Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1889, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D. C.. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1889. LEGITIME HARD PRESSED. Hyppolite Closing in on Port au Prince at Latest Advices—A Cannibal Feast. Advices from Port au Prince under date of Dec. 30 represent that the Legitime govern- ment was on its last legs and in danger of de- struction from an uprising within the city, as well as from the army of the north under Gen. Hyppolite from without. The speedy arrival of the latter at Port au Prince, the correspond- ent declares, was confidently expected by all but those immediately about Legitime. The latter had imprisoned many prominent persons in Port au Prince suspected of opposing him. Three battles have been fought and lost by the Se eg in the past ten days. The first, near Hinche, was most disastrous, followed by an engagement on December 22, a few miles northeast. During the retreat two divisions of the southwestern army deserted to the pur- suing northerners. The latter made a Bs the next day but were again routed. Hyppo~ hite’s army entrenched itself about twenty miles from Port au Prince, cutting off the country from which Legitime derived most of his support. SICKENING STORIES OF CANNIBALISM. Legitime is showing great activity in secur- ing “volunteers” through press gangs, who seize the laborers in the fields and bring them to the barracks, frequently in chains, to pre- vent their escaping. Without law life or property is unsafe. Ex- cesses of every kind are the rule. The horrid cannibalistic rites of voudooism are revived, and reports reach Port au Prince of a meeting of several thousand Christmas night, near Jacmel, and the sacrifice of a young girl and the greedy scramble for some portion of the half-cooked flesh. ‘The devastation of the central part of the island has been the cause of the robbery of recently buried bodies and the devouring of the same. These are well authenticated facts. The inhabitants of the interior are even more degraded than their African an- cestors. Gen. Auguste, a resident of the north, has been thrown into prison and his assassination is feared. The capital is denuded of troops and mob rule is feared. A United States war ves- sel will remain in harbor to protect American citizens. The French minister, by his oe backing of Legitime, is most unpopular. The French war ships cabled for have not arrived. The schooner Aurora was captured in San Domingo waters, her mail bags seized, the let- ters opened and found to contain statements implicating thirty prominent persons in Port ‘ince. All have been thrown into prison, and it is feared will be shot. Manyof these persons held high positions in Legitime’s gov- ernment. It is claimed that Legitime has appropriated to his own privy purse all the cash in the treas- ury, and will fice by his fastest gunboat as soon as his fall is assured. The steamship Haytien Republic is-still in the hands of Admiral Luce Mr. B. C. Morse cannot receive her until she is in a more pre- sentable state. While she has been thoroughly disinfected by the surgeon of the United States steamer Galena and her captain, Mr. Compton, her condition, by reason of her occupancy by the Haytian guards, is filthy in the extreme. She is now anchored under the guns of the Galena. The Haytien Republic, under command of Lieut. Spiers, with a prize crew of eighteen men from the Galena, will steam on January 1 to Santiago de at, Where she will be re- coaled and turned over officially to her owner, Mr. Morse. who will then collect acrew. The Galena will keep her in sight during the trip. While it is impossible to secure the 2350,000 indemnity demanded for her detention and damage to property of her owners, passengers, and crew, it is thought that it will be possible to secure some cash down. The government lead poverty, but have recently paid $100,000 for a former English mail steamer, which they have fitted out as a gunboat, and on December 26 paid to the steamer Andes $27,500 for 5,000 Winchester rifles and 100,000 rounds of ammn- nition—all in gold. Unless the indemnity is paid by the Legitime government it is hardly probable that it will be paid at all, as Hyppo- ite is not likely to assume liability for the ex- cesses and outrages of the present government, soe ~ Ex-President Hayes’ Library. A correspondent of the St. Louis Glole-Demo- erat thus refers to the private library of ex- President Hayes and his love for good books: Few of our public men are more assiduous readers of good books than ex-President Ruth- erford B. Hayes, and the library in his Fremont home is perhaps one of the most valuable of its kind in this country. There are 4,000 vol- umes, chiefly books of reference and biograph- ical works. Since his retirement to pri life this library has been one of the ex- dent’s cnief pleasures. Hours are spent by him in his library, and everything is forgotten in the interest of the work in hand. Gen. Hayes absorbs everything he reads and his retentive memory enables him to remember and quote an author at ease. He loses himself completely in a book and time is forgotten by him when reading. Not a book is placed upon the library shelves but it is first read, and often re-read, and a work must have some intrinsic merit before it is re- posed into its proper place. The library is methodically arranged, is elaborately cata- logued by subject, author and a digest of its contents. Much of this work has been done by the ex-President himself in leisure time. His books have cost Gen. Hayes over $10,000, and, to his mind, his library is a most ragged and unfinished structure. He adds to it contin- ually, and is always on the watch for books that interest him. The ex-President has the means wherewith to gratify his tastes, and no one encourages them more than he. ————+oo— = Don’t Let the Boys Use Tobacco. From the New York Medical Journal. In an experimental observation of thirty- eight boys of all classes of society and of aver- age health, who had been using tobacco for periods ranging from two months to two years, twenty-seven showed severe injury to the con- stitution and insufficient growth; thirty-two showed the existence of irregularity of the heart's action, disordered stomachs, coughs, and a craving for alcohol; thirteen had inter teney of the pu d one had consump- tion. After they had abandoned the use of to- bacco within six months one-half were free from all their former symptoms and the re- mainder had recovered by the end of the year. A great majority of men go far beyond what may be called the temperate use of tobacco, and evidences of injury are easily found. It is only necessary to have some record of what the general health was previous to the taking of the habit, and to have observation cover a long enough time. The history of tobacco in the island of New Zealand furnishes a quite suggestive illustration for our purpose, and one ona large scale. When Europeans first visited New Zealand they found in the native Maoris the most finely veloped and powerful men of any of the tribes inhabiting the islands of the Pacific. Since the introduction of to- bacco, for which the Maoris developed a pas- sionate liking, they have from this cause alone. it is said, become decimated in numbers, and at the same time reduced in stature and in physical well-being, so as to be an altogether inferior type of men. ~ ee. -The Chances of Life. From the Atlanta Constitution. The stalwart young fellow who has entered this year of grace with a string of good resolu- tions is not bothering himself about the un- dertaker. but he should not entirely ignore that useful citizen, What are the chances of life? The life in- surance men and the mortality tables answer the —_ pone eigen sere accuracy, Here are a few figures collec’ by the Bost Lowen = have on —_ ‘about, 1,000,000,000 people, the males and females being about equally divided. Of these, one-fourth’ die be, fore they reach the —= seventeen. The average length of life rf years, One person in 1,000 lives to be one hundred years old, six in 100 reach the age of sixty-five, a =e than one in 500 lives to see 1 iy. very year 33,033,033 persons die every day, 3,730 every 4 TWO OF THE KILLED. A Vivid Sketch of a Couple of Battle- field Scenes. A‘sketch of a scene on the battlefield may bring out the horrors of war more vividly than tables offigures. Here, for instance, is a bit of realism for such as have never seen a battle, which is furnished by the historian of the Twenty-second Massachusetts regiment. In a little shed door sat a man. his leg shot off, and hanging by the skin. He had partially stayed the bleeding, and had been propped against the wall, too weak to sit up. Life and hope were strong within him. He heard the ambulance at a distance. They come nearer, then recede, and the alternate hope and deepair were terrible. He offered fabulous prices if we would carry him on our backs; anything to save his life. In the gray of the morning his voice had ceased. We thought he slept, but his body, stiff and lifeless, was still in the same ‘ition. That long, cold night of waiting and | oars and final despair d worn his life ay. A look of almost savage hopelessness about the eyes and half-closed mouth, in which his teeth were tightly set, told of his indomita- ble courage for the final struggle with the unknown. After a sleepless night, our regiment was aroused. The roll was called in whispers, cart- ridges were distributed, and we were prepared to move up to our line of the previous after- noon. “Why don’t you get up and get your cartridges?” said Sergeant Knowles, as he touched with his foot the blanketed form of a man who was lying with us. The man made no movement. Cold and shivering, and a little out of patience, the sergeant stooped, lighted a match, removed the blapket, and one of the twelfth Rhode Island dead was exposed to view. The sergeant had been trying to issue cartridges toa dead man, and compel him to answer to roll-call. The soldier had answered hours before; his duty to his country was done. And who knows how that stranger in our com- any died, or what were his thoughts that cold, Pitter night on the battlefield of Fredericks- burg?” aE og He Didn’t Know Him. A QUEER PERFORMANCE FOR A “‘DIPLOMAT.” From the New York Tribune. A member of the United States diplomatic corps returned to this country recently, and in a conversation in the Albemarle hotel yester- day described an experience of his with Ameri- can gratitude, A couple of years ago he was an attache of the American legation in Paris. One day a “drummer” for an American meat- packing concern called on him, and after in- troducing himself, explained to the diplomat that he was expected by his firm to make a market for their goods in France, and that he was having a hard time of it. “Well, I thought the matter over,” said the story teller, continuing, “and finally I thought upascheme. I invited a numberof prominent men. including influential persons from official circles and the like, toa dinner. Every meat was of the American firm’s packing, but of that fact I did not inform my guests until we were smoking our cigars. Well, they were delight- ed, talked the matter up, orders came in tothe salesman, and tocap the climax he got a big contract to supply the army. He was full of gratitude when he left, and insisted that when T returned to New York I must be his guest. “TI called on him last week. He's a partner now and has gained fifty pounds. I had to wait twenty minutes after Isent in my card before Iwas admitted. Then he stared at mea mo- ment and exclaimed: a “Oh, yes; lremember you now. How do you jo?” “ ‘First rate,’ I replied. ‘Just arrived, and I am going to lay off here for a while.’ “‘H-m! That's so? Well, when you have time again, come in, and we'll go out’ and have a drink.’ “That's what he said to the man that made him, and with all my diplomatic experience, I was knocked out for words.” - ses Shot the Marshal Twice. A NEW YORK OFFICER BADLY WOUNDED BY A MAN ON WHOSE GOODS HE LEVIED. In New York yesterday morning Marshal Goode, attached to the seventh district civil court, levied on some goods belonging to Gus- tav Simon, at 114 East 56th street. Simon re- sented the intrusion of the marshal and shot him twice, once in the back and another time in the right side of the face. Goode was badly injured and was removed to his home. Simon is a lace merchant who failed in business some time ago. He was arraigned in court later and remanded to await the outcome of Goode's wounds. During the seizure Simon was noticed to be acting strangely and kept his hand on his hip pocket. He is thought to be out of his mind. i SRS SR eee a Five Missing Ships. THEY HAVE NOT BEEN HEARD FROM SINCE NO- VEMBER 25—FIFTY-FOUR LIVES LOST. Five ships, ranging in size from 140 to 200 tons each, and in value from $100,000 to $200,000 each, have been missing since the windstorm of November 25 and 26, and have been given up for lost. Their agents and own- evs made the announcement yesterday to the New York maritine exchange. The ships, of which two have been already mentioned as overdue, are Samana, steamship, New York, vember 22, for Hayti; Nile, brig, West Indies, about November 40, for W. Armstrong, brig, Guadaloup 15, for New York; Ella schooner Porto Rico. Nove York; E. M. Bacon, schooner Porto Rico, No- vember 15, for New York. The number of lives lost is put at fifty-four. The value of the ships and cargoes are estimated to be about $1,000,000, the greater part of which is covered by insurance. —e Fought Forty-two Rounds. MAURICE HURLEY KNOCKS OUT THOMAS HOAR NEAR WILKESBARRE. At Wilkesbarre, Pa,, at 4 o'clock yesterday morning numerous groups of men were seen on the street. most of them engaged in earn- est conversation. An hour later many of them were seen in vehicles, leaving the city. At noon yesterday a report came from Wannamee, tenmiles from Wilkesbarre, that Maurice Hurley and Thos. Hoar, well-known pugilists, fought 42 rounds with bare knuckles, for #500 a side. The battle is said to have been desperately fought. In the forty-second round Hoar was knocked out and the fight was awarded to Hur- ley. Hoar is under indictment for being en- gaged in a prize fieht with Jas. Dillion on the Isth of May last at Lee park, in Wilkesbarre, and has escaped being arrested since that time. Detectives lett Wilkesbarre yesterday afternoon for Wannamee, and every effort will be made to secure Hoar as well as Hurley. = se hntemeet Sa Rezzello’s Fatal Liberality. COSTLY GIFTS TO HIS SISTER AND LOANS TO HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW BETRAYED HIM. A special dispatch to the New York World from Wilkesbarre, Pa., January 7, says: Rez- zello, the ringleader in the McClure murder, spent a very quiet day in jail to-day. He eats little and is very restless. He will talk to no one and absolutely refuses to be photographed. It now transpires that Mike was not as shrewd as some people imagined. One of the first de- tectives to arrive here after the murder was Detective Thayer, of Philadelphia. He lived at Miner's Mills for some time, and he and Mike became quite intimate. A scheme was entered into between Capt. Linden and Thi Linden was to have a ——- with Thayer and discharge him. was done, and Thayer pretended to be very downcast at losing his place. Finally Mike offered to get him ajob at Poughkeepsie if he would go —-. a accepted and they went off together. For weeks Thayer watched him day and night and got many points. They went to New York once or twice, and Mike paid all expenses and spent money = “Berks the argo age for the — an yer persuaded Mike to accom im to Philadel ia for “a good time” and fell into e Mike's downfall leads from the time he began to spend money freely. A few weeks after the murder Mike’s sister, Ollie, married a board- inghouse keeper named Robert E a Mike’ i z a ie u Ets He A GOOD HORSE. How You Can Tell One When You See Him. From the Albany Journal. “I can't explain what a good horse is,” said a well-known dealer. “They are as different as men, In buying a horse you must look first to his head and eyes for signs of intelligence, temper, courage and honesty, Unless a horse has brains you can’t teach him anything any more than you cao a halfwitted child. See that tall bay there, a fine-looking animal, 15 hands high. You can’t teach that horse any- thing. Why? Well I'll show you a difference in heads, but have acare of his heels. Look at the brute’s head, that rounding nose, that ——- forehead, that broad, full place below the eyes. You can’t trust him. Kick? Well, I guess so! Put him ina 10-acre lot, where he’s got plenty of swing, and he'll kick the horn of the moon.” The world’s treat- ment of man and beast has the tendency to en- large and intensify bad qualities, if they pre- dominate. This good-natured phrenologist could not refrain from slapping in the face the horse whose character had been so cruelly de- lineated, while he had nothing but the gent- lest caresses for a tall, docile, sleek-limbed sorrel, that pricked her ears forward and looked intelligent enough to understand all that was being said. “That's an awful good mare,” he added. “She's as true as the sun. Youcansee breadth and fullness betweenSthe ears and eyes. You couldn't hire that mare to act mean or hurt anybody. The eye should be full, and hazel is a good color. like a small, thin ear, and want a horse to throw his ears well forward. Look out for the brute that wants to listen to all the conversation going on behind him. The horse that turns back his ears till they almost meet at the points, take my word for it, is sure to do something wrong. See that straight, ele- gant face. A horse with a dishing face is cow- ardly, and a cowardly brute is usually vicious, Then I like a square muzzle, with large nos- trils, to let in plenty of air to the lun; For the under side of the head, a good horse should be well cut under the jowl, with jaw- bones broad and wide apart under the throttle. “So much for the head,” he continued. “The next thing to consider is the build of the ani- mal. Never buy a long-logged, stilty horse. Let him have a short, straight back, and a straight rump, and you've got a gentleman's horse. The withers should be high, and the shoulders well set back and broad; but don’t get them too deep in the chest. The fore-leg should be short. Give me a pretty straight hind-leg, with the hock low down, short _pas- tern joints, anda round, mulish foot. There are all kinds of horses, but the animal that has these points is almost sure to be sightly, graceful, good-natured and serviceable. As to color, taste differs. Bays, browns and chest- nuts are the best. Roans are very fashionable at present. A great many greys and sorrels are bought here for shipment to Mexico and Cuba. They do well in a hot climate, under a tropical sun, for the same reason that you find light-colored clothing the most serviceable in summer. That circus horse behind you is what many people call a calico horse; now I call him a genuine piebald. It’s a freak of nature, and may happen anywhere.” ne Parkers’ Army Coffin. Boston Traveler's Washington Letter. A veteran of the regular army said to me while in a reminiscent mood: “The wildest madcap of thegfederal army, during the late war of the rebellion, was Dwight Parker, who was on Hancock’s staff. Brave as a lion, handsome as a picture, he was the ideal soldier. Dwight got a furlough after he had served a long time at the front and behaved himself un- til his arrival in Philadelphia. There he pro- ceeded to ‘inaugurate a howl,’ as you boys say now, but we used to call it ‘a spree.’ He just climbed ali over the town. If there was any resident who didn't know he was in the city it wasn't his fault. He did the best he knewhow, and Dwight wasn’t a manof mean abilities in that line either. Right in the middle of this spree he went to the uundertaker’s and got measured for a coffin. This, with a plate bear- ing his name with a blank space left for the date of his death, was forwarded to the Conti- nental hotel. Dwight was very proud of it, and celebrated its arrival in a manner peculiar to himself. When his furlough had almost ex- pired he packed up his baggage and his coffin and started for the front, Hancock and the officers of the staff were at first inclined to look upon Parker's coffin as something ghastly, but everything went in the army in those days, and finally all bands got so accustomed to seeing the thing around headquarters that they began to use it asa sort of waste paper receptacle. What became of it? Well, I don’t remember. Parker died several years ago on Governor's Island, N.Y., but he had a brand new coffin on that occasion, forI saw it. I guess Parker was the only soldier on either side who carried his coffin with him during the war.” PLCS oh acta The First Kicker on Record. From the Baltimore American, Jan. 7. Atthe First English Lutheran church last evening the Rev. Albert H. Studebaker preached on a very odd theme—“A Fat Kicker.” If any one thought “kick” and “kicker” to be expressive, if not particularly elegant, terms of modern life, they must have been not a little surprised to discover that they date back at least 1,450 years before Christ and have biblical warrant for their use. Jeshurun, who “waxed fat and kicked,” was areal charac- ter, who, in Israel’s palmy days, grew proud with remarkable prosperity. So’ seriously did it affect him that, like an overfed and vicious horse, he kicked. He is a typical character in that you can find his counterpart in all ages and in all lands, soe The Next Pope. CARDINAL LAVIGERIE TALKS IN REGARD TO THE SUCCESSOR OF LEO XIIL. From the New York Mail and Express. Cardinal Lavigerie is very loquacious, and has made another confidence to an Italian journalist,.a real prophecy. He has said that Leo will live at least ten years longer, and that in this time the Sacred college will be almost entirely removed, because the actual cardinals are nearly all very old. If the vacancy of the holy see wil hap. in ten years’ time, the new pontiff would n tee stranger, and probably an Ameri- can. He has pronounced the name of Cardi- nal Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore, as a probable future pontiff. Cardinal Gibbons is one of the two American cardinals; the other is Cardinal Taschereau, archbishop of Quebec, Canada. The first is young, and in ten years’ time, by the help of God, would be of the age to be made pope; the second, who was born in 1820, in ten years’ time would be almost d crepid. Cardinal Gibbons is much liked in Rome, and is esteemed as a literary and scien- tific man; but to become a pore is a long ste up! The prophecy of Cardinal Lavigerie is from this point of view an eccentricity. Cardinal Lavigerie thinks, however, that if Leo XIII were to die now his most probable successor would be Cardinal Monaco la Vi letta, bishop of Albano. One party is for Car- dinal Parocchi, vicar of his holiness in Rome, but the wavering and strange political contra~ dictions of this cardinal do not agree to give him authority. Cardinal Parocchi was liberal enough during the time in which he was a vicar at Meutana, his native place. He blessed Italy and Vittorio Emmanuele. Then he changed and became a bishop and a cardinal. Now he is the candidate of France. Fall of a Well-Known Writer. EDWARD KING IN THE COMMON FELONS’ JAIL OF SAN FRANCESCO AT NAPLES, A Naples correspondent writes to Galignani’s Messenger of December 25 as follows: It is a sad piece of news, but Edward King is now in the common felons’ goal of San Francesco in Naples. His crime is that of swindling—swin- dling hotels and individuals by giving them drafts on banks in Paris, London and else- where, and then goi to another town. Ho did this when he could not borrow, Before I knew that he had left Paris for debt or knew that he had been swindling elsewhere, he ap- plied to me for a small loan until he could re- ceive and I lent him half what he asked for. I nowsee that it has ‘ gan .” Iknew that he had left i un WORK FOR THE B. AND O. ROAD. To Reorganize the Cincinnati, Wash- ington and Baltimore. A Baltimore special to the Philadelphia Times says: The first great work of the new Baltimore and Ohio Garrett administration will be the reorganization of the Cincinnati, Wash- ington and Baltimore railroad, that important link in the main line of the Baltimore and Ohio. This will be accomplished by the Baltimore and Ohid entirely absorbing the other com- pany. Gen. Orland Smith, who is president of the Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore and first vice-president of the Baltimore and Ohio, has had several conferences with President Mayer and the new reorganization committee. While no plan has yet been determined the ob- ligation of the Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore to the Baltimore and Ohio, by whose direction it passed into the receiver's hands, will guarantee the Baltimore and Ohio in doing with the Cincinnati, Washi and Baltimore just what it pleases, The Baltimore and Ohio finance committee decided to pay the — on the 43g per cent rotted bonds of the Cincinnati, Washington an: timore, and thus greatly re- lieved the street. Had the Baltimore and Ohio declined to pay the courts would have been asked to settle the company’s responsi- bility under its guarantee. It has been defi- nitely decided that Thos, M. King will return to the Baltimore and Ohio as a vice-president, and that he will have charge of the Philadel- phia division and the New York extension. — see HISTORY AND GRAMMAR. Mark Twain Outdone by Smart Chil- dren who Know all About it. From Cassell’s Magazine. In the domain of history we have several answers more amusing than instructive. “The Crusaders,” according to one rising genius, ‘were the men who conquered America and Peru, and were so called because they were the first to cross the Atlantic.” By a second historian we are told that “Edward the con- fessor was the first English monarch to embrace the popish religion, for which he was deposed by William the conquerer, and forced to flee to France.” Perhaps it was the same youth who was of opinion that “Robert the Bruce was the son of Sir William Wallace of Scotland, and when he was ina hut he saw a spider swing seven times and he said, ‘I will et be ake So he gathered his men and efeated the English by driving them into the Fourth, after which he died fighting with the black prince against the Moors, who flung his heart among his enemies and cried, ‘Go thou faithful heart and I wi!l follow you.’” But the gem of the historical answers is that ven in reply to the question. “Who was Gueen Elizabeth?” “Queen Elizabeth was the last of the roses, and, fearing that Mary Queen of Scots would marry her husband, Sir Walter Raleigh, she beheaded her, and in remorse sent Raleigh to discover the United States, When he returned without doing so, bh by Elizabeth’s son, James I, after gaining time to write his long and varied biography in the Tower.” Other interesting items tell us that Julius Cesar was a Frenchman who rose to be king; that ‘Ireland's pattern saint is called St. Patrick because he killed all the snakes with a stick;” and that the French revolution was caused by the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo! ‘Turning now to grammar, we find that there is a practical side even to that prosy science. ‘This was displayed by the boy who, when asked the future of “he drinks” replied, “He is drunk.” Somewhat similar, but still more to the point, is the story of the little girl who was of opinion that the future of the verb “to love” was “‘to marry.” The fitness of things was not 80 apparent as in these instances to the scholar who figures in the following dialogue. At a viva-voce examination a little fellow was asked, “What isa monarchy?” to which he replied, “A country governed by a king.” “Who would reign if there was no king?” was the next interrogation. ‘The queen.” “And if the queen should die?” This was a poser. but after a minute’s thonght the boy gave the astounding answer, ‘‘The knave!” Another natural history subject was “the dog,” and it was announced that extra marks would be given to those who introduced into their essays a couplet on that animal. This, as may be supposed, proved an insurmountable obstacle to most; but one of the boys got over the difficulty in this manner: “The dog isa noble animal, being of several kinds, such as Newfoundland, collie, pup, mastiff, and mon- grel. Itis called the friend of man, because on the Alps they carry bottles round their necks to save the lives of travelers who are lost in the snow. Also to the friend of women, like the poetry which says— ‘Old Mother Hubbard. she went to her cupboard, ‘To give her poor dog # bone,’ but she hadn’t any. The dog has usually a hairy coat, though some haven't, like hounds and such. Hairy ones are best for watching.” He Enjoyed His Supper. From the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, Ben Sanfleben, of this city, was so sure that Cleveland would win the election thathe prom- ised to kill his pet St. Bernard pup and dine off the carcass if Harrison won. A friend laidhim $25 against his resolution, and the other day a chosen party of rounders went to see Mr. San- fleben eat dog at a certain saloon. The day preceding the feast the luckless pup was slain, skinned and placed on ice, and before going into the oven his inside was stuffed with bread, onion, and savoryherbs, A table was neatly spread in a room adjoining the bar, and everything was ready for Mr. San- fleben when he arrived. He evinced no repug- nance for his meal, but, having taken his seat and adjusted a napkin under his chin, he called for “the roast.” The pup was promptly brought, cooked toa turn, and was squatted on its haunches, supported by a couple of forks thrust into its sides just behind the forelegs, Wedged between its jaws was a good-sized wienerwurst, and it was well sprinkled with spinach. Sanfleben had the waiter carve him off one of the hind legs, and he stowed it away without any hesitancy. ‘The expression on-his face was quite amusing when he took the first mouthful and carefully tasted it in a manner betraying his doubt as to what he had better ith it. He smacked his lips, however, and ate several slices from the breast, besides the leg, and declared that he had “enjoyed his supper.” soe One hundred and fifty men d in the Hallet & Davis pianoforte manufactory in Boston from five to ten years; ninety for over fifteen years; sixty for over twenty years; twenty-three for over thirty-five years, and fourteen for over forty years, making a total of 337 men wito have faithfully been working in the interest of this well-known piano manufactory for from five to fort; 5 forty years. ae A NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT COWHIDE! Alton B. Carty, one of the eet of the Frederick, Md., Times, was publicly cowhided in the office of the Carlin house in that city last night by Joseph D. Baker, president of the Citizens’ National bank of Frederick. Carty is the Frederick Soy dame of a Baltimore newspaper, to which he sent a report of a ru- mored swindling case in which Mr. Baker had suffered a loss of $3,000, Baker alleges that the item was incorrect. Baker laid his cow- hide heavily on Carty’s head and shoulders un- til several guests of the hotel interfered. qaantiadbow ones Tae Cumpertanp Coat Trapr.—The ship- ments from the mines of the Cumberland coal region for the five days ended Saturday, Janu- ary 5, 1889, were 48,440 tons, a decrease of 13,- 599 tons as compared with the week endin, January 7, 1888. The shipments to the Balti- more and Ohio railroad and local points were for the five days 33,551 tons, a decrease of 13, 895 tons as comy d with the week ended Jan- hipments to the Pennsylva- were for the five days 9,889 tons, an increase of 296 tons as compared with the week ended January 7, 1883, ————— ee —_____ A Buiaze_at Hampron.—Fire broke out in Hampton, Va., yesterday, and the ing of Thos. il fee ke POWDERLY’S EFFORTS. Everything to be Forgiven and Remitted if Locals Will Onty Come Back. A Pittsburg special to the Philadelphia Press says: A last effort isto be made to hold the Knights of Labor together. The signs of dis- integration have terrified the general execu- tive board. A circular signed by General Mas- ter Workman Powderly has been sent out to the recording secretary of every district as- sembly in the order. This circular will be laid before the executive board of District Assem- bly No. 3, of this city, at its next meeting. In a few words, it is to the effect that all lapsed locals can be reinstated without the payment of their back dues or the fees necessary to the procuring of anew charter. Two years ago the order was stiff-necked in matters of this kind. Then if a local lapsed or was suspended on account of non-payment of dues, it was its business to get back into the order if it could. The new circular directs that the district or- ganizers and general lecturers be instructed to use every effort for the reorganization of lapsed locals, and instructs the district officers that in all cases of lapsed locals reorganizing and com- ing back into the order they shall be received without payment of the usual fees, and the neral officers will see that the fees and back jues charged against said locals are remitted. The fees for the reorganization of a local are within a few dotlars of as much as the fee for the original charter. The circular also directs that all locals that have been suspended for non-paymeut of dues shall be reinstated. There are a number of locals of this character in Dis- trict assembly 3, and_ in the order there are hundreds of them. If by this move they can be brought back the order will again be placed onafirm footing. It is expected that this scheme will weaken T. B. Barry's move and also have a powerful effect in keeping the Mo- nongahela miners in National district assembly 135. In that district there are probably more lapsed locals than in any other in the order, and rather than again pay the charter fee, they will desert it altogether and join with the Min- er’s progressive union, MR. POWDERLY’S REJOINDER TO THE FOUNDERS. The circular issued to Knights of Labor and signed by the seven men who founded the Knights of Labor created considerable com- ment in labor circles in Philadelphia. When Mr. Powderly was questioned by a reporter on the matter hhe said: “Those who claim to be founders are just no founders at all, Within a short time a meeting has been held in this city, and besides the four whose names are uttached to this circular there were present Victor Drury, of New York; Fred Turner, of this city, and H. J. Skeffington. This was the beginning of this movement, and they came near splittin; then, because Drury wanted to be recognize as a founder. If Washington, Jefferson, Adams, or any of the original founders of the greatest country in the world were to awake from their sleep as our friends have done, they, too. would be surprised, and it would be just like some of them to kick at things as they are now. But that would not knock off any of the amend- ments to the Constitution, nor drive out any of the s\ates that have been added to the galaxy since their time, nor will the remonstrances of the latier-day founders of the Knights of Labor affect the Knights of Labor of 1889.” Thos. B. Barry, who was refused admittance to Knights of Labor hall in Pittsburg Monday night will speak in Lafayette hall in that city to-night and a lively time is anticipated. FOREIGN SWS AND GOSSIP. The disaster in Samoa has created a deep impression in Berlin, and will strengthen the arguments of the anti-colonial party in the East Africa debate. The Kieler tung states the Samoan lossesare the greatest in officers and men that the German navy ever experi- enced in a trans-oceanic expedition. The National Zeitung complains that America’s recal- ling her consul some time ago did no good, for it has been proved that the natives were led from an ambuscade by an American. Lord Mayor Whitehead, of London, was the champion high jumper of his day. He has many cups and medals, souvenirs of various college sports. Six tenants were evicted from their holdings on Colonel Charles Tottenham’s estate at Dun- ganstown, county Wicklow, yesterday: A force of 100 military and an equal number of police | were present. No resistance was offered. An army surgeon was also present. “Don’t talk to me about my voice,” said Mr. Gladstone, half petulantly, the other day. “I hate it! Once Thad a voice with which I could do what I wanted, but I have that no more.” M. Meline was yesterday elected president of the French chamber of deputies, receiving 253 votes, against 141 for M. Andrieux. The separation is expected shortly of the Prince de Rohan-Chabot and his American wife, who is the daughter of Mr. Heyward, for- merly of New York. The princess lives ata hotel and visits her mother’s apartments daily, there receiving her friends, M. Genouille, formerly governor of Senegal, against whom proceedings were brought by the French public prosecutor for manslaughter, has been found guilty and fined 600 francs. The charge was based on the fact that M. Ge- nouille sent four negroes to the Alkatras Islands, where they died from starvation. The reports concerning the condition of the king of Holland are greaty exaggerated. The king, though ill, transacts business daily. Queen Victoria goes to the villa Laroche- foucauld, Biarritz, in March next. M. Jacques, who is opposing Gen. Boulanger in the parliamentary contest in the department of the Seine, is a rich distiller, but politically is comparatively unknown. The pope has congratulated Emperor William of Germany, President Carnot of France, and Premier Tisza of Hungary upon their recent declarations that European peace would con- tinue. Electric sugar-refining shares are still falling in England. It is rumored that M. de Freycinet, seeing the certainty of the election of Gen. Boulanger in the ey seer of the Seine, is trying to ar- range with Boulanger regarding the composi- tion of the next ministry. PCE Ser ae Boston’s Astor and Vanderbilt. Boston Letter. Chief among Boston's capitalists is Montgom- ery Sears, whose vast holdings of valuable real estate give him a claim to be called the Astor of the modern Athens. He inherited €9,000,- 000a few years ago from his father, Joshua Sears, who came to Boston without a penny and established a small grocery business. By astonishing parsimony, backed with remarka- ble business instinct, old. Josh rapidly piled u the thousands, ‘The land he bought multiplie: in value, and it was not very long before he found himself a millionaire. Already old, he began to look about him for a wife, and finally selected his housekeeper. When he died he left his money so that his son should never come into the bulk of the estate, providing the young man merely with a pitiful $25,000 a year. . This did not suit “Monty” at all, who thereupon began proceed- ings to set the will aside, and finally succeeded, with the aid of skillful lawyers, in getting hold of the entire property. He has added to it considerably since, an is fortune seems not unlikely to compare favorably during his own lifetime with the possessions of any one of the three great Astor landholders, Mr. Sears be- longs to all the swell clubs, keeps a steam yacht, and is an amateur in violins, of which he a valuable collection. If Montgomery Sears is to be regarded as the Astor of ston, Nathaniel Thayer is unques- tionably its Vanderbilt. He owns no end of railways in the west, notably a ee of the C. B. and Q..and sen peat think he is worth at least 210,000,000. He is likewise a member of all the fashionable clubs, and keeps a stable full of expensive horses. As might be imagined, his father was too much engaged during hii lifetime in the absorbing occupation of money to be much of a swell. Yor “Monty” Searsare excellent illustrat indisputable fact that money, if you onl: —2 of it, is the eral ages int tion even to such ultra-exclusive society as Boston affords, The lack of ancestral Pap-spoons is Se one anit cacy surtonay Oe 4 us Midas, Other people will not let him feel — 2 BAKING ROY: POWDER ABSOLUTELY PURE It is a scientific fact that the ROYAL BAKING POWDER is absolutely pure. It is undoubtedly the purest and most reliable Baking Powder offered to the public. HENRY A. MOTT, M.D.,Ph.D., Late United States Gov't Chemist. AUCTION SALES. AUCTION SALES. THIS AFTERNOOD TTES' SALE OF 4 COMFORTABLE FRAME. ANCERY SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED SWELLING HOU Teo a0? VIRGINIA AVE REAL ESTATE ON 117TH STREET 8. E. NUE, OF! rE. , virtue of a decree of the TUTE GROUNDS. Dickeict ef Golumtle, testes tren Ree SER By virtue of a certain deed of trust recorded in | Equity, wherein Christopher C. MoRenney et Uber No. 1037, folio 30%, et weq., one of the land re- | Sdupisinants, and Reber © MoReonee at = ‘of the District of Columbia, and at the request | feudanta, I wil offer for sale at pric curting. Ae $i the party secured, we wall eel! at public ection in | of wath place of property” on URBDAY the Sete front of the premises, to the +, 08 | ENTEENTH DAY OF JANUARY, 1589, com WEDNESDAY, JANUARY NINTH, 1889, at HALF- | g¢ 4 o'clock p. m., the following descr.tel parcels of PAST FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. th of land estate the improvements thereunto belonse- situated in Washington city, D.C. and known as lot | ing, in the city of Washington and District of Coltme bumbered nineteen (19), of Abraham F. Barker's re- | bia, to wit: Parts of orinal lots numbered 14 and I a RO orginal po ee] ip square numbered 978; beginning for the same on square and twenty , strect eant, 40 feet south from the nos ‘cor. by a substantial and dwelling ner of oe << chance sont, ry — thence use. ‘wast 92.66 feet, thence nor 5.75 foet, thence east Terms of sale: One-third of the in | 92.66 feet to sald 11th street and place of beginning. cash, within ten days from the day of sale;andthe | Also, parts of original lots numbered 14 and 15 im Dalaiice in two equal payments at one and two square numbered #7, beginning for the same on 11th with interest at r cent from the day of sale, street east at a point distant 5-100 feet south: secured by adeed of trust on the prop do all the northeast corner of the ssid square 97! the purchase money may, be paid in cash. A depoait of | thence south 16 10-100 feet, thence west 02 66-1 100 will be required when the p: is sold. All foot, @ north 1610-100 feet, thence east conveyancing at the purchaser's cost. If the teria of | 5-100 feet to said 11th street aud place of hei: sale are not complied with within ten days from the day of sale the trustees reserve the ri erty at the cost and risk of the after Sve dayy’ sdversisement in some Be printed and published in . AWILLIAM W. BOARS RGE C. BOARMAN. GEO. TY t to resell the prop~ faulting purchase! b ‘Also, parts of ori¢inal lots 14, 15. and 16 in square archiaser, umbered 978, becinning for the same on 11th street east at a point distant 7185-100 feet south from corner of a: are. thence weat 92 66-1 _a28-dkds GEO. W, ST act. OFF, WASHINGTON DANENHOWER, 00 feet to the ‘Real Estate and Insurance Broker. 1115 F st. eT RTF eee ELEGANT LOT ON | bered 1001, beginning for the saine at the southwest PEREMPTORY SALE OF AN oN EAST CAPITOL STREET, BETWEEN FOUR- ENTH AND FIFTE: STREETS, HURSDAY. THE TENTH DAY OF JANUARY, 1889, AT HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK P. M sell, to the highest bidder, in front of the Gack Capitol ctrest bye depth of 156 L toa S0-foot East Capitol street, by & de) 28.1 to ys also side alley. A deposit of 100 roquired at . Twill all jnare num- O01, beginning for the same 11 43-100 feet from the southwest corner of said lot, thence: north 14 30-100 feet, thence east 44 15-100 feet, thence seuth 2 feet, thence east 31 69-100 feet, thencs le, : es Jied with within 10 days | South 1230-100 fect, thence west 75 83-100 fect to of, sale, esate wal Be resold at risk and | 88d 11th stroct east and place of beginning. Cost of the defaulting purchaser, And also part of original lot nural in square WASHINGTON DANENHOWER, numbered 1001; bewinning for the same at the porth- ‘Agent for Owner. | West corner of said lot, thence south 21.77 feet, thenos _ THOMAS DOWLING. Auctioneer. j4deds E ae TO-MORROW. \\) EEES & CO., Auctioneers, Terns of sale Oue-third of the purchase money in W 637 Louisiana ave., opp. City Post-Office. cash, and the balance thereof in two equal instalments REGULAR WEEKLY SALE OF HOUSEHOLD | at one and two years from the day of sale, or all cash FURNITURE, WITHIN OUR SALESROOMS, | atthe option of the purchaser.” The deierred pay- NUARY TENTH (10), AT TEN O'CL( ments are to be secured by the promissory notes ¢ NG OF BED: Ds, Bi purchaser or purchasers, and deed or deeds of trust om E ETS the real estate sold, and shall bear interest from the LOR SUIT: day of sale at the rate of wix (6) per anni per cent payable senu-anuually. €100 will'be requifed ou Piece of ground as soon as the sume is bid off. If the purchaser or pure shall fail to comply with the rine of sale within 10 days after the day of sale, Brorerty sold to him, her or them will be reacld at his, ror their risk and cost. All conveyancing and re- at purchaser's cost, EDWARD A. NEWM WALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO. TOILET PET! i W ALTER B. WILLIAMS & OO, Auctioneers. wBACe CURTAT SALE. OST E OINTNARY, ; ‘OMMENCING THURSDAY, AT ELEVEN KAM. riianengiinnssi AT SAME HO! - UNTIL ENTIRE STOCK IS DISPUBED OF, AT OUR r 00) CORNER TENTH AN VSYLVANIA AVENUE. A highly-important collcetion of Ten Thousand Del: 4 Trustee, 1 43e st, how. te. jad T] HOS. E. WAGGAMAN, Real Betate Auctioneer. TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE LOT, IMPROV! BY WO-STORY ME HOUSE, No. 112 TWELFTH STREET NORTHWEST. ~ Rt ht Pompe we pe eee ed by an old | No. 929, folio 243, et seq., one of the land reco Ree ot ge earn ne Tecry chanting: sod | the District of Oclumbts and at tbe request of tie old for beneBt of creditors, who decline percmp, | party thereby secured. T will wel. et public auction, tm , and we think unwisely, to authorize the use of | front of pe ar ANUA DAY, their names in connection with the sale, This we can- | N. LP-PAST | FOU not but regret, aside from any benefit that might ac- of Davidson's subdivision Such a large and complete stock should be improvements as above. displayed as the result of the labor, taste and Jui ‘erms; One-third cash, of which $100 must be paid of rome ove, making a truly bewildering array of art, | at time of sale, balance in three equal installments im such as is seldom seen collectively. Every person in- | 6, 12 and 18 months, for which notes of purchaser, terested should attend this sale; actMfuce of this kind | bearing interest from ‘day of saleand secured by does not occur often. Ladies especially invited. un | of trust on property sold will be taken, or all cash, #t ‘exhibit two days previous to sale. purchaser's option. All conveyancing’ and recordi WAL‘ER B. WILLIAMS & CO., at purchaser's cost. If terms are not complied. within ss ; Sidays from sale, the property will be Tesold st rial “Ai Ronee es Avctioneers_ | and cost of defaulting purchaser, after seven dayw’ ede UNCANSON BRO: Vertisement in the Eveuine Star SAM. CROSS, Trustee, EXECUTOR’S SALE OF NOTE. THOS. E. WAGGAMAN, Auctioneer. jas-d&ds. virtue of the power vested in me I will sell, at | FINHOMAS DOWLING, aiic auction, om THUMSDAY, FANUARY. TENTH, TSsa, at TWE E O'CLOCK NOON, at auction rooms nson Bros., 9th and D streets northwest, a ‘ol@ payabieon demandtothe order of William | Dis Tact Teerisfor Saso4.oo, wt | yet of authority i % c] ant pares o9, e., of ned will, om NESDAY, THE SIX OF JANU- al THREE 0" mut of sale at public auction to the highest in — ‘SS. fronting on the Water st tween ist and 22d streets Lorthwest, containing 4.21 square feet « N THE SAME DAY AT SEMON J. PARDESSUS. §a7-3t_Execntor of Estate of Wm. Thomson, d'c 3 VED PROPERTY, BEING RMKER TORY BACK, No O10 1 STRERT THURSDAY it HA AST JANUARY ‘CLOCK P. M., we ar . three-story good brick stable on rear toa 0-toot alley. Improved y's | “ON THE SAME DAY AT FOUR O'CLOCK in from 132 fe ‘ £00 Amp ; \ THE SAM 7 large ‘ree. cy ne elling, with back building, the preanions, $a, Camstead’o sorted No. 9] treet northwest. subd vision square 2, ving # front 234 Struts brcperiy in conveuient toallstrest-car lines, | feuton the west mide of ne. between t street and Lowa circle, being No. 1316 Vermont avenue northwest. Terms of sale: One-third in cash; the residue in three equal payments, at one, twoand date of sale, for which notes duly secured on the prem ines sold shall be given, with interest at six percen- tum per a he day of (sa to ancing and pure! ‘ on the unimproved n (0"each on the improved property, I the terms of sale be not complied, with, in ten days je may be had at the risk and cost of after fv: y located. * remain on the rty at 5 per cent per ann 4] January 4, 1890; balance of purchase mn sh” A deposit 0 required at sale. Conve! Ke., at purchaser's cost. Terms to be complied with in ten days, otherwise right reserved to il at risk and cost of purchaser iter five days’ public notice of such resale in some in Washington, D.C. Auctioneers. OF IMPROVED REAL Es- RTH SIDE T STREET, BE- TH AND SEVENTH SIKEETS ST. decree of the Supreme Court of the iumbia, in cause No. 11,090, Equity tion, in frout of ATU PROPOSALS. GEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE REC meat my office, 1416 F street_porthw Es WELVE O« ION, 0 the im- | AKY TWENT" itantial brick and frame be sold in several par- One-third of the purchase money in fevand the falance in two equal prov Qwellings. "Th cels, Terms of wal on the fastaliments: payable in one and two. years after the day of sale, with interest at 6 per cent per annum, to see’ by the promissory notes of the purchaser and a deed of trust of the premises sok it the op- tion of the parchane od op ape be paid in casi ‘e terms of cou with within ten days from the day of sale the trustees reserve the rizht to resell at the risk and cost of the ing purchaser. eee ET ORGE E. HAMILTON. ) ANDRE) ¥ Office, Fendail Bidg, ) THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. rppuomas DOWLING, Auctioneer. ¢ ELEGANT BREWSTER BROUGHAM, WITH BOLE AXLE X ERFECT ORDER, A On SATURDAY, JANUARY TWELFTH, 1889, at TWELVE O'CLOCK, in frout of my auction rooms. T shall sell the above-mentioned Carriage, built by Brewster, of Broome street, New York. Can be seen prior to sale by applying at No. 3101 Dunbarton ave- hue. Georgetown, D.C. THOMAS DOWLING, ja9-3t Auctioneer. em to quirements of the Inspector of Buildings as to « and to all the requirements of the Committee on Street Decoration in connection with ite task of street deoo- rw ject no permauent damage to stands to be removed bef any, to «rounds Committee. Plats giv- Teservations will be information given ions of the sev wh at my office and any other may be desired. ‘The privilege of printing and the sale under the ces of this Committee of the Official ‘uch advertisements aud puamuittece may apreove. Each bid to be accompanied by a certified check for jum equal to twenty-five per ceut, of the amount the bid, to be returned if the same be not accepted. 4, the ht to resect any or all bids or to waive defects rman of Com. on Parks aid Reservations, Washington, D. C., Jan. 7, 1889, a0 RCHITECT'S OFFIC ington, D. C.. Januai received at this office unt Isso, AT TWELVE, white < ja7-co-3t_ EDWARD © UR $7, #8, AND #10 SUITS BEAT ANYTHING ever, Gflered at those prices. Come and look them. THE LONDON AND LIVERPOOL NG 00. 26-Sm 7th and G sta 600 francs. 3a9-dtad HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. NISTRATRIX’S SALE OF SMALL LOT OF Ae OUs EHOLD FURNITURE, FARMING IMPLE- ETC. JANUARY TWELFTH, 1889, AT LOCK, at the suction-rooms of Thomas | ING sell the above-mentioned effects. Grand Rational Award of 16 MARY McMAHON, Administratrix, Two- THIRD TUESDAY AFLERNOON, J. FIF- TRENTH, 1889, at FOUR O'CLOCK, ANUARY in front of the fer at_public auction Lot 32 of of square 749, i AN INVIGORATING TONIO, PERUVIAN BARK. IRON, axp PURE CATALAN WINE. alaria, Indigestion, cue appelis Poms o Ble Meare Prouot, Paris. made known All conv: tA eer cost. $100 of wale. THOMAS DOWLING, Auct. UNCANSON BROS., Auctioneers, SALE OF TWO-STORY FRAME HOUSE TRO ige TWENTIETE STREET NORTHWEST ani ancing and reco posit required at jad-dts 22 Rue E. FOUGERA & 00., 39 NORTH WILLL ts for the U. By ST., N. ¥. THU cel of iand