Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-20
GEORGETOWN.

meetlng OF the members or CongresS-street Nj.
p. church the following officers were elected
for the ensuing year: Mr.. Thos. L. Grimes. dele
gate to the annual conference. to be held at
Lynchburg, Va, April 8: Mr.. L. w. Jewell; al
ternates. Messrs. Jacob Young. VIM. Marriott.
Jas. Statse. Richard Young and B. h. Gladmon;
trustees. Messrs. Jno. E. Cox. Chas. Upperman,
J. Z. Libbey, Geo. A. Birch, VIM. E. Beail, J..
ID. Catthell and JAS Martin.
Masonic CESTENNIAL.-It has been decided
by the committee appointed by Potomac lodge.
No. 3. +. A. A. NJ. to consider the ACCESSIBILITY
OF celebrating the centennial anniversary of the
chartering of the lodge: that the occasion shall
be tittingly observed. and a program will be all
nOunced within q short time. The anniversary
falls upon Sunday, the 21st of April which will
prevent any celebration other than religious
services that day. Monday evening following
banquet will be given in the hall of the lodge
MI.WM. {. ONEAL, in charge of the Western
Union telegraph Office in Georgetown. who has
been dangerously ill. is slowly recovering.
DEATH.-Vincent Barnes. who for many years
was police station-keeper here, died yesterday
afternoon at the residence of his son-in-law.
Richard b. Travers, 23d and streets The de-
ceased was a member of Dumbarton-street NJ
E. church. and also of the police relief associa-
ton. The funeral will take place tomorrow
afternoon. interment to be at Glenwood.
MEMBERS OF DECATUR LODGE. X. p. at a
meeting last night voted for the removal of
their place of meeting to Washington.
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Blasting Holes to Plant Trees.
From the San Diego, Cal. Union
Few people elsewhere in the world NAV
ever have heard of blasting holes to plant shade
or fruit trees said a cultlvator the other day.
yet the practice is common here and shows
good results. In most places there is found
sufficient top soil for any purpose, but as land
has become valuable people have cast about for
means to utilize lands where the coarse sand
rock comes too near the surface for successful
tree planting. A blast well put in, creates a
pocket for broken rock mixed with top soil.
which furnishes basin to hold moisture as well
as deeper and cooler hold for the roots. 1t is
yet too early to say what will be the ultimate
results OF such planting. but in climate like
ours, where superiority of rainfall is not likely
to occur, it will no doubt be successful"
An Actress Quick Wit.
Joe Howard in the New York Press.
A scene not set down in the bill created con-
siderable merriment in Harrigan's theater
Monday night Sparks, in his assumed charac-
ter, was bidding his friends good-by as he
stepped upon the deck of steamer. Just then
messenger boy called with telegram for
Miss ONeill the comely leading lady of the
company, and Harrigan, whose sense of humor
Is quite equal to his authorize brain. told him
to take 1t on the stage and deliver it there
telegram to the young lady, who might nat
urally have been very much embarrassed by
the situation. but her quick wit came to her
rescue, and with a wave Of her hand she indi-
Gated the departing Irishman as the party for
whom the telegram was intended The bow de-
hvered the telegram to Sparks amid the wild
applause Of the audience, and the scene which
was thus extemporiZed bids fair to become
part and parcel OF the regular Interpretation.
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An Affectionate Family.
From the English Illustrated Magazine
At Kensington news was brought to George
II of the death of his son. He was not very
much agitated by the tidings He was told as
he stood by a card table, watching the PLAYERS.
Princess Amelia, the Duchess of Dorset, the
Duke of Grafton and Mme Walmoden now IN
nobled as countess of Yarmouth. Turning to
the messenger he remarked dead. is he? Why
they told me he was better" and then, cross
ing over to Lady Yarmouth, he said calmly,
Countess. Fred is gone" and dismissed the
subject from his thought. Five years later he.
too. joined the majority. With the exception
OF sharp attack OF govt year or two pre-
viously. he had enjoyed fairly good health for
some time, but the old lion in the royal menag-
erie at the tower had lately died, and there was
curious superstition that this pOrtended the
decease of the sovereign-a superstition shared.
said Lord Chesterfield, .by many above peo-
pc. shae ID W w tuOse whose rank ana
standing ought to have insured a great amount
OF sense. On the morning of the 18th of Oc-
tober, 1760, the king rose as usual at o'clock
in the morning, drank his cup of chocolate,
and said he would take little stroll in the
garden. As he passed through an ante-room
on his way thither, the page in waiting heard
the sound of a fall, and hastily following him,
found the king on the ground. with his face
cut by falling against bureau. Send for
Amelia" he gasped, and ere the words were
fairly uttered he died. The princess, SUM-
moned in haste, came to find her father living
dead. She dispatched messengers to the ply
| sicans and wrote to her nephew. George He
had, however. received earlier intelligence of
the event which made him master of the en-
pire. A German valet at Kensington had sent
him note, bearing private mark previously
agreed upon. The missive reached him while
he was out riding. without surprise or emo
tion," says Walpole, without dropping a word
that indicated what had happened he said his
horse was lame, and turned back to Kew At
dismounting he said to his groom. Il have said
this horse was lame; / forbid you to say to the
contrary" The young prince had never been
much attached to his grandfather; sooth to FAY,
few people were, save that inscrutable woman
whom he had the good fortune to make his
wife.
Joseph Stulz, young man of bad reputa-
ton, last week eloped with the thirteen-year-
old daughter Of W. D. Ashby, well-known
merchant tailor, of Louisville, KY, and they
were married III Jeffersonville. Ashby's pres
ent wife is Stulz's sister.
The New Jersey assembly has passed the
Werts bill repeating the local option portions