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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-05
GUARDING HIS DIAMONDS.
A Travelling Salesnan's Precautions to
Insure Absolute Safety.

From the Philadelphia Times.
Among the arrivals from Chicago at the
G1rard house last night was a stylishly dressed
young man, with a peculiarly made valise, COW
cred with iron bands and locked with eight
nickel-plated padlocks. Following close behind
him four abe-boded men carried black
square trunk which was also covered with iron
bands. The lid was locked with at least two
dozen padlocks
81 want two adjoining rooms said the owner
of the valise, as he put it on the counter and
took n pen from Chief Clerk Carmack; zone for
myself and one for that trunk and these two
men,"
DO you want two beds in one of the rooms?"
asked the clerk.
NO" was the answer; "only one man sleeps at
a time
The man registered and requested the valise
to be put in the safe, and asked for a receipt
remarking:
There is a fortune in that valiSe"
After the rooms had been assigned the two
men carried the trunk up stairs, bellman
showing them the way. The owner of the trunk
Wouldn t allow porter to touch il. Clerk Car
mack explained an hour later that the stylishIy
mond salesman in the country, and that he
represented the largest diamond house in Eu-
rope.
"Those men are heavily armed" said Clerk
Carnlack, land there's probably quarter of ~
mllllon dollars worth of diamonds in that
trunk. This is the second time the salesman
has stopped here. He generally stays three or
Is burned brightly in the trunk room ali night.
one OF the men watches the first half of the
night and the other guards the treasure until
morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-05
A GUOSE'kN dE9EREH.
The Apparition thai Startled the Young
Pastor of IL Connecticut COngrega-


The exercises at the afternoon meeting in the
West Side Baptist church of Norwich, Conn.
were varied last sunday week by the appear
ance Of spirit seen by the pastor, the Rev. +.
b. Dickinson. 1t was about 3 O'Clock, and the
sun was slanting into the southern windows
Teroush the parted shutters. There was small
audience in the sanctuary. Several brothers
and sisters had made brief addresses, and Mrs.
Rising had just resumed her seat, after speak
ing earnestly and with marked elOquence on
the nearness of the spiritual world. Mr.. Arson
Gardner, a member of the Central Baptist
church across The river, stood up in his place in
the audience, between the pulpit platform and
window, and prayed
The prayer which was long and fervent had
hardly been concluded before the Rev. Mr.
Dickinson who had been standing at the pulpit,
his eyes half closed. informed the congregation
that during the prayer he plainly saw in the
clear light. at the right of MIR. Gardner, the
gray figure and features OF Il brother of the
latter, Mr.. L. 5. Gardner, a zea4uus Methodist
who died suddenly year ago or more Mr..
Dickinson showed considerable nervousness
while making the announcement, and the aU-
d1ence was deeply moved. The preacher is
young, of a tall. slight figure, and with fire,
silky, curling auburn hair His white skin and
delicate features indicate slender constitution,
and his manners extremely sensitive nerves.
The west side Baptist society is purtanically
orthodox, and the pastor is as orthodox as his
congregation. They regard spiritualism as an
agent of the devil, though they are at loss to
explain the apparition that appeared to Mr..
Dickinson. The Spiritualsts Of the town are
delighted, and aver that the young clergyman
is finely developed seeing medium.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-05
A Kentucky Battle.
& q & ~, I'LL

n
AND GANG OF THIEVES
News has reached Louisville, KY. of a fight
which occurred ten days ago on the headwaters
OF the Cumberland river, near Harlan court
house, KY. For years the Hensey brothers
nave lived sort of freebooter life on Little
Black mountain. They are charged with driv-
Ing OFF stock, pillaging smoke houses, hen roosts
and bee hives, and many warrants have been
issued against them. The officers always feared
TO attack the mountaineers in their faStness.
ms year James Giles, relative of the gang,
living near them, was appointed deputy sheriff
tie summoned ten of the braVCSt men of the
same ne1ghborhoOd, and before day appeared at
the first of the wndowleSS one-story log cabins
where lived Gilbert Hensley, who surrendered
after long parley.
At the next cabin Asher and Levi Hensley
were asleep with their families behind baFri-
caded doors: Upon demand to surrender
they opened fire with muSkets and rifles
through the door, and the posse replied. Giles
was shot in the arm. but kept up the fight.
After some fifty shots had been exchanged Levi
Hensley called out:
81 surrender, boys; you've shot me dead" and
fell heavily.
Asher for awhile maintained the fight and
then made break through his ASSISTANTS down
the mountain side, followed by u volley. A
rlhe ball in the thigh brought him down. AS
the posse We're securing him William A. Hens
ley. with John Deer, attracted by the reports,
came up from the rear and opened fire upon the
party. severely wounding Elijah Hilton. The
sheriff threatened to shoot Asher if thew fred
Hensley were then lodged in Jail and few
days later the remainder of the defeated band
were captured.
In the fight the cabin door was riddled and
the mouse, but none of the women and children
were hurt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-05

terest the public schools were kept fully up to
the general advance of District prosperity. He
was succeeded by Gen. j. r. West, who in turn
was succeeded by the present incumbent,
James b. Edmonds. The official doiDgs of the
two latter familiar to ALL and ii. sufficient
TO say they have so far rendered a good account
OF their Stewardship.
The first Engineer Commissioner of the board
was Maj. William j. Twining. whose ability
and frankness had earned for him high place
in public esteem when he was removed by an
untimely death. His successor, Maj. Garrett ].
Lydecker, is officer of high professional
familiar TO all. The allusion to the engineer
officers OF the board would be incomplete with
out a reference to Captains HOXie and Greene,
assistants to Engineer Commissioner.
Capt. X. l.. HOXie was the engineer officer
under the temporary form of government, and
manifested great ability in dealing with the
complicated matters connected with the I'M
finished contracts of the board OF public works
and other engineering difficulties and require
ments He continued under the present form
IF government as assistant to Engineer Com
missioner, and in that capacity projected the
pan for increasing the water supply now in
Progress Capt. +. V. Greene had already
achieved wide professional reputation when
eminent. which his course as n District official
has markedly augmented. No officer more
thoroughly understands the subject of munich
pal engineering than he.
The public school system of the district is n
subject Ofgeneral pride, and is a standing honor
to those who developed and fOstered. il. includ-
ing the salariCd school officials and the school
boards, who have given untiring labor gratui-
tOusly to the cause OF popular education.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-05
The Cause eff u Tragedy.
THE DEATH OF A FAITHLESS HUSBAND AND An
UNTRUE WIFE LOUIS

The DEATH OF A EAITHLESS HUSBAND AND AN
UNTRUE WIFE IN ST. LOUIS.
In st. Louis, at the inquest on the bodies of
Tom" Bostwick and Mamie Cue, who met last
Thursday night, the testimony was quite sensa-
tional. Cue, the husband of Mamie a fne-look-
ing young fellow, testified that he did not know
Bostwick, but he had heard his wife speak of
him as an enemy and as an old sweethea I If
hers who had wanted to marry her. and had
He said that he had been married fifteen
months. the ceremony taking place in Rich
mond, Va. He married her by the name of
Miss Goodwin. though her last name. as she
said. WAS Mrs Edwards. They had been keep
ing house since september at No. 2635 North
10th street. She was at home every night and
he supposed that she good woman. She
was % years of age.
The wife of BOstwick, Mrs. Lizzie BOstwick
arrived in st. Louis Sunday, and was
taken to the mOrgue and sworn over the dead
body Of her husband. They had been married
six years, she testified. and had one child two
and a half years old. Her husband told her last
August, after he came home from Louisville
that he met the dead woman in Louisville and
gave her terrible beating, and told her that if
she did not quit following him about he would
XIII her. She called on him at his boat and left
him the number of the house she stopping
at. He called there and found her in the COM
pany of another man. He ran the man out and
followed him several squares with the intention
of beating him. He then returned to the house
and whipped the woman very severely. She
SAID she was going to get married to the man.
She wrote a letter to him, saying SIZE would
never forgive him for the way he had whipped
her. Bostwicll then told his wife that he would
have nothing more to do with the dead woman
The deputy coroner asked Mrs Bostwick il she
would bury her huSbaId "NO,'' she replied
81 will not Let him be buried by those people
to whom he gave all his money. He said that
this woman was the cause of all his trouble. and
lac would Kill her III she did not cease annoying
him. never heard him threaten his own life"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-05
The Staying Quality.

From the Boston Journal of Education.
The first thing that attracted our attention on
going west, thirty years ago, was the number Of
excessively bright young people in every grow
ing town. We seemed to live in perpetual
display of human fireworks. All the bright,
progressive, magnificent young men and maid.
ems in christendom seemed to have gone west
to grow up with the millennium. Such richness
and splendOr of theory on all matters connected
with human affairs, such eXhilarating breadth
OF view and lOftinesS of instruction, we have
never conceived, outside the pages of
nance, as we found everywhere about u.s. Mr..
Emerson had Just returned from Ohio, and re-
ported in Boston that he had found the typical
young American in glorious fellow in that
then "out west" we began to get sight of
another class of men and women who seemed
to be the real bolts and braces of society-the
solid people who held things together and were
consulted before anything important could be
done. To an enthusiastic young parson these
were a specially unintereSting set of people,
many of them being the reverse of brilliant,
original, or cultivated. Indeed, it was ques-
ton how some of them ever got any position.
understood it better. These old fellows were
strong in those homely, staying qualities in
which this dissolving view of brilliant adven-
lures were weak. Through storm and calm,
success and failure, peace and war, they had
clinched their teeth and stuck. And SO valu-
able Is this one quality of fidelity In new land
that many of them had come to honor and
away at vacations, get scared in financial
panics, disappear in epidemics, and generally
step out when q man or woman was wanted to
"hold the fort"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-05
Turning HI. wo,,.r On, In nj.
CASE OF SHOCKING BRUTALITY To BE Fo
LOWED BY LYNCHING.

A CASE OF SHOCKING BRUTALITY To BE FOL-
LOWED BY A LYNCHING.
case of shocking brutality, that is likely to
result In lynching, is reported from Wyoming
county, West Va. Mrs. Hannah Daniels, an old
and respectable lady, living near Perrysville,
was inhumanly frozen to death by her son,
jackson Daniels. All of Mrs Daniels children
were dead but this one, who Is a farmer in that
sectlon and. as wealth runs there, is no more
lnah weii-to-do. A year ago his mother, aged
'uu oecreplt. was sent to the poorhouSe. The
authorities. knowing the merits of the case,
compelled Daniels to take his mother home,
WneTe she could receive much better attention
IMAM IN the poorhouSe. but the son refused to
nave ner IN the house and built her log cabin,
OF ratner pen in the yard and cared for her
scarcely as well as he did for his horses. The
qaughter-in- law is said to have been particu-
larry unkind. and the children were taught to
despise their grandmother
one night last week during the intense cold
Wlthout wood or fire. she hobbled to her SOM
mouse ana begged admission. The children
,oiu nelghbor that pa wouldn't let granny
IN, ana they found her dead in the yard next
morning.. As soon rs the facts became known
there was great indignation. and the men or
canned TO lynch Daniels, ard the women de-
termIned to tar and feather the wife. Daniels
halled up his windows and barricaded his doors
ana FepulSed the first attack made, wOunding
one OF MS asSallantS. The latest news il that
nanlels Is still entrcnched, but can hold out
Httle longer, and he is sure to be lynched,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-05
WashingtOn's Death.

HOW 1T WAS ANNOUNCED IN OLD TIME NEWS
PAPERS,
From the Baltimore Sun
The following quaint announcements of Wash
ington's death from the newspapers of this
locality will be of interest:
The Georgetown CeHtineI Of Liberty, a semi
weekly, in it's issue of December 18th, 1899
thus announces Washington's death: at is
painful duty first to announce to the country
and the world the death of Gen. George Wash
ington. This mournful event occurred
Saturday evening about II o'clock. On the
preceding night he was attacked with n violent
intlammatory affection of the throat, which in
less than twenty-1our hours put period to his
lie. If a long life devoted to the most import
ant public services; if the most eminent useful
ness, true greatness and conSummate glory: if
being all honor to our race and Il model to future
ages; if all these could nationally suppress our
grief, never perhaps ought we 10 mourn so iHte.
But as they are the most powerful motives to
gratitude, attachment and vcneration for the
living and of sorrow at their departure, never
ought America and the world to mourn more
than on this melancholy occasion"
The Alexandria Times and District of Column
bia AdreTtiscr. OF Friday, December 20. / 100, of
which one-halfs sheet is all that is known to be
in existence, thus apnOunced WaShington'S
death and mneral: 1.-The effect of the sudden
news of his death upon the inhabitants of
Alexandria can better be conceived than
pressed. At first a general disOrder, wildness
and CONSERVATION perVaded the town. The
tale appeared as an ilusory dream, as the raw
ing of a sickly imagination. But these impress
s1ons soon gave place to sensations OF The most
poignant sorrow and extreme regret. On Mon
day and Wednesday the stores were all closed
and all business suspended, as if each family
had lost its father. From the time of his death
to the time of his nterment the bells continued
to toll, ahe shipping in the harbor wore their
colors hal1-mast high, and every public eX-
preston of grief was observed. on Wednesday
the inhabitants of the town, of the county and
the adjacent parts of Maryland proceeded to
Mt. Vernon to perform the last Offices to the
body OF their iluStriOuS neighbOr All the mil
itary within considerable distance and three
ment the corpse placed on The pOrtico
fronting the river. that every citizen might
have an opportunity of taking lasting fare
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-05
The Hour Gait.

From the Toronto (Ontario) Globe.
have often wondered why it was when
have employed coupe or cab by the hour that
all invitations to the driver to work up his en-
thusiasm to a moderately rapid gait have ut
terly failed. But the other day happened to
strike either more candid or a more unsophis-
tieated driver than usual, and when l asked
him to adopt speed little faster than the am
BILE OF the slowest snail, he turned on me and
said: "If you wanted a faster horse you should
have ordered it. | am going now at the hour
gait" The expression struck me as SO happy
that at once made friends with the driver and
a little conversation established the fact that
there is a settled gait beyond which neither
heaven nor earth can move these honest jarveys
when the gentlemen are driving by the hour.
The "hour gait is an admirable phrase.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-05
A Spiritualistic SwindIe.
CLEVELAND'S NARROW ESCAPE FROM A RIOT
TIE CABINET TRICK EyPnsEn


TIE CABINET TRICK EXPOSED.
A special to the Philadelphia Press from
Cleveland, o., March 1, says: c. H. Foster, Miss
Kate Davenport and man who STYLED himself
MI EDDY gave an entertainment at the Acad-
envy OF Music tonight, of which spiritualistic
ADMINISTRATIONS man constituted the chief part. The
performance proceeded evenly enough until the
occupants of the upper tier of xes discovered
that, by rising to their feet, they could see what
took place in the cabinet on the stage. The
galleries made a similar discovery and soon the
house was in an uproar, the performers being
chaffed numerically.
Calls were made in the parquet for some of
the marvellous manifestations advertised but
not produced, and the audience resolved itself
into an Indignation meeting. Speeches were
made by many persons in which rotten eggs
and other means of Furnishing the derelict per.
formers were suggested, the latter, meanwhile
exchanging personal compliments with many
OF their more daring opponents. The audience
numbering 1000 was the largest ever gathered
in the academy, and serious riot was immi-
nent When the curtain was run down and the
audience filed out a rush was made for the Cen
trail station, and police officers hurried to the
scene and arrested the performers. At the
station the prisoners were released after a
stormy scene, 1t being learned that no one a,l-
thOrized to issue q warrant was accessible at
that hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-05
A German Army Scandal.

The trial in Leipsic of the two Belgians, JAMS
sen and Krupper, who are charged with having
sought to obtain, through the bribing of Ger
man officers, plans and official information re-
garding the mobilization of the German army
for the use of the French war department, is
creating much excitement in military circles,
The hearing took place with closed DOORS
Some high officials of the German army, in
Guiding a general of a division, are under
stood to be implicated in the case, and 1t is for
this reason that the proceedings against the
prisoners are being conducted with so muchse-
crecy. The French government Indignantly
deny any knowledge of the prisoners
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-05
The Rabbits Foot Charm.

From Leighton (AIa Letter.
, The carrying of rabbits foot as charm to
ward off the spells of evi-disposed persons is
not confined to the darkey alone. Almost
every young man in the neighborhood has one
in his pocket. "Do you carry rabbits foot?'
l asked of a friend. "Yes" he replied. al have
carried one ever since was a small boy. / also
carry buckeye and potato in my pocket.
What for? Why, for luck. At least that is why
carry rabbits foot. The buckeye and potato
are to keep off disease
"DO many young men carry rabbits feet?"
"Oh, yes, and the girls too l have two rab-
bits feet, tied together with a blue ribbon and
highly perfumed, that my sweetheart gave me.
They are all the go for presents now"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-05

IN Ph1IadeIphla number O. young society
ladies have organized an athletic club to be
known as the "Rittenhouse Square Female
Athletic Association" A hall is to be engaged
and perfectly appointed gymnasium is to be
the feature of the place. At the meeting at
which the association was organized there was
a heated discussion on the question of roller
skating. OF the thirty-nine members fourteen
denounced the amusement as vulgar and pre-
judicial to health and the opinions of several of
the leading physicians of the city were read to
back up their argument, but as twenty-five
members voted in favor of roller skating a rink
VIII adloin the gymnasium The club members
daily rides will be taken through the park i'm
pleasant weather The bylaws of the associa-
ton say that gentlemen will not be admitted TO
the rink or gymnasium, and that only riding
masters employed by the association will ac-
company the members on their riding expedi-
tons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-05
Rather Rough On Young Men.

From the Boston Beacon.
Ever since Mrs. Julia Ward Howe asked the
question, "Is polite society polite?' attention
has been directed to very many evidences caus-
ing it to be answered negatively. Who will say
that the majority of young men now entering
life not wanting in chivalrous instincts:
that they do not live entirely for themselves
and rather admire their own indifference to
the obligations imposed by good breeding?
not controlled either by their ma tur al guardians
or by themselves, and they simply push about
eyes, without consideration for anybodys feel
ings or whether there may not be something
due to the larger issues of life
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-05
The Coachman and His Bride.

A Troy, N. Y, special to the New York World
of the 2Sth says: A few months ago sensation
was caused here by the elopement of Miss
Emma Bah ,ock, the adopted daughter of w. ].
Simmons, of this city, with Burt Bartholomew
covered the young wife left for Petersburg, Va.
where her father resides. 1t is now said Bar
tholomew has not visited his bride since she
ployed in Albany. Mrs. Bartholomew has not
visited Mr.. simmons residence since she left it.
his coachman until after she had taken the
train
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-05
Uoratius al the Board.

From the Lewiston (Me) Journal
"Horatius," said the schoolmaster to a a-year
old boy with two imposing freckles on his nose
and two equally imposing freckles on the knees
OF his trousers "IIoratius. please form a sem
tence with the word toward in il, and write the
sentence on the board
Horatius went to the blackboard and after
much scratching OF head and friction OF brain,
'-rinted with the crayon in letters that looked
like lot of halffeathered Shanghai chickens
running after piece OF dough, the following
sentence:
81 toward my trOuSerS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-05
Ran OF with the Nurse.

Lancaster (Pa-) Telegram to New York Herald.
The village Of Ephratia, in this county, is ex-
cited over the disappearance of George W.
Grant, aged thirty-fve, a married man, and
Miss Sallie SPOTS, a comely young woman
twenty-three years old. The young lady pur-
chased a ticket for Readidg and the man one
for this city, but 1t was learned Saturday that
he too, took train for Reading Miss SPOTS
had two large Saratoga trunks, and was pre-
pared for a long journey. Grant leaves a wife
and three children. Miss Spots was nurse in
the Grant family. 1t is alleged that Grant took
about So, 900 in cash with him, and a number
of creditors are interested In his whereabouts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-05
The Scandal Accounted For.

All this scandal about the scantiness OF the
dress of Washington society ladies is very easily
traced. Since the election of Cleveland, thou
sands of old democrats have been shopping
:round the capital just to see how the old town
looks, and aS the style has changed some since
they were there last they are quite naturally
horrlfled by the new developments. The low
neck and short sleeve viii have To 20 along with
the other Iascals when the party OF wool delains
takes hold.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-05
Agapr0 Killed.

The Spanish consul general in New York,
Miguel SuareZ Guanes, received the following
dispatch. from the governor general of Cuba
Tuesday afternoon: "Carlos Aguero was
killed yesterday at Colon 10y the civil guard !"
1t may be remembered that the Spanish au-
thorities made unsuccessful efforts to have
Aguero, the filibuster, extradited from Key
West, Fla, last summer