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National Republican., 1884-09-13
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL YEAR.
Opening Next Week Under Bright
Auspices - Improved and Rational
Methods OF Instruction.

Auspices - Improved and Rational
Methods OF Instruction.
The new public school year nominally
begins on Monday, though the real edu-
cational work opens up day later. On
Monday the old pupils who attended last
session are sized up intellectually and
placed in the grades to which tho progress
of the previous term entities them. This,
also, is the last day on which tickets are
issued to new pupils, who arc admitted
Tuesday. The hot weather suffered dur
ing the earlier part of the week had tho
effect Of causing decided falling off from
the rush for tickets, which began on
Monday. To-day and Monday next arc
expected to witness busy times around
the points of issue.
Between forty and fifty new teachers
commence their career next week. nearly
all of them graduates of the normal
schools here the lists of which are thereby
about exhausted; new appointees will
have therefore, to be taken from the out
side world.
There have been no school board reports
printed for four years, owing to the early
depletion of the fund for other purposes.
1t is to be hoped that the past years work
will be recorded in durable and circulat-
ing form. There has been marked i'm
provement in the work of the public
schools in this period, mostly in the direc-
tion of increased efficiency on the part Of
the teachers The effort has been to
discourage the much complained of cram
ming quantity of parrot-like "informa-
tion" into the children's heads, lesson
hearing being gradually supplanted by
the more intelligent importation Of ideas
in place OF words. The reform in teach
ing spelling has been more marked than
perhaps any branch, unless it be Reogra-
ply or arithmetic. The form of word
is not taught to child unless 1t appre-
hends the meaning of it. Superintendent
Wilson has weekly conferences with every
grade some sixty teachers assembling
around him at time. He then selects
one of their number, who gives model
lesson, subject to discussion and criticism.
The equipment of tho pupils with the
| faculty of doing common things we'll is
aimed at in the methods adopted, and less
attention is given to the text books than
formerly. A rule which Mr.. Wilson is
never tired of reiterating is never to tell
child what 1t can find out for itself.
| The strengthening and cultivation of the
faculty of teaching themselves is aimed
at in teaching the youngsters.
In geography modelling Of maps is pro-
ferred as a mode of instruction to instill-
ing a number of meaningless names into
childs memory, to DO forgotten with
promptness and certainty. Putty is used,
and each child is given board, upon
which it constructs the country ho is
learning about, with the mountain ranges
raised, the rivers marked with blue
worsted, and the chief commercial cities
&C., in other attainable ways. The n
elementary arithmetical exercises and
object.teaching after tho kindergarten
method is being extensively used in the
primary classes.
National Republican., 1884-09-13
Deeds FILED for Record Yesterday.

ST., north side, at n. c. cor. Of 1lth st. n. W.,
lots 3, 4, and 3, So. $40, and lots and a,
Machens sub. of So. 3ia
C ST., south side, at S. G. cor. of 1lth st. W.,
lots &, Z, s. and part lot 8, SO. 800; 11th ST.,
west side, bet. l and X sts. n. W, part lots l,
., and II, So 3l7, John L. Mel. Carisi to
George Mason, an undivided one-sixth in
terest, 81, 900.
1lth st., east side, bet C and D SITS. n. O., part
lot Z, SO. 0s6, j. Bradley Adams, trustee to
Israel Buchanan. $3.50.
18th ST., west side, bet and S SITS. n. W., part
lots 10 and Il, Joseph /. Joyce, trustee, to
Ann Joyce, S5.
ST., north side, bet. 23d and 9th SITS. n. W, $.
Q: part lot I, 50. 81, Frances Bradley to Annie
NJ. Burke, $40.
Same property as next above described, De
C. Burke TO Frances Bradley, $40.
nth ST., west side bet, III and SITS. n. W., lot
30, Dayidson's sub; of s9; 20 'ooP Frank p.
Mass ave-, south side, bet. 10Th IND 18th sts.
n. W., lots IA and 15 John Dayidson's heirs
sub. Of 50. 2s3, Susan Fitzgerald to Ida U.
Marshall, $500.
Washington st.. north side, bet. 4th and 9Th
sts. IL. W., part lot Z, So. 5lS Stephen Hart
brecht to W. Preston Williamson, 5000.
National Republican., 1884-09-13
TIE COURT RECORD.
Business Transacted by the District Judiciary
Isytcrday.

1tStcruhy.
Equity Court-Jusiicc James. -IInesvs. Smith;
J. Amber Smith made q party defendant and
JOS G. Hester appointed trustee conditionally.
Foster Vs. Foster; testimony ordered taken
before examiner Jno. N. oliver. HELEN vs.
Allen; restraining order issued returnable Oct.
Z. Lemon vs. Fitzgerald; restraining order
issued returnable Sept. IS. No assignments for
to-day.
Probate Coart-Justice Jdmes.-Estate of Jno.
Schrubz; reference to Jno. Cruikshank to take
testimony. Estate of II. n. Barlow; citation
ordered to issue to heirs to appear Estate Of
Ross collector on bond of $500 Estate of VIM.
II. Belts; order directing that W. L. Shaiier
place all property of the deceased In his pos
session and under his control in the hands OF
the register of wills. Estate of VIM. Mccarthy;
order appointing Bridget Mccarthy admins.
tratrix, and bond fixed at $4,000. Estate Of
Herman Blan; will admitted to probate, and
letters testamentary issued to Franziska Blaw
and Herman L. Blaw, and bond fixed at slo,-
900. Estate of Jacob Il. Reghenard; renuncia-
ton of Elizabeth Hagmann, and recommend
ing Herman j. Schulties as administrator.
Estate of John 7. Corrigan; order authorizing
the Administrative x to complete work under
contract made by her husband. Estate of
Grafton Tylor; executor order to sell person
atty at public or private sale Estate of Ben
jamin r. Neff; administrator ordered to deliver
to Horatio X. Meryman all the effects of the
estate IN his hands, Estate of Charles A. Cald-
well; letters tcstnmentary directed to issue to
John Henry on giving bond in 5000. Estate OF
Crttenden Cohen; inventory of personally re.
turned by Administrative. Estate of Gilbert
NJ. Wight; list of debts due the estate filed.
Estate of Clara ID. B. Hall; administrator cited
| to appear on Sept 10. Estate of Mary L.
Fobler; order appointing Elizabeth l.. Fobler
Administrative, and bond fixed at $1,000 Es-
tate of Johd IL. Brooks; order appointing
Isaih p Brooks administrator on bond OF 5000.
| Estate of william 7. d. Dixon; letters of ad.
ministration issued to Rachel X. Dixon, and
bond fixed at 5000. Estate of Arthur Young;
decree appointing Amelia Rogers guardian OF
Arthur Young. Estate of Ann f. Dougherty;
letters testamentary issued to Thomas Holden,
and bond fixed at $500.
National Republican., 1884-09-13
DIED..

WHITNEY.-Drown at Lower Cedar Point,
ON Thursday. September IL, 1884, PIERRE NJ.
WHITNEY, beloved and youngest son of William
X. and Margaret Whitney.
Funeral from his late residence No. 1911
IA, at p. IN. Relatives and friends are respect
fully invited to attend.
ALBANY and New York papers please copy.l =
DONNELLEY.-At Harper's Ferry, w. Va.
on Wednesday. Sept. 10, 1884, MANY RUTH,
youngest child off. w. and Mary ID. Donnelley
aged years 10 months and days.
Funeral from the residence of her parents,
9Ol street N. W., on Sunday, Sept. ID 1884,
at 8 o'clock p. IN. Friends OF the family arc re.
specially invited to attend
National Republican., 1884-09-13
MARRIED..

BUCHART-PRoSISE-A Janesville. Wis,
on the 9Th of September 1884, by the Rev. DR.
Pulling, Miss LAURA PRosIsE, of this city, to
JOHN j. BUcHARr.
EVANS-CHAMBERLAI Sept 10, by
the Rev. Dr. Chester, Mrs. ISABEL BLANKMAN
EVANS. of Washington, ID. c., to HENRY
CuANBERLAIS, of Philadelphia Pa.
New York papers please copy.l
National Republican., 1884-09-13
The Capital city Gun Club.

The following scores were made by
members of the Capital City Gun club
yesterday afternoon. Conditions; Is clay
pigeons each, 10 yards rise, from traps:
National Republican., 1884-09-13
CHINESE HOME LIFE
pECULIARIrIEs OF THE NATION NOW
FIGHTING FRANCE.

People Who Do Everything the Wrong
way-Oddltics Of Manners, Customs, and
Costumes -Entertsining Information About
Our Antipodes.
National Republican., 1884-09-13

The following Is n list OF advertised letters re-
manning In the Washington city postoiiice Sat-
urday, Sept, 13, 1854. .
Gs-'To obtain any OF these letters the nppli-
cant must call for advertised letters
HJ-If not called for within four weeks they
will be sent to the dead letter Office.
FRANK b. CONGER Postmaster.
National Republican., 1884-09-13
DEAD LETTER OFFICE.
EAST CAPITOL STATION.


Berangh, Mrs Adellne Harper, James
Clark, Mrs Rachael lngel, @
Harris, Mrs CM Kohler, FC
Johnson, Mrs HannahFarrell. John ]
II singleton, David 8
Knott, Mrs Agnes Timer, Alfred
Winson, Mrs Catharine
LOCAL LETTERS,
Easterbrook, Mrs SadleKesler, Mr.
Kirsch, Minnie Martin, M
kimball, George Roane, James
National Republican., 1884-09-13

To MAKE salad that is certain to please al
tastes you need only to use Durkee's Salad
Dressing; Nothing equal to ii was ever offered
and none SO popular. 1t Is superb table
samoa
National Republican., 1884-09-13
ADVERTISED LETTERS.

SCHOOL PANTS. Eiseman Bros, corner Sew
enthand Il streets.
National Republican., 1884-09-13

. HAHB'sS2 unrivaled kid and goat buttons
equal any 80. 90 shoe In the market. SIG Sew
eith street and 1922 PennsylyRnia avenue.
National Republican., 1884-09-13

Gagus aud FulmeT, Nationals battery to-day.
National Republican., 1884-09-13

MlSCELBANEOUS.
'Seoy Metropolitan In."Pastor of Plymouth
sutute' Cong'l Church,
National Republican., 1884-09-13
ERIENDs' SELECT SCHOOL.

An Elementary and High School for both
sexes 1911 l street northwest, reopens ninth
month (September) 10. INSTRUCTION thorough
in'English, Mathematics, Classics, and Natural
Science. Books furnished by school. Terms
moderate; m to Apply nt sSh9Si ' rooms; from 10 a.
au23-1m THOS, w. SIDWELL, Principal.
National Republican., 1884-09-13
TI'HE COLUMBIAN COLLEGE PREPARA.
"A TORY SCHOOL

Mrs BURRS ENGLISH AND FRENCH
VNl school for young ladies and little girls will
reopen WEDNESDAY, SEPT. oath. No. 1908
IL street northwest. se2-6w.tu,th,s
A RT sCHOOL-1O2S 18th ST. n. w.-M1Ss
"A $. w. Kelly, CLondon MedallsD Principal;
September 9, se:y-2W
National Republican., 1884-09-13

CT. JOHNS COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE
- Vermont avenue. between NJ and N streets
northwest, institution offers every facility
for a thorough education, whether classical,
DAY, SEPT 1, 1884 BRO. TOBIAS, Presi-
dent, aul6 I'm
National Republican., 1884-09-13
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION SCHOOL,

Corner Eighth and Streets n. W.,
In charge OF the sisters of Charity. will reopen
TUESDAY, SEPT. 0, 1884. se2-2w
National Republican., 1884-09-13
THH 0IDA RS:
GEnRnEToWN HEIGHTS.

GEoRGETowN HEIGHTa
A select school for young ladies' occupylngau
entire square of well-shaded ground In then north.
west section of the city. Every facility for q
thorough education in English, the Languages.
Music, and Painting. Private conveyance for
pupils from distant parts Of the city. Address
MISS EARLE,
1Oln Streat
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EDUC1TToNAL.

i =
512 rENrrft tTREEr N W.
Celebrated Method Of the Royal High school Of
Berlin and the Royal Conservatory
OF Leipsg.
Piano Organs, Violin, Vloloncelo, ComposL
tion, ensemble playing for advanced pupils,
Piano with Oth,r Instruments.
English, German, French, and italian spoken.
ap1n.4
National Republican., 1884-09-13

IAHNs 60 cent solid school shoes FOR boys
d girls, SIG Seventh street and 1922 Pennsyl.
MIA avenue,
National Republican., 1884-09-13

PRoF. SHELDoNs DANCING. CLASSES
and 1880 y. m, at 1904 st. N. W; Monday,
sept: 10, $3.50 and $50 y. M, Mt I'D St and Pa.
ay. :. ~ Rebate of25 per cent. on above datess
Send for circulars. spS-tf
National Republican., 1884-09-13
,pHE COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITY.

TIME COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITY.
The Preparatory School begins.........,..Sept. 10
The Columbian College begins. 10
The Corcoran School of Science and Arts
The Medical School begins o
The Law School begins Oct.
For catalogues and other information address
JAMES q WELLlNG, LII d.,
prpailant
National Republican., 1884-09-13

MISCELLANEOUS.
"Nat immigration and Colonization Society,"
...r SCHOONER LIST.
Thomas Champion, schnr Plow Boy.
Capt Thos v Clark schnr Cressie Wright.
Sam'l Richards schnr Cressie Wright.
Ii IIrLuS MILL
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-05-03
Presidential Wealth.

General Grant is estimated at $780,
900, which makes him the richest ex-
President since Buchanan. Hayes is
not rich though in a well-to-do condition.
Andy Johnson and Abraham Lincoln
each left $50, 900. Frank Pierce entered
the White House poor, but went back
to Concord worth 10000. Willard
Fillmore made a snug fortune out OF
the law, and was comparatively rich
when he became Presipent. General
Taylor saved his army salary and was
in independent circumstances when
elected to the Presidency. He held
the office hardly a year and a half, and
left a property worth $50 900 Tyler
was a bankrupt when the death Of
Harrison made him President, and he
married a fortune in Miss Gardiner.
He went out of oficea rich mani but
he became a leader in the Confederate,
and his property "a sunk in the gen.
eral ruin occasioned by the war.
James X. Polk had good opportunity
to make money before his election, and
he was an economist by nature. He
left $4,000 Martin Van Buren, was
the richest of all our Presidents his
estate being estimated at $500, 600.
He made money as a lawyer and also
as a politician, and his real estate
purchases became immensely p~roftatl lie,
but his money has bean alm)S entirely
wasted by his heirs. Andrew Jackson
WAS not a money-making mLn lie
lived nine years after the expirat on Of
his ter of office, and left only a large
landed estate commonly know as tte
Hermitage. John Quincy AID ms was
a methudical business man and all
economist. He left about $50, 600, which
at that time was a large sum. Jam s
| Monroe was so poor in his old age that
| he became the guest of his son-in law
| Samuel T.. Gouverneur In New York,
| where he died. Madison vas more
| successful in taking care of his money,
and left his widow a property which
| enabled her to live handsomely in
| Washington till the end of her days.
jefferson passed his last days in much
distress, and was really afraid that
his place would be sold by the sheriff.
He was an object of public charity,
and a subscription was opened in his
behalf in New York, but his death &C.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-05-03
Diseased Vegetable Food.

One of the principal objections urged
by vegetarians against the consumption
OF ''flesh food" is the liability of ami
mails to various diseases. Under these
circumstances it is argued that con-
siderable risk to health is incurred by
eating meat. This may be true enough,
but the fact appears TO be overlooked
that vegetables are subject to disease as
formation on this point was given at a
recent meeting of the Horticultural
Mutual Improvement Society of Man
chester. A paper on 'Disease and
Casualties of Vegetable Life" was
read by the president. He pointed out
that diseases n the vegetable kingdom
frequently a. Sc from a vitiated state of
juices tending to injure the habltual
health of the plant in whole or part.
lie then II entioned a few of the dis
eases that occur most frequently, such
as blight, smut, mildew, honeydew,
dropsy, hux of juices, gangrene, suf-
location, contortion and consumption.
This is a truly comfortable list, and be
fore mankind commits itself to vege-
tarianism 1t would be prudent to ascer.
tain, if possible, the effect on health of
a dinner of vegetables afflicted with
some of these ailments. Can, for in
stance, adropsical cabbage, a consump-
tive cauliflower or a suffocated carrot
be consumed with impunity? If not,
we are clearly no better off with a
vegetable than with a meat diet; for it
must be remembered We eat very much
IN the dark, and that there is nc reason
to suppose the green-grocer's conscience
more under than the butchers.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-05-03
A GoId-HiIted Sword,

A singular discovery was made a short
time ago by a farmer named Fred.
Schwartz on his farm, about one mile
back from the river front at Thompson's
Station, on the line of the p, V. and
G, Railroad. Thompson's Station is on
the opposite side of the river from and
but a short distance above the town of
Braddock. 1t appears that MI.
Schwartz was engaged in making an
excavation in the hillside back of his
residence for the purpose of placing
the foundation of a spring-house there
in, when the mattock he vas welding
struck against a hard substance in the
ground. He stopped digging and clear
ed away the dirt which covered the
substance his pick had struck, when to
his amazement he discovered a fiat stone
neatly fitted in between two upright
stones, the three forming a sort of a
box. Visions of untold wealth came
flashing through the excited rustic's
brain, and it was with trembling hands
and bated breath that he stopped down
and began tugglng away at the top
most stone. After experiencing con.
siderable difficulty he succeeded in
wrenching the stone from the place in
which it was imbedded and eagerly look
ed underneath, expecting to behold =
mass of golden coin, but instead he saw
the frame of what was once an iron box,
very much resembling a violin case.
Lifting it up he discovered that it was
almost entirely eaten away with rust.
On the bottom of the box was lying a
long, slender piece of rusty metal to
which was attached a handle and hilt,
denoting plainly that it was the relic
Of a sword. On rubbing the hilt with
his handkerchief, he discovered en-
graved thereon an insignia of the
Masonic fraternity, namely, a trowel, a
keystone and a square and compass,
and other symbols evidently belonging
to the same order. The hilt was of
solid gold, as was also a medal found
in the bottom Of the case, on which
was engraved the head of George IIIs
king of England. Whatever else the
case had contained in forme< days was
now probably embraced in the nodded
dust which lies at the bottom of the
stone receptacle. MI. Schwartz is of
the nninion hat the Sword.c case and
contents once belonged to a British
officer who, in the retreat from the
bloody battle field of Braddock, hastily
dug the hole and buried the articles
where they were found, and that prob
ably being afterwards captured and
killed by some strolling band of French
and Indians the secret of his buried
prize died with him.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-05-03

In the time of Napoleon it was esti-
mated that it took 600 bullets to be
fired in battle before a man was killed;
in other words, every dead soldier
represented his own weight in lead.
But the recent improvement in fire.
arms has added to the efficiency of the
soldier. The greater range of the
rifle, as we'll as the rapidlty with which
it can be fired, has made it thirty-two
times as effective as the old smooth.
bore. To put it more accurately, a
military authority says that the modern
rifle is superior to the old smooth-bore
in the following particulars: 1t is eight
times more effective in accuracy, two
thirds greater in range and penetration.
five times greater in rapidity of aimed
fire; while the weightgof the cartridges
per man has diminished. yet3the num-
Der that may be carried has been in
creased. The added efficiency of the
heavy guns is no less surprising. The
famous Krupp now makes a gun of
nine inches caliber and eighteen tons
weight which will send a ball through
twenty inches of solid iron; and his
tield-gun, within a range of more than
a mile and half, can be depended upon
to put every projectile into a space of
less than two hundred square feet.
Taken into consideration the breech-
loading, rifles, better powder, improved
projectiles, the lighter carriages of
steel, the science of artillery has been
revolutionlzed; and one battery to-day
is more effective than twenty of those
SO skillfully handled by the great
Napoleon. In the next great battles
some dreadful engines of destruction
will be brought into-play. The Hotch-
kiss revolving gun can fire bursting
shells at the rate of eighty a minute.
1t can pour out a continuous and
deadly fire of seventy-fve pounds OF
metal, or 1900 hits, eyery sixty
seconds. 1t is fearful to think of the
havoc which would be caused by the
guns of the future.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-05-03
Peoples Banks In Germany.

The formation in Germany Of regis
tered credit associations, or peoples
banks has proved to be a great success,
and from a velyuupretending commence
meht a most prosperous system has been
developed. The especial objects of these
associations are to give advances and
credit; to acquire raw material and to
opeR stores; to manufacture and to
sell commodities; to produce the ne
cessities of life and of production
Wholesale and to sell them in retail;
to. build dwellings for their member
to cultivate land. Any original capital
is first formed by those who desire to
institute an association by means of
subscribing for shares. These although
remainlngthe property of those who sub
scrlbed for them cannot be withdrawn
during member ship. A reserve fund is
also formed to preserve the capital
intact In case of losses. Members Of
each association being liable for the
debts and obligations contracted by 1t,
people who would not think of trust
Ing any individual member are willing
to trust an association the members
Of which are responsible for each other.
Thus the man who alone could get no
credit if of respectable character and
antecedents, is admitted a member of
al association, and at once obtains an
advance in proportion to his means,
Those who thus obtain credit bind
themselves to repay the sum credited
to the association with all their prop
ferty, jointly and separately. The for
malitieS of admission to the association
are clear and distinct and are stringent
ly observed; otherwise members would
try to disprove their membership where
such procedure would be to their ad-
vantage. No case Of bankruptcy oc-
reurred among these associations in
1S92-a fact which speaks for itself.
Their credit is, consequently, very high
and they can always obtain more money
than they can use, so much so that
they are continually reducing the rate
of interest on deposits. The average
rate of interest demanded of borrowers
By associations in the years 1873 to
1882 was 657, 6.33, 6.13, 500, and
is 90 per cent, respectively. Many OF
the registered associations combine
in districts for the better safeguarding
of their interests. These assist one
another in collecting bills and mutually
giving credit. Besides these combina-
tions of associations, there is the "gen
eral association" which as its name
implies, is a combination of all the
| registered associations. The general
| association publishes its own Newspaper.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-05-03
PENIS GROVE, N. j., SATURDAY, MAY ), 1884.

Cured so soon that the benevolent
effort was not required. Old John
Adams left an estate worth $50 900.
Washington was a rich man for his
day, his wealth being solely due to
marriage. Mount Vernon was not a
productive property, but Mrs. Gusts
brought him a large fortune which
she inherited from her first husband.
Viewing our Presidents in a merely
peeuniary estimate, there are 100 men
in New York, each OF whom could buy
out the whole of them. When one con-
templates their true worth, however,
one sees how utterly poor mere wealth
becomes in comparison.