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NEWS FROM ROCKVILLE.
E.citeuent over = Gold Discovery-osnias
Church Dedicntion-Nos.s

Exciteuent Over Gold Discovery-ComfnG
Church Dedicssion-Not-s.
Correspondents q IN. Evening Star.
ROCKVILLE. July rs. ise1.
Another gold discovery which Ia. created
some excitement in the neighborhood was
made by Mr.. Henry clagett few day. gro IN
Potomac district. While ploushins in . neld on
his farm his attention was drawn 10 piece Of
flint stone with a shining surface. which upou
closer examination proved 20 be almost
covered with particles Of the precious metal.
and upon breaking the same 70 was found 20 be-
impregnated with the same Several experts
who have been prospecting in that locality for
sorae time pronounce IL q very rich specimen
Hon. VIM NJ. McKaig. democratic candidate
for Congress, and Col VIM. Kngour will de-
liver addresses at picnic and tournament q
Barnesville on the Sd OF August
The new Methodist EPISCOPAL Church nov
IN course OF erection in West End Park viii be
completed on the s0th instant and dedicated on
the 1th Of August The dedica,ory services prom
Use to be OF very interesting character and Il 10
ahncipated that there viii be n large attendance
from the District and other places Rev. Mr..
Moore Of Gaithersburg viii deliver the dedics-
tory sermon.
Mrs. NJ. A. Hall. Mr.. Alber Hall and Mis
Lee Humphrey will leave here on THURSDAY next
Tor an extended visit 20 relatives in Kansas.
Ut. tlArencc thompson OF Derwood, this
county, has received an appointment a. one OF
the guards at the house Of correction at q
salary Of eco per month.
Miss Ida Dove and Mr.. Geo II. Lamar left
here on Wednesday as delegates 20 the SUNDAY
school convention OF the NJ. L. Church South,
in session at Martinsburg. W. Va
After competitive examination before the
school board st this place, Miss Virginia y.
Brewer. eldest daughter Of Mr.. John b. Brewer,
has been awarded the scholarship at st. Mary's
Female Seminary.
Rev. /. r. Melbourne left here yesterday 20
attend the annual convention of the Baptist
Young Peoples Union at Detroit, Mich.
Mr.. Porter Garrett, formerly OF Hunting
hill. this county, who has been residing al
Omaha. Neb.. for several years. returned 20
the county on "Wednesday on a visit
The next regular quarterly meeting Of Mont
gomery County Grange will be held at BeltsviIie
on Thursday, the 2sth instant Several subor-
dinate oranges Of Prince Georges county viii
also take part in the proceedings.
Mrs. Amanda Higgins. relict OF the late Eric
Higgins, died at her home in Potomac District
on Saturday, in the sixty seventh year Of hsr
age SAN
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The Dangerous Trolley.

Opponents Of the dangerous trolley will re-
joice to learn Of the prospect of the application
Of the storage battery system on at least two
transportation lines in this neighborhood. The
Second Avenue Surface road is about to try an
experiment in this direction, with another
method, however, than that which was used
for considerable time on few cars on 4th
avenue, and the president of the Kings County
Elevated railroad in Brooklyn announces that
in the near future storage system is likely to
be adopted on that line. These things are en-
cOuraging. Nobody has looked upon the troll
ley as fnality. Its chief merit has been its
cheapness. A method Of applying electricity
without the use of wires or other conductors is
indeed a desideratum
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the estate. Up to the very last day before
emancipation slaves were everywhere met wear
ing tin masks as a mode Of punishment, or iron
collars with upright prongs under the ears or
heavy log chains fastened from wrist to ankle
and dark stories are told of tortures perpetrated
in cellars and outhouses SO recently that tho
screams of the victims yet ring in the ears Of
those who heard them An English merchant
in Bahia says that he once had occasion to visit
the proprietor of a distant fazenda where he
found a number of neighboring planters as
sembled, they having been invited. according
to custom, to witness the punishment of a
negro. who was about to be boiled to death as
a terrible example to his fellows.
EMANCIPATION DUE TO DOM PEDRO.
Emancipation in Brazil was entirely due to
the persistent efforts of the late emperor, and
that was one of the causes that led to his de-
thronement. Many years ago he began to urge
suppression Of the African trade, and as soon as
that was accomplished presented plans for
freeing the negroes in bondage. But his
progress was extremely slow, because his cabi-
net and parliament and everybody Of influence
were slave owners themselves and naturally
chung to their chief source of wealth. In 1871,
otter setting good example By freeing his own
slaves and inducing all the members Of the
royal family and several wealthy citizens to do
the same, he laid the ak at the root Of the
tree by persuacing congress to pass what was
known rs the free birth law 1t provided
for gradual emancipation by declaring that
every child born Of slave parents after Sep
TENDER 20 Of that year should be free, and the
owner of its mother required to support it and
educate it till the age Of twenty-one, being en-
titled to the results of its labor in the mean
time. IL also allowed the slaves to purchase
their own freedom by being credited with all
services performed beyond certain maximum,
and established an emancipation fund. But
the law proved impracticable. Forgeries were
committed upon the records of births, both by
the slaves and their masters. The latter fixed
SO high a valua ton that no slave could possibly
earn his freedom. and they entirely neglected
to educate the children as required by law, 80
that when young man gained his freedom he
was not fitted to enjoy the right Of citizenship.
Nearly twenty years later q Law was passed
making Internationally free all slaves who were
sixty-fve years Of age and manumi:ting all
others on their attaining the year of sixty. on
condition Of their remaining Eve years longer
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nonsense. Every house was decorated with
flags by day and Illuminated at night The
theaters were opened gratuitously to the public
and two of the public squares were transformed
into immense ball rooms for those who wanted
to dance. The public generally being invited
to this part Of the celebration the new-made
citizens and citizenesses universally availed
themselves Of it, till it looked if black cloud
had settled down on the capital city, sparingly
enlivened by o few white faces.
But for oil this show Of rejoicing the people
were not 20 we'll pleased as they pretended to
be. Some Of the orators who shouted loudest
about equal rights and universal brotherhood,
Ike many an abolitionist Of the north who
would abolish the black man off the face Of the
earth rather than fraternize with him, were
plotting at that moment how to revenge them
selves on the imperial family by ousting them
from the country and restoring their favorite
institution. The great problem now before
Brazil IL that of labor.
TEE LABOR SYSTEM pExoRALrzRD.
In this hot climate white men cannot do the
work Of negroes, and the labor system of the
country is in state Of total decentralization.
The majority Of emancipated slaves will not
work II they can help il and are not capable Of
taking care Of themselves.
Notable exceptions are found among the
west coast Of Africa), who differ from all other
blacks, and as slaves were valued at more than
double the price Of ordinary negroes They
are Of immense frame, capable of great endur-
ance, display remarkable degree of intelli-
gence and as freedmen make useful, indus
trious and thrifty citizens. They are ex-
tremely clannish. speaking q language among
themselves unintelligible to others and practic-
ing religious rites similar to those of Moham-
medism, from which they can never be allured
by missionaries, Romish or Protestant. They
are rs ingenious rs intelligent and make excel
lent mechanics as well as laborers, and they are
about the only blacks in Brazil, if not else
where, who have any idea Of economizing their
resources and laying by fund for "rainy
days. During slavery times a number Of
them purchased their freedom and went back
to Minas, in Africa; but every one Of them
came back to Brazil. and several chartered
vessels for the purpose, brought over their
friends and kinsmen and settled here rs colo
nists and planters. The wisest thinkers of the
day are now advocating the organization Of
immigration companies for the purpose Of
bringing over cargoes of these people from the
dark continent''-not, as formerly, for slaves,
but to supply the demand for labor. The
climate Of Brazil is not unlike that of their
own country, and as neighbors and prospective
citizens they are in every way preferable to the
Chinese and coolies. FANNIE B. WARD.
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golden hair. Seeking an Introduction he asked
her TO dance and was painfully embarrassed by
p conspicuously indignant refusal. This
pitue exhibition Of race prejudice-so
common IN North America, but hardlr
eomprehended in othercountries observed
by Count d Eu. husband Of the Princess I'M
perial-a brave and noble gentleman. de-
Fcended from line OF French kings-and he nj
|pnce whispered something in the ear of his wife.
She smiled grsciously and Immediately there
after was seen Waiting with the dark-skinned
Engineer. The whisper went around and the
Proudest ladies' Of the court We'd with one an
Psher in hesping honors on the blushing
ptnello. while the fair-hGired Americana
tocked on with scorn and amazement In
Brazil. which has never pretended much in the
Eay OF republicanism. Reboucas might PRONE
Pe.ie with royalty and be hand-in-glove with
pabobs and statesmen. but when he went to the
land OF the free. where the favorite boast is
fquaI nights and other bosh. he was refused ad-
nittance to hotels. elected from sleeping cars
ND offered other indignities which the sons of
reedom are in the habit Of iniicting upon q
Arge proportion Of their fellow citizens.
THE LIFE OF THE SLAVES
IL IL only about a quarter Of a century since
here were upwards Of 1906, 900 slaves in Brazil.
u said that in 1850 (the year before the in
ervention Of the British government broke mn
be foreign trade) 10000 Africans were i'm
orsed within eleven months. The country
Antsrs, born with the idea that the slaves
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And the Millionaire Paid for the Brief m.
perience.

And the Millionaire Paid for the Brief m.
perience.
From the Chicago Tribune.
A Chicago millionaire, who had been eYercis-
ing his team Of BAYS on Michigan boulevard
yesterday morning, was on his way back to his
downtown Office. he was compelled TO Wait
at 40th street a few moments on account Of Q
Lake Shore passenger train that blocked the
highway.
plainly dressed but business-like man who
had been standing on the sidewalk came out TO
the middle Of the road, examined the horses
with . somewhat critical eye, and said, rsspsot-
fully:
II beg your pardon, sir, but may ak IL iris
team and buggy are for sale2"
II have not thought Of selling the outfit"
answered the man in the buggy, with an amused
smile, but might, perhaps, Il anybody should
offer me enough money"
May / ask your price for the horses, harns0
and buggy, just as they sre2"
"Cash DOWN."
Certainly"
'why-Ih ardly-what do you ay to e5,ooo7"
The man examined the horses again
I'm take them at that figure, he said, but
shall have to 60 to the First National Bank 70
get the money"
IAN right. Climb in am going In That
direction"
The train had pulled out Of the way BY this
time. and the next moment the team was Tying
down the boulevard at its best gait. o. il bent
on showing that il WINS . rare bargain, even 81
$4,000.
On arriving at the bank. less than half an
hour later, the business-like man got out Of The
buggy, went inside the building and came out
again in about fifteen seconds.
II am sorry to say," he observed With much
Schagrin, that the cashier says haven't . can't
in this bank"
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re as much their own property, TO do with as
ley pleased. were their mules and ma
merry, considered il cheaper TO use up ne
o in 1--WE or six years and then replace him by
resh one than to take care of him. But when
traffic from Africa ceased and the price Of
man fesh advanced other ideas, engendered
selfish interest, began TO prevail Yet the
pt Of masters required slaves to work sixteen
urs out Of every twenty-four and many ex-
bed eighteen hours Of toll. requited only by
mt food and miserable shelter. The ordinary
atine was this: The slaves were called to work
am At o'clock coffee was given to them
breakfast at O'Clock The meal invari-
y consisted Of dried meat. cooked with beans
nandioca meal, and sometimes corn bread
added II was eaten in the field In an in
mission Of fifteen minutes. AT noon they
! Q small drink Of sugsr-cane rum, and at
D. dinner. which was a counterpart OF the
akfast, also eaten in the field in fifteen min
= Al . in the evening they left the deld
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Grover Cleveland and Adlai E. Stevenson
will be formally notified Of their nomination
for President and Vice President of the United
States at the Madison Square Garden, New
York, next Wednesday night. This was finally
settled at a meeting of the local reception COM
mittee at the governors room at the city hall
yesterday.
G. c. Baldwin announced that after the meet
ing at the garden the Manhattan Club would
give a reception to the two candidates, the COM
mittees and to distinguished democratic visit
ors from other states who may be in town.
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AssAILED BY srRIKERs.
The Homestead Battle Repeated On smal1
Scale 1t Hicksvtlle, L. 4.

The Homestead Battle Repeated On . Small
Scale n Hicksvtlie, L. I.
Fifteen special deputy sheriffs were sent TO
Hicksville, L. l., Thursday to guard the WORKS
Of the Hicksville Pearl Button Company. where
a strike has been in progress for the past week.
About twenty-five non-union men are employed
at the factory now. The sight Of the new men
enraged the strikers and they assailed them
with stones and clubs. During the row four
men we're badly injured. The strikers threw
stones at the factory building, smashing nu-
merous panes Of glass.
Tuesday night one OF the cottages built BY
the company for the accommodation Of their
workmen was set on fire and almost totally d.
stroyed.
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loaded with freight aad she crosses the Potomac
again to Piney Point and from there makes up
her ne return passenger list. stopping at Coltons,
Colonial Beach and other points nearer WASH
ington, where she eventually brings up at
about 1880 p. m, after q most delightful and
inexpensive trip. GIT.
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LOST KEY TO CIPHER
News That the Secret Of the Hittite
Inscriptions Has Been Discovered.
A REMARKABLE PEOPLE.

History Of . Great Bible Nation to BE Brought
to LiGht-Third Great Discovery Of the
Kind in This Century-An Empire Which
Contended for Supremacy with Egypt and
Assyria for Thousand Year,.
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WIN THE RIVER.
Enjoyments Of Trip From Wash
ington to Point Lookout.
THE BEAUTIFUL POTOMAC.
Colonial Beach, Blakiston's Island, Piney
Point and Other Places of Interest Visited
The Natives with Their Ok Carts at Miller's
Wharf-Pleasurcs at Point Lookout.
ASHINGTON EO-

ASHINGTON Pc O.
pie, as a rule, have the
knack Of fitting them
selves into every possi-
BILE chance to enjoy life,
whether they be Of the
select few with I'M
limited means or Of
the less fortunate class
who count a dollar for
what it is worth, and at
this season Of the year,
when everybody must
M l.
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work to 60 to the mill or to household tasks and
to cultivate the vegetable patches until So clock
when they were locked in their quarters to sleep
till aroused ut the next morning.
SEVERITY OF THEIR PUNIsHMENTs.
Sunday was their only holiday audit was merely
a cessation of labor for three or four hours, in
busy season reduced to one or two hours and
with some masters to nothing at all. They had
no allowance for Christmas holidays, as WINS the
custom in tho United States in ante-bellum
days. and in many respects the life of the
Brazilian slave was much harder than that Of
his brother in the north, as the Portuguese and
Spanish character is naturally more cruel than
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he Evening Star.
Cyrus w. Field.
IN MEMORIAM

IN NENoRIAN.
FAREWELL brave heart
Whose pulse Of life, for many q weary day,
Was beating sad and low, before 1t ebbed away
Slow TO depart
Good night "At evening time 1t shall be light"
And heaven il brighter for the darkening night
Bright shown thy star
When meath the sea, that throb Of new born life
Thrilled the wide world, with Joy and gladness rife,
Both near and far
Thy skin and genius laid the cable grand,
The mighty pulse that beats from strand to strand.
The message sweet
The nrst that flashed beneath the listening sea,
1ts wsves all hushed to hear the melody
Thy soul did greet
''Glory to Godi and peace, good win to men"
The angel-song woke the sweet echo then.
From Britain's queen
The message came, as on some sweet-toned Tyre
Good news Of which We mortals never tire,
On earth, ween-
For when all earthly echoes fade and die,
The heavenly music still for n IL nigh.
FAREWELL brave soul
Though treasures, rich and rare, were well-nigh
gone,
And many light that once 30 brightly shons,
A darkened scroll
That message sweet across the starry sea,
SIN came to tell Of life and Joy for thee.
-. Il. cuTDHRr.
Warrington. d. c., July Il, 1891.
A Sin Of the Women Of the Present Day.,
From Eleanor Kifks Idea
To pull dress skirt tightly over the thighs
and abdomen Il an act Of coarseness and vul-
garity which could mot b sxoellsd BY the com
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Written for The Evening Star.

L W s II A 8 j q 8 L
reached the Johns Hop
kins University through
private sources that the
hitherto unbound key TO
the Hittite inscriptions
has been discovered by
a clever young scholar
in Germany, whose
name is desired to be
withheld for the pres
sent. Similar achieve
ments of not less i'm
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Al he Thsater.-Two young women have sat
through the psrformaoe. Suddenly one glances
ct the stage and exclaims, why, Belle, can 1t
View bad . real nice Chat, hsvsn't vs2"--Bos-
On 1roNsr{pA,
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Another wsrsd's Record Brsasa.
q. Q. Tyler Of ths Springfield, Aass-, Bicycle
Club ssfabli<hsd worlds record for ~
quartsr-mils flying start IN Haapdsa ns<k
ThursdAy aftsrnoon, naking - dis>nnss -
- - ssecnds, bsstinQ - record e 49,
sseonds nnds b. p. J. DsElA
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AID OTHELLO LIVED
in this country he would
not have said ''mislike
me not for my COM
plexion," for no Bar
bantio would have re-
fused him a daughter
on that account. In
Brazil ones social
status does not depend
upon the color of the
cuts, for in high life
and low the blood Of
the aboriginal Bra
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Benjamin Nathan, well known about town.
died on Wednesday night at his home In Now
York He was sixty.nins years Of ags, and his
career ~ IN many rsspse6 rsnasfntls -.
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BRAZIL'S POPULATION
There is No Objection to Color in
That Republic.
FREEDOM AND MONEY.
The Social Standard Rather Than BLOOD
The Greatest Civil Engineer Was aMulstto
Something About the Days of Slavery and
What Brought About Emancipation.

pondence Of The Evening Star.
RIO DE JANEIRo, June 5, 1873
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The shock OF each Egyptian invasion Of The
3itt1ts country seems 70 have sxhaustsd itssle
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Leaving Lookout the next objective point is
on the Virginia side Of the river, and Is the
steamer pullsup at the Lewissetta crowd SINH
lar in appearance to those of my Maryland"
catch the hawsers and pull us in. A large con-
signment Of fish and vegetables are taken
aboard and the trip is extended up the Coan
river to several landings, at each Of which the
native II out In force, and, We may add, in full
dress, for being Sunday ii is an Oh day, and
they come, white and black, in OK carts, buck
boards and road gigs, all intent on sealing thu
steamer land.
From Cosn the Yocomico u visited, and BY
the time landings have been made the boat 4
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In the year 1856 B. C. Seti 1 came to the
throne. He was the father of the Pharaoh of
the oppression, and he renewed the war againa
the Hittites. His son, Rameses u-known a.
Rameses the Great, the .'Sesostris" Of the
Greeks-carried on the fight and led o mighty
army against the Hittite city of Kadesh, on
the Orontes. He took with him ON the cam
paigu his poet laureate, named Pentaur, who
celebrated the achievement in an heroic poem,
which has come down in beveral editions, be-
ing found inscribed on an extant papyrus roll
and also in conjunction with splendid battle
scenes on the walls of temples ut Abydos, Lux
sor and elsewhere. This work in verse Is the
oldest heroic poem known, having been written
$500 years ago. Aprose account Of the same
campaign has been preserved Notwithstand-
ing the vainglsrious figures Of speech with
which these reports are filed, IL 10 evident from
q perusal Of them between the lines that the
battle fought ct Kadesh was drawn, the result
being treaty Of peace.
p RITES AND cusrom.
The shock Of each Egyptian invasion Of The
Hitt1ts country seems 70 have exhausted itsslf
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made before this by persons no more conspicu-
ous-as for example the unfolding Of the secret
OF the Assyrian heiroglyphics by schoolmaster
at Hamburg named Crotefend, who accom-
plished the task on a wager which had reference
to his skill in working out ciphers. This-if the
information quoted is correct-is the third
great riddle of this sort that has been solved
during the present century. Tho successes OBJ
tanned in deciphering the Egyptian inscriptions
and the cuneiforms of Babylon have already
thrown a bright light upon third mighty en-
pire OF the past, which bids fair to leap into
historical view from out of the darkness in
which its memory has been shrouded.
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Injured men have recovered, and all over
L. Il

Injured men have recovered, and all over
confidence has vanished.
Yale will play the same men which rep
resented her at Springfield. Hinkey, Yale's
star left end, will find that he has real
football player to deal with in Trenchard,
whose work is not unlike that OF his oppo-
nent This man is sure tackle, who pays
strict attention to business and never fuses
with his adversary. Of the new men on
Princeton's team Trenchard is easily the
best He works hard and is in every play
to the best possible advantage. Hinkey
found his match in Hallowell and Trenchard
is apt to give him quite as much trouble.
Not Much Choice Between Them.
Winter and Harold have faced each
other before. Last year Harold was
young, green and pugnacious and the Yale
man played all around his opponent, draw
ing him out at will and continually using him
as an open door by which the pall was passed
through toward Princeton's line. Harold
has improved considerably, but he faces
one of the finest tackles in the country, and
Princeton is apt to be outplayed at this
point Hall at right guard faces Yale's
youngster McCrea. Neither Hall nor Nc
Crea are ideal guards. The Yale man
allowed his opponent to get through too