Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-05-30
Alexandria Affairs,

CITY FINANcEs.-At q meeting Of the city
council last night the appropriation bill for
and the principal changes are as follows: SO, 900
for public schools, instead of SO. 500; $500 for
Ss 81 .sso s sa99 es
| council, instead of $500 $500 is appropriated
for the improvement Of the HydrauIlon engine
house, aud S3e, 600 instead Of $4,000 to pay
The revenue and license bill was also passed.
THIS the rates of last with
tofore in operation here. S5 per month is laid
! as q license tax. The tax on real and personal
ftatfon tax the same as last year with discount
per cent for all taxes paid before October next.
day the Alexandria and Fredericksburg railroad
fast train struck and killed stranger appar-
| emily tramp, at Cameron crossing. The body
was brought to q house near Cats, at West End,
and has since remained there, but had not been
| recognized at noon to-day. An inquest will be
CIRCUIT CoURT.-Judge Keith continues the
session Of his court. He has made decree in
the case Ef WasshnEt4n City Ratrs Savings
land belonging to Thorpe and the payment OF
| the debts due the bank.
OFF goR CAMP.-The st. Johns Cadet battal-
ion paraded this morning en- route for their
camp on salt water, in st. NIary's county, Md.
The cadets took the steamer Wakefield at 8
eight days ia camp.
NoTEs.-The city school board had no quorum
w Il1 AIeliHS IdSt IlSnt.
Leadbcater Mankin and the superintendent
only attcnding.-rhe teachers OF the public
schools were paid off for the month of May this
| morning.
Strange Scene I'm u Trenton Prison.
NEwARK's DISHONEST AUDITOR DYING IN A
CELL WITH TWO FORMER BANKERS AND
ONCE POPULAR PHYSICIAN.
Frederick A. Palmer, eX-cty auditor of New
ark, who was sentenced in May, 1882, to
twenty years Imprisonment for classifying his
books, died of apoplexy in the state prison at
Trenton at five o'clock Thursday morning His
cell was shared by James a. Hedden and Oscar
L. Baldwin, the Newark bank wreckers. The
three men were intimate frieuds in the days of
their prosperity, and their intimacy and friend
ship continued in their prison life. They had
occupied the same cell for over two years
Palmer complained on Wednesday OF feeling
unwelI, and the supcrin tendeDt OF the shirt fac
to go To his cell. Wednesday night he grew
worse and Baldwin and Hedden nurscd HIM
until he fell asleep: At three o'clock Thursday
morning his moaning aroused his cell mates.
They gave him water and bathed his head. as
l he was feverish r. At break Of day Palmer grew
barred door of the cell to attract the attention
of q hall man. One responded and DR.. Pea
cock, u Hudson county convict, who mad the
physician, was taken to Palmer. The convict
physician at glance perceived that he was
beyond earthly help. An hour later he was
dead.
LILLIAN MADISoNs LOVE LETTERS TO HER
COUSIN CARY.-In the Cluverius trial in Rich
mon, ,nond THURSDAY counsel for both sides spent an
hour In examining the correspondence referred
TO as passing between Lillian Madison and
Cary Madison. with O view to avoid the read
Ing Of the letters in open court. The result Of
the conference was the presentation of a paper,
agreed upon by counsel, to the following. effect:
THAT 1t is admitted that Cary Madison was the
suitor of Lillian Madison from the spring OF
ISL to the time Of her death; that the parties
never met later than the summer of 1888: that
on September IL, 1854, she wrote him a. LET ter
expressing her love for him being stronger
than for apy one else, and askin: him to meet
her in Richmond and take her to the fair in
October, 1884, as she did not care to go with
any other gentleman, and signed herself Your
true and loving Lille adding us a postscript
verse of love poetry; that up to the spring OF
1854 her letters had only been of a cousinly ma
ture; that Cary Madison asserts that there was
no actual engagement between them; that in
no letter since September 1884, did she ex-
press her love for him: but did in one letter
chide him for not continuing to love her. and
that this statement is cleaned from q cores
pondence OF nine or ten letters from each.'
ATTEMPTING MURDER IN COURT. While
District Attorney HOag was delivering his clos
ing argument in the ease of John johnson n