The Washington Bee Newspaper, January 30, 1892, Page 1

9 —— Terms. $1.50 Per year in. Kevance S AND COM- MENTS. IRISHMEN AGAIN FIGHTING—PaR NELLITES AND McCarruyires COMES To BLOWS AT LIMER 1CK, A disgraceful scene occurred Wednesday at the railway station in Limerick, Ireland, growing out of the antipathy entertained by the two factions of the Irish party for each otber. The McCarthyites had been holding a convention at Limerick, and among the promi- nent speakers present were Mr. William O’Brien and Mr. John Dilion. After the business of the convention had been concluded a large number of those present es- corted Messrs. Dillon and O’Brien to the station. Wohen- Messrs. Dillou and O’Brien arrived at the station they were greeted with hoots and yells and many %pprobrious epithets were hurled at them. The McUCarthyites who had ac- companied Messrs. Dillon and OBrien were naturally highly in- dignant at the treatment accorded them. Most of them carried heavy walking sticks, and before the Par- nellites realized their intentions they swooped down iu a body upon the insulters of their leaders. The latter resisted as best they could, and for a time the scrimmage was a@ migbty lively one. Many of the Parnellites were burt, and several were so badly injured that it was found necessary to remove them to the hospital to allow of their wounds being attended to. This beats anything we have ever had in this city. Let us have @ good peaceful primary February 10th, 92, and it will speak in thunder tones to Congress for the restoration of suffrage iv the Dis- trict. Jadge Kimball, of the police court, paid a visit to the room of the House Committee on Appro- priations yesterday, in order to speak a word in bebalf of an ap- | ——propriation of $75,000 for the es- tablishment of a girl’s reform school in the District of Columbia. The charter for the school was ob- tained from Congress some time ago, and now money is wanted to establish the institution. Judge Kimball says that about 1,000 young girls, just beginning a life of crime, are brought before the police court every year, and only three alternatives are presented to the judge. One is to send them to jail, another to commit them to the workhouse, and the other is to tarn them loose on the streets, and in either case the result is bad for the girls. With ahome to which they so could be committed for a proper season their lives might be reformed. Mr. Hoar,—when this measure is brought to the Senate will you please examine it closely in order to ascertain if the word “white” is | snugly lured in some where? THE Y.M.C. A. The Association is everywhere proving a side door into the church for those who will not come in at the front, and we need suck a side door in all the churches. The Young Men’s Christian Associa- tion is, therefore, the Charch going out with helpers to the young men who will not come in to her. The Association is the hand-maiden, or perbaps the right-hand man, of the cburch in a special department of work. ; Asacommunity, we suffer from vice which is criminal and vice which is not. Not to memtion the danger, we are at great expense with the crimials aud at great loss with the vicious. QUur police is busy with those who became crimi- al because neglected in youth. If Charch and Association are both in the path of duty they are mutually belpfal, and, as these are constituted, in event of friction the church has always the advantage: her relation to the Association en- ables her to correct its government, whilethe Association has no re- dress against the government of the Church. As a matter of fact they help each other; the life which the church gives the Association comes back to her warmed and enlarged. And by virtue of concentrating & united force oc a specific object, the churches do through the Asso- ciation what they could not do otherwise. Mr. Blanche K. Brace is being quite severely censured because it is claimed he secured the dismiss- 5 cents per ¢ Opy. alof J. BE. uce, (Bruce from a clerkship oe an departments. Tv be what is sauce for the Goose ete., applies. Mr. E. Bruce has been dotag his stg most to smirch his reputation and influence of both; B. K. Bruce and auditor John R. Lynch. If these gentlemen have tarned on him and crushed him, it is unmanly for him to whince now. Messrs. Bruce avd Lynch would not be men did they resent the foal manner in which they have been persued by certain newspaper scribblers, This is the voice of the Detroit “Plaindealer.” Mr. Bruce has never attempted the removal from the department of this man—Mr. Brace (Hon. B. K. Brace) would merely bave to call Mr. Secretary Noble’s atten- tion to “current records” in the case, andout he tbe man would go. But the game is not worth the powder. SHE DIDN’T HAVE THE DRESS. Listeners sometimes hear good, if not of themselves, says the New York “Herald.” Walking along Bowery the other night 1 came up behind a young couple who were evidently on their way to the thea- ure. “Ye didn’t put on the new dress, Annie,” he was saying. *‘No,” she said, and hung her head. “I thought ye would be likely to wear it whin you wint out wid me.” “So I would, Pat. - Bat—” “So! suppose I ain’t grand enough for your fine toggery. Yeo save that for Mikey Dineen and lave the ould clothes for me.” “Ob, no. Indeed it that.”— “Think | haven’t an eyein my head at all at all.” “Ah! Pat, you are very cool,” and I could hear a tremor in the soft voice that promised rain very soon. “Well, ifitain’tso, Annie, tell me why you put on that old rag to go out wid me in?” “Why, I ain’t got no other, Pat, darling.” **Ain’t got no other?” ‘No! You see I hadn’t the heart to buy it. When lthink of the cold weather comin’ on an’ the barefoot byes and gals in the old shanty at home an’ only a beggar’s portion toeat,I just pat dress money an’ all in the post office and sent it over for Christmas, Are— are you mad, Pat?” There was no reply to this, but under the flaring electrict light of a Bowery cheap jewelry shop 1 could see that two large and home- ly hands were clasped tightly to- gether. isn’t The Kethel Literary, observed last Tuesday as “Anniversay Anti-Siavery Days” and the men and women of that period. The paper for the oocasion was pre- sented by Dr. Chas. B, Purvis. Next Tuesday evening Dr. W, Scott Montgomery will talk on *‘Lord Macauley.” February 9th Prof. Cleveland Abbe, on ‘Rain, Clouds, and Ariel Condensation. February 16, Mrs. Mary Charch Terrell, on “A glimpse of the old Word.” February 23, Anniversary of the birthday of Mr. Frederick Douglass, on which occasion the paper will be presented by Mrs, Clara Calby, entitled the “Ethics of Woman Suffrage.” It was meet and proper that the literary shonld honor thé men and women of the great anti-slavery cause. A distinguished man spoke on these great characters, but a few days ago, and among other things said: But in the South the Negro toiled unpaid, and mothers wept while babes were sold, and at the auction block husbands and wives speech- lessly looked the last good-bye. Fagitives, lighted by the Northern star, sought liberty on English soil, and were by Northern men thrust back to whip and chain. The great statesmen, the success- fal politicians announced that law had compromised witb crime; that justice had been bribed, and that time had barred appeal, A race was left without’ a right, without a hope. The future bad no dawn, no star,—nothing but ignorance and fear; nothing but work and want. This was the conclusion of the statesmen, the philosophy ot the politicians, of constitutional ex- pounders. This was decided by courts and ratified by the nation. We bad been successfal in three wars. We had wrested thirteen colonies from Great Britain. We had conquered our place upon the ~ WASHINGTON, D. ©., SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1892, high seas. We had added more than two millions of square miles to the national domain. We had increased in population from three to thirty-one millions. We were in the midst ot plenty. We were rick and free. Ours appeared io be the most prosperous of nations. Bat it was only appearance. The Statesmen and the politicians were deceived. Real victories ean be won only for the right. The tri- umph of justice is the only peace. Sach is the nature of things. He who enslaves another can not be free. He who attacks the mght, assaults himself. The mistake our fathers made has not been corrected. The foun- dations of the Republic were inse~ cure. The great dome of the tem- ple was clad in the light of pros= perity, but the corner stones were crumbling. Four millions of hu- man beings were enslaved. Party cries had been mistaken for prin- ciples, partisanship for patriotism, success for justice. But pity pointed to the scarred and bleeding backs of slaves: mercy cy heard the sobs of mothers reft of babes, and justice held aloft the scales in which one drop of blood shed by a master’s lash out= weighed a nation’s gold. There were a few men,a few women, who had the courage to attack this monstrous crime. They found it. entrenched in constitu- tions, statutes, and decisions, bar- ricaded and bastioned by every Department and by every party. Politicians were its servants, statesmen its attorneys, judges its menials, Presidents its puppets, and uponits cruel alter had been sacrified our country’s honor. It was the crime of the Nation— ot the whole country—North and South responsible alike. To day we reverently thank the Abolitionists. Earth has produced no grander men, no nobler women. They were the real philanthropists, the true patriots. You cannot make great men and women by suppression. Slavery is not the schoal in which genins 18 born. Every human being must make his own mistakes for himself, { must learn for himself, must have his own experience; and if the world improves it must be from choice and not from force; and every man who does justice, who sets the example of fair dealings, hastens the coming of universal honesty and universal civilization. FASHION NOTES. Skirts, and even dressy wraps are slightly en traine, the back breadths showing a decided dip and being shaped almost to a point like the trail of a peacock, The foundation skirt has beep well nigh abolished, and the dress proper is lined with taffeta or com- bric which is sewed in at each breadth so as to prevent sagging: a very narrow fur or feather edge, a band of yelvet, a pattern in sou- tache, ora scanty puffing, or tiny bias flounee, is the sole finish per- mitted by fashion. A half worn skirt can be beauti~ fully renovated, and if needs be, lengthened by means of the con~ yenient foot-band, which also im parts a finished look to the dress, Some ofthe skirts with many gores have each seam defined by 8 band of passementerie, and in. the case of evening dresses they may be overlaid with white or black lace insertion, sometimes placed over a contrasting color. Watteau pleats not only ap- pear on aeglige robes, but add dignity and grace to rich dinner and reception costumes, the pleat mingling with the long train. Elegant promenade costumes are made of the lovely and enduring Priestly goods, which exhibit all the latest designs in stripes, bro- caded designs, and the rough, shaggy effect now so much in re- quest. Crepe veils are again much worn, thrown back from the close fitting bonnet or toque, and falling almost to the hem of the Henrietta or camel’s hair gown. Broadcloth iu the most delicate colors is made gich, costly and elegant tailor gowns, to be worn at afternoon receptions. Uhlan blue, hosteusia, and the indefinite shades of old pink, are among the favorite colors. Many of the elegant gowns for full dress occasions have trains of uncut velvet or heavy silk cordu- rette; Pegin striped velvet is also anes with plain or brocaded silk. Old rose and dull serpent green make a charming gas-light combi- nation in Louis XV. ————-.-__. AN OPEN LETTER TO THE DAILY “POST.” Editor of the “Post”: I demand the publication of my card in justice to myself. I was very careful what I did say and I havea witness, in the person of Mr. Stewart M. Lewis who was present at the time and heard what was said. Tagain state: thatI met a man who has called at my office on sev- eral occasions to get news, which I have freely given him, and on Saturday afternoon, January 23, I was standing talking with Mr. Stewart M. Lewis when your man approached me and asked me the news. [told hir -.. [had no news. He than remarked if ‘they would succeed in sending two white men to the Minneapolis conven~ tion from this city and I told him that there was no truth in that report that Mr. Frank Aldrich the chairman of the republican central committee had denied what the “Post” published two Sundays ago. This young man seemed to ex- press surprise to know that Mr. Aldrich bad denied what was pub- lished in the ‘Post’ two weeks ago. Mr. Lewis remarked that it was all newspaper talk any way. + O! no said the ‘*Post” reporter. The conyersation concluded when your reporter asked me what I knew about the coming democratic convention that isto be held in this city and after 1 directed him to go and ascertain from Mr. Jonnie Doyle in the City Post of- fice, he left. This is all that was said. Respectfully, W. CALVIN CHASE. I certify that the above is strict- ly correct. Srewarr M. Lewis. January 26th, 1892. ~Bsrew~ia_sdisor Chase's card that appeared in the Post Wed- nesday morning: Eprtor Post:—In your issue of Jauuary 24, you published an in- terview that your reporter claimed to have bad with me, relative to certain persons desiring to send two white men tothe Minneapo- lis national Republican conven- tion to represent the District of Columbia, and what I would do in the event that such a move- ment was attempted. I desire to atate that I never had sach an interview with any member of your staff or anybody else, direct- ly or indirectly. Respectfally, Wititam Catvin Case. Washington, Jan. 26, ‘The annua: Unristmss pe! from Canada to Boston was smaller in previous years. It consisted of 12 cars. The value of the poultry at the frontier was $26,000. The duty amounted to $8,750. Relatives of the dead actor, William J. Florence, will contert his will as against his wife. It is believed that Governor Hill will remain in office at Albany till December 81. Governor elect Flower is his guest this week. James G. Blaine, Jr., was publicly de- nounced as a “scoundrel” by Mrs. R. Og- den Doremus, wife of the noted Colum- bia College professor, at the supplemen- tary proceedings in the divorce case in New Yorke ity. Ex-Governor Robert M. McLane is ly- ing ill with pneumonia at his home in Baltimore. His condition is quite seri- ous owing to his advanced age, he being in his 77th year. Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone, and Mr. Mor- ley, are taking a vacation at Biarritz. The River Convention at Kansas City asks Congress to appropriate $6,000,000 a year for the improvement of the Missouri River and $7,000,000 for the Mississippi. The Treasury Department has already disbursed nearly $300,000 as bounties on sugar under the provisions of the Mc- Kinley act. Typhoid fever in a Catholic orphanage near Alliance, Ohio, has caused many deaths. Impure water was the cause. Frederick Gleason, an inmate of the Old Men’s Home in Boston, is said to be the father of illustrated journalism in the United States. He was rich and pros- perous less than 40 years ago, with an in- some in 1851 of $50,000 a year. Out of the labors of 1,230 convicts in various prisons in this country the con- tractors made a clear profit of $310,400 in 1890, Subscribe to and advertise in the Bzx, A Summary of Current Events.—The World’s Doings for the Past Six Days Gathered and Condensed for Our Readers. General. Jack Frost has tied up Western freight. Edward M. Field is ill in his New York jail cell. Twin baby hyenas were born in New York’s Zoo. General Schofield believes the Garza Se against Mexico practically ead. Georgia farmers are planting little else than tobacco, which promises to be a great crop. Ex-President Cleveland will go to Beaumont, Tex., and shoot prarie chick- ens before he comes North. At an election to fill the parliament va- cancy in the Rossendale division caused by the recent elevation to the peerage of Lord Hartington, the Gladstonian can- didate won by 1,225 majority. Dr. W. F. Carver, the famous Ameri- can shot, defeated Lewis Clarke, of Vic- toria, the champion wing shot of Aus- tralia, by a score of 95 to 90, Peter Maher, the Irish pugilist, has Posted a $5,000 deposit for a match with John L, Sullivan. - Owing to late victories in England, the Gladstonians claim that they will havea majority of 60 in the new par- liament, and will carry Home Rule for Ireland, The great Spurgeon’s parishioners are putting an elevator in the church to carry the distinguished divine up to the pulpit. Walking up made him fat. Reports having been sent out from Washington that Grover Cleveland would soon make publica letter declining the Democratic nomination for the Presi- dency, his friends deny the statement. They say that he is not a candidate for the nomination in the sense that he is working for it, or that he will scramble for it, but if it is offered him he will accept. The grip is spreading among the In- dians of Arizona, and 100 Pimas have died during the past three weeks. Tho epidemic is prevalent also among the Pa- pagoes, and whole villages have been de- populated. ‘Thousands of cattle'’”4!\ slow!e-atary- j =e amen’ rener tion. winter has not béen equaled in since 1870, and the ground is c® with snow to a depth of from 22 inches. Conflicting rumors are still current in Rome as to the condition of the pope’s health. The minister of the interior stated that while it was not good neither was it alarming, and he had ordered the public censor to stop all alarming tele- grams. The New York Board of Trade and Transportation has issued a circular to all bodies of the country, asking them to call meetings to urge upon Congress the settlement of the Chilian difficulties by arbitration. Uncle Sam asks $4,000,000 for the old New York custom house. The Chicago World’s Fair commission- ers have arrived from Japan. Minneapolis is building a new hall for the Republican convention that will seat 15,275 people. A Texas woman who attempted to make a United States flag got only three stripes and nine stars in it. The Third Congressional district of In diana has recommended President Har- rison for renomination. Mrs. Jefferson Davis is an honorary vice president of the United States Daughters of 1812, at New York. Chicago hotels have already been flooded by telegrams from Democrats all : over the country who want accommoda- tions at the National Convention. The girl’s parents objected to a mar- riage, so Miss Delia Nicholson hanged herself at Roanoke, Va., and her lover, William Pinkhard, took poison and died. The French detachment sent out to punish the Samory tribe in the French Soudan, for acts of violence and outrage, met them January 11, and had an o¥ stinate battle. The French, althoug. largely outnumbered, compelled the na- tives to retire with a loss of several hun- dred killed. The French loss was six dead and thirty wounded. Rev. Leopold Simonson, the celebrated linguist, is dead at Hartford, Conn., aged 60. He was an earnest advocate of Vola. puk and instructor of French and Ger- man at Trinity College. Ice is being cut on the Tioughnioga River 14 inches thick at Cortland, N. Y. Over $500,000 loss is the result of a big re on Union Square, which destroyed three buildings, including Brentano's fa- mous book store, and which for a time threatened Tiffany’s jewelry building. Assurances Ottawa from the imperial governmen' that the new reciprocity treaties betwee: the United States and West Indies in volve no discrimination against Canada Some painters in Geneva are painting a panorama of the Bernese Alps, whicli will have a height of 51 feet and a width of 345 feet, to go to Chicago. The whole will cost about $300,000. It was all sketched from the summit of the Mann- lichen, 6,600 feet high. THIS. WEEK'S NEWS. | have been received at | Twenty-two paintings, thought to have been smuggled, were seized by custom officials in New York. The pictures bore the names of well known artists, but their genuinetiess is doubted. The report of the New York State de- partment in regard to the charges brought against the New York Life Insurance Company states that the company has a surplus of $6,038,136 accrued upon its general account and $8,670,539 upon ite tontine accumulation and is quite solv- ent. The report, however, censures the maragement of the company for losing $2,500,000 in investments and agencies. The British steamship Sir William Armstrong was wrecked on Sandy Beach, near Norfolk, Va., and it is believed she will be badly damaged. Great satisfaction was expressed in Mexico on the receipt of information from Rome that Archbishop Gillow, of Oaxca, is to be made a cardinal. A joint resolution was unanimously adopted in the Virginia senate ratifying the plan for the settlement of the State debt as agreed upon by the State com- mission. Over 200 miners from the disturbed territory in Tennessee have gone to Ar- kansas in the past two weeks in search of the work they could not find in Tennes- see because of the convict lease system. New York and Chicago parties are said to be trying to purchase the rice mills in New Orleans to form a trust. Cincinnati folks and milk are out, since an underground dairy and slopfed hairless cows have been found. Joseph Sycht, of Louisville, Ky., di- rected in his will that his children should draw by lot to see which one would get his wealth. The Bellamy colony at Evanston, Ill., has proved a failure. Ex-Governor Hawkins, of Tennessee, wis disfigured and hurt by the fire which destroyed his house in Hunting- ton, Tenn., and lies in a critical con- dition, An enumeration bill has passed the New York legislature and Governor Flower has signed it. The census of the State will be taken forthwith. A Diver's Great Peril. During the late cold snap, tho great “take in” feed pipe of the Chicago water works, that extends out into the lake, became clogged with ice, and the situa- tion last week was serious, as the city was in danger of being entirely deprived of water. Diversey Inte clege out the Shaw ccd Stine ete rt hole, but became caught and sig- ualled for relief. To their horror, those above water found that they could not pull him up. It then took two tugs and 16 men over an hour to drag the unconscious diver from the mouth of the great tunnel through which the water is drawn to the city. If the pumps had worked five minutes longer Scully would have been sucked three miles through the bore to the water works. Scully was resuscitated and said that all the while he was hang- ing head downward. Singerly’s Mammoth Bull. The mammoth bull that Mr. William Sf. Singerly, of the Philadelphia Record, will exhibit at the World’s Fair prom- ises to be the biggest thing on hoofs at the great exposition. The animal weighs 3,600 pounds, about double the size of 1n ordinarily large bull. Although short legged, he is seven feet in height, and his Lust measure is 22 feet. He is still grow- ing at Mr. Singerly’s farm in Gwynedd, and his keeper expects him to weigh 1,000 pounds by the time he is shipped te shicago. Killed tn a Russian Church. During service in a church at Slobod- ssoi, in the government of Viatka, Rus sia, the roof gave way and fell upon the worshippers beneath. A scene of the wildest excitement followed. The vil- j lagers rushed to the scene and worked heroically to rescue the persons impris- oned by the fallen timbers, boards . The wreckage was soon cleared away, ‘vhen it was found that 50 persons had been either killed or injured. An English Mother’s Crimes. Mary Ann Castings, a widow of 32 sears of age, of Nottingham, killed her two children, Emily, 10 years old, and Ernest, 8, and then cut her own throat. The children’s skulls were battered in by blows of a.coal hammer, and Mrs. Cast- ings committed suicide with arazor. She had a millinery shop on one of the prin- ipal thoroughfares of the town, and ne motive can be assigned for the crime, Trade and Labor. According to commercial reports, in- dustries are remarkably well employed for the season and the movement of crops Reports from every part of the country express even greater confi | dence than before in the prospects for | trade, whilein some lines definite though sradual improvement is already seen. Ihe markets for staple products have been uadisturbed by speculation, which is held in check by the enormous supplies. is a seamless steel buat leum block fuel issucceseful. being made at Munich » best wines are found to be pro- Cneed from grapes grown upon volcanic bu | A recent invention in lighting com- | Lines the principles of the arc and the in- candescent.