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The Evening critic., 1884-07-24

David Craig and Jemima Gardner.
j. Clyde Power OF this city and Edith Il. La.
cey OF Prince Georges County, Nd.
John j. Weed and Carrie Mclean.
James Lovly and Bertha Thornton.
George M. Cannon and Frances Gunnell,
both OF Vienna, Va.
George W. Harris and Mary Carroll.
N. q. Laurence, OF Clifton Forge, Va, and
Margaret q. Gaines OF this city.
George g. Thompson, OF Hollidaysburg, Pa,
and Annie Baxter, or Washington County,
Md.
The Evening critic., 1884-07-24
THE EVENING CRITIC.
WEATHER INDICATIONS.

The special bulletin issued from the Signal
once to-day Gays:
Fair weather 10 Indicated for the South Az.
lantic and Gulf Statea, with nearly stationary
temperature In all districts cast OF the Missis-
Bippi River ON Friday, .s
The Evening critic., 1884-07-24
r ooK AT Low FARES.

FoRTREss MONROE AND NORFOLK.
FIRST-OLASS FARE, 81 ROUND ThlP, Loo
steamer JANE MoSELEY leaves Washington
for Norfolk and Old Point Monday "Wednesday
Friday and Saturday at $50 p, M, making close
connection with steamer for New YORK ocean
View Virginia Beach and al ailroad Llne e l
steamer J.'W. THOMPSON leaves Monday,
"wednesday, and Friday OF 70; H. ono q, o,ha,-
For Information apply by telephone OF otnet-
wise 10 General Ohice slxth-btreet wharf, ternli-
ALFRED WOOD Secretary,
GEO. II. PHILLIPS, Superintendent, myi0
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Next Weeks

We start on our Improvements, which Will oc-
shall make strenuons 6ifdFts to dispose OF our
surplus cass. spits Ikprtces are an induce-
ment, you HlliHurely buy'at Eiseman Bros,
corner Seventh and L streets.
The Evening critic., 1884-07-24
STEAMBOATS,.
ITO NORFOLK, EoE sGRsS MONROE AND

POTOMAC STEAMBOAT COMPANIES
POPULAR STEAMER, GEORGE LEARY,
Leaves Seventh street wharf on Mondays and
Wednesday, at 5s0 and Saturdays at p, M, stop
and returning.
SATURDAY NIGHT STEAMER RETURNS
MONDAY MORNING.
Exclusive connection with tho Bort a and
Providence steamers. Connect also W. NJ New
York and Richmond steamers, Noriv and
Western, Heab0ard and Roanoke, Ocean View
and Virginia Beach Railroads.
Passage and rooms can be secured AZ Baltlmoie
q Ohio Ticket ONCE, at 18th st. and Pa. ave. ~
Marc Hotel, Polkinhorn's next TO CITY fo5loinee,
office OF Knoxs Express, 9TH 81, ana IA ave. anu
at CompRny's office, 9TH st. wharf. ,, -,
knox's Express Will call for ana oneoK Dag
gage from hotels and private residences
Freight received daily until 2. m.
W. II. WELOH. Gen. Agent
The Evening critic., 1884-07-24
Rev. Mar. Hicks stiIl Pursues the
sBtar.o

In the libel suit OF Rev. William W. Hicks,
pastor OF tho Tabernacle, against the Evening
Star Publishing Company, FOR libel and to
recover S35, 900 damages, the counsel for the
plaintiff has nled his NTH amended declara-
lion; These heretofore nsd have been upset
The Evening critic., 1884-07-24
CHESAPEAKE e. OHIO Rail WAY

LEAVE B. d p. DEPOT, SIXTH AND SITS
$40 q. m.--For all Way Stations and virginia
Springs, Lexington, KY, Louisville, Cincin-
natl, Columbus and st. Louis. Daily except
Ii:o5 a. m.-For williamsburg, Va. Newport
News. Old Point Comfort and Norfolk. Daily
~ except Sunday.
$40 p. m.==For Louisville, CINCINNATI, st. Louis
and Chicago, connecting for all points West,
daily; does not stop for local business except
the Virginia Springs through Pullman serv-
1910 D. m.--For all Way Stations and Virginia
Springs and Columbus, Ohio Daily except
Sunday.
For tickets and Information apply at o. & o.
Railway offlce, 6l3 Pennsylvania avenue, under
Pennsylvania ave. and b. & p. station. ~
II. w. FULLER,
{. W. SMITH, Gen. Pass Agent.
FRANK TRIG9, N, E Passenger Agent
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ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS.

Daisy Lee, the infant daughter OF Mr.. Ar
thur Warning, died at an early hour yesterday
morning, aged three months. The funeral
took place yesterday afternoon.
The funeral OF Mrs. VIM. Leatherland will
take place this afternoon OF O'Clock.
The institute OF the teachers OF tho colored
public schools commenced this morning at Lee
School building, Alfred street, and was opened
The Institute was conducted by Professor Y.
Richards, ALEC OF Washington. A large num-
Der OF teachers were present.
A young man named Waters attempted to
Jump from the 8 80 local train from Washing
lently to the ground sustaining painful inju-
rtee.
The following prisoners were detained at
the etation.house this morning for trial; Geo.
Henry colored, for aseaulting the child OF Mr..
george Swan, and Kate Hughes, colored, for
disorderly conduct.
Telephones have been placed in the by
draulion and Columbia engine houses, and in
future oil alarms OF IRE Will be turned In by
this method.
One OF the barges which cleared from this
port yesterday with poplar wood had O cargo
OF nearly four hundred cord.
Tho condition OF Miss Kate Burroughs was
improved this morning.
Democratic ward meetings will be held on
Tuesday night next for the purpose OF electing
delegates TO the Democratic convention to be
held In this city on August O to nominate a
candidate for Congress for tho Eighth District.
Dan Washington was fined $3.50 In tho
Mayors Court yesterday for beating his wife.
The Evening critic., 1884-07-24

Just received, a large assortment OF. 1.ah8try
and shingle bangs and waves OF RlaStyIes ann
shades. Our long hRir &alas.Me soil at ~,
former price $500. EARfsof all kinds dressed
and hair braids dxsl'fn III shades. Bellcham.
Dor Golden. UalE'Wadh. MRS. &, HELLER,
606Ninah street northwest.
The Evening critic., 1884-07-24

The international Medical Congress.
An International convention OF tho-.Sd6dlcal
fraternity Will be held noxt yeaR>ht Oopen
hagen. Delegates 10 the nypa6ef OF nye from
that the fifst imnassf8f measnra To- be- taken
up Will be tbe'udoption OF resolution recon-
mepllne'a1 invailds 70 use no other than
'fnMp'e pure whisky. Tharp, Of 9lS L street.
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when the President Will Leave.

The President refused to see callers yesser-
day and this morning, with O view to allowing
him to complete the business undisposed OF.
He was not successful In this, however, and
decided not TO leave the city until Saturday,
when he will make his departure on the Des.
patch.
The Evening critic., 1884-07-24
Feea Fer Tho PREACHER.

Frozen CustnTssastna
e eOsTy asy at asaiisssE75c Tenth street
The Evening critic., 1884-07-24

First race, ! mile and 20 yards, won by Fonc
third; time, 80. Second race, mile and soc
yards, Shenandoah came first and Bessie sec
ond, but the Judges allowed claim OF Shenan
doah swerving ON Bessie, and the race wa
given Bessie; time, 2:16E. Third race, fiy,
furlonge, Coral first, Joybell second, Fidel'
third time, / ;06. Fourth race, three.quarte
mile, Ghost won, Alta b. second, Rothschiit
third; time, lis.
The Evening critic., 1884-07-24
Furniture Gerp0tssse -, Fur

on easy weekIV.ak Wo1fhly installments, AT
Smith's, Nasatf3 NeVy Jersey avenue north
Sehespest in5taiiment house In the
The Evening critic., 1884-07-24

NO IoSIuoHVb uUPHIIuTo IUT UHU OuU5-
Kills to-day was followed by Secretary Free
linghuysen's departure for New Jersey, leav-
ing Secretary Lincoln as the only Cabinet OH
Ger In the city. Secretary Folger 10 in New
York State; Secretary Chandler Is cruising Ia
the Tallapoosa; Secretary Teller Is on his
wa TO Colorado; Postmaster-G General Ores
ham is en- route TO Indiana, and Attorney
General Brewster Is at Long Branch.
The Evening critic., 1884-07-24
MORNING NEWS,

Local and General, Boiled Down,
Worked over and Furnished up
Fresh.
a 4 n.Allal AI.A ~. a-l.a nannInr, az Ahn
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1884-04-08

The sick, worn aud le!oa',l -iuu'
read the advert srmrut ut In,t,-'
Llqnid Beef Tonic.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1884-04-08

|e.thlrd Il
(ne. vii
| articlaR
land slO,iI
|il SUNNI
| of squsa
b Of Tt~
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Youngest on the Road.

The youngest engineer in the coun-
try who occupies the position at the
head of an express train is probably
Lew Hart, who runs on the Chicago
night express over the Wabash He is
only 28y years of age, and recently when
ne was promoted over the heads OF
older men there was a good deal Of
grumbling at the advancement of a
boy Hart soon demonstrated mis-
ability to handle the bes. train on the
road, and his associates soon acknow-
lodged his merits and now concede
him to be the smartest on the line. Mr.,
Hart has his own way OF doing things,
and understands his own way of doing
things, and understands his engine
like book, attending to all repairs
personally, and has been known to
run his train on single cylinder at a
rate of speed that few OF his seniors
would deem possible ii they had been
afflicted with a disabled engine. The
subject OF this sketch resides at Deca-
tur, where he has a handsome wife,
who looks earnestly for his coming on
the midnight run, and her gallant
spouse sounds three short and one
long, piercing shueks from the only
steam boat whistle on the Wabash.
Like all the best engineers, Lew Hart
carefully abstains from the use of slim.
ulants. Globe Democrat.
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THE "COON BELT"
4 District In Indiana Where Justice
Was QueerIy Administered.

The State library should secure, il
haply it yet exists, the docket of an
early Sharpsvllle justice of the peace,
with its simple entries: "John Smith
VS.. Thomas Jones. / heard this case
and gave smith judgement for $6.75
and cost, as witness my hand,-,J.
P. From the decision of this court DO
sutton ever took appeal; they were
final as those of Rhandamanthus him.
SELF The advocancy of council learn
ed in the law was not encouraged by
this primative judge. The general
history of proceedings was much in
this wise: The plaintiff went to the
squire, who heard his story and made
distant and shrewd, though non-profes-
sional, cross-examination of plaintiff.
Often he would say: 81 shan't hear
this case. There's nothin' rite, and
you ought to know 1t. If you bother
me with 1t / shall give it agin YOU"
After such an expression of opinion
suit was seldom brought. But if the
squire thought there was Something
rite in il" he would say: "I'll fix you
all right. You come and take dinner
with me at IL o'clock on Thursday,
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are paying off the national debt more
rapidly. economists say, than we ought
to. and we seem TO be willing TO stand
1t, for neither OF the great political
parties have ventured to commit them
selves to any disturbance of the pen
sion laws.
The female population OF the Capital
is in state OF effervescence over the
question Ct President Cleveland's selec-
tion of the White House mistress. Yet
| hardly imagine that the present
members Of the social class at Wash
ington have any business to concern
themselves about an incoming admin
lstration toward which few OF them
have any affection. This social busI-
ness IN Washington, like that in other
large cities, runs In rut, and every
attempt to get out of if, results in cap
sizing the vehicle. Mr.. Cleveland has
a married sister at Cleveland, Mrs.
Bacon, another married sister now liv-
ing at the Governors residence at Alba.
ny, Mrs. Hoyt. and a maiden sister,
Elizabeth Cleveland, who is said to be
not only thoroughly accomplished, but
is an earnest instructress in the ac-
complishments. So that there may be
no unnecessary alarm lest the White
House may not be furnished with ITS
proper mistress. DON PEDRO
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 80, 1884
Political economists have gone into
the mathematics OF the Pension Office
and find that we shall be paying pen
sions with good deal of alacrityseven-
tylyaars hence. Thewar has been over
for twenty years, but the retrogresslon
of the pension roll has been anything
but in keeping with the natural de-
crease of that large clase of our popu-
lotion. In fact few die, and none al
low themselves to miss the quarterly
pay day. Since 1861, a little more
than million claims have been filed
with the Pension Office, of which Just
about one-half have already been allow
ed, and last year we went into an out.
lay Of fifty-seven millions of dollars to
meet the pension demand, though il
should be said that thirty thousand of
these last years pensioners were back
pay claimants under the arrears act.
1he actual increase of the pension roll
was nineteen thousand and seventy
eight, and the regular steady augmen-
tation is and has been about one thous.
and tlve hundred new claimants per
month. The whole number of pen
sioners who are actually in receipt OF
pensions is hot so large as has often
been stated, the aggregate being 1872,
756, which includes the widows, chill
dren, relatives, navy, lnyalids, &c., to
say nothing of the survivors of the old
wars and their widows.
We haye paid out almost seven hun
dred millions of dollars for pensions
since 1861, sum that makes the Con-
gressmen who had hand In passing
the first pension act stand aghast. At
the time of the passage of that act no
one dreamed that million men would
be called to arms within the next year.
or within the next ten years, and the
highest estimate then given for pension
claims that the Government would be
called upon to meet in the future was
ten million dollars per annum. Yet
we have in one year paid a hundred
million dollars and do not seem to have
felt the effects of it then or since. Our
surplus revenue is enormous, and we
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On the ocean formed and sandy soil
of falmouth, Mass, which, when clear.
ed ofshrub oaks produced a natural,
but thin and stunted growth Of grasses
and wild flowers, may be found small
tracts Of land that have received fer
tilization from guano or other materials
absolutely free from vegetable seeds,
that produce tolerably thick growth
of red clover. trifolIum pratense, a
small but brilliant variety and yet this
plant is not even indigenous in Amer.
lea. Where does the seed come froml
The above are but a few of the sudden
and mysterious appearances OF unusual
plants, Yet believe Mill nisi ex ovo.
There Is no animal or plant that has
not sprung from from an egg or seed.
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The Origin Of Seeds.

Some common facts and yet none
thessless curious are gwen in the "New
England Farmer" under date OF July
5, by ]. B. Hartwell. He says:
This question has often been dis.
cussed in the pages of the Farmer, "
and elsewhere, but no solution quite
satisfactory has yet been propounded.
In the animal and vegetable kingdoms,
notwithstanding the experiments and
theories OF Bastian, Mill nislx ex ovo,
has generally been accepted as a rigid
law of nature, at least as at present es-
tablished But on the western grassy
pralries of Illinois and Iowa, which fol
many years, perhaps centuries the an
ual fires have denuded and rendered
forest or tree growth impossible, the
writer has seen thick groves of young
walnut trees, which had come up near
ly simultaneously after the land had
been protected from the annual burn.
ings. Where did the nuts come from?
On these same prairies the travelled
ways are first skirted by thick growth
of Mayweed, maruta cotula, which in
few years gives place to white clover,
trifollum rerens, of an equally thick
growth. and yet not specimen of
these plants were found except around
buildings and on travelled ways.
Where did the seed come from!
In Worcester county Mass, on a
sandy soil, which had been cultivated
and pastured hundred years. more
or less, and which perhaps, as In other
known cases, had been occupied by
oak, the writer had seen white pine
growth spring up at once, and become
so dense that the little trees in strug-
Cling for prominence and light, became
as slim as tropical canes, and were
used, without reducing, for fish poles,
and proved to be very good ones.
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.Fifty-tW0 Dividends
The INDEPENDEAT

OF New York, is seknoviedg, tn be what tss D.
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II publishes eschrsek from Twenty-svs ..
Thirty three per cent more reading mater - ~
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vsluabfr Information unclaimed elsewhere ~.
Markets and Financial Reports and enrDms,rt.,
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TBe Christmas st. Nicholas.

John G Whittier opens the Christ
mas 50. Nicholas with a beautiful
poem, entitled "The Light that is
Felt; while Lord Tenuyson Is repre-
sented by charming portrait OF his
two grandchildren, from the painting
oy Anna Lea Merritt, which accom-
panies her interesting paper, "a Talk
About Painting" Another artist
author, Mary Hallock Foote, writes
and illustrates a delightful seaside
article, called "Menhaden Sketches
Summer at Christmas-tlme."
]. 7. Trowbridge contributes new
serial, called" His One Fault" of which
there is an installment that breaks off
just where we all wish to know what
happened next; F. R. STOCKTON, In his
second Personally Conducted paper,
jumps from France to Genoa, with a
graphic description of THE City of the
Bonded Knee; Louisa NJ. Alcott has
another jolly Spinning. wheel Story,
"The Hare and the To, toise, only in
this story the spinning wheel is a
bicycle; and there is one Of H. H. Boy
esen's "Tales of Two Continents The
second part of Among the Law.mak.
ers,' Edmond Atoms recollection of his
term as page in the United States
Senate, is at once amusing and lnstruc-
tive; while "Davy and the Goblin the
serial by Charles Carryl, begun in this
number, Is simple, but very amusing.
1t is story which, while strictly orig
lnal, might have been written by a
collaboration of w. s. Gilbert and the
author Of Alice in the Wonderland. >
Among the distinctlvely Christmas
features are Visiting Santa Claus" a
poem, by Lucy Larcom; another
Christmas poem by Grace F. Coolidge
the Very Little Folks story, aMadie's
Christmas by Mary Mapes Dodge: a
description by Rev. Fl. a. Adams OF
several noted Christmas feasts in West.
minister Hall; and clever little sketch
"What the PHILOSOPHER Said on ChrisC
mas day." by Mrs. w. H. Daniels
There are also poems by H. H., Helen
q. Cone, and Malcolm Douglas; Edna
Dean Proctor contributes a sketch o.
the young Crown Prince of Russia
; with portrait; and c. F. Holder tell:
of a whale that was imprisoned in an
iceberg.
A prominent feature OF this number
of St. Nicholas is beautiful wood
engraving of painting by the Span
+ ish painter Telasquez, which is consld
cred one of the finest chlld-plctures O
the world. 1t Is a portrait of the In
fanta Marguerite Maria. daughter o
King Philip of Spain, who was Velas
guess patron and friend. The engrav
ing. which by permission of the edito,
of The Century appears in st. Nichola
in advance of its publication in tn,
other magazine, is one of series o
engravings from the works of the OLE
masters, now beng made in Europ,
for The Century by Mr.. T. Cole.
, In addition to this pictorial treasure
: the artistic quality of the illustration
in this number is especially fine. r
, b. Birch and G. F. Barnes illustrat
' poems by S Conant Foster and Charlie
I. Congdon in exquisite style: an,
i there are pictorial contributions b,
:, Penuell, Fredericks, Bensel. Roger:
jessie McDermott. and Julia w. Lee
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Child SmOlhered TO Death.

HANNIBAL, Mo-, November go
Mrs. Geo. Walker, a colored woman
smothered her child, two months old,
last night while asleep. About 3
o'clock she changed the baby from one
side of the bed to the other. coveting
it carefully at the time. When she
awoke this morning 1t was cold in
death. Coroner Neidenmeyer viewed
the body, and rendered a verdict IN
accordance with the facts. Mrs. Walk
er has been married but a year and
this was their first child. She and her
husband are distracted with griefat the
tragic accident.
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NOTICE.

sun on the corner southwest OF the Brick stsoa
and devote all my attention TO midwifery and ~
female diseases.
CATHERINE c. DAVIS.
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