Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-10-05

IMPROVEMENTS. - The new Capital brick
works here paid out for labor in this city during
about 8! 900 per week. The company is con.
stantly increasing tho value OF its plant on
mel way for its barges from the creek Mt WASH
Ing ton street to the Potomac river channel. II
seems now likely that the next river and har-
Dor bill will contain 4 small appropriation "for
the improvement Of the channel of Great Hunt
ing creek"
WAsHISGToS FUs.--some of the washing
tOn1anS who come to Alexandra on Sunday are
not satisfied with the quiet and secluded haunts
whose key no Alexandr!ans can find, but want
wood arrested ]. NJ. Bleekbon and J. II. Ridge
ley, who were tossing quarters ut \ crack in the
w. and A. depot yesterday, and they left col
FuNE ae funeral Of the late Edwin R.
Carlin took place to-day from his residence on
Duke street, and was attended by the members
of the Relief Hook and Ladder conn any and a
large number of others of his late associates
and friends. The hook and ladder house has
token of sorrow ut Mr.. Carlins death.
NorEs.-A number of colOred converts were
baptized in the Potomac, near the ship yard,
has been entered from Judge keiths decision.
declaring that MIR. w. w. Bran, of this CITY. is
not not entitled to recover from the city money
Father Stack, the new assistant pastor of st.
Mary's church, wasj just before the late war a
schoOmate of John S. Wise there.-There ia
still practically no movement for gates at the
railroad crossings. Complaints ON this subject
Judge Keith has taken the papers i'm the
English Whalan divorce case, to be decided by
him at his leisure.|Louis De Putron, who was
accidentally shot while cunning at Four-lnile
run, OH Saturday, is still under the care OF his
physician, DIR. Jones.
EFFECT OF NORTH CAROLINA EARru
oUAKE.-During the night of September 18th
disturbances resembling shocks of earthquake
were felt in the vicinity of Shiloh church in
Longacre township, Beaufort county, in the
eastern section Of North Carolina, near Pam
leo sound and the next morning it was found
that a chasm foot wide and about 100 yards
long had appeared across the public road. II is
now steadily broadening and lengthening, and
mas deya,ed rom Its former course, which was
small embankment and running in q zigzag
line about fifty yards from the church. Several
attempts have been made to obtain an idea of
its depth, but they have been unsuccessful,
owing to the shape in which it runs.
TION.-It Is officially announced at Berlin
that the report that Germany and Spain had
lines affair IS amounted. importa ant doct.
ments relating to the Caroline Islands have
been discovered among the archives of the
the difficulty.
JOHN E. Owens DEMENTED.-A special to the
The condition of John z. Owens, the comedian,
who Is at his home, Aigburth Vale, near this
place. Is very crlCcal. he IS suffering from can.
Ger of the liver, and owing to the great suffering
and pain has frequently been delirious. On
Thursday last Mr. Owens escaped from his room
and walked over his farm through the wet
grass In his dressing-gown and slippers. On
Saturday afternoon he again escaped from
home and came to Baltimore, where lie became
very boisterous. 1t was necessary for several
officers to forcibly place him in his carriage He
was taken back home, where he now is. I
MARYLAND POLITICS.-The Baltimore Sun
says: Washington county republicans nomi-
mated a full county ticket on Saturday Ale
ghany county prOhibitiOnists have reafffrmed
the national platform of 1884 and nominated
Il full county ticket, with the exception of state
senator and surveyor. independent voters of
talbot county Saturday nominated ticket
CLAIMING THE EARLoF NORFOLK'S ESTATES
BarOnet Ward, cousin to the Earl of Rosebery.
has raised in the court of chancery, in London
a claim to the estates of the Earl of Norfolk
worth S2,5OO,O 900, and to the title of carl He
bases his claim partly on missing document
supposed to have been placed in the coffin of the
last earl and been buried with him in the family
vault at BeXley Hall. The claimant has applied
to Sir Richard A. Cross, home secretary for per.
mission to open the coffin, and pending answer
to this petition has locked up all accesses to
BeXley Hall. He now cuts timber on the es-
tate, the court of chancery Offering no opposi.
ton, and does other common work He is en-
gagged, 1t is said, to marry Alice Mllais daughter
Of the artist.
IN HOT PURSUIT OF THE APACHEs-The
latest reports in San Francisco state that Capt
Srawrord Is on the trail of the Indians south of