Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1895, Page 11

— — es EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1895—SIXTEEN PAGES. id DPOPOOP PO PDD Pree Sete tostontontontontoosteneerieetontonten sonore eee ae eaten EH DCANDARD BOOK STORE, Oil4 Ninth Street. THE BEGINNING OF THE FIGHT Which we have determined to make tor the supremacy in the holiday book trade is on. offerings for next week are but the first guns of the campaign which we intend to wage against high prices on books. We have every hope of attaining our desire, There's three foundations for our calculations: ~ 1. We have the biggest Book Store in the city of Washington. 2. We have every book which the. public demands. 3- Our prices are just one-half what other book men have. For thia price we offer two complete and very handsome lines—the Avon and Aldine «ditions, both catalogued at Mc. Une {8 bound in iml- tation of alligator leather, with elaborate ¢llt front; the other, with most artistic backs, with beautiful, graceful patterns, half cover- ing, the corners being finished with fancy stampigg. AVERIL, by Rose Carey ADAM BEDE, by Elict. DE, jeorge BAD BOY ABROAD, by Walter Gray. Ned Buntline. MPLE, by Mrs. Rowson. FOUL PLAY, by Chai GUILTY RIVER, by SHB, by Rider "Hay THE DYNAMITER, REY R . by g XGUE'S LIFE, by ‘Wilkte Collins, TWO ORPHASS, ‘by De Ennory. JET, by A.B KNIGHT ERRANT, by Lyal!. WAVERLY, by Sir’ Walter Scot AT THE WORLD'S MERC RUFFINO, by Outd A CROWN OF SHAME, by Marryatt. PLACK BEAUTY, by A. B. Edwards. UNDER CURRENTS, by The Duchess. FSSAYS OF ELIA, by Beckford. VATHEK, by Beckfc EVIL GENT ¢ Collins. PRIVATEER Capt. Marryatt. OLD MAM’ RET. by Marlott. Everything for the Holidays. Edwards (author uf Black Beauty). tt. Y, py Florence Warder. THE STANDA SPECIALS. For December. For December. George Eliot’s Works, 69c. 6 vols. | Waverly Novels, $3.48. Fine edition (complete), vols. Lourdes, catalogued at $1.25, 50c. Eile Zc At Market Value, cata- logued at $1.25, 50c. Grant Allen. The Gates of Dawn, catalogued at $1.25, 5o0c. Fergus Hame. Rachael Dene, catalogued at $1.25, 50c. Buchanan, THA SCICKIT MINISTER (Crockett), A PAIR ), BONDSMAN CHANGE OF A (Ho; (Caine), linen back covers, catalogued at $1.00. 25C. RD 314 NINTH STREET. i BOOK Booklets and Gift Books. aetorieetontontectot Our — Zoe, Ladies’ Home Journal, gc., THE OXFORD EDITION. ‘This line has proven to be the hest seller in the entire store. All the newest authors are included, and the entire appearance of the ublication ig that of a one-dollar work. bound In satin cloth, gilt top and fror plain colors, ‘The paper and print excellent. . Some of the 150 Titles. WHITE COMPANY, by Conan Doyle. LORNA DOONE, by Blackmore. DEBY y Hall Caine. TRAGEDY, by Clark Russell. E, By Gaboriau. by Conan Doyle. WO WORLDS, by Corelll. ¢ 8’ RISTMAS STORIES. ARABIAN NIGHTS. FILE 113, by Gaborlau. FREDERICK THE GREAT AND HIS COURT, by Mulbach. DON QUIXOTR, ROBINSON CRUSQE. ROB ROY, by Sir Waltez Scott. SCOTTISH CHIEFS, by Porter. SKETCH. BOOK, ini AIR, bs ‘ END FOR CATALOGUEY STORE, MPO SEO OPIOOS RON MARCHE, 814 and 316 7th st. Coat and Millinery Sale! . Our Great Millinery SALE. ‘Thousands and thousands have avatled themselves of our gigantic Millinery sale, which began Monlay. No end to the stock or to the assortment, for we took the im- , Mense stcck of one of the largest Millinery # {mporters in America and are offering It at 3 1-3c. on the dollar. The a ieeioees oee of ate ee and kinds, Mercury Wings, Paradise rettes, \ Conus Feathers, bunches of Quilis, Fancy Feathers, Steel, Rhinestone and Jet orna- lish "Felt Hats, Chenille Hats, Rose Bunches, Millinery Hibbon and Sk ‘Trimming Velvets. We have divided them into los and spread them over tho first to help your seeing and picking without crowding. * Lot of Feathers, &c., 5c. Lot cf Feathers, &c., 11¢. Lot of Feathers, &c , 19¢. Lot of Feathers, &c., 29c. Ornaments worth up to 40c. for 19¢. Ornaments worth up to 750. for 29e. Ornaments worth up to Sc. for 4c. ents worth up to $1.25 for 3 Die. Jetted Ostcich Tips for 4c, Oe. Ostrich Shoct Plumes for 27c. 45. to 51.25 Felt Hats, 16c. ‘This was the blgzest purchase of Felt Hats ever consummat! any one firm in Washington. The: to $1.25 Felt Hats at 16c. each. $1.48 and $1.98 Felt Hats for 9c. each. $2 ard $3 Chenille Hats, Sie. each. of Roses, 27c. ‘all colors, 29¢. yard. 39e. All-slk 5-fo. Rfbbons, 2ic. yard. a 69 and 75¢. Felt Hats, 27c. Speclil lot of Black Felt Hats, Short ors, medium and small shapes, In large variety. Worth 2)-7C 43, U9 and T5e. Cholce........ e *1 Gloves, 86c. the day we will fit at our risk our of Fine 4-button English Walking Doz-k'n Gloves, pique sewed, feddisi' tag” shades" tomorrow 86c. for =a Ladies’ $13 Suits,$3 These are a little “off-style,’’ but rou Will forget It when you consider the price. ‘Think of All-wool Serg> Suits, in navy blue Inst for $1 grads and black, that were $15 § acd will Icok as well as ide a coat to cows? PZ-0O Those 5 lots of Ladies’ Coats! We have run through the stock and added largely to each and every one of those 5 big special lots of Ladivs’ Coats, comprising the most fashionable biggest-sleeved, rough- est cloth styles introduced this season. $5 Coats for $3.93. Tadies’ Black Cheviot “*Box"' Coats, vel- vet collar, manson Pate $3.93 $6.48, $6.98 and $7.50 COATS, *5.83. Smooth and Rough Coats of Beaver, Che stylish 2-button “box” ef: fee e sleeves half cined, with and without velvet collar. With thfs lot we shall add a number of stylish Smooth and Rough Cloth Military Capes ‘These Coats and Capes “have” been selling at $6.48, $6.98 and $7.50, $s 8 Choice”. ae? $9.98, $10.48 and $10.98 COATS, *9.13.° Smooth and Rough Cloths Rox-coat Reef- ers. Perfect in Without velvet c $12, $12.50, Siz and $13.50 COATS, 11.63. cles and Smooth Ker- Mish 2 audé effects, in’ Diack, “navy, blue and brown. Are positively the most stylish coats and the greatest values over ol at thelr regular prices of $12. $12.50, $13 Sy] [] 6 and $13.50. Choice ° 2 S15, $16.50, $17.50 and $18. COATS, *14:59. This lot comprises the ~ Pall cholcest Coats, in, Astrakha Roagh Cheviots, Di eabon's Kerseys, made” in stylish reefer effects and our sive” sles, which are cut high arsuad neck and button diagonally across the ty with two immense but- tons. ‘These are cheap at § 3 ele regular pric les 14-59 Per IOk.off —. Children’s and Misses’ Coats and Cloaks!. Just for one day—Saturday—we will al- low a 19 per cent discount om the marked price of every Child's and Misses’ Rough Coat and Long Cloak in stock! BON MARCHE, Double Stores, 314 & 316 7th DICKENS’ Whe Children and Grandchildren of the Novelist. From the Chicago Times-Herald. + Of Charles Dickens’ family there are liv- {mg today Charles, a namesake of his father, Henry, the second son, and the un- married daughter, Mamie Dickens. Miss Dickens, now a lady of some forty years, writes pleasantly and entertainingly, many ‘ot her contributions having been published fm America. She lives in a pretty suburb near London. | Charles Dickens, the eldest son, 1s a true resembling bis father in feature n of mind, but so far he has not self famous by inheritel] genius. Dickens also has an interesting r or more sturdy generation of oys_and girls does not exist any London than Henry Fieldin lidren. Their graceful mother daughter of Antoine Roche, a of note In his day, who, because ‘uistic talents, figured as the tutor eof England's most prominent no- Young Lord Lorne, then the future aw of Queen Victoria, as well as ‘Kers’ the lother ;cung notables of his time, came un- der 2 ntoine Roche's especial tutelage. Dickens resembles her father. She ht and willowy, with a long patrician d has a quiet, reposeful expression, ed by her large, dreamy brown herself is a fine lingulst, of lit- musical tastes, and daily superin- iidren in their stud! — 0 ' A Horse on Him. From the Detroit Free Press. | “It will be lonely witaout the noble quad- ruped iLut has been so long a part of the ,beman family,” he sald, as he wiped away tear of retrospection. Yes," snswered his wife; “but you must * Wemen.ber that the nightmare will be with ws always.” HISTORIC TOBACCO SIGN. Once the Memorial of 2 Great City for the Father of His Country. New York Correspondence Pittsburg Dispateh. In frent ef a Harlem cigar store, answer- ing the same purpose as the old-time Indian, stands a hercic statue of George Washing- ton. It ls a wooden counterfeit of the father of his country, and it has @ Dlstory. ‘This self-same statue was unveiled In Battery Park in 1792 by the patriotic citizens of the young metropolis in commemoration of the good services George rendered his country. For many years it marked the spot where Washington landed, and was looked upon as the best piece of statvary of the day. In the early forties an aesthetle city father made up his mind that the wooden image was not high art, and induced the board of aldermen to order its removal It was sold at public auction and knocked down to a relic hunter for $300, Soon afterward the purchaser of the wood- en Washington was gathered to his fathers. Since then George's image has had a pretty rough time of it, changing hands many times until being secured by its présent owner for a tobacco sign. The statue has stood both storms and handling remarkably well. Barring a crack in George's chest, he’s as robust as ever. His continental uni- form looks like the streets of NewYork be- fore the advent of the reform administra- tion Putty, paint and patriotism alone are needed to make George presentable. As the last named seems to be a trifle scarce here, the chances are that the statue will.continue to be classed among the disreputable for some time to come. see, A Sure Test. From the Woonsocket Reporter. The soulful girl—‘What {is the true test of poetry?” Poet—“Well, if one can get a:poem ac- cepted that is written on both sides of the paper he may rest assured that ‘it is a good thing.” ‘THE ORIGINAL CAMILLE. How Dumas Immortalized Marie Dup- lensis. On one of his “assignments” while re- porter on a Paris paper, Dumas met a wo- man of the half-world known as Marie Dup- lessis. He became interested in the poor creature and decided to !mmortalize her in a book. He went to St. Germain, hired a little room in one of the inns, for which he poe twenty sous a day. In three weeks he had finished the novel, “La Dame aux Ca- melias," which has made his name undying. That was in 1848; his triumph was im- mediate, and it was a triumph which no other book that he wrote hrought him. The real name of Marie Duplessis was Al- Phonsine Plessis. She was the daughter of a small farmer in Normandy, but she was as remarkable for her grace, the elegance of her manners and her taste in dress, as for her beauty. Dumas himself thus describes her: “She was tall, very slender, her hair black, her complexion pink and white. She had a small head, long, almond-shaped eyes, lke those of a Japanese, but expressive and sparkling, lps like cherries, and the most beautiful teeth in the world. She was ex- actly like a statuette in Dresden china. When I first saw her, in 1844, she was in the full bloom of her beauty. She died in 1847.of consumption, at the age of twenty-three.” A portrait taken of her just before she died, and the only likeness of her which is kKrown to exist, became the possession of Alexandre Dumas, and hangs in his hed chamber side by side with a crayon draw- ing which represents his mother. A Frenchman who was acquainted with Marie Duplessis during the later. years of her life described her as one of the most poetic-looking, as well as one of the loveliest Women he had ever beheld. She wore her hair in long ringlets, a style even then out of fashion, but which suited admirably her slender, drooping throat and the attenuated character of the features that the long curls shaded. Her countenance was oval, her eye- lashes long and silken, her eyebrows dell- cately arched, her hands and feet of ex- quisite beauty, her nose finely and artistic- ally shaped. She never used either paint or powder, relying wholly on the pearly trans- parency and the wild rose tints of her natural complexion. Her title of ‘The Ca- mellia Lady’* was bestowed upon her be- cause of her dislik to the perfume of scented blossoms, so that she wore only camellias, and never carried a bouquet of any other flowers. She always cherished a dream of departing from Paris and taking up her abode in some southern land, where the climate would suit her delicate lungs, and where she might lead a peaceful and se- eluded existence. But she died before she carricd this project into execution. Such wes the first love of -Alexand=e De- mas and the heroine of his play “@==ile.” —— MAKING MUMMIES. Result of a Grewsome Experiment by an Alabama Undertaker. From the Chicago Chronicle. The hobby of a Birmingham undertaker has proved that the human body can be pre- served for an indefinite period without tn- fraction of sanitary laws or offense to the senses. He has on exhibition in his estab- lishment the corpses, or rather mummies, of Lee Harris and Abe Mitchell (colored), who were hanged in Birmingham June 7 for mur- der. The body of Bill Scroggins, a white murderer, who was hanged in this city in Bebruary, 184, and reduced to the mummy state by Mr. Miller, is now one of the curlos!- ties at the Atlanta exposition, after having made the circuit of the southern states. Mr. Miller bought the bodies a short time before their execution for a nominal price and got them to will their corpses to him. Five or ten dollars and a lot of cigars and eatables during the week before hanging was the price paid. The treatment by which they were reduced to the mummy state Is very simple, and can be successfully applied by any undertaker who understands em- bahning. An opening is made into one of the large veins at the neck or on the arm or leg and a gallon of the embalming fluid in use by all undertakers is inserted. he fluid permeates all the veins and arteries, and dries out the body by chemical process, Three gullons, all told, are inserted in this manner, at intervals during the first three Weeks after death, and the body Is then left in a dry place and time does the rest. The bodies of Harris and Mitchell are now almost a dead.black. The flesh has dried up, but the skin is impact and preserves the original contour of their bodies in an elon- gated state, of course, nevertheless suffi- Giently distinct for identification by those who knew them in life. The only perceptible odor is a Kind of bacon smeil. This is caused by the oil which exudes from the bodies, and is caught in a pan placed beneath them. This oil is the last thing to disappear before the skin leaves the body and the skeleton alone remain: so WOULD NOT TEMPT FATE. Prisoner Objects to Having Her Case Tried on Friday. From the Chicago Intes-Ocean. Minnie Lane was arraigned before Justice Underwcod at the armory recently on a charge of disorderly conduct. She asked for a few days’ continuance, saying she was not prepared for trial. “Very well,” said Justice Underwood, “I make it next Friday.” i explained Minnte, “Friday is y day and I am sure you would fine me. “Are you sure I wouldn't fine you on any other day?” asked Justice Underwood. “You might not, judge.” “Vezy well, we'll make it Saturday.” And the prisoner left the dock happy. +00 Ex-President Benjamin Harrison left New York yesterday afternoon for Indlanapolis. He took the Washington express over the B. and O. at 1:30 p.m. | Speaking of A STORY OF SASSOUN Scenes of the Massacre Described by Returned Missfonaries. WHAT THE TWO BLY SISTERS SAW The Outrage, It is’ Eharged, Was Planned by the Porte. ALMOST INCREDIBLE CRUELTY BUFFALO, N. ¥., November 29.~-Misses Charlotte BE. Ely and Mary A. C. Ely have just returned home after a long period of missionary labor in eastern Turkey under the direction vf the American board of commissioners for foreign missions. Their absence has covered a spate of twenty-seven years, and so soon as affairs in the disturbed districts have quieted down-they will return to Turkey, The Misses Ely were stationed at Bitlis, about fifty-five miles from Moosh, where the most horrible of the atro¢ities occurred. At Bitlis there was no wholesale murder- ing, but many prominent Armenian mer- chants were thrown anto prison on false accusations, and sopfe less illustrous vic- tims never saw the light’ot day again after they had once entered the prison walle— they were secretly made away with. The vali or provincial governor of Bitlis at that time was Tahsin Pasha, who is known among the missionaries as ‘‘The Fiend.” He it was made the threat that he would sow the place where the city of Bitlis once was with grain. According to the Misses Ely, the Ar- menians were imprisoned because they would not sign a paper saying that the English consul and the American mission- arles had incited the Armenians to rebel. the Sassoun massacre, a large part of which occurred near Mooshy Miss Mary Ely said: “The massacre was undoubtedly planned by the porte. The im- mediate provocation came about ag follows: The Kurds were in the habit of raiding ‘the flocks of the Armenians. The Ar- meniana, Impoverished by repeated acts of robbery, banded together for the purpose of recovering their flocks from the Kurds. “When the two parties met, of course there was fighting. Two Moslems were kiiled and several Christians. Then the Kurds mutilated the bodies of their slain countrymen. After that, the corpses were carried to the headquarters of the nro- vincial government at Bitlis and shown to Tahsin. ‘See what the Christians are doing to us,’ they exclaimed to the vali.” Miss Ely said that after the first col- lision a_series of retaliatory conflicts took place. That was a year ago last August. Soon afterward Tahsin Pasha went in per- scn to Galigosean and orderel the mas- sacre of the Armenian Christians. -He wore, suspended by a cord around his neck, an imperial edict from the porte command- ing him to “chastis2” the Christians. This was read, to the Ttrkish soldiers, who had been massed at that place from ali that Part of Asia Minor, x An Awful Scene. “Before the reading wes completed,” con- tirued Miss Ely, “‘as {f‘ainatle to delay the Glabolical deed, Tahsin Pasha gave the order to ‘smite’ the Christians. Then fol- lowed a scene almost tgo awful to describe. So terrible was the crders given by the officers that some of the better ones among the common’ soldiers beggéA that they he fot compelled to carry. them out. Others actually refused to execute.such barbarous commands, and were told that if they did not obey orders they ‘woul! be shot to pieces from the canncrs mouth, : “Some of the go2d:soldlers, however, pro- tected Armenian chUdgen, hiding them in flelds of grain and, among the rocks in the mountains.” The returned missiondriés ‘say that it was hard to pick'spevific instahces out of sich an infetno of ctuelty, following: ‘The ~ sof dren ‘up into the' até anf’@atéh them on their bayonets wher they came down. At other times, they’ would “stand a number of children in a fow, each Turk would take a chili by the hair, and then they would see waich cne could cut off his victim's head the quickest. When Tahsin Pasha started out on hts missign’ of butchery he took along with him @ large quantity of kerosene oil, ‘for the purpose of remov- ing by fire all vestige of the dreadful work witich he contemplated. This oil was af- terward vsed to saturate the clothing of living beings, and then tha match would be applied. His Face Burned Away. At thia point Miss Charlotte “ly remark- ed: “I saw one koy with tho whole side of his face burned away. Ho told me that he had been attacked by the Turks, and then thrown on a heap of coal, heing left for dead.” Miss Fig 23 asked about the treatment | 9¢ saecnian women by the soldiers, “The tion of women and girls by the Turks 3 one of the commpnest-and one of the worst features of the whole aorrible af- fair. In one instance scores of them were shut up in a church and kepi there all night by the soldiers. In the morning they were all murdered. One witness told me that he saw the blood flow over the thresh- old of the building. pines PANIC AT A CHURCH FAIR. A Helpless Cripple Among Those Badly Injured. WOOSTER, Ohio, November 2.—During the progress of a church fair here last night aa immense crowd was packed into the city armory, where a lamp in one of the booths exploded, setting fire to the draperies and Miss Myrtle Elser, an at- tenéant, and a rush for the single exit fol- lowed, in which dozers of women and chil- dien were trampled. Fully 100 persons jumped or were thrown from windows, many teing badly cut by glass. Mrs. Carey McKee of Jefferson was thrown through a window, sustaining in- juries which will likely prove fatal. Jennie Putnam, 4@ ten-year-old cripple, could not help herself, and received internal injuries which will cause her death. Mrs. Milford Snyder and Mrs. Sharp were trampled by the crowd. Many Others were more or less injured. —— MINNESOTA’S CANDIDATE. Senator Davis’ Name Will Be Pressed as Long, as He Husa Chance. CHICAGO, November 29.—""Minnesota has a-cantitate for Prétiaéit—Cushman “K. Davis—and will push his claims in the con- vention just as long as he has any possible show of getting the nomiaatien.” Unitcd States Senatof Kriute Nelson of St. Paul, en route to Washington, made this declaration’ last evening, ang while on that subject said: “But there,is Ae telling what the convention will do. «All ‘the candidates, McKinley, Reed, Morton and Allison, are streng men. If we have'to le? Senator Davis out of the race, then I think Minnesota's delegation wi". be about evenly divided be- tween McKinley and Ree@. xi “I do not sec whereip,Coapgress can do anything, particularly in the way of legisia- tion, to influence the agtion,of the party next year in its election of a candidate for President. The issues have already been made. I hardly imaging.we will be able to do a great deal of special legislation this winter. While the lower house is republl- can, the democrats and populists have the balance of power in the Senate, and, of course, the executive branch 13 with them. However, something will be done with the financial question, and whatever ts done I am inclined to think will be In the nature of a compromise. An effort will also be made tc so rearrange the tariff laws as to stop the tremendous !mportations, give our own industries a chance, and at the same time create a revenue sufficient to run the government.” a Lynched the Wrong Men. SAN FRANCISCO, November 29.—A local paper prints a letter from Arizona, signed John Doe, in which the writer says he committed the murder for which Garland, Stemler and Louis Moreno were lynched by @ mob at Yreka, Cal, last August. Two other men were lynched at the same time. DISSENSIONS OVER SILVER. ‘The Democratic Party in North Caro- lina Split Wide Open. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. RALEIGH, N. C., November 29.—There has been a stir among the North Carolina republicans, particularly among the negroes, regarding the published assertion that the south was to be given no representation in the national convention. Some of the pa- Pers protested bitterly against what they declared was a gross injustice. Senator Pritchard took up the matter and called on the national committee for an explanation or a denial, as he was well aware that the fear of no footing in the national conven- tion was hurting the party here. Ex-Gov. Charles Foster of Ohio writes Senator Pritchard that the committee never had any intention of ignoring southern re- publicans, but says they ure entitled to all the privilegegy and he takes occasion to pay the populists a compliment by saying that republicans everywhere owe them a debt of gratitude for their aid and comfort. Now, this is construed tc mean that the national committee will again indorse fusion with the populists in this state, just as was done in 1894. Mr. Foster's letter is, In fact, an early “‘tip’’ on what is to be done. There does not appear to be the least doubt that there will again be fusion on the state ticket. Senator Marion Butler says that much; but while he does not rpeak di- rectly as to fusion on the electoral ticket, he intimates that on it there will be no di- vision. Daniel L. Russell, who is a leading republican, and who is most prominently mentioned for the fusion nomination for governor, says that in his opinion there is to be fusion on the state ticket, but that both parties will have to look carefully into the matter of fusion on the electoral ticket and decide which is the best thing to be done. So this is the situation today. The democratic party is torn all to pieces, and its members admit as much. It is the silver issue which has nominally torn the democrats to pieces. The silver and the gold democrats hate each other today, and are a3 intolerant as even the democrats and republicans were. What does it mean? Why, that North Carolina can no longer even make a pretense of being a democratic state. Here is an example: John D. Bel- lamy, who was an aspirant for the demo- cratic congressional nomination in the sixih district, said to me: “I am a silver democrat, and I say the gold democrats ought to leave the party. They have no business there.” Some gold democrats openly say they will vote for 4 gold man who fs a republican be- fore they will vote for a silver democrat. A republican in an interview makes the assertion that a party is to be formed for silver alone and thar Julian S. Carr, a prominent democrat, is to be its nominee for governor; that Senator Butler wants this brought about, and that Dr. J. J. Mott, a republican of high rank, and W. A. Guthrie, a populist of note, who is Carr’s brother-in- law, will aid heartily in effecting such a result. Dr, Mott, who is an ex-chairman of his party, is one of the most extreme silver men, and said co me: “I am for silver, no matter where it leads.” The mass of the populists and republicans are on entirely amicable terms. The pop- ulists are getting most of their new blood— perhaps one might say all of it—from the democratic ranks. The republicans are not losing any yoterg worth speaking of. — THE MILHIGAN EDITOR. Fanny Ideas About the Tonies of the Locality in Which He Moves, From Printers’ Ink. Artemus Ward, Petroleum V. Nasby, Mark Twain, Josh Billings and the Dan- bury News man first attracted attention by contributions to inconspicuous news- papers.- A budding genius is just now conducting the Monroe (Mich.) Democrat. Here are a few local paragraphs culled from the issue of October 10: Frank Drake of Dundee has a sore hand. He stroked the fur of a buzz-saw the wrong way. The “dough me soul” class cf Whiteford Centre-will soon renew the musical conflict under the tutorship of G. Wade. A successful series of South Rockford ice cream and dyspepsia sociais for the season pas clesed, «nd proved profitable and pleas- ne. Chicken thieves and chickenpox are transacting business at Petersburg. The former has weeded out the fat pullets and the latter sent several primary grade chicks home to rogst a white. Without reflecting on any of his neigh- bors within a mile of him Henry Fox of Steiner has removed his corn crib and Wagon shed from a remote point to one within gunshot distance of his residence. Mr. L. Lamkin of London has thrashed this season over one hundred bushels of buckwheat from four acres of ground. Frost and failure have not worked together on his crop. A single stalk in one instance ylelded 3,434 kernels. If Mr. Lamkin were not a man of known truth and popvlarity we should say he would be the right man to swear to the circulation of the Detroit afternoon dallies. Mr. Wallace of West Dundee may think he did a nice trick the other day, but there are two other men who will not agree with him... Mr. Wallace saw two men busy gathering walnuts and laid in ambush while they gayly shook the fruit from the burdened branches and heaped them in a pile, singing a merry harvest hymn. Then he coarsely intruded his presence, and with much suddenness they took to flight, and the unfeeling Wallace measured up,’ with baskets they left, fourteen bushels of nice fruit, which he carried home. ——__— ++. _____ SOME ANGRY MOTHERS. There Should Have Been First Prizes Awarded to All in the Baby Show. From the Rochester Post-Express. A wild-eyed ran, with a haunted expres- sion on his face, stood all the morning in front of the empty store on East Main street where the baby show was held. His name Is W. C. Muntz, and he is the man who owns the baby that was adjudged the pret- tlest of all the infantile beauty which graced the benches at that famous exhibition for the last week. He was awaiting ten angry women whose feelings were too many for them. Needless to say, they were the wo- men whose little dears did not get the first prize. The man with the expression told a Post- Express reporter that he had been accused by the women of having scme secret con- nection with the managers of the show, and winning the prize thereby. They that he was down there Saturday night, the only man among a crowd of women, that he went about with malice aforethought and asked people to vote for his child. This is his crime, most heinous in the eyes of the wo- men who did not get any prize. The re- porter was then surrounded by an excited assemblage of fond mammas, all talking at once. The above statement of the case is the result. Muntz says that he has been ad- judged the prize and should have it. The women say he should not. “Why?” asked the reporter. answered twelve voices, “just because. ‘This reason appeared so sufficient that the reporter was forced to wait until his mind had cleared. Then he asked what they would do if the committee should decide that the prize should remain where it is. “We have been to the chief of police and he said’ Here the tumult ceased and the women looked at one another. They were not able evidently to tell what the chief had said. In the meantime the managers of the show appeared and said that there was absolutely no foundation for the charges of the women. They said that they were In a hurry to get out of town, as they had another show in a neighboring place, and wanted to make arrangements. A man had been sent for the committee of award, but its components had gone to dinner. The women, whose number had been swelled by the arrival of three severe-looking females with blood in thelr eyes, bunched together like a flock of ducks and eyed the men, who were in the front part of the store, distrust- fully, disdainfully and haughtily. oe Hardened Petroleum for Fucl. From the Leeds Mercury. M. Paul d’Humy, a French naval engin- eer living in Liverpool, has succeeded in converting petroleum and other oils into a hard, homogeneous mass, suitable for use as fuel on board war ships and other large ocean-going boats. He claims that this material is affected neither by heat nor cold, and is absolutely smokeless and odor- lees. The cakes, he says, when set on fire, burn only on the surface, and give off an intense heat. A ton of his fuel, M. d’'Humy says, represents at least thirty tons of coal, and the cost is not more than from $5 to $10 per ton. But discoveries of this kind have been made, on paper, a good inany times before, and it will be well to await results before growing enthusiastic. .Ridout and Wm. E. Edmonston, trustees, to GOSPEL AT THE JAIL How It is Brought to the Inmates by Ohristian Workers. Warden Leonard’s Views in Regard to Putting Prisoners to Work—Ad- vantages of the Whipping Post. Every Sabbath day one or more bands of Christian workers visit the District jail, and sing and pray with the unfortunate ones confined therein. In all prisons religious services are welcomed by the prisoners, however wicked and depraved they be, for rare, indeed, is the prisoner who does not welcome participation in such services, or who does not regard as a severe punish- ment exclusion therefrom. The inmates of the District jail, and, according to Warden Leonard’s last report they daily average 306 in number, are not by any means ex- ceptions to this rule. ‘So, when the warden last fall and winter, because of the prevalence of smallpox in the city, suspended the holding of religious services in the prison, the prisoners sin- cerely deplored the necessity for such a precaution. Religious services are held every Sunday, and until several months ago the prisoners were admitted to the big rotunda of the prison, where the services were held. But Warden Leonard, believing that there is great danger in allowing the congregation there of so many despefate men, deter- mined, with the approval of the District Supreme Court, to restrict the prisoners to the respective wings of the prison in which they are confined. The prisoners are, how- ever, released from their cells and assem- ble on the steps and landings of the floors of the wings of the jai) during the services held in the rotunda. Between them and those conducting the services only an open steel screen or netting intervenes, so that the prisoners are enabled to see and hear all that is done and said. Efforts of Christian Workers. Every Sunday morning, from 11 to 12, the memberg of the St. Vincent de Paul So- ciety visit the jail, and in one of the large double cells hold services. Every other Sunday colored workers, under Rev. John Roberts, hold services in the rotunda of the jail, hymns being sung, prayers offered and short addresses made. These services are held from noon to 1:30. Every Sabbath afternoon, from 2:30 to , Sospel work- ers from the Central Union Misson con- duct services. Untfl recently workers from the Y. M. C. A. visited the jail in the after- noon and held services, but they found their other duties occupying so much of their time that they relinquished their la- bors at the jail in favor of workers from the Central Union Mission. ‘The warden holds the opinion that if labor was made part of the sentence in the cases of those sentenced to imprisonment in the District jail a great reduction in the number of prisoners would result. But Mr. Leonard, while so believing, explained that until workshops were provided and a great, high wall built around the jail it would, of course, not be practfeable to place prisoners at work. A few prisoners are employed in the jail kitchen, engine rooms, and now and then at odd jobs in the yard, but so far is this work from being laborious that the slew gains knowing that they will receive slight extras In the way of food, are always anxious to be put to work, But, nevertheless, Mr. Leonard believes that if workshops were provided, so that hard labor could be made a part of the sen- tence, not only would the prisoners be made more than self-supporting, but the horror of hard labor would materially dis- courage and greatly reduce the number of criminals, As it is now, and has been for years, prisoners sentenced to confinement in the District jafl lead a Hfe of utter idle- ness—an idleness, too, which the experience of years shows breeds and encourages in- dolence thereafter, and gives unlimited op- portunities for the hatching of future wickedness and vice. ‘arden Leonard also believes, with the late grand jury, that the re-establishment of the whipping post here would not be un- wise. He would, however, Umit such pun- ishment to wife beaters, for he is of the opinion that no other punishment Is ade- quate. “Why,” remarked Mr. Leonard, “such fellows do not mind imprisonment in the jail. Indeed, most of them rather en- joy it, as you will probably conclude when T tell you that, although I have not been in charge of the jail quite two years, I have in mind several fellows who have, since I have been warden, been sentenced here four or five different times for beating their wives. But give such rascals a dose of their own medicine on the bare back, and they would change their tune.” Se Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses have been issued to the following: William Carlton and Lulu Gold- swith; Ignatius S. Spalding and Mary A. Russell; Levi Gentry and Mary E. Payne; Alonzo B. Bail and Maggie H. Hutchinson; Ashby G. Matthews and Alice M. Barton; Geo. A. Tasker and Mary S. Albin; Chas. H. Thomas and Mary T. Briscoe; Geo. A. Giddens and Lizzie E. Hatcher; William Dee of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Elizabeth Moore of this city; James M. Brown and Amanda Braxton; Michael J. Daly and Katie A. McAuliff; Washington Carter and Ann E. White; John F. Adams and Harriet H. Belt; Melvin Burton and Mary C. Matsac! Frank Dodson and Annie Bowen: John Riddle, jr. and Ro- sie B. Been; David Brown and Vir- ginia Jackson; Jos. c. McAllister of Bloomfield, Pa., and Julia S. Brock of this city; Maurice J. Sheehan and Maggie Lane; Geo. H. Adams of Portsmouth, Va., and Sallie McElwee of Gettysburg, Pa.; Chas. E. Clark and Barbara Addison; Louis P. King and Eva A. Scott; Wilton Robinson and Carrie Payne; James E. Phil- lips and Birdie V. Hall; Fran- ces J. Steibel of this city and Cecilia I. Mathias of Unicn Mills, Md. Qharles Mahoney and Mary E. Brown Roger W. Pulman and Mattie E. Green, both of Fairfax county, Va.; Frank Mere- dith and Lucy Roy; Pleasant Scott and Fanny Wi.liams; Edward Thompson and Lizzie B. Leary; Jos. T. Potter and Maggie O. Percell, both of Richmond, Va.; Jos. F. Brown end Elizabeth Fillpott; Wm. E. Smith and Hannah Schneider; John B. Pat- terson and Maggie Ellis. aa Transfers of Real Estate. Deeds in fee have been filed as follows: Frank I. Gregory et ux. to Bessie M. Lewis, part of lot 63, sq. 916; $10. Louls Gebicke et ux. to Oscar A. Olsen, lot 101, sq. 753; $10. Oscar “A. Olsen to Maria A. Gebicke, same property; $10. Jacob Parmenter et ux. to Jno. M. Wever, lot 30, sq. $89, and lot 4, sq. 912; $8,000. Mahlon Ashford and Aldis B. Browne, trustees, to American Security and Trust Company, lots 16, 17, 19, 20, bik. 27, Long Meadows; $975. Wm. A. Gordon et al., trustees, to Gordon Sowers, lot 77, sq. 1034; $2,100. Henry E. Davis et ux. to Josephine Davis, part of Long Meadows; $10. Jno. C. Davidson et ux. to Clara E. Soule, lot 77, bik, 2, West Eckington; $10. Clement W. Howard et al., trustees, Geo. Killeen, part lots 168 and 169, sq. 1 . Walter Hieston et ux. to Wm. Blatcher, lot 24, blk. 14, Le Droit Park; $10. Wm. T. McDonald to Phebe E. Sharpless, lots § and 9, bik. 24, and lots 20 to 30, bik. 23, Columbia Heights, and lot 13013 in Chapin Brown's subdivision of Mt. Pleasant; $1,200. Allen W. and Laurence O'Mallery, trustees, to Jno. T. Clark, lots 1 to 4, blk. 11, Kenil- worth; $4). Same to Francis Trazzare, lets 17 to 22, blk. 3, Kenilworth; $1,375. Jno. to Louise A. Williams, lots 22 and 23, Brook- land; $375. F. P. B. Sands et al., trustees, to argaret W. Evans, lot 28, sq. 217; $16,200, Wm. H. Underdue et ux. io Frank- lin P. Nash, part lots 4 and 5, sec. 7, Barry farm; $10. Katharine Victory to Jno. Cas- pari, lot 55, sq. 508; $10. —_— Racing on the Island. The usual lull after the storm seemed to prevail among the visitors on Alexander Island today, and the holiday feeling seemed to dampen the ardor of the “sports.” A -fair-si@ed crowd was present. ‘The card presented was only a fair one, but good enough to furnish a good day's sport. The track was dry and fast; weather clear and pleasant. E'ght books were on. First race, half mile—Padre (Neary), even, first; Topgailant (Clare), 4 to 1, sec- ond; Haytay (Alford), 20 to 1, third. Time, 50%. Second race, six and a half furlongs— Tancred (Asburn), 6 to 5, first; Lady Rich- mond (Griffin), 5 to 1, second; Finnwater (Andrews), 2 to 1, third. Time, 1.24, FUSION FOR PROHIBITIONISTS. Union With Populists Advocated by Certain Lenders. - CHICAGO, November 29.—The national committee of the prohibition party will meet in Chicago on Wednesday, December 11, to consider the location of the national convention. The committee has two mem- bers from each state. Prof. Samuel Dickie of Albion, Mich., is chairman, and among the prominent prohibition leaders who rep- resent their states on the committee, are: Ex-Gov. St. John of Kansas, Samuel Small, the Georgia evangelist; Mrs. Helen M. Gougar of Indiana, L. B. Logan of Ohio, C. BE. Bentley of Nebraska, Wm. F. Wardell of New York and Samuel Hastings of Wis- consin. The prohibitionists are inclined to hold res convention early, probably during ¢ quadrennial meeting of the Methodist Church will be in session during the whole month of May, and Prof. Dickie,with others of the more prominent probibitionists, a: delegates. Unless the prohibition conven- tion ts set for April, it is not likely to be held until June. Chicago, Cleveland, Baltimore, Pittsburg and Des Moines are at present the most active contestants for the convention. ~ From ten to twenty thousand persons will attend the convention. More than usual in- terest attaches to Its proceedings, of the fact that the matter of union be- tween the prohibitionists and populists, which is being exploited by certain leaders in both parties, will come up for final set- tlement. It is said the “broad guage” element in the convention will attempt to nominate ex- Gov. St. John of Kansas for President, if he will run. The opposition to the “broad guage’ ment is concentrating upon John G. Wool- ley, the lecturer, who nominally resides in Chicago, as its candidate for the presiden- tial nomination. In the eastern delegation Joshua Levering of Maryland will have ren supporters for first place on the ce —_———_— SMITH HANGED AT DECATUR. Expiated on the Gallows a Particular- ly Atrocious Crime. DECATUR, IIL, November 20,—Charles N. Smith, the ex-base Dall player, was hanged at 11:53 this morning. He was pro- nounced dead in five and three-fourths min- utes. The execution was without accident. On the scaffold Smith was calm, and he spoke in faint voice, but otherwise seemed uneffected. Smith killed his little girl and his sister- in-law. It was a particularly atrocious deed and the case excited wide-spread in- terest. —__—__ Spantards Volunteer for Cuba. MADRID, November 29.—It is reported here that 6,000 Spaniards residing in Al- geria have volunteered their services to the gcvernment for active duty with the troops in the Island of Cuba. —_—__ Yellow Fever im Guatemala. SAN FRANCISCO, November 29.—The whaleback steamer City of Everett, from Panama, reports that yellow fever is pre- alent in Guatemala, but that Panama is practically free from the disease. Appointed an Anti-Platt Man. NEW YORK, November 29.—Gen. Charles Hi. T. Collis, an active anti-Platt republican, was today appointed commissioner of public works, vice Wm. Brookfield, resigned. —_—._—_ Capt. Healy Detached. Capt. Healy of the revenue steamer Bear, now at San Francisco, was today detached from command of that vessel and placed on waiting orders, pending an investigation of the charges recently filed against him. Lieut. White, one of the officers of the Bear, who made complaint against the con- duct of Capt. Healy, Las been transferred to duty at Boscon, in consequence of which he has withdrawn his resignation. ——_————_e+—__ Runaway Aceident, Mr. Charles J. Fanning of No, 490 H street northwest was violently thrown from his wagon by a runaway horse this mornirg, having his collar bone broken, his head cadly bruised, and possibly sus- taining internal injury. He was carried into Mr. Hgaley’s drug store, corner Mas- sachusetts avenue ar.d 3d street, where he regained consciousness, and was _ subse- quently removed to his residence. Dr,Wal- ter C. Murphy, who was in attendance, stated that his injuries were serious. ——>__ A PHYSICIANS’ CLUB HOUSE, A Chicago Medical Association Ex- cludes Women From Membership. From the Chicago Chrenicle. The Physicians’ Club was organized last night at the Union League Club and was rot one hour old until it had decreed that the medical profession in Chicago should have a home of its cwn and one worthy of it. It is the purpose’ to erect a building which will be after the style of the medical institute of New York. It will be a club house for doctors, with a library, a large auditorium for their general meetings and smaller rooms for the meetings of sec- tions, It is the inter:tion to make It one of the most complete Institutions of the kind in the world. It will probably be centrally located and to begin with a fund of $100,- 000 will be raised to further the plan. A lively discussion took place when it came to the adoptior of section 2 of the constitution, which defines qualification for membership. This section as presented provided that only “male physicians” were eligible for membership. It was adopted without much thought on the part of some of those who vote for it. _ Then some one inadvertently remarked that there were three women members of the Doctors’ Club who had been taken into the new club in the consolidation. To make matters worse, they were present, and they had brought some of their women physician friends along. Dr. W. F. Coleman sgid he thought there was some mistake, and he moved a recon- sideration of that clause. This was done, and then somebody else offered an amend- ment to the effect that “hereafter only male physicians” shou! be eligible te mem- bership. Dr. Frances Dickinson did not ap- Erove of a la# wnich would deprive emi- vsicians from membership because women, and Dr. Rachel Hickey 4 she would never feel comfortable to be one of only three women to hold membership in the club, and if the con- stitution was not made broad enough to admit physicians on their merits she would not care to retain her membership. This was equivalent to a declaration to bolt the new club by the three women members, but it did not have the effect of swaying the “males” from their evident determination. Dr. Henrotin, who moved to insert the word “hereafter,” would not agree to the change, and it was adopted. is oo sont SILK MANUFACTURE. American Goods Are Now Classed a Fully Equal to the Foreign Product: From the Chicago Tribune. The manufacture of silk In the United States began less than forty years ago at Paterson, N. J., in a small room over a machine shop. The industry has grown to immense proportions, the factories occupy- ing hundreds of acres, and their annual out- put of finished goods now amounts to $20,- 000,000. The raw silk market of the world amounts to $400,000,000 annually, cne-quar- ter of which is imported into this country. From the small beginning of two decades ago there are now 40) silk manufacturing establishments in operation. The 400 factories employed 51,000 people, and the annual wages paid was $19,000,000. There were also fifty-two establishments for dye- ing and finishing goods, with a capital stock of about $2,500,000, paying $1,254,705 in wages. We are now manufacturing every article made in older silk countries, and our goods are classed as. fully equal to the foreign product. American inventive genius has wrought marvelous improvements in mech- anism, speed and artistic effect. Improved machinery for the manufacture of silk, invented and made by a Connecticut firm, is being shipped to England, Russia, Switz- erland and Japan, and ts accorded a high standard of excellence. eee Two sailors, S. H. Rickarts and Benjamin Nugent, were asphyxiated in their room in s boarding house, 860 Wells street, Ch:~ early this morning.