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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-09-17
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THE
National Life and Maturity Association
OF WASHINGTON, D. c.

CiOMP0SED of leading professional
~ and business men of the City, OF
undoubted integrity and executive abili-
ty, refers to any OF the citizens of the
District and offers plan of short period
maturity investment, largely in advance
of any OF the complicated endowment
schemes now before the public.
This company invites the fullest in
vestigation. Satisfy yourselves of its
standing and its ability to do what it
promises by writing to yonr Senators and
Congressman, or any reputable business
man of Washington.
+. EUGENE WATHEN,
y24tf Agent, Annapolis, Md
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-09-17

The STATE CONVENTION. The
Democratic State Convention which
met 10 Baltimore yesterday. had no
disturbing eliment 10 their body ex-
eept the contest in Allegany county,
between the canal and anti-canal fac
tions. The canal faction delegates
were admitted, and then everything
went along as smoothly as the most
ardent could wish IS ~
j. Frank Turner, the presentcomp-
troller, was renoininated without op-
position, and 50 was Spencer C
Jones, as Clerk Of the Court OF APP
peals. @
The platform as presented by Con.
gresham Compton, was agreed to
without discussion end without d dis.
senting voice. Civil service reform
got the cold shoulder; President
Cleveland was cleverly endorsed; the
laboring men were reminded that the
democracy were their best friends;
Gov. McLane's administration. IS far
as it wents was approved and Cover
nor Lloyd was commenued as far as
be has gone The platform closes
with she following resolution
ResolvedIby this Convection, rep
resenting and speaking for the Demo
cratic Party Of Maryland, That the
devotion 10 the Interest Of that partE,
as shown BY bis jealous, energetic
and intelligent conduct as chief exc
cntive officer Of she democratic nation
ii organization IN The late presiden-
tial contest. entities orr honored Sem
ator, the Hon. "A. r. German, to the
hearty thanks Of bis political friends,
and this convention hereby gives ex-
preston to the same s
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-09-17

THE examining surgeons at the
Washington Navy Yard declare that
fully one-fith of all boys seeking en-
listment in the Navy are rejected on
account of heart disease. caused 10 q
majority of cases by the excessive
use of tobacco.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-09-17

THE nominations made by the late
democratic county conventions give
unalloyed satisfaction to the three
organs published in this city. The
editors Of these respective journals
vie with each other in dealing out
taffy to the nominees.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-09-17

CAPTAIN CANNON, Of Dorchester
county, has instituted suit against the
Baltimore american, laying damages
at 10000, for calling him Cannon,
the Pirate King in a communication
giving an account of the dredgers ar
rested in Dorchester county. by the
Estate Police Force" in the fall Of
1884.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-09-17

The democratic State convention
nominated j. Frank Turner, comp
troller, and Spencer G. Jones, clerk
of the Court of Appeals. without OPP
position for reelection H.. H. Brog-
den Of this county was made mem-
Der Of the committee on permanent
organization, and H. G. Webb, also
hthis county. ! member Of the COM
d. ne on resolutions.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-09-17

JoHN Rome, colored, who was re-
ported killed by VIM Tighe with a
hammer at Brooklyn, Anne Arundel
county, is not dead, though badly
burt.
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,A5GOOD BUSINESS
For q Small Capital

THE GOOD WILL, and FIXTURES,
j andall rights belonging to my COAL
OIL BUSINESS, including Horse and
new Wagon. will be sold cherp for cash.
Satisfactory reasons given for selling
Also a horse and two-seat wagon and
harness for sale cheap. in addition to the
above. Apply to $500
III CHAS. III. DEXTER.
sep1Oltf- lN 10 Francis St.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-09-17

IN speaking Of the criticisms passed
upon the Patent Office By Ex-Gover-
nor Hamilton, ih recent address, ex.
tracts from which have been publish
ed 10 the CAPITAL. Commissioners
Montgomery said that the fault was
not in the Patent Office. but with
Congress- The Office VAS turning
into the Treasury nearly 800 900 per
month, yet Congress failed to provide
sufficient clerical force for the lrapsac-
ton of its business.
The commissioner likened the Issue
of o patent to a criminal proceedings
the pressure was oil on the. side Of
the inventor and bis attorneys. I'm
portant evidence for the government
might be lacking, but the inventor bad
a rightto demand atrial, and, If he
was successful, the proceedings were
final and the decision could not be re-
opened. Examiners might Grand
undoubtedly did occasionally--ia isl
suing patents, but that was to be ex-
pecied when they were overtaxed
with work. -s ae s.
Inventors had a right to demand
decisions upon their application for
patents within a reasonable time, and
the Office was now in arrears, but if
any attempt was made to expedite
business with the present inadequate
force itlwould only aggravatethe
complained of by Mr. Hamilton
namely, the issue Of imprope- pat
ents.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-09-17

THE DAILY EVENING CAPITAL viii be
served by carriers to subscribers in the
city at 6 cents a week. or mailed to any
address in the United States for 30 cents
per month, 90 cents for three months,
b1.75 fer six months. or $500 per year,
invariably in advance. Unless the sub
scription, as above, is paid in advance,
80 cents per month or $500 per year
viii positively be charged.
bkE~ Correspondence containing inn
poFtant news solicited from every part
Of the country.
BG-AddTess eli Letters and kilograms
to THE EVENING CAPIrAL.
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Proposals for Coal.
STATE OF MARYLAND,
OFFICE or CoMMANDER

STATE OF MARY LAND,
OFFICE OF CoAIAIANDER
STATE Fishery FoRCE.
annapolis, august %, 1885.
PROPOSALS will be received at this
u Office. up 10 y NJ, SEPTEMBER Is,
1885, for such supplies of Bitumlnous
and Anthracite COAL, as may from time
to time be required for the use OF the
STATE FISHERY FORCE, for the year
ending September 18th 1886, to be deliv-
cred on board as required.
The right 10 refuse any or all bids IS re-
served.
JAS. !. WADDELIs, Comd'r
aug2S g o-3t2w State Fishery Force.
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i nEsrRABLE
TW0STORY COTTAGE.
r. TIN BEAUTIFUL TOWN or
0.Erord, Talbot County, I'D.


THE owner will offer for sale in the
beautiful and healthful town OF Ok
ford, Talbot county, a neat and comforta-
Bile tw0-story frame COTTAGE, nearly
new containing parlor. hall DINING room
and kitching. and two nice bed-chambeTs.
has neat front yard and good garden q
tachedg II Is situated on the Main street.
within few hundred yards of the steam
boat wharf, and 10 fun view of the beau
tiful Tired Avon and Choptank Rivers =
Two lines of steamers run to Baltimore
daily from the town; it is a popular sum
mer resort and has two fine hotels; the
waters abound with fish, oysters and
crabs, and an extensive business Is done
here during the season in this line. II
is the turminus of the Delaware and
Chesapeake Railway. The property can
be bought for $1,000, including lot 20xl5O
feet small amount cash and balance on
easy terms. For particulars apply at this
office. or address r. r BUTLER,
iu1S-ts. Trappe. Talbot Co.. Md,
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THURSDAY. SEPT N. 1885.

Hon. Horatio Seymour, one of New
York's most distinguished citizens, Is
opposed to civil service reform.
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ORDERED, this 18th day of September
" 1885, that the sale made and reported
by Thos. j. Duvall. collector of taxes. of
the real estate of Elizabeth G.. Claude, be
ratified and confirmed unless cause tothe
contrary be shown on OF before the 18th
day Of October inst Provided copy of
this order be inserted in the. EVENING
CAPITAL and the Herald. newspapers
published In said county once In each of
three successive weeks before the 18th
day of October inst.
The report states the amount of sales
to be $4,000 i. THOMAS JONES.
True Copy,
sep. 15-3w Clerk.
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GTNGLE. Double Teams and 40 - 7
- Horses to hire, by the hour 81 $50
week. Open and Close Carnage, o 80 "a
and Double Phetons, Jaggers, I0g 81 q
No.rOp Buggies, all at reasona,O oa.a 4,
fine carriages for visiting ana poBd
Drivers IN livery, If desired. horssl
Phatons, with quiet and gen1S SnschI
suitable for ladies and children. ,.''lsr II
rates made with families. Paru pssssea
tention to horses on livery. 800
called fer and delivered to an pa =. nO,Iosl
city. Funerals attended TO q. sn0i
All orders promptly attended TO- ~
JAS. HI vANsANI, J.,
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Order Misi.

IN THE CIRCUIT CoURT ron ANNE ARUN-
DEL County.
In THE ESTATE or ELIZABETH g. CLAUDE.
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Manager j. M. Hill has secured for
the reopening OF the Masonic Opera
House the grand
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Criminal Calender.

The Framington tNIass) savings bank
defaulter disposed ofS22S,oo0
Byron Simpson was murdered in Green
Bay, Wis, by Il man named Lippere.
The killing OF Joe January, 81 %half-breed,
by his nephew George, at Balsam Branch,
Wis, is reported.
A Virginia editor and politician was filed
full of lead by way OF protest against his
course at Abingdon.
Douglas Livingston was arrested at
Rockford, ILL.,, charged with stealing up
ward OF $1,000 in the past few months
from the till OF his employer, Arthur Con
radt.
Thomas N. Thompson at Midtown, Pa,
married Maud Jones, an abandoned wom-
an last spring, and the other day the gen.
tie Maud killed MIR. Thompson and then
herself.
At Allegheny City, Pa, Benjamin Powers,
aged seventy, having had his farm taken
from him by his children and having been
turned adrift, dies OF starvation and ex-
posure.
a young mulatto woman named frankie
Mitchell was found dead in her room, in
Chicago, recently, with II bullet wound in
the back of her head. She had evidently
been murdered.
hiH IlobcEtS WHOSE aTFcSp LOT morse
stealing at Rapid City, Oak. caused con-
siderable comment last spring, has Just
been taken TO Miles City. Mon, and will
go to Deer Lodge penitcntiary.
William and Henry Wogler and Henry
Noting have been arrested at Millbank,
Oak, upon II charge of arson in the first
degree. The testimony at the preliminary
examination developed the fact that Nolt-
ing was employed by the Woglcrs to set
fire to William Wogler's dwelling house.
Randolph Meyer was arrested in Peabody,
Mass, u few days ago, on the charge OF OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses, and
comitted suicide rather than endure the
disgrace. He came to this country twenty
years ago, and was pastor of a German
Lutheran church in the West. He could
ak in Greek, Hebrew. Latin, Italian,
French, Swiss and German. 1t is thought
he was deranged. He leaves 100000 in
life insurance. He was Il Free Mason.
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Evangelist Moody will hold meetings at
P~oughkeepsie, n. Y, Oct. &c and 81.
John Mccullough is gradually failing.
His estate OF $4,000 is in the hands OF
trustees.
Moses Marrencllah, a Christian Jew, LOG
years old, died at the ~Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
poorhouse.
RaswellP Flower has declined the Dem.
ocratic nomination for Lieutenant Gov
sernor OF New York.
Mrs. w. H. Leas, one of the. Oldest resi-.
dents of Des Moines,, died in Chicago while
undergoing a surgical operation.
Gen. Sherman is getting out a new edi.
ton OF his memoirs, in which there will be
important changes and additions.
A~rchdeaeon Farrar will arrive at Cyrus
". Fields house at %Iryington IN Oct. %,
and leave there for Boston or Oct. 81.
w. b. Galhreath, state senator OF the
Thirty-second Illinois district, died sudden
~ at Mattoon OF neuralgia OF the heart.
Congressman Kelley OF Pennsylvania is
writing a book on Lincoln and Stanton,
which will shortly be published by Put
nams.
William B. Fleming, chief Justice OF New
Mexico has resigned on account Of bad
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WIT AND HUM0R.

At a reception a young lady acct
dentally set her back hair on fire.
When extinguished she said she was
glad it wasn't her best.
A correspondent writes to ask us
what a holocaust is. The principal
use of this word is to make an item
about the burning of a stable read
sorter heightened.
Freddie. did you go to school to-
day?" ''Yes'm." Odd you learn
anything new?" ..Yes'm." What
was it, my boy?" II got on to a sure
way of gettin' out for an hour BY
snuiiing red ink up my nose"
The policemen of Goshen, N. Y,
have been furnished with rawhide
whips to be carried during the day
time instead of locust clubs Owing
to the ease and safety with which they
can be welded it is said they inspire
mor terror among evildoers than the
clubs.
There is a Furnishing school at Fleet
wood, Ga. The teacher is w. A. Rog-
ers, the tax collector. A remarkable
thing is that in a school of scventy-one
pupils each and every one is related to
the teacher and to each other. Only
one of the scholars is over Is years Of
age.
Edward Ball, known IN the west as
the cowboy preacher. is a young man
OF intelligence, has a finely shaped
head. and is said SC be very sincere in
his belief. He works for money, and
then spends every dollar in travelling
and preaching and for religious litera-
ture to give away. In his preaching
he is somewhat after the Sam Jones
order.
An unknown man was Frustrated by
heat in the woods at Pittsford, N. Y.
When found he could only indicate
that he had been without food or water
for two days, The local reporter adds:
"A a who shall for the present be
nameless, refused to give the sufferer
a drink of water without fifty cents in
payment. The money was paid, and
the poor wretch got the water"
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Foreign News.

There are said to be 1000 cases Of small.
pox in Montreal.
B%oycotting and attendant outrages are
said to be on the WAX in Ireland.
There are more than 80, 900 people on a
strike in Lancashire county, England.
There are LOCI candidates OF both
parties i'll the field for the coming British
elections.
The Manitobagovernment will
in the Colonial and Indian exhibition OF
next year.
Lord Darlington leaves for New South
Wales to assume the governorship which
pays $4,000 u year.
{. III. James. one OF the official assignees
OF the Dublin bankruptcy court, has been
committed for trial on a charge OF fraud.
Roumelia and Bulgaria united nave a
population OF about $500, 900, and a ter
ritory $4,000 squarem miles in extent.
Lord Wo!seley is writing an elaborate de-
Tense OF his Egyptian campaign at Hump
ton Lodge, Il charming country place near
Farnhatn.
The monnrchial candidates throughout
France are urging the Tonquin expedition
as an argument for the election OF the
Loyalists.
The present Mexican congress will prob
ably repeal the law which prohibits Ameri-
cans from owning real estate within three
leagues OF the border.
By an order OF the Dominion council the
passage OF meat cattle through Manitoba
from Dakota and Minnesota via Oakland
station or Gretna is permitted.
The Dublin financier who was reported
to be a defaulter and absconder is Thomas
Strickland, the manager in Ireland for the
West of England Life and Fire Insurance
company.
The changes made in the Canadian cabinet
were due to the fact that Sir Alexander
Campbell i'll health led him to resign; but
Sir John Macdonald persuaded him to take
the portfolio Of postmaster general, and
then a new deal took place.
Queen Victoria is said to have made a
new will, leaving the Isle OF Wight property
to C%onnaught, the Scotch property to Beat.
rice, and handsome provision for the chill
drsn of Leopold. Her entire fortune is es.
timated at about S35, 100000.
Among the victims in the recent massa-
ere of Christians in Cochin China were the
missionary priests, Rev. Fathers Bayais,
Dupont and Martin. Much indignation is
expressed against Gen. Dc Courcey. because
he hesitatea to send troops to protect the
missionary stations.
Reports received from various portions
OF the state OF Iowa b." telegraph show con.
clusively that corn is entirely beyonddan,.
age by frost. The last ten days have been
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Nth. He has held the Office only a few

health. He has held the office only a few
months.
Lieut.. Schntze, U. S. N, sent to distribute
presents to people who helped to rescue the
survivors. OF the Jeanette ditastcr, is ion
lied extensively in Siberia.
Winnns, the American millionaire, has re-
Gently increased his shooting park in Scot
land until it embraces 25U.O0O acres. His
sporting rentals pay him $4,000 a year.
Prof. John Dickinson, a brother OF Anna
Dickinson, has accepted the chair in the
Lawrence, Kan, university, recently va
Gated by Prof. Wheeler on account of i'll
health.
Gen. Nelson II. Davis, who has just been
retired rom active service, is going first to
his old Oxford tMass.) home, but it is prob
able that. he will return to Washington be-
Tore long to make this his permanent home
Lillian Norton, the well-known Boston
singer,aha gone to Paris to claim the So.
000 o fortune OF her husband, Fred A.
Cover, who made u balloon ascension sew
eral months ago and has not been heard OF
since.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-10-09

An enactment lately passed by the
Ohio le%gislatureto preventgamblingin
grain, stock, petroleum, wool or pro-
visions, declares all dealings in any
Sof these articles by margins or
futures criminal acts. Any person
Offering to sell options, or exhibiting
any quotations of the prices OF any
margins, futures or options, ispunish-
able by inc and imprisonment. A
clause Furnishes any company or per-
son who communicates the price on
marginal sales, or displays the prices
upon the stock board, unless suchdis-
play is part Of a transaction in which
values involved fully purchased
andsdelivered to the purchasers.
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Four1ffths OF the iron and steel

Four-ffths OF the iron and steel
works 81 Pittsburg and Allegheny are
nowactually making their product by
the use Of gas fuel alone and cities and
large towns Of the coal and oil regions
west Of the Alleghenies or north OF
them, as may be more appropriately
said an reference to western New York,
are preparing for gas as fuel, aswellas
Tor purposes illumination. Thegen-
eral conclusion is in favor Of perma-
emf in the productive capacity of
thegas even morethan the oil.
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Casualty Record.

While crossing the Red riveratW Winnipeg,
Henry Ross and his son George Henry were
drowned.
James b. Wilconen's flour mill at Lewis
ton, H., was burned Loss, $4,000; in
%surance, $4,000.
Tho Niagara Press Brick company's
building at Evansville, Ind, burned. Loss,
100000; insurance, $4,000.
Capt. John Waller, an old and promi-
nent sea captain, and {. sailor named Dorsey
were drowned nea Point Roberts, Wash.
Ter, by the upsettiiig OF a boat. The bod
les have not been recovered.
Careful estimate OF the losses in hay,
grain and buildings burned in Stutsman
county, Dakota, is about S13 900, There
has also been serious loss in the burning OF
cattle ranges in all parts OF the county.
A fire started in Lucox & Jackhies' livery
barn at Emporia, Kan, destroying thirteen
horses. The fire spread south, burning
Hughes shoe shop, the Ohio house and Bias
sets drug store. Loss, 100000; little in
surance.
George B. Neff, n telegraph operator from
Belle Plaine, Iowa, who was making one
trip as a freight brakeman on the Chicago
Northwestern railroad was fatally injured
by being run over by his train, at Ontario.
He died oon after.
Mrs. Anne Burgess, wife OF james Burgess
OF Forestville, Nd, to facilitate the kind
ling of II fire, poured coal oil in it from u
can which immediately exploded, throwing
the burning fluid all over her. She was lit
orally roasted, and died after twelve hours
OF the most terrible suffering. Mrs. Bur-
CESS would have become a mother III a few
days.
A prairie fire a few miles south OF Tray
erse, Oak, caused the following losses:
August Brenning, house. barn, five stacks
OF wheat and hay. William Craine, five
stacks of wheat. Robert Harduck, six
stacks OF wheat, houscand contents. John
Bncklass, barn, binder, twelve stacks OF
wheat, plows and harrows. A. L. Hanson,
granary, five hundred bushels OF oats. a.
B.Cary, dwelling house and contents.
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Untl lately it was supposed that
lack Of income would necessitate the
renting e Of the Grant residence in New
York, but rs the pecuniary prospect
brightens with the huge and ever in
screasing advance sale OF General
Grants book the need forrenting that
properly grows fainter, and the result
is that Mrs. Grant and her eldest son
will probably occupy The New York
mansion Tor the next year OF two at
all events.
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The benefit offirst class credit is IL
Illustrated in the fact that the Commons
wealth Of Massachusetts, has just bor-
rowed $500, 600 for three months at
q per cent. per annum. This item is
worthy Of consideration for counties,
cities and towns, and thepublic as
well, who have occasion to borrow
money. Those who always pay, and
always pay promptly, have no diff
Guilty in getting all the money they
need at lowrates OF interest.
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With Q population OF SOC, 600, the
schools Of Chicago open with 10000
pupils, while in ST.. Louis, with $780,
600 people, there are but 3s,e0O
pupils, o gain of q trife over 900 in
e year, while Chicago gains from H.
sO0Oto 5000 school pupils annually.
Indeed, 8 % rapid is the increase that
the city has now 10000 more chill
d~rensthan the school-aausa will ac-
commodate, and this number will at
tend but hall q day.
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The New York State fair at Albany
is considered q great success. The
gate receipts foot up nearly 10000,
as against less than $4,000 lastyear
ct NmIra. This is satisfactory, but
the receipts fall short Of the receipts
at the late Minnesota State Fair,
though Minnesota has not quarter
the population ofNew. York.
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The comparatively low cost Of coal
delivered in the principal northwestern
cities Enthusiastically diminish family
expenses the coming winter. Coal is
coming into general use in places
along the lines Of railroads, save
where wood is abundant and cheap.
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Delaware and the Maryland PENN
snla sent 100000 baskets of peach
ss to market this year, and the grow
ers Are nearly two millions richer than
they were two months ago. Some OF
sthetrees yielded seven baskets offruit
and net yields Of $500 to $500 were
not uncommon.
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IImALL,
Cheap transportation has had a
forcibleexemplifcation the late 1-2
cent rate rom Chicago to New York
ywater and 8 cents by rail.

The factis noted, as ararity, that
private soldier in Illinois has been
elected president OF q veteran regi-
mental organization. II IS supposed.
thatthemortality among b eshoulder
straps since the war is phenomenal.