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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-07-12
Affairs in Western Maryland.

hAtEhSToWN, July AZ
The joint meeting Of the state associations Of
public school teachers of Maryland and Della
ware, which closed yesterday after a three-days'
session at the Blue Mountain house at Pen Mar,
was largely attended-in fact, it was the largest
assemblage ever held by the association. Miss
Annie Dashiels Of Washington was present and
entertained the association at times with a
number Of solos on the piano, and was highly
encored for her rendition of Godard's Mazourka
No. 2.
Mr.. James Hammond, deputy collector inter-
nal revenue service, this county, was yesterday
relieved of his position. The Office is tempo
rarlly In charge OF an officer sent here by Col
lector Hill, who will conduct the business Of
the same and arrange the affairs of the office
until Mr.. Hammonds successor is named. 1t
is generally conceded that Mr.. VIM Hassett, a
former commissioner Of Washington county,
will receive the appointment Mr.. Dixon n
Garlinger of Hagerstown has been appointed
to be deputy collector OF Charles county, this
state.
Mrs. Jennie Yancey, wife of DR.. Stuart YAM
cey, a resident physician of Funkstown. this
county, and daughter of Mr.. Henry Mumma,
prominent citizen of Hagerstown, died yes
terday. just one month to the day after she had
been married. She was but twenty-three years
old
Rev. E. H. Delk, pastor of Trinity Lutheran
church, this city, has been granted a six-weeks'
leave OF absence, which time he will spend in a
tour OF Europe, starting on or about the ed
instant.
committee of the ninth army corps. COL
VIM. j. Bolton of Philadelphia. late colonel of
the ffty-fr Pennsylvania regiment chairman,
will arrive here in a few days to locate the spot
on South mountain, few miles southeast of
Boonsboro', where Gen. Reno fell in the battle
of September IA, 1862. On the coming l4th
day of September the survivors of the ninth
corps will erect monument on the spot to the
memory of Gen. Reno.
Thos. B. Clark, probably the oldest citizen
OF this county and soldier of the war of 1912,
died suddenly at his residence near Smithsburg
day or two ago. Had he lived until Septem-
Der he would have completed his ninety-ninth
year. Mr.. Clark was the last of the pensioners
of the war of 1912 resident of this county. B.
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PREPARING FOR STATEHOOD.
What Was Done I'm the Four Constitu
tional Conventions Yesterday.

By request Of the convention at Bismarck,
North Dakota, yesterday, Gov. Mellette deliv-
cred an address, in the course Of which he en-
phatically denounced the frauds on the ballot
in modern times, and urged the closest atten-
ton to keeping them down here. The man
who buys, as he who sells a vote, should be
made to suffer to the fullest extent. he said
His Endorsement 81 the secret ballot was re-
ceived with hearty applause from all the dele
gates.
At Sioux Falls s. Oak, the constitutional
convention yesterday received petition from
the Methodist ministers association Of south
eastern Dakota, asking the convention to pro-
vide safeguards for honest elections in the con-
stitution. and also that q vote for state Offices
and temporary location of the state capital be
taken at q different time than that of the con-
stitution. when every effort will be made to
guarantee an honest election. 1t is not likely
more than one will be ordered.
In the Montana constitutional convention at
Helena yesterday an ant-Chinese resolution
was introduced, in which the legislature was
empowered to delegate all necessary power to
Incorporated cities and towns of the state for
the removal of the Chinese without the limits
OF such cities end towns or for their location
within prescribed portions of those limits. The
convention was adjourned until Monday.
The Washington convention at Olympia will
adopt the system of judiciary now in vogue in
California. 1t comprises a supreme court, a
superior court aud the inferior courts perform
ing police and petty functions. The superior
court will be a court of record, and will COM
blne the provinces Of the present district and
probate courts. There will be seventeen judges
altogether. two each in King. Pierce and Spo-
kane counties and one in kittitos. Walla Walla
and Whitman and others in districts made I'D
OF the remainder of the counties. The supreme
court will consist of three or five judges, whose
terms shall be six years each.
Yesterday was taken up in hearing PROPOSE
tions for clauses to the constitution. A pre-
amble and bill of rights were introduced by
Weir OF Port Townsend. An innovation pro-
posed in the bill of rights is that grand juries
shall consist of fifteen members. and that
twelve can return an Indictment In civil
cases nine out Of twelve jurymen can return a
verdict. Kinnoard of King introduced propo-
sition that that part of tide lands necessary for
the construction of streets be donated to cities
or towns.
Buchanan OF Whitman wants railroad COM
mission established. and Turner of Spokane in.
PRODUCED resolution for a mechanics lien
law and one providing that no part Of the state
funds be devoted t. sectarian purposes. These
propositions, with many others, were referred
TO the proper committees.
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By A sPoOK PRIEsrEss
Millionaire Day Of Detroit Again Dis
appointed In His Search for an Afinity.

".
AsDetroit special 10 the New York Wor d
says: Augustus Day, the millionaire who has
frequently invoked the spirits to help him in
his search for q wife, has met another defeat
and is somewhat disturbed Mr. Day has been
advertising for helpmeet in Boston spirit
ualist paper, and in response the spirih told
him that the wish of his life was soon TO be
realized. Mr.. Day has sublime con-
fdence in the spooks, with whom
he is frequently in conversation. and he
was doubly assured when Mrs. May Wadsworth
Goodwin. . mediumistic woman, weighing
200 pounds. who is well known TO the spook
manipulators in New York. wrote him TO see il
she could find field in Detroit for her special
line OF religion Mr.. Day responded by mail
that bis hall would be given her Eve weeks
free When the lady reached Detroit she found
that the millionaire had arranged for her COM
fort at his own elegant home, over which his
daughters preside.
Day mansion and began her missionary labors.
Mr.. Day was pronounced in his attentions to
the stranger within his gates, and three days
after her arrival he proposed marriage, sug-
costing as an inducement that he would deed
his property, not to her. but to the spiritualist
society which they would establish. Mrs. Good
win is thirty years old. Day is seventy-two
The lady rejected his proposal even after he
had assured her that the spirits hsd guided
him in the matter
The effect was electrical upon the eccentric
old man. He closed his hall upon her, broke
up the meetings and treated the woman so
stability that she was compelled to leave his
house and yesterday she left the city. Day has
advertised fer and wide for a wife and he be-
ieves that the affinity will come sooner or later
1t is believed that Mrs. Goodwin's reasons for
declining u that she has husband in Califor-
MIA.
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ANACOSTIA.

PERsoNAL-Mr. VIM. A. wansleben has
moved his family into MIR. J. E. Powelrs pretty
cottage on Pleasant street. to occupy it while
MIR. Powell is spending a year on his farm
Samuel A. Brewer OF Niagara county. New
York, arrived here last night to visit his siste
Mrs. d. L. Pitcher, and family. j.
Pitcher, electrician, who has been making a
short visit with relatives here. leaves Monday
to assist in putting an electric plant in the
baltimore post Office Officer w. T. Ander-
sons daughter Sadie accompanied her uncle,
MIR. Geo. Skidmore. to Vermont this week, and
will spend the summer with relatives there.
Postmaster Reagan's mother has been quite
sick, but is improving. Anderson.
who was overcome with heat Wednesday. is
considerably improved. r. Purselrs i've
year-old girl is very low.--Mrs. Southworth
Of Bowling Green, Va, who has been visiting
her parents, MIR. and Mrs. VIM. Poates of Polk
street, left for home yesterday, accompanied
bv her brother, Mr.. John Poates, who will visit
some time among Virginia relatives
NoTEs.-Farmers are gathering one of the
largest hay crops for many years. The con
slant rains have made most luxuriant growth.
The Old Bachelors club have disposed OF a
large number Of tickets for their River View
excursion on the 25th.
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CATHOLIC CENTENNIAL.
The Celebration by the Societies st Bay
Ridge Yesterday.

Many members Of the Catholic societies Of
the archdiocese OF Baltimore went TO Bay Ridge
yesterday and held a reunion. The Baltimore
Sun says: ID was the first of the celebrations 10
take place this year in honor Of the centennial
anniversary Of the establishment Of the Catho-
he hierarchy in Maryland. The military feat
ures Of the exercises had 10 be dispensed with
on account OF the weather. and the affair be-
came big excursion. with a speech and GOOD
music thrown in. The steamer Columbia took
down 800 persons in the morning and LOO
more in the afternoon. while several hundred
came over from Washington and quite |. bril-
gade from scattering poInts Fully 900 peopls
were on the grounds during the day and Nr.
Charles j. Bonapsrte, who was the orator of
the occasion. the singers, instrumental must
clans and others who helped 10 entertain were
noeraiiy applauded- Representatives of every
Sathoiic society OF any prominence in and near
baltimore were present, ~ well as many Catho-
ncs who do not belong 10 societies
THE ANNIVERSARY EVENT CELEBRATED
The idea OF . summer reunion Of Catholie
societies Is q new one in the Baltimore arch
diocese, and was originated several months ago
by the Young Catholics Friend society. II
was decided to call IL a centennial reunion ON
account of the proximity of the centennial of
the archdiocese, which will be celebrated with
inposlus ceremonies AT the cathedral IN No
vember. Leading men in the church from all
over the continent are expected to be present
and join in a centennial procession. The
society entrusted the plan TO a committee, con.
sisting Of President James r. Wheeler, chair.
man; ]. p. o'Ferrell, p. J. McKenna, c. ].
Dunn and John II. Mccain. President Wheeler
has worked untiringly TO organize the affair,
and the committee sent invitations TO be present
70 every priest in the archdiocese. but the bulk
OF the responses came from this city and WASH
ington. The rolls of the societies in Baltimore
alone contain 5000 names. The proceeds from
commissions on the sale of tickets to the excur-
sionists, amounting TO about S600, viii be
handed over 70 the Dolan Children's Aid So
eiety and ST. Marys female orphan asylum.
SOME OF THE CLERGY PRESENT.
Among the clergy present at the reunion
were Revs. p. J. Donohae and W. A. Resrdon,
OF the cathedral; Rev. J. ID. Moore, Of ST.
Johns; Rev. Edmund Didier st. vincent's,
Rev. Peter Mccoy. ST. Mary's Star of the Sea;
Rev. .. Is. Corregan. St Gregorys; Rev. j. s.
Calm, ST. Peters; Rev. Peter Chanowice, Holy
Rosary: Rev. ]. p. Holden. ST. Jerome's; Rev.
VIM. Bartlett. ST. AIMS; Rev. Edward Williams,
81. Leo's; Rev. John E. Dunn. Catonville; Rev
W. L. v. Reaney, Mechanicstown; Rev. Paul
Griffith, Rev. Charles c. Sckranty, ST. Charles
college; Rev. VIM. +. Clarke. Rev. Jacob A.
Walter, Rev Jas. 0'Brien, Washington and
Rev. j. NJ. Barry, Tennallytown. Mr.. james
Fullerton, president of the Young Catholics
Friend society Of Washington, was also
present
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Didn't Mind His Having Fits.

rum tne flttsourg Dispatch
gang OF men were at work on a city street
when slight, beardless youth laid down his
pick and, approaching the foreman, said to
him:
''Can take a it. sir?"
Take what2" asked the foreman.
"A ht-l feel one coming on" replied the
young man, without emotion.
why, certainly" said the foreman
So the young man walked over TO bit Of
grass under a leafy tree-it was new street in
the suburbs-and had TT
Then he went and washed his face. came
back to his place in the line, took up his pick
and struck into work. After the DAYS work
was over the young mn said to the foreman:
You don't mind my having fts?"
MOI guess not, If you do fair days
work.
We'll, You see I used to work for butcher,
an he wouldn't let me take fts-said il inter-
fered with BUSINESSMAN thought you might
feel the same way about it.
And that young man works hard with pick
and shovel and takes a fit once in awhile ss Won
or might take drink of water
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-07-12
The "New Messiah'' in Georgia.

The people Of Liberty county. Ga, are very
much excited over the appearance in their
midst of a man calling himself the new Mes
siah. He is a man probably thirty years old,
has smooth face and long black hair. and
says he was born in Ohio. The negroes are
focking to him so that farmers in the vicinity
can get nobody to work their crops. The new
Messiah" was arrested a vagrsnt, but was
found TO have several hundred dollars in his
pockets, presumably given him by the negroes.
He says the 18th Of August viii be Judgment
day. and that white people have enjoyed para
disc on earth for eighteen centuries; nov IL
will be the black mans turn and that on this
judgment day every black man wall be turned
black
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A Girl Insane Over a Love Affair.

Miss Nettie Haganman, daughter of Squire
John Haaanman, Of Juiustown, N. J., and
who for some time has shown signs of insanity,
has become SO violent during the past week
that it was thought necessary to remove her,
and she has been taken to the state insane
asylum at Trenton. Miss Haganman was both
handsome and refined, and was much sought
after by the young men of the surrounding
country. An intimate friend Of the family
attributes the cause Of her insanity to a disap-
pointment in love affairs. She was engaged 70
be married to q young Methodist minister,
who Tilted her before the wedding day arrived
and from whom she has never heard. Her
parents and friends think that If the clergyman
should return Miss Haganman would recover
her senses,
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A FEROCIOUs GRAY SQUIRREL.
Its Savage Attack on a Newspaper Cor
respOndent-He is Badly Bitten.

There are no bears or tigers in the Soldiers
home grounds. but there are some very savage
squirrels in the hickory trees. MIR. o. P. Austin,
the Washington correspondent had a curious
adventure while driving in those grounds We'd
nesday afternoon. He was driving through the
woods, when big gray squirrel jumped on his
horse with unfriendly demonstration. Mr.
Austin reached for the squirrel to knock it of
with his hand. The result is that that hand is
now done up with surgeons bandsges under
which are several severe wounds The little
animal made an aggressive fight. Mr.. Austin
was first bitten through the thick part of the
thumb near the first joint. Then, when he
shook the squirrel of and kicked it across the
driveway it came back at him savagely. climbed
up mis- trousers leg and bit him through the
middle finger, swinging by its teeth, SO that it
was difficult for it to be shaken of. The squir-
rel was kicked out of the road three times. the
last time with considerable force. before 1t gave
up the fight. Mr.. Austins wounde hand was
dressed by the doctor at the Soldiers home
hospital.
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Not Acquainted With King Charles.

From the London Globe.
Mr.. Thomas Hughes (''Tom Brown has been
holding conversation with some Cheslrs
youths on Oak Apple Day:
What do you wear those oak-leaves for?"
cause fellow hid in an oak and they
couldn't find him."
but who was the fellow"
''War'n't be called Charles?"
We'll, boys, do you wish they had founa
himy"
Don't matter TO we. one way nor tother"
Then, my boys, why do you wear oak
leavesY"
AT this point Mr.. Hughes train came up, and
the Conundrum remains upansE, red
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Room for Learning to Spread Yet.

From the Boston Post
Gems Of grammar are still showering upon
me, and find it difficult to choose the best for
my readers. The following. reported as the
effort Of six-year-old country boy, deserves Q
place:
Eyer hain't ben gone down to the village yit
be We, Jerome?"
This, my correspondent says, was heightened
by twang which no combination of letters
could reproduce.
remark overheard at the last league ball
game here in Boston. CALCULATED when one OF
the players attempted TO steal base and was
Pu' 0u,. runs as louo"s: lis
ne naon ougnter went! q.
Another correspondent ordered some muslin
at a country shop. aud calling to inquire fer
them was informed that them gloves hasn't
came" Other pearls must be kept for anothss
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Large Auction Sales of Real Estate.

Large Auction Sales of Real Estate.
Duncanson Bros. auctioneers, have sold at
public sale the following property belonging to
the estate of the late Phillip Otterback: A
small house on Sth near L street southeast the
lot being about 17x72 feet, to E. H. and W. A.
Harnee, for cas- Also adjoining house, to
Thos. E. Young. for 81 ,OOO Also lots and 2,
square 997, improved by two small frame dwell
ings. lll7 and lll9 Georgia avenue southeast
to the Accumulated Saving and Investment as
ISOLATION, for 2l11 cents per square foot. Also
lot z square $50, at the northeast corner of
Half and o streets southwest, the lot being IS
feet inches by depth of l73 feet inches, to
Calvin Payne. for 10 cents per foot. Also north
half of lot 8, the south Is feet of lot 10, and
all OF lot 9. in square l, on 2Sth street. between
Virginia avenue and X street northwest, to A.
subdivision OF Bohrer, Morgan and
Bradley, trustees of the tract of land
known as Jamaica and Smiths vacancy,
on the west side of 7th street
extended near Boundary, containing about
1882 square feet, to p. H. Sheehy, for 81. 62%
per foot Also. lot 10. in the same subdivision.
containing about 3,O403s square feet, to Isaac
B. Jones, for Sl.45 per foot. Also, lots 4 and g.
III the same subdivision, at the northeast cor
ner Of 7th and Boundary streets. to Edward ].
Stellwagen, for 80 cents per foot Also, lot 6.
in same subdivision, to A. s. Clark. for 52l%
cents per foot. Also. lots Z, 8, and 9, same sub
division, to NJ. l. Weller for 421S cents per foot.
Duncanson Bros. sold yesterday, for Isaac L.
Johnson and Geo. Francis Dawson, trustees.
the east l! feet front of the west So feet 8
inches of lot 2, square 1859, situated on street
between 18th and 18th streets southeast. TO
John Cook for 10 cents per square foot Also
the west II feet inches front OF lot q same
square. to same for same. Also. for A. C.
Bradley and Enoch Totten, trustees, lot H,
square $40, fronting 10 feet on L street between
North Capitol and LIST streets northwest, having
depth Of 1875 feet ~ inches. to Edward
Droop for IS cents per foot. Also lot 80, square
by two-story brick house in Naylor's alley
between 9th. 10th. n and o streets northwest.
to Geo. s. Parker for McCauley Il Co., for
% ,l60. Also lot SO, square 500, improved by
house 1897 Union street, to Edward Droop for
$500. Also lots to IL inclusive. block 20.
sherwood, to L. Tobriner, attorney, for ssI
cents per foot Also lot 10, block is, Isher-
wood, to s. Bieber for 81 cents per foot.
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From Rockville.

Correspondence of The EVENING STAR
ROCKVILLE. July IL, 1885,
A meeting Of the county grange will be held
at Browningsville on Thursday, 25th instant.
at which many subjects Of interest to the
farmer will be discussed. fine lunch is a
special feature of these meetings.
Lieut.. A. H. Fletcher, U. s. N, and family
left here on Wednesday for Annapolis, where
they will remain until the LIST of October.
Mr.. Chas. b. Stearn and Miss Ida b. Slater of
Potomac district were married at this place on
the 10th instant by Rev. T. W. Simpson.
Robert. w. Carter, register of wills of this
county, Is lying dangerously ill at his residence
near here, and all of his family from e distance
have been SUNNI oned to his bedside.
The wife Of Dr. Is. F. LansdaIe and daughter
of Mr.. P. NJ. Smith Of Gaithersburg, died very
suddenly at her home in Damascus on Satur-
day morning last.
Miss Ida Dove, living near Rockville, has for
several days been absent as delegate to the
NJ. 4. Church South Sunday school convention
at Easton, Md.
A tournament will be held at Colesville on
the Both instant at which Mr. P. d. Laird will
address the knights and Col VIM Kilgour de-
liver the coronation address. Knights from
Maryland. Virginia and the District Of Column
bia Will participate. 1t promises to be q great
gathering Of county politicians.
Miss Kate Case, daughter Of the late Geo. W.
Case OF Potomac district. died on Wednesday
evening, in her twenty-frst year. Her funeral
will take place at st. Marys Catholic church,
this place, to-day.
The contest for nominations by the demo-
cratic party to the various Offices in the county
Is getting very exciting, and scores of candi-
dates Tor the same are to be met at every pub
Tic gatnering and at every crossroads. s. A. III.
The board Of city trusts at Philadelphia, has
awarded to Thomas A. Edison the John Scott
legacy medal for his Monograph for copying
pen and pencil work by the aid of electricity.
The annual exhibition OF the Loudoun county
Va. Live Stock association will take place this
year on the old fair grounds near Leesburg
on tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the
9th, 18th and 29th Of August.
Already 600 Of the capital stock for the
establishment and operation of cotton factory
In Front Royal, Va, has been taken.
Martinsburg. w. Va, has organized board
OF trade, with Hon. Z. Boyd Faulkner ~ presi-
dent
At Salem. Mass, 1t Is stated that Mark w.
Daulton. aged thirty three, and Mary L. NASH
aged twenty-five, have eloped, the former leav-
ing wife and three children
In Baltimore the flther Of Raphael f. Fer
randina, the little boy that was drowned in
June by falling In nm unprotected sewer, has
sued the city for $4,000 damages.
At Ballston Spa. N. Y, . Jury was obtained
yesterday for the trial of ex-Alderman McQuade
OF New York, and the taking Of testimony will
begin to-day.
John D. uniting, while prospecting for gar
net in the mountains in Warren county, N. Y,
discovered ore which he believes TO be rich in
silver. He also states there are traces Of gold
and copper in the ore.
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Nathaniel Bell's Doctor.

colored man named Nathaniel Bell and his
wife, who live at No. 476 School street, have
complained to the police that on the I'd of this
month colored man, giving his name as Will
liam Brooks, called at their house and agreed
to cure Bell Of spell of sickness. In order to
secure him against not receiving his fee,
Brooks held Bells watch chain, Bell claiming
that Brooks intended to return it ON the nth
he obtained from Mrs. Bell. 81 In money. a
Waterbury watch and q trunk of clothing.
Bell said be had applied for . warrant, but was
told that he could not prosecute the case be-
cause 1t was . breach OF trust.
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mellow and the Swiss Maid.

The Charleston 6. CO. World telegraphs TO
the Press News association that the stories sent
out from that city regarding the alleged ad-
vances Of DIR. Mellow TO the Swiss maid were
sent out by the Nsscs and Courier, the late Capt.
Dawson's paper, and were wholly without foon-
dation in fact It il added that the Nescs and
Courier did not itself publish the story.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-07-12

To ''adcertise jadiciously," use tie colsn,ns Of
The EVENING STAR. Everybody in the District
reads Il; and in proportion 10 the returns yields
doe1tisers. as rates are much tie cheapest