Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-14
District Government Affairs.
SATJSTIrS


| The total mortality in the District OF Columbia
for the week ending Saturday, December 10, 1881,
at the rate Of a253 per 1000 per anhum. OF the
| deceients 90 were white males. % white females,
| - colored males, IL colored females, making an
population, a d 303 for the colored. From con-
| sumption there were II deaths, pneumonia. 10;
diseases Of the nervous system, 8; senile debility,
Z; diseases OF the heart, cancer and diphtherfa 8
each; bronchitis, puerperal diseases OF women,
and whoop:ng cough, each, and each for rheu-
mat1Sm, typhoid fever and malarial fever. There
were S2 births reported, VIZ: 30 white males, 10
white females, 12 cOlored males, and IL colored
600 for the white. and 1919 for the colored popu-
lation. Marriages reported IL white, IL; colored,
5. Stll-births 10; white, 3; colored,7.
Commodore T. Pattison, commandant at the
washington navy yard, asks the Commissioners
for IL North Carolina poplar trees for pla nting i'm
the navy yard. The Communication was referred
to the parking commission.
FEARS THAT THE BATH CITY Is LosT-The New
keIl Co., lis Pearl street. said yesterday that he
feared the steamer Bath City WAS lost She was
spoken nearly three weeks ago by the steamer
Manhattan. At that time her rudder was lost and
she was leaking at the stern post. She was not
disabled, and was well supplied with provisions
Manhattan. She was heading for ST. Johns Soon
after the steamers separated the wind rose to q
gale, and storms continued for several days"
AN OLD Scout PREDICTING AN INDIAN OUTBREAK.
telegram from Leavenworth, December 13, says:
for thrty-ve years. reported to Gen. Pope to-day
that there is little doubt that there will be an up
rising OF the Utes. Piutes and Navajoes in the
spring. The bands will unite somewhere I'm New
Mexico The Ctes, who have been placed in Utah,
he says, are being furnished with arms and prov1-
S1Ons by MormonS. who are also giving them all
the whisky they want ellison is the Oldest scout
In the service OF the government and Is considered
thoroughly trustworthy.
POISONING THE WRONG WOMAN.-A telegram from
Newport, December 13, says: 'John Slayin, aged
about 21 wears surrendered himself to the police
this afternoon. He said that he had unintention-
ally poisoned his sister, He had bought two
ounces OF Paris green and put it in a teapot, in
hope, he said that il would be drunk by female
member OF the family, with whom he alleges his
father was too intimate. The young mans mother
Is in an insane asylum. II Is thought by the phySi
clans that his sisters life can be saved.
GRAVEYARD INSURANCE CONCERN DISSOLVED.
A telegram from Harrisburg. Pa, Dec 13, says:
The Southern Pennsylvania Mutual Relief ASsocfa-
ton OF Hanover. York county, one OF the first
graveyard insurance companies OF nearly two
hundred organized In this state, was dissolved
ar its own request to-day by the court OF Daupbin
county. The company took this course because
it realized that the witnesses summoned By the
commonwealth would show that II had conducted
its business in an Illegal manner. The association
was the most extensive in Che state. having car
rfed assurances aggYegaftng $30.000,cC0 The
books OF the company Indicate that the officers
and directors must have made O handsome for
tune.