Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1891, Page 6

y 6 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1891—SIXTEEN PAGES. CITY AND DISTRICT. The local circulation of Tae Evexrxo Sranis not only the largest and fullest, but it is also the Bzst, since the paper goes aot alone into the hands of the people of the District of Columbia as a body, but regularly into their homes,—into the families of all claeses, and into those of the money-spending as well as the money-earning portion of the community. An advertisement in its columns therefore reaches the eye of everybody worth reaching. CITIZENS OF THE NORTHEAST. ‘They Meet to Oppose a Kill Now Pending in Congress, QUITE A LIVELY DISCUSSION, THOUGH THERE WERE BUT FEW PARTICIPANTS—A NEW FORM OF GOY- EENMENT WANTED BY MB. DODGE. IN EQUALIZING THE ASSESSMENTS. Abont thirty residents of Northeast Washing- ton assembled at the Peabody School last even- ing in response toa call for a public meeting RExEpr | | under the anspices of the Northeast Washington Citizens’ Association to protest against the passage of a District bill now before Congress | charging half the cost of improvements o! streets, sidewalks and curbstones to owners of abutting property. Dr. A. H. Taylor was chair- man and E. H. Brown secretary. Mr. W. C. Dodge read the clauses in the bill in question relating to the subjects before the meeting and spoke of the appropriation of £25,000 contemplated to be used in such work. A VERY LANGE AMOUNT. half if he conld only He thought paying one-half and having the Property in in value was better than simply paving taxes and getting nothing. fessrs. Dodge, Girousrd, Chappell and others spoke in opposition to the remarks of Mr. Friz~ zell, and Slr. Brown tried to convince the gen- tleman that no distinction had been made. “There was a fair sampie of it tonight,” re- torted Mr. Frizzell. “I'don’t think Il come in. ‘After further remarks the resolution was passed and it was agreed to send a copy of it to ‘each house of Congress and the Commission- ers. The improving of New York avenue from North Capitol strect to Floridi avenue with a concrete pavement was discussed, and it was decided to oppose the expenditure of so much money there. Mr."Friazell fayored euch improvement and oke of the electrie railroad tracks being above grade so thit a vehicle could not be driven from one side of the street to the other. After the passage of a resolation recommend- ing the opening of New York avenue to the Bladensburg road the meeting adjourned. poder sor DAMAGED AT THE FIRE. get the improvements. A Swell Young Man Who Suffered at the Leiter Fire. ‘The fire at the Leiter house Thursday was nlivened by asad mishap to one of Washing- ton’s swellest and gaudiest youths. The young man had arrived on the scene in hot haste as | soon as he icarned of the conflagration. He | was dressed in a manner almost too killing for this world. It was New Year day and his cos- tume showed it. He rushed boldly in the front door—the fire was at the rear—and joined the throng of persons engaged in carrying out the farniture. In a short time he emerged “That's a very large amount indeed,” re- carrying under his arm a casket, which | looked as if it might have contained jewels to marked the secretary. “Thi with,” replied Mr. Dodge. Mr. Loring Chappel inquired when, where and by whom this b |. Th - tary said that so far as he had observed he sup- posed it originated with the Com: The latter replied Brown had the same means of ascerta: that he had. ‘TF CAPT. ROSKELL HAD SAID. Mr. Corr toid of a conversation that he had had with Capt. Rossel. able to learn he was of the opinion that the bill did not relate to general street improve- 2 to sidewalks and He said that Capt. Rosseil was the one who suggested the bill to tl ers. He spoke of the unfai snd how it would operate the improveme pa government improv to him. ess of the bill se a man wanted for it and then the Se faras he bad been | "s only the entering wedge to begin | an unestimable value, and this he placed in safety and returned once more to the breach. ‘This time he appeared with a satin sachet bag. These two violent efforts had rather tired the young man and he lit a cigarette and stood in the doorway in a blaze, negligent way which excited the intense admiration of the crowd in front and the direst wrath of the firemen. | Finally he flouted gracefully out on the poreh, Commission- | his neighbor s at no cost | justin the nick of time to receive about buckets of dirty wa was crushed, his cigarette extinguished i his costume—ai! where was his costume? Fires are sed things at any time, but the sad- dest thing about the fire Thursday was the sight of that bedraggled youth seeking his home amid the cheers of the spectators. sso asd CROSS, THE WIFE MURDERER. His Efforts to Escape Death by the Rope. A week from yesterday—January 9—is the date fixed for the execution of W. Douglass Cross,con- ‘ME. DODGE THINKS CAPT. ROSSELL IS MISTAKEN. | victed of the murder of his wife, but there is Mr. Dodge said that if Cap: I of th: The b to the +i gentleman hs originated v cussed it in the were given ior i ° District's finances were so reuc:d thet they had not the money to work ax it had been done. The matter war discussed with the ( missioners . Doagiass at tirst favored it WHERE THE r “I thought it w Dodge. ~becam: of East Washi which went to make b th be IUSTICE COMES IX. up th T And two sets of soden pavement and then placing the ments with concrete fou were spent, and the bulk of northwest and heart of the city. T ase sert it is unjust to say that we muss put our hands ix. our pockets aml pay for our own im-| provements helped pay for our neigh money ninet be expen: improved square: erty owner 1's AN OUT: jared, was put of some one who has | . he raid, to get all | Persons on a square to a: divisions there will be no tro eta can easily money that would be spent in sucha man- ner by the citizens. he said. would no go in 2s taxes and the Distriet would lose na} more from the gener explainin, Mr. Dodge increased without : the resources. Then he referred : expended on the tunnel and the that followed, the cost of street exte: other large expenditures. OLD MATTERS BROUGHT UP. When the board of public works took ebarg. the District debt was $3.105,000 and three ye: violation of gally inerease the debt the law placed the per cent of the as- sessed value of the property. Stal ts have been made in Congress and in newspapers that this was the result of popular government, and Yet those men were appointed by the Presi- dent and confirmed the Senate and the people aad no voice in the matter. The debt today is 219,751,050, or £96 per capita, while in the southern «tates the debt is not more than €izper capita. or one-seventh of that of the le of the District.” ‘The speaker then referred to the engineer corps of the Districl. and condemned the ac~ tion of Congress in rewarding Commodore Pat- terson by relieving his property of so man: thousands doilars of taxes. EQUALIZE TRE ASSESSMENTS. “The awessments are not anywhere like what they ought to be,” continued Mr. Dodge. “The smaller houses are taxed in many in- stances as high as 70 per cent of their value, bat sume of the large and more valuable prop- erty is taxed at the rate of from one-tenth to ‘one-fortieth its price. Inst think of it. Equal- ize the amesements and another half million an Will be added to the revenues, and wi equal amount from the general government the necessity for the bill under discussion would be avoided. CHANGE THE FORM OF CovERSMEST. “What is your remedy’ A change in the form of government.” [Applause] Then Mr. Dodge spoke in complimentary terms of Hon. W. L. Wilson, who had said that the govern- ment of this city came nearer being » military government than other city that he bad seen. Mr. Carr said that in justice to Cupt. Rossell he wanted it understood that he bd not at- t to repeat what the captain had said, ~T am opposed to the present vystem of gov- ernment, maid Me. Dosa we never had better enginecr officers than now.” Mr. Dodge also remarked that the District paid more money for the support of the general government than any one of the states. MELPISUXESS AGAINST THE ASSOCTATION CHARGED. Mr. Frizzell of the county association took exceptions to the manner in which the mem- bers of the association had been conducting their affairn. He charged that the association had been selfish im. that it wanted all the im- provements to begin about the Capitol. He Yas talking for the people who lived in the vicinity of and north of H street. President Taylor interrupted the and asked if Was any resolution to be offered, #0 that there would be something for those present to disciiss. “I see that you want to choke off the extreme northeast,” said Mr. nd so T'll sit ‘The president disclaimed any such intention RESOLUTIONS AGAINST THE BILL. ‘Mr. Thomas W. Smith said he had prepared @ resolation and be offered it. The resolution | of | sell had told | no doubt that j thisas did the good lady whose k declared: “That the citizens of Northeast ¥ portion i Li i { 2) g I é 5 Ht 1 i | : i | 3 i r respite will be asked for and that it will be granted by the President owing to the motion for a new trial on bills of exceptions pending in the Court of General Term. Cross, it is alleged, left his house, on 8th street south- west, to goto the theater and his wife fol- lowed him, and when near Virginia javenue he shot her. The defendant is represen: Smith and Joseph Shill i imed by them that the woman shot herself and that Cross actions in calling for help and running to her mother to tell her showed that he The prisoner during his has stuck to his statement. ‘The bills of exception were ouly signed a few weeks since, and it is expected that the hearing will take place early in the next General Term. sotaton hs SENATOR HOAR AND THE SOUTH. He Says That He is Proud That the People There Are His Countrymen. Senator Hoar told a Worcester, Mass., re- porter yesterday afternoon that he was at home on a business errand to fuldill an engagement he made before the session opened. “Ihave nothing to say,” he said, “about any | pending publi question except what is aircady known.” He spoke of the importance of Monday's con- | ference of republican Senators, and said that while the action on the election bill would de- | pend upon a very small majority the proxpect looked more favorable now than at any time since its introduction in the House last year. “I am not especially informed,” said the Sen- ator, “as to the plans of gentlemen who have taken steps to forza new clubs or otuer repub- Tica izations. I think such movements ve however, attain sz the recent reverse wh abandonizg its prin ceed or should sc . is the opinion of a majority of the voters. to conform itself to that opinion, ex it be rightor wrong. The republic: oh ik, as it always has, What is the ‘What is just, true. right- honld then oceapy that pe hould seek to bring the voters of the monwealth and the country to agree to it. ‘Any temporary reverse should inspire re- doubled zeal, not desertion or betrayal of what We can getafew lessons of value democratic antage ci thern leat ple of the south I think of their Indeed, Iam incimed to 5 ndness of heart was so great that when her children told her she would speak weil of satan himself she replied, ‘I wish youail had bis perseverance.’ ” — +e A Public Library for Washington. To the Editor of tue Evening Star: One of the pressing wants of this city is that of a public library and reading room accessible to cll the citizens of the District. There is probably no city in the United States having a population equal to Washington that is not provided with such an institution. It is a con- scant matter of surprise to strangers coming to the city to find that no library is meintained here. Many of these strangers would gladly patronize such an institution during their rable. The republican party will not, eve itself’ from encountered by will ene- com- on his head. His | THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. Their Physical Phenomena—Visits to Extinct and Active Volcanoes Described. Last evening Dr. V. D. Collins delivered second lecture on Hawaii before a large and at- tentive audience of ladies and gentlemen at the rooms of the Y.M.C.A. All intelligent Ameri- cans, he remarked, take a lively interest in the past and present history of Hawaii and in its moral, material and political future. These islands contain the graves and the homes of many of our best countrymen and women. The brightest page of Christian missions is there written and much of the beauty, charm, comfort and prosperity of Hawaii is owing to the taste, the enterprise and the capital of our People. It is but natural, therefore, that this and some other portions of the inhabitants—in view of the intrinsic weakness of the throne of a noble but vanishing race—and for other good and valid reasons should desire union with our country as the ocean state of Hawaii. As the first lecture treated of the people, their peobable origin, their Christian civiliza~ tion, the causes of thcir physical decay and of their present material prosperity, the last evening was mostly devoted to’ the physical phenomena of the islands, including visits to some of the extinct and active volcanoes. The description of the great extinct crater on the Island of Maui—the ruin of which stands 10,000 feet above the sea, with a circumference of 30 miles, inclosing, at a depth of 3,000 feet, sixteen secondary craters—the whole a most complete counterpart—except in «ize, to the great lunar erater named Schickard—proves Haleakala to be one of the unique wonders of nature. When this great crater became extinct no doubt the struggles of internal fires and molten inva Were transferred to the great Island of Hawaii, where, at this hour and for the last 80 yeura, their mighty manifestations and devastations have been’ experienced and recorded by thoughiful and able men. WONDERFUL ACTIVITY IN HAWAII. To the scene of this wonderful activity in Hawaii the lecturer directed the attention of | his audience. From the palm-embowered city of Lahina he took passige in a small native schooner bound for Hilo and the captain put him off on the const of Hawaii at the nearest int for reaching the newly erupted crater. Hore be engaged’ a canoe, with an out rider to prevent capaizing, to convey him some forty miles along the coast to the micient capital of Hawaii, as this was the only possible point, owing to the dense forests and fresh lava flows, for ascending the island to the new active crater high up om the side of Mauna Loa, 10,- 000 feet above the sea. In this canoe ride of forty miles he sailed over vast fields of beeuti- tiful corals, plainly seen in the deep, clear waters, and along the shore, whore the great lava stream, slowly rolling down through the valleys, poured into the sea, burying the silent corel workers and their wonderful marine gar- dens, throwing up vast clouds of steam and uttering, with a voice of thunder, its protest against the inighty foe which checked its head- long and fiery career. A LAVA-COVERED PLATEAU. ‘The Island of Hawaii, as he thus approached it and sailed along its shore, seemed to rise from the sea, like a vast grim fortress, built up by the force of internal fires whose molten lavas had spread and cooled, over and over again, in all sorts of fantastic shapes, on every mide, often cutting their way through the zone of forests to the sea. The central portion of the island above the tropical forests is for the most part a vast, desolate, lava-covered plateau xbont 5,009 feet above the sea, and from which spring three great, wide-bared volcanoes, each some 14,000 feet high,called Mauna Loa, Manna Kea and Mauna Hualalai. The summits of these ancient craters are now extinct and are covered and filled in with eternal snows, which drife and whirl, sparkle or repose in the upper air,and for ages no subterranean fires have robbed them of their spotless diadems, But though these summits are thus silent and snow the eruptions on Hawaii in the | on have burst forth not from the summits, but from the sides of the great vol- eanct nd cven low down on the sides of Haw: \d that in the ancient crater of Kil- anea, only 5, * above the ocean, there has existed for ages and is seen today @ mighty pit called Hale i Mau—the house of everlasting burnings—where a vast sea of molten lava constant agitation, but with no outlet and no connection with other craters which play far above SEEKING AN ACTIVE CRATER. The traveler, on arriving at the town of Kailua, unable to obtain a gnide, resolved to ascend alone to the mouth of the new and active crater some twenty miles distant, and high up on the mountain side, some 10,000 feet above the sea. For the first few miles he passed from the shore of the ocean up through & cultivated belt of land, and then reached the dense virgin tropical forest, with an under- growth of créepers and vines. Passing through this zone of tropical trees land was reached where the lava had spread out and cooled be- fore reaching the forests or the ocean below. In the central portion of this plateau, but nearly filling it, the three great volcanoes up- lifted their heads, Many parts of this lava table land were covered with shrubs und low trees: others with coarse black sand, scoria and masses of inva left in various shapes as the stream @owed along and then covled and 1, leaving the surface everywhere rough and jegged with many deep and dangerous fis- sures. . A VAST HEATHEN TEMPLE. On this rugged, uninhabited and utterly desolate table lund are the ruins of a vast heathen temple, and under the shelter cf whose walls the traveler encamped for the night. This seems to be about the only temple, owing to its massiveness and distance from Lmuman habitations, which escape! utter destruction when idolatry was overthrown in 1819. The walls are eozae twelve feet high and thick, 400 feet wide and 700 fect iong, and all compored of large blocks of lava. The most remarkable featare of this temple was that, in its inner court and near the high altar, there once stood acunningly constructed wicker-work obelisk, the seat of an oracle which gave forth responses tokings and chieftains when they wished to consult the gods on affairs of i Bat the grim idols which once looked out on the vful scene and the vast train of pil worshipers once struggled up to thi temple are gone forever. The last human sucrifices took place in 1813, only seventy-two urs ago, and yet today the native Haw: sojourn and are greatly disappointed that no library is accessible to them. It is trae that » number of circulating libraries are maintained by executive dpartments of the government, but these are brought wi reach only of s small porticn of the citi the District. It is also true that the great gressional Library is Ipcatert in this city, but is practically closed to the public at large. In view of these facts it xeems very desirable that some steps should be taken at an early day ward the estabiishiment of a permanent and library for the city, libr. a _subserip= tion library. The erection in the immediate future of a large public building for the ae- commeristion of the city post office affords an opportunity for providing accommodations for such a library without the recessity of being at the expense of erecting a separate building for-the purpose. Inasmuch sa large portion of the population resort frequently to the post ottice it would perhaps be the most convenient location in which to place such a library. Wil not some of those prominent citizens who have hitherto been interested in such a project serioudy consider the wisdom of now making @ determined effort toward its accomphxhment, and thus sceure for the future such a library as Will suffice fur the accommodation of this large population and as will be a credit to the city Ateelf Zz en laa acts * In Memory of Gen. Spinner. Ata meeting of the officers and clerks of the United States treasurer's ofice héld last even- ing, Hon. J. N. Huston presiding, resolutions respecting the death of Gen. F. E. Spinner, drawn by Mr. F. W. Lantz, were rend by As- sistant Treasurer Whelpley and adopted by the meeting. The resolutions recited Gen. Spinner's long service to the government id a tribute to his patriotism, zeal and other personal qual- ities. ‘They anid that Gen. Spinuer's. kindness of heart was proverbial, and he always en- joyed the esteem and confidence of those as- sociated with him. During the exigencies in- pepo og atly aug nm Gen. 3 Soncelved the Len of employing women in his department, and, although many opposed the innovation, persisted and annceenated to the world that women the abilities required for clerical work. To him women. Kind are indebted for the advanced position Asclstant Treeaurer Whelvley Wil aticnd tho ‘Treasurer Whelpley will attend the faneral on Sunday at Mohawk, N. Y., as the department. ——— Photographing Dead Men's ‘The department of justice of Canada has de- cided to purchase a newly patented photo- Sraphic apparatus of great value in detecting | #" crime. The invention will enable a copy to be taken of the in the retina of the of dead oun ioe is poh ad nha portant, ially in cases where there is no other clue to the perpetrator of the murder. re a gentle ani lovable people. SOUNDS HEARD AT MIDNIOMT. The lecturer declared that as he lay there alone in his blanket at midnight he would hear the report as of a exnzon breaking on the stillness of the night,caused by the explosion of confined gases or steam beneath the beds of heated java. At other intervals he would be startled by a deep rambling noise, coming as seemed from the lowest recesses of the mon: tain. At such amoment, sitting up and looking above him not a mile away, there played, over one hundred feet high, the brilliant lava 'foua- tain, in awful majesty, and then rolled down in | one continuous strean: of liquid jire for many mniles toward the sea. This great stream at i .s source was quite fuid,but it coole? on its wide reading edges, flowing more slowly in level places ard resembled in da masses of thick biack treacle. were le y spread ont in v erg, and when reaching cleva- tions, owing to its momentum and tenacity, it would seem to flow uphill uniil the intervening spaces were all filled. It was at the very outburst of this new crater that this lecturer first approached Hawaii from Catifornia and beheld at night, thongh far off upon the sea, this river of lurid lava, leaping from the craters month and towing in a wind= ing course for thirty miles, through valley, plain and forest, until at last it met the lip of the ocean and was. submerged amid foam and ‘steam and the voice of many waters. ‘THE GREATEST CRATER ON THE GLOBE. The audience was also taken to the verge of the greatest active crater on our globe—Hale- man-man, or the House of Everlasting Barn- ings, on the southeastern side of Mauna Loa, but we have no further for the deseriy tion, except to add that, if one-half of what lecturer stated be true, then Hawaii possesses on our planet—an active the sublimest sight crater twenty miles in clrouit and a thoumand feet on the brink of which you may stand at midright and gaze in awe and wonder a conned, bes Stormy sea of taniten, Legos which for miles heaves and flows and dashes unceasingly against the mighty lava walls of the mountain. ———se ‘What the “Invincibles” Do A prisoner who has just been confinement in Down Patrick gives the foliowing account of the daily CURRENT CHAT IN PARIS. Removing the Hat in Bowing to Be = Dis- carded Practice. Special Cable Letter to The Evening Star, : Panis, Jan. 2.—With the New Year comes the actual beginning of a revolution in social and polite affairs. There have been threats of reform and change in many social custome, and we have had it uponthe tapis at sundry times to do away with several exceedingly fool- ish and awkward ceremonies in vogue between the refined members of what is gracefully ad- mitted to be “society.” And there has been no habit more senseless and with less raison d'etre than that of a gen- tleman Femoving his hat from his head upon ith a female acquaintance. iy knows where such a stupid and such an awkward act received its origin. It has arbitrarily controlled the men and snpposed to rank asa mark of the gentleman for as many Fears back as history extends, despite the colds it has cansed, the bald heads it has exposed and the infinite trouble and embarrassment it said to have caused by giving to the winds badly attached toupees that disappeared around one corner while th mfited owners took refuge from the street's laughter around anotlier. So now it is said we are to do away with this sortof thing and the sensible and simple sub- stitute that prevails in oriental countries is to be adopted. That mode consists in placing the right hend improssively over the heart and bending the head slightly forward, so as to make a noticeable but not extravagant obei- sance. Progress has been made in this reform to such an extent that many gentlemen now just tonch the brim of the hat a la militaire when meeting a lady, and it is accepted as being good form. DINNERS TO BE EARLIER. In connection with this movement it should be noted that fashionable London, which for a long time past has made its dinner hour later and later, until it finishes its evening meal aboat the time when ordinary mortals are or- dering their after theater supper, is about to be reformed in this respect if the efforts of his royal highness, the Prince of Wales, are of any avail. It was ‘said a little while ago that the ince would make his dinner hour 8 o'clock instead of helf-past or later, as has been his eus- tom hitherto: but with the dawning of the new year he has resolved to anticipate the meal by znother half hour and he will go to the salle a manger as soon zs the hands or the clock point 7, thus bringing his meal nearer to the hour which he observes when he visits this city and enabling him to go to the theater with od deal less inconvenience than the method as hitherto followed allowed him. This carlier dinner wil necessitate the prac- tical elimination of a meal which has of late Fears grown to be a part of the day's econom: This is what is known as “le four o'clock, which is English kettledrum or afternoon tea. It used to be simply a cup of tea with a bis- cuit or a scrap of cake, but of Inte years in ad- dition to these kickshaws dish after dish has been added to the growing list by the fashion- able world until the lightest of possible retiec- tions took on the bloated and important ap- pearance of a full grown meal and the table upon which only delicate china and apostle spoons gracefully reposed in company with the steaming tea pot under the harmfal and most unnecessary if rather pretty tea caddy inty cake basket literally groaned under the weight of the dishes which were gradually made to encumber it. It was the extension of the dimensions of the afternoon tea which caused the recession of the dinner hour, and it is now expected that if the 7:30 dinner prevails kettledrum will once more resume her pristine simplicity. Meanwhile it must be noted that the fashion- able people have not shown any alacrity in following the lend of the Prince de Galles. A SALAD FAMINE IN PARIS. There isa salad famine here and the true Parisien is in the throes of an awful depriva- tion. Lettuce is looked upon as silver; water cress and dandelion are worth their weights in jd, while celery and leeks are simply pro- hibitive. The prices prevailing during the seige were bon marche compared to those that now stare the appalled and ravenous Frenchman in the face. There is one desirable feature in nine, however, it will compel the resource- ful restaurateur to invent new devices for de- ceiving the palate of his diner and_in to imagine salad in the oiled and 1a: remnants of the first or only green ma that may come to hand. This holiday season is fruitful in greens of great variety und if the wily Frenchman cannot find a palaiable dose among them of something very nearly ap- roacking the famine-stricken articles then he lost his wiliness. THE QUEEN'S GIFTS. ‘This is the season at which presents are made by the rich to their pooror brethren, “when good wishes gentle deeds reciprocate,” and when gifts are thought of foremost in this good work is her majesty the queen, who at this sen- son always makes alarge donation to thow of Windsor who are not well off. This takes of the form of beef and coals and during the hol- idays which have just passed joints of beef of from three to seven pounds ‘weight Have been ributed, the size varying in accordance with the number of those who constitute the family. The total weight of these joints was a ton and a half. ‘The other half of the gift, consisting of coal, is delivered at the houses of the recipients, no many sucks per family, and in this way sixty tonx have been distributed. The money value of these two items for Windsor alone is £300. BARON ROTIISCHILD's FANCY. Baron Rothschild hag a curious fancy in re- gard to his New Year pr He has a I regard for the drivers of the omnibuses and the men who are doomed to eit without any shelter at all, subject to all the atmos- pheric changes, on the top of these cumbersome vehicles, wrapped round in thick rugs. The baron lives in Piccadilly and hundreds of “busses” pass his door every day bound for the western portions of the city as well ax the suburbs. He xecordingly selects these “buss men” for the exhibition of his generosity, and he sends a brace of pheasants to each of them, who thus ure cnabled to enjoy a delicacy which would otherwise be quite beyond their means. In this way he distributes about.a thousand birds. ANOTHER WAY. Mr. Shoobred of coaching-club fame also has aregard for these drivers of the public vehi- cles, but hiv generosity has another wa: showing itelf. "He givesto the men th the right of procurin: furnishes cach of thei ‘This is his method of dalgence shown by the "busmen of Piveadilly to V during the couching season. ‘The British parliament has kad mace for it in the past the ting © a ‘ore been accepted as the solitary unattainable and maccorplishable feat to that angnst body. Fable or tradition tells us that this remark t was done upon one occa- ¥ the pontifical college in the person of of the Pope Johns, but that has always been taken cum graus slis. HITKERTO DEEMED IMPOSSIBLE. Ithas remained for the high court of Am- sterdam todo what no other body of human} beings has reliably done be’ court has done it by deciding that all oficisls and public servants shall take their oath of allegiance, not to Queen Wilheimina but to King Wilhelmina. ‘This extraordinary and physic. ally revointionary decision has caused «staal eyclone of indignation ‘The women are ail up in arms und denounce the ect as an outrage and as another blow st a long-suffering sex, ‘The press har taken up the cry and ealfs sad attention to the Inck of common sense in the thing and talks with frighttul plainness about the density of lawmakers who cannot tell a woman from 2 man or a shirt from a smock, But the high court is made up of independent and phlegmatic Dutchmen, who, now having passed the law, are not dixpored to reseind i and the chances of the lady being recogni: officially as such are very meager. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Mr. Charles Saulley, the celebrated baritone, has arrived home this week and will remain in fore. And the high One of the most inte marks of the London of our fat RAMBLINGS. “He rambles in his walks, And likewise in his talk.” ‘There is no better time to get an insight into the human nature of people than during and after a heavy snow fall. The self-respecting Public-spirited citizen who hasa realizing sense of what is due from one civilized being to an- other is prompt in having shovel and broom used on the whole extent of his side walk, 50 that pedestrians may pass and repass in front of his premises with some degree of comfort and safety. On the other hand, the fellow who believes in getting everything possible out of life and giving, nothing in return considers his duty to the human family fally performed when bis own door steps have been cleared, with possibly narrow path open from his door way to his carriage block. And did you ever notice that the latter class are generally of those who are first and loudest in setting up claims to high social position and superior breeding? Not only that, but they have the habit of arrogating to themselves authority to Prescribe what is ‘good form” and correct style for Htbera. Queer world, isn’t it? * s * @ & By the way, speaking of stow, there is gen- erally supposed to be somewhere in existence ® statute, municipal ordinance, or Commis sioners’ order which requires the Washington Street railroad companies to keep their tracks clecr of snow, and also to keep aclean path open from their tracks to the sidewalks at the several street crossings. Is it a popular delu- sion that such an official requirement exists, or has it been actually promulgated, to be quietly ignored by our railway barons, who can count pretty certainly on the negligence or Want of “‘sand” in official composition for the non-enforcement of nearly all regulations in- tended for the public comfort? The facts ought to be correctly and definitely understood, both by the public and the railway companies; and a8 good atime as any for the settlement of the question is during such a spell of weather and getting about as we have had for ten days past. What are the exact facts? Will some one fa- miliar with the subject please rise and give them to the public? + * Re ® But, whether in any manner required to do s0 or not, one would think that business consid- erations alone, based on a decent regard for the health, comfort and good will of their bundreds of daily. patrons, would prompt the management of our several city roads to voluntarily keep a clean open pathway between connecting lines at their transfer points, if nowhere else. Noth- ing of the sort do they do, however. If the late Mr. Vanderbilt himself, who was the king hog in railway management, were in supreme com- mand here, with his well-known views of what ought to be done with the public, the rights and comforts of that portion of community obliged to use street cars couldn't be more studiously and effectively violated than they are generally, ‘and always in times of heavy snow fall. * ke * It is curious to rote the late change of opin- ion in the judgment of French critics as to the artistic merit of Millets “Angelus.” While that picture was owned in America it was far and away inferior to at least two other works by the same artist, owned in France, viz: “The Gleaners” and “The Man with a Hoe.” Now that it has changed owners, and is going back to France, with a probability of a final restiny place in the Louvre, things have changed. and greatly for the better. ‘The fellows who haven't seen much merit init for the last eighteen months now consider it the masterpiece of the 19th century. se Re The queer thingsa fellow sees when he hasn't any gun are quite matched by the queer things one can hear sometimes in what the late Mr. Charles James Harrington Fitzroy Yellowplush styled the “hupper suckles of fashnable life.” For example, the wife of a cabinet officer who was interviewed by the enterprising Washing- ton reporter of a New York paper last week on the momentous question wee er a dress coat is the proper eaper in making New Year calls ces herself squarely on record by declaring fo genticinan should appear im ull dress after six o'clock unless he wishes to be thought ignorant of the propricties.” What will my lady have? se e *® Why do “society” chroniclers and penny-a- line reporters persist in applying the French designation “Madame” to all ladies of foreign birth, no matter to what country they belong? If there were any excuse for styling them any- thing else, when here, than plain “Mrs.,” as Americar ladies are called, the proper thing would be to give to each the designation called for by her own lan, or the custom of her native country. But nothing of the sort is required or sanctioned by good taste, or the best uanges abroad. Thus. when an American woman travels in Europe she is not given her home appellation of *M but is called “Frau,” in Germany; “Madame,” in France; “Signora,” in Italy, and so on! Conversely, therefore,. married ladies of foreign birth, no matter from what country they come, should be styled and addressed as “Mrs.,” when in the United States. No higher compliment ean be to any lady than to address her as your mother or wife should be addressed. ee Re Another peculiarity in the same direction that is quite as inexplicable, and often comical, is the weakness shown by a milliner or dressmaker, of whatever nationality, to set herself up as a “Madame” as soon as she is able to open an es- tablishment on her own account. It is notice- able, fo, that when this point in ethnographic transformation is renehed your nimble needle Dlyer, though born “in sight of the blarney stone, is no longer a dressmaker, but a. “mo- diste,” and has to do now with “confections,” not dresses. Does this sort of thing lead a cus- tomer topay an extravagant bill more cheer- rally ee RR The people of Washington enjoyed = more quiet and orderly holiday season this winter than has fallen to their lot any time within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. Thero was almost no horn-blowing, and comparatively little pistol and fire cracker exercise. Result: More than the average amount of and comfort for well disposed people, and ices than the usnal number of personal casualties and fires. Just how the reform came about nobody appears to know exactly. But that is little matter. ‘The great thiug is that it came, and thauks are due, and tendered to the gods, ac- cordingly. ee There were over eleven hundred visitors at the night exhibition of the Corcoran Gallery last evening, to most of whom the large and fine exhibit of drawings by the studgnta in the several classes of the Art School was both a surprise and a delight. All the classes in the school are full ut present, with quite a num- ber of registered applications, standing over awaiting vacancies. In fact, all the facilities of the school are now tested to their utmost capacity, and if its accommodations were twice as great it is believed that they would prove to be no more than enough at no an indication in this direction it may tioned here that the night class, which was or- ganized only few weeks ago, now numbers ue hundred members. parece MEAN ‘His Silver Mine Confiscated by Mexico. A Chicago special to the New York Tribune says: B.N. Drayal, owner of the Cincinnati mine of Tombstone, Ariz., tells a tale of harsh treatment in Mexico. , “a strip of land near Sonora, Mexico. It was good mining property and I knew it were worked properly I could make a many thousand dollars, I Shad $8,000 started to work and with of bought inoy eighteen mont and finally struck ledge of silver. celebrate the discovery and determined bacon. ‘There is no such 5 5 fy i F] i HG i Hi i i i i i e li i j i . fl | rf te 7f I [ i i fi THE FAMINE OF 1846. How the Irish Peasants Suffered for Over = ‘Year. THE VAIN ATTEMPTS TO RELIEVE THEIR DIS- TRESS—GREAT MORTALITT—WHILE TRE FAMINE LASTED FOUR PERSONS DIED EVERY MIXUTE FROM STARVATION—CHANGED CONDITIONS NOW. Londen Correspondence New York Sun. Mr. Parnell’s arrival in Dublin, his triumph- ant reception, his speeches from railway and private carriages, the fiery controversy and furious argumentation carried on by the two antagonistic parties of the same cause, have fomewhst obscured the deeper and more deadly evil under which Ireland is suffering at present, and it would seem as if the reckless prodigality which casts thousands of pounds Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Reval Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE into the extended hand of “Gen.” Booth has exhausted itself in this boom of generosity, and that charity can spare very little for the victims of the Irish potato famine. Since 1845 no such calamity has fallen on the inhabitants of Ireland. As the is almost the exclusive food of the natives; as they sell their other crops to pay their rent: as no family or individual can or does put by anything for a future contingency; as they one and ail live, or rather vegetate, in the present, the potato disease makes starvation imminent to thousands. Ireland has not yet had time to obliterate all remembrance of her dire straits forty-five years ago, and the memory adds y to the woes of today. It was about the August of = that = Iria farmers first’ noticed << few rown spots on the still green stalks of tato plants; insignificant at the outset, they is yeloped rapidly, the stalk withered and the tuber in the ground. RAGE‘OF THE HUNGRY MASSES. The country—an oceurence not unusual— was then convulsed by political and religious dissensions, but famine soon quelled or at least 4 HANDBOOK OF THE TARIFF ON IMPORTS THE SHADOW OF A MILLIONATRE; or, Ta MARGUERITE. A Novel. By Gronaks pr Prr- ‘Translated NO SAINT. A Novel. By Axwe BozeMax Lrox. HIS WORD OF HONOR. A Novel. By E. Wen- THE AMERICAN FAUST. By Epwaxp A. Pavi~ NEW PUBLICATIONS. INTO THE UNITED STATES, Under the Acts Of 1990, and the Bond and Warehouse System Bow in force, with Notes of Decisions appli | cable thereto, arranged under the several paras gfaphs. By Groxax HUNTINGTON ADAMS. of the New York Bar. Second and Revised Bdi- tion. New York: Baker, Vorhis & Co. VILLE FENN, author of “The Master of the Cere- Monies,” etc.,ete. Iustrated. New York: D. Appleton & Co. New IDEAL. A Novel. By P. Graome.’ New York: Belford Go. RRBRONR. York: Belford Co. from the French. New Louisville: John P. Morton & Co. NER. New York: Street & Smith. TON. New York: Belford Co. discovery cf “baby farms, treated in the cruclost manner possible: but im | spite of the metropolitan police these disgrace- A FLUTTERED DOVECOTE. By Gronor Max- | fl institetions flourish and apparently are only discovered by acaident. side of the Thame LONDON BARY FARMS. Fight Pmaciated, Sickly Infants Discovered in Mrs. Reeves’ Filthy Home. London is constantly being hdrrified by the is where infants are At Brixton, @ portion of London on the Sarry & woman who gave the name of Mra. Reeves, and who ix known tohave figured under several slinees, has been arrested ‘on the complaint of her neighbors for carrying on the illegal business known as “baby farm- When the pe into ‘one smail, ed room. the infants were in a starving con- In spite of the fact thet the poor ehil- ren were immediately given the best of medi- cal attention, and that they were removed to THE TEREE SCOUTS. By J. T. Tsowsnivor. | healthier «urroundings. it i feared that some =e them. England and, indeed, Ire- Bostou: Lee & Shepard. of them will die f athe effects the course land herself, with constitutional indifference, ei eran jof n and starvation to which they have only began to be alarmed when the time came LITFRARY ASPIRANTS, been eubjected by the woman. : for gathering in the crops. There were vir- tually none to gather. Everywhere the hungry uasees Togo seditiously, the inturiated crowds owe rougl ¢ streets, insults i mr acaegaee fhe me lg, age bakers’ and provision chops, ath} ping the con- Yoys of corn, stealing, burning, killing, deter~ mined at any cost not to starve. As to the landlords, they almost all left the island. The government appears to have lost its head and found no better way of relieving Ireland than by sending additional troops to ison it. Social economists seemed equally inefficient and unable to suggest a remedy. Some proposed to send supplics and sell them at reduced prices; others—notably Lord John Russell—were strongly opposed to this and oted Adam Smith. It was then suggested that rations should be distributed to the needy pure and simple. But this idea was met with the objection that wholesale alms were degrad- ing and engendered hereditary pauperism! The next plan was to open Irish porte free to all foreign ships, bearers of alimentary arti- cles, so as to introduce into the island food which could be purchased cheaply by the suf- ferers by selling their few remaining goods. But here the burning question of protection or free trade stepped in and the protectionists would not agree to the free importation of any articles whatever into Ireland. IRELAND WAS DYING OF STARVATION. Meanwhile Ireland was dying of hunger. Parliament, at last fully convinced of the fact, voted £2,000,000 for the relief of the victims; private charity did its best, and for awhile the calamity ecemed staved off. But the worst had notyetcome. Some fields had been spared: others only partially affected. By surrounding the sounder ones with troops and escortin; the harvest wagons by soldiers some crops had been gathered in, and, however poor the form- ers were at the time, they still retained some seanty articles of clothing or pieces of ai ure that they could dispose of in excl for ameal, and they had been provided with enough seed for the coming year. Unfortunately, the summer of 1846 was an unusually wet one all over Europe. — The Irish laborer early saw the symptoms of the disease reappearing, and this time there could be no hope, no uncertainty—it was famine, with all its ho: possible, without referring to the ac- countsof the period, to realize the scenesof the larrowing distress in Ireland during the winter of 1846-47. “To depict them,” wrotear eye wit- it is necessary to go buck to the siege of Jerusalem or to borrow from Manzoni the aw- ful description of the at Milan.” In the one village of Skibberten. seventy inbab: tanta out of a population of a few landred per- ished in less than a week. The living had not the strength to bury tho dead. Ireland had become a vast charnel house. O'Connell, the chief of the Repeal Associa tion, traveled inceseantly through the land, bringing assistance, promising more, preaching patience and resignation, yet impotent to pre- vent the scenes of riot and disorder that were of daily occurrence. ait, AID was Ix vars. In vain did the viceroy, Lord Bessborough, spend in help all the disposable fands, deter- mined to demand a bill of indemnity; in vain parliament voted £3,000,000; in vain the gov- ernment created national workshops, wi nearly a million of Irish were received, and sent to Ireland all the food procurable; in vain private charity apa its efforts. All the resources of wealthy England were powerless to exorcise the disaster caused by a microscopic fungus. So appalling was the spectacle of a whole country actually starving that the great politi- cal questions of Europe, even the crucial one of the Spanish marriages,” immediately be- came insignicent. Queen Vietoria, opening in perron the sesticn of 1847, with a voice made tremulous by emotion, recommended Ireland to the solicitude of her parliament, and Lord Jobn Russell in the sitting of January 25, speak- ing of the situation of that unhappy country, said: “It isafamine of the middl exer- _ ys Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Writes Frankly ter from Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, dated a | few years agor to read any specimens of verse nent me by lit- erary aspirants, and Ishall be ready to do for you what I have done for scores—to speak | moderately—of others. At the same time I | have to confess that my experience has been | very discouraging. Poor sensibility and an | ear for rhyme and rhythm are very common gifts, and are constantly mistaken for poetic genius by those who possess them and their | friends. agreeable task to undeceive those who have been flattered into the idea that they possessed | extraordinary powers. Yet this is what I have to do habitually unless I choose to keep up the illusion and betray my correspondents into false | expectations. with any periodical except as a contributor. Whenever my correspondents wish to have their communications published I send them to the editor of any periodicals they designate and levae ull the rest to him, taking it for granted that he knows what will suit bis pur- pose better than I do. Tam sorry to say that the and stories sent through me are almost invariably declined. | You will ask why? Is it because they come from this or that section of the country? By | no means. Mr. western states, Bret Hi were writers lishers. Is it, then, because they are new and unknown to fame?’ On the contrary,a new writer of real power isa great card for any | Publisher. No; the real reason is that new writers match ‘themselves against those who have proved their superiority. It is just like a | village base ball club challenging the Bostons. commonly do and more at length than I should expect to ag n disay . Your letter is frank and fair and But of the hundreds of thousands of poems that are written by our educated! and intelligent ladies very few are marketab {ou Fill not be made happier by my eriticism, in Africa, for vigorous proceedings have strongly appealed to the kaiser’s warlike in- stincts. Itis not certain yet that Wissman’s action will be approved. ‘The kaiser is said to have recently expressed himself privately to | under yesterday's dute and states that Father the effect that what was needed in such coloni- | Craft is woun: zation work as Germany had on hand in Africa is lees discipline and methodical plodding and more boldness and originality in undertaking. He is even said to have gone #0 far as to com- pare German colonizers unfavorably with En- | locked in the closet of school house in Ama- to One of Them, j The Boston Journal prints the following let-_ My Dean Mapawe: Iam always very willing You can well imagine that it is not a very am not an editor and have no connection Howells from one of the from Californi~ tly welcomed, while plenty of eastern their pieces rejected by our pub- Ihave written you much more fully than I But I do not wieh you to be ‘ou have your chances of success like another. or remembered week after they are published. Iam afraid ut Iam, nevertheless, yours very sincerely, Ourver Wexreit Hours. ‘The Wissman-Emin Dispute. There is a strong fecling in Berlin in favor of lish and to say that the methods suitable for e military service did not seem to work inistrations Over uncivilized —_—_o Accident Caused a Wrong Signal. A train on the Erie railway, made up of cising ts ravage in the middle of teenth ‘century.” session wes extremely | § Aegaticimene ition = stormy. ‘The frish members, headed by O'Con- cohae. ike ee ——- neil and Smith O’Brien, made Englan by jumping. The accident was caused by a sible for the loss of life; the Istter demanded that an official report of all the victims by etar- vation since November, 1846, should be pre- sented, and, the government refusing, he said: “It is because the government and parliament have permitted 240,000 of my compatriots to like vermin that [ want these placed officially before the eyes of world!” O'CONNELL’S PROPOSITION. At another sitting, O'Connell having: that seed should be given to Ircland and that the land should be tilled by the people and the salary of the laborers be paid half by the erunient, half by local committees, his motion also was rejected. Lord Brougham created a burst of hilarity in the midst of the gencral gloom when he related that help waa not dis- tributed on Sundays in order nut to break the dominical rest. “Fortunately,” he added, “Wellington had not the same; when he fought the battle of Waterloo on a Sunday.” "The queen commanded «general fest day By Uns onerateee Freak Belly es aon wext | emers near Washington and provided hiessaif He refused to surrender the tower, which was — = by — of the railroad dis- Patcher. Ittook five men to overpower Kelly = cago and snd hems Reond Sent cen tees wom sages. | SS Son hoaene Gen. Reeve's Funeral. rs. Reeves, in fuil extent case, will be prosecuted to th the law, and should one of the children die, the charge of murder may be made against the “baby farmer.” The police are doing their utmost to find the parents of the unfortunate inf: Should the search af the euthorities prove successful further arrests will follow biiaiaienn Unfortunate Business. The firm of Caliwell & Niblack, general mer chandise and cotton buyers, at Ts x of the firm's the former will realize about $2 Donald Simpson, a grocer of Sarnia, Ont., has made an assignment. His liabilities are $80,000. rave ———_ +0. A Counterfelter Betrayed by His Partner. John Miller, formerly @ tobacco packer of Dayton, Ohio, was arrested at Lewis- burg, northwest of that place, Wednes- day night by United States Detective Donnell for making and selling counterfeit five dollar eyes An ex-convict named Patterson, who iad been selling the moncs, was arrested for passing the stuff in the country in exchange turkeys. The ex-convict exposed Miller. basins “8 An Irish Farmer Sentenced to Hang. At the Nenogh assizes in Ireland yesterday Bartholomew Sullivan, a farmer, was placed on trial, charged with complicity in the murder of Patrick Flahive at Bailyhague, in the County Kerry, in August last. It was alleged that the actual murderer, Patrick Kennelly, had escaped toAmerica. The motive for the crime wns the announcement made by Flahive of his inten- tion io cut the crops on a farm from which the tenants had been evicted. The jury deliberated over the case for two hours and finally returned with a verdict of guilty. In reply to the ques tion of the judge as to whether be had any thing to say why sentence should not be pronou upon him the prisoner said: “I am not a bit in dread of the Highest Judge, my lord. The next Judge won't condemn me for it.” Sullivan was thon sentenced to be banged in Tralee on Peb- ary A Family Exterminated by Suicide. Mrs. George Bain, near Irwin, Pa., arose at 6 o'chock yesterday morning and drowned herself, inawell. Three weeks ago her lovely young daughter went crazy. This drove her husband yar and he died in a mad house December nd yeeterclay the last of the family suicided, within tres weeks. ay See Ne, (Craft Wounded, but Recovering. A telegram was received at the brresn of Catholic Indian missions in this city today from Father Craft, who was reported as having been killed by the Indians. The telegram was sent from Pine Ridge. via Rushville, Neb., but recovering, and that all the Catholic missions are safe. ——— A School Boy Smothered to Death. Johann Krause, a twelve-year-old boy, wae burg, Germany, as punishment for some mis satisfactorily in the development of new and | CoDduct and when the door was opened be was distant adi Plles For, this reason he is thought to be ikely to view with leniency any undue adven- tureousness on the part of Emi in the interest | repentance. of German extensions in East Africa. dead, having been smothered by coal gas. His cries were not heeded by the teacher, who eup- posed thom to have been incited by anger or EEE Pathetic Case of Kidnaping. A pathetic case of kidnaping is reported from ‘Wadhington, Iowa. Three brothers named Kil- empty passenger coaches bound for Jersey | gore were living in Chicago with their father City, crashed into a freight train at Edgewood | and mother. oth were worthless and the boys Junction, N.J., last night. The caboose, sev-| found life almost a burden. At last the elder eral freight cars and the engine of the passen- | son was driven from home, and, knowi ger train were wrecked. The engineer and | the little brothers would be mistreated, he re- how turned, and at night, while bis parents were sleeping, he brought them to Iowa. He found goo hommes for both the boys with respectable witha good position. The parents made a sperate effort to find the bors and at last succeeded in finding them. Officers were sent from C two. little fellows were of the city, while James Kilgore, the elder brother, was lodged in juil, Brig. Gen. Isaac Vanduzen Reeve, a veteran | “#*6ed with kidnaping- of the Mexican and civil wars, was buried from the home of his son-in-law, W. T. Schley, in New York yesterday afternoon. ‘The funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Dr. cacasouabont af te hy of tee deeeen some mem! ily of the . number of members, of the Union Club gna half from there. A man named Reed, who had some regular army officers were it. interment will be at Denville, N.Y Wm. Besides ————— Kinglake, the Historian, Dead. ‘The death of Alexander William Kinglake, the English historian, is announced. He was born in 1811, near Taunton, and —— A Ten-Year-Old Girl Kidnaped. Watertown, N.Y., is excited over the kid of the ten-rear-old daughter of Bray- ton Hungerford of that city. She was visiting relatives at East Watertown, two miles anda been emploved by the girl's father, in of horses, stole ahorse and cutter from stable and drove to the place where the staying and told the people that her was dying end wanted tose her. ‘The horse was found wandering about the streets of the city yesterday morning. The girl's scarf was in the cutter. ee see ine rama frond was educated at Eton and Trinity | _ Little Mnttie Hungerford, who was kidnapped of public prayer wus given ont to be read pub » Cambridge. Fis iri ot ee eet eet nnd snk cxbeuseed ee ely and privately. who did not observe | the Crimea,” the first portion of » history of | #7 i COCK IMS te Pevived she stated thet the the fast were made liable to's penalty. How-| the Russian war of in 1863, | nan Reed carried ber into a barn near this ever, the famine lasted till the end of that sum. | amd_gave so much offense at the court of the ind kept ber there all day, threatening to mer, 1847, when an average potato crop offered | Tuilleries that its sale was prohibited in France bec tie usdnenusiae” beau teeber the most practical alleviation to the country's | during the empire. ‘managed el ‘uncle’ sufferings. character of an exodus. As Mgr. Perraud of famine.” threat gEi : il ati il el if | i BE Bi FI i F i Hy i f l : i it ti 8.8.8. and Lecome your would yisld to mo trest- former ssif. 8.8.8. bas ment—until I took two cured many such cases bottles of 8.8. 8., which after every other remedy promptly cured it, asd ‘there has been po sien of ‘Feturn, this was ip 1886. =. BR Bost, Newtan, 5.0