Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-07-03
Miss Cleveland's Book.

| Miss Cleveland's Book.
ton TO BE TEN THOUsAND-A CHARACTER
ISTIC NOTE FROM ITS AUTHOR.
| From the New York Mail and Express
| u can now announce to you positively that
| Miss Cleveland's book will be published next
Tuesday morning" said one of the publishers
of the much-lOoked-for work of the Presidents
sister to a reporter for the Mail and Express this
| afternoon. 1--WE shall issue it in London on
Monday"
| "Will 1t contain the lady's portrait?'
"So, it will not. That much-discussed oues-
ton has finally been settled by Miss Cleveland's
orders fbe that thai her portrait shall not ac
only her positive Instructions
"Of course the title has been decided upon by
eyes. 1t will not be George Eliot and Other
Eiiots Poetry and Other Studies. Besides tbs
on the title-page will be simply the announce
ment By. Miss Rose E. Cleveland"
will there be an Introduction Or preface of a
personal nature?"
Nothing except dedication, a short para
graph in length, in which the volume is .dedi-
Gated to my countrymen.' The first edition
have come in SO fast lately that we have already
ordered the paper and binding for a second edi.
send copies to the entire press OF England and
Canada as well as this country. The book will
be sold through the regular booksellers and by
! usually agents won't handle book unless they
| can have it exclusively. We have orders for it
from every city in the Union Many letters
| which we have received the last few days
| evince great curiosity to see and get the book.
The interest in it is so great among women,
| ana the fact that 1t Is dedicated to American
| women, led Miss Cleveland's lady friends who
have niade the arrangements of the book for
her TO think 1t a good idea to inclose in each
| volume a blank on which should be written
wOmans opinion of the book. The plan was to
get up testimonial on the work from the
women of the United States. But the plan fell
through most decidedly. OF course it was nee
essary to obtain Miss Cieveland's consent to the
plan before putting it in operation The reply
That She sent upon receiving the proposition
was most characteristic. Miss Cleveland wrote:
| No, nerer send out this circular asking express
| anything. 1t does not please me-never would
| in any shape. Let the book go all by itself for
what it is worth, wholly unaccompanied by any
comment or apology Or criticism-aii all alone.
Suicide of A. j. DumOnt.
| PROMINENT LOUISIANA POLITICIAN BLOWS
HIS BRAINS OUT.
Andre ]. Dumont, who resigned the position
| of naval officer in the New Orleans custom
| house a few days ago, committed suicide
| Tuesday afternoon, stated in THE STAR
| of Wednesday, by blowing out his brains A
| telegram from that CITY to the New YUrl, Suo
| says. Dumont was one of the ablest colored
| men in Louisiana, and the leader of the repub-
| lican party, having been chairman OF the state
| dent of the republican convention in 1876. He
was an OctorOOn, so white that many people did
not know he had negro blood in his veins. He
| was native OF New Orleans, of French parent
! age. was highly educated abroad and served as
lieutenant Of cavalry in the army OF MAXI
| milan in Mexico Returning here he assisted
| In the organization of the republican party
| holding various positions under the state and
federal governments, and was a member OF the
state senate for many years. A short time ago
| DumOnt resigned his position naval officer
without waiting for Mr.. Cleveland to appoint
ton of retiring from politics and investing his
| money in Central America. He endeavOred to
| persuade his wife to go with him to that coun-
alone. Trouble had existed in the family for
some SON time previous to Dumont's death. He
| site the city, while he kept a mistress i'm New
| Orleans, and this was the cause OF his troubles
Recently he has frequently threatened to
visit to his father-in-law he told his wife that
| he intended to kill himself. She got his pistol
away from him, locked it up in her chest, and
placed the key in her bosom. He suddenly
gr;tsped his vile by the shoulders and forced
the key from her, opened the chest, and Sc
followed by his shrieking wife, and in the front
| room he placed the pistol in his mouth and
fred causing instant death.
| "A FEMALECIRCUs PERFORMER HURT.-Nfme.
Watson, travelling with Van Amburgh's circus,
day, while performing the cannon act. She
| catches hold OF a strap attached to a cannon
weighing about 100 pounds with her teeth and
| is drawn up about ten feet from the ground and
| fires the cannon. Just as the cannon was fired
a rope broke and she fell heavily to the ground,
her head striking the cannon cutting IA severe
cash near her temple and knocking out most of
| --<o>-
BLIND Tom. The case brought by Charity
| virgins and the widow of the late John
Bethune for the possession of "Biind Tom,' was
! heard by Judge +. NJ. Spillman, OF Fauqufcr
county n,n :, va, ta' Iu'sday: The court remanded
derstoOd the case will be appealed to q higher
court.
|
KILLED BY A DRUGGIsT's MIsTAKE.-In
Cleveland, Ohio, the fact came out yes
terday that Charley Fitzpatrick, only son of