Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-01-02

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Another Great Fire i'm New York.
BURNING oP THE FIFTH AVENUE THRArER.
New fork was yesterday afternoon visited by
shother serious, and, for time alarming con-
migration. The Fifth Avenue Theater was
found TO be on fire shortly after the audience
upon the matinee performance had left the
Duiidlng, at about ., and in very short time
me edlhce was mas of fame which threat
ened swift destruction to all surrounding prop
erty and created most Intense excitement. In
ntteen minutes fro-i the time the fire was first
discovered the entire building was ablsze,
burning like so much straw. The guests az the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, Immediately adjoining the
theatre, were naturally thrown into a high
FEVER OF alarm, but the fremen proved them
selves masters OF the situation and saved the
hotel as well as other property menaced with
destruction. The flames are described as hsy-
ing Done their work with so much 6erceness
and rarldlty that In one hoar the theatre WAS
but mass of ruins. IL was valued at $50 900
The lessee, Mr.. Bugustin Daily. losses In scene
~, properties, wardrobes, &C., $4,000. The
performers lost nearly the whole OF their pri-
The streets at the time were filed with men
making their New Years calls, who, a they
ne, nesred The Vicinity, added to the crowd about
the hre. The police drove crowds on oath
street to 9th avenue, and even prevented m any
who were residents on the streets from coming
10 Their homes The epgines at O'Clock were
About twenty minutes after the first outbreak
The south wall of the theater fell. carving with
II the east wall, which struck the west wall of
the Fifth Avenue hotel, smashing a hole i'm il
twenty feet wide by fifteen high, destroying the
irving and baking Kitchen. Soon the west wall
OF the stage fell, and striking the roofs of the
and Arnold, Constable * Co., completely de-
moiished them. The horses were, however
saved. The tremen were assisted BY the hotei
Ere brigade, an0 thus were able to con;iae the
nrc TO the theater. The fire was caused by a
defective furnace. Several persons among
others MI. Darling, one of the proprietors of the
run avenue hotel, were slightly Injured while
attempting TO save the property. Madames
Gilbert and Davenport are reported to have lost
their diamond jewery, valued at several thou.
sadd dollars. Messrs. Rockwell, Levere and
wife, Ringgold and Clark are also heavy losers
All the musical instruments of the orchestra.
music and library are destroyed. Mr.. Daly had
10 insurance on his property.
A SINGULAR MuRpsR CAsE-The criminal
court of Waynesburg, Greene county, Pa, has
the past week. The case is that of Thaddeus
noubkin, for the murder of his father, Charles
nounkin. The prisoner is young man, Il or
q years OF age, and the father was aged Sc IL
IS claimed by the commonw eaith in the trial.
that the old man was shot while he was quietly
sitting by the cooking stove, awaiting his sup,
per. The defence admit that the accused shot
him, but contend that the father was a danger.
Gus man. He had given his wife ten minutes TO
get supper and furnish warm bread threaten.
allotted time
was we'll nigh up. She had to run to the cellar
Tor cream, and had returned to get -four The
deceased had followed her and struck her with
= upper. Becoming still more enrsged, he
thiew ASIDE the Upper and ran for q butcher
KNIFE. Not succeeding in getting this, he en-
deayored to snatch q large iron shovel The
mother was In the meantime screaming and
crying. The son, to save his mother, thereupon
shot his father dead.
LUXURIOUS QUARrEKs or MuRpxnxRs
Though George Francis Train is testing the
regular prison fare at the Tombs, the m urder-
ers are found by visitors to be continually be-
SCANNED and Sharkey are Handsomely carpeted
ana papered, and provided with rugs. Stokes
ma mas French set of furniture, dressing case,
Sharkey also have libraries and rich Furniture.
All smoke the beet cigars, and converse ali day
long, through the gratings, with their visitors.
rs the other saloons, though they have carnef
and library. Simmons is having Tombs par
Tor fitted up which will eclipse all others in
.usuly. me meals OF this elite of murderers
neighb0rhood.-N y. Cor. cin. Commercial.
GRAND METEoRIc DISPLAY AT SEA.-rbe
snip X. Z. winthrop, at New York, from Ant
werp, reports November q latitude lis north
longitude HI west, Madeira Island bearing
south half east, distant q hundred miles. hal a
meteoric shower commencing at dark and LAST
ing two aIda half hours. The first hour. As
near IS could be judged, there were from nine
In TIE second hour there were from four TO sir
hundred, and in the last half hour thew were
gradually disappearing. About four ffths Of
.ne meteSrs appeared Ike small balls OF lire
moving through the air leisurey but Others
moved With great velocity, leaving in their
track trail of FIRE resembling that in the wake
OF an army rocket.
LOOK TO YOGI BucKwaEAr FLorR-A
family in this city enjoyed the luxury of hot
buck wheat cakesa feW mornings since but AT
ter partaking Of them quite fully, were ain
seized with an unacccuntable Sickness the
symptoms being so entirely similar in each case
that II vas Immediately surmised that the buck
wneat nour Vas in some way the cause OF Il.
An Investigation was made, when il was found
that the castor bean had been gathered with
The wheat . and ground up with 4 ct the mill,
ting rather dlssgreeably upon those Who in
duIRed in it. So look out for the castor bean
Richmond Id.l State Journal.
A CHuRcH DESTROYED BY FGRn CRACKERS.
M. Airy church, in Amherst county, Va, absut
tbree miles nom the Court house was DESTROYED
by fre on Tuesday night last. The church be-
onged TO the coiored Baptists, and II Gems thst
a large congregation had met Tuesday night
ployed themselves in firing squibs and rockets
from which the building caught fire. and vas
quickly consumed.
MORTALITY AMONG CarLpssr AT s..
many heart broken emgranp arrived in Nev
mem IN t the last Gay Of December, from Bre
Sut snoStiy after the vessel sailed, and bsfore
New York was reached twenty chIldreD and two
adults had been buried 1t Sea- The Ccinn I'M
e fDali vessel. and this number, IN propor-
very large.
~Prisce Aiionso. brother Of Dan C.r,o..
viii to-day assame comnand Of - Gsrl,ss
bands In Cafslouio.
1ne Cnriseian yoang nsn Of Boston are
@enntxang prayer neeeisg aDd rufaG0 f6f TIE
oesucnee combined, vhass - poor NV eet
temporary leegin6 and y M