Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-08-24

| THE SON OF RRv. Mr.. LITTLE AND THREE OTHER
PERSONS DROWNED cN MAINE BEACH.

A Warrington Boy Drowned
| Tue SON OF RRv. Mr.. LITTLE AND rHREE OTHER
PERSONS DROWNED IN MAINE BEACH
| The following dispatch was received from Mr. l.
G. K!nlball by his wife, In this city, from the C1
| Hou.e. osunqu!t, York county, Me-. yesterday:
-Four from the Gilt House were drowned on
this beach this morning, Eddie Little among
them. ME and Mrs. Little just saved.''
dispatch received by Mir. Keene, OF the Treas
u.y department, from l. G. Kmball, says: ssWhile
bathing to-day Eddie Little drowned In trying to
| save others"
Rev; Mr.. Little is the pastor of the Assembly
church. and with his family has been spending the
drowned is their second son and Is about sixteen
! years Old. This dispatch was read at the prayer
| sympathy was expressed for the bereavrd family.
II is thought that the incrment Will take place at
Cincinnati
THE SMITH BELL CIVIL RIGHTS CAsE.-The state
ment in the Baltimore American Of this morning
to the effect that Rev. George H. Smith, OF Nor
w1ch, Conn.,. who brought the recent criminal ac-
,ion under the civil rights act against james w.
Bell. the restaurant keeper, OF No. S43 Pennsyl-
van!a avenue in this CITY, for refusing him the
commodat!ons OF his restaurant, had also brought
civil action for damages, and afterwards offered
to compromise the case, is incorrect The third
that II case is prosecuted under the criminal sec
ton OF the act It cannot be rosecute1 cvlly. A
morning, and was Informed that there was no offer
on the part OF Smith to compromise the case.
A Boy DROWNED WHILE BATHING Yesterday
| afternoon Robert Barnes, a colOred boy, whose
parents reside on AZ street, between E and F
southwest was drowned near the railroad culvert,
a short distance beyond the south end OF the Long
bridge, while bathing.
Alexandria Affairs.
Reported for TIE EVENING STAR.
POLICE SCPERINTENDENT's WORK-The superln-
tendent Of police is now employing portion Of
curb. The street front of VIM. Reardons house,
on Lee street. Is to be improved, and new cutters,
are on Queen a. the
the dwelling OF w. II. Whiting Street repairs are
being made at various points, and the chain gang
are busy with street cleaning.
POILTICAL--Both parties have selected their can
vassers, ana some twenty political meetings, be-
ginning about the middle OF September and ex-
tending until November, arc arranged for, wholly
or in part Alexandrians are to hear Baker P
Lee. c. E. Stuart A. NJ. Kelley and others on the
conservative side, and Col Cuttings, Col: Lamb
and Messrs. Conrad, Pendleton, Fowler and others
for the liberal coalition ticket The conservative
h Is on business at the old Po
POLICE REPORT.-At the statiOn-hOuSe this morn
ing the following prisoners were detained: A.
stealing gun and blanket from Wm Brodbeck;
Mike M0rre ssey, arrested by Oflcer Franks for be-
ing drunk and unmanageable on the chain-gang.
cle.
A BELLIES MIsroRTUNE.-The belle of the ball at
Potomac hall sat down to rest on her way home
few nights ago and fell asleep. She dreamed she
was Cinderella and that the messengers OF the
prince were trying glass slippers on her feet:
barefoot for some one had stolen her shoes and
stockings.
Foote, opposite this place. now consists OF two
roll; 1.-The peach crop hereabonts is short.
boatmen OF dull times, but business has much i'm
proved lateiy.-Mr. Laws, an employe Of the
Midland railroad, died last night at his residence,
base ball CLUB will play the Oriental club, OF Wash
iinyton, this afternoon at the base ball grounds
place this afternOOn.-The telephone company
here is constantly widening Its business. 1t has
hoH bp t as many .eephones In service as IL
Work upon the WashingtOn-street N. E. church
has not yet been begun, but operations are expec-
large barges Is expected at the upper ship-yard.
The iron boom Is still Quiet.-Geo. Higgins,
who had his hand mashed at the Midland works
some ten days ago, is out and attending to buSi-
neSs.--The SchOOnerS q. Sherman and Emma NJ.
Wright have been repaired at the lower sh1p-yard.
not be fitted up for the present. The stores are
now all occup1ed.--Owing to q change in the
revenue Office here there was for awhile short
could he made. During July $4,000 worth OF stamps
were sold at the Office here.
The Color Line at Long Branch.
HOTEL PROPRIETOR AGREES TO BOARD CoLoRRD
JUBILEE SINGERS AND THEN BACKS OUT
Capt. Wise, proprietor of the Abbottsford hotel,
small house in Broadway, Long Branch, N. j.,
near the ocean pier, agreed to give board and lodg
ing at regular theatrical rates to the Virginia and
Texas colored jubilee singers, who were TO give a
concert last night and tonight The contract
stipulated that the coiored people, four OF whom
are women, should have the usual accommoda-
lions. When the company arrived at the hotel
yesterday, headed by the Rev. Mr.. Rice, general
agent and manager in behalf of Paul Quinn col
lege, for whose benefit the company are travelling,
they were told that they must dine an hour before
the regular guests, who are white. Capt Wise
told them that wnen the guests heard that color
people were to be harbored at the hotel they came
to him In body and told him they would all leave
IL he received the cOlOred troupe. He therefore
told the manager OF the company that he would
rather that he would find accommodations else
where. The troupe accordingly engaged board at
colored boarding house near by. Capt Wise
says that he did not refuse to board and lodge the
party. but that he merely appealed to their feel
ings. that they might fully comprehend the POSI-
tiOn In which he was placed, and that they left OF
their own free will. The Rev. Mr.. Rice. who comes
recommended by Gov. Benjamin r. Butler, Sena-
tor Hoar and ex-Gov Long, says. on the other
hand, that the landlord refused to receive his
company at the hotel Whether any legal pro-
ceediDgS Will follow Is not definitely known.