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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-06-14

FIQUE SCARFs, Tor sc, ct Auerbach & Bro s, G.
Penn. aVC.
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LundbOrs's Perfume, Eden1a co
LundbOrg's Perfume, Marechal Mel Rose. 60
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Rurnett,s Coc0ains

Extra Silk Laces Given
with all Bicycle Shirts at Auerbachs 18th and 81. go
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SECOND FLOOR.

5000 JERSEYS for ladies and children. 1900 PARA.
SOILS and SUN UMBRELLAS. Having contracted
for these last January. enabled 70 sell them
cheaper at retail than some merchants buy them %
Wholesale. We are selling beautiful Satin Coach.
ing Umbrella at 81 Is. gilt ribs. worth much mora
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-06-14

GREAT BARGAIHS III Shoes. Assignee's SALE
ITOtts Old stanG. 42e III street northwest. {.
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Cold Milwaukee Beer.
Served in old English stone mugs, at JoHNSoNs 440
9Th street northwest. 5
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-21

--MHHH EEHMa A.
Anthony Thompson, one Of the last
Of the old colored slaves in New Jersey.
died on Tuesday at his house in West
Orange. He was wei known Iii Essex
County. He was tall, powerfully built,
and had great strength and endurance.
His great-grandmother was queen of an
African tribe, and his grandmother
when q young girl was stolen by slave
traders and brought to this country.
Thompson was born at Raritan, N. s.,
in 1898, his mother being q slave in the
family of Rev. DR.. Philip Duryea, pas
tor of the Dutch Reformed Church of
that place. While he was an infant his
mother was sold to Samuel M. Ward Of
Cranetown, now Mont Clair, by Mr..
Duryea, who removed to Little Falls In
1922. Mr.. Ward died, and in his will
gave Anthony his freedom, but re-
quested that he should remain with
Mrs. Ward during her lifetime. She
died In 1928, and Thompson then be-
came hts master. His mother
about this time was sold by auction and
was bought by her son for 500. In
1888 he moved to Orange and bought q
small place on Washington street, East
Orange, and lived there until 1886,
when he removed 10 Orange. AT nine
teen years of age he joined the Presby-
terrain church, and was always IN earn
est Christian and greatly respected.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-21

In Potter's American Monthly we
find an umusing instance Of how wit
was ontwitted.
An Irishman, who had provided him.
self with q huge horse-pistol, and taxi
ell to the road" to replenish his OK,
chequer, met Q farmer returning from
market with a bag of money.
"Your money or your lifelp demand
ed Pat, presenting the pistol in the
usual way.
The farmer CHANGED TO be a Quaker,
and he essayed to temporize. !
would not have thee stain thy soul with
sin, friend" said he; "and didst thou
kill me, it would be murder. But holdi
A bargain is no sin, but q m be-
tween two honest men. / will give
thee this bag of gold for the pistol
which thou holdest at my ear"
The unsuspecting amateur highway
man made the exchange without a NOM
ent's hesitation,
"Now, friend, : cried the willy Epharim
dwelling the weapon. give me back
my gold, or I'll blow thy brains out!'
Blaze away. thin, darlint!" said Pat.
Sure, there's niyer a dhrop Of powth-
or in It'll"
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-21

]. That infectious diseases generally
are due to filth in some form-most Of
them directly to diverse kinds Of micro
scopic plants Cbacteria) which gain en-
trance into the system through the lungs
or the stomach. Invading the wonder
fui laboratories Of ffiHfe,ais n.an;.es
imal ~cells.-they disorganize these just
as the yeast-plants, multiplying TO
countless millions, disorganize every
particle of the dough-or would do SO,
if not themselves killed BY the heat Of
the oven.
2. Remember that the best preserya-
tive against them is high health, which
either digests them in the stomach, or
repels them from gaining a foothold,
and eliminates them from the system.
g.. Remember that the next best pre-
servatiye against infectious diseases'is q
free and strong circulation of pure air
through the house from cellar to attic.
The danger is when large numbers of
bacteria gain admittance. There is
slight probability that a foothold will
DC Saikitu DJ tftbc mtautrS when tutlK
number is comparatively few.
4. Remember that in our cities and
large towns the sewers, constantly re-
ceiving the excreta OF the sick, are never
free from infectious bacteria; that these
readily pass up into dwellings through
every open connecting pipe; that these
pipes should be kept closed when not in
use; and that they should, in no case,
enter u sleeping-room but into a well.
ventilated w~ater-cioset.
8. Remember that, in the country,
wells are dangerous when they are
within one hundred feet of q privy or
cesspool.
g.. Remember that while boiling may
purify infected water, mere altering
never renders il safe.
4. Remember all w~ater-closets, cess
pools, etc. should be frequently dis
infected, copporas (suIphate Of iron) be-
ing a good and cheap disinfectant for
..he purpose.
s. That q deodorizer is not neces
sarily D d~isia5ectant. We may kill q
bad smell, and not kill the bacteria.
Youths Companion.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-21

The altogether unparalleled feat of
building 100 freight cars in nine hours
was performed in the freight-car shops
of the Pullman Palace Car Company, at
Pullman, recently: The cars were fats,
and formed part of an order for the
Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific rail.
way Company, who desired to have
them delivered as o as possible. The
task was accomplished without any spe.
cial extra preparation. The work was
laid out, " as usual, on Saturday-that
is, five sets Of wheels and axles were
placed on each of the seven tracks used
in the work, and the materials for each
of the cars were placed along the tracks
sounded at seven .. m. the men went to
work, OF the twenty-nine gangs, rs
consisted of four men each, but the best
gang had one man short, because of
sickness. The three men preferred to
do the work themselves rather than take
ON q fourth hand. The first completed
car was turned out at 9:15 A. NJ, and
the first lot of IL completed cars was
pulled out of the shop at 0:40 A. NJ.
The hearty interest felt by all the men
in the contest was shown by the cheers
that rang along the lines when this first
finished lot began to move out of the
shop. At A p. NJ, the floors were being
laid OF the last two or three of the 100
ears. It is within 5ourIGs 20 say that
The whole number was finished by 5 p.
NJ, and by 6 P. NJ. "a of them were let
tered and reeIy to ship. The remain
ing rs were lettered and shipped during
the next Lar .-Railway Age.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-21
A Reformed Rrigand's Fate.
From the Boston Advertiser.

From the Boston Advertiser.
In the Mexican department of the
Institute Fair is a superb saddle, about
which cling all the associations Of a
tragic 1t is ~splendidly
mounted with silver, its pommel bear
ing in large letters the monogram ga.
Co.; and it is accompanied by q bride
of which the reins are beautiful tubular
chains, SO cunningly and ~intricately
wrought that our goldsmiths cannot
compass the secret of their manufac-
ture. The silver of which these orna-
ments were made was plundered from
churches and shrines by the most fa-
nous of modern Mexican bandits, An
tonic Cajaho, and he is said to have
paid about $500 for the making of the
equipage. Antonio was an ideal bandit,
quite the noble robber of romance, and,
melted by mingled respect Tor his
prowess and despair of outwitting him,
the Mexican Government offered him a
full pardon and an official position in
the army if he would fopsake his life of
brigandage. The bandit accepted this
grace, not being required, apparently.
to disgorge even that wealth which he
had acquired by bold sacrilege. His
band, however, could not forgive this
desertion, and lying in wait for the re-
formed brigand, shot him as he rode
down the mountain path, sitting In this
very saddle.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-21
The Providence for Drunkards.

Drunkards enjoy a remarkable inls
munity from the consequences Of iniu-
ries. One sometimes sees a drunken
man pitched violently from q horse,
and when the ~by-standeys rush to the
spot, expecting to find him dead, they
are astonished to discover that he has
been little injured. In his "Scran.bles
Among the High Alps" Leslie Stephen
tells the story of q guide who while
drunk fell over q precipice so deep that
q fall over it seemed almost certain
death, and yet sustained little injury.
Stephen accordingly gives his readers
the advice either not ofall over q preci-
pice or to get thoroughly drunk before
doing so. / myself once saw q man
who had thrown himself while drunk
oyer the Dean bridge, in Edinburgh, a
height of about 200 feet, on the rocky
bed OF the stream below. A sober man
would have been instantly killed, but
this individual, though he had broken
both his thigh bones, quickly recov-
cred The reason Of this immunity
probably is that the nerve centres,
which regulate the heart and vessels,
are so much paralyzed in the drnlken
man as not to be affected by the shock
Of the fall, which id d sober man would
have acted on them so v~ioleFtly as to
stop the heart, arrest the circulation
and cause instant death. The Book Of
Health-Morris.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-21

good naturally joking with a hickman
down in the dusty road below. "Driye
me to Mr.. Fox's," he said, Il want to
see the boy
Poor old Uncle Ned; his is a wonder
Iul record. But steam in the engine of
hls life is slowly cooling out, and the
last brake must soon be applied. One
TACT about his life is that he has always
been sober.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-21

The deepest sea-sounding ever made
was in the Pacific Ocean in 1874, near
the entrance to Behring's Sea. The
depth was 1885 fathoms and the cast
was made from the United States ship
Tuscarora. The shallowest water IN
the middle OF the Atlantic, 73I fathoms.
shows the existence OF submarine
mountains 1896 feet nigh
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-03
Investigation as a Duty.

Congress has been three months in
session. Long before its organization
it was known. on the testimony of Re-
publicanS who had been participants in
some OF the acts, that Indiana had been
purchased in 1880 by an enormous cor
ruption fund raised to save the Repub-
lican party after the defeat in Maine;
that United States Judgeships had been
sold in advance for $1,000 in cash by
the Republican candidate for President;
that a Cabinet position had been pledged
TO New York banker as his reward
for raising the Indiana corruption fund,
and that the election in New York had
cen purchased in the same year by "a
golden stream from Stephenson's bank"
1t was known that the present Presi-
dent of the United States, while Vice
President-elect. had boosted at a BAN
quet given in honor of ex-senator Dor
sey that Indiana had been carried by
soap"
These are the worst crimes that could
be committed against republican gov
eminent. They strike at its very exist
ence. They strike the United States
Supreme Court, the final arbiter of the
Constitution, of its purity and indie
pendence, and rob the people of the
right of sovereignty.
Yet the Democratic majority of the
House of Representatives has remained
for three months inactive and appar-
emily Indifferent and has made ne at
tempt to investigate these Infamous
crimes and to hold up their perpetrators
to public indignation.
In the course of the regular business
of OngreSs the Committee on Expendi-
lures in the Department o; Justice have
found it necessary to investigate the eX-
lenses and methods of the Star-route
prosecutions. Incidentally they have
stumbled on some Sailing facts,
President Garfield Republican At
torney General has told them that he
left the Cabinet, after Garfeld's muir
der. because President Arthur and his
advisers were in sympathy with the pub
lie robbers. and no one DESTROYS of an
honest prosecution could receive any
moral support from tie Adm'histra-
ton.
President Garlield's Postmaster-G Gen
eral has said that Garfield was probably
murdered because of his prosecution of
the Star-route thieves, and that in his
belief the Attorney-General and Post
master General were also marked for
assassination.
Do not these incidental revelations
prove the necessity and the duty of
searching Congressional Investigations?
N y World
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-03
Her Last Resort.

The other day when old Pungleup,
the grain merchant, went home to
lunch he was surprised to find an I'M
usual number of wet umbrellas on
the rack. so he assembled 10 his wife 8
room and said:
Anybody in the parlor, nv dear!"
Yes. dearest" replied his better
half. who WAS putting the finishing
touches to an elaborate toilet. "YeS,
dearest, quite lot of people. There S
the doctor, an expressman, a hackman,
Il grocery clerk, telegraph repairef,
and nine messengers in the parlor."
what on earth are they here for?'
"Well, you see, lovey, my new plush
and rep princess came home five DAYS
ago, and it has been doing nothing but
rain ever since I've stood it Just as
long as could, and so when it raineG
again to day l Just rang for everybody
on the telegraph indicator, so 1 could
have somebody to show it to. Isn't il
too lovely for anything" aud, with an
expeetant smile, she rustled doxn.
stairs. Francisco Post.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-03
SAD SUICIDE.
A st. Louis Girl Ends Her Disgrace IN
the River.

A Sc. Louis Girl Ends Her Disgrace IN
the River.
ST. LOUIS, March pa crowd of boat
men, out enjoying fine weather yesterday
afternoon, found the body of young CIR
floating along with the tide. They brought
it ashore and had it conveyed to the morgue
where it was soon identified as the remainS
of Mary Weilde, young girl Of
seventeen, who disappeared from her home
No. $40 South Second street, a few day,
ago. She was in love with baker named
Theodore Steber, and it seems that he
decoyed her from her home, seduced her
and then placed her in lodgings of his OWE
where she remained for quite while, he
promising right along that he would marry
her. One day the girl reappeared at her
fathers home, She was in great distress,
crying as though her heart would break, and
telling her mother between her sobs and
tears that she had been ruined and
then deserted. She said she had nothing
left to live for and that she was going
to the river bank to drown herself. Before
the girls mother had time to tender word
of consolation the unfortunate turned and
fled from the house. Her mother ran after
her, crying out to her daughter to stop and
come back to her old home Several took
up the cry, and there were soon fifteen or
twenty enlisted in the chase, 1t was Just af
ter dark. but the girl was to be seen run
ming full speed down Popular street
The crowd followed and were catching
up with her, when she crossed the levee
railroad tracks just in front of an engine
which was pulling long freight train. The
latter shut out the girls pursuers, and when
it passed she was nowhere to be seen. Some
thought she had carried out her threat, but
the girls parents hoped that she still lived
until yesterday, when the river gave up its
dead
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-03
A Savage Negroes.

BALTIMORE, Md, March PA special
from Norwood, Stanley County, n c.,
gives details of terrible crime committed
there by malicious cOlOred girl. Thursday
night Captain d. n. Bennett, prominent
citizen, member Of the late North Carolina
Legislature, and brother to Congressman b.
T. Bennett, accompanied by his wife, went
out visiting, leaving their little ten-months'-
old baby in charge of its colored nurse,
Sallie Crump, aged Is. Having to take
care of the child prevented the girl from
attending a jollifcation she had an
ticipated going 70, which so angered
her that in spite she deliberately
poisoned her helpless charge by forcing down
its throat a large dose of the yermin poison
known as Rough on Rats" When the
parents returned they found their little one
very ill and in terrible pain. The physicians,
summoned at once, pronounced it poison,
but failed to relieve the baby, which died in
great agony few hours later. A post
mortem showed the true cause of death.
The nurse was at once arrested, and has
confessed the crime, giving as her excuse
that she was tired of carrying it around
She is now in Jail, which it is necessary to
keep closely guarded, as the colored people
are so incensed against her that they ara
making threats Of lynching
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-03
A New York Fire.

NEW YORK, March 24.-The factory of
the Electric Candle Company and a lard
refinery, corner of Fourteenth street and
Thirteenth avenue, were destroyed by IRE
Saturday night. Loss 100000, nothing
being saved; insured in forty odd companies
for S15O,O0O. A stock company had control
of the candle factory, of which 3. K. Thur
Der is President The fire originated in the
cnOper-shOp, on the third floor, and spread
with extraordinary rapidity. There
was only a Waterman in the building
when the fire broke out. Two
dull explosions preceded the discovery of the
fire. The building had been on fire twice
before this winter, bu: a confiagratiOn had
been prevented by prompt measures. The
cause of the fire is unknown. The building
was filled with new ard valuable machinery
and estimated to be worth with stock and
all, 100000. Loss of William II. POphaIn
& Co., $4,000. The saloon Of OCOnnor Il
MOller, West Fourteenth street, was also
destroyed; loss $1,000, insured FOR $1,000
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-03
POETRY AND THE POOR.

!" The world is very beautiful said,
As yesterday, beside the trimming stream,
Glad and alone, l watched the tremulous
gieam
Slant thro' the wintry wood, green-carpeted
With moss and fern and curving bramble-
And bronze the thousand russell margin
reeds,
And in the sparkling holly CLINT and play,
And kindle all the brier's flaming seeds.
:" The world is very horribleI' sigh,
As, in my wonted ways to-day thread
Chill streets, deformed with dim monotony,
Hiding strange mysteries of unknown dread,
The reekIng court, the GREATNESS feVer-den,
The haunts where things unholy throng and
brood;
Grim crime, the fierce despair of strong
armed men,
Child-infamy, and shameless womanhood.
And men have looked upon this piteous
Blank lives unYisited by beautys spell
And said: Let be; it is not meet to bring
Dreams of sweet freedom to the prison cell.
Sing them no songs of things all bright and
Paint them no visions of the glad and free.
Lest with purged sight their miseries they
And, thro' vain longings, pass to blank
despair"
o brother, treading ever darkening ways,
o sister, whelmed in ever deepening care,
Would God we might unfold before your gaze
Some vision of the pure, and true and fair.
Better to know, tho sadder things be known,
Better to see, tho tears half blind the sight,
Than thraldom te the sense, and heart of
stone.
And horrible contentment with the night.
o! bring we then all sweet and gracious
things
To touch the lives that lie so chill and drear,
That they may dream of some diviner
sphere,
Whence each soft ray of love and beauty
springs.
Each good and perfect gift is from above;
And there is healing for Earth direst woes:
God hath unsealed the springs of light and
love-
To make the desert blossom as the rose.
The Spectator.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-03
A Frenzied Farmer.

PETERSBURG, Ill, March 24.-Saturday
night one HOuIdon, farmer, living some
miles south, quareled with his wife, knocked
her down with an axe and cut her throat
from ear to ear, and inflicted numerous stabs
in her breast. He also severely cut in the
hand her son, aged twelve, who attempted
to interfere He went to neighboIing straw
stack, where he gashed his own throat
though not fatally. He was found and
arrested by posse yesterday. There ara
threats Of lynching.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-03


If any one expected fashionable
gathering it was simply because thew
did not know their host and hostess
very well. The great, comfortable
house was full of guests, but they were
mostly people of the Weather5y stamp;
good, plain, sensible souls, who did not
90 through life junketing and dancing,
so they carried into any occasion of en-
ioyment in which they participated an
almost childish zest. And all the ladies
purred over that blessed baby, and all
the gentlemen button-hOled the Captain
and made him tell the story over.
Found it on the doorstep. you say;
found it on the doorstep? How very
remarkablen'
And in that very boat-basket. /
mean-grounded, as it were, at nv
feet-the prettiest wave that ever struck
the shoals for me-my eyes, sir!'
1t was hard to recognize the baby IN
its pink slip and coral ornaments, but
harder to recognize the basket, for it
was one mass of flowers and, tied with
rose-pink ribbons, looked as gay as a
peacock.
There was only one thing that came
near marring the perfect enjoyment Of
the occasion. 1t was when the min
ister. pale, slight intellectual-looking
young man, stepped forward to begin
the ceremony in which the ''wave" was
to have a Christian name, and Captain
Weatherby called out:
"Ship ahoyr'
The good man stopped and looked
perplexed.
"Stow the prayers, parson," said the
Captain; ''short services on this ship, il
you please"
The minister smiled and the cere>
mony proceeded, and all the prayers
and remarks of the occasion were con-
densed by the celebrant into a single
quotation:
when my father and mother for
sake me, then the Lord will take me
up." Mrs. NJ. L Rayne, IN Detr0:t
Free Press.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-03
Both DuelIsrs Killed.

MATAMoRAs, MEXICO, March "a duel
was fought Friday morning at the Rancho
Mexa deLeon,n near Haijusne. fifty miles south
of MatamOras, between Juan Diaz, a noted
desperate, dangerous and drunk, and one Of
the privates in the company of guards COM
manded by Captain Fernandez The duel
lasted some time, nine shots being fired, and
both Of the principals being killed in the
FIRE.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-03

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA, March ga spe
cial from Greene's says an fceEorge two
miles long formed in Shell Rock River and
gave way, carrying with it the large sgricul
turaI house of Thomas & Co, with contents
The dam of the Wsnatan mills was car.
ried away. Houses and stores along the
river were vacated, the street flooded and
but for break through a ravine much
greater damage would have ensued. The
danger is now over.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-03

Bradford, Pa, has elected 3
japanese to the Office of City Engineer.
This is the first time japanese has
been elected to civil ONCE in the
United States
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-03

Mrs. Stevens, Of Auburn, Ky, has a
sf>s::, gzik made 6 .A,2S9 2iaNea
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-03

Epizootic prevails at Dayton, o., to 10
markahle extent, and is reported worse thsS
ever before.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-03

Your presence is desired at the christen-
ing party of our adopted daughter,
ETHEL,
"Wednesday afternoon. January 30, 1884.
Ceremony ut ).
MR. AND MRS. SILAS WEATHERDY.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-12-10

so she was fined and costed to the tune of
$3.50, which she promised to pay "when
the boat came in"