Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-01
THE EVENING STAR.
European War Almost Inevitable.

| European war Almost Inevitable.
| RUSSIAN DEFIANCE or ENGLAND
| The journal Ie 81. PETERSBURG nm she's An
article, believed 10 he semi Official. on Eng
ian5S attitude. Referring 10 Lord Beacon
neld,S speech in the House 81 Lords Thursday
The article says: The balance of power i'm the
| mediterranean is only threatened by the preS
ence ell the British feet i'm the sea of Maromora
a NO. EnglandS possessions of Gibraltar and
malta. Ihe article further says: The call
| ing out ofethe reserves Notwithstanding the
statement that it does not imply war. + an.
other step In the path of proyecatiun. Russia
Will await, arms in hand, any attempt To dis
pute the fruits of her sacrifices. Which no
threats Will induce her 10 relinquish.'
AUSTRIA ARMING.
special to the Paris Pdtrie from Vienna
says rumor Is current there that the imme.
diate mobilization of 100000 men on the Bos
man frontiers has been ordered The Temps
Vienna dispatch reports that in consequence
saturday: when an alluSion TO an understand
ing with England was much cheered NJ. TisZa,
chiei OF the Hungarian ministry, has been sum
Rmoned to vienna. General Ignatietf has left
VIENNA Tor st. Petersburg. The semi official
MontdQS Rerue says General Ignatieff aScer-
!alnea rom Count AndraSSy that Austria re
JectS the treaty OF peace signed at San Stefano
as ciaShlng with both her own and Europeau
interests. Count AndraSSy also informed Gen
eia, tgna.ien oi AuslTla,s Interests with great
exactheSS, Dut General lgnatieff being without
poWerSto conclude any arrangement whatever
would accept the declaration cd rpfprond,,nJ
III Is stated that the immediate remohiliza ion
| Oh the WnOle SerNlan forces has been ordered
In consequence OF the report made 10y the com
mlttee OF the Austrian general stan that the
treaty OF San Stefano would compel Austria to
extend her military power over Seryia Mon
tenegrO. Bosnia and Albania
REPORTED YIELDING OF RI SSIA
Inc London S'0nddrd,S correspondent at
Berlin says in consequence of AuStria'S refusal
TO come to an arrangement with Russia il is
believed that Prince Gortschakoff has already
informed Lord LOTUS that Russia is ready 10
yield to Englands demand in regard TO the
congress.
TIE PORTE
A special to the Mdnddrd. dated CONSTANT
nople, Friday states that if the English fleet is
not withdrawn the Russians will occupy Con
stantlnople with the approval of the Sultan.
The standards correspondent at CONSTANT
nople teiegraphing on Sunday saws: 81 hear
on the very best authority that the Sultan told
the Grand Duke Nicholas that he would moi
fight against England. The Russians will oc-
cupy BuJukdere on Monday The English
have landed large quantity of war material
on the island of Tenedos.''
WAR INEVITABLE.
Inc correspondent of the London Times at
81 petersburg telegraphS on Sunday As fol-
lows: war Is now regarded as almost newt
able. The vague hope that diplomatic for
muia might be found for the renewal of nego-
TIA ions has been destroyed by Lord BeaconS-
| held'S declaration that the question at issue
Il not a matter of form but one of essential re-
atty.
a CITY OF Observation-Disclosures is a city
lull OF interest. of instruction and entertain
| longer resident. Nowhere in this country can
the cultured man of leisure or the intelligent
student OF American life and interests. be he
native or foreign. spend a season more pleas
uraby or protitably than here. More and more
the place is attracting to itself each year per
sons OF wealth and education, who seek the
most favorable opportunities for direct aSso-
citation with the leading and influential Gle
mentS OF national life. of familiariZing them
selves with the tendencies neces SitieS and les
| sons of the time. and who here find both diver
for -aLi
delce oil longer or shorter duration, some of
them regularly for their winter home and they
nelp 10 give the society of the city tone of
greater breadth and elevation than il would
otherwise possess. The permanent society.
embracing the people who live here constantly
from necessity or accident. is limited. but il is
choice, cultured, wellbred. and OF course cos
mOp0lItan. And the shifting element natu
rally OF miscellaneous character. which cir
Gle around II, give ii flavor of freshness and
BotrIes. IN Springfield Republican.
ITO BURY Yor IN."-Edmund billiard. re-
siding near Oakley, Caroline county, Va, went
to Richmond Thursday on business. leaving
his son William, aged Is years and a negro
named Dick Thompson, to clear up some new
ground. About noon the negro went to where
young Dlllard was at work, and found that he
had dug in the earth what looked like 4 grave
The negro asked what it was for. The boy re-
struck him with an axe i'm the back of the neck
making terrible cash. He followed this up
with blow on the throat, half severing the
windpipe- The negro. after running about a
hundred yards, dropped to the ground. Young
! billiard went to the house and coolly told his
sister she had better go and see to the negro,
out in the field. The sister had the wounded
man cared for. He will probably die. Young
| billiard was arrested. When asked what
prompted HIM to commit the crime, he said he
had no particular reason for il. but did it be-
cause he wanted to- 1t seems that he had dug
similar grave not long before, but had failed
| TO md tenant for ii.
LADY CAPTURE.-GeOrge w. Seven. who
occupies apartments in the New York Univer-
sity building, yesterday afternoon saw three
| men hastily leaving the room of +. S. Com
stock, another inmate. Doubling the honesty
OF or their Intentions, he acquainted the wife of
| Inc lanltOr with his suspicious and while he
was talking to her one of the men returned for
a bag they had dropped in the hallway. At the
Sight OF seven, the stranger, retired hastily
and Mrs. Matthews followed him to the door
where she questioned him, and finally called
out. Il know you to be thief Then seizing
the intruder She dragged him through the cor
rldor TO her room, where she left him in her
husbands care. and soon returned with Off
Ger Kenny, who relieved Matthews The pris
oner told Judge Duffy that he was John New
ell. of No. II Christopher street. Two hundred
and fifty dollars worth of stolen goods was
found In the bag, and various burglars stools
were concealed upon his person, for all of
which he was held in $l,0o0.-tN. Y Herald, 2sth
THE KELLY MOTOR HUMBUG.-Mr. J. b.
hnlght, secretary OF the Franklin Institute
who accepted Mr.. Keelys challenge for an ex
| pert examination of the motor, has published
| report of his Investigations and their results
| He states that he was not allowed To make a
| searching examination. but even with the ia
cllltleS offered him he is convinced that the
| motor is a humbug, and cannot produce A
| pressure beyond five hundred pounds to the
square inch and that the substance which Mr.
| keeiy claims to be new yapOr of his own
| discovery is nothing more than atmospheric
| air which had been previously compressed and
stored up in secret chambers of the apparatus
| Attached to the report is certificate from DR.
| CreSSOn, stating that an analysis of the gases
| taken to him by MIR. knight. collected from the
motor. showed them to he nothing but atmos-
| pherlc air composed of about 80 per cent. nj
| trogen and 2Uper cent. OXygen.-L PtdyGdeiphi
| Inquirer.
| AFRAID OF JUDGE LEoNARD's BoDY.-The
| steamship City of Vera Cruz, which arrived
| yesterday from Havana, did not bring the
| body of Judge Leonard, as had been announc-