Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-12-05
GEORGETOWN.

GEORGETOWN.
THE CANTArA Of the New England Quilting
Bee. given last night at Curtis Hall, for the
The principal characters sustained by Miss Fam
ME Herr, MeSsrs. W. Riley Decide, F. W. Moi
fatt, Lee Cox and Miss Barbarue deserve eS-
pecial mention.
TELEGRAPH POLES Down. - Two telegraph
poles have fallen down on Fayette street, near
list street.
GRAM. : Arrivals = Boat Ruby. with 5000
bushels OF wheat and 500 bushels corn. Boat
Hattie and Bennie with 5000 bushels wheat.
MERCHANTS MISUNDERSTANDING on change
to-day-6.6oO bushels of wheat. with sales of
5000 bushels at 1.52k. S,IO0 bushels sold yester-
day at prices ranging from Las to 1.55.
THE ASHLEY BELT CoNTEsT.-Daniel O'Leary
says that he will under no circumstances go to
England for the coming Ashley contest, which
Rowell has decided to be held in London. Mr.
O'Leary has sent instructions to the Sporting
LIE to hand over the 500 which he deposited
Just after the last contest, to the Rev. Father
Smythe, Catholic priest of London, to aid in
building parochial residence. Mr. OLeary
says he will not only not go himself, but will
sidered likely that any prominent American will
appear in this contest.-[M. I. San.
THE KEILoGG-sroFFoRD CASE ADJOURNED
The Senate subcommittee on the Kellogg-Spof-
ford case adjourned in New Orleans Wednesday
to meet In Washington to prepare their report.
Senators Cameron, Vance and Hill, Gen. Wilcox,
Sergeant-at-arms, and Messrs Small and Ran
dali left for Washington yesterday morning.
A PRIEST ELECTED TO SCHOOL COMMITTEE
At the municipal election at Cambridge
Mass, on Tuesday, Father o'BrIen, Catholic
priest, was elected a member of the school COM
mfHee by a huge majority upon the distinct
ground that he is a supporter of the free public
school system and rigid opponent of the course
Of Father Scully, the priest who has made all
the recent rumpus on the subject. An appeal in
behalf of Father OBrien's election was circu-
lated throughout the city, headed by the Rev.
A; P. Peabody, the preacher to Harvard Univer-
sity.
THE UNPOPULAR BEII-PuNcH.-The revenue
laws OF Texas, especially the bell-punch, which
recently went into operation, have met such OPP
position from combinations in the cities that
the state has been defrauded of her dues, and
Gov. Roberts has felt himself called upon to
officially proclaim the fact He urges the Off
Gals to prosecute offenders speedily, and re-
quests all good citizens to back them up in it.
Virginia also has great trouble In enforcing its
bell-punch law, and another effort to repeal it
will be made at the present session of its legis-
lature.
SEDUCTION AND SUICIDE.-Hattie Mulvay aged
about 40 years, committed suicide at Williams
port, Pa, Wednesday evening, by taking strych-
nine at her boarding house. She left a note
saying that she had been deceived, and asked
for decent burial, as she did not consider her
self wicked woman.
A TERRIBLE TEMPERANCE STORY was told at
the morgue, in New York, a few days ago. with
none OF the accessories that emphasize tem-
perance play. The subject was the dead body
OF a young man Of 30 years, found floating in
the river He was the son OF wealthy parents,
highly educated in book knowledge, but sent
out to the worlds temptations with no know
ledge of handicraft or business, and furnished
with plenty Of money which he had not earned
or learned the value of. 1t took but short
time. what with tdleness, sporting habits and
1,0 6rirN irpfr hat onto
him common drunkard and the end was that
his sorrowing relatives, in their searches for
him after he had been missing from home for
several weeks, came upon his almost unrecOg-
n1zable body In the morgue.
THE TIDE OF IMMIGRATION is strong again.
For the year preceding the first Of November
York, against 1909 for the previous twelve
months. Subtracting the soj0urners and the
citizens Of the United States returning, there Is
a total of 124.6l5 genuine Immigrants for the
period in question, against 50, las for the equal
period just preceding.
INA SUBURBAN THEATER they were playing a
melodrama which-like any melodrama that
knows its business-ends. with the hero run
ming down and capturing the william, whom dis
lonely wood. Unhappily the hero's pistol is out
OF order as to the lock, and the hero cannot cock
it to take his long sought and ardently desired
revenge The villain perceives what is wrong,
the situation is becoming comic; with great
presence of mind he snatches the pistol from
the hero's hands courses upon We ALL he
Kisses, "shan l owe my death to beardless
boy that knows not how to cock his pistol?
Neverrr? Better, q thousand times better, to
die by my own hand!" Shoots himself amid
the frantic applause Of the audience.)
THE AMERICAN HORSES IN ENGLAND are pre-
pairing for still more vigorous campaign next
year than they waged the present, having
received large reinfOrcements. For the Two
Thousand Guineas race, which occurs at the
Newmarket first spring meeting, 1880, besides
Mr.. Lorillards seven entries, which sound like
an Indian tnvasion-Iroquois, Paw Paw, Santee,
Merr1mac, Wyandotte, Passaic, and Dakota,
Mr.. j. r. Keene has four entries, and Mr.. San
ford has two. Out of this bakers dozen there
should be some American starters.
AN EMPTY CITY TREAsURY.--The city OF Will
mfngtOn, DEL, is in financial quandary. The
new year will be commenced with an empty
treasury, and for six months there will be no
funds to pay salaries or maintain the schools.
Heretofore a remedy was yearly found in Dor
rowing, but this is now declared Illegal, and
such resource would render themselves per-
sonally liable.
THE KING KILLERs.-Many arrests have been
made in and around MOSCOW OF persons SuS-
pected of knowledge Of the plot against the
Cars life. The plot is believed to have ortgi-
mated in Geneva, where the necessary materials
were supplied. Antt-Socialists say the deed
was accomplished by one branch of the organ
ization of King killers, formed two years ago,
since which time attempts have been made to
kill King Humbert, King Alfonso, two attempts
on the life of the Emperor William and two
against the Gar.
GHOUIIsH STUDENTS have created great excite
ment at Montreal by their body-snatching oper
ations. They were interrupted the other night
while robbing graves and fled, leaving two un-
earthed bodies behind them. A medical college
was searched and two other bodies both of
which were diSSected were found.
eE-The miners of JONES' Simpson & Com
pany, at Archibald, Pa, are on STRIKE because
they are not allowed to inspect the company's
books.
az Joseph and Mary Volkener were yesterday
indicted in New York for giving poison to ChaS.
E. Blair with intent to kill him.
rE Mrs. Alice Darnbrough, who has been in
Jail at Belleville, Ill, the past two months on
charge of poisoning her husband about year
ago, was discharged yesterday.
Judge Samuel Reber, a prominent attorney
of St. Louis, died In his bed, in Cincinnati, the
other NIGHT and his wife a niece Of General