Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-04-03

crtaslng, ana Will some day take the place OF
the colored. In Mississippi and Louisiana
where the blacks were more numerous than the
whites in 1870, there IL a steady decline in their
numbers, and the white vote will soon be the
largest.
DHCADRNCK OF NEW OsLEAEs-One of the
Oldest merchants in New Orleans in a recen.
letter 10 a correspondent in Boston, saws the
population of New Orleans has fallen off in two
years 80, COO, and there are no less than COZ
houses and stores at present unoccupied. FIT
teen years ago New Orleans was at the acme o.
Its wealth, prosperity and commercial import
ance, second only to New York and Boston, tt
river and ocean tonnage in port, loading sno
oischarging, was seldom less than $50 900 tons
and n the busiest season of the year double thai
amount.
RITUALIsM IN NEW YORK CIrY.-A New
York letter, dated March 81, says: The Ritual
lists have in contemplation another advanced
step or two at the approaching Good Friday ano
Easter services. At st. Mary the Virgin th.
Tenebrse Is to be chanted just as it is in the
Roman Catholic churches, while at st. Alban'.
and st. Ignatius' there will not onIy be that
than any that has yet been visible in an Epis
copal church in this diocese. The floral decor
atoms for Easter in profuseness and costiline.:
VIII be on correspondiRgly impressive scale.
TIE Iowa FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DIsrRIc7
The Chicago Tribune says that it is understood
that George w. McCrary and John III Gear will
be the candidates for the regular republican
nomination for Congress In the list district Iowa
and that the issue between them will be on the
question OF the POWER, which McCrary's bill de
clares to be solely in Congress- to regulate rail-
road tariffs. Mr.. Gear was speaker in the Iowa
legislature this year, and he takes the negative
10 McCrarys Affirmative. The Burlington Ga
zette says sit will be shsrn contest"
O'Clock Yesterday morning Policeman John
ii. Nobson, OF Richmond, Va, was shot In the
face by one OF two men whom he had occasion
to approach, owing to their suspicious actions
fe ~ vnYAa hnA-
out any attempt on the part OF the officer r.
make an arrest, one of them put pistol within
few inches Of Hobson's face and fred, infiict
ing serious, though not fatal, wound. The
parties TO the assault are not known, as they
fed.
upwards Of 100 horses sick with the equine In
trinity known as the "Pinkeye," in the stables
OF the Brooklyn city railroad compsny. The
disease does not last more than three or four
days, although it is a very painful complaint,
and causes serious inconvenience to the com
pany. The superintendent, Mr.. Sullivan, is of
and that no apprehension need be felt as to the
spread OF the malady.-N. Y. Herald.
THE WAR AGAINST wHIsKKY-The common
council Of Jeffersonville, Ind, has passed al
ordinance by only two majority, requiring
liquor dealers to pay $500 for q license. The
pfoscriptive manner In which the temperance
element Is thus brought to bear Is driving seve-
raj OF the best German citizens to Louisville.
The temperance ladies began systematic opera
number Of saloons, drug stores s and groceries
we're visited. Myers, the first convert Of the
crusade, reopened last night.
PANIC AND Loss OF LIFK.-On Wednesday
night, at Middlet0wn, Wis, while exercises vert
belng held In school house, q lamp exploded,
which set fire to the building. About 800 per
sons were present and became panic stricken
In the rush for the doors about 40 persons were
injured, four seriously. The fire burned about
plucky women. who smothered 1t with over
coats and carpets.
ANOTHER HORRIBLE DEATH PROM HYDRO
PHoBrA.-On the 18th of February Charles
Emmons, aged 10, of 81 Eighth avenue, New
YORK city, was bitten by q half starved cur,
which he encountered and played with in the
streets The boy enjoyed normal health until
last Saturday. Then he exhibited symptom, of
hydrophobis, the most marked Of which was
the aversion Of every kind of LIQUID He died
in agony on Tuesday evening.
SOUTHERN GARDEN TRUCK-The Charleston
Courier Of the 3Oth ult. says:-If no disaster
occur and the weather continue favorable, ship
mens VIII commence to take place in q few
days About two weeks since freeze took
place around the city, and, in some instances.
promising crops Of tomatoes were completely
destroyed; the green peas and other growths
we're, however, uninjured. Several small ship
ments have already taken place.
SwILL MILK AeAIx.-The Brooklyn Eagle
limits ct that city, In stables filled With Hitb
and DIRT, packed together In the closest possible
space and In all conditions Of disease, OF 800
COWS. fed on hot swirl emptied from an adjoin
ing dstillery, and publishes the names Of soms
twenty dealers who peddle the swill milk q
Orange county milk to the retail dealers and
citizens Of New York and Brooklyn.
A BEAST PoIsoHRR.--A disgraccful piece Of
mischief IL reported from Berlin, where some
idiot has, it seems. been amusing himself BY
poisoning gotd many OF the most yaluabls
animals In the Geological Gardens. His last
victims are elk bears, two jsguars, two black
panthers. two lions, and . lynx, al OF which
have died, with tho exception OF the male
jaguar and the female panther.
DRKate Stoddard will be tried this month for
the alleged murder Of Charles Goodrich.
- Gen. John b. Hood, q the late q. 8. A.,
IL doing his best TO repopuiste the south. He
has been married fve years, and Il now the
father OF seven children.
~ Germany has number OF experimental
farms, where al new theories conneceed nh
agriculture Or cattle-raising are uied ~ thSir
merits pronounced upon.