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Military Commissions.

The following members of the National
Guard in this city received commissions
from the Adjutant-General's office yes
terday: Ira 4. Robbie, First Lieutenant
on the Signal Corps; John Z. Best, Seq
ond Lieutenant of Battery B: GEORGE =
hnoblauch, Second Lieutenant of Bsste,,v
B; Albert L. Stearns, First Lieut6nant ~
Company G; John Zittingey. second
Lieutenant of Company 6, Samuel Kav
FIRST Lieutenant Of Battery B; Thomas B''
Hall, Captain Of Company G..
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Thursday-Another stock parade.

Thursday-Another stock parade.
Friday-Completion Of the ladies' rid
ing tournament and balloon ascension.
Saturday - Parade of the premium
stock, or winners.
The improvements at the Park are
about completed, and the track is daily
occupied by horses that are to compete in
the races.
At the Pavilion exhibitors are hard at
work preparing their displays, which
will nearly all be in place by Sunday
next.
The directors are having the playground
for the children prepared, and when
completed and in running order it can
not fail to prove great attraction to both
young and old.
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Pioneers Election.

The following officers of the Sacra-
mento Pioneers were elected at a meetinu
OF the Directors held last evening: Presi-
dent, VIM. Johnston; Secretary, w TT
Luther; Treasurer, a. C. Sweetser
AT the annual meeting the following
directors were chosen: Directors M
Johnston, James McGuire, George 4.
Putnam, p. Twitchell, n. D. Goodell.
Luke b. Richards, p. S. Lawson. II. NJ
Laruee, c. K. Daugherty; Corresponding
Secretary, VIM. ?. Coleman; Marshal, A.
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Came After Deserte,.s

Sergeant Perry Orr and Private Craw-
ley OF Company A, Fifth Artillery. L. s.
A, came up from Alcatraz last night to
take back two prisoners who recently o.
capped from Alcatraz and were arrestad
ii5;" here The reward for their capture is
=, one ol the men was arrested by Officer
SheIlars, and the other by Officer Gibroo
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HER DRESS ON FIRE.
y Sacramento Woman Terribly Burno
in Placer County.

III IIUcET OOunIN.
Mary Cooke of this city was riding
with another woman near Auburn on
Sunday, when one of them smelled fire.
and the Cooke girl discovered her cloth
ing to be burning, having been ignited
by match in her dress-pocket
She sprang out of the buggy. and ner
companion with great difficulty aided
her in putting out the flames, but not
until the woman was very badly burned
from her feet to her head on the right
side. She is severely, but not thought TO
be dangerously injured.
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SACRAMENTO ca Tonvooo o-

This is TO certify that we are fhoroTgbi,,
well pleased with the splendid MathusheI,
Pan3 Plan3 from John T. Cooper's music store,
Tn!cn we useu al our concert last evening,
Its action and tone are as perfect ms can ba n92
'tiieu III u piano CELIA TREBELLA,
PAUL NfUSIN
e. SIEINDORF
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- - - " l SlN,
E. SEEINDORF,

IF yop have your mind made up to buy q
Mathushek upright piano Go not be induced
TO change your mind by false representations
OF parties offering new, cheap. SNOWY and
trashy pianoes which viii be worthless in this
climate in very short time. MathusheIS
sold twenty years ago are as good as ever, and
tuned properly every few years sound rs vel
as the day they left the factory. See the new
improved ones at Cooper's
TODAY. wool challis at l5c at Gattnann g
Wilson, COL street.
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BALLOU-In this city. August 3lst. Thomas
j. Ballou, native Of New York, aged ca
years, i months and o days.
SS- Friends ana acquatEtances are respect
fully invited to attend the funeral which
VIII take place from his late residence. No.
713 street, this afternoon at o'clock =
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ArrENTToN-somoone can make money by

y
purchasing OF us, for the state OF California
the invention now in Wcinstock Iubin 4,
Co.'S windows. II is rev, just out, and as we
own patents ia all States, we have not time To
solicit small orders. Patent also makes
finest carousal, or merry-go round in a
large way, IN the world Cal at the Office of
Weiustock, Labin x Co., and ask for the show
stand man, or :. L. Culp Il Co.
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LADIES flannel blnuses, in al sizes soc
each n CatiEaEn & v iiSon, COZ J street.
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BORN
DIED

ELLIOTT-In this city, August 21st to II
wife CT William Elliott, q Daughter. =
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Pulvergzed Clay-Rfrds.

The following scores were made at the
SpOonbill Club shoot held at the Curtis
ranch on Sunday:
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BUILDING And LOAN STOCK.
NEW = ERIES 6

TyNHB. SACRAMENTO BUILDING AND
1 Loan Association win issue its Fifteenth
series of stock, commencing September ?tn
Shares can be secured now at its Office 1Ol&
Fourth street. \. LEONARD, Secretary
0HDR-pVrRn
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DANGER :!
A Matter of Vital
Importance.

GHRONlC AILMENTS ALWAYS TEND
Y TO rob the system OF its phvsical or hrrv-
Gus strength, and one thus afflicted cannot
aHoFd 10 let II run on until II broken-doyn
constitution and perfect wreck is the result.
II Is a DANGER that should be prevented.
The Washington bee., 1891-10-03
PRICE Of LOTS ONLY slI0,

TERMS OF PURCHASE: Five DOL
lars cash and two dollars De-,
month, with no interest. Halt
cash, 10 per cent discount; all cash
20 per cent discount.
Money will be advanced to par
ties desiring to build.
Those who apply first, will han
the first choice of lots.
Ii a husband purchaser dis,
before his purchase is completed,
a deed in fee will be given to ha
widow, if the property has been
improved, or if not. the amount
already paid will be returned her
The above presents an OppOrtu,
nifty never before offered the Col
ored people of the city of Wash,
ington to secure a valuable lOf,
either as an investment or fora
home On monthly payments, and
at the same time, entitled them
to a vote and a voice in the Gov.
ernmept of the country.
Already many have made then
homes in the "City of Bowie,
and lots purchased on the above
terms should double in value With.
in the next six months.
For further information apply to
W. CALVIN CHASE, Agent,
1109 ] St., INV
or CAMPBELL CA RRINGT0N
Owner, sos D ST., e. W.
Washington, D, c
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CAPITAL SAVINGS BANK
OF WASHINGTON, D. @.
804 + St. n. W.

804 + ST. n. W.
Receives deposits, loans money,
transacts general banking busi-
ness. Location central and con
Vepient. + street cars and herdic.
run in front of our door-9th st.,
cars run a few rods east of our
buildi. g, 7th street and 11th sts
cars only two block away.
President DIR. @. b. Purvis
Cashier d. B. McCary
Secretary, He, Baker
Treasurer, L.C. Bailey
DIRECTORS.
DR.. G. b. Purvis, L. G. Bailey.
John A. Pierre, j. W. Cole,
ii. E. Baker, Jas. T. Bradford
Jerome A. johnson,
DR.. A. W. Tancil,
Prot. w. s. Montgomery
j. Archie Lewis, w. E. Matthews.
David Warner,
Prof. Jas: Storum,
DR.. w. s. Lotion.
The Washington bee., 1891-10-03

V YOUR BACK ACHES.
'"U ins, 1e a. ~ worn out, really good for moth
ing, Y general debility. Try
x.-u,6 ,6ROWRS IRON BTTrERs.
">A cure you, Cleanse your liver, and Rfva
Agood appetite
The Washington bee., 1891-10-03
THE INDUSTRIAL BUILDING
AND SAVING co.

Loans money to buy or build
homes. Shares 81 each, payable
monthly Dividends declared ev-
cry January. Secretary's Office:
804 r st., q. W. Open 9 a. m. to
S p. m. Monthly meetings at LIN
coin Memorial Church, cor. 1fth
and r sts., n. W., first Monday
night in every month.
HENRY E BAKER.
Secretary
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ForMalaria, Liver Trou-
bic, or Indigestion, use
BROWNS IRON BITTERS
TAKE NOTICE

The patrons OF the BEE must
pay fer all advertisements, in the
way OF notices, deaths, marriages,
&C. No matter of a personal
nature will be inserted unless it is
paid for. 40
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some OF them pretend to be "poetesses." The
stimulus may be the quasi success, certainly the
undoubted notoriety OF Amelie Rives who now,
as Mrs. Chanler, has claim to be considered a
New York woman and unquestionably. in her
rare intervals of brief residence here, "one OF
the Set. Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Cruger, as "Julien
GORDON, Is a more substantial success; and
now there is strenuous effort to parade Mrs.
Pouitney Bigelow as novelist on the strength
oil two rather extended magazine sketches
printed as 'novels" She might publish her
own books on vellum, with hand-illuminated
Initial letters to each chapter. If she likes, for
she is SAID to be worth round million. As
MISS Jaffray she was pronounced belle In
society, pretty. charming. and rich IN her share
Oh the money which came down from her
merchant grandfather II is SUSPECTED that she
was put up to what some OF the set III a sneer-
Ing way call ''the literary dodge" by her young
husband, who is chiefly known as the intimate
friend OF the German Emperor William, with
wnom Pouitney event 10 school This i'm
portant piece of American history is blaZoned in
letters OF gold on the walls OF society Young Mr..
Blgeiow, whose father was a feature years ago
on the New York Evening Post, and later was a
failure on the New York Times, essayed TO fol-
low In his fathers footsteps, and succeeded adj
miraoiy in the failure. A few months work as
a reporter convinced him that 1t was not his
vocation. Then he bought and attempted TO
edit magazine devoted to bicycling, tree climb
ing, and other outdoor sports; but gave that up
ana Tell back upon his assured reputation as the
intimate friend Of the Emperor William. But
tnere is literary reputation in the Blgelow
family that must be kept up somehow. John
Blgelow has not only edited one newspaper and
tried to edit another, but he has written excel
lent books, has rendered conspicuous service in
supplying an authentic life of the great Frank
lin. and has contributed to different magazines
really valuable articles. 1t Is in the family. 1t
Is imperative that there should be a Blgelow
author, and evidently, Mrs. Poultney Bigelow,
VINO Is charming as mere society ornament,
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CITIES.
One Big Bali.
Maui Xnrk Iaffor

There is sure to be one big ball in the cavern
GUS barn we call the Metropolitan opera house.
1t will take place on the night of December %
and will be advertised as the annual CHARITY
Ball. Ii the money spent on it could be devoted
outright TO charity, at least few poor people in
the city would be benefited. But the expense,
including the supper, will eat up most of the
receipts, as the gay dancers are sure to eat up
all OF the supper There need be no extended
comment on the grim humOr of calling such an
entertainment "charity." Mrs William Astor
will open the ball. There will be the usual
gorgeous display of diamonds and dresses and
shivering. half-clad, half-starved men and boys
will hover outside in hopes of gathering few
pennies from those who pass in and out of the
well-llghted, well -wermed scene OF gayety But
speaking of the poor, this very ball, coming so
close To New Years, will tend TO deaden, if not
destroy. the hopes of poor MeAllister, who wants
to give ''his" ball about that time. The rumor
already is that he is doomed to be grieyously
disappointed in his projected entertainment
society does not seem-as common people saw
to "cateh on TO the Buffers idea society does
not 'subscribe;" and without subscriptions"
McAliister is IN the condition of mankind, as
represented to be some centuries ago, "without
charity'-he is nothing" He seems shaky
over things now, if one may judge from his
latest enusIon IN one OF the Sunday Journals
He begs fashionable people not TO go abroad and
spend so much money in Europe. 1t is at once
an appeal and protest If these people persist
in spending their money, well as their sum-
mers abroad, obviously there can be no sub
scription picnics' on the farm near Newport.
The money should be spent here which is a
sensible suggestion; and the Butler goes on TO
say that the very least" a man in society can
get on with here is $4,000 year. Nonsensel In
the whole Four Hundred there are not more
than twenty who have anything like that in
come to spend, and it is safe TO say that the
Butler himself manages TO live very well on 49,
800. The very few people of what may well be
called enormous" incomes in that set can be
counted on the ten fingers, including thumbs.
Az for the rest, there are literally hundreds of
people in this city who have incomes larger by
ten times than those OF the majority of the ex-
elusive crowd
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The Inside of Houses.
Saxv Nork In,.

The vast difference in value between n pretty
fine house on one OF the fashionable avenues in
the city and what may be inside of il in the wsv
OF furniture and fixtures was conspicuouslv
evident in fire not long ago which counletsly
destroyed IN very few minutes the entire In.
terror of residence on Fifth avenue The
estimated value OF the house was $4,000. while
the property destroyed in ii was set down at
100000. This great difference was hardly
deemed worth noting in the newspapers
perhaps because it was 1.-THE usual
thing, as in fact, IL is. And vet this heavy loss
did not include plate. pictures, d library or
other especially expensive luxuries o! that Kind
The house had lately been hired '.as il stood.
that Is, with what was in II, by the Belmonts
VINO haa not yet moved IN their own furniture
pictures ana books. The loss of the costly in.
terror hX!nss came upon the owner of the house
In The Potphar Papers" written forty wears
ago hy NJ George VILLAIN Curtis 10 satirize the
Minister from Seminar is made to saw
most OF the sharp, not TO say saucy.
things; On entering the palatial residences
on Fifth avenue, the distinguished foreigner
eXcialns; "N nv, your house IS exactly ike
your nelghborsi And so it was in those times
Fashionable residences were copies of one an.
other IN the minutesi details OF furniture. Or
rather the first new nabob set the fashion aud
the rest toliowedit IL. Il is very different now
/ ne aim is 10 be original as well as exirayagaut
pI course there are certain things, poriieres Tor
instance, which are common 70 all fine houses
20, too, certain conventional fsds in furniture
OBTAIN GENERALLY Bgi every rich man
means 20 make his house n museum of OBJ
lects OF art; that is, in mere furniture
and interior decorations, apart from the display
III pictures and statuary. People OF Refinement
ana cultivation OF course make their houses in
every particular the embodiment or exUsonent nj
Their own cultivated tastes For the rest. the
iurnishers, decorators and artists viii do me
entire business and do IL we'll II they have, care
blanche with the simple order To $50 ahea3
me result Is that no great city in the world can
snow 50 many extensively and beautifully fur
Dlsaed interiors rs New York can TODAY
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Troubles of the RoodIers,

SAN Francisco. Nov. 27-The Examiner this
morning SAYS II is Understood that the grand
jury will today indict Assessor John D. siebe.
city and County Attorney John H. burst and
Street superintendent James Glllerau, and that
application will be made 10 Judge Wallace 10
declare the positions held by these officials va
cant 10 is alleged that the assessor and city al
torney have made illegal and unwarranted re-
auctions in the assessment rolls and that the
siTeet superintendent had been exaeting Il per
centsge OF the wages OF his employees
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. IN ord was received
today that a. J. Branch, formerly president of
the Ohio & Mississippi Valley Transportation
Company, with headquarters st Newport, O .
had been arrested 81 Los Angeles on A telegram
from this city charging him with forgery. II is
alleged that he forged two checks, purporting
60 have been drawn by }. u. Spreckels, on the
FIRST National hank, for s.. And SIS respectively
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Other Literary Women.
New York Tattar.

There are at least two instances in this town
where the direct influence OF the husbands
made their wives really remarkable as literary
women. Mrs. Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard had
no more idea that she could write a story till
her husband, Richard Henry Stoddard, told her
she would better "try it, than she had that
she could paint great picture or evolve an
epic. She did try it, and her first effort,
"Ths Morgensons" astonished even Dick.
1t was a real "novel," fully and justly entitled
to the name and distinction, and it was followed
by two more OF equal merit. 1.-TWO Men" and
Temple House," all eagerly and widely read,
and giving the writer a merited place among
American authors. There Is new generation
now that finds something fresher and good
deal frothier in the productions OF Mrs. Chanler
and Mrs. Bigelow. But the Stoddard novels
still read by people who want "noyels and not
mere society sketches. The second instance is
Mrs, Jane Cunningham Croly, who was
put up" by her husband, the late David q.
Croly, to write something. She did, aud as
"Jennie June soon became known throughout
the country. These two women were never
cons picuous Sin society'-never needed to be,
and, better yet never wanted to be-but Jennie
June was the founder OF a society which has
included more really solid and substantial
women than the called society" ever could
boast Of This was Sorosis, which still is, and
which smart and bright women have actually
made power in this city.
What Sorosis really does and is Is a secret con-
fined to the members, excepting as they may
openly manifest themselves and their doings
at Delmonco's or Sherry's. Their first and
most conspicuous male guest was Mr.. Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt, who, years ago, wrote
most amusing article advocating male member
ship to Sorosis and modestly offering himself as
a candidate for election. Why notf He was
then, as always, one OF the most promi-
nent men in town-prominent in every
thing. A member of a genuine old
Dutch family, scholar. sportsman.
editor. author, diplomat, politician. humorist
and that not. He was a congressman, minister
to The Hague editor, with "Miles O'Reilly,"
the late Charles G. Halpine, of the Citizen;
founder of the New York state fishery commits
sion, author OF several game and fishing books
and writer of immense funny books, such as
give Acres Too Much and progressive Petit
coats" 1t would be hard to find in the city
man who has done more, in different ways, and
done it well, or who in his business relations,
in society or in his clubs is more. And yet he
is hardly ever heard of, for he is a modest man
smaller men make greater noise in this city of
New York.
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ONE IN THREE MILLION,
Small Ratio of Loss of Life by Steam


The annual report of the supervising inspec-
tor general OF steamboats, for the United States
for the year ending June 80, 1891, which has Just
been received by the local inspectors, shows
that 7,40i steam vessels of all sizes were in
spected during the year. The number of acct
dents resulting in loss of life is 80. divided as
follows: Collisions, 16; fires, 6; snags. wrecks
and sinking, 5; breaking of steam pipes and
mud drums, 4: explosions, 2. The total loss of
life in those disasters was 33S. OF which number
1874 were passengers and IA officers and other
employees. The number of lives lost in disasters
during the previous year was 2i5. making an in
of SO for the last year. The largest loss of
life in any one disaster the past year was IS, on
the Sea Wing, which was wrecked by a cyclone
on Lake Pepin in the Mississippi river. This
one disaster more than supplied the increase N
loss of life. The 3SS lives lost includes those
lost by accidental drowning from steamboats,,
and IL the number so included were deducted,
ii would leave the number actually lost through
disasters 10 the steamers comparatively small.
During the year about 6O0,0o0,00O passengers
were carried on the steamboats, in the United
States, so that less than one in every 5000, 900
who took passage was killed.
The report shows that the 6 explosions which
occurred-2 boilers and steam pipes and mud
drums-caused loss of only II lives while The
Locomotive, issued by the Hartford Steam Boiler
Insurance Company, reported a total OF 1913 ex-
plosons of other than marine engines for the
year 1890, killing zoo persons and wounding 3i2.
AS showing the great decrease in the number of
such marine disasters, the report SAYS that the
Congressional Globe reported los explosions to
have taken place on the waters of the Missis-
sippi valley and Gulf OF Mexico in 1919; and In
1851, when the number of steamers in the
United States was only 1880, there were 100 ex-
plosiOns, causing loss of 700 lives out of So
204,69i passengers carried. The present system
OF inspection was established in 1852, and, from
that time on the number of such accidents has
constantly decreased from the ratio OF life to
every steamers atoat in iS5l, until ii ia now
reduced to life for every u steamers afioat
Regarding the expenses of the department,
the report says that the total of such expenses
for the year was 81. 5O453 which is s., 300
less than for the year Is76, when the number of
steamers inspected was just little over half Of
what II was the past year.
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