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BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

THE BOY SPY: Substantially True Record q
Secret Service during the War of the Rebel
lion A Correct Account Of Events Witnessed
by Soldier attached 10 Headquarters. BY
Major j. u. hEkBEY. Sold by Subscription.
FAMILIAR TALKS on ASTRONOMY. With
Chapters on Geography and Navigation. BY
WILLIAM HARwAR PARKER, author of '.Recul-
lections Of a Naval Officer" etc Chicago: A.
c. McCluTg 4 Co.
Il. MASON. With illustrations after Designs
by Maud Humphrey. [knickerbocker Mug
gets Series.l New York: g. r. Putnam's Sons.
A FATAL FIDDLE: The Commonplace Tragedy
of Snob BY EDWARD HEROS ALLEN. With
Illustrations by Durand. New York: Belford,
Clarke 4 Co.
MADAME DE MAURESCAMP. A Story OF Pa
risian Life. by OCTAVE FEUTILET. Translated
by Beth Page. Philadelphia: j. b. Lppinoott
Co.
SAID IN FUN. By PHILIP ii. WEIGH. Illustrated.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. WASH
ington: Brentano's.
A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHURs
COURT. By MARK TWAIN. New York: Charles
l. Webster Il Co.
A TRANSIENT GUEST, and Other Episodes. BY
EDGAR SALTUs. New York: Bedford, Clarke &
Co.
THE LITTLE PEOPLES CALENDAR. New York:
White Allen. Washington: Robert +. Miller.
WASHINGTON: Photographs in Black New York:
AGolph Witteman.
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CHASTITY CHRISTMAS BOX.
Its Contents Were a skeleton Embedded
I'm Ashes.


"Dar certainly amt no ashes whar dis box %
going" remarked eolored man at the Mary
land-avenue freight depot yesterday. The
cause OF his remark was the breaking open OF
box sent. there for shipment from which some
ashes poured on the floor.
Great God! there's a bone exclaimed
another man.
On examination il was found that the box
contained disjointed human skeleton. There
was feeling OF uneasiness among the colored
men about the depot and remarks
were made about body snatchers aud
night doctors. Then a policeman arrested
the cclored drivers, Charles Webster and wes
johnson They both declared that they were
ignorant OF the contents OF the box which they
had received from their employers main ofice
IL was learned on investigation that the bon
had been received from a medical student az
Howard university named Eugene 4. Galley.
II had come from his boarding house. No. lJOA
9TH street northwest. and addressed 10 his
brother, Thomas NJ. Galley, les Main street
New London, Conn" After the arrest OF the
drivers the skeleton was removed 10 the morgus
and Mr.. Hawley gave bonds for the release Of
his drivers.
DIR. oAFFEY's STATEMENT
This morning DIR. Gsffey appeared at police
headquarters and told the officers that he was
going home for the holidays and wanted TO
continue his studies while there: that he goo
the skeleton at Howard university medical
school; that il was the body of a wnite man.
The coroner was satisfied that there was
nothing criminal IN the matter. and DIR. Town.
shend gave the necessary permit for the re-
moNal OF the skeleton 20 ats destination. Thus
the remains of some unknown citizen will take
a trip to New London. Conn
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Some of these are still employed
Mr.. John ]. McElhone is the chief of the
corps and has been longest in the service. He
is a rapid stenographer and possesses a fund of
information which takes him out of the cate
CORY of machine men," During his long
career as parliamentary reporter he has been
intimately associated with many of the promi-
nent men in public life. He has reported some
of the greatest speeches that have been made
in Congress, and did some fine reporting in the
tumult and confusion during the electoral
count controversy. He is probably the only
stenographer in the country who can report
equally we'll with either hand. In reporting on
the floor of the House he often shifts from his
right to his left hand or the reverse without
interrupting his speed. He possesses familiar
ity with parliamentary usage and understands
two or three foreign languages.
Mr.. McElhone was at first in the Senate for one
year and from there came over to the House.
Prior to that he had been connected with news
paper work and had the advantage or collegiate
education. He was connected with the Pb!ladel-
phia Press at its incipiency and wrote letters
from Washington for some time after he began
reporting the proceedings OF the House.
Mr.. David Wolf Brown was Globe reporter.
Mr.. ]. II. White and Mr.. Andrew Devine were
appointed later. Mr.. Brown has been an
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FREDERICK CITY AND COUNTY.
The Il. and O.'s Freight Distributing
StatiOn-Morning Star Still Shines.

Frederick, MD, December 49,
A peculiar case of deception has occurred in
this county. On Saturday last Philip H. Morn
ingstar of Utica came to this city and procured
from an agricultural implement house an ex-
pensive machine for boreing post holes and II
quantity of tools. After reaching homo he and
his wife concluded they had better not take the
goods, but as they had been ordered especially
for them they feared the dealer would force pay
ment. In order to surmount the difficulty the
wife wrote the firm, stating that her husband
upon returning home had been seized with
cramps and died about O'clock leaving her
a lone widow and with no use for the tools and
machine, which she would. therefore, return.
Upon receiving the letter the firm here an
nOunced the death OF Mr.. Morningstar and it
was so published in the local papers. But q
resident of Utica who came here yesterday re-
lated the circumstances under which the letter
had been written aud the fact that Morning
star had himself mailed the epistle containing
the news of his own death. The prominence
and popularity OF Morningstar make the case
all the more singular.
A meeting of the heirs of the late Samuel
Nusbaum was held at Liberty few days ago
for the purpose OF reading the will and set
thing the estate. 1t was known that the de-
ceased was in the habit of secreting money Ill
tflc mousse anu upon Il DeluS maze over
$40, 900 was found III gold and silver coin and
bank notes, and $4,000 worth of securities
were discovered.
The meaning of the recent mysterious action
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad company in
securing option Oh 500 acres of land at Berlin.
this county, at prices ranging from $50 to S35
per acre, have at last been made clear. 1t is
the purpose of the company to convert the
newly acquired land into general freight dis
tributing station. All breaking of bulk and
making up of solid trains will be done there
instead of at Baltimore. and Baltimore Wash
lngton, Philadelphia, New York and western
traffic will be handled there. That point will
be made the terminus of the Valley road in
stead of Harper's Ferry and immense freight
ware houses and other necessary buildings will
be erected, tracks laid and everything made
ready for operations in the early spring For
eiSn export freight will be held at Berlin un til
the steamers ready at the Baltimore piers
TO take in their cargoes.
Rev. Bishop A. w Wayman Of the A.M.E.
church paid an official visit to this city last
night.
Rev. John b. Emig, whose death occurre d
a few days ago near Hanover, Pa, was
formerly pastor of St. Johns Catholic church
IN this city.
!. John IL. DiffendalI has sold house and lot
at FORK road on the Frederick division of the
L. y. H., to Micaja Myerly for "a, 900.
oil l.. V. Baughman, Benjamin White and
Q. M. de Garmendia. all of Frederick, have
been elected president secretary and director
respectively, of the Maryland and District OF
Columbia trotting and pacing horse breeders
associauon. FIN.
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The Bow and the Piy-

Thanksgiving day Detective Horne's son went
to rattle and won pig. Mrs. Horne was dis
agreeably surprised when she saw her son and
another boy dragging the porker toward her
back yard. She did not know what to do with
the ANIMAL but to please the boy allowed him
to put it in the yard over night. Next morning
there were several holes under the fence and
the yard looked as though pillow had been run
over it by a crazy plowman. The boy got up
early and fed the milk and bread intended for
the family breakfast to the pig, of which it ate so
much that IT was unable to move. The lad was
then told that he must part with his trouble
some pet, and he got friend to rattle il for
INN. He now has 81. IS for Christmas money
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REPORTING THE SENATE

REPORTING THE SENATE.
1t is not so difficult to report the decorous
defamation of the Senate. That body is by
tradition and in fact dignlicd and deliberate
The chamber is smaller than the House and less
crowded and parliamentary etiquette is more
strictly observed Seldom in its history has
tumultuOus scene been enacted in tho Senate
Yet skilled and experienced parliamentary re-
porters arc required to keep the record of its
proceedings. Language is more nicely weighed
and periods more carefully measured there.
The reporter must lose none of the point or
involve the precision of the classic phrases
which pour forth freely in mingled serious
ness, delicate sarcasm and refined humor.
when Edmunds, i'll his happiest moods, has the
hoor. The avalanche OF inyectiye, wild and
strange, that tumbles from the tongue of the
Senator from Kansas must be caught with all
its bitterness and fantastic form. The rambling
earnestness OF Cockerell and the smoothly fiow-
ing longevity of speech from the never tired
and never firing tongue Of Mr.. Morgan must be
recorded with equal accuracy. The reporters
must follow Mr.. Daniels fight of oratory, and
gather up all the flowers scattered by the way.
Nor word. nor a period, nor u comma must
be misplaced.
The reporters in the Senate do not have to
follow the speakers about on the floor to catch
what they say, and it is comparatively easy for
them 70 see who IL is who asks question or
makes remark in running debate. 1t is sell
dom that senator says anything on the floor
Of he chamber without first addressing the
presiding officer and being recognized
THE REPORTERS
sit AZ their desks and take the, proceedings
without any OF the athletic exercise that has to
be INDUCED in at times by the House reporters.
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IN THE REPuRTERs' ROOM.

The five reporters are on hand a few minutes
before the hour far the meeting of the House.
The work is divided between them Each one
OF them takes a column of the Record. He who
gets the first assignment begins his report with
the falling OF the Speakers gayel. He is on
the alert Tor every sound. He is responsible
Tor an accurate, intelligent report OF every
lining that occurs until he Is relieved. He has
no assistant TO follow along with him and sup
ply any deficiencies. He must know every
thing that Is going on. Everything that is
said must sound upon his ear aud be recorded
In his book. He must miss nothing III he did
ne could never recover the missing link. The
proceedings may drag on slowly, so that il will
take him some time to get his column. All ia
easy enough then. But in a moment some
thing may provoke a lively debate and an ava
lanche OF speech will pour down ON him. Then
he must work lively, and he is md to get to
the end Of his column. During IA active time
ii does not take long for each reporter to have
his turn. When one gets his share of notes he
lets the one whose turn comes next know BY
some quick motion OF his pencil or a movement
of the head and the other takes up the thread
where he drops ID. So on il goes through the
i've Of them and around and around again with
the regularity of clockwork. But it is not ma
chine work. 1t is not enough that a man should
be able TO write q large number of words in q
minute; he must know all about parliamentary
matters and must be well informed upon great
sAxiety Of subjectG-
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Transfers of Real Estate.

Deeds in fee have been filed as follows
G. Darlington to ID. b. Croft, pit. 10, SO. sl3;
$3.50. ii. Isabella Jett to s. Norment, sub
1853, So. AS; So, 500. F. ]. Tibbetts to Thomas
sampson, sub 81, So. 1853; s2.5OO. b. f. Leigh
ton ct al. to Sara C. Lynch. lot f. blk. 8, Brook
land; s2,65O. S. b. Segar to W. f. segar, undi-
vided half lot 6, So. 1858; sl00. Kate H. Dyer
ct al to Mary Flagler, pts. and s, SO. 1888;
s3.625. National Metropolitan bank to ID. j.
Mcmahon, sub 81, So. SS7: q. 300 Marcells
Richardson to A. II. Cragin, pit. /, SO. s7l; g..
A. II. Cragin to NJ. NJ. Richardson ct al. same
property; g. ]. b. Lybrook to Isaac N.
Luttrell, trustee, sub %. SO. sl2; $500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-14

DENNIS +. MURPHY. verbatim report Of the
Senate was made by contract and published in
the Union and the LteRigerlcer, the rival party
organs. Mr.. Murphy was on the Union corps
at first. under Mr.. Parkhurst, and later Gin
1S50l he joined the Inteiligenctr corps. As a
small boy he was engaged in reporting the de-
bates in the Senate, in which Calhoun, Webster
and Benton participated. When the Globe su-
perceded the Iutelhgencer in this work Mr.. Muir
ply became a member of that corps. In 1869
he became chief reporter, which position he
has since held, first with the Globe and later
reporting for the Congressional Record Mr.
Murphy has been engaged in reporting some of
the important historical trials and conventions
In 1851 he assisted Mr.. Sutton in reporting the
Methodist church property suit in New York,
in which George Wood, Thomas Ewing, Rev.
erdy johnson and Rufus Choate appeared. He
reported the trial of Mrs. Surratt and the 9TH
ers implicated in the assassination of Lincoln.
With an experience in the Senate running back
to lS4S MIR. Murphy has fund of interesting
recollections and anecdotes of the great men
who have served in that body.
Mr.. Theodore T. Shuey was one of the Globe
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-14

HENRY J. aENsLER. chine to record sound
He has wide acquaintance with public men
and is himself man of considerable means.
He is a native Of Washington. He was an
orphan at the age Of three years. After getting
some education, he struck out for himself at an
early age, first as bakers boy, then as tele-
graph messenger during the war, and later as a
messenger for the Washington correspondents
of the New York Tribune and the Times. From
that he passed into various occupations, being
appointed to a place as messenger under the
government at one time for his honesty in
returning ten-thousand- dollar check he found
in the street. He first got his opportunity to
learn photography through making the &C
quaintance of Mr.. Murphy and has since been
with that gentleman.
Dan. b. Lloyd, the junior member of the
Senate corps of official reporters, was born in
Anne Arundel county. Md. on July 4. 1860. In
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tered upon the duties of his present position
under appointment by the publishers of the
Congressional Globe.
Mr.. White has been a newspaper writer and
shorthand reporter, doing court and legislative
reporting. He got familiarity with the rules
and practices of the House as secretary to
Speaker Kerr and later secretary to Speaker
Randall. When Mr.. Hincks. one of the old re-
porters, died Mr.. Randall appointed Mr. White
to succeed him. He took up shorthand when a
mere child
Mr.. Devine at one time reported the pro-
ceedings of both branches OF Congress for the
Associated Press, and had had considerable cx-
perlenee III legislative reporting at Albany and
elsewhere before he went into the service of
the House in 1874. He was committee reporter
for the House for a number of years until ap-
pointed to report debates three or four years
ago. During the congressional investigation
OF all the departments in the Forty-sixth Con-
gress. when at one time there were seventeen
investigating committees sitting simulta-
neously, he and his associates had to do vol
ume OF work far exceeding that in both houses
lie had to report investigations growing out of
the Iiden-Hayes election i'll 1876, including
those OF the famous Potter committee" and
the ''cipher dispatch" matter. Prior to his
taking up the House work he had been en-
gagged in law reporting in New York. He was
official reporter at the famous Beecher trial.
A. e. WEIGH has had the shortest service on
the force. lie was appointed during the latter
part OF the FIttieth Congress to succeed J. X
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Sometimes when there is much disorder the
reporter has to take his note book and hurry
mp one of the aisles to be near the speakers, so
as 10 be sure to catch what is said. In this way
he often has to follow the speakers literally
and metaphOrically. Fortunately for the re-
porters, these tumultuous scenes do not occur
often. But the work of parliamentary report
ing during the less trying periods is difficult
enough. The House NAV be actively engaged
all day, the reporters, taking turns, being kept
constantly at work, so not to allow anything
20 escape them, and within half an hour after
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lore T. Shuey was one of the Globe

reporters in 1868, and
has since been associ-
ated with Mr.. Murphy
IN making the official
reports of the Senate.
On the death in 1874 OF
j. j. Murphy, the prin-
cipal assistant of the
official reporter, Mr..
Shuey took his place. He
has never been absent
from the Senate q day
when it was in session.
Before he became a con-
gressional reporter he
was engaged in news
paper work principally
on the Richmond IFhi1
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official stenographer of
the House debates about
twenty-five years, next
to Mr.. McElhone the
longest service OF any
now there. He learned
Pittman stenography
when he was thirteen
years old. He got his
first professional expert
ence as an assistant on
the Globe corps in the
Senate during two Con-
crosses. After that he
was for several years.
the official reporter oil
the Pennsylvania house
OF representatives. and
also did general steno-
graphic work in Phila-
delphia. In 1854 he en-
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writer and whirring of
the little talking ma
chimes are all the sounds
that are heard. The
matter that is brought
in there may be reports
of debate. rulings on
points of order, reports
of committees. bills in
troduced or resolutions
read. The titles of the
bills and all that is
actually read or said in
the House must 60 into
the record. On Mon
days, when bills are in
troduced, they ba We all
to go to that room to
have their numbers and
titles taken. Some
Iot-- tohlao ,ra pilal IN
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wouldn't be much of a mental burden to any
man.
The assistant foreman can be found early in
the night sitting at a raised desk cutting and
distributing copy. BY means of perfect sys-
tenn OF numbering each compositor is sure to
dump" his type in the right place, and the
work is SO prearranged by the foreman and his
assistant that it can be made up into columns
as rapidly as it is set and the forms locked and
sent to the stereotyper after the last printer
has finished his last take"
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The Late James A. McCathrau.

Mr.. James A. McCathran, well-known life
long resident of Southeast Washington died
Wednesday and his funeral will take place on
Sunday afternoon from his late residence, 9th
street between L and G streets southeast Mr..
McCathran, for over a third Of century, was
an employe at the Washington navy yard He
was one of the men who helped to haul the cor
ner stone of the Washington monument to the
site and. as a member of the old Anacostia fire
company, which he had Joined some few years
before, participated in the procession when the
corner stone was laid, July 4, lS4S. For over
quarter of a century he an active member
of that fire company. In April, 1861. he en-
listed and served IN the howltzer company OF
the Washington Light Infantry battalion. he
was a member of Meade post, GAR; of Tus-
carora tribe of Red Men and of the Veteran
volunteer fremens association. all OF which
bodies will attend the funeral at O'Clock sun
day. The Veteran volunteer fremens associa-
ton will attend in uniform meeting at Odd
Fellows hall, Navy Yard, at O'Clock.
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DAVID WOLFE BROWN. BY the time he gets
back to the reporters room with another ''load
of notes" the first have been neatly transcribed
and the clerks are ready to take more.
Some of the reporters use graphophones.
Instead Of debating to clerks they talk into the
little instrument and when they have gone
back to the floor the machine talks into the
ears of fair type writer, who writes it all out.
In this way the report of the House is kept
right up to date. No talking is allowed in the
reporters room. 1t is place for business
that must be done quickly and with accuracy.
The reporters hurry in and out. and the low
murmur of dictation the rattle of the type-
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Edwards. Previous to
that he was one of the
C ON nj ittee stenog-
raphers of the House.
The youngest reporter
on the House side is
Philip V. McElhOne.son
OF the chief stenog-
rapher, who is assistant
on the corps. He is
twenty years old and has
been for three years as
ISOLATED with this work,
beginning first as an as
sistant to his father. He
was educated at George,
town college, and be-.
sides being a good short,
hand man is a remarka-;
bly, rapid long hand
writer.
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October, 1877. ON the
recommendation of Mr..
Amzi Smith, he OBJ
tanned the position of
an amanuensis under
MIR. ID. f. Murphy, then
as now the official re-
porter of the Senate. by
whom he has been ever
since employed during
sessions of Congress.
At the beginning Of the
session in 1882 he was
appointed by Mr.. Muir
ply to his present posi-
ton. During the recess
of Congress in 1880 and
1881 he assisted Mr..
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graduating from college.
A natural love of politics
developed under the in
fluence of his surround
ings in the Senate and
he left the work of a re-
porter to enter political
life. After taking an
active part in politics
for some years he again
joined the corps OF Sen
ate reporters in 1869, at
Il time when all the re-
porting of the Senate
was done by his two
brothers, Dennis F. and
Jas. j. Murphy. The
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a Suit in Admiralty.

Satterfield & Moore of Caroline county, Nd,
have filed libel in the admiralty court against
the schooner George Churchman of Philadel-
phia, now lying at Georgetown. They claim
that the vessel cost $4,000, of which they own
three-eighthS and Thos. Resly, master, and
others the balance. and that the latter have not
accounted to them 1.-THE libellants) for their
share of the earnings of the boat.
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Sam W. Small cold SIR in varied shorthand
practice in Atlanta, GA. In 1882 Inf was en-
gagged as stenographer in the Post Office de-
partment at Washington and in June 1883, was
transferred to the Office of the Superintendent
of railway mail service at San Francisco. Cal,
resigning his position there during the follow
ing November to resume his duties in the
Senate corps.
Edward V. Murphy is brother of Dennis F.
Murphy, the chief reporter. He began work
under him in the Senate about 1865 lust after
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adjournment the reports
will be complete and
the copy on its way TO
the printing Office. This
is accomplished only by
the most perfect system.
All the reporting of the
House is done by a corps
of tine reporters. who
are expert stenogra-
pliers. Mr.. John J. Nc
Elhone, the chief, is just
beginning his forty
ninth ssion. The
..our others are regarded
rs the best men for the
work who can be had.
should one of them die
or resign it would be diff
fcult to fill his place.
and the change of poll
tics of the House does