Evening Star Newspaper, July 28, 1875, Page 1

° THE EVENING STAR PUBLISHED DAILY, Sundays AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Penmeylvania Avenue, cor. Lith Bt. BY The Evening Star Newspsper pgm bpm ~ g-ermyaa PO or Came. GNTR. Copeas af the Counter. oening Star. WASHINGTON, D. C.. WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1875. TWO CENTS. AMUSEMENTS. sRAND ANNUAL VESTIVAL oF THE Washington Schuetzen Verein, AT THEIR PARK. Avgast 3d. 1th and 5th, 1875. Prize Shocting! Prize Bowling! Ladies Prize Shooiing! LAIR. LEROUX AND MLLE EMOCLEW, in ied performances u the Trapeze. PROF. PARKER with his workd-rew of Celebrities TWO PERFOKMANCES DAILY THE WASHINGTON PANTOMIME CLUB. Veeal > asic by the WASHINGTON S ENGERSUND ABION QUAKTAITE CLUB. GBAND ILLUMINATION AND PYRO- TRewNICS. EXCURS VXOURSION TO THE CAPES. 4 On SATURDAY * Instant, the new and cent steam TA LAKE, to PINEY POINT, KES: = f LADY oF Td pakengers a magn 3 boat will reach ay Morning. Cor8ss ISLAND. THIRD GEA ON FRID* ¥. JULY. THE STEAMER JAN will make her thir touching P Monroe. Vue de L and reaching be D EXCURSION or her informatin. tic apply at the Company # Ottice, Be Metropelitaa Bonk STEAMBOAT ROUTE 0 CAPE MAY, OOMMENCING THUBSDAY, Jaty 22, 175 From PHILADELPHIA. making connection with ASHIS So clock trains from W at New Ca CITY POINT. Capt. George Sam leaves Now Castles TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS and SATURDAYS. Leave Cape May alternate days eet Railway from Steamboat landing to Cape May cit Mle NTEAMER SUE EXCURSIONS. at iron steamer SUK, Cap » Harper, is now making T LOOKOUT RDAY Ba AY, INT ant MARSHALL’ ms, & ly to ENSON & BRO, Agents t of Tth street, uilice, 131% Jeno tf Te PLEASURE SEERERS. SUMMER AREANGEMENT ck, for principal landin ng the favorite Summer Re cy Vashias: e scenery onthe Potomac being unsnrpassed, Qnd the Pilot Bev the only steamer affording @ view theentire route by daylight, mkes these most Die reant a: for families and social parties. onad trip tiekets to Black Leonardtown, ood until used. ITZHUGH, Agent, JelS Sm Sixth-street Whart. ue BEST ver Re! ror THE WHITE MOUNTAINS AND M0 via NORWICH LIN ty for the roand trip from K and NT DESERT, & And Baltimore r 5 fale. Ask for White Mountain tick Wich Line Fes EXCURS actarger THE MARY WASHINGTON rust for pleasure partice than any Boat FOX CHARTER BVER Mon. LNILN medays, and Prideys, lenving 8 codays jaye, leaving Sth-streat m Apply on board, or Da. HOW: “P. A TROTH, President. On ‘reasountte torte. Apply to 4B. B. FITZHUGH, Agent th street “HE TRUSTEES OF ODD FELL "BU. | NG association. YS BULUD- | a ler of thd Pell ows Encam at Union Bethel Hall ‘street, bet. oth svar. aly 2th, EA ‘ ace music, Re wma FREEMAN. Scerstary. ‘commenc: ng ar inuing for t freatiments served at reasstati mead ‘yar 7TH St. is acsortment hand- nde UEES PIN A Lee gine HEMPLER, pee 453 Penney reciente, NGSiserwarn eT Beis ol $i by slg ade a8 ‘pation wil be men. EVENING STAR.’ Washington News and Gossip. THE RECFIPTS to-day were, from in‘ernal revenue, $288,441 from customs, $663,070.53 Tae National Pank currency received at the Treasury to-day for redemption aggre- gated $920,462. RESIGNATION Acc £PTED.—The Present has accepted the resignation of First Lieut. George W. Steele, 14th infantry, to take ef- fect February ist, 18 PERSON AL.—Mr. Andrew Archer, of South Wasbington, returned from Europe on the steamer China to Boston, and arrived home S$ nday morning. Mr. A. was on the steamer Scotia when disabled by a whale of Queens- town. Revesve Disrricrs ConsoumatEep.— The President has issued an order consolida- nue districts lot has been The consolidated dis- e Ist district. ting the Ist and 2d internal re of Pennsylvania, and Wm. B. ”. retained as collec trict will be kuown PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS. — Tho President bas made the following appoint- ments: R. S. Clapp, U. S. Marshal for the $ ik D. Schermerho ‘or the port of Quincy, r of the U.S. mint at roll Wright, of low: clerk of the United States: harles Hopkins, U. S. marsial for tue ter” r of Washington; Wm. H. Baggs, post- master at Smyrna, Delaware. NAVAL OnpExs. — Comm: Bunee detached from the navy ton, and ordered to special Hghthouse Lieut. T. D. Bolles, from the navy » Washington, and placed on waiting Assistant Surgeon Howard Smith reported his return from the Om ay placed on waiting or¢ 3s tached irom the nav tation, at laud, and ordered to the Unit amer Kio Bravo, at New Orie: ry. Ful Hampshire, and orderad to the Rio Bravo. Mates T. W. Benham Filson, from the Fortane, and steamer Rio Bravo. ‘or of ev ater F. M ard, Wash- e Treasvry to-da frd call for the redemption of Th 45, toch incla: both ove mentioned n bonds issued under act of February Ot heretofore eal ed in for redemptic The iuterest on the bonds herein called will e@ase on the Deth of October next. TERS’ WAGES IN WASHIN meeting of a committee from the employing s and one from the Tyographical ras held to-day for consultation upon ct of wages, but nothing definite ‘The employers expressed lingness to pay fifty cents per thou- dems, but will not be governed by the Sof the union. The printers’ committee stated that they had no authority to act, but were sent to ascertain the views of the 'em- ers and report the same to the unton. It is said that the members of the union wiil not accede to the demand of the employers, as mnany of the latter have given notice that they will not be bound by the rules of the u ion after the 2d of Augn It is believed porto dae be the result—Assocuded Press spatch. THE BLACK HILLs BoNANZA—A dis- patch from Professor Janney has been re- ceived at the Interior department, in which he says he has discovered gold in paying lites on both Spring and Rapid creeks, fom twenty to Uirty miles northeast of Harney’s Peak, with @ good head of water, amply sufficient for workiog purposes. The clay irom the stream beds yields from four to eight cents to the pan, of coarse scale gold, several pieces of the value of a dollar been found. He considers, however, that no matter how valuable the mines may prove, the future wealth of the Black Hilis country will he in its grass lands, farm and limber. Professor Janney’s dispatch has been telegraphed to the President, and the Secretary of the Interior is in consultation with him 4s to the course of the government .veference to the presence of miners in the Black Hills. Tue EXCURSION To Conn's ISLAND, VCE DE L'EAU, AND ALONG SHORE.—The ex- cursionists to Cobb's Island and thereabouts, per steamer Mosely, returned to Washing- ton yesterday moruing in’ excetlent condi- tion. They Visited Fortress Monroe, Vue d= eau (Sewall’s Point), and Norfolk, and then on Saturday steamed over to Cobb's Island to spend Sunday. The Island was reached in season to epjoy @ surf bath on Saturday, and @lso to enable those inclinet to indulge in the fishing of those famously stocked waters. Two boats went out *shark- iag,” and the party under charge of that vy eran peatman, fisherman, and gunner, Frank Ki , Caught four sharks ia aa hour on tie slack tide. The other boat also captured two, showing that the supply of Sua.ks 1s kept up. Sunday the excursion- ists were @ good deal seattered. Some weut fis some sharking; some weut ou shore & ¢ the most of tue surf bathing,or to sniti toe salt air from the ocean beach, or to ather shel!s, or hunt sea-biru’s nests far up the beach, or to look at old man Cobd's taine wild geese, brandt, ec. The old mau, now iu bis eighty-sixth year, retaius his impmense vitality to a wonderful degree, «:d was inthe hay-field mowing on Satur- day. His three sous are also the embudi- ments of Superb manhood, though the young- est is considered rather weakly by the old man beeause he eanuot quite hold a of four at arm’s lengin by the chines. Tne Cobbs manage their hotel In their usual Quiet, unpretending style, but in a way bardly up to the requiremeuts of modern p.e@ ure travel, and they would do weil & mouetuize their establishment a little for ths benefit of this class. The superb fishing and guuning at the island, in’ connection with We surf bathing, will always, however, mike this a p { great attraction for ON. 4A net: folks.” AUT maday morning Capt F had bis rsion party musvere 1 ° Moseley for the retura tip an! the amer Was SOOn Making its way oUt of the barbor and into the ceep blue Water of the be ran round Cape Charles an u; ads on the way to ‘Norfotk - Vaede-Yeau was » ad several juke freight. Those stopping at Vue de i’eau had the ity of enjoying a delicious bath, were then in good condition for the excellent dinner set at this eet ieescaeee, commie — of so many Washing! si ing 4 were to be seen, that the place had quite a home look. Mr. Howeil, (of Senate restau- the of this The Mississippi Improvement. ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT. The following Executive order was issued yesterda; IVE MANSION, July 27th, 1875. Orders—In conformity to —provisioas con- tained fn the river and harbor act. ap) arch 30, 1875, granting to James B. Eades, and his associates, authority to use for the construction of jettivs at une mouth of the Mississippi river, any materials on the public lands of the United States that shall suitable for and may be needed in said works under such rezulations as the Secre- tury of War shall prescribe, it is hereby or- dered and directed: First. That the general supervision of all matters properly appertaining to the grint therein is made }s placed in. the office of En- gineers, and Major C.B. Comstock detailed by the Seeretary of War, under the provi- sions of the said act to report to him “the depth of water and width of channel seeuret ave maintained from time to time in said channe! tozether with such other information as the Secretary of War may direct.” Second Protection of the interests of the United States so far as the taking of 1 rial 18 Concerned, said Eades and his a: ates shall prior to taking material from any ublic lands obtain authority to do so from the Secvetary of War; their application specify the kinds and amounts of mate- rial they wish to take from each sub division of the public lands, and they shall at once c5ea from such taking on being notitied 1 the authority is withdrawn. va. Protection of the interests of the United States so far as structures are con- cerned, said Eades and his assoctate: and contractors are au.sorized to erect, at their own expense, such shops, dwellings, store- houses ang wharves en the military reserva- tion, at the mouth of the Missisaippt, as may be necessary for the prosecution of the work, shall furnish a listand plan showing the ation of the same to the Secretary of War, but these shall be erected in such a way and at such pleces as not unnecessarily to inter- fere with navigation or any other interest in which the United States is concerned. Whereof the Secretary of War shal] be the jvdge. At his direction any such stracture shall be at once removed. Prasth, Protection of Jas. B. E: No person save sald & rs shail erect any buil of the Mississipp! r may be summarily s narshalor his de; has already been ¢ the Secretary of War to said until He should be regulations now h- tudes 1s authorized to con- materials under that author U. 8. Gaanr. E OF ANSENCE granted Assist- John Brooke, Philadelphia, Pa , has been extended one month. THE MARSH CHARGES INVESTIGATION. Governor Fletcher and Hons. C! ner, B. W. Harris and J. B. to stigate Pre charges. are in Omaha, and left (his morning for the Rd Cloud a ey via Chey THE YELLOW Fever Scource—A dis- atch received at the Navy depariment yes- terday from Post Surgeon Sternberg, at Pensacola, says that there are on the sick list one officer, twenty-seven enlisted men, one officer's wife, seven laundresses and thirteen children. On the Zist instant the command was removed from Fort Barrancas to Fort Pickens, and six new cases were re- ported from tat place on the 22d, making in all twenty sick there—one with black vomit. Surgeon Sternberg has been instructed to hire alithe nurses and help that may be litional phystei: and one hospital stewur! arrived at Barrancas 2th trom New Orleaas. No cases nave beeu reported trom Fort Piekeus since the 5th. The news rec the office of geon of the mar that the yellow f ing, and th by the offi ‘ota Key West, Fla., at xlward, supervising sur- al. is to the effect at that point is abat- ri is t forth ited States to cheek is is the facton the part of the governrecut, tie local authorities are quite lax in their co-operation. Dr. Woodward states that yeste he received a letter from Key West i ng him that the only effort put forth by corporate authorities one barrel of chloride of s heat off tt, an A SERIEs OF RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.— Full ofa Train Through a Bridye— Killed —News as been received at St. Paul, Minn., that 4 mixed train of twenty-two carson the Northern Pacific railroad went through a bridge across the Mississippi, at Brainerd, yesterday morning, causing ‘the instant death of five persons. The bridge is about eighty feet bich. t Cae Run Orer amta Man Nilled.—The ex press train on the Indianapolis, Blooming- ton and Western railroad, whieh left Indian- apolis at midnight Monday night, met with an recident half a mile west of Jamesto: by runaing over a cow. The engine and b wrecked, and Thos. MeWii. liars, fireman, was instantly killed. One Man Killed and One Injured—The ex- press train east from Cincinnati on the Ma- rietta and Cincinnati railroad, yesterday rorning, ran through @ washed-out culvert near Zaliska, Obio, instantly killing Fire- man Powell and breaking an arm and a thigh of Engieer Cutter. No passengers were injured. SUICIDE OF A WoMAN BY STRANGULA: TION. Last night Mrs. Elizabeth Schubert, wife of Geo. Schubert, stevedore, occupying rooms a@t No. 196 Eastern avenue, cot it~ ted suicide by strangling herself. Mrs. Schu- bert lost a young ehild about six weeks avo, since whith time she has showa signs of mental éerangement from grief. Last night she procured one of her husband’: nders and tying one end toa low beds in her room fastened the other around her r Aad sitting upon the floor pulled so violently as tocause strangulation. Her husband, who was lying on @ lounge in the next room, en- tered a few minutes after the act, and found his wife a corpse. She had made no noise that he heard. Mrs. Schubert leaves three smailehildren. She was 30 years of age. Dr. Kelly, coroner, will hold an inquest to-day.— Halt. Sun, 23th. IN THE MOUNTAIN MEADOW MASSACRE TRIAL yesteraay, Lee's counsel asked that the depositions of Brigham Young and Geo. A. Smith be taken at Salt Lake City, tney being too feeble to travel, but the prosecution objected. A witness, Bradshaw, testified that Haight said thathad it not been for some fool tampering with the Indians the emi- grents would never have passed Cedar, but they had only gone farther into divorced, was brought to Beaver last night by United States Marshal Maxwell. A MILLION WANTED FOR TH NIAL BUILDINGS.—Tue United 81 tennial board of finance CENTEN- aging progress in the work on the a buildings in ss eciesdae Iphis, us sisctpinniar sine mt spat bbe su y con for work to be completed during the last four months of this year. The contract JoHN Morissry Invites JoHN KELLY TO A PUBLIC DEBa’ fohn Morrissey Writes to the New York Sun as follows: Please ask Mr. John Kelly are zeae columns to convene the general committee of Tammany Hall, so that he and myself 01 iy. He may have all the office-holders on his side, roved , THE ST. LOUIS WHISKY FRAUDS. Arrest of Ex-Chief Clerk Avery. { Reported for The Evening Star.) This morning, Judge Fisher, United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, re- ceived by mail from David P. Dyer, United States attorney for the eastern district of Missouri, a certified copy of the indictment found by the grand jary of the district court at St. Louis on July 2ist, against W. O. Avery, late chief clerk of the Treasury de- partment, with @ request for his arrest, as also a warrant for bis arrest, returnable at the present (May) term of the court. THE INDICTMENT presents that Alfred Bevis and Edward B. Fraser about Juiy Ist, 1875, did engage aud carry on the business of distillers with intent to defraud the United States of the internal revenue tax of 70 cents per proof gallon of spirits; thet Wm. ©. Avery being an officer and agent, head of the appointment division of the internal revenne department and chief clerk, on the first of July, 1873, did fail to re- port to his next superior officer, the commis- T Of internal revenue, the aforesaid vio- of the law committed by Alfred Bevis :. B. Fraser. The second count charges ‘y With (as chief clerk) failing to report said violation by Bevis and Fraser. Th third count charges that Avery (as head of a divisior.) on the Ist ef July did corrapt- ly conspire and collude with the following persons. John MeDonald, John Joseph M. Fitzroy, Alfred Bey Fraser, and Rudolph W. Ulrici, with divers other persons, to defraud the United States of the internal revenue tax then and there imyosed by law on the spirits distilled by Bevis, Fraser and U! i at St. Louts. The fourth count charges that Avery did con- spire, &c.. and did then and there defraud the United States of the tax on 5° sof spirits distilled by Bevis, Fraser, Ulrici and Louis Teuscher. ‘The indictment is violation of section eked “Indictment. for f the revised 8! isher imm papers to Judge Hu preme Conrt of the Dist the following “he ARRANT OF ARRES? a thereupon of Cohumbia, ve United States 0,353, imal s. to the J Cohan 2 hereby commanded to W. O- Avery, if to be and him have bet found in your district Hon. D.C. Hu: preys, one of the Justices preme Court for the said District of pid. iInmediately, to answer the Un States tenchip offense ch air im. Hereof f pt, and have thi then this writ, so indorsed as to suow b v muted it. D.K. Cantrer, Chief Justice, ce. Rt. J. MEIC By E. J. MippLere AVERY ARRESTED AND RELEASED ON BAIL. Col. Phillips, the deputy marshal, placed {tin the bands of Mr. L. M. Graves, one of the batliffs, and about 10% o'clock, that officer having found Mr. Avery on the street and served the warrant, had him at the court house, and Judge Humphreys having fixed the bail for his appearance at St. Louis at 000—Messrs. Thomas Lewis and Robert C. Hewitt presented themselves as bonds- men, and being accepted by the court the clerk took their -recognizance with Mr. A. for his appearance. Severe Storm in Baltimore. FREAKS OF LIGHTNING—ONE MAN KILLED. Baltimore was visited yesterday afternoon by one of the heaviest ‘rain storms of the season. The rain, which was accompauicd +y Vivid lightning, was ouly of about tweaty minutes’ duration, bat in Unat time the fall was @lmost unprecedent Considerable ‘amage was done to buildings, streets and sewers. From the account in the Baltimore Sun we clip the following: A FATAL HOLT. A thunderbolt struck the machine sho the brickyard of J. A. Allers, Waverl, - ‘age, Baltimore county, two aad a haifmiles from the city, and antly Killed George Hardy, colored. Hardy was standing in the t shoveling with another colored mau named Jacob Wilson, a te: white boy named Henry Se y looking on. A bright flash of ligntning came, and the interior of the building seem ed to beon fire. At the same instant Hardy iL to the ground dead. Wilson was throwin a fence and into a field a distance of 30 . He got up to find that his oaly injary was a painful twitching in the right leg. which he yet feels. He was not hurt by the fall, and Says his sensations were not un- pleasant, although he 1s unable to describe them. The boy was tumbled some distance away and spun round like atop. He says he felt at first as if some one had struck him on the head; he was not atall injured Dr. P.H. Retche, of Waverly, was called and found the lightning had ‘left no marks on the bocy of thedead man. His skin was Just as in life, his face bore an expression of ppose, and the only evidence of auy violence was that when the eyelids were lifted the eyeballs were bloody. The hatr was not singed, and the hands and finger-nails were entirely unchanged. His hat, however, was torn to shreds, his pants split into ribbons, and the hickory handle of the shovel he had in his hand was shivered into the finest splinters. The lightning entered the side of the shed. and a discoloration on one of the steel rollers mars where it first struck he- fore tt glanced to the shovel held by the col- ored man. Nodoubt nearly all the electric tluid of the bolt lodged in the man. Alto- gether it was a singularly fatal and extraor- dinary lightning freak. Hardy was twenty nine or thirty years of age, leaves a wife and four children, and lived on Sharp street, near Montgomery, in the city. His body was bruised about the thigh, where he bad struck the rack in his fall, but othewise was not disfigured. The foreman of the yard Isaac Potee, who was iu the kiln, say8 the flash was followed by a report that shook the earth underfoot. OTHER LIGHTNING FREAKS. The storm was quite heavy in the western aud northwestern sections of the city. A tall poplar tree in Druid Hill park, near the Woodberry side, was struck by lightning, 4nd hundreds of people on picnics were drenched. Lightning struck the German Lutheran church, corner of Fremont and Ssratoga streets, but was carried off by the rods. It made two large holes in the Toof, however, which will have to be repaired. A NARROW ESCAPE. In Baltimore city the house owned by Jno. M. Heiss and occupied by Henry Gaiesmer, southeast corner of Eastern avenue and Ex- eter street, was struck by lightning, and the chimney and @ portion of the roof slightly damaged. The electric bolt passed down throvgh the house, but without doing any other injury to it except knocking some of the plastering from the ceiling in the third story next to the roof. Mrs. Schultz was in the room above which the lightning struck, with a small child in her arms. She Poe slightly scorched fluid passed the room. Mr. Gnies- mer was sitting at the time the shock oo- a} “ ith his wichita a eee wi . eee months old, who eaten on th brick pavement before the deor. He states ———EEs Sxow BANKS IN SUMMER.—The Bath (Me. of the 19 says: Huge snow ban! have been seen in the middle of é i z i [ fi ad RG x "I : 5 ; i H z t if iy 5 é i : i ii z : i i i st #3 s } to be a communication frora Doualdson, THE FINANCIAL BREEZE. Suspension of Drncau, Sherman & Co. Dispatches from Philadelphia, Albany, Baltimore, San Francisco, Chicago and other financial and commercial centers state that the news of the ng mars yestenlay of the well-known New York banking-house of Durcan, Sherman & Co., though it caused some excitement among business men and bankers, will not seriously affect business interests in any of those places. A WILD TIME IN WALL STREET. The New York Commercial Advertiser, in its description of the scene, says the exeite- meni on Wail street upon the announcement of the suspension rivaled the most flery day he panic of 1573. The street presented an arance that would have astonishel the tor of more quiet days. Through the sultry streets, between the groups of ted brokers who filled the pavements, sed young and agile messengers to the various brokers’ offices. Conversation of the most animated description was heard on all t and many faces mirrored the fear that nother struggle like that of two years azo was to be repeated. In the stock exchange a yelling, boisterous, maddened crowd had congreated, endeavoring to eseape the peril that seemed to threaten. The crowd was so dense in the stock exchange that visitors were refused admission. No one was admitted to the main office of Duncan, Sherman & Co., not even the friends of the members of the firm. Several of the windows were left open for some time, but people desirous of falning admittance» mak- ng this a means of bothering the cle: windows were shut down. main office was barred, the smaller offic known as we coupon counting: lt Pine street, was ope! here stated that they knew nothing what- ever of the cause which led to the closing of the doovs. During the forenoon Nassau streei, from Cedar to Pine, was completely choked up by the crowd, but as the sun got in the zenith the crowds shifted into Cedar. Several firms in the neighborhood were com- pelled to apply to the police in order to keep their doorways clear. RAPID) REACTION. The Advertiser editorially says:—“Why a fatiure, at all times, of late, in’ th Pt of possibilities, aud not affectir the stock market or any of the great raii- road or telegraph interests deait in at the exchange, should set Wall street almost as crazy as the real panic of 1873, is past fin out.” Its fair to presume that the & will recover their equanimity in a day or two, and that the rise in the gold-room, in- ridental to the probable return of @ good Ks, the Although the muy bills of the hoase, will be satistied with two or three points ‘already made on the annow ent. Indeed, stocks are al- ty on tl rer) P recovery, and gold ou thedown- ward cou again kY OF THE FIRM. nded in 1850 by Alex sympathy is expressed and particularly for Mr. W. an. Tne credit of th house was good up to the hour of suspension, and had Mr. Drnean chose: vail himself suspeuded. RUMORS AND SPECULATIONS. w York dispateh last evening lure caused at first. much exei ealers at the Cotton Exel of this. bis house need not A Ne The fi nge, as the operations of the firm in cotton were knowh to have been very bea house in Lat y,and the said to holda large amount of cotton rpool. It is feared that the failure will seriously affect the market on the other side. Most of their cotton contracts in this city were settled, however, before the failure, and the depression which it caused in the market here was done to discount the proba- ble depression in L ool. At a late hour this afternoon it had been impossible to ob- tasn a complete or partial list of the credit- ors of Duncan. Sherman & Co. The names of the principal creditors were declined for publication, as the submission of the names of @ few out of the many who are interested in the failure would, in the estimation of the rm, be neither of use to the creditors as a body or to those princi; 'y interested, Some time will elapse before it will be possible to submit a detailed siatement of the condition of the house. The assets ean only be guessed . but will be much less than the Hablilities. About three fifths of the debts of the fi held abroad. Mr. Dunean is said to be affected by the taken the hi m a ly " ? fortune which has ove: © Was to-day person paiatory to definitely uncing to the creditors the condition of the house. THE ASSIGNER TAKE: SESSION. Atsorclock Judge Shipman, as assignee, took the the failure, as its aecount sherman & Co. was closed six with Dunean, months ag THe TRUTH ABOUT THE LAND tow.—The facts of the ease in reference to the difficulty between Mr. Lan ard W. Meade, at Trenton, on Thursday, are as follows: As Mr. Landis and his counsel, Wm. E. Potter, of Bridgeton, were passing through a side door in the state house at Trenton, Captain Meade came up behind them &ud made some inaudible rernark. Mr. Potter, thinking that the Captain wished to hold some conversation with Mr. Landis, stepped aside and left them together. Mr. Landis, turning about, asked Captain Meade what he had sai “You son of 4 b—h,” was the reply. Mr. Landis then said, are a low, mercenary dog.” At this Captain Meade moved up to Mr. Landis and exclaimed, “1 willstrike you.” Mr. Landis replied, “Strike, you are too cowardly to strike me. Your pw language is that of a blackguard. not of a gentleman.” Upon this the people in th corridors came rushing up, Mrs. Landis among the number. Seeing Mr. Landis she cried out, “It is my husband—léet me go. to him!" And she threw herselfupon him and flung her arms about his neck. Her frieuds pulled her away, and as they did so Mr. Lan- dis, turning to Captain Meade, said, **You have the power over this poor woman, and for the sake of carrying out your malicious and mercenary objects, you destroy her hap- pin ? At this Colonel Potter, taking Mr. sands up bodily in his arms, earried him into the library. After a few moments had passed, Mr. Landis. seeing that bis ehild was not with him, rushed out to find him, just as his boy, Charley Landis, was coming to meet him.— Vinetend We DONALDSON AND THE MEDIUMS.—The Chicago Times bas received what purports the mitsing balloonist, through a Dubuque dium,” the full text of which balloon will be picked up and you will hear from it to-morr-w. All hands are lost. Write to the Chicago Times and Journai that the balloon ts lost and we are lost. Also Ubat we threw out ballast, supposing we were near the land, when we suddenly dropped into the lake and could not rise the second time.” Upon which the Times re- marks:— Air navigation becomes very dis- couraging business when the throwing out of ballast causes a balloon to fail, and it 1s no wonder that Donaldson was lost vhen so PLIMSOLL'S SHIPPING BILL IN PARLIA- debate In the house of com mons esterday on the question cr ving Ping bill, Mr. Disraeli e: the lon That notwithstanding the motives of the bill, it would only aggravate the evils it intended and would occupy too much time is that the TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR, |: THE FINANCIAL FLURRY DUNCAN, SHERMAN & 00. TWO MORE FAILURES TO-DAY. NEW YORK AND PHILADELPAtA, ——_.___. SH LABOR STRIKES. ny THOUSANDS OF MEN ——9 SHERMAN & CO. the Senior ane of the Firm New York, Juty 25. Wim Butler Duncan, senior member of Duncan, Sherman & Co.. in an interview last night with a Herald reporter, said there was no truth in the report that about two or three months ago anticipating what has happened, he went to Europe for the purpose of securing aid to hegouate new lowns and extend the credit of the firm, nor was it true that he applied to Baring Bros., Brown & Bros., and other rep resentative European banking firms, for assistance, and that such assistance dented. Mr. Duncan also said that tl Banking Company of London, whieh, it has been stated, wonld sustain a heavy loss by his fafiure, ts pot Inve ved even toa farthing In 'y as to whether N COTTON mths hal anyth to do witb t susperston, Duncan ss “All that will probably be made know the proper authorities. I dou’t mean to back anything. Eve IDLE. during the y ing 1 not have now abroad w DUNCAN, SHERMAN & (0.3 LETTERS CREDIT, “Assure all friends of such arrangement bas already t them from exper Tr " all ri «is have @ borrow trouble. They are in suc that they can move hither and chithe or Dunean partics th could giv a the extent of his Lid bilities anc replied that at present ulterly » to do so, but statement would shortly be made pab Drexel, Morgan & Co. said to a Herald reporter: i nas been known that Duncan, Sher Co hav n trausactions, their ag ing Mr. Kitchen, of Collie « ad all the cotioa shipped by the firm, making his sales of cotton to arrive to spinners in England and on the continent. Within the last © weeks cotton has fallen about three cents per pound. Now, sup- posing that they had 25,000 bales in transitu, nota large amount for them, but a beavy amount for other firms, their ioss would be about $975,000, certainly not enough to send them under, but we hear that they are also largely interested in Mobile and Ohio, At- lantic and G yestern, and slightly in Erie. Itis tamong the he losers is the Mexican Consul at this por whose indiv al and consulate funds were on deposit with the suspended firm. A Trausfer of rty. New Yor uly 23.—On Monday last Mr Sarah M. G. Sherman, widow, and WillL Butler Duncan, of the firm of Duncan, Sher- man & Co., made transfers of their real es- tate in this ¢ m). “s Fortheom.- t. ‘he entire clerical herman & Co. are prepar- ot known Whe. It Will be ready » under an in- junction of secresy regarding affairs. No- where does there seem to be any tmpression taat the failure will protuce anything more than the monetary excitement which existed yesterday. What a Bank President Says. The President of the Bank of the St New York, where the suspended firm their accounts, says that the suspension of the firm had caused him much surprise, as no intimat‘on in any shape had been given 1o officers of the bank when they opened that suspension was contemplated. He th he could say that his bak held some or $400,600 securities of Duncan, Sherman & Co., all of which was available stock. Gold Fluctaations To-day. New York. July 25.—Gold opened at1i3x, and is now (10.30 @ m.) 144. ‘The Effect in London and Liverpool. Loxpon, J 2s —The suspension of Dun- can, Sherman & ( appreciable effect oa here. LIVERPOOL, July 2*—Dunean, Sherman & Co.'s failure has but little effect here. It is reported that their shipments of cotton will be well protected. Another Fatlure. ing Si New York, Jul force of Dunc ing a statem of New York, has no the general market New Youx, July %—Tne Commercial ~ Warehouse Company have fallei—cause heavy advances on Cuban crops which early rains destroyed. The house also advanced largely on railroad securities which depre- ciated. Later —It is reported that the liabilities of the Commercial warehouse company are $1,500,000, Failure in Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, July —Joun Mason & Co., sugar deaiers, suspended to-day. Lia- bilities about 04 or FOREIGN NEWS. 30,000 English Mill Operatives Idie. Lonpon, July ‘birty-one mulls are closed at Dundee, and 12,000 persons are out of employment. ‘Both employers and opera- tives have held meetings and resolved not to yield. Ifthe Oldham strikes should extend to all the mills in that district 30,000 persons will be out of employment. The American Rifilemen at Woolwich. Lonpor, July 2.—The American rifle team will visit the arsenal ana dockyard at Woolwich to-day, special permission having been granted them to do so. The Collie Failure. Lonpon, July 25.—The trial of Alexander and William Collie, of the late firm of Alex- ander Collie & Co., on the charge of obtain- ing money under false pretenses, at Guildhall this a. m., but upon the conclu- sion of to-day’s proceedings was adjourned for one week. Cotton Mills Burned. Guascow, July 2.—Grant’s cotton mills in this city have been destroyed by fire. Sev- eral girls and two frem urned. Three mut avenue,” was received at his home. This letter he sent by bis Wiillte, and upon being mad by his aunt, that lady started at once to find him and allay any fears be might have about returning home. | She came up bebtnd him on the cor- ner of Dwight and Groton streets, and gently erasping him by the left hand asked him where he was going. He said but little, acd & few moments later, unobserved to his aunt, he drew a seven’ shooter and with @ quick Movement placed the muzzle at the base of his skull and fired. He tmmod y fell apparently unconscions upon the sid walk, but was soon picked up by his friends, and Dr. Homan was at once su 4 An exam inatic the ball had passed through fro: to the front of his head. eaming face. He was taken to th early in the « with friends, egan to sink gradually at about 9 5 ted a The boy is represented took the boat from him k the money acter. The let aunt contained t book and two cents, the coppers being all Uiat be hat left of the Sov. The Haty to reside in this city abe The mother, who is quit umMption, Was ap- prised of the death of her boy yesterda: the shock was so great that {{ almost ¢ her mad. Dr. MeCullom, who hols the sition of Coroner, also visited the boy a the shooting, and decided after bis death that ap inquest was uuoecessary. The pre- meditation with which young Halves de cided to take his iife is Shown in the letter alluded to above, which was as follows “BOSTON, 1515. Dear Mother m2 & few lines. I have bought « river police took itaway [ Dearest mother, pl kind: Tf heart has and so 1 mus POLED TEVO! a answer >» me ‘orner is short. Goot Haus TED MURDER IN n (nerboard. “1 far irom the maa r Four or five men were leck of the t Suddenly the zle, Which laste when one setz in a strag- aifa minute, threw nim overboard. The t must | Lave been done that the man would bt picked wp Imi ly. The tug stopped, a boat launc! 1 withonty | one oar two men proceede: ip. By this time the ya : almost near to save t w ppeared. quarters in Cornell state that > wa James Miller, or Cook; that s slightly intoxicated, and seating himself . of the boat ‘lost his balance and fell into the water accidentally. Hugu Carr, a New York longshoreman, has been arrested on sus- picion of being the man who bad the seu Mle ‘With Miller and threw him Thow A BIsHopric THAT CANNoT SF Bisno A few months ago the Rev. Leigh- ton Coleman, of Toledo, Ohio, decli Position of bishop of Fond du Lac, the new *piscopal diocese in Wisconsin, and now Ube Rev. J.8. Shipman, of Lexington, Ky., bas also declined. He writes as follow the question of duty presented me in this election I have given my most careful con- sideration, not unaided, @s I trast, by the spirit of God. My conclusion ts that I ought lo decline. Your young diocese, with its goodly array of parishes and its vast oppor- tunities for missionary enterprise—with its band of clergy thoroughly united aad in earnest, and its zealous and efficient laity— impresses me as one of the most important and attractive fields of labor within the limnits of the American chureh. I decline the call with which I have been honored to this field of labor, not, if I know my own heart, from any selfish consideration, bat simply to accep dentially closed against me. P fay that, distrusting my own jadgm matter so intimately affecting m. have submitted to others—men in church has confidence—my reason declin and they, without an © have pronounced that reason valid. A LETTER FROM MRS, BEFCHER—A let ter bas been published from Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher to the editor of the Des Moines (lowa) Reporter denying the recently pub- lisbed statement that her husband had been engaged for a western lecturiug tour. She says it is quite uncertain if Mr. Boecher will ecture at all this season at any great dis- from his home duties, Thanks for your kind congratulations. A unanimous verdict would have been eratify- ing, and only small justice, in view of thy most vile and wicked slanders against tne purest, cleanest-bearted man that the sun shines on, and after the tortures of six months in that court-room. But uine against three, and fhat three being such as they were. together with the disclosures of the pr ary of the Loader and Price wretches, ix consid- ered here eqival to what the full vindication would have been had the ju ven thelr verdict without leaving their seats. i bave no fears but that ever in this Ii y bas band will stand acquitted before nil mea— save such characters as Lhose who lia ve plot - uat he ted against hin, and even (/ is guiltiess.” TAR ENGLISH SCANDAL Case —It is ro- ried that the friends of Col. Baker, of Eng- nd, who has retracted bis confession of au assault on Miss Dickinson ina comp: vob car, have addressed tohim & letter of con- fidence and admifation, proposing @ publie reception when he returns from his summer resort. It is signed by colonels exclusively, and sets forth that he is the victim ot a vile conspiracy; that Miss Dickinson was iny duced by friends to make the charge; that his so-called speech of contrition was ex~ tracted from him while he was in an emo- tional and self-accusatory mood; that bis style is erbially hyperbol.cal and un- trust) that it is an attempt to black- mail him, and that he is believed to have gen Fg large sums of money to hush the matter up, m: < his commission