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when we co. the word she went away like q
shot and won the rst heat In about ss, taking
swell" said Mr.. smith, ssthe colt shows for
himself, la ne Is not at all forward, but am sat-
Then Alley chimed In: "This colt Will be
worth any money II he lives till he is five years
old: He is the only living thing that ualtes d.
fect,y the blood OF the two greatest trottsrs.
Notwithstanding the great performances Of
Goldsmith Maid, Mr.. Smith believed Thorn to
oe the greatest trotter, and he went on to mar
fore setting out on the Circuit races one night
on the Fashion track, Long Island, In the dark
In 2:10k. He was OF the opinion that she would
had not met with the accident that crippled her
From the Maids paddock we went to that of
Lucy, whose colt, fOaled about the same time as
that of the Maid, chung close to her heels.
Next we visited large enclosure in which
were some twenty head OF yearlings, all by Jay
out of famous mares. The mares above named
we also saw standing In their paddocks or graz
Ing. Everything was systematic and orderly to
the highest degree, and the most perfect neat
ness prevailed. We next saw the stations.
could. KNOX, washington and Socrates. These
are al! so well known and have been so often
described that there Is nothing new to be said
ABOUT them. Gould, after season OF forty. -four
mares In 1874, trotted IN Baltimore In 2:19k, and
MS appearance would indicate that he Could
equal this now with little training. Old General
Knox, twenty -four years Of age, but still fresh
and vigorous, is the sire of many famous horses
Lady Maud, Camors, Gilbraith Knox, Peace
full, Phil Sheridan and others Socrates, by
Rysdyke's HambletOnian, trotted as a four year
old In 2:34a. General Washington, the five year
old son OF Lady Thorn by General Knox, is
| magnificent animal. He stands 16 hands full
and In color is rich dappled mahogany bay,
with black points and no white. Musician.
another son OF Knox out OF the dam OF Music q
| four year old, is beautiful COLT much fancied
by Mr. Alley, and already developing great
| speed.
Very many others were seen-there were
some ninety head In au-but good dinner was
waiting and Mr.. Smith would not allow the par
ty to delay. We discussed the merits of the
good things OF life under the root of an old
fashioned farm house, and returned to the city
by the late tratn.-IN. Y. Graphic.
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TIE following testimonial of certain patent
medicine speaks for itSelf:-"Dear Sir: Two
months ago my wife could scarcely speak. she
has taken two bottle OF your Life renewer' ana
now she can't speak at all. Please send me two
more bottles: wouldn't be without it."-[Nor-
ristOtru Herald,
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The Public and the park..

Editor Star:-I would like to know whether
this is free country or not; If 1t isl would like to
get some information concerning OUR public
parks, more especially that OF the Capitol
grounds l was coming home from work one
day last week and sat In these grounds on one
OF those new benches on the west side, when
Immediately was confronted by an oficer OF
those grounds, and informed that could not sit
there over fifteen minutes, and asked then II
these seats We're not free, and he said yes.
Hardly five minutes later, I was this time
insulted by this officer stating in no gentle
were strict orders from Architect Clark. have
great respect for Mr.. Clark, but would like to
know what authority he has to issue any such
orders In this free country OF ours. He had
better get clock and place it in the center OF
the aisle for the benefit of those that have no
watches, rather than to have an officer insult
limited; you will have move on, ETC." IWOuld
like to have little Information concerning this
matter, as 1t Is OF great interest to every one
passing through these grounds.
ONE OF THE MANY INSULTED.
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Suggestions In Regard to the Mount.
ed Police.

Editor Star:-Seeing In recent issue OF your
columns that the Commissioners propose to re-
pair the several police stations prompts me to
suggest that they build stables for the mounted
mems horses. There is perhaps no city In the
world where mounted patrolmen are so avail
able as Washington for reasons obvious to every
one who gives the subject thought, and moth
Ing so tends to their efficiency as to have them
near their respective stations. At present many
OF them live some distance away, as it is not
easy with their salary to get house and stable
convenient.
Again, It frequently happens In the time of
threatened riots Or other excitement that the
officers are all kept on hand night and day, and
ct such times the Importance of the above is
evident
Take for example the Cohen movement last
autumn; the last Presidential Inauguration, and
many other cases could be cited when no MEM
Der of the force was allowed to leave the station
10r weeks, except TO get his meals and return
Immediately.
In several OF the large cities Of the Old World,
where mounted police are used the horses are
Kept at the stations and the men live as near as
practicable. Why can IL not be 80 here?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-05-17
1t Won't DO.

Diving into the mysterious future, the editor
OF the Kansas city Times attempts to anticipate
the wonders which the telephone is destined to
work In Journalism. He sees the day when all
the subscribers to the Times will be connected
with the publication Office by telephone sThere
Will be no printing, no type setting, no prepar-
Ing OF copy" we are told. At l O'Clock In the
morning the manager will signal to all sub
Scr1bers that the paper is about to be "1ssued -
The telegraph editor will station himself at the
telephone and read OF the dispatches which
have been received during the night. The
editor will then proclaim his views The city
editor Will announce all the local events OF the
DAY previous and win be followed by the other
ed1lOrs, each In his turn. Meanwhile the sub
scriDers Will all be sitting at breakfast. They
VIII absorb all the news Of the day without the
sightest intellectual effort. This Is all very
novel and II will certainly mark an interesting
phase In Journalism but 1t viii never be popu.
lar. The man who likes to come into news
paper Office with copy OF that days issue
folded up, with an obnoxious paragraph on the
outside, demanding to know sWhO wrote that
there piece" viii not be satisfied with the fn-
corpoTeal style Of newspaper. Neither viii the
young lady who sings at concert and who has
q nice notice prepared for the paper by her
cousin. She wants to send few copies always
TO her friends In the adjoining county. Then
there Is the advertiser who always groWlS be-
cause the type In his ftad" isn't large enough
and, above all, the gentleman who brings the
periodical libel suit. Where will he be with his
black ana white evidence In the day OF tele-
phonlc Journalism? 1t won't do, Mr. Times.
baltimore Gazette
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The Potomac OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

Editor StGr:-When you were In London, Mr..
Editor, your attention must have been called to
the ''Thames Embankment." II you would
give your readers an account of that great work
emDankment on our river front. The Thames
river front is model for the Potomac The cost
OF that improvement was $50, OOO, 900, and was
London.
Now, the Potomac embankment can be built
Tor *, 600 600, and Congress should do it, It is
poor policy to lead Congress, or the people, to
than i've or six million OF dollars. This Is
small sum considering the greatness and gran
deur Of the work.
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5ENSON'S CAPCrNB

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The highest and only medals Of merit eiyeu for
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uThe man with the toothache has a phtz.
achal trouble.-(Bos. Trans,
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her second one, from the fact of her havin1
been In training SO long.
81 don't think So" said the Maids o,a ,r,,r>.
with worn out mare 1t might be the casa
but the Maid was as good as ever when she ro
tired from the turf; perfectly sound and fun If
three years before we did, but abe ka vI i vi
strong and wen that we put it on. In the fail
OF 1871 had an offer to go south with her The
mysef Ippke9 f Mf smt her
had pride In seeing that she was not worn
out In the Seryice-She had been too ponS q
mare MAJ TOT thatnand decided to make that Year
south came wrote to Mr.. Smith, and he ren,,ssI az
to bring the Maid home, as he wanted to nral
pare her hertz TOR d breeding When east last FebrS-
looked like fve-year-O d." QUO
Did she KNOW you?
81 should say she did, and she gave mo tho
old look that have seen SO many times and md
What was the first race you ever drove the
Maid in?" 0
at was at Narragansett park In 1867. in
won, but there were four or five heats trotted1
Hotspur, California May Queen and q bio or ~. ~,
stallion called Confidence were in 1t. The Maid.
fastest heat 2:29A, and the fastest In the race
was something occurred In that race that z
never saw before or since. At the haifmyla
pole In the third heat an Of the six horses were
on the leaders wheel. These positions never
changed all the way home, and they flushed in IN
q bunch" III
WAS the Maid a good gated mare when Won
took herr" 'oo
"No; she had been forced good dea, ana
kept try ing to relieve herself by Iumns and and
rolls. took her In the fall, and thS foIIHwin0
spring set her to work to straighten her "aifs
me lever !et ner go any way but on steady Grot.
The consequence was that she had no parttcuiar
speed, but could do what she did very prettiiv
| trained her at the Fashion track. and the
Maids first race was against American Girl at
FieeCWOod. When came over John Morrissev
came to me and asked what show had to win
l told him that the mare couldn't 20 any, bu
r
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DUBIOUS FACTS ABOUT THE PO-
TATO.

Hts Many Uses-Its COsmO pOlitan
Char1cter-HOw 1t Can He Best
Crown and Best Preserved.
At the last meeting Of the District Hortcul-
turA Society, Prof. VIM. Saunders made the
following Interesting remarks upon the potato:
The potato is native OF various parts OF
South America, particularly OF Chili, Peru ana
was sent to Spain early In the 10th century;
from thence IT spread to Italy and Germany.
1t was introduced into England from Virginia
ularfty, for it is stated to have been rare as a
field crop In $780, but after that time its culture
seems to have steadily increased, and 1t Is now
CONSIDERED 6y political Economists a as Ieing z
food, although, as compared to wheat, its nu-
t1tive properties are very low, yet one acre OF
potatoes gives more food for man than two
acres OF oats. Approaching In its composition
to rice and the plantain, IL Is said to be supe-
r1Or to these In nutrfment.
the composition OF the potato varies very
greatly In the different varieties; the 1ngre-
dents are the same, but the proportions vary
considerably. The proportion OF water ranges
from ~ to 50 per cent; OF starchy hoIlne Iro ON
6 to per cent; of pure starch from TO 10 per
cent; and Of gum from to per cent, WINE
small proportions OF vegetable alDumen, ACIDS
and salts, make up the remainder OF the DulS.
TIE POTATO AS TABLE VEGETABLE.
recommended that potatoes should De well
cooked, with q c0nSQeIdUc uCSiCO VI uCat.
II intended to be boiled, they should be placed
at once In hot water, but differences OF opinion
prevail on this point, some Claiming that they
should be placed In cold water, which Is slowly
brought to the boiling point When peeled and
soaked In cold water, portion, OF the lecula a
the skin will be hardened and thickened. The
water In which potatoes have been boiled Is
nearly destitute OF nutritive matter, and Is said
to contain substances which are deleteriouS TO
health.
Potatoes are deficient In mineral matter, so
that they are unfit to be sole food, but that
defect is supplied by the addition Of hard water,
waxy potatoes are said to be less digest1ble than
those that are old and mealy, and which con-
tain greater amount Of starch. When cooked,
the starch cells burst and mealinesS Is the
result.
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THE PALACE MARKET.
CORNER HATH AND NEW YORK AVENUE.
Hard and ssft CRABS and CLANS always On
Fresh STRAWBERRIES Green PEAS Etc
fhiisdelphia CHICKENS and Dressed spri,g
CHICKENS. sprung
TABLES, at lowest prices 'N01-
mylAtr FRANK J. TIBBETs 90.
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NHTS AND L.ADnp WIGS.
" Il 10 TkfldH fsTxSftsnUxr,
.arss% sAs 6s So. 4 B. 3 tu,.s on.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-01-23
THAT mupDLH.

QuITE number Of our State ex-
changes are greatly exercised abons
the Colquitt. HiR,Murphy con'ro--
versy. Ben Hill shinks that the
Democratic party will 60 to the dew
il If his views are not sustained
We do not think the integrity and
salvation Of the Democratic party
rests upon the shoulders Of either
Hill, Murphy, or Colqai't. The
pc ople are the scversigns and these
three gentlemen are but their SER
warts, liable 10 be consigned to the
privacy of life. The people are the
custodians Of the principles Of the
Democratic party and will see that
the party is kept intact. .a
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-01-23
a COOP PAYING BugrNEss.



OLeaty goes back to Chicago
$4,000 richer than he vas before
he begsnAhis walk. There are MOI
many men who made $4,000 last
week. II ia equal to the entire Tai
magian salary for year. It is 40
much as the abIest Of the able edi>
tors Of New York get; and about a
quarter Of years salary oftke Pres
ident. Not a novelist Of the year
has poeketed as much. Not aaeHe
than a doz-n books have been writ.
ten tluringt he year which will even
bring into their authors an equal
sum. There is not Governor in
the land that receives as much. We
again direct the attention Of young
men who desires to get into good
paying business to the advantage eff
cred by adopting the profession Of
pedestrianism. l. pays better than
preaching, governing, writing or
base ball.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-01-23

OLIVE, the Nebraska murderer,
who took a leading part in burning
two citizens to DEATH is perhaps the
wealthiest man ever arrested in the
United States for deliberate homi
eide. The Olives own over seventy
thousand head Of cattle and vast
tracts of~land. Olive appears to
have considered himself above the
law, and tortured his victims to death
with as mach recklessuess as he
might have shown in destroying a
wildcat. He is spending money un-
stiutedly with a view Of evading
Justice.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-01-23
THE COST OF LIVING.

Complaints are heard still about
shafd times These may be very
properly made by some, but certain
ly not BY the consumer; for not with
in the lest half century have the
necessaries, and the Injuries of life
also, been so cheap. We take the
following comparative state meLt Of
prices from the JcurnDl Of Commerce,
New York, one Of the most reliable
and best publications Of the kind on
the continent. The prices of 10
are compared with those Of each
year since 1868. The following will
show how very much cheaper one
can live to-day than he could ten
years ago: e Ha see + -
FlouF, which in 1868 brought
$3.50, $500 and 1915 barrel,
b,ings now $500 and S3.l0--a de-
cline of almost Two ihires. Data in
lSGS we're 81 cents bushel /; to day
they are "a cents, Corn was sl.4Q;
to day it is AZ cents. Cotton has
gone from l6 cents to 81 cents. ~
Hay was S24 ton, and is 50. Mess
pork brought 81 barrel in 1868,
AID $3.50 in 1869 io 1879 it is
$7.O5, Mess beef has gone from S32
to Sl4,50. liverpool salt in 1868
brought S2.l0 a sack, and to day
brings 70 cents, Batter goes from
40 cents 10 1868 to 10 cents in 1879
and cheese from 1913 cents in 1869
to So cents 10 1879. Molasses was
IS cents gallon; TODAY 81 cents
Sugar has gone from le3 cents for
refined in 1865, to 81 cents in 1879.
Petroleum, crude, brought Is cents
a gallon 10 1869, and brings now %
cents. Layer raisins brought So SO
box in 1868, and 81 20 in 1870,
in 1879 their price is $l.574. Cur
rants have gone from ~ cents a
pound to 81 cents hops from 60
cents to 10; turPenline from 81.
cents 10 1872 to 274 cents a gallon,
and rosin from So barrel in 1868
and 81 10 in 1872 to 81 80. In
wool we find fall from 10 cents in
1872 to 80 cents. Pig iron has
gone from $50 ton in 1873 to Sl7
ton in 1879. Laths, $3.50 cents a
thousand 10 1872, can be bought
for $l.45, and Rockland lime, 80
a barrel in 1869, can be bought for
so cents. ..
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-01-23

The Rutland (Vt) Herald says :
San eminent legal luminary, who is
also an intermittent preacher, spoke
recently in his argument of the time
when Noah and his ark rested on
Mount Sinai, a speech that indicated
how q man may be an earnest and
able theologisn without knowing
much about the chronology of the
Scriptures or the geography of Pal
estine. Col. Thomas, of Burlington,
years ago, used to describe how his
reproaches once consternated his enc
mics, as follows: II tell you their
knees shook as shook the knees of
Beltiheezer, whea Paul said unto
him, Thou art the man. 1t is per-
fectly safe to make these little blund
ers before the Rutland County Bar,
as no fellow of the fraternity knows
any more of the Scriptures than the
fellow who had Now | lay me down
to Sleep pslmed off on him for the
Lords Prayer sal g.aila 3aaa3-
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-01-23
mUcH A DO ABOUT NorHIad.


Our friend Sa~ysr Of the Rome.
Tribune seems greatly worried sbons
Gen. Gordon, and has not ceased to
write in regard to that worthy gen
tleman, as to whether he voted for
Fred Douglas or not. The Tribune
asserted that he did, and Gen. Cor
dom. OH the stump, with equal pub
LEFTY denied the accusation; and
there he left the matter. We
regret that the Tribune is not will
ing to believe Gen. Gordon, yet we
believe that it has never produced
any evidence to criminate him with
& lLood ea@---
sassfe ar a sss rsftr 81
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-01-23
COLONIZATION.

SENATOR Window wants to colo
nize the negro in Northern Repub-
lican States, 50 that the said color>
ed gentlemen will have an oppor-
tunity of voting the Republican tick
ct ''untinidated." Will the Repub-
licans never get dove introducing
bills about the dear niger 7 1t has
been nothing but niger, niger,
niger, ever since the war.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-01-23
TO COLOR A MEERsCHAUM IN
FIVE MINUTES

"Sympathetic pipes" are recent
novelty. The bowl of meerschaum
may be colored in FIVE minutes, by
first tinting i. with solution of nj
trate of silver in ether and alcohol,
to which essence of roses and cam
phor are added. Figures of any
pattern are produced by the heat Of
the tobacco, and when produced are
permanent.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-01-23

THE verdict of murder in the
second degree in the Mrs. Cobb case
in Connecticut was most absurd
conclusion. If ever there wasa case
involving all the elements Of murder
in the first degree wilfulness, NAL
ice aforethougbt, premeditation, de.
liberation and being instigated by
the devil-one would sup pose it was
a case of subjecting a husbands
stomach to about five different kinds
OF poisons. If guilty at all she could
only be guilty Of murder in the first
degree. ....,
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-01-23

n THE Utah women are besiegipg
the White House and butson>holing
Mrs. Hayes concerning the anti,poly-
gamy bill, They say so 600 women
will lose happy homes and places as
honored wives if the law were en-
forced. One woman said she had
two boys, and, as second wife, she
would be deprived of home and her
boys of name and inheritance. 1t
has, perhaps, never occurred to her
that this usually happens to women
who take up with another woman's
husband. e u" " '"4
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-01-23

Fl "IT is said," says AN exchange,
''that when General Toonbs is ab-
sent from home, aud wants to return
on Sunday, he telegraphs to Wash
ington, Ga, and special train is
sent to Barnett for him. Of course
he pays literally for this special
privilege, but it shows his free ex
pendifure of money when an inclina
ton or whim dictates. General
Toombs does nothing on small
scale "
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-01-23
MRS. SENATOR GORDON.

Some people were speaking the
other day, of the regularity with
which Mrs Senator Gordon attends
the sessions of the Senate, and the
keen interest with which she watch>
es the debates. One of the party
said that she is so devoted to her
husband that she always goes with
him every where During the war
she took her two little boys, one al
most ababy and lived with her hus
band in camp, following him into
battle, in fact, sharing all danger
with him. She bad an ambulance at
her service, and it was in this tina,
she used to follow him. When he
was so seriously wounded she had
her ambulance driven right into the
battlefield, and had him pulled out
from under the dead and wounded
and placed in the ambulance, and
she drove off with him. All OF this
was done under a heavy fire, and
the cover of the ambulance was
pierced with bplletsholes. Some one
said to her: ''How could you have
the nerve to do itY' why, re-
piled Mrs. Gordon, II did not think
any more of it than | ehould Of pull
ing one of my boys ont of the fire if
he had fallen in."-Neso Departure.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-01-23

u J. E. Bryant, Chairman of the
defunct Georgia Republican State
Central Committee, is fiddling
arodn Washington, where he ex
poets 10 meet With encouragement ia
teorganizihg the Republican party
in Georgia. 1t is reported that he
has met with some success, as re
CARDS money, IN New YORK, and ex>
poets to do better in Washington.
lie is ufiug tie difficulty between
Hill and Coiqditt as an argument
that the Republican party in Geor>
gia can be brought out Of its grave.