Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1875, Page 1

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GAUTIER CAM SAS neyivaoia srener, reduced CLA . for pure WINES and LIQUORS, of all grades, at | coe. domen, 97.50, BHINE WINE, 95; 1 CATAWBA, 91 50 per gallon. . BASPBERRBY SYROP, soigcxe tae 5 OOD ENGRAVING. Ticwsot paldings, Bata, ae! alsa" The Pacific Mail Investigation. OF THE COMMITTER. Mr. Kasson, from the Committee of Ways and Means, this morning made the report of that committee with reference to the allezed corrupt use of money to ob!ain the subsid. of 1872 to the Pacific mail steamship pany. The report proper is merely a recita tion of the labors of the committee and the Means taken to coliect all the testimony pos- sible bearinz on the snbject. reported certify the ease of Win. 8. Ki Schumaker to the next House of Representatives for its action: turns over to the district attorney of the District of Co- lumbjia the evidence given by each witness, to take such action ashe may deem neces: and recommends that any newspaper by the testimony. have accepted moner from pany for a corrapt purpose the courtesy of the reporter's galler; THE TILTON-PEECHER TRIAL. More of Tracy* Argame After our telegraphic report of the Tilton- I ciosed yextentay, Gen. Tracy xe, continuel bis ar- RECOMMENDATIONS EVENING STAR. “Washington News and Gossip. i Customs RECESPTs.—Th this source to-day were $743,6: INTERNAL REVENUE—The receipts from this source to-day were $746,068.81. the monih, = year todate © FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS, | TELEGRAMS TO,THE STAR. | SaTURDAY, February SENATE.—The Vice President named as | the members of the committee to sit during the recess to investigate the ya of the civil service. Messrs. Wrigt well, Conkling, Merrimoyu and Eaton. Mr. Wright said his eogagements during the coming summer were such that it woald he impossible for him to serve. fore asked to be excused. ES SION. receipts from £U ment, say) | WHAT THE PRESIDENT Says. ) nber how Moulton, on witness stand, made a slip twice in regard te SEXUAL RELATIONS.” Now. in his second statement he omitted the A said when Mr. Beect was confessing to him he used the word Moulton makes minutes of the w of January y came on the Ist of January, 1871, a was written on that evening jay, which was the n SAYS he called nd uad the interview. Now. tlemen. the New Year's « tained over eight bi 1 show you that Mr. Moaiton had no in view with him. T - THE LOUISIANA COMPROMISE. The resolutions Total for the fiseal The Ving Row Word “sexual m appointed Mr. Allison s§ Tne Hovse Committee on Patents have CASEY AS U.S. SENA TOR. agreed to a bill providing for the reorganiza- tion of the Patent Ofice. The committee wi'l riunity occurs ile Mr. Morrill (Vt.) presented the eredentials cue, Hon. G from Vermont, which were read and placed on file. Pease snbmitted joint resolutions of ssippr legislature in favor of the Texas J. Edmund: STARVATION IN KANSAS. which is not reporter who may be proved to have SICAL ENTER- KING'S PROPERTY TO BE ATTACHED, The processes issued by the chairman of the »of Ways and Means h to Washingte y of the Pacific Mail pany has gone to Minnese property as that of | DESTRUCTIVE ¥, when Mr. Beecher enter callers, and he le A report from the commit tee of conference on the bill in y retirement of army officers, w ation to the ITY of the Vicksburg iis ~ ch Was 001 to bring Mr TROUBLE AT PENNSYLVANIA MINES. nd, and Speer, of Penn- ivania, have submitt y justify the acti | killing the negroes. THE CIVIL RIGHTS DEBATE IN THE SEN- ATE.—Senator Carpe to-day against the civil rights bill was lis ened to with unas on both sides of | vending and letter writ | peaded for the time, over and oce who was abse Mr. Frelinghoyse Foreign Relation reported bill to a e United Sta ry Cominitte, bill fe NO EXTRA SESSION, What President Gra soe i editorship of t 1 of the white people in F IN THE LIBEL CASE of Senator Chandler, of Michigan, against the news,2per cor: spondent Buell, the attorneys have filed a stipulation to have the question of the right | defendant to the Distriet of from the Judie. the retief of John 1 Moulton sho roviding for to remove the Columbia for trial, brougt the United 8! tled the qhestion. of tie members as possible, inasmuch « y them that ifany of the a is failed an , Would be imperative; butthe President 4 once settled the matter by s nt likely to happen would he eall an ex tra session. He said that all the approp tion bills that were indispensable were ready through, or so nearly through that he nger aNXious about them that the sundry civil, the river and har and the deficiency bills were the only that were a a bor would, without doub je, but in case ‘ing of varion Mr. Morrill, (Ma on Appropriations, reported bill to p for the payment of certain employees of Representatives; . Aliso, from the same al attention by from the Com. * district cou of Missouri. Ar Tuk Write Hovse To-nay.—Seere- Belknap, Secretary Del: Senators Carpenter, W of Brookiyn, propriation . Thurman mo led the seat of Mr. Conkli t, just in front of Mr. Carpen- Mr. Sehurz alsa moved up within a few paid the utmost ead from mane occupying about amended and Committee, bill to re] consular and diplom tor the fiseal y Mr. Sargent opposed tt effect was to liftoff the present restraint on | smuggling across the . With the pre: porting goods Mrs. Tilton t her retractions of om that she tind sioner Smith, s of Mr. Carpe: the stories again ahd said if its ipt. his remarks During the diseu: two-thints of th e colored. Mr. E or, fired up during the deba *xeited colloquy retraction was « s mec ny. itought not to is morning. rilities for trans. frontier without gthe duties the goverament now lost with the President persons in the that it was not by Tilton and 7 AND SIX DOLLAR Tr Donglass TAX. —Commissic ng telegram tc It applies to mp: for cigars than are exl to cigars sold or 1 or to change of law y six dollar tax. go through withor nto a somewh & Collector of in- rertaimly, instead of relaxing the pre ot Call an ext. The President thinks that the coun- onid get along until ott these apy | @n extra sess the public interest than the failure of t lhe more st needed to be from the factory pr: coliar stamp re sent her away & retraction of her stories aga P. D. Moulton is the eestion of sending tells Beecher that T; his understandin: session witlh- ss the bill, t and the res: Senator from Ind man who makes th ve on juries | amendments were being pnt on the mation in ft. Mrs. Stantan and the other ties denied giving it, and it only remained: Tien Moulton to deny it, but this Tilton refused to do. GEN. TRACY'S PERSONAL DENTALS AND EX. PLANATION Gen. Tracy then denied the story that he prepared the qucstion® for plaintiffs wife be= lore she appeared before the committe; denied that the “true story” when shown him contained more than the charge of im- proper proposals, and deniet that at that ime he adviset silence; and continued: & Went into Beecher’* service as counsel at the pomtence of Mr Me ulton, inJune, 4. Wher arnet of Tilton preferring charges of adultery against Beecher and that he had changed bis cause of action, 1 went to him and told him that did not ¢onsider myself bound to Keep trust with him and was re- Jeased rom my promise not .> appear ag counsel for Mr. Beceber. I hay consulted with PE associates and they oosidered £ Was in the bounds of propriety inappeari in this case. This. gentivmen wnid’comees 4 is the history of my connection with the matter. The court here adjourned tii Monday whem Tracy will cont A CARD + MMR. H.C ROWEN Henry C. Rowen publishes & card. saying: The statement made Tracy in bis open. ing address to the court and jery in the Krookiyn scandal case, so far as the said statements refer to meas having been gazed In any -comsy y’ whatever, are ma- Tigi ane fatrications from begin end, | as aid Tracy can learn if bewill call me to the Witness siand The New York Church Divaster. CRUSHED TO DEATH BY FALLING Was GRAPHIC DESCHIPTION BY AN EYE Wir NESS aphi: account was published yes rin New York, oa od by the falling of a i} upou the roof of Rt. Aadrew's ANECh, Corner of Dna +, crushing t larte t veapers, and cA ud the wounding tenlay of Thurs of five y IN OF THF DISAST EN K papers of yesterday contain the frig fisaster, it * red next h. im the five- M. Shaw. and turned i through the reof. The the time. so that the water fr front of the building as itw the fire walls of th i frozen again upom injured exposed walls further Weakeatd them. The thaw of the past few days hi helped to reduce the streng' the which had been lert without farther security than the weakened beams ta ther. Thehigh wind wh creled tic ratu-sto. Mm oa Tharsday ev bg. blowing from the eastwand, expended # full forec ne westerly wall of the bur & portion of ft ¢ sing the . nounee: MEKNOW SOT WHAT MAY MAPPEN Suit AGAtNst » Court in G ng provisions ppose when SPEAKER BLAINE.—I f TRE LOUISIANA COMPROMISE. Mr. Morton s\ preeticed law for some y ss about Tillon, girl it was de nounced the . Shington speci the very bsst authority that one mpromise will be the racterized Mr. Eaton's statement awibble, when Mr. unfinished busin THE CIVIL RI results of the order of the House of Repr in place of Mr. Pinchback. T of Rey of the President ever since ile talking with a enator, the Pre all of the time been de- _ Mr. Morton then wit CONFIRMATIONS.—The Senate confirmed the following compelled to vote against this present bill entertained as stre a pniiments wh in the present far as he could, to the li f ting the rights of but he could id a tribute to he colored people during the | He said that tme and expe- » were requisite to soften the prejudices | rh the colored peop xormina tions: to be judge of the Cou THE Prosrrcts or THE in the House is not pass that body in the shape in it was reported by republican eaticus committe corpus section is stricken out of the bill, it is amended otherwise in the Massachusetts, ive a majority uiers of the repabli ofthe House have united in oppositi These include has prepared a speech E.R. Hoar and George F. Hoar, of Mussa- ehusetts, the latter hi: it, Jndge Poland, of V Mr. Dawes, When the motion is made de revious question, a number of amendments vill be offered. jonds of the bill to refuse to allow them to be offerea BALL Uisy rst get a recorded vote as to its strength in F Is with his wife's by rh dictated this bill; and | dent said that he h: Teter et Fence re ceived in regard to the last election ard had telegray him that the republicans had earried Orleans and the state to be the fact, because, know what the result was, he known, and if he had he had lied. relying on atined the United ifthe dehat RECONCILIATION Mrs. Tilton was tot her husty es a letter to her yburn, of th to be Seeond Assistant Postmaster M. Routt, resigned; O. N. internal revenue for Ore- tevens, calle $ Wis.; Levi Hubbell, 1 district of Wiseons of @ number of Tae e Supposed that ckard did ne ought lo hay © beyond it. the behavior of collector of Milwaukee make his home bap Moulton he id his object Tilton’s husband trusting and With more even th said counsel, likely vo be Uh pressious of A man Who was charged w Counsel would not dwell on remaining letters which passed between the parties in that winter, or the remarkabie story which the plaintiff told of his inter view with Beecher over the paternity of his racy said he would now he very Strongest I were surround- | pateh, he had sust troops and approved course, and by doin; nents of many of his n ihe old lov only tend to intensify it. HOUSE OF REPR % this had made oppo- political friends. Now, » he was told by the committee t the republicans had not carried the state nd this placed him ina very awkward He seemed disposed to lay all the on Packard. Bcenstt SL e FRESUETS. VATIAKE In East Tennessee. CINCINNATI, February %7.—A_ spec h from Knoxville say: ‘ennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad was broken in’ twenty-six Knoxville. Trains will be delayed at least East of Knoxville the damage is not so great. The bridzeat Strawberry Plains was considered in danger last night, should hold, trains will run to Bristol by The loss to the road ried. Two men were d.owned at Clinch River while trying to save a raft of lumber. The river is slowly falling. There is now 4 feet of water. A 810,000 Flood on the Raritan. _ —Considerabie damage has been donc in'New Brunswick by the freshet on the Raritan river. of factories‘on the line of the canal were compelled to suspend operations. Yesterday an unusual height, and the floating ice displaced one of the bridges, moving it about two_feet from its position on the abutments. boats have been sunk. The damage is esti- mated al $10,000, THE STRIKING MINERS. Reported On HAZLETON, Pa., Febru o'clock this morning the miners who are on about 300, drew the fire from under the boilers, stopped all pumps set fre to the engine house, and shot one « the engineers at Buck Mountain, 11 mi from here. The man is not serionsiy wound- It is almost impossible to get men to | keep the pumps going: ing to get men to do so at MARRIED.—Major R. L. Shelley, of New gainst the bill Orleans, who has been spending the winter in Washington in the interest of the rebuilt- Mississippi, was last iphany Chureh, to weil, of Pittsburgh, her, has been Committee | building, and knowing that the Affairs in Miss., submitted g Of the levees of the Mr. O’Brien. rom the same Cor tee, submitted the views of the minority. Both reports were ordered to be printed and secuaamitted. Mr. Smith (N. Y. rules for the purpose amendment tg the » With her mo Nard’s Hote) for the past Major SheVey was in iourne?; ng been the correspondent in tie Y. Tribune during the t of the war. ul blonde, su two moatus. moyed to su: SM for & loag WOODRULL. The other side had coneeded that Tilton irs. Woodhull in Septem He attributes his connection with her te be for the benefit of defendant. Yelations with ber, be claims, have boon en- tirely proper, ana’ during his acquaintance “f: improper in ber condact Ifhe presumed to vil appropria~ time, but the Speaker refused to entertain a motion to suspend the rules until the “force bill” isdis. that the East written the life of nes aL the ele brie le ‘sa beau’ Pittsburg, oddly places west of Shall have refused to second tne previons will be In order, the demand amendments One, which will be carried uo doubt, is to strike out the habeas corpus section, #nd the bill ma. votes to pass it. the bili cannot be brought up tn the Si Say the bill passes to-nigh’ it will then be engrossed and Ie. tr: itt to the Senate on Monday. A sir consideration postpones action oar some democrat will tt this respect. nate on Tuesday THE “BACK PAY” OF THE PactFic Raig~ ROADS.—The course of the Cabinet In de- ciding to take no action on th¢ ptoposition of the Union and Central Pacific railroads is Lot intended to mean that the government does not favor an adjustment outside of the transpires in the me action unnecessary, and itions are renewed at the proper time. itis probable that they will be se Congress in December next time, however. Committee, reported # bill to amend the in relation to the distribution of the Geneva and recom. bill to authorize Knapp to present a claim for the loss of a ma claims court ith her nothin, er was revealed to him. 1 set forth to the public that his acquaintan: with Mrs. Woodhull was begun on acconnt and his statement was coatr dicted, then he was contradicied on a very He went to Coney Isl: age with her, and denies Lavir bathed with her. He would suow they bo: had deposited their watches with the ce man, and returned with all the evidences that they had been bathing. them that they returned to the house return, and stayed unt evening. when he took this woman iu a ered carriage to his own louse. show them that the slips of her publicat the newspaper oMer re she published them, and that Tilton is ng this woman to get her nblish this story. was the downfr also had the evic gat ihe Steinway-hall mee: ntroduced her as the alyoca YE DOCTRINES then receive enough this result ensue, comunitted. unt!) Tuesda ship to the Ala to be printed and recommitted. DISTRICT INTERESTS. presented a memoria important point. time to tender sue! day, and of cours ntage of his right i then comes be deriocats can eff of twenty hours, s. must adjourn. I measure before ( bellum times in interested manifes Tu the mean- the Attorney General will xceet with the suits now beir se roads for the recovery of ton, with the He would sho’ whieh, by law. hoth | views of the upon the snbject triet of Columbi. | | to fall wer ing the tide rose { Moulton on their 2 been somuel consent to take up Sen: ot John Montgomers a allowing $2. Several canal ‘GRESS Las alre iy disposed of several INCEN DIARIES the pension, tary aeademy and consular and bilis having been signed by the am trom Ps The reward of by President Gowen of Mr. Lawrence (Ohio) presented @ bill mak- appropriation to pay the awards mad. hern Claims Commission. | @ journalist. sueh information t nd conviction o the person who se to the shaft frame or the Mammouth Vein iron compan. tion to the person of penses paid does not seem to hay arism in this viet b ined as to who earri jan shaft last night, tgnit portion of the powder and nitro gt the army bill (aut & strike, numberin; the postal bill rence committee; ordered to a conferen now with the Honse ule ameodments, aud thy appropriation bi and offering He was not eher to become acqnain Mr. Beecher ti woman, and so take off from Tilton a portion bh had fallen apon hi tis woman. sion would ever have been mae to this ni ¥ » the Mexican volunteer monument association; but Mr. Killings THE TAYLOK STAT 4 fire ia the URBIECTRED TO. itted a upanimous re- on the Library, esolution authorizing that commit- 7 nts to the army bill simportant, the House will doubtless is now thought that a» m of the House will not of the obloquy wh | rested vestenday a ROUGH TIMES EXPECTED. aces ’ pprebensions of rough the men are gathering here discovered befor ne tui property. There we 3 own in the Shaft at (he time, who hi was in trouble | Monday aine bruited abroad. Beecher condemned these » With Mrs. Woodinw around here, of Zachary Taylor well known that relations of Tilt he was alw from here, a serious disturbance took ‘ily beaten. The Police have bee) intersection lassachusetts aventu and ith street. in the city of Washir the vost not to exceed | place, two men were port says one cannot | Sent to Buck mouniain to start pumps. Se ee IN KANSAS on by the Legis- KA, KANSAS, Februar: house yesterday, a resolution was adopled instructing the committee report a bill immediately appro- priating $200,000 out of the money in the st: treasury for the relief of the sufi of the state. | the Montgomery aven | coverir ATLROAD COMPANY publish, for the information of sarchatders zlith annual report, whi unual meeting tobe held on the 9th of Mareh next. r of all lines east and west the year were & ime; but obje ember 1, 871, Tilton wre: Marmadnuke’s M made him allude to his ¢ torn from him but the odiam ple held him for fing through Mrs. Woodhull? porm Was issued As a mena This poem was writ- hall meeting “in or Him a Chance. from this ¢ A telegram to the poem of in which the loctrines he w: : Pittsburg duri submitted a report, which was adopted. SYPHERED over Mr. Robinson (Ohio), from Committee on YS" rest, preseribed b his physician verse of that Beecher, toa ten before the Stein der, we suppose, to compel Beecher to en up ‘there and everything rather ciples this woman Tilton and Mrs. Woodhull to do their worst. ne Tilton had overdrawn his ac count in Woodruil & Robinson's The importance of this would be itor Uae case Beec this meeting on ways and letter from Irwin ished for publics Seroings of 4 nehes were * cluding rents paying rentals, decrease in net earnings o! pared with the fi Lions, submitted a report and resolution Sypher was not elected g mem- ber of Congress from Louisiana, and that Ef- nce Was so elected, INVESTIGATION RE- Ido all Kinds of Hair Work reside at it. than indorse ering people The resolution was the result of information received that the destitution | in various parts of the state is extreme, and that several persons have died of starvation, pending the discussion of the relief bills in the legislature and the difference house and senate as to how the bon: ——_+—__— oH CHUNK, Pa. assenger trainon the Leh: BY THE OUNCE To HAIR a sures of the are neifmer newspa tonly makes mer: ess, nor Dire cease from troubling I suppose Rufus Pn untry. where there arp ference to the controversy going on relative to the Balti- more ant Ohto road, and says that it is hoped Mr. Kasson, (lowa,) from the sub-commit- tee of the Ways and Means Committee, p he report of the Pacific Mail investi- between the 1. a thorough understanding of every pertaining to the question proper re- Its may be arrived at. obvious. A‘ fing from the same commit ; tee, presented 4 number of resolutions tor ay hall was rey Ulity by Tilton. when Tilton retu: On the foliowing year, d from his lecturing tour in the west, the Golden Age required money, pushed for mouey which Tile him. He makes a pe: pe for publication MINex8 DEMAND AbyaNcep RATES OF area? %S 2 The first directs tiat a copy of the testi- WEDNESDAY NIGHT At mony taken by the Comunittes of Ways and Meas upon the questi money for obtaining th Mail subsidy be delivered to the clerk of the se at the first session of the 4th Congress, in order that be taken, especially so far as the testimony affects Wm. S. King and Jotn_G. Schumaker. zd. That the Clerk of the Honse be directed to (rausmit to the United States District At- torney for the District of Columbia a copy of the testimony taken. with the details.as to rath of the testimony formerly given by W. . King aod J. G, Schumaker, and that the sume be laid before the grand jury for such | action as the law may require. 3d. That any reporter or correspondent oc- cupying # seat in the reporter’s gallery who | nsation, or re- the privileges of | Mr. Kasson (Iowa) said that the commit- lee recommended no action in relation to the igh Vatley road, thrown from the track at nn Haven by a guard rail breaking. The engine turned across the track of the main line and the tender and baggage car left the track, Engineer Henry Brown and Fireman Owen Hall were sealdéd, the former serious- No passengers were injured } iS not impeded yesterday, the exe » board of the M association, by of @ corrupt use of additional Pacific 1 nesda ton said he ows wget orci statement, sets it in t the Golden Age, and in it he incorporates t January 1, 1871. these copies to Mr. Wilkeson and told tim Wat statement uz Beecher did him justice. was no demand for justice (rom Bowen, for that would not intlaence Wilkeson said if that was published it would create a scandal wh: tendom, and advi: Tilum said that m and their asis of twodol- ss Vinnie Ream 4 basis of two dol with distinguished and vefore the Ho | has at last lars and seventy-five « He wok om entertained further action ma. er 184 prices, is about 40 per that touching cent. reduction from fended by th * suspension last until a tion opens companies will be s Death of a Giant. BALTIMORE,February 2;._James Murph dr. the Irish giant, died in this city yester- day of bronchial affection, ag: travelled several years with P. T. Barnum and was well known in the United States. 3 feet high and weighed <9 u her usual charming manner. men on the ccomplished elocutionist from te her debut into Washing: would shake Chris- him not to publish it er never offered him help in being kept in his situation on the In- dependent. If counsel could show that ¢ publication was threatened bj compel @ recognition from jusiness of his claim against Bi would be shown that this publication was threatened for BUSINESS OF BLACKMAIL? He never intended to publish this st > to ont wD ' s, the men having endured all the suf- fering, will have a good title toa part of the Resumption of raining will prob- ably not soon take place. music on the plano by | were ¢ He was about and Miss Scheluker, both goot performers, and songs by Mrs. McAllister, or. and Mrs. Long. Col. Boudinot, as well as Miss Vinnie mm, who accompanied herself on the harp, ade the evening seein ver: many of the gu BNo 10.1 0-0 F will € at Odd Feliows Hail. tr e THURSDAY EVENING ok. ted Will F . Divorce or Briews # TEENTH,” WiTH 4 LIBERAL ALLOW ANCE.— | A dispatch from Salt Lake city says: cision was made in Salt Lake city Ti evening by Judge McKean in the caseof Ann ication for divorce andal- " ipwreck on Nrw Yorx, February 7 schooner founded yesterday off Squan Beach. The crew was saved. The name of the vessei was not stated. The - ge j — lvania House, after a lengtay debate, receive any bribe. com’ ward, should be deprived of the gallery. hort, although ptil after mid- ‘siderable merriment was ved by the sudden depa ‘ture of a number Eliza Young's ay The usual services of the were in prog congees sons, Une The serviees were Michael Carran, mt by Rew. Pathor 7, and Father Car- n’s church. f the terrible dixa church, told a Tribur ter, who report The church af St. Au- “i City Hall place, Was packe » Chose who bad as toa lecture p pASLOF Of ch. Upon each side of the church ran. s which, as well as the body of ing. were densely crowded. The lecturer began his discourse about * and the at the audience was closely held. T! ne Up, and my atten- he lecturer by the stron, ting of the raja against the windows. should think that it was about 15 minutes after * when I heart a thump against the eastern side of the butlding. ax though several brieks had been thrown against the wall. I was sitting in the north-west comer of the pid walls of that had beeo burned oat since. were standing upon the eastern side. I felt very uneasy. The lectarer Was just saying that “we can never look for Ward to what may happex upon the morrow when Where was A TERRIBLE CRASH upon the easiern side of the building. There was a teariy king, breaking of heavy timbers and iron girders, and the masonry and bulge. The whole side of hb then fell like an avalanche apan Y Upon the eastern side, dragging * poof after it. The whole was done jaan almost incomprehensible short time, but to me, as I looked upon the awful specta- cle, it seemed an age between the fall of ear part. The gas-lights were dragged down and broken, an thoughts of fire at once were up- permost in my mind. Those of the congrega- tion who were injured were paraiyzed at first with terror. Their panic took t place of helpléssness. ana there was a general strug- gle for the door. Wonls are almost imade- quate to describe the confusion that followed, seryboly who could was striving to get oat of thé doors. Those who were weak enough overrun by the crowd that fo! lowed. Over the backs of pews, and over tae | heads of others, yonng men crowded, erusi- | ing the more ‘helpless persons. Shricke, yells. and groans flied the “ir. Nobolty thought of THF DEAD AND DYTN that lay crushed under the ruins, foreach one was panic-stricken, striving to save himselt, how or from what they bandly knew, Ti firemen ani police reached the chureh by *30, and began at oner to restore order and render assistance. The wounded were taken to the k Hospital as fast as they could be ex~ tricated from the rains, and the dead were ed to Sweeney's Hotel at Chambers and nan streets. « M. Shaw. the owner of the batiding, wal}s of which fell on Une church, was ar bailed to await the Section of the coroner's jury, Which meets on TREATING A 1. GIRL.— Miss Maddox, prim pt on Wednesday af " of the proils ‘rl about seven years old, CHARGE or CruRt Rom | was bleedin the head, and appeared ws | have suffered otherwise ‘rom cruel treat- j ment. sent for I nretant Meekei, and the suing of @ Warrant for the result was the arrest of Willi Staffenberg and Wife, the foster parents of the child. On a baring be- fore the alderman it was testified tha: @0.ex- amination of the child disclosed scars aud bruises of the berty from the shoulders tothe feet aud the child said that she had been whipped by both the accused. A small stick had been Used, but the whipping seemed to have been frequent aud severe. The ¢hitd had been indentared to th fendauts by the orinetpa Catholic home. There was a pind wirt, the bail being fixed ati lger. 26th. —Ex- Governor (District unison has declined to be the republican nomination for governor of Ohio. The proposal to run the Hon. B. F. Wade agaiast Governor Allea, since old men seem so popular, ts gai favor. -*-* The campaign in New Haanpshire pened. The republicans have made the first move. and have announced as speakers Mr. Frederick Dougiass, Gen. John L. Swift, and ot If advices from ready taken the Oe California are correct, Senator Booth will not take duis seat during the extra session of the Senate. He pledged himself pablicls, when & candidate for the Senatorship, to serve his tall term for governor in case he ted, and that will keep him ia Cali- a until next December. Loca OPTION IN: PENNSYLVANT. on first reading & bill to repeal an act to permit the voters of that state to vote every three years on the question of license to sel intoxieating liquors, known as the local option law. As ‘CIDE OF A Drug Leath, @ native of Sweden, committed suicide yesterday by taking a quantity of hydrocyanic acid. clerk in the drug store at No. 576 Third ave- evening he went _ ing apartment, the usual time, spirits. Yesterda: asusual. A cier! Lea UNEXPLAINED CLERK.—Ludwi Ann Eliza receive €3,000 bers of Congress about eleven o'¢lock, r month alimony d toduty by a call of the reluctantly nd attractions ‘kK which might but nad the ies that were struck off only to compel the payment of the claim. Wilke. premised toaid him in gett from Bowen if it was Wilkeson said it wou! rs, Boyd and Hersey, as they had altorney’s fees and $300 pending the trial. The alimony to date from the fillng of the complaint, which was about ere wus loud applause , in the court-room after the close of the read- ing of the decision. Yesterday Judge McKean within ten days from ser- y $3,000 attor lays from service who were summoned House. They : social pleasures a rms of adead lve The reports were ordered printed. (ind.) demanded the regular Mr. G. F. Hoar gave notice that as soon s dispensed of he would call up The House then resumed consideration of what has been denominated as the “force Leath was a Mr. Coburn twenty months ago. neverdo to have this as this bill was the Louisiana mace an order thi viee Brigham Young shall ney's fees, and In twenty ‘$9,500 alimony. which adjoined the he did not a is room and inbed. A bottle that had cyanie acid was found was evident that he siderable ability. His. good. and he was Mr. LANMAX.—In the Senate yestenlay Mr. Howe, chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, made a tou the petition of Chas. Lanman, for an alleged in- t by Major Ban lication, the Con ort states tat rv. Lanman to | }, but Ido not say, gentlemen, this money was black- Ly ee we been due to Tilton. THE RIVETER OF ‘was claimed .< compensation nent of & copy-ri hag te in his gressional Directory. te commiitee have allowed withdraw his papers, bat that they feel called upon to repel Une suggestion that the Direc- tory isan infringement @ tights of the claimant. y is no ground jor the pretence that ¢ sketches in thedirectory are Direetory of Congress, for it is within the menrbers that they severally furnishthe Clerk of the Printing Records with | the facts contained in each successive <Ji- tion of the dircetory. In the particular case ef Senator Boreman, which is cited by the tas an instance of infringement, it not only that the facts mentioned in e “LAST cap gece NEW ORLEANS.—A meet ng opposed 7 r compromise was held last night in Resolutions against the com- » and speeches were THF Vinginivs INDEMNITY SeTriE- MENT.—It has been authority that the sett is question with fact. The formal 5 irgin~ Spain is not a fixed RGIS Promise were adopted made against it by several couservative Governor McEnery. A ‘ong letter Joh 1 was read, in which he recounts acts which the Kellogg government in the acts and actors. compromise consider the i af { i trated frou i SvicipE Or REPRESENTATIVE WutrTe’s Fatnenr.—Hon. D. Whi blican mem| from the Sth district of Ken: ted suicide some days since himself. His and orator (at one time S| of life in the same way. meeting a great Hf congress elect vrliuian tans PROTRSTANTISM ALA RMED IN SPAtN.— The Pall Mall Gazette’ wont > 5 H | = 4 i d ; d i H im H f 5 Hl Fj 3, H i i i i if H Hal i i days Intervence before the time agreed upon for final adjournment, grave doubts are en= tertalned Of the bili ‘reach the Senate. What the action of that body will be cannot be conjectured. A SCHOOLMASTER'S SENTENCE.—Chariee Wheeler, a Montrose schoolmaster, who leaded guilty to &n indictment for whipping & six-year-old seool bo sper