Evening star., 1886-11-26
CURIOUS DEAD LETTERS.
strange Things Assembled in the In
ventQry OF the Dead Letter Sale.


Strange Things Assemblc.l in the In
ventQry OF the Dead Letter Sale.
No one can have notion of what other people
send through the mails until they look over
the inventory of articles to be sold at the dead
letter office sale. There is something humor-
ousiy absurd in the idea OF dropping sewing
machine in I. letter box. 1t suggests mailing a
saw mill, a steam engine or yoke Of steers.
Yet sewing machines do find their way TO the
dead letter office.
Many curious secrets are untolded in the
dead letter office and there are reasons the
owners never come to claim property. There
stands now among the other dead letters
a pair OF number six "lades Shoes What an
affection Tor any lady to lay claim to! Tho
| lady thanks fortune that her name was not on
lie package, and allows them to be sold at
auction. An old wig has been lying
IN IN. the office for two years without IA
! wears his hat i'll church. A pair OF corsets made
10 embrace u thirty three inch waist can find 10
one 10 confess TO them. They Stanu aroCnd
WIN several Other pairs OF smaller size, await
, ing the auction.
| But corsets and wigs ana sewing machines
are not tie only curious things thai turn up in
dead letters. Besides innuIne,:.h!C pairs of
shoes, suits of Clothes, ii;nu erch ieis, collars
and CUTS, cheap jeweiry, with an occasional
| lock OF hair and engagement ring,
there are numerous ladies busties, brown hair
switches. false bangs and irizzes, ami even a
/ ~ =.
In one package there are two 'dama aged night
dresses, i'll another plu;, of tobacco in an
other Il package oi iiair pins aud hair combings.
In yet another package there are six till tea
spoons and a srcon0-lai,d tooth brush. The
hGihDer OF packages married 'hair combings''
suggest that they lovers, locks that
some unscntinIcntal clerk has thus vowed.
Cosmetics appear in no small quantities. One
''damaged hair switch and several pairs of
Ioop skirts, were MlscarIieu i'll the mails. 4
gent scersuck2i suit and Il iady's chemise and
unfinished night dres, also went astray. A pair
ol artificial teeth are unclaimed. \ pair OF ar
t'Hc'al eyes are among the dead letters.
Among other curious mail matter dis
covered through the dead letters are
a 1iy net for horses, iadys black cloth dol
man, I, man S cid irocl< coat. 'OId Judge" ciga-
rettes, Old broken crewdriver, ladies' ghtcaps
gray hair waves, hair crimpers, ladies WOODEN
ii.scinators fUur-and-a-nal! pounds o cheap tea,
an oi0 kntie blaae, Il bunch oI tangled thread,
ladies corset covers, thirteen old pewter spoons,
clothes and old straw hat, iady-s blue
jersey, a pair OF bathing trunks, old felt bat,
bird sling. toy gun, kettle cleancr and tinware,
griddie litter, dozen potato larers, a sun bon
net. dolls ccfsets, doris over-snoes, ii small
clock, a pair Oh pruning SHARES, u razor, and
~ poundS OF iron and metal Castings
Real Estate sales.
Transfers have been made from Anna NJ
Onutt ct AL, heirs OF Hiicry OIutt, to Waiter Ii.
Williams, for 81 900, !Or part lot IT, So :,4S
fronting on west sioe of lOth street, between u
and h streets northwest; from the Washington
Brick Machine Go. to Joseph 5. Boss, six lots in
square 1908. about two squares from eastern
terminus vi IL street Eorth, ior $4,25O; from u.
j. Bessier to IL. King, jr, for lot and part ),
same square, ior $4,000; from r. Fendali TO
Royal 4. Whitman, lot 81 so. 155, 81 ,O6S.75;
from same to Kate Field, lot 81, same square;
S4,U72.25; tron Mary Edelin, TO Il. NJ Bray
ton, lot 10, same square, ior S3,49O-all in tue
{. j. Hillyer to Charlotte NJ. Crosby, sub. lot II,
SO. l54, 1873 feet at the corneroi New Hamp-
| shire avenue and Il street northwest, Tor
81, e33.4S.
transfers have been recorded for lots IS l6
! and q, square 800, fronting on Water street,
near the loot of 9Th street. and the water rights
OF the same. with what IS known Bscoe's
wharf, from Henry l.. Isscoe to james +. Bar
bour. ior 81 5000. Also, from Jas. L. Carperry
White Haven. near the Little Falls, for
st, 6,O65.5O. Also, from l.. NJ. Saunders To JOS
IN Fnon ase os oos,h Ia of ana
| northeast. for $4,752, and twenty-six lots of
same size, fronting street north and Fenton
Place, in same square, to w. T. Barker. for
$5, 1868. 10. Also from Laura f. Kendall to
Elizabeth n. Low, Tor S6,5uO. Tor lot 100 and
the east half OF lot l0l, square 24O, 11Ox9O
northwest. Also. to ID. h. Cartier from Mary
E. Fitch, for part 2, square 51s, DIX 100 feet on
the north side of Il street, between 4th and 5th
streets northwest, for $4,000.
A transfer has been 1ed from W. T. Alden to
Sophia w: Cordict, for "a, 500, for sub lot 122,
tween T, U, 18th and 14th streets northwest.
SUFFERING FOR HIS Fathers CRIME-Jas
OF the Foxhll quarries, near st. Mary's, Pa,
who abscOnded a week ago with the wages OF
the wOrkmcn, has beeu lodged in Jail at West
Chester. He is charged with being acces-
sorry to the embeZzlement and flight of his
father, whose whereabouts yet remains a mys-
terry. The prisoner is only p years old and
lives at Wilmington, Del:
SENTENCED FOR HEINoCS CRIME.-A man
and his wife, named Thomas, have been sem
fenced, in Paris, to death, and the wife's two
brothers. named Lebon, have been sentenced to
imprisonment for lie for numbering Madame
LebOn, their mother, whom they burned TO
death in order to inherit hermoney.
HAS No EXISTENCE In LAw.-The New York
corporation counsel has given an opinion, in
which he says that the broadway Surface Rail-
road company must be considered as not in ex-
istence. Therefore it could have no personal
property and cannot be taxed or assessed on
personal property. Whatever property Is held
Dy the receiver can be assessed by charging TO
him; but If he does reside in the city the
sessnient must be made in the county where he
resides. Receiver OBrien is o resident OF
Duchess county, which will therefore be bene-
dted at the expense OF New York county.
SOCIALISM In THE GERMAN ARMY.-In spite
of the closest watch kept on the barracks at
Berlin, Spandau and Potsdam, thousands OF
copies OF socialistic pamphlets have been found
among the troops. The matter seized consists
mostly OF q newiy.issued appeal 10 the soldiers