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

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TIE EVENING STAR. Everybody in TIE Distric
reads IL; and in proportion TO the returns Il Yields
odrertisers. lis rates are much the cheapest.
The Capitol Shooting Case.
DIR. SIDNEY B. CUNNINGHAM HELD IN $500 BONDS
FOR The GRAND JURY.
In the case of DIR. Sidney b. Cunningham.
disbursing clerk of the House of Representa-
tves, on trial in the Police Court yesterday for
shooting Turner X. Hackman. the riding page
Of the House, Col. Christy concluded his argu-
ment yesterday, after The STARS report closed,
on a motion to hear the defense. The motion
was granted.
The defendant testified in his own behalf
concerning what passed between Hackman and
himself After Hackman used the offensive
shoot him." He thought it was Hickman.
Stumble, he said, had communicated to him
something concerning Hackman's character.
He picked up the pistol from his desk, then he
struck him and defendant attempt
ed to push him out. Defendant
drew his pistol but did not intend to shoot
Hickman. When defendant drew his pistol
Hackman had his hand on his hip-pocket. He
did not point the weapon at Hickman.
Henry Gumble, assistant disbursing clerk,
gave corroboratiye testimony concerning the
action Of Mr.. Hackman while receiving his
CHECK, anu s1lu tndt hdckudn Qealt the nrSt
blow. From where the bullet struck the wall
the weapon could not possibly have been fired
at Hickman.
After argument by counsel for the defense,
Judge Miller held the defendant in $500 bonds
TO await the action Of the grand jury.
The Washington District Appointments.
THE SOUTHERN METHODIST CONFERENCE IN sEs-
SION AT ALEXANDRIA ADJoURNs.
Yesterday the closing day of the confer
ence of the Baltimore conference of NJ. E.
Church South, which has been in session in
Alexandria. The appointments were announc ed
those in the Washington district being as fol-
lows: Presiding elder. r. r. S. Hough WASH
ington city; Mount Vernon, s. w. Haddaway;
Grace Mission, J. C. Young; Alexandria. W. J.
Young; Falls Church. j. W. Duffey; Fairfax, J.
A. Davidson; Dranesville, W. p. G.. Coe; Lees
burg. b. W. Band Hamilton, W. G. Eggleston;
HillsbOro', j. H. Dulany; Loudoun. J. c. Dice,
Piedmont. James Joyce; Warrenton. ". A.
Wade; Fauquier. ". l.. Lyles; Occoquan. c. B.
Sutton; Sunday Mission. F. A. Shipley; Man.
assas. J. II. Colman; Morrisville, n. NJ Hall;
Stafford. Frazier FUR; Fredericksburg, J. W.
Canter
The following committee was appointed on
plan of insurance: 7. ]. Magruder, Geo. H.
Zimmerman, Collins Denny. j. L. Gorrell Z. n
Peck The joint board of finance reported the
estimates for 1SS9-'9O follows: Baltimore
district. % 3A1; East Baltimore district 81 S73:
tr1ct. Sl.oS3; Rockingham district, 1859;
Iewisburg district, Sl,252; Moorefeld district,
S1.193
MIR. c. " Roades reported the following as.
the amount received for needy Sunday schools
sl.039.57. The statistical secretary re ad the
statistical table. which showed SO. 159 members
ITO local preachers; value Of churches, 1852,
6S5: value of parsonages, S1S7 400.
The publishing house report showed that
s6S, 900 Of the outstanding bonds had been can
celed. and that there was still an Indebtedness
of $4,000, with a sinking fund to offset the
same amounting to SASS and S10,656. 80 IN
hand. and that the sales of the literature of the
church, the Christi0n Advocate and Church Re
rSe'c. under the management of Drs. Fitzgerald
Harrison, and Barbee, are increasing.
Governor Beavers Graphophone.
TALK By THE MACHINE THAT MADE TYPEWRITER
BLUSH.
Harrisburg Dispatch 10 Philadelphia Record.
The governors private secretary, George
Pearson. has a brand new graphophone in his
Office. The graphophone is used by the gov
ernors stenographer and typewriter, thus en-
abling the governor or the private secretary.
when they are in a hurry, to wind up the ma
chine and talk into it the messages and
letters to be transcribed by the typewriter
later on. This saves q good deal OF bother
when neither clerk nor typewriter is about
and the invention is a success as a help in the
executive department.
IT MADE THE TYPEWRITER BLUSH.
Private Secretary Pearson had a curious and
somewhat startling experience with the graphic
phone few days ago. He began to turn the
crank by means of which the transmitted mes
sages given out from the throat of the
machine in the same voice and with the same
lntonatlon as they were talked into its funnel.
The private secretary supposed that he was
about TO cause the machine to give out to the
Young lady typewriter a message which the
haH tn ed int ha vaptra
Gus. The young lady was all attention, and the
private secretary began solemnly to turn the
crank. which works by treadle. To his horror
and the immense embarrassment of the young
lady the following amorous tumble was given
out with decided emphasis: Now. don't
George. There: somebody will come
OF course, love you. There. somebody really
Is coming, and you have mussed my hair all
up. Please, love. l am afraid that
some one will come in. and. besides. / can't
work this crank if you insist upon kissing me
all the time. ." The stars represent
sounds too familiar to be mistaken. They were
the smacking of lips and other sounds which
accompany the interchange of caresses between
lovers.
SATISFACTORY EXPLANATION.
1t was some little while before the matter
could be satisfactorily explained either by the
young lady or by Mr.. Pearson, who at first
were disposed to imagine that somebody had
been playing practical joke upon them. The
niatsef was nnaLy Strengthened out. however,
when the executive clerk came around and
upon hearing of the incident, laughed heartily
He had, on the evening before, been showing
bride and groom about the executive depart
ment. and. being called away for a few min
utes, had left them in the private secretary s
room TO amuse themselves with the graphic
phone while he attended 10 the business which
had called him away
The graphophone is a great curiosity and at
tracts scores of visitors to the executive de-
psrtment every day. Since the incident above
related, however, couples with lover-like
looks have been carefully excluded by the
private secretary.
Novelties I'm JeweIry.
QUAINT FORMS WHICH MODERN FANCY TAXES TO
TEMPT THE MANY PURCHASERS.
From the jewelers. Weekly
doubie-pronged hairpin, Of late pattern, is
formed Of two interlocked shepherd crooks,
one of chased gold and the other ~ Roman