Evening Star Newspaper, November 7, 1882, Page 2

~ thein pass t ing i ESI EE THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. [on Tae Crevine Star, Autumnal Tinw. The world ts rich tn autamn’s gold, An beautiful with fallen leaves; ‘The earth gives ont the scent of moid Over which the west wind softly grieves. Wan willows by the river's brink Like Niobes or natads stant, Whose earthward-streaming tresses drink ‘The pale sunshtae from sea and land. ‘The sumac’s duller crimson fades, And wan and withered g) snod Where rutn’s footstep yet evades ‘The aster and the golden-rod. Bright leaves like f Our heediess fest shed rainbow gieains; And scarlet muples give the glow Of sunset to the woods and streams. JoMN Savary. len Stars below THE OF COR- A Description of Bridewell Privon. Ts WhoLesome Effect cron TRamrs — TAK % BY THE CELLS — RELIGION About twenty-three miles from Washington, on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. the passen- gers catch a view of a massive brick building, havinz somewhat the ‘Waieh is situated pr t of a prison house, » yards from the arly every traveler 1 the reply ts given a house of correction Those who are aware tiary In, Baltimore, boys, and at fnguire place it is, a Diietl; at is Bride well. established by the state that there is a state penite as weil as a Cheltenham a house o| y3, are at a loss to know the utility of Bride- well. When, however, one reth on the faet that from about the close of the war to within a d,and that the peniten- tiary Itimore city was becoming uncom- fortabiy full, and that for offenses for which the pubishment is imprisonment in jail the prison- ers cannot be worked to advantaze, the wisdom of creating a “Brideweli” isapparent. THE DECIMATION OF TRAMPS. Already has its bene‘lts been male apparent by the rapid diminu: the genus “tramp” fn the state. Under the law, this is the piace for the confinement and labor of the lower grade of criminals, and most of the inmates are those ses the punishment is from 60 days ne years. By seading here prisoners, who would otherwise go to the penitentiary for less than a term of three years, the overcrowded penitentiary Is Taose whose punisiineat - would otherwise be in jail at least earn sufficient to support themnscives. are some who enjoy fife here better than out- shown in the fact that a few since it { on January Ist, S79, have served 3. Some on being released have to return in a few days, and have y kept their promises. Ustrily those terms to serve than having 21 prisoners ments at the end of tl for hospital purposes. for the erection of an | plans) will be asked fro: ature. There are four floors of cells reached by iron stair- | floor. 50 on a side. In each | i 1 so that it inst the wail a small semi- | circular = hinged im the same manner and also a stool In some of the celils the watts | bave been decorated with pictures and draperies | of cut paper. yme of the work shows great and are locked in when not at work or attending Feligious service. HOW THE CONVICTS ARE EMPLOYED. Eighty to one hundred of the men and/ boys are making overails, using sewing Machines for the work—the task of eacn in his 10 hours in summer and 9 hours in winter beinz 18 pairs per day: 70 men are employed in | grading for a switch to the railroad: 6 regular hands work on the farm, with such others as inay be required;"15 women find work in the kitchen and laundry, and 45 women in working battonholes in the overalls, &¢. Most of the [ane are servinsr sentences for assaults and nies. Generally, an old stazer can be told by his prom; aaswer when asked ‘what are ’ while others will use © women are nearly all colored, and at Present iil up ali the celis allotted to them, which are located on the 2d and 34 floors. right There are now ro Washingtonians among the female convicts. One of the men, Sam . is from the west end of this city and is} in for stealing. ‘The men fill up the remaining T80 ceils, and 2r-are contined in the large rooms at the eud of the tiers of cells. CUP IN THE CELLS.- Althouch the two sexes are kept entirely part. seldom seeing each other except in al tending service; Cupid is not idle even within There are more eases than one tender passion has been evolved in the hard and stony hearts of prisoners. fn this piace where a woman well known in this city a few years aco by the name of “Mollie and in Baltimore as “Iris Moll” her destiny, having beea — sen- here year’s term, which she eerved ont “Hike a man.” Duri earcerat.on she became smitte on the same train, the was asked, the ex-co1 red by an acceptance and the knot was tied in Baltimore. They have not returned since to the prison, but reports have Feached + xXcepting now and engage ittle spree, they are pertectiy happy, and the old love kindled at Bridewet! is still burni couple, man from Tennes- and she a street and on Sundays are aljowed to have a short interview, which affords @ pleasant relief to their dreary prison life. RELIGIONS SERVICES. Religious worsiip is held in the chapel room, the Catholics and Methodists alternating Sun- day afternoons in holding services. Numbers Of visitors attend these services, and at times | they are very impressive, the singing of the col- ored convicts being grand, the prisoners seated, with the officers watching over them, generally sing respectrul attention. In addition, on buadays. religious papers and books from a lib- rary vtec furnished the prisoners. and many of most of Sunday reading or writ- 5 ¥ Steam, a 31-horse power gre leyed. Although as yet the om is net worked ax It will be. yet ‘t yields a considerable in in the way of vegetables, and tc officers haveno be seli-s yporting. Thi now as ioliows ; FJ W. Keys, ell, 8. S. Mills, Jack Coffia. Brom the New Haven Eovister. Ansonia has fost her tallest man, Nathan L. i Deceased | be more English in its style. Then there ia the Johnson. who died on Suaday last. wes six feet ei zcht inches high, so tall that a gasket could net be found in Bridgeport or New York long enongh to onry the body in, anda new one had to be made. One under- taker tu Bridgeport bad a coffin six feet four Anehes jou; that he kad made in anticipation of @ demand for some possible special occasion, ‘Bet for any person tn particular, but he thought i t die sume time. and as his neixiabors might not have a suitable casket ‘Ke could tn this way find a market for his coffin. —_—_——~e-________ Curtixe ax Inranv’s Ham Ustccey.-—A re- merkable iactance of appearance versus super- stition came te my Knowledge recently. A wife having an ‘nthet in arms with hair on its head was desirous of improving id's appearance by cropping It: but as it is sald tebe ustucky te cut a baby’s hair, she gained the desired. end by biting it off with her dent ocerred in an adjoining vitlage.-Noles und Quries. he surplus being lo- | hat it will soon | . | legs S| the c: my { the trousers be LETTEK FROM COLORADO. Its Politics, Its Mining, Its Cattle-Rais- ing, &e., &c pecial Correspondence of Tae EvENtnc Star. Denver, October 31, 1882. One who may have visited Denver during the ast two orthree years will this season notice ess of the outward appearances of business and srowth—less of rush and excitement upon the streets and in the hotels—but yet the citizens will tell you that Denver and Colorado were aever more substantially prosperous than to-day; at the output from their mines was never greater, and that while the crowd of visitorsand speculators has fallen off there is no decrease of the men who come to stay; and probably they are right. There is less of building here in Denver than I noticed on my visits during the last and the previous year, but the buildings this year are of a much more substantial char- acter. A court-house and a town hall, both of stone, and of size and style superior to many of our state capitols, are approaching completion. Several churches | noticein progress of erection, every Way rivaling the most costly edifices for that purpose in our Eastern cities, and school- houses—not great traps for the slaughter of the children in case of alarm like some in Washing- ton, but sensibie, tasty, solid. two-story build- ings—are being erected’ in ali quarters of the city, so that the children while at school are near home and within the observation and knowledye of their parents. By the number and quality of the school buildings one may believe that Den- ver is doing her full duty in the line of free schools ; and the homes which are being erected [ notice that in their size and appointments they are far ahead of former years. Denver claims & population of 60,000. THE REPUBLICAN KILKENNY CAT FIGHT. Just now the people of Colorado are in the white heat of a political excitement, and the contest is of a violent personal’character. Some two months ago the primaries of the republican party were held for the election of delegates to the state nominating convention, at which time the party divided into two hostile camps—on the one side the friends of Secretary Teller, and on the other the friends of Senator Hill. Sec- retary Teller appeared here to lead his forces in person, and he is now here again directing the fight. The result of this personal quarrel—and to an outsider it seems a very needless one—is a division among the republicans more bitter tata the hostility of either wing to the common enemy. The two leading republican papers of Denver, through supposed friendship to ator Hill, are treating the republican ticket, not with indiference merely, but with bitter scorn; and so, thoush the state is deoidedly republi- on the part of republicans no little jiety as to the result of the election next week. The railroads are doing a creat deal for Col- orado. The Union Pacitic and the Rio Grande are pushing their tracks in every direction, and the result is mere ‘mining cainps” of a few months ago are numerously springing into thriity “towns” in all sections of the state. Two years ago this very mouth I found it a hard pu the Uncompahgre river. t week I rode to that very spot in a com- ble * iw And on the banks } of th: Curay’s home stood alone, only those two twelve-imonths ago, I now found A PROSPEROUS TOWN, with hotels, stores, shops, banks, post office, telegraph, telepiioae, newspaper, &c., &c. Mining matters seem to be in a healthy condi- tion in Colorado, but with much less of the specutation of former years. New ‘teads” and “placers” are not infrequently being discovered, and one often hears of sales for $20,000, $50,000, and even $100,000; aud auew mine at Lead- ville was soid this’ month for a round million. But these big sales have grown very rare. openigg a mining district, which promises well. It is adjacent to, and, indeed, most of it a part of the section of the state occupied by the Ute Indians until within a little more than a year. From these valleys and adjacent mountains until | this season, through fear of the Indians, even he miner prospector has kept a sale distance. The San Miguel river runs throuzh the principal | valiey of his virgin region; and in the moua- | tains, where this river and its tributaries head, | within a few weeks have been found remark- | ably tine leads of both silver and gold, and the “bars” along the river seem to be rich placer | deposits. In company with several gentlemen , ot Colorado [ recently crossed this valley, and ! : way visited a claim of six miles on the river in which several Washinzton people are interested. We washed pans of both soil and gravel from several points on this | claim, aud found gold in every instance, and | generally in quite liberal quantity. We met an old timer, who had made Himself by months of prospecting in that valley pretty well acquainted ; With its resources, and he told us that there were nmilles of the valley in that seetion in which we then were trom whose bars of gravel, as well as from its top soil and likewise the river bed, he had never washed a pan without finding rol are ttle-raising, which for years has been a large and profitable business in Colorado, is now en- Joying the “boom” in that line of ‘enterprise, | and many of the young men who are seeking ‘homes f this state are turning their thoughts that direction, and ‘cattle ranches” are being oid at liberal figures and new ones sought in all the distant ax hitherto un plored corners of the state. Colorado may deed be said to be in a prosperous condition, and she is fast filling ber broad demain with a | superior class of citizens. A Very Old Love Song. White as her hand fair Julia threw A bali of silver snow; The frozn giove fired as it few, | My bosoni felt 1t glow. Strange power of love, whose great command an thus a snowball arm; When sent, fair Julia, from thine hand, Even tee itself can Wari. How should we then secure our hearts? Love's power we al! must fecl, Who thus ean, by strange magic arts, In ice his flame conceals *Tls thou alone, fair Julla, know, Canst quench my flerce desire, But not with water, ice or snow, But with an equal fire. a An Ugly Garment, From the London Graphic. - Truly the trousers is an ugly garment, and H the only things to be said in its tayor are that | it covers the lower part of the body—the upper | as well among the Miggleses of the seaside— | and is warm. Nothing can be worse adapted for a muddy day when the back becomes | caked with mud and makes a smooth coating of the plastic soil upon the heel of the boot. If not tucked up it imbibes the moisture on a wet day. and takes hours to dry, and in the ease of soldiers has been proved to be so un- satisfactory that those slowly-moving people, the nuilitary authorities, have larsely favored . leather bottoms to the legs, and in iry, pautaloons and boots. if, then, condemned in so wholesale a bocker? Well, that certainly is not graceful, but a more comfortable garment could scarcely i be found. The old-fashioned pantatoon? Cer- tainly not if It is to be buttoned at the ankle and tied up with strings. The breeches of our grandfathers, the regular old John Bull mode, with shoes in fine weather and top-boots in wet? We might do worse, and nothing could | esthetically-shaped garment of your Bunthorne and your Archibald Grosvenor? Not bad if made of decent material, and not of velvet of a moonlley, oat Lrrins sles. fora Cee garment there is n u suggests utilit; graceful k more than peed Why not modi {thing more dred ail said and done. we have too m of with our heads to about our legs. Porviar Better in the wisdom of vaccination has received a severe blow tn of Germany where a large number of chil those vaccinated for the first time and nated after an interval y¥ Wagon trom the railroad | TWO DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE sNoW. Terrible Sufferings of two Men Without food in the Mountains of N: From the Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise, Oct. 25. J. H. Sperling. assayer for the Great Sierra Mining company, Tioga, who came near losing his life in the Sierras week before last, arrived in this city yesterday morning.” He still suffers from a badly frost-bitten foot, but is able to limp about pretty well. In other respects he looks as hale and rugged as a grizzly. It appears that he left Bennetville, a camp on the west side of the mountains, to inspect for eastern parties some mining property on Mount Gibbs, ai the head of Bloody Canon. He had for guide and companion Dan McKinnen, a man familiar with the section of country into which they were gol When they got up to Mount Gibbs a furious snow storm set in. The guide soon lost his way, and for twogights and two days and a half the two men struggled in the snow, which was two feet deep on the level, and in many places had so drifted that it reached almost reast high. They had no provisions with them, and all they had that they could eat was a small piece of raw, fat bacon, which they had taken with them for use in greasing their snow-shoes, They were exceedingly hungry the first day, and divided and ate the bacon raw. After the first day they did not much feel the pangs of hunger, but felt great weakness. They had no blankets and dare not attempt to slee] The place was full of precipices, and the nights being very dark they could only travel during daylight. They were obliged to stop wherever dark came upon them. The first night they stopped where there was some wood, but the next dark came upon them ina place where all was bare and barren. At distance they hadseen what appeared to be a sinall grove, far down in a big canon, but dark- ness came upon them before they could reach the place. There were so many perpendicnlar BER 7, 1882—DOUBLE SHEET. WASHING TON’s PERSONAL EFFECTS Interesting Relics in the Possession of Hilw Nearost Kinsman in England. Rev. besa af j in London News. Thave } recelved notice of the death of Dr. Lawrence ;A. Washington, grandnephew of George Washington, and his nearest relative. He has left a widow and family in very neces- sitous circumstanies, and I haye been thinking whether the admirers of the illustrious general here in England could not, ina way Ihave to suggest, help them now. Their inheritance consists chiéfly of home historical relics of their great kinsman, which, however interesting to the family as memorials, can add nothing to their comfort. These are a suit of clothes in silk rep, in a good state of preservation, worn by the general at the time of his first inaugura- tion, the sword worn by him on state occasions, and the sabre used during the revolutionary war. They possess, besides, fifty letters written by George Washington to his brother Samuel, the doctor’s grandfather. One of them was written from Valley Forge, and gives a vivid picture of the sufferings endured by the reyo- lutionists, which have since become a matter ot history. Many of the letters give directions about his slaves and farm affairs. The family is desirous of parting with them for an equiva- lent in money. [ have in my possession the last letter written by Dr. Lawrence A. Wash- ington before his death (August 10, 1882), In which, after enumerating these relics, he adds: “ And being reduced to comparative poverty by the rebellion, and being a Confederate, I wouli like to dispose of them for a sum that might be considered something near an equivalent for such relics. If, therefore. you should know of an association or individual that would like to possess such relics, please put them in corre- spondence with me.” The poor man died before anything further could be done in the matte: Since then I have received a letter from his daughter, who is a widow and living with her mother, in which she says: ‘My father’s terraces and precipices in the place that they dare not venture to go on in the dark. A “council of war” was held, andthey decided to split to pieces their snow shoes, make torches of them and push on down to where they had seen what presented the appearance of a grove. The pitchy wood of their snow-shoes made ex- cellent torches, but being filed with grease they burned away rapidly. The distance to the fiat in the canon, where lay the supposed grove, was much greater than they hadanticipated; be- aides, their progress throuzh the deep snow was siow, and when they finally came to the flat their last torch was aimost buried out. Enough ol it remaiued, however, to show them that what they had taken to be a grove was only a black patch of sagebrush, the tops of which they had seen above the snow. However, as they could make sufficient fire with sagebrush to keep from freezing, they decided to pass the night at the spot. They kept awake all night and kept busy about balf the time pulling sagebrush in order to keep up their fire. The next day they discovered that they had got down into Bloody Canon, the mouth of which strikes the plains in the neighborhood of Mono Lake. They pushed on, wallowing through heavy drifts aud tumbling down the rocky terraces with which the canon is filled. it being the roughest pass in the whole range ot the Sierra Nevada mountains. During the day McKinnen becaine delirious, and Mr. Sperling had great difficult in zetting him to travel. He imazined all manner of th At one time he | declared he saw a horse | he is,” cried he; “don’t you see hit dog—there is a dog with the horse. There must bea man near.” ‘There is no tree, no horse, no dog,” said Sperling; ‘you only imagine these thi Come on or We shall perish. It is only a little way down the canon.” It was necessary anen along down the canon, as he laring that he saw a horse and a dog; it Mr. Sperling ‘could not see them he must be snow blind.” Next McKinnen declared that he saw a man but a little way off with a basket on his arm. “ He is beckoning us to come to hin,” he said. “Let us go. He isa man sent to find us. Hi has in the basket something for us to eat. “You are mistaken.” said Mr. Sperling. ‘There is no man there. There is nothing at all” “1 tell you that you are snow blind There is a man there with a basket, and he wants us to etohim.” ‘Come along,” cried Sperli “there is no man, and we shall perish ii wi stop here.” “No.” cried McKinnen; “we shall die if we don’t go totne man” ‘ You are : hty—a little ont ot, your head,”, sal ; “believe what {tah you" and’ sine “T shall not Fo. on. fF -see the: man plainly enough. He has a basket ‘on’his arm, and motions for us to come to him. If you can’t see him you are either blind or crazy. I {have as much right to my way as you have to yours, and I say, let us go to the man!" Sper- ling found it necessary to drag his companion away by force. Soon he became so much worse that he would stop and talk to stumps and stones, telling them he was lost, and asking them to lead him out of the mountains. With infinite toil and trouble Mr. Sperling and his companion finally reached Troy's ranch, near Mono Lake, and all their troubles were soon over. Mr. Troy was not at home, but his wife did all that any onecould have done for the two wen. McKinnen came out all right ja mind after he had eaten and slept, but still thought he must haveseen a horse and dog. and a nian with a basket on his arm. . —————+e-_____ Hiding on the Platform. From the New York Tribune. The latest published volume from the Court of Appeals reports two lawsuits brouht by persons hurt while riding on the car platforms. In each case the company contended that the casualty was the passenger's own fault. for he had no right or business to be riding on the platform, and in both the court decided in the passenger's favor. It seems, then, that platform riders have some rights. In one of the cases the car was a pass- ‘er car of the New York Central road, trund- aiong one of this city’s streets, when a “street Arab” cadght at the steps, climbed upon the platform, and sat down to enjoy a stolen ride, Thus the company had the benefit of the good point in railroad Iaw that the boy had not the rights of a tare-paying passenger, but was a mere trespasser who might lawfully be put off the train at their pleasure. But the boy testifled that a brakeman kicked him off while the car. was ‘running about ten miles au hour. and that he was badly burt by the fall. Th court said that a person stealing a ride may be put off the train by the company’s servant, but that this must be done after stopping the train. and in @ manner to avoid doing any unnecessal injury. The conipany’s lawyer atzued that if kicking the boy off while the car was running was unlawful, then it was not to be supposed that the company had instructed the brakeman to do it, but the man himself was the one to pay damages. The decision was, however, that ejecting trespassers from a train is one of the juties of conductors and brakemen, and that the company is responsible for the manner in which they perform it. In the other case the car was a street car in Brooklyn, and the passenger hurt was a grown man who had paid fare. There were vacant seats inside, but he rode upon. the front. plat- form because he wished to smoke. Neither conductor nor driver objected to his doing so; but by some negligence of the driver the pas- senger was thrown off and hurt. The company produced the common rule posted in the street ‘Passengers are forbidden to get on or off the iront platform,” etc. But the judges said that this did not forbid their riding there, and that, If it was customary, as witnesses declared it was, for smokers to ride there, and the con- ductor took this passenger's fare without re- quiring hin toe go inside, he had the right to consider that the com; rmitted him to Tide where he did. pub ——_¢2—___ The Real Profit Entirely Overlooked. From the Wal! Strest Daily News, A Baltimore ‘nan who bought him a farm two or three years ago was recently approached by a friend who bad some money to lavest,and who asked: “Can 1 buy » pretty fair farm for $15,000?” “Yes, about that figure.” “And [ll want to lay out about $10,020 in improvements, | presume?” “Yes, fully that.” ee ' can invest another $10,000 in blooded ‘And 85,00 ore im_gradi more in sting eh ponds, and vo\forthe™ mete alicke you may get through with that te “Tnat's 840,000, and now let's gure the ia- death has left usin a very unfortunate posi- tion. I am his youngest child and am a widow. My busband ana father bouzht the place we are living in. We had only lived here three or four months when my hus- band was thrown from hie buggy and killed. My husband was paying for the place by the month out of his salary. Since then we have managed to live by strict economy, but never to pay all we owe on our home. We should like very much to dispose of the relics that we have of Gen. George Washington, 90 as to be able to pay what we owe and keep our home. We know that the people of England have a great veneration for the memory of Washing- ton, and thought perhaps you miht know of some one who would like to purchase them.” Such are the facts and history of the case. Some twenty-five years ago the corporation of Lon- don gave, I think, the fancy price of £500 for the autograph of William Shakespeare. Simi- lar curiosities have fetched equally high prices. Is there no society or Individual willing now to pay @ like tribute to tho memory of the great and good Gen. Washington, and to assist his nearest living relatives? Could a subscription be started for ti esting relics aud have them placed in some pub- lic museum? Growth of the World’s Wealth, From the Longon Saturday Review. In the meantime, while the amount of first- class securities has been steadily decreasing, the wealth and population of the world have been United States, and to a le: ‘tent in the principal countries of Europe. wealth has been growing during the past generation to an ua- precedentedly rapid rate. It is estimated by high authorities that between 1865 and 1575 the growth of weaith in the United Kingdom was at the rate of £290,000,000 a year, and probably the rate in the United States was not mucii less. ven if we assuine tiat the rate of growih since 1875 has slackened. there can be no doubt at, all that the accd:nulation of wealth has coutinued at a very rapid rate, not only here at lu: in all the’ more advanced countries o! the world And sume portion —_of thi: annually raved wealth must have been invested in Stock Exchange sev rities. The larger part. no doubt, went tend business; to improt to construct public works, and so on; but some portion of it was invested in Stock Exciaase securities. And the steady investinent of new wealth year after year has had a wreyt pleat! upon the prices of securities. While, as we have seen above, there has been a wreat dimi- nution in the debts of the United States aad of the United Kingdom, there has been in another way a diminution in the securities held the richer countries, owing to the aocumuiation of wealth in the poorer ones. For exainple until lately the bonds representing the debt ot Itaiy were held chiefly abroad, and more particularly in France — It is said, however, that the growtin of wealth In Italy of late years has been such that the Italian people have been able to buy from foreizners a larze ion of the Italian bonds held abroad. has had the effect of securities this has been actin: purchase of these very inter- | steadily increasing, In the United Kingdom, ! THE RED-BRICK ORDER. Thatis Ob- An Architectural Mistak. Wellas in England. werved sficre au From the Pall Mall Gazette. In its own way red brick is a very good thing WRINKLES IN WOMEN’S GOWNS. Their Origin and Hew They Have to be Remedied. ‘From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “Can you read fhe riddle of wrinkles, dress THE LADIES’ THEATER IN LONDON A Novel Idea. A lyrical theater ts about to be opened at which (with the notable exception ot the au thors and composers of the pieces) all persons indeei. It is warm in color; it is domestic, it sorts well with Dutch and English notions of home life. But it isnot an architectural pa- nacea. In London red brick is a simple necessity of the situation; no othgr good building ma- terial can be had within a convenient distance, and for all purpose: of ordinary house-bullding brick or nothing is the Hobson's choice of the limited householder. Under these circum- stances, our architectural authorities or late years, turning over in their beads the question of sound, honest material for London dwellings, have wisely repudiated the time-honored maxim that Queen Anne is dead and have revived Queen Anne in all her ruddy glory from Fitzjohn avenue at Hampstead down to the humbler roofs of Bedford Park, at Turnham Green. Be- ing compelled to build in brick they have sen- sibly decided to adopt a style based entirely upon brick as its material, instead of copying styles based upon solid stone, which is unat- tainable within the limits of what the Saturday Review will not allow us to call the metropoli- tan district. But a curious result of this acci- dent or misfortune of the London basin has now begun to show itself in many provincial regions where ee building stone is cheap and abun- dant. Visitors to London have got into their heads the notion that brick is fashionable, and they have accordingly set about building brick houses, brick schools and brick public offices in places where stone is quite as cheap and far more desirable. Anxious to be in the height of the architectural mode, they have taken to put- ting up Qneen Anne erections where Queen Anne ought never to have shown. her royal red face at ali. Instead of building pretty houses of the same strictly domestic type in local stone and in styles adapted to stone, they seem to fancy that if they adopt the new esthetic fancies at all they must adopt them in their entirety, material and all. In fact, they want to reverse the boast of Macenasand Baron Haussmann.and to leave a city of brick where they found a city of marble, Accidental Murder. From the New York Times. Ta there such a thing as accidental murder? From the Soteldo trial it would seem that there may be. That case Is certainly mysterious. Barton had published in the National Republi- can an article reflecting on Soteldo the elder. He, accompanied by a younger brother. visited Barton, at the office of the paper. With what precise purpose they went was one of the ques- tions on the trial. Even what took place is involved in mystery; that there was an affray and that the elder Soteldo was killed by a pis- tol-shot, seem the only facts undisputed. No fourth persona witne: shooting. Barton ladmitted drawing a pistol upon the elder | Soteldo, but swore positively that he could not discharge it—e:ther because he could not get it cocked or from some deiect it would not go off —and that the deceased was killed by a bali from the younger Soteldo’s weapon, aimed at Barton. Upon this version of tie facts the younver Soteldo was put on tral for murder. dunitted shooting at Rarton—indeed he hit punded hiin—but swore that he d.d thisto save his brothers 1 and not until after his {brother had fallen to ti | pistol-suot trom Bartoa. The jury. either be- cause they believed that the fatal ball sped from | Barton’s,pistoi, or because they considered the question” involved doubt, acquitted the This leaves hin: amenable to varge of shoot'ne at Barton, and u-ation of murder, if a t his was the pistol which Inflicted ti fatal wound, and that there is not aim se f-def ers will be surprised at reading that of the elder brother were clearly attributable to the younzer’s bullet, the latter | could inned for murder, when he had jot the siizitest inteat to kil or even injure e elder, but, on the contrary, was there to succor and protect him ery easence of murder is aa inteation to ki: Yet a sood many cases have occurred in wich the jud ces have felt it necessary to impute an intention. although the “shvotist” did not actually euter- tain it. In England, years aco, a suldier posted as sentry had a grade against a fellow suldier |named Mahoney. He supposed that Mahoney | has been posted as seatry on the post next to | his own; and, m this belief, discourzed hia gun who was keepiag zuard on the other aing to kill dahoney. In fact, how- i . Mahoney was not on guard that night; a main naned Taylor was fn his place, and Taylor rece ved the bail intended for Mahoney. Tie jJudzes sad that the mistake as to name made [no difference in the crime; the seutry was \g r he “intended kill the man at trial on a | Barton op | grand jury quarre! erose over ap and waxed so violent that ants brought his sua upon tie s to kill some of the adverse party; but it was discharzed accl- dentaily before he was ready, and killed one of his own friends, The judces said that, as the gun weit oF without his meaning te discharge t vuilty, but that if he had fired in the same way. Each evuntry invests by pre! e In its own securities, and as the wealth each country Increase: ie supply of foreign bonds in the more advance) countries diminishes. Thus the permanent tendency is toward a rise in the prices ot safe Steck Exchance securities. This tendency must continue to gain feree, thouzh it may H ‘cked every now and the vase or other, th new irs’ involving juld lea‘ te loans—that is, to the eri tion of new Steck Exchanye securities of class—and would thus tend to lower- pri while the destruction of wealth by the war w leasen the growth of wealth, and would also have a teudency to lower price: ‘The Glorics of the Ballot. From th: Det-oit Fr ¢ Fre-s He found half a dozen American freemen waiting for him when he reached his offic terday ‘morning The first one adinitted moved hia hat and zave three cheers. “* What's that for?” asked the candidate. “It's for the triumph of principle over cor- ruption—honesty over fraud—intezrity over iniquity and wickedness. The freemen are going to rally. How mnch do you want?” asked the caudi- date, as he pulled out his wallet. There will be such a rally of honest electors watil frou xample, yes- ie “‘ How much?” “The horny-handed.sons of toil have become dis—" “ How much, I say? “Weil, sir, I'll have to keep seven of the boys full of beer from now to election day, and I’m thinking that about ten——_” “STake it; here it is, Good morning; next!” The next entered With 4 cat-like tread, looked all around ‘fie room for listeners, and then, sinking his voice to'a whisper, he exclaimed Hush! "Tis battle cry of 10,000 freemen coming to the rescue! * Will @2 be enough this morning?” coldly in- quired the candidate. “You'll get there by the largest majority this county has ever seen! One part of my ward was going sojid-against you, thinking —' “Tl make it $3.” “ But I crushed ont the opposition.and when the glorious.sun of; Noy. 7 wilds the spires and steeples there will be such an uprising — “Here's $4—go “long—don’t bother me any more—big hyrry—apybody else? Candor. “I know what you'ra going to say,” she sal, ‘Ant she stopd up, Iboking un-ommonty tal’; “ You are Lrg 4k of thy And say you're sory the swamr's di And no olner suméher was lie tt, you know, And can Limagine what mad: tt so? ‘Now aren’t you, uonestly?” “ Yes," I said. “I know what you're going to ” she sali {Moura wong 00 wk I forget’ 2 ates That day in June wen tie woods were wet, And yon, curried moe”—here she dropped her “Yea,” I sald. “I know what you're going to say,” she said * You Bipot irs Satya try Power arope You hove rather torun tw rhymes, And”—her clo.r glance fell and her cheek rea— “and I have noticed your tone was queer. ‘Way. bh.8 seen it bert Now aren’t you, nonvatiy?” “ Yes," Fsaid. “Txnow whut vows golng to say” Teatds “Youre golag bo fy yOuvS been mich ane ewrar Li Mand T wees abeee Nie a dear old lassi - — JAA OT {koe as: r ee Veer Bho wae reat European countries, | the circuastance that he hit a ad of a for would not have saved him. ‘There was a7 instance in Cincinnati about ja dozen years avo; two poice officers arrested a rowdy and were “ riniing him im,” when one of his comrades came up. aided that they ease tris friead ed a pistol, but: sther oftiger he wounded his said that as the three men 80 near tuat firing at must be deemed a8 night happen. s were made in Maine and in about thr in the Dela- at shooting a per- sdeatal unless the mocent and lawful 1 Af a inan is criminal, consequence a person nit stead, tue offender as if he had hit the man in- cho an En ik whieh she told the nurse to give to the baby. narse neclected to foilow the direction, but left the bottle on the mantelpece, not knowing that the contents were poisonous. There were other childrea in the house, and one of these, only five year old. In the nur: absence, gut the medicine from the sheii and gave the baby some. The baby drank it and died. When the mother was tried for murder, ber lawyer arzued that she had nothing to do with the acts of the little five year old. But the court declared her Just as responsible for the child's giving the medicine which she had prepared to be given as she would have been had the nurse given it as she requested. Fashion’. Little Oddities. ‘From the ‘ew York Mail and ixpreas. Women of newly-acquired riches are doing their best to make it the fashion to wear dia- mond rings outside their gloves. Muffs to match bonnets will be among the fashions of the coming winter. They are small and many of them are trimmed with fur, The old-fashioned muff of our grandinothers is to be revived. The bill for the interior decoration of a private house on Madison avenue last summer, which has Just been presented, is $18,000. The owner ot the house rel to pay and the decorator threatens to sue. Young: ladies interested in alleged fox-hunt— inz wear very peculiar ornaments of a foxy and horsey kind, only suitable for grooms and stable boys. But these are carnival days for the do-as- Ilike young girl. * Rosalind hosiery” is offered for sale insome of the fashionable shops, and inasmuch as Mrs. Langtry will soon play the in this city shi Hemet hope the demand tort the stockings wi be large. They Call women nowadays, who use artificial means to beautify their faces, artista, because they paint 90 In old times, expecially tn New England, they would have been called something worse. Farewell bachelor dinners are now very much in vogue, some occurring every alght at Del- monico’s or Pinard’s. They are veritalie gas tronomic feasts. phe without regard to ex- St She dienes Dee bem ae the ball-shaped goblet ‘and the thimbie-sherry A di bet of for W. H. inner veges imported floor wounded by a! wrinkles, { mean?” inquired a dealer of surgi- cal instruments this morning as he talked across the counter to a Post-Dispatch reporter. ‘Do you mean fashions?” ‘No, I am not perpetrating slang. Actual wrinkles in the goods is what I refer to. Just notice whether there are creases in the side fronts of ladies’ basques at the waist line. Wrinkles either side mean prosperity for our business, and in elghteen out of twenty cases you'll find them. The explanation of this ts that women and girls have a habit of easing their position while standing by throwing the weight on one foot and aliowing the other leg to remain laxed and somewhat bent at the knee. If the weight is put on the left foot,for instance, the hip on that side is elevated and the right shoulder raised. This position assumed at in- henge will soon wrinkle the basque near the “But isn’t there some cause for women lop- Ping sideways?” 5 lenty of them. It would make a moder- ately strong man weak tocarry about the weight of clothing that & woman is obliged to wear in cold weather, and generally this weigit—twenty ands or more——is all on her hips. I don't lame her for taking any position that may be restful, but their are some attitudes, you per- ceive, that may also be injurious. I blame the wearing of narrow-soled, ‘h-heeled, button boots,so that she can't stand erect with comfort. The leather will soon stretch so that the foot slips about and naturally turns to one side, and of course she doesn’t change the buttons. In a lace shoe this would be different, providing, of course, that a common-sense heel were worn. The fashion of high heels gives.a great impetus to the sale of surgical appliances for straight- ei and protecting the person.” “How many ple do you suj wear those aids to health or comfort?” secs “One in five, including both men and women in the proportion of one to two. From a good many i derigh experience and observation, 1 conelude that in St. Louis there is scarcely one out of a hundred persons who is perfectly ——— The Lime-Kiln Club. From the Detroit Free Press. “It am my painful dooty,” said the President, as he opened the meeting, ‘*‘to inform you dat death has azain invaded our circle. Brudder Slipback Burbanks, of Syracuse, N. ¥., am no mo’ on airth. He breathed his last three days azo, after an illness of sixteen days. What ax- shun will de club take in de matter?” “I move dat we send de widder a resolushun of sympathy,” announced Jude Cadaver. “T reckon dat we had better resolve dat de club has lost a shinin’ light,” timidly added Pickles S.nith, De club will neither resolve nor for'd any resolutions of sympathy.” remarked the Presi ot. ** De widder an’ chillen can’t eat a reso- lution, eben if written in blue ink. De Seckre- tary will mali her a ten-dollar greenback from | de club funda, an’ exy de hope dat she am dooin’ weil under 4e circumstances. Dis club hasn't lo:t no shinin’ light by de | death of Brudder Burbanks. He was no shiner. act am, be was a werry common sort of a hunp-backed cull’d pusson, an’ it took him as jons to add seven an’ eight togeder as it wo some udder men to airn two dollars. He was pplished in nothing; he excelled only in kiilia’ time when at work by de di would be no better off if we pronoun lyin’ eulogies on his character. He can be no worse off if we tell de honest trut De usual inner doah fur de space of two w wili remewaber Bradder Burbanks a good-natured, eben if extremely Laz; ‘Two Promising Young Americans. From the Augusta Journal. Two natives of Maine are just now creating quite a sensation in Europe. They are Lillian Norton, who was born in Farmington, and Frederick L. Gower, a native of Sedgwick. Miss Norton is 24 years old. and is the favorite soprano of Paris. Her parents removed to Bos- ton when ghe was 7 years old. At the age of 17 she began her musical culture in the Boston Couservatory, where she remained three years. Sua then went to Milan. After her Italian course’ she was engazed by the Grand Opera House at StePetersburg for €1,000 for the sea- son. The next year her salary was doubled. She created a furor In St. Petersourg and in Moscow. She dined with the Czar and the im- perial family. At Paris she is under a threo years’ en-zazement at $12,000 per year, has lux- urious apartments, a carriage and liveried dri- ver, .¢. Her mother is with her, and has in- vitea her father, Parson Alien, to come over and make them a v.sit. fhe engazement of Miss Norton to the Mr. Gower above mentioned is now announced. Gower has had remarkable fortune. He ts 30 years of age aud is worth $1,500,000. He made his money in the tormatioa of telephone compa- nies in Europe. He receatly sold his Enclish Interests for $500,000. He isuow a large owner in French companies. His father died when he was 2 years old. He and his brotuer were edu- cated by Mr. A. H. Abbott, of Farmington. Since his good fortune Gower has made a hand- some return to Mr. Abbott. He visited this country last year, and purchased a €25,000 house for his mother in Brookline, Mass. He put a $1,000 enzarement ring on Miss Norton’s Hiager. “ihey wiil soon be married. . Mother Love. From the Buriingtoa Hawkeye. We were at a railroad junction one night last week waiting a few hours for a train, in the waiting-room, ia the only rocking-chair, trying tv talk a browa-eyed boy to sleep, who talks a great deal wien he wants to keep awake. Presently 2 freight train arrived, and a beauti- ful little oid woman camein, escorted by a great big Germa; ud they talked in German, he giving her deatly tots of information about the route she was going, and telling her about her tickets and her baggage check, and occa- joually patting her on the arm. At first our United States baby, who did not understand German, was tckied to hear them talk, and he “snickered’ at the peculiar sound of the language thst was being spoken. The great big man put his hand up to the good old lady's cheek, and said something encouraging, and a great big tear came to her eye, and she look: as happy as a queen. The little brown eyes — the boy opened | saads taking an artistic part In the performance will be of what was once looked upon as the weaker sex. Authorities differ as to when women ap- peared for the first time on the English stage; but it was reserved for the year 1882 to see men, at least at one particular play-house, driven from it. There are many flelds of activity in which men can manage to struggle on without the assistance of women. But the drama ts act one of them; and if apiece in which a large proportion of the characters are allotted to men is apt te be dull, a theater at which all the formers were men would be intolerable, an one would go near it. tirely upon actresses might be less insufferab! At this thoroughly new temple of art the minor pieces of the lyric drama will chiefly, no doubt, be cultivated; and if operetta and bouffe be well played, no one will object to the principal parts in these works being taken by women. The new undertaking may, In fact, be looked upon from two different poinis of view. It may be regarded as an attempt to piace be- fore the world opera bouffe In the most femi- nine form which that favorite species of enter- talnment, so largely dependent for Its success on feminine impersonation. has yet assumed, Or one may look upon it as an endeavor to prove how wonderfully well women can get on by themselves. in business as in art. It would be easy to show that the tastes of theater-oers do not fundamentally change ; though from time to time—and sometimes from one long period to another—it may be thought necessary to appeal to them ip different ways. The ballet as such has died out. But it lives again—with a poor kind of tife.it ts true—in some of the more animated scenes of opera boutte ; and in the post-Offenbachian operettas—so sadly inferior even to the questionable works from which they proceed—the proportion of temale to male characters has so much increased that the final step by which male personages, or rather male representatives of such personages, will be made altogether to disappear, ts not such anim- portant one as at first sight it may seem. Of late years a good number of the smaller theaters of Paris—known emphatically and dis- tinctively as petits teatres—have had pieces written apecially for them in which so many female characters are introduced that these works of art are known, in and out of the pro- fession, ax pieces a femmes. These dramas pos- sess, as arule, more scenic and pictorial than literary merit, and are more remarkable for grouping and costumes than for wit. There can be no valid reason,however,why they shoud not be performed, nor why they should not be patronized by those who care for representa- tions ofan essentially undramatic kind.—London Standard. Tigers Killed in Public. From the Batavia Sava Bode. Yesterday, (July 2,) so says the Mataram, a newspaper at Djocjakatra, there took place here the aunounced clearance among the tigers be- longing to his highness the sultan, in order to make room for a fresh supply when the new tiger pens will be built’ At about 10a. m. the sultan, the resident military commander, assixt- ant resident and other spectators appeared be- lind the kraton, and seated themselves in @ grand stand constructed for the purpose. Thou- f Javaaese flocked to the spot to see the Was several times tossed into the alr gored to death by the buffalo, which 1 been made as furiousas possible by peppered ter, burning nettles and red-hot iron bara, The combat lasted fully two hours. Afterward bezan the rampoken or tier fight. On the plain he kraton stood Javanese armed with stout spears 15 to 18 feet long..drawn up throws one behind the other, forming altogether an ex- traordinarily largesquare. The two foremost rows lay kneeling, the two hindmost stood erect. In the center of this open space were 13. straw- roofed wooden pens, In cach of which wasa tiger. Ata given signal a musical instrument called the gamelan begins playing @ martial air to slow mea-ure. Three tiger-keepers then step out of the ranks and approach the cage. ‘Two of them bear each a turaing torch, with which they set fire tothe straw. The tiger, frightened by the shower of sparks, is then forced out into the open space, but knows not whither to turn. It rounds round and seeks whether it can find an outlet, until itendeayors either by a desperate spring to get away over the human wall which keeps it inclosed or tries to creep through underneath Butit falls pierced by the many spears which have struck it. It utters a savage cry, which is drowned by the appiause and shouts of the multitude. In silent aony it strikes around furiously with its mighty paws. The shafts of the spears often break like glass. In such cases a single blow might cost the life of any unfortunate within reach of its claws. It ix afterward killed in due form. This scene took place in the same way 13 times euc- cessively with as many tigers, the festivity clos- ingat2pm. Only a few accidents occurred. One soldier, by ili luck, received a spear thrust when combating with a tiger, and was severely wounded in the leg. A native received a bite when one of the figers broke through the square and was killed outside it, after causing great commotion among the spectators. An affecting Scene presented was that of a large Uicress bringing forth a cub while she was being slain. Sea se Sir Garnet Welscicy’s Coolness on the Bauicticid. From the Lond m World. All accounts are agreed as to Sir Garnet's de- meanor both before an after the fight. His cool- ness and self-reliance were extraordinary. On the morning before the battle, when he took all the generals and their respective staffs to recon- nolter the enemy's lines, he dismounted within a couple of miles of Tel-cl-Kebir, and gathering the others arouad him, explained exactly what he meant todo. With a short stick he pointed to the entrenchments as he might to a black- board in a lecture-room, and quietly indicated in turns the position of each part of the attack- ing foree. He had the whole thing off by heart, knew and explained in exact detail what every regiment had to do. While they were thus occu- pied, protected only by a small cavalry escort, the enemy sent out @ party to observe them, but made no farther demonstration. Wolseley’s “lecture” fin'shed, they all remounted and rode back to camp. After the battle was practi- cally won, oir Garnet came to the bridge across the caual communicating the right with the left attack, and getting off his horse, quietly began to write his telexram announcing the victory on 8 scrap of paper handed to him by one of his staff. Here. tov, he received the reports from the various staff officers of divisions and preity big, and his sobered down jrom its lauch, and he sai “Papa, it Is his motuer We knew it was, but how snouid a 4-vear-cld sleepy baby, that couldn't understand German, tell that the lady was the big mas’s mother, and we asked him how he knew, and he said: ‘0, the big man was so kind to her." The big man led out, we gave the rocking chair to the littie old mother, and presently the man came in with a bargage maa, and to him he spoke English. He said: “This is my mother, and she does not speak English. She is going to Iowa, and I have got to go back on the next train, but 1 want you to attend to her baggage, and see her on the right car, the rear car, with a good seat near the center, and tell the conductor she’s my mother. And here is a dollar for you, and | will do as much for your mother some time.” The bagcage man grasped the doliar wit! one hand and gravped the big man’s hand with the other and looked at the little Ger- mao with an expression that showed that he had a mother, too, and we almost know the old lady was weil treated. Then we put the ing mind-reader on a bench and went out og the platform and sot acquainted with the big German, and he talked of horee-trading, buying and selling and everything that showed he was a live business man, ready for any trom buying a yearliny colt to a crop barley, and that his life was a busy’one and at times full of hard work, disappointment, hard She Wanis to Come to Washi ‘There ts sumething of a pettiooat rmuc in- asking more particularly as to casualties. “Are you gins sure?” he always said. “Don't give me wrong figures. Don't meution any officer's name unless you are quite itive he ts hit.” All this time — giving right and left, , as the situation might well have been, was per- fectly quiet and unconcerned. A Naval Reminiscence. Admiral Purviance, who died on Saturday, was a gallant and famous naval commander, but none of his exploits will be longer remembered than his of the confederate privateer |. It wasin the early months of the late civil war, and the then Capt. Purviance was cruising along the southern coast in command of the frigate St. Lawrence, a heavy 271d slow- sailing vessel of the by tien antedated the introduction of steam. Petre! was a rakish and smart schooner of the revenue marine that the confederates had seized in Charleston bar- bor and fitted out for privateering service. Purviance espied her off Charleston bar, *ravely flying the new colors, and knowing that bis her down in a chase, he = the old St. Lawrence f i g | BE He ? Egg ule yeti é