Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-02-01

A YorNG WIFE's SUICIDE.-Mrs. Elizabeth
Meyer, 4 beautiful young woman, was found
suffering from Paris green, in her home at 81
east Ith street, yesterday afternoon. An infant
Jay sleeping quietly on the bed beside her. An
ambulance was sent to take her to Bellevue
hospital. and size was anxious to 90. but her
father-in-l law md mother said she should
not be taken from the house. They are the
lance surgeon, pointing to her husbands
parents, who stood at her bedside unmOyed by
her agony Joseph has been a good husband
to me, but they have prosecuted me. slandered
their power TO make my life uncomfortable.
should have done this long ago had it not been
for my darling child" When her husband
returned from work and saw what had hap
pened, he burst into tears. He was going for
his Wie'S family, who live in Avenue A. but
his parents held him, and said they could take
care OF her without any assistance. Her re-
cOvery is dOubtful-[N. Y Sun, 31st.
SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL CALIFORNIA, says
Mr.. Samuel Parnell. are becoming dryer year
by year. The rainfall is steadily diminishing.
and the desert is approaching still nearer to
me sea; Small groves OF trees are disappear
as formerly, and there is a decrease in the
now OF the arteslan wells. The Winters have
less IAN, and comparatively little snow falls
upon the mountains, and it soon melts away.
Great river beds are seen through which
small brooks do not now run. and the climate
III Summer upon the deserts possesses an
average tempHfat ufe OF from lUU0 to ll4o Fab,
equal TO that OF the Great Sahara and much
above that OF India, Persia, and the Red sea-
The evaporation OF southern and central Cal
lfOrnia in Summer Is .25 of an inch in "A hours.
These and O.her signs of future utter sterilty
he attributes TO the ShOrt-Sighted removal Of
the forests since the arrival of the white man.
THE PROPOSED FREE OIL-PIPE BILL re-
celVed Its quietus in the PENNSYLVANIA senate
wednesday, motion to indefinitely postpone
us HS, eo M ID having been adopted by
gard this action as dispOSng of the matter for
this session at least.
AN EMBARRASSED RAILRoAp.-Tbe second
mortgage bondholders of the Cincinnati. San
duSky and Cleveland railroad have agreed to
petition Tor the appointment of Dewitt c.
Brown as receiver of the road, in place of j.
;. farlow, resigned, and to fund the 6 per
cent. interest coupons commencing June /,
1877. into ten years scrip, bearing7 per cent
Interest, in order to relieve the embarraSS
ment of the road
As-SIlfOrd, Del, has Just got up a moral
SuaSlOn association.
Ea-Gen. Jos. +. Johnston announces him.
self a candidate for Congress from the Rich.
mond district of Virginia.
kSThe standing committee of the Protes.
tant Episcopal diocese of Florida refuses con-
sent 10 the conservation OF DIR. Seymour as
bishop Of the diocese of Springfield, Ill.
AsTThe latest English story about John
Brown: The Queens shawl falls off, where.
upon the faithful giilie enters the carriage,
pulls ont all the pins. which he places for con
yenience in his mouth ,readjusts the refractory
shawl round her maiesty's neck and pins her
up in il. .. .r
~The New Jersey senate has coneurred
in the house resolution instrueting their repre-
sentatives in Congress 10 vote against the
Bland silver bin.