Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-10-04
EVENING STAR.

Srap,ctors DxArH-The jury Of inquest held
at Raleigh, n. C., yesterday over the body Of
Dr n Hinton Smith, who died suddenly on
Tuesday, les stated in yesterdays starr dis
covered strong evidences Of poison, but no
verdict was rendered. The stomach Of the
examination 1t is thought almost certain that
Death wss occasioned by the seidletz powder
drank. but as TO how the poison came in ii has
not been ascertained.
The EXODUS FROM ALsACK AND LORRAINE
The departures from Alsace and Lorraine of
inhabitants who decline to assume German ciii-
zenshiP are upon an immense scale. 1t is es..
mated that eighty eight thousand emigrsting
from Asace will take up their residence in
Nancy alone, while large numbers will go to
other places. Eighteen thousand peasants LETT
Metz Tue sday night seek bomes under French
jurisdiction. The population of that city now
numbers only ten Thousand persons.
SERVE Born ALIKs-The New York Star
says the project of licensing houses of i'll repute
is about u he revived; also that the female in
mates ere to be "ticketed," etc. All right Says
the editor }, only put the males through the same
course as the females. This theory that the men
have '.rights'' which women are not to share in
that direction is not only unchristian but indie
cent.
HDulr'h, Mimi, has attained drug store
and a cemetery.
S-An cid gentleman was lately killed a.
Atlantis. Ca, by stumbling over hobby horse
sS-A remarkable well OF pare carbon gas has
.een opened at Springfield, Ill.
~1ruSt a man who goes cheerfully to his
work and whistles while LIE is st it.
- nineteen young ladies' have been admitted
to the fTssh man class OF the Mich ian University
~PhysiOlOgy is being Taught for the first
time IN the Poughkeepse public schools.
~PeOple seldom improve when they have no
other method but themselves to copy after.
~MIs. Fair, having been triumphantly
acquitted. Will at once proceed ID delivering her
lecture. She is just in time for the opening of
the ser son.
VLsdies wear bows and knots for the hair
made OF two colored ribbons. The latter orna-
meDts are made to represent half opened rose
buds.
@It Is rumored in Paris that all plated
tresses and long hanging curIs are to be
abandoned and that the hair is to be worn a Ia
Byron, in short crisp curls all over the head.
~The 6pance committee OF the projected
Cincinnati Jubilee Festival, which Theodore
Thomes Is to lead next May, have resolved to
raise CUE -antce fund OF s5O, 900. The festival
is to last six days.
~Lower Norwood, Eng. possesses a brick
layer named Bennett, upon whom the sting of
the wasp has not the slightest effect. He can
handle the N without fear, and even place them
upon his tongue!
~The correct thing nowadays for lady
pIomenaders is to carry one arm bent at the
elbow, the hand sticking straight forward and
allowed to bob up and down like dislocated
pump handle.
SSome one wickedIy says that the reason
why very young girls usually take the prizes
at fairs fOr making good bread. is because their
mothers make it Tor them, while the older girls
think they can manage alone, and fail miserably
~Yesterday morning the Rev. Father
Michsels, who resides in John street, East New
York, found on the steps OF his residence a
healthy female infant. IL was handed over to
the superintendent OF the poor.
S-Sir James shaw Willes, Judge of the Lon
don Court OF Common Pleas, committed suicide
yesterday. He was suffering from a severe
attack OF he govt, which reached his brain and
carsed insanity, in one of the paroxysms of
which the fatal act was committed.