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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-03-28
PROPOSALS
FOR
Annual Supplies isr The Us Marine Corps
HEApQU~RTRss u. s. MARINE CoRPs.
QUARTERMAsTKR's OFFICE.
Washington, March 10. 1888.

HEApQC RTRss u. ). MARINE SoRrs.
QUARTERMAsTKR's OFFICE.
Washington, March 10. 1888.
6yEALED PROPOSALS. in duplicate.
~ will be received at this office until ~
o. clock nj. of the 81 day of May next Tor
furnishing RATIONS, and until IL
j clock Nj of the 4th day of May for fur
nishing FUEL TO the United States Ma
rines, at one or more of the following sta
tons. from the 1st July, 1857. TO the SUth
June, 1889, viz: PORTSMOUTH, n IL;
CHARLESTOWN. MASS; BROOK.
LYN, N. Y; PHILADELPHIA and
LEAGUE ISLAND, Pa; ANNAPOLIS,
MD WASHINGTON, ID. O.; NOh.
FOLK, VA; PENSACOLA, FLA;
MARE ISLAND and SAN FRANCIS
co, CAL. !,
Sealed proposals will also be received
at this office until IL o'clock NJ OF the 0th
day of May next for furnishing SUP
PLIES, consisting of CLOTHS, kER-
SEYS. FLANNELS. BLANKETS,
HATS. HELMETS, MILITARY
STORES, BROOMS, BRUSHES, AXES
etc to be delivered at the office of the
Assistant Quartermaster, Philadelphia,
Pa free of expense to the United States
Sealed proposals will also be received
at this Office until 10 clock Nj. of the 1ih
day of May next for supplying STA
TIONERY, TO be delivered at the office
of the Quartermaster, Washin ton ID. g..
free of expense to the United tates
Specifications, blank forms of pTopo-
sails, and all information can be obtained
upon application at any of the stations
named above, or at the offices of the
Quartermaster, Washington, ID O., and
Assistant Quartermasters 216 South 2nd
street, Philadelphia. Pa and 615 San
some street. San Francisco. Cal. This
office reserves the right to reject any and
all bids, and to waive defects; and bids
from manufacturers of or regular dealers
in supplies only will be considered. Bids
accepted and con- ,ac.s ew~rded subject
to an appropriation by Congress to meet
the expense. Proposals may be made for
one or more articles, deliverable at one
or more stations, and will be considered
separately for each article and place OF
delivery They should be endorsed
Proposals FOR RATloNs, FUEL, MILL
TARY SUPPLIES, OK STATIONERY, as the
case may be, and addressed to
Major ii. b. LOWRY,
Quartermaster u. S Marine Corps,
327 Washington, d G.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-03-28

Senator James j. Lindsay, al
though one of the youngest repre-
sentatives in the Maryland Senate,
has made most able and efficient
member of that body-discharging
his duties with credit alike to him.
self and his constituents. He has
introduced some important bills dur
ing the session, both general and
local, and his even disposition and
popularity with his brother Senators
has enabled him to accomplish much
for his county and State. We ven
ture to say, had Baltimore county
tried, il could not have found more
faithful, attentive representative, or
one that has watched over the inter-
ests Of the people with more assidu
ousness than Senator Lindsay. We
predict for the young Senator ;
bright political future, and look up
on him - one Of the rising men q
the State.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-03-28
SYRUP OF FIGS.

Is natures own true laxative. 1t is the
most easily taken. aud the most effective
remedy known to cleanse the System
when Bilious or Costive, to dispel Head
aches, Colds and Fevers; to cure Habitu-
al Constipation. Indigestion, Piles. ETC.
Manufactured only by the California Fig
Syrup Company, San Francisco, Califor-
MIA. For sale by j. w. Hodges, City Drug
Store.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-03-28

Misses Pebble Spring Heel Button. - 90
Misses StraightGoat Sring Heel But, w
Misses French Goat Spring Heel But. u
Misses KANGAROO Springfield Button, 90
Misses FrenchKid Spring Heel But, 81
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-03-28

While other States have adopted
the township or local self-govern-
ment system and prospered under
it, MARYLAND has adhered to the old
methods Of local government adop-
led two centuries ago. and conse-
quently has refrigerated. 1.-The es
srntial and automatic principle OF
she township system" the Carroll
toniap very clearly explains lis that
the people Immediately interested,
should be presumed TO know better
than any one else what their circnm-
stances require. 1t is absurd to sup
pose that the people cannot be trus-
ed in matters pertaining to their
own prosperity. There is abundant
reason to believe that all the wis.,
dom is not compacted in the County
Commissioners Office or confined to
the School Commissioners, the Leg
islature and the Governor of the
State. Why should the selection of
all local officers be withheld from
the people and made appointive!-
What does the Governor, or any
other appointing power, care or know
as to the local record of magistrates,
assessors, registrars or constables, or
what their qualifications are, as long
as they are recommended as good
ring politicians? If the people are
competent to select and elect the
higher and more responsible officers
for the state government, is it not
gross Inconsistency and an outrage
upon their liberties to deprive them
of the right to select their local Off
GERS? The appointing power is SIM
ply relic of the old monarchical
idea retained for the benefit of few
political managers and TO provide
soft places for party workers"
Under the township system all
local officers are elected by the peo-
pie in the different townships or
districts of county; that is, mag
istrates, constables, supervisors, as
SCISSORS, collectors, school directors,
sc. This would give to each dis
trict the management of its own af-
fairs, exclusively, without outside
interference. But as it would require
legislative enactment to legalize
this, we wish merely to speak OF our
road system. The county commits
sioners levy money to make and re-
pair roads. They appoint super
visors aud give them carte blanc
to spend money with scarcely any
accountability to any body. The
result is bad roads aud a waste of
money. Now If the county commits
sioners. as we have before arguard
would set apart certain amount OF
the levy, say Is or 20 per cents col
lected in each district, and select q
ompetcnt board of persons interested
in local improvement, to serve with
out pay, who shall have charge OF
the road fund in their respective
districts to keep in repair their local
roads, the ground of complaint that
some districts get more than their
share of the levy would be removed
the fund would be more economi-
cally administered; and better roads
would be the result. This, the pres
ent board of county commissioners
can do without legislative assistance,
and we hope to see them inaugurate
the movement, and popularize the
township system, before the meet
ing of the next Legislature.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-03-28

Ayers Sarsaparilla was the first success
full blood medicine ever offered to the
public. This preparation is still held in
the highest public estimation both at
home and abroad. Its miraculous cures,
and immense sales show this. Ask your
druggist for it.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-03-28

tn Grsns HeallA DffeA. ANs RAgpg
Sl.4ne. Ala. Hearts Cigar Dloz8
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-03-28
Why You Feel

So weak and exhausted is because your
blood is impure. AS well expect the
sanitary condition of city to be per-
feet with defiled water and defective
sewerage, as to expect such compli-
Gated piece Of mechanism as the human
frame to be in good order with impure
blood circulating even to its minutest
veins. Do you know that every drop
of your two or three gallons of blood
passes through the heart and lungs in
about two and o half minutes, and that,
on its way, it makes bone and muscle,
brain and nerve, and all other solids
and fluids of the body? The blood is
the great nourishers or, as the Bible
terms it,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-02-16

The discussion of the Croftier question
in parliament is dreaded the fear being
that the Unionists will not stand fire.
The bundesrath has ordered the ex-
pulaion from Germany of the anarchists
Ehrecberg, Schopin, Ignaz, Mezler, and
Haupt.
SEVERAL Russian frontier towns last
week received an extra regiment of in
fantry and six squsdron7 of cavalry.
THE Reichstag has passed the Military
Loan bill without debate. Only three
members Social Democrats) opposed the
measure.
THE peaceful tenor OF Prince Bis
marck' speech in the German Parliament
on Monday caused buoyancy in the Euro.
pean exchanges.
The returns of the London board OF
trade for January, show an increase OF
imports by G3,760,000, and of exports by
e770,000, in comparison with January,
1887.
TIE investigation of the scandal of the
sale of official decorations in France is in
progress at Paris, and Wilson, the SON in
law of the late president Grovy, has been
summoned as a witness.
IN the lower house of the reichstag on
Tuesday, Bacquehem, minister of com
merce, asked for supplemental credit
of l,2S0,000 marks for the construction
of state railways.
LORD LANsDowNE is to be transferred
from the Governor Generalship of Can
ada TO the Governor Generalship of India
succeeding Lord Dufferin, who is about
to retire. Lord Stanley, Of Preston, will
succeed Lansdowne in Canada.
TnE Second Chamber of the Swedish
Parliament has passed the bill imposing
an import duty of 213 crowns per 100
kilos on rye, wheat, barley, corn, peas aud
beans which was passed by the First
Chamber yesterday.
Two ALLEGED American dynamiters,
named Callan and Hawkins, have been
convicted of participation in a murder
Gus conspiracy in London, Eng, and each
sentenced to fifteen years imprisiou-
ment.
THE London Standards correspondent
at st. Petersburg says: Russia, for a
long time, has had no objection to the
publication Of the Austro German treaty,
but Austria objected because she desired
to induce a belief at home and abroad
that the alliance went further than it &c
tually goes
8 a CHEMIST named Derby and his wife
and six children have been found dead in
their dwelling house at Manchester, Eng.
Their death was evidently caused by
poison. They had been dead several
days. The belief is that the man, driven
to desperation by his inability TO sup
port his family, administered poison to
them and then committed suicide.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-02-16
CRIME.

Mr. A. j. SMELL, well-known citizen
and capitalist of Chicago, was murdered
by burglar in his residence on the West
Side Tuesday night.
An Utica, N. y, on Thursday, Clement
Arthur Day wGs hanged for the murder,
in fit of jealousy, of Johanna Rosa
Gross, his mistress, in June last.
On Wednesday John Janauschek, a
drunken farmer near New Prague, Mimi,
muir lered his wife, fatally wounded his
daughter, and then shot himself dead.
john r. DECAMP, the arrested Vice
President of the wrecked Metropolitan
Bank of Cincinnati, has been surrendered
to the authorities by his bondsmen, and
is now in Jail.
The Metropolitan Bank of Cincinnati
has collapsed, and its President and Vice
President are under arrest. II has been
ruined by its officers using its funds in
speculation.
S. +. FUNK, an Ohio farmer who was
also forger, is found to have beaten
Lima, Delphos, Van Vert and Ottawa
banks out of $4,000 He is now in
Canada.
L NE result OF second lFlhl OF GtuIEt
Bolzer, at Ottawa, H., for the murder of
his cousin last July, was verdict of gull
ty and sentence of life imprisonment.
The result of his frat trial was sentence
of death.
LITTLE Mary Wilson, the 11-year-old
child, who seven times set fire to the
hospital for the ruptu-ed aud crippled in
New York city has been turned over to
the care Of the children's society for the
present.
NAY WILSON, an I1-year-old girl, an in
mate of the Hospital for Crippled Chill
dren at New York, has confessed that she
YVES responsible for the late fires in that
institution. She confessed that she had
set fire to the building, but could not tell
why.
Tur President has sent the following
nominations to the Senate: Benjamin
f. Wade, of Ohio, to be Marshal of the
United States for the Northern District
of Ohio; j. Marion Brooks, of California
to be Attorney OF the United States for
the Southern District of California.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-02-16
WASHINGTON

REPRESENTATIVES, Hopkins, of New
York, is engaged to be married to Miss
Tram, daughter of George Frances Train
of New York.
The president has signed the act pro
vlding for the printing of the eulogles
delivered in congress on the late Gen
John A. Logan.
THE National House of Represents
tives on Monday settled the Lowry White
contested election case in favor OF the
sitting member (Whitel by vote of lN'
so l05,
TELEGRAMs continue to pour II from
the South, 20 Southern Congressman IN
opposition 20 the bill taxing lard mixed
with cotton seed oil. The feeling deVel-
oping against this measure Is very
strong, and the prospects of its passing
are regarded as very slight.
UNITED STATES Consul Elfwing, atstoek
holm. has informed the State Depart
rpent that the Swedish Gov, rEment ha,
declared against the importation Of pors
frcm the United States unless IL Is vel
~sRlted. The Consul says the order is
founded on a report that hog pestileucl
i raging in the United States.
Sen. SAWYER has introduced bh II
the senate providing that all soldiers wht
served at least ninety days IN the late Wal
ana were honorably mustered out or dis
charged on surgeons certificates OF oIaa
bilitv shall be entitled to receive tht
same bounty 10 which they would have
been entitled had their tnh term or en-
listmeut been served out.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-02-16
A story With Moral,

Near railroad crossing where trains
frequently waited for connection berries
we're very plentiful. Two women con
cieved the idea of making little money
by selling fresh berries to the hot and
dusty travellers. They forewith put their
idea into execution, and were seen pass
ing through the waiting trains Offering
the fruit for sale. One made invariably
ready sales, selling out before she had
gone othrough train; the other always
had berries left unsold, and sometimes
she failed to sell any, One made hand
some little 'pile" by the end of the sea
SON. the other questioned whether she
had been paid for her time.
The reason for the success of the one
and the failure of the other was not hard
to find. 1t all lay in the manner of ser
vice. One of these women was careless
and untidy in her appearance; the other
was scrupulously clean aud neat; one
measured her berries from her basket in
a cup filling it with her hands as she
passed through the train; the other made
up little paper holders lined with fresh
green leaves, and these she filed with
berries before tho train arrived. No one
wonders which would sell the best.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-02-16
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.


Ar Buffalo, n Y, flames in G. G.
Curtis malt house caused loss of $780,
900.
FIRE at Cleveland, Ohio, damaged j.
l.. Hudson's clothing store $4,000; in
suranoe, $4,000.
In is reported from Tuscola that the
peach buds in that section are all winter
killed.
Ar Storm Lake, Iowa, Monday night,
fire destroyed W. A. Jones' dry goods
store Loss, 100000; insurance $4,000.
f. l.. BEsr& Co., dry goods dealers Of
Green Bay, Wis, assigned Monday with
assets, $4,000; liabilities, $4,000. The
failure was caused by slow collections and
pressing bills.
An Elgip (Iu.) merchant, p. J. Mckee,
assigned Tuesday 20 a. Ii. Healey with
St7, 900 liabilities, including "a claim of d.
| V. Farweu, of Chicago, for $l40o.
AT Port Blakely, W. t. opposite Seat
tie, two sawmills, the largest on Puget
! Sound, were burned Friday at loss of
| $25O,oO0, with no insurance..
A building of the Austin powder works
near Cleveland, O., was blown mp Fri
day, killing one man. The shock was
terrific, resembling that of an earth
quake.
The rolling mills of the Britton Iron
and Steel Company, Cleveland Otso,
have been destroyed by fire. loss,
$4,000.
NATURAL gas caused the destruction by
fire of residence near Bolivia, n. y
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-02-16
The Weather in Florida.

s Florida correspondent in the central
part of the State says: Oranges are not
harvested and vegetables are just beg n
ming TO be marketed, Strawberries just
beginning to ripen, and the warm wealth
er of month past, has, in some places,
developed the bloom upon the orange
nearly or quite a month in advance of
usual blooming. The blizzard reached
us, and has Yss,ed, and we are unhurt.
II is surprising TO us how nearly we come
to the freezing point and escape, and 1t
is more wonderful that such terrible
cold wave has been warmed up to so de-
grees before il reaches US. In East Flori-
da on the 18th the temperature ranged
from IS to sc degrees. At our place 1t
was ~ degrees for an hour or two, the
morning OF the 10th, but there is no touch
of frost seen on anything. The 20th 1t
was A degrees and this morning 1t was
So degrees (temperate) and will be 20 de-
drees the 22nd. The air is balmy aud so
pleasant and we're it not that we fear a
degree or two of too much cold, these
changes would be most welcome, as they
seem to have good effect upon animal
life.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-02-16
TWO HOG THIEVES KILLED,

And Two Prominent Reviyalists Removed By
Their Deaths.
At an early hour Monday morning
Charles rierson, living on the Iowa side
of the river, near Hamburg, in Fremont
County, found two men stealing his hogs.
Tierson had a revolver and shotgun with
him, and unloaded beth barrels of the
gun into one of the thieves, a man named
Holt, killing HIM instantly. With his re-
volver he shot the other man, whose name
IS Rample, twice, infiicting wounds from
which he has since died. The two men
are found to have belonged to gang of
thieves which has been systematically
raid1ng hog pens in that section. Thier-
son will probably not be arrested, and his
neighbors talk of giving him agold watch
Both Holt and Rample, who leave large
families, on the day previous to their
deaths were taking prominent parts in
revival meetings at Hamburg.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-02-16
Sc ChilAren Bnrned

The six children of Lester Singlery, a
colored man of Clarendon county, 5. c.,
were burned to death Thursday night,
The parents locked them up about l
o'clock, and vent to negro church, about
two miles away, where religious revival
was in process. During their absence the
house caught fire and burned to the
ground, the six Children perishing in the
flames The chefred bones of the vic
tins we're buried yesterday in one grave.
The childreE's ages ranged from Is
months TO L. years. II is supposed they
set the house on fire by oysrturEing q
lamp. The door was locked and the
heavy window shutters strongly 5olted.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-02-16
GERMANY.

Prince William Not Athirst For War.
In the course of speech at the Bran
denburg dinner, Prince William of Prus-
STA, heir presumptiye to the Germsn
crown, said: 81 know that a section of
the public, especially section abroad,
impQtes to me a careless and thoughtless
longing for war for the sake of glory.
God preserve me from such criminal
giddiness, l repudiate all such accusa-
lions with horror. l am soldier. All
the Brandenburgers are soldiers. / con
clude with the words uttered by Prince
Bismarck in the Reichstag, which showed
the grand spectacle of popular represen
tation gong locked hand in hand with
the Government. l adapt TO Brandon
burg the sentence; I'VE Brandenburgers
only feor God, and nothing else in this
world
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-02-16

patriotism. p'o.i etings i.
A closer observation of n.
OF life among the older na,; ..ondisola
one rore intense desi,, sivsi
American people SHAH MAKE 'nat u
IN choosing the policy Wbio ~ al''ss
labor with hope and crog CO.. i.n'Fi'sl
dignity, which gives ssfety 10 a. - u II
protects its increase, which p a a
ilticai power to every citizs, ''l's' n
and culture to every home. IT, conio;l
not less earnestly aud more 8;,. 'us sai
private citizen than as q pnbliaoS'' Is
| shall devote myself, with tbs 0 o.. laia
belief that the admiuistra,i,oso lhasa|
government will be res tored ~ - o' Il
which has demonstrated the mn. ,ls pat'j
the power to WELD it for H.. II ~ ID
the honor Of the Republic. 70, ~ ~ Il
perlty and progress of the peo,Ia P'as!
very sincerely yours, r'' lsa|
JAMES G. pr,--
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-02-16

THE reported opinion of Prince Bis
marck that the Bulgarian question would
undergo "prolonged and peaceful solu-
tion,n is the same az an admission that
he has practically leagued Europe against
Russia, aud that she is in consequence in
no position TO fight. 1t has been appar-
emit for some time that Russia vas not
preparing to cross the German or Aus
TRAN borders, where she has been mass
ing troops all the winter. The car is
much more likely to pick quarrel with
Turkey for not paying the wsr indemn-
ity, 1t may seem strange assertion, in
veiw Of the half-million of armed men
now in close proximity upon either side
OF the western frontier of Russia, but
there seems TO be a greater probability
that the first clash OF arms, if war comes
at all, will be in Turkey in Asia, rather
than along the present congested from.
tier
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-02-16

AN lMINhlANl NtNlN oN- ANANH ~
CISION.
"The decision of the Wisconsin
Supreme Court in the women suffrage
case has very important bearing not
only upon the claim Of the Wisconsin
women, which it disallows, but upon a
claim put forth not long since by the
National Association of Women Suttra-
gists.
The gist of the decision is, APPARENTLY,
that legislation cannot be twisted or dis
torted out of its plain and obvious mean
ing because OF any iuaocuracy or Inn.
biguity on the part of the Legislature in
tho use OF language. A Wisconsin law
passed in 1855 provided that women
should vote at elections held for the
choice of school officers. The plain pur-
pose Of the law, as shown by the petitions
for it and the debates on its passage was
to give women the right accorded in
some other States TO vote for school Of
fcers II so Happened, however, that the
elections held for the choice OF school
officers, under the statutes in force at the
time the new law was passed, were the
same elections at which divers other of
feers of the State and local government
were chosen The suffragists raised at
once the claim that the right to vote at
such an election was a right TO vote for
officers then chosen, and not
merely for school officers, and it is upon
this claim that the supreme Court has
Just passed in a decision which is certain
ly good common sense as it is sound law,
Its bearing upon the national claim re.
ferred TO is worth the attention of the
national association. That claim is that
in speaking of women as citizens the
Constitution and laws of the United
States confer upon them all the rights
enjoyed by male citizens, including the
right 20 vote had occasion in dis
cussing this claim at the time it was sol
EMMY made IN one of the associations
mauifestoes TO point out the word "citi.
zen" could not be stretched beyond its
obvious and plain iutendment in the
Constitution and laws; and that tie right
of women to vote could not be establish
ed by trick. The Wisconsin decision
takes this precise ground: and while il
has Of course no binding force with the