Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-09-02

A Big FAILURE.-Simeon Gutmann q Sons,
manufacture1s OF shirts, at No. 800 Broadway,
500, Coo assets probably will not realize half
that sum. Their business was done largely by
means OF notes, aud they mad paper out to the
extent OF about S115, 600 one firm alone, Hess
Bros. & Co., having sold s1OO, 600 worth of their
paper. Hess Bros & co. are creditors for Sic, 600
Besides the above amount OF notes. the firm
owes $4,000 confidential. and about $50 900 for
merchandise. The banks are the largest cred
itoTs, but they claim they are generally secured
The assets consist OF debts outstanding and real
estate owned by the senior partner. The cause
of the failure is ascribed to the illness of S. Gut
mann, who has been sick for the past two
months, and is not expected to live. He man
aged the finances OF the concern: The other
parties were unable to obtain sufficient funds to
meet Obligations, and suspension follows.
PARTICULARS OF THE WISE JOHNSTON AFFAIR
The case OF Captain John s. WISE charged with
being about to engage In a duel with DR.. George
Bt o. Johnston, came up In the police court In
Richmond yesterday. Captain Wise, who had
kept out of the way of arrest since the first of
last week, surrendered Tuesday, and was pres
ent In court. Several witnesses were examined
in elation to the Appreciated hostile meeting,
after Which Captain WISE after stating that as
1t was now certain he would be placed under
boId, said he desired to give full statement Of
the whole matter, as he thought It was time
the public should know about it. He then re-
cited the story OF his being black balled last
winter by the Westmoreland Club when he was
hoL ored with fifteen black balls for being re-
aQJuSter and friend OF General Malone; that
he had on the stump and IN published letter
GenouL ced the fifteen as towards and assasstnS,
and had insulted two OF them who had come In
his way; that recently he had been informed OF
conversation IN connection WIFI the black
balliDg, which reflected On him, ana that the
correspondence had then commenced. Captain
Wise read the whole correspondence. which Is
quite voluminouS, and in the course OF which he
denounced all who had black balled him as
towards and dastardS, who had stabbed him In
the dark. DR.. Johnston, In letter 10 Captain
Wise, stated his connection with the affair and
demanded fun retraction OF the Insulting Lam
guage used by Captain Wise, to which the latter
leplled, declining TO retract the insult and re-
affirming it with full force and erect. CAPTAIN
Wise stated that he had remained out OF the
city to give any OF the aggrieved parties an op
portunity to communicate with him. as his
Whereabouts were sufficiently well known for
that purpose, but that now he considered the
matter as farce and at an end. The police
justice placed him under bond In the same
amount $4,000 as he had DR.. Johnston.
CLOSED UNExpEc7EDLy.-The season at Long
Branch, n. j., was unexpectedly ended ycster-
day by the closing OF the Mansion House, the
Atlantic, Central and Howard Hotels. The
United states Iauck's, Brighton and Rowland
Hotels Will close on Saturday. The season.
Notwithstanding the abrupt way In which IL
closed, was the most successful ever known at
Long Branch.
THE AMERICAN SCIENTIsrs.-Before the Amer
lean Science association, IL session In Boston,
yesterday, Mr.. E. B. Elliott read a paper on the
credit OF the Us. government, showing for the
last fifteen years gradual improvement. Prot.
w. o. Atwater, OF the Wesleyan university,
read paper upon 1.-THE Chemical Composition
and Nutr1ttve Values OF Fish" He referred to
the widespread but unfoun1ed notion that FISH
Is valuable for food on account of It's large con.
tents OF PHOSPHORUS. The fact is that there is
as yet no proof that fish Is very much richer in
PHOSPHORUS than other animal foods, nor II
this were proved would 1t necessarily follow
that 1t was made valuble to nourlsh the brain.
the PHOSPHORUS theory has no solid foundation
IN fact. In the evening session a committee.
among whom were D. G. Gilman, of Baltimore:
Asaph Hall, VIM. Hardness, Simon Newcomh
ara j. w. osborn, OF Washington, were an.
pointed to confer with the President of the
United States on the appointment of a chief
signal officer, with instructions to urge the i'm.
Loflance OF seVerlng the meteorological por.
service: and OF placing the former under strictly
scientific control