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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-12-12

THE STIEFE PIANOS
ALWAYS SUCCESSFUL.
Victorious at the Centennial Exhibition 49,
ls76 achieved their T[W
GRAND GROWING TRIUMPH W.
Al the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878
g. L WILD l. BRO, SOLE AGENTS
S33 Seventh street n.,c.
Also AGENTS for the celebrated Kranich and Bach
PIANOS and STANDARD ORGANS
Lowest prices fairest ard easiest terms noy-26m
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-12-12

THE ADJOURNMENT OVER THE HoLlDAYS.-TEe
House to-day decided to adjourn from Frid ~
the Goth inst. to January 9th. An amendment
offered by the committee of ways and means TO
a ljOurG from December 4 9th to January oth.
was voted down by yeas Il2. nays i3J.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-12-12

EXTRA LONG SEAL SKIN sACQUES
Iurlincd CIRCULARS and DOLMANS
FUR Innings for Silk Circulars aud Saeouea
siUFtS and B0AS, in Mink. Seal and Otter
Ladies, Gents and Misses SEAL HATS and CAPS
Childrens FUkS and FUR TRIMMINGS.
FUR CARRIAGE ROBES and PARLOR MATS
GENTLEMEN'S HATS
Fine Soft and Stiff HATS in endless variety
Agent tor knox's New York HATS.
Large assortment of Silk, and Guanaco UMBREL-
LAS.
STINEMETZ,
deea1m 1897 Pen~'a asenwe.
WHY WILL Y0H M HUMBUGGED
q GLASSES; isls ;vn when y yop get 8 the % %hsst 0V~
PIERS, THE oPTICIAN, 455 Pennsyivania avenue,
corner ~ street. noy3Q6
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-12-12

CONGREsSMAN-ELECr LOWE. Of Alabama, who
was elected as an independent to succeed
Garth, democrat. says that he VIII not go into
caucus with the democrats to nominate officers
OF the House for the 4Gth Congress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-12-12

THE SENATE DISTRICT COMMITTEE at noon on
Saturday next will give hearing to persons in
tereoted in the bill pending before the commit
tee which provides that the Court of Claims
shall adIudicate all disputed claims against tie
District of Columbia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-12-12

CAUTIoNARF SIGNALS Of the signal corps were
ordered for the recent storm, as follows:-At
Sandy HoOk-the port Of New York-over 80
hours In advance; at Barnegat, Atlantic City,
Cape May, SO; IeweS, "a hours; Norfolk, Cape
advance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-12-12

" NJ. kNABE & cos
W WORLD RENOWNED
GRAND, SQUARE AND UPRIGHT PIANOS,
THE BT~T MADE
Every instrument fully warranted. P--
amos and Organs from other celebrated fac ~
tories for sale. rent ard exchange on theiIfE EvI
most reasonable terms. Special inducements for
cash or short time
RICHENBACH'S Piano WARERooMs
42S Eferenfh street,
dech-r A few doors above Penn'a ave
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-22
Brant's Cruel Massacre.

The people of Cherry Valley, Otsego county, N. Y., set up 8 centennial stone
 in memory of Brant's cruel massacre there, hundred years ago. The true date was Nov. II, 1778; but, since No vember is an inclement month for open air festivals, the unvailing of the tardy monument was fixed for the 18th of August. Cherry Valley, frontier will lage founded not two-score years before the massacre, had attracted the sinister notice of Brant and the Mohawks early in the war of independence but com pany of provincial rangers occupied it, and rude but strong fort was built for them, so that to Brant the grapes long looked sour. A hundred years ago the present summer this little garrison was reinforced by Continental troops, under Col. Alden. At early dawn of the 11th of November, helped by thick weather, Brant, leading strong party of Senecas, Mohawks and Tories, surprised the set clement, and citizens and soldiers were massacred in profusion, the only safety for any being in flight,
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-22
Practical Poetry.

Gretry was wont to employ singular method to slacken or quicken the pace of walking companion to suit his own inclination. "To say," he would argue, "you walk too fast or too slow is unpo- lite but to sing softly an air 10 the time of the walk of your companion, and then by degrees either to quicken the time or make it slower, is a stratagem as innocent as it is convenient" The principle of Gretry's ruse was we'll exem- plifed in the case of the stingy farmer who gave his hired hay-maker butter. milk and whey for breakfast, and going to the field heard the man singing in g drawling way: ...
 B-u-t-t-e-r-m-i-l-k and whey,
 Faint all day, faint all day
 his scythe keeping time to the tune. The next morning the farmer set good meal of bacon and eggs before the man, and when he went to see how he was getting on with his work, found his arms going swiftly to Bacon and eggs, take care of your legs" ..t
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-22
ano4, with touch of shyness in it too,

nance, with touch of shyness in it too, as any man, old or young, need look apon. She drew her arm coaxingly through the old mans, and whispered something in his ear and do what hs would, old Lobbs couldn't help breaking out into smile, while tear stole down his cheek at the same time. -l4
 Five minutes after this, the girls were brought down from the bedroom with g great deal of gigg1ing and nodesty; and while the young people were making themselves perfectly happy, old Lobbs got down the pipe and smoked it, and it was remarkable circumstance about that particular pipe of tobacco, that it was the most soothing and delightful one he ever smoked. ---.. -.
 Nathaniel Pipkin thought it best to keep his o#h 6oHnss1, and by so doing gradually rose into high favor with old Lobbs, who taught him to smoke in time and they used to sit out in the garden on the fine evenings, for many years afterward, smoking and drinking in great state. He soon recovered from the effects of his attachment, for we find his name in the parish register as wit ness to the marriage of Maria Lobbs to her cousin and it also appears, by ref erence to other documents, that on the night of the wedding he was incarcerated in the village cage, for having, in g state of extreme intoxication, committed sun dry excesses in the streets, in all of which he was aided and abetted by the bony apprentice with the thin legs.
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-22
General ScOtt's Daughter.

In the gossip which followed the an nouncement that Gen. Sherman's son had left for Europe to become Catholic priest, 8 story was told of the romantic circumstances attending the career of one of General Winfield Scott's daugh- ters, who died in the Convent of Visita- tion at Georgetown. This story was to the effect that Miss Scott fell deeply in love with an attache of foreign lega- tion, who loved sincerely in return. The match was opposed by Gen. Scott, and through his instrumentality broken off. She went broken hearted to con- vent, and he prepared himself and was admitted to the priesthood. In course of time he was ordered to Georgetown college, and 8 portion of his duties con- sisted in hearing the confessions of the nuns in the college. On one of these occasions Miss Scott knelt in the confes- sional to her former lover. Each recog- nized the other. She tainted, went into rapid decline and soon died. He Jeff the country.
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-22
Saved His Life.

During the construction of the railroad from Algiers to Bildah, the French en- gineer in charge of the work, while watching its progress from the parapet of bridge, suddenly slipped and fell. The height above the ground being nearly 30 feet, he would probably have been killed but for the timely presence of an Arab, upon whom he aighted, breaking his own fall and the Mussul- mans neck simultaneously. He was instantly surrounded by crowd of furi- ous natives, and would have been torn in pieces but for the prompt interposi- tion of the French escort, who hastened to assure the mob that he should be at once carried before the district magis- trate for trial. Thither he was accord ingly taken, the multitude following him with savage yells for the life of the Christian dog who had dared to kill a true believer. The magistrate, quiet and timid old man, was so terrified by the uproar that his only thought was to shift the responsibility elsewhere as speedily as possible. He lost no time in announcing that the engineer, being to all intents and purposes Government officer, could only be tried by the mili- tary commandant, to whom the Arabs immediately betook themselves, headed by the dead mans son, who was loudest of all in his cry for vengeance. The commandant, sagacious veteran of the old school, saw at once what was to be done, and assuring the infuriated rabble tLat justice should be given them, DO. itely inquired of the young ringleadel whether he were willing to accept any compromise for his fathers death ? The Arab spurned the suggestion, and fercely demanded blood for blood "Very good,"~ answered the unmoved Colonel, Ayou shall have what you de mand. Let the Frenchman be placed upon the very spot where his victim wal standing, and do you, as your father lawful avenger, go up to the, top of the parapet and jump down upon him.. I is hardly necessary to add that the young gentleman declined to try the expert ment
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-22
An Aged Palace.

In the village of Andria, in the terr1- torial district of Naples, there exists an ancient ducal palace, which formerly belonged to the noble house of Andria,
 after which it is called. It is owned at present by the Spagnoletti, and the ac- tual possessor, happened to procure an old plan of the castle. Looking over il he noticed door marked where in reali- ty none existed. Not satisfied to leave this uninvestigated, he ordered the wall to be broken through at the place indl- cated on the plan, and behind the brick work an iron door was found. This was forced and access was immediately gained to small chapel, in which was deposit ed an old chest containing treasure, which is estimated to be worth about 1,S00,. OOOf (nearly $36O,OOW It consist oi gold coins of the time of Ferdinand w and precious stones. The whole is sup posed to have been deposited there fol safety by the Duke of Andria when he emigrated to Germany at the time of the French invasion of Italy.
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-22
Domestic Recipes.

CREAM P1Es.-Six eggs, two cupfuls of sugar, two teaspoonfuls cream tartar, two teaspoonfuls of soda in one and @ half cupfuls of milk; this will fill four jelly cake tins bake like jelly cake, and spread with the cream made as follows One pint milk, one cupful sugar, two teaspoonfuls corn starch; lemon or va nilla flavor when cold serve for dessert
 CREAM RICE PUDDING. = Wash four ounces of rice (cost three cents) through two waters, put it into 8 baking-dish with three ounces of sugar and tea spoonful of favoring (cost three cents), pour in three pints of milk (cost twelve cents), and put it into moderate oven. to bake an hour and half, or until it IS of creamy consistency. This pudding is very delicate and wholesome, and costs fifteen cents.
 APPLE TAP1ooA PUDDING. Pare and core tart apples, fill the openings with butter and sugar, put into pan heap ing teaspoon each of dry tapioca and sugar to each apple put in the apples, sprinkle ground cinnamon over them fill the pan nearly full of water, and bake.
 A Coop DUsT BRUsH.-A very good dust brush may be made by cutting 8 crosswise strip of bed. ticking into fringe and tacking it around wooden handle.
 MOTHS IN CARPETS. The best way to kill moths in carpet is to lay cloth, wet with hot water, on the place where the pest is supposed to be, and press it with hot iron.
 MosoU1To BARs.-There is no reason why any person should be annoyed by flies or mosquitoes. By mailing a com mon mosquito bar on the outside of all the windows in the house, all insects can be excluded at trihing cost Framed bars are good, but not necessary. GRAHAM BREAD. .-Scald one teaspoon | full of Graham flour and one-half cup of corn meal with one quart of boiling water. When cool add one teacup of yeast, one half cup of molasses, one tea cup of salt, and as much Graham flour as can be stirred in with spoon. Pre- pare this at night-in the morning make into stiff dough, and when light make into pans. Let it rise, and then bake.
 FRIED BREAD FOR BREAKFAST. Take one egg, one teaspoonful of salt, beat sufficiently, add one cup of water, dir your slices of bread in the mixture, fry in meat drippings have your spider hot when it is put in. ..-....
 BREAD PUDDNG.-Cu bread, and but ter very thin, place in a pie dish lightly until three parts filled beat one egg two teaspoonfuls of flour, three of sugar mix all together, add to it by degrees pint of milk and little salt, pour ovel the. bread, bake about half an hour thit makes a quick, nice pudding for five o' six persons. g.... .... I..a
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-22
Grate.Digging Beetles.

One of the wonderful provisions of nature is the existence of certain beetles with the function of digging graves for dead rats, moles, birds, and other small creatures left upon the surface of the earth, and the efHuvia from which might be offensive and baneful. About these remarkable animals. MT. Gleditch, an entomologist, has given us several in teresting and curious particulars. Being desirous to test the strength of the grave-diggers, he provided glass vessel half filled with moist earth, into which he put four beetles with dead innet. No alarm was shown by the captiyes. Apparently intent on the one sole object of their existence, they began immedi, ately to inspect the bird, and then com. menoed the digging of 8 hollow under. heath it, removing the earth, and shovel ing it away on each side. This was ac- complished by leaning strongly upon their collars, bending down their heads, and working with singleness of purpose. After laboring for nearly two hours, one of the beetles was driven away and not allowed to work again. This, MT. Gle. ditch concluded was female, as it was smaller than the others, which continued their labor, until one by one they ceased, leaving only one beetle at his work. Five hours more hard work were given by the remaining beetle, which at last sank exhausted on the earth and rested from his task, and finally, suddenly rousing himself, stifened his collar, an6 by an extraordinary effort of strength lifted up the bird and arranged it within the spacious grave. In three days the grave was finished, and the bird safelJ deposited within it's narrow limits.
 During space of fifty days these busy workers inferred the bodies of foul frogs, three small birds, two grasshop pers, and one mole. This singular oc cupation, which continues from the mid die of April until the end of October proceeds from an instinctive desire fo
 the preservation of their offspring. Egg
 deposited by the parent in the substance
 which they inter, when matched, ,produc
 larvae, which, feeding on the carriol which surrounds them, grow to an incl in length. These in their turn chang
 into yellow chrysalids, and lastly int beetles; and the latter, when emerge' from the earth, begin to dig graves an' inter dead animals for the benefit o another generation. :..
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-22
Farming in ROumelia.
Among the peasant farmers of R

!. Among the peasant farmers of Rou- melia, one of the Turkish Provinces, there is no regular system of rotation of crops observed but with the occupants of large estates the ordinary rule for rich lands is two wheat crops and one of oats, then fallow one or more years, wheat, and then sesame. In Macedonia, where arabic land is more abundant, one years rest is allowed to some lands. The only manure some of these lands obtain is from the treading of the sheep on the land in early spring and after the harvest is reaped, and yet the soil is naturally so rich that generally bad harvest is of rare occurrence. The mode of cultivation is very primitive, employing much hand labor and involv- ing much waste. Eillage is performed with the native blow, Oil an average depth of four inches to the furrow. The instrument used for the purpose is very rude and has only one handle. The number of buffaloes used varies from two to five. In RoumeGa some large estate owners attempted introducing agricultural implements from Europe, but threshing- -machi1fes alone met with any success. In Macedonia even these proved 8 failure, as their management is not understood, and fuel is difficult to procure in the interior. In some parts the grain is scattered over the stubble and then plowed in. Much of the har- vest is done by young women and girls in Roumelia and Macedonia. They and the male harvesters hire themselves for the June harvest. On the 21st of Au- gust the harvest-home is celebrated. Decked in their holiday costume, crowned with garlands, and carrying bouquets composed of ears of corn, the reapers proceed to the nearest town to dance and sing before the doors of the principal houses and in the market place. E.us tl s, ... ...t tlh
 Threshing is performed in the most antique manner imaginable. The instru- ment used for the purpose consists of | two pieces of wood carved at one end, fastened together, and studded with 8 | number of fints. This is attached at the curved end to team of three or four horses. A girl stands on this sledge and drives the team rapidly over the corn thrown in bundles on the ground, which has been hardened and prepared for the purpose. This process breaks the straw into very small lengths, making it very palatable food for the cattle. The corn is winnowed by being thrown up in the air with wooden shovels, the breeze carrying away the chaf. In some parts of Macedonia the process is even more simple. A team of horses is driven over the bundles oi corn, treading out the grain. The women and children also sit on the ground and help in the operation by beating it with sticks
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-22
A CHILD IN 4 SEWER.
THE THRILLING ACCIDENT THAT EXCITED -g so MANY SAN FRANo1sCANs. v

A couple of children, playing at the corner of Pine and Keatney streets, San Francisco, says a local paper, heard proceeding from the sewer opening a faint and evidently much exhausted voice calling for help. Some one, apparently a child, had evidently fallen down the trap and was in imminent danger of suf- location. The news was soon communi- cated to the passers by, and in few mo- ments tools were brought and the pave ment was being rapidly torn up. In a short time dense and excited crowd had congregated, and the sand ard stones flew in @ perfect shower. No one held back. Kid gloved dandies took their places beside sturdy draymen. As fast as one man Came up exhausted another promptly stepped into his place.
 Gen. McComb's we'll known form could be seen in the midst of the workers, while Auditor Maynard desperately tore up the compact soil with his bare fin gers. At intervals the faint voice from the sewer could be heard, gasping, "Help Hurry up p and the like. Col. Barnes came by, shouting some encour- aging words down the hideous opening, and flinging aside his coat, seized a just relinquished pick. By his side, with clenched teeth and dripping brow, his enemy of the day before, Frank Pixley, worked heavy crowbar.
 At this juncture the scene was ren- dered more intense by the appearance oi poor woman from neighboring alley. She had just missed her little boy, and, with the unerring intuition of maternity, guessed it was her Johnny who was slowly smothering down in that frightfnl hole. With terrified shrieks she alter. nately wrt1ng her hands and covered he1 face with her apron. The sight of the poor crushed creature brought tears into the eyes of many stalwart mar present. - -.a -a. q.
 "Would they be too late ?" was the whisper that passed from one pale bystander to another. Jasper McDonald fell out of the ranks of the diggers and lay upon the sidewalk, utterly worn out
 and Barton Hill, the actor, stepped intc his place. Mayor Bryant threw his of
 fcial dignity to the winds, and, thougl equipped with nothing but a piece of til can, did good service. The brokers
 coming up from the just closed board
 pitched in with will. Sandy Austi1 came near being submerged by the cav ] ing earth as tho pit deepened, and Turn l bull in few minutes looked as thougI \ he had been resurrected by the las ! trump. t.' i-
 In just twenty-two minutes from thu first alarm the sewer level was reached The last spadeful of earth was throw1 aside by MT. Scott, of Wells < Fargo
 when, amid the deafening cheers of thu immense crowd, the little prisoner em
 erged, dripping and almost dead, iron his critical position. It was 8 parro \ that had left it's perch in front of I neighboring bird store, and had fallel
 down the trap. ...., ..... ...
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-22
Everyday Talk Wins.

The Detroit Free Press says Yes terday when the black clouds gathered in the north and betokened the coming of thunderstorm, citizen who was coming down on Jefferson avenue car remarked to an elderly gentleman beside him i: ....F ...-
 "A storm is pretending"
 "Hey ?" inquired the other.
 "I say there are tokens of storm, ' continued the first. a-.
 "Hey? ?" was the brisk inquiry again.
 Appearances indicate storm l" ex- claimed the citizen, trif1e embarrassed.
 "Hey? What did you say about in- delicate?" queried the other.
 "There's going to be thunder, storm p shouted the citizen, dropping his big words all of sudden.
 "Ah Now I understand" said the old man." "going to be thunder. storm. Well, what do you want me to do about it ?"
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-22
Cruel Sport.

A lady writes thus to London IrAth about the "sport " of the game of polo "I had a dreadful experience last week in witnessing polo match at Hurling- ham, and one that never wish to go through again. The unfortunate ponies were spurred hard the whole time their riders rode them, and their sides were raw and dripping with blood. When we discovered on their coming near enough in what condition the poor ami malls were, we all rose and went away, feeling perfectly sickened. What a sport! And all this spurring was not necessary, for there were two riders who rode without spurs, and their ponies went just as we'll. How can women look on and enjoy such things ?"