Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1890, Page 12

A NARROW GOLD BAND The Shackles With Which Cupid Binds His Captives. WEDDINGS AND PRESENTS. ‘Why Marriages Occur in the Spring and Fall—Hew Engagements Are Made— The Proper Hour for Wedding Bells eo Ring. a Written for Tax EvEeNtne Stam HE large number of weddings which have been occurring in Washington dur- ‘ing the inst few weeks have doubtless aused a great deal of happiness among the high contracting partivs; but as there is no pleasure without » pain so isa wedding mot an unalloyed pleasure tothe poor young men who are friends of the bride and have to make her costly presents. It was a mau of this kind who came out of a prominent Jeweler’s establishment on Pennsylvania ave- ue the other day with sorrow very painfully @epicted on his countenance. “Yes,” he said to the friend whom he met on the street, “I had to buy a bitof jewelry for Miss ——, who is going to marry —-. That makes the fourth wedding present I've bought | within a week. Why is it, I wonder, that peo- ys get married in a lamp that way?" FALL AND SPRING WEDDINGS. It is true that marriages are pretty frequent im the spring, but the fall seems to be the favor- ite season. The reason is simple enough. A young man snd a young woman having an elective affinity for each other meet at the be- ginning of “‘the season.” After that they see | @ue another constantly, if they choose. By meeting at other people's houses, at balls, din- Bers and such affairs, there is none of the de- liberate and embarrassing evidence of his bud- ding imtentions that constant calling at her | house involves. He may call upon her oc- casionally, but he manages to meet her on neu- teal ground every day. ‘Then, as the season | advances, his attentions become more marked. Lent comes and with it his serious courting be- gins, and by spring the engagement is an- nounced. During the summer they bill and coo and when the leaves begin to fall they re- turn to the city and get married. No proceed- ings can be more regular. Or they must meet at« summer resort. He follows her to town and proposes late in the fall, they are engaged all winter and the wedding comes off early in the spring. ‘THE UNPLEASANT THINGS, Now, while weddings are doubtless pro- ductive of happiness in many cases, the cere- monies attending them are not by any means pleasant to go through with. The bride doesn’t mind it so much. » has her beautiful gown | to show off and if she looks pretty, and she | generally does, she gathers courage from the | admiring looks of the audience; and, more- over, the gentler sex are not at heart such ar- Fant cowards as men are, but the anticipation of the ocdeal almost drives the groom erazy before the wedding. and his horror of his con- spicuous position almost makes him faint dur- ing the service and leaves him limp and weak after it is allover. There is no more painful sight than to see him standing up in the chan- cel of the church waiting for the bride. Every eye is fixed upon him. Nobody is admiring bun. His best man has cast him loose upon an unsympathetic world. Perhaps he waits two minutes, and they seem to him two centuries of horrors, He imagines every calu having befallen the bride, he is conscic one of his cuffs is too long and that the othe isg’t visible at all, be is sure his cravat is riding | up behind and when finally the lady comes and | stands beside him, he stammers out his re- sponses in inaudible, grief-stricken tones. He certainly ought to be happy afterward, as he has been through misery enough to last him a good muny years. THE WEDDING PRESENT. Acertain epigrammatical society man was asked what sort of present to make a bride and groom. “Always give the man something that caters to his vices,” was the reply d always give the bride something that tickles her vanity.” It cannot be denied that a silver traveling flask or a handsome cigar case are acceptable gifts to most men, and it is equally true that « wowan never objects to tasteful jewelry, but they are not offended if they receive things that are useful as well as ornamental; but a present that is simpiy useful is inappropriate. ‘There is a certain old gentleman who made a groom a present of a dozen sugar-cured hams aud the bride a gift of a ton of coal. He knew that the couple was going to housekeeping and he gave them the two things that to his view Were the most necessary in a house, but he carried his idea too far. THE GROOM CAN BE OMMITTED. It isn’t necessary to give the groom any present atall He is a mere side show. The grand circus is the bride. For every present the groom gets he has to make one. There are bis ushers, who have to be supplied with scarf pms, and he must buy their cravats and gloves too, and each of the bride’s maids must have a piece of jewelry and their flowers must be sent them, and the bride herself must wear some unnsually fine gems, which the newspapers can PROPOSAL STATISTICS. let us imagine Mr. Robert P. Porter, the superintendent of the census, sending an expert abroad in Washington to get statistics of engagements. The first house he to an English butler opens the door: = “Are you engaged to be married?” says the census man. “Mee ‘and and ‘eart are pledged to a lady as works in this ers very ‘ouse. sir.” is his reply. In another house he finds a young lady who confides to him that she engaged, but that “itisn't announced yet,” and further on he finds a sorrowing female who assures him that she used to be ei but that her lover heart- lessly jilted b f this idea were carried out we would have people entered as single, mar- ried, engaged, widows or widowers and crossed in love, and it would be highly interesting to notice the proportion of each. Not even the columns of Tue Stan have space enough to discuss the subject of mar- riage, but it may be remarked incidentally that the majority of mankind work either that they may get morey enough to warrant their getting engaged or that they may support a wife, and the pegeroia mafeg pape the a prosperity of a people by the proportion of its marriages. It is really horrible to contem- — fact that marriage, which in in- jividual cases is nearly always a matter of sentiment, is, nevertheless, in the aggregate a state that is entered into toa large extent when food is cheap and employment is plentiful, and toasmall extent when work is scarce and prices are high. —— eee —_____ A NOTED INDIAN DEAD. The Interesting Career of Elias ©. Boudinot, the Cherokee. The death of Elias C. Boudinot of the Chero- koe nation at Fort Smith, Ark., last Saturday has been noted in Tue Stax. Boudinot, who was one of the most conspicuous men of the Cherokee nation, spent many years in this city and was well known here, ‘The history of his ancestry dates back to the first Cherokee settlement on the James river in 1607. Kill-kee-nah (buck), hia father, who was born in Georgia in 1795, was the descendant of along line of tribal chiefs. Early in life, with his two brothers, Kill-kee-nah was sent to school in Cornwall, Conn., and while there he met Elias Boudinot, a New Jersey gentleman. The friendship that sprang up between the young Indian and Boudinot resulted in the former's taking the name of his friend and benefactor. After the young Indians had com- pleted their education at Cornwall they re- turned to Georgia and resumed their tribal relations, which soon assumed a complicated aspect. At that time the government was treating with all the Indian tribes east of the Mississippi for their removal to the west, John Ross was then principal chief of the Cherokees and he. firmly resisted the proposed removal Young Boudinot and his brothers, however, ad- vocated the government's proposition ‘and urged the Indians to the final consummation of the treaty in 1835, This opposition between the chief and the Boudinots led to a division of the tribe, and when the Indians finally took up their new lands in the Indian territory they settled in separate sections and began a long series of bloody Indian feuds. which terminated in the assassination of Elias Boudinot, his brother, Ridge, and his nephew, John Ridge, in 1839, Jun . Elias Boudinot, whose death the Cherokee nation now mourns, was born four years before his father’s tragic death. He was sent to Man- chester, Vt., where he obtained a thorough education, and entered the corps of civil en- gineers. Upon the death of his father young Boudinot's heritages were confiscated, a price Was set upon his head by his father's murder- ers and it was many years before his exile ter- minated and he was permitted to return to his native land. In the meantime the young Cherokee had fled to Washington, where his natural brilliancy, his powers of conversation = logic and his keen wit won him friends and ame. In 1360, having taken up his residence in Ar- kansas, Boudinot was elected chairman of the democratic state committee, although he was but twenty-five years old. He then moved to Little Rock and became editor of the True Dem- ocrat, the party organ. In 1861 he became an active secessionist, and was made oy, ofa confederate regiment of Cherokee Indians, whose operations included the bloody battles of Oak Hill and Elk Horn and the campaign in the Red River country. Restored to his people and country, young Boudinot rapidly became a leader, and through his exertions alone the treaty of 1868 between the Cherokees and the government was consummated. any years Boudinot has advocated the tion of « paternal government over the territory and a division of the lands in severalty coupled with the rights of citizen- ship. On these questions he made many arguments before Congress, and upon this ne EVENING STAR: -WASHINGTON. D.C., SATURDAX, - form of government, he always maintained, depended the solution of the so-called Indian problem. Five years ago Boudinot married Miss Clara Mineen’ of this city. He was an able lawyer and a fine linguist. To these accomplishments was added a wonderful talent for music. He sang and wrote verses with singular skill and he was lionized by society everywhere. He was a Mason of the thirty-second degree. His lifelong friend was Senator Voorhees of Indi- ana, who visited him in his Indian home many times and who has frequently been associated with Boudinot in law cases, The Elections in Nicaragua A special to the New York Herald from San Juan del Sur says: Dr. Robert Sacasa, who suceeded to the presidency of Nicaragua on describe as “the gift of the groom.’ 4 YOUNG BENEDICT's VIEWS. A young married man was recently discuss- ing with 4 friend the cost of getting married. He was uot averse to matrimony at all and Pleasantly remarked that the question of whether or not marriage was a failure seemed to him an idle one, since those who were sin- gle knew nothing about it and those who were married were afraid to tell anything about it, and. as for bimseif, he did not agree with So- erutes that “whichever you do you will wish you had done the other,” but he could not deny that it cost a pretty big bunch of money to get married according to the usual fashionable pro- gram. His own expenses had been no more than most men incur. He had bad six ushers at his wedding and a best man, and had been married in the day time. Not being rich he bad given them inexpensive pins that cost #10 euch and gloves and cravats that cost $5 each This made a little over $100 alone. ‘he for- get-me-not pins that the bride's maids had from bim stood hun in $120, and their bouquets, for he had been married when flowers were out of season, were #12 a dozen for the roses and had evat #150 more. He bad presented the bride the death of Evarista Carajo in August, 1889, has been re-elected by an overwhelming ma- jority tor a term of four years. Elections took place all over the republic, with the exception of Granada, No disturbance of importance ocurred. -= so — A Turkish Frigate Wrecked. The steamer Belgic arrived at San Francisco yesterday bringing details of the explosion on the Turkish frigate Ertougroal on September 15, While off Kishinoski, 250 miles from Yoko- hama, a gale sprang up. Suddenly a terrific noise Was heard and all was confusion. The sea was soon full of debris, in which the men fought and struggled for life. Osman Pasha, the admiral, was swimming toward when he -was struck on the head by a sank, Out of a total of 600 souls only six oflicere and fifty-seven of the crew reached land. Many of these were so badly injured that they are not expected to recover. The vessel was an old one, and was formerly used asa training ship. Up to the 2lst of Septem- ber 130 corpses had been recovered, and most of the survivors had been removed to Kobe for with a modest row of pearls for the ueck, aud they had cost #200. He had given the clorgy- man who performed the ceremony #50, and when he counted up the total, including ‘inci- deatal expenses, he found that his day's amuse- mont bad cost him nearly $1,000. WHEN TO BE MsRRIED. Shall I be married by day or shall I be mar- Tied by night? This is a question upon which there is much difference of opinion. The pre- ponderance of fashionable opinion would seem to be im favor of the day wedding, and it must be said im its favor that the crowd from the medical treatment. streets, which is not invited. does not molest you and come flocking in to see the show as it does when you are married when everybody is idie im the evening. But, on the other hand, many men who may be invited to your wedding are too busy to aitend it in the middle of the day, and the wedding breakfast, with its heavy accompaniments of food and drink, unfite your guests for further labor that day; whereas the same refreshments as a supper may be carried to bed and their ill effects counteracted by slumber. It is only fair to disclose the origin ofthe morning wedding. however disagreeable the thought of its origin may be. Like so many of our fashions it is English, and people used to be married in Enland before the after- moon because the groom, to say nothing of his guests, was generally helplessly drunk before lo’clock. It is undeniable that the evening wedding is prettier and more convenient to us sober Americans, but then the people who are most concerned are not the audience but the actors in the drama HOW ENGAGEMENTS ARE MADE. The world is flooded with statistics of mar- tiages, deaths and divorces. Then why have we no statistics of proposals? The engagement of pretty Miss —— and young —— was, as every one knows, forced upon them by Dame Bemor. It was noised abroad that they were engaged when they were not. ‘The matter ecourred to them in a serious light for the first time, and other hand, they verified the rumor. On the another couple hearing that their ment is being canvassed, falls asunder and contradicts the report. One girl, having im her time refused several desirable offers, mally reaches an age when she engages herself to the first man who presents himself so that she may not get left, as it were. Another girl herself to the first man she is thrown fn intimate contact with, because she must ove something or other, and he is the first manshe bas had s chance of loving. One man gets en- gaged by accident, because he has become ac- @astomed to being rejected and finally stumbles = an Another man beat prema succeeds years of devotion to the one girl who be ts a ae the only one that will make beppy- Viscount Conamorey (whose recollections of the antique are somewhat hazy)—“Aw—a— what beautiful arms and hands you've got, Mrs. Bounder! They remind me of the Venus of Milo’s!" Mrs. B, (who has never even seen the Venus of Milo)—*-Oh, you flatterer = te Come at Oxcr or you will lose the opportunity. Wesley Heights, eee Looking Into the Seal Disputes. A special to the New York Herald from Vic- toria, B.C., says Sir George Smyth Saden Pow- ell, member of parliament for one of the di- Visions of Liverpool, arrived Wednesday night. His object is to gather information about the sealing industry and the Bebring sea dispute. * Hagenstown Farm.—The B. and 0. BR. RB. Co, will sell excursion tickets to Hagerstown, in- cluding admission to the fair for all trains Oc- tober 18 to 17 inclusive, valid for return until Qctober 18 clesive, reduced rates, and on ursday, October 16, willran « special trai leaving Washington "7:30 sm. Tickets good for this day only €2, including admission to air. golden Impradence or excess in eating or drinking nervous excitement, sedentary habits and mental appetite, poor- worry produce indigestion, loss of "Quine Lareche, 2 aaeigorsiand toni tain- aina ean in) ing coni ing pewuvian bark iron Sad" pore Catshan Un has the indorsement of the medical Pot used in the Paris and has been ‘with entire success in the treatment of these dis- j We have a transcendental visitor, such as Mr, |A DAY AT BROOK FARM Visiting the Scenes of a Famous En- terprise, A TRANSCENDENTAL PICNIC. Incidents of a Recent Visit to the Home of theCommunity—W here Hawthorne Hoed and Other Famous Men Sought an Ideal Existence. ——_—_ ‘Written for Tar Evento Stan ROBABLY no event has attracted more attention in the history of New England than the Brook Farm episode. The memory of it keeps cropping up in books and in magazine articles. The major and I were talking of the names in lit- erature that had been associated with that early experiment in communal life, and we concluded to spend a day in search of the spot. “There is no place in all New England that I would rather see,” said the major. ‘‘Ply- mouth Rock is all very well, but Brook Farm touches the present generation.” We had very little to guide us at the start. No one that we met in our vacation knew the site of the farm, though it 1s within 10 miles of the heart of the city of Boston—and one of the mostcharming spots that can be imag- ined. It is still very much as Hawthorne pic- tured it in “The Blithedale Romance.” Some intelligent Bostonese of whom we inquired had not so much as heard that there was any such place as Brook Farm, But Conway's life of Nathaniel Hawthorne, in the Great Writer series, had been noticed in one of the Boston dailies that week, and from the newspaper notice we got the general direction. That was enough, for on such a charming day as we selected for our searth part of the enjoyment would consiet in not having too explicit direc- tions. The major was fond of a walk and a talk in the perfect Now England country roads. So we bought our tickets for the Spring street station in West Roxbury—a point about 8 mules out on tho Boston and Albany railway, A HUNT FOR THE FARM. Arrived at the station we asked for Brook Farm. No one had ever heard of such a place. Then we began to inquire for the Lutheran Orphan Home, recalling that the place had been devoted to the uses of an orphanage. A walk of two miles brought us in sight of the classic ground. What would we not have given if for an hour the scene had shifted to fifty years ago, when Ripley and Dana and Brisbane and Hawthorne and George William Curtis and others, were here in this sylvan retreat milking cows, making hay and ing manure out of what Hawthorne calls ‘the gold mine.” ‘That was a day when, as Emerson said, every man carried in his vest pocket a scheme for reorganizing society. ‘This group of enthusiasts has become famous. The “lithedale Romance” calls them a “kuot of visionary transcendentalists, who were seeking for the better life.” Emer- son seriously weighed the matter and con- cluded not to join them, looking on the experi- ment as a kind of transcendental picnic. George Ripley, the prime mover in the enter- prive and afterward so well known by long Years of service on the New York Tribune, was slightingly referred to by Carlyle asa ‘‘Socinian minister, who left bis pulpit in order to reform the world by cultivating onions.” Only a few of the famous grou and Curtis might give usa reminiscence that would be of exceeding interest. Adin Ballou, one of the company, died during the past summer. What they did as community was very little, Hawthorn on tired of the dreary monotony. One day, as he was hoeing corn, the conviction came over him that be was in some other man’s place, and he vanished. It was twelve years later that he came to live in “the vicinity and — revive his recollections while writing ‘Biithedale.” Here was an honest attempt by sincere men to make life sweeter. ‘They worked in com- mon, milked cows, dug in the “gold mine” and demonstrated for a little time that the diamond can be used in cutting rock. But th pest has proved that in the long run the world does not sympathize with any purely ideal life. It is a practical world, in which bill e to be paid and interest secured. These fa‘ling there will be foreclosure, whether it be Brook Farm or any other badly managed institution. PIE AND PHILOSOPHY, But here we are in sight of the place. Hun- gry and tired we sit down under a great elm, hail a passing baker’s wagon, buy an apple pie and discuss transcendentalism. The pie crust is a trifle tough and the major remarks that he always thinks, when eating a tough pie, of Emerson’s answer to one who buked him for his pie-eating propensity: “Wh would you do with pie if you didn’t eat it?” Talking of the endurance of the pilgrim fathers, the major suggests that the pilgrim mothers were most to be admired, They en- dured all that the fathers endured and in ad- dition they endured the pilgrim fathers. “By the way,” the major said, “what an amount of sarcasm and epigram has been fired at our early ancestors. The boy wrote in bi school essay that our forefathers came to th land to ‘worship their own dictates.’ It is a chestnut about their landing here, falling upon their knees,then rising to fall upon the aborigi- nes. And even older than that isthe remark that our pilgrim fathers came to this land where they might be free to worship God and make everybody else do the samo.” The major has a merry twinkle in his eyes, and his drollerics are quaiter far than they can be made to appear on paper. In talking Of this curions experiment at Brook Farm I suggest that there is one point in the incident very much like what transpired inthe history of several Japanese who came to this country and joined one of the Ameri- can communities. The man who was after- ward minister resident in Washington had been the baker in the community. Mr. Mori, who was assassinated a year ago, who was hon- ored in many ways by his own government, the baker of the community of which Thomas Harris was leader and Laurence Oliphant was for years a member. Think of the author of the “Scarlet Letter” as once wearing @ homespua frock anda “tre- mendous pair of cowhide boots, with sles two inches thick,” as he writes in May, 1841. ON COW ISLAND, Yonder is the knoll which he frequently re- fers to as the “Cow Island.” It rises abruptly from asea of green to the height of fifty feet above the level of the meadow.” Here is a sen- tence or two from oue of Hawthorne’s letters, which is still the best description one could make of the place: “Mr. Riploy summoned us into the cow yard and introduced me to an instrument with four prongs, commonly entitled a dung fork. With this tool I have already assisted to load twenty or thirty carts of manure and shall take part in loading three hundred more. Besides, I have planted potatoes and pease, cut straw and hay for the cattle and done various other mighty works. This very morning I milked three cows and I milk two or three every night and morn- ing. ‘The weather has been so unfavorable that we have worked comparatively little in the field = one of the most beautiful places I ever saw i my life and as secluded as if it were a hundred miles from any city or village, There are woods in which we can ramble all day without mgcting anybody or scarcely #ee- ing a house. Gur house stands apart from the main road, so that we are not troubled even ith passengers looking at us. Once ina while Alcott; but generally we pass whole days with- out seeing a single face save those of the breth- ren. The whole fraternity eat together, aud such @ delectable way of life has never been seen on earth since the days of the early Chris- tians.” This letter was signed “Nath. Haw- thorne, Ploughman.” It soems a little singular that four men out of this famous group—Greeley, Ripley, Dana and Curtis—ehould later become the great lights of the newspaper fraternity in New York. Horace Greeley’s interest in Brook Farm was deep and genuine. A clever rhym- ster of that day ridiculed the movement in Yerse, which hit off the ludicrous side of the farmers’ picnic. Some of the lines ran braze ‘And others, once as poor as I, * “And others, once as poor as I, Are growing rich because they try, While my capacity and will , Give me s taste for sitting still; ry Greeley in his editorials held this stoner of the ‘ts Up to scorn, and in forcible words set the lofty aims and pure characters of the leaders in the Brook Farm movement. At this the major dryly interposes: ‘George William seems to have Trained with the mug- wamps from an early period. He isa kicker from way back.” Probably one of the best estimates of Brook Farm ever given out by one who knew it at frst hand was that of , mother of Mrs, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Writing to her | some fun ter in some later period she said: 2. e 4 TOUR THROUGH TER BUILDINGS, But we have wréstied with our pie and are enough rested to proceed. Here stands one of the old buildings in which our transcendental friends used to meet and eat in common. It is now used for the boys and girls living house in the orphanage. We call up the superintende: or nt, who shows us about the building aud through the grounds. He knows but a little by tradition of the early uses of the Brook farm buildings. Not far away is the famons rock from which Elliot, the Apostle to the Indians, used to preach. We climb to the to) over the fields to where the Charles river flows peacefully to the sea. And from this point the major begins to | Seager as tothe various influences that ave been at work on this now famous rt, Here was the missionary to the Indians. Here was the brief period of sunshine when the happy life of the community was in full play. And now the last practical and humdrum wor! of feeding. clothing and teaching children wh are helpless, It is probably a fair pic- ture of what men have tried to do for the betterment of the race, There is the first contact with barbarism, Then an attempt to realize some Utopia, which vanishes as Brook Farm melted away as soon as the practical affairs of this world touched it. Last of all comes the unsentimen- tal stage, when we found and maintain a charity out of pure benevolence. But I reminded the major that our train might leave 0 we took another look at the ‘Cow Island’ its green beauty, covered with grazing cattle as Haw- thorne often saw it, and turned our faces to the city. But now looking back, the brightest of my vacation days was that spent in finding the half-forgotten site of a place so famous as Brook Farm. W. E. Parson, 2 ee Be ered ir AFTER FIVE MI LLIONS, A Laurel, Md., Woman Seeking to Kstablish Her Claim. After working nearly fifteen years to estab- lish their claim to the legacy of $5,000,000 left by John Mullanthy, the heirs of John Welsh, to whom this estate was willed, are in hopes of coming into possession. It came to them in a queer way. One hundred years ago Mullanthy and Welsh were partners in Ireland. They owned a fishing boat and divided the profits. One day Mullanthy jumped with all the money, and it isthe amount he took, with interest, that now goes to the Welsh descendants, THE MULLANTHY HEIRS. Mullanthy died in St. Louis, where he made his money, and made Bishop Rosetta of Baiti- more one of his executors, Mrs, John Powers, a granddaughter of John Welsh, who lives with her daughter, Mrs. J. S. Brown, at Laurel, Md., is the principal claimant. Her husband labored until his death, last November, to establish his wifo’s claim, every dollar the old man and chil- dren earned being devoted to the case. Once Mrs, Powers went to Europe to search for evi- dence. Ten years of their time was spent in vain in St. Louis. Recently new evidence was obtained, and Senator Rice of Arkansas has taken the matter in hand, Mrs. Powers, who is seventy-three years of age, did not learn of the legacy until many = after reaching America. A letter had een sent to her former home in Ireland by the bishop of St. Louis and addressed to John Welsh’s heirs, The letter had been in keeping of the ih priest, but had been returned to the bishop of St. Louis many years before Mra. Powers reached Ireiand. THREE QUESTIONS ASKED. She was advised by the priest to return to America and to appeal to the bishop, who had then become the archbishop of 8t. Louis, for the legacy. She was closely examined, how- ever, by the parish priest, and three questions were applied to her. ‘They were said to have been asked in the letter returned to the arch- bishop. Mrs. Powers said that she satisfac- torily answered two of these relating to local family history. She says that she can now answer the third, which also relates to family history, This last question will,she thinks, establish her claim and secure for her the money. Mrs. Powers has six children, two of whom live in St, Lowe. SENSATION IN 8T. LOUIS. The suit of Mrs. Powers against the Mullanthy estate in St. Louis has caused a shudder in aristocratic circles in which the Mullanthy heirs move. Strange to say there is a mystery hanging over the early life of John Mullanthy lasting up to the moment of his seftlement in this country. Whatever its cause the reticence of the Mullanthy heirs apom the subject of John Mullanthy’s life has many times been re- marked, and has even been complained of in the pages of biographical sketch ot Bryan Mullanthy, the founder of the fund. Mullan- thy landed in Baltimore in 1794, and went to St. Louis in 1804. It was over his cotton that the battle of New Orl was fought, and he subsequently made $500,000 from this cotton. It was the foundation of his fortune. A Question of Practice. In reply to a letter from a New York firm re- lating to the question whether declarations to entries can be made before a notary public who is also a partner of the firm making the entry, Assistant Secretary Spaudling of the Treasury Department says that upon submit- ting the matter to the collector at New York, that officer reports that although there is no provision of ‘law directly against the course suggested, yet that, on common principles, it cannot be admitted that such an officer a8 a notary public or justice of the peace can or should act officially in a matter wherein he has ® personal interest, much less where he is really a party in interost. Proposals for Steel Guns, Etc. Advertisements for proposals have been is- sued from the War Department under the pro- visions of the fortifications act of the last ses- sion of Congress for furnishing the ordnance department of the army with twenty-five 8 inch, fifty 19-inch and twenty-five 12-inch steol guns and ammunition for their test or proof, all to be of American manufacture. The ad- vertisement stipulates that one-fourth of these ans may be constructed on the Pacific coast, Proposals will be received until 3 o’ciock Thursday, December 18 next, Bidders are notified that specifications for the guns will be ready by the department in a few days and can be had upon application. In the instructions to bidders it is specified that proposals will be received for constructing six of the 8-inch, thirteen of the 10-inch six of the 12-inch guns above mentioned on the Pacific coast, Abandoned Military Posts, Upon the recommendation of the major gen- eral commanding the army the military works at Fort Pike and Fort McComb, La., have been ordered abandoned. The ordnance stores at those points, except the heavy guns, will be sent to the Augusta arsenal, Ga., or to the New ae as the chief of ordnance may in- jicate. Populations of Cities and Towns, The Census Bureau yesterday announced Populations of cities, towns and states as follows: Hot Springs, Ark., 7,115; increase, 3,561, or 100.20 per cent. Little Rock, Ark., 22,496; increase, 9,358, or 71.23 per cent, Baton Rouge, La., 10,397; increase, 3,200, or 44.46 per cent. New Orleans, La., 241,995; increase, 25,905, or 11.99 per cent, Lockport, N.Y., 16,003; increase, 2,481, or 1835 per cent Tonawanda, N.Y., 7,135; increase, 8,271, or 84.65 r cent. Buffalo, N.¥., 254,457; increase, 9.323, or 64.02 per cent. Jamestown, N.Y., 15,991: increase, 6,634, or 70.90 per cent. Dun- kirk, N.Y., 9,402; increase, 2,154, or 29,72 per ceut. Fort Wayne, Ind., 35,349; increase, 8,469, or 31.51 per cent. Knoxville, Tenn, 22,447; increase, 12,754, or 131.53 per cent. Population of the state of New York, 5,982,934; , 899,063, or 17.69 per cent. McAtkins ( LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. Our Second Chinese Soldier. ‘To the Editor of Taz Evanre Stan: In issue of October 8 there appeared under the heading “Our Only Chinese Soldier” o from the Chicago Herald stating that Mr. BD. Cahota, a Chinaman. once of the twenty-third Massachusetts volunteers, was “the only representative, of the Mongolian race among the millions of men thus facing each other in uggle for life and death.” This statement is erroneous. There was at leastone Chinaman our boys that wore the Bite and saved the ation, fourteenth Connecticut volunteers, whose record as to number of severe battles of men by war casualties aye ing done, and hard campaign- , Surpasses that of any other regiment from our good state, in which regiment it was my good fortune to serve as chaplain, bad as one of its members asimon pure Chinaman, Jos. Pierce by name. His record as officially given shows that he enlisted into company F of our regiment from Berlin, Conn., July, 26, 1862, as private; was promoted November 8, 1863, and was mustered out May 31, 1865, = he! ith iy re Ew ite fali term. ur *‘Joe,” as we all ci jim, was an patrictio. faithful and brave soldier. tes living today. a smart. industrious man and good citizen, and I had the pleasure of greet- ing him at the recent reunion of the old regi- ment (September 17 last) at Middletown, Conn. “Joe” isa great favorite with us all, as was evinced by the hearty, vociferous round of ap- plause, spontaneously accorded him ashe en- tered the hail at our recent meeting, bis bright eyes snapping and twinkling in his hoaest face just ss they were wont to years ago. 4.8.8 —__—_.+____ A Third Session of Congress. To the Editor of Tax Evanrxo DTAR: I have read with interest your leader in re- Gard to the sessions of Congress, and am glad to see that the present unfortunate arrange- ment is attracting attention. Nowhere else in governments having legislative bodies, elected by the people, is such an anomalous thing known as the preclusion of the meeting of the representatives of the people for thirteen months after their election, and the time bas come when its existence in the United States should cease if Congress is to transact the vast business of the country. ‘The remedy is very simple. As was done in 1866, let a law be passed requiring Congress to meet on the 4th of Murch succeeding the elec- tion of Representatives. Then they can sit three or four months in the pleasantest season of the year, and the next year avoid a session protracted through the summer, C.D.D, eee Cures for Warts. To the Editor of Te EVENING Stan: Tam collecting the cnres for warts, When I was a boy I had twenty-seven warts on my left hand. An old gentleman told me to get twenty- seven white pebbles from the ran and put them ina bag. This I did and threw the bag in @ well-frequented thoroughfare, saying, “may the finder increase as I decrease.” This immoral proceeding meant that I wanted the finder to have my warts. Whether he inher- ited them or not I was never able to learn, but my warts went away soon enough after the pebble incident to convince my youthful mind ot the efficacy of the remedy. The other day an old gentleman from Loudoun county told me vhat he cured a wart or wen by taking a stick from the road and turning to the moon just on the edge of the horizon said: What I rub, decrease. What I see, increase, The moon certainly waxed from that hour, and, stranger still, the excrescence went away. If some of your readers will send me their Roose for warte 1 will keep them in a atch aud publish them. It is very important to mention the source of the lore, whether German, French, Indian, African, &c., as well as the location where the prescription is fol- lowed. Ke —— Where the Count Lived. To the Editor of Tux EVENING Stan: {eee much written in the papers about the Count of Paris trying to find the house in which he lived while in Washington during the war. The Count of Paris, his brother, the Duke of Chartres, and his uncle, the Prince of Joinville, occupied No. 1733 I street, directly opposite Gen. Andrew Porter’s house and next door to Col. Abert’s. The house has had a new porch put before the front door, but otherwise itis unaltered. Griffin's battery was on some ¥acant ground nearer i7th street before you come to the old Macomb house. 3 —— ——— UNCLE SAM’S BIG FARM. Wasting Away Rapidly in Spite of the Efforts to Guard Against Fraud. In his annual report, just submitted to the Secretary of the Interior, Judge Lewis A. Groff, the commissioner of the General Land Office, states that an agricultural domain of nearly 19,000,000 acres—a domain almost equal tothe aggregate area of the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con- necticut and New Jersey —has during the year been transferred to enterprising and indus- trious settlers by patents issued to them, while the areas patented to the states under the swamp grant and to corporations under special grants have been great, although somewhat reduced as compared with previous years. At the same time the area of coal and min- eral lands patented has been greatly in- creased over that of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1839, thus tending to the develop- ment of our immense deposits of eo. and metals of every grade, The area pateuted to the states under the grants for educational and internal improvement purposes has in- creased 300 per cent. This completed work, as shown by the facts and figures contained in this report, indicating increased population, increased coal and mineral development and increased educational development and re- sources, are referred to as suggestive elements in the national progress, The cash receipts of the office from dis- posals of public lands, Indian lands and timber depredations during the year was 7,780,517. FRAUDULENT ENTRIES. In the investigation of fraudulent land en- tries sixty-one special agents were employed during @ part of the year. To these special ayents were referred for investigation 2,684 cases; 437 cases were held for cancellation, 538 were canceled and 1,909 were examined and passed, The commissioner finds that the most valu- able timber on the public lands is being Sapo exhausted, and that the several laws relating to the subject are utterly inadequate to properly protecteither the public forests from unlawful appropriation or the interests of the settlers, Over $83,000 were recovered last year from timber depredations. The commis- sioner urges that provision should be made for a legitimate procuring of timber from the pub- lic lands by MILL MEN AND LUMBER MANUFACTURERS, for sale, to the extent necessary to supply the community in the location in which they operate with the lumber and other timber products needed in the settlement thereof, but exportation of public timber should be ‘pro- hibited, as also should the removal of timber from any of the reserved lands, and from mountainous regions and other wood lands at or in the vicinity of the head waters or sources of streams which, for climatic, economic or public reasons, should be held permanently as forest reserves, exception bemg made in favor of settlers or miners for their personal necessities, ——__—_. Attempted to Cut Brodgen’s Throat. “Come bere, Ben; I want to speak to you,” said William Fox, colored, to Ben Brodgen at 8d and G streets southwest, about 1 o'clock this morning. The men had_ been on ‘‘cross-ques- tions,” and Ben thought that William wanted to make up their differences. Fox, however, had no such intention. He did have an open knife in his hand, the blade of which he drew across Ben's throat. Fi for the blade did not cut as deep ds Fox intended, and the wound inflicted was not a serious one. Policemen Smith and Sandford, who witnessed the cutting, arrested Fox and locked him uy; prisoner before Judge this morning and wpe ers six months’ in jail, Notes From Correspondence of Taz EVamIxe Stax. Wallace, 114 D street northwest, Washington, D.C., on left wing and ring on his right leg let- tered. H., No. 14126, found by Mr. Jas. Ganley on his near here on the 8th instant. It is « light brown pigeon. It arrived ‘clock p.m., and seemed to be thirsty and tired when * Mra, Geo. F. Pollock is sick at the nce of ber father, |. E at leaves a wife and three : —— ‘Old Crustions---o; I've heard it before,"— a boo lots will lose the 26th of Oo- BER 11. 1890-SIXTEEN PAGES: 9. C. M. jak 1. —— ‘a Se fontgomery. for isse Har. 1 Strong: ‘against point 200, ited $500, Shanrit othe Franci Ben Equirt Bradley. ordered. Milis | wards of absent dered. tained. 1; testimony ordered Leffingweli; taken. AMERICAN x, BISHOYs, RATLROADS The Board to Hold Its Semi-Annual | (UESAPLAKE 4XD Oul0 Salwar Session Here Next Week ‘The deard of bishops ef the Methodist Epis- eopal Church will meet im semi-annual session in the Metropolitan Church Thursday, October 90, at 10 am, The following constitute the boar@ Thomas Bowman. senior bishop, resides in St Louis; R S Foster, Boston; | M. Merrill, Chicago; EG. Andrews, sec- retary of the board, New York; H. W. Warren, Denver; Cyrus D. Foss, Philadelphia; John F, Hurst, Washington, D.C.; W. X. Ninde, Topek: John H. Vincent, Buffalo; J. H. Fitegeraid, M is; Isaac W. Joyce, Chattanooga; John P. Newman, Omaha; Daniel A. Goodsell, Fort Worth; Wm. Taylor. Africa; James M. Thoburn, India. The session will last about. one week. A public reception will be tendered them at the Metropolitan Church Friday night, the 3lst. A committee of ministers and lay- men are now making the necessary prepara- ee Emergency Hospital Election. The board of directors of the Emergency Hospital yesterday elected Dr. James Keer to | the hospital staff. Mr, H. L. West was elected to the board. o abies Driving Accidents. | A collision took place on T street near 9th | street northwest last evening between Dr. Le- mar's horse and buggy driven by Jar. Brookers and « delivery wagon. The buggy was | wrecked, but fortunately no one was injured. | Last evening R. W. Brentney was thrown | from his buggy on the Woodley Lane road and received a scalp wound caused by his horse oS bak eebpeel Ff | running away. }2 230, => 30, & 20, Pleasant Reunion of Veterans. ‘Sundaye Grand Army Hall last night witnessed a 20 F08 rousing reunion of John A. Rawlins Post, No. | es 1,G.A.R It was the post's twenty-fifth anni- | es versary and the veterans celebrated it in good —— earnest, Commander-in-Chiet Veazey gave a Stato ‘eal sti ‘ing talk on old war times. Recitations were delivered by Prof. Hayward, D.C. Bengs, | Geo, C. Wood, B. Hay and Edgar Forrest, and war songs were sung by Harry Pearson, | Geo. D. Scott, L. E. Gannoa and Lillibridge | McCalla. ont eins 79 » © , tre, Sm M00, 13.00, S535) Fy. oe Mona's sud lutermediate static eh train leaves Washington ob » Soppitw at all etations on ‘Setropalieee Erderick, 16:30, 48:30, $0.30, 111.30 5, 130, 1430 pom eee ee Sent Back to the Farm. Bor hagerstown, 110-40 am, and 15.30 Ida Stewart, a colored girl who has spent | 4.10 piu trent Cnet aa many months in the work house, was before PR he 20 hm. trom Hittsburg 7 “ “4 Judge Mills this morning for vagrancy. Lawyer | “NEW LORK AND PHILADEL PRIA DIVISION. Moss plead for mercy because, he said, it was | porn. Trenton, N@wark. \ and x Idi where she has been living, and go to work. Judge Mills said that Ida had been out of the work house long enough to make the promised reform, but she had not taken advantage of | _ opportunity, She was sent back for sixty ys. intention to leave Maryland avenue, Puiaet Parlor Care “4s 18 00, #1) " & Del. Wilmauston and Chester, 4 “2200 Boum, "200 “4:60, "Gl, points, end ‘OF intermediate Philadelpita between Baltimore ee aia, 28-00 720 ea, Teo. Given a Chance to Do More Work. Policeman Hagan offended Michael Cava- pm, and "12:1 naugh in the Police Court yesterday when he ee ladeipiia for ‘Weabis 2 told Judge Mills that Mike wouldn't work, = | *7.39'pm'™ 0° Sim a SS “Why, judge, your honor,” said Cavanaugh, | px ia a let 1! “I just came out of the work house, worked down there painting the hospital “You've been here too often,” said Judge Mills, as he imposed a sixty days’ sentence. ‘ A Servant, Not a Soldier. Yesterday afternoon the old colored man | Wm. Johnson, who lives near Bladensburg and | ~ who was arrested for filing a fictitious claim | Y¥EGRPAR oy va vty poure for a pension, had hearing before United | 5.10 THE NOMI, Wid Anu oot. States Commissioner Bundy and in default of | Psrtti asi Rei irtt $500 was committed to jail for the action of) grains teay? i the grand jury. Johnson is about sixty-five | ogo years of age, and, like another Wm. Johnson | ¥°.!% how serving sentence for a pension fraud, has but one eye. Marion Duckett of Prince George's county, Md., appeared for him and | Assistant District Attorney Aries for the gev- | ernment. Capt. F. M. Laylor. special examiner | of the Pension Office, testified that the caso of Wm. Johnson, company A, seventh United | States colored troops, claiming a pension for wounds received at Deep Bottom, Va., in 1364, was referred to him on a question of identity. Thacept Suuday $b 3 Bazeaxe called ecked froma betsla and reat- Sences by Union 1 Company ou orders left at Ucket offices, 6. a 1351 ants eve. end et depoe V1351 " 2.7. ODE % Be id. Gen. dees MENT. ct a In investigating the case he found the original 2 press, 10-00 p.s. daily, tor Pittsburg Johnson of company A, seventh colored troops, | $24.86, S20 trout, oe a ‘The prisoner was also found aud he admitted BALTIMOKE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD, that he never saw the seventh colored troops; } egy? Canandaiwrua,-Lochester aud ‘Niawara Falls was not an enlisted man, and was a servant of | yordre, Caunudaisus vid dosinater for Capt. Johnson, A.A.5., on Gen. Negley's staff, | iaioand Naga Aly. except Saturday, 10:00 pun, i iwepims Car Wash y . and that he had made an affidavit to that effect. He ey ey de . daly, Ciub House of the | For Wiltatia er Sally, 3:30 p.m. The male members of society will no longer | UK PHILADELYHIA, NEW YORK AND TEEEAST, have a monopoly of that useful excuse “I was! 4.30; S40" 10.56 ANd }} 98 Bm 210, 3-15, ) S40, 10.00 11-20 pan.” Op sunday, at the club,” for the Wimodaughsis, one of the | imodaughsis” 11:40 am, 2:10, 3:15, 4:20, 10 30 y.2u, Limited Express of Pullman Putter EE most enthusiastic of feminine organizations, Gum. 8:40 am. ually, except Sunday. For New has rented No. 813 Vermont avenue for use as) ually? united Eabress with Dining Carb 00m aclub house. Last night the Wimodaughsis | Sou FETLabat Pula omy. met in that house and decided to auoke its Eavggen sunday only: 5-40 pomp ns o7 hm dal abode therein. The matter was thoroughly | }or brooniyn 16 p.m. every day. discussed before any action was taken. Among | *yfayM3™ ‘Brooklyn abe arene hone who made speeches in advocacy of the iy iret tune to uitanarmcan roposition were Miss Mary Desa, Miss Kline, New ip Marble Merv. LaFetra: Mra, Hetzel, Mes, | TOAgsnee O:0. 11 "40a. Wook Gaye, 11,20pm Gillett and Mesere. William 0. McDowell and | ¥", Haliimore, 0:30, 7 20,8:10, 8:00.9:40, 104 James B. Philp. 390%, au ae . Me. i. Financial preparations were satisfactorily made and the Wimodaughsis is now in full pos- session of a very fine club home—once occu- pied by Surgeon General Wales, Giese eae ue George A. Custer Command. At a meeting of Geo. A. Custer Command,No. 5, U.V.U., Department of Potomac, at G.A.R. Hall Thursday night, the following named officers were installed by Department Com- mander John Weich, viz.: Colonel, William | H. Michael; lieutenant colonel, R. M. Calhoun; | major, T. W. Dutton; chaplain, Thos, Clark; | surgeon, J. E. Cliffor C.'T. Platt; : Geo. Wheeler; 0.G., F. E. e. Col. Michael made the following appointments, viz.: Adja- tant, F. T. Hall; sergeant major, W. C. Walters; Q.M. sergeant, Jas. Cleary. She Bogged for Policeman Hendricks charged Mary Donnell | with vagrancy in the Police Court yesterday because she asked some one to give her five cents to purchase some sugar with. Mary told | Judge Mills thatshe had drunk her tea for or, Quantico, Pw. week days: 7:45am. For iachmoud and the sou! daily. Accommodation, ‘Trains leave Alexandre dor Wi 3200, 9:10, 6:10, o: ‘and 11 s T1207 eee 200, 9 2 237 DM ets abd iniormution at the office northeast: 2h sud "Teasp pam ayentte ait hp stat-cu, where orders cab Le left for the Checking | Dagvare to destination irom hotels and CHAS. E. FUG 3. WOOD, maxer. Imyl2} General ICHMOND AND DANVILLE RAILROAD 00. Schedule im effect JULY 13, 1890. 3:0 a.m —East Tenvessee Mi daily ton, Gordonsville, Charlottesville. "La Stations between ‘Alexandria and xville, Little Sugar. three days without sugar andshe thought it | $i, AUauta a dng ign ant was no harm to beg a le 14-24 am a y : Char had often seen policemen atte, bene eee end Obie, Bows, give poor women j five cents, Mr. Jacob Koebel told the judge that Mary was a sober and honest woman and Asiev that although = cripple she was willing to do | Byjiusham, what work she could. and Pullman Judge Mills told Mary that she must not beg man Sleeper Durie on the street and discharged her, — asaenagad ina to Columbia and Auguste, ‘asbington to Cincinuet: vie Cana, Rou! E ).m.—Daily, Bi a sek Mca balls. except Sunday, for Manama Cover m Gsxenar Texm—Justices Hagner fames and Cox, Yesterday—U.S. agt. Wall; dismissed. Reid | Puaniotrewville, | Stannt agt. Anderson; to be submitted in briefa. with s Pal Circuit Court—Judge Mi 5 Danville, “Kale: Yesterday—Ashby & Co., agt. Smith; verdict | a tian for plaintiff, 861.50. Wimer agt. Foley; verdict | $44 Caldornia. for defendant. Horn agt. Myer; order to take | Siceper Wi testimony in New York. Cox agt. White; dis- 4 soos Sane ae ‘missed. bahsbury. Also Washingwon © Augusta Prosate Court. ‘and Charlotte wd Yesterday—Estate of Lewis W. Jewell; will admitted to probate and letters testamentary cs ta ieonodl to Ann L, Amiss; bond $2,000. Estate of James S. Mulligan, will admitted to robate and letters testamentary to Anne Athe- ey Mulligan; boud €600, Estate of P. W. - on Su Be 4 bin; letters of administration issued to Samuel | yi¢* P. ‘Harbin; bond $2,500, Estate of Joseph | burs Hertford; order of distribution, Estate of aod George Francis; order for will. Estate of probate of will 4 Elizabeth Hagner; petation for Estate of Samuel ; rule Robert | pivanie Strong to show cause why will should not be | “nyio admitted to Reuben and a ited te, &c. In re children of OCEAN STEAMERS. QHOMI MOLT TO LONDUI Rokibpyrscuen Syn s.0 0a a EOUSEFURNISHINGS. 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