Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-10-27

Calling Himself Edward Everett.
| AN ALLEGED NEPHEW AND NAMEsAKE OF THE
| GREAT ORATOR BECOMES A TRAMP.
Williamsport, Penn, special to the New
York Tribune says: man whose locks have
| been whitened by the SHOWS of sixty-rive win
ters who Is bent over with age, but in whose
manners one can see the traces of refinement,
i Is now working a hostler at one of the hotels
| in Newberry. He has been here only a few
days and taken in through compassion.
| He is the nephew of Edward Everett, and was
at one time his uncles secretary. His name is
/ the same that OF his iilustrious uncle. In
youth he left school early and under the tuition
of q private teacher prepared to enter Harvard
| college. He concluded to go TO Yale. He en-
/ tered the sophomore class and graduated
s mcen ne WAS only Ssh tee years OLD the
Immediately after his graduation he was
chosen by his uncle to act his secretary
| The young man served in this capacity for four
years beginning in the third year OF the reign
of the Queen! He was also a visitor at the Ger
man court. He travelled from there to Cairo
Egypt, and to the Holy Land, and upon return
ing to London, acted as correspondent for a
number OF newspapers and returned to Lynn,
Mass. He was well known in fashionable circles
He took to drink and gambling. His friends
deserted him and he went to New York where
he tried to get employment
| At last a poor Old man, nc joined the army of
| tramps. His name soon faded from memory.
A gentleman who was well acquainted In
and who has seen this old man, states that the
| tramp's story is true. Everett refused to talk
! much about himself or his family. In his con-
versation and manners he is gentleman,
although whisky has made a wreck Of him. He
which are signed by Edward Everett. These
he keeps in an old WORKOUT purse, which ne
carries in the inside Of his shirt.
His Son i'm the Hearse that Passed.
When James d. Fish, who is in New York
| city from Auburn prison a witness against
Ferdinand Ward. had been taken back to the
Murray Hill hotel last Thursday afternoon, and
was about entering the hotel, hearse. followed
| by a single carriage, passed. The hearse con-
! tanned the remains of Mr.. Fish's youngest son,
his favorite child, who died in New Orleans the
| previous Saturday. The hearse was bearing
| them to Woodlawn cemetery. Mr.. Fish saw
| his daughter in deep mourning in the carriage.
| They are bnrying my boy" he said, land
| cannot follow Them"
| visnaux's Great Jump Shot.
| From the New York Sun, 26th.
Maurice Nignaux started for Chicago yester-
| day morning Before he left he offered a bet,
which wasn't taken up. that he would make the
biggest run in the balk-ine tournament which
begins Nov. 10 AT Sections on Saturday night,
| he executed a Jump shot which Sexton says
/ excelled anything in that line he ever saw on a
billiard table. The object balls were in a straight
dine, and foot apart, i'll the center of the table
| The cue ball was also in a straight line with
| them, n foot and half distant from the first
| object ball. He raised his cue and struck the
| cuesbsll a smart haf-masse stroke 1t jumped
| ject ball, and glided 10 the white. The moment
| it cOliided with the latter IL darted backward
again and sped swiftly. nearly the whole length
explained that il was :, little idea of his own in
| imparting reverse English TO the cue ball. He
said nobody else could do it.
The Gaudanr- n amm Scullimg Match.
The Gaudaur-Hamm sculling match which
was arranged to be rowed on Creve Coeur lake,
near st. Louis, November 1st, for $500 side
and merchants purse of the same amount
added. has been declared off as a public event,
owing To the fact that the Missouri Pacific Rail-
road company would not give the Oarsmen a
percentage. The match will be rowed. how
ever, in the neaE future, for the merchants purse
alone, but only the subscribers to the purse and
"A few OF their friends will be present at the
/ test. Mr. james \. ST. John, of st. Louis, the
| hacker of Gaudaur, has received telegram
| from Wallace Ross, stating that ne and Teemer
! were willing TO row Gaudaur and mate. Mr.. st.
John has accepted the proffer. and has tele-
graphed Ross to name the time and state how
much he wishes TO row for. 1t is not known who
will be Gaudaurs mate, but it is expected that
| either Hamm or Hosmer will be the man.
The Great Powers Divided.
ENGLAND, FRANCE AND ITALY AGAINST THE
TRIPLE ALLIANCEON THE BALKAN QUESTION.
Dispatches received from Constantinople in
dictate that England will take decided stand
against the position announced for Germany,
Austria and Russia by Emperor Francis
JOseph's positive utterance. All the powers
/ have accepted the pOrtes invitation to attend a
conference at the Turkish capital upon the
| Balkan question and their representatives
al upon the ground. 1t Is stated unequivocally
structed by his government 10 make a motion
in the conference in favor of maintaining the
union OF Bulgaria and Roumelia effected under
| Prince Alexander and 1t is further declared
that the representatives Of France and Italy
| have been instructed by their governments to
| EQDiandS he
made the conference will be at once divided
Germany, Austria and Russia arrayed against
England, France and Italy. 1t is not worth
| while TO conjecture how Turkey, the power
chiefly concerned, will stand. Her attitude
| pected that England possesses such relations
! with the porte as to compel it eventually to
side against Russia, and if that is accomplished
| the difficulty would seem to be settled. The
conference, which was called for Sunday, has
been postponed to Wednesday
| OLIVIER PAIN BURIED ALIvE.-Sister Cipria-
\ nj, who has arrived at Cairo, from khartOum
/ states that the garrison at Senaar were sur
| retreat was cut off. and they were compelled to
surrender to the rebels. Sister Cipriani, refer
ring To the tate OF Olivier Pain says that he fell
| from his camel while ill, and that the arabs, who
were hurrying forward at the time. buried him
| has become a second Mecca thousands visiting
! the tomb of the mahdi.
SAD SEQUEL TO AN ALLEGED ELoPENENT.-
! The sequel To the alleged elopement and secret
wedding OF w. A. Mcdowell, who graduated at
/ Yale last June and Miss MoIlie Donnelly the
handsome young brunette clerk in the College
photograph gallery, seems to be that the girl is
/ not his wife. 1t is the old story. They were
lovers during his college career. and very init
mate. Her friends say that she left the city
alone few days ago and followed him to his
| home in Louisville. There she implored him
| to marry her. But this the young man refused
| to do The girl has not yet returned to her
| home. Miss Donnelly is a refined young woman
| of twenty-One. Her father, one OF the most re-
spected Irish citizens in New Haven, is nearly
/ hearIbroken with grief.
| KILLED WHILE HUNTING.-A young man
| named l.. Dinsey was instantly killed Sunday
near Bowie station, in Prince Georges county,
| Nd. Disney and several companions had been
| cunning for squirrels. They had left their
| loaded guns behind, while each ran II short
| distance after a squirrel that had been killed
when one OF the weapons was accidently dis
| charged the contents taking effect in the young
man 5 head, nearly Severing it from the body
| Disney formerly lived in Anue Arundel county.
He was unmarried.
AN EXPLOSION CAUSES A FIRE.-At Lynch