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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-04-20
nUNCANSON BROS, Auctioneers.
TRUSTEES SALE OF DWELLIN4-H HOUSE AND
PREMISES No. GA STREET, BETWEEN
SIXTH AND SEVENTH rREETS NORTH

WEST
By virtue of a deed OF trust to us, recorded -
in Liber No. 92j. folio 1885, of the land Nz.H
records Of the District Of Columbia. we viii .G.
on FRIDAY, THE 22D DAY OF APRIL. A. D. 1881,
AT O'CLOCK P. M, all those parts of lots II and 49,
in square No 456, in the city of Washington, D. O.,
bounded as follows: Beginning for the same at 8
point on the north line of said lot 49, distant 40 feet
mig thence south $50 feet ~ inches to the public
alley; thence west "a feet ~ inches thence north
and thence east feet inches to the place of be-
ginning, together with the improvements thereon,
consisting of four story brick dwelling
Terms of sale 90, 600 In cash, and the balance
at one two, three four and five years. in equal in
Stain nts, for which the notes Of the purchaser,
bearing interest from the day of SALE and secured
to the satisfaction of the Trustees the property
Qnired Of the purchaser at the time Of sale Terms
OF sale to be complied with in one weex from the
day Of sale. All conyevancin9 at the cost of the
purchaser. VIM. 4. WOODWARD,l rrrstoa.
apl3d&ds VIM. F. MATTINGLY{ 1rustees.
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eE- THE ABOVE SALE is STILL FURTHER
postponed in consequence of bad weather until
MONDAY, APRIL 18TH, same hour and place.
By order OF Trustees. apl4 -dEds
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NEW YOBK-HOTTER

The FIRST: class steamers Of this Line.
s'6CHIEDAM." "W. A. SCHOLTEN."
p. CALAGD," and "MAAS,"
ganyfrs the q. g. Mails to the Netherlands. leave
EE6DAY.
lst Cabin, aeO- s7o Id Cabin, ESQ. st.ersr
126. r. OAZAUX, General Agent AZ South VII
Lam st. New York For Bassage apply to W. g.
MxTZEROTT & CO.. 925 Pennsylvania ave-.
Hsfe Deposit Building. corner New York ave. and
18th ut. northwest 1an17
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VNHUMAS BOWLING, Auctioneer.
BRIgR REs1DENCE No: 1888 PROSPECT
STREET, AND VACANT LOT ON FIRST
STREET, BETWEEN MARKET AND FRED
ERICK STREETS, IN GEORGETOWN,D Do,
AT AUCTION.
On MONDAY, APRIL 18TH, 1881. AT 8 -
O'CLOCK, in front Of the premises. shan lyA
sell very desirable Brick Residence, bsing .kn.1
No. 1888 Prospect street. containing about nine
rooms. with large cellars and modern improve
Immediately after viii be offered part lot a.. in
Beatty Hawkins addition to Georgetown, having
front 20 feet by depth Of I29 feet to an alley.
Terms For the improved property are So 900 In
cash. the stdue in two equal payments at six and
twelve m months With notes bearing interest and Sc
Terms for the uninproved :operty il one half
caeh. balance at six ana twelve months with notes
bearing interest and occurred by deed of trust on
the property sold. All convey icing, &C., at pur-
chaser's cost; deposit OF $10O on each piece Of
ap1l-d&ds THOMAS BOWLING. Auct.
FF The ABOVE SALE IS POSTPONED IN
consequence Of the rain until WEDNESDAY,
APRIL 2OTH. same hour and place.
ap19-d&ds THOMAS BOWLING, Auct.
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e THE ABOVE SALE IS AGAIN POST
PONED. In consequence of the rain, until WE'D
NESDAY. APRIL 18TH. same hour and place. BY
order Of the Trustees. apS-dEds
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IHASCERY SALE OF VALUABLE BUILD
u ING LOT ON JHS NORTH SIDE OF SOUTH
STREET. BETWEEN FIRST AND SEC
OND STREET. EAST, MAR THE UNITED
STATES CAPITOLs IN WASHINGTON
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~ THE ABOVE SALE Is POSTPONED, In con-
1851, same hour and place. By order o; the Trus-
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POSTPONED, on account Of the rain, until MON.
DAY, APRIL rs, 1881, AT O'CLOCK.
apis, 70, q, rs VIM. TAYLOE SNYDER, Trustee
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1881-06-16
The N others Last Lesson.

A mother lay dying. Her lit''s
son not knowing Of the sorrow comlns.
to him, went, as was his custom. to
her chamber door saying. "Please to
teach me my verse, mamma, and then
kiss me and bid me goodnight am
very sleepy. but no one has heard me
say my prayers"
"Hush |" said a lady who was
watching beside her, "your dear
mother is too i'll to hear you tonight
and, coming forward, sought gently
to lead him out Of the room. Roger
began to sob as if his heart would
break
II cannot 60 to bed without saying
my prayers-indeed l cannot"
The ear Of the dying mother caught
the sound. Although she had been
lnsensible to everything around her.
the sob of her darling aroused her
from her stupor, and turning to her
friend, she desired her to bring her
little son TO her.-Her request was
granted, and the child's golden and
rosy cheeks nestled beside the cold
face of his dying mother.
"My oon," she whispered, repeat
this verse after me and never forget
it: When my father and mother
forsake me, the Lord will take me up.
Tho child repeated it two or three
times, and said his little prayer.
Then be kissed the cold face and
went quietly to his bed.
In the morning he came as usual, to
his mother, but found her still and
cold.
This was her last lesson. He has
never forgotten it, and probably new
er will as long as he lives.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1881-06-16
Base ball Terms.

AS the season is upon us for base
ball matches, and as great many are
ignorant of the different terms used,
we give the definition Of some Of them:
Field-The COW pasture where the
leather hunting is performed.
Base-Salt bags scattered around in
the grass for the players to Jump on.
Nlne-The number of roosters in
knee breeches that constitute base
ball deck.
Umpire The chief baller-hs
bawls out strike" His other duty
is to sit On the top Of the bat aud smel.
the ball as it goes by.
Judgment-The umpire's opinion.
after taking such g smell.
One Ball-What the umpire says
when the smell proves unsatisfactory
Strike-A mis- cue by the batter.
Put out-The fellow who tries to
get in without paying ten cents.
Dead Ball-Cne which comes to life
again after being buried-in the hands
of the pitcher.
Foul-a ball which bounds just the
way one is positive it will not.
Fair foul-A little one for a cent.
Balk-"A breach Of promise" in.
dulged in by the pitcher.
Stealing a base-Stufh.ng bag N
the ear and walking off to tho nezt.
when the catcher isn't looking.
Beauty-A ball SO hot that the ses'
ond baseman lies on his ! stomach to
avoid it.
Hot ball-One that singes the shor
stops head as it goes by.
Fly-A ball which scorns the earth,
and like the gentle horse fly buzzes
around in the elevated atmosphere.
Wild throw--SJinging at the third
baseman, and killing a-.small boy in'
the right field,
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Selected 4osrp
Our Fallen Heroes.

The angel of the nations peace -,
Has Wreathed with flowers the battle.
drum;
We see the fruiting fields Increase
Where sound of war no more shall
come.
The swallow skins the Tennessee,
Soft winds play DER the Rapidan;.
There only echo notes OF gleei
Where cleaned mighty army's vanI
Far Chattauooga's wooded slope
With summer airs is lightly stirred,
And hsany heart is warm with hope
Where once the deep-mouthed gun was
heard.
This blue Potomac stainless rolls,
And Mission Ridge is gemmtd with fern;
On many height sleep gallant souls,
And still the blooming years return.
Thank God unseen to Inward eve,
But felt in every treemans breast,
From graycs where fallen comrades lie
Ascend at Natures wise behest.
With springing grass and ard blossoms new
A prayer to bless the nations life,
To freedoms flower give brighter hue.
And hide the awful stains Of strife.
O, Boys in Blue, we turn 10 you,
The SCARED and manglcd who survive;
No more we meet in grand review,
But all the arts of freedom thrive
Still glows the jewel in its shrine,
Won where the James now tranquil
rolls;
Its wealth for all, the glory thine,
O, memory of heroic souls F!
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1881-06-16

ONand after Sunday, May IS, 1881.
u Passenger Trains will run as .oi'
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1881-06-16

All that is noble and heroic in hui
manity, ali that is devoted and tender
in friendship, all the courtesy and
grace Of refined society. all the respect
and chivalry due to women, all the
self. denial and generosity which make
life beautiful, have their root in thH
family, and in its soil are best cult
vated.
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fiffon.
ssFive Years Ago."

This day FIVE long years ago ! Oh,
how nv heart aches when I think Of
that hot afternoon in the merry month
of May, when we two stood together
for the LOST time in the old orchard
under the apple trees which seemed
bent down with their weight of soft
pink and white blossoms, the soft
chirp and hum of birds and insects
mingling dreamily in the warm gold
en- sunlight Pickering in bright light
and shadow on the green grass
can see it all now, as | sit here
trying to put it down on paper.
When | suffer my mind to dwell upon
that day, a kind Of desperate longing
and remorse comes over me, and !
would gladly give ten CT the best
years Of my life if l could but live
one short hour over again. But, alas,
it NAV not be Regrets and repin-
ines are alike useless the lost oppor.
tunity can never come again, the day
that is past is gone forever, and the
word once spoken cannot be recalled.
Five years have come and gene since
then. Five times since that day have
the trees in the orchard been white
with blossom; and, when l see them, |
feel as if nv heart must break with
the agony of remorse and the weary
longing for the hope that never
comes.
There are times in our life when a
word spoken or left unsaid may alter
the whole tenor Of our future, when
we hold the scales of destiny in our
hand, and are permitted to say the
word that may prove the turning
point of our existence for either veal
or woe. Such moment was mine
and now, Eve years after, l sit, pen in
hand, thinking it all over, and every
word come back to me, as though the
occurrence took place yesterday, in
stead of so many years ago.
X
WAS staying on visit with my
married sister in her sweet country
home; and happy visit it proved te
me, for there I met Ha, old Brough'
ton, the hero Of my life. Even now
nv hand shakes as l write his name
and the sight of it brings back the ro.
nance of my life that is all over and
gone, laid away in the tomb Of the
past, but, though dead, never forgot
ten.
1t was such lovely evening wber
| saw him first, all nature locking in
her brightest and freshest in the spring
sunshine. There was visitor cofa
ing to Rosebank-an old gentleman
Helen, my sister, told me, smiling
and, after she had seen her busbanc
start for the station to meet him, sh'
carried me off with her to pick flow
ers for the strangers room.
Poor old Mr.. Broushton,' Sh,
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DNand after Sunday, May IS, 1881.
" Passenger Trains will run as toi
lows
LEAVE MECHANICSTOWN
For Baltimore and Westminster at 7:27 A.
N., and 500 P. Al.
For Hagerstown and Willinmsport Halo
A N and 7:05 P NJ
ARRIVE MECHANICSTOWN
From Baltimore and Westminster at III
Is A M and 7:05 P n
From Williamsport and Hagerstown al
7;27 IN, and 300 D IN
Emmittsburg Road.-teave EmmItss'
burg at 7:05 10 05 a. nj, 2; 35 and 6:05p m
and arrive at Rocky Ridge 7:35 and 1898
H. m. 3;05 635 p. m. Trains north, leave
R>cky Ridge at 7.55 and 1888 n. IN. and
B15 6-4S PM arrive at Emmittsburg at
3 25 and 11.25 a. m, and 3.45 7.15 p. m
Trains for Frederick will leave Junction
at aud q. IN. and D. m.
Trains for York and Hanover, leaves
junction ut a. IN and p. m.
BALTIMORE AND CUMBERLAND
VALLEY RAIL ROAD.
Trains South leave Waynesboro 6.l5a. IN
aud 1 so and 7.O5 p. m. arriving at Edge
mont at $40 a. M. and 2,15 and 7.30 p. m
Trains North leave Edgemont at II SO d
m. and 2.so and 748 p. m. aud arrive a
Waynesboro at 12 20,2.55 and 815 p. "a
j. M. HOOD,
~ Gen'l Manager.
3. n. GRISwOLD,
Gen'l Ticket Agent.
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RATES OF ADVERTISING.

tears that rushed to my eyes at tho
first angry words that had fallen froua
his lips to me.
His face softened; he went on in a.
lower tone.
Gro BE ooNT1NuED.)
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Dh'H' D. MILLS -,

Has located In Mechanics!own, Md, anu
will I've found at the residence o! Dir. Jno
Nil.ers, west OF the post office he VIII
x,s;, Ievis,own on the first Tuesday OF
@sch month, At O. T. Ziu.merman's. Wlll
he found at the office ut all other times
Persons waited upon a; their residence
desired.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1881-06-16

As an archer makes straight his ar.
row, SO a wise man makes straight his
thought, which is difficult to turn.
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Gro BE ooNTINUED.)
Democratic messenger., 1881-10-15
The Magic Power of a Devoted Wife.

1t is easy enough to win husband.
Most any attractive little dumping with
bright eye and cooling voice can gather
in a noble husband, but it is pretty diff
cult to retain him. Noble husbands are
thicker than hair on dog, but the grand
difficulty is to draw out their true no.
bility and secure it at home.
The tue wife does not come home
after the wedding ceremony and begin
to make trouble in the family. Far
from it. She goes to her bran new hus-
band, in her bridal robes, and sits on his
knee and softly weeps the starch out of
his shirt collar and buries her timid lit
tie hair-pin in his eye and tickles his
nose with her bangs. Then he is glad
that he is married. He wishes that he
had thought of it before.
No wife should enter her new home
on the wedding day with double-bar-
relied shotgun and try to start panic.
If she only understands her business
she can introduce the soothing racket
in her new field of operations and walk
away with the whole business. Most
men like to be loved and soothed.
There is something in the mans great,
rough, earnest nature that can be won
quicker and easier with gentleness and
pie than by the logic of the broom han
die and bilious course of reasoning
with bread and milk diet.
We have seen a girl who understood
her business, take a member of Con-
gress by the nose, so to speak, and lead
him through life in such way that he
wouldn't know but that he was boss of
the ranch. So perfect was the delusion,
that when she asked him to bring in a
scuttle of coal, or to get up in his night
shirt and kill a burglar, that he knew
was nothing but bob-tailed COW four
blocks away, he always. went, and he
felt as though he counted 1t mark of
special favor that poor unworthy worm
of the dust like him should be sought
out and delegated to go and chase lame
COW across nine vacant lots with an old
barrel stave, and clothed in nothing but
little brief authority and knit under
shirt.
, We can not exactly describe this mag
ic power of devoted wife over her hus-
band, and we do not intend to try 1t.
1t is an unseen motive, a nameless lever
age that makes the husband get up in
the dead hour of the night and set 8
pancake batter near the parlor stove.
A man need not think that because
he gets up aid looks for burglars in
the night and is otherwise obedient,
that it is because he has no backbone.
It is simply because he is the husband
of a woman of whom he ought to be
OrOu6
Democratic messenger., 1881-10-15
The Distress i'm Michigan.

Mr.. Allardt, Secretary of the Port
Huron Relief Committee, writes as
follows:
The further we push our examination
into the burned district, the more dis
tress we find, and we cannot as yet make
any approximate estimate of the amount
required, but it will be very large. Our
whole energies have been bent on fur
nishing temporary supplies and clothing
and seed wheat. We are now pushing
lumber into the district for temporary
shelter. In a short time hope to give
you full, tabulated list of the sufferers,
with whom we are opening individual
accounts. We have determined to car-
ry the distribution in q business-like
manner and at the close of our steward
ship we propose to offer to the generous
doners a full and complete balance
sheet showing where every cent has been
placed.
William Dowd, treasurer of the Relief
Commission of New York, received a let
ter from Mayor Thompson, of Detroit,
giving list of the subordinate commit
tees in the different districts of the de-
vastated region. The letter contained
al o second appeal for aid from Gov
ernor Jerome, who has recently gone
through the burnt district on tour of
Investigation. This appeal states that
200 lives are known to have been lost,
and that at least Is, 900 people are left
without shelter, many of whom are
helpless from injuries and exposure;
while not few have become blind.
The needs of the people are thus
summed up by the Governor:
"They need shelter, clothing, shoes,
cooking stoves, kitchen utensils, beds
and bedding, wagons, harness, plows,
hoes, tools Of all kinds, seed for future
crops, and whatever helps to make men
self-supporting."
Democratic messenger., 1881-10-15
Leave of Absence.

On Monday morning (says a Paris
correspondent clerk applied to his
superior for permission to be absent
forty EIGHT hours on some family affairs,
and received an affirmative answer.
However, he did not appear during the
whole of the week, and no one knew to
what cause to attribute his absence. On
the following Monday he reappeared at
the regular hour.
"Well, monsieur" demanded his
superior, "why have you stayed away
all week?"
"You, sir, replied the clerk, "gave
me permission.
ct gave you leave for forty-eight
hours only, and not for six days."
ST beg your pardon, SIR" answered
the young man, az have only taken the
exact time which you granted me. We
work here eight hours a day, and six
times eight are forty-eight. I certainly
had no occasion to ask your permission
for the night, any more than for the
hours which I do not owe to the ad-
ministration.
This was logical; but since that day
the chief specifies by administrative
hours the cave he grants.
Democratic messenger., 1881-10-15

Lola was right Mary is deep. For
surprise ON the top of surprise-this
turns ont to be not six weeks love-
match, but the completion of an affair
of seven years standing. They were
engaged before ever he went to sea
and he came here never knowing whom
he was to find; and they knew each
other the moment they met, when he
entered the room, that night be first
dined with us Nay, she knew him be-
fore, when his name was told us by
Mrs. Williams. And yet not word to
any of us from either of them. Joking
with Lola, tender with Ethel, earnest
with me about Thermopyle and Mary
silent all the while, eager only to finish
her English essay. And not even to ask
MS to the wedding but perhaps that
was kind. Mrs. Williams, too, only to
be told last night. when wanted, with
Mr.. Williams, to be present as witnesses
at the ceremony !! Mary, who kept her
own counsel, and when she did speak
only iested with Ethel and Lola,
balancing their chances of success, Civ
ing herself the humble role of looker-on
Mary is at this moment Mrs. Arthur
Lindsay
1 believe 1 was the first to offer my
congratulations, and that offered them
with becoming heartiness. Little Ethel
followed me, and if the task was any
thing of hard one to her, her manner
did not show it.
Mrs. Williams has succumbed to ex-
element and neuralgia. Mr.. Williams
sits in the lower regions, chuckling
frequently and, under the stimulating
influence of tobacco, becomes communi-
cative to Jane on the subject of his own
engagement of Mrs Williams.
Jane, prophetic after the event, takes
credit to herself for having long ago as
sured everyone that this was what it
was a-coming to-"
Lola-foolishlittle Lola-has locked
herself into her bedroom, and is making
strange noises with the furniture upon
the floor. have tried to reason with
her from the other side of the door, but
she only answers through the keyhole,
between her sobs, that "she knew Mary
was deep"
Democratic messenger., 1881-10-15
A Cleveland Wedding.

The Cleveland Leader reports q
comedy in real life which took place in
Erie, Penn, last week. The heroine
was buxom young woman whose hus-
band died a year ago. When she h a
worn her weeds six months the would
be hero of the play came a-wooing, and
his attentions not being distasteful to
the widow she consented to marry him
in twelve months and day from the
date of her first husbands death. The
happy day fell on Wednesday last, and
the ceremony was to take place at the
brides house. A magnificent wedding
feast was prepared, and about sixty
guests we're invited. The hour appoint
ed for the marriage was 6 p. m. In the
forenoon the bridegroom elect went off
to invite few friends in the country,
who had been forgotten. The afternoon
mail brought a postal card from him,
stating that he had conscientious
scruples about marrying a woman SO
recently widowed. He would make it
a matter of thought, and would abide
the result of his feelings when through.
She was not to take this as q positive
declination to marry, but if he did not
arrive at 6 o'clock p. m. she might con-
slider the marriage "off." The widow
did not faint, nor go into Mysteries, but
donned her wedding attire and well
coined her guests with a smiling face.
At 6 o'clock all the guests were there,
and with them, of course, the minister (;
but no bridegroom had appeared. With
unrnffied countenance the expectant
bride "called the meeting TO order"
and read aloud the recreant lovers card.
When the storm of surprise and de-
nunciation had subsidized she added :
" But that needn't spoil the dinner"
and thereupon the guests fell to ban
quoting, none more heartily than the
mistress of the house herself. When
the table was cleared dancing began,
and an elderly bachelor led the German
with the disappointed (?) bride. He be-
came SO enamored of her that within
an hour he proposed he was accepted !;
the minister was recalled; and at IL
p. m. the wedding took place, with the
new bridegroom. But scarcely had the
bridal kiss been bestowed when in
rushed the too-conscious lover, who,
after protracted season of prayer, had
concluded to come back and wed. He
was just in time to congratulate the
bride, not his now, but another's, and
then hastily stole away, resolved to
stifle conscience ere he sought another
bride
Democratic messenger., 1881-10-15
BELATED.
A single bnttercnp | fonnd.

4 single Duttefcup FOUND.
A star upon my weary way,
As summer closed her heated round,
And ushered in the autumn day.
A little memory of May,
That slept too late, as have done,
And so unknowingly gone astray.
And now stood lonely in the sun.
1t seemed with anxious look to ask,
Are all my bright companions dead?
Or have slept, forgetting task.
Until the lovely May has sped?
There waves around me autumn grain;
see the ripened apples shine;
l feel the patter of the rain;
see the grapes that blush with wine
Ay, yes, slept sweetly dreamed
OF babbling brook and azure sky,
And in my foolish fancy deemed
That flowers like me would never die.
From such dream why should wake,
Afar and in another zone
Wake only that the heart may break
To find myself alone, alone?
And this it is to live too long,
To ovetpass our proper time,
And hear. instead of merry song,
The bells Of death in solemn chime.
SO too with man youth slept away,
He wakes to find useless age.
And wearily from day 10 day
Drags ont an aimless pilgrimage.