Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-07

the genuine out when the sale is made.
Reed. when taken, had on him $3.s5 in
silver, $3.50 in gold, $14.46 in currency,
So coppers. pawn tickets for watches.
one gold slide and a purse full of spiel
munze. The detectives say they know
where the spiel munze is sold by
wholesale In this city, the $40 for 40
cents each, the tens at 20 cents and
the f1ves at Is cents. But they say
that it cannot be stopped, because they
are sold simply as medals and the in
scription upon them is Compos Spiel
On the night of November 1. 1865.
the work1ngmen Of Washington held
parade and mass
Elght-HOur Day meeting in the in
Demonstration. tsh1isnment ., an
efght-hour day in this city. All the
trades were represented in the parade.
which marched through the streets with
torches, lanterns and transparencies
and assembled at the city hall. where
a stand had been erected. with IL
Illuminated arches and notices urging
the reduction Of the working day. The
Star said of this demonstration Novem-
Der 2:
1.-The parade and demonstration of the
workingmen last night, in furtherance
of the eight-hour movement, was GER
tainly very large, imposing. orderly
and well conducted affair. An effect
i've feature of the procession was the
working representations of the differ
emit trades. carried out with great sue
cess. with printing presses. FORCES, an
wills, ruling machines. paint brushes,
planes, AIDES, trowels, sail needles.
boiler hammers. etc. etc. In full OPP
GRAFTON. At the city hall, where the
speaking took place. the crowd was one
of the largest we ever saw assembled
in Washington. The interest felt by
the wives and families of the work
ingmen in the demonstration and the
eight-hour movement was shown by
steps and landings of the city hall
were almost entirely occupied by them,
but numbers were also seen standing
patiently in the muddy streets for
hours to witness the procession or to
listen to the addresses at the stand"
A serious problem confronting the
government after the war was the es-
tablishment upon a self
Establishing supporting basis of the
Ere.a emancipated slaves This
work was under the su-
pervision of the Freedman's bureau.
Around Washington it was attended
with success as rule. In The Star of
November 2. 1865, is this paragraph:
1.-THE Freedman's bureau has received
from the superintendent in charge of
the fifth district of Virginia his report
for the month of October. from which
it appears that all of the freedmen and
refugees in Fairfax county are self
supporting. There are no camps in the
county where freedmen are congre-
gated. There are 1876 colored people at
Fairfax Court House, 80 at Fairfax
station and about the same number at
Lewinsyille Employment has been
obtained for the freedmen, and there is
not now one in the county who is de-
pendent on the bureau for support The
department of the colored people in
the county has been very satisfactory,
they appearing to appreciate the bless
lngs of freedmen, and no cases are re-
ported where the former owners of
slaves have attempted to Cypress the
freedmen in any way"
The keenest anxiety prevailed in this
country fifty years ago as to. the pos
sibility of the cholera.
Cholera in then raging in Europe,
New York appearing on these
shores. In The Star of
November 3, 1865, is an article which
discusses this question seriously and
gives suggestions for the treatment Of
the disease in its early stage The Star
said:
The cholera is still advancing in
Europe and there is very little ground
for the hope that it will not enter this
continent"
In the same issue of The Star a dis
patch from New York stated that the
steamship Atlanta had arrived from
London and been sent to the lower
quarantine in consequence of sickness
among passengers. rumors prevailing
that eight deaths had occurred during
the voyage from cholera. The next
days Star printed details of the quar-
antlnlng OF the Atlanta, on which there
We're eleven cases of cholera, several
OF the passengers having died and
been buried at sea. A memorial was
sent to President Johnson, signed by
the New York health commission. ask
ing that Sandy Hook be transferred by
the government to the commission for
the purpose of erecting hospitals for
the treatment of the disease. The next
day, November 4, 1865. The Star print
ed a dispatch from New York stating
that fifteen deaths had occurred on the
Atlanta out of forty or fifty patients.
Although the trial of Henry Wirz for
atrocities committed at Andersonville
prison during the war
WIZ Ignorant was concluded on Oc-
of Verdict. .oDer 81 100: no an
suit was made for some time. In The
Star of November is the following:
"Wirz has not yet been informed of
the findings in his case and Is very i'm
patient to hear the result. Yesterday
he wrote to his counsel, Mr.. Schade,
begging him to come to see him and
relieve him of the suspense he was I'M
der, asserting that his anxiety will
kill him If he is not informed soon.
He says that he expects to be hanged,
but that he wants to know 1t and pre-
pare for it. Rev. Father F. X. Boyle
of st. Peters Church, Capitol Hill, calls
frequently to see him and converses
with him upon his spiritual interests