Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1873, Page 1

‘THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, Sundays Exeepted, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Pennsylvania Avenue, cor. Lit: BY THE EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER COMPANY, | S. H. KAUFMANN, Prev't. G STAR ix served by carriers subsbribers at Tax Cxxts rex WEER, on TY-FoUR Cents PER TH. Copies at the « Two Gents cach. By fix months, $3.0; one ye than paid for, rtising furnish __NEW PUBLICATIONS. _ | A NEW FRENCH GRAMMAR. JUST PUBLISHED A PRACTICAL COURSE WITH THE FRENCH LANGUAGE. By Profs. BM. Monsanto. M.A If exam receipt of $1 25 RECENTLY ISSUED. A COMPLETE COURSE WITH THE GER MAN. Consisting of a* Practical Course” in speak- ing and writing the German Langaags, followod by a “Compend of Geman Grammar.” By W. H. cry, A.M. 1 vot ,cloth, 511 pages. Price, 1—three months, | $5. + Vsh. 42—N?°. 6,474. bening Star. WASHINGTON, D. 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Antobicgraphy of John Stuart Mill, § 2 23 Chanveau’s Aastomy of Domostiont 8 vo a see wseeee 600 Lascine by an Oxtord Man, 12 um w Rormandy Picturesque by Henry Bisckbaro.. 1 60 South Sea I y Charles Warren Stoddard. 1 0 4 Musicians by Ignata Mos- Baw 3& phere! an cu ‘The Perfect Horse, by * oe novis-1F ‘ SECRET OF SUCORSS IN WALL STREET. SS sa pages. Bull. f 3. Profits on * pute and Mailed for starop 83 bankers and brokers, oet?79-3m Valentine Tumbridge & 39 Wail street, New Yor LADIES’ GOODS. RGEST STORE AND THE LARGEST STOCK OF HUMAN HAIR GuODS It is a well known fact among the Isdies of Wash- ington that H. PHILIPPI, the “Coiffeardn Monde Eb gant,” sells the fiuest’ HAIR GOODS at the lowest rates. Ladies, strangers, will do well to call and see for themacives. O.mbings of Hair. made up by Bew process, in all the styles of the . Corflures de Soirees, Receptions a specialty H. PHILIPPI, ve Paris, 913 Pennsylvania avenue, deci Ie” Between 9th and Wth stre UST REORLY ED— $00 DOZEN TEN-TUCKED SKIRTS, AT 85 CENTS. ALSO, CHEMISES AT S8ME PRIOR. adecW-im "8, HELLER, 713 Market Space. FHANDSOMEST AND LARGEST ASSORT MENT OF LADIES’ CLOAKS AND SUITS in the City, FRENCH CORSETS AT REDUCED PRICES BEST PARIS KID GLOVES at Sla Pi HAIR SWITCHES AT §6, WORTH $12. decle-Im 8. HELLER, 715 Market Space. E. A. MeCORMICK. MIS! 3 PExN. Avance (up stairs). A large and elegant assortment of RTED BONNETS sod = ROUND HATS, constantiy on hand. Orders for DRESSES, &c., filled by NEY, of New York city N b.& MME. L. P. JEANNERET have just returned from Paris with a choice aa- sortment of Bonnets and Hats. Latest nov- elties in millinery goods, Show room in Washington, 410 lth street, one door from, Penn. svenne; Bakimors, 3% N. Obarles New York, W7thst., near Broadway. Par. attention paid to bridal and mourning or- Also, dressmaking in ail its branches. novi NEW YOR! . ashtonsbie Beodgsater for HA SAA8. FaNCY GOUDS, HOSIERY, ” * MERINO UNDEBWEAR, ant At lowest market prices to all wotions, octs-tr 44 Toot by my For saie by Grocers. BRHAM & CO., Man est Lombard street, Janle-ly = Wpaletmarse Marylant. QTSTEN ISLAND, NS. ¥. DYEING ESTAB- S**TisuuENT-ESTABLISHED 1819) 2 ‘The oldest and largest of ite hind, in the oo : between F and @. 5 ee given that no color rubs of bring your articles soon, to get them back in time. 4. FISHER, FIRST CLASS SCOURER, 615 st ‘Rd street. *atent Office. SPECIALTIES OF HI8 SOLE P 5 His SOLE PROCESS. Ladves Dri ‘them east Gentlemen's Clothes clothes inh oun Ing. Grease spots remo a) id Gloves cleaned om short notice Prices mod- ENGLIsH CRYSTAL CHANDELIER: IMPORTED DIRECT, AND OFFERED UNUSTALLY Low. ‘These goeds are of the newest patterns and most exquisite workmanship, and in poiat of ELEGANCE, BRILLIANCY AND CHEArNESS EXCEL ANY CHANDELIERS IN USE. A large assortment just received. M. W. GALT, 0. & CO., JEWELEGS. ble market, HY Avr. 44 inne. IM ™® 8a coven, ae Paris, FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKER. RECEPTIONS aNp x: ENING DRESSES & epeci: SF 411 orders exec hours. deel 6" 91S. PesnnTnis Go" PRABODY's, (He. 686 Lovwiane & ‘Isthe only buase in the city thas Makes a specialty GUNB, FISHING 7, ASD crortine sughim = SSIUN OF £18 EN, ¥. Wells. &c. BE MATINERS THIS WE’ Y! THURSDAY! 8a’ ‘Thareday, Friday, and Saturday and Satnrds mee OLIVE 1st. “aca EW A i aot ad pcsitivery ane aa Mi«TCHELL, ‘ion MAG in ber great imper A® THE ORPHA SATURDAY MATIN OD. —Last time but one of grea playof THE GEN Box Office open from 8 a. m. to 39 p. nt. frORD'S OFERA HOUSE. BENEFIT AND LABl NIGHTS MaAvoRRts. BAT SUCCESS ‘R&aT SUCCE of the Brilivant Emotio: ARTICLE 47 ARTICLE + ARTICLE 17: ARTICLE 47 GREAT SUCC ALIXE MATINEE SATURDAY 50 and 25 cents 44 SUCCESS arnivs.- received a dispatch from Commander Braine, at Santiago de Cuba, dated Thursda stating that the prisoners of the Virgii been delivered that any and that the Juniata would suil for New York. Gi ome sartliog r QPERA LIBRETTos. Only correct and complete edit PRICE, ONLY .6 CENT. PRICE, ONLY 15 CENTS +S JOHN F. ELLIS & CO. FokD'Ss vrERa HOUSE. Messrs. Maurice and Max Strakosch respsctfal ly TWO NIG*TS OF THE DITALIA N OPERA, ONDAY and TURSDAY EVENINGS, mber $2 and 23. 1373. ONDAY EVENING, Decembor KOSCH GRA AcALL is being numerouely signed b bers of Congress, headed by Kepres: MecNulta,of Illinois, and Representative Har- ris, of Virginia, looking to a nnion of the mem- bers of the northwest and south, for the purpose ot uniting those sections on the question of cheap transportation from the west tothe At- lantic seaboard. A meeting will be held in the ball of the House of Representatives on the tirst Saturday after the rec: ™M with the following extravrd: Madame Christine Nilsson ac. Mile. Ostava Torriani Miss Annie Louise Cary as... M. Victor Capoul. Signor Nannetti as. . Reserved Seats §l extra, Box Family Circle $1 formance now for sale at Mot zerott & Co.'s Mi ‘OSTUMES r MAS\TERADES, : PRIVATE THEATRIOALS, ant TABLEACX, MUSICAL CONC Hear the Magnificent Ce Performing the ki ERTS ‘D EVENING. 00 ORCHESTRION, jatest Operatic and Nailsaai Musto, MB. SCHWABZENBERQ’S, venue, south side, ‘nts an immensé Orchestra, and chimes complete. ER always on drang 46 Pennsylvani ‘and 6th This instrument represe: with drams, cym! BF Freeh cold » No.) On &: bey m Exhidition and 8: NDS ih, OAST-OFF WEABING AP- sold to the very best by addressing or calling on 619 D street, Hotes by mail promptly attended LECTURES. Yue A. LECTURES, LINCOLN HALL. THOMAS NAST, Tuesday evening, Dofmber A. JOHN B. GOUGH, Tuesday evening. January 2%, fast, $1; » $1 for rovenvel sesh Som 8 Diagram et Warren Choate & Co.'s, 941 Penn- Lectures begin promptly at o'clock. D yore open BASE FOR THE FERT DR. WHITE, Cuixoroni opposite the Treasury, rem 80 the shoe can be worn with ease. c troublesome Nails, vascular Ex other disorders of ‘5 patronized by many emt bent physicians, surgeons, aud thousands of other well known and respor Berson: constant practice in Washisgton, with twelve yoars Practical experience throughout lains, . His establishmen prev’ ton im 1851, having given a large, liberal, and stead- i ‘onage, enables charging the mod- liar per Nisit. Office hours from attend pation: &.m.to6 p.m. @ office hours Dr. White xcept SBT OF RODGERS IVuBY HARDEE, C. Youite with Sam’: Lewis,) C4 Chronometers and fine fatcnes adjusted for tso- chTORAST, Position and temperature, and accurately deci? -lm* [EXAMINE THE GOLD SPECTACLE, thy ve ‘Dee! repeating : ve been P PORTANT NOTICE. = firing at the stage would seem to indicate THE ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY RUN A DAILY EXPRESS (SU) DAYS EXCEPTED) THE BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC RAIL- ROAD AND POPE'S CREEK BRANCA, UPON PASSENGER TRAINS, IN CHARGE OF EXPERIENCED MESSENGERS. For rates or other information, apply to e < il wMaldR © Pulsutcinerauebapaaeadaa 18.4.2.5% il id SE DOUBLE SHEET. m News and Gossip. poe g INTERNAL Revenve.—The receipts from this Botu Hovses of Congress have adjourned till January 5th. Tue Present and ramily,with the remains of Mr. Dent, left Indianapolis at 3 o’clock last night for St. Louis. ALARGE NUMBER of members of Congress left for their respective homes last night and this morning to spend the holiday recess. Tue report that Bartholde, of the French Legation, at St. Petersburg, has been appointed minister to Washington is confirmed by advices to London. THE VOTE in joint convention of the Califor- nia Legislature yesterday for United States Senator resulted: Booth, 58; Farley, 39; Shaf- ter, 20. Necessary for a choice, 6). EIGHTY LEADING FIRMS of New York city bave signed a protest addressed to the United States Senate against the repeal of the bank- rupt law, bat admitting that the law needs amendment in many of its provisions, Tax Committee on Banking and Currency will hear statements in New York during the Congressional zecess in order to obtain the views of leading bankers and others on financial affairs, THe House Committee on Appropriations have determined to remain in Washington during the recess to perfect bills 80 as to have them read: bles in J for action when Congress reassem- ary. IMPEACHMENT. on. Cc. A. Eldridge and Mr. Wilson, of Indiana, members of the House Judiciary Committee, leave Washington to- night for New Orfeans to take testimony in the matter of the impeachment of Judge Durell. NAVAL OnpERS.—Detached—Second Assist- ant Engineer ©. F. Purdie, from the burean of Steam E: Ganner Thomas H. Fortune, from the naval magazine, Kittery, Main navy yard, Portsinouth, N. H. ineering and ordered to the Frolic; nd ordered to the PRRsoNal.—Mr.S. Yorke At Lee, formerly a well known citizen of Washington, but for som* years prominently connected with the Cali- fornia press, hay Pacific Odd Fellow, & handsome new weekly paper. ken “editorial charge of Th Tue Crew AND Passencars or Tae Vir- ‘The Secretary of the Navy yesterday ixth, as had ‘Tue Senate select Committee on Transporta- tion Koutes to the Seaboard will start on their southern tour on Monday next. The committee }ropose to stop for two days at Atlanta. They have promised to give ene day to Mobile, the business men of that city having preferred a equest to that effect. They will sp tour d t mits, accept an invitation to extend their trip to Galveston. at least 8 at New Orleans, and will, if time per Szcrerary Fis called at the Navy depart- ment to-lay to see Secretary Kobeson, but the latter was out. Secretary Fish stated t received no intelligence beyond the news of the surrender of the Virginius and her survivors and the fact that they are now onthetr way to the United States. 'y stat inestioned relative to the status of the Vir- he has e Secretary stated, when us survivors, that it would be improper for at this time to say anything on the subject, Iv 18 UNDERSTOOD that, in consequence of the recent amicable settlement of our diffical- ties with Spain, much of the extra work in the way of putting vessels in com additional work at the diderent soon be suspended. Orders have already been issued suspending the work of putting the tirst- rate steam frigate Minnesota, now at the Brooklyn navy yard, in commission, and it is probab with reference to other vessels now being fitted for active Senate Conrirmatr ion and the vy yards will le that similar orders will soon follow 4 service. 8.—The Senate in €xecutive session, yesterday, confirmed a large number of nominations, among them those of Commodore William Reynelds, to be rear ad- miral in the beat 1 vice Rear Admiral T. A. Jenkins, retired. Co; to be rear admiral, vice Ch retiréd. Commodore Enoch G. Parrott, to be rear admiral, vice William Rogers ‘Taylor, retired. Commodore J. J. Almy, to be rear adwiral tains Donald MeN. Fairfax, James H. Sprotts, and James H. Nicholson, to be commodores, aud a large number of corresponding promo- tions in the lower grades, together with various promotions in the staff corps of the navy and appointments of second lieutenants in the army mmodore James H. Strong, rles Steedman, ice G. F. Emmonds, retired. Cap- A CORRESPONDENT calls attention to the law of Congress, approved February 1, 1570, which enacts ‘that no officer or clerk in the United States government employ shall at any time sol ployes in the governm present to those in a superior official position; nor shall an: receive any gilt or present offered or presented to them as the ment employ receiving a less salary thau thom. selves; donation as a gift or present to any oficial su- perior. Any officer or clerk violating any of the provisions of this Dill shall be summarily discharged from the government employ.” cit contributions ot other ent servi ficials or om for a gift o: ch Officials or clerical uperiors tribution of those im govern- nor shall any officer or clerk make any Our correspondent says: ‘Now, that the holi- days are approaching, would it not be well for the officers and employes in the departments and government printing of above law is atill in force © to know that the ARE THEY INDIANS OR “Cow Bora ?"—The War department {sin receipt of a report from Lieut. Col. Merrick, of the ninth cavalry, com- manding Fort Concho, Texas, stating that the body of the man killed’ by Ind: Paso stage road on the 22d of November was Q ‘ized as that of J. F. Miller, Col. Merrick mentions that the camp Kennedy, near Cam y Indians a short time since, and thata few minute w same party. He says in this connection :— ‘* There is a doubt as to whether the attack thus mentioned was by Indians or A short time since, while I was visiting the camp of A company of the ninth cavalry. sta- tioned at the is, a lot of jians near the Fl ft Arizona. of Capt. Colorado, was fired into later th }, a8 Capt. Kennedy Tur Prstic Buitpines Investieation.— The Committee on Expenditares and Public Buildings will probably not begin their inveati- Society. Last night was one of the most brilliant and successful nights of the Bazar which the ladies are now holding for the benefit of the Children’s Hospital. This noble charity has enlisted not only the sympathy but the cordial cooperation and benevolence of all the prominent citizens of Washizgton. During the entire week the ladies have been untiring in their attendance at their respective tables and departments. Nota- ble housekeepers have responded to the demand for delicacies and personal attention at the various tables. Tae tea and refrestment rooms, the hall room, and the one devoted to the sale of fancy articles, were thronged all the evening. Socially it was like a reception where friends meet and enjoy the occasion. Among those present last evening may be mentioned Senator Frelinghuysen, the Secretary of War, the wite and daughter of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Misses Strorg, Mrs. General Marcy, M Wall, Mrs. Kauttmann, Mrs. Redfern, Mra. Kilbourn, Mrs. Hutchinson, Mrs. Campbell, Miss Mary Campbell and her friend Miss Cha: ton, Mr. Chariton, Count Zannini, Dr. Drink- ard, Miss Mary Drinkard and Mr. Waverly Drinkard, the Misses Kiibourn, Miss Abbott, Mre. J. M, Carlisle, Mr. Calderon Carlisle, Mrs. Camp, Mr. John Davis, Mr. Morris, Mr. Gil- more, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Brown, Mrs. Wal- jach, and the ladies who have been so untiring at the tables. Madame de Noailles, Madame de Chambrun, Mr. and Madame Borges, Mr. .W. Corcoran, Miss Eustis, and many othe who bave at different times visited the bazar, by their presence and generosity have testitied their sympathy with and interest in the hos- pttal. “To-night all the remaining articles are to be disposed ot auction, and a fashionable company is expected. — The Secretary of War and his bride de- cline at present to receive calls as they are very busy arranging their house. After they move into it they will be happy to see their friends. —Great complaint is made by those who drive or walk on Pennsylvania avenue during the fashionable hours from three to six p. m., that the sweeping of the Avenue is always done during these hours instead of early in the morning or late at night when the street is most empty. Handsome toilets often ruined, and delicate throats, lungs, and tem- pers irritated by the dust. — Mre. E. D. E. N. Southworth assisted by her daughter, Mrs. J. \. Lawrence, will receive at Prospect Cottage, Georgetown, every Satar- day evening trom eight until eleven, during the season. The Library of Congress. To the Eviitor of the Evening Star Srm:—I wish you would agitate in behalf of the Librarian of Congress @ more liberal manage- ment of that vast collection in the interests as much of literature ana journalism as of politi- cians. Whether, from its cramped quarters, or the occasional purloining of books (one instance, I believe, having operated tothe disadvantage of all), or the mental difficulty of discriminating between officials and proiessional men, the Li- brary is not equally available to all nor fally available to any. ifestly such a collection, the largest; it is said, on this continent, is not being prepared wholly for the novel-reading wives of members, nor for that handful of Sena- tors and Represen‘atives who do cultivate them- selves and literature. If it is not a national library it is too well appropriated for. If it is, and I believe the Librarian wishes the name to be changed from Congressioval to National, it requires a more liberal afministration. I will give this instance with frankness. Having occasion to prepare a certain State history I wished to have access to the biographi- cal alcove, in order to ascertain what authors and travelers might have had residence or asso- ciation with that state. You can see that no classification could be made to cover the subject, nor could an author know all the bi touching his theme from any mere catalog: subjects and authors. I asked the sub-librarian to open one of the wicker doors a few minutes and let me run over American biography. Hi did co, but directly came back curtly, and sai ““Tmust shut up this, ‘The boss has made a new rule.” What I wish to convey to you is the necessity of the Library Committee doing something to relieve the Librarian from what he must have felt, being 4 man of feeling and professiona! ~pirit, to be a sort of necessary discourtes Books should soften man. There was a di when even the Bible was chained fast, bu since the era of our Capitol. ‘This great li of Congress ean be made to do signal servic our literature, and is, of itself, an inducement to the population of Washington. But the lib rality and the politeness of men of letters should distingtish it. These are more impor- tant to its career than a great new edihe: though perhaps the present censorship is inci dental to the accommodations. Very truly, Guo. ALFRED TowNsENn, December 20, 1873. ARMY ORDERS.—Special orders from the War department dated the 18th inst., direct that Hospital Steward George A. Christian, U. 8. army, now on duty in the Surgeon General's fice, be discharged the service of the United States to take eflect December 16, 173. (This is the person who was recently convicted in the Police Court of this city for desecrating gra: n order to get “cadavers” for the Medici Colleges.) Major V. C. Hanna, paymaster, is relieved from duty in the military division’ of the Atlantic, and ordered to report for duty to ‘he headquarters, general departmant of the Missourl, Chicago, in place of Major R. A. Kinzie, deceased. Tur Epvcationar BuReAU.—The peculiar effort made by the head of the Educational Burean to put our systeni of S4ucation on & par with that of Europe is communicating itself. to the attention of the country. The forthcoming report, teeming with statistics and data gar- nered from the most successful schools of in- struction in Europe by the head of the depart- went in his late visit to the continent, will be soon laid before the public. That Congress wil! take immediate action for the farther develop- ment of this necessary brauch of the govern ment, there is no doubt; the recommendation of the President and the formation of the com- mittee by Congress speak well for speedy ac- jon and the granting the necessary appropria- tion to carry on the department saccesstully. We do hope that Congress will be most liberal n its action. Farexp or Epucation. Verpict is tHe | iw Eraen Cass.—The Inquest on the recent death of a woman while rnderthe infinence of ether at Lynn, Massachu- setts, came to an end on Tuesday, but a verdict was not reached until Thursday evening. In spite of the testimony of distinguished physi- clans that the operation might have been per- formed without ether, and that the woman might have lived for years if the operation had not been performed, the jury found, after two evening’s discussion, that Mrs. Homans died from the combined effects ot sulphuric ether and extreme nervous exhaustion while undergoing a trivial surgical — and the jury further found that the etherisation and operation were properly performed, and that prompt, energetic, and all necessary measures were employed to resuscitate the patient. Waar 4 Few Suort Years BRING AnouT.— It was in this month of December, in the year 1861, — ——— ee eee) subsequently com: jazaine, landed at Vera Cruz. in the brief period of twelve years, since ela; lamentable fates have overwhel four of the princi <Raractere who Sgured prominantiy in that imilian was most ly executed; his w widow, Car! 4 went mad; Ni TH lost_ his own e: Cuarorp with Porsontnc.—J. L. BR. Molair, & citizen of Manchester, Pa., has been arrested and examined ing Sis mother in-law and, Coppi New Pablications, WASHINGTON OUTSIDE AND INSIDE. A Picture and a Narrative of the Origin, Growth, Bxc:lencies, Abuses, Beantion and Pérsonagee of our Governing City’ By George Alfred T wa- od. ath.” Aath rof * The New World Oom- red with the Old,” and Wash ngton corresp™. at cf the Chicago Tribune. Hartiord James Bote & Oo. [Throweh Btockman & Son, $28 $2 street, Washington The New York Nation lately remarked of Mr. Townsend's pen-work, ‘* We do not know of any American newspaper-English which we like better as English than that of Mr. George Al- fred Townsend. Our readers are not ignorant of Mr. Townsend's services at the Capital. where he has distinguished himself asa hater of shams and friendly to all those measures of political reform to which the better portion of the republican party is irrevocably committed It is, to be sure, sometimes easier to be amused by Mr. Townsend’s personalities than to apol- ogize for them; but there is a humor and pic- turesqueness about them which is nothing less than poetical.” This criticism upon Mr. Towa send’s newspaper work may be fairly applied to his book-work, as illustrated by the present volume, which has all the hurry, dash, (seme- times slap-dash,) picturesqueness of narrative, graphic portraiture, and happy felicities of ex- pression which strve to make his letters the most readable of any going. Mr. Townsend has industry, however, as well as genius, and this book has a wonderful amount of curious information in regard to the past and present of Washington, and the personages known to its history. It affords an amount of data in this 'y calculated to make it an indispensable feature of a Washington man’s library. Among the forty-one chapters of this thick book of 750 pages we will refer to those headed, ‘‘ How Washington City came to be;”’ “The Lobby and its Gentry;” “The Civil versus the Congres- sional Service;” “A Running History of Gov- ernment Scandals,” ‘'Style, Extravagance, and Matrimony at the Seat of Government;” “A Series of Open Air Excursions around Wash- ington to (iet Rid of Politics; «The Daeling Ground Bladensburg and the Greal Duels there;” ‘uriosities of the Great Bureaux of the Government;” “My Pursuit of Credit Mobilier;” ‘A Record of Historical Events in the District of Columbia from 1821 to 1873,” ‘Excursions in the Potomac Country,” (which gives the Inside history of the adventures of Booth after the murder of Lincoln.) and “Social Sketches of the Old and New in Wash- ington,” as affording a good idea of the interest and impertance of the work. THE BEST OF ALL GooD Blanchard Jerrold, First 8e u: Shep- ard £ Gill, [Througn Warrea (poate & C>,) Mr. Jerrold, son of ‘he Jerrolki, in his pretace introduces bis book as des'gned to draw readers trom that “very unedifying stuffage of mind” which is offered to them in the shape of light current literature, and induce them to become the companions of the noble minds that, weare told, ‘taken up any way are profitable com- pany.” The four writers illustrated and quoted from are Dickens, Scott, Thackeray, and Douglass Jerrold. SANTA CLAUS LAND. By Amanda M. Douglas. Mlustrated. Boston: “Lee & Gill, (Phrouga Warren Choate & Oo.) A pleasing illustrated story, just the thing for the holiday season. CHILD WORLD. By Gati Hamilton. Iilnstrated. Port Second. Beston: Lee & GU. [Through Warren Ohoste & Uo.) Another apropos book for the season by @ well-known writer. TEN-MINUTE TALKS ON ALL SORTS OF TOPICS. By Eliba Barritt, with atoblography of the anthor, Boston: Les & Shepard. [ Through Warren Choaie « Oo.) Almost a generation has passed since Mr Burritt’s last book was issued in this country, though in the interval about a dozen volumes from his pen have been published in England He has therefore dropped a little out of public recollection, though his name stands conspic- uously in current biography in counection with his remarkable feats in early life in acquiring most of the languages while working daily at the anvi!, The present yolume will revive pab- ic interest in him, the more especially as it has & pretty full autobiography of the author. A Philadelphia special to the New York Times says that the leader of the “‘coal combi- nation,” the Philadelphia and Reading Kail- road company, is apparently preparing to make a new movement to control the coal market in that city and New York; that immense quanti- ties cf anthracite are being brought from the middle coal fields; that on the coal wharves at Port Richmond the anthracite is now being “stacked;” that the quantity is something near 60,000 tons; that large shipments continue to be made to New York and the New England states, notwithstanding the fact that the market gene- rally is overstocked, and that the combined operators will endeavor to monopolize the Seranton coal sales. How the combination is going to reduce the prices by overstocking the market is a riddle the writer of the dispatch docs not undertake So solve. That is a decidedly cool proposition which comes from Kansas City, that the Kansas legis- lature increase the reward for the notorious Bender family, who have fled to Mexico, to a sum sufficient to justify an attempt to kidnap them. It is presumed, therefore, that if the reward is increased there will be no lack of volunteers to invade the soil of Mexico. We who are so sensitive on the subject of violating international law where our own interests are aifected certainly ought to be very careful not to tread on our neighbor's corns. Oe Virginia must not retrograde in the matter of public schools. The report of the superin- tendent of public instruction for this year shows a falling off of 5,518 schools since last year. ‘This does not look well, and we hope fora better showing next year. posal eb ea ed THE FOLLOW(NG DESCRIPTION of the most elo- quent orator of the platform, from the New York Her: taphic as to be itivel: fen’ notice ‘a bright. and unexpected turn, which throws the animal out and sends him scampering back to ascertain his bearings and reassume position of affected importance. Like the ambitious terrier, Wen- dell Phillips is sometimes right and kk Hy Hg iH i ti [ ( TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR. New York Notes. BROOKLYN'S OBARITY FUND SQUANDERED. New York, December 20.—It appears that the monies appropriated by the Brooklyn com missioners of charities have been squandered in an outrageous manner. In nearly every in- stance double prices have been returned. A STORY OF CORRUPTION in the Brooklyn coroner's office is published Fictitious inquests by the hundred have beea discovered. Inquisition papers have been mate out on physician's certificates and charged as if inquests had been held on bodies. There have been bogus cases of small pox in three years TRE TRANSPER of the Pacific and Atlantic telegraph lines to the Western Union was completed yesterday The Facific and Atlantic has 5,000 railes of line and 10 000 of wire. TRE FRINCIFAL WITNESS AGAINST OAKEY HALL If is said that E. A. Woodward, the ring coun ty auditor, who has turned states evidence, will be the principal witness against ex-mayor Hall at his second trial commencing next Weduss- ay. THE FOLLOWING STRPRNSIONS are announced: F. KR. Josselyn, jobber in car- pet works, cotton, yarns, Canal street, with liabilities of a & Kastor, wholesale furnishing | goods, No. 10 Walker street, with liabilit tween £150,000 and €290.600, d P. Landecker, wholesale furnishing goods, No. & Walker street, whose obligations are #5.5o ‘The committee of creditors of Uberhalser & Keefer, No. 327 Broadway, hi conclusion that the firm can pay a dividend of ninety per cent. cash, and still have a surplas of about 860,000. Foreign Notes. A PAMINE PEARED IN BENGAL. CareuTra, December :0.—One-half of the supply of food im the province of has been exhausted, it is now belie thata famine cannot be averted. Thus far there has been no actual distress among the people. DUTCH SUCCESSES IN ACHERN. Psnana, December 20.—-The Dutch troops in Achetn are now in possession of all the country on the left side of the Acheen river. The march of the Dutch is strongly resisted by the Acheenes, Virginius. HEARD FROM AT KBY WEST, LEAKING RADLY New York, December 2.—A Key West despatch says that the Virginiux and Ossipee were spoken off Key West yesterday morning When the \ irginius left Tortagas she had three feet of water in her hold and was leaking badiy: and the steam pumps were obliged to be kept going continualiy to keep the water down. ‘THE REVENUE CUTTER COLFAX went ashore Wednesday en route from Key West for Savani no lives were en Fatal Col read Portsmovrn, N. H., December 20.—Two freight trains on the Eastern railroad collided at Kennebunk last night, and were 60 badly smashed that no train has passed since. One man is reported killed and two missing. Rerortep Cray Successes.—Advices from insurgent sources state that column of 500 Spaniards set ont on Monday last to sarprise the depot of arms and ammunition near Ga maro, but fell into an ambuscade prepared them'by Gen. Maximo Gomez with 609 cavalry. Only 100 Spaniards escaped; their commander and 200 soldiers were killed,’ and the remainder were taken prisoners. The Cubans subsequent- ly released the guerilla, Major Martelique, and other officers, and after Spanish lines. A Spanish column, under Col. Arminam, has started in pursuit of the insur- a gent forces. It is reported that a steamer named the Santiago de Cuba has succeeded in landing a fillibustering expedition on the ern coast, between Guanta A Weer tm an Ovex Boat at Sea.— Patrick O'Neal and Frank Miller, two of the crew of the schooner Tubal Cain, of Gloucester. Macs., who left the vessel on a visit, October 14, and disappeared in the fog, and were supposed to haye perished, have been heard from at Lon- don. The men were six days and six nights in a boat, without anything to cat or drink except a little rain on one occasion which soaked their clothing and gave some relie: m the seventh morning they were picked up, nearly dead from exhaustion, Norwegian brig bound to Ion- don, and k: eared for. No tidings have yet come to hand of the two men George Creek and Jesse Oliver, belonging to the same vessel, wh nobly risked their lives to go in search of these, their companions, but never returned. AciES TO New York Kalbfieisch, late president of b ke Mahopac manufacturing company oi New York, has applied to Judge Gilbert for a mandamus to compel Commissioner Van Nort to complete the purchase of seven acres of land in Carmel, Putnam county, for which Wm. M Tweed negotiated when he was commissioner of —_— works of the cityof New York. This and, draining as it docs the Lakes Mahopac and hirk, was to be used as a storage reservoir to increase the supply of water for New York city, and Mr. Tweed went so far with his nego- tiations as to » procure an act of the legislature authorizing the transfer. Wao Was THe Sunsect?—There is another subject, upon which I am anxious to dilate, the reality so seldom met with of recognizing a dead ly in a dissecting room, such as was my lot recently in one of the medical col of this city. lady in the bloom of life, some, Dead with either a and scalpel and chi-el of students studying anatomy.—Phila. Cor. Readi ee. A BALL was given by the steerage passengers recently on one of the trans-Atlantic steam-rs, on her voyage from erpool to New York. The ball-room was “tween decks,” and the music was aviolin and flute. Thirty couples had the floor at one time, and as many more when the steamer rolled. Kefreshments were provided at the “sbip’s expense,” and the dancing ‘was kept up with spirit- until mid- night. CoroxER ainst a Buiroer. After a protracted investigation the Coroner's jury in the case of the two men killed by the failing ef a building in Passaic, N. J., have rendered @ verdict of culpable negligence against the builder. The verdict shows that the catpenters who acted as foremen knew that the structure was not safe, yet they are merely censured for continuing ‘the work after obtaiu- ing this knowledge 5 ‘The New England papers come freighted with accounts of the “tea parties” held on the 16th inst., to commemorate i | ; ie fi i ¢ A ii i and remains aground, but red. on the Eastern Rail. | tending to the wound~ ed, sent them under escort to the vicinity of the Tae Stoxy or Tex Keavit Traeepr ae Top By Tux Victim.—On the ‘of No- | vember 13, Mrs Lucy Krull was ip the J., ber grrists terri- | Soods near Elizabeth, | Diy gasbed and a ballet bole w her left eve | Ste barely escaped death. On Thursday her the ee Dwband, Herman a* put on triat on charge of attempted murder. Mrs. Krall | tatied Imet Hermann Krall first at Ham! Avgust last, and was married to him | tember. We arrived in F dt | vember 5 and re | going in the mes | to see his chikiren, returni | On the next day be told me | Newark, where he had moved | said be sbould have to stop at ¢ got off at EUizabeth, walked some distance along a dark road to thé outskirts of the city, when side of the rond and both got to die.” and be answered, * ‘& second shot, the ballentering my eye, and | became unconscious. On becoming cons! Qn and wes covered with blood. I strag, te take the knife from him, but he cut me and I in fell. He then strack a match and set my clothing on fre and went away. The fire smouldered, and 1 finally pat it 1 tried to craw away, got in the mud and waited aotit morning, when | saw Savres’ house and tried to creep to it. i the prisouer. The prisoner testified that he was not married to previons witmer=; that he slept on the train and missed her as be woxe in Newark, She had been drinking. He looked for her in Elizabeth, but couk! pot find her. The trial closed The jury, after i it in the wer saat. and he was sentenced to ten vears in the state prison, and to pay a fine of $1,000. yesterday Mre. Axx Fura ¥ great lecture in Denvw that at pi UNG bas delivered her , Colorado. She says t polyg! incipally fed by the foreign clement Danes. Many times wir © thrown aside and a new one taken, sim; for the dairy maid, housekeeper, or cook than paying as weil as boarding belp. Poly famous houscholds are widely. distributed. righam Young has one wife in Prove, fifty miles south of Salt Lake, and auother in St. George, three hundred and fifty miles away Many of the wives of apostles previde for them- selves, and some support their husbands, the four wives of a bishop sustaining that divine by washing and house cleaning. Husbands dis- criminate in the treatment of their women. Mary Ann Angel, Brigham Young's first wife, lives in retirement and neglect, while Amelia, the favorite, has every luxury and indul and lives in palace which cost £100,000. Ne- lected wives learn to hate their husbands, and eirchildren *ympathize with them. A 'little gir] said one day to her mother. “Mamma I do wish God bad made men eno: . 80 that rath nen little girl could have a father to love Mormons sometimes marry their sisters, @ bishop married his brother's daughter. another | wedded six of his nieces, and there was an in- | stance where mother, daughter, and | daughter were married to oné man. Mrs. Young's picture of polygamy is certainly not an agreeable one. STATIETIO“S OF VeLLow Faven Ravacee mm | SEREVAPORT.—Ina recent issue of the Shre port (La.) Times some interesting tacts are given concerning the yellow fever ray: | which came so near depopulating that city dar- | veport ing the fall. The population of Shy is abont 10,0001n the summer, and 14.000 in the winter. According to Dr. Db. P. Tenner, who bas collected statistics for the national govern- | ment, the population just previous to the ap- | pearance of the fever was about 9,000; during | she prevalence of the disease fell to 4,500. ‘The Times claims that the latter estimate is too great by at least "0, and says of the 4,000 people this would show, full 1.500 were negroes. he first notable case of yellow fever was dis- covered August %tb. Between that date and November ith, 75% persons, of whom 13 were negroes, died of the disease. The prevalence Of the disease, it is said, 1s directly traced to offi- cial neglect of duty. During the summer ths the streets of Shreveport were full of king Hlth; and in the alleys and out-of-the- way places ‘even as far back as last January were masses of garbage, rank and foul from de~ cay. Complainis from the people and warning from the press, although loud and frequent, failed to stir the oficiales from their criminal negligence, and the rotten garbage, stagnant fith “and dead animate lay in the gutters in- viting Death to the harvest which was reaped in the fall. —During the reheating of the furnaces in an iron establishment in England says the British Journal of Science, the men worked when the thermometer, 0 a8 not to be influenced by the radii ot heattrom the open doore, marked 120 degrees. In the Bessemer pits, the men continue a kind of labor requiring great muscular effort at 140 degrees. In some of the operations, of glase- making, the ordinary summer working temper- ature iscopsiderably over 100, aud the radian heat to which workmen are subjected fer ex creds 212 degrees. in Tarkish bath, the shampooners continue four or five hours at a time in a moist atmosphere at temperatures ran gre from 105 to 110 degrees. In enamel works, men labor daily in a heat of over 300 de- grees. On the Ked Sea steamers, the tempera- ture of the stoke bole is 145 degrees. And yet 'n none of these cases does any special form or type of disease develop itself, Maxx Twary, at a public dinner ia Londou, recentiy, responded to the toast “Phe Ladies,” and in the course of his remarks said: “Ab, von remember, you remember well, what a throb of pain, what agreattidal wave of grief! ~weptover us all when Joan of Arc feil at Waterloo. |laughter.) Who does not sorrow for the loss of Sappho, the sweet singor of Ista. el? [Laughter.) Who among usdoes not m' the gentle ministrations, the softening infla ences, the humble piety of Lucrezia Laughter.) Who can join in the heartless ‘fee that woman is extravagant in dress when wi can look back andcali to mind oar simple and towly Mother Eve ber cation FRIGHTFUL INGENUITY OF a Screrpe.—The Detroit Tribune says that one A. C.J en oe » bestowed his atiections upon a you lady who did not reciprocate, and he felt xo bad that he went off and hung himsel! in a peculiar and =— oe tym one end of a rope between his legs passed it up and around bis neck, in tee form of a pad, tying the other end to a cross-piece of timber in abarn. jumped a distance of some fifteen feet. tearing bis flesh and breaking bis neck im a tearful manner. DISAPPEARED Prom Pratic Gaze.—W.P Buell, once of Petersburg. but lately connected with the office of the anditor of public accoumts of the state—who “re a week or two ago—has disappeared from Richmond. He ir charged with the most brutal treatment of hiv wite, and also with a graver and more serious offense against the laws of Virginia. cet t — _A SHOOTING APFRAY took place a few days since in Lincoln county, N. M., between Jack Guilem, former sherifi of the county, and Mr Harald, both of whom had been drinking freely. Ai mpt to arrest them by the Mexican con- stables were resisted, and both Guilem and Harald were killed. Ropprry Uron a Hava: Havana the office of the Diario wasentared by burglars yesterday moraing. The administrator and his nephew were tied, gagged. and their lives threatened. The burglars, after securing about $2,000, decamped. _———___ TWRED's FRIENDS are one by one followit their illustrious leader guilty yesterday, and men” io be fitted with &7-The rate of taxation in Cle twenty-four mille on the dolar. Sn OM #* 87 Victoria Woodbull was at Ann Arbor, Much. vecoae ae s7 Winthrop, Kevere and Somerville also ask to be membere of the Boston family. Where will that annexation tever stop. . i i i ] sé § f sf gs ti iH ! il i } i | | HE : } ; I I t i i TA ePay