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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-01-16

SUDDEN DEATH.-This morning Peter Cas-
Sidy died very suddenly at the corner of 18th
and l. streets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-01-16

CONSIDERATION OF AN ALTAR.-At the new
and Connecticut avenue, yesterday morning
the altar i'll the chapel was cOnsecrated Sol
emn high mass was celebrated at a. IN. The
Most Rev. Archbishop Gibbons officiated as
celebrant; Rev: Father c. X. Jenkins s. j.,
deacon Rev. Father p. j. Healey. S. j., pres-
dent OF Georgetown College, sub-deacOn Rev.
Father BarOtti master of ceremonies. In the
sanctuary were also Father De Wolf, of St
Matthew'S; Father TarrO, of ST. Augustine's
and several OF the Dominican priests. The
music was very fine. Sister Xavier, late of the
Park-street Convent, Baltimore, is directress
Of the school.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-01-16

TIE WAY THE VIRGINIA COURTS DISPOSE
OF RAPE CAsEs-Marshall McCraw, the col
Ored man arrested October 18th last by Detec-
tive Miller. of this city, on information of the
chief of police of Danville, charging him with
an outrage an a white woman. was tried in
that city last Saturday, and sentenced to
eighteen years i'll the penitentiary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-01-16

The WASHINGTON TEMPERANCE REFORM
CLUB met last night at the Metropolitan Bap-
tist Chapel, corner 9th and A streets northeast
and addresses were made by j. C.. Wall Bud
EggleStOn, A. S. Richmond, Jack Reynolds j.
James Welsh, j. f. Dobbyn and several of the
Sons of JOnadab, who were present. Appro-
pirate music was intersperSed throughout the
exercises, and much enthusiasm was kept up.
SiXty-fYe persons signed the pledge.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-01-31
-Josanh Cook ia Uettinc rich

Joseph Cook is getting rich in the
lecture business. John B. Cough is to
make lecture tour in England. Col
lector Simmons of Boston lectures to
New England audiences on "Reform. -
Joaquin Miller is on the platform this
season. Thirty-one women are giving
readings throughout the country. They
are cheaper than lecturers, and exceed
the demand. Burdette of the Burling-
ton Hamkeye is on a lecture tour in the
East. Gen. Banks has made few en-
gagements. Mrs. Livermore is booked
for the winter. Beecher lectures two
or three times every week, and has re-
duced his price from $500 to 5000.
Wendell Phillips has just completed a
tour of six weeks in the West.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-01-31

There are 25 packing houses in Bal
timore, employing each from 80 to 450
hands, and handling 100000 of raw
and 100000 of canned oysters each
season. Besides there are so steaming
houses, where 25,000,000 cans are pre-
pared each season by 1000 men. Near
ly 1900 men are engaged in making
cans. Oysters shuckers make on an
average S1.25 per day, but some experts
make as much as So. A bushel of oys-
tiers in the shell will make 10 cans, and
one firm have shucked and canned as
many as 1900 bushels in day.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-01-31
4 WOMAN'S WISH.

AT we're living in field of clover,
ain,er ~ cool and soft, and soft and sweet,
gsnsky clouds and deep skies hanging
ever, ,
Id scented siieiice ~ my no"o anu ioo''
-, one hour to slip the leash of Worry
.scer haste from Thoughts impatient
neck,
s,ss;ninp WisdOm's whistles-Duty's
beck!
| & Il we're sweet, where clover clumps are
"a daisies hiding, so to hide and rest,
ssyand except my own hearts sturdy beat
ing
10 lie there filed with the deeper breath
nat comes of listening to q free birds
song?
:, souls require at times this full unsheath-
+ IN swords will rust if scabbard- kept too
long.
n lam tiredl so tired of rigid duty!
4 3 tired of all my tired hands find to do!
+vssrn. faint, for some of life's free beauty,
| Ia loose beads with no straight string run
ming through!
+ re. laugh if laugh you will at my rude
speech
Rut women sometimes die of such a greed !:
n for the small joys held beyond their
reach,
Ind the assurance they have all they need /!
yafy A. Townsend, in Nesc York Erening Post
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-01-31
Migration Of Insects.

Prof. Riley regards the migration of
insects as due to their multiplying more
rapidly than their means Of support.
The migrations of rats are attributed to
the same cause, and similar observations
have been made as to other animals.
Many insects that are not normally of
migratory tendency, exhibit it when
pressed by dearth of food. In these
cases they collect together and migrate
in large bodies. Referring to instances
Of the kind, Prof. Riley, at a recent
meeting of the St. Lo.is Academy Of
Science, stated that vast flights of but
terflies took place at times from the
equatorial regions of South America.
Migrating swarms have been observed
at sea- and also in the southwestern
parts of the United States, where the
fact is frequently recorded in local news
papers, especially in September and Oc-
tober, and occasionally in the spring
months. In every instance where OBJ
servations have been made, this migrat-
ing butterfly has been found to be the
archippus.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-01-31

ICY duu hlooCo my ioCo, olo ehoAA Jan
started up and began staring up and
down, ending by seeing just above US,
old Hez clinging there sill, with his
sound arm rammed into the bush, and
his body swept out by the fierce stream.
| The next moment she had seized me
by the arm, and was pynting at him, and
she gave wild kind of shrek.
"He's gone coon, my gal, | says,
though she couldn't hear me; and [ was
gloating over her beautiful white face
and soft, clear neck, as thought that
now she was mine-all mine. I'd saved
her out of the flood, and there was no
Hez to stand in our way.
Save him save him!" she Shrek
ed in my ear.
| What, Hez? Save Hez to come be-
tween us once more? Save her husband
the man [ hated. and would gladly
see die! On, l couldn't do it, and my
looks showed it, and she reading me
like book the while. No, he might
drown-he was drowned-must be
No; just then he moved. But, non
sense! | wasn't going to risk my life
for his, and cut my own throat as to
the futur'.
She went down on her knees to me,
though. Pynting again at where Hez
still tloated; and the old feeling of love
for her was stronger ON me than ever.
"You're asking me to die for you,
Jael?" [ shouted in her ear.
"Save him-save Hell" she shrieked
eyes, save him!" | groaned to myself
Bring him back to the happiness that
might be mine. But she loves him
she loves him; and I must''
| gave one look at her-as [ thought
my last-and couldn't help it. If She
had asked me dumbly, as she did, to dc
something ten times as bad, should
have done it; and with run I got well
up above Hez afore l jumped in once
more, to have the same fight with the
waters till was swept down to the bush
where he was.
I'd got my knife in my teeth to cut
the bush away and let him free; but
was swept against it my weight tore il
away, and Hez and went down the
stream together; him so done up that
he lay helpless upon the water.
Something seemed to tell me to finish
him off. A minute under water would
have done it; but Jael's face was before
me, and at last got to the other side
with her climbing along beside us; and
: if it hadn't been for the hand she
stretched down to me, should never
have crawled out with old Hez-I was
that done.
! As l dropped down, painting on the
rock, Jael came to my side, leaned over
: me and kissed me, and turned away, fol
the next moment she was trying hare
and bringing her husband to, and wa:
once more beginning to feel that hae
: been fool.
amt much more to tell, only tina
the flood went down most as quick a
it come up, and Hez got all right agair
with his broken arm and did well. They
: wanted muchly to be friends, but l KEEP
, away. l felt as if I'd been a fool to saw,
| him, and was kinder 'shamed like of it
so l took off to Frisco, where, afte
: cumming about, took to going voy
, ages to Panama and back, and the Sc;
seemed to suit me like, and there l stucl
: to it.
And there 1 seem to stick yet.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-01-31
a Mr. uowIand of Son Er.r,

"A Mr.. Rowland, of San Francisco,
claims, after an expenditure of $4,000
and several years of labor, to have dis
covered an infallible indicator of the
presence of gold, with which he has
been able to tell, within a small amount,
how much coin person carried about
him, and the proportion of gold and sill
yer, so sensitive does it appear to be.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-01-31

LITTLE things should not be despised.
The little toe is smallest on the foot, but
it always has the largest corn.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-01-31

A FEW weeks ago, at Evansville, Ind,
S. Meurx, stranger, opened watch
repairing shop and accumulated 16
watches, and now he has disappeared
with all of them. Value, $500.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-04-11
Statistics of the Russian Losses.

The Courier de8 Etats Unas gives
some official statistics of the Turco- Rus
sian war, from which it appears that the
Russians slain or wounded, during the
conflict just ended, amount to 89,304
officers and soldiers. The number of
Generals represented in this sum is
twenty one. A Prince of the imperial
family and thirty four members of the
higher Russian nobility died on the
fields of battle. Of the wounded, Sc, 824
are already completely cured, and 10000
others will be able to leave the hospitals
in a few weeks. There were 121 men
prisoners in the hands of the Turks at
the time the armistice was concluded.
Of all the Russians who fought IN the
war, one-sixth were either killed or
wounded-aratherlarge proportion. This
was, however, about the proportion of
the killed and wounded in the Franco
German war. In the battles of Worth
and of Spickeren, it was one-sixth; it
was one-eighth in the battles of Won
vile and Mars-la-Tour, while at Ora
velotte it was only one-eleventh. Some
may be SURPRISED to be told that, in some
of the great battles of the early part OF
this century, the losses relatively to the
number OF combatants were consider
ably greater. OF the Russian wounded
admitted to hospitals. one of every eleven
died of his injuries. In the course of the
| whole war only two Russians were pun.
ished by death, one for desertion and
one for robbery with violence remark
able showing.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-04-11

A discharge under the insolvent laws
of one State will not discharge the insol-
vent from contract made with citizen
of another State.
Common carriers are not liable for ac-
cidents or defendents arising from the
uis major, which human power and fore
cast could not provide against.
When A consigns goods to B to sell
on commission, aud B delivers them to
Q II payment of his own antecedent
debts, A can recover their value.
At an auction or Sheriff's sale bidder
may retract his bid at any time before
the property is knocked down to him. no
matter what the condition of the sale.
Permanent erections and fixtures. made
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-04-11
THE LITTLE FOLKS.
MY Little Commentator.

My Little commentator.
Georgia my 7-year-old,
Was reading, one day, to me,
That sweetest of stories ever told,
AS he stood beside my knee:
The story of Jacobs sons,
OF Joseph, his fathers JOY,
And all of the cruel, wicked ones,
And the motherless youngest boy.
AS he threaded the touching tale,
His wrath arose, and he said:
"If had been there at Joseph's sale,
I'D "a punched IL Reuben's head ~
His face, as it grew half dim
With the pathos of the tale,
Glanced on, and he shouted, g Good for hSnt
Simeon is going to Jail !"
When he read how they found the cup
In Benjamin's sack, his fair
Face flushed, and he doubled his small fists up
'The sneaks they had hid it there |"
And when they confessed their sin,
Weeping, be sneered, "A-hem
/ wonder If Joseph was taken in
BY crocodile tears like them ~
When he read of the long array
Of wagons to Jacob sent,
Of the counsel to " fall not out by the way"
I asked of him what that meant
I saw in his critic eye,
A flia attempt to force
Down bit Of dtsdain at the question: "Why,
Fall out Of the lgGgons--of course %
-ApTiL Vide A1oake.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-04-11

by mortgager after the execution Of
the mortgage upon the land conveyed by
1t, becomes part of the morfgaged
premises.
An agreement from the holder of a
note to give the principal debtor time
Tor payment without depriving himself
OF the right to sue does not discharge
the surety.
Under the rule caveot enqptor a seller
of goods, chattels or other nronertv
commits no fraud in law when he neg,
leets to tell the purchaser of any flaws,
defects or unsoundness in the same.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-04-11
ferSOn.
Senator COnkling and the President.

Senator Conkling Indignantly repels
all intimations that he is actuated by
spirit of factiousness in his treatment
Of nominations that are referred to his
committee, and that he is only too de-
sirous to be supplied with peg upon
which to hang an objection in order to
antagonize Hayes nominations, and if
possible defeat favorable report. He
admits that he was personally interested
in the defeat of the nominations of
Roosevelt and Prince for Collector and
Surveyor of New York respectively, but
that was question of life and death
with him; and besides, he considered
those nominations as inspired by feel
ing of personal hostility to him, and
with the design of so weakening his in
fiuence and the influence of his follow
ers as to ruin his prospects for re-elec-
ton to the Senate. Aside from these
personal matters, Conkling says he has
no other desire than to deal fairly with
the President s nominations. - Washing
ton teLeQr0a11,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-04-11
Bankrupt Egypt.

A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press, writing from Alexandria, Egypt,
says everything is at stand-still in that
country. The government have neither
money nor credit, and are in great dis
tress. Discomfort prevails among all
classes, and all suffer alike. The Khe-
dive is at the end of his resources, and
the Mussulmars would be perfectly con-
tent if England should lake possession
of the country.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-04-11

peeping out like sly, spirited, half
shy, half-frightened child.
At last we made rule never to admit
Willy OF an evening until we were dis
posed to be idle. For to read, write OF
work, with this spirit Of mischief in the
room, was impossible and he was re.
stricted to the hall with a fresh, young
waffle tree (perpetually renewed) SET
uprightin stand for his special comfort.
Perhaps the drollest thing was to see
him at supper after he had attained the
size of cat, and was quite independent
IN his ways and manners. WHY'S tree
stood close to the table where his cage
and saucer of bread and milk were
placed at night; and, as he hung like a
great live pendulum, swaying about
from high branch, ne would stretch
out one hand, and, taking. a piece of
bread, proceed very composedly to eat
it, with his head hanging down and his
hind feet uppermost. The sight OF my
little playfellow swallowing his food in
this topsy-turvy style, was enough to
give any one fit of indigestion.
Willy fully appreciated the delights
OF society, and used to make clamorous
demands to be let into the parlor long
before the appointed hour, by running
around the architrave of the door and
crying angrily from the top. One night.
to spite us, he contrived to slip into nv
bedroom and remained peeping at me
over TIE cornice of the bed, until I
pulled on pair of strong gloves and
dislodged him.
One evening, when the weather was
very sultry, with constant lightning and
distant thunder, Willy failed to appear
and sought him in vain. He had
eaten his bread and milk and was gone.
Every place was examined and we had
given him up for lost, when saw some
thing, long and dark, hanging out of one
OF my fathers hats against the wall.
This proved to be Posseys tail. would
not have him disturbed and he did not
move till daylight. The tempest in
creased to. fearful height; the light.
nlng was, for seven or eight hours, liter
ally incessant, and the simultaneous
peals of thunder were deafening.
Willy, with animal instinct, had doubt
less known storm was at hand, and as.
if in the forest, ne would have sought
shelter In hollow tree, SO now, though
wel1l-housed, he sought a place of con
oealment.
Latterly he often opened his cage be-
fore the time when it was carried in
doors; but did not fear losing him. as
he always cantered into the house. But
one evening, on going to his cage, I
found it open as usual, and my 'Fbird
was flown"
After this, we heard almost nightly an
opossum on the roof, and things left
outside were tossed about much in
WHY'S scrambling style, SO we believed
the house still to be visited by it's old
inmate. But, though tempted by bread
and milk, Willy never returned to his
cage; nor, I must candidly own. should
L have cared to recover my pretty plague
could have felt certain he was well and
happy; for [ had sometimes acknowl-
edged that keeping one ''tame 'possum, .
or pet Phalanger (for so the zoologi-
cally learned term an opossum). had
given me sufficient insig ht into their
and habits in domestic state.
April WSGe-AaOGke.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-04-11
A Visit to a London Doe-show

The bloodhounds were the fercest and
most sullen- looking of all. They did
not join in the general barking and up-
roar, but kept their heads buried in the
straw. Once, as we were watching
them, away off in remote end of the
building, an acrobat began his perform
ance of walking on rope and jumping
through rings, high up in the air. Then
these hounds suddenly lifted themselves
erect, and, fixing their sharp eyes on that
little red and blue speck of a man sus-
pended in the air, set up loud, long,
unearthly howl, which all the other dogs
took upRnd for few minutes the sounds
shook the whole palace, like the roar of
all the wild beasts of the forest.
By and by 4 o'clock came, and the
owners of the dogs came in to take them
home. How glad they were TO see them!
They jumped up, rolled about. licked
their keepers hands and faces. whining
aud yelping for Joy. One dog, who had
not been sent for, was jealous to see his
neighbor petted. lie growled at every
loving caress, and sat snarling in his
corner, discontinued and sour, till he
saw his own master, when he broke into
a howl OF intense delight and tugged
furiously at his chain.
When the big hampers were brought
to confne the dangerous ones. and The
chains were being unfastened, what a
rollicking, rushing time it was The
glad creatures jumped and galloped all
the way to the station.
The train was full of dogs-they were
everywhere. Eager to be off, they were
hurrying up and down the platform
dancing about the ticket offices. racing
over trunks, for all the world like bows
let out of boarding-school going home
for the holidays.
We saw their impatient faces pushing
out of every car-window, their tall
wagging out of every door.
A gentleman in our carriage had two
little mites of terriers in his oyercoa
pockets. One, he said, was Skye ant
the other Yorkshire terrier. Littl,
Skye was tired and sleepy, and showed
just the tip of his nose and one ca
above the pocket, but little Yorkshir,
was perfectly wild with fun. He had OF
a small brown blanket. bound will
scarlet braid, which his master said wa,
his new Ulster coat.
He began his pranks by putting hi,
nose in Charley's pockets, looking for ,
shilling. Not finding one, the gentle
man sent him into his own coat pocket
whence, after burrowing and tuggins
for while, out he came with a coin be
tween his teeth, which he held tight ant
and would not give up. His maste
said that when the dog found a Diec,
OF money he went alone to the cak,
shop, and the baker would give hin
a cake, which he would run hom
with and eat up Immediately, being bar
ticularly fond of sweets. He was o
years old, ten inches long, with yellow
ish hair, which hung in fringe over hi
mischievous black eyes. He was elasti
as ball of wool, and looked very muc
like one.
But we had to part company with hir
at Kings Cross station, where his owne
put him i'll his pocket again and babe j
good-by. We could see the tip of th
little tail wagging TIL we lost sight {
him in the distant crowd. Laura .yket
Pomeroy, IN st. Nicholas TOR April.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-04-11

CLooK-woRK has been successfully APP
piled as a motor to sewing-machines by
mechanician of Vienna. It can be
wound up in few minutes, and it will
run for several hours, its speed being
meanwhile fully under the control of the
operator.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-04-11

An exchange asks: Can we drink
with impunity?" Certainly you can, if
Impunity invites you.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-04-11

To ABSORB THE BAD AIR.-In cases of
smallpox, scarlet fever, or other fever,
onions sliced and kept in the room will
absorb the bad air; the fever will soon
disappear; they must be changed very
often.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-04-11

TooTHAcHE DRoPs.-Une ounce of
alcohol. two draohms of cayenne, one
ounce OF kerosene oil let it stand twen-
ty-four hours after mixing. It cures the
worst case of toothache.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-04-11

How TO CURE DYSPEPSIA. DIR. Mich
OILS, who has made a series of dietetic
experiments on himself, has arrived at
the conclusions that, if the stomach is
allowed to rest, any case of dyspepsia
may be cured; that the diet question
was at the root of all diseases; that pure
blood can only be made from pure food,
and that, if the drink Of a nation were
pure and free from stimulating quail
ties, and the food was also pure, the re-
suit would be pure health.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-04-11

Business men on Change at Mil
waukee, the other day, resolved to OBJ
tain cheaper Geographic communication
with Chicago, and subscribed to fund
of $4,000 for the establishment of an
independent line. By evening $4,000
were subscribed. The rate is to be 1
cent word, or 10 cents a message.
"A large chandelier in a Methodist
church at Mineral Point fell the other
night The lamps were all lighted.
AS they broke by the fall, an incipient
confagration was Immediately started,
and, had it not been for the presence OF
mind and energy of the pastor, the
church would soon have been In ruins.
"A huge nugget of copper, weighing
10 Opounds, was found on the farm OF
NJ. Neissen, in the town of Roxbury, the
other day. The psychologists say il
came from Lake Superior during the
glacial period, it bearing very evident
marks of such means of transportation.
Roxbury is scattered all over with cop
per gravel.
In the Monroe county Circuit Court
last week, Fred Berg, the murderer OF
Nancy Ryan, at Tomah, on March Is,
was arraigned and pleaded guilty to the