Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-08-15

| But we cannot
Buy with gold the old assocations.-iLonaye
| Jennie CrsmerS Sad Death.
BLANCHE DOUGLASS MAKES FALSE STATEMENTS TO
SHIELD HER COMPANIONS AND Is HELD IN 81 900
BAH. FOR PERJURY.
Annie Clements. alias Blanche Douglass. the
woman who plays so prominent part in events
preceding the mysterious death of pretty Jennie
Cramer, of New Haven. was arrested in New
York on Friday. charged with perjury. She con-
sented to go to New Haven without the for
mality of requistion, and In default of bail
was temporarily locked up. She admits having
] made some misstatements about what occurred
at Mr.. Malleys house when she was there with
Jennie. She describes Jennie as a very wild
girl, and the Malleys had told her that she was
not entirely innocent. This was confirmed by
the fact that Jennie accompanied her and the
haiieys to their fathers house and spent the
night with James in one room. while Walter and
| herself were in another room. She also ad-
mits that her statement that she was at the
Elliott house on Friday night was false, as
she again visited the Maileys; but she re-
iterates the rest of her testimony before the
cOroners inquest. that the last she saw of Jennie
was in a car bound for Sayins Rock shortly
| after her mother had scolded the girl for being
away from home all night. The New Haven
U,t,on urges the authorities to place Walter and
James Malley under arrest. arguing that 1.-The
Douglass woman is now under arrest and will
testify in fiat contradiction Of many Of her for
! mer statements and the statements of the NAL
leys. The latter may or may not acknowledge
that the Douglass woman IL now right, and con-
fess that they perured themselves: but that
they will voluntarily, while free from arrest tell
all that they know, We do not believe. But if
I once put under arrest and made to feel that the
| strong arm of the law was resting upon them,
| they might make a full breast Of their whole
| connection with the case OF course, if the au-
| thorities do not feel that not enough has been
elected so far to cast suspicion on the young
men, and that they have acquitted themselves
! satisfactorily so far then their conduct is un-
derstandable But this view is not shared i'm by
the general public. We certainly have no feel
ing against the young men, but We dare say
! that if they were poor and obscure they would
| have been arrested long ago on suspicion. Now,
| they are amenabe under the charge of perjury
and seduction. and deserve no more considera-
ton than the Douglass woman, if as much"
PRESIDENT JOHN w. GARRETT AND THE Cur
! RATES.-In a conversation in relation to the
cutting of rates of the trunk lines. Mr. John
w. Garrett, president of the Baltimore and
| Ohio road said his attention had been called to
the publication of a statement of President W.
n. Vanderbilt to New York Tribune reporter
! in the Tribune of August TO- Mr.. Garrett said
that as several days had elapsed without any
| correction having been made, he assumed that
President vanderbilt accepted the responsibility
OF having made the statement. He added that
it is painfully easy to convict President Wander
a,
his statement in reference to the Baltimore and
| Ohio company being absolutely contrary to fact
| In view of the Importance of this matter, Presi-
| dent Garrett has sent for the documents which
| will enable him to present the case through the
press at an early day in a manner which will
cause the public to understand the history of the
course of the New York Central company.
AN AERoNAUT recently descended safely i'm a
brickyard near Manchester, England but as
soon as he emerged from the basket a crowd of
| ruffians surrounded the balloon and. declaring
that they mum see what wur insOide began
to slit it in pieces with their knives. The aero
naut finally escaped with many bruises, and
about $50 will repair the balloon.
STRANGE ACCIDENT IN THE SURF-Mrs John
L. Terry. of BaypOrt. while bathing i'm the surf
last Friday. was thrown violently upon stake
supporting the lifeline. The stake penetrated
her side, infiicting probably fatal injuries.
SIGHT RESTORED AFTER SIXTEEN YEARs.-A
! singular case of restored sight, after total
| blindness of sixteen years. occurred the other
day in East Dubuque. The person is Mrs. La
Claire, an aged lady. who has resided in Dun
| leith for many years and who has been an object
OF pity among the good people Of that town be-
cause of her affection. Mrs. La Claire lost the
| sight of one eye from disease about twenty
years ago, and four years later the other eve
became affected. and in a short time thereafter
| the power of vision was destroyed and she be-
came totally blind, remaining i'm that condition
until one day last week, when her sight was
| suddenly restored while she was seated i'm
chair at the family residence in Dunleith.--
| Gdeaaa (IU.) Gazette.
AN EDITOR SH0T.-A special from Mayersyille,
Miss, says most cOwardly and unprovoked
crime was committed at Rolling Fork, Sharkey
| county, Miss, at oclk last Friday night. Chas
NJ. Murphy. editor of the Deer Creek Aduance
| was shot and MORALLY wounded by Joe Thomas
The assassin is still at large. Two hundred and
fifty dollars reward is offered for his capture.
Great excitement prevails.
BURGLARS DRIVEN OFF BY AGIRI.-The town.
ship committee of East Orange, alarmed by the
| number OF burglares In the neighbOrhOOd. have
appropriated $500 to be used in the detection of
burglars. The residence of Mr.. Joseph b. Ham,
| iltOn, in Walnut street. near Park avenue was
visited by burglars on Tuesday night. The ser
want girl, who was alone in the house, was
awakened by noise in an adjoining room She
sprang out of bed. seized large dinner bell
| that she had left on the bureau. and rang it to
| alarm the neighb0rs. Throwing open a win
dow she saw three men with blackened faces
run to Park avenue where they joined two other
men, and then the five sprang into wagon and
drove away. A conservatory window had been
| left open, and through it the burglars entered
| the house, ransacked every drawer aud closet in
| the dining-room, but got nothing, the girl hay
ing taken the silverware to her room. When
| they visited the second floor they tied cord to
the knob of the door Of the servant girls room.
Then they made bundle of Mr.. and Mrs. Ham,
ilt0n's clothing. In opening bureau drawer
! they awakened the girl.-N. 7. Sun, 18th.
| RANK GROWTH OF WEEDS IN NEW ORLEANS.
| The news from the country is that everything
| thanks to warm sun and refreshing rains is
growing with unexampled rapidity. If the
| crops in the parishes are thriving as well as the
weeds are in the city the yield this year will be
something more than prodigious. A gang of city
laborers cleaned out the cutters of an uptown
street about two weeks ago, and yet to-day the
grass and weeds on that Identical spot are waist
high. the flow of waters through the cutters is
stopped. and stagnant pond is created, un-
pleasant to the neighborhood for several squares
around. Even in the gardens of the finest up-
town residences the weeds have been too much
| for the flowers. which are chOked almost to
| DEATH while those with plenty of room have
run to plant. and show few blooms, blossoms.
or howers.-Neac Orleans (La) Democrat, Aug. 5.
| ATTACKED BY A SNAKE.-A CORRESPONDENT of the
N. 7. World writing from Dutchess Junction,
n. Y. August 9th. says: A few days ago az Mr.
Isaac Penny, Of this place, was walking along
The track Of the Newburg. Duchess and Con-
| necticut Railroad he was struck on the leg by a
large black snake of the racer variety which lost
no time in wrapping itself around his limb. Mr..
Penny took it by the neck with both heads and