than in June last.
rhe figures indicating it are the same as in
1877 in Virginia, Georgia and louisiana and
higher in all the other States, as follows:
DINA. SO; Georgia, 1O1; Florida, 50; Alaba-
ma, l0l; Mississippi, 80; Louisiana, So; Tex
as, IA; Arkansas, 50; Tennessee, 81. The
general average of condition is 80.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-18

tell of Indian outrages in great numbers, and
that the military are moving on the hostiles
from different points. The Indians are re-
ported gathering in large numbers, prepara-
tory to determined resistance.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-18

AMONG the amendments to the appropria-
ton bill agreed to by the senate, yesterday,
was one appropriating the necessary amount
to pay Captain Eads for work at the South
pass of the Mississippi river in accordance
with contract.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-18

The peace congress held three hours ses-
sion IN Berlin, yesterday, the entire time con-
sumed in discussing the admission of the
Greek delegation, without result.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-18

At the caucus of the Democratic represent
atives, there were less than fifty members
present. Representative Aiken requested
that he be sustained on the motion to take
up and dispose of his resolution providing
for an investigation into the conduct of the
timber agent appointed by the secretary of
the interior to visit Louisiana. Agreed to.
Adjourned
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-18
WEATHER. INDICATIONS.

WAR DKPT., OFFICE Gu. Sic. OFFICx,
WASHINGTON, June IL, | am.
For Tennessee aud the Ohio uu,Isg. higher
pressure, Ioinds mostly from north TO east,
stationary and lo,esr temperature and rain
areas. generally folioioed by ,oarmer, partly
CLOUDY heather
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Rase-RaiI Rcores-

Boston-Bostons, 4; Cincinnatis, 2.
Observation-Disclosures 3; Lowells, 2.
Hornellsville, n. Y.-Buffalos, 4; Hor-
nells, 3.
Providence Saturday)-Cincinnati, IL;
Providence, 3.