Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-09-02

time nothing was lett except little pile of legs
and pieces OF she'll to mark the spot where one
tarantula had fallen and another had dined.
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.
How Amos Kendall Fought Star Route
Thieves Nearly Fifty Years Ago.
Long Branch Cor. Utica Observer
Let us stop for a minute upon the piazza of
the West End" and hear what this group of
gentlemen are talking of SO exctedly. Poll
tics. of course. The star route cases engage
their attention, and some sharp things are
said about Dorsey's impudent letter which
nobody believes he ever sent to Garfield. In
very olden times it used to be said that the
way OF the transgressOr is hard. Nowadays
there is party of transgressOrs who devote
themselves to making hard the way of the
honest official, and chief among these have
attack Garfield, MacVeagh and James the
more they strengthen the reverence for the
memory OF the one, and the more they endear
the other two to the honest public History
repeats itself strangely, and strangely enough
has it repeated itself in the present case. WAY
back in Jackson's time, in 1885 37. this star
route business was once gone through with
VIM. I. Barry was then Postmaster General. and
he had allowed William B. Stokes and R. c.
Stockton, two Marylanders, and L. W. Stock
make charges against his department for extra
services performed by them in CARRYING the mail
But when Amos Kendall succeeded Barry as
Postmaster General, he affOrding q precedent
for Postmaster General James, did not see things
in the same light as his predecessor and the re-
suit was the litigation now reported in the books
as Kendall VS.. the United States which has be-
come famous. Under an act of Congress the
auditor OF the Treasury was directed to audit
the controyerted accounts and Virgil Maxey
who was then the auditor, passed upon and
allowed the major part of the contractors
claims. But Kendall was headstrong In his
honesty and refused to pay. The contractors
and politicians had Congress with them and
Congress came speedily to their relief. but with
true JacksOnian spirit Kendalstill held out, aud
was roundly cursed by all the good old-fashiOned
Stalwart's of his day. Congress even went so
far as to pass resolution to the effect THAT the
Postmaster-General is fully warranted in paving
and ought pay, etc. ETC., but it was of no USE
and the courts were finally asked to intervene
and compel payment by mandamus directed
court of the United States, and now fills 100
pages of Peters Reports. Kendall won. and
Chief Justice fancy stood by the Postmaster
General in his fight against dishonesty. But
Kendall was thoroughly hated and roundly
damned by the pOliticans-and there were poll
ticians in those days. Won Hoist speaks of
them as guild of professional politicians, as
l remember him, and they strongly resembled
the machines" of to-day. They swore to hound
Kendall to his grave and took every means of
damaging him, just as the star route tribe now
resort to all sorts of devices against MacVeagh
and James, but Kendall won, and SO will Post
master General James. am told that one of
the parties to the fight is still alive. old Extra
Billy Smith, who was one of tie contractors in
like plight with Stokes and the StOcktons and
who was subsequently elected to Congress.
The ssAristOcracy,, at Newport
Correspondence Cincinnati Enquirer.
By far the most beautiful girl in all Newport
at present is Boston har-dresser About all
the male admiration in the entire Casino yes
terday afternoon was bestowed upon her. and
she received 1t with the unconscious grace and
dignity Of an ideal duchess. Her father was q
brcklayer, 1 am told, her mother a washer
woman, and she herself ended her school days
at the age of thirteen to earn her own living
And here she is, a bright-skinned brunette, with
big, melting black eyes, abundant jetty hair.
regular features. q tall, shapely, well-carried
figure. and perfectly ladyllke manners. She
works busily and quite prOfitablv at home but
isnow out for holiday, and when a woman
loftily sent for her to come and dress her hair,
meaning an insult. she wrote back: 81 regret
to say that it is impossible. 1 did not leave
my shop as long ago as you did your slaughter
house, but l am for the time being quite
as far away from it, The fact was that
been practical worker in the Boston
pork packing house in which her hus-
band founded his fortune.
Crime in Franco.
The annual report of the Minister of Justice
as to the state of crime in France gives some in
teresting figures. The most curious fact de-
monstrated by the tables is, perhaps, that jury
trials have largely diminished in France since
10
Der of jury trials varied between 200 and 5. 700
From 1856 to 1860 the number was 4.155. and
since then it has descended to between 3,4OO.
as from 1876 to 1880. and 3, 800, as from 1871 to
1875 This change is attributed, not to a de-
crease in the amount Of crime, but to q
habit acquired Of late years by the examining
T Of g19nE nSssS e
reducing crimes to the dimensions of Of
fences within the Jurisdiction of the tri-
bunals of Correcti0natePolee. or the differ
ent years those which siow'the largest number
Of crimes dealt with byjuries down to 1856 are
1910, 1S47 and 1854, when the price of wheat was
high. Crimes against "morals,"
as they are styled in the report-viz, bigamy,
rape and indecellcy-have increased
from the first quinquennfal period, 1926 to 1880,
to the last, 1876 to 1880. from 305 to 932.
Murders which in the first period numbered
1876, in the last numbered $40 The change,
however has been chiefly due to a new cassi-
fication, and the number has remained on
the whole, stationary. Murder is most rife in
the southern departments, where one murder
is committed to S,2S5 inhabitants, and least
rife in the central departments, where the
is one murder to 2241S inhab-
itants. OF the other parts of France, in the
southeastern departments, the proportion is
one to Is, 700 inhabitants; in the northern. one
to 16, 200; in the northeastern, one to 16,4OO;
in the southwestern. one to 1920; and
in the northwestern, one to 1880. To re-
turn to crimes in general as regards sex, the
proportion Of male to female has remained
almost stationary-viz, about 81 per cent males
to 16 females The proportion of criminals able
to read and write, to those unable to do So has,
of course, with the dissemination Of education
increased. It has done SO, however, to a sur
prsing extent. In the first quinquennial period
the proportion was 81 per cent unable to read
and write, to 81 per cent able to read and write,
2 per cent having received superior educa-
ton. The proportion has gradually become in
verified, till in the last quinquennial period the
proportion is so per cent unable to read and
write to &c per cent able to read and write,
per cent having received asuperior education
London Post.
H1GaINs is quite an amateur in music, and the
other evening favored his friend Sprlggins with
an operate gem. Spriggins thought he would