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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-04-30
A UCTION SALE OF A MOST DESIRABLE
IN BUILDING SITE,

On THURSDAY, MAY 5Tg, 1881, AT P. NJ, -
in front ct the premises. I shall sell Lot g. H.
Of 18th street and running bsck to 16-feet wide
alley This property located next to the cottages
On the corner Of 18th and l. streets. Oh the west
side OF 18th. between and L streets northwest
and In high and most rapidly improving section
lot.
Terms: One-third cash; the residue in three
four months bearing six per cent semi annual in
teresf, and secured by deed Of trust on the prop
deposit of 300 at time OF sale.
api8-d&ds THOMAS BOWLING, Auct.
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VlHOS. e. WAGGAMAN. Real Estate Auctioneer.
TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE DWELLING
HOUSE ON THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF
THlETEENTR AND CORO0RAN STREETS.

IRUSTEES' SAL& OF VALUABLE UWEEL{NC3-
HOUSE ON TIE NORTHWEST CORNER OF
TH1ETEENTR AND C0ROORAN STREETS,
WITH BBIOK STABLE IN TIL REAR.
By virtue of . deed Of trust. bearing date ~
July 9Th, 1875. and recorded in Liber No. ns&8
District Of Oolumbis. the undersigned Trustees
will sell at public auction. in front Of the premises
on MONDAY, THE I'd DAY OF MAY, 1881, AT SIX
O'CLOCK P NJ all Of Let 81 in Chi oman. E1lsy and
saSa,a Trustees recorded subdivision Of
Terms Of sse to be at the option Of the purchaser
either all cash. or one fourth Of purchase money
ter date Of sale. For the deferred purchase money
the purchaser is to give pronissory notes secured
and bearing interest at DER cent. per annum. pay
able semi. Annually. 800 deposit required when
bid accepted. Trustees reserve right to resell at
risk CT defaulting purchaser If terms Of sale are
not compiled with in one week from day Of sale.
GEO. +. APPLEBY. ! n-,...,
W. e. EDMONSrON,} Afussees'
" Office 40 9Th street.
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A terrific wind and hail storm struck Birds
Point, Mo-, Thursday. Ed. Dryer, a railroad
yard master, was killed by tree falling on
him.
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WALTER B. WILLIAMS h CO.. Aucts.
EXTENSIVE SALE OF FURNITURE. CARPETS
CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE,

STREET. BETWEsN Il AND I srkEsrs
MORT INVEST. AT AUG TON.
On TUESDAY. May Sd. AT O'CLOCK p. ~
n NJ. we shall sell ia f,ont If premises, lot HaE
to an alley. improved by three story Brick Dwell
inG. e.eveH rooms. modern conveniences. and ex-
large dry Cellar. large. Hall and ParloIs. NJ arbls
Manttls Latrobe. Rangs, fine Bath room, hot And
public are invited to call and exsmiae the property
before day Of sale. Title perfect.
Terms: One-third cash; balance in SIX, twelve
and eighteen months, for notes bearing interest
from day Of sale ana secured by deed OF trust on
chaser's coat. $3.50 down on day Of sale.
ap28-Et WALTER B. VILLA Ms CO.. Aucts,
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apQ7 lit THOMAS po aE Is aIA hnss.o Mss
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r T. CoLDWELL. Real Estate Auctionesr.

$50 ZZQ Etf6et nOftnWes
CUNCANSON BROS. Aucts. ap27-d&l
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AUCTION SALES.

GALE OF FINE BUILDING LOT ON NORTH
- EIDE OF 4 STREET, BETWEEN TWENTY
FIRST AKD TWENTY-SEOOND STRRETS
NORTHWEET. At AUCTION.
On WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, May 4, "A
AT 5:se O'CLOCK p NJ. We Will sell in front WY
Of the premises. part Of Lot 6, in sgaare No. -
ea.d lot 6. and running back that width to . 6ns
alley in rear.
Terms: One third cash: balance Ia one aud two
years. notes to bear six per cant interest," and to
secured by deed Of trust on premises Convey
ancing and recording at purchasers cost.
Ap29-dEds DUNCAESON BROS. Auct5
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-13
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The Commissioners of the Freedmen's
Bank have on hand over 800, 900 of unclaimed
dividends.
The October term of the Supreme
Court has adjourned. The number Of cases
now remaining on the docket undisposed of is
sS7, an increase of forty-six since the close of
the previous October term.
A Washington correspondent of the
Inter Ocean says that President HAYES discour-
aged the Republican Campaign Committee
from applying to the star-route contractors for
contributions. He said they were mixed up in
a scandal, and the party could get along better
without than with their money.
A Washington dispatch says that "the
evidence which is daily accumulating against
the ring of fraudulent mail contractors, bid
ders, bondsmen, Postmasters and intermedia-
ries is both direct, documentary and circam-
stantial The prosecutions will be conducted in
dozen States, and in nearly, if not all, the
Territories. Besides this evidence for criminal
prosecution the Postmaster General is empow,
cred and in position to recover very large
amount of the money got from the treasury in
the name of expedited and increased mail
service. On one route contractor has already
been fined $S1 900, which will lead also to Grim
inal proceedings against number of Govern
ment officers whose connection with the fraud
Is now clearly established
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-13
A Lazy Man'g Defense.

Not thousand miles from ST. An
thony, Minn.-and not very many years
ago-,a certain physician, from New
Hampshire, went to work getting up
and organizing Lazy Mans Club, and
he had good success. The club; was
duly constituted its bylaws adopted
and, chief of all, its larder looked after.
The chief law-really the law that
formed the distinctive feature of the
club ~ was this Any member who
should be proved guilty of having been
in hurry. e., of having allowed any
thing under the sun to cause HIM to
hasten movement of body or mind
should be fined an amount sufficient to
pay for supper for the club.
The first man accused, and brought
forward for trial, was the President and
organizer of the club himself - DIR.
Haskell Eastman. The court was duly
organized; the complaint read and the
witnesses summoned. It was proved
frst-that boy was seen to call at East
mans Office door and deliver message;
and it was known that said messenger
reported on that occasion, a case of sick
ness, and begged that the doctor would
make haste. Next-it was proved by
several reliable witnesses that DR.. East
man was seen, very shortly after the de-
livery of that message, driving through
the city "ike lightning !" which plainly
signifed that he was IN tremendous
hurry. Aye, clearly enough, he had
willfully violated the fundamental law of
the society!
But Eastman called witnesses In his
own behalf. He called two rooms,
both of whom swore that the horse which
he used on that occasion was a head
strong, hard-bitted, hgh-mettled beast,
that would "streak it off like blazes
if ye'd only let her. :"
And DR.. Eastman claimed that he had
not hurried an atom. His horse had
hurried, but not he. In no way, manner
or shape had he made any haste.
"But" said the Judge Advocate,
{" you could have held that horse in
you could have prevented the beast from
tearing away In such hurry p
Certainly. I could have done that
And why didn't you do it?"
aeWhy-didn't-I-do-itp The
doctor repeated the words In amazement.
"Do it Hold in my horse? What are
you thinking of? Had done that, you
might well have mulcted me but l
didn't. The fact was-I was too lazy to
do i'll I was just that lazy, torpid, SUI
pine and utterly lifeless, on that occa-
sion, that the headstrong beast might
have killed me, and 1 wouldn't have put
forth effort enough to hold her IN p
We will simply add that the club did
not get a supper at their Presidents ex-
pense on that occasion. York
ledger.
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MISCELLANEOUS cLEAN1NGs.

Leonard's boiler-works, at London,
Ont, have been destroyed by fire. The loss is
100000.
The annual report of the Michigan
Central railway shows that the road enjoyed a
prosperous year. The gross earnings were
$9,O85,74 8.
Burned The First National Bank.
Tayior's drug store, and other buildings al
Ottumwa, Iowa, loss $150,0OO the works of the
Alta Mining Company, at Wickes, Mont, los,
100000; Haffner's soap factory, at Buffalo.
N. Y, loss $4,000.
A mad dog in the streets of Spring
Hill, N. s.. bit seven children, three men and
one woman.
In the Palmer & Sullivan railroad
camp, near Acambaro, Mexico, Engineer Sack
erider, while laboring under an attack of insan.
ity, killed Engineers Martin and Jones, when
he was dispatched BY Engineer Filley.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-13
"Pure MOcha.H

If the official figures of the coffee
trade are to be trusted land presumably
they are not greatlyin error-the coffee
consuming public of this country has
been for long time past very much
deluded. There are multitude of peo-
pie in this part of the world who are la
boring under the belief that the bever.
age which they drink at breakfast, and
possibly after dinner, is Mocha coffee.
Their grocer tells them that the article
he sells is "pure Mocha" and they have
no means of knowing that he is deceiv-
ing, them, if, indeed, he has not
been deceived himself. Some, with
a peculiar fastidiousness, insist up
on having mixture, and want
one-half or one-third of Mocha and
the remainder of Java coffee-a request
which the grocer seemingly complies
with; that is, he takes the coffee from
two separate compartments. Now, the
last completed returns of the coffee pro-
duction of the world are made up to the
year 1879. In that year the estimated
growth was 1852, 112, 500 pounds, of
which Brazil produced 497, 127, 300
pounds, or nearly one-haf. Next came
the Dutch East Indian possessions,
where the crop amounted to POI, sos, 200
pounds while Ceylon, South Africa
and the West Indies furnished nearly
all Of the rest. Arabia, it is true, APP
pears on the list, but its total growth,
the Mocha district and the rest of the
country combined, was only about A.
500, 900 pounds, that is, not quite one
half of per cent. of the growth of the
world. tssasI.f b9.tas.f Il
When it is considered that coffee is
extensively used In Arabia, that Mocha
comes within the possessions of Turkey,
q country peopled with eof6ee-drinkers,
and that we have no direct means of
communication with Arabia, one may
well hesitate before he accepts the cur
rent Mocha fiction of the grocers. It is
highly probable that not 10, 900 pounds
of this article are brought into this coun-
try in the course of year, an amount
that would not furnish days supply
for the inhabitants of this city. We ali,
of course, know the flavor of Mocha
coffee, and hence cannot be deceived,
though In reality probably not one in a
thousand of US ever tasted it.-Nea0
York Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-13
Effect Of Dynamite in a Boston Mans
Stomach.

Mr.. Meatmarket deserved sympathy.
The assassination of the Gar caused
much discussion of the power of dyna-
mite, and in a beer saloon one day Mr..
M. expressed the belief that if dog were
to swallow teaspoonful of the stuff and
then be thrown from fourth-story win
dow he would blow up with conclusion
that would loosen all the plastering
within quarter of a mile. The PROPOSE
ton seemed absurd to Mr.. Gallagher.
He resolved to test the sincerity OF
Meatmarket's belief. Going behind the
bar he mixed a drink, and after the lat
ter had swallowed the drink Gallagher
informed him that there was something
like fivespoonfuls of dynamite in it. The
horror that took possession of Meat
market was indescribable. He evidently
was sincere. He drew a pistol to shoot
Gallagher, but didn't dare to fire for fear
the conclusion would cause him to ex-
plode. And the crowd wanted him to be
careful. And he begged them to move
lightly, and took off his boots so as not
to jar, and the streets were crowded and
every body seemed to jostle him. He
had horrible time getting home, and
arrived there in cold sweat and nearly
exhausted. just as he entered the house
his wife rushed to embrace him. He
warned her off. Then his son upset the
stove and gave him terrible scare. He
retired to his chamber and lay on a feather
bed, and gave orders that nobody should
walk, exception tiptoe, and without shoes,
in the house. He didn't dare to take an
emetic to remove the stuff, for fear it
would be exploded in coming up. And
the agonies of terror he suffered we're
awful There was danger of his going
mad. But the worst was to come. Some
how his house got afre. 1t had got
great Roadway when discovered, and his
only escape was to jump from second
story window. Whether to die by burn
ing or explosion was terrible question
to decide His distress of mind was
dreadful; but the hot flames drove him
to the leap. He expected on alighting
to blow himself and all the bystanders
into eternity, and he yelled to them to
stand away; but they didn't, and he had
to leap among them. To his amazement
he didn't fly into thousand fragments.
He only skinned his hands and knees.
He rose up the happiest man in Boston.
But when he began to tell Of his marvel
Gus escape they informed him hewas the
victim of joke. He hadn't swallowed
any dynamite Then his wrath was
greater than his terror, and it took four
men to hold him till he Gained down a
little. And he is only waiting to meet
Gallagher to cut that gents throat. =
Boston Post.
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The Origin of the Name "Artemus
Ward. -

There has been not little specula-
ton as to how Brown can11 by his nom
de plume, "Artemus Ward" DIR.
Shattuck says that, having some conf
Dental business with him during one Of
his last visits to Waterford, he took the
occasion to inquire In particular about
it. Brown said it was in this wise :
While engaged at the PLdindeGLer Of
fee, in Cleveland, Ohio, he made the
acquaintance of an eccentric old gentle
man whose actual name was Artemus
Ward, though assuming some more pre-
tentious titles. This man was in the
show business, having few "wax fig
gers" birds, snaix" and kangaroo.
While waiting on the printers for his
bills he amused Brown by telling an
endless number of anecdotes, all of
which were duly treasured up. Among
these were some of the incidents In
Browns article entitled Edwin Forrest
as Othello." He referred to the follow
ing as one of the contributions of the
original Artemus Ward:
Ed was actin at Niblo's Garding,
but let that pars. / sot down In the
pit, took out my spectacles and COM
menced peroosin the evenin's bill. =
As I was peroosin' the bill grave young
man who sot near me axed me if I'd ever
seen Forrest dance the essence of Old
Virginny.
90 He's immense in that, sed the
young man. He also does a fair cham
pion Jig, the young man continnered,
but his big thing is the essence of Old
Virginny.'
"Sez L:
".Fair youth, do you know what I'd
do with you if you was my SUM-
emo, sez he.
Wall, seq I, I'D appint your fu-
neral tomorrow afternoon, and the
korps should be ready You're too
smart to live on this yearth.'
The old man claimed himself to be the
hero of this story. Brown, however,
wanted the credit of correcting the
spelling and OF dressing the stories up
in good literary style. Pleased with the
name, he attached it to several of his
comic productions, and, finding that it
took with the public, adopted "a.
Ward" as his own.-Scribner.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-13
A Cradle in the Clouds.

Writing of "The Wild Sheep of the
Sierra" in Scribner, John Muir says
In the month of May and June they
bring forth their young, in the most sol
itary and inaccessible crags, far above
the nesting rocks of the eagle. 1 have
frequently come upon the beds of the
ewes and lambs at an elevation of from
1900 to 1900 feet above sea level.
These beds are simply oval-shaped hol-
lows, rawed out among loose, disinte-
grating rock chips and sand, upon some
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sunny spot commanding good outlook,
and partially sheltered from the winds
that sweep those lofty peaks almost
without intermission. Such is the era.
die of the little mountaineer, aloft in the
very sky; rocked in storms, curtained il
clouds, sleeping in thin, icy air; but,
wrapped in his hairy coat, and nour-
ished by strong, warm mother, defend
ed from the talons of the eagle and teeth
Of the sly coyote, she bonnie lamb grows
apaee. He soon learns 10 nibble the
tufted rock grasses and leaves of the
white spiraa; his horns begin to shoot,
and before summer is done he is strong
and agile, and goes forth with the flock
watched by the same divine love that
tends the more helpless human lamb il
its warm cradle by the fireside."
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-13
POLITICAL POINTS.

Grubbs, Republican, has been elected
Mayor Of Indianapolis by 515 majority. The
Lafayette municipal election resulted in the
success of McGinley, Democratic candidate for
Mayor. The new Mayor elect of Hannibal,
Mo-, is Democrat The Council is Republic
can.
Chairman Jewell invites Republicans
through the country to suggest the best method
for electing delegates to the next National
Convention.
The State Convention of the Green
back-Labor party, of Iowa, has been called to
meet at Marshalltown, on the LIST Gay of June.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-13
The President has Withdrawn the

The President has withdrawn the
nomination Of w. A. III. Grier, the original
Garfield man, to be Third Assistant Postmaster
General. Grier declined the position.
According to the census returns, the
people of this country pay s26, $50, 100 annually
for their daily newspapers.
The Comptroller OF the Currency has
called for reports from the national banks
showing their condition at the close of business
Friday, the 9th.
Postmaster General James has planned
a saving of $4,000 per annum by discontinue
ing useless mail service on the Southern rivers,
and is about to make still further reductions.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-13

JANE R. PrTr, of Todd County, KY,
is fifty years old; never served on jury;
never had quarrel or fight; never
swore an oath in his life; has been a
whisky drinker all his life but four years;
never was a hundred miles from home,
and was never on steamboat. He's .
great man.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-13

every Senator spoke. Nospeech exceeded five min
utes in length. The burden of all the speeches was
great desire to avoid split in the party, and
consideration of the various propositions was of
compromise
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-13

TIE jewel of servant girl is the one
who hangs all her mistress embrold'
cred underwear On that portion of-the
line most conspicuous to the neighbors'
eyes.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-13

IT is said on the best authority that a
toad frequented the steps before the hall
door of a gentleman's house in Devon
shire for upwards Of thirty-six years.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-13
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

Two men were killed and seven in
iured by the fall of a building in Littleton
NH.
The Chief of Police of Auburn, N. Y,
resigned because a negro was placed upon the
force. f~
Miscellaneous boys at Kingston, N. Y,
nave driven a Chinese laundryman to insanity
by their mischieyous tricks
James M. Scovel, of New Jersey, who
sought domination for Vice President on the
ticket with Horace Greeley, has been convicted
of obtaining $3.50 on false pretenses. He made
an appeal for mercy.
Five Directors of the First National
Bank of Newark, n. j., have been indicted for
CCnspiring and aiding the Justification of books.
AT the annual meeting of the Civil
Service Reform Association in New York George
William Curtis was reelected President.
Three contractors for star-route sery-
Ice inTexss-Joseph Funk, Joseph Blackman
and William r. Cason-have been arrested in
Philadelphia on charge of defrauding the Gov
eminent.
The Governor of New York has issued
proclamation forbidding lotteries.
The Pennsylvania State Senate has
passed resolution which provides for the
transfer Of the remains of William Penn from
their present resting place in Buckinghamshire.
England, to Philadelphia.
The United States Grand Jury at New
York has indicted fourteen Captains of Eu-
ropean steamships for carrying an excess of
passengers, contrary to law. Two indictments
are against Capt Brandt and Capt. Meyers,
both of whom committed suicide few weeks
ago
A fishing party of four persons were
drowned at Trembly Point Staten Island sound,
by the upsetting Of boat
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-13
West.

The particulars of the escape of Billy
Bonney, alias BILLY the Kid" from the Lin
coin county New Mexico) Jail read like a
chapter from one Of Ned BuntIne's blood
ourdhng narratives. Robert Olinger and ]. w.
Ben were the two guards. Ohnger had gone
to supper, and Bell was sitting ON the floor
when the "Kid" approached him. talking TO
him in a pleasant way. Being near enough,
the Kid" who was heavily shackled and
handcutfed, managed to jump al Bell, hitting
him with the handouts on the head. fracturine
Bells skull, and laying him senseless on the
ground Then, snatching Bells revolver from
his belt, he shot him in the breast. OIinger,
hearing the shot, thought something was I'D,
and ran from the house, where he had been
eating supper, about twenty-five yards from
the JAIL toward that structure. inst aa he
entered a small gate leading through the
Jail fence, the "Kid" shot him from mn
stairs with a douhle-barreled shotgun. heavily
charged, filling his breast full OF shot, killing
him instantly. The Kid then got Ratchet
knocked of his shackles and handouts. made
man in the jail-yard saddle horse for him.
took Winchester rifle and four revolvers from
the arms IN the jail, and rode out. Suisse
quently he encountered man named Mat
thews, who had testified against him in a re-
cent trial, and killed him. He also murdered
another man he met on the road against whom
he bore agrudge. The young desperate is be-
heved to have fed to Mexico.
The first vessel to pass through the
straits of Mackinaw this season was the pro-
peller Garden City, which arrived at Alpena
from Chicago on the lth Of May,