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SILCOTT In THE DISMAL SWAMP.
A New and Queer Theory of the Where.
abOuts Of the Runaway Cashier.

A new theory to the whereabouts of De-
faulter Silcott is that he is hiding in the fast
nesses of the Dismal Swamp. The reason for
this theory is that just few days before he and
the Congressmen's money disappeared he re-
turned from long hunting trip with a large
supply Of game, ducks geese and quail, which
he said he had shot in the Dismal Swamp. In
speaking of his trip he said that if
any one wanted TO hide where the whole
United States government could not find him
the place to go was to the Dismal Swamp. IL
is thought to be possible that he contemplated
putting to the test his theory Of the security Of
this hiding place, and that his trip was not for
the purpose of shooting game, but to make
sort OF survey OF the swamp. curious fes-
ture of the case that rather leads TO this
conclusion is that in all probability the game
he had in such abundance was not shot by him
at all. He sent some of the quail TO Mr..
Leedom who, wanting them prepared for cook
ing in a certain way, skinned them himself
He discovered while removing the skins that
the birds had never been shot at all that; they
had been trapped.
Mr. LEEDoM's wILD-GoosE CHASE.
Mr.. Leedom has just returned from q Wild
goose chase through New York state after the
feeting figure OF a man who was supposed TO
answer the description of Silcott The de-
scription given Of the man Tailed with that Of
Silcott except that his beard was gone. 1t was
said that this man had appeared in Rochester,
NY, and that after being there three days he
was joined by a woman and had gone away.
Leedom set out on the chase. but when he
showed picture of Silcott TO the parties who
had seen the stranger they said there was no
between it and the man.
THE COMMITTEES BILL
The special House committee on the silcott
defalcation held a meeting today to consider
the report and bill drawn up by Chairman
Adams. Another meeting will be held to per-
feet the shape of the bill and it will be reported
to the House in a day or two.
1t carries an appropriation to make good
the losses sustained by individual members
through Silcotts defalcation.
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Naval Changes.

Paymaster John MacMahon ordered to the
receiving ship Wabash April /. Commander
Nicoll Ludlow detached inspector Of the
welfth light house district February 1 and or
dered as inspector of ordnance at the Mare
Island yard, Cal Lieut.. Commander Thomas
Perry detached as assistant to the inspector
of the third light house district and ordered az
inspector of the twelfth Lieut. Commander
w. W. Mead detached as inspector of the eighth
district April / and ordered to settle accounts
and await orders. Lieut.. Geo. b. Livingston
detached from the Norfolk navy yard and or
dered as assistant to the inspector of the eighth
district, and inspector of that district on April
i. Paymaster John +. Tarbell detached from
the Wabash April and ordered TO settle ac-
counts and await orders. Frank H Whitney
has been appointed an acting engineer in the
navy.
Assistant Engineer Robert r. werentz has
resigned his commission in the navy 10 take
effect June 30, 1880.
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Marriage Licenses.

Marriage licenses have been issued by the
clerk of the court to Robert Boner and Eliza
beth McKericher; Alex W. Eaton and Annie E.
Posey; George johnson and Alice Blois; John
Bartlett Smith of Philadelphia and Julia A.
Haney; Albert Brooks and Agnes Carter; E. A.
G. Van Horn and Kate Warren of Baltimore;
John Paul Drack and Mary ]. wilson; Alfred
Mckenny and Alice Redo
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Four ex-state treasurers of Colorado have
have been sued for interest on public money
which it ia alleged they loaned during their
official tenure. The amount Il believed to ag-
gregate 800 ZOO.
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THE COURTS.

CIRcUIr CoURT.-Ju,iqe Montgomery.
Today-Christman agt. Hayward; Stran Bros
agt. Cross, jr.; Drury agt Owens; Ramsey ct al
agt. Shredder; Lewis agt. Tatum; defaults
Rosenthal agt Provost; plaintiff called, suit
dismissed. Hewlett agt. Godfrey; judgment
below affirmed.
EQUITY CoURr-Judge Cor.
Today-Bramhall agt. Sharon; leave to file
bill of renew granted. Stansbury agt Ingle-
hart; W. H. Sholes appointed guardian ad litem
Busey agt. Busey; testimony ordered taken by
J. Cruikshank, examiner. Given agt. Hilton;
George H. Plant. ir., appointed trustee for in
fants. Worthington agt. Naylor; reference to
auditor ordered. Clark agt. Wallack; appear
ance ordered. In re W. Haizlett, James E.
Eastwood, Eliza Mallory, Henry Hawkins, Thos.
Craig, Catherine Doran, Nora Keleher and
Jane Stone; inquisitions confirmed.
The New Brunswick, N j., grand Jury. after
finding indictments against Justice of the Peace
Joseph Hayter, democrats Thomas Tenneson,
democratic judge of election, and Matthew
Reed, for stufing the sixth ward ballot. box at
the recent election, adjourned.
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FIRST HEARING on THAT QUESTION BEFORE THE
SENATE SPECIAL coMMrrEE-sT. LOUIS PRE-
SCENTS her cLAIMs-A CHANGE IN TUE PROGRAM
OF HEARINGS
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FOR Observation-Disclosures

FOR sALE-2D-HAND sTEINwAl PAM. IN
Il good order, only 1925 $40 down and e10
monthly. Also just received another Cable Sons
snperb UCrlght. new only $3.50 cash. THOMSON
CO.. 52l IL tn st. d13-1m
u ter and Produce Store: best 10 cauon city;
sales over last year sold cheap to quick pur
chaser. Box 81, star Office las it
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SPECIALTIES,

Al ME-. MANDEvILLE- EXPERT MANICURE AND
IVA Chiropodist formerly of Y, aud assistant have
opened parIors b. u NV. Entire satisfaction guar
ia7.1ws
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ARCHITECTS.

n Won AkA1A,
We ARCHITECT,
i2i5 Est. NV.
teIS-om. Washington. DC
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FOR RENT-POUSES.

I,OR PENTHOUSE 3I6 INDIANA AVE NV.
y with stable 90; without, s65; has ten rooms
For permission to look apply next door, 81
For other Iarticulars write TO Thus. BLAGDEN, City
y. %. Box 5Sl. iaS-lOt'
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LOST AND FOUND

L OST-ON JAN. B, SINGLE STONE SOLITAIRE
~ Diamond bar King. Reward If returned to HAIR
MS SCHAFER, lib Pa. ave. Il. JLS-3t.
L OSr-A LACE HANDKERCHIEF ON SATUR-
~ day night. suitable reward is offered If re-
turned To l2Ol st. 1t.
IEOUND-CAME TO MY PREMISES, 1904 Ii ST
Il ne, about two weeks ago, Pug boz. Owner can
have same by proving property and paying cost.
jaS-jt-
I CST-ON CONN. AVE BET. Vi ST. AND DU-
ut circle, Pair OF Eye Glasses with Gold Cham
AID Hook. Please return 10 2Ol5 ST. and receive
reward. 10
I OST-IN OH ST. CAR OR TAKEN FROM MY
~ pocket, Pocket Book containing silver money
ana note from deceased husband Keep money and
turn book, no Questions asked lI25 JIth st.
GeOrgetOwn- II.
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: Sardglven If returned to W. Ii. MOSES, 1888 p
st. NV. iaS-3t
4 OST-Sl0 REwARD-A LADY'S GOLD WATCH
y and Fob Chain Friday. January 3, by a small
boy, on 81. between Sth and 9th W the watch is
marked Oh the case M N.J-lSSU.r A reward of : ID
WI! be paid for Its return to go 18th ST NV ja7t'
I OST-SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20. GOING FROM
IL Second Baptist Church through 4th u ii and 9TH
turned 10 - Fast capitol 81 jaG-3t'
4 OST-ON DECEMBER ~, ON + ST BETWEEN
~ Atm and 9th SITS Pocket Book with Rosary
and hey. Lib raj reward If lett at 500 9th ST. u w
Ja6-3t'
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1889 Boundary n.e.5r. as
81 Pound 1t ne. Or. \
Rear GIL IA st.D.s.4r.7
Rear Ol3 II st.E e..ir1
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OFFICE.
93l + 81. NV, 81 d.. 3r. 40
STABLE.
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VT n sl-n-v.
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EoR RENT-AN ELEGANT TwELvE-ROoM
Il Modern Residence on 81. Goth nv
IT. NJ. T.. CALDWELL 1881 Z St n.
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While looking over some personal papers
Mr.. Findlay Harris of The EVENING STAR last
evening inadvertently came across q scrap Of
paper which is particularly interesting, as it 10
directly connected with the battle Of New
Orleans of which today is the 77th anniversary.
The paper was found among some of the late
Alexander Findlay Of Abingdon, Va, grand
father Of Mr.. Harris, and was written by O
surgeon of the English forces engaged in the
fight on the sth of January, 1915.
1t is as follows:
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EUL kENI-
$50 9th 81. Sc. 1855
BIO = 81. Tor. .. MI. 30
l3iO Riggs st.,Sr.am.l ~
l4=y NJ .av .Or-. mI37.5U
l43l y .av..7r..nlL2s.5O
1893 6th he. Or. MI 20
$50 CAllan 81. he. 6E.-l Is
o4O Callsn -. ne. 0...i3
l32l Md-sV.ne., Or. -. 30
e2O 18th II. ne. Or. IL
Bear 3O1 7ths.e- Ir.lU.3O
TIA l2Ih 81. sc. or......IU
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He assumed that the most important sense
in which the exposition WAS to be international
was that exhibits from foreign countries were
desired. but he asserted that if Congress would
award the worlds fair to the city Of st. Louis
foreign exhibits would be just as freely sent
Washington or Chicago. He was aware that
that was not the view usually taken in the dis
cussion of the subject. The point usually made
was the number OF foreign visitors at the Paris
exposition; but the fallacy of that was shown
Paris exposition, there were but IL, 900 Ameri-
cans, which was an increase of only from ~, 900
to $4,000 over the usual annual number Of
American visitors to Europe. Surprising that
as many Europeans come to the exposition in
1892 as there were Americans at the Paris ex-
position that would be very small contingent.
II the desire was to make q good impression
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All Girls Should Row,

Young women should conquer the
timidity that they feel the moment they
set foot in a row-boat. A young man
of the right sort has no patience with
the want of confidence women have in
themselves and in his care for them.
Bear in mind courage is quality not
to be despised, and can be worn be-
comingly by any girl. 1t will come to
you and perchance has, as it does to
all women in some time of great
emergency, and vet you are here afraid
of that which an Ida Lewis has mas
tered when at its worst, and which, if
once understood, would give you pleas
ure and greater bodily strength. Some
good oarsman' will show you how to
sit in boat and how to row with one
oar and then with two. He will teach
YOU the strokes and other matters
necessary to be acquired. Enjoy your
rowing rs you would your bath or
your breakfast because it is good for
the body and helps, as does all physi-
cal exercise. to prolong life. SWIM
ming, girls take to even better than
boys, and are much more graceful;
and every girl should, if possible. I'M
derstand this most useful of pastimes.
Ellen lie Garde IN LADIES' Home
J0U1nn{
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The Original Aston.

J. W. Watson, in Frank Lesiie's Pop
uldr Monthly, says: Well do l remem
Der. when a boy. hearing John
Jacob Aston the original of the name.
say to my father by the way of advice:
Buy dirt it, it won't run away On
this principle, which he instilled into
his children, he bought real estate, but
never sold ! heard him once say: Il
will never give u lease. for if it is
good one, they will sell it; if bad they
will run away and leave it." | think
he hardly knew how rich he was, or
if he did, had full appreciation of it.
| once heard him say to Philip Hone,
who was mayor of the city of New
York. and supposedly rich man:
Philip, how much are you WORTH"
The answer was: ''Oh, abont $3.50
900, Aston" Then the thirty million
aire responded: Il don't know but
that's as good as if you were a rich
man."
Astor was a lifelong friend of Irv
ing. Spaulding and Halleck, the latter
being for many years his secretary.
and often related to me that he told
his employer that he did not want to be
rich. but that if he had a steady in
come of $500 year he would be salts
fed. The old man. as Il grim joke,
left the poet exactly that sum per an
mum in his will. which it is pretty well
known that his son, William B., in
creased to a comfortable sum as long
as Fitz-Green lived. Aston had great
liking for old Billy Reynolds chop
IN hon Of Y
church. and would go there almost
daily to enjoy his chop or steak and
his pewter of ale in company with
Fitz-Green Halleck, Irving, or some
literary man, somestimes Poe-though
he did not like Poe. and denouced him
as quarrelsome, which he was.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Sparrow.

In the yard of Scranton bird
student pair of English sparrows be-
gan few weeks ago to get ready to
90 to housekeeping says CORES
pendent of the n. Y. San. They took
up their abode in a little box that was
fastened to the top of pole. Other
sparrows undertook to occupy the
box, but the pugnacious frst-comers
soon drove them away, and from that
time on the plucky pair fixed up their
household and got everything in read
mess to raise family without being
disturbed by their apparently envious
neighbors.
When the industrious birds were
nearly ready to settle down to quiet
married life an accident happened that
caused row between the pair. One
day before the female had begun to
sit, her husband flirted away and was
gone a good deal longer than usual.
During his absence the female busted
herself by flying from the nest to the
yard and back, adding finishing touches
to her household and sprucing things
up inside of the box. By aud by Mr..
Sparrow returned, but he didn't look
Us neat anu HAL as lie ulu Wncn he
sailed away. In some way he had
lost all of his tail feathers while he
was gone and his wife wouldn't have
anything to do with him or let him
enter the house. He seemed to try to
explain matters to her but she wouldn't
listen to him at all, chirped at him
spitefully. and fought him whenever
he attempted TO approach her.
The student knew that the bobtailed
bird was the rightful husband by pc
culiar mark on his head and he watched
the result of the family trouble with
deep interest. For two DAYS the I'M
happy husband coaxed and begged his
wife TO treat him as she had formerly
done, but his pleadings made her all
the more determined to get rid of him
for good. All at once the bobtaied
sparrow disappeared and has never
been around since. The female con-
tinued to occupy the box, and inside
of three days She got anoiitrr husband.
set up housekeeping anew and in due
time hatched out a nest ful Of little
ones.
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The photographIng of caves or other
chambers underground, where Il port
able camera can be easily installed.
offers no particular difficulty. and it is
a comparatively simple matter to OBJ
tain curious and interesting views
under such circumstances illuminating
the bowels of the earth by burning
magnesium tape, which gives brilliant
light by means of which surrounding
objects can be photographed.
Professor Sayce writes from Egypt
to the -AcddenIy to say that he has ex-
amined once more the letters from
southern Palestine found ut Tel-el-
Amarana, and has come to the cOnclu-
sion that the place mentioned in one of
the letters is Urusalim, or Jerusalem,
and thinks that the city already eX-
listed under that name in the fifteenth
century before Christ, when it was a
garrison of the Egyptian king.
A recent invention consists of FEM
der for street railway cars run by cleo
tricity. 1t presents platform capa-
cious enough to receive victim so I'M
fortunate as to be caught upon the
track before car. At slope before
it is heavy .four-ply rubber betting,
pliable enough TO pass over paving
stones and similar objects, but suili-
GENTLY rigid to prevent an arm or leg
from being drawn under the fender.
A strong aikali ut once applied to a
snake bite will decompose all the venom
which it touches. So if both fangs of
the snake have pierced the skin the
two wounds should be made one with
sharp knife. and then filled with dry
carbonate Of ammonia. Frequent small
dissolved doses of the same should be
taken inwardly, or fifty drops of arom-
attic spirits of ammonia taken hypo-
dermically, for its peculiar effect upon
the blood.
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EUPEPSY.

This is what you ought to have, i'll
fact you must have it to fully enjoy life.
Thousands are searching for it daily and
mourning because they fud it not.
Thousands upon thousands of dollars are
spent annually by our people in the
hope that they may attain this boon. And
yet it may he had by all. We guarantee
that Electric Bitters if used according to
directions and the use persisted in, will
bring you Good Digestion and Gust the
demon Dyspepsia and install instead
Eupcpsy. We recommend Electric Bit
ters for Dyspepsia and ell diseases of
Liver. Stomach and Kidneys. Sold at
soc and 81 90 per bottle by FL. Hinrichs
Druggist.
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tilonitomol pilot.
A GREAT CALCULATOR.
Anecdotes of Babb,ge tiio Famous Prob
lem Solver.

Among the guests ut kenvon's table
whose personality struck me the most
were Walter Savage Llndor and Bah
ba9e The latter was a very interest
ing though IN egolistical talker, but
few had so good self to talk about.
To my regret he no longer gave those
Saturday evenings" which had been
so fashionable few years before. One
of three qualifications were necessary
for those who sought to be invited
intellect, beauty or rank-without one
of these you might be as rich as Cresus
and vet be told you cannot enter here.
| remember his telling me that as long
ago as 1889 he had foretold that steam
ers would 90 ~ America in seven
DAYS.
His calculating machine was an end
less subject of monologue. 1t is a cur
icus fact that ] once learned, not many
years ago, from an old man who had
been a boy Mt the same class with him
at Dartmouth that 'Babba@e was the
stupidest boy i'll the whole school in
arithmetic" | asked him if he remem-
bered anything remarkable about the
great calculator in his boyhood. mo,
nothing-we used to call him Barley
Cabbage and he didn't like it." Bah
bage was very fond of talking of By
ron's daughter, to him she was always
Ada for he had carried her in his
arms as child, and he was her friend
and counsellor when she was Lady
Lovelace Kenyon had met her at
Fyne Court, where she was frequent
guest, being intensely interested in
MIR. Crosses electrical experiments.
Kenyon acknowledged Lady Lovelace
to be woman of remarkable intellect,
but she was too mathematical for his
taste.
Our family are an alternate strait
tication OF poetry and mathematics, 5"
Lady Loyelace used to say. Babbage
thought that if he was blind he could
write poetry; land | should take for
nv subject the description of an intel
lectual inferno he said. 1t was diff
cult to associate poetry in any form
with Babbage-he was so eminently
practical. lie told me that he never
allowed himself to lose any time. Be
fore setting out for walk in the Lon
don streets or Il drive III au omnibus
give myself certain problems to think
out
He even calculated the effect of i'm
agination in sclf-dclusion. He found
himself away from home without his
night-cap; he felt certain of catching
cold, when happily he bethought HIM
self Of tying 4 piece Of string round his
head as make-bclieve night-cap. it
was quite successful, and he slept with
out feeling chilly. Babbage said he
had told his story to Rogers, who cap
ped it. (Kenyon shook his head at the
pun, for he affected to deSpise them J
Rogers declared he had caught a cold
through Il trick of his Imagination; he
thought he had been sitting with an
open window behind him ut lunch
con party at Lady Cork's in New Bur-
lington street, and was in consequence
seized with violent tit of sneezing
and all the sensations Of catarrh, but
he discovered that the window was of
plate glass and perfectly shut Temple
Bar
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An Illustration.

A little man asking how it happene d
that many beautiful ladies took up
with but Indifferent husbands, after
many fine offers, was thus aptly an
swered by a mountain maiden: A
young friend of hers, during walk,
requested her to go into delightful
canebrake and there get him the hand
soonest reed; she must get it in once
going through, without turning. She
went, and, coming out, she brought
him quite a mean reed. When he ask
ed if that was the handsomest one she
saw. "Oh, no. replied she. Il saw
many finer ones rs went along. but |
kept on in hopes Of a much better, I'M
til had gotten nearly through, and
then was obliged to select the best that
was left. \. Ledycr.