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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28
SPECIAL NOTICES.

H~ wOMENs CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE
LSSa UNIoN..Parlor Meeting ct the residence Of
nesday 80 ocIocs q" All o0ldsy Invited
present 1t
fP. MAsoNIC-A sPECIAL CoMMUNICA-
LODGE. No. IA, will be held WEDNESDAY, goth
@ a ae ne ane
ter member of the Lodge: Every member s requested
invited. -,eN
BY order of the W. NJ:
C~ WASHINGTON DIVISION. NO: l. K
- ofP:-sr Knights, you are requested to meet
At your Armory at 7:3O o'clock THIS Tuesday
neral Of our Sir Knight and BTother JAMES KnSEs
1t H. COGGAN, Sir knight Commander.
C~, X OF P:-MEMBERs OF CALANTHE
at fS5nsE ef Is. and OK sts l9 o'clock
Ts % and s REMAINS to
'{Ss' Ss%osr. of Sister Lodges are '9v',ee .,,nu =
TEGs SPECIAL NOTICE.-COLUNIBIA FIRE
USa INSURANCE COMPANY, of the District of
the capital stock of this company has been declared
and VIII be payable to stockholders on and after
the kellogg Building, 1416 St NV. Transfer books
rs sPEGIAL Tshd,s NOTICE 20 TIC poono.,e cooner.,,ve
Society: The new Trade Card and Circular for 1885
April so, 1856 cannot be used after that date and
Should IN every case be returned by members when
PloCuIu!S Tue new ones Whlcn can De ODtalneQ upon
lowing officers and members, viz: Joseph N. Wilson.
llOS Maryland ave sw.; J. w. Harsha, 905 II st. n.
W.: John COrson 1926 Park ST., Mt. Pleasant; A T.
Longley. SO6 st. neil Vanderhoef, 100 stn.w.
T. G. Fawcett 3S d st. s. e.; f. L. Mills 1920 New
York ave; j. F. McCabe % Sd st ne; L. II. Patter-
son. 636 Massachusetts, ave NV; NJ. Andrus, l54O
Columbia St; A. n. Meeker, sos 4th st. s.e w. A
81 18th St J. E. Reynolds. III North Carolina
c. Allan. I0ii 1ath ST. ne W. W Tvler i62H CON.
necticut ave- NV. By order OF the Executive Com
mittee iap2S5tl j. W. HARSHA, Sec'y.
TT<s NOTICE-COME OUT TO FAIR GROUND
D~IA these fine mornings at o'clock and see
horses exercising and get good breakfast. ap2S-1w*
TE~s CHURCH OF THE COVENANT.-A
O@S general meeting of the contributors to the
new Church of the Covenant, and of its friends will be
held In the Lecture Room of the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church on next WEDNESDAY EVE
MING, 10Th instant, at halfpast seven O'clock for
friendly consultation. The plans of the Church and
Chapel will be there exhibited inspection and the
progress made will be reported All contributors and
friends are invited 10 attend. ap27-3t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28

Hon. GEORGE B. CLARKE, of Missouri, who
has just been appointed internal revenue agent,
was formerly state auditor of Missouri. He was
also at one time one of the proprietors Of the ST.
Louis daily Times, democratic paper of that
city, and has been for twenty-five years q lead
ing democrat in his state.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28
TROUBLE IN THE WAR DEPART.
MENT.
DissattsfacfiOn With Lieutenant Gen.
eral Sheridan.

A CONFLICT OF AUTHORITY DATING FROM SEC
RETARY LINCoLN'S TIME-THE NEW SECRE-
TARY APPEALS TO THE PRESIDENT-A PRoBA-
BILE EXECUTIVE ORDER
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28
An EmbexsIer After All.

NEW YORK, April 2S-Herbert c. Hall. o
clerk In the transportation Office OF Gerald u.
Hastings, beard some time ago and after he
had resigned his situation that his employer
was making charges of dishonesty against him.
He surrendered himself 20 the police ard de-
manded an investigation, which resulted I'm his
being honorably discharged. Afterwards a care
ful search of the books of the firm showed that
during his clerkship Hall had manipulated
them and embezzled S12, 900 belonging to tho
firm. Hall WAS arrested to-day and committed
Tor examination. He belongs 10 a good family.
Congressman Brady's Amtctfou.
PETERSBURG, Va, April 2S.-Col. James ID.
Brady, congressman from the 4th district OF
Virginia. lost daughter last night, making the
third child who has died within the past few
days OF diphtheria.
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Inquest on the Body OfPatrick Branson
AUGUSTUS DYSON COMMITTED TO JAIL FOR THE
HOMICIDE

BT8nSOn
AUGUSTUS DYSON COMMITTED TO JAIL FOR THE
HOMICIDE.
Yesterday afternoon Coroner Patterson held
an inquest, at the second precinct station, over
the body of Patrick Branson who was cut in
the abdomen and fatally injured by August
Dyson, at the corner of Goth and e streets, Sat
urday night. A small ,colored boy named
David Asher testified to seeing the prisoner
follow the deceased out of Freely's store When
they were out on the sidewalk witness heard
deceased say, "Nigger, you can't cut me-, They
then walked towards the corner, where they
cllnched, and then the prisoner ran off, leaving
his white hat on the pavement. Officer Falvey
testified that after Dyson was arrested, on the
way to the station, he said that he had cut
Eranson during row. Lieut.. Guy testified
that the prisoner told him that he cut Branson
with pen knife after being assaulted with a
brick. DIR. Tyler testified to the nature of the
injuries, and the jury rendered verdict that
Branson came to his death "from Inflammation
OF the bowels. caused by incised wounds in
hicted with a knife in the hands of Augustus
DYSON" Dyson was then taken to jail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28

FoURTH-CLAsS Posi- OFFICEs-The POST
master General is taking up the cases of fourth
class post offices now vacant and is filling them
as the rate ofabOut seventy-five day. There are
about 2, 900 vacancies of this kind, and after
these case have been attended to it is the in
desired.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28

AMONG THE CALLERS at the White House to-
day were Senators Cockrell and Call and friends,
Representatives Cole with delegation of Balti-
more, Cobb, Henley with Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Hastings, of California; Bennett and Ford, of
Illinois; Gen. Eppa Hunton, J. W. A. Shaw, of
New York; Charles F. GansOn, of Blu ffalO Chas.
dore Trivett, Gov. Thomas NJ. Waller, N. q. Os-
born, Samuel A. York and Levi Woodhouse, Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28

SECRETARY WHITNEY made his first official
visit to the Brooklyn navy yard yesterday after
noon, accompanied by Commander Harmony,
OF the yards and dock department.; Commodore
NJ. S1card, of the ordnance department., and
Engneerin-Chief Charles H. Loring, Of the
steam engineering department..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28

PosTMAsTERS APPoINTED.-The President to-
day appointed the following postmasters: De-
lance Young, at Auburn, Maine; Geo. D. Whit
tlesey, at New London, Conn.,; Stephen s. Grit
Mckinnon, at CrookstOn, Minn.; Benjamin b.
smith, at Chillicothe, Mo-; Geo. II. Tracy, at
Wilber Neh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28
Washington News and Gossip.

GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY.-1nternal
revenue, S271 ASS; customs, 1858, ,364.
CONSCIENCE.-The United States treasurer
has received q conscience contribution Of S65
In an envelope postmarked Washington, ID. c.,
which also contained a note saying the writer
had long been in debt to the government to the
amount inclOsed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28

MIR. KELLEY SAYS HE IS GOING TO ITALY
Mr.. A. NJ. Kelley, of Richmond, recently ap-
pointed minister to Italy, was in New York on
Sunday, but left Monday for a brief absence
sion is in my writing-desk, and l start tor my
post in a few days If any protest against my
appointment has been received from the Italian
Should have heard OF it -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28

REsIGNATIoNs OF LAND RECEIvERs.-A
number of the registers and receivers of the
land office have sent in their designations re-
Gently, but, it is stated at the Interior depart
ment, that this is not the result of q request for
such designations The probability is that there
would be changes in these offices when the
proper time came, and the present incumbents
recognizing this have anticipated their re-
quested designations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28

Hon. JOHN A. O'NEIL, the new superinten-
dent OF engraving, assumed charge Of his office
to-day. Many of the engravers in the bureau
served as apprentices with him and some of
them worked under his father.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28

For DISTRICT CoMMIssIoNER.-A petition to
the President asking the appointment OF Col.
B. T. Swart as a Commissioner of the District is
being numerously signed by citizens Of the
cOnnfv
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28

THE SMITH COURT OF INQUIRY.-The naval
court of inquiry of Paymaster General Smith
met again at the Navy department.. The ses-
sion was devoted to establishing the authentic
ity of the papers submitted to the court, which
relate to the contracts with Austin p Brown,
and of which Paymaster General Smith is the
guardian
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28

OFFICE.-Mr. John Walker has been placed in
charge of the new division of the first con-
troller's office, formed by the consolidation of
foreign intercourse, public lands District of Co
lumbia, and territorial accounts. Mr.. S. c.
Clarke was placed in charge of the mscella-
neOus and revenue accounts. The status OF none
of the clerks has been changed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28

THEY WANT GEN. EATON RETA1NED.-Six
hundred teachers trustees and school superin.
tendents, of Virginia, have signed petition
asking for the retention of Gen. John Eaton as
commissioner of education of the United States
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28

REVENUE MARINE SERVICE PRoMoTIoNs.-A
board OF officers of the revenue marine service,
consisting of Capts. G. r. Slicer, G. w. Moore
and Russell Glover, met at the Treasury depart
ment yesterday for the examination of appli-
cants for promotion in the various grades OF the
service
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28

H. wOMEN's CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE
49, UNION..Parlor Meeting at the residence Of
Mrs. Bryant, 514 9th st. NV, TOMORROW (Wed-
nesday), at 100 o'clock An cordially invited to be
present. 1t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28

CIVIL SERVICE APPOINTMENTs.-Pierce n.
Stag has been appointed copyist and VIM. ].
Hughes telegraph operator in the Department
OF Justice under civil service rules
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28

CUNIHATO q LATIONS AND FLOWERS FOR GEN.
GRANT.-Gen. Grant yesterday received hum
stxty-third birthday. He told his family that
he did not feel as old as he was, and felt much
younger than he did several weeks ago. The
general also received many beautiful floral
offerings and numbers of elaborate birthday
cards. Among these were cards from Miss
Dedie Handy and Mr.. and Mrs. Handy, WASH
tngton. Gen. Grant sent out q general message
Of acknowledgment to all who congratulated
him on his birthday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28

TREASURY CLERKS LEAVES OF ABSENCE
The special Treasury commission have decided
that thirty days leave of absence allowed the
clerks each year is not too much, and that 1T
should not be reduced. The rules with relation
to sick leave will be made more stringent, doc
tors certificates being required invariably.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28

hEDUCT1ON OF FORCE IN THE NAVY YARDS.
There is a balance of only $4,000 available
for the bureau of construction and repair Navy
department, for the remainder of the present
fiscal year, SO that this bureau suffers more
funds. In order that necessary repairs to vessels
may be made, it has been decided to reduce the
forces in the various navy yards. The reduction
Will be made among the "bOSses," fOremen and
leading men in the yards. The number thus
employed is about 400, and it is thought that a
reduction of 100 or $50 can be made, making q
saving of $500 to 5000 daily.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28

THE WIRES TO BE REMOVED FROM THE
TREASURY ROoF.-Secretary Manning has di-
rected, in view Of the damage to the roof of the
Treasury building by the frequent travel over
1t of employees of telegraph, telephone and cleo
trio light companies, in repairing their wires,
that all wires and cables, except those directly
connected with instruments in the building,
must be removed before June 3Oth next.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES g. Williams, OF Wis
consin, the register OF the land Office at Water.
town, Dakota; Howard b. Abbott, OF Virginia, .
clerk OF class four In the General Land Once;
and Geo. =. Emery, OF Vermont, clerk OF class
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28

THE CHINESE MIssIoN.-The President has
sgnified his intention of selecting the successor
of John Russell Young, United States minister
to China, from California. Both factions Of the
democratic party in that state have indorsed
mayor Of San Francisco, for the position.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28

No GRUMBLING AGAINST THE ADMINIsrRA
TON IN THE SoUTH.-Representative Benneth
of North Carolina, called on the President to.
day. He spoke in praise of the new admins
tration to a STAR reporter, who met him ut the
White House, and said that the people of his
state were well pleased with Mr.. Cleveland's Is
conservative course. ''The south Will be the
salvation of the country he said. "You
don't hear any grumbling from there. The
will help the administration all they can, and
wait patiently, knowing that the President is
working for the good of the country"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28

Building Inspector EntwiSle to-day
condemnations of three |oden bu
owned by Mrs Annie Moral bf West W
ton, which he found i'm n lapidated
ton. They are ordered to b@ AIKEN dow
In 80 days; also a shed at th6fear of 81
street northwest, belonging TO Wescott
cox. agents.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-12
Anisic Acid.

The already long list of new antipy-
retic remedies has been increased by
the addition of anisc acid, a substance
obtained from the oil of anise seed 1t
exists under the form of colorless
prismatic crystals, soluble in alcohol
and ether. 1t possesses antipyretic and
antiseptic properties similar to those of
salicylic acid. 1t also increases arterial
tension. 1t has, however, mild tonic
effect in large doses, for when it was
injected in large quantities into the
veins of animals epiIeptform con-
vulsions were caused. 1t has been en-
ployed with success as an antiseptic in
the treatment of wounds, and seems.
when employed in this way, to exert
no poisonous effect. Gazgc,ta Medica.
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ticket offices, always wants to know
Where the mischief the telegraph operator
is" Never reads a telegram; never knows
what to say ii the operator is at his post :;
always peeps into the Daggage-car to see if
he can discover his own trunk which was
put on ten hours and two hundred and fifty
miles ago; gets thumped with trunks and
plnched by trucks; gets deeper in the way
every time he tries to get out of it: never
sees anybody he knows on the whole trip
and would be amazed if he did, aud rides in
his seat so little OF the time that it doesn't
pay him to claim it when he sees any ono
else in it, although that is the only time he
wants it.
And there is the man who is familiar
with all the train men; he calls the CON
duc!or George and the brakemen
Johnny" and addresses the walters at the
dining station by their first names. If,
however, he speaks to a fellow-passenger
he calls him Say, you" He stops the
conductor when that official is the busiest to
ask him about brakemcn on freight trains
OF whom the conductor never heard: nor
any other man, possibly He calls the
length OF the car to the newsboy, to know
when we pass ''ninety-seven," and if 'Bill
Stunt is Iunnin her to-day?" His wither-
ing contempt for passengers is something
UNNECESSARILY painful to the unhappy peo-
pie who are obliged to travel. This man,
whom you have often met, has two or three
origins. He usually travels on a trip pass,
and used to sweep out the general Offices
when the regularly ordained ianitor had to
take the Superintendent place. lie isn't
railroad man, but he'd give both his legs
ii he could make people think he is.
There are two men in a seat near the
stove exchanging recipes for rheumatism
and other ills to which human flesh is heir.
One Of them had the saunders all last
spring. They come onto him just as he
was getting over a spell of "neuraagy"
and left him Just in time for two weeks
''rasseI weth lumbago in the spine of his
back" That isn't what ails him now.
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Two Good Stories of a Quick-Witted Me tn
Odist Minister.
Rev. c. D. Bum is a remarkably eloquent
and witty member of one of the New En-
gland Conferences of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church. He has peculiar drawl,
which adds much to the mirth-proyoking
character OF bis sayings. He is, withal,
exceedingly bald and much addicted to
smoking. When he preached in - the
young men OF his acquaintance used to
chat him great deal for the sake Of
drawing him ont. One day he was asked
how it happened that some men grew very
bald at SO early an age, while others Were
well covered. well" said he, ''s0me
peoples heads run to hair and some to
brains"
At the NorthpOrt camp-meeting one day a
brother was walking about in the woods,
meditating upon a sermon, when he saw
smoke curling up from the roots of a large
tree that had been Ieycled by a storm.
Mounting the trunk he crept cautiously
along and pcepcd over the end. There sat
Brother g., pulling away at T. d. pipe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-12

SchentIemens, schooSt walk in and
look at dose winter goots"
" How much is this oyercoat?"
"Teryenty tollars for dot overgoat, and
dot vas making you present of dot over
goat"
That's too high"
81 dells you Mishter Gilhooly, I have
only Won brice, never drades. Choost
read dot sign on der vail Fixed Prices " d.
80, that means you fix the prices to suit
yourself. Twenty dollars is too much"
" believe you heard me ven | tole you l
had only Won price, teryenty tOllars."
q. " It's not worth seven and half"
Nose Schaumburg, eagerly: "Vill yer
give dot?"-IeCuS SiftingS.
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star in Adromeda

And another of him is the man who gets
carried by. Never a train run upon wheels
that did not carry some man by. The brake
man, with the rich tenor voice, opens the
front door and shreks, in ear-spitting fall
setto: Wood lalOn! Wood lawnp' Then
the brakeman, with deep bass voice, opens
the rear door and Toars: "lVOOd lawn !!
Wood IGtOnp The train boy goes down
the aisle with his books and apples and
squeaks: Woodlawnwoodlawn pa FiNap4
enters the conductor, who says, in tones of
impressive dignity and official authority:
"WOOd lawn; Wood lawn" The train
stops. The passenger raises a window and
looks out at the village. Ten miles farther
on the brakeman with the tenor voice opens
the door. cinder flies down his throat and
chokes his utterancc, he gasps feebly and
inarticulately: Winsheruncshun. The
astonshcd passenger springs to his feet.
"Winchester junction. ~ he howis; "why III
the name OF goodness didn't you tell me
when we came TO WoodlaWn? Now l can't
get home till tomorrow morning; Pll re-
port you for neglccting to call out stations;
see if | don'tr
And there is the man who gets off the
train every time it stops, rushes down the
platform, gets in eyerybody's way, forces
his way into the waitimg-room while every
body else is trying to get out, peers into the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-12

though. It's this 'miasmia in his system"
and the things he has been and is yet
taking for it are numerous enough and yari-
GUS enough to kill off county alms-house.
The other man had "a malignant tum0r"
on his hip all winter, and the only thing his
doctor could do with it was to throw him
into bronchial fever the effects of
which were still painfully apparent in
rhillblains and ''execrated sore throat"
Every time he ''swollers" he'd 'druther die
n swoller agin." So these two sufferers
while away weary hours telling each other
mfailble cures for all the things the other
man has.
And then there are four other people on
the train; they are on every train that ever
turned wheel-the two young married
people who have Just been married, and the
Omnprescnt other two young people, the
two who want to be marrled-Birdettc,
in Brooklyn Eagle
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-12
LAYING OUT CORNFIELDS.



Last spring | recommended marking
corn thrac feet eight inches apart, and
gave as reason that this distance di-
vided up the spaces between the rows
accurately, that eighteen rows forty
yards long made precisely an acre,
which made it convenient in determine
ing the amount of ground worked over
in day; and also that at this distance
a two-hOrSc cultivator would work the
whole space between the rows without
leaving n ridge in the middle undis-
turbed. This year cut up the corn
nine hills square, and, by accident, as
it were, discovered that the rows made
exactly forty shocks. | figured Il mo-
ment in my head. and found that the
3,240 hills to the acre (Which remem-
bercO divided by the forty shocks made
eighty-one hills, so that whether the
rows be long or short, if the corn is cut
nine hills square. every forty shocks
will be an acre. There is no other di-
vision into rows 50 near the proper
space for corn that will accurately sur
vey the ground, and nine hills square.
whore the hills stand two or three
stalks. make better sized shock than
n smaller number Then by huslling
four contiguous hills, the weight or
measure of the amount will rive one
tenth Of the produce Of an acre. This
is a much more satisfactory plan than
the rough guess-worb of most farmers.
-BichiqdR Farmer.
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a SOLEMN WARNING.
why Montana Cooks VIII Not Dare to Go
ON Sprees.

why Montana Cooks VIII Not Dare to Go
ON Sprees.
One of the principal reasons that
hotel keepers, restaurant men and
Others have always given for employ
ing Chinese labor instead of that
of white men, has been that the
Chinese could be depended upon, while
the white help, after working u week
or so, would get drunk and leave their
employers in the lurch. 1t is not thus
in the town Of Anaconda, Mon. The
Cinnamon have all been run out of that
town, and they have found way to
make white men fill the places accepta-
bly,. The manager of one of the
largest restaurants in Anaconda states
that since all the Cinnamon have been
''ftred," the cooks in his place have
been waited on by the Knights of
Labor and notified that, in the event
of their getting drunk or falling to cook
the meals on time or in proper shape,
they will be tarrcd and feathercd and
driven out Of town, and if their success
sors neglect their work a more severe
example will be made Of them. The
Knights Of Labor up in that section
evidently understand the anti-coolie
question better than the so-called agi-
taLors Of Tacoma.-PoHiand Oyeg0niQ1l.