Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-11-23
The Evening Star has a regular, permanent
bona ade daily circulation more than treble
that Of any other daily paper published In
Washiagfen, and eanal To that OF all the
ether daily papers here added together.


ether daily papers here added together.
Under the arrangement just made by which
the Baltimore d Ohio railroad gets to New York
city TIA Staten Island, the route taken is over
the b. & D. tracks to Philadelphia; over the
Reading road TO Bound Brook; thence to Eliza
bethport, over eighteen miles of road yet to be
constructed: thence from Elizabethport two
miles To Staten Island by bridge To be built
over the Kill Won Kull inlet and from Staten
Island to the Battery, New York city, by steam
ferry.
The main importance Of this arrangement to
the Baltimore Ohio Company lies in the inn
mense facilities it gains for placing and hand
ling freight right on the deep water shores of
Staten Island. As a passenger line the Penn
sylvania road will have many points Ofiprefer-
ence, notwithstanding it's rival proposes 10 land
its passengers at New York city direct from the
cars carried by steamer from Staten Island to
the Battery. While this fiye-rnile steamer trip
across the bay from Staten Island may be en-
JOyable in pleasant weather, it will be decidedly
unpopular In bad weather, and altogether this
feature win not be an attractive one to the ma
jority Of passengers. The time lost in this long
ferriage and in SLOWING down" to run over the
two miles of trestle-work in crossing the Kill
Won kull would seem also to be n serious draw
back to the road in any competition with the
Pennsylvania road in the matter of speed be-
tween NeW Ork ana W aSnlnSJOn-
/. Is reported that King Milan of Servia has
been pronounced an enemy to Europe by the
international conference at Constantinople, and
that the assembled powers have decided to
take him in hand and restore the map of the
Balkans to the lines it bore before the Roume-
liam revolt. II Milan won't Withdraw peace
ably, the conference Is said to have voted that
two of the powers should undertake to force
him into sujection, but to judge from the latest
news from the front, Prince Alexander is boss
ing that job without foreign aid.
Elizur Wright, who died yesterday at the
advanced age of eighty-one, was almost the last
OF the famous group OF abolitionists who began
the active agitation on the subject OF slavery
now nearly half n century ago. OF late years
Mr.. Wright was chiefly occupied, an insur-
ance actuary, in calculating the chances
other people had OF dying, an occupation that
seemed to keep him alive indefinitely, but at
last he, too, proved the grim accuracy of mis-
own tables.
\ statement is afloat to the effect that the
new civil service commission intend to revise
the rules so as To- do away with the disqualified
ton of ex-confederates. This statement is mis-
leading, as the rules do not now discriminate
specifically against those who fought in the
southern army. The regulations. however, pre-
scribe limit of age which would bar out most
OF the veterans of tine war ON both sides were it
not that a special exception is made in favor of
Union veterans.
sterling couldn't be appointed weigher, but
he weighs enough to be made port warden, and
the New York Jacksonians are happy while
the mugwumps are mumpish rs they see that
there is more than one way to kill cat
There is a symmetry about the Chicago bill
lard tournament that strongly suggests hip
podroming agreement among the contestants.