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J 9 jf MSP LUjr.K - ! A.i2--' w jr Terms. $200 per year. Home Rule, Justice, Equality and Recognition according to Merit. 5 cent per copy., VOL- II. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1883. m !bbbbb m jmtr'k ""HP" ""'MF'" ""sbbf " ..' IKk .jr s- m fiU'jaSGUfa'- BBS SH BBS BBI SBULfriflBBBBBErBJUHr bbm BBB BBS BBS X SnalHraBcilM'aM .. .-..3 BBBI BBC BBB MBV TTTaBJBBBBBBBP XlfLvX BBBI BBBI BBB BBB y NO. is: FINE FOR MEN, IYOUTHS AT THE M CORNER 6 0th AUD F STREETS. jinnot be surpassed in variety of style, reliabilitv of material, thoroughness 1 workmanship, perfection of fit. or elegance of finish, while prices are 25 to -" per cent lower than those of any house in the city. OVERCOATS FOR MEN" AT '..''; wtJtuSti:6' ?5, worth ?,J; c- worth10; worth 15: MEN'S AND YOUTHS' SUITS AT BOY'S & CHILDBEDS SUITS AT -A-ZtsTTS I A splendid assortment from $2 up. H.vsl .make, from 2 up. These goods are equal and superior to anv good ""wniiorc. .satislaetion guaranteed or money refunded at i rip fyi i 1 Ho lie sfil Store. Gor. 10th & F Sm. 5 1 Make no mistake and come to the corner of 10th and F Sts., X. W -fusst :reo:ei:ei- OUR NEW Fresh and desirable styles in Silks, Satins, Velvets, Plushes, Brocade Silks, t'astimeres, Dress Goods and Shawls. Great bargains from the Large Auction Salt's in New York and Baltimore. Black Cashmere at 55 cents, fully worth $1. A line of Blankets which are slightly imperfect, at 1, $1.50, $2.50 and $H (per pair. Full line of perlect goods at moderate prices. Lace Curtains, Bro ratellr and Crimson Plush. Corsets Domestic, 50 and 75 cents; Foreign, SI and $1.50. Hosiery and Underwear. Gents' White Shirts, the best in the market, 50 cents, 75 cents and 1. 3-Button Kid Glovs. $1 per pair. Every pair warranted. 5-hook Lacing Kid Gloves, 1.25 per pair. 6-button Mou qui'tuire Kid, $1. 50per pair. Flannels, Cloaking Cloth, Silk Henrietta, &. (Crand opening of our Now Shawl and. Clook Department. Great bargains. L. BEHREXD'S BALTIMORE STORE, 90S Seventh Street,. W. JOHN F. ELLIS & GO. 937 Pennsylvania Avenue, Wear Tenth Street PIA.1STOS .AISTO OP.GA.jSTS For Sale at Reasonable Prices, on Easy Terms tv Timing, Repairing aud Moving promily Guitars, and everything in the muaio line for CASH OH OIV IISTLIEIN"TS. 937 TI0N0F50PERGENT. THE ORIGINAL LONDON MISFIT STORE, 912 F STREET, OPPOSITE MASONIC TEMPLE. HAS THIS DAY I..-1--- . - -r-r ,, , a.000 OVERCOATS iiu-iuaing jkien s, iioy s, loutns anu umuioua,uuorm -u -- York city. These goods must be sold, regardless of cost or value, uur 1'iiees for Men's Overcoats are as follows: Just think of this bargain Splendid Men's Diagonal overcoat j $Z.m. Look at this bargain Elegant Chinchillas, Blue andBlact, ?5.oU. Better Bargains Blue, Black and Grey Meltons at o.5U. Mill greater among them are 100 at $8.40, without a doubt would be cheap at $16. We also call your special attention to our great variety of Ulsters and Uister pttes, which Ave name at the low price of $3. 500 Children's Overcoats at $1.62. 300 Children's Ulsters at $2.87. Make no mistake and come to the ORIGINAL TaOJSlTy&JSr MISFIT STORE 913 F Street, Opposite Masonic Temple, SIX D00BS FROX KISTH STREET. CLOTHING AND BOYS ! ISFIT STORE 9 ZF-AJSTTS 1 1 9 - - - - . . ww . r attended to. Cornets, Violins, Flutes PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. RECEIVED nu:u - o ,1i'roof ffrnm TTfindnilftrterS STOCK A FlgHTTITH A WEAPON. Power or tho Swerd-Fltli in its Attacks on Vessels Illustrated in Some Re markable Cases. In 1871 the little yacht Red Hot, of NTew Bedford, Mass., engaged in sword fishing, was struck by one of these ashes so effectually as to sink her. She was ultimately hauled up and af terward used by Prof. Bairdin the ser vice of the Pish Commission. A Glou cester schooner, the Wyoming, on her way to George's Banks, in 1S75, was struck at night by a sword-fish, the sword penetrating the hull to a dis tance of two feet. The shock was dis tinctly felt by the captain. The fish finally broke away, leaving its weapon, that if it had pulled out would have undoubtedly sunk the vessel As it was, she leaked badly. J. P. Jffarwood, master of the Brit ish brigantine Fortunate, reported an instance similar to this. While on his passage from the Rio Grande, this ship was struck by a large fish, which made me vessel shake Yery much. Think ing the ship had been merely struck by the tail of some sea monster, he took no further notice of the matter ; but, after discharging the cargo at Run corn and coming into the Canada half-tide-dock, ho found one of the plank ends in the stern split, and, on closer examination, he discovered that a sword-fish had driven his sword com pletely through the plank, four inches in thickness, leaving the point of the sword nearly eight inches through the plank. The fish in its struggle broke the sword off level with tho outside of the vessel, and by its attack upon the ship lost nearly a foot length of the very dangerous weapon with which it is armed. There is no doubt that this somewhat singular occurrence took place when the vessel was struck, as Captain Ilarwood described. A sword-fish weighing over four hun dred pounds struck the fishing boat of Captain D. 1). Thurlow, while he was hauling a mackerel seine, off Fire Is land, and came near sinking her. The captain made several half-hitches around the weapon and the fish was secured, and sent to Fulton Market. lJi jw vears aso the bnjr P. M. Tinker was hauled up at the Norfolk ship yard for repairs, and upon examina tion it was found that the leak Was caused by a sword-fish, tho sword being found broken off, forward the bands, about sixteen feet abaft the fore-foot. The fish, in striking the vessel, must have como with great force, as the sword penetrated the copper sheathing, a four-inch birch plank, and through the timbers about six inches in all about ten inches. It occurred in the morning when the ship was eighteen days out from Itio, and in the neigh borhood of Cape St. Roque. She was pumped about four o'clock In the morning, and found free of water. At six o'clock the same morning she was again pumped, when water was ob tained, and, on examination, it was found that she had made ten inches of water. The men were kept steady at the pumps until her arrival at Rich mond, and while there and on her trip to Norfolk. Captain Dyer, of New Bedford, had a curious experience some years ago. He struck a sword-fish from a thirty foot boat forty miles south-west of No man's Land, threw overboard the keg, tacked and stood by to the windward of it. "When nearly abreast of it the man at the mast-head called out: "Why; here he is, right alongside." The fish was then about ten feet from the boat and swimming in the same direction, but when he got where he could see the splash of water around the bow he turned and struck the boat about two feet from the stern and just below the water-line. The sword went through the planking, which was of cedar an inch and three-quarters thick, into a lot of loose iron ballast break ing Gff short at the fish's head. A number of boats, large and small, have been "stove" by sword-fish on our coast, but always after the fish had been struck. The power of these fishes is incon ceivable. In the planking of the ship Leopard a sword was found that had pierced the sheathing one inch, then through a three-inch plank, and be yond that three and a half inches into the hard oak timber. The men at work estimated that it would take to drive an iron spike a similar distance nine heavy blows from a twenty-five pound ham mer. In an examination of the ship For tune, a sword was found that had been driven through the copper sheath ing, a board under-sheathing, a three inch plank of hard wood, then through a solid white-oak timber twelve inches thick, then through another two and a half-inch hard oak ceiling, and finally through the head of an oil barrel, where it stopped, not allowing a drop of oil to escape. A solid shot could nardly have done much greater dam age. A good example of timber dam- aged in this' way can be seen in the museum of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences. THE SQUATTERS KUSE. no Saves a Friend By Ills Very Evasive Answers. Several weeks ago a party of revenue men stopped at the rude houso of an Arkansas "squatter." ITr saw at a glance who they were, and when they called to him, he limped out to the fence. "How do you do, sir?" said the com mander of the squad. "Putty well, thank yer. Won't yer light an' hitch?" "No, we are in something of a hurry. What is good land worth yo--- -- "I dunno." "Thatsjngular." "It mout be ter some folks, but it ain't ter me. Say thar, Jim" turning to his son, "drive the sow outen the house, for she mout turn over the sugar troff an' spill the young 'un." "Do you know a man in this neigh borhood named Bob Blakemore?" "Is he got a sort o' moon eye on one side an' a sort o' rainy day eye on tuther?" "That's the man, I believe." "Sorter walks like he didn't kere whar he was gwine, do he?" "Yes, from what I know of him he does. "Sorter whines when he talks, like he was a longin' fur suthin' ho ain't got?" "He's the man, 1 have no doubt" 4 Wars a par o' shoes what was made by Josh Simmons, with one heel thiser way an' tuther thater way," making signs with his hands. "That's the individual. Where can I find him?" "Well, ef yer know him as well as I do yer oughter know whar to find him." "When did you see him last?" "Don't riccolleek tho last time as well as I do the fust. The fust time I ever seed him we fit. Wo fit till his wife she come, an' then till my wife she come, then wo all lit. Airter awhile we got mixed up, an' my wife she fit mo an' his wife r.he fit him, an'" find him, as we can doubtless strike a trade." " Yas, but lemme tell yer. Say, Jim, did ver drive out the sow?" v "Yas, pap." "Did he spill the young 'un." "No, pap." "Look here, my friers!." "Don't know as I'm yer friend, bu1 I'm er lookin' thar." "We want to find Bob Blakemore." "Ill tell you how ter find him ef that's whut yer want. See that hog path?" "Yes." "Wall, take that path till yer come ter the deer-lick. Bob's a mighty hunter an' yer air mighty likely ter find him thar." "Suppose he isn't there?" "Then I ken tell yer 'zactly where he is." "Where?" "Summers else. Say, Jim, is the sow all right?" "Yes, pap." "Look here" "Lookin' thar agin." "We want to go into the house." "Sartinly, come in," and the party dismounted and entered. After look ing around, and seeing nothing but a bed, a kettle, a sugar-trough cradle and a baby, they went away. After they had been gone awhile, a blanket in one corner of the room moved and Bob Blakemore's head appeared. All the time the old "squatter" had been en gaging the revenue men in conver sation, Blakemore, who knew that flight would be useless, was digging a hole in -the dirt floor, and when ha had crouched down and covered him self with the blanket, the boy, Jim, dis covered that tho sow was "all right." Arkansas Tnavelcr. A Trial of Horses at Heavy Pulling. In trials made not long ago at the Illinois industrial university it was proven that a pair of more than or dinarily powerful farm horses, one weighing about 3,250 pounds and the other over 1,400 pounds, at a "dead pull" drew 1,000 and 1,025 each. This was done when tho band was tight ened so that the straightening of the traces gave the horses the benefit of their own weight. With loose band allowing the traces to rise naturally, each horse drew 300 pounds less. These horses were both well snod. Another horse of about the same ap parent strength as these, but unshod, could only draw 675 pounds with tight band. In each case the horse was hitched to the end of a rope about 15C feet long, having the benefit of the stretching of the rope as a relief from a "dead pulL" The maximum strength seemed to be exerted at each trial, all the horses being accustomed to heavy pulling. TOPICS OF THE DAT. Mr. Maryin H. Bovee, of Wisconsin, who has considerable notoriety through his persistent efforts in many parts of the country toward the abol ishment of capital punishment, intends to visit the Legislatures of all South ern States during the winter, and dis cuss this question before those bodies. A verdict in the Superior Court at Augusta, Ga., giving damages to a ubiici xui injuries sustained dv a daughter fourteen years old, in the Augusta factory, from which injuries the child died, is regarded as settling a very important precedent, establish ing liability of manufacturing com panies to parents in damages for injur ies to minor children while at work. Miss Booth and her companions, who were expelled from Switzerland, Were enthusiastically received in Lon don on their return to that city. Fully fifteen thousand people attended the three great thanksgiving meetings held in Exeter Hall. In a speech on the occasion Miss Booth said that, at whatever risk, the Salvationists were determined to resume the fight for the redemption of Switzerland, and not only of Switzerland, but of France, Italy, Australia and America. Among the pleasant souvenirs of his visit to Washington, which Chief Justice Coleridge, of Great Britain, Will carry home with him, is a sonnet written by his great-uncle, the poet, in the album of on American lady more than half a century ago. The lady was iuiss Barbour, a daughter of James Barbour, of Virginia, who was at that time United States Minister to Great Britain. The sonnet was writ ten on the eve of her return to Ameri ca, and has never been published. The new and thrifty town of Pull man, near Chicago, lies on a Hat prairie, and the problem of drainage, which is so difficult to solve in a great many places, had to be met in Pull man. Tho following is the one adopt- ilJj wuZiiin'sa atrtv i,m6 fii. 'v..-. suits. Sewers are built to empty into a sunken tank, from which the sew age is pumped through a twenty-inch main to a farm three miles away. The system cost $S0,000; the farm yields a profit of $8,500 a year. The New Orleans Exhibition, which is to be held in December, 1884, is rapidly taking shape. The preliminary arrangements have been perfected in nearly all the Southern States, as welj as in Mexico and the principal governments of Central America. There is no reason why such an exhi bition should not be a great success in New Orleans. It is the largest city in the South, with many features which make it interesting for winter visitors. The jetties have given the city its anti-war position as the great commercial city of the South, and it is fitting that this should be celebrated by an exhibition of Southern products. Tea drinking was lately denounced in violent terms by an English clergy man at a meeting held to further the establishment of courses of instruc tion in practical cookery in the elementary schools. He said: "If I had my own way there would be much less tea drinking among people of all classes. Excessive tea drinking creates a generation of nervous, dis contented people, who are for ever com plaining of the existing order of the universe, scolding their neighbors and sighing after the impossible. I sus. pectthat over-much tea drinking, by destroying the calmness of the nerves, is acting as a dangerous revolutionary force among us." One reason that so many men desert from the army 15 per cent, a year, it is said Secretary Lincoln thinks is due in a great measure to the fact that the enlisted men are employed most of the time not as soldiers but laborers, and, what makes it worse, without payment for their work. Their life is made unbearable by an unending round of hard work without compensa tion. This might be obviated in two ways Congress might provide for a force of laborers, carpenters, etc., or the soldiers when so employed might be allowed extra duty pay. At present it is rather discouraging for an enlisted man to be employed for months at a time as a carpenter or blacksmith for about $19 a month, counting in the cost of his rations, when he could make say $60 at the same business in civil life. A German savant named GruseL bach, Professor of Chemical Science in the University of Upsala, has been de voting a considerable time to perfect an apparatus to freeze living people, and keep them in a torpid condition for a year or two. In any case, he announces that he will undertake by his process to freeze up any lady or gentleman willing to submit to the ex periment, and benumb them, deprive them to all annearances of vitalitv. pledging his word to bring them round . J. - - m 9 gcux m uic cApirauon oi a coupie oi years, with no prejudicial effects to mind Or bodv. As nn nAvantnrmKi person has come forward to suddIv the savant with tho desired opportuni- K, ne nas submitted his invention to the Swedish government, with a re quest that a criminal condemned to death shall be provided to enable him to demonstrate the efficacy of his discovery. Albuquerque (Albukerky), the metropolis of New Mexico, is one of the most phenomenal cities in the United States, so far as rapidity of growth is concerned. In April, lSSO, the llrsfc train of o:ir mm-hn tho present town site, which was then a i body of farming land. The town was I laid out the following summer, and the marvelous building boom began which has resulted in a substantial town of rme onsine&s blocks and pleasant residences, many of which would be a credit to cities of 100,000 inhabitants. A large proportion of its business houses are of brick. The old Mexican Town of Albuquerque is a mile oi more distant and at the time of the establishment of the new town con tained 3,500 inhabitants. It is esti mated that the two taken together now number in the neighborhood of 10,000 people. No town in the West, with the exception of Leadville, has ever experienced so rapid a growth. Life in the Arctic regions, as described by one of Professor Norden skjold's companions in his late expedi tion, presents somewhat different experiences from the usual picture of existence in these latitudes. Some of the expedition stopped at Waigatz Island, and Dr. Nathorst tells how they walked about in their shirt sleeves on the slopes, covered with plants and shrubs, with butterflies and bees s.warm.f n uund Sometimes the Uy .in.x summer at home. We richly enjoyed a. i a bath in the spring. The mosquitoes , were very annoying, so that we had to ( use both netting and gloves. Every day brought us a rich harvest of petrifactions of tropical plants, such as figs, plantains, magnolias, etc., and while at work on the slopes we could feast our eyes on the innumerable ice bergs around us of every variety of shape." The United States public service includes a few veteran officials. In the Post Office Department, for example, the chief clerk in the office of the First Assistant Postmaster genend is the venerable James H. Marr. Congress has provided that so long as he holds this office he shall receive $2,500 a year, $500 more than the regular compensation. Another clerk in the same Department has been j in the postal service more than half a century. In the Interior Department ' a clerk recently died who had been employed in one of the bureaus nearly sixty years. In the War Department is a grandniece of Kosciusko, who has held her place for years. In the Interior Department is employed a great granddaughter of Thomas Jeffer son, whose salary supports her aged and invalid mother, who is the last surviving grandchild of the dis tinguished Virginia patriot. Speaking of some conspicuous figures in the late war, the Boston Advertiser's Washington correspondent says: "Sherman is 64, and looks older ; but the family is hardy, ana he is likely to see 1900. Sheridan is only 51 ; he was a Major-Gen end at 30. McClellan, now a rotund man with bending shoulders, has not changed much of late. .He is rich, and enter tains well in his New York city home. Eosecrans and his wife live, almost unnoticed, on Capitol Hill while he is here as a member of Congress from California. His complexion is like a vouth's and his hair as white a3 snow Hawley and Logan are the other two most distinguished Generals in Con gress. Both are 57 years old, but neither has gay hair. Eosecrans has been reinforced this winter by an old companion in the Western armies Gen. Sloeum of Brooklyn. Gen. Sickles is practising law in New York, and Stoneman is Governor of Califor- : "P i-nm vn fr. is Tin Innrrpr rinh TTc lilt. J. A.lv w ..- ..v..& ... . , and his wife, Jessie Benton Fremont, are forgotten in crowded New York Don Carlos Buell runs an iron furnace in Kentucky; Banks is a United States Marshal. Terry, the youngest of the Brigadiers who won fame in the war will succeed Sheridan in the command of the army." I the fa u IfH, -... - r. i.. , IsswiftI ' !"lvc m,s-sl to your .sorrow a "real goo-1 ; j Rf ILRMpP LLiJ1IJ-L'-tUll rct GEM SIM 0 ' f first-class Hoots and Shoes. In J LenowoffMs0"' immen68 Stock' offers, ' $6.00 hand made Coots for $4150' j 4.00 calf and kid Boots 3iQ0 o.uu Kip, gram and calc Boots 2.50 2 .50 double sole calf Boots 2.00 2.00 solid kip Boots, only 1.50 SI. 75 boys, all leather Boo'ts 1,25 3.50 gent's fair stitched Gaiters 4tf.50 3.00 ladies kid and pebble button 1.00 unna s copper toe shoes - 40 Arctics and Rubber Boots, all sizes. L. HEILBRUN, n02 7thStN. W., Washington, D. C Never forget The Old Woman in the Window." u:fft5B JTLCirf rw iaA -. :' -SEWING MACHINE G0- CHICAGCULL.- ; . ORANGE, MASS. AMD ATLANTA. GAr FOft FEMININE READERS, Sense Without Sentiment, Don't try to get a husband, But strive each day to be A pure and noblo woman, Como wealth or poverty. Bo clean in heart and person, Ignore not household lore; Be modest, helpful, cheerful No man can ask for more. A good and filial daughter Will make a faithful wife; A man is blest and happy "With such to share hw lifo. Hour IEoyat liable Sleep. The lately born infante of Spain, Mury Ysabel, sleeps, wakes and crios ini a cradle shaped like a conch-shell, and! lined with, the palest of pink satin. Her tiny form is covered with point (V Alencon lace, especially made from a pattern designed by the Queen of Spain's mother, in which the arms of Spain andi Austria are gracefully-blended. She has a couvrcpicd and tiny pillow, on both ofi which the lilies of the House of Bourbon and the Y of her pretty name, Ystibul are faced and interlaced. The other new royal baby, the young hereditary Princu of Sweden, haa a muck less delicattt cradle, as becomes a hardy young TXotau man. It is shaped like a swan, tho wings coming up, if wished, and shol tap ing the little Prince, and it ie well pro vided with down-stuffed accossoricsii Florence, Italy) Times. Fnsliion note, New cloaks are made of dull blue velL vet. All outside garments should fit as close ly as possible. Buckle3 used with straps for fastenings are fashionable. There is a return of favor to clinging dress draperies. Silk costumes arc relogatodl to house; and carriage wear. Seal plush is immensely popular for. cloaks and mantles' Silk flounces are vandyked, scalloped! and sometimes pinked. Black stockings remain the first favor ites of fashionable women. Balmoral skirts are wider, but the yoke about the hip is invariable. Square cut corsages are the most fash ionable for morning dresee. The sabot sleeTC, full its whole lengthy and so popular in .England, fc gaining! favor here. The ram falte muce upon iuie jus and the unjust; but ii to the. unjust- who steal the umbitillas arul l tnoi just feel the rain. Speaking of visiting, aoes it ever occur to you that the telephone; girll answers more "calls" in one day tham other ladies do in a month? 'IO &g A jes ' 9 Xi Hi fir afffr-'fsH!:;;;n:,s-- - frTlTir " I H lif wmmS j i rufcr c wt, ., -"oii? 31 S"- ' -.-rT-r. -- AW.I