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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-10-06
A Dispute about Government Bonds

IHteT tLe VedtH OF W. D. AIken government
bonds amounting to $4,000 were found among his
effects and 1t was claimed that they left with
the mother of the deceased during the war by SOL
der tor safe keeping. Matthew Aiken, the brother
OF the deceased, through his guardian, ". Il. Bar
stow, claimed that he Was entitled to them. and
the father, who had not lived With his wife or fam
lily for some time prior to the mothers death, also
claimed them. The United States claimed that the
bonds escheated to the government, and should
have been turned into the Treasury. To-day the
guardian OF Matthew Aiken, jr.. fled his answer,
denying the right OF the United States the bonds
and claimed them against all other persons than
the nephews OF Mary Ann Davidson, and prayS that
the bonds be restored to him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-10-06

MADAME DE FOREST HAS REMEDY FOR La
N1 dies All female complaints quickly cured Can be
consulted daily at 1245 9TH street northwest Once hou
from TO O'Clock pm, with ladies only. jy22-3ms
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-10-06

~ 81 and 319 9TH street northwest corner street
SPECIAL ACCTION SALE
TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY SECONDHAND VEL
VET, MOQUET. WILTON ADMINISTER, BODY,
TAPESTRY. INGRAM, AND OTHER CARPETS,
AT AUCTION.
On WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER EIGHTH,
at ELEVEN O'CLOCK. viii sell at our spacious
SsesroOms. $50 secondhand Carpets all being IN good
condition. to which respectfully call the ntion Of
buyers. Ocff2t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-10-06

nUNCANSON BROS, Auctioneers
~ 81 and 3l9 9th street northwest. corner D st
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s12 7th Street Northwest near Pa. Ave.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-27
GARRlSONED BY WOMEN.
The Historic Tragedy of a Little Hanllt
in the Carpathian Hills.


A quiet little valley shut in on every
side by dark hills; long, low, many
Widowed building far below, with red
roof and white walls. past which-bare-
" visible at this height-curve the slen-
der iron threads of the railway; paint
ed palisade across the road about one
hundred yards beyond it, marking the
point where the Austrian Empire ends
and the Principally of Roumania COM
mences; a few tiny cottages little
further down the valley (each encircled
by its own pool of filthy which are the
sole representatives of the ''Predeal'
that make such a figure in the local
maps. Probably not one foreigner in a
hundred has ever heard of even the
name of Predeal, but among the native
population it has gained an imperisha-
bic renown from the memory of a great
crime and fearful tragedy. When the
armies of Russia came swarming
through the Carpathian Passes in 1919,
to crush by sheer weight of numbers
the gallant Hungarians whose valor
had swept away the clustering tyranny
of Austria like chaff before the whirl-
wind, it was by way of Predeal and the
Tomos Gorge that the destroyerS adj
vanced upon the doomed town of Kezd
VaSarhely. But even these grim sol
diers were chilled with a nameless hor-
TOR at the first sight of the town. Not
living soul was to be seen. Every
house was fast shut and barred. and
ho III ii
toll of the church bell, which seemed to
be lamenting over the dead. And well
it might, for every man of the popula-
ton had fallen in the lost battle of the
morning, and the houses were garri-
soned only by women and children,
who had sworn not to survive the ruin
of their country. Shaking off their first
terror, the soldiers began to force the
doors of the nearest houses. and the
final tragedy began. Every house be-
came 4 fortress, from which stones,
boiling oil and scalding water rained
down upon the asSailants, heaping the
fOrsaken streets with the dying and the
dead. Savage yells, shrieks of anguish
and the ceaseleSs crackle of muSketry
filled the outer air, while the mournful
bell doomed drearily through the up
roar; but those within fought in stern
silence, neither giving nor asking mer-
cy. Till nightfall this superhuman
combat ragged, and then the wearied
slayers began to hope that their work
was done. But just then a shower of
tire-brands, cast from the church
tower overhead. by the crippled boy
who had tolled the death-knell, fired the
dry roofs of the houses, and the whole
town was soon one red and roaring
blaze, in which victors and vanquished
persisted together. -PhiL0deLphia Press.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-27
Postal Points.

WASHINGTON, November 24.-The an
nual report of the First Assistant Post
master-General shows: Number of post
offices established during the year 3,514 an
increase of 161 over the preceding year.
Number discontinued $50, decrease OF
361 and a net increase of 522, The whole
number of pOstoffices on June So 1854 was
50,011 an increase of 2,154; number filled
by Presidential appointment, :, 1922: number
filled by PoStmaster-General,4 7,694, Dur
in the year 1853 pOStmasters were ap-
pointed. The net increase Of
pOSt-oflices during the year was much larger
than any increase for several years past
The increase was divided among sections
as follows: New England States 40, five
Middle States 225, fourteen Southern States
and the Indian Territory 1,O7O, ten States
and six Territories, West and Northwest
707, and three States and three Territories
of the Pacific slope 104. The great
est increase in any of the States
and Territories was 156 in Texas.
The, increase in North Carolina was 126.
and in Pennsylvania 124. The only de-
crease was in New Mexico. Comparing the
number of pOstOffices in the different States
in order, the six highest, June 80, was
Pennsylvania, 1910; New York, 3,122;
OnlO, q, 'Uf; IIllnOlS. :, 10Y; virginia, l,933,
and Missouri, 1,96S. OF the territories,
Dakota had the largest number, SIT,
exceeding the number in either Massa-
chusettS, Maryland or South Carolina. 1t
recommended that the free delivery system
be extended to places of ten thousand in
habitants, provided the postal revenue
amounts to $4,000 yearly. The attention
OF Congress is invited to the Importance Of
erecting buildings for post offices IN all
cities of twenty thousand inhabitants and
unwardS
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-27

rights when endangered by aggregated
capital, and ell statutes on this subject
should recognize the care of the State
for honest toll, and b, framed with a
view of improving the condition of the
workingman. These were Cleveland 5
declarations before he became Gov
ernor.
Almost his first act rs Governor was
to appoint the Railroad Commission q
one Republican, one Democrat anti one
representative of anti-monopoly. He
took an early opportunity TO urge a
greater publicity OF all corporation pro-
ceedings, by requiring lG;nute and fire.
quent reports, that the public may
know how their funds are spent, and
said the State should provide way ''by
which the Squandering or misuse of COR
porate funds should be made good to
the parties injured" He passed every
bill but one of the seven introduced into
the Legislature last year by the State
Trades Assembly, including the aboli-
ton of convict contract labor and the
establishment of Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics. The bill he vetoed was the bill
to regulate the hours of labor of con-
ductOrS and drivers of New York City
horse-cars, his reason being solely that
it would not accomplish the object de-
sired. 1t will be found that in every in
stance where he has disapproved bill
desired in the interest of labor, it has
been from his faithfulness to another
strong and worthy trait of his charac-
ter, his uncompromising thOroughness,
1t shows also his absolute disregard for
his own personal interests, which could
have been so easily served by signing
this and other defective bills.
In short, wherever we follow Gov
ernor Cleveland, we find genuineness,
thoroughness, courage, subordination
of self, high sense of public honor and
honesty, and conscience for the serv-
ice of the people. He said at the
Buffalo semi-centennial in 1882: I'VE
boast of our citizenship tonight. But
this citizenship brings with it duties
not unlike those we owe our neighbor
and our God" He has been faithful
TO this high conception of the citizens
responsibilities faithful already in
great things, and he has shown the
capacity and the conscience to be faith
full in the greatest things the Nation
has to employ its servants with
Springfield (NdSS.) Republican.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-27

died. John Rally, as nice a little gen.
tlenan, apparently. as ever walked, and
who could walk right away with the
confidence of people you would never
think could be taken in, died in the har-
ness. In the character OF a drover who
had been robbed he worked on the syn.-
patty of an old farmer on an Erie train,
in the vicinity of Hornellsville, and got
one hundred dollars out of him Before
the poor drover could get away with his
booty the farmer was informed of the
swindle. He necked John as he stood
on the platform of the car waiting for
the train to slow up as it entered Addi-
son, and the two fell off the train. John
fell in under the wheels and was cut into
a hundred pieces. His family was prom
inent in a border Pennsylvania county,
where his father was Judge.
ut is singular fact that nine out OF
ten of the swindlers who operate on
railroads are not the graduates of New
York city schools of genteel crime. as
one would naturally suppose them to be,
but are natives of the country along the
lines. Thus, on the Erie, some of the
most expert operators belonged in Bing-
hamton, Elmira, Waverly, Port JerviS,
HOrnellsyille, and similar places. From
all ever saw, think these country
sharpers can work way around the New
York swindler. They presume ON their
knowledge of the country ard acquaint-
ance with railroad employees, not few
of whom, in the old days, were well feed
by the sharpers. The most of the opera
tors were liberal, good-hearted fellows,
and a good many instances are remem-
bered of their generosity in time of need.
L remember once brakeman was killed
on road | was then running on, and
as he had left family in desti-
tute circumstances the boys were
A - subscription % list was being
handed around at the station one day,
and a pious-looking gentleman who was
waiting for train said he would do
something for the dead mans family.
He subscribed Cash, fifty dollars l
afterward learned that the pious-loOking
gentleman was none other than the no.
torious John Baily.
But, while once in a while some
green OF Over-credulous person is now
adays plucked on railroad trains. the
confidence business is almost played
out. Besides the fact that the games
are now all well known, the railroad
companies took the matter in hand a
few years ago and made it too warm
for the sharpers to work either with
comfort or profit. Several of the oper-
atOrs who came on some ten years or so
ago are row in prison, and it is a bold
member of the fraternity who ventures
TO work passenger train on through
Eastern roads nowadays. IN. y
Times
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-27
NOT A BEGGAR.
How an Impecunious Fellow Raised the
Wind In Detroit.

Wind in Detroit.
Gentlemen" he began in smooth
molasses sort of voice, Il am dead
broke but no beggar. want to raise
about three dollars, but / shall do it in
legitimate manner. Now, then, lei
me ask you to inspect this
He took from his pocket a piece Of
iron chain as large as his thumb and
containing six links and passed il
around. After it had carefully been in.
spected by each of the party lie con
tinued:
Il want to bet my overcoat, which is
certainly worth so, against So in cash
that none of You can separate one link
from the others"
! The piece of chain was passed around
again to be more closely scrutinized,
and finally one of the party, who was a
machinist. returned it with the remark
And L want to put up that sum
against your overcOat that you can't dc
it yourself" ..f
"Done!" said the stranger as he pulled
off his coat.
Coat and cash were put up in the
hands of stakeholder, and the stranger
asked the group 10 follow him. He
walked across the street and into q
blacksmith shop, and picking up 9
hammer and cold-chisel he deliberately
cut out link. The crowd stood around
like so many pumpkins at a county
fair, but when the stranger held up the
link and claimed the stakes the ma
chinist recovered his wits sufficiently tc
eXclaim:
sold by a professional deadbeat
The money is yours, old fellow, but in
exactly thirty seconds after you receive
it L shall begin to kick, and you had
better be twenty rods Off,
''Thanks-glad to have met you
good day!'' replied the stranger, and he
was out of sight in seven seconds.-Dc.
tr0it Free Press.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-27
Killed BY the Cars.

WALTIAM, MASS, November 22.-Miss
Grace Coolidge, pretty fifteen-year-OId
girl, and member of the Waltham High
Sch bl, was killed by the cars at the Bleach
cry tatiOn, on the Fitchburg Railroad, this
morning. Her home is located not tar from
the sta ion, and about mile and Onehalf
frOp the school building. 1t had been her
custom to take the train and ride to- the
Waltham Station, which is only short dis
tance from the school. This morning she
started from her home about eight o'clock,
the usual time. and went 10 the station.
There she remained until the train was
starting, when she rushed out and sprang
abroad, stepping upon Che lower step of the
smoking car platform. Her hand lost hold
of the rail and she was thrown around and
fell upon the track. The wheels passed
over the top of her head, crushing in the
skull, and her body was also badly mangled,
death being instantaneous. Her body was
taken to her late home and the sad news
was carried to her father, j. f. Coolidge,
who is an Overseer in the bleachery. Her
mothers health has been failing of late and
it is feared the present shock will affect her
mind. The girl is highly spoken of by her
teacher as a bright. intelligent, promising
student. She had many friends and the
news of the sad accident caused the deepest
sadness in the school community. The
conductor of the train, Mr.. TOwne, was
upon the car platform close by, but could
not save the girl from falling.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-27
The Manicure's Art.

The Partisan fashion of having a pro
fcssional manicure polish and point the
-finger-nails has become surprisingly
prevalent in New York. At the best
known establishment in town there are,
besides the proprietreSs. about a dozer
young women assistants. The pa.
tieat'' on his arrival is shown into a re-
ception room, elegantly furnished,
where he awaits his turn. When it ar
rives he is ushered into the operating
room and placed in an easy chair WIFI
a table attachment, on which are Jars
brushes, sponges, files and various lit
tie ivory implements. The finger-tips
are first soaked in cologne water, then
covered alternately with salve and
powder. Then follows the polishing.
filing and shaping. The whole per.
Torrance lasts about an hour and costs
one dollar. When it is finished the pa
TENT, nails are fit objects for preserva,
ton n'thes Smitsonian Institution.
Y.sMaR ana Cypress. HIS
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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-27
CleveIand's Election.

The election of Mr.. Cleveland over
Mr.. Blaine is significant of many things,
but of none more conspicuously than
these: 1t is protest against the stock
jObber, the money-maker and the mo-
nOpolist in politics, a declaration in
favor of plain, honest and economical
government, and a notification to all
demagOgueS, no matter whence they
come, that the present generation of
men are not to be swayed by issues that
are dead, but by questions that live
Mr.. Blaine entered this canvass heavily
weighted. He appeared on the stump
in defense of the existing order of
things. Policies known to be vicious
found in him an ardent defender.
Without one word from him from the
beginning to the end of the canvass in
favor of good government or condem-
nation of rings, jObbers and mOnopO-
lists, he appealed to none of the better
impulses of the people and contented
himself with attempts to play on race,
religious and sectional prejudices. The
failure of his campaign Should stand as
warning forever, not only to aspiring
and characterless men, but to parties
and people as well.
The politician who does not take note
of these things is far from shrewd. The
defeat of Mr.. Blaine is due to the popu-
lar impression that we have gone far
enough in the direction toward which
we are now headed. The campaign
against him has been bitterly personal,
but it had to be so from the very nature
of the case. Not one of the serious
charges brought against him was a
campaign invention. All were matters
of record long ago, and in consequence
of the Republican belief in them his at
tempts to secure the nomination of his
party twice failed. He finally secured
Presidency. Some of the men who have
been most vehement in unfolding Mr.
Blaines innocence will within a fort
night be found abusing him, his record
and his canvass. but such is practical pol
itics, and nothing else is ever expected
Mr.. Blaine has been defeated because
he has not given one intelligent reason
why he should be elected. He has ap-
pealed to prejudice and not to common
sense. He has unwittingly. perhaps.
but none the less thoroughly, shown
himself 10 the people in his true char
scter-that of a smart and unscrupu-
lous man. With him are sent to the
background some of the most unwhole-
some politicians and schemers this coun-
try has ever produced. Ii the Republic
an party will profit by its defeat, and the
Democratic party by the lessons which
its victory carries with it the people will
rot have occasion to regret the change
they have made Chicago Herald.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-27

'There are two occasions when a mar
should not speak," said old Sam John.
son, turning to Boswell. ..--
What are those occasions, Colonel
excuse me, 1 mean Doctor? Thought
we lived in Arkansaw. l ask what are
those occasions?" taking out his note.
book.
Lone is when he has nothing to say"
Yes" said Boswell, taking down the
remark. -
''And the other is. when he has just
said what he has had to say"
WISDOM" muttered Boswell, reach
ing for his pencil, which had fallen on
the floor. '.May ask, Doctor, who was
the most discreet man of speech you
ever knew" -rarR IN
Yes. His name was anderson Hay.
ley. Used to haul cross-ties out in Sa-
line County.
I'm what way was he so discreet OF
speech, Doctor?
I'm never saying anything that should
notsbe said ~
Ibid he never, in a moment of forget
fulness, speak without mature delibera-
tion?' ~
''Sir, he never did"
"a most remarkable man."
''Sir, not necessarily; he was dumb
IrdrcleT.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-27
FURIOUS FLAMES.
Burning of the st. Louis Opera House
The Total Damage.

Burning of the st. Louis Opera House
The Total Damage.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, November 24.-At $3.50
p. m. FIRE was discovered in the box Office
Of the Grand Opera House on Market
street, between Fifth and Sixth streets,
near heater. An alarm was turned
supposed the flames could be con-
fined to the front Of the building but
they spread rapidly, and within ten min
uteS had spread to the roof The fire
men worked energetically, but the fire
spread in spite of their efforts and soon
reached the stage where 1t licked up the in
tiammable scenery with an irresistible
power. The engine was driven from the
building by the binding smoke and within
an hour afterward the whole interior was
Quilted. The building is complete wreck
Minnie Madden closed Saturday night,
and Nat c. Goodwin was to have opened
at night in Confusion, Both COM
panies saved all their baggage All OF
GoOdwin's baggage was in the theater, bus
was promptly taken out as soon as the
alarm was turned in.
HISTORY OF THE HOUSE.
The original building was built in 1852 by
a stock company and opeued under the
management OF ". NJ. Field. In 1860 IL
passed into the hands of George
beagle and George ID. Martin, who's
held it until 1872, when it passed.
into the hands of A. B. Wakefield and
StlsOn Hutchins, the present editor of the
Washington Post. and was remcdeled and
called Wakefield's opera house. Ben De-
Bar took it in 1878 and called it DeBar's
opera house. John w. Norton, the present
manager, became DeBar's business manager
in 1875, and after DeBar's death, became sole
manager. In 1881 the house was entirely re-
built by Pierre Chouteau, and was opened
August 20, 1881. by j. X. Emmett in
Fritz" with John W. Norton manager and
proprietor, and George McAlannus treasurer,
who was succeeded this season by
George Hener, formerly assistant treasurer
of the Olympic. The latter theater
amp opera house pooled their earnings.
Total loss, S115,OOO; fully covered by in
surance. The fire originated in a pile OF
rubbish in the cellar under the box Office
The house will be rebuilt by Norton and
Charles A. Spaulding of the Olympic.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-27
The First Bank.

1t is one of the most remarkable Of
phenomena that the first bank ever es-
tablished won a success unequaled il
later times. The Bank of Venice had
its orr gin in III from a forced public
loan, raised to fit fleet, and is the first
appearance of a public funded debt.
Every citizen was obliged to contribute
the one-hundredth part of his posses
sions. The persons assessed were then
organized as a chamber of loans for
their common protection and for the re-
ceipt of the yearly interest of four per
centum. Subsequently its creditors
were permitted to transfer their claims
in whole or in part. The Government,
finding that these transfers We're in de-
mand, reduced the rates of interest until
no interest was paid. Afterward it sold
cash Inscriptions of credit on its books.
These inscriptions cost gold, but were
not convertible into gold. As 4 matter
of fact, although termed bank, its
issues were Government paper, and its
business was carried on solely for the
benefit of the public treasury. This
bank is still one of the foremost fipan-
cial Institutions in the world. For two
hundred years the Bank of Venice stood
alone.-AlJdnU Times
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-27
Explosion of a Gas Well.

CLEVELAND, o., November 24.-Tbe
gas well of Hon. J. NJ. Poe, five miles west
of Cleveland, exploded yesterday, and seri-
ously burned the engineer, John Keith, and
his assistant, Slvanus Fink. One of the
visitors at the well carelessy placed an old
straw hat over the six-inch stream
of gas as it issued from the
well. This turned the stream toward the
engine fires, and in an instant the whole
volume of gas exploded with terrific re-
port. Fink was thrown down a ravine q
distance of forty feet, and score of men
standing near were thrown from their feet
The well was burning last night, sending
beautiful blue flame twenty-five feet in the
air, which could be seen reflected ten miles
distant. Large crowds of people are visit
ing the scene day and night The vein is
at a distance of $50 feet below the surface,
and the gas is sufficient to supply light and
heat for all of West Cleveland.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-27
THANKSGIVING GUESTS.

Not one. not one. is here
OF all who came
Eager, from many ways.
Bearing my fathers namo.
a table scantly set,
A plate, a cup-nay, nay!
'Twere not meet thus 10 keep
Thanksgiving Day. a
A chair, a place for all
Who used to come.
Is il not still. as once,
The children's home?
They will look down on mo
And smile and say:
She still remembers, on
Thanksgiving Day.
And when the board is set
With fruits and meat,
Not hard it is to FIJI
Each vacant seat.
They come not back, and yet
/ have "alYay"
Gods poor to fill their place,
Thanksgiving Day.
-CIrS. ". r. Butts, in S. S. Times.