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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-03-18

educated ministers in the conference, and is q
thorough theOlOgian. He has fine library.
embracing many foreign works. His first church
In this District was Union chapel. which he has
served three years, having come from Caroline
Street, Baltimore.
Rev. W. Hurst Reed who takes charge of
North Capitol church, Of which Rev. F. H. Ha-
venner was the late pastor, and Memorial. re-
Gently in charge Of Rev. w. Nick. Hammack.
comes from Hanover street, Baltimore. During
his two years at this church the edi6ce was re-
modelled (almost rebuilt and a new parsonage
erected. and he leaves it well out Of debt. He
has the reputation Of being an energetic church
builder.
Rev. w. T. L. Weech, who is the pastor of
Union, is not new to that church, for about ten
years ago he filled three-years' term there. He
has since served full terms at Winchester, Va,
Hartford Avenue and Monument Street, BaIti-
more Mr. Weech is a native of the West In
dies. the son of an English merchant. and re-
ceived his education in England. He is modest.
unassuming. and retiring but is good worker
and earnest preacher, and the Union people are
well satisfied that he has been returned.
Rev. Joseph France, ID. D.. who succeeds Rev.
George V. Leech at Fourth Street EAST WASH
ington) has been presiding elder of East Balti-
more district and filled number Of the Balti-
more pulpits-HarfOrd Avenue, High Street.
WhatcOat, Union Square, and Caroline Street,
having succeeded Rev Mr.. Hagey at the last
named, appointed in 1879. He has made good
record IN all 81 his appointments. The people
OF Fourth Street are expecting a prosperous
time during his pastorate. } DR.. France is the
father Of Rev. Harry Frances who some of the
Dunbarton church asked for. but who was re-
turned, however, to Winchester.
Rev. Richard Norris who succeeds Rev. Dr.
Deale at Ryiand, is native of Richmond, Va,
and fs not stranger in the District having,
some years ago. served atlWaugh chapel and
DunbartOn Street. Georgetown, since which
time he has served two terms at Madison Square
and jackson Square, Baltimore. he is regarded
as one of the best revivalists in the conference
is energetic, especially in building churches,
and successful in paying of chuEch debts. At
boil, Waugh and Dnnbarton, Street churches he
made fine showing.
DunbartOn Street, Georgetown, receives az
the successor of Rev. j. McKendree Kelley, Rev.
J. j. Quincy Webster, who comes from Hartford
Avenue, Baltimore. Mr.. Webster is native Of
Baltimore, and is widower-his wife, a daugh-
ter OF the late Levin Jones, of Baltimore, hav-
ing deceased about a year ago. He was, prior
to entering the conference, professor Of elocI-
ion In some Of the educational institutions of
baltimore, and Is considered one of the most
brilliant ana accomplished speakers Of the CON
ference. In Baltimore he has served jackson
SqNare, Monument Street, and other churches.
and has always left his charges in improved con-
diti0n. The Georgetown people are pleased
with the appointment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-03-18
MISS ANNIE K. HUMPHREY.

MIME. Won BRANDIS
WI MODESTO
yl3 Pennsy1yania ave- Dempsey's Stationery Store
Formerly with Lord & Taylor, New YORK. and VIM
Barr Co., st. Louis.
Evening Dresses Bridal Trousseaus, Q specially:
Cioake. Dolnans and Suits all made at the shortest
notice; perfect work. superior fitting; satisfaction
guaranteed. n26-6m
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-26
Astonished Wan-nhems.

The wild Indians description of his
first sight of steamboat used to be
much quoted Hobommok (the
devil) came swimming up che riverwith
whirlpool fins, and coughed, and blew
his nose, and yelied-with war-whoop
that sent every red man flying TO the
woods.
The sensation excited in the wild Chi
nese by silent and smokeless screw
steamer is described here in an extract
from notes of an Eastern voyage. The
actual fright was less, though the won
der was possibly even greater.
AS we moved up the Wan-chew River,
crowds of astonished Chinese lined the
banks to'see a vessel sailing head to
wind and current without any apparent
motive power.
Persons who are familiar with the
sight of an ascending balloon. the won
ders of electricity, or the silent progress
of propeller steamer, will have to re-
fleet moment before they can appreci-
ate the feeling of alarmed curiosity which
fills the semi-civilized of savage breast.
when for the first time impressed by
such apparent miracles.
In the present instance we had our
sails furled, were steaming with anthra-
cite coal which made no smoke, and
were running through strong current
and against the wind. There was moth
ing in the world to give ignorant minds
the slightest clue as to how we got
ahead. They were as much confounded
as we would have been to see an ox-cart
going up hill by itself.
As we thus assembled the winding
river, the villages along its banks pour
ed forth their excited inhabitants to wit
ness the strange spectacle, wo-
men and children hurrying to the wa
ter's edge, watching our mysterious
progress, and then returning slowly to
their homes, as if they had seen enough
to think about for week.
After we had anchored, they APP
preached us warily in their boats, refus-
ingto come alongside, and keeping their
eyes on our every movement. They were
evidently in doubt as to our terrestrial
origin.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-26
LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS.

ST. LOUIS. Sept. 25.-The difference be-
tween the locomotive engineers on the
Gould railroads and officials Of that system.
h&ve been amicably settled and strike
prevented. The following schedule of
wages has been agreed upon: Three and
three and onehalf cents per mile for pas
senger engineers, and four cents per mile
for freight engineers, 200 miles or less to
constitute a days work, and all over 100
niles to be paid for at the same rate-en-
gineers running pusfers to receive 800 per
month, switch engineers $50 per month.
All detentions over two hours to be paid
for at the rate of thirty five cents per hour
These terms are somewhat under the orig
inal demands, but the engineers seem to
be well pleased. 1t was further agreed
that no engineer shall be discharged with
out fair, impartial investigation, Provid
ed the engineer first submits his case in
writing to the proper officers of his road
and if found innocent he is to receive half
pay for the time lost during the investi-
cation.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-26
CATHOLICISM AND PROHIBITION

MILWAUKEE, Sept 25.-The National
German Roman Catholic Central Society
held its first business meeting to-day, and
President Spaunhorst stated in his annual
address that the society now numbered
$40 branches, with 10000 members in
twenty three states of the Union. He
commends the incorporation of the socie-
ty as the German Roman Catholic
Central Society of North America but ia
vors a conference committee for the pur-
pose of assimilation of the Catholic benev-
oient society of all nationalist, as called
for in letter from the benevolent society
of Pittsburg. He also introduced a series
of resolutions to the effect that the central
society declare against prohibition as con-
trary to the interests and principles of the
Catholic church. at the same time counsel
ing moderation in the use of liquors. The
report shows $450,000 cash on hand,
800, 600 paid during the year in sick cases
and SAG, 900 paid on deaths. There were
5000 new members received during the
year At a banquet in the evening Con-
gresham Deuster and ex-Mayor Black
spoke, being responded to by President
Spaunhorst.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-26
THE scovILLE 1NrELIcrTY.

CHIcAeo, Sept. 25.-George Scoville to-
day filed an answer and cross bill to the
petition of his wife, Francis NJ. Scoville,
for divorce. He charges her with I'M
chaste and unwIfelike conduct, particularly
in that she fell desperately in love with
one Geo. E. Earle, and that she visited
HIM so constantly that he was obliged to
change his boarding place and finally he
had forbid her coming to his office; that
the two kept up constant correspondence;
that she told her husband that she was as
much Earlie's wife as if she had been mar
ried to him for hundred years; that she
had been largely led into queer notions by
Geo. Francis Train. She was also very
intimate with DR.. Mary Walker, N. C. Bolin
and Lewis Hanchett.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-26
Facts in HUMAN Life,

There are three thousand sixty-four
languages in the world, and its inhabit-
ants profess more than one thousand
religions. The number of men is about
equal to the number of women. The
average of life is about thirty-three
years. One quarter die previous to the
age of seventeen. To every one thou
sand persons only one reaches one hun
dred years of life; to every one hundred
only six reach the age of sixty-five, and
not more than one in five hundred lives
to eighty years of age. There are on
the earth one billion inhabitants; of
these thirty-three million, thirtv-three
thousand thirty-three die every year,
ainety-one thousand eight hundred and
twenty-four every day, three thousand
seven hundred and thirty every hour,
and sixty every minute or one every
second. The married are longer lived
than the single, and above all those
who observe a sober and industrious
conduct. Tall men live longer than
short ones. Women have more chances
of life in their favor previous to fifty
years of age than men have, but fewer
afterwards. The number of marriages
is in the proportion of seventy-five to
every one thousand individuals. -
Marriages are more frequent after
equinoxes-that is, during the months
of June and December. Those born in
the spring are generally of more robust
than others. Births are more
frequent by night than by day, also
deaths. The number of men capable of
bearing arms is calculated at one-fourth
of the population.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-26
A Mountain springtime in Wyoming

| Spring in all latitudes and longitudes
| is indeed a delightful season. It is more
especially SO here near the place where
| Winter is stored up for use almost the
entire year. Here in the neighborhood
| where the remains of Sir John Franklin
were found, here where a man has TO
wear a seal-skin cap with ear muffs, on
the Fourth of July, Spring. gentle
Spring. is more heartily welcomed than
elsewhere.
All nature is glad at this season of the
year and at this elevation. The socia-
BILE little cactus comes forth in the
gulches, while in its bosom the bud is
swelling which in June viii come in its
tropical brightness, meek little cactus,
emblem of reluctant Spring. Coy and
shy, modest and reserved at times, let
not the fresh and gentle stranger under
take to crush thee with his person.
Spring in this torrid cline reaches us
about June, and even at that time
seems uncertain and lacks that decision
of character which marks the season
farther away from the open polar sea
than we are.
1t is at this season that the mountain
streams are turned into the irrigAting
canals and.go laughing down the green
Oh TIE IOWnS KISSING sbHc
oyster can and with gurgle of salts
faction dallying with the stiffened re-
mains of the holiday corset.
Out in the sHn-kissed hills and over
the mellow distance where the gray sky
fingers lovingly on the mountains, the
graceful little ,eottontail is bounding
athwart the glorious landscape. On
beyond him the eye catches the swift
yet noiseless movement -of-the coyote.
In moment the cottontail and the
coyote viii have melted into each other
like beautiful dream, and the coyote
will be on the outside.
In the greenish- gray foreground of
shis beautiful picture, underneath the
protecting boughs of the sagebrush. the
.agahen Is laying her'eSgs. 1Weiwill not
disturb her thoughts, The intellectual
strain which it requires to lay an egg
should not be harshiy broken in upon by
the careless and thoughtless worldling.
Across the stretch of level plain and
the green divide, the Summer sephyris
signing, and on its heaving bosom it is
bearing The seductive odor of the sand
lily, the alkali buffalo willow and the
deceased Texan steer
Spring, sweet-scented advance agent
of Summer, you are once more among
us. Beautiful Spring has come. Bill
Nye's boomerang.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-26
MILWAUKEE IN HOT WATER.

MILWAUKEE, Sept. 25.-The common
council held a stormy meeting this after
noon, to consider the financial affairs of
the city. The comptroller claims short
age of funds of nearly $4,000, caused by
overdrafts and Encouragement on thepart
of former comptrollers. He SAID, in ex-
planning things: I'VE are to day borrow
ing advance taxes and loans TO the amount
of $3.50. 900, of which $3.50, 600 have al
ready been expended for overdrafts.' The
council did not act upon the matter, which
left it in its present shape, the comptroller
refusing to sign orders upon the exhausted
funds
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-26
No cards.

Just now each of the republican bosses
in most of the states is very like the boy
caught in the farmers apple tree-"Noth-
ing to say" He knows, if he knows any
thing, that old issues are as dead as Julius
Cesar, but he hangs on to his Office by his
teeth with tenacity which bids fair to
break him all up when the crash comes.
The truth is that the honest, hard working
republican masses begin to realize that
they have worked like slaves-and been
treated like slaves, too, in order that an
army of Office holders might retain their
grip upon the public crib. But de day
of retribution am comm" and the fat
office holders will be turned out to browse
as Nebuchadnezzar did
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-26
SETTLEMENT OF EGYPT

NEW YORK, Sept 23-The Tribune s
London cable special says: The surrender
of Damietta finally disposes of the Egyp-
tian rebellion. The English and the for
eign press are in the thick of the discussion
on the resettlement of the country. 1t
seems to be forgotten that it practically
remains with Mr. Gladstone to say wheth-
er there shall be reference to Europe or
not The powers agreed to British inter
vention on the understanding that any
modification of the status quo should be
submitted to general consideration. At
present the status quo only is revised
since the Khedive is resuming the govern
ment with the old arrangements, including
the Anglo French control, in which the
French representative takes part. 1t is
quite probable, however, that Mr.. Glad
stone scheme will make necessary serious
changes. 1t is most likely that they will
be submitted to Parliament, and that then
a conference will assemble. As to the pur-
chase of a suzerainty, it is strongly pressed
on the government. England declares that
she will not encroach on the Sultan's
rights. On the ether hand, we hear from
Vienna that Europe is quite willing to
grant England the wardenship of the SueZ
Canal, with the protection of the territory
on either side.
THE FRENCH PAPERS
failing to observe that the control still ex-
lists, are demanding that England shall
compensate them for exclusion from Egypt
by consolidating their influence in Syria.
Mr.. Gladstone's triumph in Egypt is a
crushing blow to his opponents at home.
Tory orators are reduced to such straits
as that of Lord BuIy. who, having been
under secretary for war in the last govern
ment, coolly takes credit for all the ar
engagements of the present war and sug
gests that the war was precipitated to re-
establish Mr.. Gladstones reputation. The
same spirit has shown itself in many of the
party organs, proving the strong position
the government has assumed in the popu-
lar estimation. Nevertheless. it is per
fectIy true that Mr. Gladstone has ridden
off under the smoke of the guns at Tel-el-
Kebir The Tories only hope that he may
blunder in the conference. Lord Dufferin
shares the congratulations heaped upon
Sir Garnet Wolseley by the Irishmen.
Whether by the stupidity of the Porte or
by careful design, he kept the Turks out
of Egypt and prevented the execution of
the commission given the sultan without
offending the powers. The Times says he
is worthy successorto Stratford de Rad
cliffe
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-26

The Inter Ocean has the face to declare
that 1.-The Germans of New York hailed
with satisfaction the candidates nominated
at Saratoga If they were the kind of
Germans that we have in Illinois, in the
main men of intelligence. they probably
hailed the nominations with satisfaction
because they could be most vigorously
seooped at the polls. That's the size of it,
at all events.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-26
Open Gaming.

How the Business is Carried on in New w.. ~
Gambling is booming again in NJ
York. In the belt across bounJod' G wv
Park place on the north and LILY
street on the south, there are poy,
less than seventeen games in fnlI hlI no
every weekday from early in the a J,e's'
noon until 10 o'clock, and soma,;,, eI-
until midnight. There are only tue -
three of these run on bank as small VI
$4,000. Their general capital il Si0 Al
600, and there are three or four ~ III
with double that amount CONSTANT, ~
the drawer to tempt all Corners h..
there is not one now in the citv tbo.
nnds 1t necessary to have bank NJ
$4,000, as one big uptown Morrisssr
combination game did during the w st
That game has now reduced its CAN'T;
in hand to $780, In Broadway anJ
Twenty-siXth street are two, at least ~
the heaviest games in New York at ,b;,
time. The proprietors of one Of tboso
also run a big day game in FuItoT
street. and during the summer se.soa
carry on the establishment formerly rnu
by John Morrissey at Saratoga. Tba
season at Saratoga is short. but ver,.
lively while it lasts, from S2O.OOOt y
$4,000 changing hands every night
Midnight suppers are no lonSer tho
feature they were before the war TIL
gambler may offer to the PLAYER With
whom he is acquainted social glass ~
very good liquor or a fine cigar. but h.
no longer thinks of tempting custom bv
bird suppers and expensive wines L
is said by gamblers in this line of plav
that the percentages in the banks favor
with the way the game is now PLAYED do
not allow sufficient margin of profit
for them to indulge in any such extrav.
agance. In one very old gaming house
in Barclay street two meals are set each
day for the employees and partners Of
the house, and if any patrons are pres.
ent at the time of the meal they arc
welcome to partake, but there is M
marked endeavor to get up a partcn.
larly attractive spread. Three Of the
best uptown games still have midDiobt
suppers for their employees, at which
players are invited to share, but tho
suppers are not feasts The limit of The
game has been much reduced since tbq
war. Then in two or three of the larcer
games it was $3.50 to cases and $500 70
doubles. Now it is down so that the
highest. apart from some rare exception.
al case, is only 800 to cases and 500
to doubles
Policy, although by no means wiped
out, is very far from being what it wa,
two years ago, when nearly 800 Office,
fiourished in New York Now there
are not more than 200 offices. A fea.
ture of the lottery business now is that
300 or 400 men, and some women, are
going about town constantly peddling
tickets among their friends and &C.
quaintances. They penetrate into stores,
factories, meetings, lodge-rooms
where, indeed, that there is hope Of
finding purchasers. Many of these per.
sons also write policy slips, which are
rewritten for them by some regular
office thatpays them a small percentage
for their trouble. "GGth'' in Cincinnah
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-26

The Inter Ocean says that there are
said to be no less than 1000 officers in one
wayor another under the governor Of New
York. A machine with so many cogs in
it as that must be a tremendous power,
and no wonder there is a fierce contest
over the position of chief engineer" For
''cogs" read hogs" and you will have an
idea of the annual scramble of the repub-
lican ms to keep in. But Folger who is
the right bower of an anti-Garfield ad
ministration is not likely to be called on to
act as chief engineer of the Empire State
if the Albany journal is authority 1t
were better, therefore, that he cling to his
present soft snap remembering the old
adage about "a bird in the hand" etc.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-26

The age of the church of England has
long been an open question, good church
men insisting that it is in the direct line of
apostolic succession, Romanists and dis
senters insisting that it dates from the
quarrel of Henry VIII. with the Pope of
Rome. A legal decision has been rendered
in England which mag be set down as
judicious establishment of the fact that
the established church antedates Henry's
coronation at least 626 years. A piece of
property, which had been leased in A. d.
S83 for 500 years, was claimed by the
church by right of reversion, and the court
held that the claim was good. That great
soldier and statesman, Alfred the Saxon,
founder of the British navy, and almost of
English litera ture, was on the throne of
England when that lease was executed.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-26
A DIFFICULT TASK.
state Register.


For few days past the Register has
been trying to harmonic Gov. Cullom's
''key note speech with the laws of the last
radical legislature and the State Journals
editor ials Oh state finances but we get
further from it each day. We might
harmonic the utterances of his excel'ency
with the laws, because he disposes of the
differences between the amounts called for
in his message, the amounts appropriated,
and the amounts collected, by saving that
the democratic platform is a lie-which if
not conclusive is at least satisfying to the
governor, But the intruding of the Journal
editorials adds confusion.
The journal Indignantly denies that the
sum of $4,000, 600 has been taken ou5 of
the pockets of the peope. The Register
made no such assertion. The Register
said that by the taxes on the assessment
of 1881, the sum of $3,S00,000 had been
levied as state taxes 1t then took Gov.
Culloms word tina. the taxes for the next
year would be about SO cents on the one
hundred dollars Zone fourth less than the last
rate), and this would raise 50 800 000-or
a total for the two years of SO, SOC, 900.
And as the Journal insisted that only
revenue of $5, 100000 was provided for,
it is a pertinent inquiry why $6,600,00O
should be raised to meet it-and this in
quiry the Journal persists in ignoring. The
most amusing part of the last effort of the
Journal is found in its statement that the
way to make up the deficiency between the
amount of appropriations and the revenue
is to add to the latter the sum TO be re
ceived from the officials as fees, the sum
received from the Illinois Central railroad
and the amount transferred from the Illi-
nois Central fund. But this, as will be
seen by the table presented by the Register
some days ago, would still leave over 5000,
600 unprovided for. The Journal talks
about $500, 600 school fund being in the
state treasury, but that had been appro-
priated, and could not be very well used
again even by as able tinanciers as Gov.
Cullom or the ,JOaTRdt editor.
We would be pleased to have our con
overhaul its log and settle
down to a system that will correspond
with the line of argument marked out by
his excellency.
If our neighbor will give lucid eX-
PLANTATION of the matters heretofore dis
cussed we would then like its opinion as
to whether or not it believes it was wise
to expend $4,000 for a kitchen at the
Chester penitentiary, $4,000 for an
hall at Kankafee, and s., 900
for bath house at the same place, or So,
600 for an artesian well at Elgin