Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-04-07
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FoRD,s OPERA HoUsE.-Haverly's Mastodon Min
strels close short but very successful engage
the best seen here for long time Next week
MISS Minnie Palmer will make us visit in her
popular play, my Sweetheart" supported by a
NATIONAL THEATER.-To-nigh Will be the last
opportunity OF seeing John T. Raymond In hts
| new success "In Paradise" On Monday the ever
welcome Maggie Mitchell will begin an engage.
ment, during which she Will appear in the pleas
Ing roles In which she has been so successful.
IHEATER COMIQUE-On Monday DCwlinc'5 mo
DOdy'S Claim combination will open at the COSY
Comique and continue during the week. The
program Is promised to be one OF unusual inter-
DIME MUsEUM.-The entertainment offered at
| the popular Museum continues to attract large
audiences. number OF additional attractions
VIII be offered next week.
The ROYAL ENGLISH BELL RINGERS and Walter
| Pelham at Lincoln hall during all Of next week.
excepting Wednesday night, and then at Wesley
| chapel, Will give some OF the most delightful
entertainments offered during the winter. The
praises or all by the press OF the cities visited by
| them are unqualified, and their houses have been
crowded The children can have no better treat
than hearing these performances
| WILLARD HALI--Dr. Hale, OF Edinburgh Scot
iand, WIZ give series OF health lectures here
| next week. Admission IS free to all, except the
private lectures, admission to Which viii be .
| cents.
THE QUESTION OF PAISTERs' WAGEs-The
| master painters at meeting at their hall! on
| pennsylvania avenue, last night, Thomas A.
f 6T9Wn' presdent IN the chair, and Andrew J.
/
| the demands OF the journey lnen house painters
| Tor an increase In wages.
| Mrs. DE FRoUvILLEs EsrATE.-The Danish min.
lister, NJ de Bile, has written to the register OF
wills In regard to the estate OF Mrs. de Frouville,
stating that as she was native OF the country he
represents, being childless, and having sister
| and half brother in Denmark, he would ask that q
| proper person be appointed administrator of her
estate. The Register notified NJ de Billie that a
| cltlZen or the United States would be appointe d
ana an every attention would DO paid to the
I al
How THOMAS MORAN WAS KILLED.-A coroners
inquest was held yesterday on the body or ThoIaas
| Moran, the old soldier, who was killed by the
| train at Queentown Thursday. Testimony deyel.
AID that when the train was within twenty feet
OF him he threw himself upon the track. DR.
Mansfield, Of the Soldiers Home, testified thai
J Moran had been In bad health, which had caused
an abstraction OF his mind, and he was not quite OF
sound mind. He believed that during one OF hi:
car without knowing It. The jury rendered yer
dlct that Moran was run over at Queenstown by
the deceased having thrown himself In front OF th.
tent
| THE EMANCIPATION CELEBKATIoN.-The chief mar
sna or the emancipation procession. to take place
on Monday week Q6th tnSt), and the various com
mltteeS met last evening and canvasSed the pros
pect5 anu arrangements. From the reports re
celved Il Is inferred that the demonstration will b
the largest OF the kind which has ever taken plac
here, and that, besides the local organizations
there Will be three military companies from Bait.
more and two communicates, Knights OF Pythfa,
and Damon, and the Langston Guard, OF Norfolk
The meeting Will take place at the Congregations
made by Col Robert Ingersoll, Fred Douglass, an,
| Rev. II. s. Laws
AN INSANE MAN ON THK AvRNUE.-Franz Kiese
Heb, q German, who came to this country In Sen
TENDER last, was arrested on the Avenue BY ONCE
Wheelock, aided by Mr.. Ed. weldon. The prtsone
appeared to be perfectly crazy, and had revolya
In his possession, which Mr.. Weldon, with grea
difficulty and risk, took from him. He wants {,
J go back to Germany, and asks for transportation
He was sent to the insane asylum