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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-12

REDUCTION of % per cent on paintings, en-
cravings and other style pictures. All 9TH st.
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DRY GOODS.

READ Carefully.
We are now building extension Of 35x117 feet ~
our already magnificent establishment which whss
finished win giveu
THE FINEST SHOW ROOMS
In the United states We also have
THE FINEST ELECTRIC LIGHT
In the country making at night entire building
bright the finest day in sunlight.
We have come to the conclusion that we have more
goods and less money than want to carry out ous
enterprise Of running our building through 10 ,h
street
We shall open this new addition with new goods
only
We shall commence TO run OF our present withoui
regard to cost
Our assortment exceptionally large for this season
of the year.
100 Pieces coLoREp LACE BUNTING, yard
wide, ct 12rsc
These goods great bargain Mt 40c. per yard bus
they must be closed to make room for other goods.
ooopeces Fast Color LAWNS at 4c per yard
800 pieces yard wide LAWN. the most select pat
terms, at &C, actual value l0c per yard
Superior quality DRESS GINGHAMs si &C. per
yard. fully worth l2lae
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CITY ITEMS.
Alw.y. Go to INSTRUMENTATION.

Always 10 10 HAe104u0ft0kBs
The largest assortment of Low Shoes and
Slippers for the examinations, at the Family
Shoe Store, $40 Seventh street.
Children's Sandals, all sizes, 73c
Childrens Low Button and Ties, 73c.
Children's Opera Toe Slippers, 73c.
Childrens Common Sense Slippers, 73c.
Children's Low Shoes, oil styles, with spring
heels.
Misses Oxford Ties, hand sewed, CSC.
Misses Low Button, Newports, Sandals, Ok
fords, Sailor and VaSsar Ties, at all prices.
Boys Low Ties from 69c. up.
Boys Low Button and Oxford Ties in all the
latest styles
Base Ball Shoes in black, blue and brown,
all sizes, from 96c UP.
FAMILY SHOE STORE,
$40 Seventh street,
First store above Pennsylvania avenue 1
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HATS AND GENTS FURNISHINGS.
LAWS & BURCH, 143 9TH street.
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R1crs AocEss1sn.
TO ALL
you. HAVE ONLY, KIND READER, TO WEND
YOUR WAY TO NO. ut MARKET SPACE TO BE
CONVINCED OF THE TRUTH OF THIS STATE
MENT. THERE YOU WILL CERTAINLY FIND
AND WHEN YOU HAVE FOUND 1T ENTER
AND MAKE PURCHASE OF SUCH ARTICLES
IN HIS LINE AS You NAY REQUIRE, AND
YOU WILL COME AWAY SATISFIED THAT
YOUR SEARCH FOR
WAS NOT WITHOUT IT'S REWARD AND THAT,
WE DID THINGS UP BROWN WHEN WE DIS
COVERED TO YOU THE LOCATION OF
RIGHTS
HIGHLY POPULAR AND FASHIONABLE BOOT
AND SHOE ESTABLISHMENT. THERE YOU
WILL FIND THE LEADING STYLES AND BEST
MAKES FOR THE VERY LOWEsTCA CASH PRICEA
WI RICH
my13 AT Market Space. Washington, D. C.
Krysrosr MA1r Wnsxrr:
SPECIALLY DISTILLED FOR MEDICINAL USE
STRICTLY PURE
THE REST TONIC.
PERFECTS DIGESTION
Unequalled for Consumption, Wasting DiseaseA and
General Debility.
PRICE. Per Bottle. sl.oo, Bottles for $500
Beware Of limitations None genuine without the
sisnatursof EIsNER MENDELsoN.
Sole Agents tor the o. 8 Phila Pa
FOR SALEBY
stott, Cromwell ca
Harbour = 6AmutoA
- -
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Look for The Old Lady in Window.

$4,000 WORTH OF BANKRUPT STOCKTON
ford Ties Button and slippers for ladies' misses,
,hildren men and boys, must be sold in ten
days Look for bargains at
YoUNG'S, 400 9TH street,
Sole agent Tor 50. so Electric Shoes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-12

GENUINE DANFORTH FLUID can only be OBJ
tanned at W. S. jerks & Cos, III 9TH street.
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Pearl, Drab and Maple Derhys.
In Dunlap and other popular blocks. Prices,
50, S2.45 and 62.65, clean saving of$1 on
each hat. Francs, cor. 9TH and ID, the only
strictly one-price hat and gents furnishing
store in this city. l.
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For The EXAMINATIONS

We have the largest stock of low shoes and
slippers in the city, and the lowest prices. Call
and see the assortment. All new, fresh styles;
NO old stock.
FAMILY SHOE STORE,
80 9TH street.
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SIX DIFFERENT PATTERNS of vapor stoves
shown at w. s. jerks & Co.'S, III 9TH street.
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SELLING Or
OUR IMMENSE STOCK OF DRY GOODS
AT A GREAT LOSS

AT A GREAT Losa
NAVY. BLUE sArT1NEs with white figure, re-
Finest quality BATIsTE, 25c, reduced to 16c.
Pacific LAWNS. very fine quality, nearly yard
NUNS VEILINGS, 1Sc
Fine quality DRESS GINGHAMS, &c.
FRUIT OF THE LOOM COTTON, SC.
o.. BLACK BRocADE SILK GRENADINES. reduced
81 Splendid . quality BLACK SILKS reduced from
BLACK SILKS, excellent quality. reduced from 81
Very best quality MERRIMAC CALICO, &C.
Beautiful LAWNS, sc.
New York Mills SHEETING Csc
COLORED BROCADE vELvETs reduced to 81 so.
CARRIERS,
I'll MARKET SPACE,
je12 Near the Corner of 7th Street.
AUCTION. AUCTION. AUCTION
RIBBONS RIBBONS RIBBONS
THE NEW YORK MILLINERY STORE,
$50 SEVENTH STREET,
VOICE OF RIBBONS FROM NEW YORK
AUCTION, WHICH WILL BE SOLD AT AUG
TON PRICES
RIBBONS FOR SCHOOLS,
RIBBONS FOR SASHES,
RIBBONS FOR HATS,
RIBBONS FOR DRESSES,
RIBBONS FOR THE NECK,
RIBBONS FOR THE HAIR
RIBBONS IN ALL SHADES WIDTHS AND
QUALITIES
ALSO. AT VERY LOW PRICES, LARGE LOT
WHITE PLUMEs. CREAM PLUMEs
WHITE PLUMEs. CREAM PLUMEs.
WHITE TIPS, CREAM TIPS
WHITE TIPS, CREAM TIPS
WHITE SILK MULIS,
WHITE SILK MULIS,
CREAM SILK MULIS.
CREAM SILK MULIS,
WHITE GRAPES,
WHITE GRAPES,
CREAM CRAPIs
AND ALL THE NEW SHAPES IN WHITE
HATS FOR DRESS AND SHADE PURPOSES.
NEW YORK MILLINERY STORE
je5 $50 7th street northwest
SUMNER CLOTHING
FOR BOYS AND CHILDREN.
THE LARGEST AND BEST ASSORTMENT WILL
ALWAYS BE FOUND AT THE
BOYS CLOTHING HOUSE,
900 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE
COMPLETE ASSORTMENT
MEMS AND BOYS SUMMER UNDERWEAR.
OUR CELEBRATED
STAR SHIRT WAIST,
HAS NO EQUAL. PERFECT IN FIT, IN FLAN-
NELs, LINENS, PERCALEs AND MUsLINs
B. ROBINSON & CO.,
je5 900 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE
R1cFs ACCESSIBLE
TO ALL
YOU. HAVE ONLY, KIND READER, TO WEND
YOUR WAY TO NO. TIT MARKET SPACE TO BE
CONVINCED OF THE TRUTH OF THIS STATE
MENT THERE YOU WILL CERTAINLY FIND
RICHA
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THE CHEAPEST YET.-Gent's comfortable
French calf CATERS for tender feet, only 81. p.
=. Strasburger, 9O6 9TH street, four doors above
street.
THE eyesight fitted 81. Hempler's, near Az
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Special Bargains for School Examina.

Special Bargains for School EXAMINE.
tons.
Spring Heels for boys and girls from 73c. up.
Spring Heel Slippers from 97c. up.
Heeled Shoes. in Kid and Pebble. from 69c
up.
Newport Ties, Buttoned, Oxfords, Vassar Ties,
Opera Toes, Sandals, Sailor Ties and other
styles, from 4Sc. up.
For boys we have Hooked Balls from S1.15
up; fine Button Shoes from csc. up.
Low Quarters, in Ties and Buttoned, from csc.
up.
T. STRAsBURGER 9O6 18th street,
doors above st.
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A WHISKER DYE MUST BE CONVENIENT
70 use, easy to apply impossible to rub off, elegant
In appearance, and cheap i'll price. Buckipgham's
Dye for the Whskers untes In itself all these inertia
Try it.
ITHE SURE EFFECTS OF AYERS sARsApA
parilla are thorough and permanent II there ia a
lurking faint of scrofuia about you Ayers sarsapa
rina wiz dislodse IT, and expei IL from your system.
jeo
CEMETERY NOTICE!-A LARGE ASS0R'C.
Nment OF ITALIAN and AMERICAN MSRHf n
ana GRANITE MONUMENTS OF every design and
OF the latest style and the hest al iish
% No" onereo vi the lowest possible prices ut
THE MARBLE WORKS.
corner list 81 and Pennsylvania ave. nw
Please call. INSECT aud be convinced, apxis1m;
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Get n Bottle

of Raspberry Syrup; healthy and delicious
summer drink.
N. r. MErzGER & BRO, Grocers,
i All 7th street NV.
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WHITE GOODS
We have now the largest stock Of WHITE GOODS
In the city, and at rock bottom prices
Yard wide INDIA LINEN Mt 5 and Sc per yard.
4o-inch INDIA LINEN at l2iac per yard.
Just received a large lot of DOTTED AND FIGUR
ED SWISS, which will sell at l2izc
DIMITY LAWN AND PIQUE nj l2l,c
4o-inch BATIsTE in all the evening shades. at
l2ac per yard
HOSIERY
We have just succeeded in purchasing ESQ dozen Of
Ladies' full regular made Hose In Seal Brown, Navy
Blue and State TO sell at loo
Ladies' fine gauge Pin Stripe Hose ut 2sc.: actuai
value, 4sc.
Ladies' Isle Hose in Fancy Stripes and Solid Col
ors at 43c.
Black SILK Gloves at Sac; worth double the price
Ladies' silk Mitts in all corors at Soc
We have Just received a large lot Of
LADIES. DRESSING SACKS.
made Of India Linen. with Embroidered Rufie ana
Fine Tucking, formerly sold for sI5o. we will close
them at Csc
LADIES NIGHT DRESSES,
made ofthe Finest Cotton with yoke OF al-over EN-.
brodery, and Embroidered Rufiie Neck and Sleeves
former price Sl.59, now CSC.
OUR STOCK Is COMPLETE IN EVERY DEPART
MENT.
STORE OPEN EVERY EVENING UNTIL o
O'CLOCK,
LANSBURGH & BRO.
je9 40. 42o 424. 42e SEVENTH STREET
II IN O. &"
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For Saturday,
AT THE NEW IDEA, 926 tTH STREET.
90 dog; Cape psi Mays, in white and black straw,
25 doz. black straw Sailors, 19c.; worth soc.
Is dOZ. Poke Bonnets, In white and colors,
fine ne straw! ira only 24c; worth ,l =, 55G
dren, In Folks and all the new shapes, only 35c.;
10 doa Ghi nd largerim Sailors 2oc and
And large number of other hats equally as
cheap. o,. NEW IDEA,
am Determined to Keep the Lead. /,
benefit lowest price: that has eHer beee
offered In this city on teas, cotfees, spices,
syrups molasses, rice and flour. Coffee roasted
by steam daily In my own patent cylinder
no 30 C2fee, per ib.....-........13, Is, 1s, 2oc
lbs Of the best Java and Mocha ms'e d. 3 sc
lbs. OF Royal Lump Starch. 25c
lbs. Of Carolina Rice.
y: Q: M9lasses, per
close at 80 PM except t SATURDAY TO- 2'c
Il DENNIS BURKE, Cor. 9TH and SITS. n. W.
Johnson.s Cool Dining Saloons
street Every delleacy in the way Of Son she'll he'll
Soup, Spring Chickens, Fresh Fish, spiced oy IS
6 she'll Also Meals Hsc an S"ms
Ladies' saloon first floor. Polite attention.
Clearing Sale Series III
Embraces all of our misses and children's Low
Shoes and Slippers; all of our Boys and
Youths Fine Low Shoes.
All these goods must be sold In ten DAYS.
HAHN'S Reliable Shoe House
818 7th street and 1922 Pennsylvania avenue
We name only Q few of our reductions:
Regular Reduced
Child's spring heel low button. S5c. CSC
Childs heel or spring heel low
shoes: 75c.
ton Oxfords, sandals and
operas. Observation-Disclosures, OO rnc
Misses hid lined opera sips. 75c. k0c
Misses fine kid opera, slips... LOO Inc
Misses hau0-6ewed oxford ties 1O5 aSc
m n; w . H .s ilpEsers.:r 1.25 100
tOn.... 200 40
Boys aud youths finest laced
or button Oxfords ... oh0 OK
Boys stylish button boOts.., 15O IN
YOuths' reliable button boots. l.2k I'm
These goods are all warranted seryiceahle
Cold Milwaukee Beer
In English stone mugs. JoHNsoN's, 44O 9th
street. = -, q :
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ToPARENTs fitting out their children for the
closing exercises of the schools, 1t will be of in
terest to know that Hahn's clearing sale series
III embraces just such shoesland slippers as they
need. The variety carried by the establish
ment is the largest in the District, the quality
of their goods is known to be thoroughly relia-
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Save Money.
by purchasing some Of the following immense
bargains offered for tomorrow by II. Augen-
stein, ST. eth street northwest: One pound
French mixed candy. lie; fly covers
&C.; larger size, 12c.; hammocks, ABE
large size Mexican hammocks, roe: 81 clothes
baskets, reduced to 45c., two-strns brooms &C.;
threestring, 15c.: fourstring, 23c. six foot step
ladders, 9Sc., sold elsewhere at $3.50; y doz
cups and saucers, Il dOz. plates, meat dish and
SOC; y doz. heavy engraved goblets, 44c.; water
buckets 1Oc.: medium size wash tubs, 39c new
shape covered dishes. Soc; covered market bas-
kets, 10, 81 and 33c. each. Our $40 rattan
baby carriages reduced to STA; $13 carriages
reduced to $S.9S; SO carriages, S1OlS. Re
frgeratorS and trunks at manufacturers
prices.
We Will Sell You a Fine Claret Wine,
one that will please; quarts 81 per dozen; usual
price SO.
N. T.. METZGER & Bro Grocers,
CT
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Blout's Bargain Bulletin.

PRICES LOWER THAN THE LOWEST
One lot Of handsome Hats, suitable for aides
ana chlldren's wear, % cts, former price, rs
cts.
Cne lot, nine different shapes, all new and
fashionable, rs cts, reduced from 81.
One lot of white rough and ready, stylish
shapes, 25 cts. sold elsewhere at rs cts.
One lot Of Childrens Hats, ready trimmed,
lovely goods, 40 cts, former price, S1.25.
One lot of childrenS ready trimmed Hats,
beautiful trimmings, handsome shapes, 40 cts,
actual value, $3.50.
One lot OF fine Leghorn Hats, 45 cts, former
price, S1.25.
One lot of Tuscan Hats, fashionable shapes,
20 cts, reduced from $1.25.
One lot of Tuscan Bonnets, stylish shape 40
cts, really worth 81 90.
Thousands OF other shapes in Hats, ali new
at about one-thtrd of original price.
One lot of fine long Plumes in white and
cream, 65 cts, worth double.
II you are in want of one dollars worth of
Millinery 60 to Blouts; you can buy it for fifty
cents, and save fifty cents by it.
Buy your Millinery while you have chance
to buy them ut half price.
II you are in want of Hats and Bonnets go to
Bouts $: get first class goods at less than half
price; If you do not want to buy call and post
yourself in our prices, and see how cheap we
are selling them. Call by any means, at
BLOUT'S,
10 18th street.
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BASE BALL.-The Nationals gained another
victory over the Wilmingtons yesterday. The
game was Well contested, but the home nine
welded the bat the more effectively and scored
SIX Tunes TO ther opponents three. Games
elsewhere: At Trenton n J-TrentOn 2: New.
ark; .: At Norfolk, Va.-Virginia, o; Norfolk g.
AZ aitlmore-Baltimore, 8; Pittsburg, IL. At
caster, Pa.-Lancaster, 4; Jersey City, 8. At
New4ork-MetropOlitan, 2; st. Louis T. At
BROOKLYN, n. I.-Cincinnati, A; Brooklyn, g.
AT Alexandria, Na-Alexandria ID: Our Bows
of baltimore, 5. AT Providence-New York. 4:
Providence, 3. At BOstOn-Roston g. Philadel.
phia. l. At Indianapolis, Ind.-Indianapolis
IL; ST. Louis, 4.
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LOCAL MENTION.
The Weather.

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER.
WASHINGTON ID. c., June II. 1885, II a. IN.
For the middle Atlantic states. fair slightly
warmer weather. winds generally southerly.
falling barometer.
For Saturday. fair weather, followed by local
rains is indicated for New England and the
middle Atlantic states, with slight rise in
temperature.
IN ORDER to please ladies and children we
will present every customer with q handsome
novelty card and have reduced prices on Ex-
animation Shoes, Ties and slippers TO such q
ow margin as will make them laugh. Call and
learn our prices before purchasing.
SOCNG'S SHOE HOUSE,
402 9TH street.
Look fnr The Old lady in Window
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OUR STOCK Is COMPLETE IN EVERY DEPART
MENT.

STORE OPEN EVERY EVENING UNTIL
O'CLOCK,
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REPORTED To THE POLICE.-ThOmas Hanra.
han, Bennings road, reports that about II
clock Monday night, while near the corner OF
18th and III streets northeast, he was robbed of
cane. his hat. and S25 in cash.-Mrs Par
ker. I'd and Bstreets, reports that she gave a
failed to return, ~
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. BOARDERS IN THE
w pleasant little village Of Hamilton healthy local
Iy, IN sight OF Blue Ridge Mountains. Terms So and
~ per week according 10 location For further par
Iicniars address the Misses CHAMBLIN, Hamilton.
LoudOun county, Va Its
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IJLEASANT COUNTRY BOARD. PLENTY OF
shade. Fruit of all kinds Good water and ice
Convenient to S. " r. r. and post office Three hours
from Washington. For particulars apply to Mrs
JAMES VAN METRE Gaylord, Clarke county, Va.
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DINEY POINT HOTEL. MD.

DINEY POINT HOTEL. Md
Ninety-two miles from Washington, onA.
the Potomac river. vA4
Will open for guests June Doth. Steamers lsIeT
EXCELSIOR or GEO. LEARY leave each evening
from foot of 9Th ST.
For terms which will be moderate apply to Hotel
WASH. b. WILLIAMS, 7th and sts or
)eslm* w. p. RICE, Proprietor.
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Poor Mr.. Kelley! Although he reached
the Austrian capital without having been re-
called he is not happy yet. Before his depart
ure he received the assurance that the fact
that his wife was of the Jewish faith would
be no bar to her recognition at court A
''private letter." published in New York
paper, is to the effect that while this of itself
might have been true had Mr. Kelley also
been an Israelite instead of Catholic, the
Austrian court does not recognize marriage
between Catholics and people of other demon
nations, and therefore does not regard the
American minister as married to his reputed
wife. The best thing Mr. Kelley can do is to
come back home and retire to some obscure
retreat while any fragments of his former good
character remain
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS,

THE Revue Biblographique reports that in Paraguay
tribe of Indians with tails has been discovered A
Guaycuyos child of eight years was captured with
tail foot long.
DOROTHY DENE is the name of new London
beauty who promises to become rival of Mary An
derson and Mrs. Langtry. She is said to be very
beautiful though still quite young.
II THINK our cook must have worked in the
navy said Mr.. Caution to his wife last night 'sWhy
dear?" asked Mrs. g.. innocently. Because our
kitchen is always in mess retorted the head of the
house.
A NEW HAMPSHIRE woman who died leaving good
property directed by will that it should all be expended
in adjoining her burial lot and costly marble mon
ument and statue brought from Italy will embellish
little country graveyard
Mr.. MOTOR KEELY has discoursed to a select assem-
blage of Phadelphians on 'wave plates" 'disnte.
orators" "etheric vapor," and "6dde-bows" and his
auditors patiently heard him through and silently
went away without killing Keely.
NEW YORK Times: An oil country resident, after
hearing Goldsmith's poem, 'The Deserted Village,
read in an eloquent manner drew long breath and
said: 'II be burned if that village of sweet Auburn
don't remind me of Petroleum Centre"
GENERAL GRANT is expected to summer at Drexel
cottage at Mount McGrf -or and will probably reach
Saratoga inside of week. At meeting of Post l..
NJ. Wheeler, No. 90, G.. A. r. of Saratoga. measures
taken to escort the General his arrival there
from the Delaware g. Hudson depot to the Mount Nc
Gregor depot.
Big BEAR, the Indian who still holds out against the
Dominion troops sent this message By the scouts cir
culatng among the I'VE are doomed and
will be killed after another by the whites but be-
fore die disappear altogether must enjoy
selves as much as we Therefore we must plumber
the stores and kin many white people,"
Mrs DANIEL WoRDEN, of New York. at the last
royal drawing room "a deep yellow MORE antique
woven with gold braid the train trimmed with large
ruohes of shaded yellow tulle relieved with large cus
tsrs of shaded yellow and cream ostrich feathers and
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WE are sorry to gee that our esteemed con

WE are sorry to see that our esteemed con-
temporary, the Journal, which is about the
best paper west of the Alleghanies is also
given to this attempt of pitting Hendricks
and Mcdonald against each other, or repre-
senting to the public that they are so pitted,
when the actions of both gentlemen plainly
show that in their own opinion the great State
of Indiana is large enough for both to breathe
in; that it is not actually necessary the one
must be tabooed in order that the other may
be perfectly happy.-Saturday People.
The Journal is not "pitting' Mr.. Hendricks
against Mr.. Mcdonald. That delightful oc-
cupation seems to be monopolized by
the Democrats. All that the Journal has
done has been to give place to what Demo
Gratis say about these two distinguished lead
ers of their party.
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TOOMBS AND THE NEGRO,

If Robert Toombs be correctly represented,
it is quite evident that he has lost none of his
ancient prejudice against the negro. Toombs
belongs to that antiquated school of oldtime
Democrats of which jeff Davis is an expo
nent; they forget none of their prejudices and
learn nothing from the things transporting
about them. Robert Toombs is the man who
filed his oath that he would some day call the
roll of his slaves at the base of
Bunker Hill monument. It is not of record
that he has done so, though at the same time
there is nothing to prevent him doing so
whenever he likes. He may 60 there and call
over the names of the men and women who
advertisement will cease, for of all that mum
Der not one will ever again answer to the term
slave. While Toombs has stood still the
world about him has moved on. The
negro himself has left his old master" and
proceeded to better things. The dust from
the highway over which the ex-slave is march
ing is slowly but surely burying Toombs and
his kind. He is sphinx in the desert of
dead prejudices; the sands of oblivion are set
Ting over the one no more than over the
other. When Robert Toombs says that the
negro as race is uneducatable, and that in
time he will disappear from among the white
race, as the inferior must 90 dow before
the superior, he allows his prejudice to take
the place Of judgment. The score of years
during which the negro has been free are not
enough to settle the question of his ultimate
success. But if he must be judged by them,
unprecedented testimony must pronounce in
his favor, for it cannot be truthfully denied
that he has made commendable progress, and
has given every promise of as much advance
ment, in time, as has been credited to any
race.
Nor is it apparent that the negro is to per-
ish from the face Of the earth. The census
does not bear out this idea, nor does the logic
of the situation furnish foundation for such
belief. The negro has held his own in Africa
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for centuries, just as the Monaghan has in
the Orient. Barbarians and semi barbarians,
it you please, but physically they have
maintained their strength and per-
petuated their race. Here in America,
with the conditions of civilization
to favor them, they must profit by them,
just as the white race has. 1t has been
demonstrated that the average of human life
is increasing, from generation to generation,
in all civilized countries. It is folly to con-
tend that the negro will not profit alike with
the white man In short, be has come to
stay, and the best thing to do is to assist in
making him as good citizen as pos
sible. Good food will show on
him as we'll as on the white
man. and so will education. Time, in remov-
ing from earth the Toombses and Davises, is
making smooth the way of the ex-slaves.
They have shown an ability to take care of
themselves for the most part and will increase
in moral and mental stature as the years go
by. Fate was kind to the negro after all in
allowing him to be stolen from Africa and
planted in America. The seed of such as
were logged and killed by taskmasters are re-
joicing in harvest long delayed.