Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1872, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. Publiened Daily, Sundays AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Pennsylvania Avenue, corner Ith 8t., | a | 4B NEWSPAPER COMP’Y. TB eee os WV, Pres't. VENING ST! ware tabecribers at Tax Cust rea ie Sa = CENTS PER MONTH. Copies Fee cases months, Two each. By mai’ ee sin; tamonths, @3.0). one year, a EK WEEKLY STAR—poblished Frider—@1. * bo! Pietariatiy i Saver ce. in bok cases, and sent longer than paid for. served by cacriers to Ves. 40—Ne. 6.174. BF Rates of advertising furnished on application. re TWO CENTS. LADIES’ @G0Ds, Perry ae BA BEMOVED To 905 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, Where she bas al! the newest and mostel for BONN ETs ana KOUND Hats for < i —. Also, ive FLOWERS, ATH. W LLARD’S HOTEL, WASHINGTON, D. 0. WASHINGTON HOTELS. | Ww | BEMOPELED, REFUARNISHED. tH- BOOMS, AND a alt as MAN EvaTUR AabbéD. OPEN NOVEMBSs 3.1872 decl-tr x J. F. CAKE, Proprietor. ——— — on ee Ever | [)BENGH PLUTING— The on ri the ex G***: sencredt ts done Aloo, STAMPING, PLS KIM 2 ~ <4 EMBEL every d: scription. in oat | neEAPS fat kinds, and Ba SUOIDEBING _& SILKS of all cx weed ine, jeepers iavlt-ty posite Patent Ufice. a 8. K com oa — ee hand K streets, | Ww \TH IMITATION HAL! *T AE SBtAD? BOCER, cathe Yas | Dt eee ee wegosd GREAT PREMIUM HAIR FACTORY. After the let of Dess.. ber, 1872, Permanent and ‘Fravsient og bones one cf the most des Bunt cone uch ne Pisite, Braids, Gurls, Puff, of mil “Seeherem te santt hanuiee can “tent Lengita acd colors. Ladies’ ofa baie pat ep in sit ~ ¥ he ei le ees of netted r ORES SH GE meadeyes heme ae: | OFS. cuneery. to erat } the tangling of the hn "The charges are low, but the wants and the cem- | Specis! acter tion tothe Colffa. ee for soiree, balls, hy fer now for gale at astonishing prices an ex- elotof HAIR GOODS of my own manafac tc. Wigs snd Toupets made to order. Also, The Sghe fiegsiiey ds AIGHASUL boc acto | surieal Wlaviorhice” ™"" He PuluaBEL a Bovib oot Between 7th and &h ; B LAC ENT, ei LOT, tit Berween Tru asp erm @racers. | PREROR Tas Pek LAOS aD ee BE IMPERIAL HOTEL, JAMES SYKES, Proprictor. _ FRONTING PENNSTLVANIA AVEXYE Beceem 1th amd 14ie S17 408s, ‘We are sellin: al to new. and mends - ira Seater. Barwin @ np H STREETS, im Washington, D.C fF KID Gest mapuczyiot PBLOES 0. SPECIAL NOTICES. MRS. JONES COUGH MIXTURE, Courhs, Coids, Croup, Asthma aad HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, Cases of Consumption, whether recent or advanced, it ereatly relicves. All that ko ite great virt from a slight cous SIMPLE BOT RFFICACIOUS. reach of ev.ry one it Is put up les. To be within the in ?0c. and $1 bottl NATTANS, Dingnist. Gor. Shand D streets N. W. ons ~ Disease of the Urinary and ioreeesae pa le ts ies fllicted acd wis fer preparing and eri AMUSEMENTS. ‘OME AND HEAR CONCERTS BAVARIAN o INFANTRY REGIMEN’ CT commencing at olock. 427-21" = ti 1 Gloves for 9 cents. SES ro teu § 1 Gloves fon St aes ‘Thaaatei wo the for generons aucitty ewes ‘M.WILLIAN'S,— front t0'test the nccimmedetions of har eset se | _¢otm 7 Pewusyivania arenas. fatlishiment, which be pevmisce abet be loand aD, STREN, Jeast eqzal to the best fp a M amis ‘Trarkexta StREEr, — —— LADIES’ FASHIONABLE HAIK DRESSER ~{T== ARLINGTON,” And Homan Hair Manufacturer. Paris and New :MON NUE, Brats oni @2. A larue sock ta sleet frosaatanys eaenee®. sree on baod. Ae To eclé 6m T. BOE-SLE & SON, rors. & JUST OPENING & eclé is Pu C. & Wittanp. A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF EBSITT HOUSE, 4ATS, FLOWESS, FEATHERS and VELYETS, - — —— = -¢ OF ALL COLORS, PROFESSIONAL. ab Toy Fae tS nhs, C,, ® rostEa, up. setae No. 718 Market Space. x No. 1106 Hew York avenne, ——s ‘oi ae ° of om Between lith nud 12th street PIANOS, &. GRO. 8 KING bas KEMOVED from hisoid | G €0.3 PIANOS, D en 7th street, between M and M, to Be, | SG UOMACKER » Cus pia: street, oue dove below the suuth west cor: i ‘aug tawém. ss GBEAT REDUCTION iN PRIOES. £5 0.CLEPHArE, BZ BRAaiLeyY, wed These ins:ruments, which, on account of their oe we s ma he lar bh CLEPHANE & BRAILEY Well'ss al over ths countey, can be had and Law Moportors, | now for thefollowing ext emely low prices: 2a, to PLANS from $575 to Sur3. UEMGNT PLANUS from 46:0 to G700. GRAND PIANOS from gi7s to B15. Persons who wish to save from 3100 to $9 in purchasig the best instrument out are inviced to berehand. Printed co ce | Guuthd compare for themselves, Pianos tor reat. riting machine, farnis! sume | Pianos exchanged. Tuving and Repairing properly copy aréiy | attend d to. CARL RICHTER, Ageut, Hee ©. Wihadams, 16-tr 935 Pennsylvania avendo. ATTORNET-AT- Law. RE, MARYLAND. > AND UP BIGHT PIANOS. Bova 8, om second floor of Barbors’s Lay oui s These instruments have been before the public Washingten. for forty years, and pen their excellence, Beweera Tom 694 Lowirians susae. — polt-ir aicue strain ¥. Bgy>a, a eagtOkxs1 4T Lana, Bo. 8 Youss — PRlidiow rent fairs over other competitors. All geo tt Washin: cea ARE JL ANOS Rave thetr Row and fm 7 ov erstr’ ie and A, le. Bese 7 aw iam HeCammon's Pianos snd PIANOS ant 4 p v1 in in » ) a om vari we! 2 tor’ for Mii Urders prompily esccated DEAWAGGS = | seleand rent at ee Ree Le Duitding st reduced prices. ice at the old »! declo-tr Piano Warerooms, 423 llth street. Plant's Balldiag, cofmar New Tark aveuce 2u2 ‘s mat Sammie 3,0 5 nk oer for Steinway & URANCE OOM! FOES SN ee ers OPER INSURANCE COMPANIE £NO3 AND ORGANS. Orderg lett at KARE 8 2! ane ee Jewelry Store, 62! a. ave.; N. 5 Store, << ven: NATEN A*™= YOU iNsUBED® cor Pa ave. end 9h st ; orat BOSENTHALS, S01 F SOT. «PPLY TO THE OLD 5 meet prom; tion, FRANKLIN INSURANCE COMPANY, | gna'siiiaitetion omraucea: Te romp atingtion sonar na rt ate M Sette dangeeitcmaned eocteame public: Bo. 306 Deke Ba eae 0 | vor ede ty GL WILE EEO Aa Tat Republic, No, 706 Datreet N. W srect west, between Ba aveuaeand at ‘aureters—De, Jen @. Melt. Jobe Bart deeuts for’ Stats Pianos, abd manafectarers of ‘ 2 aud dealers in Muscat Instruments gemeraline ee betes wae Pianos and si Musical Instraments taned and re- BcDonsid. FE, Beware, B: paired deeli-tr SCP ABLES BEADEBY. Seer "deco « : '. z zB r108. METEOPOLITAN Great Reduction in Prices T vise CE COMPANY, oF THE AT DISTRIoT OF CoLUMBIA. ORGANIZED AUG UST 26, 187 AFH CAPITAL... he} * -OPULAR 'LOTHING OUS Ot ee tn Bhepherd's Buildteg, No 208% Pen POPULAR CLOTHING HOUSE, WM. 8. TODD, Vi ‘Secretary. 1011 PENNSYLVANIA AVESUS, A. STRAUS’ SAMUEL OBOsS, J. B. Blake, Ym. wal. Between Wth and i1th stree!s, Northwest, IN ORDER TO REDUCE STOCK. EDUCATIONAL. ISS L. FLETCHER'S SUBOOL FOR YOUNG M LABISS AND CHILDREN. 1221 New York OVERCOATS. evenve.—The thira quarver will commence Jaxcaa¥ Biss. oc19-3ai* $30 OVERCOATS for. 25 13 OvEncoats & 3 "T2* OblGiNaL 12 OVERCOAT for 10 S OVERUUATS for. ° GRAND GIFT PHOTOGRAPH STORE, Bo. 317 SEVENTH STREET, $25 20 # HH ConxeR oF D, | x8 a2 10 Continues to DONATE DAILY TO ITs PATRONS 10 . FROM TWENTY.SIX BUNDRED TO FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS, in sums of ONE, FIVE AND 1EN DULLARS. $20 16 ‘The business is condneted4o an npright and hon- 33 He Orabie manner—equal privileges buing guaranteed 13 10 te all. Our method of doing businces is open to the YOUTHS) SUITS reduced to 97, S, 10, 12, 15 SCRUTINY AND INVESTIGATION OF THE BOYS’ SUITS from $3.50 to 10. MUST CRITICAL PUBLIC. nov27-Im* BUSINESS PANTS from $2 to $6. DRESS PANTS from @4 to $8. NNE* YoBs scckwusar. W ORLEANS MOLASSES, MULLER’s CHUICE HONEY SYRUP, 1011 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUS, & MAPLE BYRUP. (in glans, GOUD COUKING MOLASSES, Between 10th and llth streets. T= OONCERT SABBATH SCHOOL OF THE NEW YORK AVE- SNUB PRESBYTERIAN CHUBOH POSTPONED Cp accconnt of the very inclement weather. Tickets will be good for Concert when annonce], See fature advertisement. FBAND ORSTOBIO OF THE pp t..¢ UBEATION, BY THE PRILEA wares SOCIETY, T THE CONGREGATIONAL CHUBCH, Corner 1éth and G streets northwest, D. Gonaneter; Mr. VAL, " ; for kale at Ellis’ Music Store. gan be reserved without extra charge on sud ‘Thursday, the 2th. a4 ATIONAL THEATER. Ma. J. G. SAVILLE, Lessee and Manager A MEREY XMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR. GRAND HOLIDAY TREAT FOR OLD ANDO YOUNG. Mr. a Beorns at 8 NEW COMID K PaNTOMIMS, Mi m the Giant-Hiller. and Superb Trausforma \d Bea PROFE-508 DAV ADD HIS WONDEBFUL EDUCATED DoGS, ‘The Premiore Denseuses, THE FBANCISCU SISTERS; Talented Little NOH TWIN SISTKRS, Attractive Nuvelticz, combining to far- ® Delightivl Feast of Amusement, GRAND MATINEES, CHBISTMAS anv SATUBDAY AFTERNOONS Avoid rush, and secure seats iu advance, MONDAY, Decuxeen 9, Mr. ann MRs. DION BUUCIUS ASHINGTON THEATEE OOMIQUE, Eleventh &t., south of Peanzylvania avenue. HOLIDAY WEEK HOLIDAY WEEK. MASTER BARNEY. Vocalist and Actor. , ‘The Beautiful and THE FREN ASTEB BARNEY. MAIO Popalee i A The Desire te D BROTAKGS Posturere, and Gf ma: Female Gymaast, Song and Deace ana Skeroh Artists on) < HARHY BAST HABRY HAST, v thiopian Oomdiaa. PEAS: HUGHES. JAS. W. WESLE 1K JOHNSON, ‘Character GRAND CHRISTMAS MATIN’ ROBINSON CRUSOE AND HIS MAN FRIDAY. MONSTER ENTERTAINMENT. OVER vousy TALENTED wer Harr GNSTER OOMPANY. Tf. KOBINSON CBUSOR, Family Matines Wednesday and Satarday. T= MABLINE BAND WILL GIVE & CONCERT At Concordia Ral AY and SATCEDAY EVENINGS commencing at7 o'clock. ocl4-$m. On Exhibition and Sale } Tth street, betwee D So. 416 _ ye Gisoe isrgeat stork, Poser eile, 5 in the District Pieaso remember NsmeandNamber. _jel-ir* 8. JUSTH PA SREES. & sts, Hotes by mail Bas Ores, ps : ah i A fe to b; UGENSTEIN, 1495 xy - deci ly* és romptly attends ORNS, ETC. } (eftweive years’ practical experionce, thro the United States ona Canadas previous to located ip Washington. 'D.'0.. December 1s «moves Corns, removes Ger ease iy and puccesstall treats Bonions. Club Hours: 8 o'clock @.m. to 6 r visit for attend’ Tents for lacics rat ray Contes BABGAINS—Twelve . a R, FULTON & 00.’3, 314 9h street, near Penn. avenue. For sale by aiumkad _an-tr ‘Three doors from lth street. te comer of Land Tustrets. | ye. woRMLEYs |“ ginctoel lg PECTORAL SYRUP. For COUGHS AND COLDS. SOLD B DRUGGIS i _norm OED By ALL GGISTS, BAED OPERIN' or BOYS’, YOUTHS’ AND CHILDREN’S Fall and Winter Clothing, SUITABLE FOR SCHOOL AND DBESS WEAB. THE ENTIRE STOCK Prince’s Bazaar AT COST BLs0, UNTIL THE STOCK ISCLEARED ovr, fell stock DBESS SHIRTS, UNDEBSHIBTS and ANfENDS EUitping. “3 Pa i the teataes Docs stteation given to this Purchasers mei fo in — dan of the tasty sryloaad ine pele Oe WALL, BOBINSON & 0O., 19 921 Penns. sve. G7 HOUSEKEEPERS AND ALL OTHERS | coret__O21 Fonnn. 00. bot: 9th end 10th ss. IN WANT OF GIOUS WILL B24R THR S a oy Bo TES, 4BOVE IN MIND. IT WILL COST? You “SKA mexnine TO COMB 4ND examine sy a igertsmrncht ao porat Dennen nob tora, SEE | si:0 is het eins tapas mots eee Gevnmdig:2337 FEE avaxve. Dovii-lm __ Corner Been renee, See first-class SEWING aA- Fees ‘TF BA RGAINS—Thirty-six : ann, 316 a rect, near Fonw, aves, 437s" BAA Pu treet, gear B.A. 0. GIVAUDAM, a: French Cook and erer of long ex) the city, cueneda hove corner avai sad H atrects, Wash Sugton, where pon reas: * inners, Suppers Fiauthes, ampenta for the tablon Will always bs furnish single dis! &c. His long ex} xeuerally given will bea may employ. bit. Asth etre wa M. MARLOW, CUMBERLAND ANTHRACITE COAL, CAK, PINE AND HICKOBY WospD. Yaro: Connem Stu anv B Streets, 8. W., Ovrosts BMiTHSONIAN Park, Washington, D. C. attended to. di7-o78t Orders throngh mail pre 8 " BVENING STAR. "Washington News and Gossip. , READERS AND ADVRRTIEzRS should look out for Tae Stan’s double sheet to-morrow. It will be aeuperb number, crammed with inter- eating matter. ' InTERNAL Revawve.—The receipts from this source to-day were €144,802 08, MinttTer Waseevenx salls from New York for France to-morrow. No APPorntTMENT of Indian Commissioner will probably be made before the return of Secretary Delano from Cuba. THe PRESIDENT'S EVENING RECEPTIONS this winter will be on Wednesday evening, January 15th; Wednesday evening, January 29th, and Wednesday evening, Febraary 12th. Tae BeREav of engraving and printing, Treasury department, is closed, to make some necessary repairs to the machinery, and will yemain closed three days. AcaineT ADULTERATION OF NATIVE Wr The ruling of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in reterence to the tax on native wines to whieh any Loe, substance has been added after the process of manufacture bas been com- ga. Will be moditied somewhat, but the ison which it was made originally—to pre- vent the Ranvfacterer from imposi the copsumer by using s small quan’ re na- five wive from which to make, by tive Ridin of any foreign substance, a larger quantity of spurious wine—will not be departed trom. GENERAL Francis A. WaLKeR, Commis- sioner of Indian Affairs, has placed his resigna- tion in the hands of General Cowen, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, to take effect on the ist atin. The General leaves Washington on Monday next to assume the duties of profe.- sor of political economy and history in the Shef- field scientific school of Yale college. The con- scientious and pains taking manner in which he has discharged the responsible duties of superintendent of the ninth census and com- missioner of Judian affairs bas earned him the reputation of being one of the best officers in the government service. TRANSFERS IN THE QUARTERMASTER’S De- PARTMENT.—Upon the recommendation of the (Quartermaster General, Col. Rufus Ingalls, assistant quartermaster general, has been as- signed to duty as chief quartermaster, military division of the Atlantic, and will report to Major General Hancock, commanding the division. Col. Ingalis will retain the immediate charge of the principal depot ot the quartermaster’s de- partment in New York. Col. L. ©. Easton, assistant quartermester general, has been relieved from duty as chief quartermaster, military division of the Atlantic, and will remain in charge of the general depot of Philadelphia and Schuylkill arsenal. Tae Rawixs Sratve.—General Babcock, commissioner of pubilc buildings and grounds: Mr. A. R. Spofford, librarian of Congress, and Edward Clarke, architect of the Capitol, coo- stituting the commission appointed $ act ot Congress of June 10, 1872, to select a life-size statue of the late General Rawlins, to he placed as the centre-piece of a fountain in Franklin re, for which the sum of $10,000 was appro ed, met to-day and examined the m> lels, seven in number, which were submitted from the following artists: Fisk Mills, Dr. Stone, and Charles Ortner, of Washington; B. M. New York; J. ‘A. Bailey, Philadelphia; H. D. A. Henning, Baltimore, and Charles Drichier. hey will aunouneo their decision in a day or wo. eee ss0e. THR WzeELY Stag, now ready, contains a comprehensive abstract of the news of the week—local and general; ‘the strongest thing in Washington,” two shocking murders in this city; the barning of Barnum’s maseum; the great fire in Centre street, New York; terrible railroad disasters of the week; the library of Congress; report on the improvement of the Po- tomuc river channel; improvement of streets and avenues by the board of public works; latest and best tales, pocms, sketches and society items: gether with interesting local news, Washing news and gossip, agricultural items, Lonselio} receipts, &e., &e. Terms: One dollar and a half per annum, in adv: ngle copies five cents, in wrappers ready tor mailing, Aas ee — New Evipence iw tax Sroxes-Fiex Moa- per. Terat.—In the Stokes trial, in New York, yesterday, some new evidence was offered Ar drew Parker testified that some weeks before Fick was shot he (Parker) was introduced to Stokes, and in a conversation which ensned relative to triais then pending Stokes said Fisk Was a damned biackmailer, and he (Stokes) would shoot Fisk, and said Fisk carried a pistol. Stokes repeated that Fisk was a black- Wailer twice. At this point Stokes was very excited, and rose up, saying that is false, al! false. The evidence for the prosecution closed, and Mr, Townsend began the Opening address for the defence. FORT to remove the traces strite is regarded with friendly indifter- by The Louisville Couri-r-Journal. It considers that the south has no special interest in the matter, and says: “Before the next Presidential election we may fairly look tor new combinations, which will obliterate all the old sectional lines. Gen. Grant himself may be the nominee of the southern people. The most distinguished of confederates may be bis ardent supporters.” oe aes Tae Wonen Voters To ng TRIED IN JaNc- A Tm the case of Susan B. Anthony and fourteen other women, under examination for Voting illegally at the last general election in Kochester, the United States commissioner, yesterday, in that city, gave a decision holding each to bail in five hundred dollars to appear before the United States district court on the third Tuesday of January. HUNG sury IN Tak BROOKLYN PorsoNING cask.—The jury im the case of Dr. [rish,on t.ial for the poisoning of Anderson in Brooklyn, came into court yesterday morning, and stared that they were unable to agree, when they were discharged. Dr. Irish was immediately admit- ted to bail in 310,000, and Mrs. Anderso: also released 01 S08. oa ——— CHICAGO PeRsONAL8.—Major Powell, ex- plorer, isat the Tremont. He 1s on his way to Washington. ----Minnie Mrytle Miller, wife of Him of the Sierras, is at the Gardner, No Joaquin. ---- United States Senator Matt. H. Carpenter, of Wisconsin, was at the Tremont House last evening.— fnter Ocean, 25th. ——<—$<$= rrr Rarp on Boston GaMnRLers.—The state con- Stabulary of Boston, on Christmas day, visited several gambling’ establishments, — arrested eighty-pine persons, and seized farniture and ioplements valued at five thousand dollars. ——$—$———— ee Wassincton City ways are peculiar. Moved by the many examples of Congress, 4 Crowner’s quest in a nfurder case was yesterday held with closed Goors. We are progressing.— Cincinnati Enquirer. ee TxE Hon. J. F. Wilson, of Iowa, fell through the bottom of a dollar-store chair, last wi and broke three ribs. s7-Mre. Anna Dorsey calls Christmas au wrial wave (rom heaven. 7 The morderous kitcben-range hastaken the place of the death-dealing kerosene. ®7"Local option mince pies, with no brandy therein, are & novelty. S7-A French chemist makes diamonds by ex. tracting the colerfrom other precious stones. S7-A little girl at Dubuque amended the Lord's prayer y asking for ‘her daily ginger- ad? e7'Mrs. G. W. Lower, of Shubuta, Miss., is dead from 3n overdose of May-apple, taken to keep off a chili. 87 Mrs, Sylvia, of Ashtabula, O., who shot ber husbaud tm October, has been found gailty of manslaughter. SB?" Alter the first of Jannary, it will cost one dollar to own a dog in Indiana, and five dollar: for every additional dog. S7 Dr. Haight declines his election as bishop of the diecese of Massachusetts, on account of all health. &7 Mrs. Aramanda Smith, the noted colored Teligious revivalist, has taken a mandatory con- trol of a series of prayer-mectings iu Cincinuati s7-An Indians man is nomi his children atter the New England states. ode Leland is the It weighed three pormds at birth. S7-ibe United States cireait court in New York, has afirmed the judgment of $10£,000 ob- tained by the United States agaiust Lilienthal & Co., tobacconists, for viol: of the internal ’ tive history of the globe, with its wealth of ob- } THE GREAT ABOW STOSM. TMOSPHERE AND LIFR. Be ries ofa Desc-iptive Hisory of % . Rt ork; mk Barth.” ete. el . Bros. [Through J.C. Parker.) f ‘Those who followed thie renowned geagraph'- cal writer through the first series of his deserip servation and fidelity amd copiousness of illus tration, will be quite sure to welcome this continuation of the interesting subject. And it would seem that the distinguished geographer holds that the ocean is quite as well worth considering as the earth, for be quotes with daric saying thet “Water is the and that other saying of primitive nations, that ‘The Earth is the daughter of Ocean.” This, argues, is not simply a myth. ‘The study of the strata of the earth—rocks, sand, chalk, clay, conglomerates—proves that | morning will not arrive until late thisafternoon. he signal service record the materials of the continental masses have been in great part deposited at the bottom of the sea,-and have assumed their form and char- acter there. The subject of the ocean, that is ceaselessly engaged in the work of creating a and ddle states, Further south there ew world trom its depths, and submerging at . the same time the existing earth, is an exceed- ge in Chicage ingly interesting one in the hands ot M. Reclas, | w. ne = = 10 wo 1B 4 and we doubt not the American publishers will | zero. From some localities im New nglaod re- be repaid for their enterprise in bringing it out | POTts of 10, 20, 30 and even 40 degrees below here with all the admirable origival maps and = Lo» mre oy _ illestrations. MESAP RAKE ABD ITS gage | HOPE DEFERRED. ByE . Pollard. probably suffered Pommod ork: Berper & Bree. | Phrongh JO. ecko) ice for many ailes dows, A novel by the author of “Avice,” &c. and the P. closed from Baltianore to its to the steamer ine between Baltimore and folk. Tor Baltimore Christmas even- Periences of a family of children, with a ftatry | img, and has not been beard fromsince. The train which left Baltimore at seven o'clock yes- brownie, or household elf. terday morning and was due at Annapolis at THE SERVANT GIRL OF THE PERION. THE | nine was iastevening snowed upun the aunapo- . By Cbacls ‘brancl Cpamberioio, ir, Hew Work: J. 8.’ Bedtela: | usction Tore ran vee ees from the [enrongh Phitp & Solomone.] board, aud @ slim chance of relieving them last ‘The title is rather a plagiarism upon an Eng- night. lish story of ‘Servant-galism” by one of the “ incre rors ‘ial Mayhe ly esterday thousands of out-town jents were “ia ie be ine | Unable to reach the city, No outers, western, bay es - oe northern or Erie mail trains had arrived there couple in dealing with their “help. last night, Many street car lines ‘stopped yes- SEBMONS BY T. DE WITT TALMAGE. De | terday. The high wind caused much drifting, livered in Breekiyn Tebernacie. Teed serie | but the snow is probably two feet on the level. Rew York: Harper & Bros. (Through J. C | Broadway is seriously banked with snow; all ‘ker.j oatdoor business is entirely suspended. Phe Palmage has now come to divide honor | Fall River boat, bak yogis S Spenty with Henry Ward Beecher as a pulpit orators | yesterday morning, Bot been hear, Lod i esterday. The train due from Washington and the publishers find much the ame Gemand, | Tost day Suing temethor With Sorel for his sermons in book-form as tor Beecher's. | {rains was enowel Upar Trenton, Like the other famous Brooklyn preacher, too. Phitadetp ee, sleneat | bis style of oratory is colloqaial and dramatic, | In Philadelphia the streets are almost im and his sermons are always extempore. He fill | Sable. In aine the cold 1 intense, the ther- aterville being 40 degre-» bel his immense tabernacle, holding four thousand | MO™meter at W: - os tie meecry ie 2 peoplo, whenever he preaches. His style in the 0. At Battalo a pulpit bas been much criticised, but it is claimed eens = = ~ by his admirers that “he is in red-hot earnest, | Of & gara river into Lake Erie. until the aie Z ipes of the city water works are entirely and that his eccentricities are natura.” above water and the olty reservoir is entirely THE EXPRESSION OF THE EMOTIONS IN | ¢mpty. All the manufactories depending on MAN AND ANIMALS. Hy Charles Oarwis. | the city water works for a supply have sas- M.A), F.B.S..8c. New York: D. Appleton 4 | pended operations. The derangement is caus- (Through 5. Shillington. | ing great anxiety among the citizens, who, in + cn this latest work of the distinguished scien- } various localities, have organized tn paizoi tist, he, in pursuance of his belief in the doc scooetes ee ee remem chee : i <]e he new ches deep. - trine of evolution, or the derivation of species bis, S, U., the heaviest anow umd eleet oon from other and lower forms, undertakes to cou" | known’ in "that section prevaile, At Boston, trovert the idea that man was created with | Poughkeepsie, Toronto, Memphis, Richmond certain muscles specially adapted for the ex. | other cities all over the country the cold {* in- pression of his feclings.' Mr. Darwin holds ax | te0¢e, though the storm is heaviest in the east. probable that the habit of expressing our feel- | at Cottonwood. near Oentral City, Utah, ings by certaim movements, though now ren- | terrible snow slide occurred Tuesday, trom six dercd innate, were gradually acquired. He | to eight fret of snow having fallen there in the pursues his subject with candor, and states with | last two days, At about 2:30 that aiternoon an brrepige avalanche six hundred feet wide and tweive feet fairness the objections that may be made to hit | Geep came down, croming the ctuge road aed conclusions. The photographic illustrations, | carrying away from eight to ten teams BI showing the action of the facial muscles under | teamsters, and taking them fifteen hundred feet ba, s, fe ‘ ; across Cottonwood ereek. Three teamstere Work, notions: form a striking portion of the | have been shoveled ont alive, but badly braised, yok. Four more were net rescued, avd it is thought THE RRVIBION ENGLISH VERSION | imposible to find them belore spring, althoag ENT. By J B Lisht- | trom one to two hundred men are at work. Ai ere Va; Bichard Ch ne | the teams im the line of the a Swept away. The names of the men have not yet been ascertained. Fight males were dug Out, some dead, some with their lege broken, and others severely bruised. Several wers atterwarcs shot, THE SIGNAL SERVICE REPORT As the question of revising for pablie use th ie English version of the Holy Scriptures has a: | S8¥*: “During the past week extensive snow storms have visited the northern sections of the last assumed a definite, practicalshape inGreat | country, and heavy and protracted rains have Britain, and must before Jong claim the attea- Ly ‘ailed in = ee ee and ode § Pa io cl cific coast. The largest ‘amounts of rain an Nien prodlclone ted nie to ant Yor | Gud mottod snow bate boom tepertea tow the : New York, 2.02 inches; Lake the subject to American scholars by @ republi- onan tg el . 2.17; Knoxvil 2; cation of the recent treatises of Archbishop | Jacksonville, Fla., 224; Ki n, Canada, 2.95, Trench, Bishop Ellicott and Professor Light- | San Francisco, (incomplete ed Norfolk, 3.1; toot on the principles and mode of revision. and Vicksburg, (incomplete,) 4.44.” ————- ree —___ A Man Mistaken Por a Deer ann Kitiep. On Monday last, as we learn from the Camber- land (Md.) News, as several gentlemen in West THE FATAL FALL OF A CHURCH FLOOR AT | Virginia, between Frankfort acd 3: agtiell, WILLIAMSPORT, Pa, = out epee Ae gd Aye = roth ye ‘The details of the shocking affair at Wil- | Truax saw e thick wood as liamesport, Pi a Christmas evening, when the | what be believed to be the hoof of a deer. Ho floor of a Baptist church in which a congrega- pres mge <A drew up bis gun and fired at the tion was assembled for festive parposes teil | object. which proved tobe the body of his friend through and caused the death of fourteen per- | and fello fe: poorer | Mr. Messmore. The sons and the injury of some forty or fifty mo: bullet entered his head, just behind the left ear, as stated in @ telegram in yesterday’s Star, | and instant death was the result. The party, sre very painful. The circumstances of the | consisiing of Mr. Truax, Mr. Messmore and s tragedy, the time and the occasion of assemb- | brother of the deceased, were Pennsylvanians, ling, and the presence of so many women and | who bad been for ie time in the region of children, are peculiarly saddening. Three ea engaged in the bark business, hundred men, women and children were a:- lesemores being employed by Mr. 7., who sembled in the church te have a Christmas fes- | had large acts k. Mr. tival. The church was brilliantly illuminated, | Truax is a middle-aged zw: bas , married, and and gifts were being distributed to the chil- | a family; M: single, and about 25 Gc, when saatonly there was Boticed spoon: years of age. Roted a siidden' downfall, and'ne tomer Nia | A Wrva's ‘Trove to Wear earare—Judge the impression taken firm hold of those | Drommond, of the United States circuit court, resent tua @ terrible catasirophe happened. | bas recently decided a case at Chicago, a When the crash came there weat up a wail of | ‘=volving a wife's title to real estate in thi mangled humanity that caused the biood of all | tate. In this case the property was conveyed fairly to curdie. Children.wildly shrieking for | by the husband when solvent to a third party, their parents, and the groaus ‘of, the wounded | 8@d recopyeyed to the wife. The husband af- and dying filling the air with lamentations and | terwards became a hewn a His creditors distress, with many beneath the timbers erying | held that under the statute of Illinois the wife in the name of God for deliverance, made the | could not hold a separate estate acquired from scene a most terri and heartrending one. Tile the ol! lamps of the edifice had kindied ire that ‘air to destroy al ib & genera: fagration. Those outside. worked with a will. ints sustained by J) Drummond, but and used every possible effort to secure the | bis decision had a saving clause. He ordered a living from the mangled mass. Several Teteree to provide for the maintenance of the the church was on fire, but providentially the | wife and famty on the Principle that where a flames could be reached and were speedily ex | party is seeking equity he do equity. tinguished. Many within who were able to reach the windows burst out the lights anc leaped to the ground, a distance of fourteen or fifteen feet. Before eleven o’clock at night, the bodies were removed and identified. In th- panic several were wounded by being ran over Some of the wounded will probably die. &7-“‘Camp-meeting John Allen” has attended 234 of ‘em. ®7 Knoxville invested $2600 in the Louisville lottery, and drew back $75, S7-A precocious eight-year-old 1 inten- tionally shot herself in Savannah the other day s7‘Blind turkey races” are @ feature 0! Western church festivals. 7 Drying buffalo skins cover acres of ground at Wichita, Kan. s7The Texas ladies are getting fands for Magruder monument. ——e 5 S87-Sidney Rigdon, author of the Mormon Bible, is dead, of age s7-The horse disease is on the decrease in | Dereelf, Havana, but rages in the interior towns. —— av" Malad; "is what a St. Louis bo; asked for at a fruit stand. vA eee S7 Unsaleable railroad maps are thrust upon ey confiding ladies as fashion diagrams. her &7-All the unconvicted criminals in Califor | was but nia are now clamoring for a Fair trial. ae S7-An Iowa school-boy has killed his father | Culty in t for telling him to behave himself. Extenuating | Pected circumstances, certainly. avThe dia Wilson. o! s7-Tuirty years ago Mra. 1 Ralsin, Mich» stuck a willow riding whip iu ts. | deep feel ground. it now measures ten fect in circum | Were are r ference and spreads over eights-rour feet. paz A, bar, with twenty horses and sie ging toa iD ly at Lotteritle, War Fen county, Pa, were’ burned up ov Guristims | TOUDds —: night. &7 Avotber, in the delicate, teacher teid him 80, and down th rr. sition t eebool house before “next day” came. Pls was tnable to take eit aa ain X, other day Captain Gordon, class, ‘ths indy oh the promenade or the Satan aad aes tee a Rain, Hail, Sicet and face ‘TRE GRBATEST GROW STORM FOR TWENTY YRaRs. New Yor, Dee. 27.—Snow vegan falling ssp tide momming ot al igh! © clock, with S sight wind wU ets are to-day banked with snow. oie op @ storm bar been withomed in » in Upwards of twenty years. Last night the streets were de serted from an eariy hour tm uke Bow Dew wee for ibe mort part sary 5 Person ventured cut © from abevlate me Ei Hept m town at hotels the snow tm single th four bores comtimue ran ng on Broadway, but i is omy vals that carte and oth he Tho street cleaning its force of laborers at work to « and “hat of yeater- day, namely: 10 degrece above x10. laces in tbe city the ground a covered pry Of ae much as three feet. Pie storm tot heavily upon business, expecially oy the dela Of the malls, No mails left tae oily yesterday, except those which were sent «ian early our. North river is filed with floating ioe. No MAILS, At this hour (19 a. m.) no mails trom any point Bave reacbed the oMce iu this ety eine esterday noon. ke Whole torce of clerks Were kept on duty all night, dod will remain till the arrival of the mails, to .omediately sort them. Di the beigh vet the yester da) uring ht of storm y atternoup, s large meteor was seen at Hunters’ Point. Ali railway travelon Long island has ceased. The steamships Haisstia and City of Lanerick tor Europe, and Columbia !or Havana, Desides several coasting steamships, which were to leave yesterday, are detained by the storm. There were uo arrivals trom sea yesterday. THE SROW STOPPED FALLING. 10.50 a. a—The snow storm which commencd this morning Ceased after a slight Cail. COULDN'T GxT Places by parties unable to reach their homes Up town and in the suburbs. A FEW LOCAL TRAINS from the immediate vicisity ow Jersey bave arrived since 10 o'clock, but only by the | aid of several locumotiver. TREES 16 COMSIDERABLE survEnina amongst the poor people to-day, by reason of the absence of the!t usual supplics of milk and bread, none being received ot the tormer by trains, and locometion by the bakers im the ttreets ts almost imposstl.ie. OW BOUND PASSENGERS. —Tne Montreal ‘s» rain which lett New York at 4 p.m. yex- erday, reached here at this muruing with four locomotives, and proceeded on iis way north at 7.45. No train bas left 4 since nocn yesterday. Two otives leit bere at 8 o'clock this morning to clear the down There are over 700 pamengers snow id between here and Peekskill, bat it i* thought all will get through wo New York some time to-day. “" KORTH CAROLINA Witwrraron with rai, «leet and » for several days past. T ered with snow. DiFASTROUS RECULT OF THE BREAKING ICE BEAK MEMPay Menruis, Dec Last might at 2 the ice gorge at Hon and ( iis city, broke and came force, sweeping off the dry docks ther structing, then cutting 4 arges of coal belonging to Brown & J: aud taaliy steamer after steamer from the wharf, wutil it xpert ground ie wow o was thought that not a single one of the large number Iving there could be saved. The fol- lowing is « ts carried of — Laura, Belle Pike, 5. D. Wait, Undine, West Wind, and City of Augus Thomas is }ying in a The towboat Neilie ition, and it te doubtful whether she can be saved, asthe ice is running very heavily. The West Wind ant 8.1). Wait are joa with cotton. Farther culars will be furwarded as sven as pos THE BURBED GiKLs New York, Dec. 2 prevented the search for the gir’ inthe Center street fire. The saporintendent of the balldings, im card to-day. says there are thou sands of buildings in ti than the one burnedin Cen IX THe PTOKRS Case TO-DAT Stokes was pdt on the stand aud tertiied, bi testimony betug substan'ially the same the firet trial. In proceeding to give his inteu tions and motives prior to going to the Grand Central Hotel when be shot Fisk, the counse for the prosecution objected several times. claiming that us the words of Fisk after be wes shut were excluded by the judge, the tes timony of Stokes should also be excia ted, bat Judge Boardman overruled the ubjectious, and al'owed Stokes to proceed Stokes «nid that when about to leave the hotel, and baving partly desceuded the ladies’ siair- way, he saw Fisk enter the door; that Fisk pulled out » pistol and was holding it ands. Stokes then sprang to the left to be ont of range, and eeeeey wn | took bit owa pistol Out of Lis pocket and fired at Fisk. FIRE ON HROADWAY. About halt past six oc this morning fire Was discovered in th ment of batiding No. 1.0 Mercer street. Firemen were promptly on the ground, notwithstauding the heavy si but the fire had gained consider: he &s it had doubtless been burning some time in- side the ge | before it was discovered. Another alarm drew to the Gre an additional force, including the chiefs of the fire depart - ment. flumes soon spread through the block sobaiieinge 619 end 21 Broadway. The wot uyVesant estate, and Uihearily Gnmstged, The hae eo nee ane ext to Nos. 158, 160, and 162, and caused da exceeding $15,000. The property on Broadway wes oceupied by Maillard as abotel, and al-o a confectionary store. The damage to the building and property is over 20,000. Hall's infor store, on Broadway, and two small sto-es on Mercer street, were iso . The engines are still at work at the fire, tbongh the flames are subdued, and Broadway te ti , rily blocked in consequence at that point, —_e—— THE CrAROWITOR SLeers. St. Parensscre, Dec. 27.—The Crarowitct: bad four hours uninterrupted sleep daring the right. LOST OK THE CERManr. Loxpom, Dec 27.—Of the thirty persons lost by the wrecking of the steamship Germany, twelve were , bat onl; it twelve ere passengers, but only one of them THE WILLLIAMSPORT (PA.) DISASTER RE- White a mezaTE? 1X BROLAND. & missionary meeting was beng beld in Salford last night the floor of the builcing gave iting one hundred persons a con- Many of them were injured. is ‘eared, fataliy. WHAT ERGLABD SAYS TO RUSSIA. DON, Dec. 2.—A special dispatch to the Berlin says Lord Loitus, British ambassador at 8: bas delivered a note to Prince Gortschokof!, iuforming him that England will abstain from interfering witn the Russian in Central Asia if it does not in. Nine thousand khivese are pow Sonteping so Russian fort en mba river. A: force of two thousand ee on the Kussian fisheries at the of the Emba, and reinforcements have been sent to the 3 H > 5 troops in that locality. Ane ~ Affairs in Philadelphia. RE. ¥ PRILADELPRIA, Dec. 2.—The Fairhill rotl- ing yy and America streets, Gaulberi. thy morn! Valuable machinery was ruined. Lore $30, - ‘Wituiworom, Dec. 7.—A fre last commenci: southeast corner 01 and 2d streets, =< & vumber o1 Marks, and the stores J.B. gins, Co bee ‘and Hi id The — are 1000; insurance, $2,000. Bhi; > D0, $i = ae stip Perevian, from on Peeked ro