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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-09
DISAPPEARED AND DISMISSED.
Action Taken I'm the Case of Revs
enue Gutter Engineer.

Second Assistant Engineer W. ]. Sedgs
wick of the revenue cutter service has been
dismissed by order of the President. Mr..
Sedgwck was assigned to the cutter Perry
on the Pacific coast. He obtained leave OF
absence in November and the leave was
extended in December. When il expired
nothing was heard from him. What bei
came of him is not known. His relatives
in Maine have no knowledge OF his wherSs
aboutS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-09
New Rollers Needed,

In communication to the House today
recommending deficiency appropriations for
repairs to public buildings, the acting su-
pervising architect of the treasury calls at
tention to the desirability of taking out
four old boilers in the Treasury ID apartment
building. He says the boilers are twenty
hve years old and should be replaced by
new ne" ones he also recommends replacing
ing, S '@S D"-1o
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-09
DISTRICT IN CONGRESS
Extensions to the City and Suburban
Railway Proposed.
District Day Postponed One Week I'm
the House-LOcai Bills
I'm the Senate.

The House District committee today
favorably reported a resolution authorizing
the city and Suburban Railway Company to
abandon its single track passing around the
south side of Stanton Square and in lieu
thereo' to construct an additional single
track on the north side of the square from
the intersection of 4th and streets to 9th
and streets northeast
Also TO make the following change in
route: Between the intersection of Boundary
and lexington place and 1st street and New
YORK avenue northeast one track shall be
abandoned and in lieu thereof a single
track loop shall be constructed around
square 1O9, on Florida avenue. New York
avenue and 1st street northeast.
Favorable reports from the District Com
mlssloners upon the proposed changes of
route are submitted with the bill The first
change is desired to remove one of the
tracks from close vicinity to a school build
ing and the second change is asked to
AVOID a difficult double curve in the route
President Crosby of the City and Suhur-
pan visited the Capitol today to urge i'm
mediate action on the bill He said tho
competition of the route would be seriously
hampered by delay in authorizing the
changes.
District Day Postponed.
In the House today, at the request of Mr.
Oui LIE VI iowa, 10y uDdnlnlOuS consent, next
Monday was set apart for the consideration
OF District business, in lieu of today. The
House went ahead today on the Alaskan
bill.
Local Bills in the Senate
Senator Mcmillan today introduced the
following bills in the Senate:
To open 10th street between Morris street
and Columbia read, and to provide for
opening other portions of that street in
the future.
To perfect the title of Margaretta Riehl
to lot 3, block p Brookland by relieving
her from the operation of the act prohibit
ing the acquisition of real estate in the
District of Columbia by aliens
10 amend the criminal laws of the Dis
trlct OF Columbia, providing conditions un-
der which bond may be given In cases to
be tried in the Police Court etc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-09

The following estimates were today sent
to Congress by the Secretary of the Treas
ury: For renovating and repairing the
court house and post office building, New
York city, SCI ,450; for naval magazine at
Fort Mifflin, Pa, S6S, 900; deficiencies in an
preparations for repairs, etc., of public
building, $75,0o0, and for heating appa-
ratus for the same, $50 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-09
GERMANY TO SEIZE An ISLAND.



MELBOURNE. Victoria, January 9.-Ad-
vices received here from the Tonga Islands,
via Auckland, n. H., says that the German
consul has arrived there from Samoa and
has given notice that Germany will seize
Savao, the most fertile of the Tonga group
unless the Tongan government pays private
debts which the natives owe to a German
company. The government, however re-
pudiates the responsibility, and says the
giving of credit to the natives was con-
trary to law. The king is appealing to
Great Britain, the United States and
and France.
The Tonga Islands are a group in the Pa
cifc ocean, composing a section of the
Friendly Islands, in latitude 20 south and
longitude 10 west, and comprising at least
$50 islands. The population, including the
outlying islands of Ono, Michaeloff Simon
Off and Py!staart, is 5000. The people are
Christians.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-09
Products Exported,

Senator Hansbrough of North Dakota,
who introduced the amendment to the Han
na-Payne subsidy bill, providing for an ex-
port bounty OF 50 ton on agricultural
products, says that there are sent abroad
between 100000 and 100000 tons of
agricultural products yearly which would
be subject to the bounty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-09
Gen. shafter to Leave Thursday.

Major General Shafter is spending a few
days in this city preparatory to his de-
parture for San Francisco to take command
of the military department of California
He has been invited to attend the dinner at
the White House this evening in honor of
the peace commission. His present inten-
ton is to leave here Thursday morning for
San Francisco by way OF New Orleans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-09
Archbishop ChnpeIle's Mission.

1t is expected that Archbishop Chapelle
of the Roman Catholic Church will leave
New York on the government transnort
Berlin for San Juan de Porto Rico We'd
resday in execution of his mission TO look
after the interests of the Vatican In that
island in the reorganiza ton of the govern
ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-09
NOtSries VIII Retain Their Functions

Assistant Secretary of War Meiklejohn
today rendered a decision that in territory
subject to military government by the mill
tary forces of the United States persons
holding the office of notary public at the
uLne the military occupation began are per-
mitted to hold said office and perform the
functions thereof under the military gov
ernment without further authorization
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-09

Certificates Withheld for Represent
tatives in the Army.

Pending the report of the committee on
judiciary on the status OF representatives
in Congress who are also officers I'm tho
army, Speaker Reed has withheld certihca-
ton of the pay vouchers of those repre-
sentatives aud they have drawn no salI
aries
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-09
BOUNTY FOR SAILORS.
Senator GulIfnger's Anne nj naent to
the Naval Appropriatiau Riu

Senator Gallinger today offered an amend
ment to the naval appropriation bill appro-
priating $2,000,00O to pay the officers and
men of the navy and marine corps the
bounty or other allowances due them under
section 463o of the Revised Statutes for the
capture or destruction of ships or vessels
OF war during the war with Spain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-09

No other paper i'm the world
reaches so large q percent
age of families I'm the city
where printed ms does The
Evening Star in Washington.
As an advertising medium
for the District of CoIumbts
The Star Is therefore without
an equal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-09

LEXINGTON. KY, January 9-An epi-
demtc of grip has broken out to an alarm
Ing extent among fine horses of this sec
uon- Thorougnbreds especially are suffer
ing, and many valuable mares are drop
ping their foais on account Of II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-09
Poorly Executed Counterfeit,

A new counterfeit $40 silver certificate
has been discovered. It 10 a photo-etched
production Of such poor Workmanship as
not to require a description to prevent its
being taken Tor genuine money.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-09
Col. MiIey to Serve With Gen. otis,

Lieut.. Col. Miley. who was chief aid on
the staff of Gen. Shafter during the Santi.
ago campaign, has been detailed for serv,
ice with Gen. Otis in Manila. He expects
to leave Washington this evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-09
Labor's View.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
senator EI.ins' Idea of the Kind of
Building Needed.

Senator Elkins of West Virginia may offer
an amendment to the bill approprating
81, 600, 900 for a new Department Of Justice.
Looking from the White House to the pres
ent building today, he said: There ought
to be a magnificent building, covering the
entire southern half of that square. from
18th street TO Madison place. 1t would be
a shame to build on part of the square. I
think new building ought to cost more
than a million dollars. While we are build
ing let's put up structure which will be
an ornament to the city"
The senator thinks that the property east
of the present building should be bought by
the government. II Senator Elkins offers
an amendment to the pending bill IL will
provide for the acquisition of this property.
and may add a million more TO the amount
for a building
Senator Elkins said that the late Secre-
tary Blaine favored beautiful building on
the present site.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-09
Chairman Mercer Fayors IL.

'I am heartily in favor of the Attorney
Generals recommendation for a new build
ing for the Department of Justice said
Chairman Mercer of the House public build
ings and grounds committee to a Star re-
porter today. I'm fact, i consider new
building absolutely essential The subject
win be brought up in the committee at an
early date, and hope favorable action can
be secured upon the bill.
Il also commend the Attorney Generals
plan for entering into a contract for the
full cost of the building. That plan worked
successfully in the case of the Congress
sfonal Library building, and seems a sem
sible one. 1t will prevent every incoming
architect from changing the original plans
and delaying the building
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-18
A SANDER BRIGADE

General Thomas L. Clingman on June
9Th, 1864, published a letter in Rich
mond, Va, newspaper, contradicting q
slanderous report as to his fine brigade
that it gave way for a time at Cold
Harbor.' His men fought with the ut
most gallantry. So far from giving
way they repulsed the assault of the
enemy. The brave commanding officer
says it was heavily attacked along its
entire front"-t1at the enemy ad-
vanced both in line of battle and ION
the left wing" also ''in heavy columns
masked by the line of battle in front"
There were several attacks and all were
"signally repulsed with great loss to the
enemy ON my entire front" On his
left, where they came in columns their
dead were much thicker than l have
ever seen them on any battlefield" He
says his men fought with the utmost
GOODNESS, courage and c~heerfUlness."
A brigade from another state on his
left gave way" and "the enemy il
large force occupied the ground on our
left flank" The whole letter is inter
esting. General Clingman justly
praises his very gallant men, and
thinks they were not surpassed in any
war. In three weeks it lost in battle
LIB. 1t invariably beat the enemy N
front, but its losses-"four-ifths" he
Sustained solely because
its TANKS were left unprotected by the
troops which should have been there
Six different times this happened" And
yet these brave, stubborn fighters were
s%landered and charged with going back
General Clingman was particularly
brave himself.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-18
last of the Yellow Fever

Newport News, August 15.-The in
dications are hat there will be no
case of yellow fever remaining at the
soldiers home after a few days. Nearly
all the convalescents are about fully
recovered The quarantine against
Phoebus will be raised by Hampton to
night at midnight.
The report sem out from Norfolk
last night to the effect that a mob had
threatened to lynch DR.. V~anderslice,
the physician in charge Of the quaran-
tine regulations al Phoebus, unless he
raised the quarantine is untrue.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-18
BREVITIES

Alabama is to have an exclusively
itants. North Carolina has two exclu-
sively white towns into which negroes
are not allowed to enter, and they are
peopled by northern whites.
Atlanta's mayor, j.. G. Woodward,
has promised to get sober and remain
sober. He should do as a confederate
said to us once, Il don't even take vine
gar in my greens now
1t was telegraphed from Rennes that
Dreyfus came rear striking General
MERCER a blow when,he was testifying.
A captain of gendarmes took him gent
ly by the arm and pushed him back
into his seat.
Dudley J. Chandler, aged 80, and wife,
| had a gathering of their descendants at
their home in Franklin county, Ga.
He was married in 1881, and has 27S
descendants. The old man is hale and
| hearty say the Constitution. 1t gives
this lesson of success:
"To raise all his supplies at home
and have his cotton as a purely sur
plus crop. Your correspondent has
heard him say that this was the way he
got his start in life raising all his sup
plies at home and selling his surplus
cotton before the war at 5 cents a
pound. By pursuing this plan he has
become one of the wealthiest and most
successful tanners in Madison county"
The New York Evening Post takes
! this view of the war against the Phil
ippines:
1.-The war in the Philippines has
reached the stage where a victory for
our arms is only less deplorable than
a defeat. A victory means the killing
| and wounding of men struggling for
! something which we really do not
| wish to take from them-that IS, their
liberty"
! Cookers interview with Bryan and
his liberal eulogy afterwards causes
/, comment III the north. He says and
it is strictly true, that Bryan is zone
of the greatest men in America and a
. statesman surprising all in his nearness
to the people" This excites the Won
der of the goidbug crowd.
Chairman Jones saw in Belgium
! pants for sale at % cents, and they were
| of some worth. He asked how ii could
be done. The reply was: Material
cost s cents. making s cents, they got
9 cents for handling, selling, n pro-
fit. They we're good looking pants"
People who make them live hard no
doubt.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-18
TIE AUG

The papers a much 10 say Of the
automobile, the new s~elf-propelling car
riage that has made already tremendous
| speed and has grown rapidly into use.
1t Is thought that they will be used
gradually in place OF horses in thou
sands Of instances. In Paris they are
already much used and have TO that
end displaced the horse. Nj. J. W. Per
ry reports through the y. Y. Tribune
that in Paris the gasolene motor is far
more popular than the electric, because
1t is better adapted TO long distance
work There are about fifteen hundred
gasolene cars in Paris, and only sever
ty-fve electric vehicles. There is a
movement on foot to establish charging
stations along the country roads, so
that electric cars, when making long
Journeys, may replenish their motive
power. This will probably result in an
increase of electricity's popularity.
The tendency in Paris is toward solid
tires. The big balloon tires seen in New
York are almost there. Solid
rubber will undoubtedly constitute the
automobile tire Of the future. 1t COM
bines f1exibility with durability" The
present carriages seem to be satisfac-
tory-After delay and much planning the
new carriage has reached a condition
of excellence and safety, and still it will
be improved upon by mans ingenuity
no doubt. The champions of the three
motors are not yet agreed as to which
is the best. The three motors are cleo
tricity, steam and petroleum vapor.
The Tribune editorialIy say and it rs
interesting:
| AT length all difficulties were over
come n after another, simplicity of
design was steadily sought and OBJ
tanned. a growing popularity was
achieved, and finally the manufacture
became so extensive as greatly to re-
duce the price of production. The auto
mobile is not so cheap today as it will
be at some future lime. Its mechan-
ism is not yet all that could be desired.
And there are questions still to be
solved as to the best methods of ac-
complishing certain ends. But the au-
tomobile has come to stay. There can
no longer be any doubt that it has a
great field of usefulness before it"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-18
FRIDAY AUGUST Is, 1899
ENTHUSIASTIC : ANKEE IDEAS

Up north, in New England, the great
panacea of the ills of life is education.
And yet there are today many more
criminals in Massachusetts than there
are white criminals in North Carolina
in proportion to population. The edu-
Gated scoundrel has a great advantage
over the uneducated scoundrel. The
Yankees think that good citizenship
will be secured by and through educa-
ton alone. The Boston Herald says
this:
Hence, liberty and education are the
cause Of the present unhappy condition
of large parts Of the south, n the
real reason of the frequent resort to
mob law"
1t was liberty and education" in
Massachusetts that hanged a dozen Or a
score of witches. 1t is we'll known in
the south that education has not de-
creased crime among the negroes, but
at there are five or ten times more
crime now among them than before the
war freed them. No negroes were ever
tried or hanged prior to the war for
perpetrating the horrid, hellish crime
of rape upon white women. Either
liberty and education" have failed as
uplifters and race regenerators, or the
negro character has undergone a very
great change, even transformation. II
the latter what did it? Mr.. Bowen, Of
New York, son Of the old noted aboll-
zionist, told us that some twelve years
ago or more he visited every peniten-
tary in the entire south, and was shock
ed to find that three-fifths of the con-
victs came to manhood since slavery
ended, and were able to read n write.
Here is a nice nut for the Herald man
to crack at his leisure. The Richmond
Dispatch notes a change going on in
the southern view as to the great value
of education for the negroes. That
very sane, common-sense philosopher,
Bill Arp, said years ago that education
of the negro only spoiled a good field
hand"
Since 1900, Une SOuLneIu WulleS nave
made indeed very great sacrifices to
help the negroes to education and use
fulness. North Carolina has expended
probably all of $40, 900, 900 for negro
schooling. How many has it reformed
or helped to better citizenship, nobler
aspirations and higher living? Says
the Dispatch:
There is no question that so far as
the negro is concerned, Thousands of his
best friends throughout this section are
settling down to the conviction that
education is his curse. 1t is a serious
problem whether, with the negro, taken
as a race, the chief result of education
has not been the development in his
mind of the idea that liberty is license"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-18
DESPaiSsNG BUT VERY HU>HRY

Many a man plays a desperate game
at cards when "luck's against him"
He gets near the border. line Of sanity
when he at last throws desperately his
last "kyard," and goes down in defeat.
The poor old, dilapidated political turn
coat and bankrupt, Oh Dockery, who
pretends he is entitled to the seat Of
Mr.. Bellamy who was elected by nearly
5000 majority from this congressional
district, finds his game so near the end
and his cards SO neal exhaustion he is
now playing the part Of the seedy sup
plant and is implor;ng the congress to
rip up things generally and for his sake
seat him. He wants another "inveStiga-
tion," which is complete admission that
he is without any real case and is
defeated. Poor old man! Remember
bis sorrows " men of the majority in
the coming house and seat him. if he
was not elected just as if he bad been
elected. His tears flow freely. His
signs Of distress are almost as natural
as if genuine. His cries for help are
melting the skies and like Caesar when
about to be forever swamped, he bel
lows Out-"Help mi Cassius, or I sink"
Duckry's attempt to manufacture wide
spread and universal intimidation is too
lame and ~impOtent 10 affect any man
not an idiot or an ass. There is no
real basis to his charge, and we have
not the shadow of doubt that he knows
it and believes it is without foundation
in fact The election passed off with no
more trouble or disturbance than has
marked every election in North Caro-
lima for more than thirty years. There
was but little if any Intimidation. The
white people simply resolved to stand
together, and all who sought to injure
them were treated as they deserved.
The men who voted with the whites in
trying to save the civilization and pre-
serve the laws n restore the supre-
macy Of the white race We're treated
as friends. The crimes committed. that
DUckry speaks Of, did not occur, but
are the creations of his own diseased
mind. The burning of the Office Of the
vile scamp who insulted every respect
able white woman in the south occurred
the day after the election, and the rev.
olution not until Thursday-two days
after the election. The white people
rose in their majesty and might and
stamped out negro supremacy forever
put an end to all the bad influence
n vicious practices and unsanctified
| aspirations and wicked manipulations
/ Of Duckry and his gang of white rem
, egddes and deserters of their race. He
| stands now, with Pritchard and other
evil disposed men, in trying to bring
back negro rule once more, that they
j may either ride into power again, or
, being in to hold ON with a deadly grip
| to the mucky pelf and the big greasy
| public teat to which they have been
| swinging for thirty years. Since Satan
| made his harangue tc the fallen angels
in hell as portrayed by the sublime
| genius of Milton there has been moth
| Ing more contemplate, more degrad-
ing, more superlatively base than the
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-18
NOT VOLUNTEERING

The complaint in Washington is that
the southern people do not volunteer
much to shoot the Filipinos. Tha IS
we'll. Why should the southern young
men enter upon such a hazard of the
die for such a purpose? The war as
now waged is offensive to fully three
fourths of the intelligent, informed peo-
ple in the south. The war with Cuba
began in sympathy for 1.-The oppressed
The war against the Philippines is a
war for conquest. They are horses or
very different colors. Apathy in the
south is natural, for this great section
has had an experience Of what wal is
when waged in a savage way. The
New Orleans Picayune gives the expla-
nation of general apathy in the south
different in the main from what we be-
lieve it to be, although what it says has
no doubt a certain force. 1t says:
THE real trouble is that souther-
ners are disguised at the lack OF recog-
milton shown the southern troops DUR
ing the war WITH 0pdlH, DIT lHe SIuuiou
efforts of the administration to keep
southerners in the background, n at
the fact that so few southern regiments
succeeded in seeing any service at an.
These experiences have strongly dis
gusted southerners with army manage
.nent, and nothing short Of a threaten
ed attack by some foreign power could
induce them to feel any enthusiasm Tor
army life"
Mckinley and Company behaved
shamefully, and many despise the treach
erous administration for its base con-
duct. Favoritism and hostility to the
south have offended. The chance TOT
promotion or recognition for southern
men would be very Slim indeed under
the present incapable administrator.
The truth is Mckinley always mated
the south and voted for all the devlllsn
force bills and spoke for them. he Is
not to be trusted.