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The Washington critic., 1885-08-11
A Truly Noble Nose

"A worthy Scot was pressing his snuff
box upon fellow passenger, who in
his turn seemingly did not look as IL he
liked the look of the null or its con-
tents. Bent on refusing the offer, at
last the passenger politely remarked
that he did not take snuff. The Scot
eyed him for moment, and then,
looking him full In the face, remarked.
Mon, that's II peety, as ye hae sac
gran accommodation. ~ Whitehall
Review.
The Washington critic., 1885-08-11
GEORGE A. ARMIES,

REAL ESTATE BROKER, CLAIM AGENT
AND NOTARY PUBLIC,
No, 1887 i 1t. II. W., Washington, ID. c.,
Opposite Ebbitt House.
For Sale--Property in every State and Terri;
tory in the Union; also elegant residences and
valuable property at bargains; select building
sites overlooking the city
If parties having property for sale or rent
will leave list mt Office the same special IN
ducements will be given.
Reierences-Bri and Byt, Ma. Gen. W. b..
Hazen, Chief Signal officer, U, >. A.; Shela-
barger y Wilson, attorneys Wheatley Bros,
lumber dealers. jy23-lm
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Capital Prize, $4,000.
100000 Tickets at Five Dollars Each.
Fractions, in Fifths, in proportion.

LIST OF PRIZES

1867 Prizes, amounting to-" ....".S265, 500
Application for rates to clubs should be made
only TO the Office of the Company IN New Or
leans.
For further information write clearly, giving
full address. POSTAL NOTES, Express Money
Orders or New York Exchange in ordinary
and upwards at our expense) addressed
M. A. DAUPHIN,
New Orleans, La.
Make p. o. Money Orders payable and ad.
dress Registered Letters to
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK,
New orleans, La.
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Pump Doctor. Attention.!

EDITOR CRITIC; The pump at the
corner of X and First streets northeast
wants attention. Tie residents OF that
locality are impiiiently awaiting its
repair. A SUFFERER.
Washington, Aug. IL,
The Washington critic., 1885-08-11

The Austrian Government has re.
Gently suppressed man whose name
Is Jaeger. Jaeger was one of the great.
est Of modern discoverers. He found
out all by himself that the soul is an
odor coming from the person and dis
tlnguishable in the perfume Of the hair.
He collected this odor in bottles and
worked it over into pills. BY the use
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PROPOSALS FOR COAL.
OFFICE on pITRJ 10 PRINTER

OFFICE OF PUBLIC PRINTER.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Aug. 8, 1885.
Sealed proposals will be received ut this Of
fee until IL o'clock q. m. of Wednesday, Au-
gust IL, 1885, for supplying such quantities of
Georges Creek Coal, run of the mne." equal
in quality to that known as the Georges Creek
Coal II Iron Companys coaD as may be required
from date of contract to June 30, 1856. 1t Is
estimated that 500 tons will be required.
The coal to be delivered at the Government
Printing Office at such times and In such
quantities as may be required, weighed and in
spected by sworn inspector and stored at the
expense of the contractor.
Bidders will state In their bids the name of
the coal they propose to furnish.
The successful bidder will be required to
furnish bond in the sum of S5 900, condi-
toned for the faithful performance of contract.
The right to reject any bid is reserved.
S. p. ROUNDS,
aui711 Public Printer.
The Washington critic., 1885-08-11

The New York Wortd has secured
at last the 100000 which it set ont TO
raise for the Blrtholdi Pedestal Fund,
and celebrates the happy consumma-
tion Of its great undertaking with an
editorial full Of gratitude to the sub.
scrbers and double leads for the equally
grateful printers. We congratulate
Our esteemed New York contemporary
upon the success Of an enterprise so
well begun and wcrthily completed.
The Washington critic., 1885-08-11
LOST AND FOUND.
FOR SALE-.-HOUSES.

NOR SALE-WE OFFER FOR SALE ONE
IL of the most desirable and extensive resi-
dences in East Washington; large house and
beautiful grounds. For full particulars and
permit TO inspect, apply to Swormstedt -
bradley, 02S II St. Jy11-1m
NOR SALE-BRICK HOUSE No 1908 9TH
IL st II W, o rooms and basement; range,
latrobes, etc. finished In hard wood; price
S3, no; small cash payments. A Lloyd, $40
Az st n W. jyS
The Washington critic., 1885-08-11

MINISTER Cox has arrived ut his
mission in Turkey and will be received
by the Sultan the latter part OF this
week. lie would have been presented
promptly on his arrival but Abdul
IIamid was just then busy settling up
the monthly bills of his multitudinous
household ard preferred to wait until
he had more time. He wants to take a
whole day to it, in order to better en-.
JOY the charms Of Mr.. CoX's company.
The Washington critic., 1885-08-11

IT WILL devolve upon the President
before great while to appoint sue
cessor to NJ. EIilgard, late suporin-
tendent of the Coast Survey, and it
is given out that he intends to excr-
else great care and circumspcction in
making the selection, which is wise and
proper. There Is not an excess Of ma
terial in the country for this particular
position, when the element OF expert
ence or special fitness is taken into con-
sideratou, but Mr.. Cleveland will prob.
ably have no serious difficulty in max
ing the choice. In fact, he wouldn't
have to go great way from Washing
ton to find q man as well suited for
the place as the best the scientific cir
cles of the country could produce. The
name will readily suggest itself, per-
haps, to some OF our readers. We al
lude to Professor Simon Ncwcomb,
who holds the rank OF a captain in the
navy, and the celebrity OF whose attain
ments is worldwide. 1t is true that in
order to accept such an appointment he
would be comrclled TO resign from the
navy, but the position is honorable
enough, and under his administration
would be permanent enough, to war.
rant such step. 1t need scarcely be
stated that Professor Newcomb's per-
sonal worth and integrity Of principle
are Of the same high plane as his intel
lectual qualifications.
The Washington critic., 1885-08-11
FOR EXCHANGE.

ATANTED-TO EXCHANGE NEW STOVES
w for old ones at Buffers Stove Exchange,
corner 9th and X SITS. Smoky chimneys cured
or no pay. Stoves exchanged for groceries.
Old stoves bought.
The Washington critic., 1885-08-11
PROPOSALS.
PROPOSALS FOR UNIFORMS.

DEPARTMENT OF METROPOLITAN POLICE,
WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 10, 1885.
Proposals will be received by the under.
signed up to IL o'clock at noon August "a,
forms, more or less, for the Metropolitan Po-
lice, the same to be made according to regu-
lation pattern and of goods equal in every
respect to sample to be seen at this office;
also for two hundred Winter Hats. more or
less The right IL reserved to reject any or
all bids
WILLIAM NICE. DYE,
auIl-3t Major and Supt. Met. Police.
The Washington critic., 1885-08-11

SUPERINTENDENT Fox of the Phila-
delphia Mint has sent about twenty
seven Democratic names to Washington
for continuation rs appointecs to places
in the lab0rers' d partmcnt, each name
representing ward. The Mugwump
mprcs sion will be that they al;o repre-
sent twenty-seven offensive partisans
in embryo.
The Washington critic., 1885-08-11

EX-GOVERNOR HARTRAEFT is hav-
ing career somewhat similar to that
of the President, though he started at
the opposite end. He served term as
Governor of his State. Before the Repub-
lcan Convention Of 1876 his name was
very prominent as the one that should
be at the head uf the ticket. We next
hear OF him as postmaster at Philadel
phia, to which position Mr.. Hayes ap-
pointed him. The next turn OF Times
whirligig he came up as collector of the
port. Now the Republicans are talking
of running him as city sheriff, and he
seems, like "Barkis," to be "willin'."
He evidently started out on too big n
chase.
The Washington critic., 1885-08-11

of these pills the most desirable quail
ties of one person could be communi-
Gated to another. In Vienna he made
much money by selling soul pills, and
was on the road to Il great fortune
when a cruel government stepped in
and sat down upon him. 1t is, per-
haps, needless to say that the Italian
Government fully concurs with the
court at Vienna IN this matter.
The Washington critic., 1885-08-11

THE Kansas City delegation which
recently came to Washington in the in
terest of the cattlemen returned with
the conviction that, after all, their jour
ney was not an entirely Improbable
one. It is true they failed in the chief
object Of their mission, but at the same
time formed a very favorable opinion Of
the President, and are more than ever
convinced that he is an able, resolutc
and conscientious Executive. They
are also convinced that II the cattlemen
comply energetically with his instruc-
tions he will not be arbitrary or un.
reasonable in their enforcement.
The Washington critic., 1885-08-11

The New York Star will pass into
the hauds Of cX-Congrcssman Dor
sheimer tomorrow. IL is stated that he
has put SO. 900 into the venture. The
great thing now Will be to get it out
again.
The Washington critic., 1885-08-11

A VERY FOOLISH story is going the
rounds of the Western press to the eff
feet that Senator Eustis, Senator Vest
and other Senator'S who are supposed
to be displeased with President Cleve.
land, have agreed upon policy to be
pursued when Congress assemblies, a
portion of which is for every disgruntlcd
Senator to stay away from every eXecu-
tive session in which Presidential nomi-
nations will be presented for consldela
tion. This is all bosh. No Democratic
Senator is ass enough to threaten tha
fabric Of the Democratic party by show
ing schoolboy spleen. There are no
Conklings in the party to so of in hys,
terics. They may not be particularly
infatuated with the Presidents Civil.
Service policy, but there arc better
ways oi curing stumped toe Than
kicking the stone it stumbled over.
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r HAVE MONEY 10 LOAN ON GOOD REAL
Il estate or collateral security at lowest rates
of interest. No delay when security is good.
o. q. GREEN, Room l, Firemen's building,
cor. 7th and La. ave. ap14-tf
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

n1SssNoTICE.--A GENERAL MEETING
w. of the stockholders of the Metro
politan Mining & Manufacturing Company
of the District of Columbia (as reorganized)
will be held at No. 1913 North 5th ST., Phia-
delphia. Pa, on THURSDAY, August 20,
1886, at IL M, for the purpose of electing
Board of Directors to serve for the ensuing
year. "A. II. BOCKINS,
auS-td President.
The Washington critic., 1885-08-11

THE South American Commission
has submitted its report to the State
Department on the result Of its con-
situations with the governments OF
Ecuador, Venezuela and Guatemala,
from which it would appear that while
nothing definite or practical has been
accomplished, the way ut least Is opened
Tor further negotiations that may prove
OF great commercial value. 1t Is some
thing for South and Central America
to be assured that the United States is
becoming awakened at last to the inn
portance OF securing trade, which by
reason Of their greater enterprise and
more liberal terms now goes principally
TO the European countries. II we are
ever to cstablish closer relations with
the governments mentioned, with the
exception perhaps of Guatemala, which
is ready to enter into terms OF reci-
'procity at once, it is evident that this
Government will have to take
the initiative and become an
aggressive competitor for the
commerce desired. Ecuador i;
not prepared for a treaty of reciprocity
just at present, but is willing to partici
pate in commercial congress, ant
will throw its weight in favor Of Ameri
can steamship lines or II joint system oI
transportation along the coast, from
Callao to Panama, in order to break the
existing freight monopoly and its eX'
orbitant charges. Venezuela has d
friendly disposition, but wants time tC
think the matter over. Evidently, the
Commission has done nothing wonder
fully great, but il it has succeeded IN
more clearly demonstrating the fact
that il the United States desires thc
trade Of the Central aud South Ameli
can States it must put up the money
aud go there aud get it, then its labor;
will not have been wholly in vain. Tho
trade is certainly not co ing here
simply as matter OF courtesy. IL il
going to the highest and best bidder.
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MONEY TO LOAN.

9100 TO $500 TO $4,000, AND LARGER
BlUU sums on real estate; lowest rates;
call now WIN. Il. TOLTzMAN, Attorney, 1921
IL st. H. W. je23-1yr
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FRIDAY, AUGUST Ia, 1885.
Tickets only 25c An elegant lunch table at
popular pri ces. Get tickets at the boat, 9th
81 wharf Bar closed aut1-3t
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STORES AND OFFICES

In sums to suit at per cent.
The above is only a small portion of property
on my books. For full list call Mt Office for bull
letin issued on LIST and 10Th
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License.

In the Gloucester Co. Court last week
licenses were granted to ID, W. Beekley, at
Franklinville, and Elwood Usinger of
Bridgeport. Somers r. Steelman, ofClay-
ton, presented an application for license to
sell beer. The application was signed by
twenty-six f~reeholders. aud was accompani-
ed by a paper signed by sixty-six persons
recommending that license be granted. The
court made short work of this application
by unanimously refusing to grant the
license, and that, too, without any objec-
tions being lodged against it. Probably
the fact that Mr.. Steelman has two appeals
from convictions. had under Justice Parker's
ruling of the Beer Act. hanging up in the
Supreme Court, had some influence in the
courts summary disposition of his applica-
lion, and then again the court may be
persuaded that there is no necessity for a
licensed beer saloon in that portion Of
Gloucester county outside the city of
Woodbury.. The court did not state or
file its reasons for the refusal. but a good
many people are wondering which Of the
two reasons controlled in making up the
Judgment of refusal.-ConstitattoB.
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MuIIica Ell Notes.

The w. c. r. L., of Mulliea Hill, viii
hold their annual festival on the 25th and
Goth inst.
Miss Mary A. Pancoast, Of Mullica Hill,
sister of Senator Pancoast, gave a sociable
at her residence in that town last Mon
day evening.
The w. Q. T. L. were much pleased
with the remarks Of Rev. j. Thompson, OF
Bridgeport, Sunday August Both, and
would like to hear kim again.
Mr.. John Sehweble is rapidly building
and completing four handsome dwelling
houses at the north end of the town.
Z. Kahn d Son, manufacturers of wash
ing machines, have removed to Borden
town. n. j.
Richard Ware and family intend to
leave for Woodbury..
The Crystal Literary Society held their
first meeting Of the season, Thursday Sep
TENDER Bird. The next meeting will be
held Thursday evening, September 18th,
when the following programme will be fol-
lowed: bible reading, by Mrs. Reese; essay,
Newspapers" MissG. Fogg; Editorials
from leading newspapers, Miss Shoemaker,
Miss c. Gaunt, Miss NJ. Engle and Mr.. j.
Mounce; recitation by Ruth Reese. All
are invited to be present.
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A person looking at the locus IN qa0 of
the new bridge, when the contractor COM
menced work on the su~bstructure, would
almost have supposed it impossible to do
anything with the structure. The mud
was so thick. the ground so springy, and
the whole eauseway so thickly interviewer
with logs of all shapes, and sizes, many
feet below the surface. that it was a hereu-
lean task to prepare the ground for the
new work. But labor and perseverance
conquer everything we are told, and at
this writing Thursday morning. things
are looking very much like a new bridge,
ready for travel by the last of the month if
no misfortune befall. The north abut-
ment, a very substantial piece Of masonry,
with the wings, is up TO about Y feet in
height and the timber foundation for the
abutment at the south end is being placed
in position and the laying of stone begun.
The Borough authorities are putting up
a substantial plank bulkhead on the east
of the callseway from Edward Smell
bakers corner to the end of the wing on
that side, and filling in behind it with dirt
taken from the bed of the pond. Woods
will have reason to be proud of its
new bridge when finished. The operations
of the workmen are regarded with much
interest by many spectators. Robert
Mayer, Of S~wedesboro, has charge of the
masonry. Edward Snellbaker gets the
heavy timbers ready for the mudsills and
Samuel Carney has had charge of the pile
driving. now finished. and the carpenter
work, while Contractor Richman superin-
tends the whole posse.
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Personal.

We are glad to see DIR. p. G. Souder
able to be out again.
Jonathan Colson, of Mullica Hill, paid
our office a pleasant visit yesterday.
w. w. Robbins, Bridgeton's popular
merchant, with his father. was in Woods
town on Monday.
S. Shipley Flitcraft, clerk at virgins
store, has been disabled from duty for sew
eral days by an injury to his back from
over-lifting.
Mrs. H. J. Cloud and Mrs. Thos. Mayer,
of Woodbury., spent a couple of days this
week in Woodstown, the guests of Miss
Belle Humphreys.
Miss Annie N. Urion, daughter of our
former townsman, Joseph Urion, now of
Greenwich, Conn, has been visiting Miss
May Trenchard, of Bridgeton.
Rev. Jas. E. Wilson, pastor of u Bap-
fist Church, was on Wednesday elected
chaplain of the Grand Chapter of Royal
Arch Masons, of New Jersey, at their con-
vocation, at Trenton.
George Davenport, a former resident
here, now of C~ollegeville, Pemna., is about
to start a new mill for his employers in
that place. Mr.. Davenport is a brother of
Lewis Davenport, the popular miller at
Clark's old stand in South Woodstown.
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south Jersey notes.

The hog cholera is reported to be p~leyail-
ing in Cumberland county.
A man residing at Green Creek, Cape
May county, has killed over a thousand
muskrats in his lifetime.
The twelfth re-union of Co. A. Third
Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers. will be
held at Bridgeport on Monday, September
18th.
The atlantic Reeaeec states that prohibit
tion promises to play an important part on
the political stage of the two shore town.
ships this fall.
Although the citizens of Woodbury. have
voted in favor of the city erecting water
works, he work will not be commenced
until next spring.
The cheap excursion to Cape May last
Sunday was well patronized, the West Jer
sey Railroad carrying 1865 persons. Sew
enty cars were used.
The West Jersey Railroad will run
another excursion from Philadelphia to
Cape May Sunday, OF which the round
trip tickets will be fifty cents.
Frank Cook. Of Stoe Greek, Cumberland
county, has shipped / 100 baskets of peaches
tiif9 Hc%HpH AIN Will PioDdOi1 Hdfc ~.VVp
more. He has picked twenty baskets off
one tree.
At the meeting Of the ministers of the
New Jersey Methodist Episcopal Confer
enee in Camden, Monday, resolutions
approving of the course pursued by Rev.
DIR. Graw in his warfare on the liquor
traffic, were adopted.
Thu interior of Gamden's old court louse
is to be torn out and the building is to be
converted into a jail. at an estimated cost of
$50, 600. The Sheriff. County Collector
and Board of Freeholders will be accom-
modated with quarters ia the new court
house.
The Camden County Prohibitionists
nominated the following ticket on Tuesday:
Theodore Hider. of Gloucester township,
for County Clerk; G. T. Fisher, Camden
for Register of Deeds, and Aaron Howell,
Camden. for County Collector. The AS
sembly conventions were ordered to be
called within ten days.
The Grand Jury of Gloucester County at
Woodbury. ignored the charges against
John Hickey and John Irwin of causing
the recent fatal accident at Franklin
vile, on the West Jersey Railroad, and
against William Campbell, Captain Thomas
Joslin and Samuel futile. who were held
for the death of Henry Day, son of ex-
Freebooter Day, of Camden.
John Hickey, assistant to John Irwin,
the section foreman of the West Jersey
railroad, and who was locked up in the
Woodbury. Jail on the charge of crimina
responsibility of the Franklinville accident,
has engaged John ]. Walsh. Esq, as
counsel and will Immediately commence a
suit for damages. 1t is said that the suit
viii be brought against Irwin and the
West Jersey Railroad Company. Hickey,
it is alleged, has made sworn statement
that Irwin, who had charge of the switch,
opened it and did not order him to close it.
That after the accident Irwin came to him
and tried to get him to say he had closed
the switch. Failing in this Irwin discharg-
ed him and advised him to leave the state
or he might be arrested for manslaughter.
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Turkeys on Their Travels.

Three weeks ago, Edwin J.. Borton,
living in the upper part of the township,
toward Wing Lane, had a flock of 90
turkeys who, becoming dissatisfied with
home, concluded to travel and see the
world. They left no address behind to
which their mail matter should be for
warded, neither did they waste time in
bidding farewell to their owner, but just
''lit out In their travels they went over
Reuben Woolman's farm, near Elmer. then
headed towards Salem, a place which all
good Salem countians should visit once be-
fore they die, and We're found last Friday
on Maurice B. Elton's farm. just out of
our Borough limits. Twelve of the birds
were missing. The remainder of the
flock were driven home and are now
doubtless putting on airs around the
poultry yard by virtue of their wisdom and
experience picked up in foreign parts.
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o About Cats.

a." the breezy Woodstown cores
pondent of the Standard, has been reading
the MONITOR cat stories which suggest to
him the following:
The MONITOR reporter tells of a couple
of cats that go out INTO the field and eat
green corn All cats do not banker after
corn, but some of them do. The writer
knows of one that goes to the barn every
morning and news for a ration of corn
meal when the horses are fed. As regu-
larly as baking day comes, pussy mounts
a chair in the kitchen and intently watches
proceedings, anxiously waiting for a bite
of the first hot cakes that come from the
oven. She gets it and is satisfied.
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Cumberland County Fair.

The Cumberland County Agricultural
and Horticultural Society opened its thirty
second annual exhibition, IN their grounds
at Bridgeton, on Wednesday. Many i'm
provements nave been made to the build
ings and stalls, which give additional room
to exhibitors. The display of varions farm
products was not as large as last year, but
the articles themselves were of fine quail
ity. The horticultural exhibits were also
fine, and included unique devices in cut
flowers.
Unusual displays of vegetables and fruits
we've exhibited. They were much finer
than last year, and of excellent quality.
The exhibit of potatoes was large and ex-
%ceptionally good. There was also a fine
display of melons, pumpkins, squashes,
onions, &C., and in the grape department
choice varieties in abundance were shown.
But few cattle and horses were on the
ground for exhibition, in consequence OF
the threatening weather in the morning.
The rain had made the track heavy, so that
only one running race took place IN the
first day.
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4 CuriOus Case.

Mrs. Hannah A. Lippincott has en-
ployed as a servant girl a young woman
from Philadelphia, who brought with her
to Woodstown a child only a few weeks
old. The child had been ailing, but was
not supposed to be seriously i'll until one
day last week Mr.. Lippincott going home
and getting ready for his dinner. noticed
that the babe, which laid on a chair in the
kitchen, had a peculiar look, and going to
it, found it dead. The mother had attend
ed to it in the morning and laid it down,
and supposed it was asleep, and had gone
on with her work. The child was buried
in the Presbyterian cemetery.