Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-07-16
The Evening star has 81 regular, permanent
bona 6de daily circulation more than treble
that Of any other daily paper published in
Washington, and equal TO that OF all the
other daily papers here added together.

IT is proposed to organize bi-metaliic none.
tary association in New York city correspond.
ing TO various societies of the sort already In
existence abroad. Its main objects are to be
the furthering of free coinage, the use OF silver
as money, and the fixing OF a scientific stand
ard OF relative value for gold and silver SO that
the two metals can jointly form the specie cur.
rency of commercial nations. Judging from
the prospectus the association will have the
support of leading business men in New York
and 1t should have a useful influence in edu.
eating public sentiment on one of the most i'm.
portant questions of the near future.
IL is evident that something must soon be
done to solve this whole question of the silver
coinage, or 1t will solve itself in a manner not
flatteTing to national pride or our business in
terests For years the tendency has been to
wardsa silver basis for the currency, under the
operation of the economic axiom that OF two
rival currencies the baser will drive out the
better. but up tn this time the government has
been strong enough to keep gold in circulation
in spite of its greater intrinsic value. The
Treasury now confesses. however, that ii finds
itself embarrassed and is looking to the banks
for temporary help to enable it to tide over the
recess till Congress meets when there will, un-
doubtedly, be a pitched battle between the
metals. 1t will be remembered that the at
tempt by Mr.. Cleveland. then President-elect,
to get Congress to adopt his views was not sue
cessful. Perhaps the coming Congress will be
more easily persuaded.
The bark Monrovia has arrived at New York
from Liberia, with an unusually large number
of passengers, most of whom purpose early
return to that country. They came on business
and for pleasure. One OF the party, Rev. T. H.
Hagans, went from Rockingham, n. c., COM
missioned by his people to examine the coun-
try. He found things, he reports, very
favorable, and selected one thousand acres of
land in Montserrado for settlement, which he
intends to occupy with a colony of emigrants.
Bishop William Taylor, who presided at the
Liberia annual conference last February, and
who preached in all the leading towns of the
republic, writes: Liberia is the garden spot of
West Africa-splendid soil, well watered, good
spring water for use, and salubrious climate"
The late reelection of Hon. H. X. w. Johnson,
a native-born Liberian, to the presidency, and
the conservation rs Episcopal bishop of Liberia
of Rev. Samuel ID. Ferguson, who emigrated
there with his parents from Charleston when
but six years old, both educated in that republic
alike demonstrate the capacity of the negro
and the value of African colonization.
The Pacific Mail steamship company has de-
cided to withdraw its Sandwich Islands and
Australian line, in consequence partly of the
refusal OF the Postmaster General to give it
some of the $500, 900 appropriated by the last
Congress TO pay for ocean mail service. The
Pacific Mail company is the child of subsidy,
and government pap is apparently necessary
10 its existence, though IL cannot be said to be
an infant industry.
There Is a sort of missionary society in Lon
don that for number of years past has raised
and spent, without any appreciable results,
about a quarter of a million dollars per annum
for the conversion of Jews. What this organ
iZation ought TO do now is to Quadruple its re-
ceipts, and devote them wholly to the CONVEX
sion of the English aristocracy. That Is the
best field for missionary work on the face of the
earth to-day.
Young girls who think they are wiser than
their parents in choosing husband can read
the latest New York tragedy to advantage.
Here was Miss Margaret O'Thayne, a pupil at
Mount St. Vincent convent, who eluded her
famlly's care and elOped with an acquaintance
named Augustus Erwin, who represented him.
self as salesman in business house. After
the marriage 1t turned out that he was gam
bier and brute. The young womans parents
stood by her very kindly, and at last, to get her
out of her husbands clutches, planned an ex-
cursiOn % Europe. But the scoundrel frustrated
the scheme by trick, and then in a drunken
rage shot the poor, foolish woman at their
rooms in a hotel. He then made bungling
attempt to kill himself. Fortunately neither
effort was successful. The wife will have a
chance tostart life again among friends. and the
career in jail