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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-07-26
The MArketSs

BALTIMORE, July 26.-Virginia skies, deferred.
6h; do. consols, soy: do. second series, 2l do.
past due coupons, ssh; do new ten -forties. 4l1..
North Oar olins skies, old, 2s Virginia ten-forty
0GBsIhIf1Tsf BIhITfMoRG IL re july 2e-ootton dun-mid
ding, l1x. Flour firm and Quiet-Howard
street and western SUPER 0Oa3 rs; do. extra, 90
a5 90; do. family, sac 25 city mills suger 8 I 20
do. Rio brands, 8. .S7a6 90; Patapsco family, 10.
Wheat southern active and firm; western frmer
but quiet-southern red, 1.03a1. 0s; do amber.
ll1al IA: No. western winter red, spot and July,
1.07s4al. 071s; August. 107,sal ,07H September.
southern dun; western dull and nesiected-s southern
white and yellow, So: western mixed, spot and
July, AN: August. 47%s472t; September. 474a
.9A; steamer. 46 Oats quiet and hrm-south- 70.
20. Hay steady-prime to choice Pennsy,, ANA and
Maryland Is. 06a2i 90. Provisions FIN and steady
mess pork. A.0O. Bulk meats-loose shoulders,
5isa5A; clear rib sides, 7k; do packed, 81 and 8.
L.. b-"onmshoulders 6; clear rib sides. SD. Hams
bShar-,, -ime to choice western packed. i6a90.
Tsrs blber 1lal2. Petroleum steady-refned.
az Coffee dn,1 Rio carsoes. ordinary TO choice,
I2Gal5K. sugar fr.'-A soft. le.s. Whisky duh
and easier. 1.1019sllI best Ak. sSesdy 6ae re
cepts- -four. l. GA barrels sn voo ousnels
corn. I. 500 bushels; oats. ~ ass. si4 bysbslS 1So
corn. 29 COO bushels Saes~wheat Sa7, sls bushels
corn. Is, 800 bushels -.
NEW YORK. July 26.-Stocks strong. Money.
2a2k. k1change-no quotations. Cove 'tnfA's
NEW YORK. July 2e.-Flour quiet Waeas
LONDON. July 26. IL 80 p. m.-U. 8. bonds, ~
per cents, 1143s. Atlantic and Great Western first
MORTGAGE trustees certificates, CIV; Atlantic and
Great Western second oonsols. 2sa. Erie. AN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-07-26

Congressional committee have leased the resi-.
dence 1906 street NV, fer political headquar-
terS. The house will be handsomely furnished
throughout, and banner, bearing the portraits
Of Hancock and English, Will be hung across
the street. The committee expect to get In
their new quarters about the first of August
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-07-26

WILLET .S LIBBEY.
6TH STREET AND NEW Y0RK AVENUE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-07-26

WE OFFER THE FOLLOWING, ALL OF
w WHICH HAVE AN UNEQUALED LOCAL
REPUTATION:
TIE CRYSTAL, MODEL MAYFLOWER
GRAND LATROBES,
TIE HOT BLAST FURNACE, THE KITCHEN
BALTIMORE, EMPIRE AND PEERLESS
RANGES,
a. prices less than usually charged for Inferior
goods.
SLATE MANTELS, cheaper than ever.
HAYWARD & HUTCHINSON.
Iyl4-lp Plumbing House.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-07-26

CENSrs GAINS IN yIRGINIA.-The census re-
pert for the second supervisors district in vir-
ginia. twenty counties, shows total popula-
ton Of 406, 149, about one-fourth the population
or the state. Included in the district are Peters
burg, population u, $50; Lynchburg. 16,012 DAN
Vile, I,45S; Manchester, 6.036. Pittsylvania
county has population OF 50, ,999. The census
shows heavy gains In the past few years
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-07-26
LUMBERi LUMBER
LUMBER

A NEW DEPARTURE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-07-26

ALL OF OUR JOIST AND sTUDDING ARE
CUT IN NORTH CAROLINA. THEY HAVE
MORE HEART IN THEM. CLEARER OF
KNOTS, AND BETTER MANUFACTURED
THAN ANY VIRGINIA PINE LUMBER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-07-26

No YELLOW FEVER AT MEMPHIs.-A report
having been published that cholera prevailed at
Memphis, Tenu., DR.. Turner, secretary of the
national board Of health, yesterday addressed a
teltg gram OF inquiry to DR.. Thornton president OF
the Memphis local board OF health, concerning
the truthTulneSS OF the report. DIR. Thornton s
reply states that there is no truth whatever In
the report. and that Memphis at this time Is
unusually healthy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-07-26
- LAST NJTICE TO DELINQUENT TAX
PAVER9

Sec. : nf the Act Of Congress approved March 81,
lS77, which relstes TO PERSONAL taxes directs the
Collector of Taxes TO disiyTiH SJfcien 0o0Gs AMI
silfteLs as may be necessary 10 pay any delinquent
ts1 and for want Of such goods snd cbattels. 10
levy upon and sell at auction the estate and interest
Of such delinquent IN any parcel OF S IN said dis
triCt.
Tht sc personal fcIes are now orar-f'te, as pro-
Vised in said section, and ALI. DELINlCESrs are
hereby notified that the law t-i BE- enforced without
fU rthsr rGtice-
BY order Of the Commissioners. ID. c.
JOHN f. COOK,
ty24-3t Collector Of Taxes.
IIer., Post. Critic. Journal
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-02-19
Killed by the Electric Light.
London Times.

An accident of an extraordinary
nature has occurred at the Hattie
Theater, Aston, near Birmingham. The
stage is lighted by two electric lights,
and when the candles are not burning
two brass connections, used for the pur-
pose of crossing the current, are hung
up over the orchestra. After tho per-
for, nee of the pantonine, Mr.. Bruno,
the cup mum player, was leaving with
the other members of the band, when,
presumably out of curiosity, he caught
hold of the two brass connections re-
ferred to. The man in charge called
out to him with the object of warning
him OF the danger he was mourning.
The warning, however, came too late,
Mr.. Bruno received the full shock of
the electric current generated by the
powerful battery which supplies
the whole of the lamps in the building
and grounds. Ii is said that the candles
not being then burning Mr.. Bruno was
unable to disengage himself, and pulled
the wire down. The shock rendered
him insensible. Medical men were
soon in attendance and restoratives ap-
piled, but Mr.. Bruno died in forty
minutes afterward.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-02-19
RainfallS ard Forests.

According to a paper in Poiybibtioa
the following are the laws of meteor
ology as affected by forests: !. 1t rains
more abundantly, under identical cir
cumstances, over forests than non
wooded ground, and most abundantly
over forests with trees in green con-
dition. 2. The degree OF saturation of
the air by moisture is greater above
forests than over non-wooded ground,
and much greater over Pinus sylvestris
than over masses of leaYed species.
3. The LEAKAGE and branches of leafed
trees intercept one-third, and those of
the resinous trees the half, of the rain
water, which afterward returns to the
atmosphere by evaporation. On the
other hand, the same leaves and
branches restrain the evaporation ofthe
water which reaches the ground; and
that evaporation is nearly four times
less under a mass of leafed forest than
in the open, and two and one-third
times only under a mass of pines. 4.
The laws of the change of temperature
out of and under wood are similar to
those which result fom the observa-
tons of NJ. Matthew. The general con-
clusion seems to be, that forests regu-
late the function Of water, and exer-
else on the temperature, as on the at
mosphere, an effect of "ponderation"
and equilibrium.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-02-19
The Buddhist Solomon.
London Times.

We shall give, as small specimen of
what Schiefner has brought TO light
from the canonical books of the Budd-
hists, two stories, both in the spirit of
the story of Solomon's judgment
one in more rudimentary, the other
in more developed form:
"a man took off his boots and left
them on the shore before he went to
battle in the river. While he was bath
ing another man came, took the boots,
tied them round his neck, and plunged
into the water. When the first had
bathed he went on shore and looked
everywhere for his boots. What are
you looking for = said the man in the
water. MY boots he replied. Where
are your bootsf the other said; if you
have any, you should tie them round
your neck before you so into the water
as have done Then the first said,
But the boots you have round your
neck are my boots Soon fight arose,
and they went before the King. The
King, commanded his Ministers to set
tie their dispute. but after sitting in
judgment the whole day, they went home
tired in the evening and could not. set
tie anything. Then a clever woman,
Visakha by name, when she heard OF
the lawsuit said, What is the use o. ex-
aiming and cross-exsminipg? Say to
one man, Take this boot and to the
other, Take that boot Then the real
owner will say, Why should my pair Of
boots be diyidedg But the thief will
say, What shall do with one boot?
The King followed her advice and the
thief was discovered"
The next story approaches more
closely to the judgment Of Solomon,
and az the matter in dispute is settled
without the cruel order of the King to
cut the child ia two, the Buddhist may
even claim a certain advantage ever
the Semitic story "a householder had
married wife, and when their marriage
had remained childless he married a
second. When the second wife became
the mother of son, she was afraid that
the first wife would hate and iniure the
child, and out of love Tor her son she
agreed with her husband that the first
wife should be the reputed mother of
the boy. After q time the husband
died, and as. the house belonged to the
son, the two wives began 10 quarrel,
which of them should live in the house
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-02-19
A Courageous Act.
LeadviIlc HersIi.

One of the most valorous acts which
has been brought to light in this vicini-
ty for a long time occurred at the Net
tie Morgan mine, on Monday night
about il o'clock A miner by the
name OF J. l.. Powers was attending the
whim when the brake refused to act. A
bucket full of ore bad just been brought
up to the surface, but remained stand
ing over the shaft for a second, when
it began to rapidly descend. The shaft
is 260 feet deep and the bucket had
gone some sixty feet down before Pow
ers could jump on the windlass and
stop its going to the bottom. As he
reached for the windlass, the after was
revolving sorapidly thatit broke Ills arm
This did not prevent his holding the
bucket in position, however, and at
the same time calling for assistance.
After some little delay the latter ar
rived, and when asked how he came to
hold on the windlass after his arm was
broken he coolly replied: 81 did not
think of my arm, it was only of the two
men in the bottom of the shaft" 1t
appears there were two men at work
when the accident occurred, and by Pow
ers' generous self-sacrifce their lives
were spared.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-02-19

DR. KINGS New DISCOVERY for Con-
sumption, Coughs and Colds, Asthma,
Bronchitis, ETC., is given away in trial
bottles free Of cost to the afflicted. II
you have a severe cough, cold, difficulty
of breathing, hoarseness or any affection
of the throat or lungs, by all means give
this wonderful remedy trial. As you
value your existence you cannot afford
to let this opportunity pass. We coul<
not afford, and would not give this rem
edy away unless we knew it would &C.
complsh what we claim for it. Thou
sands of hopeless cases have already
been completely cured by it. There is
no medicine in the world that will cure
one-half the cases that Dr. KINGS New
DISCOVERY will cure. Call and get a
trial bottle free, or regular size for $1.00.
Sold by all retail druggists, and by
Greene & Button & Co., Milwaukee;
Noyes Bros. & Cutler, st. Paul; and all
Chicago wholesale druggists.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-02-19
A Young Lady's Heart Misplaced.
From the Indianapolis journal.

A curious case of malposition of the
heart was recently discovered by ply
stefan of this city in patient who was
consulting him for some spinal trouble.
The young woman is about 90 years
old, of good form, handsome face, and
pleasing disposition. A careful study
of the precise locality and form of the
heart shows it to be transferred to the
right side of the chest, and, instead of
the apex beating just below the breast,
it sticks upward. against the right col
lar-bone, near its outer third. In this
case there must be 81 double curve to
the large vessels of the heart, and the
base of the heart is downward. In 9TH
er words, this heart is on wrong side of
the body, and is upside down. This
unnatural condition of things does not
give rise to any serious inconvenience,
except when moving too quickly or 60
ing up stairs, the organ beats with pain
full violence against the collar-bone,
where its motion is plainly visible.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-02-19
A Learned Cat and n Wise Hen.
Portsmouth IN. H. Chronicle.

portsmouth On. H. Chronicle.
Mrs. Augustus w. Brooks, of East
Eliot, Me-, has Tor did have about a
year ago. a Cat IL years old, which she
brought from Boston and for which she
has been vainly offered $50. This learn
ed pussy will stand up at the word Of
command, bow slowly or quickly as
directed, walk around the room on her
hind legs only, dance, turn somersaults,
go through the motions of holding a
jewsharp to her mouth with one paw
and playing ON it with the other, NEW
when ordered to speak, kiss her paw to
visitors, hold saucer of milk on her
fore legs and lap the milk and stand on
her hind feet ana with her fore paws
catch bits of bread or meat thrown to
her, like baseball player. Her kit
ten year old, will turn somersaults.
The same lady has hen which always
wipes her feet on the mat before enter
ing the house, and il asked "How do
you get your living, biddy?' will scratch
on the floor and look to see if she has
scratched out anything, and then look
at the questioner to see if the answer
is correct: this hen despises the wooden,
chalk and porcelain cheats, which some
people palm off on hens for nest eggs,
tumbling them out of her nest as often
as they are put in. A rooster will also
scratch the floor when asked how he
gets his living, but he cannot be made
to wipe his feet.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-02-19
laSeiiue.

A new product made from petroleum
is Jelly called "Vaseline," which is Of
the greatest utility in medicine, phar-
macy and for toilet use. Physicians all
over the world have discovered its great
value in the treatment of wounds, burns,
skin diseases, rheum atism, catarrh anC
every ailment where a liniment is need
cd, and in almost every hospital in
America and Europe this substance i
now in constant use, and is acknowledge
ed not only to be the best treatinent,
but also one of the most important re-
cent additions to medicine. 1t is put
u in bottles by the Chesebrough Man
ufacturing Co., of New York, and as
family remedy, it is without doubt the
best in use. Its healing and pain allay-
Ing qualities being superior to those OF
any known substance, while the speedy
relief it affords for piles and chllblalns
is almost magical. As an emollient,
Vasehne is way ahead OF anything else,
q, it renders the skin smooth, soft and
clear, and our lady friends Will find 1t
II only the best, but perhaps the sole
substance which will really preserve and
restore to the complexion the nues OF
youth, making the cheek like velvet
I'D the skin like satin. The complexion
powders In common use, are, as q rule,
i furious to the skin and destructive OF
y complexion, while Vsseline is en-
ely healthful and beneficial. There
is also made a "Pomade Vaseline,
which is said to be of great benefit to
the hair, keeping it soft apd glossy, pre-
venting and curing dandruff, and keep
ing the scalp hsalthful and free from
disease, and from those Objectionable
4atures which sometimes find dwell.
there. Numberless instances are
cited Of how by the use of this pomade
thin and falling hair has resumed Wig
orous growth. Both the pure Vaseline
and the pomade are put up in twenty
we cent bottles aud are to be found a.
al first-class druggists, and we advise
or readers to make trial of this Won
ierful substance, and We think they will
inl its claims to merit not IN the least
exaggerated.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-02-19
4 Jolly Wedding.
London Globe.


In Central America is a country call
ed Towka, and, without doubt, the
Towkans, whatever else they may be,
are the joliest people in the world at q
wedding. They appear to be such an
ignorant race as to be unable to keep
record of the age of their children, ex-
cept in manner somewhat similar to
that adopted by Robinson Crusoe with
his notched post for an almanac. The
TowkaEs, however do not notch their
children. They hang about their NJ cks
at birth string with one bead on, and
at the expiration of another year they
add another bead, and so on, the main
object being that there may be no
mistake when the young people arrive
at marriageable age. When a girl
numbers fifteen beads she is marriage
able, but the young man must possess
a necklace of twenty before he is reck-
oned capable of taking on himself so
serious a responsibility. But the we'd
ding feast is the thing.
The invited guests assemble on what
answers to our village green, and set in
their midst is a canoe, the property of
the bridegroom, trimming with palm
wine, sweetened with honey thickened
with crushed plantains. The drinking
cups are calabashes, which are set
floating in the fragrant liquor, and seat
ed around it the company fall to-a
mark of politeness being to drink out of
as m ny calabashes that have been
drank out of by somebody else as pos
sible. 1t should be mentioned however
to the Towkan's credit that the bride is
not present at this tremendous drink
ing bout, or rather, boat. She remains
in her parents hut, and when her in
tended has finished with the calabashes,
he takes his whistle OF bamboo and
mis- "tom-tom," which Is hollow little
log, tied over at each end with bits of
leather, and seating himself at the door
Of his parents-in-law in prospective, he
commences to bang and toote sweet
music, until the heart of the tender
creature within is softened and they let
him in.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-02-19
Sweet Consciousness Of Duty Performed.
San FradCisco Post.

The other day, over at the Alameda
baths, timid and retiring looking man
waited until the superintendent was
disengaged and then said to him:
81 do hate to give any one trouble,
but have you long stick or pole of
any kind you could lend me?'
mo, sir; told you ten minutes ago."
snapped the overdriven official.
80 you did," replied the man; "but
l thought I'd just ask once more. |
guess, now, I've done my duty in the
matter. Don't you think so?'
"What matter? What on earth are
you talking about ?"
"Why, you see, my mother in-law diyed
off down there at the deep end about
half an hour ago, and as she hasn't
come up yet thought I'd like to tell
my wife that L had sorter jabbed round
on the bottom after her awhile anyway,
but if can't, why l suppose / can't
that's ALL" And pensively writing her
address on tag, to be tied to the old
lady when she came up, the conscien-
tious man walk ed thoughtfully away.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-02-19
Threats of assassination in England.


An odd story is in circulation to the
effect that dozen extra constables
have been put on guard at Osborne to
protect the queen against assassination.
This has been done, as a policeman
would say in the witness-box, from in
formation received. An epidemic of
king-killing has spread over Europe.
Not one of the attempts heretofore
made against Queen Victoria can be re-
garded as serious, but nobody can say
that more murderous experiment
may not be tried. Odder still is the
other story that hedge of policemen
has been strung round Hughenden for
the better preservation of the life
hardly less precious than the queens
of Lord Beaconsfeld. The prime min
lister, it is publicly said, has been Sc
worried of late by threatening letters
that he has felt it his duty to place
them in the hands of the chief constable
of the county. The letters are an
onymous, and there is "no clew" to the
writer's of them.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-02-19

with her son. AT last they went before
the King. The King commanded his
Ministers to settle the dispute, with the
usual result that the Judges could make
nothing of it. Then the clever woman,
Visakha, came in and said: What is
the use of examining and cross-examin-
ing these woman? Tell them that we do
not know who the real mother is, and
that they must settle it for themselves.
Let both lay hold of the boy and pull
him with all their might, and whoever
can pull hardest shall have the boy and
the house When the russell began the
child, being pulled very hard, began to
cry. Then the true mother let him GO
and said: Anyhow, if he is not torn to
pieces and killed, shall sometimes be
able to see him. But the other woman
tore him away with violence. Then
the violent woman was beaten with a
rod and the true mother was allowed to
carry off her child"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-02-19
PROFESSOR BAIRD, the United States

PROFESSOR BAIRD, the United States
Fish Commissioner, has been selected
as the proper party to represent the
Government at the Berlin Exhibition,
in April next. The Professor will go at
the urgent invitation of the German
Government, which admits that the
United States leads all other countries
in the science of fish-culture. He be-
lieves that within three years cod fish
ing will he transferred from the Gulf OF
St. Lawrence 10 our own coasts.
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Trnnn.d.Ferer.

Tvlhoid.fever Is. OF all diseases, pre-
eminentiy 2 Iilta disease, traceable with
as much certainty as fire from smoke.
Wherever ii exiSes it points uneqaivocal-
" to unremoved 18th; and IS a disease,
therefore, altogether and wholly pre-
ventabIe by proper sanitary measures.
NotwiEh standing. during the census year
1870, there we're. i'll the United States
%, Is7 preyenlable deaths from typhoid
fever. But, had there been the same
ratio 70 the total population Of the Unit
ed States Is IN Philadelphia during the
Centennial year, the mortality from
this cause would have baen over g COO.
And tIais wss far lToin being all, rs re-
CARDS Philadelphia. All over the coun-
Iry fatal cases Of typhoid-feTer, and oth-