Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-23

| son sister al1ve, and brought her forward 70
prove that the transfer to Hoxie was in the
nature Of mortgage to secure Hoxie against
| any dehciency which might be found In Robin
| sons accounts. He had contract with the
heirs for share in the secured property, but
on the stand swore he had no interest A
| detective was employed by Hill, who made love
to the old woman, and in her confidence she
showed him the agreement with the heirs, duly
| executed. He took 1t from her to examine and
ned with the:document to Chicago from St Louis,
where the case was being heard before com
| missioner, now . resident of this city, Mr..
Spencer, and the document was produced al
tne next hearing, when the counsel OF the
| nears, MIR. Joseph P. Garrison, withdrew from
the case and judgment by default was given
| hni. The property at that time, is7s, Wa
SAID to be worth over $500 200.
DOUGLAS WITHOUT A coRKscREw.
l met a well-known resident doctor after
reading this case, which contained all the SEN
sational circumstances Of dime novel, and
asked If he remembered the case, and strange
to say he had attended Robinson in hotel in
Louisville. After his recovery F. W. Thomas,
| the poet, who will be remembered by our older
citizens as a resident here in the early fifties,
| told the doctor who his patient was, and ct the
opening OF the Orange and Alexandria railroad.
which was celebrated by an excursion with its
concomitant attendants, the doctor met, among
the many distinguished guests. Mr.. Hoxie.
L ~
Douglas met his fate o presidential candi-
| date. Before reaching Brandy station, o sug-
gestive name in connection with this incident,
| some one produced q bottle Of brandy and
asked Judge Douglas for a corkscrew. He said
he did not have one. 'tWhat, !" said this gentle
| man, mo corkscrewl Well, that settles your
chance for the presidency. man who travels
| In such crowd as this without a corkscrew
can never be President" Every other states
| man aboard the train produced a corkscrew
and fh< - -
proved fatal to his hopes. This murder and
| the remarkable trial Of Robinson, recalled by
these legal proceedings created the most in
tense excitement throughout the country, but
was long since forgotten until brought up by
these legal proceedings.
THE GREAT NOON HOAX.
Another resuscitation from q long past age,
brought about by talk with friend who has
made some study of astronom, and the hope
he entertains Of the discoveries which will be
made when the large telescope is mounted on
Mount Wilson, southern California, which I
understood him was to be 46 inches. The
telescope at the Lick observatory is 42-the
largest, believe, in the world up to this period.
This talk on a science of which am profoundly
ignorant, but love to read and talk Of brought
up the moon hoax" of Richard Adams Locke,
which 80 puzzled the most scientific men in
this country and Europe. Lord Rope had
i
think 36 inches, and the scientific world
looked forward to the discoveries ex-
pected to be made when this instru-
ment was mounted at the Cape of Good Hope,
under the direction Of Sir John Herschel. For
nearly a year this anxious expectation had
existed, when suddenly, in August 1895, the
New York Sun, Of which Mr.. Locke was one of
the editors came out with q long story, pur-
porting to have come by the last mail. and to
be an extract from the Edinburgh Journal of
Science. 1t announced the discovery BY Sir
John Herschel that the moon wasinhabited and
gave minute descriptions of the inhabitants.
vegetation and architecture of our satellite. Ii
was technically accurate in the use Of the astro-
nomical terms, and SO ingeniously constructed
that the public were convinced Of its truth
Nothing was talked of for days but the great
discovery. Among those whom it deceived
was Horace Greeley. He demonstrated to
doubters that it must be genuine and with him
were great body Of the most intelligent
people OF the time. Some idea of the boldness
OF Locke's imagination and his scientific attain
ments may be obtained from extracts from the
long detailed account he gave. He described
the construction Of the great telescope and
then he proceeds to the thrilling moment when
1t was first turned upon the starry heavens:
1t was about half-past nine on the night Of
the 10th, the moon having then advanced
within four days of her mean libration, that
the astronomer adjusted his instruments for
the inspection Of the moons eastern limb.
SAID TO HAVE BEEN SEEN THROUGH THE rrIE-
SCOPE.
Small collections Of trees Of every imagina-
BILE kind were scattered about the whole of the
luxuriant area, and here our magniferB blessed
our painting hopes with specimensos conscious
existence. In the shade Of the woods, on the
southeastern side. we beheld continuous herds
OF brown quadrupeds, having all the external
characteristics Of the bison, but more diminu-
tive than any species of the Dos genus in our
natural history. 1t had, however one
widely distinguished feature, which we after
ward found TO be common to nearly every lunar
quadruped We have discovered namely, re-
markabie feshy appendage over the eyes,
crossing the whole breadth Of the fore
head and united to the ears. We
could most distinctly perceive this hairy veil,
which was shaped like the upper front outline
OF cap know to ladies as Mary Queen of Scott
cap. lifted and lowered by means Of the ears
1t immediately occurred to the acute mind Of
DIR. Herschel that this was providential con-
trivance to protect the eyes Of the animal from
the great extremes Of light and darkness to
which all the Inhabitants of our side of the
moon are periodically subjected.
THE MAN-BATs DESCRIBED.
"We were thrilled with establishment to per-
ceive four successive focks of large winged
creatures, wholly unlike any birds, descend
with slow even motion from the cliffs on the
western side and alight upon the plain. Now
they were noticed by DIR. Herschel, who ex-
claimed: Now. gentlemen, my theories against
your proofs, which you have often found q
pretty even bet, We have here something worth
looking Mt. was confident that if ever we
found beings in human shape it would be in
this longitude and they would be provided by
their Creator with some extraordinary powers
Of locomotion. First exchange for my number
d. This lens being soon introduced gave us a
fine half-mile distance and we counted three
parties of these creatures of twelve, nine
and fifteen in each, walking erect toward
u small wood near the base of the eastern
precipices. Certainly they were like hu-
man beings. for their wings had disap-
peared and their attitude in walking was both
erect and dignifed. = e We introduced
lens H. T.. which brought them to the apparent
proximity Of eighty yards. We scien-
tifically denominated them the Vespertilio-
homa or man bat: they are doubtless innocent
and happy creatures, notwithstanding that
some of their amusements would but i'll COM
port with our terrestrial notions of de-
corum. We afterward discov-
cred an equi-triangular temple, built of
polished sapphire OR some Respondent
blue stone, which, like it, displayed
scintillating in the sunbeams. Our canvass
though fifty feet in diameter, was too limited
to secure more than q sixth part Of it at one
view. We instantly reduced our magnitude 50
as to embrace the whole structure in one view
1t was open on each side and seemed
to contain neither seats, affairs nor offerings:
but it was a light and airy structure, nearly o
hundred feet high from its white glistening
floor to its glowing roof and it stood upon