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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-07-05

THE WEEKLY STAR for this week is now ready
for mailing; price, three cents per copy. 1t Is q
large, eight-page paper OF hfty-six columns, cut,
pasted and folded, and will be sent anywhere in
the United States and Canada, postpaid, for one
dollar year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-07-05

NAVAL ORDERs.-CapL John H. Russell has
been detached from duty at the photographic
Office, ana placed on waiting orders; Lieut. Edw.
w. Renney, from the Tennessee, and ordered to
the Portsmouth; Naval Cadet s. D. Green, jr,
ordered to the Kearsarge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-07-05

SUIT AGAINST THE BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC RR
To-day MesSrS. Hagner & Maddox, for w. c. Bam-
burger. filed bill against the Baltimore and Poto-
mac railroad to restrain 1t from using the tracks
in such a manner as to tncommode him on east
10th street. This suit Is precisely similar to that
OF Knights, except as to location. Messrs. Hagner
and Maddox presented the bill to Judge James
this morning, and he made q temporary order re-
turnabie July 18th.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-07-05
The Man Who Married Charlotte M
Crabtree sa

HE MAKES A STATEMENT IN JUSTICE TO "LorTA,'
AND 1NTIMArEs THAT MIsrAKE HAS BKEN
CAUSED BY SIMILARITY OF NAMES
A STAR reporter to-day met Mr.. O. Edwin Huss
the young gentleman whose name has been
widely published as the possible husbando or Lotta,
the actress, because a marriage license was issued
here few days ago in the name OF O. Edwin Huss
and Charlotte M. Crabtree.
II want to say something" he said to the
reporter. "about the statements in the morning
paper about my Offering to lease the National
theater. l was there for that purpose, but
ho'ta In na,oC Craotree had nothing to DO with it
wanted to secure 1t for her will say that that Is
mistake. never mentioned her name, but as
acting for he to ME- &nsey
vance, never stated any figures OF any kind.
said that I would do bitter for him IL had a
about Miss Lotta NJ Crabtree, the favorite actress
ana myself, Is without foundation. She is now In
EnSland, l believe Her name is Charlotte NJ:
CfaOtree, and my wife'S name Is the same. did
for t." ''' '''''' 'S' ''''1'' "'' '''' 'u' ''N'
Then you do not claim Lotta as your wife?"said
The rumor is without foundation" continued
MI MI; HIss u know the whole family: l have
lea; Outside Of that there is nothing between
"But you have been married to a lady OF the
same manner" inquired the reporter
II 40 not want or intend to say anything about
VINO Wnom have married at all want only. in Jus
tiNO W ulSS LULA, tuc ldFOTlCe 3CtreSS, 10 make
this statement, but anything further I am not
willing to say"
SO Mr. lluss left the reporter In state OF mysti-
lcatlOn as TO whom the Charlotte NJ. Crabtree who
Is not Lolita" may be. Afterwards Mr.. Huss re-
turned TO see the reporter and said mysteriouSy,
II expect to leave for England tonight"
WHAT Mr.. RAPLRY Knows ABOUT MR. HUss
MI. Harry Rapley told a STAR reporter to-day
that he knew nothing about the rumors OF Lotta's
marriage except what had been published. He
4 10 hod pfod 10 I'm
That the lady he was reported to have married
was Lotta. the actress Mr.. Rapley stated also
lease OF the National theater, but had not men,
toned LCtta as his backer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-07-05

GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY.-1nternal reve-
nue., s57s, ,720 12; customs, <soe e,9sse6
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-07-05

GENERAL CROOK is expected to arrive this after
noon or this evening. After consulting with him
upon the Indian situation the Secretary of War
will go to New York for few days AMI confer
with the President.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-07-05

THE VIRGINIA CADETS AND THE PRESIDENT
The Cadets Of the Military Institute of Virginia,
who yesterday, in New York, returned the flag
captured from the 164th New York regiment in the
late war, also went to the Ftrth-avenue hotel,
where President Arthur presented to the gradu-
ateS their dlplOmaS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-07-05

ATTORNEY GENERAL BREWSTER will 60 to Long
Branch next week
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-07-05

REsIGNED.-The Attorney General has received
the resignation of Marshal Blithe, OF South caro-
lima.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-07-05

mRSo FARMERS WHO ARE INTERESTED IN
wv GROWING CROPS
CHEAPLY AND SUCCESSFULLY SHOULD WRITE
US FOR OUR PAMPHLET ON PURE FERTIL-
IZERS.
good fertilizer be made at home for about SO
ton bX composing with POWELLS PREPARED
CHEMICALS.
References in every State. Agents wanted for unoc
cupled territory. Apply with references.
BROWN CHEMICAL CO.,
Manufacturers Of
POWELL'S TIP-TOP BONE FERTILIZER BONE.
POTASH, AMMONIA, &C.,
JeZS 16 Lieht street. Baltimore, Md.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-10-09
The Recognition Of the South in Ihe
NnIinnnl COnNPniiom.

San Antonio Tex Times: Three or
iour months ago the Times Venturcdt to say
it was high time the south was a LITTLE
more considered in the Democratic con-
ventiuEs, nc it had the votes and upon ii
depended the success Of the Democratic
candidates. Whenever Il suggestion lis
made by a Southern paper, having for its
object the proper recognition of the South
ern States in every particular by those
who have so long endeavored TO hold
them down, there are some little time
serving newspapers ever ready to cry out,
what will the North say?' and How
will this affect our Northern brethren ?''
and such was the case when the Times
first spoke. Our idea is that we nave be-
haved with becoming modesty and de
corum, and done penance a sufficient
length of time for having asserted our
constitutional rights, though we ad.
NIT it was necessary to the success
of the Democratic party that the
South should not for some time have at
tempted to control the Democratic conven.
ton in any degree. But that time has
past, and SO we thought when we limited
our views upon h matter under consid,
Grafton. But there are some OF ournewspa.
pers which are going to greater lengths
than we are willing to go in demanding
the next Democratic candidate for the
Presidency shall be from the South. The
time is not vet for that. The New York
Herald goes far enough when it proposes
that a Southern man should be put upon
the Democratic ticket for the office of Vice
President. We shall be satisfied if that
shall be done, and hope it will be the case
and yet, if when the convention meets, nc
such thing should be done, we shall sub
nit to the will of the convention, anC
"bide our time" ur.Southern represent
atives will be in that body, and what they
agree to, We shall indOrse. That's the
kind of Democracy we possess, and We
shall hold fast to the faith now and for
ever more Amen.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-10-09
OPPOSITION TO RIVER IMPROVE
MENT.

1t is greatly to the interest of the
commerce of Memphis that its merchants
and population should take a deep and
permanent interest in all that is doing
with respect to the Mississippi river.
We enjoy great advantages from our rail
road connections, so do other cities from
theirs, but it is not every city that has
railways and a site upon the shore of the
great highway of the nation besides. 1t
is therefore our special duty to watch all
that concerns the river. This is the
more imperative as the East is jealous
and opposed to the improvement of the
river navigation. The New York Bulle-
tin, ofSaturday, referring to the recent In
terstate Levee Convention at Vicksburg,
says: This is the first step toward
another big river and harbOr bill
and as the Presidential election is
drawing near, we are inclined to
think no party that expects to
get the support of Arkansas, Louisiana.
or Mississippi will have the courage to lag
behind it. There can be, of course, no
reasonable objection to the Improvement
of the great river, in the interests of
commerce. but how about improving
the adjacent territory'-in other words,
finding a market for lands that at present
are worth little or nothing to the own
ers?' Congress is not asked Ito i'm
prove the adjacent territory but to
arrange that the river which is in its do
main shall not be an aggressor, bringing
destruction and ruin to the adjacent ter
ritory. This perversion of the Bulletin
shows the feeling of opposition that
exists, and that opposition should be an
Indictment to the people upon the river
to maintain vigorously their rights.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-10-09
MEMPHIS APPEAL.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER .. 1888.
THE LOwENsTEINs' LOSS.

The sudden and very quickly con-
Stunning fire that on Sunday swept the
store and stock of B. Lowenstein & Bros.
out OF existence is a calamity that falls
heavily not only upon a house among the
strongest, the most honorable and the
best in the city, but upon hundreds of
honest and industrious persons whose
daily bread very much depended upon its
continuance and existence. With these
we sympathize as we do with the Low
enstein brothers, as we know the whole
body of the people of Memphis do. By
more than twenty-five years of labor, of
honest endeavor in legitimate channels
they have built up a business that as much
as any other one house has been the
expression of the pluck, enterprise and
energy of Memphis That any injury
should come to them is subject
for the deep regret of the com
munity, and hat they should be
stayed in their progress even for a mo-
ment will be deplored by all who have
had any dealings with them. But this
calamity will only stay them for a mo
ment. Lowenstein Bros. will in a
few days be again inviting the public to
buy, and ultimately they will occupy
even a more palatial house, to which the
people of this city and the adjoining
States will flock, secure in the honor and
probity that have made the name OF
Lowenstein a household word in all thi.
region of country.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-10-09
THE FRI LAST NIGHT.

The destruction of the Greenlaw
OperahOuse by fire last night, following
upon the loss of b. Lowenstein & Bros.
dry goods store on Sunday, alarmed the
community for the safety of the city.
Coming so sOOn after the confession of
Chief Cleary that the Fire Department
was not strong enough to cope with a
great conflagration, these fires were cal
culated to excite alarm. But thanks to
the almost superhuman efforts of the fire.
men under the direction of their %intelli-
gent and energetic chief both fires
were confined to the buildings in
which they originated. By a careful
survey of last nights fire this effort
will be thoroughly understood and
approximation the very inham.
Unable nature Of the materia.
with which some of the stores in the
Operahouse were filed, and the still
more infammable material of Coles
painters supply store. That the block Oh
Main street and those south on Second
WIN lHtlI SiOItS III HUMBER, were no
swept away is due to the unfagging anC
jealous iabors of the firemen, in whose
praise too much cannot be said. Few il
numbers, they have proven hat they arr
well disciplined, thoroughly understand
their duties, and are equal even to sc
extraordinary an emergency as last
night and that of Sunday. But
we cannot afford to take such chance:
again. President Hadden must make il
a special duty to see hat Chief Clearly
requisitiOn is filled with as little delay a,
possible, both as to men and machinery
We cannot stand many more such fire:
as those We report 50 fully this morning
To avoid them we must have more fire
companies, and, those that we have must
be strengthened. The strain put upor
our gallant iremen the past two days il
an abuse of their strength and an endan
germent of their lives.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-10-09
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.

Regular Correspondence of the Appeal
BIRMINGHAM, October As the result
OF a conference last night between Col.
John Scott, president of the Cincinnati,
New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railroad
Company, and DR.. Ii. NJ. Caldwell, presi-
dent Of the Elyton Land Company, the
former has decided to locate the car shops
and repair shops of his company at Biz
mingham, in addition to machine shops,
such as are now IN operation at Chatta-
nooga and Meridian. The Elyton Land
Company gives the ground for the shops,
as well as for new freight depot. Work
on both the shops and depot will begin
Immediately. The shops will work SOC
men. and will be of immense benefit TO
Birmingham. The Cincinnati, New Or
leans and Texas Pacific and Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Companies nave plans
ready for an elegant new union passenger
depot, to cost $4,000, which will be
built at once. The Elyton Land Com
pany Obligates itself to take immediate
steps toward the building of a splendid
hotel, 200 by $50 feet, four stories high, tC
cost $4,000 This structure, like the
union depot, will be located near the pres
ent passenger depot, on Nineteenth street
and Griffin venue both buildings to span
the former street with an arcade. The
value of the Elyton Land Company's ces
sion to the railroad company is not less
than 100000.
A special to the Age from Mobile says
that the aggregate rainfall at that point fol
the past month has been but ninety-si1
hundredths OF an inch and for the pas
three months only ten inches. Wells anC
cisterns are drying upin consequence.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-10-09
ATOKA, TENN.

Occasional Correspondence of the Appeal.
AToKA, October S.-A great deal is
now being written about the South in
regard to improvement, resources, politics,
etc. It is true the South is now more
wide awake. The press is doing a good
work toward Fastening the prosperous
era, but what needs the impetus most is
the farming interests. The production of
cotton in the South has had the effect to
make farming o m~ethodical, and its over
production and consequent low price make
a revolution in planting an absolute neces-
sity, and the sooner this is brought about
the better. The press can hasten the day
by continually urging a diversity of crops.
This is the home of red-clover and nearly
all of the grapes, and our winters are short
and onr climate salubrious and suitable to
the growth of fruit and vegetables. Urge
the people TO sow wheat and seed their old
lands to clover.
Tell your enterprising pioneer scotsman
to write a book and scatter it over the
| country urging a diversity of crops and
inviting Northern immigrants.
Crops are not good in places, but in
some localities they are nearly up to the
average. Hogs are abundant. Cattle are
scarce. A good deal OF wheat will be
sown in Upton county this fall.
AtOka Is awe on euucaIlon anu con
templates the erection of a college. TIL,
sound of the hammer is heard in the town
Two large business houses are rising iron
the burnt district. No whisky is soil
nearer than ten miles of this place. He
citizens are hospitable, enterprising, ener
getic and jolly.
Birds are Plentiful, and your city sports
men are at home at Atoka. kimbrougl
and Ellison know how to find birds, an
are jolly fellows.
Your correspondent has not IA an o.
portunity to know how his %neighbors ar
on the ticket for 1884, but ne Is Of h
opinion that the APPEAL is right and is IL
asking too. much in advocating a Souther
man for the Presidential ticket. Do a
YOU can until the convention to brin
about that result, and il you fail then figf
like the devil for the success of the Nortl
ern nominees. s.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-10-09
LAND FRAUDS
OF Every Description Being Perpe-
trated i'm the Territories.

SALT LAKE, UTAH, October S.-Col.
James Tullis, special land agent of the
government, who has been investigating
land frauds in the Territories west of the
Rocky mountains, who is in Salt Lake,
says there has been some big swearing by
witnesses in some of the land offices, and
large tracts of land have been patented by
persons who had in nowise complied with
the land laws. The Deseret la~nd-entry
act has been violated with a recklessness
that was positively astonishing. In many
eases it was found that absolutely nothing
had been done toward reclaiming the
lands, and yet what are known and re-
garded as good citizens have gone before
the land officers and made solemn oath
the land had been reclaimed, and all the
conditions of law complied with, when in
fact no mark made by human hands could
be found upon the entire tract. Other tracts
were taken up under the desert act that
that are no more desert than h valley of
the Ohio river. Other lands were found
to have been broken up under the timber
culture act, upon which there was growing
al the time of original filing more forest
trees han the law requires when final
proof is to be made. The homestead law
has not been fairly treated, and thousands
of acres nave been patented by persons
who have not complied with one single
requirement of law. Fraudulent testi-
inony has been given to defraud the
government of tens of thousands of acres
of public lands fenced in by wealthy
stsck-raisers, thus leaving the actual set
tiers without range for a family cow. In
one instance it was found that a man liv-
ing near a city in Montana had fenced up
5000 acres of public lands, and had per
mitted the poor people to pasture stock in
his inclosure for 81 per month per head.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-10-09
THEY WE'RE
a Small Sized Sensation Growing Out
OF "A Secret Wedding.

TRENTON, n. j., October City Clerk
William J. Early has been the victim of a
mistake. Yesterday he went to Camden
and called upon Mrs. Mead, a widow, and
the daughter of Mrs. Charles Wood, who
lives with her mother at No. 227 Cooper
street, in that city. During the night, it
is alleged, a DIR. Barnes who lives in the
house heard a noise in the widows apart
mcnt, and he called her brother, who
made an investigation and discoveredth that
City Clerk Early had not gone home to
Trenton. When Mr.. Early returned
hero to-day he was very indig-
nant. THE whole story is highly col
orcd," he said. ''The fact is, that lady is my
wife. We were married some time since
here in Trenton by Rev. Henry VI. Bar
bour, of Trinity Episcopal church, and so
| had a perfect right to visit her. We
were keeping the marriage secret for a
time for our own reasons. but her mother
knew of it. When the brother entered
the room where | was with my wife, he
was inclined to be violent, but his mother
promptly said: This is all right; they
are married. That settled the matter
except so far as concerns DIR. Barnes, who
was furious, because he had attempted tC
pay attentions to the lady, and was ordered
out of the house.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-10-09
NAsHVILLE RANISHE Els FORTUNE
TELLERS.

In every country there are parasites
who cling to society for a living, but
themselves never do a thing to advance
the prosperity or to add to the wealth of
the community. There are creatures
worse than this, who get their living by
injuring the community. Among such
are the professional fortune tellers-peo-
pie who put up their signs and issue their
prospectuses as boldly MS the butcher,
the baker and the candlestick maker; yet
their trade is to deceive and by deceit to
rob. The ignorant and unwary are be-
guiled and cheated, not only by the alb
straction of their money, but by their be-
ing led away from truth and hesotted
with superstition. The upper stupidity
the fortune-tellers' ~pretenses and the
guiiibility Of their dupes would be in
credible if they were not so common. A
man who knows no better asks of a for
tune-teller what will happen up to a GER
tain time, or under certain circumstances
If the person could really tell, the
information would be useless. for
II AhN NNNuN II ldltu 10 &c
cur of course the events connected
with it are also fated to occur, and can
not be altered. Suppose a fortune-teller
predict to John Brown that his house
will be burned down in a month. Johns
knowledge of the fact will not prevent
the fire, if the prediction be genuine, nor
could he, by any steps he could take, a
his property or the lives of his family
from being consumed. He would be
helpless to change the DEGREES of fate.
with the additional torture of knowing
the catastrophe hat was coming. His
condition would be that of a man CON
demned to be hanged on 4 given day with
no possibility of the interference of
executive clemency. uniformed of the
future, he would enjoy life as others do
Informed of his approaching fate, he
would pass the days in the misery of the
doomed. If the man could by care and
attention avert the predicted disaster,
then the prediction would be false. for
what can be averted is not doomed to be.
and if it is not doomed to be then it can.
not be predicted. Nashville has very
properly prohibited fortune telling within
the city limits, and they who seek tc
cheat there by that means are prosecuted
as the law directs. Every city ought +,
stop the fraud in the same manner.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-10-09

number and extent of the failures that
occur. These failures are calculated to
arouse a spirit of ca~refulness, where
giving credit is concerned, among all
business men. During the quarter ending
with September there were 1903 failures,
against 1900 for the corresponding quar-
ter of 1882, while the amount OF Eabili-
ties was S52,072,SS4, against $ls,942,S9S
during the same quarter the preceding
year. That there is sufficient in all this
to arouse caution, is evident. Such an in
crease shows that the credit system had
been carried further than was wise, Anx-
iety to obtain trade had got the better of
the observance Of those sound business
principles without which disappointment
must take the place Of success. Looking
forward, it is clear that the increase of
caution will to some extent restrict sales,
but the sales that are made will prove
satisfactory; this will bring increase of
confidence and with that, as money re-
mains plentiful, activity may be looked
for. The New York Chronicle, while re-
garding the prospects of the next three TO
| six months as uncertain to a considerable
degree, Significantly remarks: Whatever
the outcome, however, great caution and
conservatism are sure to characterize bust
ness operations for some time to come"
The reports show general trade TO be good
with a large movement OF merchandise
in the West and South the feeling among
| merchants shows more satisfaction with
| their business transactions than appears
in the East. Our foreign trade is more
satisfactory. The figures for August show
improvement over those for July imports
were heavier, it is true, but the exports
were IS, 000,0 900 larger. The result is, thai
instead of a balance OF trade of $1,000,
600 against us in merchandise, al
in July, there were nearly $1,000,
80 in our favor. The situation
also compares iayurahiy with last yea
al the same time, when there was an eXces
Of imports OF merchandise over exports
As a consequence of the tendency of on
direction of decreased imports and in
creased exports, we may expect specie t
constitute an increased share OF the fol
mer, although we may export less thai
had been anticipated. The Chronicle re
ports that during the week there was a d,
cided turn in the market for sterling. Tn
market has accumulated a supply, causin
a reduction of one cent a pound sterling
with 4 nominal inquiry and Il dispositio
to await lower figures. Money is plentifu
in Europe at this time, and capitalists az
at a loss for means OF investment. None
on call is in good supply in New Iorl
with fractionally better rates, which hay
a prospect OF being maintained, and banl
ers look for higher rates from this tim,
With prudence and watchfulness, and
> determination rather to limit transaction
I than to give credit in doubtful quarter
business men havea fairquantity of groun
2 for success before them.