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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-30
THE COURTS.

Equity Court No. 1-Chief Justice Bingham
Woodward agt. Moulton: pro confesso
against defendant (Moulton) vacated. Nc
Gee agt. Metzerott; sale decreed, with J. J..
McNally, trustee, to sell. Dick agt. Dick
sale ratified nisi. Gleason agt. National
Safe Deposit, Security and Trust Company;
time to take testimony limited to forty days
Ryan agt. Estes; payment of fund out of
registry ordered.
Circuit Court No. Judge Bradley.
Adams agt. Washington and Georgetown
Railroad Company: motion for new trial
overruled, and judgment on verdict for de-
PENDANT.
Criminal Court No. Judge Cole.
United States agt Bessie Gray; second Of
Tense petit larceny; order to restore prop
erty. United States agt. Paul Joiner; do.
United States agt. Rosa Moody; larceny; on
trial.
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AT FAIRS IN ALEXANDRA
Local Notes of Interest From Down the
River.
Personal and General Happenings
Important to All CIases-A
Quiet Sunday.

Yesterday was a cold, raw, disagreeable
Sunday,and the congregations in the various
churches were. in consequence, smaller than
usual. The resident rectors officiated in all
except the NJ. E. Church South, where Rev
Rumsay Smithson, formerly rector of the
church. preached.
The day was particularly a quiet one, and
the police report but one case of drunken
ness. The saloons We're closed fore and aft
and only those old FOUNDERS who had gotten
the tip on Saturday night could get their
Sunday drink.
Handsome Souvenir.
The Sunday school teachers and scholars
of Christ Church yesterday presented to DIR.
E. s. Leadbeater, superintendent of the
school, handsome slver-back hair brush,
1t being his twenty-fifth year as superin-
tendent.
Miss GOodrich's Funeral.
The funeral of Miss Katie Goodrich, whose
death was mentioned in The Star. took place
from the Methodist Episcopal Church South
yesterday at 2:30 o'clock. The funeral serv-
ices were conducted by Rev. ]. 7. Wilson.
Messrs Walter Ballenger Elmo Davis. John
Lucas, Robert Hoy, Mike Schwabb and Guy
Mauder acted as pallbearers. The remains
were inferred in the Methodist cemetery.
Thirteen Club Entertained.
Mr.. Louis Brill, proprietor of the Opera
House. last night delightfully."- entertained
the members of the Thirteen Club. The
parlors were beautifully decorated with
potted plants and evergreens. The menu
was composed of all the delicacies of the
season. Among those present were Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Fleischman, Mr. and Mrs
Thomas Rouse, Mr.. and Mrs. F. NJ. Hill,
Mr.. and Mrs. Alton Moore, Mr.. and Mrs
joseph Moore, Mr.. and Mrs Henry Shuttle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank McClaren, Misses Nc
Dowell, Mamie and Theresa Dewitt, Verdon
Dunn of Washington, Idensen, Nugent,
Moore. Brill and Messrs. Marriott, Hill,
Fora HILL c. F. Neale, ]. D. Weber Chas.
Strang, Roster Brown, ]. C. Gill, Capt. K.
NJ. Latham, Lee Lash, H. A. Dow nham, AL
derman Sweeney, Councilnen Klaus, Stri-
der and McCuen, M. c. Thompson, James
McCue, Augustus Brill, Frank Murray of
Washington, N. Wattles Theodore Cook,
Charles Klaus, Frank Smith, John T. Rob-
erts, George Bontz. James Keogh, Joseph
Weiderman and John Proctor
Mrs. Mary Fleming died at her home on
Wolfe street yesterday after long illness
She was in the seventy-fifth year Of her
age.
Miss Thomas of Pennsylvania, who has
been visiting Miss Katie Bowie, has re-
turned to her home
Mr.. James Shinn is reported quite sick at
his home en- Columbus street
The funeral of Mrs. Sol Hopkins will
take place tomorrow. The remains will De
Inferred in Baltimore, the former home of
the deceased.
Watch night services will be held in the
Methodist churches tomorrow at midnight.
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1t is estimated by Ernest George Raven
stein, F. R. G. S., that the population of
North America is over S9,250,0O0. South
America 36,42O,O00. Europe $3.50, 900, Asia
$50, 100000. Africa 100000. Australasia
4, 100000, Polar Regions 100000. All about
the earth, Its division of square miles. its
languages, its forty-five principal govern
ments its Kings and Emperors, oceans,
seas, rivers, temperature, ETC., represent
but an infnitesimal portion of the informa-
ton to be found in The Evening Stars New
Almanac and Encyclopedia for 1896, con-
tanning 416 solidly printed pages of Ma
tional, International and Local facts, sta
tistics, records, etc. 25c. per copy. To be
had at The Evening Star office and all
news stands.
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.nches) was reported: During the past
twenty-four hours-Pensacola, 1.30; Vicks-
burg, 1.04; Galveston, $50; New Orleans
1.54
Condition of the Water.
Temperature and cond.t ton of water at S
am: Great Falls, temperature, 40; condi-
ton, 2. Receiving reservoir, temperature,
n; condition at north connection, 1; condi-
ton at south connection, 2. Distributing
reservoir, temperature, II; condition at an
fluent gate house, s; effluent gate house, 2.
Tide Table.
Today-Low tide, OBS am. and 80 pm.
high tide, GIG am. and GA pm.
Tomor1 ow-Low tide, rs am. and LIZ
The Sun and Moon.
Sun RISES 7:22; sun sets, 4:43. Moon rises,
1921 pm. today; sets, go a. m. tomorrow.
The Bicycle Lamps.
The police regulations require that All cy-
Giles, bicycles and tr.cycles in motion after
shutdown shall carry suitable Eight
The City Lights.
Gas lamps all lighted by Col pm; extin-
gushing begun at 6:O6 am The lighting is
begun one hour before the time named. II
clear, less Lighting may be ordered.
Naphtha lamps all lighted by 6:O1 pm.
extingu.shing begun at 6:21. The naphtha
lamps burn fifteen minutes later in the
morning than the gas lamps. and the moon
schedule does not apply to them.
Range of the Thermometer.
The following were the readings of the
thermometer at the weather bureau today
S am, Sc; pm, SO; maximum, SO; min
mum, "a.
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For Carrying n Pistol.

Richard Goodalrs Jail sentence for carry
ing pistol did not seem to have much
effect on him, for today he appeared In
Judge Millers court for the second time
since the new law has been in operation
He was arraigned for carrying a pistol
Richard is young colored man who was
recently in an alleged disorderly crowd,
and it was charged that he drew a pistol,
but did not attempt tC use it. Three wit
nesses gave evidence against the prisoner,
and Judge Miller committed him to jail
in default of $500 security for the grand
jury. The penalty is punishment by i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary.
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WILL SERVE IF WANTED.

Chief Justice Alvey Places Himself
at the Presidents Disposal.
Correspondence of The Evening Star.
HAGERSTOWN, December 20. - Chief
Justice Alvey of the Court of Appeals of
the District of Columbia was seen today by
a representative of The Star at his resi-
dence, In this city, and interviewed with
reference to hts name being mentioned in
connection with the Venezuela commits
sionershp. The judge was courteous, and
without hesitation admitted the published
accounts Of his consultation with President
Cleveland last Thursday. That Judge AL
vey will accept there is no doubt His own
language to The Star correspondent was as
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Transfers of Real Estate,

Deeds in fee have been filed as follows:
Alex. Wolf to David Wolf lot 81, So 1852;
SO. Walter R. Wilcox and Jackson H. Raj
ston, trustees, to Chas. N. Moore, lot %, So.
IA; $40. Albert B. Hines ct ux. to Jno. w.
Daniel, part Of lot %, SO. 5; $40. Zeno B.
Rabbit ct ux. to Rufus D. Wade, part of
lot 121, Mt Pleasant and Pleasant Plains;
So Elizabeth C. Breckenridge to David B.
Gottwals, lot 81, blk. 43, Holmead Manor;
$40. Theo. c. Barber ct al. to Ida Geier, lot
2O2, SO. 81; $500. David B. Gottwals to
Elizabeth c. Breckenridge, part of lot 60.
blk. 43, Holmead Manor; $. Chas. w.
Hayes to Lucy A. wizard, lot Is, SO. 100; 50.
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FINANCIAL.

The Union Savings Bank,
1922 F Street N. w.,
Pays four per cent interest
ON savings accounts. Open
until S p. mn. ON Govern
ment pay days and Satur=
day evenings between 6 and
s.
fe2O-2Od
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COIOred Y. NJ. C. A.

Prof Hirshow will deliver an address be-
fore the colored Y. NJ. c. A. this evening,
taking as his subject "A Few Pages From
Jewish History" The lecture will be given
in the rooms of the Y. NJ. c. A, 1907 18th
street northwest, at o'clock.
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Two freight trains came into collision near
Chattahooo hee, Ca, Friday. Fireman D..
Wood and w. o. Shale were killed and En-
gineer Roberts was probably fatally injured.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

Ever use calendars for
advertising your business?
Splendid, if they're at
tractive. Ours are! S12.so
per M. up.
Byron S. Adams, s sE?o TIT r st!
de3O-1id
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-30

Ride any good wheel on the market
then mount a COLUMBIA BICYCLE.
Whether you're n novice or an expert, the
genuine all-round superiority of the Co
LUMBIA will be perspicuously apparent
Inspect the 90 models. DISTRICT CYCLE
CO., 'Columbias," "Hartfords," 452 Pa
ave. NV. dc26-lId
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-30

Owing to the number of inquiries regard
irg the price of repairing vitrified brick
pavements, the following announcement
has been made by the authorities:
The price of repairing vitrifed brick
pavement as fixed by the Commissioners of
the District Is $1.35 per square yard, plus
the cost of every new brick or block that
has to be furnished to replace those lost
or stolen.
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Notable Decrease,

A notable decrease is shown in the weekly
report of the superintendent of the munich
pal lodging house of the number Of persons
cared for during the week ending December
%. Last week 1867 persons were lodged,
being a reduction of ~ over the previous
week
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C0RSoN & MACARTSEY.
MEMBERS OF THE NEW YORK STOCK
EXCHANGE,
1419 ST., Glover building.
Correspondents of NesS,s Moore x Scbley, so
broadway,
Bankers ard Dealers in Government Bonds
Deposits. Exchange. Loans.
Railroad Stocks and ltonls and all securities
listed on the exchanges of New York. llade phia,
Boston and Baltimore bought and said
A specially made Of investmen: securities. Dis
trict bonds and all lo"a. Railroad Gas. Insurance
and Telephone Stock dealt in.
American Bell Telephone Stock bouGh' and sold.
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The National Safe Deposit,
Savings and Trust
Company
or the District of Columbia
)f the District Of Colu

CORNER 18TH ST. AND NEW YORK AVE
Chartered by special act of Congress.
Jan, 1867, and acts Of Oct, $780, and Feb, 1892
CAPITAL: ONE MILLION DOLLARS.
SAFE DEPOSIT DEPARTMENT.
Rents safes inside burglar proof vaults at IS
per annum upward.
Securities, jewery, silverware and vauables
Of all kinds in owners package, trunk
taken on deposit at moderate cost.
SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT.
Deposits received fIom TEN CENTS upward,
and interest allowed on IS and above.
Loans non.y real estate and collateral
security. Sells iirst-class real estate and other
securities in sums of $500 and upward
TRUST DEPARTMENT.
This company is legal depository for court
ard trust funds and acts administrator,
ecutor receiver, assignee, and executes trusts
of all kinds. Wills prepared l'y competent
attorney in daily att.ndincc.
BENJAMIN 7. SNYDER President.
THOMAS HIDE First Vice President.
JAMES VI. JOHNSTON. Second Vice Pres.
THOMAS r. JONES, Third Vice Pres.
z. FRANCIS RIGGS. Treasurer.
ALBERT L. STURTEVANT, Secretary. oc19
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FOR SALE-OR TRADE-1O SHARES WASHING
ton and Great Falls Electric Railway stock. Ad-
dress JOHN EARLY, Star office. de26-3t
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ASSIGNEE'S NOTICE.
All creditors of Harvey B. Trott, lately doing
business At 1872 18th st. n.w are hereby notified
that the 18th day of December, 1895, he made
assignment - for the benefit of his cred
itors. All persons having lawful claims against
said Harvey b. Trott will present the same
properly authenticated, to the undersigned as
ssnee, and all persons indebted to said assignor
are requested call and settle forthwith.
CHARLES G. LANCASTER, Assignee,
de27Sts 1918 y st.
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'Spier the Jeweler'' Fix this phrase In your
'Spier the Jeweler'' memory-when about to make
"Spier the Jeweler" purchase OF Jewelry, Dia
"Spier the Jeweler'' monds Watches. You'll
'Spier the Jeveler' money If you do. 300
.Spler the Jewe.er" 9th ST., near Pa. ave.
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.nches) was reported: During the past
twenty-four hours-Pensacola, 100; Vicks-
burg, 1.4; Galveston, $50; New Orleans,
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Senator Perkins today introduced in the
Senate bill for the amendment of the
Nicaragua canal which is in most of its
details a copy of the bill in the House by
Mr.. Hail. 1t provides that the capital stock
shall consist Of one million shares at $50
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WEST END NATL BANK.-THE REGULAl
quarterly dividend of " per cent has been de
clared payable to stockholders OF record Of Dec
%, 1895. Books close from Dec. q, '0o.
January /, '96, inclusive.
dels-6t CnAS r. WILLIAMS, Cashier.
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The annual meeting of the stockholders
OF the Second National Bank of WASHINGTON
ID. C., for the election OF directors, will be held
at the bank on TUESDAY, the 14th day of Janu-
airy, 1896 between the hours OF II O'Clock noon
nd nr,I p.r
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OFFICE OF THE RIGGS FIRE INSURANCE COM
PANY, Washington, u. c., December &c, 1886
A semi annual dividend Of four a. per cent has
been declared on the capital stock, payable at
the Office of the company, 1881 st. n.w on and
after JANUARY 2, 1885, to the stockholders of
record at the close of business on December 80,
1895.
The transfer books will be closed from Decem-
Der 81. 1895, to January 2, 1896, both days in
elusive By order of the board Of trustees.
de26-It HARRY G. BIRGE, Secretary.
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A MEETING OF THE sTOCKH oLDERs OF THE
Capital Traction Company for the election of
directors will be held at the Office of the COM
pany, central power station, on WEDNESDAY,
the sth of January, 1896.
The polls will be opened at 10 am. and closed
at IL IN.
G. T. DUNLOP. President.
C. NJ KOONES Secretary de2l-15t
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-14
Our Progressive Age.

:. Were the people 100 years ago as happv
 as we are now in this progressive age?
 In the day of small things when men. and women were compelled to pass their
 lives in sort of Restitution, which to the
 people of this age of luxury would seem
 almost intolerable? Yes I believe they
 were quite as happy then as we are now.
 Then they had the lard lamp and tallow
 candle; now we have gas and electricity.
 Then they wrote with goose quill; now
 we have the gold pen. Then they paid
 ID, 70 and 25 cents postage, according to
 distance, on single letter; now we pay
 cents for all distances and think that
 IS too much. They travelled on foot,
 horseback, or in the old lumberine
 coach or canal boat. four or five miles am
 hour; now we travel in a palace car at
 the rate of fifty miles an hour, and want
 to go little faster. But space would
 fail to tell of our innumerable mechani-
 cal inventions. of our telegraph and tele-
 phone, and of all the improvements of
 the age in which we live
 Does any one believe that when God
 was locking up gold and silver (not free silver however) in His great granite vaults in our mountains, and depositing
 iron, coal. oil. gas and salt in our hills
 and valleys, enough for the present and
 for ages to come, that they were not to
 be used as instruments in accomplish ing some great purpose in the future !?
 Surely all these indicate that this coun- try IS 10 De the great theater upon which the most stupendous achievements are yet to be accomplished.
 Of all the changes for the better which have occurred since the commence
 ment of the present century, the change in the status of the woman has been the greatest and most important Then public sentiment and the. law were against her; she had no rights that man was bound to respect She was to all fntents and purposes simply a chattle, and had nothing she could call her own Mark tthe change. Now public senti- ment and the law are in her favor.
 I think it is clear that the world is growing better as 1t grows older. and has been all through the century. I know there are those who are always lamenting the retrogression of the pres ent, and who think that vice and crime are on the increase. But believe, if his tory teaches anything. it is that as the world grows older 1t grows wiser and better. I believe that the great human family is better, wiser and happier to- day than 1t was yesterday. I believe it will be better tomorrow than it is to- day, and believe it will continue to grow better wiser and happier through all the ages down to the end of time.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-14
AN Ad. SOLICITORS TRIALS.

There is agony expressed and unex- pressed in this beautiful world, and while that of the 'ad" solicitor is of the latter character it is none the less fear f full in it's results
 The lad" solicitor has to be smiling and gay and bear with his patrons, as a preacher with his flock, for it is upon the kindness of his friends and the circula- 2tfon of his paper that depends his salary, which is rather important appendage of the position.
 Next to a competitor the man who is too we'll known to require advertising comes in the list of troubles, woes and sfIibulations. This man is swell-headed .fsllow, with brains in his abdomen and he actually exists even in Birmingham. And the man who telephones the solicitor 'fthat he has an "ad" for him, and when the solicitor, breathless and red in the lace, reaches the fellow and finds that he wants cheap column notice for 15 cents he feels like cussing, but he doesn't-he smiles and takes the lad" Then there is the man who comes up at Il o'clock saturday night with his Sunday change He deserves death, but the interest of the business office demands that instead of killing him the solicitor use all his efforts to have the advertisement appear beauti- tuI and attractive the next morning. These, though, are only two or three of the 1000 and one trials that the inn pecunlouS solicitor has to go through with from the first to the last day of the week, including Sundays and all holi- days But the solicitor says nothing and. endures all. Sometimes he gets weary of lie, and you occasionally hear of one committing suicide, but he smiles to his customers and draws his salary regu-. larly He occasionally enjoys a glass of Deer, and when the end comes if any one in the world deserves to be buried with rites and ceremonies which will help them to a better world it is the Tad" so- lieftor who has carried the cares of the. bHslness world in which he exists with a smile upon his face and pleasant word for A II
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-14

ter which take a cotton cloth and wipe them off and you will find them just as good as new. This should be done every month to remove the carbon. If you want to keep wicks from smoking soak them in strong vinegar and dry thor oughly.
 The practice of burning the old and dry grass on unoccupied lands, in order that a younger and more tender growth may give pasture to cattle, is still com mon in some of our states, and it's re- suits, though of benefit to few, are disastrous to the general welfare. In Florida the cattle men have long been omnipotent. They have sway in the leg islature. which enacts laws to suit their wishes even to the extent of prohibiting
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-14

were. though it was not apparent, made into separate punches, and from each of them lavender satin ribbon -eytAeta,ee,1.' e1 to the plate of guest After they were seated, ti.e ribbons were drawn forward, and eech woman had bouquet of vio- lets. Perhaps the most astonishing freak of the caterers and confectioner's art is the foot of Trilby, in beautifully pink tinted ice cream which comes on as a large block for dessert, and over which good taste certainly shakes the head.
 A*
 That was good rebuke which an Eng fish bachelor is said to have given his sis ter, who wrote asking him to look up a governess for her daughters, enumer- ating the list of talents and virtues she should require, on a.-salary of $400 a year: "I'll look out for one. certainly"
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-14

towns and villages from passing or dinances to prohibit the running at large of cattle. A considerable portion of the state is thus annually burned over. Nor is it the grass alone that burns, but fire communicates to the pine trees, thousands of which yearly succumb. Meantime fences must be maintained to keep out cattle common CTS, only to be often burned in their turn. Worse than all the humus in the sandy soil is burned out and the future wealth and resources of the state are destroyed to privilege a few, whose entire interests are not a thosandth part in value of the ruin they accom- plsh. At this day and everywhere may be encountered tracts of utterly barren and worthless land, in the midst of comparatively fertile, whose fertility has been thus destroyed. In northern California similar aggressions are com
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Birmingham Aae- Herald. l

lBlrm1nSuam Ade- i1eralu.
 Little did we think years ago when Dr. Holloway, our great southern specialist, located in Birmingham and modestly an nounced through the columns of the Her aid that he would treat only a special class of diseases that he would ever achieve an international reputation. To our personal knowledge from across the ocean, in far away England, they have learned of his skill and fame and consult him. We be- lieve with the doctor that truth, merit and honor always win. He stands at the head "a pleasant gentleman, an able physician and is recognized as the leading author ity in the treatment of all private diseases. Birmingham may we'll be proud of him.
 Birmingham Daily News.l
 No specialist in the south is more fa- miliar with the treatment of private troubles than Dr. Y. D. Holloway. Dur ing his long residence in this city he has successfully treated many thousands of pa tients suffering with private troubles of every conceivable form. This great expe- rience, together with his skill and ability, not only places the doctor at the head of his profession in such matters, but Is guarantee to all that place themselves un- der his care that they will receive the best treatment possible to be obtained.
 [Sumter County Sun.l
 We have great specialist in Alabama. In point of ability he is second to none, and has been longer in Birmingham than any specialist there. 'sTruth, merit and honor always win," and in that line Dr. Holloway stands in the front rank.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-14

ance of new things go into the designing rooms of any of our large manufac- tories. There you will find many of the best workmen in the country constanly employed getting up new and improved patterns, which the market and general public demand. Ask the dry gooos mer- chant if he can sell the same patterns year after year. and the answer Will quickly come: No, we must have new designs. and that in large numbens every year. @.sf,
 With some of our florists the tneuBi its is 10 present picture rather than a mass of bloom, and their windows Ire a blending of hues where each lends beauty to the other. A half dozen Amer. ican beauty, cut with long stems and snrroundedswlth the green that becomes