Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-26
LATE FOREIGN NEWS.

Rome reports say the pope is uneasy over the
sntiJesuit agitation in Canada. 1t Is said thai
| he fears that II bitter feeling should arise Il
| might cause serious complications.
The London Standards Berlin dispatch says
| Emperor Williams visit to England has been
| arranged for June.
The French chamber of deputies has passed
q bill to insure the freedom aud secrecy Of the
ballot.
In the steinitz-Tchigourin chess contest al
Havana Steiuitz won the sixteenth game. II
was begun with the Zukertort gambit and
lasted six hours. The seventeenth game, which
was begun with the Evans gambit and lasted
! five hours. resulted in q draw. 1t was agreed
that the match be considered as ended with
Steinitz as winner.
The first shipment Of tobacco grown in Zan-
zibar, consisting of seventy boxes, has been
dispatched for Hamburg.
1t is rumored in Paris that NJ. Tirard has
proposed to the ministry to recall the Due
d'Aumale.
The general of the Augustinian order Is dead
in Rome.
The marriage of Prince Alexander of Bat
tenberg to Marie Loisinger, the opera singer.
took place at Mentone on February6.
The Berlin Kieler Zeitung says that the Ger
man training squadron will proceed from Port
Said to Zanzibar to replace the Pacific cruising
squadron now engaged in the blockade on the
east African coast, and that the latter will then
sail for Apia.
Stuart Cumberland, the mind-reader, read
Gen. Boulangers thoughts yesterday. He gave
President Carnot six-months' lease of power
and traced Boulanger's march on Germany via
stuttgart The general declared Cumberland's
Interpretation to be correct. Gen. Boulanger
most emphatically denies that he entertains
any hostility toward England.
Alexander Stephens and the Late War.
From the Cartersville CGs, Courant
Mr.. Carswell, in his discourse. reported the
following incident in his personal history. Said
he, During the war of 1862, pending the confed-
crate war, or as some more properly called it,
the war between the States, Mr.. Alexander
Stephens came to Augusta and stopped at one
of the leading hotels. The Augusta papers no.
ticed his arrival, and furthermore stated that
Mr.. Stephens would be there for a few DAYS
and would be glad to meet the people and talk
with them. My father" said the reverend
gentleman, was not only an admirer of Mr.
Stephens, but regarded him as one of those few
and peculiar men who had sort of divine in
tuition OF judgment, which, he said, came from
his being thoroughly honest there
fore dlsinterested person. My father
saw the notice in the old Chronicle
and Sentinel and at once began to prepare
to visit Augusta. We had to ride from where
we lived in Wilkes county, but so much the
better; people do not make much these DAYS
by riding III "A hurry, not near much as they
sometimes think. At any rate We got to Au-
guSta. After waiting time my father met Mr.
Stephens and said to him: Mr.. Stephens, while
II looks so now, can you tell me will the con-
federate states win in this WARP Grasping my
fathers hand whom he had known for years
he replied: Doctor We may be victorious now,
but when l think what is coming upon my peo-
pie and my country as a result my heart is sick
even unto death. We may win battles for
years, but when our last noble boy is dead we
are none the less defeated; my old friend, this
is indeed cruel war. If 1 had my way and
our people were not crazy and our leaders vain
or ambitious, would end it Tomorrow