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STEAMSHIP LINES.
For Norfolk, Fortress Monroe
and the South.

The swim and elegant iron steamer f-s7rSs
LADY or THE LAKE lenyea ksss..eL...ss .lzs..S-
Sixth street Wharf EVERY MON. rrsstftty sstfs't-
DAY, WEDNESDAY. and FRIDAY, ut o'clock p
M. connecting with steamers Tor New York nnd Bus
ton aud i,urOud Lines South. Nuturning leaves
Norfolk every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at
o'clock H. IN.
FOR POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS.
steamer JOHN w. THOMPSON leaves sixth
street wharf every Monday ut Z a, m. for Nominl (;
town, stopping at intermediate landings going and
returning,
STEAMERS FOR NEW YORK.
Tho steamers JOHN GIBSON and T. G. KNIGHT
alternately leave Pier II, ERst river, New York.
cry Saturday, ut y. M; Georgetown Saiurdaymorn.
Ing. and Alexandria same day.
Freight taken at lowest rates. Apply at office over
National Metropolitan Bank, Fifteenthsrcet, or office
OF agent foot OF sixth street Washington, and ~ Wa
ter street, Georgetown. SAM l. BACON,
ulchI President,
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PROPOSALS.

A RCHtTECTs OFFICE L. s. CAPITOL,
"a WAsHtNuTON, d. g., March - 1870,
Proposals will he received at this office where plnns,
fpcCihCatiOns, &c. can be seen. until TUESDAY,
April 3, at ~ o'clock M, for the bricks labor, and
materials for laying the same of the extension Of the
Government Printng.Oflice. .
EDWARD CLARK,
mhnG Architect United Stntes CaDitOl.
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by virtue of writ OF herl facla issued out Of the
Clerks Office Of the supreme Court o. the District OF
Columbia, and to me directed will sell ut public
sale for cash at the courthouse door of said District
on MONDAY, the 18th day OF April, 1879. NJ II
O'Clock M, all the right, THE claim and Interest OF
the defendant In and to the following described
property to wit: Sub-ot No. In square No. Ola, Wash
ingtOn. u. G., together with all and singular the Inn
provements thereon, seized aud ovled upon as the
property of John II. Cassell, to satisfy execution No.
1850, ut law, In favor Of Henrietta Stuart
FHED'K DOUGLASS,
u, s. Marshal d. C..
JOHN SHERMAN, Auctioneer mh2b~dts
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FORTY-SlxTH CONGRESS-.
King Caucus Prerogatives Dis
Cussed in the Senate.

An Innovation In Legislation-C Caucus Com
mittees to Prescribe and Prepare Lcgis-
lation for the Two Houses = Tho
Army Bill Introduced in the
House - Troops Amend.
ment Retained.
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H. T.HELM BOLD'S
COMPOUND FLUID EXTRACT
BUCHU.

A SPECIFIC REMEDY for all Diseases OF the
Urinary Organs-Nou.r retention or lucontnence OF
Urine Irritation, Inflammation liberation of tho
Bladder and Kidneys Stone In the Bladder, Gravel
BTlckdust Deposit, Brights Disease Milky Dis
charges, and all Diseases OF the Bladder. Kidneys
Prostate Gland whether affecting Male, Female, or
Child
FOR WEAKNESS arising nom excuses or ds5l'
patton, attended with some of the following symp-
toms: Nervous Debility, Loss oil Memory, Indlsposi
lion To- Exerton or Business, shOrtness Of breath.
Trembling. Troubled with Thoughts of Disease,
Dimness OF Vision, Palms In the Back. Chest, and
Head. Rush of Blood to the Head, skin Eruptions
Pale Countenance. and Dry Skin.
IfTIIESE SYMPTOMS are allowed to go on very
frequently Epileptc Fits and Consumption follow.
When the constitution becomes affected with organic
weakness II requires the aid OF nvgorating medi
cine to strengthen and tone up the system, which
HELMBOLD'S BUCHU does In every case.
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FUTURE DAYS.
VNRUSTEEs SALE or PROPERTY on MINT
Il STREET EAST.

TRUSTEES SALE or PROPERTY on NINTH
n STREET EAST
By virtue Of decree OF the supreme Court of the
District of Columbia, passed In equity cause No Gas
docket Is, aud also by virtue Of deed of trust re
corded among the land records Of the District of Co
lumbia IN Ltbor No 7G2 folio Is, VIII offer for sale
at auction on WEDNESDAY. the 2Bth day OF
March 1872 AT o'clock p. M, In front OF the prem
iSeS, lots No q and 2S In Charles Jsts recorded sub
division of square No. all. IN this city,
These lois each have front OF 20 feet on Ninth street
east between aud q streets north. and run back
with that width lC6 feet to public alley Lot 3 Is
Improved by well built twostory frame House, Lot
Y Is unimprOved
Terms One. fourth Of the purchase money In cash,
ana the residue in three equal iDsiallmcntst at SIX
twelve and eighteen montlis,wth per cent interest
deposit Of $50 ON each lot nj time OF sale. Convey
nncing at purchasers cost
REjINALD FENDALT. Trustee.
STEIGER q BIEBERMANN, AuctiOneers.
mChl5eod&ds
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TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD
The great dOube-traclS
NATIONAL ROUTE AND SHORT LINE
to the
NORTH, roRTHwEsr, WEST, AND SOUTH.
WEST
TO TAKE EFFECT
SUNDAY. NOVEMBER Il lsIa at 80 A. NJ.
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UNITED STATES MARsHAEs SALE.

THE ABOVE SALE Is POSTPONED UNTIL
MONDAY, the 3ist Of March, 1879, at ~ o'clock D. n.
REGINALD FENDALL,
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SURGERY--CORNS, &c.

"Daily walks being requisite to health" thousands
visit Dr. WHITES establishment l4I6 Pennsylvania
avenue, opposite Wizards Hotel, for relief from and
avoidance of COrns, Bunions Chllblain-, Bad NailsI
6c. Among hts patrons are many of the most emit
nent medical judicial and political dgnitares OF the
world. Established ISL Fee 81 II visit. decB
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X $s & s.Sf: Es;s
dress IA XTER & co. bankers, IL WAlst,NA .s23eoy
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HELMBOLD'S BUCHU

HAS NO EQUAL I'm diseases peculiar to females
Chronic Inflammation of tho Uterus, and all COM
plants incident to til sex.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-26
A Romance In Real Life.

The neighboring county of Robert
son has had a sensation in the return Of
one of her citizens. who was stolen
twenty years ago. 1t reads like TO
nance. Years ago a MIR. Reaves, DOW
Of Robertson county, was living on the
Missouri river, and while there his 2
year-old son, Newton, was stolen by the
Sioux Indians, with whom he dwelt if
teen years before finding out that he
was of white blood. For six years he
tried to effect his escape, as also to
rescue a little girl, stolen from De-
troit, Mich, named Anna Ware. His
efforts were crowned with sue
cess; and, after twenty years spent
with the Indians, he found him
self among his own race, but almost a
stranger among them. He worked in
Michigan four years, and during that
time he told his strange history to a
gentleman who had it published.
Charles Hamilton, of Ohio, read it, and,
happening to know the elder Reaves,
wrote to him at once, stating his sus-
picions that the lost son was found. An
interchange of letters, and Newton
started for Kentucky, reaching here last
month, after walking through from
Michigan, which he did in twelve days,
crossing The Ohio river at Ripley on a
plank. Newton's Indian name was Po-
lar Bear, and he yet speaks very broken
English, and is great curiosity in Ken
tucky.-CynthianG (KyD Or. St.
Louis Globe.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-26
An Incident of the Zulu War.

The most extraordinary incident con-
nected with the massacre was the mar
row escape of Commandant Lonsdale,
who notified Lord Chelmsford. Com
mandant Lonsdale was quietly return
ing to camp-he had been i'll was
tired, and was slowly jogging along with
the sort of lazy perseverance character
istic of tired traveller He had crossed
the small waterwash to the south of the
camp, when his attention was attracted
by bullet passing rather near to him,
and on looking up he saw black man
who had evidently Just fired. The real
truth was, of course, far from his mind,
and he merely thought it was one of
his own contingent carelessly firing
off his rifle, and pursued his way. To
some extent the incident seems fOrtu-
nately to have woke him up, and, al
though he saw what seemed to be our
redcoats sitting in groups in and around
the tents, he kept his eyes open, and,
when absolutely within ten yards of
the tents, he saw a great black Zulu
come out of one with bloody assegai
in his hand. This made him look about
him more closely, aud he saw that black
men and black men only we're the wear
ers of red coats. The truth flashed upon
him; he could read the scowl Of
hatred upon every face, but his self-pos-
session does not seem to have failed
him, for, quietly turning hispony round,
he galloped off before the enemy were
aware of his intention. A hundred and
fifty shots are said to have been fired at
him as he did SO, but by the mercy of
Providence he escaped, and was thus
enabled to warn the General and so
save his life and the lives of those with
him. Undoubtedly had not such warn
ing been given, Lord Chelmsford, ac-
companied by his staff and the troops
with him, would have walked without
suspicion into the skillful trap thus
laid, aud in such circumstances few
would have escaped.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-26
A PatagOnian Dinner.

The piece de resistance is principally
ostrich, but this can be served with
rice as pot-au-feu, or steaks can be
broiled, the wings, which are the great
est deicacy-something like turkey,
perhaps even finer being sent up as
separate dish, the gizzard roasted
a pIldienne; and for the third course,
a custard of ostrich eggs, sugar and
gin. The guanaco, when fat, is said to
be not unlike beef; but at certain sea-
sons of the year it is terribly lean, and
in that case only the head can be con-
sumed, and it is usually roasted under
the embers and eaten cold. The mulito,
or small variety of the armadillo, is
considered a great deicacy, and during
the winter and spring months, when it
is fat, the puma is greatly priced. In
deed, puma fat seems to be invaluable
to the hunter, who finds it impossible
to subsist on a diet of lean meat; aud
to this he is often reduced when his
stores of biscuit and other provisions,
and even salt, are exhausted.-The
SPECTATOR,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-26
Governments Last About Five Hundred
Years.

The following is an extract from a
late sermon by the Rev. David Swing,
Of Chicago:
Gas nations do not rise in day, so in
a day they cannot be overthrown.
There are some singular records in his
tory. 1t seems that great nation can
not turn on its axis more than once in
400 or 500 years. Some of the old
states lie outside of the bounds of his
tory, but those inside these bounds
show great uniformity in making the
time of radical changes in dynasty.
Egypt was under shepherd Kings for
about 500 years. Her golden age, when
she so fourished in art, spread over
300 years. The Hebrew republic ran
from Moses to King David-500 years;
and then came the empire to enter upon
500 or 600 years of success. The glory
of Greek liberty covered about 500
years. Rome enjoyed all the splendor of
a republic for the same strange period
1872 years. Thus, between Cincin-
natus, the farmer President, and the
overthrow of the republic by Caesar
and Antony, there intervene the mag
ical five centuries. Spain, France, and
Germany, formed out of new countries
which followed the breaking up of the
Western empire, are now living well
and happy in the 400th year of their
separate lives. These statements are
sufficiently truthful at least to assure us
that tho. s.~aa4 Jtars which we call ma
tions can neither be placed in the sky
in day, nor in day be blotted from
the galaxy. Behold through what tur-
moils France has comel The atheist
and Communist assailed her. Napoleon
drained her of men and money by wars
of ambition. Other revolutions came.
Then came the usurpation of Napoleon,
then the German war with defeat and
a fine of thousand million dollars;
and yet to-day France comes out of
those connections wise and powerful
renuhlic."
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-26
Great Peanut Match,

The great peanut-eating match be-
tween A. Sniff and j. Junks for $4,000
a side came off at Swoony Hall yester-
day. The conditions were, each con-
testant tc, eat quart of baked peanuts
each quarter-hour for forty-eight con-
secutive hours. The match was terribly
exciting. Before each contestant was
a table laden with quart measures full
of the luscious fruit of the peanut-tree.
Sniff weighed ninety pounds at the
start, and Junks eighty-six. Neither
lad eaten anything for twenty. four
hours, and both had voracious appe-
tites. The first few quarts of peanuts
went like snow before July sun. The
floor was soon strewn with shells. After
eating four quarts Sniff took a short
rest, but Junks kept on manfully. At
the hour of going to press Sniff was
visibly swelling, while Junks was eat
ing away with apparently as good relish
as when he began. at $50 p. m. the
score stood: Sniff, % quarts: Junks,
% quarts. The hall was thronged, and
the excitement was intense. Bets were
freely offered, 800 to $50, that Sniff
will win. Junks' friends are confident
Boston Sunday Times.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-26
A Forward Season.

An old negro named Sam Clark, who
counts Grlswold street lawyer among
his friends, called at his law-shop with a
very anxious look on his face, and said
Boss, lie clean twisted up dis time,
an l want to ak few queshuns."
well, go ahead, Sam"
Wall, all de white folks tells me dat
de sezun am at leas' a month ahead.
h'ars 'em talkin' bout it on de kyars an
all ober."
Yes, this is a very forward spring.
think we are at least a month ahead"
We'll, if OATS de case will de Fo'th
O. July come on de 10th O. June, or
when, an hain't April fule day dun gone
an passed by four weeks?"
The lawyer tried to explain, but Sam
was more mixed than before. Re
scratched his head and went slowly out,
but in half an hour he returned with a
face longer than ever.
Got that through your head yet?"
asked the lawyer.
"Fo' de Lawd, but lie been struck
aginl" whispered the African. eff we
am a month ahead now, dis var will
either have thirteen months or only
levenl 'Splain dat, nowl"
But the lawyer couldn't, and Sam
went out, saying:
Desc white folks am q very Gurus
set, dey is. Dey go an git de sezuns
all outer gear, an den niger can't tell
whether to plant taters or dodge
icicles Pre- Press.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-26

A COUNTRY deacon went on a free
ticket to circus. His pastor remon-
strated with him on the wickedRess of
SO doing. But he made answer: why,
you see, pastor, had deadhean ticket,
and / thought it my bounded duty to go
and keep somebody out of that seat who
might have been somewhat harmed by
the circus"
LITTLE has been said of late regard
ing the tunnel between France and
England, but preparations for the work
continue. Seven thousand five hun
bred and seventy-one soundings have
taken place within 600 feet of the
French coast, with view of ascertain
ing the form and geological nature of
the ground, and 3,267 specimens have
been obtained. Similar soundings have
also taken place on the English side.
AN Austrian cloekmaker named Jean
Weri3 has invented rifle with which
from 400 to 500 shots can be fired each
minute. The mechanism of the weapon
has some resemblance to the movements
of watch, and the cartridges are so ar
ranged as to form heightened ribbon.
The handling of the piece is said to be
o very simple affair.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has de-
cided that when drunken and unruly
passenger is put off a railroad train,
and is then run over by another train,
the railroad company is not liable. 1t
was the duty of the conductor to pro-
tect other passengers against him by
ejecting him, and if he was too
drunk to take care of himself after that,
it was his own fault. Similar law has
been laid down in this and in most of
the other States in the Union, and it
seems to be about settled that if a man
will get drunk, the safest place to do it
ia at homa
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-26
Flying Across the Continent.

The cost of Congressman Whiteaker's
hurried trip from Oregon to attend the
opening of Congress, including the
special palace-car from San Francisco
to Ogden, is estimated to have been
from 81, 800 to $4,000. He went from
his home to San Francisco, which he
had not seen for nineteen years, by
steamer. The voyage was very stormy,
and he was sick, hungry and exhausted
when he reached the Golden Gate. 1t
was his purpose to recruit his strength
by stay of some days in San Francis
co, but he was seized Immediately on
landing, hurried across San Francisco
bay to the railway station of the Cen
trail Pacific railroad, where special To-
connective and palace car were waiting,
with steam up, and was whirled away
with nothing in the way of food aboard
except some cold luncheon, nor did the
car stop anywhere to get warm meal
for the dropping Congressman until the
regular train that was sure to bring him
to Washington i'll time was overtaken.
1t took about twenty-four hours to do
it, during which double the usual time
was made. Who is to pay the expense
of this extraordinary trip has not been
stated, but it is not Mr.. Whitaker.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-26
How California Farmers Sow Grain.

The farmers around Woodbridge
have given up drilling in their grain.
Some SOW broadcast, in the time-hon-
ored way. Others, and among them
not few of the most progressive farm
ers, rig seed-sower behind their plows
in such a way that. although they pillow
from eight to ten inches dep, yet the
grains of wheat fall just in time to be
caught by about two inches in depth of
the lap OF the burrows. The writer saw
some large fields near Woodbridge
which had boon treated in this way,
and it was the prettiest sight imagina-
BILE. The long rows extended in straight
lines across the fields, evenly and in a
fine state of growth. In ordinary sea-
sons it is not considered necessary to
harrow after sowing in this way if it is
on summer-falIowed land.-Sa71 Fran
cisco Bulletin.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-26
The Chinese in Havana.

Havana has a very large Chinese
population. Coolies were imported I'M
til within a few years in great num-
bers, and sold under a contract of eight
years of service. When this period ex-
pred the coolies naturally gravitated
toward the cities, and, nucleus once
formed, soon spread, until whole sec
lions are now peopled with these Mon
golians. A few of them have accumu-
lated some wealth, nearly all are indus
trious, but with the great mass 1t is a
serious question as to the provision for
even the meager food which satisfies
their idea of living. Their young men
are fond of initiating the ways, dress,
and diversions of the Cuban blood"
There is something exceedingly funny,
not to say grotesquely pathetic, in the
sight of a Chinaman peering out from
the highest of Piccadillies," and
adorned with stylish silk hat, a cane,
and lavender kids. These young fell
lows acquire all the vices, if not all the
virtues, of this cosmopolitan city.
The Chinese, too, have their theater.
The approach thereto is through dark
and narrow streets, meagerly lighted by
a sickly light here and there from sa-
looms and eating-houses, whose signs
are in Oriental characters. A little hole
in a stone wall, barely as large as a
stove-pipe, denotes the ticket Office
Our guide, inirUlsted with ample funds
thrusts his hand into the mysteries be-
yond, giving vent TO torrent of vocal
isms Enthusiastically heathenish. The
demand for best places creates an evi-,
dent excitement in the breasts of the
dispensers of tickets. It is clear that
the boxes are in very little use in this
establishment. Thus we find ourselves,
a moment later, looking down in soli-
tary grandeur upon a mass of mixed hui
manity which is too much absorbed in
the scene upon the stage to pay atten-
ton to our entry. The room, quite
large, is dimly lighted by candies set
against the supporting posts, and ar
ranged with an ingenious disregard of
effects. A number of musicians keep
ND a desultory din with horns, drums.
and cymbals, its volume of intensity
rising and falling with the action of the
play. The drama itself eliminates in
FREQUENT well-simulated acts of domestic
violence, giving the fnely-formed ath-
letic actors an opportunity to display
surprising agility. All female parts are
assumed by men. 1t is understood that
the most lucrative department of this
home of histrionic art is to be found be-
log the stage, where those initiated and
wen known to the proprietors may in
dulge in the Chinese passion for gam
ing.-Frdrlk Il. Taylor, IN HaTpers
Magazine for april.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-26
Cost OF Congressional Contests.

There is a provision in the Sundry
Civil bill passed by the last Congress
limiting the amount to be paid to each
contestant or contestee for a seat in
either house of Congress to $4,000. In
the last Congress there were twenty-six
parties to contests, and to these there
was paid by the same bill $46,616. The
cost of these twenty-six election cases, in
Guiding the sum named, which was paid
as salary and expenses, was about
$4,000, or on an average of more than
$4,000 for each man. Not half of these
cases were ever determined by the
House, and in those which were consid
cred by the Committees on Elections,
very much of the evidence taken was
ex parte or irrelevant. In the case of
Nutting VS.. Kelley, of the Thirteenth
Pennsylvania district, the testimony
covered more than 1000 closely. printed
pages, much of which was ruled out on
the ground of irrelevancy. The case
was never acted upon, but the Gov
eminent paid the parties to the contest
$1,000 each. The Bisbee case, which
was taken up and settled just before the
adjournment, cost $1,000. If the new
law had been in operation at the time
the entire cost of these twenty-six con-
tests could only have beeRa little more
than $4,000, being a saving of over
$40 000
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-26
Throat Parasites.

The Elmira (N.Y.) Advertiser gives a
strange account of little girl afflicted
with the diphtheria. In looking into
the child's throat, the mother saw a
micrococcus moving, which she re-
moved, together with another, which
are now on exhibition in a city drug
store, and being discussed by the medi-
cal fraternity. They are easily seen by
the naked eye, though a glass helps one
to the "true inwardness" of the crit
tiers. The largest one is fully one-quar-
ter of an inch long, covered with hair,
with a head something like caterpillar,
tapering body, and long, hairy tail. Its
body is formed in rings; its color is
about that of one of those dark yellow
acknowledged" worms found under
old boards and stones. The smaller
one is about one-sixteenth of an inch
long, being whitish in color, and re-
quiring the glass to bring out its "beau-
ty" of conformation. 1t is not a
pleasant thought to imagine such things
in your throat, but they get there, and
from there into the blood. heart and
other organs. producing paralysis and
sudden death when least expected.
They arc vegetable parasites, and exist
in large colonies IN the dIphtheretic
membrane.