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Do~Ks OF rmE WEEK.

TIE MADoNNA or THK TUBS BY Err,ssKru
SnuAnT fHkLrs With Forty-1hree Original
mnstnnons by Ross Turner and George n Glenn
ton: Robert Beail
THE MARQUIS OF PENArrA fN..r. N.,,.r
nesnstc social Novel BY Don ARNaNpo PA
LAoio NaLDES Translated from shs spanish by
Croweil a Co " NJ
TEN DOLLARS ENOUGH: Keeping House Well ON
Ten Dollars Week; How II Has keen Done How
" May De Done Again. Ry CxrHHErNR OWN
B.ston; Houghton Mnain a Co Washington
THE LIFE OF BENJAMIN p wADE Nv A. a
kippLE. author Of The Tsfe Chsract. ar INA b, n,
lie Services OF James Garn Nd 8 ..sstndenf. .na
Lawyers," etc. Cevelsndi William W Wiiiisms
THE oLDEN TIME skRIEs.-NuxnrR yI-Irr.
ERARY CCRIosIrIEA Complied ch,.ay f,ora a. !,
New papers o. Boston and salem Massachns.,,s
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RECoLLECTfONs OF EMINENT MEN Win
Other PaperS BY EDWIN PsRcY wHIrPgr With
Introduction by Rev. e. A. BARroI Dn Rsstons
ncknor q Co Washin ton: krentano Bros
TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS GUIDE In Fus.
lish. German ana French Monthly --october
1881 New York: Transatlantic Advertising 10
THE SILVER BRIDGE, and other Poems nv
ELIzABETH AKERs. Bostnm Houshton. Miflln
d Co Washington: Robert BeslL.
SONGS AND sATIREs BY JAMES JEyFnry Rocnx
Boston: Ticknor a Co. Washington: Robert BesiL
JUST ONE DAY, BY the author OF "Heleu's Bsb,es 20
Philadelphia: I. B. Peterson & Brothers,
rison.
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vs. here il the Law?

To the Editor Of The EvENING STAR:
1would like to ask your correspondent, 'One
Who Knows" what law he refers to when he
says II plainly indicates that the S4O5, 900 tor
street improvements Is to be expended on the
streets within the city? And where is to be
found the law containing the separate item OF
$4,000 for Suburban improvements" IT, as
lac says, others are so ignorant, why doesn't he
eniignten them by quoting the law, or telling
where IL can be found: And If the law states
ali this, and makes III So clear, why does he
need To step in to- explain what the Comm s.
sioners intend TO do with the money? And how
does he happen to know what their intention
Is any better than other citizens. or why should
he? Besides, why should not the Com Mission
ELS state openly and clearly what streets they
intend 10 improve with the money asked for,
Sd tine pubic may know. II is the people
money, and they have a right TO know. IL not,
why mott ONE WHO WANTS TO KNOW,
October 2Sth lSSS
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An Unfortunate Occurrence.

To the Editor of the The EVENING STAR:
agree fully with The STAR that the Commits
sioners are treading on thin ice in assuming
their present position, and consider II very
Unfortunate TOR the District that they should
have done An intimate acquaintance Win
many Members and Senators for years past
enables me to know that there Is very strong
feeling in Congress- more especially IN the
House, against the present arrangement Dy
which the United States pays one-naiI the
expenses of the District. 1t matters not tntt
the feeling is wholly without reason, IT exists
nevertheless, ana but little effort Will DC re-
Quired TO ian this dormant leeilnS INTO active
operation. This action of the commissioners,
In my opinion, is likely to have that effect. w e
all know the feeling, both in and out oil Con.
gress created before by tine operations OF the Oh
sreaI estate pool" and the suspicion or beilef
that the District government was run more or
less in It's interest. Let such an idea again take
possession of the public or the congressman
mind, and how long does any one suppose the
present relation OF the national anu Dislrlct
governments can be maintained? IL seems 10
me that the refusal OF the Commissioners 70
comply with the plain letter OF the law, as con-
strued by the United States authorities, ana as
understood and practiced 10y their predecessors
for the past five years, tends directly TO create
the sus pcion that they acting in the
Interests ot real estate syndIcates. Ihis sus-
plcion will be very greatly strengthened Dy
their action in reference 10 the extension OF
Massachusetts avenue, which clearly is not
called Tor by any public demand OF the mass OF
The citizens or taxpayers. had nOped that III
time Congress- might De made To see the Justice
OF relieving the district of the present debt,
which was almost wholly created by officers OF
the United States government, Dut III the us
trict authorities pursue ID course that even TENDS
To create feeling OF s,ntagonism, it will be USE
less to entertain any SUCH hope. instead OF
gaining anything more, we Will De lar more
For these reasons every true friend of the Dis
trict must regret that the Commissioners have
seen iii to assume their present position.
A TAXPAYER
October % 1880
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goes on, for the master of the VINEYARD lives
the same yesterday, to-day and forever; and Il
work where they left 1t, let us appreciate the
worth of our heritage, magnify our office, and
emuIating their zeal and fidelity, press on,
knowing that our labor shall not be IN vain In
the Lord.
Statistics have never been regarded as very
interesting reading: The narration of figures fs
cold and bald and to many persons repeliing.
But in the light of the history of a presbytery
and as expressive of the experience OF the min
to prayer and sacrifice and anxiety and labor.
AyeI more than this they bear witness TO the
edifying of the body of Christ, the growth of his
prevail of our Divine Lord.
In the light OF comparative summary the
following facts are worthy of mention: Num-
Der of ministers at the organization of the pres
bytery in 1870, 10; number OF churches, la;
number OF ministers In 1885, So. number of
ddaes 1870
1870, 2,s39 1885. 4, 556; Sunday school mem
bership 1870, 1924; 1856, CLOS; benevolent
congregational 1870, $50. 1870; 1856, sf1922S:
prOportionate amount contributed by each COM
Inunicant for benevolent objects IN 1870, $2.27;
In 1856, s.. 80; prOpOrtiOnate amount contri-
buted per each communicant for congrega-
tional objecls in 1870, $l7.65; in 1856, sos I6;
$685. asar aos u largest
added. in 1886, 6O3; smallest number added,
259, in 1873.
AS CONSTITUTED AT PRESENT.
The presbytery as at present constituted con.
sists of thirty-five ministers, and has under its
care thirty-two churches, connected with
which are 1866 communicates, 125 ruling
elders, 80 deacons, &, 1913 Saba In school MEM
bers, licentiateS ana 10 candidates for the
gospel ministry. Its officers are: Rev. J. Will
liam Mcllvain, moderator; Rev. b. F. BittIn.
ger, DID,, stated clerk; Rev. James NJ. Nourse,
temporary clerk.
This review OF sixteen years. of presby terial
work awakens in us a spirit of profound graft
tude to the Great Head of the church, our Lord
Jesus Christ. We have a goodly heritage and in
its possession rejoice in the continued and
growing attachment of our ministers and
churches to the faith once delivered to the
saints and to the order and form Of worship OF
the Presbyte church.
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In the water. may well have been the champion
runner OF his base ball club.


THE FIsHKRMANs THRILL.
Human beings experience good many thrills
In this life. There is the thrill of love when the
young man touches the hand of her who IL
dearest OF all to him: there is the thrill of pain
when unkindness stabs the heart. there Is the
thrill of pride when plaudits ring the air there
Is the thrill of anger when violence or fraud
press hard, but these thrills are not hing COM
pared 10 that Understandable combination of
feelings which ravishes the whole being when a
big nsn, well hooked. is struggling for escape
Poets may sing, prose writers may be eloquent,
but none can describe II. That is the way felt
with this monster at one end OF q silken thread
and at the other.
could devote n good deal of time to descrip.
ton OF the club house and of its appointments
ana give some idea of the splendid way i'm
wnlch the members care for themselves and
their friends. But lack of space forbids and IL
only remains to say that / trust any who are
fortunate enough TO pay "A visit TO the place
may have as pleasant a time as had.
statistical conclusion is not improper I'm
these days of exactness. We caught thirty-six
bass In all, twenty the first evening and the
remainder during the next day. OF these YOU
know, caught one the first day, and that verb
table whale the second day. Hut what is there
oil value In mere mum bers i'm u case like this.
l contend, and my friends agree with me- in.
deed. my vie is quite positive on the poin.,
that my big fish brings the balance to my side
OF the ledger. even II, OF the thirty-six, only
0auy ht two.
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Not the biggest Moose.

To the Editor of THE EVENING STAR:
In your paper of yesterday is a notice. from
Maine paper, of the killing of a moose thought
to be probably the largest" ever killed in that
state, measuring 1Sla hands in height. Two
years ago Capt A A. Clay, OF Pennsylvania,
and i, while hunting several hundred miles
north OF the st. Lawrence, killed, among others,
two bull moose measuring six feet 10 inches
and feet Sla inches, respectively, measuring
from the actual tread of the hOoI to- the top oil
the withers, without stretching or pulling the
leg. Last month my friend, MIR. L. j. Peck,
hunting with me in the same region, killed a
COW moose standing feet inches. sent the
skins OF this COW and of a bull calf " hich stood
4 feet inches TO the National museum to be
mounted for specimens. The specimens OF
moose now In the museum are all small.
CECIL CLAY.
WASHINGTON, d. O., Oct. %. 1856.
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CITY AND DISTRICT
For Those who Drive on Roads East OF
the AnaeOstla River.

10 the Editor of TIE EvESING STAR:
A taxpayer asks why 18th street above
Boundary is not paved or sprinkled- The tax
payers east of the Anscostia would IKE 10
know why they cannot have their road put In
Q condition that will enable them to drive
fast enough to raise a dust, as they prefer dust
for q short season 10 mud ter a long season.
Some of our roads have had little or no repairs
for eight years The Bowen road has been
almost impossible for three winters past, there
being but one gutter, and that In the center OF
the road. Harrison street. tns prlncipli street
In Auscostia was repaired last year to some
extent. but neyer completed. and Is now full
OF holes. We will say nothing about dust If we
can buI have our roads kept in proper condition,
which can be done with small expense if done
at the proper time and in proper order. Our
road management certainly needs reforming.
Now that Anacostia bridge Is being put In
frst-cIass order To tine great satisfaction OF the
thousands who travel over that great thOrough h
fare which accommodates more travel than
any thoroughiare leading into Washinton city,
and the population Oh Anacostia is rapidly
increasing $50 much SO that mechanics cannot
be had at this time sufficient To construct build
Ing last those purchasing lots require
theml those seeking building sites now m ust
20 beyond the village ON the heights, where
farnls are being subdlvlded, and more beauti-
full and picturesque sights and locations canno:
be found in sight OF the national capital. y.
A. Griswold and DIR. Green have divided their
farms on the heights, and already several nne
dwellings are being built thereon. Business OF
all kinds in AnacOsIia is also rapidly improv-
ing. Our grocery merchants are doing a thriv-
tng business, the evidence of which Is in their
buying lots and erecting fine residences. Car
rage manufacturers also are Overrun with work.
Therefore, We think with all this increase OF i'm
proyements and increase OF taxes. We should
have our portion of that $4,000, ana our
streets kept in a respectable condition The
main streets, Harrison and Monroe, are much
too narrow and should be paved. our vigliant
police are kept on the alert from early morn till
late at night on market days to keep the streets
from being biOckaded. G- VI. y.
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The Earl OF Stradord, whose death was men
toned In yesterdays STAR, Was eighty yess
OF age. The Right Hon. George Stevens Byng,
second Earl Of STAFFORD, WAS born In 1900, and
was the son Of the Right Hon. John Byng, one
OF the most distinguished commanders In the
Penipsular war, who was elevated % the peer.
age In lS47. During his fathers lifetime he
sat In The house Of lords a. Baron Strufford.
having been elevated 10 the peerage under thai
title In 1858. He was . liberal In politics. aud
In the course Of his life served controller aud
lord OF the treasury, aud secretary 70 the board
OF control He II sucoeedsd In the earldom by
his eldest son, prominent liberal politician,
title q Viscount Ennetd, but who was elevated
10 the house u lords - baron Strafford when
Mr Gladstone retired from oaaoe In February
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WASHINGTON, d. O., Oct. %, 1856.
VIII One who Knows Please Ex
plain?

To the Editor Of THH EvENINs STAR:
Your correspondent appearing as "One Who
Knows" in THE STAR of the 2Sth inst, refers to
some "law in the premises which plainly indi
Gates that this item Of 100000 is to be ex-
pended in street improvements Withis the city
limits" Will the writer please state what law
and which city limits he means? The Commits
sioners' estimates, as published In THE STAR oil
the LIST inst, simply give this item as: I'm
provement of streets and avenues, S4O5 900,
without any apparent distinction between the
streets of Washington, or Georgetown, or Ana
costa, or suburban streets. Hitherto the local
ity has been fixed by the schedule, now omit
ted. T..
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CALLED 10 Mm Doom AID erRucx WITH .
S.s . s: a.oa %.s e q
toWn. Eehy Thursday uhosning be hoard :
knock at he feQas dooe. When be opened e
skull end then eoleboro1 him eb0ut The eocol-
dem. He - In . critical condition 1nureoeI
night Themas toeney IVES arrested eeasyS
lng . lloonso . Roonoy.
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Anew suxxes,,ons for GO. To-

To the Editor Of The EVENING STAR:
Without taking The space to 60 over "G. T.'s'
long statement ask room for a few words in
reply.
First i would ask him when, where or by
whom has 1t been clearly demonstrated" that
the cost Of the extension OF Massachusetts ave-
nue. would be more than refunded by the In
creased taxes paio? l have seen no demOnstra-
ton OF the Kind, except the statement of Col.
LoolOw, that IL would be repait by the in
creased taxes in i've years, which is simply
absurd. IL pays now less than d, 900 a year.
second. II the owners OF the property bene-
Qtod are 10 repay IL In taxes then why not let
them pay for Ii In the FIRST instance? II viii
cost them no more.
Third. While IL is true that $50, 900 was ap-
propriated tor opening and extending ''subur-
ban Streets IL is not true that the Commi is
sioners are obliged TO expend it on Massachu-
sets avenue. Ihat avenue was not even Hien-
toned In their schedule oi streets, nor is IL
mentioned In the appropriation bill.
Again, IL Is not true, as he asserts, that the
citizens outside OF the city have paid Tor their
own sidewalks, &c. All the sidewalks on I4tn
and 7th streets extended, and which constitute
Inc great bulk OF all there are, were paid for
out OF the general fund.
Again, IL is not true, as he tries to make it
appear, that the property owners OF the county
have paid Tor the Improvements in the city. In
the nrst place they pay only two-Ihirds as
much on the dollar as the resident OF the city
Co. In the second place, there - more nOneg ex-
pended outside OF TIE cag eperu near fteta tj.e
toxes collected there dIaouat 10. 50 We pay ior
ineir Improvements instead OF they Tor ours.
Again, III Is not true that The debt created
enLrely Tor improvements Within the city
1he sixty thousand dollars per mile expended
on roads north OF the city helped maze tnat
debt Besides, does not every outside resident
VINO enters The city have The cement Oh the
pasements and sidewalks the same as those
within the city?
Again, II Is not true that the sspublic inter-
esa> oeuianu the extension OF M.lss2Snuselt Is
avenue at this time On the CONTRARY The
P11tsc Interests demand thai IL DC ROT done. Le-
Cause the money ean be used To d better ad van
tase else "here 10 say that The Com missiouers
H.tst eAPenu - there, simply because 1t Was ap-
propriated generally lor suDurUnn streets =.
tae sheerest nonsense, ln View Of the fact that
= year aiier ear they have declined lo expend
money on streets wnicn Were In their st.ned-
uies, and tor " Elch the money was specihc,,iIv
appropriated. Denouncing those oI us Who on
lse tbs seHeihe May gfaiiiy ''G- l., but liz Is
Not Argument GA reason anu will not tend 10
oonsei. Us. "A TAXPAYER.
Oct -, 1856.
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Summer is routed from her rosy plains.
The spiendid queen with colors flying ned
Far 10 the south. leaving her isgions dead
Upon the fields all in the dismal rains
The Ministries Of her caanp most pisiptive strains
Piped - they dew. Then vandai armies spread
About the hills their tstasred tents OF red
And gold and purple, and their gspdy trains
Csurped the valleys, firing as they went
Tin halted by Gordon Of grim pines
That would not yield nor fnri thsir hannss green
Wounded they fought and moansd, though well-aigh
spent
With blooddrops tFckilng down thsir chevron WINS
They fought end st0od-shs Old Guard Of theiI
queen. -JoUN HuuRY B0nER
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The authorities o. Dlcktnsop college. have q
The eolorsd isnisor ana sidsf IN The A. 4 z
church, % the Glasses OF the preparatory SCHOOL
Lord L0usdale's colliers in Cumberiapo, who
tng arbitration.
The people near whitney, FslDk o. the
eyrsonse and Binghamton saalway, p niise
depth Of 1 076 ret
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s'G0Oa Nighs.''s

"Good Night" Thy day 10 DONE
The meiowing beams of setting sun
LANCER around thy made grave
The sad hearts sobbing last Good Night
Pursues thy spirit la its flight.
And hands that ciasped thine. Good n ghs wsvs
Good Nightr Thy day is done.
There is, v. friend. q rising sun.
And twilights two-one Ut that morn
Whose light breaks on the.g AGED eye
Lamp TO the feet Of those that die.
And YET ths living atheists scorn
GOOD Ntghtr Thy day 10 done,
But are lsft: and one by one.
Must wait the summons and the tina
May so live, 20 die. We may,
Instead OF sad GOOD Might" 10 say
GOOD morning." In SOME brighter cline
b g. LovDov.
(sIn busy times the lights ON Newspaper Row" are
brixhleSt When dsr broods elsewhere over the
CITY, The incessant click Of the Telegraph u all thai
breaks the solemn stiliness and when the last is-
patch is sent perhaps 20 the 1raMay Pacific. there
ioiiows over The wire 'aood Night" and The day VI
Among tine Goral Offering. Al the grave of the late
Mr. (,euTge W. Adams wss broad held of yiolsls
wih central Inscription OF Good Ntghl"-the iAre-
We'll Of his brother Journalistic 1his lender though
suggested the lines eoove Il u. I.
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ARBITRATISG LABOR DIFFICULTIES IN
WHICH ioo.ooo MEN ARE lNTEEEsIED-Nr
fowoeTiy yes terday held "a conference lin tue
Aid committee Oh TIE Philadelphia ManuiacIur-
efs association 10 Try and effect seliIemen h of
the strike Ia " lillian +. Troth's mill ne a.so-
eiation declares that 10 the strike 10 not OF by
November s all the textile mills will be closed
Mniea w.ula effect nearly 100000 empioyes
A. was finally agreed 10 arbiirasc the Difficulty
Sae men Returning 10 work meauw allie.
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10 the Editor OF THE EVENING STAR:
Does IL not look little strange that any body
OF men, however learned and reputable they
might personally be. should at this day and In
this country, undertake 10 change the phraseol-
ogy OF the Apostles Creede Still, as TO the ar
ticle proposed to be changed viz: ..He descended
into hell, that might happen to be pernissi-
Die, for IL did not appear In the original creed
which Is as follows: 81 believe ian God the
Father Almighty, and In Jesus Christ his only
Son, our Lord, who Was conceived bv the HOLY
Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under
Pontius Plate, was crucifed and buried: the
third day he rose from the dead. He assembled
INTO Heaven and stitch on the rig ht hand of the
Father; from thence he shall come TO fudge the
quick and the dead. 1 believe I'm the Hols
Ghost, the Holy church, the forgiveness OF sins
and the resurrection Of the body" Amen.
since the words she descended into hell" are
not OF Apostolic origin, Il Is TO be presumed
they are common property, and We can do with
them what We please, Tor one unauthorized
man has as much right to alter as the original
unauthorized man had to make it,
There Is one change that should he made In
the general rendering OF the Lords Prayer In
stead OF the common phrase, "Deliver us from
evii, correct translation OF the Greek original
Will be: "Deliver us from the erii one"
Yours, &c, X
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AN ARMY OF MESSENGERS AND CHARwoMEN-
TWO oLD-FASAIoNED RooMs-AN INSPECTION
TOUR A "CLKAN SWEEP" ETC
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THE EARLY YEARS IN THE HISTORY OF THE
PREsBYTERIAN CHURCHES IN THIS DIS
TRICT - INTERESTING PAPERS READ BY
WASHINGTON PASTORS
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FIRST MEMBERS OF THE PREsBYTERY.
As before stated, the presbytery Of Washing
ton city was formed by the union of the presby-
teries OF the District Of Columbia and the Poto-
mac, by order OF the synod Of Baltimore, under
the direction OF the general assembly. IL Was
organized June 10th, 1879, in the Bridge Street
cnureh, Georgetown, ID. c., the first meeting be-
Ing constituted with prayer by Rev. SePtimus
Tustin, u. p. Rev. Jonn =. Saith. y; D., was
chosen the first moderator, aud Rev. Thaddeus
Metals the first stated clerk. As tnns orgall-
lied the presbytery embraced she following
ministers, who. BY order OF the assembly, wers
lows: Rev. Ssptimns Tusttn, 2. D.; Rev. John @
smith, D. d.; Roy. Theodore w. simpson, d. D.;
vandoren, Rev. James 3 81. Gsndsrson, Rev,