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r5"35?'jP lp.w'Y7;""w7','!'B vtmpniw own w - - - ,j t-n ,(, yWPBI'Wi "OH'.--KctlWgyS-y-X- : .. -i- ?- "'TB.-.'.u. !i- -"f ,-w; "-- - Jwv, a: 4$ r C. STEWART, rusiKES3 Manages axd PlJBLIgHEB. Home Rule, Industry, Justice, Tquifity and Recognition according to Merit. W. 0. CHASE, Editor ahi Pbopsietob. VOL. 1. WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, APRIL -14, 1883. NO. 361 "Ci THE j ij Pj C-2 ALL ARE IXTITED TO KIIsTGr'S S14 SEVENTH STREET, 1ST. W. p n'f fail to inspect the Largest Stock, the Latest and Most Desirable f tyles, and Lower Prices than elsewhere. WE OFFER THE GREATEST INDUCEMENTS IN PATTERN HATS & BONNETS, Trimmed and XJntrimmed SSES WONDERFUL BARGAINS IN SMS, PLUME, TIPS, FLOWERS, SATINS, SILKS, LACES, LADIES', MISSES', AND CHILDREN'S DRESSES. legant Black Treble English Crape for Veils. LI-: THAN MARKET VALUE. KING'S PALACE, 814 SEVENTH STEEET, 1ST. W. The Largest Millinerv Establishment in the District of Columbia. H Best Wagon IS MANUFACTURED BY IE RACINE, fam justify earned the reputation of making "Best Wagon on Wheels.' tfaim'fwlures have abolished the warrany, but Agents may, on their own n-svmsiltilitv, give the following warranty with each wagon, if so agreed: WE HEREBY WARRANT tho FISH BROS. WAGON, No to bo well made in evcrj particular and of good material, and that the strength of the same is sufficient for U work with fair usage. Should any breakage occur within one year from this date by ivason of defective material or workmanship, repairs for tho same will bo furnished at H'liM-o of sale, free of charge, or the price of said repairs, as per agent's price list will be ilidin cash Ly tho purchaser producing a sample of the broken or defective parts as evidence. (Knowing ve can suit you, we solicit patronage from every section of the United States. iSoufl f or 1'rices and Tormsj and for a copy of tho "Racine Agriculturist," to FISH BROS. & CO., Racine Wis. WE WILL SELL DAILY AT I Behrend's Baltimore Store, 8 Seventh St N. W. SNiEW SPRING GOODS at auction. Now is the time for great baaics in $Gocdi. Djn't forget the name and number. TL BEHREND, 908 7th St., N. W. Fits, Epilepsy, i OR CALLING SICKNESS- V .ur.iontiy cured No Humbug by one H'utli s usage of Dr. Goulard's Celebrated ttufalhhie Fit Powders. To convince suffe ' ' iiuit these powders wilLdo all we claim 'rHt..mve will send them by mail, post l"l. h five Trial Box. As Dr. Goulard is w only Physician that lias ever made this (lie ... .. . M' - ii'rtuaiiem cure m every casu or ib laud j on all money expended. AU sufferers iI(j give these Powders an early trial,and '; rouvmcod of their curative powers. '-ice, for ltirge Box, $3-00, or 4 Boxes for 5?";,fr Seat by mail to any part of the jilted States or Canada on receipt of price, '.v sprees C 0. D. Address. ., ASH & KOBBIXS.. !H3 Fulton St.. lirooklyu N. D. W. LEWIS, ATTORNSr-ALAW, IVicjiccs in all tho courts of the District o i - ;vsu 1 n:i and the state of Virginia. -r .Hiw-it a specialty. Room 15 May Build ' - -. r. 7th Jc E s:s., city. f eb21-tf evi RcCabe, Caterer. eals Served. Oixt, .Table E5oard.. 8?"S f th Street, N. W. .mL v.; - ?. PALACE, AND CHILDREN. on Whee WIS., DENTAL CARD. I TAKE pleasure in announcing to my friendh and formT pa nine that I have icmovo iny Dental Office from oorner of 7th and i Streets t mure couvt-nient quartern at 1209 Pennsylvania Ave., where I may bo.found daily (except Sunday) from 9 a. m. to 5.31) p. m. To such as do uot already know me I wii oidy eav, that bavinc practiced DENTISTRY for OVER THIRTY YEARS, I can pronra first-claiB work; making the inseriioa or AR l'l FICIAL TEETH a specialty. lean insure good fitting eet of teeth in every caae, whil. mv charges will be moderate. In thanking mv fricHdtj for their liberal pa tronage up to date, I hope that the same wil bo continued in the future, promising, a. heretofore, to do my best to plraae all wh may favor mo with s call. E. E Hewlitt & John 1 Moss, Attorneys at Law. Practice in all the Courts of the District Collection of claims before the departments and debts of every description. Office, 4JU Louisiana avenue, rooms i ana . .-"" floor. feb3-lf. HOUSE AND WALL PAINTING, GRAINING, &C. Stewart & Belt. Orders left at the office of The Bee will be promptly attended to. 1107 I Street, N. W. Ap7-lm. In Clear or Cloudy Weather, Wonderful Effects by the Wo were the first to introduce it in this city. Also tho onginatdrs of low prices. Elegant Cabinet Photographs 3.00 per Doen. Cards 1.00 per Tozea. Prooff3 shown and Satisfaction Guaranteed to aU. The Finest Skylight and IVlost Spacious South of Phiald'elphia. ' Hours fox Sittings, from .. IVT to O DP- IMC. $25 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, NEAB 10TLT STKEET. Special Rates made to Clubs of 5, 10 and 20. THE ONLY MUL 912 P Street, Opposite Masonic Temple, ARE NOW OFFERING SPECIAL BARGAINS IN CLOTHING FOR SPRING AND SUMMER WEAR. -:o: EEAD THE FOLLOWING PRICES. Men's Working Suits $5, regular price $10; Men's All "Wool Suits $7.50; regu lar price $12; elegant English Melton Suits, in ten different patterns $10, regular price 18; fine Black and Blue All Wool Cheviot Suits $8.50, regular price $14; imported English Worsted Suits $15, actual value $25; Men's Work ing Pants $1, regular price $2; AU Wool Giutom-Made Pants $2.50, regular price $4; Boy's Suits, from 12 to 16 years of age $4, regular price $7.50. N. B. Remember we have no connection with any other establishment in the city. New Store ! New Goods ! ! Hew Prices ! ! ! DO NOT FORGET PLACE AXD NUMBER, 912 F Street, Opposite Masonic Temple (ho only Original London Misllt Stow. JOHN F. ELLIS & GO. 937 Pennsylvania Avenue, Near Tenth Street IAISTOS AjSTD OEGrANS For Sale at Reasonable Prices, on Easy Terms Toning, Repairing and Moving promptly attended to. Cornets, "Violins, Flutes Guitars, and everything in the moaio line for CASH Olfc OIST ICTSTVAJLiME&N'.'X'S. JOHN F1. ELLIS & CO., 937 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. Reel-Eye The Reliable OF WM. HAHN Desire to impress upon the minds of those in search of Good Shoes at Low Prices, That Reliable is our motto. Reliable our dealings. Reliable the materials used in the manufacture of our goods, and Reliable the statement that we can give our customers more for their money than can be found anywhere else. Spring goods now arriving, Ladies' Hook and Laced Shoes $2.00, and fine Kid and Goat Button $1.00 up; Gents' line Button and Laced Shoes $2:00; Children's Heeled and Spring Laced and Button Shoes, 75 cents, Infants Shoes 25 cents up. WM. HAHN & CO., 816 7th street, and 1922, Pa. Ave. N. W. " Sign Red Slipper. S eals ! Seals ! Seals ! RUBBER STAMPS, &c. S:als for 'all Secret Societies made to order at tho shortest notice. D'ESIG-NS AND JUSTJLMA'L'i FURNISHED, JULIUS BAUMGARTEN, SEAL ENGRAVER AND DIE SINKER. fb244y ' 1222 PENNA. AYE., WASHINGTON, D. C. Instantaneous Process ooms ID1H MISFIT STO Shoe House. CO. Jewels and Regalia for all Secret Societies. For G. U. 0. of O. F. a Specialty. RE, dc k Fttt-TTasning CsreMOBy. T5Ton nerror saw a foot-washing ? said the Rev. Joseph Bowen, a Baptist minister from Tennessee,,to a St. Lomis reporter. "Then you could not have traveled muoh in the backwoods sec tions of the South and West I remem ber seeing one at Randolph, Tenn., in June, 1877. Randolph is. in Tippon county on the Mississippi bluffs. I had to stay there over Sunduy, and learning that there was a meeting at Salem church, six miles away, I borrowed a horse and rode to tho place. The church, built of logs, with tho 'cracks daubed, sat back about 100 yards from the road in tho middle o a grove. In side, the seats were all pretty well fill ed, and every head In the chursli turned as I entered. I- shrank into, a corner arid took a seat as quickly as possible In front there were a few benches made of unvarnished poplar, but the supply falling short the demand had been met by planks laid on boxes. On one of these I sat down next to a port ly lady dressed in a cotton gown with broad yellow checks. The minister had well earned his reputation of being a 'powerful exhorter,' as I found when he commenced his sermon. As he warmed to his work lie walked rapidly from side to side of the pulpit, stopping occasionally, as in a thunder ing voice he warned his unconverted hearers that they were 'hanging over hell-fire by a single hair,' to deal re sounding blows to the Bible with his fists by way of emphasis. When he concluded he took a long crasTi towel and girded it around his waist. At the side of the pulpit was a bucket of water and a 'noggin.' If you don't happen to kifow what a noggin is I may explain that it is a small tub a size larger than a piggin. This one had been constructed by sawing a whisky keg in half. When the preach er commenced pouring the water into it an old gentleman in the amen cor ner commenced pulling off his brogans and rolling up the bottoms of his trousers. "'Will some brother raise a hymn?' asked the minister, and the brother, who now had his shoes ofT and was en gaged with his home-knit cotton socks, raised one: "I am aSoldier of tho Cross," and as the congregation joined he put both feet in the noggin, which had i been set before him. Tho preacher squatted down in front of him, rubbed his hands around over tne feet and up and down his shins half way to the knee. When the brother thought they were washed enough, he held them up out of the water, and the par son wiped them on the crash towel. Then the parson sat down, and, having pulled off his shoes, had his feet wash ed by the brother to whom he had just ministered. All who wished to join in the ceremony had taken posses sion of the front seats the mourners' benches. Among those who had gone up had been the portly sister by whom I sat The noggin came to her next and she washed the feet of the sister next to her, having her own washed in turn. When all the feet on the front seat had been bathed, the water in the noggin was emptied out the back door and a fresh supply brought in from the well near the church. The noggin passed around from brother to brother and from sister to sister for an hour, and in that time I saw more varieties of feet than I have ever seen before or since." Wonders of the Ocean's Depths ' As to the quantity of light at the bottom of the sea there has been much dispute. Animals dredged from below 700 fathoms either have no eyes, or faint indications of them, or else their eyes are very large and protruding. Crabs' eyes are four or five times as large as those of a crab from surface water, which shows that that light is feeble, and that eyes to be of any use must be very large and sensitive. An other strange thing is that where the creatures in those lower depths have any color it is of orange or red, or red dish orange. Sea anemones, corals shrimp and crabs have this brilliant color. Sometimes it is pure red or scarlet, and in many specimens it in clines toward purple. Not a green or blue fish is found The orange red is the fish's protection, for the bhiish green light in the bottom of the ocean makes the orange or red fish appear of a neutral tint and hides it from ene mies. Many animals are black, others neutral in color. Some fish are pro vided with boring tails so that they can burrow in the mud. Finally, the Burface of the submarine mountain Is covered with shells, like an ordinary sea beach, showing that it is tho eating-house of vast schools of carnivor ous nnimals. A codfish takes a whole ovster into its mouth, cracks the shells, digests the meat and spits out the rest. Crabs crack the shells and suck out the - meat. In this way come whole mounds of shells that are dredged up. Pro fessor Veyrill. " COAL MINERS. Hew Tixey Pre-ria for t1e f7Wsir 4 Orphan. Marrying Out of Geaera.ity. A correspondent writing from Wilkesbarre, Pa., says: Accidents in the collieries of the middle district of the anthracite coal fields, of which thi3 city is the center, madelast year nearly one hundred widows and over five hundred orphans. But notwithstand ing the frequency of fatal accidents and the absence of any organized chari ty, the larders of the widowed families are never empty, none go naked, the household fires are not extinguished and the little home i3 never stripped by a -landlord's warrant. Kind hands see that f uod is xrovided each day, and the men returning from their work in thjc mines do not forget to carry to the widow's home a lump of anthracite for the next day's use. Communism in a peculiar sense prevails among the coal miners of Pennsylvania. The lucky divide with the unlucky as readily and as cheerfullv as if thev belonged toono family. However much all may quarrel on abstract questions of poll tics or religion, all discussions are dropped at the appeal of charity. While, as ha3 been said, no organ ized relief societies exist among the colliers, there is a general system in vogue which does its work well and promptly. Every printing office in this region is visited weekly by persons wanting raflle tickets. Those tickets cost one dollar a hundred, and are hpaded "Raflle for a cooking stove," or clock, bureau, quilt, table, or some other article of domestic use. It is an nounced that the raflle is for the bene, lit of a widow or injured miner, and on the "night after pay day." The price of the ticket is generally fifty cents. The raflle is in charge of a committee whose names appear on the ticket. Take the case of a woman for instance, lately made a widow. She has been left penniless, a3 miners' widows usually are. Everybody un derstands this, and the hundred tickets are promptly disposed of among the miners, who pay for them on pay day. On that night the widow gets $50 cash. The night of the raffle comes, and, pos sibly, one-fifth of the ticket holders assemble. A fiddler, a keg of beer, and a little "hard shtuff" form the ela. ments of the entertainment. The young lads join in a dance with the lasses, the old men sup and smoke their pipes, and the old women recount the virtues of the deceased miner. About midnight the raflle begins. The names of the ticket purchasers are put into a hat and well shaken. Whoever secures the prize at once turns it over to the beneficiary. The company breaks up happy over the good time they have had, and the kind deed they have done. That $50 goes a long Avar in keeping the shadows from the littje house. It will sometimos pay a whole year's rent, and it only re quires one or two more raffles to keep the victor's poor larder stocked, for it must be understood that potatoes, cab bages, and meal, form the staple arti cles of diet in these humble homes. A year is a long time for a comely and thrifty woman to remain a widow at the mines, no matter how many children she may have. Jim is killed to-day, and possibly before the summer ends, Jack, who was Jim's best friend insists upon marrying Jim's widow Jim's babies become his. And if you go below the surface you will find the foundation of Jack's action to be pure charity. It is a matter of record that when the terrible Avondale disaster occurred so many widows and helpless ones were left that the mattpr of caring for the former speedily was discussed It was quickly settled by propositions of marriage, and within a very short time after the calamity the household of every victim was protected. This same spirit exists in every mining community to-day, and is a shield against much distress. Efforts have been made from time to time to induce the miners to abandon a custom that prevails among them. Whenever a man is killed in a mine while at work, every man in the col liery where the accident occurs stops work. Frequently 1500 employes turn out and remain out for two days. There appears to be a deep superstition that prompts that peculiar exhibition of respect for the dead. Still Even- On Montcalm street recently a boy was leading a goat around by a rope, when a pedestrian asked if he wanted to sell the animal. "Course not, we just got him," was the reply. "What did you want of a goat?" "Notliing much. We bought him to get ahead of the Browns, who have a fox, but they've gone and got even again. "How?" "Why, three of the family have been mesmerized, and Johnny h;is had tw teeth filled." Detriot Free Press. AMUSEMENTS Holiday Gonoer AND SXBIEI THE GLEE CLUB Or THE tonsljington abcto WILL GIVE THEIR FIRST PUBLIC CONCERN AT LINCOLN HALL, MONDAY EYENISG, APRIL 10, 1883, EMANCIPATION DAY, ASSISTED BY Madame Agnes Smallwood; Miss Blanche Washington: Mr. R. W. Thompkins, v Mr. J. Wm. Cole, Mr. John T. Layton, A. J. Hall, of ChiGagpr and others. PROF THIERBACH, Pianist:, Glee Club of Thirty Yoices. This concert being made up entirely of our Home Talent, and the manager ment being at less expense than whmi strangers are brought from, a long dis tance, it has been decided to put tho tickets at popular prices. General Admission, 25 cents: Re served seats, 15 cents extra, or twot reserved-seats for 25 cents extra. This merely nominal charge for that privilege of reserving a seat just where' you would like to have it, is only sufll. cientto cover the additional cost and! trouble of extra tickets, ushers, &c. and must undoubtedly meet the hearty approval of all. Reserved seats may be purchased at Metzerott's Musi'ct Store, or General Tickets exchanged for, reserved seats on payment of thet difference. Sale commencing Monday morning? April 2, 1883. Fine vocalists, fine selections, wor thy object, home talent, popular prices;, and holiday must draw. CAPT. C. A. FLEETWOOD, Manager: Complimentary Testimonial! By Distinguished Citizens of Washington to Wliss Henrietta V. Davis Pupil of Miss Marguerite E. Saxton, who will appear in a series of Dramatic Kscitais, Assisted by Miss Blanch Washington,, the talented Musician, Introduction by Hon. Frederick Douglass, AT- - Marini's Hall, Wednesday Evening, April 25, 1883 Admission, 50 Cents. Miss Henrietta V. Davis will make her debut before a talented Wash ington audience in dramatic art. Her tutoress Miss Marguerite E. Saxton is well known as an elocutionist of extra ordinary ability and she has undoubt ed! v trained Miss Davis to a higlii staii lard in the profession in whiGhshei has mastered. The Emancipation Celebration WILL TAKE PLACF Monday, April 16, 1883. The Procession will form in front of the City Hall at'll o'clock. Col. Perry H. Carson, Cnlef Marshall, Exercises at the First Congrega tional Church, corner 10tli andGSts.,N. W. IN THE EVENING AT 7.30 P:. Mi, Hon. Frederick Douglass, Orator, oft the Evening. Itev. R. S. Laws and Col. IngeisoUt will also speak. JSTMusic by the Coronet Band..J3 Col. M. M. Holland, Master of Cere monies. W. Calvin Chase, Secretary, nf tha Committee on Sneakers. Admission fee will be 10 cents to pay current expenses. The exercises wuii be under the auspices of the committee of arrangement. Chairman:, TIQN DRILL. f.i u, m u r