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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-09-12

Emglfsh Women at the Races.
THE DRESSES WHICH ATTRACTED As MUCH AT.
TENTIoss As THE HORSES ON GooDwooD DAY.
London Letter to the Buffalo Express.
There was much greater simplicity In the
costumes Goodwood cup day this year than
has been usual on former occasions; and, ow-
ing to the recent extreme heat, o great many
ladies appeared in white muslin dresses, with
white bonnets, gloves and parasois, which gave
them an almost bridal appearance. There was
an effective dress OF white lace, made with
nounces and gathered at the back, into which
narrow green waistbelt and streamers at the
sides; paraS0l lined with green, and little
green in the bonnet which was without strings
and made Of white lace; . spray of white
other quaint-looking lady wore white muslin
much 1rilled and bounced, with an old-fash.
Toned mantelet Of pale pink surah silk, and q
unique, and suited the small figure of the
wearer remarkably well. canary-colored
dress OF muslin and lace was made in the house.
match, with veil, gloves and parasol all en-suite
There were several coollooking pink and
white striped muslins and several gay striped
muslins known as Christy Ministries, and a par
ticuiarly handsome gray cashmere was taste
fully braided with gold arabesques on the
panels of the skirt and on the waiStcoat The
dress improvers were decidedly small, and the
tendency was to wear fewer flowers and less
tewelry than last year. Bonnets of every shape
were more worn than hats, and the basket
plaits were more adopted than any other style
of hair-dreSsing. Many ladies had quite aban-
doned fringes in front and the hair was rolled
back from the face instead. Large puffs at the
waist, with broad saSheS OF colored ribbon fall
ing over them, were much In vogue; also the
narrow ribbon waist belts and streamers, which
are pretty fashion for young girls. But on the
whole there were fewer elaborate toilets than
have been seen at former Goodwoods. and
simplicity In dress seemed the order of the
0ay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-09-12
Il the Missing Woman Dead?

~ SNe AASS1hH 1Os0an Dc3O?
WHAT THE PROSECUTION MUST PROVE TO CON-
Wet MITCHELL OF THE CHARLES RIVER
MURDER.
A telegram from Boston, August 29th, says:
The trial of Frank Mitchell, the alleged perpe-
traitor of the Charles river tragedy, will doubt
less be conducted similarly to that of Maxwell
in ST. Louis-that is, the prosecution will be re-
quired to prove that the person believed to be
murdered is dead. The police expect to have
considerable difficulty in establishing the iden-
tity of the body that was found floating in the
river, because there have been SO many cases
pearances appeared to be quite strong that a
jury would feel justified in demanding strong
evidence, Only q few of the witnesses saw the
body, and then it was badly decomposed. A
great many persons Identified it as that of Mrs.
Mitchell from the plaster cast and the photo
doubt Of the the share IS iaw Ye
whom Mitchell has engaged will make the
government prove 1t.
proves that the piece of carpet found wrapped
about portion Of the mutilated BODY came
from tho Mitchell house; When searching the
and washed and dried them. with the hope of
finding traces OF blood. They refuse to say
whether such traces were discovered or not.
Other evidence In possession of the police goes
to show that Mitchell quarrelled with his wife
just before O'Clock on Monday evening, July
20, and that ne throttled her after a desperate
resistance. The marks and bruises on the body
spoken OF In Medical Examiner Harris report
show that the woman was beaten and strangled
1t is supposed that the body was concealed in
the house on the day following Tuesday, and
that during that evening and night the cut
ting up Of the body was begun and completed:
that at about O'Clock in the morning the muir.
derer carried the sack containing the
head and trunk Of the victim to the
West Boston bridge and dropped the re-
mains overheard not far from the draw:
that he went back to the house from the bridge
just before daylight, and taking other portions
of the body in a wheelbarrow, dumped them
overheard from a wharf extending from Com
mercial street On Wednesday night he COM
pleted the disposing of the body by dropping
the legs or another wharf at the north end.
There is great deal OF other evidence which
has not yet been given to the public.
The police do not believe that the murder was
premed1tated. Their theory Is that Mrs. Mitch
ell greatly provoked her husband while he was
Intoxicated, and that he became so exasperated
that he seized her by the throat, and before he
let go chOked her to death. Then he either cut
up the body himself or hired some one to do it
for him, though this latter theory is hardly
probable. Evidence obtained by the police may
go to show it, however.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-09-12
A Crank Church Builder.
HOW AN ENGLISH BARoNET INDULGEs HIS
FANCY.

FROM London Life.
The actual sum Of money which Sir Tatton
SYKES has subscribed to the new Roman Catho-
nc church at Westminster Is s15O, 900. He has
erected fifteen Protestant churches on his own
estates, and contemplated building another
~ er IMAM all forthe establishment, but changed
MS x mlnd under the following circumstances:
men staying in Vienna he visited the we'll
known "Votivc" church, which INSPIRED him
MIN the desire to build one like it in England.
in, Sent Ior the great Austrian architect, and
IAquired the cost Some fabulous sum was
h, a1n1eo; 1nt, said Sir Tatton, mo matter-ru
Well" replied the Architect ~ can. Of
"11h; :; Hniy ouiid Roman Catholic church."
n Dor, dimcnity Of that sort is easily rot over.
Iernaps, indeed, it onoht to be q Catholic
cnurcn, and SO it shall ber'
!, s ou a1er returning to England he presented
t nsmsen 20 the Fathers OF the Brompton Ora
finI' ~ %,.n1 a wnom he announced his inten-
SEnn OoU Uuu.C0lne gigantic church at cost OF
r,Intoiv st Ane iather In question was conn
H,esGi staggered, and conveyed the startling
Eouet tnink me mailman, but here's 8 man
e,cant,c c ssp1na halt million Of money on .
ke3nr tor cn9rcnT i ended by Sir Tatton
1913 sSon 20 the cardinal, and on the spot an
Cashr7sn nn.s was made that q new Roman
,~hicn he SJassoeoral should be erected on Q site
ies,is has s4ng since been bought, though the
added that Lady sykes had lone wtshed. ~ foin
me c1urcn o. Rome, and was oniy prevented
n ~. gong g BY her husband. On hearina Of
~ 4atess Wnim, she renewed her arm naef,t,-
s.. .S Ih,ae, q may be supposed sncceasfully:
sst.s snu Ser little son Of three were duly re-
:. 80 noman communion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-09-12

FROM the Boston Advertiser, Sept g.
There is one counterpart, and only one, in
astronomical history to the recent phenomenon
Of the nebula in Andromeda. That is the COM
pact nebula or cluster of stars in the constella-
ton Scorpio, which was discovered by Messier
about 176O. It was called by him nebula
without stars, but Sir William Herschel found
1t to be o rich condensed mass of stars of the
fourteenth magnitude. In most telescopes it
appears simply as o pale cOmetary- looking
object, and remained SO up to 1859. May 21st
OF that year there was found by Auwers q
bright seventh magnitude star, which ap-
peared 50 suddenly that Auwers was certain
that nothing OF the kind was visible three
days previous. The same phenomenon was
discovered independently in England by Pog-
son May 18th. He was startled to find this
star, and from his description 1t appears to have
been eomawhat fainter than when Auwers
found 1t. By June 10, 1859, this stellar object
had entirely disappeared, and the neDula re-
sumed Its usual diHhsed appearance. The phe-
nomenon which has now been discovered in the
nebula OF Andromeda appears to be an exact
repetition Of this earlier one-especially as in
both cases the nebula presents to the spectre
scope continuous spectrum-that is TO say,
such spectrum as light coming from solid In
candescent matter shows there being nothing
gaseous about 1t. Since 1850 the nebula In
Scorpi0 has been closely watched, and Mr..
Chandier, OF harvard college observatory, has
observed 1t with special reference to the reds
coveIy Of this star, but II never has appeared.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-09-12
A Sketch OF Hettie Green.

SketCu Oh tHettle &feen.
"HER BOY SHALL BE THE RICHEST YOUNG NAN
IN AMERICA
From Washington Letter 10 Cleveland Leader
Hettie Green is the sharpest woman on Wall
street and the richest woman in New York. She
Is over forty years old and she numbers her for
tune by as many millions as there are years in
her life. Her mother was somewhat of an heir
ess and her father had increased the family pile
70 9OOo, 900 at the time OF his death. This for.
tune Hettie, as the only child, inherited, and
she at once went To work To increase it. Much
OF her fortune was invested in ships, but these
she considered dangerous and sold them and
placed thc proceeds In good interest-paying
mortgage. she bought these mortgages OF
small towns all over England, travelling about
s sor i,nTe,sgathg the securities for herself
OF hers died ana left her 81 200, 900 more The
313,oOO,oOO that Hettie Green thus inherited
about so, 900 at the time She married =
ii. Green, Of New York Miss Hettie mad an
nop,ial aS contract i w, With him whereby he
and TO leave her property of S2O, 200, 600 and
more in her own name. After her wedding she
husband got into Wall street speculation' She
did the specializing herself, however, and made
while her husband lost She could buy large
market she thought best She has made
money right along, and Is now said to be
nomical withai, and though Ter income
must be several millions year, her total
household expenses are not over $4,000. She
rides down broadway In q five-cent bus car.
Fying perhaps 100000 In her reticule, and she
used 20 walk TO parties through the snow, pull
ing old wooden stockings over her shoes To
keep her feet dry and save buying rubbers.
When she got to the place of entertainment she
would pull off her socks and hang them on tha
hat rack to dry. She kept her silver and secu-
rifles at John Ciscos bank, and the banke.s
say she came periodically TO the bank with q
box of whiting and polished her silver herself
When Cisco failed, not long ago, 1t took two
cabs TO carry away the plate, and the securities
which Mrs. Green had on deposit were found To
be over SIS, OOOO0 Hettie Green has two
children, q boy and q girl. The girl is IS and
the boy IA years old. The boy Is an invalid but
his mother says she intends TO make him the
richest man in America. IL she keeps on pilina
up money at her present rate she viii probably
succeed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-09-12


Prot. Ball, the well-known astronomer royal
for Ireland, makes a concise distinction be-
tween shooting stars and meteorites, which are
popularity regarded as the same. In the case of
the former Prof. Ball remarks one special point
namely, that certain great showersgare periodi-
cal, and always come from the same parts OF
the heavens-the inference from these recur-
ring periods being that the orbit of the earth
then cuts the orbit in which q mass of these
is moving. With this fact Of recurrence is
another, viz, that certain comets are periodi-
cal, and, from q comparison of their supposed
orbits with those of groups OF these bodies, q
connection between them is supposed, what
ever may be the origin of comets, which Is not
yet known. MeteOriteS, on the contrary, re-
marks DIR: Bali are never known to come from
the direction Of comet path, and, If carefully
examined, are seen to be fragments of some
rock or rocks: closely analogous too, to our
that, examining all the planets In turn, it
seems improbable that the meteorites originate
from any OF them, it being much more likely
that they were in former times Of greater vol
canfc activity driven up from the earth itself,
and they again, after the lapse Of ages meet
the earth in its orbit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-09-12
S1EnOr Mina's Two Wives.


VERY BAD NEWS NEW YORK LADY has
JUST GOT FROM ITALY.
From the New York sun, Aug 3Oth
The death of Petro Nina on the 22d of
July In Italy has disclosed state of affairs in
his domestic relations which has made q sem
satfon In fremont. Mr.. Nina was the senior
member Of the firm of Nina & Co., of % Will
liam street, dealers in Italian goods, and was
worth about S25o,OoO. In the summer of 1874
Nina was introduced at liners hotel to
MISS Marie Fox, young lady who resided
, Msn ner ho vs pmes Fox an importer Of
Nina and Miss Fox became fast friends at
once, and on the 9th Of August of the same
The young lady, at the invitation of her an.
anced, accompanied him the following Sunday
TO Odeifs hotel in East Chester, where he intro
they lived together as husband and wife, Soon
afterward he purchased an elegant mansion at
Prospect avenue and 10th street. The place
contained more than an acre of ground, and is
situated In the post aristocratic locality in Ire
mont, known as Paramount. The mansion was
elaborately furnished, and there Miss Fox was
Installed as the bride and mistress. They lived
In the most luxurious style, having horses, car
riages, coaehmen, footmen, and retinue of
servants. They commanded the respect of
everybody. About six weeks ago Mr.. Nina
sailed for Italy, to be gone about month, on
alleged important business. While there, on
the death reached Miss Fox until about six
days ago. Then she heard of it through an en-
ploye of the firm, and an answer to a cable
gram which she sent verified the report. Miss
Fox then, as the widow apparent of Mr. Nina,
went to the store to look after her alleged
husbands business, and there was met by
has another wife and several children
in Italy, whom he had gone to visit
and with whom he died. Miss Fox, who calls
VIM. Marshall as to the proper course to pur-
sue, and he took the case in hand yesterday by
preparing an application to the surrogate
to have Mrs Nina Amounted nj Str ri
of the estate Mrs. Nina, Or Miss Fox, claims
that She made a nuptial contract with him in
good faith, and that the Italian lady must APP
pear and prove her claim a wife before she
will surrender her alleged rights. Yesterday
Miss Fox was busily engaged breaking up
housekeeping and carting her furniture down
putting it into an elegant fiat. She declines to
live alone in the mansion. She is finely edu-
ments Of the past fwenty-four hours have
made q decided sensation in EairmOunt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-09-12

MEAN THICK OF A FELLOW WHO STARES AT
LADIES.
The Buffalo Courier says: A certain wretch
In the city takes pleasure in practices little
short of fiendish. His field of operations Is
generally in street cars and his tactics are ap-
parently very innocent, inasmuch as they con-
sfst of merely casting his eyes upon the ground.
His delight is TO enter car, one side of which
at least is well filled with ladies. He will seat
himself on the opposite side Of the and
commence his persecution, which is all the
more cruel because there is nothing tangible TO
resent With his hands innocently folded in
his lap he will begin to look intently on the
noor at the end of the seat opposite. or course
the woman in that corner, be she young or old,
buxom or scrawny, bold modest, will at
once become conscious OF her feet. Not daring
to look down she will feel certain there is some
thing wrong, and first one foot will twitch,
shift uneasly its position, draw back as far as
the seat will let it, seek the companionship of
its mate, both of them will squrm in the vain
endeavor of each to hide behind the other, and
finally in agOnized desperation the unhappy
woman will drape her skirts in manner
known only to the sex SO that neither foot is
visible. Then the tormentor will shift his eyes
and begin on new pair of feet. When his des-
ttnation is at q great enough distance, he has
been known to work his little game until every
woman in the car has the appearance of being
minus her pedal eXtremities and is in a state
bordering on desperation. Tar and feathers are
too good for such O fiend.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-09-12

From the Gentleman's Magazine
There is the story of the French criminal who
died because he believed that he was being
bled to death, while in reality his arms were
only pricked, and sound of trickling water
made to initiate the noise of the blood flowing
forth. In the same way it is recorded how Mr..
LOutherbourg cured large numbers of patients
by attacking the imagination. Among those
who had visited him was a man who had been
troubled with great pains and swellngs, par
ticularly about the loins SO that he could not
walk across the room. On entering, Mr.. Lou
therbourg looked steadfastly at him and said:
II know your complaint; look at me-" They
continued looking at each other some minutes;
then Mr.. Loutherbourg asked if he did not
the the, S mann replied that he did Tnsr sTRen
you will feel in few minutes much greater
warmth" After q short pause the man
selling wafer Stun cokRog
come here, sirs' "in a coach" "Then go and
discharge your coach and walk back to town. -
The coach was discharged, and the patient
walked to town, and next day he walked five
hours about town without fatigue. Similarly,
Sydney Smith relates how the banker-poet
Rogers caught bad cold simply from i'm
agining q window to be open, but which all the
s b was shs Il Ta at d had
Rogers, who was sitting in what he thought to
be dangerous draught. To quote a further
having applied to a physician for cure of an
affection of the breast, he gave her a prescrip-
ton, which he directed should be applied to the
breast. She returned at the end of a few days to
offer her grateful thanks for the cure, which
he had effected; but on making inquiry as
to the mode of action, he ascertafned that his
patient had very carefully tied the prescription
round her neck. Faith cures of this kind are
of constant occurrence, and we know how many
persons when suffering from maladies connect
ed with the brain or nervous system, have been
restored to their abnormal state of health by
simple faith. Thus startling effects have occa-
sionally followed the swallowing of such make
a ron los c nil cd nfh
sugar. This accounts, therefore, for the cures
which were wrought in days gone by, even
when medicine was in q backward state, and
the most absurd prescriptions were often given
to patients Suffering from nervous diseases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-09-12
nOmeliness OF the Royal Ladies'.
THE PRINCESS VICTORIA OF rEcK AN xxcrp
TON

HOmeliness Of the Royal Ladies'.
THE FAiNckSS VICTORIA OF TECK AN ExCEp.
TON.
Mn. Lucy b Hooper In Phiiadelph,a Te,esraph
Speaking Of royal beauty, I am told that the
fHncess victoria Of Teck, eldest daughter of
the fTincess Mary Of Cambridge, Duchess Of
LecA' - the prettlest royal maiden of q mar
naseaDie age now to be found In Europe. Prob
ably hef ialr lace will make her matrimonial
fortune, as was the case with the ohscure
6avaLian princess who became Empress OF
q Uy Ieason Of her extreme loneliness. II
ias,ss thot tacs that the generation Of royal
.ost =. s.as - now assuming the aspects Of the
past as regards their youth and beauty, were
personsi cSSrp for their possession OF
me Empresses Eugene and Elizaheth of Aus
IRA, Inc fr1ncess of Wales and Queen Mar
s .1.. % ttaly were all famous beauties, and
merit the admiration Of the world But the
,nnthar ,s Is beginning to look like the
nered thai H gr sr family, and it is whis-
gsUws1 Oh ner own shapely head. None of her
Princess except perhaps the youngest, the
even portions Ses promise Of iIheritng
press R. OF Austria, the Princess stephanie
ure, ne bgt h has neat graceful AZ,
Queen Of Spain has no claim '" Whatever
70 gooa looks. Her predecessor, the luckless
Princess C MAS e very pretty girl but the
VINO aied on the eve of her betrothal to the
no None OF the Orleans princesses are pretty.
haea 'n of surviving daughters of Queen Isa
and salow and ansuia e a,n E Se,ag sn OF
hussia Ia beauty, despite her small stature,
a,os Sne mas the loveliest and softest brown
eyes IN The world. But her youngest sister, the
Princess Thyra, Duchess of Cumberland, was
money! enough to scare the poor young Prince
Imperial into going to Zululand rather than
make her An offer of his hand. as M. Rouher
ana the Empress Eugene had planned that he
should should 90 The Princess Louise of Wales has a
heaSy Jaw and hanging under lip, and looks
nopelessly dull and stupid. Altogether the
present generation Of young royal ladies is
saaIy deficient in physical comeliness. "If
tnnlngs go on like this" remarked the Princess
occasion of her sisters betrothal to the MARQUIS
OF Lorne, my mother will end up by marrying
me 10 Yankee!" And that is what her
cousins and her nephews may be forced to
come to If they are positively set upon espous-
ing none but beautiful girls
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-09-12

Ev0autlon and Development.
From the Elmira Gazette
Johnny and his father had been having q
dificulty In the woodshed, owing to some dis
respectful remarks made. by Johnny respecting
hfs sire.
Now, Sir said the father, hanging the strap
up, "has your opinion Of your farther
changedf'
ayes, It has, sobbed JOHNNY.
@WeA, Sir, what IL It noW?D
Wy-Wy-1 mink any man thatH Jump on .
fellow % much hitler than he is Il q coward
Comebody nearer your sise9'f =
The olo man grabbed for the strap, but the
noY si!PRe9 Out ana this summer he Il cam
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-09-12
A Young WOman's Queer Story.
MARRIED BY AN ACCOMMODATING STRANGER
TO SAVE HER FROM DISGRACE.

Mary Grohn, Q young woman OF refined ap-
pearance, told a strange story to the charity
officials when she applied for aid In Brooklyn
recently. Her parents, she said, were respecta-
BILE and well-to do. She had been ruined by q
young man Of her acquaintance, and feared
the wrath Of her parents when her condition
should become known One day In despera-
ton she spoke TO q kindly appearing young
man on the street, asking him II he was mar
RED. He said no, and abe told him her plight
and begged him to marry her, in order that she
might procure marriage certificate to show to
her parents. He consented; they went to the
city hall and Mayor Low married them each
giving q fictitious name. The accommodating
stranger then disappeared and Mary saw no
more az him. She showed her marriage certifi-
cate to her friends, saying her husband had left
town on business. As he did not return, Mary's
wrong and drove her from home. She then an
piled 70 the charity commissioners for q bad n
the lying-in hospital. -
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Nellie Grants Unhappiness.

HiS 1OOpeI FaElS Le1teE u the w Orlu
The American papers state, see, that Mrs.
Nellie Grant Sartoris is talking OF returning to
the United States to reside. hardly think
that she has found England a pleasant dwell
ling place. Her first impressions were formed
when she visited Europe as the daughter of the
President ofthe United States, and she was, in
consequence, caressed and feted wherever she
went. On her return as Mrs. Algernon Sartoris
she found things by no means as brilliant and
agreeable. She had been wild to return to Lon
don, where She had been SO superbly enter
tanned, but London to Mrs. Sartoris was not
what it had been to Nellie Grant. In the first
place her father was no longer President of the
United States and our Republican Princess"
as she used to be called, was princess no longer,
nor was she welcomed and worShiped as such.
Secondly, she had a mother-in-law-a lady who
was born at kcmble, a fact that implies much.
1t Is true that the elder Mrs. Sartoris did not sur
vlve her son s marriage many years, but alter
her death her inconsolable widower retired to
strict seclusion on his country estates, taking
with him his son and daughter-in-aw and their
children. Such an existence can hardly have
been very eXhilarating or enjoyable to
American girl, and especially to one whose
girlhood had been passed at the White House
as the leading young lady of American society.