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VTHE VIRGINIA. MIDLAND RAILWAY
TIE SHORT LINE TO THE SOUTH. SOUTHWEST

III S7aO"1 LINZ ~ ~ SOU IN, SOU INVEST
AND WEST.
Schedule in effect OCTOBER II 1884
4:lOA M--NEW ORLEANS MAIL daily making Close
connections 70 all points south and Southwest
Daily, except Sunday with C. o. Railway. Pull
man Sleeping Buffet cars from New York and Wash
inston to Atlantis. Pullman Sleeping from
Washington and Atlanta to New Orleans
e:loF M.-LOCISVlLlE FAST LINE. Daily via Char
ottsyille 20 Cincinnati Louisville and all Western
Louisville
1o.l0P. M-SOCTHFRN MAIL AND EXPRESS Daily
g all points South and Southwest via Danvilie and
Charlotte. Pullman Sleeping from Washing
ton via DanvtIe, Charlotte and Atlanta to New
Orleans; also. from Washington via Charlotte aud
Columbia to Augusta
Nsnna.sas Division Train leaves Washington at 9:l0
= ". daily. except Sunday.
KArrepton trains leave Washin2tOn AZ go M and
$40 p. NJ. daily.
For tickets and Information inquire Company's Of
zee COL Pennsylvania avenue Trains leave from B.
r. station
n SLAUGHTER. y. mcdaniel.
Gen Pass Agent Agent
au2 sol. HAAS. Traffic Manager
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VuNHOMAS BOWLING, Atctioneer
HANDSOME WALNUT. PARLOR FURNITURE,
WALNUT NJ T. TABLES. BRUSSELS AND IN
GRAIN CARPETS HALL AND STAIR CARPETS.
WALNUT AND PAINTED CHAMBER FURNI-
TUKE MATTREsSESS, s, RILL9WS AND o,I B9I I,s,
sIDEBoARD KITCHEN REQUIS TIES 90, AT
AUCTION.
On FRIDAY. JANUARY .THIRTIETH.. 1885. at the
residence Of party declining housekeeping No. 1912 18th
street northwest shall sell general collection Of
househ old goods. ja264t
VlNHOMAs E. wAGGAMAN,
Il Real Estate Auctioneer
TRUSTEES SALE OF DESIRABLE DWELLING
HOUSE. No 2024 STREET NORTHWEST.
BY virtue of q deed Of trust to me recorded in -
Iiber No 764 folio Az. Of the land records Of the
District Of Columbia, will sell. at public auction.
in 'front.' at Of the premises on TUESDAY, THE THIRD
HALE O'CLOCK NJ Lot No: 81 81 the subdivision
with the improvements thereon. consisting OF
fortabe theesory brick dwelling being premises No
2024 street northwest
Terms of sale One-fourth cash. balance at six,
twelve and eighteen months with interest, for which
notes of the purchaser will be taken secured by deed
Of trust and policy Of insurance or all cash at the
ton Of the purchaser.
LEWIS CLEPHANE. Trustee
THOS. E WAGGAMAN Auctioneer. !a2l-d&ds
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TO.lIOR ROW.

g BENsINGER, Auctioneer.
viii be sold at the Bazaar. No $40 Louisiana avenue.
on TUESDAY MORNING. tile TWENTY-SEVENTH
OF JANUARY at TEN O'CLOCK. car load OF Horses.
Mares and Mules. from the Cumberland Valley Pa.
sale peremptory. By order of Alex. McMillen
ja233t s. BENSINGHR, Auctioneer.
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District Government Affairs.


Mr. Chas. +. Keefer, 3l6 % street southeast. com.
plains OF the condition OF the sidewalk on street
southeast, between LIST and I'd streets. The Com
current repairs OF sidewalks.
THE FREE BRIDGE QUESTION.
Counsel representing citizens OF West Washing
Saturday afternoon asking the cooperation OF the
Commissioners 10 securing a free bridge across the
Potomac at the Three Sisters Major Lydecker
said he did not favor spending the money that
would be required to erect q bridge at the Three
Sisters The counsel suggested that IL was mex
pedient to get the Aqueduct bridge property under
existing circumstances Major Lydecker thought
the bridge could be obtained by condemnation, eav-
Ing questions which might arise to be settled by
the Court Of Claims. Mr.. Edmonds thought Con-
gress could put the matter In shape BY little egis
iation.
BUILDING PERNfrS
issued by Inspector EntwiStle r NJ. Reynolds,
repair frame. 18th street northwest; 500. SWORN
stedt 4 Bradley, erect four two-story dwellinRS,
12th. btween @ and l. streets southeast; 81 500.
REV. Mr. GAsKrSs' TROUBLES WITH Hrs CHURCH.
In the Court In General Term to-day, MI. T. J.
Mackey, attorney for Rev. Madison Gaskins In his
case against the trustees OF the Second Baptist
church cd street, between and ~, to compel them
TO %ygnize him as the pastor, &c. which was de-
cided a few weeks since by Judge Cox against the
complainant, asked that the case be placed On the
calendar. Chief Justice Cartier, aftea the state.
mentS OF the trouble In the church by MeSsR
Mackey and W. A Cook, asked, How many OF
such contests win be SUFFICIENT TO keep the Lord
out OF that h0use9" M. Nackey was d1rected 20
aak toe eaeek 70 put The CO O. the calendar.
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Suor BY AN UNKNowN NEGRo.-Robert Moore, q
white man, while walking along LIST street. between
and streets northeast, about O'Clock last night
an unknown colored man The wound Is quite seri-
GUS. It is thought that desire TOR revenge must
have prompted the shot
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INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL kNrRRTAINhENT.-An enter
tainment viii be given by some OF the Industrial
and Charitable Institutions OF the District on the
evening before the dedication OF the Washington
monument The pupils OF the various schools will
give practical Illustrations OF what they have been
taught, and exhibits OF work win be made. The
refreshmenJ tables viii be presided over by ladies
in the dress OF n hundred years ago and Q lunch
VIII be continued for several hours every day until
March 5th- This entertainment h given In men,
ory Of MIS- Martha Washington. as the most hitting
tribute TO one whose domestic virtues would have
led her 10 take an active interest In any effort
tending to the Improvement OF home life. Persons
wish further Information, can obtain II at the
schools OF cookery ,6 18th street and l30 street
RANGE OF THE THERMoNErRk-The Following
were the readings at the ONCE OF the chief signal
on1oer to-day: a m 3oo5; am. sl.0s; II q N.
SsG; pm, $50
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VNHOS. J. FISHER CO. Heal Estate Auctioneers
TRUSTEES SALE OFvALUABLE LOT. IMPROVED
By BRICK DWELLING. NO. 6l9 STREET
NORTHWEST, WITH STABLE IN REAR
By virtue of deed of trnst; dated 25th septen- O.
BET 1885 and duly accorded in Lber No l05s, E
tr,ct q Columbia i we shall ssll, on THURSDAY, AZ
TERNOO\. FEBRUARY FIFTH, AID, 1885. at HALF
PAST FOUR O'CLOCK, in front of the premises the
west half OF lot numbered four "a. in corporation of
dred and l44s, IS said subdivision is
corded IN Libsr folio 2.5. of the records Of the
with the improvements thereon consist: o: H., .
dwrlng and stable.
Terms One. third cash: ba'r"c, III . u "a and two
(O years with interest an -cured by deed of trust
upon the property sold deposit of 800 will be re-
quired at time Of sale Conveyancing at pur-
Chaser terms OF sale are not complied witt, within
seven days from day OF sale, the property will be resod
at risk and cost OF defautnR purchaser after
notice in the Eve ing star.
E 55TN II 6 ! sssEISaILwAaEN., Trustees.
ta24-d&ds
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Secretary Teller and Colorado relisios

Secretary Teller was at the Interior department
to-day, having returned Saturday from Colorado
from his successful senatorial contest He was oc-
cupied all day with receiving congrstulatory Wis
itors and huge Pile OF kilograms on his desk In
dIcated 70 some degree the interest manifested by
his numerous friends IN his election SECRETARY
Teller said that FAR he could learn the result
was satisfactory TO the republican party In Colo
RADIO. he became q candidate at the request og
the leading men In the party. As for the future,
he thought this result eliminated Mr.. Hi from
politics and that he would no longer be Q factor In
the state.
s.The republican party OF Colorado" said the
Secretary, ass now In the condition that w was be
fore Mr.. Hin entered into politics"
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NOainasions TO-aay.

The President sent the following nomination 20
the senate to-day:
Lieut. v. l. Cottman. Junior grade. 70 be q lieu
tenant
Commodore samuel r. Franklin, % Be rear ad-
miral
10 be postmaster, ]. Rider cady. at HUDSON, n
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Quotations Of Stocks and Bonds and information re-
kerony ths Markets received through wires IN
sIASTLf. direct from the New York Stock xchanse
~ orders executed and reported promptly. ADS
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-30
Guinea Hens as Songsters.

speaking of fog-horns, steam
wistles. and other unpleasant noises
to hear right along regularly" said
resident of the First Ward to visit
or whose sleep had been disturped by
the footing of the fog-horn during the
thaw in December, ''did you ever hear
guinea towels tune up for any consid-
cradle length of time?"
The visitor confessed he had not.
and the resident continued: ''Well
you wouldn't think, to hear them at
first, that constant repetition of the
noise would become positively un-
bearable and hideous. but it is. l
lived in Rogers Park, near Chicago, q
few years ago, and one spring family
moved into house back of mine, an
alley separating the lots. l kept hens
and had a small yard in the rear of
my lot to keep them confined during
the summer.
"This new conner brought along a
Few towels, and among them trio OF
.guineas.' There was no hen-yard on
his lot. and the very day he unloaded
his goods and chattels his towels made
themselves at home in my garden,
which was coming on finely. We
.shooed' them away repeatedly. until
after few days the common hens and
roosters failed to visit us; but the
guinea towels wouldn't stay 'shooed'
and within five or ten minutes after
being driven away would return and
race around my hen-yard, trying to
find an entrance. They wore path
around it as smooth as the top of a
deacon's head, and every few minutes
lifted up their voices in songs of pl laise
and thanksgiving.
= "At first 1t was novelty, and used
to make us all laugh, and the children
spent hours watching the restless
birds; but in few days the constant
cackling, or whatever you may call it
-.bukwit,' 'bokweet, sbuckwheat, =
began to grow tiresome, and finally
became intoierable. didn't like to
complain to the new neighbor so soon,
hut didn't hesitate to pelt the birds
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-30
THE MORTGAGED FARM,
BY 1HEo. D. c. MILLER, NJ. D.

BY THEo. D. C. MILLER, NJ. D.
We are both growing aged together,
And Jennie has left the old ONE,
To walk by the side of another,
As on through life's journey they roam
Has left us without his strong arm,
And now, when we need their protection,
They tell us to mortgage the farm.
thought John would be our protectcr-
He always was kind when a boy,
And Betsey, my vile, true and loving,
Oft called him fond mothers Joy!
But he was led off by companions,
In ways that bring evil and harm.
And left his old parents in sorrow,
To suffer or mortgage the farm.
Last night, while in sleep, lay dreaming
That Jennie and John were both true;
But when l awakened imrapture.
The sweet vision passed from my view!
l know, wife, we're aged and feeble,
And feel that this life hath no charm,
But love the dear home OF our childhood, /,
And cling to the old, cherished farm
Now we are both loveless and childless,
The wrinkles are deep on our brow
Our hair has grown aged and whitened,
Our footsteps are tottering now!
While we are so feeble and helpless,
With none to protect us from harm,
We only can suffer in silence,
And tearfuAy mortgage the farm.
Saturday Night.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-30

There are now living nine ex-Sena-
tors who were members of the United
States Senate at the beginning OF the
War of the Rebellion, and who took
their seats at the memorable first ses-
sion of the Thirty-seventh Congress,
on July 4, 1851. They are Willard
Salisbury, ofDelaware; Lyman Truns-
bull, of Illinois; James Harlan, OF
Iowa; Samuel G. Pomeroy, Of Kan
sas; Henry M. Rice and Morton S.
Wilkinson, of Minnesota; Daniel
Clark, OF New Hampshire; John Sher-
man, of Ohio, and James R. Doolittle,
of Wisconsin.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-30

Bishop William Taylor's missionary
band is pushing into the interior of At
RIGA, and the enterprise seems likely to
be successful. Some of them are now
400 miles from the west coast. DIR.
Taylor hopes next year to push on to
the Tushilange and Basonge countries,
some 700 or 800 miles from the coast,
the goal he originally had in view.
Only one member OF the party has
thus far died. He was blindly en-
thusiastic young man who believed in
faith cures. When he was seized with At
rican fever no persuasion could induce
him to take medical treatment until
he thought he was dying, and then it
was too late. Bishop Taylor writes
that the natives are giving his party
a very friendly reception, and are
eager to have the white people settle
among them Some of the chiefs have
offered to help build the mission STA
tions, and they hold out all the induce
ments they can command to get the
missionaries to make their homes with
them.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-30
His Little Dan.

Not all convicts in prison cells have
hardened hearts. We do not know OF
the trials and temptations, the cruel
want the bitter needs OF men who
| sometimes do desperate deeds. There
is something pathetic in the life of
every man within the prison walls. It
may befound in the story of a neglect
| ed and uncared for childhood, or in a
lifelong struggle with adverse fates.
We untried souls are less charitable to
men than we should be whose daily
lifeis one of detection and discourage
| ment, in the midst of which they sin.
! The warden Of a penitentiary tells the
following touching story OF a man sen:
fenced to ten years at hard labor, for
a crime in the committing of which
there were many extenuating circum-
stances.
His name was Hixon. One day a let
ter came for him, neatly addressed in
| a woman's hand.
The warden read it first as was his
duty. This was all there was oft:
"DEAR JoHN,-Our little Dan died to-day.
MARY
The warden read the affecting mes
sage to Hixon. "Dan'' was the convict's s
little boy, and 'Mary" was his wife.
"What-what?" said Hixon. "Dan-
ny dead? My little Dan? No, no no!
It cannot be''
But it was true. Another sorrow
was added to the many he already
knew He sat for long time with
bowed head, his face in his hands, his
heart quivering.
GIVE said many time" he said, at
last, 'that it would be better if Danny
did die before he was old enough to
know and feel his fathers shame. /
suppose it is the best, but it is hard to
bear after all. My little Dan!"
The man broke down again. A little
later he took asmall photograph from
his pocket, carefully wrapped in tissue
paper. He gazed long and earnestly
at it. The tears ran over his pale
cheeks, and fell on the smiling face of
the boy He brushed them away with
his trembling hand, and gave the pho
tograph to the warden.
"That was Danny" he said.
1t was the sunny little face of a boy
about two years old. A pretty boy
he must have been, with thes curls
clinging close to his head, and the
large bright eyes-now forever closed,
closed to the knowledge of the truth
that he was a convict's boy. Surely it
was better SO, for now that penitent
convict father may meet his little Dan
in the land where there is no knowl-
edge nor remembrance of the sins that
made sorrowful our earthly lives.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-30

The papers print a correspondence
between an Israelite and Mr.. Howells'
the novelist. The Israelite, who pro-
fesses admiration for Mr.. Howells'
works, objects because Mr.. Howells
has intimated in his last magazine
story that a settlement of Israelites in
a fist class street tends to depreciate
the value of adjoining estates. And
the obliging novelist agrees to omit the
passage in the book when published.
The Israelite was undulv sensitive.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-30

Senator Plumb of Kansas predicts
that within the next decade "immi-
grafton, instead of coming from the
East to the West, will be returning
from the West to the East, and that
theyoungmen of New England, born in
sight of the sea, instead offollowing the
example of their fathers in seeking in
vestment of ambition and capacity
and skill, in the West, will find their
chance upon the sea or in foreign
countries, where they can better
realize their ambition for fortune than
upon American SOIL" Most people
will regard this prediction as very wild.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-30

Georgia has, just been provided with
a local option law which leaves the
matter of permitting Or forbidding the
sale OF liquors of any kind entirely
with the people of each county. An
election must be held on the question
whenever one-tenth of the voters pc
tition for it; and in the event of de-
cision in favor of license, another cleo
ton may be held two years later.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-30
The Pacific railroads owe the Gov

The Pacific railroads owe the Gov
ernment about $64, 100000 as prin-
cipal of the bonds issued to aid in their
construction, and about as much
more for accrued interest which they
have not paid. They hope to get re-
leased from a portion if not all of this
debt before the bonds mature, but
that is hardly possible. Another
scheme is to allow the government to
foreclose and sell, and then bid in the
property for a small percentage of the
debt
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-30

"I write seventeen columns a week
of this Internal stuff" said the editor
of a society paper, who was much too
good for his position, "and 1 write
my brain numb. The most I aim to
do is to keep clean from gross humbug
and toadying, but what more can lido?
There is no occasion for anything bet
ter-people Immediately say it is too
far above them. ask myself some
times if there can be any lower depth
than this where | find myself. There
ID one-of the persons who can read
columns of such trash and enjoy it,.
Do the variety actors ever make
faces at the audience from the wings,
/ wonder, or does the clown in the
ring ever wish he might hit the public
in the nose with his mightiest kick if
he went under the sawdust the next
moment?" Perhaps they may do these
things and perhaps not. but readers
ought to know that in the circles of
bright editors and reporters society
news is always designated as "rot"
and "home-sl1sh."
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-30
EYEGLASSES from the Mayfiower.

Something else has been discovered
that came over in the Mayfower. This
time it is pair of spectacles that were
worn by one of the pilgrims. The
bows are of steel, an eighth of an inch
wide, and the glass is as thick as
plate glass, making the weight of the
snectacles five ounces. From such
ponderous appliances as these, then,
have the modern eyeglasses of the
typical Boston girl been derived, says.
the Boston Herald, and it thoug
adds: s.This also accounts for the
large noses of the pilgrims. They had
to have them. .''-11oy Times.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-30
CORVALLIS, OREGOH

Drought in Deccan and floods in
Bengal have combined to destroy the
crops of the present season, and the
cable brings intelligence from Calcutta
that there is CONSERVATION at the
prospect of the famine now impend-
ing.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-11
Where Women Vote.

"Has woman suffrage been proven .
Success in Wyomingf"
SIT apparently is a great success. All
classes Of women vote, and they have
30 transformed the polls that an Eastern
man would never recognize a voting
place in our Territory. The men are
very respectful, and when ladies appear
they doff their beavers in the most defer
entail manner. The women generally
vote a. their male relatives do, but oc-
casionally they assert neutrality-suspicious.
and vote the other ticket. They do not
take part in caucuses N conventions, al
though they are entitled. to serve as
delegates. It is observed, however, that
the candidates who are acceptable to the
ladies are the ones that get on the ticket.
There has been no direct temperance
issue in the Territory, but when it doe
come the women, irrespective of politics,
can be safely counted Cor prohibition:
They are entitled to serve on juries and
are eligiblet to the peace justiceship, but
the positions are not congenial ones, and
the custom is dying out. In Laramie we
had a female Justice of the peace who
believed in no distinction under any
circumstances. Her husband was
brought before her on the charge OF
drunk and disorderly, and she fined him
to the full extent of the law. He paid
his fine and then remarked thst he would
get even with the court before morning.
And he did, too. His wife was unable
to get out Of bed for two weeks."-Bad
N.Y., IL Chicago Times.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-11
Prehistoric Man.

The Union Medicale announces a
discovery of the highest scientific inter
est, and which, if it turns out to be real,
will show that prehistoric man is no
longer . myth. On piercing a new gall
lery in a coal mine at Bully Orenay
(Pas-de- Calais) a cavern was broken in
to containing six fossil human bodies in
tact-a man, two women and three
children-as well as the remains of arms
and utensils in petrifed wood and stone,
and numerous fragments of mammals
and fish. A second subterranean cave
contained eleven bodies of large dimen-
sions, several animals, and q great num-
Der of objects, together with precious
stones. The walls were decorated with
designs of combats between men and an
imals of gigantic size. A third and still
larger chamber appeared to be empty,
bat could not be entered on account of
the carbonic acid it contained, which is
being removed by ventilators. The fos-
sill bodies have been brought up to the
surface, and five of them will be exhib-
tied at the marie Of Lens, the Others
are to be sent to Lille, in order to I'M
dergo examination by the Faculte des
Sciences. Representatives. of the Fac
ulte des Sciences, of Paris, and of the
British Museum having been telegraph
ed for, are expected to be present.ANa-
tHrc.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-11
Women on street Cars.

Speaking about employment for wo-
men, I do not see why women are not
employed more frequently as ~drummers,
they have cheek enough. I ride down
town every morning on a summer car,
five of us OF each seat, eve standing
up in the rear rank and from six to ten
standing on the footrail and holding on
the handles. When q Car with that
load passes by mt would think that any
candidate for passage would hang IN or
wait for the next car, but does lovely
woman do it7 Not a bit of it. She
gives an imperious wave of her parasol
to the driver, who puts on the brakes
and stops. Then lovely woman coolly
stares at every man who has paid for his
seat and is on his way to work. The
American male has no pluck; there ID
no concert of action. Woman's superior
instinct picks out the weakest brother,
He may be deeply absorbed in hii
paper, but he feels the piercing stare
he folds up his paper and meekly de-
sends to hang OIL the outskirts for the
rest of his ride. I have seen this racket
tried every morning, and I have never
known it to fail. It does not need
lovely woman to work it; l saw it dont
this morning by q fat woman with
market basket and an umbrella. The
youth beside me removed his cigarettt
In involuntary admiration, and mur
INJURED, "Ain't she got . gall?"-S
Louis Post Dispatch.