Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-03-08

! tne fhNNt crop has been s,b,htdt acres. .Satnn
less than the previous crop. In the northern dvi-
sion the area l. Is per cent or coo acres below
last year The condition is per cent above the
| average. Ia the CeHtrIl division, which raises
hal OF the whole crop ~ the state the condition "A
per cent. above IN" average, and the acreage is
| l3 per cent. or li0O00 acres below last YEAR In
| The southern division there has seldom been a
more promising condition or "A better yield per
acre In prospect
/ Gable Flashes To-Day.
| THE hURpERERs MoRoNy.
| DUBLIN. March S-Thc Gazete contains prorl,.
nation Offering reward uf 800 pounds, for lnfor-
nation, leading % the conviction or the murderers
OF the tenant Morony.
LAND LEAGUE FUNDS.
meeting OF the Ladies' Land League Yesterday
| acknowle igei having received 81 pounds FOR the
general tund, and l.5il pounds for the imprisoned
| eaguerS.
TIVE "usiTEp IRELAND" OFT AGAIN
| LIVERPOOL, March s.-The yHlfcd ireland was
| again issued here on Tuesday. Its imprint hears
the name OF Mr. Denver, who was recently nned
journal without an imprint AS the printer FOX Mil-
liam oBr.en
| MARINE DISASTERS.
| LONDON, March S-Steamer Ftnsbury, from Mes
sina for New York has stranded after having been
In collision near Gibraltar. She is badly DAM
aged, and temporary repairs viii occupy nve dayA
Kong for New York, Is on fire at this port. She
Will probably prove total loss, together with her
| beached.
SEVEN NEW CARDINALS TO BIZ APPOINTED.
| LONDON, March S-The Times correspondent at
Rome says: AT the approaching consistory th0
Pope will create seven new cardinals, Including
most Rev. Dr. McCabe, Archbishop OF Dublin. Il
Is a nnderstood thrt this expresses the Popes ap-
made In the cause OF law and order in Ireland
| PURE INVENTION.
Inc DdttD Astns Announces that the report pub
lshed In the ~. James Gazette yesterday about .
/ convention between Germany and France for the
annexation 10y the latter OF Luxembourg is pure
JUMBO TO COME
| LONDON. March S.-The injunction applied for,
| to restrain the council OF the Geological society,
| from allowing the elephant Jumbo % be removed
| from the gardens, has been refused with the costA
| against the plaintl.'.
| sKoBELEFF's SPEECH PREARRAHGEp
| LONDON, March S.-The Times this morning
prints letter from Sc Petersburg, which. IL says
IL has the best reasons for knowing, accurately de-
| ScribeS the situation. The letter declares that
| Gen. Skobelen's speeches were prearranged be-
/ tween him and Gen. ignatief. IL is said that the
object OF the latter is TO embroll matters TO such
degree as 20 create an opportunity for him 10 oer
his services TO the Car AZ minister OF foreign af-
| fairs In order 20 straighten them.
THE TRIAL OF DIR. LANsoN
The trial OF Dr. George ii. LaElson, charged with
poisoning his brother-in-aw, Percy Malcolm John.
| student at Blenheim House school, Wimbledon,
sometime since, commenced to-day. The court
/ room was deDseiy crowded with spectators. Tho
| prisoner pleaded not guilty.
AAC'LEAN AT WINDSOR CASTLE LAST SUMMER
LONDON, March S.-Ihe woulG-be assassin, Mac
| Lean, has been Identified man who last sum-
| mer freGuented the vicinity OF Windsor Castle and
| A Clergyman Arrested in the Pulpit.
RocKLAND, NE. March s.-Rev. Edward H. Ellis.
| OF NeponSery Mass, WAS arrested at North Haven.
Me-, last evening on charge of criminality with
| the wife OF resident OF Thomaston Both parties
belong TO highly respectable families. Ellis is q
Baptist clergy-msn, and has been holding revival
| meetings in this section the past two years. he
was arrested in the pulpit while addressing =
| large meeting.
A Train Fired AT and the Engineer
hat
| KENsINGToN. ILL, March "a freight train on
the Illinois Central railroad last evening fired
| at near Grand Crossing by several men who were
| standing short distance from the track. Engi-
neer Nicholas Stuber was struck and seriously
| wounded, ball entering his head under the left
eye. Stuber. who Ii a veteran engineer, stuck TO
his post and ran his train TO kensington before he
| received medical attendance. No motive can be
ascertained for the shooting.
PapaI Delegate 60 Canada.
MONTREAL. March S.-PT1vate Information from
| Rome says His Holiness the Pope has decided 10
send Papal delegate 10 Canada. and that the
| name of the prelate who viii ill this position "
| trust VIII be known In few weeks.
Suicide in Jail.
BALTIMORE March S.-August Ksner. a German,
| who was committed TO the city jail last saturday
| for disorderly conduct, committed suicide this
morning by hanging himself in the prison cell
Relieving the Flood Sufferers.
| ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND RATIoSs ISSUED IN Ar
KANSAS.
L II. Mangum, the commissioner for Arkansas,
telegraphs the Secretary OF War that he has issued
100 0o0 ratlons throughout the overi0wed country
In Arkansas TO about Is coo sufferers They wilIlast
seven or eight days. Affairs very alarming. SUI.
fering is on the Increase. and will continue from
forty to fifty days under the most favorable crcu
stances. There are not less than twenty thousand
sufferers from overflow In Arkansas.
EIGHTEEN THOUSAND DESTITUTE PEOPLE IN hIssis-
sIPPI
William L. Hemingway, commissioner for Mis-
sissppi, telegraphs from Memphis that eighteen
and
plies or means for procuring them. The number
win increase rapidly during the overflow. Rationo
| issued will be exhausted by the 18th inst
SUPPLIES FOR THE TENNESSEE SUFFERERS
A telegram from Governor Hawkins OF Tennes-
see, says that he has appointed II. w. James CON-
missioner for Tennessee TO receive and receipt fos
stores at Memphis Other points In Tennessee VIII
be supplied from that place. The number OF Ten
nesseeans made destitute by the overflow Is esd.
mated at from three 10 iye thousand The Secro,
tary OF War has directed Commissary General
Macfeey to issue Instructions TO have 10000 ra-
tions sent TO Mr. James at Memphis and has ad-
vised Governor Hawkins that the $4,000 rattona
have been ordered 70 be forwarded
The Eight-Hour Law.
WORKING MEN AT THE WHITE HoUsk
The corridors OF the White House were unusu.
ally crowded this morning with visitors desirous
OF seeing the President Prominent among them
was q delegation representing the different gov
eminent departments and the various navy YARDS
! throughout the country. Their object was to 80
the PRESIDENT feiatlVe 10 the enIOrctmtnt OF tl0
eight-hour law. which they say was rigidly en-
forced under Grants two administrations, but dis
regarded under the Hayes administration; They
wanted to call the attention OF the President to
the subject and TO urge the Reinforcement OF that
law. A. c. WinslOw, R. l. Fowler, David Gregg
and Mr.. Smith represented the State, War and
Navy departments; MI Knowles the Washington
Monument; Richard Emmons, Wm. Harvester and
Mr.. Dunn the Washington navy yard, and Nj. JIM.
Davis and VIM. r. Thompson the League Island
navy yard, II Philadelphia, and also all the other
navy yards
Alexandria Affair."
A VALUABLE STAMP.-The postal stamp craSo
seems likely TO be OF some benefit 70 the older peo-
pie Of Alexandria whose correspondence has been
retained Any Alexandria 'da.e stamp" OF 1855
is now worth 25 cents TO stamp fanciers and Post
master Mckenzie has a circular from a stamp
dealer offering twenty-five dollars for1ile Alexan-
drta stamp, "Paid cents Alexandria ID c" OF l6s5.
The readers OF THE STAR here can mike a good
thing by looking up date on hand stamps OF 1854
Other dates are also OF some value.
REPoKTER's N0TEs-Delegates stribbling. %
Fauquier. and Plaster, of LOudoun spent la eve
ming here, en- route for home, TO remain there dur
ing the recess OF the legislature. The Corpora
tf0n Court Judge Meade) IS again In session to-
day. Occupted with civil business. "A pleaSanG