Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-04-19


I'VE acknowledge the receipt OF your letter In
forming the board OF the adoption on the schedule
Oh Tolls Ior The year ISL OF S3 cents per ton and
cents for wharfage. The board concurS therein
and beg leave to suggest 10 you the consideration
or further reduction" twas at first thought
advisable 10 also add to The commitment ion,
whenever such reduction can I'm their Judgment
DE made without destroying the equilibrium he
tween the receipts and expenditures.n but this
latter clause was subsequently stricken out.
A Fact Supplemented b, a Fact.
From the Boston Globe
A Connecticut minister has denounced kissing
gaines at church socias. He Is % years old.
Damseis with SUM X is>eei Beauty Spots
From the Atlanta Constitution
Girls with freclles their pretty little noses are
quite the rage in fashionable society.
WIFE on THE WAR PATH-Bpn1amin Hirsch-
hurgh. clerk in a Galveston, Texas. store. was
last evening whipped IN that City 10y Mrs. Dr.
Schulz, who stated as the reason that HirSchburg
was the cause of the ruin or her family. She said
he was the main cause OF the trouble which led 10
a notorious scandal and church trial last summer,
in which DIR. Schulz was charged With immoral
conduct With loose women. Mrs. Schulz said her
husband was grtcving himself TO death over the
AFFAIR, and that she had borne with It as long
she could.
TELEPHoNING WITHOUT THE AID OF ELECTRICITY
There was on private exhibition In Boston On We'd
nesday practical whispering telephone, consist
Ing OF peculiar diaphragm, recent invention,
and plain copper wire, operated without cleo
tr1c1ty. The wire extended about eight hundred
1eet. With i've fasteningS TO buildings; but Ii Is
claimed that communication can be maintained by
the system five miles In the tests made yesterday
conversation could be carried on In a whisper with
dlstlnctness while ordinary talking could be plainly
heard twenty feet away, and loud articulation
more than forty feet, both parties TO the dialogue
for private short distance wire and factories. Is
the invention OF A. A. Knud5on and I. G. Ellis
WORTH OF New York.
CoIoRED MINISTER TIRED OF THIS COUNTRY
In the African Methodist Episcopal conference now
In annual session at Newburgh. NY, the Rev. 7. O.
Harper yesterday offered his resignation as minis
ter OF the denomination. He gave as a reason that
he did not like this country, which he said free
only in theory. He spoke OF the caste spirit and
the ostraciSm OF coOred men. He was called here
from his native country, British Guiana, to become
but owing to his color his services were dispensed
with. He said he would enter the Protestant EpiS-
copal church. receive ordination, and return To
British Guiana. Bishop Moore said they all knew
that many of these statements We're true, colored
gentlemen Were not rightly treated In the south,
not being allowed decent Accommodations In the
cars MI. HdrperS resignation was accepted.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT AT A WEpDGSG-A number
on enthusiastic young linen at WattslGrg. Pa.
THURSDAY night, dragged Il cannon opposite house
In which marriage had occurred Tor the purpose
OF firing slIvo IN honor OF the bride. At The rst
discharge, the piece exploded, terribly wounG!nr
three Oi The party and slightly injurns Two more
DEATH CAUSED RI MANS BITE.-At the New
Haven allnSh0uSe Thursday night, Maurice Shields
an eA-SodeT. Is years Old, bit Daniel SULLIVAN aged
Ii. who il subject to epitcptic fits in the cheek
Til" boy went Tito fits, ami yesterday morning he
was found dead and swollen in his cell. Shields Is
held TO await the result of the autopsy Fright was
one cause OF the lads DEATH undoubtedly, but the
bite Is said to have been poisonous
A MURDERER KILLS HIMSELF-Tobe Turner a
Georgia murderer, who MAS 10 Ice hanged soon.
asked the sheriff yesterday to leave him alone for
Time, as he wished TO pray. The sheriff granted
his request, and returning after awhile found that
Turner had twisted a small SILK handkerchief
around his neck, and was dead. The handkerchief
was 50 tightly drawn that It was Impossible to in
Sert knife blade beneath IL.
GEN. AGUERos DYNAMITE CAMPaIGX-Mr Riv-
lera. editor OF the Cuban organ in New York,
states: Il have Just had news that Gen. Aguero
In New York. lie took with him pupil or Prof
MeHzeToff TO form dynamite corps and lac has al
ready blown up several sugar plantation works and
wrecked village called CaliGeten
DYNAMITE SMUGGLED INTO ENGLAND BY . Wo-
MANA dispatch from Paris saws the dynamite
taken TO England is conveyed by persons who con-
ceal the explosives between the lining and the
cloth OF their coats; The dynamite is wrapped in
oiled paper in cakes Ike backing. The cakes
which are an inch in thickness and five inches IA
diameter, are left at one place In England. where
over $50 pounds or dynamite have been Smuggled
into England during the past six weeks by a yOiIng
woman who adopted the above method OF conceal
ment.
Gov. ORDwAYs REQUEST REFUsED-Gov Ord
way, OF Dakota, asked that he might be summoned
as witness In the Investigation now being carried
on at lankton Dakota, by the federal grand jury,
Campbell replied that the request could hot be
granted, asst was contrary to law.
ScoTcHMEN CHEERING MINISTER LowEII-In Ed
1nbuTg yesterday there meeting at the Pres
Dyterian Synod hall OF the students and the
Gil OF the diversity. Sir Stafford Mort hcOte the
lord rector or the University, spoke Ill high elcgy
OF James Russell Lowell, the American minister aud
said that he WAS "kn0wn throughout the world as
one OF The greatest literary ornaments Mr. Low
ell was loudly cAeered, and made speech.
END OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTION CASES
Yesterday. District Attorney Melton In the United
States circuit court at Charleston :. G. moved TO
discontinue all the cases Oh the docket Involving
charges OF violation OF the election laws of HE
United States, because. he said he was thoroughly
convinced that convictions were impossible IN !
these cases, and had so Informed the attorney |
general and had received from him letter direct
ing him TO exercise his discretion ia the matter
Judge Bond ordered the clerk to strike all lhe cleo
ton cases from the docket.
DECLARES TEE LETTER A FORGERY-FatherA An !
drew Wynn, pastor OF st. Mary's church, at An |
napoli5, Md, from whom the recanting sister OF |
charity lneZ now known as Miss Windsor. said she I
aau q lrtter approving her course. publishes card
DENYING that he Wrote any letter at all u the girl
The letter is full and emphatic.
CURIOUS PHENOMENON AT SEA-The officers of |
the British bark st. Lawrence, at philadelphia
from DeInerara, report remarkable experience |
HatteraS the air suddenly became very dense and |
great difficulty was experienced In breathing. |
strong ou0r as OF burning pine timber was also per-
ceptGie. The misty mass is described as OF light
blush unt forming zone extending from the horf-
ZOn towards the zenith about 10 degrees Within
The radius OF Il mile the water was inky black.
1HE GROWTH OF JoURNALIsM.-From the edition
OF MeSsr6- Geo p Rowell a Co.'S american News
paper Directory. now in press. il appears that the
newspapers and periodicals OF all Kinds at present
issued Ia the United States and Canada reach a |
grand total OF 13,402. This is a Let gain OF LOCO
during The last twelve months. and exhibits an in
crease OF 56lS over the total number published ten
Years since. The Increase In 1874 total for
1919 was 493 During the past year the dailieS have
increased from Lbs 10 i25i; the HeeklieS from
O62 TO 10,o2S; and the montleS from 1901 TO i9a
! ne greatest increase Is the western states |
Illinois, for instance now shows l.OO9 papers In
place OF last years total OF 9o4, while Missouri |
issues 6i Instead OF the 523 reported in 1888. Other
eadinS western states also exhibit great per-
tentaSe OIL increase. The total number OF papers In
New York state is 1.523, against l3g9 In 1883 |
Canada has shared in the general increase. /
tornado, combined with a thunder storm
swept over Dallas, Texas, yesterday, wrecking a |
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