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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-18


Trr-foos sale King referee lot 2hX75 and 5story bul
lrr y ~ hamhefs It. Of Hrondwsv ---.-l lot =
II l,f above III lot On l2i and SsOTy buhdn
10 llccckfr a.. o. \. - n e Of tiIceuest
By Richard T. N0rnep q CO.
Puilfc auction sale lot lGN1O35 and story dwelling
ls- Ea-i 6Sdsf 2O2 Of 3tave IL lot p 61s9
aud 3-foiy dwelling, NJ lOO "a est l%0thst ss 81 IL
GtlAVe Boulevard
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SATURDAY.. OCT. 2.
LII Inhn L EnlL0
RECORDED REAL ESTATE TRAYsFERs-N.Y

Foreclosure sale II Nshs referee l. interest in lot j
loo and Sstorv dwelling No 10 East 54tst. s. 100 IL
Of LehInglOnaNe.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-18

Public auction sale Fox estate IS lots situated on sout
Foulevard Westchcstorave 10th. 10Th and FOX SIS
NIrL
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Gin properin 90 Get.

NO OTHER reliable house. where rents are
~ high arorf Co sell rirs ami seaskin
low A. a. q SIAfNE Manufacturer. ln3 PTnce-st
Jhs same re IN ding which cost - OOl pc, Prince
81 co-fs >lh'uo 81 81 fl@uOO IAN and from
slOOtO to 200 broadway II does rrqure much
tgnflnF 10 tel "io cn sell TIE beet iufs iO M money.
A lliREt-SIORY and basement house, l49
at IN -, rent - 20 also Queen Anne houses
ll'th - West Lexington ave rem $500
GEO. ". TANNING. ~ Broadway
A LAkpt three-sl ory and basement house
80 "'s' ~Ve ~ op'ste seminary Park 81 200
cfO ". flaming. 7l2 Hroadway
OS1 HIST, 321 WESr-ro let. furn shed
- house four SOW lgh stoop low private fAn
~ month. or the year ~
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BROOKLYN PROPERTY.

BB Jere JDhVHSO. r.
pr,l ON sale Mot Of land o6 and 2siorv cottage
Bl.Wck block front bet Ia sew and Werheid SIS
LONG ISLAND PROPERTY.
Bv 4. j. Bieeckci's son & Co.
PuHc auction tf Of land IA NeWtOwn township,
pelr Nanle station
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-18

Trustees sale lot 2jA60 and story warehouse; 70
Wai.rst ns 7f5 q Of Market st..-..l lot 2S.fNeb2
ass1sS and story building No 80 Beekman-s %.
N W of NNuan-St lots together III SIC 1OOoA ., o
Madison ave cor ~ -Ofhst
HeDcr
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-18
Couutrn propcrtp manleo.

HOTEL WANTED to rent with privilege of
i lease located IN thrifty village on line OF railway
preferred unfinished OF partly furnshed ~ g0oi oonu
uot land with budiig. Al,
dress with lu particulars Tor interview, j. l., BOX ~
Tribune Once.
WANTED TO LEASE for a term of wears
farm o about % acres good tabe upland with good
good water, plenty Of ont bindings
village rent must be lo" Address = A. BOX
20 Tribune Office
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-18
Citp l]ropertn for Sale.

Ciip l]ropertn for Sale.
DENT and other expenses are so much lower
III on Pripce.st than the regular streets that = -.
SHAME Manufacturing Furier can AFFORD 10 sell src ny
reliable furs prices than any other nstcass ho"ee
A TTENTION is called to those elegant ilrst-
~ class ho1ses Nos 4 II East SOthst Apply on
premises to owners. c. n. & y. a. WILLIAMS.
FIRST CLASS, 4-storv hgh-stoop house,
~ 46th-st near 5th-aVe LOT sdle - looV "i0
and good order possession - . r ron ?, pioo O.
TOR SALE.-An elegant brown stone house,
four res oil modern improvements Handsomely Geo
rated. gas Xures schneider Campbell ~ Coz SIZE "a
25y2OO. running through 10 next
uns urpasse Central PARK convencl 10 ere
yate and surface roads Address call at NO LAO west
57th.st
i~c and 1873 WEST S1Sr-ST.--TwO of the
sU) handsomcst houses ever 'ult on West Slle; M
ished entirely hard wood handsome enough oJ c az
KIKER & SONS, owners. s"S otiaVe.
S0000 Fo1r1story v dWeIl nn Am E aass
r,h''c,,.d Largain RULANDt Il WHITING Beckman-si
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-10-09
HOT-BEOS OF CRIME.

Although Disagreeing tho Proper
Methods of SURPRISING Intemperance,
All Good Citizens Can Unite Against the
Saloons.
No matter what mans opinion may
be about the feasibility of prohibition
or the physical or moral effects of alco-
holic drinks, he can not deny that 'sa-
looms" are the curse of American poll
tics and society; that none of them,
whether Democratic or Republican,
are entitled to any protection" what
ever; that if they could be all shut up,
it would be great thing for the coun-
try, and that even if they can not be all
shut up, they can be at least diminished
in number and made less mlschievous.
For passing judgment on them no par
ticular views on the liquor question are
necessary. The teetotaler, the moder
ate drinker, the high-license man and
the prohibitionist can all unite in a
crusade against them.
To say that the saloons are all over
the country nurseries of vice and crime
is to repeat a commonplace. In this
respect they receive plenty of denun-
citation from reformers and philanthro-
psts of all shades of opinion. But
their effect on politics does not receive
half enough attention. 1t is they,
more than any other single agency,
which make the problem of municipal
government in America so formidable.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-10-09

They give political power and import
ance in all cities to probably the worst
class of men in America. All party
managers are almost compelled to &C.
cept the services of liquor-dealers as
captains Of fifties and captains of hum
dreds, and having accepted them, the
party becomes dependent on the liquos
interest and bound to conciliate it.
The saloon is not simply a place tG
which men resort for society and
exhilaration. 1t is almost invariably
political club, of which
the iquor-dealer is the head,
and he goes into politics for precisely
the same reason for which he sells
liquor. All his political influence is
corrupting. Every thing that he tells
his customers of what is going on in
politics confirms them in the belief
that it is simply means of robbine
the taxpayer. When they put him in
office. it is for the avowed purpose of
plundering and sharing with them.
Whatever he may be in politics, too,
whether alderman or school trustee,
his voice is always raised on the side
of corruption and disorder. We have
had innumerable liquor-dealers in Of
flee in this city during the past forty
years, but we doubt if anybody can re-
call a single case in which one of them
raised finger or said word on the
side of good government, and did not
stand as far as he could in the way of
every attempt at publication and i'm
provement, or failed to fill his pockets
with public money whenever he got a
chance.
There never has been, in fact, IL any
age or country, trade so distinctly
marked out for legal reprobation and
encouragement as liquor-dealing in the
United States in our time. Whatever
be the merits or dement's of alcoholic
drinks, the man who sells them seems
always prone to become a social nui-
sance, and his shop fountain of evil.
N Y Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-10-09
CHINESE SLOWN ESS.
Their Lingering and Pronounced Indispo-
sition to Welcome Foreigners.

Their Lingering and Pronounced Indispo-
sition to Welcome Foreigners.
That China did not receive Europeans
at first with much eagerness is scarcely
to be wondered at, nor is it strange
that she still at times shows desire tc
revert to her former state of isolation
China produces in abundance all thai
its people require; the Chinese are oil
an eminently conservative turn OF
mind, and for some three thousand
years they had got on tolerably well
without us. Dynastes had been over
thrown and revolutions often At
tempted; Emperors had passed rARaY
by the score, and rebellions past num-
Der had swept over the face Of the
country, but still their old institutions,
their moral codes, their languag and
their habits of thought had scrcely
been affected all through the cenuries.
All at once they found the Euppean
trader obtruding himself with rs 60
ahead notions of material progres, and
saw looming up in the distance isions
of the steam engine, the electri tele-
graph and all the other acccnpani-
ments of modern civilization, Al these
things Jared sorely with their5ieas of
philosophic life. Confuciu, who
lived five hundred years before Christ,
and whose teachings and trecepts
form the Chinese Bible, heldworldly
advancement of little account and
sought to attain rather the moal than
the material elevation of mankind.
Even now few Chinese will ad1it that
the European standard of moality is
equal to their own.
Christianity they consider.to be
good enough religion in as fafas, like
Buddhism and other native cults, it
teaches men to do good, but hey can
not see that in practice it has made
much impression upon the nfions of
Europe. Their own country ha seldom
waged an offensive war, while all Eu-
rope appears to them an AIMED en-
campment. England prides herself
upon her religion and her big ships of
war; France sends her missionaries far
into the interior, and her torpedo boats
cruise round the coast and sink all the
unoh'ending junks that come in their
way. This is, of course, the uniavora-
BILE side of European character as it
presents itself to the ordinary China
man. He does not, however, fail to
discern our good as well as our bad
points. Though he does not altogether
accept our ideas of progress, still he is
willing to adopt some of our inven-
tons. Steamers are rapidly supplant-
ing the clumsy junks, and one very
large and fourishing line is entirely
supported by native capital and con-
Quoted by native talent. Nineteenth
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horizon. The hoarse crow of cock
sounded from a farm-yard below. Eat
last!' said the poor beast, who only
waited for the daylight to die; and she
stretched herself out on the ground in
her beautiful white fur that was all
dabbled with blood. Then the wolf
threw himself upon the little goat and
ate her up.
Goodbye, Gringoire. The story l
have just told you is not a tale of my
own invention. If you ever come to
Provence our householders will often
speak to you of 1.-The goat of Monsieur
Seguin, who fought all night long with
the wolf, and in the morning the wolf
devoured her."
You understand, Gringoirep "And
III the morning the wolf dcvoured her. y
IN o. Times Democrat Translation
from The French.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-10-09
THE ARKANSAW WAY.

valuable Information Wanted by a North
ern Man From an Ex-Bushwhacker.
A Northern man, while on a pros
pecting tour in Arkansaw, stopped in
the woods one day and thus addressed
an old fellow whom he found digging
among the bushes:
"My friend, can you give me any in.
formation concerning your neighbor-
hood?"
The old fellow stopped digging, and,
leaning back against a tree, said:
"Yas. Nat Sarver is dead"
81 don't mean neighborhood news,
but | want to know something about
the country. What is the surest crop
you raiseP'
"Chillun."
Il dare say, but, joking aside, what
is your largest average CROP"
"Chillun."
"Have you always lived hereP"
"No; amt but ffty-fve years old,
an tifty-five years, cording to the
Bible, amt alters. by er blame sight. "
You don t understand me. l mean
were you born here"
mot entirely"
81 don't understand you.''
"Well, didn't understand you jest
now, an we're about even at the pres
cut"
"They tell me that this is a sort of
malarial district. How are the chills
around hereP'
ssAinIt bo,,o ,,o,,o nv ,o,,, oo,oo,,1o;,,
They air able to be shakin', l reckon"
II dare say"
$50 do L.
"What are you diggingP"
"Dirt"
"What for?"
"Airter snake root"
"What do you do with it?'
"Take it to the cross roads an swap
it fur whisky"
81 dare say"
$50 do l."
'Did the war hurt this part of the
country very muchP'
"No, but the bushwhackers played
wild"
"Were you not afraid of them?"
"Not much. wuz one NV EN- my
se'f.'
Il wouldn't be surprised but that you
have been a pretty tough citizen in your
life"
'Yas, an I amt so mighty tender
yit."
81 dare say"
$50 do L.
"Say, I've been out of civilization
for some time, and Ineed clean shirt.
Can you tell me of place in this
neighborhood where there is any wash
ing done?"
Eyes, right over yander in the bend
nv the creek. Been washin' ole Tur-
ner's bottom field away fur some time.
Worst washin' l know Nv"
II don't believe thatI'll settle in this
neighborhood"
''All right; much obleeged ter yer.
So rough in yer manners yer mout
skeer the deer an turkeys"
"Well, good-day."
"Same to yerse'f."
He took up his hoe and lazily stuck
it into the ground. Nothing could have
induced him to become an immigration
agent. -Arbansaw Traveller.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-10-09
NOAH WEBSTER.


Difficulties He Experienced in Securing
the Publication of His Dictionary.
Lent B. Merriam, of the firm of
Hart, Merriam & Co., of this city, has
in his possession an autograph letter
from Noah Webster, of which we give
a copy herewith. He has also, which
is very rare, an uncut set of two vol
umes of the original edition of Web
ster's Dictionary The letter is as fol-
lows:
LONDON, April 7, 1825.-Dear Sir: !
have been trying for some weeks to
find purchaser of my dictionary, but
without success. One bookseller de-
clines without giving any reasons, an
other has too much capital embarked
in other publications to permit him to
undertake mine, and third says ex-
plicitly he is too much engaged in
Todd's. Johnson's and the Encyclope-
dia Metropoltana. | know not what
shall ultimately do. The work is too
heavy for me to publish at my own ex-
pense, aad besides an author should
never be his own publisher. | will
take upon myself part of an impress
sion and carry the books to the United
States, provided can get some book
seller or booksellers to take the remand
er. The gentlemen who have examined
portion of the manuscript think well
of it-and one bookseller says explicitly
the work will maintain its ground But
how to get it published | do not know.
l may yet be compelled to quit En-
gland without being able to lay the
work before the public.
Please to make my respects to your
good lady, to the Messrs. Fosters, Mr..
Mandall, Mr.. Thaday, Mr.. Musgrave,
etc. l shall always remember them
and all my friends in Cambridge with
great kindness.
1 am, dear sir, with much esteem and
respect, your obedient servant.
N. WEBSTER.
No. New Ormond street, Queen s
Square.
To w. G. ASHTON, Esq.
Hartford Courant.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-10-09
BIanching Celery.

l have for two seasons practiced the
following plan for handling celery pre-
paratory for winter keeping; take a
ball of strong cotton wick, and gather
ing up the stalks of the end plant of a
row, tie the wick around it. Then with
out cutting the wick, take turn around
the stalks of the next and each succeed
ing plant without tying, and so con-
tinue till the ball is used up. When
the end of the wick is reached l either
tie it to the end of another ball of wick,
or secure it around the plant. When
the celery is taken up the wick can be
unwound and preserved for future use
To me this plan has been more effectu-
al in keeping the stalk together. and
easier to follow, than that of pulling
earth to the plant. Cor. Gardener
Monthly
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-10-09
TEMPERANCE READING.
A DRINKING MAN.

We N v not drinking man;
His habit f q grows
To an X S, do what he can
Naught can Y l. its woes.
IT'S very r d finds to stop,
Though oft he will S A;
Then fail and c X whisky shop -
His tortures to L A.
His pocket always NJ tbs, ~
And G ID are his clothes;
He can't attend to Il biz"
Red doth X A his nose. 80
Drink holds him in its l N grip;
Soon ID p gets i'll sin; go
Sure in the N ID down will slip,
Filled with ID X within.
Though of no q C often takes
H U of cloves to quell
HIS breath, and then in d ID makes
Those G Q know who smell.
His friends all have an c way
When for their A D goes.
They can't X Q's his vile display,
And P Z not his woes.
In X C has IA wife to Stay
Her heart will A X lot;
The debts he o u makes her pay,
And tears her / will blot.
SIX P can't his doom Alright;
Sick ere old A G lies
The snakes he G u tries to fight
And without dies.
H. C. Dodge. in Detroit Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-10-09
DONE FOR A DIME.

The lecture done they crowded round
To take h IN by the hand
The man whose eloquent al words
Had sounded through the land.
When, undismayed by man or place,
Came up boy with daring face.
VINO held within his dirty hand
A dwindling pencils half,
sinister, said he, Il wish you'd please
G mme your autograph"
81 will, the great man ndly said,
And lightly touched the urchin's head.
Then wrote a wild chirography,
And unused that this was fame,
When little lads from Off the street
Desired his written name.
'What II you" asked he with laugh,
my child, do with my autograph"
The coming voter viewed the man
With something like surpr Sc,
And answered W tn a business look
About his sharp young eyes:
"Why, sir, | sells EN-. don't you see.
gifts ten cents for yourn!' SAID he.
N. Y World.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-10-09
PRIMITIVE OLYMPUS.

Life in Ancient Town Which Has Not
Progressed With the Rest of the World.
In the village of Olympus much of
the primitive old life is left. The men
carry the thick hair garments which
their wives weave at home, they wear
their hair long and shaggy, and they
govern themselves by u sort of parlia-
ment, which meets once year in the
village church. We were present at
one of these meetings, and were struck
by the Difference shown to the elders
and the attention which younger men
paid to the words which fell from their
mouths. At their feasts the same defer
ence to old age is manifest; the elders
sing first those idyls which are
only found on Karpathos, and
are of genuine archaic type.
Very few of them can write or read.
and any one that does so is honored at
once with the title of Diakos, or Dea-
con, and is person of great impor-
lance at the assemblies, for he it is who
keeps the minutes. and can write down
pretty nearly what he pleases, sitting
cross-legged. with the inkstand on the
ground before him. By the stream
which flows down narrow valley from
Olympus to the sea great reeds grow
which are often used for the ceilings of
their fat-roofed houses and for hedges
This they call nartheka,a survival of the
old word for the reed by which Prone
theus brought down fire from heaven.
And one can easily imagine the origin
of this myth by watching the customs
of to-day. A peasant housewife of
Olympus, who wishes to carry light
from one house to another, will put the
embers into one of these reeds to pre-
vent it being eXtinguished. Fortnight
IN Re1,ie2D
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-10-09
Salaries of Potentates.

The Emperor of Russia has a salary
of So, 250, 900, the Sultan of Turkey
100000 Napoleon LII. S was So, 000,-
900, Emperor of Austria S4,000,000,
King of Prussia S3.000,000, King
Humbert 50, 100000. Victoria so, 20O,-
900, Isabella, of Spain, $1,S00,0O0,
Leopold. of Belgium. 100000. The
above gives the Emperor of Russia
S25, 900 day, the Sultan of Turkey
$4,000, Napoleon $4,000, Emperor
of Austria $4,000, King of Prussia
SS,2l0. King Humbert S6,340, Queen
Victoria 1920, Leopold 81 ,643, while
the President of the United States
only receives $50, 900 Il year or about
S137 day. 1t would be interesting to
compare with these figures the incomes
of the worlds benefactors in religion,
science, literature or in exploration.
There is time coming when things
will be equalized, and it may be re-
versed in many cases. United Presby-
teytdn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-10-09
"A practical housekeeper saws if the

A practical houseKeeper says if the
necessity of cutting hot bread be inn
perative the moist unpleasantness may
be obviated by using a warm knife for
the purpose. The heating of the steel
prevents the chill which causes the sod
don look so well known to those who
have been compelled to cut the warm
loaf. A napkin should be laid on the
plate upon which the slices are placed.
IN. Y. Times.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-05-21
paper until they grew into gorgeous

paper until they grew into gorgeous
affairs.
One evening the shutters Of the frOnt
window, wherein were exposed mum.
bers of these wax candles, were put up
earlier than usual. 1t was remarked
that an old negro woman performed
this labor, andnOt the little Mile. Pier,
rette.
Then ii was reported that the little
Lady with the white cap and iiChus
acroS the way WAS very sick, AS it
grew darker the wind began to blow,
bowling under the caves, whIstlng
through the ratings of Jackson
square and moaning up among
the bells in the cathedral spire.
At first 1t caught up the loose bits
of waste paper lying around
French Market, until the air was filled
with tlocks of wiN-less paper birds.
Then 1t grew savage and dug into
the interstices OF the square block
pavement and scrlped out every loose
particle of dust and Sent it s~kurrying
III clouds down St. Anne street. Then
came the rain, big drops at first, fol,
lowed by d]renching torrents. The
sacrlStan was called down stairs by a
ring OF the rectory bell. A woman
was dying and needed a priest.
Through the storm, guided by the
old negress, the father made his way
slowly, and vas not sorry to find that
he had not far to go. He went into
the little candle store on st. Anne's
street, where he performed the last sad
offices to the unconscious little pro-
prletress of the establishment. The
negro woman said afterward, Mile.
PIerrette gave a start as the priest
entered and tried to talk-that was
all.
Inthe old mahogany armoir, among
the pile Of snOwy-white linen was
found a letter, which puzzled those
who opened it.
1t read: "NIy name is Hortense
Dularge, and not Mile. Pierrette. My
love brought me back to Louisiana,
but it was too late. The only glimpse
we have of heaven on earth is true
love r~eciprocated. Fate denied me
that. Show this to Father -, and
he will understand. | leave all my
property to the church,
1t was signed with a firm hand and
sealed.
The funeral was impressive and the
sermon m of the most touching ever
preached, for old memories were
awakened in the heart of the gentle
memories he had long since
buried. The little candlemaker's own
candles shed a soft radiance on altar
and chancel, but like her life, they at
asst hickered and went out and the
cathedral was left in darkness.