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The morning times., 1896-02-05
PROSPECT HILL CASE.

The decision in the Prospect Hill Gene
terry case is upon the mandamus granted by
Judge Bradley directing the Commissioners
to pay the award of S51 $50 for the ceme-
terry property necessary TO open the street.
II holds that while the clause in the appro-
FriatiUn bill Of August z 1924, is ineffect-
Cal in so far as il vacateS the order of
he court confirming the award to the
cemetery company. it is valid o repeal, so
far as this street is concerned, the law of
December 21, 1898. which commands the
Commissioners 10 proceed with the open
ine of the street. This is apparently just
The opposite of what Congress intended.
The case has been before the court of APP
pealS on two other suits, both of which
were decided adversely 60 the Commission
err. The first was upon an appeal from the
decision below, that the award of SAT-
72i for the land taken and S6,692 for dam
ages was not excessive. While this appeal
was pending Congress passed the act at
| tempting 10 vacate the decision of the
court, and the Commissioners filed mo-
| ton in compliance with the act.
| This was oycrruled and an appeal was
taken upon this. Both cases were decided
| al the same time aud the award was sus-
| tained.
Thenthe cemetery company asked for the
maBdamus To compel the Commissioners
'opav over the money awarded, and it was
| granted.
This was appealed from, aud the decision
| Yesterday sets aside the decree ordering
| the Commissioners to pay the money. As
a result of this opinion the Commissioners
are not at liberty to open North Capitol
street.
The morning times., 1896-02-05
TO PAY PENSIONS BY CHECK.
Overstreet's Bill Favorably Regarded
by the Committee

The House Committee on Invalid Pen
sions has ordered "A favorable report on the
bill OF Mr.. Overstreet OF Indiana. providing
for the payment OF all pensions by check
A general pension bin was also agreed
a.. n Is on the line of the Pickier hin
ard contains provisions fer making a PEN
shin a vested right ~ prpposcd ~ Mr..
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The morning times., 1896-02-05
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The morning times., 1896-02-05
SHOWED THE GAS BILLS
East Washington Citizens Held
an Indignation Meeting.
WANT CHEAPER TELEPHONE

Speeches Were Made Characferizing
Some of the Gus Bills aS "Ciean
StealS"-Bridge Over rMassachusetts
Avenue Extended IS Asked for the
Accom- modntion of Street Railroads.
The morning times., 1896-02-05
Pleading for Norfolk's Navy Yard

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A delegation representing al the buSi-
ness organizations of Norfolk and Ports
mouth. .andof Berkeley ndNorfOikCounties.
Va. appeared yesterday before the Senate
Committee on Naval Affairs. under the
guidance OF Senator Daniel. and urged
thar the plant of the governments for
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The morning times., 1896-02-05
SAYS HE 1T UNFAITHFUL,
Mre. Alice Morgan Brings Spit for
DiNorce.

Alice Morgan brought suit for divorce
yesterday y against John A. Morgan. a
clerk in the Navy Department They were
married on February Z. 1883, at Mount
Vernon Place Methodist Church by Rev.
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The morning times., 1896-02-05
MUST Be SIXTEEN FEET
Regulations Amended as to the
With Of Building Lots.
OTHER CHANGES REQUIRED

Provision for Numbering Each Space
Upon Which II Building Is Located.
Plea for Justice Made by Suburban.
Observation-Disclosures Prot ectton
Noted-prohibition Bill Opposed.
The morning times., 1896-02-05

The court of appeals yesterday rendered
two decisions of general interest.
One was in the case of Franklin Jennings
against Elizabeth Webb, and involves the
question of slave marriages before the
war. The other was in the contest of the
Commissioners with the Prospect Hill
Cemetery Company over the opening OF
North Capitol street out to the Soldiers
Home The decision of the lower court
was reversed in each case.
In the first case Franklin Jennings sued
for possession of No. 1906 L street north
west. His father, Paul Jennings, was
President Madison's body servant both
In Virginia and while he was in the White
House His wife was also a slave In Vir-
ginia, ana remained there while her hus-
band came here
He frequently returned home up TO the
time OF her death, fifty years ago. Then
he brought their children here and cared
for them up to the time of his owa death,
about ten years ago. He put his daghuter,
Frances, who was feeble-mInded, in the
house in controversy, with Elizabeth Webb
10 care for her
He stated at the time that upon the
vert 10 his estate, but after his death the
woman sent Frances TO the poor house,
where she died, ana took possession of
the property in her own right When the
son claimed the place she answered that
she had "a tax title. although it had been
agreed that She should keep the taxes
paid up.
DECISION WAS AN ERROR,
IN the court below motion for a YER
dict for Eliza beth Webb without submit
ling the facts to the jury was granted
This was partly on the ground that slave
marriages in Virginia before the war were
invalid here. The court of appeals holds
hat this was a n error, and the case should
have gone TO the jury.
The act of February 8, 1879, the opinion
states, makes such marriages legal, and the
children legitimate. The question whether
the parents were ever legal residents of
he District, it is he'd, does rot enter into
the problem ut all. The quest lou is whether
the children are legitimate, and If they are
so in Virginia under Virginia and Federal
law, as is the case aud are 50 here under
The District statutes they should be recog-
nized as entitled to the property Ieftby their
parents.
Ga the general topic Of slave marriages
the court says:
THAT the legal relation of husband and
wife could not exist among slaves was not
an arbitrary rule, prompted by 4 spirit OF
oppression, but Necessary condition OF
he institution Of slavery while ii existed.
Slaves cuGld make no contracts, own no
properly; they were themselves property.
Tic recognition OF the duties, obligations
ard rights OF the legal relation of husband
acd wife was necessarily incompa tible with
hose conditions; hence, they could not ex-
ist. aEd the iliegitimdCy of slave offspring
followed as logical result.
Bat Notwithstanding their character
as property. they had clearly recognized
status as persons also. In this latter char
ac.cr their cohabitatlou as man and WIFE
had a moral foundation obligation always
permitted, aud usually required. TO be pre-
ceded by the solemn ceremonies OF the
church."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-10-08
VARIABLE WEATHER MALlGNED.
Physical Ailments Not Caused by Eccen-
tricities in Temperature.

tricities In Temperature.
According to the best medica! author
tiles changeable weather, or what is
known as unreasonable" is not so bad
in its effects as generally supposed. 1t
applies to summer, but especially to
winter. Whenever the temperature
during any of the winter months rises
TO an endurable height, and it is possible
for one to go out of doors without acute
suffering, we always hear prognostica-
tons of sickness and death which are
sure to result from green Christmas
and an open winte.'. But the truth is,
it is the good, oldfashioned winter the
seasOnable temperature that kills.
The incorrectness of the popular idea
is well shown by the vital statistics for
the headquarters of 1895 and 1896 in Eng
land and Wales, which we find sum
married. in the British Medical Journal
of May 16. These two periods of time
formed great contrast in so far as the
general temperature of the air was con-
cerned. In the former year the mean
temperature of three months was 35.2
degrees Fahrenheit, which was 81 de-
grees Fahrenheit below the average,
while in February it was no less than 80
degrees Fahrenheit below the mean of
that month. In 1896 the temperature
of the three months was 423 degrees
Fahrenheit, or "a degrees Fahrenheit
above the average. The public health
fully reflected those noteworthy differ
ences in temperature. In 1895 the deaths
IN the first quarter amounted 10 10, sol,
end the death rate was 22.S, or i above
the average. In 1896 the deaths in the
corresponding period numbered 136.sO9,
and were in the proportion of 17.9 dea tbs
annually per 1000 persons living, which
rate was SO below the average. The in
creased mortality in 1895 was chiefly
among persons aged so years and up
ward, of whom 60,454 died, giving
death rate among such persons of 1890,
or 1914 in excess of the mean. In 1896
32,20S persons aged 60 and upward died
in January, February and March, and
the death rate was 69.2, no less than
26.2 below the average. These Stats
tics furnish fresh evidence of the kill
ing power of frost and of the beneti-
cent influence of a mild temperature.
But popular beliefs are not to be over
thrown by statistics, and if we are
blessed next winter by mild tempera-
ture and absence of snow there will be
plenty of physicians whose surprise will
be equaled only by their disappointment
that there is not more for them to do"
Medical Record.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-10-08
A DIVER TELLS OF BIG FISH.
One of Them Nearly Knocked Him Down
at the Bottom of Lake Ouassapaug.

at the Bottom of Lake Ouassapaug.
Up in the Woodbury. mountains is
Lake Quassapaug, which is known to
sportsmen as one of the best bass ponds
in Connecticut. Its clear waters are sc
deep in many places that no fisherman
has ever seen the bottom, even on the
stillest summer day, and it has become
a tradition that the water is so deer
that fish cannot live at the bottom OF
the lake. So for years no one has angled
for fish at the bottom of Quassapaug ur
if some fisherman made the experiment
he had so little success that he said
nothing about it.
One day last week the little steam
boat which plies up and down the lake
lost its propeller and the fresh water
sailors were unable to find it, A diver
was summoned from Bridgeport. The
story that he told when be came IN
from the bottom of the lake set the
fishing cranks wild. He found the pro-
peller in AZ feet of water, and all about
it were innumerable fish of great size.
He judged from their appearance that
they were carp and bass, although
among them were some species which
he did not recognize. They shot in and
out about his legs while he was at work
and hindered him seriously. One big
fish struck him with such force that it
nearly knocked him from his feet. His
diving armor prevented him IRON catch
ing one of the fish with his hands.
The diver asserts that the rocks at
the bottom of the lake are covered with
fresh-water CLAIMS and that the fish
feed upon these. This, of course, leads
to the inference that clans are good
bait for these giants of Quassapaug.
Fresh-water CLAIMS are hard to find,
and fishermen who have cast 50-foot
lines baited with saltwater CLANS have
not had a nibble. Several Danbury
anglers are going to Quassapaug this
week for try at some of the big fish
n. Y. Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-10-08
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

No Wonder. - Mrs. Talkalot-
What does make you talk so much in
your sleep, Joseph?" seph-"Gosh!
it's the only chance ever get. Truth.
This is the sixth pint of beer [
have drunk, all through my wife put
ting me out of temper; it is surprising
what a lot of money that woman costs
me!"-Tit-Bits.
Sure to Be Popular "Mudger feels
sure his new Romeo and Juliet will
make hit" what are the high
Lights" Juliet dives off the balcony
in her bloomers and they elope on their
whecls."-Chicago Record.
Il suppose you battle at the sea-
shore every day?" YES. [ sit on the
sand and take a sunbath." but you
miss the surf, don't you?" ''Not at all.
My little brother can bring me as much
as l want in pail. "-Harper's Bazaar.
Il trust your husband is a Chris
tian, Mrs. Bjames," observed the pastor,
who was making a call. "Well, yes"
returned Mrs. Bjames, somewhat hest
tatingly. Hes very amateurish ~
yet, but | have hopes of him. Chicago
Tribune
II want the bicycle number of the.
Scottish Quarterly Review" said he to
the newsdealer. Il don't think the
Scottish Quarterly Review has issued Il
bicycle number, sir" NO? How very
much behind the tines Pittsbur
Observation-Disclosures
-"Oi'm afraid" said Mrs. Dolan,
that Dinny is not Industrious" Hes
ambitious enough" Mrs. Dolan replied
'Yis, but thryin' is better ner promisin'.
Oi loike ty see young man put is besht
fut forward. But he'll Liver make
Roadway if he laves it there to be adj
moired, inshtid o bringin' the other
fut along up wild it, Washington Star.
An Omen Analyzed.-"Does yoh
rely b'lieve," said Pickaninny Jim,
dat it's lucky ter git de lef' him foot
OBJ er rabbit?" at all ponds on de cir
cumstantials, chile" was the reply.
"Yoh means on how you gifts it ?" Oats
it. Eff somebody GIBBS yer de lef' him
foot an keeps de res er de rabbit his
self, tain no luck t all. But eff yoh
comes erway wifi him foot, rabbit an
all hits er sho' sign dahs or good din
ner comm to yer" Washington Star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-10-08
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

To make a smooth hole in a sheet
of glass, packwet clay upon the surface,
and outline the hole in the clay. Then
pour melted lead in the hole, and a
circle of glass will drop out.
The sense of smell is keen with cats,
even when they are asleep. A piece Of
meat placed before the nose of sleep
ing cat causes the nostrils to dilate, and
in few moments the animal awakes.
The manufacture of jewelry in
Birmingham, England, gives constant
employment to $4,000 persons. In this
work gold valued at $3,75O,OOO, and sill
yer valued at $1,75O,OOO, are annually
used.
Francois Cope pronounces "Aph-
rodite," by Pierre Louys, the most per-
feet piece of French fiction since Flau-
bert's 'Salammbo." Louys, though
but 26 years of age, has already pro-
duced half a dozen volumes.
"A fume six miles long, part of it
built on trestles 81 feet high, has been
constructed near Cottage Grove, Ore,
from a mill in the lumber belt to the
Southern Pacific railroad. A million
feet of lumber was used in building it,
and its capacity is 10000 feet a day.
There is abundant water for it through
cut the year.
Another method of preserving tim
her has recently been tried. 1t consists
in dissolving in naphtha the heavy oils
and wakes left after the distillation of
petroleum, and forcing the solution into
the seasoned timber in the same man
ner as in creosoting. The timber is
then heated, when the naphtha evap-
crates and is recovered in a cooling
chamber, while the wakes, etc, remain
behind in the wood, water-proofing it.
Free surfaces of water, and soils
that are continuously saturated, evap-
crate into the atmosphere on the aver
age more water under otherwise sim
liar circumstances than soils, whether
naked or covered with plants, and
whether watered artificially or natur-
ally. Prof. Wollney says only at spe-
cial times, viz, when the influence of
the factors that favor evaporation is
most intense, when the plants are in
the most active period of growth and
when the soil contains large percen-
tage of water, can the land that is COW
cred with plants show a larger evap-
Grating power than the free water
surface.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-10-08
Tavern Keeper Objects to Red Noses.

At the time of the beginning of tho
temperance agitation in Maine, so years
ago, there was Kennebec tavern keep
er who was especially violent against
any restraint of his business, and at u
town meeting made stirring speech
against prohibition. In the course of
the discussion the presiding officer
called for division of the house. All in
favor Of the traffic went to one side of
the Dom, all opposed to the 9th.
er. o the surprise of everyone,
the Old tavern keeper, after n moments
hesitation, deliberately went to the tenn
peunce side. why are you here?" the
astonished people began TO question.
"You don't belong here. That's your
side over there" The old man looked
across the hall in disgust and retorted:
You don't suppose I'm going over thcre
in that crowd Of red noses, do you?"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-10-08
BICYCLE POSSIBILITIES.
The Mechanical Limitations of the Wheel
About Reached.

Here we reach the domain of specula-
ton. The bicycle has changed many
times in its form, and always for the
| better; each form has taken on it's null
| titude of Improvements, and no part
of the modern wheel has escaped the
ingenuity of the mechanic in his aim TO
secure better material, stronger con-
nections, lighter weight, greater speed.
| grace of design and comfort to the rider.
Every day is day of new records and
of the revealment of new possibilities.
Four hundred and odd miles for sin
| gle day; 80 miles in an hour; 100 miles
in three hours and forty-seyen minutes;
a single mile in one minute and-but a
statement of the seconds here would be
true only for the week in which it was
written.
Six years ago one of the best-in-
formed and most progressive of our
cy cling authorities, Mr.. F. p. Prial edi-
tor of the Wheel, writing of the safety
bicycle of that day, mentioned the draw
backs of the pneumatic tire as being
Its large size, and the necessity of re-
plenishing the air to keep it properly
distended." He advised that the ideal
safety should not be geared too high,
but only to "a or 81 inches, except in
The case of strong riders" The gearing
of the mans wheel of 1896 is from SO
inches upward, gearing of 10 inches
being about the average and so not at
all uncommon; while the woman's
wheel of to-day, when geared at 60, is
easily propelled by new and inexperi-
enced riders. Saddles, tires, frames,
bearings, handle-bars, cranks, spokes
and rims have been lightened simpli-
fed, improved and from year to year
made to displace the cruder product Of
the year before.
Where is the limit? No man can tell;
but so far as it relates to the common
pedomotive bicycle of to-day, the prac-
teal limit would seem to be not far dis
tant. a year or two hence will probably
witness the introduction of practical
motor bicycle, and the more general
adoption of motor carriages in certain
parts of the country where the roads
have been improved. Meanwhile the
bicycle now in common use will hold
its way, with such Improvements in
detail, and perhaps in form, as will add
to its usefulness, and to the comfort,
convenience and security of the rider.
Isaac b. Potter, in Century.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-10-08
VARIOUS NOTES.

When a drinking man swears off he
generally takes the name of God in
vain.-Levcr.
The devil never likes to have a man
read temperance PROPORTIONAL Tenn.
perance Advocate.
The Transvaal Folksraad has enacted
a new liquor law embody ng total pro-
hibition of the sale of liquor to natives.
The man who pays his whisky bill be.
fore he pays his meat bill, will soon
want more whisky than meat.-Lever.
Intoxicating drink is the greatest
factor of crime, pauperism, orphanhood
disease and insanity.-Prof +. w. New.
man.
Gambling is practiced to such an ex.
tent in Sydney, Australia, that the coun-
ell of the churches is trying to put it
down.
There are 1924 active branches COM
prising 100000 total Gbstainers in the
Anglo-Indian Temperance association
of India.
During the past year the National
Ill PNi "HSS oOSiS'y I'll SuieltVu' I'LL OuS
its missionaries in the south, over s..
100000 pages.
The juvenile temperance force in
Great Britain is authoritatively es.
timated at 2,S13,SOO members, nine.
tenths of whom are in the Band of Hope
unions.
Hard times is not the result of bad
monetary system or our tariff laws
The panacea is in the blotting out of the
great and monstrous curse that now
covers the land with crime and misery.
-TEue Index.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-10-08

The reproduction on IA large scale of
the all but extinct American bison or
buffalo of the plains has been decided
upon by Mr.. Henri Menier, the million
aire chocolate manufacturer of Paris,
and now proprietor of the island of
Anticosti. lie has purchased a young
buffalo COW. which was for some time
kept in captivity by a Quebec dealer in
furs, and his agents are now III CORE
spondence with the proprietors of the
few remaining private herds. of this
noble animal, with view to the pur-
chase of as many as possible of them
for breeding purposes.-Detroit Free
Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-10-08

Probably the empress of Austria
spends more than any other woman
in Europe on horses for her own riding.
A really tirst-class hunter commands
almost any price the owner likes to ask
for it, but let it once hesitate at a fence
or show signs of temper and it is never
ridden again by her majesty. When the
empress is hunting and the meet hap
pens to be from her residence she gen
orally drives to within short distance
of it in a brougham, wearing ordinary
carriage attire. With her majesty are
two ladies in waiting, whose duty it
is to see that everything required for
the empress wear on horseback is
brought by the dressers, who follow
in another carriage. The coachman has
orders to drive up to any gentleman
house which happens to be in the neigh
borhOod of the meet, when the footman
alights and requests that a room may
be placed at her majesty's disposal to
dress in. Naturally a good many peo-
pie have been somewhat taken abact
at thus being suddenly asked to ac-
commodate an imperial guest, and this
was especially the case in Ireland when
the empress was hunting there a few
years ago, for they were not accus-
toned to such an honor. However, she
did there as she always did at home
Chicago News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-10-08

The Campbells of Argyll began in 1870,
Talleyrand dates from 1899, Bismarck
from 1870, the Grosvenor family, the
dukes of Westminster, 1906; the Aus
TRAN house Of Hapsburg goes back to
9j2, and the house of Bourbon to s64
The descendants of Mohammed, born
$40, are all registered carefully and au-
thoritatively in a book kept in Mecca
by the chief of the family.-Chicago
Tribune.