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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-08-15
A Fatal Sign.
From the Boston Beacon

Look after the bend in your shoulders just
below the nape OF the neck mesdames, for this
proclaims Sara Bernhardts age, according to
an astute critic, who says no stage artifce can
conceal this evidence OF forty years, now per-
iectly apparent in this once delectable French
artistic. Women WHO hate To grow old viii be
Sbil5ed 10 do something more than repair their
iaces II TINS worldly observation Is really true.
- wsinhie. a Lost tooth, gray hair. is mere
Shitn pay 10 the bend in the shoulders just
0Si96 the nape OF the neck" Something must
Dc done 70 straighten il out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-08-15

De man whut thinks dat his boy STINT eoin'
tar lib case he's 20 smart needn't be skeerod
Thought dat way bout er boy. seed him
yiste, day. He wore or eo0ee sack and wa
totin' brick mp eF ladder. De hives an Do
thrash an De jaw teeth takes mo- cnillun Oh en
yeara-Ark0nsGW Traveller.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-08-15

The Freemason, OF all MANKIND, should b
able to keep cool In the hottest OF hot weather.
According 70 the Limitations Of the order. be
cannot get higher than thirty -three degrees, @
lust one above freexing point-LoDsu CftsoA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-08-15

Some psssl: ere willing 70 Be GOOD If they are
we'll paid 0r IL Others prefer 20 - sood -
nothfns- Phtiadeiphia odl sooo s0s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-08-15
GIANT POETRY.

less than five hundred pieces OF poetry, So
called. have been written on the subject of
Grants sickness. death and burial, and 1t is GER
tainly safe to say that most OF 1t poor trash,
and little of 1t worth the space 1t occupied.
Much the best two efforts wo have seen are the
following:
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requirements Of Classic Figure.
From the IndianApoiis Journal

lady should be feet a. inches tail. 80 inches
bust measure, a inches waist, inches from
arinpit TO waist, long arms and neck. A queenly
woman, however, should be feet inches tall
81 inches about the bust, 2oaa about the waist
35 over the hips, In inches around the ball OF
the arm, aud 6la inches around the wrist Her
hands and Ieet should not be too small
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-08-15
A Suggestion.

To the Editor Of THE EVENING STAR:
Although the American public has been in.
formed with great stress that ''after Undertaken
Merritt had tried the two keys, one for the
casket and one for the outer door of the tomb,
he handed them in q bag of black velvet to
Commissioners Cfimmins, who will hand them
to Gen. Hancock, who will give them TO Mayor
Grace, who will again confide them to the care
and custody Of the park commissioner" it evi.
IDENTIFY has not settled the question finally
played, such . vein OF speculation evinced Ton
q par with the loud-vOiced Spectator Offering
seats at SO cents during the brief services at
the question OF removing the dead hero's re-
mains to soldiers Home or the Arlington CEN.
etery will now I be- thoroughly sgitated. The
park Commissioners rs to the legality OF the site
for place OF sepulture, and the view OF the arch
itect r. L Olnstsadl engaged tor the eonstruo-
for Pleasure resort, aside nom the fact thst
%
rnt,yal In the meantime, before even vaitino
for Congressional legislation, early efforts
Grants war horse Cincinnati, now buried 1t
Mr.. Ammen's, farm, near Beitsville, and neeo-
tiations entered into for the purchase OF the
Let as hear from our public men. 81. q.
Miss Budd-Do you think Miss Roae,a.,
pretty Mr.. Hoiworthyf Holworthy (strivine
70 Say very aes ss ;ss
Mr. Holworthy! what . compliment to pay
young ladyt HoIworthy or, would mt say i
| or you, you know.--A0rvaTd LaDsp0on
| It was very careless leaving the parrot In thu
| about 1t until Monday morning, when he ronsed
the wh0le family By mslking . ymacking noise.
he kept It up an day too, and the Old ~. -:
mach interested In the case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-08-15
A Relic Of barbarian.

To the Editor of the EVENING STAB:
Please allow a victim space for sight growl
against that relic of barbarism sometimes mis-
called "bier, such Us Is commonly used in
many of our cemeterles-ponderous hardwood
contrivances, weighing, doubtless the greater
part OF, If not fully, one hundred pounds.
The writer has often experienced physical
detriment, as an active pall-bearer, at being
made beast OF burden, as 1t were, for the con-
veyance of those heavy and awkward "con-
veniences" from the hearse to the tomb; and
should he live to perform this last mournful
duty for others he most devOutly hopes that
this physical torture may have no more place
in the obsel uies-such, at least, as he had TO
endure At the burial of friend, several days
since, in Congressional cemetery, and from the
painful effects of which he has not yet recOv-
cred.
1.-THE cemetery authorities cannot have these
b!e-s constructed Of lighter material (Which
think could and ought to be donel let these
present heavy burdens, as an net Of humanity,
at least, be placed ut h@ Craze pduif as the
case may be, upon which the bearers can place
the Baskets without being compelled to carry
both from fifty to one hundred yards or further,
as is often the case, at @ very great and unnec-
essary sacrifice OF strength. and ofLiInes with
much additional Inconvenience. 4. S. b,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-08-15
EcOuoEnizing at Saratoga.

A correspondent in the Troy Tunes gives the
following amusing account OF the little econo-
mics that are being practiced by the guests AT
Saratoga this season: "Eycn the backing
brush can be heard frequently in bedrooms rs
one walks along the halls OF the great caravan
s.irieS. Saratoga home merchants have extern
sive calls for ten cent and even five cent cigars
by men who used 10 buy 10 Ia - cent
smokers al the marble bars OF tie large hotels
Many walk back and forth TO and from the
race course who never walked before. They
have round out that its grand exercise Tie
walters complain that tips are scarcer than
ever this year. No longer can boys get dime
for newspapers. White goods are worn "A day
or two longer before being sent tc the laundry
and, by the by, the Chinese laundry on
Phila street Ii rushed with business because
Its prices are SO low. lie close figuring all
around, yet people are probably all the better
on for it-that Is, the visiting people"
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THE PIONEER DRAMATIC ASSOCI.
ALTON.

RecOllecG0ns Of the ~ Dung Mems Ora.
matte Ass<ciatiOn.'' Of GEORGETOWN
A Club that Fl0urished Before the
War.
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escape from the popular gaze In another man
this movement might have seemed only we'll
affected nodesty. but no thought vi such dupli-
city suggested itself concerning Gen Grant
There was 10 contradiction i'll him He Wa
consistent and genuine throughout. When ne
pushed aside the crown, lie sent no longing
loo.; after 1T, As men will do when there is any
Ea.iile>s about them.
-tL that time had no thought of being
brough: into any such ncarness TO him as was
ay gooa fortune aI;er"ard. During all the
eight years of his presidency / was frequently
sec .,IIs, measure the motives and handspring.
al 49, c;UT;scter and st;ites-nanship. Many mo
al'pfrs'ct.ed i.:n told me he was silent man
lu i.ls Iic Mas or. ri lie veSt c,,nVersstionists
ever mel, and have met many.
THE sANro DOMINGO DISCUSSION.
saw him much during the Santo Domingo
discussion, and when our great friend Charles
summer WAS pouring out his tremendous de-
nuaciations against the annexation of that
, country to the United states In that contro.
vcrsy sided with General Grant I thought
40 was r!Eiit then, and think 50 now. When
>tise:y existeo, l was opposed to the extension
~ American institutions, when freedom became
the rule, liked no territorial limit to our
extension.
Gen. Grant saw In this Santo Domingo meas.
ure "a niow AT slavery III Cuba, and the triumph
| OF freedom in the isles OF the Caribbean sea
Mr summer saw In the measure the extinction
| Oh ~ colored nation. The motives of bot n men
| were high and pure. and each sought the wei.
| fare Oh the same people. Had Santo Dominzo
been apaeSed, she would now be state in the
American Mon, with senators and Represen.
| tatives in the American Congress
| Men have raised against General Grant thu
cry OF Ciesarisns, and no better answer can be
! given 10 that c-y tnan his Difference shown n
| the popular sentiment or the Country on thl
| subject OF his Saaso Domingo policy. When con
WINGED tia; his country did not desire the an
nexatioa OF Saoto Domingo, he at once ceased x
press IL. He was no Wild man ike Andrew
Johnson. setting up his policy against the viii
| OF the nation, array!ng the Executive depart
Inent of the government against the leSislativ,
/ and judicial departments
| Bat must lot stop 10 discuss at this time tn,
! character and craftsmanship OF General Gran
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-01-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The House of Representatives on Satur.
day passed the naval appropriation BILL
A messenger from Kbartoum reports ali
we'll in the bsleagured city, and Gordon
fighting the Mahdi at every opportunity.
A duel with swords has been Fought on
the Belgian frontier, growing out of the Hu.
CUES trial, the Madame's champion wound.
ing his opponent.
Members of the Pennsylvania Legislature
and anti Cameron politicians are endeavor.
ing to persuade Major A. NJ. Brown, law
yer, of Pittsburg, to run for Senator against
Don Cameron.
On last Saturday morning young man.
aged 19 years, Damed Richard A. Berry
and employed at the Vulcan Iron Works,
in Richmond, was caught in the machinery
and had both his legs cut off below The
knees and one arm torn from his body He
lived only few minutes.
Mr.. F. w. Huidekoper, who was elected
e-President of the Richmond and Dan.
vile syndicate at the meeting of the Drcc.
tors, in New York, last Friday, has also
been elected Vice-P President of the Virginia
Midland, Richmond and West Point Ter
minal Company, and it is understood be
will be made Vice, President of the Georgia
Pacific, Charlotte, Columbia and GreenylIe,
and all roads controlled by the Richmond
and Danyille. He was formerly president
Of the Chicago aud Eastern Illinois Co.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-01-12

House from the 9Th district of Virginia, who
has at last made his appearance in the
House, was over at tie Sena:s this n>ornin"
vainly locking for c.her OF: Of The Senator'S
from, his State, but neither was there. Gen.
eral Malone has been i'll the city for some
time. but has not yet made his appearance e
i'll the Senate. Mr. Riddleberger comes
there semi occasionally.
The handsome model of the statue OF
Liberty Enliyhtening the World to be erect
ed in New York harbor, which is on exhi.
bition in the rotunda of the Capitol, is the
object of much attention 10 the numerous
visitors now there.
Nest Of the petitions now Offered i. the
! Senate ale against the ratification Of he
Spanish treaty.
Register Bruce, the colored man. ha; sp little ~
do at tho Treasury, that when nos travelling
| about the cougtr:, making statements one DAY
| and denying them the next, he is frequently on
the floor of the Senate, where he spends his tim.
| usually III picking his teeth.
| Among The bills introduced in the Sonatr to
! day wa, to prevent shc unlawful occuEagicr
of tho pubiclsnds by the army, if 40 other mean'
! nc sufficient.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-01-12

The PHILADELPHIA Record takes hope
full view of the business outlook. It says if
there is any merit in the prevalent notion
in commercial circles that "rise in staples''
Ia an essential precursor of general business
and industrial recuperation and expansion,
the preliminary conditions Of trade re-
vlval are in fair way of being realized.
It says: Cotton prices have recovered u
cents per pound from tho lowest rates of
the season, and the improving tendency has
begun to manifest itself in the market for
manufactured goods. Wheat has advanced
Is cents per bushel and -four so cents per
barrel within month, and there is every
indication that the rise has been prompted
By legitimate demand, although speculation
In the grain has been the active influence
at work in the market. Other lines Of
breadstuf1s lave been steadily advancing
for several weeks past, to the general bet
terment of the financial condition of the
agricultural sections and the prospt otive
advantage of the business interests OF the
whole country. Provisions and dairy 70
ducts also are higher than they were be-
fore the holidays. Wool values remain at
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CORRESPONDENCE Of the AlexandriA GaEette.)

CORRESPONDENCE Of the Aexandria GaEette.)
New ORLEANS, Jan. 8.-Your correspon-
deut ID" writing under date December 80,
advises everybody to wait until Mardi
Gras to come here. Being q resident and
having lived here many years can Say that,
ordinarily, at Mardi.G ras the city is over
flowing with people. What will it be this
wear with the additional attraction OF the
exposition? Those who contemplate see
ing both together should at least be here ny
February Let if they wish to be comfortably
chartered and not CCntine their lodglDg 10
the centre Of the city. There are most com
Portable places TO be found up and down
town, at less cost and not over fifteen or
twenty minutes tide from Canal street. Gu
arrival or as soon ss possible, parties should
90 10 the bureau Of accommodation, on
Unicu between Charles and Carondelet
! streets, wi here they will be directed to rooms
at any rate Of charge desired, and not 1T all
rxlortionai. Here, as in other cities, one
can live as cheaply or extensively as they
are mind to. Those who care nothing for
Mardi Gras and simply want to see the ex.
position, March, April and May are the
most delightful months here. Visitors will
! never regret having seen tnlS mOSS ueHSul-
full of cosmopolitan cities. Its spring. like
climate, flowers everywhere, oranges and
bananas growing in the open air, and his
torcul sights in and out of the city, and,
above all, the most genial, social and hos
pitabe people in the world, hardly to be
exceeded by those Of dear old Virginia
itself That The exposition will be grand
SUCCESS no one seems to doubt. OF course
great undertakings like this have always
been attended with more or less trouble,
and this. of course, is no exception to the
rule. The exposition is rapidly being com
petct, and there have been great changes
since your correspondent wrote. The public
comfort has been attended to, and there are
dressing rooms for both sexes in the main
building, and more will be added. The cars
are all right, and extra ones are being put
on Three steamers are running the river
route at most reasonable charges, and a
steam road is in process of building. There
wil be no trouble about getting to aud
ii o.n tho exposition. am sure that those
who come will never regret having done so.
w n e.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-01-12

MOODY IN RIcHAoED.-Moody's meet
ings in Richmond during the past week
were largely attended. Such has been the
desire to hear him that many remained in
the building from one meeting to another,
afraid to leave, as they might be unable to
gain admittance upon their return. Some
brought their lunches with them and par
took of. them between the services. Mrs.
Stonewall Jackson, with her daughter, has
attended several of The meetings and mani
tested much interest. Yesterday morning
the evangelist preached TO the colored PEG
PIE exclusively at the Ebenezer Colored
Baptist Church. 1t was the largest gather.
ing of the kind ever seen in this State. Sew
eral thousand could not get in. Mr.. Moo.
dy's ser,i les there will close Wednesday
next.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-01-12

A MURDERER ARREsTED.-Henry Moore,
who murdered Littleton Stewart, in Green's
Vile county, a few months ago, and who
has been at large ever since, was arrested
yesterday by posse of armed men near
Belfeid, Greensvlle county, and lodged in
Jail Moore had been living in the swamp
near the scene Of the crime ever since the
murder. Saturday night he was lured to a
festival" and arrested there yesterday
morning by Constable William Waller and
pnsse. he made an effort to shoot his
captors, but was overpowered. He said
that at no time since the homicide had he
been more than five miles from the place in
which he took Stewards life. He further
confessed that he had visited the grave of
his victim after The burial, and had leveled
it to the ground. Moore had coolly warned
the colored people who knew of his where
abouts that be intended to kill any man
who informed upon him.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-01-12

In commenting upon the attempted rs
sassination of Phelan, in the office of ODon-
ovon Rosa, in New York, on Friday last,
the Baltimore American very pertinently
and justly remarks:
''All intelligent Irish patriots are con-
WINGED that the greatest enemies to Ireland,
the greatest obstacles in the way of lettering
the condition Of affairs in that island, are
the. dyDamiters. They stain the name of
Irish nationaiism with blood, and they pre-
vent those who would aid Ireland in her
struggles for government from doing go.
Men that would gladly contribute aid to
any lawful and peaceful Efforts for the i'm
provement of the political, social and indus
trial condition of1reland, fear TO give any
thing, lest they may thereby be aiding the
execution Of dynamite projects. The best
service that can therefore be rendered TO
Ireland by America is the probing TO the
bottom Of this seeming conspiracy, and
bringing TO justice all who were concerned
in it and all who had any guilty knowledge
Of it before the fact"
The Baltimore San on the same subject
says:
Murder is murder, and it will not do for
class Of Adventures who injure every
cause they espouse to permit the idea to
lodge in their minds that any sort Of eu-
phemism will change its quality. The use
of dynamite and the dagger for purposes of
intimidation has in recent years become
common in many countries, but nowhere
with useful result. Force of that kind is
no remedy for alled9ed social and political
evils, but on The contrary tends only to
their perpetuation."
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-01-12
SaYauteau Thousand Dentists.

There are II 900 dentists in the United
States. Every year they pack one ton OF
gold into the peoples teeth. But they can.
not put iron into the peoples blood. This
is done in the most efficient manner by
Browns Iron Bitters, which contains the
only preparation of iron that is safe to use
Nearly eight hundred thousand bottles of
this valuable medicine are sold in the course
of a year, and each bottle does benefcent
work. Browns Iron Bitters cannot injure
the teeth
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-01-12

TT is said that General Stewart will TO-
day. with TWO thousand meD, start from
Gakdul, the fortified post recently estao:
lished by him in the heart OF the ballnda
desert, for Metemneh, on the further SIDE
of the desert, upon the Nile, near shendy'
There is said TO be force of rebels, num-
herring eight thousand, at Metemueh await
ing the English advance, so that news OF
fighting may be shortly expected. Ine
situation of the English forces is desperate,
and every mau will realize that victory or
death is the alternative; therefore we look
for success to crown their Efforts
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-01-12

Reports from LONDON confirm substanti-
ally the story told by Captain Phelan of his
experiences in England. He mistook the
name of the steamer to be blown up-the
British Queen, instead of the Queen, being
the name Of the vessel on which the internal
mrchiaes were found PheIan's condition is
Improving and the physicians now have
homes Of his recovery.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-01-12

The offerings of grain continue light and tho
markets generally are steady. Wheat Is fairly &C.
tive at quotations. Corn readily commands outside
figures. Rye and Oats are firm. Eggs are lower.
Butter abundant and lower. Pork Is easy. Othec
produce is without material change.
BALTIMORE, Jan. Iva SIS defd - consoh-
dated 3711; de I'd series; past due coupons 81
new 10 4Os 31%s; new 3s 81 bid to-day.
Cotton dull; mddlins 1oAa1o7s. Flour quie,
per 81 5Oa2 IS do extra SO oOs3 65; do family
SO Toad rs; City Mills super 80 50a2 IS
do extra SO OOs3 IS; do Rio Brands 81 rs;
Patapsco family SIS so; do superlstive patent
SIS IS. Wheat-southern frmer; Western low
or, closing dull Southern red 93a94: do amber
94s95ia; No l Maryland 94laas4Hs No
Western winter red spot 91a91 ": January 81
Ola. February 81 lha91 70: March 93a93t; April
94a95a: May 964a96's. Ccrn-southern
steady; Western easier and dull; Southern white
49a. January 9Aa4sla February 4sAa4sia:
March 4sasa4sa4 steamer 4slaa49. Oats firm
or; Southern 35a3S; Western white 37a3S; do
mixed 34a35; Pennsylvania 35a38. Re
higher at 69a73. Hay steady and qv,et;
prime to choice Pennsylvania and Mary.
land $14a16 80. Provisions steady; Mess
Pork old, sl3 so; new. S13 Is. b. Ikmeats
shoulders and clear rib sides packed Q III Bacop
shoulders T. clear rib sides 8'.,. Hamn 11s,
a12a4. Lard trefned) sEa Butter steady; West-
ern packed 11s2l creamery 2Za32. Eggs steady
at 26a27. Coffee dniLand easy, Rio careoes, or
binary to fair St.ses4. Sugar steady and quiet;
A soft 57s. Whiskey nominally steady at 81 IS
al 49,
NEW YORK. Jan. 22.-Stocks less active and
lower Money lal'p. Cotton very dull; uplsnds
l11s: Orleans l1as. Flour firm. Wheat unsettled.
Corn lower and dull
CHICAGO, Jan. 12-11:15 8. m-On change
Wheat opened at 97l2 for May, rose to 80 aud
fell OF to S6ss and is row STA. May Corn 4OA..
May Oats 40Hs.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. 12-CattIe in fair
demand; extremes, Bal; mos, sales 6s8. Sheep
in fair demand sold at 3a5l... Hogs in active
demand sold at 6a61
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-01-12
MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

new YORK, Jan. 12.-The week opens with
strong market for stocks and prices advanced I.
to y per cent. Northwest and st Paul led tho
upward movement Lackawanna after declining
"a to 9ols rose to 9O3s.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-01-12

,he low level reached during the monetary
contraction last summer, but their remark
able firmness under the combined effect OF
large stocks and lessened consumption is an
feature. Iron and steel show
no improvement, and on coal lower prices
seem to be inevitable. Cheaper fuel, how
ever, will better fulfil he conditions for ,.
revival of Industrial activity and return OF
general prosperity On The whole, the situa.
ton il business circles at this early stage OF
the new yesr is such as to afford ground
for encoaras elDent, aud there Is general
disposition TO view il. in that light
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-01-12

DOR SALE, CHEAP-WITHIN THE MKT
l. 3Oday-, the fine TRUCK AND FRUIT FARM
OF the late James E. McGraw. one half mile from
this city. Fine DWELLING AND OUT q.
BUILDINGS. Apply to aS
g. T. LUCAS, Auct:oneer,
ian9 Alexaudris, Va.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-01-12

disposal a liberal appropriation from the Legisla'
ture He might then have done justice to the agrl-
cultural resources Of the young State and have
duplicated The triumph achieved nc the Centen-
MI when the wool and wheat of West Virginia
carried of the gold medal, defying all competi-
ton r.0. =.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-01-12

Mr.. w. 8. Pickett, the present proprietor,
has bought the Cannon House at Manassas,
for which he paid $4,000,