Evening capital., 1895-09-05
CAPITAL JOTTINGS

Picked Up Here and There by Our Ubiqui-
tous Reporters
Indiana had deluge, a rainfall of
seven inches in eleven hours.
Horseback riding has became quite
fad among the young ladies here.
Westminster and Philadelphia have
felt an earthquake shOck.-Annap0lls
next.
1t is estimated that 8 900 marriages
are daily performed throughout the
world.
Governor Brown has sold his farm
in Carroll county. lie will give up
farming.
The trial of Theodore Durant in
San Francisco is exciting much interest
throughout the country.
-Betw cen politics and base ball it is
a very poor talker this year who cannot
talk windmill to death.
The wheelmen are training for the
bicycle tournament on Sept. 18th, when
an interesting contest is expected.
Baltimore public schools opened
with "a 200 pupils, an increase OF from
three to four thousand over last year.
Senator German was at the Carroll
ton Hotel yesterday and plans for meet
ings during the campaign were outlined,
-Ninety-two candidates have report
ed at the Naval Academy for examina-
tion, no Marylanders among the num-
Der.
After July A, 1896, Uncle Sam will
wear his chapeau ut an angle Of forty
five degrees, a degree for each star on
the flag.
"A man in Washington has been
granted decree to take his wife's name.
| This is the ''new woman" with ven
| geance.
--Sousa's latest march is entitled
tKing Cotton March, and is dedicated
TO the Cotton States Exposition, about
To open.
Vessels which arrived yesterday re-
ported having fine view of the eclipse
of the moon Tuesday night while coming
up the bay.
The Epwerth League of the Wesley
| Chapel o.. Il. Church will hold gospel
services at the Salvation Army barracks
tonight.
The excursion steamer Jane Moseley
| has gone to New York where she will
run excui sions to follow the Defender
and Valkyrie III.
"A meeting Of democrats of the Sec
| ond ward viii he held at the City Hotel
| tomorrow evening for the purpose OF
forming campaign club.
No merchants can expect a share OF
! fall trade unless he invites it. The way
| to invite it Is through the advertising
columns of the CAPITAL.
-Forty-eight fourth-class postmas-
| tiers were appointed yesterday, of whom
| forty-three were to III vacancies caused
by deaths or designations.
The bicycle fever is an epedemic
here. Many young folks are doubled
/ upn with it. Some are broken out with
blue spots and many scratches.
Among the marriage licenses grant
| ed in Washington yesterday was one to
| VIM. Fletcher, Of Annapolis, Eliza
| Dennis, Of Washington, ID. Z,
The Junior Order of United Ameri-
can Mechanics will give pyrOtechnic
display in Baltimore, Sept. IL, for the
benefit of the Key monument fund.
The first LOwndes buttons were
seen in Annapolis today. They contain
the picture of the republican candidate
for Governor i'll black on yellow back
ground.
The law fOrbidding persons throw
ing paper in the street ig to be enforced
in Baltimore. This will cause the abate-
ment of great nuisance. Other cities
should follow suit.
Politics makes strange bedfellOws.
| Carl Brown and candidate Hurst are
one days attraction at the Rockville
| fair, not to speak Of Carl's wife, the
Goddess of Liberty thrown in.
Gasoline and Oh St0ves.-For the
latest improved Gasoline and Oil Stoves,
| go to j. III. RAWLINGS, fest street, opp.
the depot.