Evening Star Newspaper, August 8, 1892, Page 8

LOCAL MENTION. ‘The Weather. POxscaet TILL 8 P.M. TURSDAY. For the District of Columbia and Maryland, fair, preceded by showers this afternoon oF this evening: southerly winds. For Virginia, fair, except showers today in northeast portion: southerly winds. CONDITION OF THE WATER. Temperature and condition of water at 8 s.m.: Great Falls, temperature, 77; condition, 10. Receiving reservoir, temperature, 84. Con- dition at north connection, 16: condition seath connection, 24; distributing reservoir, temperature, $4: condition at influent gate house, 25; effluent gate house, 25. High water. | Low water. 723am T54p.m.| 18lam 2:04 pm. —— Powsrrvt Opera Giasses, 85. Hesrten's. For Your Ovrrxo Tare a Few or Ovr $1 Outing Shirts. They combine style and com- fort. Fuaxe & Sox, One Price, Cor. 7th and D. = Cum. Xaxpzn’s 1848 Oporto Port. Rewsrxoxn’s Ick Cream. 285 G st. nw. For Biaxx Boors. Stationery and Office Sup- plies go to Eastox & Rrvr. 421 Lith st. 0c. Box Croans. Sicxur’s, 1001 Pa. ave. Frssrix’s Ico Croam shipped by express any- where out of town. 1427 Now York ave. Aaristio axp GvAgaxTERD.—Silver Fillings, ‘Weents; Platina, €1. Very best Tecth, $8. U. 8. Dewrat Assoctation, 7th and D. = Campers Cuzanp by the Esme Canrer | ‘Wonas, 631-635 Mass. ave. e made moth- roof free of charge. Arrextiox! Dratens axn Prrvate Borers. Auction sale of $5,000 worth of Dry and Fancy Goods, Notions, Stationery, éc., slightly dam- by smoke. Monday morning, August 8, at Wo'clock. Wa. Lownnrma i AMUSEMENTS TONIGHT. Acapeay oF Mvsic.—Lew Dockstader’s Min- | atrels. ‘Tne Battie oF GEertrssuRo.—15th street and Obio avenue. — EXCURSIONS TOMORROW. Rrver Vrew.—Steamer Pentz, 9:45 a.m., 1:45 Marsuatt Hart.—Steamer Macalester and | River Queen, 9 and 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., Bax Rivce.—Trains leave B. and Q. station 9:15 a.m.. 1:50 and 4:28 p.m. Coxoxtat Beacu axp Pixex Porst.—Georg: Leary, 9am. Bermzspa Panx.—Take Tenleytown cars. Prxuan.—l. 0. M. excursion. B. and 0. depot, 8 a.m. | eursion. B. & O. station: usual trains. took rday more, yesterday commenced a series of efforts among ¢ es in this city. ‘ESTERDAY AFreRxoon the horse attached to | a buggy occupied by Mr«. (. D. Schench of No. 401 lith street northeast ran away at 1ith and | A streets northeast, throwing Mrs. Schench | and her daughter out, slightly injuring them and demolishing the buggy. Axwa Lrxcx, by Mr. James Hoban. files a Dill for an injunction against E. T. Matthews et al to enjoin them from claiming title to lot 3, | ee Death of Mrs. Susan BE. Mason. ‘Mrs. Sdsan B. Mason, the aged mother of Commissioner of Internal Revenue John W. Mason, died at her son’s residence in this city Yesterday afternoon about 4 o'clock. She had been ill for some time, co that her death was| Bot unex; The body will be taken to Grafton, W. Va.. Commissioner Mason's home, tonight, where the funeral services will be held tomorrow morning. sede eee ‘Contesting for s World's Fair Ticket. A good deal of interest is being manifested in ‘the contest for the world’s fair ticket offered by ‘Mr. Julius Lancburgh to the most popular po- Uceman in the District. Officers W. S. Parker | and Thomas Oriani of the first precinct are the | contestants and the friends of th these gen- flemen are making strong efforts in their be- ——— The Court Gave Him Satisfaction. “Your honor,” said Mr. William Dietz to| Judge Harper, this morning, “th officer wouldn't give me any satisfaction at all.” “The court will endeavor to supply the omis- sion, Mr. Dietz. The officer says it took six men and « patrol wagon toget you tothe @tation house. How is that?” “Well, sir; I'll tell you. When I requested the officer to inform me what I was wanted for he declined. I then refused to go.” “Of course,” remarked his honor. “The officer then struck me,” continued Mr. Dietz, “and I struck him.” . just as I imagined.” added the court. “ But, your honor, Thave done nothing,” ex- Dietz “Well, Mr. Dietz,” said hix honor, “I'm going | to fine you $10 for doing nothing.” ‘Bnd ber, Distr went owe. pala pele ‘The Case Was Dismissed. William Cocker and Walter Hixson, who were arrested by Detectives Trammell and Board-! man yesterday for the larceny of a bieycie from William McLeod July 22, were before the Folice Court this morning. Mr. Dakin of 1230 York avenue testified that the machine was t to his to be repai Ee sei St », badly broken, was found on 16th street Florida Sent to the Grand Jury. Acrowd of young colored men and women were in the Police Court before Judge Miller this morning interested in the case of Benjamin Wayne, charged with an assault on Wm. Terry ‘with intent to kill. It appeared that Terry was with a gighand Wapne, it was claimed, foi- lowed and cut at him with » knife once in the and once in thearm. The case was sent to the grand jury. justine Seva Emancipation Celebration at Frederick. For the abore event, on Thursday, August Ti, the B. and O. railroad will run a 6] from Baltimore at 8:30 a. m. and Washing- at 9:30 a. m., leaving Frederick on return st midnight. Round-trip rate from Balti- Bore and Washington, €1.25. Correspondingly low rates from intermediate stations. and 6:45 p.m. | Train leaves | 5 th Bar Rincz.—Grand Canton, I 0. 0. F., ex-| G. A. R. REUNIONS. ‘Meeting of the Comsfiittee Saturday Night— Corps Meetings This Week. Ata meeting of the committee on reunions helt Saturday night at the Tribune building | tne following appointments were made: Major | Butler Fitch as chairman of the light artillery | of the Army of the Potomac, Adjt. George W. Wilson as vice chairman of the fifteenth corps, | Major M. E. Urell as vice chairman of the sec- jond corps and Calvin 8. Brown of the first | Maine infantry vice chairman of the nineteenth |corps. Plans were reported for the arrange- | ment of the grounds, which provided for the | erection of @ great stand in the center of the White Lot for open-air meetings. Also that contracts for tents had been made and elaborate ans for lighting the grounds arran; The | Bater circle of tho lot wil be warrowsaed with are lights, the stand and larger tents bein lighted’ by the same. The smaller tents will have incandescent lights and the whole grounds will be ai with a view to scenic effect as well as convenience. Corps meetings will be held during the week “this “crening—First corps, at the Ebbitt is evening—First corps, ai House; ical ab Willard’s Hotel; third, at Ebbitt; fifth, at Ebbitt; sixth, at Ri ; ninth, at Riggs: fourteenth, at Ebbitt. | Tuesday evening—Eighth at Ebbitt, on which | occasion Gen. Rosecrans and John N. Mason are e vening—Tenth at Willard’s, . eighteenth (including de- tached organizations of the departments of Virginia and North Carolina, and Peck’s divis- ion of the fourth corps), at Willard’, Cavalry of the western army at Ebbitt. Thursday evening—Fourth at Riggs, thir- teenth at Willard’s, Friday evening—Fifteenth at Ebbitt, Navy at | Ebbitt. | All who served in Shields’ division are re- | quested to meet at the Ebbitt House this even- ing to take steps toward organizing an excur- sion up the Shenandoah valley, where they served in 1962. All members of the twenty-fourth army corps now in the city aro earnestly requested to send their names and addresses at once to Capt. | Gilbert E. Overton, 1729 Q street northwest, | and Lew H. Douglass would like to hear from | all members of the twenty-dfth corps. | A meeting of the survivors of the Iron Bri- gade of the Army of the Potomac will pe hel this afternoon at the office of Col. Dudley, 622 F street. ‘8. | Wednesday twelfth at Ebbi ——.___. Good Tempiar Officers Installed. Perseverance Ledge of Good Templars was very largely attended at its meeting last Satur- | dgy evening. The oficial reports for the term just closed show increased membership and activity and improved condition in every de- Fartment. Mr. R.A. Dinsmore, as chairman and Lodge literature committee, found rerance Lodge a willing and eflicient ngh which to brmg into use the Literature provided. The com- d to begin a series of public interest. Mr. M. C. Ba Kalstrom; secretary, cial recretary, Dr. C. R. Davi B.A. Chambers Mrs. A. G. Powel marshal, Fred. Kalstrom; Edith Bond: guard, Mrs. hos. Saffell. will hold a social session this week M Faw | deputy marshal, | Alma 1 ccompanied by Miss , recitation by Miss Jennie n, vocal solos by Miss Gifford and Mrs. Kaistrom, and short speeches by Mra. E. A. Chambers, R. Ca in dge, 8. V Lodge Deputy Edzon and Chief Tem- ead. ne Real Estate Matters. The Washington Loan and Trust Company has bought of J. A. Bates for $15,743.52 prop- erty in Georgetown fronting 179 feet on Road street northwest. W. H. Alliscn has purchased for $54,754.25 of J. R. Brown et al. lots 5 to 10, square 1037. 359.6 on 13th street, 300 on E street and $21.9 on Massachusetts avenue southeast. pimacehsummntal Addresses to the Colored Y. M. C. A. Rev. Reese W. Murray of the Methodist Prot- estant Church delivered an address yesterday afternoon to the colored Y. M.C. A. on the subject of personal responsibility for the world’s salvation, Remarks were mad by the Rev. D. W. Shaw of Cleveland, Ohio. gee, Assault Cases. Inthe PoliceCourt, Judge Miller, today several assault cases were heard. George Payne, for an assault on J. M. Green, went down for sixty days. Martin Corney, for an assaulton Officer Lynch, received a likesentence. Kid Robinson, for astaulting Ellen Conte, was fined §10 or thirty dav«. Henry Brown assaulted Ardella Cook and received a like sentence. peniahaoelamenes Could Get No Credit. “Bartholomew Hussey,” said Clerk Harper of the Police Court this morning, “you are charged with being loud and boisterous. Are you guilty or not guilty?” “Judge, you honor, I'm guilty,” replied Mr. Hussey; “but I would like until next Saturday to pay my fine, if vou please, sir.” too much of a credit business. If we kee; in this business mach longer the court will have to engage a bookkeeper. It is time it was stopped, and from now on the court will do no more credit business. Hereafter it will be pay or stay.” —— ‘Transfers of Keal Fatate, Deeds in fee have been filed as follow Mary A. A. Lindsley to Cleland Lindsley, sub 91, sq. 190; $- W. E. Wright to Mary L. Haskell, sub 61, 99. 891; 8. T. E. Wagga- man to F. H.8. White, subs 22 and 28, sq. north- east of 1065; %—. F. H. 8. White to B. H. Warner, same property and lots 2 and 3, block 2, Cleveland Heights; @—. A. K. S. Trapier, sub 34, block 46; ©: Barton to J. M. Orel 2, Universi C. Stone, lot 8, sq. | to A. Mellin, lot $, | $378. 862. Katharine Miller to W. 520; $1,292.49. D. B. Groff block 23, Brightwood Park; —————— Wm. L. Stone's Suicide. About 8:30 o’elock last night Wm. L. Stone, a | white man living at 1307 P street, attempted suicide by shooting himself in the mouth, making a wound which Dr. Harrison pro- nounced fatal, and he died in a short time. | Mr. Stone has been sick for some time and was laboring under temporary aberration of mind. He was about twenty-six years of age. He had been in business in Richmond, but about three | years since he was forced to give it up on ac- | count of ill health and bad since been traveli and last week he was called home by the dea of his grandmother. He was when he arrived in good spirits and so continued until yester- his brother apparently irite, but calling him he was found on with pistol in hand and a wound in his — Sent to the Work House. Julia Brentan, qn old white woman, was | found yesterday afternoon wandering about | Garfield Park half dressed and barefooted. She | had been an inmate of the alms house fora hardly a wise one, for during the next thirty days Julia will be at the work house, eo New Excursion Route to Niagara Falls. The Baltimore and Ohio R. R. announces the t Niagara Falls at it. The travers the inter i anthracis cole of pe ge age 5 with historic interest famous for tl ‘tureaque scenery. Base eat be goa Bf ay from day of sale, and on return j will valid to herp peter ‘the coming fall winter. order to make these changes Mr. W. F. pep nadie mp ae be found it imperative to the hotel during August. The cafe on Sood ibe coctect pieces nthe. capital being one in with electric fans and located as it is on the corner of 14th and K front- —— Buena summer hotel, in bas been crowded the entire house the seasou. By ce'ebrated Imperial Band 0. trains at Sa Oee em, 199 p.m, 315 p.m round trip.—Aact. eyes ri ted to be present. Twenty-third at Will- | the uperintendent | chapiain, | ‘No, sir,” replied his honor, “I am doing | ‘Many Appeared in the Police Court to An- sewer Today. In the Police Court Judge Miller had the following larceny cases before him today: ‘Thomas Minor, colored, was charged with the larceny of $7 from Louis Gray while the latter was asleep in a shanty near Tenleytown, and ‘was sent to jail for three months. James Grady was charged with the larceny of $8from Samuel Williams. He was sentenced to fine of $10 or thirty days in jail and restitution or thirty days more. Geo. Hawkins was charged with housebreak- ing and larceny of two sets of harness from Springmann, and was held for the action of the Arthur Lee was sentenced to for thirty day for the of a whip. = He Gaines Charles Gaines, who was char; with the larceny of $7 from Sextus Wright, a roomer in the house of Mrs. Hensey, was sentenced to sixty days in jail. Henry lard and boys, who looked over with difficulty, were with larceny in breaking into the store of Mr. Robinson at 90th and 0 streets and the larceny of $1.50. Officer Upperman arrested them yesterday and they admitted getting into the store and spending the money in car riding and pie eating. The court said there was no place for such boys as those and suggested that te should be made to suffer, for they could prevent this behavior. ‘The parents were called and stated that the boys were from six to nine of age and acknowledged that they had of,them being concerned in the pocket book. ‘anid that the city was infested with thieves as young as that, but Congress would not believe it, The court suggested that they be taken out of town. The Active boy be- ing too young was dismiseed and personal recog- nizance was taken for the others and two weeks given to get ther out of town. Alexander Smith, a German barber, was e before Judge Miller today with an in- decent assault on John R. DeGrammond in the Smithsonian grounds yesterday and plead guilty. The judge made short work of the case by send- ing him to jail for six months. e case of Robert Leo for an assault on Alberta Spriggs was dismissed. Washington Addison was chargod with an as- sault on Charles Jackson and fined $5. snatching of & ‘Sudge Miller The South Carolina Republican State Asco- ciation met at their headquarters, No. 1411 Pennsylvania avenue, Saturday night. Prosident R. H. Washington called the meeting to order and stated the object of the meeting to be the election of seven members to constitute the executive committee. The following were | chosen: Mr. Jas. Wells for chairman, Messrs. O. M. C. Moffatt, Jas. O. Bampfield, E. Brooks, Sligh G. F. White, Jerry Polite and J. M. F. Robinson. Rev.’ Mr. “Roberts of Indiana. recorder of the general land office, then ad- Greased the association, speaking of the bright outlook for the republican party and the success of the national tic arrison and Reid. eens The Inhabitancy of Mars. To the Editor of The Evening Star: liquid water and air, does not probably exist in the solar system outside of the four interior plancts. All the other bodies of this system are too far away to have enough light to produce life or too small to hold water and atmosphere sufficient. Mercury is so hot that the little water its gravitation will retain is probably kept in the state of vapor, unless in sinall arens about poles, or on its dark side, if it is a fact that it does not revolve. If an organic cell once ex- | isted the-e it might go on multiplying over lim- d areas until they were covered with life, but would not likely ever reach any high form. Venus probably hasa mass of water and half as great as the earth or mort close to the sun that heid as vapor, and it the telescop but seldom in its full blaze. Life might well exist there, but we cannot see it through Venus’ cloud veil. ‘The carth being the largest of these four bodies is able to retain by gravitation the greatest quantity of water and air, aud the heat of the sun is so reduced by distance that most of the water remains ina liquid state covering most of the surface, and the sun reaches the sur- face in full force under conditions 40 balanced that water and sunshine can coact togeth 0 that a first organic cell being once in existence, how we cannot guess, life would probably go on growing and crowding itself into all sorts of changes and contests, urged on by the force of | that sunshine and those co: ms, until it would present itself in a great variety of forms, many of them very high. Mars is able to hold less water and air and has less sunchine, but it has enough so that if an organic cell once existed there life would probably develop very freely, but of course we could not guess how high its forms might be evolved by the urgency of those contlitions. It is probable that animal and vegetabie forms might be produced, but there is nothing to lead us to suppose they would take any form resembling those of this world. and still less that uny of them would be like man. However, the problem in each ease turns on the fact that at some time aliving cell ehould exist. Without that germ organic life would never exist, audeven all the urgency of the powerfully balanced conditions in this earth would have to this day produced noi abare sun-burned and rain- vestige of life over it all. The planets are probably produced by the aceretion of meteoric masses such as con‘inu- ally fall on this earth. metallic iron. ‘ihey havea g:ay color where not subjected to rain and air, aa in the moon, | but where rain and air act freely. as in the earth and Mars, they are soon covered with | rust, and this rust is washed down so as to color the inasses not iron, except where modified by organic growth, as in the carth Now, all accounts tell us that this color of iron rust is the color of the lands of Mars, and ered by organic life. So it is hard to overcome the fear that Mars is merely « lifele: where the organic cell has not been p or that if produced it is confined to the | This is a problem where can help us little. We cannot bring any of the to detect traces of life. But no doubt the new | astronomy might hope to detect someth! throvgh the nature of the licht itself that would tell the story down to minute particulars. Secretary Langley and those who know how only ones who can unravel the story of Mars and tell us what thero ia on his lands, and whether there are traces of life there and, if life existe, perhaps its peculiarities. One of Prof. Lan; sandy ees runs rey suggestive before m. Association for the Advansement of Science here in 1891, im which he told usa story of the light from a eim- ple flower from the |, through the spectro- seope, by which each flower wrote its own won- derfal signature, such as no other light could | produce. And certainly if there are masees of fon on Mars they could be detected in its ight. _— 8. JW. Fined for Maintaining » Nuisance. Mrs. Margaret E. Jordan, colored, was in | charged before Judge Harper this morning in two cases with maintaining a nuisance in the rear of her premises, in the alley between U and Vstreets and 9th street and Vermont avenue northwest, in throwing garbage and filthy water in the alley. Mrs. Jordan vald the owned the premises, but that she knew nothing of the matter. Her daughter admitted throwing soap- suds in the alley, but denied throwing any there. Mr. Dumont said that he that an example would be made in the present , especially in view of the hot weather and the numerous complaints being ecting the garbage question. | His Marcellus Active, Calvin Dil- | Dill colored Life as we know it, based on the action of | 66. ig but | ashed devert of drifting sands and beating waters, without «| ‘These consist largely of | it does not exist in this earth in any region coy- | 1 | and bis 1 onal 4] 3G ig on the old astronomy | "mes Gustay Hartig” end planets near enough with telescopes for the eye | to draw its wondertal story from light are the | A Stenographer Cuts Her Throat With a Rasor, but Will Probably Recover. 8 stenographer, having an office 403 5th strect northwest, attempted to com- mit suicide by cutting her throat with a razor at the residence of her father, Charles B. Park- man, 122 11th street southeast. “About two years ago Miss Parkman, who is twenty-five years of age and of attractive ap- pearance, suffered from sunstroke, and twice since then has suffered aberration of mind, The continued warm weather recently had made her quite {ll and she was suffering from nervous prostration. About 8 o'clock last evening Mr. Parkman on going to his daughter's room found the door locked. " Receiving no response to his knocks he and his son forced the door open, only to find his daughter in an unconscious condition and with her throat cut with a razor which was found lying on the floor. Chew and Demorest were quickly summoned and _discovored, that the windpipe | and several emall veins had been severed. After the doctors had stitched the wound the un- fortunate girl regained coneciousnoss and realized what she had done. She expressed great regret, saying she had no reason for de- siring to die. It is believed that she will recover. see THE FREE G. A. R. QUARTERS. Work of Building the Barracks on the Mon- ument Grounds Commenced. Chairman Edson, in company with Col. Wright, made a visit to the Monument grounds this morning, where they found Contractor Morrison directing the labors of some 125 men. The frame buildings to be used as free quarters for the Grand Army will be erected as rapidly as ‘possible. There is nothing to interrupt the work except the weather, and it is probable that it will continue good for sometime. Aslarge. force of carpenters will be employed as can be utilized and in a short time the building will be up. Then the bunks will be put in and numbered and the work of assigning quarters can go on. Commander T. 8. Poole of the department of New York and his chief of staff, L. C. Brackett, were at headquarters this morning and had « talk with Chairman Edson. Mr. Poole says that he expects some twelve or thirteen thou- sand old soldiers from New York state will at- tend the encampment. AN ASPIRING POET. A proposition was received today at the head- quarters of the citizens’ committee from a poet in Tennessee, proposing to furnith a poem to be read at the coming encampment. He inclosed a sample of the propored poem, which occupies six type-written pages of letter cap. On account of its length it will probably be referred to the committee on parade. The list of posts that have already secured quarters here shows the following sented and the number of posts for eac! nois, 10; Pennsylvania, 118; Olio, 141; Connec- ticut, 22; Masrachusetts, 117; New York, 126; 16; Rhode Isla ‘ansas, 2; Missouri, 3; tucky, 26; Tennessee, department of; West Vir- inia, 9; Maryland, 1; Florida, delegation from; Visconsin, 2. a A Swiss Doubloon, To the Editor of the Evening Star: Referring to the paragraph entitled “An In- teresting Coin” and sigued P., Buffalo, Auguat 5, 1892, which appeared in your issue of the 6th instant, I beg to say that from the description given I recognize the coin in question to be a “doubloon” (dublone), struck in my native city of Berne, Switzerland. ‘The coin, which was current until about the year 1852, was of the value of sixteen francs, old style, equal to about twenty-three francs of present currency, and was one of the three gold coins issued by the republic of Berne, the in scription being Rospublica Bernensis, not de Bernensis, as stated. ‘The other two coins were dueats, of half the value of doublons, and double doubloons. have seen numbers of each when I was a boy Maj. Kloss, late counsellor of the Swias le- gation in this city, had a ducgt and a doubloon in his possession. However, Bernese gold coins of 1796, or gon- erally of last century, probably are scarce, as the French, during their occupati country in’ 1793-1799, | could lay their hands o: looted How Mr. Dodson Has Been Treated. Thomas Dodson, by E. M. Hewlett, petitions for a divorce from Annie Dodson. They were married October 28, 1838, and he charges cruel treatment, going so far as to follow him to the lumber yard witha razor, and that she bas committed assaults upon him ever since ‘heir marriage, several timos throwing a teapot of hot tea on him. Marriage licenses have been clerk of the court to the follow Taylor and Sallie Cu and Anna E. Hut Ya.; Frank B. The will of tho late Elizabeth J. Stone has been filed. It is dated April 10, 1933, $ | gives her household furai j executors’ W. E. Edm |gaman, in trust for her gran Elizabeth Stone Longworih toher grandson, Wim, Stone Abert, part lot 1, | square 291, and’ the rem: to be sold and randehildren, ler was filed to- is wife during widowhood and then to his children, 1 property to his wite. He Seegeiken ex- utore. ‘The will of the late Li Bingham was . She leaves her estace to her oliet, in trust to delivgr to irs. Din Pinev Point Excarsion Rates, No bar on the grounds. Sunday schools and temperance societies especix!ly invited. | Steamer George Leary. Anacostia Sunday school will give its sixth select excureion to the Point Thursday morning, August 11, at 9 clock, returning Friday evening st 11 o'clock. Round-trip tickets and first-class aecommoda- | tione, including three meals and night's lodg- ing at the hotel, for the small sum of $2. Tickets for sale ‘at Wash. B. Willis’, cor. 7th and D sts. P. 8.—Steamer George Leary leaves her wharf every Friday morning, 9 o'clock, for Piney Point.—Adet. some Sat Falls Chureh Notes. Correspon‘lence of The Evening Star. Fans Cuunox. Va., August 8, 1892. The funeral tervices of ex-Mayor M. F. Chamblin commenced at his family residence at o'clock a. m. Sunday and were conducted by Rev. Mr. Rathbun of Presbyterian Church, as sisted by other clergymen. The prominent ple of ouz village generally were present. Revs. Robt, Nourse ‘and John ¥. Barber offered prayers, and Mr. Rathbun made very appro- priate remarks, e The deceased requested (hat his remains be kept for three days before interment, but de- composition set in €0 2001 . Gulager, who has an excellent reputation, locally, at leact, as an artist, isaway for recreation. He was sent by the War t- ment the next morning after the I) g to verbal | and when | | | | Ro: | medical things in “Monte Cristo” is the way in i I H E il HE f § Lb ber of ‘railroad panied was being finished alon The names of streets w! bridge some feet west of Washing- ton street extended. As the Catholic grave yard will be extended east to Royal the electric Tailway will skirt tho eastern margin of this city of the dead and it is not unlikely there will be improvement on the creek side. THREE FUNERALS ON SUNDAY. ‘There were three funerals here yesterday. In the morning an infant child of Mr. Jas. Dolan was buried, and the remains of the late Henry Kraft were removed and placed in the Odd Fellows’ cemetery, a number of the mem- bers of Potomac Lodge, I. . 0. F., being pres- ent on the occasion. afternoon a throng of friends attended the funeral of the late Henry C. Brown, who for many years has been ralued employe in the shope of the Midland road. Mr. Brown was born at West End, and was the son of the late John Brown, who car- ried on business in the city meat market for half a century. He learned the carpenter's trade with the late Thos. Smith on Lee street. An upright, manly youth, he grew to bean honest, useful man, and the community loses in his death a good citizen. AN AWAKENED NEIGHBORHOOD. The vicinity of Royal and Franklin streets, ordinarily a quiet outskirt, is now one of the busiest sections of the city. The south end of the new curb sewer is now being laid there and is almost completed from Franklin strect north to Gibbons street, while near by, Royal and Jefferson streets and beyond, the workmen of the Mount Vernon electric railway are busy with wagons, carts, shovels and picks. NOTES. Many of the pulpits here were filled yester- day by ministers from abroad. Rev. Dr. J. T. e 5 ;| Murray of Maryland preached at the M. P. Chureh, Rev. C. C. Woodson of Virginia at St. Paul's Church, Rev. Dr. Walker of the Theo- logical Seminary at Christ Church and Rev. A. B. Francis at the Primitive Baptist Church. The July term of the corporation court this morning to the August term for such formal business as may be transacted in the clerk's office. Matters requiring the formal work of the court will be delayed some days. On Saturday afternoon James H. Mansfield bought for $650 a two-story frame dwelling and lot 16 by 115 feet on Payne street between Queen and Fayette streets, near the W: ton and Alexandria railroad depot. cielo lasts He Cut Her With a Razor, James H. Oliver was arrested Saturday night for an attempt to kill Emma Darneil by cutting aaa ca at the third pre- cine! Sees A Couxray Home on ax Ixvestuext. A ten-room house, with eeventeen acres of fine rolling land, near Highlands station, B. aud 0. R. R., at auction, to close an estate, by Latimer Sloan, tomorrow at 5 p.m. Take 4:31 train, B, and 0. depot.—Adet. piinicacat (a MEDICINE IN FICTION. Some Great Writers Have Pat Great Non- sense in Their Books. From the British Medical Journal. We laughed when Mark Twain proposed to deliver a course of lectures upon chemistry be- fore the Royal Society, adding that he was in a position to do this with greater freedom, be- cause he knew nothing whatever about the science, but the public do not laugh at but take in all seriousness the medical incidents and | opinions scattered up and down the pages of the novels and poems which so commonly deal with medical matters. One of the strange which the old revolutionist Nortier mana, live on, paralyzed in every part of his bod | cept his eyelids, which he winks only. Yet the ence Take; Henry | serious kind. dj lotined head speak | old fellow reasons acutely,and finds no difficulty whatever in ewallowing food or drink, Drmas seemed absclutely unaware that sucha paralytic condition as he describes in Nortier'g case in- volved of necessity brain damage oftthe most |. Elsewhere Dumas made a guil- nd weep, the volume un Funtomes” there is a story of a man i in making experiments on heads from Rhe ‘guillotine in the Th his tales ing an error which was at that time commonly be- liewed i Jople who ought to know by nm went in for medical marv ; but, as he was a sindent of n and actually learned magic from a fesed thaumaturgist, the Abbe Constant, his | ributed not £0 much to bis ig- | ‘onders were norance of medical science as to his belief the elixir of life and the trancmuigtion of It ix not surprising that even George it, with all her knowledge of the innermost gs of the human mind, should have lost way whon dealing with the morbid changos of mind and brain. Tito's father, Baldassare, had Leen a great scholar, but after a long ill ness his memory upon recovery became a per- feet blank; he could recall nothing of bia scholarthip, though he had not forgotten who he was. With all this Baldassare is not represented as having lost his reason; he remembers his past life, but he can no longer read or write or recallany of his scholarship for which he had been to distinguished. It was not amnesia nor agrayhia with which he was afficted; it was a form of cerebral disease known only to the eminent novelist. Willkie Collins a specialty of his medical knowledge, and it was upon this account that he was induced to un- dertake an anti-vivisection novel, which he published under the name of “Heart and Science.” ‘Ihe work was equally unsatisfac- tory both to the persons who inspired it and to the general public. Wilkie Coline’ effort in this direction was a complete failure and his medical men and his wonderful drugs ce never have existed outside his own imug- ation. In Dfckens’ “Tale of Two Cities,” whore Syd- ney Carton substitutes himself for the con- demned Evremonde, we have premonitions of the chlorofotm which was to be diseovered fifty years lnter—the chloroform of popular: means the CH the phat via, m_ worse ‘offenders in the matter of death scenes than the novelists. A man two-drachm of some poison breast, swallows the contents, 4 a00‘ine speech without staggers ee ‘upon it heart with both *¢ A Heap of Bodies Indicated Hew Desper- ‘ate Men Had Fought. ifiwes IT oldock ta the forencon when the column suddenly halted, and a minute later the news came down the lines that the trail of the lieutenant and his six men was blotted out by ‘the hoof prints of ponies. This meant thata war party had swung in behind them. The ponies had been at full gallop. That meant the party was in sight of the redskins. We rode on for a mile and just over the crest an instant's halt here, to secure his for the I Snmunfiion aed mount he it were the men fleeing? It is forty miles to Fort Wallace—thirty miles back to the temporary camp from where the courier started with this escort. But they make head to the Test, spurring their Jaded horses as they never used spurs before. lieutenant rides ahead, looking for a battle ground—the Indians shriek and ecream as they follow. “Halt! Dismount! Lie down!” nme two double loaded horses fell at the same instant and lay prone on the dry grass sun- . The other three heave to and froand pitch about as their riders dis- mount, but keep their unsteady footing until brought down by the bullets of the Indians. Now the doom of the soldiers is surely sealed. They are only seven to forty, and: the ground farnishes all the cover a warrier could wish for. They make their circle to cut off all escape, dis- mount and creep forward up the dry ditches, along the ridges, from rock to rock and bush to bush. Three of the horses fell so as to make a triangle. Within the triangle gathered the seven men, using the bodies of the horses for a breastwork. sun was not yet two hours high. No man lived to relate what orders were given by the officer, what they planned, their jopes and fears. Under the burnit August sun, without water, without hope o! , with grim de: hing thom down, they hold their own hour after hour. At 10 o'clock one of their number was killed. At noon a second. Atlo’clock a third. At 1:90a fourth. At o'clock only the lieutenant and one man were left. At 4 there was no more firing from the triangle, and the Indians charged to find all lead. They are here before us just as the warriors found them. No, not that, but as they left them. The wolves and buzzards have been tatisfied to feed on the horses and pass the corpees by, but as we look down upon them every soldier cries ont in horror and indigna- tion: The devils who show uo mercy to the living can feel no respect for the dead who died asoldier’s death. y have mutilated them until the spectacle will rise up as a nightmare to every man in this troop forevermore. God be thanked that all were dead before those = began work with arrow, tomahawk and nite! We scatter out to search the battlefield. Here a warrior was wounded—here one killed. Here—and here—and here are blood spots, which the wolves have paseed by. They prove what a soldier loves to know—that his dead comrades fought a nt fight. Scores and scores of empty shells in that bloody triangle, but not one single cartridge left. We dig a trench for the men—a grave for the officer— and when the earth has covered them in and we have piled stones as a safeguard against silence. No man hasa word for his comrade. He is too busy with his thoughts. As that vision dances before his eyes and the odor of blood clings to his scent he vows vengeance end of time. ahundred miles away, the bugler sounds the —— and we dash into an Indian village. Nothing that lives is spared. No cry for quarter is heeded. #There are old men tottering about, babes born less than a mozth ago. A troop of devils charges back and forth shoo:ing and slashing, screaming and cursing. When the ht is over there are no prisoner:—no wounded. have been exterminated in that wild fre: Sane look at the dead snd == proachfal glances at , Who sit their panting horses. In caay thos men silently Point to the west and whisper: “Remember Kidder and his men!” —___s« IT WAS WEARI iG ON HIM. ‘What He Had to Undergo With a Fractious Baby. From the Detrolt Trivunc. The lord of the manor slept, although the baby hed the colic and was in no wise disposed to suffer in silence. “Wah—oop—oo—oo-—wah!” wailed the in- fant. | Distracted at the child’s distress the mother rushed wildly to the cradle. “*Hush-n-bye, hush-a-bye,” eooed she. “Gr—a—1—siss—poo,” snored the lord of the manor. The woman made ten quick laps around the room, danced the sufferi and performed a gr antics, popularly “suppose Sec “Whoop! ‘Gr-r-r-00— sise—poo. The lord of the manor splet. by ony the sands of time flowed through ses grew into hours. J as coloring the east ate glow the baby fell With a smile of tender radiance the | mother placed her dariing in the cradie and, imprinting a woft kiss upon its brow, turned to her own couch. The lord of the manor stirred and opened his yes. ‘Can I help you, Marin?” he fecbly asked with a'vawn, The wife and mother sighed. “No, John,” she wearily rejoined. The? slept. “I ehouldn’t be surprised ——” It was the lord of the manor talking to a friend next day. “If I looked might; 4. This looked mighty haggar: being up fo paped jously. —— ae mighty wea on a man.” of the manor looked decidedly ais- satisfied with life, ———+e+—____ Good Besults From Yawning. From the Medical Re-ord. In certain affections of the throat, such as acute pharyngitis, ¢atarrh’ of the eustachian tube with pain in the car, a Swissconfrere says that he obtains excellent results from making the patients yawn several timesa day. It pro; ducea, it seems, almost instantaneous reli appears. Frequently the affection is cut short by this novel treatment. Yawning produces, as every one knows, a considerable of the muscles of the ustachian tube ing into the pharynx the coltected. to M. blood purifier and TONIC to his comrades in the G. A. z ° HOOD'S PILLS areband made, and are perfect ‘Proportion and appearance. 2 the hyenas of the plains we ride away in| warrior, squaw and papoose to the | ‘A week later, as daylight breaks on the valley | © here are dead. epg pa a use nzy for t select from. Waronp’s, # Count Telsto! Saye They Are Incompatible, and Only Vegetarians Are Good. ‘From the New Review. I only desire to establish the propositions that in order to lead a moral life tt is necee- sary to observe a certain sequence in good actions; that if man is serious in his aspiration to load @ good life, the practical manifestations | of that desire will necessarily unfold themselves in a certain order, and that in this order the ab- ‘Stemiousness (self-mastery) is the first virtue which he will have to cultivate. In the pursuit of the virtue of abstemiousness he must again observe a certain definite order, and the first | step therein will be abstemionsess in food—| fasting. In the practice of fasting the first | thing from which he must abstain, if he really | and truly aims at leading a good moral life, is | animal food; and this for the intelligible reason | that, not to speak of the passione it engenders | | and fosters, the consumption of animal food is | plainly immoral, because it demands an act | which does violence to our moral sentiments, | | viz., murder, and is encouraged and kept up | | only by men’s greed of gold and their appetite | | for savory food. The reason why the first step | | in fasting and in right living is abstinence from | |animal food has been admirably formulated, ‘not by one man only, but by all mankind m the | Rersone of ite most accredited representatives | during the course of human history. But why, one may ask, if the illegality, i.., | immorality, of consuming animal food has been recognized by mankind for such a long | Reriod, ‘have people nevertheless pers | dor law? | wn to the present in ignoring This question naturally suggests itself to | | those who are prone to be guided less by the | light of their own reason than by public | opinion. The answer to the tion, however, is that all moral progress (and moral fa the emence of all progress whatever) is a | work of time, is accomplished slowly: but that the rigmof genuine progress, as distinguished | from casual advance, is ite uninterrupted con- | tinuousness and its ever-increating rapidity. The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon earth, not because vegetarianism itself is such an im- portant #tep toward the realization of this king- lom (all real steps are equally important or un- | important), but because it serves ax a criterion | by which we know that the pursuit of moral | perfection on the part of man is genuine and Sincere, inasmuch as it has taken that form which it must necessarily assume, and has truly | begun at the very beginning. It is impossible not to rejoice at this, just as it would be im- le for people not to feel glad who, after wing vainly endeavored to reach the top of the house by attempting to climb up the walls from Various sides, at Inst meet at the bottom step of the staircase, and, crowding feel that there isno way of Teaching the top except by ascending that statr- a beginning with this first and lowest Mabel—“I expect to meet George in the park this afternoon and wish to be ‘particularly "fas cinating. What shall I wear?” Clara—“I would suggesta heavy veil.” —Bos- | ton Post. | Mrs, Sapmind—“Well, I do declare! Them western folks is growin" craz; Mrs. Lisner—“Why,what's the matter now?” Mrs. Sapmind—“‘Matter enough, Here's an article in this paper about “lynching bees out | west.’ When folks haven't got nothin’ better | to do ‘an go around lynchin’ bees I've got my opinion of 'em.”—Boston Courier. ‘Use Use USE TSS TIS! Tse UE? 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