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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-05-06
A Wife Charges DISCRETION.

Sarah Caroline Risner (nee SMITH has, by
G. W. Kern. filed a bill for divorce agains.
Henry C. Risner, the resumption of her maiden
name aud custody of her child. She states that
they were married in Huntington. W. Va. on
November Is. 1890, and charges he deserted her
March following.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-05-06

THE LADY FRIENDS of Lafayette Lodge. No.
Is. l. %. NJ. will present a flag TO tnat o-ganlza-
ton next Monday night at the National RlTies
Amor. AtIerwsrd there viii be dancing
EABOrT O'Clock last night curtain at the
house OF Robert Dice. No. sO1 Wliiberser
street. caught fire from gas jet and hve
dollars damage resulted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-05-06
Match Game of Basket Pail.

Next Friday evening match game Of basket
ball will be played at the Carroll Institute gym
nasium between teams from the Y. N. c. A.
and Carroll Institute. Carroll Institute will be
reure-ented by J. ". Bonby, ]. Moriarty. Ber-
nard Saul. Joseph DAILY and NJ. ogle. Game
will be called a. $50
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-05-06
An Advantage.
From Puck

From Puck.
Hobson-"There's one advantage in being
poor
Dobson-..Td like to know il"
Hobson-"Didn' you ever notice that self
righteous and glorifed feeling poor man has
when he tells YOU how charitable he would be
il he were rich?''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-05-06
Marriage Liceusea.

Marriage licenses have been issued by the
clerk Of the court to the following: Ernst
Rees and Christine Jeblick; George Meyer and
Katie Hautz; John Specklein and Lottie Kraus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-05-06
Stove in the Dolphin's Plates.

NEW YORK. May 6.-The steamer Mississippi,
which sailed this morning for London when
backing out of her pier collided with the U. S.
S. Dolphin. The Dolphin had three plates
stove In.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-05-06

Lient. Robertson's Resignation Accepted.
Secretary Lamont today accepted the resig-
nation of First Lieut.. S. c. Robertson, first
cavalry. to take effect June so. Lieut.. Robert
son is the son Of Gen. Beverly Robertson Of
this city and recently attempted to commit
suicide in Baltimore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-05-06
No Fire at Grand Rapids.

CHICAGO. May 6.-The report of fire at the
Phoenix Furniture Factory at Grand Rapids
was incorrect.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-05-06

The FIRE UNDERWRITERS ASSOCIATION of the
District went this afternoon on their annual
-ls >ted shad expedition to Marshall Hall,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-05-06

Booth Enjoyed a Comfortable Night.
NEW YORK. May 6.-Booth's condition is
about the same as it was yesterday. He passed
good night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-05-06

OF kne car. I-hcu CON phrlIucut Will nCcoLumo-
date four people, but is usually occupied by
two. There Is a long stationary table between
the seats IN every compartment. When II was
suggested to an oficial of the road. who hap
yened TO be ON the train. that temporary tables
like those used by the Pullman company would
be much more convenient. he replied: BLESS
your soul. man, You are not in America, you
know" He was assured that the entire expe-
rience Of an African railway journey kept thas
fact so continually before one that this sugges.
ton was unnecessary.
And so the passengers sit for eighteen hours
q day right at the table at which their meals are
served II is sort Of perpetual meal, or, rather,
waiting for meals, from beginning 70 the end OF
the tourney, and the same cars have the same
sliding doors and windows, no overhead ventils-
ton, no fires. By the shades OF your departed
ancestors. Mr.. Pullman. and for the credit Of
your time-honored comforts, you should ressns
this hideous sarcasm upon your name OK
course at Its worst, this is infinitely better than
the old way Of travelling by wagon. Gnd. o. all
things are judged by comparison. the Africander
thinks this sort Of travelling the perfection OF
luxury.
If the extra fare trains. run as O special feat
ure only once a week, are like this, what must
be the regular trains, where there are no lava
tories, no ladies' rooms, no place TO lie down,
no meals served on train? Curiosity on this
point is curbed by an amount Of cowardice
which bars actual physical test. And these
are the best fast trains running between Cape
Town. the seaport, and Johan nesburg, the lat
ter the bigsess mining town in the world, with
q population of nearly 20. 600 souls, and an out
put Of more than 100000 ounces OF gold per
month. The distance between these points is
less than 1000 miles, and these fast trains
consume sixty hours on the journey.
A part Of the baggage Is carried on top al the
baggage car, under a canvas cover. and il is .
positive fact that the train was held at several
stations while the covers were removed. q trunk
or bag taken down, ont of which passengers
would take some clean clothes, and then they
were replaced, the canvas strapped down and
the train would move on.
II is necessary to 80 ont upon the open plat
form n order 10 enter tine mems private toilet
rooms The womens retiring room il quite
commodious, and is entered from the interior
Of the cur. The chief merit possessed by these
cars seems to lie in the fact that. contrary to
nearly everything else in the unapprec alive
world. in them the women seem to have the
best of it. The doors in the cars also slids bur
differ from the sliding windows and sliding
tariff, in that the former OF these slide down
and the latter generally slides no, while the
doors slide sideways, and about all these doors
really can be depended upon to successfully
accomplish is 20 bur the ingress and egress Of
individuals and to obstruct the view.
A road in the United States that gave such
accommodation to its patrons as lie given here
would not last long enough to get hot box.
Evening journal., 1893-11-02

Not a weak spot that we
knowgof anywhere along, the
Dress Goods line.
Whatever the season or the
style demands in here in the
fullest assortment is genuinely
new goods, and in almost any
color or combination that can
be thought of.
Easiest to measure values
by the medium-priced goods
the stuffs that every woman
knows the worth of.
At 25c yard.
Atwood Diagonal Cheviot, 80 in.
black and mixtures.
At soc yard.
Atwood Cable Cord, 3G in, 30 colors.
AT SIC yard.
Atwood Serge, 80 in. 1G colors.
At SIZE yard.
All-woOl Dress Plaids, 3s in, 20
styles.
At soc a yard.
Atwood French Whipcords, SO in
all the staple colors
At soc a yard.
All.wool Bordered Diagonal. As in,
navy blue, green, black, garnet,
brown.
AT soc a yard.
All-wool HopsaclSing, SO in, brown,
green, navy blue, garnet, black,
olive.
At SOC a yard.
Diagonal Plaids, 40 in, styles
AT 75c a yard.
Atwood Fancy Cheviot, AZ in, %
colors.
At 81 yard.
silk-and-wool French Plaids, 80 in
6 patterns.
Add half to any of these
prices, double some of them,
and you get to about the usual
retail figures.
These are not old styles OF
patterns that you have refused,
but fresh, clean, bright goods
fresh from the manufacturers.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Evening journal., 1893-11-02
THE JUDGE GETS A LETTER.
The loved One of Some Wilmington
Man Drank Not Wisely But Too Wen.

The loved One of Some Wilmington
Man Drank Not Wisely But Too Wen.
One might as well be dead as not in
the swim, aud as attacks from cranks
are now the fad, Judge Ball, of the
Municipal Court, Is in the swim. so to
speak. To-day he received the following
anonymous letter from some person
who evidently does not know that IL Is
the work of judge to dispense justice
aud not TO go around town ferretinp ont
crime This is the letter.
WILMINGTON, Del Nov. Q. 1893
mr.. BALL:-You are a Judge Of tbis
city and you send poor unfortunates to a
jail, disgracing them and their copnec-
lions forever, because of being intoxi.
Gated with rum, sold on the
Sabbath by low Irish brute
by the name Of -. at - and
-- streets. who has been doing this
law breaking right under your nose
for years. Where are your detectives and
what is their and your duty? Christ
would have taken such poor unfortu-
mates to His heart and at the same time
condemn the real evil doer His svmpa.
thy was always with the consequences
of human weakness, reproving terribly the
cause of sin and the vlolater of law
Were | a judge by right or circumstances
detectives would soon find ont snch
damnabe law-breakers and soul.destrov.
ers. They would quickly find honest
employment or 60 to the lplace
where you send their poor victims know
men who have often seen him deal out his
poison to poor humanity on the Lords
Sabbath. 1t is not my duty TO expose
my Identity when there are at your SER
vice officers Of the law whose duty IL is
to do so and who get credit for its faith
full performance
you have disgraced n connection Of
mine because Of his youthful weakness in
the face of temptation and caused me. and
all connected with me, heart
ache that will cling with me to
the verge of the grave and
If that brute who keeps that low hell is
not summarily dealt with, the prsss
will be asked 20 do its duty in the cause
Of Justice with those in authority as
well as those who, at the expense Of its
native-born lcitizens, openly abuse the
law OF the land that has given them
shelter A FATHER. "
Evening journal., 1893-11-02

So far as we are aware no systematic
and certain effort is being made TO learn
II there are zoo persons In this city who
need assistance now, or who are likely
to need It GREATER.
IL would be a shame upon the city. and
a sin upon our heads as citizens, II any
one of those alleged ZOO people should
die of starvation. The degrees of shame
aud sin would be materially essened, but
shame and sin would still be present and
not removed, were the calamity reduced
to suffering, merely.
If there are zoo persons in INDECENT
circumstances, we are still at fault for
not knowing 1t, and for not doing, what
lies in our power, to relieve even that
state Of semi-poverty.
Poverty is disease Of the body
polite We cannot apply promiscu-
Gus, public charity to the disease
itself, .and to all of its symptoms,
as a ready and easy specific aud cure.
Charity may not cure poverty at all.
1t may confirm poverty aud exaggerate
indulgence
There are laws to prevent and suppress
vagrancy. They are wise laws They
should be enforced. II those laws are
strictly enforced, then the deserving and
honest poor will become known TO the
authorities in the sitting process that
will naturally follow. There are some
persons who should be forced either to
work or to leave the community Il
would be criminal almost, certainly il
would be dangerous, for us to harbor and
support such persons at large
But while we are carefully avoiding
doing harmful public charity, suppose
some modest, honest, helpless persons In
this fair, rich. happy. beautiful city
should be suffering for food and clothes !
Suppose somebody should starve
The apprehension is sickening The
fact, If il should prove to be true, would
disgrace us.
If any such case should be made known
to the EVENING JOURNAL we guarantee
that relief will come within few hours.
A single notice in the columns of the
EVENING JOURNAL will bring month 3
supply Of food and clothes for an entire
family.
We are not opposed to charity. We
recommend charity. We love and honor
those who do charitable acts.
We know that canvass OF some sort
should be made TO ascertain II charity
can be exercised. There are thousand:
Of willing, sympathetic, noble, Christian
people here who are anxious to do some
thing to show their gratitude for theil
own move fortunate state in life. The,
wish to know how
There are thousands of kindly peopl,
here ready, even anxious, to do tn,
sweetest mission known to the Christian
or any other civilization, or philosophy
charity.
Evening journal., 1893-11-02
STORIES OF THE DAY.
Many a slip 'rwIxt Cup and Lip.


A short time ago nice. looking young
brakeman of this city was the happiest Of
mortals. A constant smile played over
his countenance. Not a cloud married
the brightness of his sky blue eyes.
The reason of his bliss was his ap-
preaching nuptials to a fair daughter of
the Sunny South. On every hand he
received the congratulations Of his fel.
lows, which he received graciously
enough, but still in an off hand manner.
AT the time set for the wedding the
young brakeman started for the scene
where his happiness was to be consum.
mated. He was in ali the glory of a
suit of brand new clothes aud
Not a wave of trouble rolled
Across his peaceful breast"
But disappointment is the lot of
man. and that young brakeman did not
escape the common lot. The young
woman upon whom he had lavished his
hearts tenderness, met him not as has
been so POLITICALLY said
A buckwheat cake within her mouth
A tear within her eye,
but with never smile and a stern de.
termination not to leave her mother.
Not another reason would the vounP
woman give and at last and in deep dis.
gust that young brakeman returned 10
Wilmington. He has become pro.
nounced cynic and VOWS be will never
again worship at the shrine Of the fair
but false ones.
His friends say he has worshiped
at about sixteen shrines, and that it is
perhaps as well for him to take a rest
ing spell now, If only a short one.
Evening journal., 1893-11-02

THE Silver Purchase Repeal bill, as
amended by the Senate, was yesterday
concurred In by the House. and was
promptly approved by President Cleye-
land. Thus the first repeal, demanded
by the people. commended by the
Democratic platform and promised
by the leaders, has been accomplished
This is the first in Importance of the
three laws, two Of them approved by
Mr. Harrison, that Mr. Cleveland will
be called upon TO annul. N ext comes
the Federal Election law, not as more
important than the Mckinley law,
but as more easily disposed
Of. Thel Democrats, having a majority
Of the people, do not need laws, troops,
Davenports, Mahaffys and Macallistefs
to show force and perpetrate frauds at
the polls. They are not willing to per.
NIT the possibility Of the use Of these
means again by any other party. The law
creating such officials as Davenport and
Macallister and giving such dictatorial
powers to them, and to the marshsls un-
der their authority, would never have
been needed by majority party.
The doom of the Mckinley law is fixed.
Many of those who voted for IT, at the
same time they voted for the Sherman
Silver Purchase bride, acknowledge that
there are errors in IL, aud that the law
itself like the Sherman law, was a mis-
take. Mr.. Blaine was wise enough to
know that and bold enough to say that
IL was an Infamous measure" before it
was passed The people put their con
domination on It to the extent of nearly
two millions majority in voting for the
candidates whose platform declared that
the Republican policy of protection is a
fraud on the labor Of the majority Of the
people for the benefit OF the few" The
Mckinley law came from the.same polit.
ical cult that gave us the Sherman law.
Evening journal., 1893-11-02

The late Cunning S. Bedford's dis
tinguished ancestor of the same name
lies buried in the graveyard of the First
P,esbsterisn Church, of Wilmington, Del
The grsvestone, cylindrical shaft Of
marble with domed top, stands within a
few feet of the city's chief business
throughfare. and persons passing on the
sidewalk may easily read the long inscrip.
ton that records the sleeper's many
virtues and honors.
The street in that block is charming
and old-fashioned, with wide red brick
houses and many large trees. A few
yards from the Bedford monument stands
the quaint little old house Of the Della.
aware Historical Society. once the church
edifce of the First Presbyterian congre-
cation Here are housed DANIEL Defoe's
armchair, the lottery wheel used when
Delaware chartered pnbic gambling com
panies, aud many interesting relics Of
colonial days. New York Sun.
Evening journal., 1893-11-02
MUNICIPAL COURT CASES.
Patrick Fahey VIII Have Hearing Next
Monday.

Monday.
Patrick Fahey was before the Munici
pal Court this morning on the charge Of
having committed assault and battery on
Martin Daily, stone-mason. The case
was continued until Monday morning
next.
William Devine was'fned 81 and costs
for disorderly conduct and William Rice
colored, was dismissed Of the same charge
on payment of costs.
Is. II. Smith and Charles Fletcher were
disorderly at the p, w. & B. station this
morning and we're arrested at the request
OF the station master. Each were fined
49,
Christopher Brooks, colored, was again
arraigned and again his case was con.
tinued. IL was ordered taken up to.
morrow morning when the state will
have witnessipresent who lives outside
OF the city limits. Mr.. Bacon, counsel
for the defendant, objected TO the post
ponement on that ground, as he claimed
that witness living beyond the city
limits could mot be brought before the
city court. The court suggested that he
read the statutes, but Mr.. Bacon insisted
that he was right in his assertion.
Charles and Robert StoclSley, colored.
who were charged with going to their
step mothers house, breaking open a
trunk and taking away their dead
father clock, were dismissed
Evening journal., 1893-11-02

man having the appearance Of a
tramp is bothering the residents Of
Washington street On Tuesday morn
ing he went to the home Of city official
and informed that persons wife that
he had been sent to take down .the sum-
mer awnings over the front door. She
told him If her husband had wanted the
awnings taken down he would have sent
note. He insisted on taking them
down, however, saying that the man Of
the house was in a hurry and had no time
to write The tramp was informed that
her husband would be home in al few
minutes, whereupon he left Immediately.
After leaving he is known to have gone
TO another house on the same street but
did not succeed in getting the work to
do that he asked
Evening journal., 1893-11-02

from deficient breeding and too great
elevation, is Of no matter to the public or
to Mr. Bayard. The fact remains that
he is so. Colonel Henry Watterson has
denounced him specifically and literally.
He has stated the case against White
thoroughly and repeatedly, with de.
tailed evidence personally obtained to
support it. Mr. White stayed to bull
doze and snub Americans abroad, as II
they were inferior TO Englishmen at
home Mr.. White needs a long rest and
retirement In order Co learn that the
people Of the United States think they
are as refined and polite as any people in
the world. Thinking so, they are not
willing to be convinced to the contrary
by a coxcomb who has the impudence to
think he knows better.
Evening journal., 1893-11-02

WE have received greater number Of
anonymous letters than usual within
the last six weeks In fact we are
flooded, as it were, with them. There
are some which, though unobiectlonable
otherwise, we cannot use because we
have no guarantee Of the truth Of their
statements and no means Of investiga-
ting. Many Of them contain social items
which would be gladly published II &C
companied by the name Of the sender
not for publication, but for an assur
ance Of good faith Then there are
those cowardly innuendoes and insiuua
tions made usually by persons who are
both ignorant and bad. They wish to
do injury to others and make us respon-
sihle for t. That is sneaking scoundrel-
ism on their part; It ascribas infinite
ignorance or infinite meanness to us
For these latter we have the most active
and explosive contempt We are ready
to rail at them by the hour. For the
others we have sympathy They live in
an age Of civilization and intelligence.
but still they have not learned that
newspapers cannot take the risk Of
publishing anonymous communications
We hope that these are young people
who have not had the opportunity to
learn We trust they are mot ignor-
ant Of these facts after having had the
opportunity to learn better.
Evening journal., 1893-11-02
GREAT STEAMSHIP DESTROYED.

burning Of the City OF Alexandria on
Cuba, When a Million Dollars Went
Up IA Smoke.
NEW YORK, Nov "A cablegram re-
ceived this afternoon announces the
burning of the great Ward Line ocean
steamship City Of Alexandria off Cuba.
Two of her crew were drowned, but all
the rest on board were saved.
The City Of Alexandria was burned to
the waters edge and the loss ON the
splendid vessel will be no less than a
million dollars
She was one of the largest, If not the
largest, ocean liner plying to Southern
ports. The cause of the fire was the ex-
plosion Of alcohol
Evening journal., 1893-11-02

A LARGE man, old but strong and
healthy looking, begged 20 few pennies
to get something 20 eat, on Market street.
this morning. If he really needs some
thing to eat, there are hundreds, thousands
Of people in this city who are ready to
give it to him. "A few pennies are not
sufficient He either needs cents enough
to buy a breakfast, or he is a fraud. He
is the sort of a man who, II out In the
country would be storing potatoes
apples, turnips, TO supply his family
during the winter. He is a disease a
cancer, In a community like this He
has no business TO be idle; he has less
warrant for begging in public on the
streets. II he is unfortunate; II he has
been overtaken by calamity, he should
go boldly to bis personal friends. his en-
ployers, and obtain loan. II he can
not do that he should see Chief Of Police
Dolan and state his case II his story is
true he can have all the help he needs,
and more No man should walk these
streets begging aims. No man should
encourage a man to do that. II poverty
is honest, let us know il we will uaran.
tee to relieve It,
Evening journal., 1893-11-02
BAD WRECK ON THE READING.

Two Passengers Killed and -Four Sc
riously Injured Because Their Train
Ran Into Misplaced Switch.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. q Another fatal
railroad accident, this time in the Key
stone state, was added to the long chain
of disasters this morning when a
loaded passenger train on the Philsdel.
phia and Reading railroad IAN into a mis-.
placed switch and was soon nothing but
a pile of wreckage.
The accident occurred at Nicetown,
Pa, on the Reading road. and latest re-
ports show that at least two passengers
have died and four are seriously injured.
Evening journal., 1893-11-02

Ir is no doubt true, as the London
Chronicle says. that Ambassador Bayard
denies the reports that he land Henry.
White were on bad terms Aud that
"Mr Bayard denied that his relations
with Mr. White had become so strained
that Mr. Whites retirement was con
sidered necessary He justified Mr.
Roosevelt's appointment as a most
natural one. he said Mr.. Roose.
welt was a conspicuous man Of
diplomatic experience and always had
been identified with the Democratic
party We have no doubt Of the truth
Of any OF those statements. It Is not
characteristic OF Mr. Bsyard nor betting
that he should quarrel with a small
man. Mr. White, whether BY intention or
from the natural bent Of his temper and
manners. has made himself intensely
obnoxious to many Americans
Whether he is discourteous from in.
femper and ignorance. OF III hammered
Evening journal., 1893-11-02
The EFFECT oE REPEAL.

It's Apparent Beneficial Effects Confined
to "a Few Wilmingtonians.
The repeal of the Sherman Silver Pur.
chase law has not yet made any percep.
tible change in the business affairs of
Wilmington. although one or two bust
ness men say it has in their particular
lines
Walter II. Hayes said this morning
that it had exercised wonderful effect
upon the legal business. 1.-THE bill was
only repealed last night. he said, "and
I've had all l could DO to-day" But Mr..
Hayes is an exception.