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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-24
HOW SHE GOT fHEIR DOLLARS.
Staid Connecticut Men Wheedled by q
Little Woman with a Pretty Chin.

A Putnam, Conn.,, special to the New York
Sun says: A lively little woman, with a pretty
little chin that was lively, too, has been
fascinating and detrauding the pous and staid
people OF old Windham county Her heart
grieved over the condition of the faraway
"heathen" steadily and she told every one she
met just what her sentiments were about the
heather. The heather must be clothed, she
said, and educated out of their benighted state,
and the only way in which to do it was to
carry the gospel to them and inform them that
they had perishing souls. To carry the gospel
and that information would cost money, she
admitted, and IF Mr.. - would please make
a small donation she would carry the money to
the missionary folks in New York, who would
buy the gospel with it and ship it promptly to
midas coral strand and the Congo BASIN
Not a man in Putnam or in any other place
In the county tried to resist the missionary
zeal that actuated the dimpled little chin and
every man came right down with spot cash.
Elders, deacons, class leaders and practitioners
subscribed to the heather fund" that the
little woman carried in her pocket and the
missionary's daily receipts were from SO to
$50. She captivated the entire masculine heart
OF Putnam and the good folks were thinking
OF having her give lecture in the village
churches on the "outlook for the missions in
the Brahmaputra and Punjab fields" when the
missionary angel suddenly disappeared. That
is all. except that some of the victims subse-
quently wrote to the Bible house folks in New
York, whom she said she represented, and they
knew her not. They added that they were not
pushing their missions into Congo territory
as vet"
The ladies Of Windham county are very glad
that she has gone, for they fear If she had
tarried much longer she would have had all
the ready money the Windham men possess.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-24
THE FIRST GUN.
Gen. Malone and Senator Daniel Open
the Virginia Campaign at Abingdon.

Yesterday Abingdon. Va, was filled with
political excitement. Gen. Malone was there
to make the first speech for the republicans in
the Virginia campaign and Senator Daniel was
there to address the democrats. Gen. Malone
held his meeting in Hurts tobacco ware house
near the railway station and Senator Daniel
spoke at the town house in the center of the
town, half a mile away. The general spoke for
a free ballot and fair count and an honest
return Of the vote. He ridiculed the idea that
there IS danger to our civilization from the
presence of the colored man and said such
sentiments were employed as q mere scarecrow
to excite prejudice and fear in the hope Of
divertlng the white workingman from casting
his ballot for the candidate he honestly
preferred. The colored man, he said,
Is here to stay. He is in great
measure the life-giving power to all our
industrial pursuits. He is by instinct repub-
llcan and naturally protectionist and his vote
Is needed to protect the state from the demo-
cratic dogma of free trade. The general made
a vigorous argument in favor of protection, and
presented some striking figures to show the
marked development of the country, and es-
pecially Virginia, under protective policy.
He strongly urged the repeal of the generous
and hateful internal revenue system and adj
yocated the Blair bill for the help it would give
the free schools. The remainder of the address
was devoted to severe criticism of democratic
management of state affairs.
Senator Daniel, r. Taylor Scott and Colonel
Barton addressed large audience Both
meetings were in progress at the same time
and, while the interest of republicans in Ma
homes speech at times seemed to flag the DEM
ocratlc speakers held their crowd well in hand
and drew many from Mahone's meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-24
- NOTE THE RESULT: -

THE STAR HAS MORE THAN
THREE TIMES AS MANY REGULAR
SUBSCRIBERS and MORE THAN
Five TIMES AS MANY REGULAR
READERS AS ANY OTHER DAILY
PAPER In WASHINGTON. IL is de-
nvered regularly by careful carriers at
the HOMES OF THE PEOPLE, AFTER
THE BUSTLE AND WORRY OF THE
CAY ARE OVER, and it is thus read
leisurely and thoroughly by EVERY
MEMBER OF THE FAMILY.
They know that IL prints all the news,
and has only the interests Of the people
of the District i'm view, with no partisan
measures to advocate, and no private
schemes to forward. They know IL, i'm
short, to be THE PEOPLES PAPER,
and nothing else. As an ADVERTISING
MEDIUM it is, therefore, ABSO-
.LUTELY WITHOUT A RIVAL. Ii II
I'm fact worth more as a means Of reach
ing the public THAN ALL THE
OTHER DAILY PAPERS In THE
CITY TOGETHER.
Furthermore, I'm proportion TO the re-
turns IL gives its patrons, ITS ADVER-
Using RATES ARE THE CHEAPEST
IN THE CITY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-24
The New Asteroid.

From the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
The new asteroid discovered by Dr. Peters of
Hamilton college observatory on the 25th Of
August may prove to be the most interesting
of the whole group. The first computation Of
the orbit indicated that part Of the path was
inside the orbit of the planet Mars. DIR.
Peters is making another computation from
later observations, and he thinks the path may
be outside that of Mars, but still near enough
to distinguish the new asteroid as the nearest
OF all to the sun.
In view of this discovery astronomers may
be inclined to adopt the view that the moons
Of Mars were picked up by that planet from
the asteroids near his orbit. 1t is possible that
the earth picked up its satellite in the same
way. The moon has the appearance of having
received a heavy blow which cracked the shell
in every direction from the crater Tycho. The
moon might have struck the earth in way to
cause the fracture of the moons sheel which
was afterward cemented again by the outflow
OF melted matter. The lines of apparent
fracture are intensely white, like new matter
pushed up through the older portions OF the
moons surface. The central point, or crater
of Tycho, is also intensively white and is very
large and shallow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-24
MARKETMEN ORGANIZING.
To Protect Themselves Against the
Competition of Wholesale Dealers.

Retail dealers in vegetables, fruits, produce
and poultry about the market complain that
wholesale men in the neighborhood of the Cen
ter market sell small quantities of beef, mutton,
fowls, vegetables and fruit to customers, for
their own consumption, to the disadvantage of
the retail, dealers. 1t is claimed by the retail
dealers that the abuse of trade proprieties has
been carried to such point that an enterpris-
ing housekeeper can go from stall to stall, purse
In hand, Tuesday, Thursday, or Saturday, and
furnish her larder for a week ahead at prices %
per cent,below those at which the retail dealer
can make profit. The consignee direct could
afford to sell the first cut of pOrterhouse steak
at the rate of Is cents pound. while the mar
ket-butcher asked 20; he could find it profit
able to offer cabbages at cent
less per head. and other commodities pro-
portiOnatly lower than the prevailing retail rates.
From the retailers point OF view this Is wrong.
During the last two or three years the abuse,
they say, has been growing to an alarming eX-
tent. and in the past twelvemonth 1t has be-
come positively uncomfortable. The house
keeper-at-large, and no longer the exceptional
woman with the market basket, has discovered
that her supplies are to be purchased at an ad-
vantage from the wholesale men. The retail
market men are now taking steps to put an
end to practice that works so much to their
disadvantage. They have secured the sigma
lures of many Wholesale dealers in meat and
produce to an agreement not to sell a pennys
worth of merchandise to a retail buyer. This
afternoon at o'clock the retailers meet in the
hall at the corner of 9th and b streets to make
arrangements to prevent Wholesale men from
selling at retail. Nearly all of the wholesale
men, it Is said. ready to acquiesce in the pro-
posed arrangement. as they claim the retail
trade has been forced upon them by circum-
stances. Customers would be accomm odated,
and if one dealer sold to them his neighbor
felt obliged to do the same.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-24
A Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue.

New York has peculiar church organization
in the congregation Moses Montefore, Spanish
and Portuguese, which dedicated its new syna-
gogue Saturday afternoon with appropriate
ceremonies. The building is at No. 100 East
18th street, on the site of the old German
Baptist church. The new synagogue is a sub
stantial building of brick and its auditorium is
So feet long and 25 wide. gallery runs
around three sides of the room and this is
reserved for the women, the men having their
places on the floor. The dedication services
were opened by choir of boys. Prayers in
memory of Sir Moses Montefore and for the
government. were delivered, blessings were
pronounced upon those who contributed to the
erection of the building, and the Rev. DIR. s.
Morals of Philadelphia preached. This was
followed by the dedication sermon, preached
by the Rev. DIR. H. Pereira Mendes of the
Shearith Israel congregation, in West 18th street
The Rev. A. II. Nieto conducted the afternoon
service. Services will be held in the synagogue
every day, in morning, afternoon and evening
conducted by the Rev. NJ. Guedalia, Hazaan.
school is maintained by the congregation,
in which the children Of the members are in
structed in the Hebrew language, history and
religion. The Moses Montefore congregation
is strictly orthodox and seeks to keep its re-
hgion free from gentle admixture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-24
A. B. CAMPBELL MAY GET 1T.
KISSED BY CARDINAL LAVIGERIE
The Reception of Two Colored Ameri-
can Catholics in Lucerne.

Cincinnati dispatch says: Daniel A. Rudd,
who with r. l.. Ruf1in Of Boston went to Luz
cerne to represent the colored Catholics of the
United States at the aati-slayery congress,
which was to have been held last month. has
returned. The congress has been postponed
indefinitely, and Mr.. Rudds business would not
allow him to remain abroad any longer. Mr..
Ruddis editor of the american Catholic Tribune.
paper published in the interests of the col
ored Catholics Of the country In this weeks
issue he describes the reception of himself and
Mr.. Ruffin by Cardinal Lavigerie as follows:
'When we were presented to his eminence
Cardinal Lavigerie at the Villa Columbia.
Lucerne, Switzerland, our reception was in
deed warm one. When we presented our
letters, they were Immediately scanned; then
throwing one arm around the neck of Mr.
Rufhn and the other about mine the great
cardinal stood silent for moment almost over
come with emotion; then, bending for his
eminence measures more than six feet). he
kissed us as a father would kiss his sons who
had been for q long while absent then said:
Young men, feel that your presence here will
prolong my earthly existence, will give new
ylSor to wearled nature, and start anew the
current OF life. Your coming from your far
away homes IN America, bearing, as you do,
words OF good cheer from his eminence Car
dinal Gibbons. from the venerable archbishops
OF Cincinnati and Boston, as well as the sympa-
thies OF your great nation, must and will give
new impetus to the work of civilization among
and for the suffering and outraged people of
Africa Long and interesting were the confer
ences held daily with his eminence during our
stay in Lucerne. We were introduced to the
Countess de Staal by the cardinal and found
her TO be q woman OF the highest order of in
telligence and deeply interested in the great
anti-slayery crusade. The last evening of our
stay IN Lucerne we were entertained at dinner
by the cardinal and his kind sister, who had
been called, as it was supposed, to his death
bed. But the time had not come"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-24
NOT A PERSONAL DEVIL.
"A Baptist Minister Places Novel Con-
structiOn on the Scripture.

Rev. II. II. Barbour, pastor of the Belden
Avenue Baptist church in Chicago, created a
sensation in the Baptist ministers meeting by
reading paper at yesterdays session in which
he denied the existence of personal devil,
and treated the passages from Scripture speak
ing Of such parsonage as fgurative and not
literal. Perhaps the most astonishing part Of
his paper was that which treated Of the temp
tation of Christ in the wilderness, in which he
said:
Jesus was not actually led down into the
wilderness Immediately after His baptism, for
He was already there. He did not maintain an
absolute fast, for if SO He must have been mi
raculously sustained, in which case He would
have been free from all hunger and from the
suffering which made the temptation to turn
stones into bread. The wilderness was not a
barren waste, but merely woody and noun
famous part OF Judea, with vineyards, olive
groves, and many fruit trees Astounding in it.
Christ was not literally taken to the Holy City
and set upon pinnacle of the temple. Had
the devil taken him through the air he would
have wrought miracle, and only God can do
that; had the devil attempted to walk with
Christ to the temple, journey of twenty or
thirty miles. during which the fast could read
lIy have been ended, and then to its pinnacle,
he would have been frustrated, for by law no
foreigner could pass the first Enclosure or
court of the temple under the pain of death;
the Jewish people could not pass the second,
and the priests alone could enter the third, in
which the temple was. And though the devil
a monk or priest would be for the OCCASION
Christ would not falsely have assumed the
character"
Mr.. Barbours paper was followed by a storm
OF unfavorable comment, and will be the sub
ject OF discussion at next Mondays meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-24
DIED IN A CHURCH.
No One Identifies the Unfortunate Girl
Two Months in the Church Cellar.

A New York special to the Philadelphia In
quirer says that it was thought for time yes
terday that the starved and emaciated creature
who died in the Roman Catholic church of the
Sacred Heart at Mount Vernon on Saturday
under such peculiar circumstances was Virginia
Wagner, the missing Brooklyn school teacher,
but investigation shows this to be q mistake.
There is some similarity in the facial appear
ance Of the two, but there the resemblance
ends. The Brooklyn girl was a rigid Presbyte-
rian, while the dead stranger was undoubtedly
Roman Catholic. An amulet, the Agnus Del,
and a scapular were found suspended from her
poor, scrawny neck. Her strange death does
not clear up the mystery of Virginia Wagner
death at all, but there are such curious coin
cidencss between the two that the supposed
identification on certain circumstantlal evidence
appeared reasonable at first
The most remarkable thing about the Mount
Vernon mystery is that the dead woman should
have been able to live in the cealr of the church
for at least two months OF the 400 people who
looked at the corpse yesterday $50 were resi-
dents of the town. Not one Of them had ever
seen the dead woman in life. Not one had ever
been asked by her for crust. There is not a
butcher. a baker, provision dealer, grocer
or in fact any tradesman who deals in the
necessaries of life in Mount Vernon who re-
members having been applied to for food by
TWO MONTHS IN THE CELLAR.
But the queerest part of the story is the two
months hiding in that damp and dark cellar,
where rats abound and worms crawl in count
less numbers She was first seen there early in
July, and, strangely enough, Immediately after
Miss Wagner's disappearance from Brooklyn,
by Janitor Edward Rowland of grammar school
No. 1, located directly opposite the church.
The girl did not look thin then. He saw her
first about twilight, coming from the area way
which leads from the church cellar in the rear
of the edifice. She had bright tin pail in her
hand and filled it with water at the well which
Is in the church yard and about fifteen feet from
the back wall of the building. Then she dis
appeared. Toward the latter part of July some
OF the boys around town, while playing 'fox
and geese" saw the woman start down the stone
steps leading to the cellar and disappear within.
few moments later they saw her white face
and big staring eyes looking through one of
the low cellar windows ON The western side of
the church. One of the youngsters picked up
a stone to throw and the face vanished. All
this time-from early July up to the latter part
OF Augustine strange creature must have
lived under the church floor. There is every
reason to believe that she remained in that
dark and dismal shelter for days, perhaps weeks,
at time
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-24
THOUSANDS OF PAGES.
The Immense Mass of Testimony In Con-
tested Election Cases all Printed.

The government printing Office has just COM
pleted the immense work of printing the testi-
mony in the contested election cases which will
come up for settlement before the Fifty-frst
Congress. Following are the titles Of the cases:
Chalmers Va. Morgan, Mississippi; Langston
VS.. Venable, Virginia.; Waddill vs.. Wise, vir-
ginia; Posey VS.. Parrett, Indiana; Miller vs.
Elliott, South Carolina; Bowen vs.. Buchanan;
Virginia; Kernaghan vs.. Hooker, Mississippi;
Threet VS.. Clark, Alabama; Atkinson vs.. PEN
dleton, West Virginia; McDufie vs.. Turpie;
Alabama; Hill vs. Catchings, Mississippi;
Goodrich vs.. Bullock, Florida; Eaton vs..
Phelan. Tennessee; Mudd VS.. Compton. Mary
land; Featherston VS.. Cate, Arkansas; McGin-
Mss VS.. Anderson, West Virginia; Smith VS..
Jackson. West Virginia.
The largest case was that of Eaton va. Phelan:
there were 2,22S pages of testimony and it is
bound In two volumes. The smallest one con-
talns 274 pages and is that of Mudd Vs. Compton
The total number of pages in the entire Job
Is l5.554, which, at 5000 ems to the page (solid
brevierl, amounts to 46,662, 900 ems-enough
composition to keep good compositor steadily
at work six days a week for thirty years. Five
hundred copies of each case have been printed
The first case was sent to the Office May 8, and
the last one on August H.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-24
NO TYPHOID EPIDEMIC HERE.
The Health Office Records Make q
Favorable Showing for Washington.

Boston and Philadelphia are suffering from
an epidemic of typhoid fever, and, in a gen.
srsl way, it is claimed by those cities that the
same disease is epidemic in nearly all the most
important eastern centers of population That
is incorrect so far as Washington is concerned,
for there have been fewer deaths than usual
from typhoid during the past two months. In
July, 1851, there were but eighteen deaths from
this cause: the same month in 1888 is credited
with but twelve deaths, while this year there
were nineteen Thirty-two deaths was the record
for August, 1887. while August, 1888 and 1883,
are down for twenty-three and twenty, re-
spectively. In September, 1887, the number of
deaths was twenty; in September, 1883, twenty
seven. and up to the present date in this month
but fourteen persons have succumbed TO the
disease. These figures, when compared with
the increase in population, are sufflcient to
show that the typhoid death rate IS very mod
crate and that nothing like an epidemic exists.
The records of the health office, scanned yes
terday by STAR reporter, show that the num-
Der Of deaths from typhoid have compare
lively become less during the past ten years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-24
A RUNAWAY CAR.
An Exciting Scene on the Electric Rail-
road.

There was an exciting scene on the Ecking-
ton electric road Sunday afternoon when
one Of the cars ran away. The car was crowded
with passengers when it left Glenwood road.
The conductor started through collecting fares,
and was in the middle of the crowded car when
the steep hill leading to lexington was reached.
When the car started down the hill its speed
gradually increased until it became unmanage-
able, and then the man in charge of the brakes
shouted to the conductor to apply the brakes
in the rear, but there was such a crowd in the
car that the conductor could not get through
By this time the passengers had become
alarmed, and several women screamed When
the foot of the hill was reached the car came
near leaving the track. One woman was thrown
from the seat TO the floor and another woman
tainted. The car finally stopped, and no one
was injured except the passenger who was
thrown from her seat
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-24
TWO DISTINGUISHED EXILES.
Ex-Mayor Oakley Hall Living in Lon
don and Theodore TiltOn in Paris.

Paris Letter to Philadelphia Times.
Sometimes you will meet men who bring I'D
scenes that are of the past and are almost for
gotten. They bring up old memories
ghosts OF the past, as it were. 1t is but short
time ago that saw Oakley Hall in London, and
what recollections of New York under the reign
OF Tweed he brought up! Those were great
days for Hall, and for men who were q great
deal worse than he. What q fellow of infinite
jest he was, and what bright spot he made the
mayors office in New York some twenty years
ago. The older newspaper men, politicians
and men about town will long remember its
attractiveness. He would have been a rash
man in those days who would have attempted
to prophecy the height in the temple of fame
to which this brilliant and witty man might not
climb. What prophet could foresee that this
gifted and once popular man was to pass the
evening OF ms life practically an exile in
foreign land, leaving behind him on the field
of his early triumphs nothing but shattered
ambitions. Yet this was to be.
In a small cafe i'll a somewhat unfreuuented
part OF Paris the other day saw another man
who recalled a case, the fame of which was
world wide. He was sitting at a table, SEEM
ingly buried in thought of a not pleasant char
acter and oblIyious of his surroundings. He
had an intellectual face, but on it there were
deep lines that told of past sufferings. His
IonS mar was gray-prematurely gray. His
shoulders were bent and there was a moody,
brooding look on his face. But he was evil
IDENTITY a tai, man, and some years ago must
have been handsome man. As he sat at the
table he looked like strong man borne down
by the memory OF some great sorrow of the
past. Presently he rose and walked out with
out looking to the right or the left and when I
recognized him, although it has been years since
l saw him before. 1t was Theodore Tilton, the
once famous editor of the New York Iuiepende7u.
But how changed. In the days of his popu-
larity. tall, erect, strong and handsome; now a
broken, prematurely old man. He is doing
some sort of literary work here. but no one
seems to know just what it is. could not but
think, after seeing the man, that the scandal in
which this mans life was wrecked was more
than mere scandal. 1t was, in fact tragedy.
The circle OF the chief actors in it is narrowing
The greatest of them is dead, SO are Others
among them some of the lawyers and several OF
the jury. One of the lawyers. BENJAMIN f.
Tracy, is in the cabinet of tho President of the
United States.
Mrs. Tilton is more fortunately situated than
her husband for she has the company and
sympathy Of her children. But Theodore TIL
ton hannts out-of-the-way places in Paris. seek
ing neither friends nor friendships, a miserable
and broken man.