Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-04-23

has a very fine church and a large coug regation.
nearly all OF whom are English miners. A few
weeks since, In preaching sermon on q broad
subject In which he included al classes and
nationalities AS entitled 90 the blessing OF the
gospel, he remarked that no foreigner had any
right 20 raise his voice against the Chinese.
This raised n breeze, and at the next meeting
several OF the officers OF his church resigned,
iusing 10 collect any more money on his salary.
The reverend gentleman keeps on preaching .
full salvation Tor all Just the same. although
ms money may not come la as freely IA before.
Bought HIS Friends wife for 500.
BUT THE FRIEND TOOK NO PAINS TO SEE THE
GOODS DELIvERED.
ROCHESTER, MINI. April pa few DAYS
ago John Leopold had friendly sit-down at
his residence In this city, with his crony Geo.
Wells, from out in the country. They washed
their necks on the inside with fiuid from q
black bottle. and became more than confden-
tal in their relations: SO much 80 that Leopold
sold his wife 10 his friend Wells for the paltry
money and then told the selI-divorced husband
TO stand not on the order OF his going but To
take the children, OF whom there were several,
and go forth from the house like a he Hagar.
Leopold departed as exhorted, taking the SloO
along. but leaving the children. On undertake
Ing 10 assume ownership OF his new-bought
vile, Wells found that IL took more than two To
make that bargain. She refused 20 be Mrs.
Wells; thereupon the wife purchaser became
anxious TO get back the money paid Tor the
wife he hadn't got He hunted up leopold, but
that individual considered the bargain a good
one for him, and preferred 10 keep the money
rather than redeem the WIFE, Here the mater
rests at present
Strange STORY Of q Deserted House.
FORT GAINES, GA, April 23-Mr. Charles
Greene, with a party OF hunters. has Just re-
rurned from trip down the river, and tells a
curious story. While near Bloody Bluff
they came upon house that seemed To have
been built many years ago. Grass and weeds
mad grown mp over the steps, rs II no one ever
visited II; Looking In, 10 their surprise they
saw cooking utensils stove, bed tumbed up as
ifJust lett that morning. Everything seemed
SO mysterious that the party set about solving
It, Five miles away a farmer was found whs,
sned light upon the my stery. Two years before
man with "A wife aud three children took pos
session OF the house. They would never give
thelr names, Their origin or their history. 4
Few weeks after the Eeighoors were summoned
TO the burial OF the wife. The next day tho
father and three children Disappeared, and
nave never been heard from since lie left tho
mousse In Its present condition, and 80 great Is
the supersutio Us lear oi al that IL las lever
been disturbed.
The Judge's Testimony Settled the Case
NALDosrA, GA, April 23.-A curious case OF
a judge turning witness has oec lrred in
Echos county. There was "A suit 20 IA ding in
volying a land title. Both parties were limo
cent purchasers. Both chains al tides ran
BACK TO "A common decd made nearly fifty
years ago. When Judge ltansell examined
both SETS OF titles closely lac said, hu.GIHg up
one chain: "Genilenlcn, acre i.c .i.c -cnaino
deeds to this hand. 1 was yoGGg lawyer ia
Those days. ana crew ;his tIt- HIA -,'ii Tor tho
grantor. This other title purporiins To have
been made by hi!n as .osScry.''
A Lawyers Doaa,;e C-isse.
SENDING A BULLET THEOUSa His ows BRAIN
AFTER SHUorT5G Ills MIST I-sS
The New York i.4.es gives the following mar
ticulars of tragedy in that city Tuesday
morning, mention OF which has already been
made in The STAR.
"When Francis Plat wickes, n promising
young lawyer, formerly ri Utica y. y. went
TO his Office Tuesday morning, 26l broadway.
where he was employed by Assistant District
Attorney Delaney Nicoil, he wore "A bOulo.,-
mere Ia MS handsome liehi spring oNercoaL,
and he seemed ia the best of siirits. lie ha,,
ust had breakfast with "a friend al the toleIn:n
house, and neither TO HIM Nor bis business
associates did lac give indication thai t...ra
was anything troubling him. After Transact
ing some business at his Office W icses went To
No. 1i5 West l6tE street where in AN .aparI-
ment Oh the second door EnnFna Adams a ~
her sister Edith, girls of German lstrentnge.
had lived Tor two months. Ee had been on
terms OF Intimacy with Emma E,r Al long
time, aud hac supported her ior nearly two
years.
THE sisters were preparing 10 move and fur
nltufe wagons were Ia irbat OF tEe door. Men
were carrying down stairs tEe furniture Il Tho
nat when Wickes entered thU front room. lie
greeted Emma, who Was villa l.cr sister, pleas
antly, and began To talk kindly bet seriously OF
her conduct, which had recently led 10 several
disputes between them. ile WAS aInov.d by
the furniture men coming Into the rooil, and
said: There Is SO much fuss here 4 can't talk
Come In mere he walked toward Tie Kitchen.
says he renewed the conversation about tho
disputes, and asked her TO reconsider ner det,,,-
mlnation 10 leave him. She bluntly refused 10
10 this, ana he drew "A sci.cocking revolver or
heavy calibre out OF his oycrcoaI pocket and
tried to shoot her through the head, as lac held
"The bullet struck her under the left ear and
he let her go. w lille she screaming To the
parlor, Edith, who rushed 10 The kiichen on
hearing the shot, heard another. Size dragged
her sister TO lounge, and then started back lo
the Kitchen, where She ioand wickss wrI,hins,
temples. DIR. A L. Turner, vi west ION street
was called in, and he at once declared ic1ea'
case hopeless, bGt thought Inat the glrl was not
seriously injured. An ambulance .ir.eon from
the New York hospital decided otherwise IN the
case OF Emma Adams. Tue bullet had struck
the neck at an angle, 80 that IL powed around
under the TISSUES until IL reached the right OF
the chin Facial paralysis had already set in,
ana there were symptoms OF cerebral injury.
She was sent TO the hospital and Mici1cs foI-
lowed her there half an hour later. His brain
was traversed by the b.l Immediately back OF
the eyes, 50 that they bagea Out of thcir SOCK
cts and the surgeons said that death WAS only
u question OF a few hours.
"Wickes acquaintance with the woman was
commented upon as extraordinary By his
friends, as she lad little beauty, aad w.ss no.
Wei educated. The sisters had proved un.
welcome nelghbors TO many the tenants I'M
the apartment house, l;id the agent had Given
them a formal notice 10 leave. fhs they were
very willing 10 do, as Emma had other ac-
quaintances than wickes, who was very
jealous. Often, when dispeascd with her
conduct he threatened To commit suicide-
and made vague threats AS 10 what he would
do with her. The sisters had agreed, ON leay-
ing the flat, not To let W ickes know where they
were going. Incy hired rooIus at No. Il 10 west
x9th street ana were on tue point OF moving
there. Emma WAS not at hume on Monday
night, and Wlckes called on Edith Ia the eyei,-
Ing and begged her To tell him where her sister
was. She pretended that she did not know
and he sat down aud wrote in pencil ON tho
border or the ballad "'Osiler Joe" a pathetic
little note, telling her he greatly troubled
about her, and that he wanted 10 see her lie
seemed very much depressed when he went
away.
"Wickes was % years old. and was graduated
d the Columbia College Law School. Mr..
Sicoli thought very highly Oh him. lie Was
slight, boyisn-looking, and lastidious about his
appearance. besides assisting Sir. Nicoll in
MS private and public practice he was assignee
)i Thomas Young, Jr., the florist, and
trusted with the settlement oi an estate which
would have taken him 10 Europe ia June. He
lived In west 18th street, but his family were
natives OF Utica"
wICKEs' DEATH.
The New York papers to-day report that
Nickes died in the New York hospital last
hight Emma Adams will recover Her lace
passed along the taw-bone, and partial parai-
isis, IL Ii feared, Will result from tine wound.
IS
The Great IncOmes Of Some Eagllsh
From the Manchester Guardian.
Mr. Saunders motion on the taxation OF
round rents, which was discussed last night.
viii no doubt bring into prominence the enor-
nous ngures OF the ground rentals OF the great
10th ~.l<.. Ia