Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1893, Page 2

2 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1893-TWENTY PAGES. LATE NEWS BY WIRE, |NEW FISH ON EXHIBITION. / FIGHTING IN BRAZIL. War of Florida's Governor on the} Prize Fighters, | WILL DECLARE MARMIAL LAW, IPISSAID_ Troops to Be Called Out and the Contest Prevented. } | MANAGER BOWDEN DEFIANT. | ss JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 30.—A prom- | inent man, who stands close to Governor Mitchell, safd to a United Press reporter |™ today: “The governor has announced that | he has a trump card to play, and that he is going to stop the fight. You have noticed probably that the ‘sports’ are much worried | to krow what the trump card is. 1 will” tell you what I think it is. If the courts sustain the athletic club, and declare that A Large Collection of Graylings at the They Are Gamey as @ Trout and Have Never Been Seen Alive Here. There are now in one of the large aquaria at the fish commission building about forty fine representatives of a fish about which nearly every person has heard or read, but which few persons living in Washington have seen. This is the grayling. The fish in question were brought to Washington from Chicago after the close of the world’s Columbian exposition, where, with other examples, they attracted much attention in the large aquarial rotunda of the fish com- ission. The grayling is one of the most interest- ing fishes inhabiting the fresh waters of the United States, The interest arises from the comparatively local areas in which it is found, from its beauty and grace and from its gameness. The restricted habitat of the grayling is known to include only the cold, clear streams of the southern peninsula of eas ss ee es °f | Michigan and the headwaters of the Mis- to stop @ glove contest, the £0v-| sourj river in Montana. It is a member of ernor will wait until the time is ripe, andthe saimon family, and is chiefly distin- _declare martial law in Duval county. He) guished from most of the other fishes of the rote Same group—the trouts, salmons and white —s also the sole judge as to what con-| ashes—py its small mouth and greatly de- ¢ittons shail necessitate such a course, and, | yeloped dorsal fin, by which features it having so decided, there is no appeal. When | he decides upon a course nothing can | swerve him from it. “Once martial law is declared and orders | are given out that all attempt at a con-| test of any kind shall not be, it seems.‘ me summary stop is put to the whole | business. It is already known that the| governor relies more upon the troops to | stop this contest than upon any other! may be readily recognized. cits aoe On the elevated plateau in of the lower peninsu! of Michigan sev- eral large, cold stre: arise and flow through immense tracts of pine-covered jJand into Lake Michigan on one side and Lake Huron on the other, Here the gray- ling abound, and here, in the very midst of this district is the town of Grayling, the headquarters of the grayling fisher- means. In fact, troops are the only means. | Men. It would even be necessary for them to back up the sheriff.” { Manager Bowden's Statement. | In an interview this morning Manager | Bowden said emphatically: “If the courts | decide that there is no law to prevent this fight you can rest assured that it will take = Our lawyers tell us that there is no Ww, and as we have the best lawyers in Florida we believe that the courts cannot decide otherwise than to sustain us.” It had been expected that the yovernor Would send instructions to his officers this morning to quash proceedings instituted and suggest a new program after his own plan, but he has not done so. ‘The “Sports” Are Worried. Pugilistic cireles are worried over the at- titude of Gov. Mitchell. His telegram to county officials here, charging or intimating | collusion, has provoked great comment, and | the officials have replied in a very peppery manner. The governor is expected here soon, and then those who favor the con- test will exert every possible pressure to | have him keep quiet. Able lawyers here say | that if the circuit court decides in favor of the match the governor cannot interfere. habeas corpus proceedings will be heard on Wednesday instead of Monday. ‘The change of the fight from 9 p. m. to| some hour between 11 a. m. and 6 p. m. is} @ good one, as the vast crowds expected to | = attendance can then be better han- Sheriff Broward expects to have direct orders from the governor at any hour, as to his duties, and those who know the gov- ernor say that the orders will be strong and not at all obscure. Betting is in favor of Corbett here now. OMAHA’S ™ YSTERY. Bodies of a Man and Wo: Found in @ Box Left at the Express Office. OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 30.—The bodies of a gray-haired old man and a pretty young woman lie on a stone at the morgue, and detectives and police are working on clues to ascertain how they met death. About 10 o'clock yesterday morning a stranger took to the office of the Pacific Express Company a box, saying that it *contained stationery, and ordered it shipped to a town in Iowa. It weighed about 200 oS Prompted by suspicion created this fact, the matter was reported to the chief agent, and he decided that the box should be opened. The removal of the first board disclosed the head and body of a woman with blonde hair, and complete ex- amination revealed also the body of a man. Both bodies were nude and doubled and were bound with wire. On making this discovery the company sent the grewsome a to the coroner and notified the po- ice. Further than this no facts can be obtain- ed. The express company’s employes found no marks of violence on the bodies. When the contents of the box was removed it.was filed with rubbish and forwarded to the address. By this means the authorities ex- pect to arrest the man for whom the bodies were intended. They refuse to give the name of the town in Towa. ————— CHIEF McKANE SURRENDERS. On Learn’ of His Indictm Gives Himself Up. BROOKLYN, Dec. 20.—John Y. McKane of Gravesend has been indicted by the grand jury. Mr. McKane having heard that he was indicted delivered himself up at 12:40 e’elock without waiting for the warrant to be issued. After McKane surrendered R. V. B. New- ton and Kenneth F. Sutherland, both jus- tices of the peace of Gravesend, came into court. It was then announced that they also had been indicted. Col. Lamb said that McKane had been indicted eleven times--of seven felonies and four mis- demeanors. oe MUTINED AGAINST GERMANY. Am Uprising in the Colonial Posses- sions in West African Put Down. BERLIN, Dec. 30.—The reports of the seizure by natives of the German govern- ment house at the Cameroons, West Af- rica, have been confirmed by dispatches re- ceived today, among them being an official dispatch from the governor of the Came- Toons. The mutineers held the building for six @ays. Then the German gunboat Hyaene arrived off the coast and her commander gent a detachment of sailors and a number of marines ashore to recapture the build- ing. This they did after a fight in which ix white men were wounded. —— SIR SAMUEL BAKER DEAD. The Distinguished African Explorer Passes Away at His E: ish Home. LONDON, Dec. 30.—Sir Samuel White Baker, the distinguished African explorer, @ied this afternoon at his residence, at Newton Abbot, Devonshire, aged seventy- two years. ie Consal Savage Not Dead. GLASGOW, Dec. 30.—The reports that have reached here from the United States to the effect that Mr. George W. Savage, United States consul at Dundee, is dead, are untrue. — A Washingtonian Dies in the West. John Jackson, the son of Andrew Jack- son of ¥23 L street northwest, died on tne 14th instant at Post Clinton, Ohio, of grip, after a short illness. He left Washington for the west about ten yes ago, but was known here. > — Grand Jury Indictments. ‘The final report of the grand jury for te term was made to Judge Cole in the shape of indictments against George H. Engeman, violating gaming law; G. B. Marvin, Otto Townsend, E. C. Smith and Bert C. Claypole, do., and letting gambling and making books on horse races within | one mile of city boundary. L. P. Price, | alias Wilkins, larceny; J. H. Edgerton, for- gery; John Champ, larceny from the per- | son; F. B. Burleson, false pretenses; Chas. | Lancaster, second ‘offense larceny: Paul | Sehenck, do.; Charles B. Terry, assault, with intent to kill; John Crain, Wm. Fra- gier and Harry Kelly, false pretenses; Geo. W. Themas, larceny; Moses A. White, faise pretenses: Edward Gant and Lee Beverly, housebreaking; omas Simms, larceny from the person, and Richard Stewart, do. ‘he following cases were ignored: James E. Phillips, housebreaking; Norman A. Pruitt, do.; Ira Humphreys, do.; Irvin B. Wright, do.; A. W. Steventon, false pre- tenses, and G. W. Hunter, murder. en. The grayling takes its name from the general cole of its body, which is a pe- cullar purplish or silvery gray, with bronze aud bluish reflections; small, irregular black spots exist on the anterior part of the sides of the body. large dorsal fin shows one of the most traordinary displays of color markings known to occur in fishes outside of the tropics. Running along the base of the fin is a black line, then comes |a@ rose colored one, then another blackish line and another rose-colored one, the last | stripe being coatinued as a row of dots; bove these alternating lines of black and | rose is a row of beautiful green spots, suc- |ceeded by another row of delicate rose spots and a broad dusky band; fin: middle part of the free edge of the fin is tipped with rose. Some of the other fins are also finely Siete but much less no- ticeable than the one "The grayling is not a large fish. The maximum length attained is about sixteen inches, while the average is ten or twelve inches. The specimens now at the fish commission vary ‘n length from eight to thirteen inches, the weight of the largest being a little less than a péund. When taken at the proper season, the grayling displays game qualities that charm the soul of the angler. The differences of opinion which exist as to the rank of the gtayling among noble fishes are probably due to the particular times when it has been caught. In the warmer months It is a dull, almost stupid fish, affording no sport. In September, October and Novem- ber it is a bold, earnest creature, rising to | the fly with a force and rapidity fully equal |to the trout. But the gameness of the | grayling is different from that of the trout. The trout feeds close tu the surface and takes with little effort the fly floating over him. The grayling lies close to the bottom, |rises with great rapidity and sieces the |lure after it has passed him. When the | fish is caught, the use of the large dorsal )fin is seen. This is spread to its full ex- tent, and is employed to good purpose in the attempts made by the fish to get to the bottom, while heading up stream or pny stream in his tenacious efforts to es- In food value the grayling compares fa- vorably with the trout. By y anglers it is preferred to the latter, and it is said to have this important advantage over the trout, that “one can eat it every day’ dur- ing a long outing, and the last meal is as |mearty as the grayling found in a Another species of | Alaska and the British possessions is sim- |llar to the Michigan grayling, but has a | much larger dorsal fin. Graylings are also |met with in the northern parts of the old world. The fish referred to by Tennyson in the well-known couplet from the “Song of the Brook’ “With here and there a lusty trout And here and there a grayling”— very closely resembles our own fish in form, color and habits. times A MAGNIFICENT SUNDAY sCHOOL LIBRARY. By Llewellyn Dean, Enq. From the Christian Mirror. James C. Strout, a loyal son of Maine, a Bowdoin graduate of 1857, a veteran of the war of the rebellion, and who for many years has been one of the best known men on the staff of Librarian Spofford of the Congressional Library for the past twenty- five years, has had a fad for building up a mode! Sunday school ibrary. He has had in all these years to help him only about the ordinary resources of a church of about the average city size. But his devotion to the work, in season and out, his large personal contributions and the brain work he has put into the enterprise have now for a resultant a library of about 4,500 vol- umes. It is not only the largest library of the kind in this, and probably in any coun- try, but in plan and detail superior to all others. The books are of the best kind and their selection really show a genius and skill simost beyond praise. In this library may be found the products of the brightest minds—volumes of poetry, essays on science and natural arts, pages devoted to electricity and a description of the many ways in which it is used; volumes of ser- mons, biographies of the best known statesmen and soldiers in the world; his- tories of all nations and religions; volumes of encyclopaedias, stories by America’s best fiction writers. We said above that this library is Mr. Strout’s fad, but we must all admit that it is a mighty good fad. Who can estimate the value of the influence of this library on the youth of Washington in the past twen- ty-five years! : Under judicious restrictions persons not members of the Assembly Presbyterian Church or its Sabbath school can avail themselves of the treasured wealth of this library. 00 Burning Bank of England Notes. From Chamber's Journal. With the Bank of England, the destruc- tion of its notes takes piace about once a week, and at 7 p.m. it used to be done in | the daytime, but made such a smell that the neighboring stockbrokers petitioned the gov- ernors to do it in the evening. ‘Ihe notes are previously canceled by punching a hole through the amount (in figures) and tearing off the signature of the chief cashier. ‘The notes are burned in a closed furnace, and the only agency employed is shavings and bundles of wood. ‘hey used to be burned in a cage, the result of which was that once a week the city was darkened with burned fragments of notes. for future purposes of reference, the notes are left for five years before being burned. The number of notes coming into the Bank of England every day is about 30,000, und 350,000 are destroyed every week, or some- | thing like 18,000,000 every year. The k of paid notes for hve years 1s about 77,745,000 in number, and they fill 13,400 boxes, which, if placed side by side, would reach two and one-third miles. if the notes were placed in a pile they would reach to a height of five and two-thirds miles; or, if joined end to end, would form a ribbon 12,455 miles long. A Ba From the Northwestern Magazine. A leading dressmaker of West Superior, Wis., called at the office of the Evening ‘Telegram and told the bookkeeper that she wanted to rent a furnished room with steam heat and bath. She added that she was occupied during the day, and asked to have a suitable “want” prepared and inserted in the paper. That evening the following announcement appeared:“Wanted —A furnished room by a lady occupied through the day with steam heat and batn. Address Mrs. X.” It is not recorded whether | the bookkeeper left town that afternoon by | private conveyance or waited for the next } train, OES OT tae | Horses Burned in a Livery Stable Fire | Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. | PETERSBURG, Va., Dec. 30.—Fire this | morning in the stables of Blaney & Dona- | hue, destroyed the building. Twelve horses | perished. Two men were injured, one of i them by jumping from 4 window. The Slow Progress of the Revolution at Rio. A NAVAL OFFICER'S LETTER. The Effect of the Firing Upon the People of the City. —_-—_—__ STORIES OF THE REVOLUTION. The following interesting account of the Brazilian revolution is taken from a private letter of a naval officer on duty at Rio Ja- neiro, under date of November 25: On All Souls’ day (November 2) the streets were filled with a great concourse of People bound for the cemeteries. This is the great day for decorating graves in this country. Artificial as well as natural flow- ers are used for this purpose, and some of the former are very beautiful and some very curious. They make them of many different materials, bisque being the pretti- est and most expensive. But they make them also of tin, wire, beads, &c., and these are the ones used principally by the lower or poorer classes. It is hard to realize,with- out seeing them, how flowers of such ma- terial could look well, but many of them are really beautiful, and certainly show wonderful workmanship. The shop windows were filled with these wares for a week pre- vious. This fashion of so decorating graves has been a custom here for a great many years, and, like a number of other Brazilian is borrowed from the French. The weather is bright and delightful, al- though much too warm for comfort. While you at home are gradually increasing your garments we down here are making ours as light as possible. The Magazine Explosion. On the night of November 3 there trans- pired an event of the greatest importance, no less than the explosion of a magazine, which, report has it, belonged to the gov- ernment, and was blown up by it in order to prevent the powder from falling into Mello's hands. I since learned, though, from @ fairly good source that the maga- zine was already in the possession of Mello, and the explosion was probably the result of carelessness, althougn the government, I understand, claims it for a heroic exploit for their side. The sad part of the acci- dent was the killing of three English naval officers and one man and the wounding of eleven men. They were on the island where the magazine was situated at the time of the explosion getting sand. It seems that loose powder was strewn around the island, and in all probability a lighted match or a discarded cigar was the cause of the de- lorable calamity. Some Brazilian officers also, unhappily, met their death in the same way. The Effect in Rio. Some of the scenes in the town when the great noise was heard were really ludri- crous. The concussion was so great ‘that, although over three miles distant, quanti- ties of window glass was broken, and it was very evident from the behavior of the peo- ple that they thought Mello had at last fulfilled his promise of long standing to bombard the city. They rushed out of houses and cafes, yelling and gesticulating and running in all directions. 1 saw a gen- tleman and some ladies just coming out of a theater. The gentleman, in great excite- ment, tumbled the ladies into a carriage, jumped in himself and away they drove at a furious rate. No one was hurt, of course, but the excitement among these excitable people was intense. They are always in fear of the threatened bombardment, how- ever, and so perhaps the commotion was but natural. The stores of munitions of war were very large at this magazine, and will be a serious loss to Mello. Lively Bombardment. On the afternoon of November 5 there was a right lively bombardment of Fort Ville- gagnon by the loyal forts, and some ex- cellent shots were made. The government has put up a heavy gun at San Joao, which hits Villegagnon three times out of four. ‘The barracks on the little island on which Villegagnon is situated have been demolish- ed, so that the men must live inside of the fort, which, in the approaching hot weather, will be terrible suffering. Mello Called Down by the Germa There is a funny story going the rounds concerning Mello and one of the German officers from a German man-of-war. Mello’s people took a small boat filled with provi- sions, belonging to a German firm on shore. As soon as the fact was reported to the German commander, an officer immediately went over to see Mello, and as the story goes, took out his watch and said to Mello, “I gif you five minutes to gif back de dings.” Mello thought a while and when three minutes of the five were up, the Ger- man officer told him he had better hurry up, as there were only two minutes left. inside of that time Mello decided to give up the provisions! Such is the force of argument backed by guns. Mello’s excuse, it is said, was that he could not control his men on the other ships; the provisions were taken by the crew of one of his transports. He was told then that, if that were the case, they would be controlled for him, if they interfered with provisions belonging to for- eigners. Another man-of-war arrived on the 7th— a Dutch ship—making fifteen in the foreign fleet at that date. senior of the foreign feet and. all the con- sultations take place on the Ktna, the Italian flagship. How Mello’s Torpedo Boat Was Sunk. On the 8th Santa Cruz fired a few random shots at the Aquidaban, tying down the bay, and was lucky enough to hit both the Aquidaban and a torpedo boat alongsite of her. The torpedo boat began to jill and tilted forward, her stern and about haif her length being out of water. In about ten minutes she stood straight up on end, stern in midair, and down she went. This is another big loss to Mello. He suffered still another loss on the Uth: one of pis torpedo experts. it seems that the steamer on which the officer was traveling was signaled to stop immediately, and they then. sent over and took off the officer and over to the fort under arrest. Mello’s neglect to do anything to keep his officer from being tak- em to the fort is inexplicable, as he must, of course, have known that he was on that steamer. 1 am told that they sent over to the fort from the British fleet to know why @ passenger had been seized from off a British steamer. Of their reply 1 have heard nothing, but they did not get the man. Now one of the English men-of-war convoys British steamers out past the forts. In the last day or two there has been more or less firing, principally with small arms, between Villegagnon and the shore, Kio side. In consequence of this much uneasi- ness is felt on shore, so that many shops were closed, or ready to close. On the 14th of November the foreign fleet was increased by an Austrian ship, making eighteen in all. On the morning of the 18th a lively bom= bardment of Villegagnon began, and is still going on. The big gun on Fort San Joao fired on the Aquidaban. This ship aiso fired some of her smaller guns, something she has not done for some time. The president, at a reception he held the 15th in honor of the anniversary of the republic, said that the revolution would soon come to an end, as the government had nearly finished its work looking to that result. The health of Rio is excellent, its death rate being now much lower than that of New York city. On the 224 the monitor Javary suddenly keeled over and disappeared. She had been fixing her heavy guns and had been fired upon. Whether she struck a torpedo or was hit by a shell is not known. She was being towed by three tugs and it may be that she had sprung a leak and they were taking her to shoal water. At any rate she is out of the way and is a heavy loss to Mello, although she was a forlorn old hulk without machinery, but her battery was a great assistance to him. He, Mello, has added a new ship to his fleet, the Almi- rante Tamandare. She was built here and was without machifery when the revolt broke out. One engine was hurriedly put into her and she is now commissioned and ready for service. She has a good battery, but can make only about five knots. It is not thought that any lives were Jost on the Javary, as every one was prob- ably on deck, there being no necessity for any one below. The newspapers say that the Javary was sunk by a shell from Joao and that one man was hurt and five drowned. The Sirlus sailed for New York today. The italian admiral is | was ever treated by them. A Known Quantity. It is the practice of The Star to print on Saturday a sworn statement of its circulation day by day for the preceding week. It would seem self- evident that the advertiser is entitled to this protection, but The Star is alone in this custom es far as Wash- ington is concerned. Below will be found the statement for the week just past. The average circulation exhibited is believed to be nearly, if not quite, double the combined circulation of the other Washington dailies, and fully five times that of its afternoon contemporary, CIRCULATION OF THE “EVENING STAR” SATURDAY, Dec. 98, 1 MONDAY, Dec. 25, 1898... TUESDAY, Dec. 26, 1898. WEDNESDAY, Dec. 27, 1898. THURSDAY, Dec. 28, 1393. FRIDAY, Dec. 29, 1898, -38,817 Total... Daily average. seve 84,102 1 solemnly swear that the above statement rep- resent? only the number of copies of Tuz EvEN- ING Star circulated during the six secular days end- ing Friday, December 29, 1898--that is, the num- berof copies actually sold, delivered, furnished ormailed, for valuable consideration, to bona fide purchasers or subscribers, and that none of the copies 80 counted were returned to or remain in the office unsold. J. WHIT. HERRON, Cashier Evening Star Newspaper Co. Subscribed and sworn to before me this thirtieth day of Devember, A. D. 1398. A. B. KELLY, Notary Public, D. c. _—— | Sa = STAR READERS AND THE POOR. |Let All Subscribe Something, No Mat- ter How Little. Subscribers of The Star who desire to take part in the general movement to re- Meve destitution in the city can send their contributions to the general committee through the collectors of The Star when they call to make their monthly collections. it is desired that all who can shall make a contribution every month for three months. Let every one give something if it is only a dime. The contribution should be placed jin an envelope with the accompanying coupon, properly filled, and handed to The Star's collector, ‘Those who desire to do so may send the envelopes directly to ‘the Star ottice instead of waiting for the collector. COUPON. THE STAR SUBSCRIBERS’ FUND. Cut out this coupon, fillup the blanks and place it to-) gether with the amount of your monthly subscription in an envelope te be handed to The Evening Star col- lector when he calls. NAME. RESIDENCE. AMOUNT TO BE GIVEN EACH MONTH FOR THREE MONTHS, g FA FOR THE REUEF OF THE MISS POLLARD’S TRIP. Her Visit to Cinct ti is, It is Said, to Secure Evidence. A press dispatch from Cincinnati says: Miss Madeline Pollard and her brother are still in the city, and it is Ikely their visit will be extended a few days. She is here, it is said, to. secure evidence in her suit against Congressman Breckinridge, and it is evident that she is meeting with much difficulty in obtaining the desired informa- tion. While here she will call on three persons and endeavor to obtain testimony which wiil be invaluable in the proscution of her case. It is understood that each of these persons has disclaimed all knowledge of the facts which the plaintiff claims, and have thus far refused to say that Miss Pollard One of the per- sons referred to is now the wife of a well- known attorney, but before her marriage was a practicing physician. Should she de- cline to go to Washington as a witness her deposition will be taken in this city. A visit to the Notre Dame Convent at Reading today elicited the fact that she had not up to that time called at that institution. The sisters deny that any of Miss Pollard’s children were born there and further say that she was about to be dismissed from the convent when she left. This was in 1883. Miss Pollard was then nineteen years old. Regarding the alleged compromise, Attor- ney Obermeyer said that he did not think there would be one. —> +2 —____—. STARTED TOO QUICK. A Kansas City Swell’s Buggy Ride With His Best Girl. From the Kansas City Times. She was a shapely chestnut mare from Kentucky, and the patrician blood of a long line of “Blue Grass” ancestors gurgled through her swelling veins. . When she paused before the ladies’ en- trance of the Coates House the other after- noon she was hooked to a new buggy that had just been turned out of the shop, In that buggy was a pink-cheeked, youngish- looking man, with a yellow flower in his button hole. He got out of the vehicle and fastened one end of the stout hitching strap to an iron post. The other end of the strap engirdled the arching neck of the proud Kentucky mare. The pink-cheeked man went into the hotel. There was a lonely interval of ten min- utes and then the pink-cheeked man reap- peared on the pavement. With him was a maiden in a tailor-made gown, with a huge cluster of roses at her belt. The pink- cheeked man helped the pretty woman into the carriage. The Kentucky mare never as much as turned her head. “Is this love of a horse really tame and safe?” queried the dainty maid as she set- tled in her seat. “As safe as you are charming. Just watch her step off,” replied the pink-cheek- ed man, as he jumped into the buggy and gathered up the lines. ‘The maiden smiled and her escort touched the mare’s flank with his whip, And then— the mare gave & jump and the maiden a genuine scream. The man was thrown half way over the dashboard. It took four men and ten minutes’ time to bring order out of chaos, but only five lonely seconds for the maiden to jump out of the buggy and the pink-cheeked man to intone a remark that is too strong for publication. If you ask Mickie Finnegan, who witness- ed the performance, what caused all the trouble, he will say: “Hully Gee, der guy wid de boka pinned to his ulster forgot ter untie der nag, an’ him an’ his ‘mash’ come bloomin’ near flyin’ over der dashboard. See?” ——_—__ +e —____ Charles George Walpole, ex-attorney gen- eral of the Leeward Islands, has been gazet- ted chief justice of the Bahamas. THE HIGH SCHOOL. Happenings of Interest Among the Students. MANY PLEASANT CLASS REONIONS. Projected Entertainments in the Different Schools. THE HOLIDAY PLEASURES. This has been a week of unusual gayety among High School students and ex-stu- dents. Numbers of the alumni are in town, and at the reunions held during the week have met and been associated with their old friends once more, while the present students have highly enjoyed themselves at various club meetings and social gather- ings. Monday will be the last of the holi- days and on Tuesday the schools will be opened again ready for occupancy and the students will have to settle down to hard work, a “streak” of steady work that is broken by but three more holidays before the end of the school term. The regiment will also buckle down to hard work in preparation for the grand event on February 22. It is anticipated now that a regimental drill will be ordered soon; {f so, it will be just the opportunity the captains are looking for to compere their own companies with those of the other captains. The foot ball season is practically over, but the High Schoo) intends to get another “whack” on New Year day in a coutest with C. A. C, Reserves. Centra’ The performance of “Pyramus and This- be,” which has been in earnest rehearsal for the past two weeks, will not come off until the first rhetorical, which will be held in the early part of January. The cast in- cludes H. H. Adams as Pyramus, Miss Jenny Young as Thisbe, Mr. Wall as the wall, Mr. Brandebury as the lion and Miss Ross as Moonshine. Mr. Robert W. Test will look after the prologue. This little skit from Shakespeare's “Midsummer Night's Dream” is generally presented with an en- tirely male cast, but the management has seen fit to place two young ladies in the cast, which, it is thought, will be for the better. It has been decided at the Central to have the rhetoricals on the Friday of every third week, taking place in the fifth hour, when the entire school and its friends will as- semble in the exhibition hall. These rhetor- icals are nothing more than pleasant en- ee in b bropinge) talent of the 1 is shown at its 3 “the Christmas meeting of the Senior Club of the Central was held Wednesday evening at the residence of the Misses 600 Massachusetts avenue northwest. e first part of the evening’s entertainment was de- voted to business matters of interest to the members, and Mr. Charles Robinson was elected an active and Mr. Charles Gibson an honorary member. It is usual at the meetings of this club to have some sort of a contest, in which the members have taken part, and the contest of Wednesday evening consisted in the gu the that several nameless species ae nodea! to exist. After all of the mem- bers had Saray their Heng wnt repaired to the supper room, where the club ired Mr. Paul Prince will return to school on Tuesday after a pro! —_ Nee rig of sev- 8 on accoun: tea) ‘Quatre Amis met last night at the residence of Miss Biddis. The members now are Mr. Aon Sas Ragone Ross and Mr. iss a attee Hoogelsbers er, teacher in German, has organized a German Cones: Club among the students of section B, manual training classes will take up wood turning after the holt- days. Mr. Hayes, the instructor, sta! that better results in drafting have been attained this year than in any previous year. ley of the class of '93, and wanes tous aioe the fourth year course, was —, bd the Normal School shortly the holidays. sities Mussey and her pain‘ class have recently been making splendid progress together and have several fine artistic pro- ductions as a result of their work up to date. ‘Walton now has it in mind to get See production of the famous old comedy “ine Rivals” the talent at the school. Ca Wilson, the head of the drawing department,has a werthy substitute in Miss Moritz who, on A tng occasions has dem- her ability. ay nar bees decided that a series of six entertainments will be given in the course of the remaining few months of school. It has also been given out that a course of five lectures - — be prepared especially rou es. Se oentee Friday before the holidays the Cent again showed evidence of a “ heart,” by contributing a purse of $60 an‘ about four score packages of clothing to the wants of the poor residing in the neighborhood. Miss Reynolds and Mr. Brandebury attended to the distribution he articles. he. Philalethea met last Wednesday at the residence of Miss Hurst. Everybody was unanimous in pronouncing Miss Hurst the best of hostesses, and a pleasant time was enjoyed by all. Those present were Misses Bailey, Myers, Biddis, Herriott. Diver, Lynham, Martin, Young, Ross and Shafer, and Messrs. Broom, Finckel, Prince, year. The first year Ash, Smith, Donnally, Hayes, Milis and Test. Eastern. ‘There has been considerable talk oc- casioned at the Eastern recently by the manner in which company Y, of the girls’ battalion, has been favored to a greater extent than company Z. It seems that Mr. Riordon admitted, before both com- panies, that he favored company Y, be- cause of his being acquainted with more young ladies in that organization. That, it is claimed, was an uncalled for admission to make, especially coming from the tn- structor, who was supposed to be working alike for both companies. Then again the Indian club squad was picked entirely from company Y, when company Z contained such proficient club swingers as Miss Bessie Erly, Miss Louise Bartlett and Miss Hope Hopkins. Last year it was drama, this year it is music, from the very meaning of the word. Mr. Albert Allen has recently written a comic operetta in two acts, which he ex- pects to have presented soon by members of the school. Original marches seem to be in popular favor, Mr. McKeldin and Mr. Steward hay- ing dedicated marches to company Y, and Miss Bessie Erly having written one for her own company, Z. Mr. McKeldin is now working on a march which he will call the “Eastern High School March.” It is expected that the class of ‘D4 will meet next week for the purpose of effecting an organization and electing the class offi- cers. Misses Cawlie and Rosalie Robinette ten- dered an informal social gathering Tuesday evening to a number of the Eastern High School pupils, in honor of the girls’ Indian club squad. Many games were played and charades enacted, after which refregh- ments were served. Those present were: Misses Robinette, Mary Swingle, Irene Deis, Mamie Bugbee, Pearl Smith, Bertha Gardner, Elsie Sites, Bertha and Bessie Yoder, and_ Messrs. George and James Williams, Fred Sites, Raymond R. Rior- don, Herbert and Ernest Johnson, Everett Warner, A. N. n, E. E. Herre! Robert McKeldin. — Mr. Pfeiffer now has in mind an entertain- ment to be given soon for the benefit of the chemical laboratory. Last vear the chem- ical students got up an entertainment of the same kind, but the proceeds were de- voted to the general school fund, Miss Spaulding will return to her classes on Tuesday, after an absence of two weeks among friends and relatives in Ohio. Miss Cahill has been substituting in Miss Spauid- ing’s absence. Tulloch and Kimball are home trom Princeton and Amherst, respectively. Mr. Tulloch has succeeded in being admiited to the Princeton choir, while Mr. Kimball has made an excellent record for himseif at Amherst. The Classical Chub of "94 met recentiy at the residence of Mr. Crotssant and elected the following officers: J. €. fitzpatrick, president; E. Mtz, vice president; Miss Gi ham, secretary. in addition to the above, Messrs. Hart and Spencer were appointed on an executive committee. Kecitations Were given by Messrs. Brown, foster and Hodice, after which refreshments were served. Mr. Ewing of the fourth year took @ flash-light picture of the club before dis- for the evening. ‘Those present were as follows: Misses Glover, Spencer, Olmstead, Marien, Young, Bullen, Yoder, Underwood, kts and Gardner, and Messrs. Brown, Hart, Bouton, Gilbert, Hoiges, Heady, Burnham, Pierce, wing, Croissant, Foster and Albert. Miss Pear! Diliow of Vassar and Miss Maude Cox of the New York Normai Schoo! are visiting Mr. Robert McKeidin and his mother, and during the week have become very well known in High School circies. A minstrel troupe has been formed at the Eastern by several ambitious young. gen- tlemen, and the following have already been selected: Messrs. Fisher, McKeldin, Albert, Buckingham, W. Hillyer, Fraser, toa: | wards, Miller, Burnham and Foster. ‘rhe | others will be chosen at the first meeting, | to be held early in January. } The Classical Club of ‘¥7 met Thursday | evening at the residence of Mr. Chappel, on | H street northeast, where the members | were handsomely entertained. Miss Chappel and Messrs. Chappel and Weaver furnisned | several instrumental solos. ‘hose present | were the Misses Slater, Wartes, kspey, | Gorman, Potter, Girouard,Aibritain, Hough, | Ferguson, Dodge, Herrie, Caraway, Block, Kerby, Lothrop, Syms, Seulle, Yingting, Stephenson, LaHayne, Blake, Crawford, | Gardner and Spi and Messrs, | Fraser, Roane, Hili, Miller, Gibson, Murray, Johnson, Farmer, Faust, #urgess, Kriy, Bard, Richardson, jJobson, isall, Bostron, Patterson, Hamilton, Hand, Collins, Spauia- ing, Guildford and Roberts. Mr. D. B. Street, president of the class of ‘0% of this school, was on ‘Thursday presented with a very vatuaple silver-mounted cane by the members of his class in appreciation of the efforts ne has put forth in making his class stand out as one of the most prominent of graduating classes. Rusiness. Returns for the entertainment have not been completely made as yet, but from present appearances it was @ most decided financial success. The team published in Wednesday's Star is undoubtedly the best that could be gath- ered from the high schools, but several of the players will be unable to play, and on New Year day the All-high-school team will line up as follows against the C. A. C. FINANCE AND TRADE. Dealing in Stooks Dominated by Pro- fessionalism, > DECLINE IN NEW ENGLAND. Little Recuperative Power in Val- ues. —_——_-—__ GENERAL MARKET REPORTS. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, Dec. 90.—Today’s market was u repetition of the week's dullness and professional interchanging of securities. There was no news to Influence prices and the closing up of accounts by traders pro- duced what few changes there were in stock values, The London market had improved from 1-4 to 3-4 per cent over might and foreign | houses bought Atchison amd Nashville. The improvement abroad led to some cov- ering by traders, but the market responded slowly and the movement ended with the purchase of only two or three thousand shares. Boston was a Mberal seller of Atchisom announcement of the recei former sold off 1 per cent to 91-2 and the latter lost 21-2 per cent to 98-4, Nashville advanced 11-4 per cent to 441-2 13-4 per cent to 80 1-4. The market lacks recuperative power ang invariably relapses into a decline the mo- ment the support derived from the cover- ing of shorts, is withdrawn. 1 ized by Mr. Claxton and Mr. Rich- mond of the Business School, and so far ing the affair, taking all of the ities upon themselves. A substitute team picked out for the occasion comprises: 000, The statement in detail is as follows: Re oa ~ $2,877,375; loans, in- creased, $1,319,000; specie, - ‘797,200; legals, increased, a & Sterling rates were posted at 4841-2 and 487 with no business of importance and a are the opening, today, "an" Report New of tae Kew yore nto = i 4 f Carr, Kerr and Lyman are now suffering from injuries received in recent games and could not be included on the lists. The meeting of the Senior Club was held in the early ig leg week at the resi- ce of Miss i optorts will be made next week to effect @ permanent organization among the bers of the class of ‘#4. The boys’ Glee Club has proven a wonder- ful success, and the young ladies are of the opinion that they can form a singing club fhat will be equally successful, and will work on such a — soon as the + hol feeling has worn off. Dis. & Cattle ae teens a the Canterbury-Hampton Pepecet Miererte game, had the entire upper row of front | }/Hsol Central. teeth knocked loose. » hare, The Pedestrian seems to like Soldiers’ Home from the new visits it has made in that vicinity. The “green” trip to the home recently was quite successful. Western. The entertainment at Linthicum Hall turned out to be @ grand success, something tg | ef pei Bi! al Bast i 9, Sy BE Sys F F EF ming ong like $200 being cleared. The Short Story Club, which had such a brilliant run last year, will be reorganized after the holidays for the year 184. The usual delightful program will be arranged by committees appointed for that purpose, and the same pleasant informal meetings are to be heid. General information exercises, in which topics of the day are to be discussed, will be participated in as soon as all remembrance of the holidays has wo-n off. It appears that much of the talent of the school,as at the other schools, is to be found in the first year classes, where they are rap- idly developing dramatists, novelists, poets and songsters. Mrs. Walton's Indian club class of young ladies will continue their exercises through to the end of the school year. Miss Fasset of the class of "83 has visited | a number of her old classmates during the past week. Messrs. Weeks and Williams, formerly of the Business High School, are now enrolled at the Western. ——_— IS THERE AN OPEN ARCTIC SEAt Its Existence Deemed Not Altogether Improbable. From the Portland Oregonian. That steamers can pass through the Arc- tic ocean in certain years is the opinion of | Capt. A. H. McGregor, based upon his ex- | perience in the polar regions. Capt. Mc- Gregor has seen twenty-three years’ service in the Arctic, and commands the steamer Orca, owned by the Pacific Whaling Com- pany of San Francisco. He was in this city lately, and talked entertainingly of his ex- perience. 3 “Last year,” he said, “nine of the Pacific Whaling Company’s steamers and ships reached Cape Bathhurst, the farthest point north and east ever reached by a vessel of boats, which led me to believe that no boat had reached the cape since Capt. Collinson was there in 1855. Capt. Collinson and his party visited the place in small boats when they were making a survey of the British possessions, but they were compelled to re- Tain there three years before they could return. “We could have made the trip from the Pacific to the Atiantic iast year if we had so desired, but our business was whaling, not exploring. We found what is called the breaking ground of the whales, which les between Cape Bathburst and the McKenzie river. We left four vessels, the Norwalk, Balaeva, Grampus and Newport, to winter there, while the others finished the season on the Siberian coast. Those that wintered in the Arctic have been whaling all sum- mer, but we have had no report from them, and do not know if the ocean is open again this year. Natives at the cape whom I questioned told me that the ocean was fair- ly open three years out of four, and that there was @ great big sea one year in five. Last year was what they termed ‘great big sea,’ and they said that the same conditions prevailed in 18. A large vessel could not | pass through u fairly open sea, so the chances of reaching Greenland through the Arctic sea are one in five. From this I am inclined to believe that Collinson entered the ocean when it was ‘open. ———_+e+~ | scholar the maharajah is thought ah Bay # Sy3r 53 Bebe iB «pet iE ee: BALTIMORE, Dec. 30.—Fiour 41 changed—receipts, 22,847 barrels; barrels. Wheat firmer—No. 2 Gtyabsy: 64 Sati; May, red, 6l'gatt. 1,296,358 bushels; sales, 70, ing wheat by sample, —mixed, spot, 41 bid February, 414a41%; May, mixed, 39 bid. ments, 4,280 bushels; els; sales, 18,000 bushels; 3ia41; southern corn ri agi i Hg F j i | i i ; "g 3 Hf i 5 927 unchanged. Coffee 19g; No. 7, 18yal8\. Other BALTIMORE, Dec. 30.—Virginia 70% bid; Bal timore and Ohio Southwestern comes, 27 asked; Consolidated 1150116; do. stocks, S#4a54\. anemones Chicage Grain and Prevides Reported by Silsby & Co., brokers, Metropolitan Bank om py fl } i CHICAGO, Dec. 30, 1852 Dec. any kind. We had been whaling in Bering sea, and having finished what is termed the outside catch In July, we started for the lay Arctic to finish the season. We passed oa. along the east shore, rounded Point Barrow, | pork—Yad. x and then made the journey to the cape, ia? ‘ which 1s near the McKenale river. We cast| “Gah ¢ ; 4 “ anchor and whaled there the rest of the sea-| 8.Ribe—Jam, § FY son, The natives were somewhat surprised Mey LS at our appearance, but as they had seen pa ME pe FE; white men “eecginroey s00n overcame what- Range of the Thermometer. ever fear they might have felt and became towing were the readings ter Nery friendly. They did not differ in the Bane ben Ey eng least from other Esquimaux. We sounded | 900 a ry the ocean near the Mckenzie, and found | 9%; 2p.m., 36;maximam, 36; minimum, that a boat drawing more than four a ——- — water could not approach wil Fighting for Lite. miles of the river. The land on both side8| sresers T. C. ‘Taylor, EB. M. ‘Was mountainous ahd covered with snow. id roe “The oldest native told us that it was |S. Smith and T. C. Jones, the many winters since white men came in| the two colored boys, George Edward Norris, convicted Peter H. Young, death on Friday, selves as confident will commute the sentence for life. This confidence is port made by the case, which is said ment of facts. Mr. Young was money in January, 1 the tried in June last with Wm. Gan acquitted), and on con Hardy were January 12. The pd = ape, mission of con’ instant the judgment was affirmed. — — A Noted Maharajah. ‘The Maharajah of Patiala, king Sikhs, has promised to it England season. He is a man, two years of age, skinned, black mustache end scanty beard. e ’ § i | deal of, and, far more important yes of an Englishman, plucklest sportsmen in India, which ing a good desl. * Z The General Relief Fund. He ts a very geek conse-commey iter and ‘The Evening Star has received the fol-| has wot Sumoons, Of over bets himscit, lowing contributions for the general relief) . 14° his winnings are distributed among fund: those who are employed in and about his stables. aga acknowledged. tle that tell. If you is the little things e ye OW antec waleve it, ask the big sisters whe “| have small brothers.—Philadelphia Record, ‘The breath of suspicion is generally scented with cloves.—Puck.