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National Republican., 1880-04-23
AUCTION SALES.

Ger. 1897. Lot number one, square $40 fronting
on D street twenty four feet ca. Revised balance
due, forty four dollars and seyenly-ono cents
tlLU), III the name OF Sarah G.. Morsell.
Ger. 8,s2S Lot numher--. subdivision C souare
go fronting on street twenty-five feet (22). All Of
revised amount due forty-tlree dollars and twelve
cents (si8.i2), in the name of. G. Burch, trustee
Ger $3.50. lot number ~ subdivision A. square
552 fronting on street twenty feet t2o) All Of re-
vsed amount due, ninety-scvcn dollars aud tweu-
tyiour cents (s0z2D in the name Of Eliza a.
Anderson CT al.
Ger. 1895. Lot number thirteen square 572 'front.'
ing on j street tweny.thrce feet (G). All Of re-
yited amount due, cighty-cight dollars and ser-
enty-eght cents (sSS,7S), in the name Of John II
kllllnan.
Now, therefore. notice Is hereby given that
agrecably TO the aforesaid provisions Of nc law,
said lots or property will be Severally sold in the
office Of the Collector Of the District Of Columbia.
Room one ~, Columbia building, Four and a-half
street ut auction, for cash such securities as
authorized by law, to the highest bidder on MON
DAY, the l7th DAY OF MAY. 1880, between the
hours % , Of M - IN. and p M, Of said day aud rom
day to day as may be required. for the payment Of
nid certificates and interest thereon, at the rate
OF ten per centum, from the date thereof, MS pro-
ylded by SAID enaciments OF Congress and Of said
Legislative Assembly
]. DENT.
THOMAS p MORGAN
W. J. TwINING
(Mujor of Engnecrsl,
ap2l.3w Commissioner District Of Columbia.
I United STATES MARsHALs SALE
BY virtue Of writ OF ieri faclas issued out OF tho
Clerks Office Of the Supreme court Of the District of
Columbia, and TO me directed. viii sell Mt public
sale, Tor cash nj the Court ouse door of said Dis.
trict. on TUESDAY, tho lith day OF May, 1880 At
II O'Clock nl the rght title claim and Interest OF
The defendant ~ and 70 the iolowng-descrb?d prop
erty, towit! Part of lot 35 In j, w. Jones sub-di
vision Of square No. 5i5, beginning for the same at
the northeast corner Of said lot running thence west
w feet 10 Inches thence south - feet, thence enst 20
feet 10 inches thence north 25 rect TO the place or be-
ginning levied upon as tile property of defendant
Caleb Adams 70 satisfy execution No n .G7 at law
IN favor OF Michael Walsh use OF Edward Slattery.
April 81 1870 FREDK DOUGLASS,
ap2d u. y. Marshal, ID. G.
National Republican., 1880-04-23
j. DENT.
THOMAS P. MORGAN,
w. j. TWINiNG
major of Enginecrsl.
'siOners, District of Columbia,
Hp-I.'W NUIDIHIssIUHtIsi UIsIIIVI VI Vv
STATES MARsHAL's SALE.
CEMETERY NOTICE.

A LARGE ASSORTMENT
"A
sTATUARY,
ITALIAN MARBLE MONUMENTS,
UrA DSTONFS,
MARBLE AND SLATE MANTET.s, Ere
Which Will be sold nj Very Reasonable Prices.
GRANITE MONUMENTS MADE TO ORDER.
". RUTHERFORD,
111G Pennsylvania Avenue N. w,
aps3m Near Star Office.
National Republican., 1880-04-23
Baltimore Markets.

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Currency ......... 6ls2, Al
National Republican., 1880-04-23
FOR RENT AND SALE.

For iull list call or send for REAL ESTATE RE
VIEW published monthly, nee.
Il. II. WARNER,
mar301y ol6 street northwest.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10
Children at School.

DIR. jacob has made this a special
study from the standpoint of physiology.
His conclusion is, that, as a rule, a child
should not be sent 10 school before he is
eight years old. Not till this age is its
brain substance sufficiently developed.
An infants brain is soft. 1t contains a
large percentage of water. 1t is def
cient in fat and phosphorus, on which,
to a large extent, intellectual activity
depends. The convolutions are fewer.
The different parts of the brain do not
grow in size and weight alike-the nor
NAL proportion of the front, back and
lateral portions not being reached before
the age of ten. So, too, the proportion
of the chest to the lower portions of the
body is not attained until the eighth
year, while that part of the back (the
lumbar), on which the sitting posture
depends, is even then only moderately
developed. About the fifth and sixth
years the base of the brain grows rapidly,
the frontal bones extend forward and
upward, and the anterior portion grows
considerably. Still, the white sub
stance-the gray is the basis of intelli-
gence-and the large ganglia prepon-
derate. 1t is not till about the eighth
year that the due proportion of parts is
reached, and certain consolidation,
both Iof the brain and the organs of
the body generally. Before this period,
memory alone can be safely trained
Froebel, the founder of the Kinder
garten system, reached the same result,
by observation. Meanwhile, Or. jacob
recommends that the children be enter
tanned and gradually developed in the
kindergarten. Here,n he says, 'their
activity is regulated, their attention ex-
ercised, and their muscles inYigorated.
Both imagination and memory are taxed
to a slight degree only. With increasing
years, the gray substance becomes more
and more developed, their thinking pow
ers are gradually evolved. Tho secret
of a thorough education lies in the uni
form development Of all powers. To
develop one at the expense of the others,
is to cripple all."-YoHth's Companion.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10
Uncle Alexis Fast.

OLD WASH. was sitting on an empty
box in front of grocery store, opposite
French Market, yesterday evening, lis
tening TO a conversation between sever
al of the clerks regarding DR.. Tanners
starvation exhibition, when he suddenly
interrupted the speakers with:
"Wal, dem white folk s maxim a
heap of fuss over a thing dat's been
beat by my own brudder befo' de war,
who eat muffin at all for sixty days, and
libed a long time till after de s'render!' ~
As old Wash. bears an enviable repu-
tation regarding his yeracity, this state
ment startled his hearers not little,
but after regaining their equilibrium
somewhat, one of them remarked:
"NOw, Wash, you don't mean to tell
us that your brother went sixty davs
without partaking of any food what
everPn
81 jes' mean ebery word say and
I'ze bin right dar, when Aleck done it!
He done it on old Mars, Lipscomb's place
right below de Bulls Head"
Did your brother drink any water
during that periodP" asked one of the
crowd that had congregated in the
meantime.
"Peeryut? He hain't had any water
wild peeryut or widout it dat l knows
of" rejoined Wash. rather scornfully.
Now Wash, we mean, if he drank
any water during the sixty days he was
fasting!n
"Ohl Wal, 1 dunno bout dat, but
nows he tux a little wine mos cherry
day"
"But what induced your brother to
undergo such a fearful trial?"
Wal, yer see, he was gittin' sorter
'ligious spell on him, AN he thought
he'd make up wild de Lord in dat man
ner.n
"And you were right there with him
during the sixty days and watched him
all that time, and you are sure that your
memory does not deceive youP" asked
one of the grocery clerks.
Yes, sab / remembers eberything.
L remembers yet how hungry AlecS
used TO git toward sundown, and | re-
members that he got so used to eatin'
after dark in dem sixty days, dat it tux
a couple of weeks To gittin' him to eat
in daytime agin."
"To gittin' to eat in daytime agin I"
echoed about a dozen voices, while the
bewildered admirers and sympathizers
of the starving doctor that were in the
crowd gave n sigh Of relief. "Didn't
you say that your brother didn't eat any
thing at all for sixty daysPn
"Dat's jes' what L said, replied the
old man, with a frown "but l doan
member sayin' anythin' bout de nights !
You amt gwine ter tell me dat your
doctor amt a eatin' muffin in dem for
ty days an de forty nights in de bar
gain?n
The meeting broke up in disorder,
whilst old Wash. thoughtfully picked up
his stick and crossed the street to get
another melon.-New Orleans PicayuRe.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10
A Challenge to Tanner.

The following letter, which probably
should more fttingly appear in our
sporting department, has Just been re-
ceived by the editor of the Post. 1t ex-
plains itself:
EDITOR POsT-Sir: Perceiving that the
telegraphic dispatches contain yOluminOus
accounts OF the progress of DIR. Tanners
alleged starvation feat, write on behalf OF
self and friends to make the following prOpo-
sition. If the Doctor really means business,
and is prepared to prove that his attempt is
genuine one, and not a mere piece OF clap
trap for sensational purposes, let him accept
any one of the following matches:
The writer, at present an inmate OF Mrs.
Didimus's "plain boarding house - on De-
visadero Street, will wager 500 a side that
he can exist more consecutive days on
One cup weak bean coffee,
TwO'pates griste hash.
One slice machine made pie,
Per diem, than Dr. Tanner or any other per-
son in the United States.
A felow-boarder at the same house will
wager like sum that he can last longer on
One small burnt ram.chOp,
One spoonful chilled buckshot peas,
One patent rubber sirloin steak,
Than the Doctor, or any other person, not
boarder at the same house, that can be
produced.
It is all very well to boast about powers
OF abstinence,when one has nothing what
ever to Oppress or disarrange the stomach,
but Tanners present performance is, COM
paratively, an Insignificant exhibition of
real endurance. Old Major Gridley, who
has boarded with Mrs. Didimus for the past
eighteen years, authorizes me to add that he
will pay the Doctors expenses TO this city,
and wager him ten thousand dollars to five
thousand that he (the Major) will eat at the
rate OF ten per day more OF peculiar cast
iron breed of apple -dumplings, prepared by
Mrs. D., than will that physician-the Major,
as an Offset to long practice, to be handi-
capped with the addition Of some of said
lady's butter-sauce Of the highest rank.
II DR.. T will accept all or any one of
the above propositions, we shall be glad to
hear from him by wire, when measures will
he at once taken to secure the Pavilion, pro-
vide Stockholders, umpires, etc.
We mean business, and the Doctor, II he
expects to get away with the Champion
Starvation Belt, or Indigestion Cup, must
put up or shut up
Very respectfully,
GEORGE STUFFEY,
1863 Devisadero Street, S. f.
We hope the Doctor will 90 in.
Shakespeare says a Tanner will last nine
years, so the contest win be an exciting
one. We wish Mrs Didimus to under.
stand, however, that we are in no man.
ner responsible for the above.-San
Francisco Post.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10
Tunnel Under the lngIIsh Channel.

THE preliminary excavations for this
enterprise are being actively pushed
forward at Sangatte, near Calais, at a
spot where the cliffs have an altitude of
seventy feet above the level of the sea
at high water A point has been chosen
where the rocks of gray chalk which
have 10 be traversed by the tunnel come
TO show their heads at the surface Of
the soil. On the opposite shore similar
borings have been begun, so that the
works are proceeding simultaneously.
The soundings that have been made
during the last few years demonstrate
that the base of the Channel consists Of
a compact mass of chalk, resting on
banks of slate. This mass, which is
easy enough to pierce, is said at the
same time to resist filtration sufficiently.
IL would, therefore, present a substance
excellently adapted for perforation.
But what yet remains to be proved is
whether the succession of these chalk
layers win not disclose some irregulari-
ties or ruptures which would render the
enterprise impossible
The shaft at Sangatte has now reached
a depth of nearly 200 feet, or about 13O
feet below the level of high water. 1t
has a width of ten feet, and is lined with
oak, so that the water can not penetrate
very freely, not more than seventeen
gallons minute. This water is not
salt, which is thought 10 prove that the
layers hitherto transversed have their
point of contact sufficiently far from
the shore to prevent the sea from as
cending the shaft. 1t is intended to sink
to a depth of 300 feet, and then a gallery
will be excavated in the direction of
England. Up to the present the engi-
neers are highly satisfied with the re-
suits obtained, as no irregularities have
been discovered, which is considered a
good augury for the success of the enter
prise. 1t is impossible, however, to
proceed at quicker rate than twenty
inches day. Nevertheless, in eighteen
months or two years enough progress
will have been made to arrive at a per-
feet understanding about the possibility
of the undertaking. 1t is stated that the
work will not fail through lack of funds.
N. Y. Tribune.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10

suit or intrusion from strangers, IL she
bear herself with instructive delicacy
and self-reliance. II is q rule, which
has its occasional exceptions among the
vilest only, thst q lady receives an insult
who invites none. Among the toughest
and lowest orders of society, the modest
woman is generally safe, armed by her
own purity against evil assaults. Pre-
occupation of manner, attention to one's
own errand, is protection in the worst
neighborhood in cities. In travelling,
ones associates are largely gentlemen
and ladies, and, should the occasion
arise, the matron or maiden who should
require assistance or advice would find
it generously proffered by hands and
hearts loyal and kind rs those of
brothers, for womanhood is sacred and
women are loved in our dear native land
and the world over, wherever the name
Jesus is worshiped.-lfrS. Margaret h.
SuugSler
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10

Why We Eat Oysters Raw.

DIR. WILLIAM ROBERTS, in his inter
esting lectures on the digestive ferments,
says: "Our practice in regard to the
oyster is quite exceptional, and furnishes
a striking example of the general cor
rectness of the popular judgment on
dietetic questions. The oyster is almost
the only animal substance which we eat
habituelly, and by preference, in the
raw or uncooked state and it is inter-
esting to know that there is a sound
physiological reason at the bottom of
this preference. The fawn colored
mass which constitutes the dainty of the
oyster is its liver, and this is little less
than a heap Of glycogen. Associated
with the glycogen, but withheld from
actual contact with it during life, is its
appropriate digestive ferment - the
hepatic diastase. The mere crushing
of the dainty between the teeth brings
these two bodies together, and the gly-
cogen is at one digested without other
help by its own diastase. The oyster
in the uncooked state, or merely warm
ed is, in fact, self-digestive. But the
advantage of this provision is wholly
lost by cooking; for the heat employed
Immediately destroys the associated fer
ment, and a cooked oyster has TO be
digested, like any other food, by the
eater's own digestive powers. London
Medical Record.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10
LATER NEWa

A ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida, dispatch
on the 4th, stated that the painful rumors re.
garding the fate Of the steamer Vera Cruz
had been confirmed, for a flew survivors had hap.
PLY escaped death and reached shore The
tll-fated steamer fouudered on the morning
OF the 18th, ult., IN the midst OF hurricane.
having labored painfully for some hours In a
heavy sea. OF the seventy persons on board
when the steamer left New York, only thir.
teen are known TO have been saved, SO ffty.
seven souls perished.
AN Ottawa, Canada, dispatch, on
the 4th, stated that the Indians at Upper
Gateneau were still In a deplorabe con
dition and were dying IN large numbers
from smallpox. The Tetu Butes had
been lowering about the wilderness ever
since they left the village, travelling In
small parties. One by one they fell victims
TO the terrible disease and were Immediately
abandoned by the rest OF the party and left Ia
die Of starvation II not OF disease The trails
OF these parties could be easily followed by
tances along the lines.
AT Bodie, CAL, on the 5th, George
Watkins killed Police Officer Whitaker and
died shortly afterward from wounds inflicted
by that officer; spaniard killed John Hack.
named Costalo.
The stage which runs between Cave
City KY, and the Mammoth Cave, was stopped
by highwaymen on the night Of the Cd and
the passengers robbed Of about Si9OO Ia
money and valuables.
The Seryian Minister at Constantine.
Pile has presented a note to the Porte urging
measures TO be taken 10 prevent the Alba.
MANS from attacking Servian TERRITORY. He
holds the Porte responsible
GENERAL ROBERTS telegraphed on the
9th that Ayoob Khan's army had been defeat.
ed and dispersed.
RUSSIAN papers report the explosion
OF floating tank OF kerosene on the Volga.
i is believed thirty persons we're killed.
The Dudley House, the largest hotel
In Salamanca, N. Y, and twenty-one other
buildings were burned on tho4th. Total loss
Sl0GOOO; Insurance about 100000.
THE receipts of gold from England
at New York for the week ending ON the aI
were R5OOOOO
A ST. PETERSBURG correspondent
soys mine was discovered ln the Government
Of Ekaternoslay, on the 30, previous to the
Emperor's journey from Tsarkoe Sells TO L.
Hadia and snotlier In the Government OF
'I9 80, ~ bul WV. .Vh' Nhe OF me mines con-
lalned lOS pounds OF dynamite There was a
wlre connected with the mine but no battery
COLONEL CHARLES BoUGuToN has
been arrested in New York, charged with
completely in the Alllger frauds.
SOME unknown person fred into a
Democratic procession at Washington, o., on
the night of the 9Th, and instantly killed Per
~ Wilson, spectator, No arrest was made.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10
A Most Remarkable Case.

MICHAEL CAREY, driver in the en-
ploy of the st. Louis Transfer Company,
has had an experience which no other
man in this city can boast Of He has
carried a knife-blade two and three
quarter inches in length in his head for
twenty-three years, and is to-day well
and hearty, and as stout a man as ever
held the lines over a span of draught
horses in the land. The case is re-
markable one, battling the medical and
surgical profession.
In the fall of 1867 Carey had diff
Guilty with a man who has since died,
and whose name is suppressed for that
reason. During the fight this man
plunged the blade of q pocket-knife into
the side of Carey's head, about two
inches to the right of and on a line with
the right eye. The force of the blow
was such as to break the blade square
at the handle. Carey was stunned and
had TO be carried TO q drug store near
by for treatment, The druggist made
a hasty examination of his injuries and
decided they were not serious. The
particular cut made by the knife-blade
was covered over with piece of court
plaster, and in due course of time Carey
was out attending TO his business, much
to the surprise of his assailant, who had
been boasting that he had 90 fixed HIM. ~
Carey noticed no bad effects from the
wound except at rare intervals, when
what he took to be neuralgia pains
would dart through that side of his face
and head.
About three weeks ago Carey noticed
that when he raised his right arm in
putting the harness on his horses a
sharp pain would be felt. This pain in.
creased in violence at every successive
raising of the arm, until he was com.
PEELED to consult his physician, Dr.
Kane, who resides on Nineteenth and
Morgan Streets. DR.. Kane prescribed
the usual remedy, but it failed of its
purpose, the patient suffering more and
more each day. Day before yesterday
the Doctor called to see Carey at his
residence, No. 154l North Second Street,
and in making very careful examina.
ton in order to ascertain II possible the
real cause Of the excruciating pains
complained of, discovered, TO his intense
surprise, q sharp pointed bit OF metal
protruding through the skin near Carey's
NoAAuA-hOubs Nuldg was ulldblb 10 dts
count for the presence of any thing Of
the kind, the occurrence of twenty. three
years before having passed out of his
mind-at least in connection with any
pain he was suffering. On discovering
the point, DR.. Kane returned to his Of
flee, procured his Instruments and again
called upon Carey. This time he per.
formed a surgical operation which re.
suited in his taking from the spot indi.
Gated the knife-blade referred to. On
seeing the rusty blade, Carey at once
recalled the fight Of 1857, and then, for
the first time, narrated the circum.
stances to his physician. To say that
the Doctor was astonished does not hall
express it; he was dumtounded. He
will make special study of the case
with a view of preparing a paper foi
submission to the medical society.-St
Louis Times.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10
FOREIGN INTRLLIGENCR.

AN American was killed and four
other tourists badly hurt by the overturning
OF a diligence near schuls, Switzerland, few
days ago.
A ROME dispatch says Chill and
Peru do not come to terms England, France
and Italy intend 10 act In concert to protect
the lives and property of foreigners.
WILLIAM HENRY WILLS, aged seventy
one, ono OF the orignators of the London
Punch, and associated with Charles Dickens
in the establishment of Household Words, died
on the Sd.
AN trade was issued on the Sd author
izing the immediate surrender OF the town OF
Dulcigno to Montenegro. 1t is believed the
Porte viii lave some difficulty in efrccting the
cessiOn.
The American killed by the over
turning Of a diligence at schuls, Switzerland,
was Edward Bearing, young student Of New
York.
AN official dispatch from Quetta, on
the Sd, stated that General Roberts attacked
and dispersed Ayoob Khan's force and captur.
ed twenty-seven guns.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10
Living FOrty.Two Days on Cider.

Mas. HANNAH BENT, of East Boston,
was kept alive forty-two days during a
recent illness by moistening her mouth
with cider. Her stomach could not en-
dure tea, coffee, milk, or even water,
and it is doubtful whether it ever receiv-
ed more than a spoonful of the cider
with which her mouth was moistened.
Something broke in her stomach, which
gave her relief, and she gradually re-
covered, and is now in the enjoyment of
her usual health. She was attended
during her forty-two days fast by Mrs.
Cummings, who states positively that
nothing but cider entered Mrs. Bent's
mouth during that time. 1t is believed
that abstinence from food saved her
life.-B0stOn Traveller.