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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-18
ALEXANDRIA,.
orted for The EVENING STAR.

Reported for The EVENING STAR
BOARD OF Trade MEETING.-The board Of
trade held a called meeting at PATS hall last
night IN order TO consider the effect upon Alex
andrla interests Of proposed charter of the
Washington. Fairfax and Alexandria railroad
company. with the right to construct a railway
IRON some point opposite Washington into the
counties OF Fairfax and Alexandria, and with
street railway nights III the city of Alexandria
This bill was mentioned in The STAR some ten
days ago. 1t was urged at the meeting that
this charter represented only a speculation and
would necessarily interfere with the Mount
Vernon avenue scheme. Thereupon the board
requested the senator and the delegate in the
legislature of Virginia to oppose the charter.
committee was appointed to forward plan
Tor establishing a shoe mandatory here
CORPORATION COURT.-The county court has
closed Its December session. Its last business
was the swearing IN of the new commonwealth
attorney and the issue of a rule in the case of
Harlow Brothers agt. Baggott. The court will
meet again on the second Monday of January
next
NorES.-Mr. Jas. X. Cation has entered upon
his duties as commonwealth attorney under
the appointment reported 10 The STAR An
election by the people will take place next
May.--L- c. ONeal has been chosen c. T. OF
The new lodge OF Good Templars.-Henry
lawrence, an aged man, died IN the aims house
Monday. He Is said to have been distantly re-
lated 10 famous naval oficer-The Airing
ton distillery. on the outskirts Of this CITY. has
resumed operations
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-18
GOV. ORDWAY LOADING UP.
The Ex-Governor Intends to be In North
Dakota's Next Senatorial Race.

A Bismarck special dispatch to the New York
Herald says: The report that ex-Gov. Ordway
would proceed to Washington before returning
to Bismarck to procure documentary evidence
to refute the charge of bribery is confirmed by
private message from him. II will not let
the matter rest without answer, az his enemies
have claimed he would, but will file an answer
and return to fight. He has declared his in
tention to be a factor in the United States
senatorial fight next year, and he will leave
undone nothing in his power to defeat his OPP
ponents. This feeling is reciprocal, and those
who are opposed to him and who support
Senator Lamoure in his charges of bribery
and corruption swear that they will permit
him to have nothing to say in political manage
ment If they can prevent him.
The interesting feature of the situation is
the unbroken silence of NJ. n. johnson, the
scandinavian candidate for the United States
Senate, who claims to have refused $4,000
appointment and SOS, 900 in cash offered him
by one of the factions, presumably for the
votes OF his friends, during the contest. The
press OF the state is now making a call on John
son to give the name of the man who made the
offer. or to admit that he is willing to cover
fraud and countenance corruption. 1t begins
to look as though he will be forced to give the
name of the man who made the offer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-18
The Lincoln Hall Opening.

Workmen have been busy night and day
Turing all the week getting the new music hall
ready for the opening concert Friday night
which promises to be a great social as well as a
great musical event. Chief Justice Fuller is
to make the inaugural address. The program
is unusually interesting. Seldom Is such an
array OF talent brought together for one con-
cert. Herr Nikisch's advent Is awaited with
eager expectancy. He conducts without a
score, doing away with the customary music
stand. Mir. Rafael Joseffy Is too well known to
require special mention. The duo for two
pianos with Hiss Margulies will be a novelty.
MIR. NanOury has delightful baritone voice.
His numbers include the principal arias from
Massenet's ''Herodiali" and Saint Suns
Henry WILL" which roles he created Mr..
Victor Herbert, the 'ceilist, it a Young Irish
man, grandson of Samuel Lover He was
taken to Germany a child and his training
and musical instruction has been had III the
German schools. His playing invokes much
enthusiasm Seats are selling rapidly. The
boxes have been taken by prominent society
people and neat sum will doubtless be
realized for the children's hospital, for the
benefit OF which the concert Is given.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-18
Scarcity of Corn and Oysters

A letter from Dunnsville Essex county Va,
to the Richmond Dispatch, says: SIN radiu.
of half a mile OF this place there are twenty
six families, white and colored, out of twenty
nine now buying corn for daily consumption.
and there is none for SALE The largest farmers
among us are buyers, and the proposition to
send to Baltimore and buy cargois now pend
ing, but the trouble is the people mostly and
pressingly in need of corn have no money or
anything else to send to aid in making up the
cargo. The merchants here heretofore have
been able not only 10 supply the home demand
but ship IA little corn. 1t Is not SO now. Upon
inquiry OF the four stores now here find there
arc not fifty bushels of corn among them. Per-
sons who depend upon their daily labor to sup
ply their families with corn are in a strait,
and their only hope is that the merchants will
order a stock OF corn meal. One family of
ten, depending entirely upon the fathers daily
work at 40 cents per day, and he working upon
an average of three days i'll the week, haven
grain of corn, nor is this an exception. If
the winter shall be such as to preclude outdoor
work help or starvation must come. The oyster
trade used to be considerable from and about
Wares wharf, and was the main source of reve-
nue. to n host of colored men, but the fine
rocks - Russells, Lowery's, Webb's and
Young's-this latter yielding the finest oysters
to be had on the Rappahanuoch-are all ADAM
doned Not an oyster to be caught above
Bowler's Rock, and there they are scarce. Such
as are to be had here are brought up the river
distance of some miles. Oysters that were
considered dear at 90 cents per bushel now
readily bring so cents"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-18
JAKE KILRAIN RESTING.
He Considers His Sentence Light One
When Compared With Sullivan's.

Jake Kirain, having appealed from the de-
cision in his case and given bond, is spending
few days at Richburg, Miss, before going to
New Orleans The verdict was a compromise,
the first eleven ballots being for conviction.
Those who afterward voted for acquittal
fancied the fine would only be S25 and no i'm
prisonment. Had they known there would be
imprisonment attached they claim they would
have hung jury"
kilrain although looking in the best Of health,
says be is heartily sick of prize fighting and
would henceforth devote himself to some legiti-
mate business. In regard to his fight with
Sullivan he said that he had hard luck with the
referee and thinks the fight should have been
awarded to him. Sullivan, he said, deliberately
jumped on him during the fight, and not by ac-
cident. as claimed by the big pugilist. He in
CURED if Sullivan was anyways disfgured after
the fight, and when told that the Boston boy
had a cut under his right eye he said:
well, am glad l left some mark on him.
The general public, from what has been printed
in the newspapers about the fight, are of the
opinion that l received sound drubbing.
Well, 1 acknowledge that got licked, but if
had received one-half of the blows said to have
been given me l never would have needed to
return to Purvis to stand trial. l consider that
while my sentence is hard one it is light as
compared with Sullivan's"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-18
ALL CHANGED in ONE NIGHT.
A Baltimore Captains Observations on
the Brazilian Revolution.

Capt. Dobson of the British steamship Sc
rapis, which arrived in Baltimore yesterday
from St. Jago, Cuba with iron ore, was in Rio
Janeiro when Brazil was transformed from an
empire into a republic. He arrived there with
grain on November 9 from Baltimore, and was
alongside the elevator when the change &C.
CURED. When Capt. Dobson went on board
November Is all was quiet in the city, but
when he woke up the following morning he
was told that transformation had taken place
in the political affairs of Brazil. He was warned
not to leave the vessel, and with his usual care
he remained on board. He noticed early on
the morning of November 16 that the imperial
nag waved over Fort Santa Cruz and one Bra
lillian man-of-war, and that shortly after both
were hauled down. On the 18th he went
ashore, and the only change he noticed was
that mounted soldiers patroled the streets in
stead Of the armed police, to whose presence
he had become accustomed Capt. Dobson re-
marked nothing of unusual occurrence, and
when he sailed for st. Jago, November %. he
failed to notice any change worthy of impress
sion. Everything was done so quietly an d
maintained that a stranger could gather moth
ing worthy OF remark
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-18
Mrs. Stoves Real Condition.

The reports which have been sent out from
Hartford. Conn, in regard to Mrs Harriet
Beecher Stoves being demented are ludicrous.
says the New York Tribune. There is lust
enough Of fact to hang plausible story of this
sort upon, but nothing more. Mrs. Stowe is
seventy-six years of age and like all persons
OF extremely nervous temperament when they
reach such an age, is more or less broken down,
physically and mentally. But to say that she
Is demented is to say what is not true. She is
not at all times IN the possession of her mental
power to the extent of being able to write
vigorously upon any topic, but some of the
letters she has written in the past few months
show a strength not to be despised She de-
lights in strolling about the neighborhood
when the weather is fine. and she frequents
the green house of Mr. Clements who lives
but few doors away, where she will pass
hours looking at the flowers and singing. but
any word will Immediately bring her back to
complete self-possession. She is simply
broken down, Childish, to use the accepted
term to apply to an old persons declining
years. She is carefully cared for by her two
twin daughters, who reside with her, and her
property interests are in the hands Of her
son, the Rev. Charles E. Stowe, who is now in
Florida for the purpose Of disposing Of her
property at Mandarin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-18
CTS -
Diagnosis Of the Spreading Russian
Grippe.

DR.. Edison of the New York health board says
he has no doubt that the real Russian influenza
Is in New York. He thinks there is no occasion
for interference on the part of the board Of
health. The Klamroth family, with whom it
first appeared, will not be quarantined. Though
Inspector Guiteras reported that no member
OF the Klamroth family had recently asso-
ciated with any recent arrival from Europe,
1t has been learned that the young lady who
was first attacked has had as a frequent visitor
person who arrived here from Europe less
than two weeks ago.
1.-The first symptoms were sudden faintness,
chill and marked prostitution. Then succeeded
headache and general feeling of malaise. fol-
lowed by acute coryZa, pharyngitis and slight
laryngitis, winding up with bronchitis. Tenn
perature from 100 to 105. An examination
showed the patients to be about as sick as per-
sons with bad cold, using handkerchiefs freely
voice thick and nasal. considerable angina and
congestion of the mucous membrane of the
nose and eyes The duration of the attack was
two days and upward, two of the family having
yet confined to the house.
''The patients state that the catarrhal symp-
toms are nothing in comparison with the great
feeling of prostration, &C. The young lady first
attacked states that she has suffered from hay
fever, but has never had an attack that could
be compared in severity with the present one.
Ii the disease IN question is influenza if is of a
very mild type, especially as far the catarrhal
symptoms are concerned The symptoms tina f.
point the most to influenza are those of the on
set and those referable to the system generally"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-18
Floral Emblem for Mrs. Fairfax.

Admirers in Atlanta have sent Mrs. Fairfax
who draped her house on I'd street southeast at
the announcement of the death of jefferson
Davis, floral emblem made as a fort The
portfolios are Of royal purple pansies OH a wall
of sweet white hyacinth. Above the portfolios
is confederate flag of red scarlet geraniums.
blue sweet viOlets and the stars of creamy BIOS
SONS on bars of fragrant flowers in appropriate
colOrs. On an arch surrounding the design is
the line 'ManasSas and Buena Vista in letters
dehcately and skilfully woven Of roses. Across
the bottom is a broad. black silk ribbon with
Jefferson Davis in gold letters stamped upon
1t. The piece Is about one foot high and two
feet IN width at the base. Accompanying it
was letter OF appreciation for her demon
stratlOn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-18
HISTORIC INFLUENZAS,
Epidemics of Sneezes in Other Lands
and Years.

From the New York World
Although the fact may not be a reassuring
one to the citizens of this country it is recorded
that in the epidemic Of 1s47-S abroad the pro-
portion of victims was one-quarter of the entire
population and one-half in Paris. 1t is stated
that the disease often attacks dogs. cats, cows
and horses as well as humanity. The present
epidemic originated in the Balkan countries
and quickly reached Russia, where 40 per cent
OF the population has been sneezing. A singu-
lar feature is that adults are almost uniformly
the only victims and in Europe school children
escaped while their teachers were afflicted.
Emigration Commissioner Starr said yester-
day that he had the disease when Tyler was
President of the United States. 1t was an
epidemic then, and was known as Tyler's in
ilucu2a.
Curious notices of epidemics of influenza in
France III the first half of the eighteenth CEN
fury are to be found in Barbier's journal
HIstorIque ct Anecdotique du Regne de Louis
w The first epidemic he records broke out
IN February, 1888 On the 9TH and 9th of that
month Paris was visited by fogs. They gen.
orally set in about in the afternoon, and
were so thick and black that lighted lanterns
could not be seen. In the streets everybody
walked with links and candles i'll their hands,
and yet had much ado to find their way and
their own doors" 1t is a singular coincidence
that heavy fOgs prevailed last month in St.
Petersburg.
Barber states further ''that the fogs we're
brought to us by the winds from Germany"
That nation calls influenza ''Russische katarrh."
while the Russians have named it lie catarrh
Chinais."
In December. 1871, there was another out
break. The king Louis XIV caught the malady
and was bled like his subjects In 17i3 there
was another epidemic throughout France, and
for the first time in Darbier's pages the disease
Is named by Its specific French name. This
winter" ne says. there reigns everywhere
throughout the kingdom a general sickness
which is called grippe For the last fortnight
and even for month there is not IL house i'll
Paris where there have not been cases" The
attack of 1873 disorganized the garrisons. The
attack OF 1I43 dlsOrganized the courts. The
parliament of Dijon and another provincial
tribunal adjourned OH account of the number
Of cases. The sickness began with catarrh and
headache. no throat symptoms being men,
toned. There was generally good deal Of
fever. Old people, it was noted, were particu-
larry liable to the disease.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-18
Honored by Colored Veterans.

At a regular meeting of the First United
States Colored Troops veteran association, an
organization composed of the surviving men,
bers of the first regiment of United States col.
ored troops, held Monday evening, Represent
alive Hill of the eighth Illinois district, who
served a captain in that regiment. was elected
an honorary member. 1t lis proposed by the
veteran association TO tender Capt. Hill a recep-
tion and sereuade some time after the holidays
At the same meeting Miss Julia A. Peterson,
sister of Sergeant Richard Peterson of company
of the first United States cOlored troops, who
died from the effects of a wound received at
Petersburg, was adopted Daughter OF the
Regiment"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-18
Probable Suicide at Frederick.

The strange woman from Washington who
died suddenly at Frederick, as stated in dis
patch to THE STAR yesterday, was apparently
forty-fve years Of age. of stout build, weighing
probably 200 pounds, well dressed, with dark
hair, turning slightly gray, a mole on her face
and not unprepOssessing in appearance. She
registered at the City Hotel as Miss Lizzie
King, Rochester, n. Y. She ordered her supper
sent to her rCom and directed that her break
fast also be sent UP at o'clock this morning
One OF the hotel domestics knocked at the door
OF her room yesterday morning but received
no response. In the belief that she was still
asleep the proprietor suggested that she be not
disturbed until later. About IL O'Clock one of
the servants looked over the transom and saw
the gas still burning and the lady lying dead
on the floor. Coroner Thos. Turner and States
Attorney Eichelberger were at once notified,
and a brief investigation was made by those
officials, resulting i'll no inquest being deemed
necessary. Mr. Eichelberger expressed the
belief that size had died OF apoplexy. 1t is the
opinion OF others, however, that she committed
suicide, inasmuch as two small bottles which
had contained laudanum were found empty in
her room. About S75 was found in her pock, t
book. but no papers that would lead to her
identification. kilograms were sent to the
chief of police at Rochester. but no response
has been received. The lady had with her only
a small valise She was an entire stranger and
did not indicate i'll any way the object of her
coming to Frederick.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-18
Eugene Fields Watches.

From His Article in The Jewellers Weekly
went fishing in Wisconsin last August and,
fearful that harm might befal my gold watch
if / took il with me, l bought Waterbury
watch for $3.50 and wore it. One day dropped
it in the bottom of the boat and it came all
apart, with a succession of terrifying reports.
/ never before saw SO symmetrical case of in
Simultaneous and complete dissolution. The
larger intestine spread ali over the bottom of
the boat and curled up over the starboard side.
As 1t lay qulverlng and grooming there fam
cied for a moment that had shipped mon
ster eel OF some other kind of marine reptile.
towed the debris ashore and showed it to a
doctor from Racine Or. Davis, scientific man
OF profound research). and he has assured me,
after critical examination and analysis, that
the intestine of the Waterbury watch closely
resembled the human bowels, being provided
with secum, a colon, a sigmoid fiexure and
all that sort OF thing.
Some years ago had great deal of quiet
fun with a watch OF my own devising. / had
Giles brothers OF this city put stiff spring
into a large, hollow, silver watch case When
ever turned the stem the spring would make
a noise loud enough to be heard 80 feet away.
l used to wind up this awful thing between acts
at the theaters. and people wondered what kind
OF a watch it was. occasionally would let the
watch drop OF the floor: then 1 would pick II
up nonchalantly and resume winding it, Event.
ualiy gave the device to Henry L. Dixey, the
actor.
Just before going to bed at night is the time
wind my watch, and it is duty never for.
get or neglect My watch gains five minutes
every two days, so upon every second day sci
1t back five minutes, thereby cheating the Jew.
eler, insuring correct time and preserving my
watch from baleful tinkerng. My ten-year.
! old boy has Waterbury watch, which he wear.
proudly. Very often when 1 come home a,
night find a note from him pinned to my pill
low: Dear papa-Please wind my watch fol-
| me am to TIRED"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-18
BUSHIRI HANGED,


Bushiri, the noted Arab who led the insur-
gents in their revolt, and who was captured by
villagers Of Mgailla and handed over to the
Germans, has been hanged. He was the prime
mover in the revolt on the Zanzibar coast of
Africa that has lasted about fifteen months, and
has cost the German government a snug sum
of money to suppress it. The ostensible cause
of the revolt was that the Germans were in
Zanzibars flag and run up their own on the
sultans territory. The fact that the coast
traders, among whom Bushiri was leading
spirit, feared that the Germans would take the
trade into their own hands, had more to do
with the uprising than patriotic sentiment.
A year ago last September Bushiri wrote
I'VE have no quarrel with any foreigners ex-
cept the Germans; but are at war with
them and will fight them to the end, becaus
they want to take our kingdom" Bushiri was
gray-halred man. sixty years old, with more
Suaheli, or coast native, than Arab blood in
his veins. He was not fanatic and religious
questions had nothing to do with the uprising.
tie was prosperous trader in Pangani when
the trouble began. He was blood relation of
the famous lippu lib. He intlamed the peo-
pc all along 300 miles of coast and a bitter
struggle resulted From 1000 to G,OOO rebels
defended some of the towns which the Ger
mans attacked. The trouble with the rebels
was that they had no weapons that were fit for
use IN war with Europeans. Il have no can
non" said Bushiri, land l cannot fight against
cannon. Let the Germans come out of their
houses and away from the protection of their
cannon and We shall see." When he lost the
greater part OF his army he went 200 miles into
the interior last summer, and by holding out
promises of plumber induced several thousand
Matte warriors to start for the coast. The
utter rout of these sayages little way inland
Is one OF the last successes of the German
arms. Bishop Smithies, when he was attacked
in November, last year, by Bushiris followers
at Pangani says the leader of the insurgents
protected him at the risk of his own life
Bushir stood in the doorway of the house
where the bishop had taken refuge and told
the mob they could not enter unless
they killed him first Bushiri protected the
caravans of the French mission and in many
ways he has shown that he had no quarrel
with any Europeans except the Germans. BY
putting Bushiri to death the Germans have
destroyed the most potent influence against
them on the coast The event probably means
the total collapse of all opposition to the Ger
mans, who will now be able to adopt peaceable
measures for the development OF their new
COLONY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-18
Horse Flesh as Food.
From the London Telegraph.

the LOHOOu IeleBrapn.
Our Berlin correspondent writes: 1.-THE price
of beef, mutton and pork has increased SO
much throughout Germany that hundreds of
households of the small official class and arti-
sans and laborers cannot afford to see these
meats on their tables. Recourse is now had
to horse flesh, which is much cheaper. though
the extra demand has run up the price of this
also. In the month of October SIG horses were
slaughtered i'll Berlin for domestic consump-
ton, an increase of 25 per cent as compared
with last year. At Konigsberg, town with
about tenth of the inhabitants of Berlin. $50
horses went to the butchers. At Carlsruhe the
increase in the consumption of horse flesh is
cent per cent DIS compared with last year. and
Dortmund follows suit at Cassell it is 80 per
cent, and Bochum and Stuttgart it is CO. at
Leipzig it is little over GO per cent, at Bruins
wick and Lubbock it is over 80 per cent. The
increase Is also great at Hamburg and Bremen
in the former town the price per pound is
now i'd"