Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30
Robber
Gang.

| of mischief that may be proposeO after
being arrested communicated to justice
Ferguson q full statement of the opera
, tons of this gang, SO far as the robbery
! Of McConne1Is cigar store Burdlne
grocery store Reillys store and a coun-
itryman is concerned, and also touching
certain other operations in which he was
| concerned in connection with them, but
which for the furtherance of public
| justice we suppress in this account.
| Many complaints were lodged with the
police during the winter of 1860 of nu-
| merous passage thefts.' committed by
| petty thieves. taking advantage of open
doors to strip hall racks and coat cup
boards conveniently placed near the en-
trance
The deadlock in the House of Repre-
sentatives over the election of a Speaker
-T-' continued unbroken at
| deadlock this time half century
ago. The supporters of Mr..
oAoAoheA' Sherman were still three
votes short, and it was rumored that
| they were afraid to proceed to another
ballot lest the opposition might combine
upon a compromise candidate. The Star
of January "a. 1850 says:
The republican members Of the House
yesterday manifested much repugnance
| to taking vote for a Speaker. The
| calculation Of their sudden change Of
front i'm this particular is found in the
| fact that they are aware that the South
| Americans and democrats. when they
may again ballot, will in all probability
vote almost as unit for some conServa-
tive gentleman. the time in the opinion
| of both having arrived when a union of
| their forces Is absolutely necessary to
render it certain that no Heperite shall
be installed into the speakership. Up
| to the termination of their sessions last
| week, the South Americans evidently
maintained hopes that sooner or later
the republicans would abandon Sherman
and concentrate upon some other of their
| number equally hostile to the national
administration. whose antecedents have
been more conservative than those of
| their present candidate. That is to say,
upon any republican not VIGOROUSLY q
Helperite in the tone of his abolitionsm.
1t being now certain. however. that half
the signers or the Helper-book manifesto
| in the hall refuse to the bitter end to vote
| for any one not as ultra on the slavery
question themseves-and therefore
as Objectionable to the south as Mr.. Sher-
man himself-the South American per-
ceive that the hour has arrived when they
| must terminate the contest, and in such
manner as will not almost necessarily
| lead to the triumph of Helperism in the
| approaching great contest of 1860"
X
| The crisis to which the above paragraph
pointed was close at hand. On the 9th of
January, 1860 an effort
Narrow was made to concentrate
Hx. the democratic strength
6AA' in the House upon Mr..
Smith Of North Carolina. When the vote
| was taken, the thirty-ninth in the series
| of Intellectual ballots, 1t appeared for a
| time as though Mr.. Smith had been elect
| ed. In The Star of January 81 1860 is a
| brief announcement, under the heading
| "A Speaker at Last as follows:
Just as We go to press we learn from
| the House hall that Mr.. Smith of North
Carolina is actually elected to the speak
| ership! A result in which all conserva-
1 tives should rejoice.
| "P., S.-We hear Mr.. Smith on this bal
| lot lacked two votes of election. Being
| compelled to go to press, we cannot verify
| the report"
| This second report proved true. The
| palloting proceeded amid great confusion,
numerous members rising to change their
| votes to and from Mr.. Smith, so that
| the result was not assured until the final
| official announcement, when it appeared
| that of the whole number of votes cast
22S-Mr. Smith had received 112. three
votes short of the necessary 115, while
Mr.. Sherman had 1o6. with 10 scatter
| ing.
| In The Star of January 2S, 1860, appears
an advance notice of a prospective en-
| gagement in Washington
Adellna by the Ullman & Stra-
| n.A4: kosh Italian Opera Com
| Ao''A' pany in February:
THE bright star Of this company is
Miss Adelina Patti, who has made the
greatest sensation in New York, Boston
and Philadelphia engendered by any
| prima donna Of her age. She is a So
| prano sfogato; her voice is pure and of
great tiexibility; she is endowed with
rapdity in execution; her voice ranks in
| the highest soprano register and she
pours forth the E fiat tabove the leger
| lines) with the greatest ease. Sontag pre-
| dicted for her years ago a professional
| career more distinguished than that of
| any other vocalist who had gone before
| her. and her career so far bears out that
| prediction to the letter. Next year she
goes to Europe. AS yet she is scarce
| seventeen years of age
| Y
'On Wednesday night no little alarm"
says The Star of January %, 1860, was
| created amongst a por-
| Lecture ton of our community
| CT. by the appearance in the
oA6 AA"A' heavens of what was APP
| parently fiery red star, whose bloody
! hue in the minds of the superstitious por-
| tended dire calamity to the city, the
| country or the world The phenomenon
| proved to be a red signal light placed
| upon a staff erected on the top of the
| high tower of the Smithsonian. designed
| to indicate the evenings of lectures
| Should there be any failure of a lee
turer to arrive, or If the lecture for any
reason be postponed, the public can al
| ways ascertain the fact by looking at
the tower. The light is only shown when
| lecture is to be delivered"