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The Fall Trade i'm New York.

COInnlefC1aI AdVertEer.
The hustle of preparation for the fall goes on
everywhere. season of unusual brskness Is
expected on all sides. A large part of the
wholesale trade has already been done, and it is
reported as highly satisfactory. The retail sea-
son does not open before October, but the prom
Use of activity is so assuring that all the business
classes are In good spirits The whole horizon
OF trade seems bright, and no one has any doubt
that the fall and winter will witness prosperity
in every direction.
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Chicago and chihuahua.


The first Through train" from Chicago to
chihuahua, the principal city in northern Mexi-
CO, left this city on the 18th instant and arrived
at its destination on the evening of the 18th.
Returning, the train left Chihuahua Monday
morning and reached Chicago Friday morning.
Ninety-six hours from Chicago to Chihuahua. To
this comparatively breftime has been reduced the
distance OF nineteen hundred miles between
Chicago and the once opulent and still char
ming, metropolis Of northern Mexico.
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Virgins Storm.

A real storm is predicted for March next by
DR.. E. Stone Virgins, of the Canadian finance
department: 1t is to sweep India, the south Of
Europe, and especially the North American con-
tinent. DR.. Virgins advises shipbuilders to
stocks, and adds that on the sea nothing
smaller than a Cunarder will outlive this tenn
pest. 1t may be said that small vessels are
sometimes safer in great tempest than large
ones, and if ships on the stocks are to be
threatened by high water. there is q great deal
of property located lower down to be looked
after.
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Is 1t IA Relic Of Barbarism,,,

AS H IA 16cllC Oh ktdfDaxlSm'!
To the Editor Of THE EVENING STAR.
l noticed in several Of the papers an article
headed ga Relic of Barbarism," referring to
the punishment Of criminals in Delaware
would like to know if crimes are not "relics Of
barbarism?" and these soft-hearted and headed
people had better set to work to eradicate the
latter, and they would thereby do away the
cause for the former. The downfall of crimes
means the doing away of the punishment We,
here, get the full benefit of the absence of this
method of punishment; In fact, our city is as a
| cesspool, having Alexandria on one side and
Baltimore and Delaware on the other. With
these severe punishments, the natural course
for all classes of criminals is to this city, where
we have no stringent laws and where every
winter thieves get up in court and say that they
steal just for the sake of getting good, comfort
able winter quarters; whereas, If they had re-
ceived from ten to thirty good lashes. they
would probably find they had received some
thing ,odrner than was looked for. What good
does sending these grown men and boys to jail
do3 1t fattens them, and when they come out
are ready to do the same thing over and over
again. Perhaps it Is better that our houses
should be ransacked from top to bottom by a
thief, with the intention OF numbering you if he
finds it necessary, and that our wives daugh-
tiers and sisters should have outrages commit
ted upon them, than that the villain should re-
ceive the lashes which he deserves. Some peO-
pie must have queer minds if they can, In the
lace OF all Cne recent rODDer1eS and Outrages
| which have disgraced our city, stand up for and
encourage these men. The only thing that
regret is that we have not had this punishment
here, and that, instead Of you and being taxed
to support these vagabonds In good, comfort
able winter quarters, they should be made to
suffer- What punishment is it for the average
criminal to be shut up and clothed at our ex-
pense2 It is just like saying to him, come and
rob me and 1 will take care of you during the
winter. These are the plain truths, and they
will not be overcome until we possess the So
called "Reiic Of Barbarism.'' w.
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The Silent Vote This Fall.
From the New York Graphic (Rep.)

IS Presumably correspondent Of the Graphic
who signs himself "a Republican, but not a
Conkling Republican," represents many other
voters who, like him, believe that Mr.. Roscoe
in the election of this fall, and that they must
in some way manifest their disapprobation of
him and his methods. These gentlemen claim
to constitute a portion Of the very tangible
entity known as ''the silent VOTE" and this
silent vote is, in SO far they can do it, to be
cast against Judge FOlger in order that Roscoe
Conkling may be punished still more than he has
already peen punished.
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Children's Toys and Old Mems Brains
From the New York Graphic.

Children's toys are made in this country to
the value of 81 OOOO 600 per year and 81, 600, 900
worth more are imported. Three million dollars
involved in jumping jacks and squeaking dolls
with glass eyes, and all the rest of similar i'm
port. And over all this business are men look
ing grave solemn and preOccuped; couldn't
look more 80 were they Darwins or Herbert
Spencers, studying it all out and telling how it
all came about; and there is solemnity and re-
spectability in the shape Of book-keepers busy
at desks over rows Of figures all about penny
whistles.
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THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND THE
FIRST CONTROLLER.

To the Editor Of THE EVENING STAR.
From the reported proceedings Of the school
board, at its last meeting, 1t appears that that
body has controversy with the First Controller
OF the Treasury relative to the apportionment Of
money for school purposes between the white
and colored schools. This controversy is of like
character with many reslstances Of the Con-
troller which have occurred, and some now
pending In the Treasury department, wherein the
chle1 Ofncers have taken issue with Hon. William
Lawrence, First Controller. Mr.. Lawrence as
| sumes to be the Flaw officer" of the Treasury
department, and claims for himself judicial
powers going to the very essence of the laws
OF Congress- embracing authority to decide
upon the constitutionaity of an act Of the latter
body. Upon the slightest provOcation, before
the TACT even, Judge Lawrence will prepare his
"opinion" upon given subject, and thus he has
come to be regarded by the government officers
as troublesome intermeddler in their affairs
the Bully Bottom Of the department. The 'pre-
monltOry" opinion, as School Trustee LOvejOy
| APPLY denominates Judge Lawrence's inter
management of the school system of this Dis
trict is utterly unwarranted in law. In that in
stance, as in nearly all other matters. the First
Controllers duty and authority is confined to
that an accountable requistion has been issued
by the secretary Of the Treasury; that it has
been duly countersigned by another officer,
registered by another; that the signature
vi LILO focClttdly ID Scuuluc, CIdL Ltio
proper charges have been made under
the law in the books of the proper officers,
and that the appropriation has not
been exhausted, $50 that the Treasurer will be
authorized to disburse the amount Of the war
rant without other evidence of the legality of
the payment than the signature of the Secre-
tary and the counter signature of a Controller,
and will not be required to inquire into the con-
dition OF the appropriation, or whether the
forms required by law, antecedent to the sigma
ture and counter signature, have been complied
with"
Such. in substance, is the opinion of the At
tOrney General, promulgated some months ago.
So that the proposed letter of Mr. Loveioy, rela-
tive to the ''premonitory' opinion Of the First
Controller, is sound In It's legal aspect and well
taken so far as that letter condemns JudgeI.aw-
rence's interference with the control of the
board of trustees"
Interference of this character. on the part Of
Judge Lawrence, does not disturb the govern
ment officers, who now know the exact scope of
the First Controllers authority and are aware
that Judge Lawrence is afflicted with an irresis-
tible penchant for letting off opinions-a sort of
cdcoethes juiico. SUCCESSOR
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should be returned the same as they. The
writer hasthus shown that

should be returned the same as they. The
writer hasthus shown that
THE POSE OFFICE DEPARTMENT
has not only gone back in great degree to the
bsrbarous destruction Of dead letters that
characterized It's operations PRIOR to 1850,
but 1t has added an invasion OF the
privacy OF the subject matter OF dead
letters uhsanctioned by the department up to
1871 which bares to the employees Of the Dead
Letter ONCE the host important information
and delicate secrets relative to the family, the
social and business affairs Of the people Of the
United States, as far as the same form the sub
ject matter OF letters that reach the Dead Letter
once; grave feature of the case is that
examination OF the debate shows that when
Congress adopted section 194 to the act Of June
9Th, 1872, it never Intended to curtaii the return
OF dead letters, much less authorize the scenes
that are now being enacted in the United States
Dead Letter office 1t is clear that the whole
sale destruction Of dead letters that can be re-
turned which now-as well as for the past ten
years-is conducted by the Post Office depart
ment, has not the sanction of law.
In conclusion the writer claims that In view
OF the transcendent Importance of efficient
scrutinize and criticize. if need be, the
management of our postal system. But there
are special reasons why the writer should
Interfere IN this case For he is the pri-
vate citizen alluded to in the opening of this
paper whose plans being approved by Con
and June IL, 1866. He Is the author Of other
plans for postal improvement, some of which
are not yet in use. But il the history of those
that are In use is ever published it will show to
the people Of the United States that improve
ments which are classed with the most highly
priced of modern postal reforms, neither origi-
mated in, nor were suggested by, the Post Office
department, but sprung from the private cit
izen whose name is appended to this state
ment, the verify Of every allegation in which,
he can satisfactorily establish to the Postmas-
ter General, or to Congress, If either deem it
worthy of attention. OLIVER EVANS WOODS.
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Wait for the November Sprinkling.
From the Albany Evening journal.
The dust raised by the fall elections is nicely
calculated to obscure the failure of the prosecu-
ton in the star route cases
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Not a Word of Truth.

From the Syracuse journal.
There is not word of truth in the report
that Jay Gould has succeeded, even in part, in
gaining control Of the Associated Press. Four
of the seven members of the central association
at New York are in deadly Opposition to Gould
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He Thonght He would Rid

He ThOMght He would Hide.
To the Editor Of THI EVENING STAR.
A short time since the ''Black Maria, contain
ing several prisoners, among whom was
''Hoosier" from Indiana, backed up at the Police
Court. and when the door Of the van was opened
our friend was the first to hop out. An acnuain-
lance attracted by the van, remarked to the II.
''what's the trouble3" s.Ol nothing, I was
just down that way, and thought I sooild
ride" This is literally true. M.
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They Can Get Justice Here.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The conviction in Philadelphia Of two star
reuters out Of three suggests change Of venue
for Brady and Dorsey.
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The Prosecution Of Foreman Dickson
From the ST. Louis Globe Democrat

Foreman Dickson, of the star route Jury. is to
be prosecuted under section 5, 405 of the Revised
Statutes which makes the sending of O COM
municatiOn to juror or the reading of an out
side statement in the Jury room, by juror, pun
ishable by fine of 81 600, or six months i'm
prisOnment. Mr.. Dickson can be convicted on
the charge Of violating this statute if he can not
be convicted Of bribery
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From the Cincinnati Gazette
The biggest and most dangerous machine that
ever appeared in politics is the brewers machine
That's where the boss business shines with the
force Of q thousand-candle Brush light.
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From the Baltimore Day.

From the BaIdmOr6 Day.
They seem to convict star route conspirators
In Philadelphia. Better remove the trial of the
main conspirators up that way. There Is no use
of carrying it on In the District of Columbia,
which for all purposes of justice ia absolutely
which trustworthy Jurors may be drawn.
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CASHMERE DREssEs are richly embroidered
with silk of the same shade. The basque is cut
with hip paniers, with shirred fronts having
Anne Of Austria belt.
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Tho Pennsylvania Outlook.
From the New York Times (Rep)
Though 1t Is perfectly evident to good judges
Of political weather In Pennsylvania that the
Cameron craft is going to the bottom, her
crew keep up brave show Of confidence In her
ability to ride out the storm.
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A AnsOna. Sir?

;
Twenty han som cabs and ten ''four-wheel-
ers," precisely similar to those now in use
throughout England, will in the course Of two
or three weeks be placed at the Broad street
station Of the Pennsylvania railroad company,
by which they are owned and by which they
will be managed. The Introduction Of these
vehichels, It Is believed. will reform the hack
system. which has always been complained OF
as expensive, slow and not over comfortable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-09-30

WOMEN who wear bustles generally seem tn
have curvature Of the spine. but 1t is only arti-
feiai and accidental crooksduess Of the tour
nuro.
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The "CARMEN" toilet has dressy effect: Il
is intended for evening wear, and should BE-
made Of rich material
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From the st. Louis Republican.
The transit Of venus in December and th,
ing the resources Of the scientific world. Ever,
civilized government has lent hand In aid o
observations of the transit. which are to b,
taken simultaneously at the opposite ends o
the earth. Some Of our American astronomer.
are about sailing from San Francisco for tn
southern hemisphere.
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Gould Going to Europe for Two Years.
From the New York Sun.
There Is something that is not gossip, but
stern fact. and fact known as yet to but very
few. Mr.. Gould Is going to leave New York for
two years voyage around the world. He 10
making all the necessary preparations for it.
He has been studying John Russell Young's
book, around the World with General Grant; !"
he is building, or going to build the largest and
fastest steam yacht afioat and hopes to be ready
under such circumstances, he is more likely to
accumulate stocks than to dispose of those he
has got is for the great minds OF Wall street to
decide.
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Dangerous to be Out Nights.

From the Philadelphia telegraph (Rep.)
The Independent camp fires are starting up all
over the state, and presently it will be danger
GUS for stalwarts to go out O. nights.
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THE POSTAL SYSTEM.

Defects I'm the Dead Letter Delivery
How the Department CONSTITUTES the
observation-disclosures Of the Dead Let.
tiers DestrOyed-An Interesting State
ment, ETC.
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A Change Of Venue

A Change Of Venue.
FROM the Portland (Me. Advertiser.
Two dishonest star route contractors have
been convicted In Philadelphia. It ID pity
there could not be change OF venue In the case
Of Dorsey and Brady.
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A Famous Bandanna Still Floats.
From the Boston Herald CInd.)
Ohio democrats opine that Thurman's ban
danna will be the next presidential flag
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Kent Georgia Yingling Rebecca
GENTLEMENs.
AgerAP Lewis BENIN
Alien Isaac Lockhard Chas
Atkinson Rev Mr. Lee Dennis
Bundy AW LaFarce DIR He, Z
Beese Bert Iammoner JAS
Branlich Claunce Lynch Louis
Beaman Col Lee Roland
Burns Daniel r Mathews Chas
Burton Henry Maddox HI
Ben E Il Mssss .f Han ynor
Bolden Joseph Miller Jno F
Bober John Miller Col Joseph O
B Batter 9oTeI IA Masters Hon JnoT
Csmbeii Bepob Molten RoS ai'
Culton IN Morgan sM
Chi dsJ Mcguire Thomas
Cnmmons JnoM McGofney B
Clark Lewis Mcclure Jacob
Chalmers W L Mclaughlin Jas
cienhd s WI v I Nichols taHs
Daniel Augustus Nolan Jas
R Dense b. ~ Psrdee Arthur
PP ooss c sse f fendsso pf hsrry
PsSis} HsF1y fa'ss !i hIis
P PsH;s e. VIM f faFssr p VIZ Z
bowling VIM housh Al
Ealum Jno Reed ByronL
Ely Ely : Pr e 6 k E0ai
Evanturel Endore sharib Coleman
f EaIkper Ches Sullivan andrew
F F laphraim shotweI ca,
F Fins ,ef Gsow Street Street. Capt Capt Oh
Fulton John stefano signor g
Ss ssSs$y q 4 Ed S Ssisi f r.
Sordan Henninsham Sanders HenryR
Ssls %n Nicholas s ssHaS. cdl Is
H H,sSSsf cr KsvAv smith smith Joseph
Harris Geo simons WB
Harris Geo Sweetzer w
H.s5Ga s: Sossrh D sss.xsT. WINE lie,
Hodges Jno G Thompson MI and Mrs h
Harrod L Terrels Thomes
haistead NC Nandoren ChasE
Holman Thos Wilson Alex
Hale W K Mhitcomb Chas
Jones Barbour -..'- '-.'~ Washington Geo
Jones Chas Nsesla Geo
y yobnson 5W W winston 1J JnO
Johnson JesseO Weik Jesse
jackson Lorenzo Wilson Joshua
ke ei,,l's Archie chic Williams Lsmuel
knopp Jas p Wager Wild
k : Is liNyB $SsaaS andrew aasS :
Karshner VIM
MISCELLANEOUS.
NAT Insurance Co"
LIST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN EAST
CAPITOL STATION.
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 80, 1882.
LADIES' LIST.
Allen Mrs Matilda Muir Mrs Robert,
Bruce Alice Pitt Mrs
Brown Malinda Queenan Rachel
Fisher Ann Under wood SaIie
James Mamie Thomas Rosie
Lewick Brook Wills Mrs Margaret
Lewis Young Lucy
Lee Martha
GENTLEMEN'S LIST.
Boswell Jno Henry Mason F
Chase Lincoln NJ O'Ne John
Fox Henry Se9ar John
Forster Chas
LISTOF LETTERS REMAINING IN THE GEORGE
TOWN, d. c., POST OFFICE.
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 80. 1882.
LADIES LIST.
Booze Mrs Margt Gwynn Laura B
Brown Mary Jones Laura
Day Jennie Robinson Mrs Julia
Gwynn Eva Ross Mary
GENTLEMEN'S LIST.
Hardesty JnoW
1t d. B. ANGER, Postmaster.
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CCHNEIDER BRO,
- Dealers In
FIRST-CLASS BEEF. VEAL. LAMB AND MUTTON
CORNED BEEF A SPECIALITY.
Choice Cuts of Beef 125S Is, Is and 10 cts.
Stalls Nos 81 and IS Center Market 7h street wing
and 32l Northern Liberty Market.
city. s22-lm
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I IST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN THE
II WASHINGTON CITY POST OFFICE
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER so. 1881.

To obtain any Of these Letters the applicant must
cal for ADVERTISED LETTERS, and give the date OF
this list =
not called for within one month they win be ssnt
10 the Dead Letter Once
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Blue. BLACK. BROWN. GREEN.
at $3.50. g. $3.50. s.. $3.50. "a. a SO and Is.
YOUTHS, BOYS AND CHLpREN's
HATS,
at Soc. 76c., 81. 81 IS, 81. so. 81 rs. 81, sabo
SILK. GINGHAM. ALPACA AND MoHAIR
UMBRELLAS.
Agents for DUNLAP q CO.,
e25-2w New York.
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26 APER-HANGINGS. No GO
e
ct LATEST STYLES. Street

Patterns and Shades In Blue, Brown old Gold Olive
Canary, Pompean nnd other coIors. FREEZES. Dados.
Borders. Cenfers &C.
Having disposed at auction Of some fourteen hundred
pieces Of Paper Hangings little out of style and
placed 1t with additions of the newest and desira-
BILE Styles which viii be offered a lowest prices and all
work guaranteed. WINDOW SHADES. CIT Bands
and Plain Goods, which make in shades TO or der.
PICTURE FRAMES. different styles and sizes. In
store and made to order few choice and novel Cab
net size Frames in Gold. Satin, Silk and Velvet c-
ture Mire; Nails PICTURE Room Moulding. Hooks. &c.
PAINTINGS, ENGRAhINGS, &C. Sole Agent for
BkEWERTON'S POPULAR PASTEL PAINTINGS.
at MARkRITEK'S No; GIG street. one door from 7th
street northwest. ~ Terms cash. s16-lm
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letter office fairly index the letters carried by
mall Letters are not sent to the dead letter
office because they are In departmental estima-
ton OF no "value or Importance" They get
there simply because the department has failed
to deliver them. Therefore, the writer
repeats, that the letters which reach
the dead Office fairly index the character Of the
letters carried by mail. Now the indications
are that full one billion five hundred millions of
letters Will, during the current year, be mailed
In the United States. Now is it possible that
any human being can believe that e-half-to
say nothing of two-thirds-of that enormous
mass OF letters are Of so little "value or import
ance" that any II they fail of delivery ought not
to be returned to their writer's and vet no other
inference can be drawn from the department's
letter OF July IA, 1889. Verify it ia high time for
the letter writer's Of the United States to move
In the matter aud through the organs of pnhlic
opinion give the officials of the Post Once denart
ment to understand that when Congress- rave the
power to make regulations" for the return Of
DEAD letters It never contemplated the CONVEX
sion OF the United States dead letter Office into
q postal inquisition, and furthermore that while
the first province Of efficient postal service ia to
safely deliver letters, the second IL to return II
possible, to the writer's thereof all letters that
tall OF delivery.
To prevent Misrepresentation the writey will,
mere distinctly state that the foregoing remarks
90 not apply to letters on the exterior of which
appears the names and residences Oftheir writer's
nD'coIo Inus endorsed are technically termed
"Retufn Request Letters" and II undeliyereS
are not sent to the dead letter once. bnt are
returned with seals inviolate and freq of nos,o
age direct to their writer's by the postmasters Of
the ofnces Of which they failed Of delivery.
Neither do they apply to letters Of fnre,9yr
origin, for these, too, are returned to their
writer's. They apply solely to Letters of DO
mestic origin that are mailed in the ordinary
plain envelopes: About three million of these
annually reach the dead letter ofYice, where. as
has been shown, the Overwhelming majority are e
DESTROYED. Yet they paid precisely the same
postage % return request letters, and In equity