Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1875, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, Sundays Excepted. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Peumsylvania Avenne, cor. lth st. The Bruning Star Newspaper Ooupeny, 8. H. KAUFFMANN, Pres’t. —~e— TAR EVENING STAR ti served by subscribers at Tex Caxts TER WEEE, OR CENTS PER MONTH. k mat. a month: mz months, $3. THE WEEKLY STA. 82.00 2 year, postase prepared BF Ali reberriptioms ‘variably ia adeance, ena tea ‘or. “" ee af advert sing furnished om application. pl EE 3 136.00 sed ‘on Priday— Vet, 45—N2&. 6,859. AMUSEMENTS. EVENING STAR. ATIiwNAL THEATER. Only two nights more D 'BENE® UT and ba (By request, for the In: DOMBEY AND SON W. 2 FLORENCE in his famous part of CAPTAIN And fret Ume in Comedy from the G: 4 in which Mr. Fi Tr. nd Mis Couviay appear EON SATURDAY at VOURNEEN and 0. ESSE SHEPARD, TRE WORLD'S GREATEST PIANIST, WILLARD HALL, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 22 MR. SHEPARD, Assisted by Artists of emi ONE GRAND CO) AT WILLARD HALL ORD'S OPERA HOUSE. who will appear in the Great Southwestern drama, ARKANSAS TRAVELER. KIT REDDIN THe BEATS as the... rry Hotto. WH KIT MATINEE SA Monday next—THE MAJILTONS. ‘ON THEATE MARCH ance in Washingt Miss Kitty Allyn Irish song and dan Engagement of the Ar aiso Miss Minnie Gosh and our mammoth company Ente: and Ith streets. Guo. W. aves. Joun Wagner & Sox Loo! ogne Musical Directors Ei Et { German Characteris! reat Serio-comic Sing wards. cat. Del rr 2 Sanford. the g comic Vocalist neer. Dont forget our popu’ ar matinees on Tuesiay and Friday afternoon. Ad mission to Matinees 15 and 25 and 8 cents Ener commences at 5. Dechess N. 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THE SATURDAY AFTERNOON RECEPTIONS of Mrs. Grant were discontinued on and after Saturday last, Mareh 13th OFFICAL RECOGNITION—The Presider j¢ has recognized Charles Edward Wender! ak as Consul of Belgium at Charleston, 8. C x SECRETRY BRISTOW being absent Washington to-day, the Treasury is sented in the Cabinet by Assistant S Conant. Ir IS [NDERSTOOD that the Pr esident has indicated bis intention to nomi" ete John Q. nissioner o: istoms, Vv: > — ee Johmson, re It IS SAID THAT most at the time of the Senate in executive sessit : 19-0 sumed in diseussing the > ,5mina Pardee to be United Str ana,vice Durell. Thi garded as exceedingly gouptiil Army RETIRING BOARD.—The President has directed that! po sonowin; cers be detailed 8S snembers of the retiring board, to convene zeon Joseph H. E Motte, Wik inte Be And Major RS. La from ecretary NOMINATION WiITHDrAWN.—The [’resi- ‘ ‘withdrew the nomination of J.B. Kinsma 2 to be U. S. Judge of the west- ern district of Arkansas. Kinsman, who e staff of Gen. Butler dur- , received the nomination at the dent yesterday Was an Off seron th ing the request ¢ #Gen. B. AN O” sper has been issued stopping the pay Of Gaptain L. itam gants to 34, ¢ in @ quantity of oats at Fort Ellis, Mo" gana territory, found to have oceurred Wh fc he was on duty there as post quarter- ™ ster. and for which he is ‘WHE LETTER OF REST eomimi~ ©. Forsyth, A. Q. M., uni on account of a de sponsible. be re! nam, tered. Is GEN. SICKLES AN ARMY OFFICER YET? Attorney General Williams, in view of the fact that Congress passed an act at the last session providing for the restoration to his former rank on the retired list of the army of an officer who bad a civil appointment longer than one year, has asked the Secretary of War whether he constrnes this law as covering the case of Gen. Sickles, who also If the Secre- ‘ar answers negatively, then the At- claims Roy. as a retired offiy tary of t General will render an opinion on thi a e y ability, question heretofore presented tohim, whether | 2&TY @bility. Jes vacated his army commission by remaining Minister to Spain longer than ven. Sic! one year. Houprne Two OF Fic! Way affected the executive order prohibiti the holding twooffices. The President furthe: said it never was his intention to forbid any federal officer accepting any minor state or municipal office. such as registrar, supervi- sor or commissioner of elections, but that the erder only applied to higher offices, such as membership of the legislature or a county office of trust and profit. NOMINATIONS To-pay.—The President ‘ ne Bro" pers. {Through Robert Beall} Ry was con— tion of Don tes judge in Lonisi- 4 confirmation is re- g-named offi- 4 in New York city: Sur- captured by France within the jurisd the United States. But the question was amicably settled between the two nations by a converition—but no “arbitration appointment of commissioners, who mated Loge rp at a mocerate rate; were duly paid relieved from duty as post quartermast: Fort Saunders, Wyoming Territory. order has been issued in his ease to stop hi pay, with the exception of 350 per mo: until he makes the Proper settlement of his accounts with the TI ATION of the three | Treasury. oners of the Freedman’s bank has een referred by the Secretary of the Treas- ary tothe Attorney General for an opinion as to whether it can legally be accepted. The point to be decided is whether they can teased from their respective bonds after their retirement, or whether these must hold good until the effairs of the bank are finally indignantly repudiated the offe: the matter public at the time. He is repre- Within a day or two numerous letters have been received here making inquiry as to whether the abolition | George H. Keith, at{Minneapolis, Minneso! Of tne civil service rules also nullified the ex- veutive order issued a year or more ago for- bidding any federa! officeholders from accept- ing any state, municipal or other office. The question being submitted to the President for decision by a member of the Cabinet, he has decided that the order abolishing the civil service rules in the several departments in no James Goodspeed.at Jollet Illinois; John Cuaningham, at Glasgow, Missouri; Geo. R. Bre , at Greenville, Pennsylvania; A. B. Nor lon NEW PU sLICATIONS. be tp AND EUW ANITY; with a review His- al one, ef the doctrine of Christ’s per ori fou. B: » y SBroe? [rnrce’ 4 Sagaata, New York: Harper The author, ¢ gsatisfied wi interpretation | 9f Christ's person,as ineon- sistent both * gith reason and Scripture, has sought tof ‘are {0M 4d @ ground for the Incarnation tion of its fusing « ith the ordinary 4 more permanent, and a concep- reality less contradiciory and eon- + reason than has hitherto prevailed. RECOL grCTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS, 113 ; R y John Bart Boston: Reberts a autobiographical work of this characte a a statesman of the standing of Earl amssell could not well fail to be interesting, ¢ertainly to all Engtishmen, and all des:end- ats of England as we Will find matter claiming their attention, more particularly in the chapter upon ti “Treaty of Washington.” In tits, Lord Ras- ell defends his own course during the rebel- lion (whieh course was considered so offen sive and hostile by the neople of the Union) and criticise; the course of the Gladston: Americ tn readors vernment in negotiating the Treaty of Yashington. This treaty, he thinks, makes injudicious concessions to the United States. “Tt is a great mistake,” he says, “to suppose that a concession, even the most abject, to a foreign nation, is certain to coneiliate their good will. The power which conceives that @ great empire has confessed its inferiority is apt to make demands which a nation having a lively sense of honor is certain to reject. For instance, the present govern- ment of the United States might ask from the present government of England the an- nexation of Canada with the 8S Union,” and then he goes on to say that “Lord Palmerston always considerc’ the retention of Canada essential to the m: nance of British honor, and the nation at large would assuredly agree with Lord Pal ates of the nte- erston in this opinion.” Lord Russet! coveedes that the Alabama ought to have been detained by him as Secretary of Foreign Affairs during the time he was waiting for the opinion o 5 Gen. Washington made a similar mistake in = the law officers, but he says pawhen British merchant ships were jection of —and the d by the United State: Carrary E. B. Coping, A.Q. M., has been at nird Auditor of the THE New CoMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS. Mr. Henry M. Atkinson, nominated to-day by the President to be Commissioner of Pen- sions vice J. H. Baker, made surveyor gen- eral of Minnesota, is « son-in-law of ex-Sen- ator Le nog and was formerly register of a land offic the commissioners on the part of the United States to remove the Kickapoo Indiaus from Mexico a year or two ago. It may be recol- lected that while Gov. Bullock, of Georgia, was before the Senate a few years ago with reference to extending his tenure of office, and securing the admission of Foster Blod- gett and Whitely as Senators, Atchison was approached by one of the Bullock party, wiio Vy seme to make him an agent for the wibery of re in Nebraska. He was also one of his father-in-law, Mr. Tipton. He and made led to be & young man of more than ordi- CONFIRMATIONS.—The Senate, in execu- tive session this afternoon, confirmed the fol- lowing nominations: Postmasters—Joseph Brooks, at Little Rock, Arkansas, vice James 8. Pollock. removed; . at Dallas, Texas. Miseetioncus.—John_ D. Buckatew, of New Jersey, consul of the United States at Stet- tin; James H. Baker, to be surveyor general of Minnesota; Joab N. Patterson to be U. S. marshal for New Hampshire; James Torrens, U.S. marshal for eastern distriet. Arkansas; Isaac C. Parker, U. 8. district judge western district Arkansas; Henry B. Brown, U. 8. district judge eastern district Michigan; Da- vid P. Lowe to be Chief Justice of the Su- me Court of Utan territory, vice MeKean; ries H. Houghton, collector of customs for district of Perth, Amboy, N. J., viee Wm. R. Coddington, removed; Andrew Clark, surveyo. of customs, Augusta, Ga.; Wim. B. sent the following nominations to the Senate Truax. of Illinois, agent for the Indians. to-day :—Henry M. Atkinson, of Nebraska, Moquis Pueblo Agency, Arizona; Geo.ge W. to be Commissioner of Pensions, vice J. H. Baker, confirmed to-day as surveyer generat of Minnesota; Charlies O. Shepard, of New York, to be consul of the United States at Leeds, England; Ex-Congressman Jasper D Ward, to be U.S. @'strict of Iino: Bristol and Warren, R. [.; First Lieut. John H. Calef to be cupenin, artillery; Bosigs Jro 8. Abbott to be a master, U.S. J s Postwasters—F. H, Little, Aberdeen, Misz., Jno. T. Barlow, ingham, [1).: Chas. W. Arm lbany RATIFICATION OF THE HAWAIIAN TrREATY.—The Senate in executive session yesterday ratified the Hawaiian treaty by a vote of 51 to 12. The treaty provides ior the admission of the principal products of the Sandwich Islands—sugar, molasses, wool, ete.—into the United § duty, and certain Ameri go Into the Hawaiian ports upon the samé terms. Two amendments weré made by the Senate. The one piaces tobacco in the list of articles lo be admitted free into the Hawaiian ports; and the other provides that while this treaty remains in foree the Hawaiian gov- ernment shall not grant or lease to any other nation except the United States any harbor for @ naval station, or give any other foot- hold or special privileges not now granted. The treaty is to remain in force seven years, and as long thereafter as the two nations sball fail to give notice of its termination. Af er the first seven years, one year's notice is to be given by either party to render it in- =< The ratifications are to be ex- cbanged within eighteen months afer the daie of its negotiation, or before July 30, Ise Tue REPUBLICAN SENATORS held another caucus yesterday afternoon, after adjourn- ment of the Senate, to determine what action | they would take with reference to the Fre- | linghuysen resolution in regard to the Kel- logg government in Loulsiana, and after corsiderable discussion appointed a com- mittee, consisting of M M Conk- fessrs. y ling, Sargent, Patterson and Christiancy, to draw up @ resolution on the same *abjec: Which would be more likely to meet the views of the republicans of the Senate generally. At the caucus held this morning the cons. mittee reported that they were unable to agree upon a rt. ‘ithout coming to any conclusion, caucus rned to resume the consideration of the subjest im- mediately after the adjournment J. The resolution offered by Mr. Frelinghuy- sen on Tuesday evening, ahd which it is evi- dent would not command enough republican votes lo secure its adoption, is as lollows :— “ Resolved, That ears of the action of the lent of the United States in protecting from domestic vio isiana je lence, and are of the opinion that he should | con ing state government.” resolutions were offered this morning, but it was found | them. is that are about ball a dozen bilean tors, Among them Edm , Christiancy, of Ct, and Dawes, who will oppose, ton any resolution which thes been poblhicans that it is almost sate pred! } that they will not be able to tench a¢ cee ment in the matter, and that Lenses Will be left in statu quo until next ittorney for the nerthern Jno. T. Cox to be reeeiver yiblic moneys at Little Roek, Ark.; C. P. Hall to be collector of customs for the dis- triet of Vieksburg, Miss.; Wm. R. Taylor to be collector of customs for the distriet of uart Lawrence to be assistant engineer, U. Heutenant in Istartillery, from August 28, 1867, being a reappointment in conformi: With special act of Congress, approved March 5, 1375. Q.O. Gillmore to be 2d lien- tenant 10th ¢ § 2d Lieutenant Robert G. Carter to be Ist Lieuter ceased. ison, register of the land office at Little Rock, Ark.; J. M, Doubleday; register of the land ovice at Harrison, Ark; Alfred A. Tuffts, receiver of public moneys for Camden land district, Avk.; Alonzo S. Prather, re- ceiver of public moneys for Harrison jand districu, Ark.; Alfred S. Hawley, receiver of ublic moneys for Wyeming land district; Daniel R. Wagstaff, reeeiver of public mo- neys for the district of Saiem, Kansas. Naval Prowotions.—Commauder A. Benham to be a captain; Lieut. Commanders John F. McGiensey and Edgar C. Merriman to be commanders; Masters James Franklia, and Aaron Ward, Frank W. Nabor, Joseph L. Hunsieker, and Charles W. Bartlett to be masters; Samuei H. Dickson, and A. C. finger, to be assistant surgeons, U.S. N., to Hi! vacancies. Riel Insigns R. Harrie, Wm. Hadden a . Davenport to be licutenaats:; Het- Army.—Lowell A. Chamberlain to be ist yairy, (also a reappointment); nt ith cavalry, vice Lynch, de- a Society News from Washington. From the Cincinnati Gazetle. Miss Edith Fish has,in some recent pri- vate theatricals, displayed quite a remarka- bie histrionic talent. It is all the more sur- prising, as Miss Fish’s general manner is extremely. quiet, placid, dignified. and re- served. No i stch trifling amusements, or would unbend ir she consented to stooy in making sprightly Miss Nannie Jeffers (of Whose engagemen? I wrote you last week) look sharply to her laurels for Saturday night, when she assumes the same character. Miss Jeffers’ reputation as an amateur was established three ov four years ago, when she assumed the re of Mev, in a pyetty, spark- p one imagined she would stoop to she has succeeded tee calied “Meg's Diversion, Jeffers will be married in Juné. Her Mi flance. Mr. Mehul. belongs toa Belgian fam- ily, whose line of long descent dates far back among the youthful centuries. He is ver fine-looking. and will take his bride bac! with him in the antumn. the matrimonia! ques- on ton is the en; ment of Dr. Ruth, United States navy, whose reputation for Apollo- erally, to Biss Walle, Sanghi ee ta ent erally, to ‘ite, daughter of the Chief Justice. Miss Waite has encomiums here this winter, not for her her did Won very enviable beauty of face and figure, but for pe geet qualities. She looks iq she really is, as she wears glasses, and wears ber hair drawn from her fore- and men. bs rasa so Is the last ace from Wl to choose a hu: not! girl has given her heart into. another's iss Lizzie . only, child of Gen. an officer in our volunteer service, by which he lost a leg, afterward consin, and bar. iss i Fi SPECIAL SESSION OF THE SENATE. | SSION OF TE FRIDAY, March 19. The secretary read a letter from the Vice- President, dated Mareb is, 1875, requesting him to inform the Senate that he bad left city and would not be present daring the re- mainder of the session. ‘On motion of Mr. Anthony Mr. Ferry, of Michigan was declared President, protem, and the secretary was directed to inform the Pri sident of the United States of the fact. The anfinished business being the resoln- tion of Mr. Boutwell authorizing the Special commitice appointed to sit daring the recess toexamine into the civil services of the government, and to employ a ste i0z- rapher to administer oaths and te send for persons and papers was taken up, and was agreed to withont opposition. The Senate then, on motion of Mr. Sher- man, went Into executive session. -20e- ‘HE SCANDAL TRIAL, Cross-Examining Beecher's Assistant. After our telegraphic report of the Tilton- Beecher trial closed yestentay, the examin ation of Assistant Pastor Halliday was con- tinued. The witness was handed the record book, and stated that on October 310, 1872, a meeting of the board of deacons was hell. There were | Sher Messrs. Hawkins, White, Mooty, joach, West, Halliday, and sore deacon esses. Beecher was not present at that meet- ing or afier it. There was discussion after the meeting on the Woodhull seandal. The question was raised by the discussion whetl: er the church should iake any action or not No written resolution was offered about it, but essentially there was a resolution passed m the form that it was not expedient to take any action on the scandal at ali. There was no dissent from this opinion, as all were in favor of it. So far asI know Beecher had nothing to do with this. MR. BEECHER RECEIVES A NOTF. Mr. and Mrs. Beecher did not come into the court room until after the proceedings ha:t commenced. About half an hour after his entrance Beecher received a note and left tha court room in a hurry, returning after an absence of about half an hour. rs. Tilton aud Bessie Turner were not in their accus- tomed places, which were occupied by lalies who have heretofore been Strangers to the trial. After the recess Beecher held a brief conversation with Mr. Evarts, and then, at- tended by a gathering of the Plymouth chareh section and accompanied by his wife, he re- turned to his home in a private carriage. AFTER RECESS Halliday resumed the stand examination was began by J* Fullerton He testified that at the meeting in Octo when the Woodhull seandal is discusset, ali the members named in the record were present; there were others also present, among them Mr. Fitzgerald; I told the meeting that ‘he, when he examined the papers with the scandal in them, said that he had made up his mind not to notice them; I did not say this to influence the meeting in any way; my impression is that Captain Danean was pres- ent, and the records say that Mr. West was present also; I think Harking and Roper were present. THE FIRST MEETING WITH MRS. MOULTON I had was in thespring of 1872. [think it was & pastoral call, and [ may have been in the house from fifteen minutes to halfan hour. Jecalied again on theday of the deacons’ meeting. #8. Moulton met me at the door and asked me into the parlor, where I went. I said to her, “How is it you are mixed up in the Woodhull and Claflin seandaly” She said she did not Know what right Mrs. Woodhuil had to use her name, as she had nothing to do with it. I said something which I do not remember, and she repliet that Mr. Beecher was her ‘tor, and “I believe him,” and that nothing people could say would effect her confidence in him one particle. No per- son called my attention vo Mr. Beecher's poi- traitat that lime. My attention was eailed to it at one of my visiis there. The first one in the spying of 7 It was hanging on the east wall of the house. My conversation with her on that occasion was very brief, not Jasting more than ten mirnntes. I cannot tell if the committee of which West was chairman, made a report. Wieo THE WEST CHARGES were presented I was clerk of the commitiee, and made the entry on the minutes J charges were presented at the meeting in June, 1873, in ehureh parlors. Mr. West himself presented them; the action taken ing toaliow him to make thei; they incomplete, and referred back to West for completion. After their being referred bark to West a third specification was atded, and they were presented in a complete form’ te following week. West, Captain Duncan ani myself were present; there were others also Neots their names I lo not know. I ad several conversations with West about the charges before they were presented the first time,and endeavored to dissuade him from their presentation. I did so because I thought they were not being presented ols erly. 1 think tie docuinent® of the West charges are among papers in my possession at home or else in the custody of the gentle- man who became clerk after me. [Handed a documeni.} This isin part a copy ofthe West charges, but is not the original or. This, 1 think, is in the handwriting of the clerk of the examining committee. The witness corrected his previous te: mony about his objection to the presentation of the West charges, and said what he meant was that his objection to the charges was groundless on the fact that they were being presented in an irregular m wnucr. The wit- ness then continued: In reference to Tilton’s name, I only advised that It be dropped from the rolls of the chureh. I never gave West any advice not to prosecute these charges, but [ would not swear so. I advised the ex- amining committee not to investigate the charges against Tilton. Most of the com- mittee were in favo! of investigating these charges; Captain Duncan was one of them; Dr. White was another. The conclusion of this affair of the West charges was in Octo- . West told me he did-not go to see jon about these charges, as he ought to have done as a churehinember. Tiere were also some of the witnesses whom he dia not go tosee. This was one of the reasons I thought the charges were irregular, I al- Ways urged that Tilton should be dro; from the rolls of the chureh.as he said he Was Bot A member of it and did not consider himself so. Adjourted, SUFFOCATED By Coat Gas.—On Tuesday evening Capt. George Collom, of the sloop Emma Gibbs, lying at the foot of Charles street, his brother Dayid Collom, and Peter Johnson, a boatman, residing at Gifford’s Station, went to sleep in the foreeastle of the sloop, which was heated by a smali coal stove. Yesterday morning David Collom was awakened by a suffocating sensation, and jumping out Of his berth, saw his broth: er and Johnson lying on the floor of the eabin insensible. He gave the alarm and procured the assistance of officers of the 9th precinct. Johnson was found to haye been suffocated by the coal gas, and Capt. Collom to be ina critical condition. An inquest will be held in the case by Coroner Eickhoff. Capt. Col- lom and his brother were removed to their home on Staten Island. ¥. Times, 18th. Boys ACCUSED OF THROWING VITRIOL. Justice Fiteh, of Mount Kiseo, Westchester county. yesterday received the complaint of i his cross- 1 aged The burned, and is disfigured for were arrested. oe said that they had in- tendod the acid for Worden, uy, avother of their schoolmates. Leonora is a beyond ae and does pot — to speak to the boys Matthews and , thus incurring examinees tthe ‘boys, that their neautse ol 5 ir re) tion might be inquired Into.—N. ¥. Sun tach, MARRIED ON HoRSERACK.—A rather no- vel took @t the gate in front of s CIN WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1875. i 2 : i TWO CENTS. wari the jee in the rivers of salreaty caused immense damage and additional loss to property is ay ended. ON THE SUSQUEHANNAH. The situation at Wiikesbarre, Pittston, and the other towns on the the Susquehannah river remains substan- rted in our dispatches yester- tered bridges which were car- Tied away from Pittston are heli fast ina ES iad ple, of Wilkesbarre are jest. the imprisonment frazments may strike the bridge that spans the river at the last-named plece and carry it along with the floating wree®. The dam- age on the west branch of the Susquehannab bas rot been nearly so great. Some bridges are still imperilled, but the indications are flood has spent its foree.. A DISPATCH FROM PORT DEPOSIT at il o'clock last night says: The river has been rising rapidly allevening. Depot now . May have to abanion office during the night. River all of floating ice, and running ai rate of twenty ul Should gorge form at Havre de Grace will cause great destruction. A VAST SEA OF ICE NEAR WILKESBARRE. A dispatch from Wilkesbarre, Pa., says: A barn was swept away which had stood the rs, and no fences whatever lders of ice were earried along with such force as to knock down and All the telegraph poles and telegraph commu- al by way of Scranton. the bridge at this place only a vast sea of ice can be seen until the eye reaches Kingston. has an ice boundary all around it, the cakes being piled up against it as high as the tops of the first-story windows. way is covered ‘with massive boulders of ice which are heaped upon each other in some places to the height of ten or fifteen feet. The breaking of Pennsyivania th atly exercised almost surrounded. miles an hour. flocds of many are left. Huge bon tear up great trees. on the flats are down, pieation can on} From the oppos A house close by The street rali- Sam THE RICH YOUNG MAN WHO DID NOT KNOW HIS FATHER. Tn the surrogate’s court in New York, on Wertnesday, testimon: the will of Sam Wari, J twenty-one when he died! egram to yestenlay’s STAR, he beque: $40,000 in these words: “I give all my estate to my mother; I do not k: The mother died soon after, and the man Who insists upon paternity and’e the will is Sam Ward, the King of the Ls Who appeared in court Wednesday. Ward, jr., died in Paris September 19, having made his will on the sameday. He had for many years resided there with his mother and” grandmother. Grimes. This will was wr attesting witnesses he grandmother, and three persons, French domestics employed in the The proof of the execution of the will Was the testimony of Mrs. Si taken on commission before United Statos Consul-General Reed, in Paris. that none of the other subscribing witnesses could be found. It is said that another will was executed by the decedent ten months previously, which, if the probate be rejected, will = sr tecgel — On being asked who had done this deed, th was heard touching ir. Who was abo: As stated in a te usette Grimes, pers offered for as the last will. substantially the same disposition of the es- tate. The proponents rested their case upon the testimony of Mrs. Grimes. ants’ counsel The contest- gave notice if the surrogate holds the execution of the will to have been proved they shall ask for the issue of a com- mission for examining the other subscribing witnesses in Franee, contending that the will was executed under coercion or undue infiu- It transpired in the proof that M Ward executed a will conveying a portion of her estate to Mrs. Grimes. RIGHTS AND BILLIARDS.—Mr. — niger goo es the oe ge) hotel % fused two “darkies,” i amed Horace Deyo and Henry Onques, io | donon the succeeding Friday, Both of ten | jiard parlor, on Mon- named Horace play billiards in hi day night last, as reported in Herald, was arrested by United uty Marshal Boswell and brow; Commissioner Shreve, in Trenton to answer the chai of having v' r. Katzeabach’s counsel led that billiards did not come under the head of the amusements mentioned in ‘ivil rights law, and, therefore, his client ad committed no offense. sioner adjourned the hearing until Wednes- day next, and held Mr. Katzenback in the 21,000 for his appearance at tiat N. Y. Heraitt. 18th. KILLED IN THE M miner employed at the Providence, was instantly kill morning by a fall of root. been in the mine about fifteen minutes the fatal fall occurred. He had set down h dinner pail and was about to commence his day’s labor when a large the rotten roof fell _u; on the back of the in death on the floor of the chamber. leaves a@ wife and five children in a needy condition. This makes the sixth miner that has been killed at this mine in the same manner within five months, all of them men Of family, and leaving in the aggregate six nty-four orphans almost cranion ( Pa.) Re~ Storeh slope, led yesterday ad piece er rock from pon him striking him head and prostrating him wholly 'unproyid 7 i818 a glacier %.000 feet lon: eet high, descended into the valley of the river Drapse lake was formed which contained gallons ot water. tunnel through 090, The authorities drove a the ice barrier and drew | nearly half of the water safely, but then the | thawing bad so enlarged the tua- that the ice barrier gave away, and the other half of the water was half an hour. | Ure house and commenced quarreling about 7 . {ischargea in | n 1845 a similar lake w: formed by the Vernagt giacier. be ice barrier gave away 600,000,000 gallons of water was discha: cases there was an immense destruction of property aud Liv A MARITIME NOVELTY ew York in the shape of a steamer of 1,350 tons from Gothenburg, best Swed Sn cheek ‘st Swedish chareoal-made iron, ard the ribs and beams are steel. consume fifteen tons of ‘¢ | would not go out for me or my stick either: I | then got up and took an axe, and he grabbed ; Jt aud knocked me down, ai bas arrived in in Sweden, called She is built of the | Herndon ha Her furnaces only | coal a day. She is | extending to the brain, which was sufficient » With five bulkheads and two | to cause death. Mr. Herndon had received a ‘he crew number twenty-four. The | blow over one of his eyes, which caused two cook and assistant cooks are women, Strict rules exist against any general conver- sation between them and the sailors. Udition to being a seaman, isa | terribly frozen, and would have required | amputation to avoid mortification had not re S ANN ELIza Nor DIvorceD YeET._The New York Times falls very common misconception ean’s decision in the case of Ann Young, and sw already granted ses that the judge has | ro Fihe divorce. ‘The ‘fimes | cence: cven should know that the suit for divorce is | pending and that its decision depends on the establishment, by proof, of the very facts which the Times assumes as proven and as therefore obstructing a divorce. The award | of money is to enable Mrs. | ‘About one month ago the prisoner made his or from the jail, by burning through the Young to carry on or LIFE BY SNOW SLIDEs.—A snow Slide at Carr's fork, Bingham Canon, Utah, occurred at 4 o'clock digging unre of thems were taken itt ng of them were out alive, otherdead. The former saved them- getting into a tunnel. The latte: Larry Norman, was crushed ‘The snow in the slide is thirty to sev also occurred 180 Wednesday, bl named 81 enty feet ¥ at Little Gattonwent canon trong and his THE AMERICAN REVIVALISTS Ix Loy- | done was much confusion at the | did it, revival in London E i i : : 3 E a THE GALLOWS. EXECUTION IN VIRGINIA. HANGING OF JESSE FOUKS. MURDER OF THE HERNDON FAMILY AN AWFUL CRIME AND ITS PENALTY. THE ICE FLOODS. MARYLAND TOWNS UNDER WATER. AN EDITOR FATALLY SHOT. THE BEECHER TRIAL. BROTHER HALLIDAY UNDER FIRE. JESSE FOUKS HANGED. Execution of the Murderer of the Herndon Family. (SPECIAL TO THE EVENING STAR.) BRENTSVILLE, PRINCE WILLIAM Co.. Va., Mareh 19th, 1875.—Jesse Fouks, a negro, the murderer of the Herndon family, hanged in the jail-yard here to-day, be tween the hours of 12 and 2 o'clock p.m. The crime for which he suffered the last penalty of the law, and an account of which has already been printed in THE STAR, needs bat brief recapitulation here. ‘The Murder. On the ith day of December last, Mr. Jere miah Herndon and his wite and a cel ored boy named Addison Russell were mur- dered at their residence, near Cedar rua, in the lower part of this county. Mr. Heradon was a well-to-do farmer, and was about 70 years of age. His wife was a few years Younger; the colored boy was about I* years old. On the morning after the murder, Mr. Summertield Herndon, @ son of the vencrable cou, le, who resided not far frem their farm, went to pay a visit to bis parents. Entering | ®> thelr yard he saw bloody footprints, which led to the door of the dwelling. Passing into the bouse a_ ghastly sight was presented to | his view. Upon a paijet on the floor the col- | ored boy Addison lay cold in death, with his head split open. Upon the bed lay Mrs. | Herndon weltering In blood. A little later the old man was discovered lying in a field about four hundred yards from the house, barefooted and bareheaded, with his head | and face cut and bleeding in mai places old man, who seemed to be bewildered, said he did not know who had done it; that he had been walking about ali night, aod fell cold when he walked in the water. He was con- veyed to his home, and there told a clearer story to Justices Horton and Woodyani of a quarrel with Jesse Fouks, who had been | hauling wood for him ARREST OF FOUKS. it was found on searching the house that $235 bad been taken from the house by the murderer. Fouks was arrested on suspicion at the house of a neighbor the day after the murder. Both Mr. and Mrs. Heradon lin- | ered some aS Mrs. Heradon dying on the Wednesday following the deed, Mr. Hern- made dying declarations, MES. HERNDON’S DECLARATION tates Dep- bey bo the effect thatafter having quarreled | ight before | with ner husband at dark about the meat he was accused of stealing, Fouks returned an jolated the | bour and a half afterwards, and in an excited manner demanded the meat which had been taken from him. Her husband aad Fouks then got into 4 fight, and she shoved Fouks out of doors, when she heard him exclaim “Tt would not take me long tc kill you two old wretches.” She turned to go back from the door and was strack by Fouks and knocked senseless. MR. HERNDON’S DYING STATEMEN Mr. Herndon made the following declara- tion:—I had been to Bristee, and on returning home, about sundown, Sinah toki me that Jesse had been quarreling with her about some meat which the little colored poy, Ad- dison Russell, had found hid in the kiteuen, and which she felt sure was our meat. I w: and examined the meat, and found a hax meat tied up ina piece of white cotton. J while after dark Jesse came to the house and demanded the meat. I told him it was my meat; he said bis sister gave it to him, who had been living with Mr. Luckett. I told him I would swear it was my meat, but in the morning we would have the matter in- vestigated, and if he could bring better proof than 1 could he could have it; he insisted to cin rit | : ; f iit i : i : ng th dy pS the axe ind With: I did not use the hickory stick. ° Eyes comes i eas took the t gomebod: ‘ise ha done It When T asensed mi ti might get clear. I did the marder =e g ees i i Fi é § 4 gf ; i inttas tie ilu ae a 5 se i Ar ft itt #E intaf F A rie i ! sters of the new school Baptist Chorch have attended him quite regularly, and last week be refused to entertain the idea of a respite, faying that he ought to be bung, and was ready to die. THE DOOMED ROY, Fouks, wasapparently about Is years of 4 of but compact built frame, aad weigh about 1W to 49 pounds. His only peculiarity was his large, black eyes, which could not look one straight in the face, but moved restlessly from one pott to another, as if he was meditating constant- ly some mode of escape from his troubles, Last Tuesday he gave bis body te a physt- clan of Fauquier county, saying that the doc tors would get it anyhow. THE GALLOWS, @ plain looking yet substantial stractare, was erected just back of the jail, soche yards off, anid around it was stationed U customary gual ofelttzens to preserve order —_—e— THE SPRING FLOODS, it ater. Under Port-DErosit, Mp., March 19.—The floot here is fearful. ‘The water ts from five to fifteen feet deep In the streets. Nothing like it was ever seen before. Nearly the whole town is flooded, and there is great destrac- tion of property, but fortunately no lives have been lost thus far. The ratlvoad depot, which ix full of water as well as the tele: graph office, was abandoned last night in a boats. The operator continues the service trom his house. Bayre-de-G: Submerged. At Havre«te-Grace the tee is gorged abeut five miles below town. The wharves there are all floodet.and whole piles of lumber swept from them. Large numbers of men are engaged In saving it, The street next to the river, above the bridge, in completely blocked with ice, lumber, wood, &e. In the street the water ts about ten Inches deep but falling slowly. The canal towpath at ti ad of town is covered wi e Al present stationary there. Ice on « Railroad Track. ICkIES, Pa., March 19.—The furnaces uniujared by the Ice flood yes: day and are running. Several days will be wired to clear the railroad track of lee ve and below Unis point. Less of Life and Narrow se. HARRISBURG, Pa.. Mare ‘estern Union lineman returned bere from Bain. bridge at an early heur this morning. He re- ports a great amount of damage done by ice and high water yesterday in that vicinity. Warehouse, containing 5,000 bushels of corn, Was swept away, the depot forced across the track on the hill, and the office completely demolished. Four canal boats and @ frame house were forced on the track. Six or seven houses were badly in- jured. The track from Collins’ Station to Chickie’s is covered with ice at many points for & distance of one mile or more. lines are destroyed for 8 or 10 miles. A t- ly on the island above Bainbridge were forced to the roof of their residence by the ed, and were saved. On another island a fam. ily took to the barn for safety, fearing the horse would move. The barn was forced a distance of 100 yards or more. The famil. were rescued. Jt is reported that a man tempted to go to the rescue of the latter fam: ily, but was carried down the river by the ice, anc his not being beard from since, he is sup- RS posed to have been to pieces. The whole of Front street, a@ mile and @ quarter long, is filled with ice, to @ beightof 30 and 35 feet. Many houses have been damages. Hope to have a report from there this p.m. amnesia TILTON-BEECHER. Te-day’s Proceedings. New YoRK, March 19.—Mrs. Tilton, Mrs. Shenrman, Sse, Field. ond. — Lg were pit 2 court room: moral and aft Beecier and his wife were in iG places before 158 ft MR. HALLIDAY RESUMED TH! 5 and his cross-examinat’ See nee were presented was in July, 1573. state at that meeting that it was sire of Mr. Beecher that the charges should not be presented. He did not speak to Mrs. Bradshaw about her pearing asa witness betore the committee. | Mrs. Bradshaw Spoke to him on the subject. The witness Was asked WHAT MRS. BRADSHAW HAD SAID haye the piece of cotton it was tied up in; I told bim I could not go to the meat-house for | on that occasion. Mr. Evarts objected, as it was conversa- that to-night, you ca get that In the morn- | Lion at which Mr. Beecher was not presen, ing. He then went out, and my wife came in and said he would noteat his supper. I do not know whether he eat at all or not. I didnot see bim ain until one hour or more after daylight down, when he again came in the meat, and said he musi haye it; he went on yery abusive to me, and f ordered him out of the house, and told him if he did not go out I would give nim a stick, which I took in my hand; he then said something whieh I did not understand, and [asked Sinah, my wife, what he said, and she said he said he i that Is all that I remember. THE POST MORTEM EXAMINATIONS. Drs. Leach and Smoot, who made the post mortem examinations, found that Mrs. two cuts, supposed to be made | With the edge of the axe, one of them trans- | versely across the forehead four inches long, fractures of the skull,one across the fore- head and the other across the temple, which were the cause of his death. His feet were death from the blows interveaed. The coi- ored boy’s bead was split open, causing his death instantly. ESCAPE AND RECAPTURE OF FOUKS. The criminal ey ng Wage wd his iano- er his 1 and conviction, going so far as toendeavor to cast the blame a colored man named Willis Tibbs. 28 8 i} i ef : : ment, the earnest and ¢ lent atd port of the bondholders is essential to aay resumption of the work of construc- and the court ruled it out. The witness then continued: I only told the committee what Mrs. Bradshaw me. I thtok I said to the committee that Mre Rradsuaw would not appear before them. 1 did not Xuow that Mrs. Tilton had been to see Mrs. Bradsh®W, J think I stated to the committee that Mrs, Bradshaw had Seen Mrs. Tilton, and that she had Said to me that she could not Or Would not appear befere the comm i Ltee. T told the committee this because Mrs. Brad- shaw told meso. The committee were dis- cussing the discipline of Mr. Tilton when I told them this. I think Iteld the commit- | tee that Mrs. Bradshaw told me that she Would not add one pang to those Elizabeth already suffere y appearin; agains 4 and that Mrs. Tilton had said to ast: M | tie, how can you appear against me?” I made no response whatever, and Mrs. Brads shaw had said she would write to the com- mittee and tell them that she would not ap- pear as & witness. 1 had some correspon- ence With Mrs. Bradshaw about this time, —_——— NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY, Meeting of the Bondholders, NEw York. March 19.—At a bondbolders of the : Yesterday, the following preamble and reso- lution was adopted: -: Whereas, the board of directors of the Northern Pacific Railroad company expresses confidence, confirmed by Ume and investization, in the great merits and final success of the Northern Railroad in the most extended meaning of these words, aod whereas the said board reported to this meeting that, in their judg-