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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-04-19
PROPOSALS.
DRoPosAIs FOR WROUGHT AND CAsT.IRoN
Il WORK FOR TIE RECONSTRUCTION OF
THE UNITED STATES PATENT.OfFlCE
BUILDING. WASHINGTON, y. Q.

OFFICE OF THE ESGINEER AND ARCulTECT,
WAsHNGToN, ID. G., Aprn l., 1879
Sealed proposals Will be received at this Office UNI
til IL OF the 2ist day Of April, s7O for furnishing
delivering, fitting and putting In place complete
certain wrought and cas-ron work. comprising en-
cased sectional columns Orders, and beams for tho
support of galleries; also grders, beams raft
ers, &c. for the roofs, and cast aud wroughtiron
work for the skylghts over the model-rOoms OF the
north aud east wings of tho above building In accord
ance with drawings. specifications, and schedule
which may be seen mt tits office. 49,
Blank forms of proposals and bond and any addi
tiona information may be obtained on application at
this Office. ADOLF CIuSS
Engineer and Architect
nETHE TIME FOR PRESENTING PROPO'
SAILS under the above advertisement Is hereby ex
tended to THURSDAY April ~ II o'clock m. ~
api4-5tcod ADOLF tLlSs,
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VNHoMAs DOWNING, Auctloncer.

by virtue of u deed of trust, dated the 18TH day Of
November, A, ~ 1872 recorded I'm Libcr No 7O folio
20, OF the land records for the District of Columbia,
and at the written request of the party secured there
by, we Will offer for sale ut public auction, ~ mont
OF the premises, on FRIDAY, the 18th day OF April
next, ut O'clock y M, the following described
real estate and premises, located IN the city OF wash
ngton. In said District and known ON the ground plat
OF said city rs part OF lots numbered II, " ana 49,
In square numbered 2g7, and bounded as follows Be
ginning for the same on lhiIeenth street vest 20 feet
from the southwest OF said square; thence run
ming north along said street rs feet thence east 81 feet
inChes thence south u feet, and thence west to the
place OF beginning, together with the improvements
thereon.
Terms OF sale; OneiOurth Of the purchase In cash,
and the residue In six twelve and eighteen months,
with interest from dnv sale at the rnte of per cent
per aunum to be secured by deed oftrusL upon the
premises sold or all cash, az the purchasers option.
deposit OF 500 Will be required OF the purchaser on
the day of sale II the terms of sale not complied
with within i've days, the trustees reserve the right
TO resell al the risk aud cost Of the demuIing pur
chaser,
HENRY a, CLARKE, rr,s,,s
nnl0 WlLLIAM A. EENMICk, II"oI,Ns,
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PROFESSIONAL. .......
hartley & SOUTHARD,

Corner Of Finh aud D streets northwest,
WASHINGTON, y. @
4. W. BARTLES, NJ. l. SouTHAHn
Residence lOIG l3th street RIGGS House.
Prompt attention win he given 10 cases IN the SUI;
prema Court of the United States and other judicial
tribunals. hplo-lm
HR. BOSWORTH, 0lS Z STREET N. W, IL THE
~ most skillMl and the only Scientific Medical
Electrician ever in this city, All nervous and chronic
diseases positively cured Female diseases special
". Refers TO Senators d. w. VOORHEES,, indlanai j.
j. Patterson, s. G.; samuel NorInent, Washington ID;
thoroughly qualified lady assistant TO attend TO ladies'
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RIVER AND CANAL NEWS.


NhhI Ell.
BlgCOus wharves-Boats Richard Lacey, Olden Po-
tomac creek. with wood To II l. Biscoe; While ~
Frankie, Repp, Cumberland, with coal TO West II
Bros.
Rllcy's wharves- SchoonCrs sarah Jane, Russell;
General Hancock, Che'sor and John FrnCls Evans
ali nom the Chesapeake Bay, with oysters 10 market.
CLEARED.
Rllcy's whNrves 60 SchooneIs Mary Price, -.
GEORGETOWN, 10 load CoRl for Petersburg; Dove,
ShTecves: q tAvla, George; Celia Dogs, Rnd Black
HuW Il, smith, all bound down, light
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tJnLDJ mn Invested In Wall st. stocks makes
y III III al ,ltlltfOrtunes every month, Book sent
VAV V'tOVVfree explaining everything Ad
dress BANTER Il 60, Bankers II Wallst,N,b .s2seoly
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Georgetown River Front.

Auived-schoOnor Carrie Hart, u IKE. PIoyt
donCc, TO load coal
Clcarcd-schoonors Breeze Cranmer, New York,
with 800 tous coal; Onkes Ames E,munds New
York, With 100 tons cUal larry Not, Barrett, New
York, with 1903 to.s coal.
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CONSTRUCTION OF FIREPROOF BUILDING
" FOR NATIONAL MUSEUM

" FOR NATIONAL MUSEUM.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION,
OFFiCE or THE SECRETARY,
WASHINGTON, d. g., April r. ls7a
Proposals Will he received ut this office until "
M on the nth day Of April 1872 for cut stone work.
The lans of the work may be, seen, and spcciic.
tons. all necessary information aud blank forms OF
proposals. with bonds may be obtained at the office
Of Cuss d schultz architects CorcOran building.
The proposals in the prescribed form should be adj
dressed
NATIONAL MUSEUM BUILDING COMMISSION,
Smithsonian Institution,
OiCe OF the Secretary,
aplI-M. w T., ct Washington u. O.
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Chesapeake aud ohio Canal.
There were no arrivals or departures by canal re.
poTtrd Yesterday,
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EASY FEET.-DR. WHITE,

CHlRopoDIsT Of hnecn years practice Throughout,
the United States and CanUdps, previous being 10.
Gated IN Washington, ID, e., in 1851 successfully treats
Corns, bunlOns, bad mails, aud other ailments of the
feet, Refers to the many eminent physicians, sur
geons, and thousands OF other wcll-knOwn person.
ages that patrOniZe his establishment lIlG ptnnsYl.
vania avenue, opposite Wizards Hotel.
Fee, 81 per visit. apo
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-07-09
WHY !

A Physician writes to young
men as follows "My profession
has thrown me with women Of all
classes, and my experience teaches
me that heaven never gave a
greater proof of his love than to
place women here with him. My
advice is 90 and propose to the
most sensible girl you know. If
she accepts you tell her you will
divide the last dollar with her and
that you will love with all your
heart into the bargain and then
keep your promise. My word for
it she will live within your in
come, and to your last hour you
will regret that you did not mar
ry sooner. Stop worrying about
feminine extravaganza and fem
inine untruth. Just you be true
to her-love her sincerely, and a
more fond, faithful, foolish slave
you will never meet any where.
You will no. deserve her, l know,
but she will never know it,"
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gsIsetsb Story.
A STRANGE STORY.

! was SCatlOneO at agra uul-
ing the Cabul disaster in 184l,
one of a mere handful of Brit
ish troops, left in charge of
wives, sisters and daughters of
the actors in that unhappy ex-
pedition. And weary, heart
breaking time it was. The lieu
tenant.governor, who bad prayed
aud besought the Calcutta au-
thoritles not to risk. the adven-
ture, had the worst forebodings
for it's fate and although he did
all an able, kindly and well-man-
nered man could do to maintain
the spirits of the circle, those who
knew him could read too we'll
what his fears were. Words could
not describe-indecd it is painful
for me even now TO recall-the
dreary wretchedness Of that fatal
month, during which no tidings
came Of the devoted army. Even
ing after evening saw the roads
crowded by anxious women, Sit
ting there for hours, that they
might hear the first news of those
who were dear to them: and even
ing after evening saw them re-
turn in despair. And then, at
last, the news came that the sole
survivor had staggered, half alive,
back to bis countrymen with the
tidings Of the great disaster, the
wall that ascended from those
heart-broken creatures I shall
never, while live, forget.
There had been captain in one
of the native regiments, an old &C
qnaintance Of mine, of the name Of
Donnelly-Jerry Donnelly, as be
was called by every one. He was
careful to explain TO all his friends
that his name was Jerome, and
not Jeremiah, although why be
so unduIy preferred the saint to
the prophet, [ never understood.
Jerry Donnelly, however he was,
and as strange and eccentric a
creature as ever breathed.
" He was a very good-looking
fellow and frst-rate officer, but
a careless, rollicking, halfinsane
madcap of a man, with an amaz-
ing flow of spirits, little education
or culture, a great-almost mirac-
ulous-talent for languages; with
soft heart and easy temper. It
was impossible to make him an
cry and in all circumstances,
however unpleasant, he maintain.
ed a placid serenity, which seem
ed to imply that he was on init
mate terms with fortune and knew
the very worst that she could
do.
Among the ether tricks which
the fckle goddess had played him
was that she lad married him.
Why he ever married as he did no
one could imagine. The lady was
neither handsome, clever nor rich.
She was simply passaolc as to
looks, with the liveiness Of good
health and youth-a quality not
inart to develop itself in vivacity
of temper when those other at
tributes disappear. But, on some
in pulse, Jerry DonnelIy had asked
her the momentous question, and
been favorably answered.
A most uncomfortable couple
were they. Jerry, from the very
first, neglected her-not Intention
ally, I believe, but simply because
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ssGEs PREHYEE'G
TERMS CASH,
SENSATION oE STARVING.

For the first two days through
when a strong aud healthy man
is doomed to exist upon nothing
his sutferlngs are perhaps more
acute than the remaining stages
he feels an inordinate, unspeak-
able craving at the stomach night
and day. The mind runs on beef,
bread and other substantials, but
still, in great measure, the body
retains its strength. On the third
and fourth days, but especially on
the fourth, this incessant craving
gives place 10 sinking and weak
ness of the stomach, accompanied
BY a nausea. The unfortunate
sufferer still desires food, but with
loss Of strength he loses that
eager craving hich is felt in the
earliest stages. Should he chance
to obtain a morsel or two of food
be swallows it with a wolfsh
avidity but five minutes after
ward his suferings are more in-
tense than ever. he feels as if he
had swallowed. live lobster,
which is clawing and feeding upon
the very foundation of his exis-
tence. On the fifth day his cheeks
suddenly appear hollow and sunk
en-, his body atenuated, his color is
ashy pale, and his eyes wild, CLASSY,
cannibalish. The different parts
ofthe system now war With each
other. The stomach calls upon
the legs to 60 w t in quest of
food the legs, l.om very weak
ness, refuse. The sixth daybrings
with it increased suffering, al
though the pangs of hunger are
lost in an oVer.powering languor
and sickness. The head becomes
giddy; the ghosts Of we'll remem.
bered dinners pass in hideous pro-
cession through his mind. The
seventh day comes, bringing in
creased lassitude and further pros
tration Of strength. The arms
hangs lifelessly, the legs drag
heavily. The desire for food is
still left 10 degree, but it must
be brought, not sought. The mis-.
erable' remnant Of life which still
hangs to the sufferer is a burden
almost too grievous to be borne,
yet his inherent love Of existence
induces a desire to preserve it, if
it can be saved without a tax up
on bodily exertion. The mind
wanders. At one moment he
thinks bis weary limbs cannot sus-
tain him a mile, the next he is en-
dowed with unnatural strength.
and if there be certainty of re-
lief before him, dashes bravely and
strongly forward, wondering
whence proceeds his new and sud-
den impulse.
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S3oetry.
- -
BABY'S RsEPROOF.

Times were hard, as Harry said;
'Twas rainy morning;
Coffee seemed the least bit scorched;
Cook had given warning.
I thought Harry almost CROSS,
Or at least provoking; -.
Think only made things worse
With my careless joking.
For he rose to start down town
Didn't kiss the baby;
When asked, "Be home at noon?"
Answered CURLY, ,::"May be-"
Edith looked up with pout-
Hal to listen tarried;
'sHusbins is so cross" she said.
'sDess I won't Diet mahwied."
Cunning baby! Harry turned,
And there came twinkle
In hi :ye which chased away
An anxious, worried wrinkle.
'KiSs me, baby! There, you rogue?'
And he shook her lightly:
Then kissed me, and said "Good-by"-
Left Us smiling brightly,
Soon l heard my Edith say
To the doll she carried:
''Husbins can be very nice
Dess will det mahwied !"
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-07-09

It would do you immense good
to have a quiet talk, once in a
while, with the man who does not
like you. He would probably
open your eyes to side Of your
character which, excusing friend
ship, does not allow you to look
upon, and which your own self
conceit has kept covered up.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-07-09

Any place where the mind OF
man can be undisturbed is suitable
for the worship Of the Supreme
Being.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-07-09

Some Of the grandest things
which have been achieved were
by those whom we thought our
interiors.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-07-09

Who is powerful? He who can
control his passions. Who is
rich? He who is content with
what he has.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-07-09

We sometimes congratulate our
selves at the moment from waking
from a troubled dream. 1t may
be so after death.
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No. %.
RAPID TRANSIT.

with the iron. Why, it seems to
me, that about twenty minutes at,
ter the ore is brought to the top
Of the ground, the full grown nail
is helping to smash some mans
thumb out in Iowa.
IRON CLAD WAGES.
It takes money TO run a nail
mill. Why, some Of the workmen
they tell me, earn from ten dollars
to twenty dollars day.
And they do earn it. They
work cheap at that.
THE POETRY OF IRON.
There is a wonderful fascination
about iron work and iron workers.
Novelists have made them the
scenes and heroes their stories !;
poets have made them the themes
Of deathless song. We sing Of
the forge Of Tubal Cain, and Hec
tor swore "by the forge that
stithed Mars helm," but the other
trades are passed over.
Whom did poets. in lofty num-
bers sing the carpenter lathing q
back room on the second floor?
Who chants the brawny arms
and the thrilling deeds of a man
elm birg four story ladder with
a hod Of mortar?
Does anybody stand with rapt
emotion watching a painter putty
up a nail hole?
| would not exchange my one
hour at midnight in the iron
works at Ashland, for a whole
week Of watching a man mix
mortar with q hoe.
THE DREAM OF THE NAIL.
Why, these iron works surround
the Ashlanders with enough ro-
nance to last a western commun-
ity at least six weeks. And yet I
suppose there are people about
here's who never saw a nail made
in their lives. | have known times,
in my own eminently useful and
highly ornamental career, times
when I was trying to nail a-front
gate to q leather hinge, when I
wished there bad never been q
nail made anywhere by anybody.
And I watched them as they fell
from the ponderous machines, fast
as rain drops, and it seemed to
me, as I watched them fall, that
I could hear the dull, treacherous
thud Of the hammer, on the hu-
man thumb, the low wall OF a wo-
mans anguish, "the big, big D" Of
a strong man in his agony. These
strange, weird feelings and fan
cies rushed into my mind like a
torrent. 1 stopped and picked up
a brand new nail, as a memento Of
my visit.
Then I laid it down again. Sad
~, but not slowly.
WHY?
I have an impression, know
not where l got it, that new laid
nail, like a new laid egg, is warm.
And that it is far more percept-
ible in the case of the nail. 1t
may not be SO in every instance.
l presume there may be some
nails laid cold. But the one l
picked up was not so everlasting)y
gee whizzling cold, and did not
;nroc+;roto anv Harthar
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-07-09

When once iu6delity can per-
suade men that they die like
beasts, they will soon live like
beasts.
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"Take away woman" asks a
writer, "and what would follow ?"
We would; give US something
hard next time.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-07-09

A Nebraska City woman not
only listened at keyhole, but
fred through it at man whose
talk offended her.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-07-09
iLST0N DINNER HOUSB.

Passen: GERS On both the up and down
trains have the usual time for DINNER at
Aston, the junction OF the G. & c. K. H.,
and the s. I. l. c. r. r.
Fare vel; prepared. and the charge rea-
Soluble. MRS. II. =. ELk!NS.
Oc:. g, 4l-tf.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-07-09

Marrow not your mind to your
own selishness, but give it q
broad field for yoar fellow-men to
work in.
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1t is good to be deaf when the
slanderer begins to talk.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-07-09

A scolding woman, like train
conductor, is pretty much always
on the rail.
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miscellaneous.
G0
A HAWK EVE MAN E7IPROV
ENG;HES OPPORTUNITIES.

During the day, too, I went to
the great Norton Iron works and
learned how to make nails.
| can make a nail now as we'll
as anybody, but l am not going to
try.
This is an iron town. When
iron is busy and the mills are
running the town is lively and
happy, and away up in the scale
Of prosperity. Iron? The hills
are full Of it, and the way it is
worked up is caution.
I went down to the works in
the morning, and then [ was down
there again with Hartford Grider
at. midnight. | stared until my
eyes ached, and I could have
seen more if. | had had more
I eyes.
INTELLIGENT QUALIFICATIONS.
Why, the machine that makes
the nail, ought to be allowed to
vote. 1t ought to be sent to con-
gress. If ever one Of the ma
chimes in the Norton mills runs
for congress / will come back to
Ashland and vote for it.
THE FAULTLEsS MACHINE.
1t would make a good congress-
man. 1t can MAKE nails, and it
can make them 10 perfection, and
it doesn't try to do anything else.
l watched one of them for an
hour, and it went On all the time,
making good, useful, perfect nails.
It never once talked a bit. 1t
never went out 10 take a drink.
1t never wanted to introduce
a bill to make the government
issue four hundred billions Of kegs
Of nails, and loan them to the
people who want to build chicken
houses. 1t didn't say that it
thought nails should be remone-
tized, and made legal tender for
the payment of all debts, public
and private, and for the pay
ment of all debts. 1t didn't
say that the country would new
er be prosperous until we had
an intercon7ertible currency Of
shingle nails, secured by bonded
fund Of railroad spikes. 1t just
made nails. And it made them
we'll. 'It,knew it..could make nails,
and so it just went ahead and
made them.
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THEREFORE,

Suppose now, every man IN con-
gress was nail machine, and
could cut about 5000 kegs Of nails
per week, as we'll and perfectly as
these machines at Ashland. Who
would care for the revolutionary
plans of the friends Of the sixth
section ? The government could
sell nails enough in a month to
keep the army going for ayear.
The more I look at the nail ma
chire the more thoroughly | am
convinced that it would do better
in congressman did my friend tie
shoemaker.
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This is the walking year the
next will be leap-year.
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THE FALLIBLE HUMAN.

Now, [ once knew a man who
made shoes. He could cobble a
pair Of old shoes, too. He could
sew on an invisible patch with
yellow thread, 30 that it would
look like sunrise on tho Ohio.
How he could make shoes. Well,
sir, one day that man dropped his
wax in a painful of pegs, laid
down his hammer and got to tell
ing what the government ought
to do, and what congress ought to
do, and what he would do if be
were there, ard the first thing he
knew they sent him to congress.
He used to charge only ten cents
for sewing on patch as big as
fifty cent piece, and only
twenty cents for a new heel, and
fifty cents for half soles. And he
pounded leather all day for about
one dollar and eigbty-fve cents.
And the very first day he was
in congress, he introduced bill
for the free coinage of s9,OOO,OOO,-
900, 100000, 100000, 100000 in one
dollar greenbacks. with a pro7i-
sion that the amount should be
doubled, if it should appear that
the amount originally specified in
the bill was insufficient to meet
the demands of the trade.
And yet that man could make
good shoes.
That's what | liked about the
nail machine. 1t did what it could
do best.
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Cheated men have long mem
ories, -,.~ e.
, 1879-03-15

THURMAN AND BAYARp. Washing
ton correspondent of the Cincinnati SIM
writes: ''As Thurman loses in the presi-
dental race, Bayard gains and il the latter
emily had doubtful state of any consequence
behind him, there would be hut little doubt
OF his nomination in 1880 As it is. Bavard
Is the strongest man today, in the East and
South, except Tilden, and it would not be
surprising TO see the race narrowed down
to these two men before the convention
meets In the humble opiuion of your cor
respondent, Samuel J. Tilden will be the
next democratic candidate for president.
HIS stock has been gong steadily mp since
the last election in New York. In tha. con-
test he demonstrated his ability to defeat
the party III that state, aad thus leveloped
a respect, born of fear rather than love. in
the boSoms of great many OF the local lead
ers who, before that time, were wont 20 Speak
sneeringly of Sammy and his prospects. The
chairman of the democratic state central
committee of Iowa told me. the other day.
that Tilden was the favorlte IN that safe,
and, so far as he knew, lii the uorth-wes.
generally and that, III his opinion, all that
MIR. Tllden needed 10 do, in order 10 insure
success IN the next presidential convention
was 10 make some very slight concessions 10
western vagaries on the currency question. -
This correspondent thinks tina. Grant or
John Sherman will be the republican nom
NEE, with Washbuvne As the possible dark
hoIse."
, 1879-03-15

THE EXTRA SESSION late congress
having failed to pass certain deficiency and
appropriation bills. it will rc-courenc with
cut loss of time 1t seens to be a matter OF
certainty that the democrats will organize
the house without difficulty. In regard to
the speakership, the chances for the re-elec-
ton of Randall are veIy favorable The
national or greenback party would he per-
fectly willing to affiliate with the radicals to
elect a greenback republican Ike Kelly, Of
Pennsylvania. Blackburn. Of kentuckty,
has fair show, because some of Randalls
friends consider themselves injured by the
manner in which he made up the committee
on the Texas Pacific railroad bill But
Randall's name is free from taint or corrrp-
ton, is a good organizer. a sagacious poll
tician and an accomplished parliamentarian,
and besides is firm. temperate, oblIglng and
very discreet Blackburn is man OF un-
questioned integrity, and has many attrac-
tive traits of character, which make him de-
seryedly popular with his associates. He
has youth, dash, pluck, eloquenee, fine pres
ence, fair Judgment and an immense under
current of latent feeling, winch requires only
opportunity to assert itself. As the contest
is seemingly narrowed down to these two,
both deserving men, We know We shall but
echo the thoughts of our readers when We
say, may the best man VIII