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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-02-01
SANDY SPRING,

At the first meeting in 1895 of the direc-
tors of the Montgomery County Mutual
Fire Insurance Company Edwa I'd j. Thom-
as was elected president; Allan Farquhar,
secretary and treasurer, and Benjamin ID.
Palmer, assistant secretary.
The Montgomery County Grange held its
quarterly session in the hall of Olncy
Grange, whose members furnished a lunch.
Mr.. J. b. Agur presided, and the meeting
was largely attended and full of interest
Mr.. James Il. Robinson of the MARYLAND
experiment station was present and, as
usual, was piled with questions, he being a
popular visitor on all such casons.
Arrangements are in progress for the
farmers convention, which is called at
Sandy Spring Lyceum on February ~
The Phrenaskeia was recently entertained
by Misses Anna and Helen Thomas at
Tanglewood. The new poet laureate of
England and Charles Dudley Warner were
the authors previously selected for discus
sion. These and the current events depart
rlent were the principal exercises. The
sc ciety adjourned TO Belmont, the home CT
Miss Mary Il. and r.. Bentley Thomas.
BY an exchange of property II Brighton
village between Edward II. Stabler and
George r. Tatum, the former has become
the owner of a very pretty residence built
by the late DR.. Franklin Tillum of Penn
sylvania, who only occupied it a short
time.
The local w. C. T. U.>has been given an
afternoon tea by its president, Mrs Sarah
T. Miller.
Mrs. Caroline II. Miller, Mrs William w.
Moore, Mrs. Benjamin II. Miller Miss Re-
becca 7. Miller, Mr.. and Mrs. John Thomas
AIR. and Mrs. Edward p. Thomas, Miss
Mary Z. Thomas and Miss Sarah L. Moore
have been in Washington, attending the
woman suffrage convention.
Miss Alice T. Stabler will spend the COM
ing month with relatives in Baltimore and
Wilmington.
MIS-. Joseph T. Moore expects to sail for
Bermuda and Cuba in February with Mr.
EdN ard NJ. Needles of Philadelphia and
Mrs. Robert r. Walker of Loudoun county.
Va. The party will probably be absent
until March.
Miss Ellen Farquhar is in New York.
The wedding of Luther 4iuncaster and
Miss Mary Wilson took place on the 23d
ultimo at the home of Mr.. George Wilson,
hear Colesville, Mr.. Mitchell being the Of
floating minister. Miss Wilson was most
becomingly attired in white satin and orange
blossoms. Among guests from distance
were Mr.. and Mrs Thomas ]. Lea and Mr.
and Mrs. Charles G. Wilson of Baltimore
county; Emory Wilson of Indiana. Mrs.
Cnderhill of Texas, Mrs John Wilson and
children of Rockville The wedding gifts
were very handsome and numerous Mr.
and Mrs. Muncaster will reside at Redland
Montgomery county.
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Transfers of Real Estate.

Deeds in fee have been filed as follows:
Charles F. to Ella T. Murray lot 4, SO.
502; $50 Albert L. Whiting ct Ux to Jno.
F. Waggaman, lots 1919 and 1876, Long
Meadows; SIC. Margaret Nullan to Jno. +.
Waggaman, lots . and 10, block Is, Wesley
Heights; SO. Albert T. Whiting ct TX. to
Chas. E. BANGS, lots $50 and 49, Long
Meadows; $40. Rober. i. Morris to Jno. F.
Waggaman, lots l to 20, 81 to S. Al to As,
block II, Wesley Heights; $40. Albert ST.
lers trustee, TO Nancy Ash, lot ID. 50. IA !:
$i,uS0. Frank 7. Rawlings ct al, trustees,
TO VIM. j. Wallace. part original lots 3 and
4, So. sd; $4,000. Chas J. Govern to
Laura c. Dodge, part lots So and sc, So
612; $40. Walter 1. Hopkins to Samuel H
Stidham, lot 2iS, So. 2oG; SO. Frank Is.
NARROW, trustee,et al, TO Charles B. Bailey,
part lot GS, South Grounds Columbian Col
lege, s11,O1o. Frank w. Troth ct uX to
Kate F. Whitehead, part lot %. block A.
Holmead Manor; so. Chas. T. Hughes to
Ella 7. Murray, part origna lot ;, So. S!3
$40. III. H. Bergman Ell uX. to Adolph
Fabritz, lot S, So. $50; SO. Howard b Wal
drcn to Emily +. Hall. LOT l, block 2l Co
and Benz. S. Graves, lot PC. SO. $50, and lot
II and part lot IA, So. 491; 81. Same to
Lille NJ. G. Washburn, lot and part lot
), SO. 2Sl; So Chas. A Shields ct TX. to
a. KEENAN, ct Tx. to Roswell w. Fish, lot
&C. block Is, lie Droit Park; 81. Charles w
Alexander, trustee, to Louis p. Altschu
part original lot IL, SO. 2'a3; s.. Same to
jos. c. Breckenridge, part same lot; s.
Same to Emma l.. Johns and Sarah J..
Campbell, part same lot; S.. Charles s.
Lashhorn ct uN. to Alex. II. Proctor lot
113. SO. 3S7; $40 VIM. A. Kimmel ct ux. to
Tnos. F. Barry, lots % to -, block 10. Bar
ry Farm, and lots IS to so, SO. 611: SO
James Bennett ct uX. to Emma L. Yoder
part original lot 10, 50. LOCO: $500
Amanda Hill to Burr r. Tracy, lot 81. block
8. Barry Farm; SO. Manassas Open
heimer ct uX. 10 Leopold Stargardter, part
lots / and 2. Metropolis View; $40.
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republicanism. he said, and will return

republicanism," he said, land will return
to the faith of it's fathers
Talking on the question Of the compost
ton of the Chicago convention, Senator
elect Money said that he believed every
southern state except Maryland and West
Virginia would send silver delegations TO
Chicago. "Ohio. Indiana and Illinois will
also send silver men to the convention" he
said.
In a nutshell. the revived hope of the
silver men is in the belief founded, it is
claimed, on recent developments, that the
states of Ohio, Illinois and Indiana will
send silver men to the convention. This
would give them a small majority, and
would throw the responsibility of leaving
the party on the gold standard men.
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The Waller Corrcspondence.

The delay in the submission to Congress
Of the correspondence relating to the case
Of ex-Consul Waller is due it is said. to
the unwillingness Of the Secretary of State
to publish the negotiations in their present
unsatisfactory and unfinished shape. 1t
is said the correspondence is being held
back in the hope that it will show a reaL
sonable prospect for the early release of
Waller. The matter will be reported to
Congress in a short time, however. re-
CARELESS of the condition Of the CORE
spondence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-02-01

Is given this theory by the fact that Lieut..
Lee, who is considered he of the best
tacticians in the battalion, has been as
signed to the command Of the company
and will undoubtedly be elected captain.
At the monthly meeting of he corps next
week the committee on athletics will SUBJ
NIT its annual report and make a num-
Der CT important recommendations.
Ambulance Corps Booming.
Maj. George Henderson. surgeon general
of the District OF Columbia militia, has re-
ce.ved cordial answers from nearly all the
railroads running out of Washington, ac-
cepting the proffered service of the ambu-
laffSe corps in ease Of accidents on the
roads.
After October next, only thrd-year Ined-
zeal students will be enlisted in the am
bulance corps This will give the medical
students of Washington valuable expert
ence in the handling, transportation and
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Medal for Five Years Service Has
Been Adopted.
THIRD BATTALION RIFLE ASSOCIATION
Complaint Regarding the Continued
Lack of Drill Facilities.
ROOP A TO RILL

The regimental match in the gallery for
January resulted in victory for the team
representing Col Clays command, the fol-
lowing excellent scores being made:
Second regiment-Lieut. Shaw, Al; Lieut.
Kirk, &c; Private Adkins, Al; Private Nc
Claim, 4S; Lieut.. Sabin, 10, Private Groome
%: Private Wilcox, n; Sergt. Whitaker, 30;
Private Bairstow, %; Capt. Meyer, AZ. To-
tal AL
The first regiment made a total of 4S3.
The company match for the present r.onth
will be shot On the 9Th and 18th instants,
the teams which shot the first date in
January shooting second in February. The
battalion match has been set for the Goth
Instant. and the regiInen-al match for the
Roth instant.
Service Medal Adopted.
At the regular monthly meeting of the
Officers Association of the Second Regi
ment Thursday evening last the special
committee submitted its final report in re-
lGtion to service medals for the District
guard. After extended discussion the de-
sign, as published herewith was adopted
as was the report of the committee, when
slight alteration had been made. The con-
ditions are that the medal is to be granted
to any member of the d. C. y. CT. who
has Served continuously for five years since
April hiss, upon favorable recommended
ton by intermediate commanders. In the
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Bimetallism's Hope.

81 expect to stay in the democratic
party" said Representative Dinsmore of
Arkansas. II believe the only hope for BIZ
metallism is in that party. We cannot af-
ford to split, as disintegration will weaken
the cause of silver"
Representative Owen of Kentucky is not
16 to l silver man, but he believes that
the silver democrats Of his state will sup
port the nominee Of the Chicago conven-
-tion. Kentucky is already disguised with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-02-01
Crisp Will Stick.
BaiIey's Peculiar Views,

In view of the fact that it Is admitted.
even by Texas members, that the lone star
state will go populist If the democra tic
party fails to stand by silver the views of
Congressman Bailey are of interest. He
said, in answer to a question as to what he
expected to do in the event of certain oc-
currences:
eff am forced to choose among the re-
publican party, with its weli-known poll
cies; the populist party, with it's vagaries
and paternalism, and the democratic party,
even with gold standard platform, shall
certainly support the democratic candi-
dates, but am perfectly free to say that
If the democratic party commits itself to a
gold standard, and there was any other
party with which I agreed and which
agreed With me on all other questions, I
would join it without moments hesita-
ton. As important as I consider the silver
question, 1 recognize that there are also
other questions of vast Importance. No
wise man would forsake many agreements
on one disagreement, and embrace many
disagreements on one agreement
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When Senator Tillman of South Carolina
was asked by the reporter what his attitude
would be should the democratic national
convention at Chicago declare for single
standard. he said: 'Oh, everybody knows
my position. We are still sticking to the
PARTY in South Carolina and are going to 10
SO as Icing as there is hope in it for a change
in the condition of affairs. We are going
to Chicago with silver delegation. If the
convention decides that it will give the peo-
pie OF the country no relief, and sits down
en- silver, we are going to walk OUT
The South Carolina delegation will leave
the hall of the convention and the party
wher the convention adopts a gold stand
ard platform.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-30
DEAL OF MILLIONS.
Mortgages Arranged by the Reor-
ganization Committee of the
Northern Pacific.

Seattle, Wash, Dec. 29.-Two mort
gages-the largest ever filed in the
state-were recorded in Kings county
auditors Office yesterday.
They We're apparently arranged by
the reorganization committee of the
Northern Pacific to secure bond issues,
provided for by that body, amounting
to $500 100000. First came a deed from
the Northern Pacific railroad convey
ing all it's lands to the Northern Pa
cific railway; then the Farmers Loan
and Trust company, as trustee, decided
to the Northern Pacific railway all
property of the. Northern Pacific rail-
road held in trust; then there was a
deed from MASTERING hancery Carey to
the Northern Pacific Railway COM
pany of all property of the Northern
Pacific railroad, and lastly deed from
Receivers McHenry, Bigelow and Bur
leigh to the Northern Pacific Railway
company of all property of the North
ern Pacific Railroad company held by
them.
Following these came record mort
cages from the Northern Pacific Rail
way company to the Mercantile Trust
company and to the Farmers Loan
and Trust company of New York. The
first of these was for $3.50 900, 900 to the
Mercantile Trust company, covering all
property in this country and other
counties. to secure bonds bearing per
cent interest; the second mortgage was
to the Farmers Loan and Trust COM
pany, as trustee, and covers all prop
erty in Kings county and elsewhere be-
longing to the Northern Pacific Rail
way company. It is for $3.50, 600, 000
This is a second or subsidiary mort
gage, and is given to secure, as a gen
eral lien, railroad and land grant gold
bonds which bear per cent.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-30
MILK a NUTRITIVE.
A Medical Man Who Existed for
Thirty Days on Sweet Milk.

st. Louis Post-Dispatch: medical
man expresses the belief that person
could live for any length of time and
take heavy exercise ali the while on no
other food than sweet milk. His conVic-
ton Is the result of personal experiment.
He wanted to establish the fact that
persons convaleScing from sickness may
grow stronger with no other nutriment
than sweet milk, and that they are not
obliged to take something solid" to eat.
as so many people imagine. He holds
that many a convalescent has gone into
his grave as a result of overtaXing his
weak stomach by putting solid food
into it. and he maintains that the old
belief as to bread being the first essential
of human life is shown by his experiment
t. be erroneous.
His test was to live 80 days with only
sweet milk as a nOuriShment. In The
whole time he lost five and a half pounds
in weight, but no strength. He even at
tributes the loss of weight to the warmth
of the weather and TO excessive exercise
on the bicycle, and the daily manipula-
ton of 16 pound dumb-bells and other
heavy weights. He took more exercise
than usual in order to test the thing
fairly. On the seventh day of the expert
ment he ran several fast races in a skill
tut manner, but was beaten in each race.
On the 30th day he again pitted himself
against the same runner and got the
best of his opponent, which certainly
would tend to confirm his statement that
he lost no strength during the so days
test He drank four pints of milk daily
for the last week. He thinks a healthy
person should take about five pints of
milk daily when no other food is being
taken His practice was to drink milk at
intervals for two hours during the day
commencing at I o'clock in the morning
and continuing until 10 at night. After
that he would take no more until the
next morning.
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From St. Paul's.

1t is an attribute of sovereignty to
judge. A nation in exerting this in
contestible right in pronouncing upon
the independence in fact, of a new
state. takes no part in war. 1t gives
neither men, nor money, nor ships. 1t
merely pronounces that, in so far as it
may be necessary TO institute any re-
lations, the new state is capable of
maintaining these relations and author
iZing that intercourse. If, then,
there be an established government in
Spanish America deserving TO rank
among the nations, we are morally and
politically bound to acknowledge ii, I'M
less we renounce all the principles
which should guide and which have
hitherto guided our councils"
We have not the space for all that
chapter contains applying on this pres
ent situation. 1t seems another in
stance of history repeating itself. for If
dates and manner were changed it is
just what is and has been going on IN
Cuba and the senate during the present
congress. It is strange that it should
not nave frequently been referred to
during the present controversy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-30
Poured Into Povoacao in the
Azores.
MUCH SUFFERING CAUSED
THOUSANDS OF HOMES CARRIED
INTO THE SEA.
Along the Coast the Fishermen
Lost All Their Possessions and
the Shore Was Literally Covered
With the Corpses of Men, Women
and Children Who Met the Rush
ing Waters.

Boston, Dec 29-The Portuguese con-
sulate in this city has received pc
tition from the island of st. Michael,
in the Azores, signed by the Portuguese
government and 10 other of the princi-
pal citizens, asking aid for the suffer-
ers by the bursting of a giant water
spout November 2. over the city of
Povoacao. The petition states that
there is much suffering for food,
clothing and shelter, and gives some
particulars of the calamity, than which,
it states, none has been more deVastat-
ing in the history of the island.
Tons of water poured down upon the
city, which was of about $4,000 inhabi-
tants, mounting above the roofs of the
houses, ripping up the streets and car
rying destruction everywhere in its
path. The torrent rushed down the
slopes TO the sea, tearing a wide chan
mel through nine miles of country, and
carrying with it the homes of thou
sands of people. The food also de-
stroyed the town of Riberia Quente, of
5000 population. and several outlying
parishes. All along the coast the fish
ermen lost their possessions. and the
shore was Uttered with corpses Of those
who persisted in the floods.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-30
CHOLERA AT HONG KONG
PLAGUE INCREASING AND SERI-
oUS RESULTS LOOKED FOR.
Severe Famine in Western China
People Are Dying by the Scores
A Landslide in Which 5000
Starving Heathens Are Drowned.

San Francisco, Dec. 29.-The steamer
Peru brings news that in addition to
the smallpox epidemic at Japanese
ports, cholera has revived at Hong
Kong, and though there are not yet
many deaths, the plague is increas-
ing and serious results are expected.
A severe famine is reported from
western China. 1t is particularly Sc
we're in the city of Chuantung, in
Szechuen province, where there has
been a prolonged rain, causing floods
which have spread over vast areas of
country, destroying almost entirely
the rice and vegetable crops. The in
habitants are dying by scores from
starvation, and to add to the horror
of it a large portion of the city, stu
ated on bluff at a bend of the Kin
sha river, was carried under the flood
by a landslide, and about 5000 of the
starving Chinese were drowned. The
flood had undermined the base of the
bluff and q portion of the HILL about
five acres in extent, plunged into the
water.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-30

San Francisco, Dec. 29.-Chinatown
is again in the throes of a highbinders'
war. This morning the body OF Lee
Hor was found suspended from a
rafter in a vacant house in Stockton
street. The man had been stabbed
back of the ear before being hanged
A few minutes before / O'Clock this
morning a number of men belonging
to the Chinese society of Bow On
Tong waylaid and killed Jew Jing, a
prominent Bow Leong Tong man, on
Jackson street, between Dupont and
Stockton. All the assassins escaped,
and, so far, there is little clew TO their
identity.
Jew Jing was walking down jackson
street toward Dupont He was on the
south side. Seven or eight highblnders
were following him on the north side.
Just before Jing reached St Louis al
ley, the highbinders stopped, re-
volver was handed to a tall, slim
Chinese, who crossed the street, fol-
lowed by another highlander, who
served as his guard.
AS Jing stopped under a gas lamp
to light cigarette, the highlander
walked UP behind him and shot him
in the back Jing fell just as second
shot was fired. The comrades OF the
assassin fired a revolver in the air and
scattered in all directions
Jing was a member of the Bow
Ieong Tong, which recently got into
a row with the Bow On Tong over the
appointment of a policeman by the
Quong Chow society, one of the Six
Companies. 1t is all an outcome of the
boycott of the Sam Yups by the See
Yups. the Bow On Tong men doing
the Sam Yup's work, though See
Yup highlander organization.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-30
INDIAN DIVORCES.
The Courts Are Now Playing Havoc
With Tribal Customs.

Philadelphia Press: With most OF
the plain Indians marriage consists of
picking out the maiden, leading her to
a cabin or wigwam and installing her
as mistress of the house and cornfield,
sometimes with the necessary prelimi-
nary of paying the father a pony or
two or an inStallment of blankets, and
occasionally with some slight ceremony
performed by a chief or medicine man.
And when the brave grows tired of
his partner he can get rid of her as
easily as ne won her.
The people who are now flocking to
the Dakotas or Oklahoma to get di-
vorces would be supremacy happy if
they could throw off the CALLING bonds
of wedlock as easily as does the reSer-
walton Indian. The fact having been
formally announced by the head man
of the clan, the divorce takes place
when the tribe is gathered at a dance.
When all are assembled and the circle
formed the disconnected warrior
strikes a drum used by the jewellers,
gives away a few presents (ofttimes
making present TO the squaw he in
tends to take nexD, and then in a
short, bombastic speech, he stigmatiZes
his wife by giving her over to the ten
der mercies of other braves. while they
look upon him obviously and consider
tndt ne mas performed an act OF pray
cry in his desertion.
Often as many as half a dozen di-
vorces are thus obtained at a single
dance. No tedious waiting. no courts,
no lawyers and no trouble about ali
mony or custody of children. And the
squaws thus cast off, as a general
thing, seem TO take it as matter of
course, and before the close of the
dance are using the wiles known and
used by women the world over in an
effort to repair as speedily as possible
the break in their hearts and matri-
mOnial experience.
With the taking of land in severalty
and putting on of citizenship, however,
the Indian finds that he has cemented
the ties that were so loose before, for
the courts everywhere are deciding
that the tribal marriages are legal and
binding upon the Indian who becomes
a citizen And if the weight of one
legal marriage wears somewhat heav-
lily upon a white man, how must it
be with the red man. who has con-
tracted two, three, four or even more
alliances. which the court now declares
legal. and at the same time takes away
his former avenue of relief?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-30
SILVER IN THE ARTS.
Houses Furnished With Silver Rail
ings and Baths.

Pittsburg Dispatch: The increased
as a substitute for the baser metals
is matter to which the mine owners
are devoting a considerable amount
of attention in the hope that in this
way they will create a profitable de-
mand for their commodity.
1t has, accordingly, been proposed
that silver should take the place of
iron for the ratings of houses, the
periodical painting of which would
not be needed, and so the silver ones
would be as cheap in the end, while
their brightness and the light they re-
fleet would add beauty to their ade-
quate efficiency.
In the house itself, it is pointed out
silver might be employed for great
many articles now made of other
materials, for example, the knobs or
handles of doors, pillars and stands
for lamps, hooks for clothes, and for a
variety of other objects, which will
readily occur to the reader, and all of
which will in their way. become orna-
mental as well as merely useful. The
present price, it is said, also makes
it an efficient and not expensive sub
stitute for electro plate. which was in
troduced on economical grounds in its
place when silver was at least twice
as dear as it is now.
A few wealthy people have already
had baths made of il. Among them
is Mrs Vanderbilt who, as the wife
of one of the richest men in the world,
is able to indulge every whim. Her
bathroom is fitted up with splendOr
recalling the glories of similar apart
ments in the Arabian Nights 1t is
of highly polished white marble, and
in it is a huge bath of bright silver,
which gives a delightful appearance
to the glistening water.
There can be little doubt that by
the artificial fostering of the use of
the metal in this manner much may
be done to increase its value.