Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1889, Page 6

THE LIGHT OF ALL AGES. MECHANICAL MEANS FOR LIGHTING. si Curious Lamps and Candlesticks in the National Museum. ——___. WoW THE SUBIECT OF ILLUMINATION 18 ILLUS- TRATED — BEAUTIFUL ANTIQUE FORMS — AD- VANCES MADE IN MODERN TIMES—THE FIRE- FLY LAMP AND OTHER INTERESTING OBJECTS. —o—___ It might have been the veritable Aladdin's lamp. At least so Mr. Walter Hough and a Stan reporter concluded as they looked ata drawing of alamp in a case at the National museum. This was a lamp found by Dr. Grant Bey in the mounds of Fostat, in Egypt, where re had been an Arabian settlement. The amp dated back to the twelfthcentury. It was of wm pattern, flat and elliptical, witha spout or nozzle for the wick at one end anda littie ring or handle at the other. There was another lamp beside it. found in the same place. This was of the simplest pattern, merely an earthernware basin with two spouts formed by pinching the at one end. It seemed to suit the fancy best, if not to be in cord with scientific reasoning, to assign the retty lamp with the curved handle to Aladdin, These lamps form a part of acollection filling three or four cases which has just been ar- mounds, °F FOSTAT THE EVENING STAR: is a lantern such as town watchmen in old pic- tures can be seen carrying in one hand while they support their sleepy steps with an ancient spontoon held in the other. ‘thorn was found in an old Yorkshire farm- house. and the half-burned tallow dip is still standing in the socket. It is called a horn lantern because instead of glass the sides are sheathed with thin translucent plates of horn. Mr. Hough told Tae Star reporter that the in- vention of horn plates was attributed to the good King Alfred, who set up many candles with which to measure the time he spent in ‘Smps ANP VEVIRGIA (0) prayer. The unprotected candles, guttered and were very uncertain time-keepers, and made the length of the prayers irregular. So the king fixed up shields made of horn plates to shelter them from the wind. A medimtal lam for suspension has a hook like handle with ratchets or notches in the inner side. The lamp is merely a basin with a pointed nose or spout from which the wick dangles, As the oil burns out the lamp is moved up another notch ranged by Mr. Hough, and is intended to illus- trate the means of illumination used at differ- ent periods. The articles exhibited range in| size and variety of pattern all the way from the delicately wrought little bronze to th ge lanthorn of a centw paper Japanese lantern. While there is mach difference in the skill and art employed in the construction of the lan advance seems to have been ma hanical covtrivances for light- ing from the days of ancient Rome down to the preseut century. Anyone who burned the mid- night oil or candie prior to the invention of the Argand burner and of lamp chimneys ry must have about the end of the last cen had « smoky time of it. One sug seems to rise naturally out of the collection of facts made by Mr. Hough is that until the be- ginning of the present bustling. hurrying cen- tury men did not deem it necessary to turn night into day. Hence the need of powerful illuminants was not felt. and the genius of in- Vention was not spurred in that direction. THE ANCTENT LAMPS. The ancient lamps contained in the collee- tion and which. in chronological order should be mentioned first, are nearly all embellished artistically with some desigr in relief. There are several bronze lamps from Pompeii. One is small and of the commonest pattern, a basin with a spout and little handle. Another is a swinging lamp. and is of elaborate design. The stand is like a tripod, the feet being fashioned These support a branching tree and from one of the branches a little lamp swings by chains. with a tweezer anda pricker suspended beside it. Another swinging lamp from Pompeii is exquisitely wronght. A bronze | stork, battling with a bronze snake, forms the | stand. The ke’s head is reared high in the | air. and from this the lamp is suspended and | with it a pair of tweezers. These lamps | are small and look like toys. In those days the | Pompeiians and Romans burned perfumed oils in their lamps. A modern Roman lamp, of | brass. stan‘ing near these. is remarkably simi- | lar in construction to its antique ghbors, There are several lamps from acombs, which the Christians of the fifth ry lighted the dark quarry caverns in which they were forced to live. They are of aud earthenware fashioned like the | . e and handle. the | ving that the ornamentation con- | 3 in which some symbol of | Christianity was wrought. A pretty object is a copy of @ Etruscan lamp of glazed earthen- ware made in the shape of ahuman foot. A part of the naked foot, represented in Etruscan | red glaze, is Ly a the sandal and its trap- | pings being in black. The foot is artistically molded. The handle projects from the he and the spout from bie toe. Many of the ancient lamps are of terra cotta, There are | sepulchral lamps from Baiiae, Italy, and lamps | from ancient Greece. all of classical form. The simplest form of lamps are those from the northwest coast of America, mere flat stone basins without handle or nozzle. In these the | Wick or rush floated on the oil or hung over the side. Next in simplicity comes a modern lamp from Syria, a small basin or cup of clay, with acorner or nozzle formed by pinching the clay at one side. CURIOUS OLD LAMPS. The collection includes many curious objects used in different lauds and at different times for illuminating. There is a Flemish tinder- PAEDINE AL (Panis) Lastnoan (tagusn) box. with a long handle like a dipper; a bronze candle-stick from Damascus, aud a terra-cotta candle-stick from Italy, with the figure of a re- | clining Bacchus holding up the socket for the candle. There is a box, too, of floats for night- light tapers, which, half a century ago, before the general introduction of gas, were quite common. These are little crosses of tin, with « hole in the center, and bits of cork at the end of each arm of the cross. The ta or wicks were fastened with a button in hole, and then the whole contrivance was floated ina cup or basin of oil. AN OLD LANTHORN. An interesting object is an old English horn lanthorn. a huge black-looking cylinder with a conical top, and an iron ring at the top, This | tin, with an oblong bowl, or basin, supported on an upright standard. It hasan orifice for filling the basin with oil and a lon; wick. There is no arrangement or shade. lamp Dr. Bean studied at night when a boy. and ‘laid the foundation for the learning that has g: one to stick the candlestick into the wal the other to stick it into the top of a table or mantel. fishing vessels, box with its supplies trom New Bedford. dle-molds, tallow dips. and other articles on | which people depended for light fifty years ago, | The next stage is represented by a aphene | lamp. From fat and fat oils the next step was the bur the use of petroleum and petroleum lamps. | liabilities of the territory | These changes all took place within the ¢ 0 tur; becoming antiquated or used more for orna- mental purposes than for illumination. collection includes also a candlestick of soft stone fre a bundle of the tesea or fungus from Oaxaco, | fire is kindled. is a firefly lamp from the West Indies, It stands about eighteen inches. high, and is constructed 80 as to tip up the basinand let the oil flow down toward the nozzle, * lamp from Scotland is some- ilar in construction only it has two iron basins, one below the oil basin being in- tended to catch the drippings, AMERICAN LAMPS, The collection of lamps representing Ameri- can types is exceedingly interesting. There are old ‘*Kay” lamps that hung in fireplaces in Virginia and Pennsylvania in the days of knee breeches and wide-skirted coats. These little lamps were generally of wrought iron flat basins with covers, a pointed nose for the wick, and a hook to hang them on. Each had a “pricker,” a pointed iron spike to regulate the wick with, aud a “sticker,” a slender spike to drive into the wall and hang the lamp on. There are old snuffers and tweezers and all the paraphernalia familiar to housekeepers of half acentury ago. There are iron torches such as were suspended in doorways in colonial times, and she arnddy, cheerful, picturesque glow and at the same time emitted a great »ke. From Nantucket is a sconce acandle—a bracket to hang on the wall. There ia also from colonial times a kitchen lamp with a notched arrangement for | lating the angle at which the lamp should like the media ha al Lamp mentioned abov There isa perforated tin lantern. like th “freckle” lantern of Hawthorne, and a “K lamp. provided with a little stend so that it could be set on a table as well as suspended in the fire-place. From Morgantown, W. Va., is | an earthenware lamp of old pattern for burn- | ing fat. Itisa basin witha nozzle. or a lip, supported on ast: Dr. T. H. Bean con- tributes to the collection an odd old lamp in use in Pennsylvania thirty years ago. It is of slit tor the ‘or chimne: By the flaring, smoking light of this d for him repute as an ichthyolo- ist. A king tommy” is a little iron can- lestick with two sharp prongs at right angles, and “Sticking tommies” are still used on There is also a round tinder — ning of spirits and camphene, and next nd now the petroleum lamp in c! The a the Tanoan Indians of New Mexico, Mexico, used as tinder for flint and steel, When the tinder is aglow a sulphur wick is ap- plied and breaks into a flame, with which a A FIREFLY LAMP. The object perhaps thathttracts most attention in three stories, one rising above the other. | These stories are wicker or bamboo cages, with little doors. The brilliant tropical firetlies are imprisoned in this and fed. They retain their | brilliance for a long time and shed a soft glow from the lamp. A Japanese night-light isa lit- tle cabinet with white paper sides, in which a lamp is placed. The Japanese are never with- outa light. There are paper lanterns which a | pedestrian carries in his hand. and similar lan- | terns suspended at the end of a long stick, which Japanese carry on horseback. WITH A TINKLING BELL, A pretty lantern is the gifu suspended out- doors in front of Japanese houses at night. The gifu has a little bell attached to it and a | strip of paper tied to the clapper of the bell. When the wind blows the pitt of paper blown about and the little bell tinkles. The Chinese paper lanterns are similar to the Jaj anese, only they have rigid ribs, Among the Chinese lamps is one at which opium-smokers light their pipes, The Chinese and Japanese have wax candles with paper wicks, "A primi- tive oil lamp is one made entirely of bamboo, basin and all, which is used in lighting alley- ways in Chinese cities. These lamps are some- times knocked or blown over and catch fire. ‘Then the city, or a portion of it, burns up, The Chinese patiently rebuild the city an hang out more bamboo lamps. An odd can- diestick is one in. use among | the miners im Colorado. It has a great long sharp spike, with which it can be riven into the timbers of a shaft. This candle- stick is used sometimes by miners, with fatal effect, as a dagger. Among the many other ojects in the cases are myrtle wax candles from San Domingo, rush candles from York- shire, England; brass and earthenware lamps from Morocco; Japanese flints and steels, with the shavings used to catch the flame; Mexican sulphur wicks, com) of strands of cotton dipped in sulphur and used to get a blaze from glowing tinder; the stick and shaving matches, or “spunk” dipped in sulphur, used in this country with tinder boxes before friction matches were invented, and a wheel tinder box, betes eee wheel which was set a and then struck against the flint. friction match is shown, and kinds of matches since made. | governor of the territory set a di WASHINGTON. ‘ D. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1889—TWELVE PAGEs. ing lamps, binnacle lamps, forecastle lam: Oefait the lamps and lanterns know. to jack tar, together with a “cutting-out™ west coast of America. There is no exhibit to illustrate modern gas- light, as the whole apparatus necessary would be too cumbrous for a case, and nowhere in the collection is show: THE NI modern gas bill. seria EW STATES. How the Dakotas, Montana, and Wash- ington Will Join the Union. THE SPRING AND FALL ELECTIONS AT HOME— TERRITORIAL LANDS AND LIABILITIES — THE PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION—REPRESENTATION AT WASHINGTON. The great majority of the civilized people in the United States and in the territories are aware by this time that there are soon to be admitted into the Union four uew states. When they will be admitted or what the mede of pro- | cedure will be is to most of them a closed book. So mauy and so confusing have been the efforts to crown these territories with statehood that the public mind has failed to ve eccen= tricity, and now all that is known is that there will be,at some time in the future, a North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washing- ton. The greater interest has centered on the Dakotas, due, doubtless, to their immense area and this interest was largely increased by the stubborn fight which took place on the question of admitting Dakota as one or two states, or whether one portion of Dakota should be admitted as a state while the balance should continue to be After a long struggle in Congress it was finally decided to divide Dakota on the forty-sixth parallel and to admit the two se follow the devious courses of legislat: and extraordinary fertil: a territory. tions as states, ELECTION OF DELEGATES. On April 15 next the governors of the four territories are required to issue proclamations declaring that on May 14 there shall be an elec- tion for delegates to the conventions which are to be held on the 4th of July to ratify or reject the constitutions which were, in Dakota, some- The North Dakota delegates will meet at Bismarck, while their southern brethren are instructed to assemble The Montana and Washington what prematurely adopted. at Sioux Falls, delegates can meet where they please, All persons who are qualifie bilit yas delegates. three delegates, the privilege of voting for two delegate is to be seventy-five. THE CONVENTION 8. lantern, This particular | merely a huge crate, into which great lumps of whale blubber are thrown and set afire to give light to the sailors who are cutting out a whale. There are also candle fishes, the oily fishes used for illuminating purposes on the north- |. under the ter- ritorial laws, to vote will be permitted to cast their ballots in the election of delegates, and | the mere fact that the candidates for delegates are qualified for election to the territorial leg- islature is sufficient to establish their eligi- i The territories are mapped | out in districts, and each district is entitled to | Each voter will be allowed ‘The totel number of delegates in each convention The manner in which the delegates shall clearly in the enabling act. to declare, on behalf of posed states, that th of the United State been done the con: form constitutions : spectively It is pre shall be republi distinction in d state gov ided that the | proceed in convention has been laid down As soon as an or- | ganization has been effected the delegates are | people of the pro- y adopt the Constitution ndas soon as that has tions are authorized to ernments, re- onstitutions in in form, and shall make no | ' il or political rights on ac { count of race or color, except as to Indians not taxed, and shall not be repugnant to the Constitution of the United States and the prin- jciples of the Declaration of Independence. ‘The conventions are also required to provide, by ordinances irrevocable without the consent | of the United States, that perfect toleration of | cured and that states shall ever be mo- property on account of his religious sentiment shall be no inhabitant of the lested in person or or her mode of religious worship. of the proposed states are 20 ople also to disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within the boundaries of those states, and to all lands held by or for Indians, The debts and liabilities of the territories are to be assumed and succeed the territorie aid by the states which respectively, and pro- vision is to be made by cach state for the es- tablishment and maintenance of systems of public schools, which shall be open to au |? the children of the respective states, and free from sectarian control. POSSIBILITY OF DELAY. There is a possib: somewhat remote of course, but still a possibility,that there may be | delay in the admission of one or more of the proposed states. place if the people of either territory 5 fuse, at the election. which t: tober 1, to ratify the constitutior the convention for that prepared lar_territor If that should occur then the present territor- This hitch can only take ial form of government would coutinue, so far as that territo: was concernes election and had another convention another and a more popular THE DAKOTAS. The constitutional conventions of North Da- | fra while the y for another ame ate constitution, | kota and South Dakota are required to appoint a joint commissio: three members of commission is to there agree upon an « property of the territot rach convention wemble at DB and agree upon the einou which sh: ach of the pri Dakota and South sumed and paid by e of North agre h stat and liabilities. THE FALL ELECTIONS. Dakota, ement is to be incorporated in the consti- | tutions of the two states, and composed of not less than | uitable division of the | The commission is | also to dispose of the public records and edjust t of the debts und 1 be as- | posed states This c is to obligme itself to pay its proportion of the debts The returns of the elections which will take place in all four of the territories on October | nd at which the state constitutions are to be | 1, d upon, are to be made to the s of each territory, who? with the gov chief justice thereof, are to canvass the will ete nor ries and me. | If the constitution is ratified then the governor | rtify the result to the President of the | United States, and if the constitutions are re- publican plied w h, then the President will is: proclamation, announcing the result of the | As the form- | on which the proclama- | tion is issued the state or states named in that | document will be deemed admitted by Congress | €lection in each territory. Tha ality, and on the di sue 1 form, and if the law has been com- 8 into the Union on an equal footing with the original states. SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES, Each state will of course have two Senators to represent it in the Senate, and until the next general census, or until otherwise provided by law, North Dakota, Montana, and Washington | will have but one member each in the House of Representative for the present. These Repre entatives: by the people of the proposed states, , LATE FOREIGN NEWS. South Dakota will have two and the | governors and other state officers will be elected | on October 1—the same day as that on which | escape, was captured in South W the several constitutions shall be passed upon | It is said that the American tin-plate con- sumers’ syndicate has offered to purchase all the tin-plate works in South Wales at £3.000 per mill. in order to control the produce, of which America now urchases three-fourths, The object is to abolish the large profits of the middlemen. By an explosion of fire-damp ina colliery near Nimes, France, yesterday, fifteen persons were killed and six injured. The Rome Riforma announces an Italian pro- | laborers were sitting on a bank near 22d street tectorate over the sultanate of Oppia, on the Somali coast. It is officially denied in Vienna that Austria is preparing for a war with Servia. Herr Antoine, who has resigned his seat as deputy for Metz in the reichstag. intends to be- come a French citizen and to offer himself as a candidate for the chamber of deputies in oppo- sition to Gen. Boulanger at the next election. A soldier named Vertjoie has been sentenced Algeria, for throwing a quid of tobacco into the !face of Col. Thierry +. hile court-martial for to death in Oran, Vertjdte was being tried by attempting to desert. The Paris police yesterday searched the houses of many members of the Patriotic against whom damaging evi- dence is found will not be arrested, but will be summoned to appear before a magistrate for e. Persons examination. ind Effective. Safe Pye mereg My ro tole meg ive remedy for ‘tion, me ri e Bowels, Constipation, fillousness, Headache, Dis- om ‘or any disease arising from an ziness, Mi impure state of the blood. They have been in use in this country for over yp Free nar the thou- sands ble tes! from those them, and their constantly increas- trovertible evid« of ui WAITING FOR THE END. Three Convicted Murderers to be Hanged in About Three Weeks. ALBERT GREEN, NELSON COLBERT, AND WILLIAM BRIGGS WILL PROBABLY BE EXECUTED IN THE JAIL ON APRIL 5—THEY ARE MAKING PREPARA- TIONS FOR LEAVING THE WORLD—THE STORIES OF THEIR CRIMES, ‘There are now in jail three men who, having been convicted of murder, are awaiting the time, twenty days hence, when, unless the courts interfere or the President gives them a respite. they will pay the penalty of their crime on the scaffold. They are Albert Green. Nel- son Colbert, and William Briggs, all colored. Having been convicted of the highest crime known to the law, they will, on April 5, “be taken to a place prepared for their execution and there be hanged by the neck until they are dead.” The time fixed for the execution is between the hours of twelve and two o'clock. The condemned men HAVE GIVEN UP ALL HOPE of being granted even a respite for one week, and announce that they have made their peace and have no fears of death. They are now en- gaged in preparing to leave this world, and in loing so are making a strong effort to convert Albert Dodson and Frederick Barber, who are now waiting to receive their death sentences, | Green and Colbert spend most of their time reading their Bible and praying. Briggs can- not read, but he is very devout and does not lose any opportunity offered to hear some words of praise, Rev. Jonn Roberts, leader of the Young Men's | Christian association of the A. E. church, sits the condemned men two or three times a wee! He has been a faithful spiritual adviser | to them, never having omitted a visit on ac- | count of rough weather or for any other reason. The men occupy single cells, but when visited by their spiritual adviser they all go in one large cell, and sometimes the other murderers are permitted to jointhem. Yesterday at their religious gathering. special prayers were said for Barber, who merdered a wouan in George- town by throwing her into the canal, Albert Dodson! was also present, was deeply and the minister hopes to ° HAVE HIM AMONG THR BLESSED ONES before the triple execution three weeks hence. At noon to-day Mr. Roberts administered the condemned men. He feels confident that they are fully converted. He are now fully prepared to die, and will walk to the scaffold without any fears | of the hereafter. The condemned men receive | Visits from friends and relatives, Colbert and | Briggs are visited by their parent: other n has no parents, d sisters do not fail to morning Mr. John H. Russell, er at the jail, will | assistant en There are some changes to be made in the scaftold, which was originally made only large | enough to execute one person at a tim | The scaffold was origin: ed for the execu- of James M. t Stone for wife murder. He was executed April 2. 1880. Stone | was the’ first person executed at the new jail. The scaffold was then in the yard in the rear of | the building, but it was afterward removed to | the northeast corner of the building in the wide | corridor. ‘The next to pay the penalty on the | present ‘structure was Edward Queenan and | “Babe” Bedford. who murdered Philip Hirth in the northwestern part of the city, Sandy Pima, who was convicted with them, received a commutation of sentence aud went to the peni- tentiary. Those murderers will long be re- membered by the jail officials for their beauti- ful singing just prior to their march to the gal- ows, | The next to ascend the long flight of steps and pass into the next world was Charles J. Guiteau, the ASSASSIN OF THE LATE PRESIDENT GARFIEL He was hanged June 30, 1882. Next came Charles Shaw, a colored youth, who murdered his sister near Uniontown. He was executed nuary 19 of the same ydar, Soon after his execution Jansen, the resurrectionist, occu- pied a cell near the one which Shaw had oceu- pied, for stealing his body. ‘The scaffold was next used for the execution pof Johu Langston, alias Hudson. who killed eman Fowler while in discharge of his y. His execution took place May 15, 1885. The second double execution on the present structure took place April 30, 1886, when Louis Sommerficld, white, and Rich: Lee, alias Dick Sparrow, colored, paid the penalty each for wife murder, The former had also killed | another relative. The ninth person hanged here was Antonio Nardella, the Italian who was executed for the murder of another Italian, He was hanged May 28, 1836. The coming execution will be THE FIRST TRIPLE EXECUTION since the present jail was built. There have | been two double executions and five single ones, as above stated, making nine in all who have “Apa the other world from the present old. The scaffold is about 12 feet square. The platform is about 12 feet high and the posts on which the cross-beam rests are nearly 19 feet high. The present cross-beam is made of Georgia pine. For fear that something m: possibly go wrong Gen, Crocker has given or- ders for some r: nd changes in the seaf- told, n is to be put up andthe trap isto be made larger, The present trap- door is only large enough for two persons to | stand upon and pass through the opening with- | out knocking against each other and perhaps | presenting a horrible spectacle, All this the | warden intends to avoid, The trap will be made about two feet wider, and it will then be | about seven feet long by two fcet wide, The holes in the cross-beam through which the afiording plenty of room to avoid any possible difficulty. Th p will be worked as it always from a ceil adjuining the the morning of the day of the ex prisoners in many of the cells on that side of the jail will be removed, so that they will not be able to see even the march to the gallows, ALBERT GREEN WAS CONVICTED of what is known as the “Broom Drill” homi- | cide. The murder occurred on the evening of er 13,in front ofa church on Ist N_and O streets southwest. tim, James Lucas, was a member of the committee’ on “good order” at the church where the broom drill was given. Green, with a companion named Webb, attended the enter- tainment, Green misbehaved and Lucas ordered him ont of the church, He went out after some words had passed between them, but in going he gave notice that he did not propose to be snubbed in that way. He went down the street a ehort distance and laid in wait for his victim, expressing his intention to ‘do him up” and kill him if it really became necessary. Accord- ing to his notions it became necessary. Luca: was with some female companions, Green called him aside and inflicted the fatal wounds while the women were waiting. Lacas died a few days afterward, and Grecn, who tried to shington. He was given two chances for his life. He was granted a new trial after his first conviction, but the second trial ended with a similar re- sult, He was sentenced on the same day that Briggs received his last words from the court. THE STORY OF BRIGGS’ CRIME. On the morning of May 3 last Wm, Briggs committed the crime for which he is soon to suffer the death penalty. The bloody tragedy occurred in what is known as Suttle’s place, north of the Boundary, on Columbia heights. Workmen had béen engaged cutting through the streets, and the foundation*for concrete pavements had been put down. About 8 o'clock on the morning of the affair a gang of colored extended, They had finished the work in that section and there was nothing for them to do that day. Two of the men, Briggs and Wm. Jones, got into a fight over an old hat which Briggs accused Jones of having stolen from him, Aleck Jones, a brother of the deceased, went to his brother's assistance, and the two brothers gave Briggs a thras! ing and drove him off. Briggs went away in bad humor and with his mind fully made up to get even with at least one of the Jones boys, preferably Wm. Jones. He had hardly been away from the crowd thirty minutes when he returned and accosted William, “I want that hat,” said Briggs, who had 8 pistol in his hand. He told ses vas he would do if he did not give up the “If you raise that pistol,” said Jones,” “I'll kill you,” at the time raisin, he bel in hid” ime ig a stone that fore he ime to throw the stot leveled his revolver and fired, ‘The puller eee tered Jones’ left breast just over the heart. He never knew what hurt him, for he died almost instantly. Fearing that the first bullet would — ats vee beetles et od pulled the trigger and sent a second wi iz ing through the ropes will pass will be about 20 inches apart, | ffold. On | cution the | Messrs. J. MqDowell Carrington and John Cruikshank. the jury returned a verdict of guilty as indicted. “He was sentenced on Jan- pary 19 to be hanged on the same day as Col- THE CAR STABLE MURDERER. Nelson Colbert was convicted of the murder of Philip Wentzell, October 3 last. The victim of this horrible tragedy was a highly respected citizen of northeast Washington, who had lived more than three score years and ten. For a number of years he had been superintendent of the Columbia street car stables, near the old toll-gate, and was familiarly known to the drivers as “Pap.” He was loved by all the men | in the company’s employ. Colbert was em- | Dloved to attend to the horses and do general | work about the stable. On the evening of the | murder he appeared at the stable under the influence of hquor and could not properly at- tend to his duties. The superintendent's atten- tion was called to Colbert's condition and he spoke kindly to him, telling him to take more care with his work. Colbert became insolent and insulting, but knowing he was intoxicated the superintendent paid no further attention tohim. Colbert told his fellow workmen that if Wentzell was not satisfied with the manner in which he did his work he could discharge him. The superintendent soon returned and threatened to discharge Colbert unless he paid better attention to his work. Colbert's conduct became unbearable and he was ordered to quit work. He then demanded his pay and was told to come around the next i “I want my money right now,” said ‘on have got to pay me on this spot. ll turned to get out of the negro’ and was startled at hearing the latter sa} uu old white-headed if you don’t pay me my money I'll kill yor The old man turned for the last time and re- | ceived a bullet in his chest from @ revolver in | Colbert's hand. He fell to the floor uneon- j scious. Several physicians remained at the | bedside of the wounded man until nearly 10 | o'clock that night, when he died. Not satisfied | With killing one man, Colbert flourished his pistol about and threatened to kill the first one | who touched him. "That night the murderer | slept in a hay-mow in the country and the fol- lowing morning he surrendered. The murder | caused considerable excitement among the residents in East Washington. Colbert was ably defended by Judge W. B. Snell and Capt. | Howard L. Prince, but the evidence against him was too direct to be broken and a verdit of murder in the first degree was rendere He was sentenced January 9 to be executed | with the others between the hours of 12 and 2 o'clook, a In Washington County. THE SOLE OCCUPANT OF THE HAGERSTOWN JAIL— REPRESENTATIVE M'COMAS AND HIS CONSTITU- ENTS—THE ADVANCE OF HAGERSTOWN REAL ESTATE. Correspondence of Tar EVENING STAR, Hacerstown, March 15.—Charles Seibert is the single occupant of the Washington county | jail at the present time, and it is he who created | | such a sensation by bringing a baby from Wash- ington ina basket and depositing it on the doorsteps of the Orphans’ home in this place, | For this little irregularity he now lunguishes in prison, where he is to remain for five mouths | and pay a fine of one hundred dollars and costs | of prosecutio novelty of which was that Seibert was convicted of an assault upon the | babe as provided for in an old Maryland statute which had been lost sight of, but which was un- earthed to meet his peculiar case. | Hon, L. eComas is at his home in this 1 much needed rest and relief from hungry office-seekers, by whom. he was overrun in Washington. In this, how- ever, he has miscalculated, for each mail brings him scores of letters, while the hotel registers show that he is receiving calls from the faithful of almost every hamlet within the | bounds of his constituency. | A new national bank, to be called the Second National, is about to be established in Hagers- | | town, with a capital stock of $100,000. Promi- | | nent citizens are connected with the enter- | prise, which bas-every indication of starting | out under the most favorable auspices, | Judge ed the motion for a » of Samuel Carty vs. The ion, of Washington county, in which the'plaint® was awarded $2,358.33 for | the killing of his son at the fair grounds, in | October last, by a bulloon-pole falling upon im. The case will now go to the court of ap- | an, of the firm of Seigman & | nts, died here to-day from | | the effects of a paralytic stroke received a week | ago. Hagerstown’s municipal election takes place | H Monday, March 25, at which time councilmen | j Will be elected from wards 1.3, and 5, The | contest promises to be unusually spirited from | the fact that the prohibitionists propose to take | part and are first in the field, with their nomi- nations made up of well-kuown citizens. An evidence of the rapid advance of Hagers- town estate is a sale made to-day by Mr. J.B. Young to Geo. D. Hoover of a two- story frame house, used asa restaurant and residence, for $3,800, which Mr. Young pur- chased a year ago for £2,800, The case of James H. Elgin vs, the Balti- more and Ohio railroad has been removed from | this county to Alleghany county for trial. It is | | an action brought by plaintiff for damages | caused to himself and daughter from the negli- | | gence of the company in not providing proper | | guards where the road crosses. the county road | ‘ trom Sandy Hook to Weverton, Ten thousand | dollars damages are claimed. B. ao Important Gladstone Victory. THE LIBERAL CANDIDATE ELECTED IN KENNING- TON AFTER A HARD BATTLE. The election in the Ki gton division of | | Lambeth yesterday resulted in a victory for Mr. Beaufoy, the Gladstonian candidate, who | polled 4,069 votes, against 3.439 for Mr. Hope, the cor ive nominee. Mr. Davis, the retiriug m votes and Mr, Beaufoy At the last election | nber, received 3,222 92, The election was hotly contested, both’ parties straining every | nerve to achieve ess, The Standard, refer- | ring to the result of the Kennington election, “No sensible unionist will pretend to | minimize the seriousness of this misfortune. All the explanations in the world will not de the figures of their unpleasant signifi cane In government and political circles it was generally conceded that the result would afford | te the country absolutely certain proof of the | popular drift of opinion and indicate as nearly | | bs can be ascertained the effect which Pigott | and other recent tory exploits have had upon the minds of the people. Mr. Beaufoy, the | | liberas candidate, who was also the Gladston- inn candidate at'the previous election, had a, slight advantage in the fact that he is a large | pr of labor, but as the same con- | ditions prevailed on the occasion of his defeat | | the revulsion of popular fecling rather than ‘any other consideration was relied upon to | carry him through, Queen Natalie will shortly make application to have the divorce obtained from her by her husband, ex-King Milan, through Metropolitan | ‘Theodosius, annulled. Emperor Francis Joseph | has requested Milan not to stop in Vienna on his way to Gratz, where he is going to take | hydropathic treatment. | Lord Salisbury. Lord Carnarvon and Sir | William Vernon Harcourt have been snbpenaed | by Sir Charles Russell to appear before the | Parnell commission, None of the Parnellite counsel will participate in the attack in the house of commons on Attorney-General | Webster, “Is My Hair All Right?” Yes, she is pretty. Her fea- tures are regu- Jar, but “great heavens,” such hair! Sarah Bernhardt once said of @ very | celebrated —ac- tress who had been playing in New York that | there was no ex- | use for her hav- colors in it—or there is a patch of light brown—or the front hair doesn't match—or it looks dull—or it bas Jost all its old freshness and gloss. There is no excuse for this. - pis ‘Do you suppose men do not notice your hair? What nad. ‘If it was light and has faded it will do the same. 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