Evening Star Newspaper, September 3, 1875, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR Excepted, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Pennsylvania Ave corner Lith Street, The Evening Star Newspaper Company, S. HW. RAUPPMANN, Preet. ——-2 THE EVENING STAR ” Tax Cents XTs PER MONTH + ace B cer months. THE WEEKLY STA == eres 82 60 2 yer. poviaee prove enranr en vet. 46 N°. 7,00 OF Raves ef WASHINGTON D. C.. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. 1875. Che Lvening Star. TWO CENTS DRY GOODs. D NT FAIL YO Vis BOGAN & AMUSEMENTS. E NEW STOBE OF NATIONAL THEATER. WYLIE, 7 So 1014 Si very «Reet, Between New York aveane ang b st BIKER x EF They are now offertog SPEUIAG BA 0 and GREAT ATTRACTIONS in all kinds Se FIRBON DRY G0eaDE, : emer + + ONE PRICE, CASH SYSTEM. art CONRAD. LOW PRI a LIZETTE. FEIDAY—BENEBIT NIGHT ~ MATINEE. SATURDAY sept?-tr SJAEVGERFEST SEPTEMBER Stu, 61a avn TH, 1575. s © -ne tin ge porchaser for SUNDAY, September Sth, . AKRIVAL OF THE RICHMOND SINGERS. MONDAY EVE'NG, Sept mber 6b. at S p.m. . mr YS 4 Graud Vocal and Instrumental Concert - P AT LINCOLN HALL, 5 « ' mt ce by fair deat @ prices BY Tux Brest ask nation of your p SHINGTON SAENGERET YD, AND THE F KICHM eal tab actin re. an HESTBA. GEORGE J. JOHNSON & CO,, 711 MARBET SPACE [UPOsTANT To roReHAsERS TRGENIA Bichrw ai A FULL OR oF PROF F. RLEY. Tickets ar $1.6 DRY G@GOODs. be procured at ELLIS & BRODHEAD « €O., TUESDAY Penna. avenue, bet Sth and 10th sts. Pre. NIC meohgarrtatiet atti AT TEE WASHINGTON FANCY AND STAPLE DRY GOODS — at3 - PORDs. MARKABLY LOW PRICE3. Gives vance Brown «: he Lites: Savy | BAVERLY'S GREAT MINSTREL TROUPE won Twenty-four in z Clocaed Balt Calf carly, aud examine the atock +1 BRODHEAD & Co., ( mad Sale at MAK RAITEROS 1D ant B stre KUN Nb. bY Bal VIEGINI it Bandherebiets. 123, c 1 yard keu suN » Tow PestTivELyY sor To CLOSE BU Ess. T TO CONTINUE BEORIV HEAP DRY GooDs EVERY DAY, AT CARTER'S, 747 MARKET SPACES Large loi ct Bese Na fel « Ty best goaitty stripe Victoria Lax reuadiaes st cust ati Pe PLEASURE SEERERS SUMMER ABKANGEMENT WH. & SEN ESS f0 BES ate. After rats aud fine Lrou Steamer ® pt in STOCK FIXTURES FOR STORE FOR RENT In order to close AUC Blac ghiered » S. worth $2.00 for SILES, (Poasvc,) wort CLOTHS 4NL y WASHINGT! pert J. &. WIBWALL « ©., 310 SEVENTi STAEST, M tenet oe beard, oF to Da and A pely dom Stree ereteys: ve Bt Me P. 4 TROTA, Pre | HOLMEAD & CO | M16 7th street northwest at rue a { | i iP OKTEKS ENGLISH CROOK ERY fiN* OAL GLASS. WARE, CUTLERY 5° tHe Spd PLATED WAR SVERVi LOWEST FRIC#B FALL STYLE HATS. STINEMETZ, Hatter, 1437 EBNNSYLVANIA AVENUE, Now opening the most aj J0H5 ¥. MITCHELL, 20 PENNSYLVANIA AVESUB roved patterns of GEN TLEMFNS DEES! 'S for the e 24 Floor, $4 Door East of the Old Stand CORNELL MAT for Younus eee BELLAS and CANES: fresh sap) A, "iSigB Ss NEW DYE WouKS. 906 @ STKEET, NEAR NINTH STRE 8. NNECTED WITH On the highest poiu EAS CHEMIOAL SCOURING WORKS S32 miles from b STR! iT, NEAR G, OPPUSITE Pa- ening trainseach way. Fare for round TEST orkice ety baal new, with double porchea | ON. B.—Liveieg aud Cleaning Gentleuen's Gar- ‘The rooms are well furnished, monte a.epecisity @t short notice. Fair prices, At THE ALTIveRe SHIKT Fae. > reer eseyoc ‘ashtarton, D. €., G[BEAT SEMI-ANNUAL SALE or DRY GOoDSs. Our tmmense stock must be reduced. SUMMER egops Jil be sold tone than cost. 0 worth nants. Odda, be sold at due iaarter thelt regular price, The bal- Supe of car stock will be suld at Cost for thirty days iF W. W. BURDETTE & CO., BMtt Kos. 9 QFEB4 AND FIELD GLass « wsee CLEaor cad ater tae i. HEMPLER, OPTICIAN, 463 Pennsylvania ayonse. | 20) | | wards, | i more to de. at lGidand 1916 Pennsylvania avenns snd con vipers, belween Web aud 2th ete, anges tr | bi be £) PIONICS, &o. | j ineln ; | ' | | was at ¢ | and bas not been in | iberr summer sojourn northward bas been facddoned by the death of their youngest child, state, and was made entirely by the it considered bis determination not another term, and will be a can election. _EVENING STAR. Wasbington News and Gossip. PRESIDENT GRANT, accompanic | by Col 1 ctor Casey, returned Long Braseh yester- day trom New York city. heen appointed a first class clerk in the con: tract office in the F pedo practice at Newport, * in the presence of the Seeretary of the Nay; Admiral Porter, Comme te mside, Senators Cragin a ners. sterta. THE MissIsstppPr IMPROVEMENT. tertay, in New York. a board of engineei ing Gen. Barnard, of the U. 8. eng! neer corps, € 4s’ plan mprov he Mississipp! betore time in on. 5 ie O'CLOCK: onal Pont. Patrick's Day. 3. 4 ne at ckst Overtnre—Crown Diamonds, (new alr;) Au- FP La_ Voinbile; L. Schneider. nale—Opera La Vesta’ altz—Lu Dora: Glorgia. Schobert THE WreKt ‘vether chronicle of the United 1 offices which ended yesterday, various «districts § ®.3 tach: New England . 4.00, ates South Atlantic sta’ Golf states, 0 western ¢ ay lower Lake 10% upper Lake region, 0.35; Ohio vt and Tenis: Se¢. (05; upper Missts 3 Mis- url valley, i: Pest-vaTixe Pews c. OX, pension agent in this city, who pays a e nionber of pensioners in the sont tticers in t the ng vouehe gia yesterday where t , e mbher 4, when it must have not later than the 30th of An. nterest top ver to. Kne says habit in person this city, % for a very imy s. consisting of Hub’ oldier arties ina aational vending re ments reby ontered that hereafter no ces Shall be wedin any na joining groan “nited Sta’ net be allowed in nation: leries hefure sunrise or after sunset. > pents will be into these ceme- n bational cemeteries where dri 4, the speed must be confine 3 tonn 1 all driving pro- vill be conspicuously 1 the main entrance of each national cemetery, and will be rigidly enforced by the superinter PERSONAL.— Commodore Goldsborougi and M.de la Bouliniere, of the French le gation, were registered in New York last evening. +*--The traveling public and espe cially the patrons of that hotel will welcome the reappearance of Mr. George H. Farrar betiind the desk at Willard’s. <>+-Secretary Delano, accompanied by Mr. J. W. Dwyer lumbus, Ohio, last Wednesday «Senator Joues was ia San Francisco when the Bank of California closed its doors, ounecticut this su:n er, although frequently reported there by rome of the New York papers. He says asn’t burt apy by the smash—that he her stood in relation of creditor or debtor the bank. +**-The frends of Prof. and Mrs. Gallaudet will learn with sorrow that which oceurred in Vermont last week. «*--In the rear part of General Sptaner’s residence at Mohawk is a room which is deseribed as te ex-Treasurer’s special pride. It contains bis geological and eon: cal collection. This is one of the largest of Kind in the in the intervals of rest from ties. -'" Senator Wrigh! his bie du- it. of Low: ‘as has re- to ran for diidate for re- uts. . What They Do at the Springs, (Correspondence of The Star.| JORDAN'S WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, VA, August $1, 1575. One would suppose, and with some degree of reason, that the protracted rains had been quite snificient to dispel the interest and dampen the ardor for “spring” life, bat Jor- \lan’s seems the exception; its attractions are bappily not confined to out-door amuse- ments, and that “home ieeling” which is the di-Unguishing feature of the place alway: nbines those elements of social and con genial comfort, and dispenses them with an. stted band. "The rain, while it may be unwelcome and deplored elsewhere, serves bere to the improvising of i whist party, a. friendly prehange oO ews through glasses, or to suggest @ se stered corner, where the oft toll tale of owe Will yet be softly whispered to the end of dime. The season has been quite successful, the nomber of guests avone time being as high ag three tundred. The table sustains its reputation for excellence: the attendanes o serviuts is without fault, and the court 2d ss of the proprictor is thvarying aad With comm springs are Gratton timable lady. Whose recovery from her recent s: ss has been ax wonderful as it is gratify- ing to ber hosts of friends. The Doctor has proved himseifas indispensable socially as ion. Dr. Louis M . Mrs. F. F. Chew, John C. Hunter and are or latel fs 1. Kinney, w: Mahlon Ashford and family, Dr. Alfred Edelin, “, Mr. John B. Motley, E.G: corge Patton, Charles Keller and Gr nd famil Charles E. in and Miss Mary Sherman,of Wash- ington. ‘There are, in addition, visiters from all sections of the country, a among them Miss Ella Neott Brooklyn, who by com- non consent w eccorded the position of favorite of the place. Her departure on Saturday from the feild the oece Jord amor ner contests was ston of general and genuiue regr Swill always be a favored resort he chain of wate; places in 1, indeed, deserves to be sider the many alva atages 1 en we « possesae THY PIFMAN IN THE N OFFICE A CONGRE=3!ON AL Thee w YorK Post CONTESTANT.— lerad to gon Account of th tthe stand is Pi ‘pul Hawes, who Fays he was elected to Cougr m Nebrasict last fall, and is com: Washington this winter to contest the seat of Lozenzo Crounse, republic He has teen in } f Pp 1 was meut, to him by at twei autel To get it, and nineteen are disappointed aud envions. Tae Stetsoos of the Astor House were after it, #ud so was The. Allen and several restaurant serpers. He hears that some one offered wo a year rent to the government for the ati 2 the sub- tsation in society for the past place Wedne at the resi- 1., of Mt. John Paine, bride. The hour veremony Was first fixed at ed to half-past, dur- number of earriag ne. deposited the o aborately dresse:. uing room werd tn towers. The offi as Bishop Hendricken, an Catholic dio a 2¢ grounds were ver. portion of Mussacht ¢ briiesmaid and grooms- ¥ betog Miss Nelly Wuitney ard Mr. Scrouel Brierly, of New rly one’ bandret fill the spacions tuile veil, Servier fon of ear and very nop &t the close of the ceré- in bis remarks some whoiesome y married couple,congratn- id, Uhat the fe which now (a very holy character, , Was fail of trials and ovei them as man with and for each other, ring, showing @ disposi- Another in the responstbili- He wished to impress upon cessity of living, not only for . bot for the Great Master) who ty 1ey helped themselves amerous aod expensive, ning from the bridezrjom’s »parte, whotls in 20 Was married os. Th The worl, he s: ations {wife to stre Paris, and w n Nev Where the royal law with murked s.—The report at represented to the Calvert com- proj 28 issned anil ‘ation hav- felt fally tate e Co., the hiematical. There isa Tair as it stands, and iter light apon the sub- be 1 by a completa about the a need fora t rough Jeet whi siatent Bel. A FUNERAL PE STON DRI CEME he Troublesome 1 Owe in An attempt was yesterday madeat Montreal to carry out order of the Privy giving the remainsof Mr. Guibord of Christian burial in the Catholic cemetery at that place, but upon the arrival of the procession at the cemetery it was met by a Catholic mob, who attacked the hearse and finally compelled the withdrawal of the procession without having accomplished the purpose for which they came. M. Doutro, a advocate for the Institut Canadien, made demand upon the authorities for military aid, but owing to the lack of previons ar- rangements to that effect, it was not accord- ed. It isnot Known whether apother attempt. Will be made to brry the body to-day. Gai- bord was &@ member of the Iostitut Canadien, a literary cen! over the books of which ihe Catholic authorities of Montreal claimed to exercise & censorship, and this having been denied by the Institute, has given rise to the present litigation, which has continued for five years, the case having been decided against the chureh authorities by the Cana- : a Soe and the Privy Council of Eng- jand. GENERAL SHERIDAN had an elaborate re- cepticn on his arrival in San Francisco on the 2k! of Angust. The of the city awatied him with a carriage drawn by four white horses, and he was escorted by a large body of military toa hotel, where he held a poles tie poawl pine continuously, crows people 4 and the blaze of bonfires and pyrotechuics Hghted up the line of march. ————— t7 Sesator Gordon ts to visit Mississippi tile week Sad qpeak Sor the democratic e sv-Rev. Dr. Ezra Gillett, a prominent Presbyterian of New York, dled in that city yesterday. LETTERS FROU THE PEOPLE. The Law for Burglari. Etitor Star-—In_ your editorial colan.o last Friday evening there were some com: ats on the death of Mr. No». of New York, which 1 read with great satisfaction, inas- Touch as they caliel the attention of your readers to a question involving no léss a consideration than the and the proper- ty of every citizen in the country. After de- ploring the provable escape of the murderer, | Telegrams to The Star. a THE CALIFORNIA ELECTION ——— i TH@DEMOCRATIC VICTORY — oe and alluding with just severity to the ap LATEST FIGURES, | Baling frequency of such deeds, and the cul- pable inefficiency of our present system of = ——— police, you wisely dectare that “t of burglary shonld be mace and treated everyWhere as a capital offence.” pbetmit me, sit, to offer to the public, rough the medium of your wide cireals_ + lon, a few thonghts whieh, in my opuuion, | Great Cry and Little Wool go very far towanis establishing irrefitab!y the conclusion to whieh you have arrived. An offence against society, or, as the p opbers bave it, delictum socitie, is a breach of 1bAt state ot perfect order and equality watch pervades all nature, and which must oromptly repatred by thesupreme authorities ny the fmposition of such penalty as willeom pensate as near as may be the social body or e individual aggrieved. In order that this restoration of the. natural state of things may be as complete as possible, the punish. ment inflicted must be exactly proportioned to the injury received—hence the vari THAT GEORGIA INs “RRECTION. Os A Verdict of “Not Guilty.” ns INTERESTING FOREIGN NEWS oe THE CALIPORNIA ELECTION, News of a Democratic Victory Con. t SAN FRANCcISC: m.—The sept grades of prnishment, from the petty fine | {ote pf the state as far as heard (rom. except and imprisonment of a few days, up io the | ‘Be ites of San Fr and Sacramento, death penalty. eh are much 1, gives Irwin, dem., Now with these considerations before the | F ¥evernor, at yh te In the second ‘congressional district, Page rep., recelyes 4 a Ue, in mind, a moment's reflection will show that the crime of burglary imports an enormity of so peculiar a nature that scarcé any put ishment, consistent with our advancel stace dem. of civilization, can be discovered too severe is, Tep., 2.6%, and Reid. ind for Its remedy. It is no less thar a oee fourth congressional distriet, Wiggin deliberate violation of a natural right of the | ton. dem.. receives 6.4 loughton, most sacred character—the right of habita- | TP-» SS 5. 20 tae city, Piper, dem., for Congress, is undoubt edly elected, but the other offices are stil undecided. tion—an invasion which, ina state of nature, Would have been met with instantaneous leath. Acconlingly, all nations, in all ages, have concurred in regarding itas one of the most flagranterimnes which inflict humanity. The aus looked upon it a . | A Verdict of ‘ot Guilty” im the Case visiting its commission with panish j _. Of Cordy Harris. examplary severity, and C NEW YORK, Sep al dispatch to as adisturbance of the most holy right in the | the 7ribune, dated lerville. Ga., Sept 2. possession of man—the right of fiome—ex- | £@ys: The trial of Conly Hacris, the ¢ lored claiming: “ Quit enim, sanctius, quid omni | MAD used of attem 2 to incite an in regions ws, quam dona _uniuscu- | SUrTection among the negroes of this coanty, jusque civ The common iaw felt so | Closed at 500 this evening with a verdict tender a regard for tne immunity of a man’s | from the jury of “not guil 7 vidence house that it styled It his “castle "and cast | forthe stitte was ail submitted by about 11 animad versions of unreserved condemnation | 0'Clock this morning, and the afternoon was even upon eavesdroppers. In addition to | occupied by the arguments of counsel. The this € detence introduced no witr the quittal was simply the resul the yp burglary embraces Bost eases tne ever does a bur- of a fa) ac of ———— THE CHARLIE Ross case. Westervelt's Statement of His Con- mection with it The following is the statement of Wester- welt as read by she reporters in the court im Philadelphia yesterday, and referrel to in a telegram in yesterday s STAR. To the best of my Knowilelge, I was io Philadelphia on the 25th of June. the day belore tbe letter of that date was taken from bere to New York to be poste: I told Mosher and Douglass about that time that they were suspected; learned it from Gul Mosher's wife: don’t’ know bow long they nad been in New York when I told them. Gil Mosher's wife also said that the officers were afver Gil and Bill for getting away with silks, &c., and then told me that the offeers were after them for tis otuer thing Mosher and Dougiais all that she said Westervelt detatled bis movements ia. New York with Mosuer and Douglass afer hy knowleuge that they were suspected for tht offease. They visite! taverns, and Douglass Went toa fortane-te: ‘* to see if Bill bad sent a letter there. Westervelt wrote a let- ter, dictated to him by Douglass, which was sept to Bill Mosber in Philadelphia: that was the day Mosher asked bim to go to Philadel pia to warn Mosher's sister, to find out whether the house bere had been watched snd to put @ personal in the New York Herald under the bead of “Napoleon” to in form them if it was all right, bat i did not pUt it in; went back to New York that after. noon, Mrs. Mosher wot go back with that afternoon, because she could uot get ready; she told me about THE HOUSE BEING WATCHE did not see Mosher from ty beck until my sister came ou ataye With me two months; Mosher aod Douglass ue to my house shortly after and stayed re; Mostier did not stay al my Louse over night, they s od 4 few hours eaca Lime they me. W th Mosher and Dou ye Mth of September on an exec Rondout, aud came back on the Mosher 1 Jonas spent any nt in my Tod er asked ey Lived at Re Mosher « proposed to commit a burglary store ead or tt I made sew ral excuses {out of It, and they finally abandonet hey cot a boat at a lamber yard near Rhinebeck, they appeared to have he planned out betore; when they came back to XN York they went an cating house opposite tae Washington rarket, they they had a place. and seid ways ate Twwid Wal trip to atexd that were sus. clue, a aughed asonly & job tog: the Red Bank affair We TVelt detaiind ube circumstances and 20m Oa, Oecasions When ae saw Mosher and Doagtass after that eating witb tem, traveling around the city of New York, &e., with them. 1 wae aware they were vot making a living in @ legitimate way. Before the death of Mosher and Douglass, Dongiass and Westervelt put t a hotel together pself under Loe na veltas Wright THEY TALKED <8 Ash mites registering Day, and Wester- Who saw them tak how in the devil toe ow lerve asked could get the mouey if the parties were willlng to pay it” Douglass sata ¢ an ha anged. that be was urope and write as if he bad split o vat the money co party could sta tue platiorm of one car and jump ot. 1 asked ow they would get the el berm, and be sab * they t three uur days after. and tolt him about their going across to Astoria, aad how { and without | Pal tnt tn any of ihe acis e | they were dressed, and that they carried arms if de- | Prisoner wasaecciset fishing poles. Walling went for tuem, bat and to effect his es The Other Cases. found he was a Litue tlate, [stayed there sacrifice of life. Often, too, the sex, a Averst, Ga. t. 3— jury a Douglass, wat breakfas!, and ae unprotected c tion of his viet Corty-Harris case returned a” ve cement was made for me te » even a baser passion, and deed: “not guil | lass again on the ith, Mth or 15 wh en the press of to-day, wi charged f son's bili Douglass we iousness, hesitates to rec surrect t con- | meet Mosb New Eng! house Such hetng the nature of the erime, tet us | tinned to the regular term court. Tue | at T beara of them was that they were see if there be any ¢ nees attending filsoners arrested in Johnson county will Fort Hamilton. [can't make a guess Its comnilssion wh: V pailiate fs betr tried at a special term on Mond as to where the child is now. I amof the or exeuse peretration. Alt | Jud, nson'* course is highl wat hes with the parties 1 have ninal law agree that the main ed. T e WAS Te ted Attorney med,or they have sent him to other considerations determing the exteat of pan- | General Hammond and Salem Dutcher, and | parties. I made to arrangements in June ishment are three, viz: (1). The mischie ‘efendant by ex-Attorney General Akermau, | Concerning the no more of ness of the offense; (2). Tue facility of its — bim than a chiki unbor ver had the commission; aud ( The provocation FOREIGN NEWS. curiosity to inquire where iid was ‘OW, Sir, @ moment will be sufficient t General Kaufman Eaters Khokand, | Who vcr says tose parties sp a night ar sbow that the burglar is entitled tono one of | LONDoN, Sept. 3—Toe Daily Telegraph | my house lies. 1 did not te that I these extenuating pleas; for what provoca. tion can there be to incite the able-botied Vigilant scoundrel to make war upon the lives and homes of prostrate manhood, un- ending age, and helpless innocence: what can there be more diffientt to do than a deed which Las to deal with boltsand bars, and which seeks the cover of the darkest night for its commission; and what can there be more mischievous in its consequences, both immcdiate and remote, than an act whic calls down desolation and grief upou a whole household, and endangers life, property, and whatis dearer than both, the of our sisters, our mothers, nd our wives: The ultimate end of all punishment is to | prevent crime. If, then, experience has own that the established penalty for an Pr Sa special telegram from Berlin an- houncing that a report has been received there that the Russian General Kauffman as entered the city of Khokand. by the Pope. ea that Me tt is to be appointed to a Ligh ec- ‘al diguity In America, . Dead. —General Frossard is dead. ARIS, Sept. Bull Wants a LONDON, Se, article © troubles, stroi of interference urges the f Great Britain Mietory Over ortense is insuficient for its eradication, itis | Lospon, Sep the duty of ernment to determine upon | don Zines fro ti something more severe. There cen be as | Sttatinople in which the foreiz ttle doubt that the now obtaining law for | reside. say Tarks in Herzegovina have the prevention of burglary is too lenient as | gatned a ¥; Ten thoasand imsurgents there Js that the crime itself is ou the in- | haye been driven across the frontier crease. The daily papers come to us wits reports of the most audacious burglaries and atrocions murders which have been per trated in the very hearts of our cities, and to which the police ean find noclue. Men of leorning, wealth and position are slaughtered in their beds, and nothing to tell the “deep damnation of their taking off” but the bloody iron dropped by the villains tn their fight. Dalmatia, where they have beeu disarmed by the Austrians. vesique, the focus o the insurrection, has been destroyed. Com munications by way of Kleck have beea re established. AHA, Sept. 5.—The heavy rain i yes- terday washe! ont a good dea! of the track Deeds are done with no witness save the | Of the Chicago and Northwestern railroa:, ent stais and the eye of God, the remem- | beer New Jefferson, lowa. A cattle train brance of which fades away and leaves | went through the bridce at that place at & them mysteries of the darkest dye, which man Will be penetrate, and whieh a stricken conscience only can reveal. But let the gallows cast its stadow, black as night, } is said tat it will beseverai days belo! Across the paths of those who do tuese deeds, | trains can reach bere from the and fear for tucirdastardly persons will form SP mea fF 2 ch eupidity will fe nd The Charlie Ross Mystery. an obstacle which cupidity will fad oars siremapes, Sept pa <n of “ t. 8 enous the mornt ‘Was occupied in cross- examination of Superintendent Walling No new facts elicited. o'clock last night, and twelve smashed aud nearly all the cattle killed. There were no persons seriously inja It | Frauds in Weight and Price. | It ix doubtful whether the law j | Bititor Stax a in force in this District requiring eertain SSR OR things—potatoes, for instance —to be weigh Barsmtak Gene teen : instead of measured ix not an aid to fraud, | Pat MOR®. so he te #4; Go. consolidated, Go, Weat Virgiua's. 9) Norte Carolina sia's, old_i3; do. new, c “7 tax, 2, bid to-day instead of @ preventive. It was easier to see | if a measure was somewhere near the right Size and properly stamped than to ascerta if the spring-balances used almost unive é i. spe Sugar «trong and active, IMORE, Sept ou dall—middiing, | te dull— Howard stroe western Sally by hucksters are correct or nol. As @ ay 7 . A ceneral thing they are wrong,weighing light, do. extra, 6 50a6 32; do. family. 6 y Mills euper. 4 75a5 80; do extra, 6.2086.4; and these who sell by them koow it. A rands, 7.Wa7 25, do. family, 9. Wheat “bushe!” of potatoes delivered at my house 144, other lately ond weighed at the door, on being Corn weak for western. sont carefu reweighed after the fellow had eilow dull—sonuthern white. sSwS7 one, turned out to be but thirty pounds. | last re Was a clean swindieot nearly ity BEE | Serb, mined: eiatts old; vous oi western cent., and of course there ixno redress. The | active. Hay steady, domead modereie— tha er 18 not to be found, being probably en- | and Pennssfvaniatimothy. 2 © ged in swindiing the denizens and waiting, | quiet. Pork.22 wad? 25. dusk With his xdious yell, tae babies of some ar ith wides Lof the city. J ean only ask y Bacon lower—sh : heme, Ualds. * 8 Und all and lower— | renned, Aidan lity. ter uni tders to look out that they are Lot et by him and others of the same stripe, nareed. Petroleum 1s. Cotter steady —crw reflued, 1)", "gest the repeal of the law that readers args, Tis a2: JOUDIOE, 1 a fraud possibie. A swindle of nearly ra % Hifty per cent. on a bushel is perhaps a smail Stocss duil. Money uibg to one family, but bow is it wuen Exchange. jong, 485%; eliort, 5 appied to a large portion of the en A caaeaiakes supplies of the District? I believe pa gen soninton we have been swindied out of enough in 12S) p.m —Cousoia, 4 7-¥ faise weights and unfair prices within the | both mone last ten years to build the Washington Mon- | ument a dozen times over. For it is not alone in weight and measurement that we are swindied, but also t prices. An advance | of two hundred to four hundred per cent. in retail prices over wholesale Is @ fraud, no matter who perpetrates it; and yet this is'the common rate in the markets of tae city. Tits | morning, for instance, peaches were worth by the quantity about forty cents a bushel, but they were retailing “by the smal!” at one dollar and sixty cents, an advance of four bunded per cent. Watermelons retail at four to five hundred percent. over the amount paid the grower, and potatoes at about one hundred per cent. advance. Our frieads of the huckstering fraternity and acovant. Eric, lise, preferred,“ Bate «t discount im the opea market for three months’ bills ix Pyal% per cent.. which in *, cent, below the bank The rate for mov the stock exchange on g» Bt securit Percent. The siock exchauge will be cl: morrow for the purpose of continuing Fepatre te nilding 2 -——___. DR. HENRY T. HEMBOLD NoT INSANE.— The matter of the incarceration of Dr. Heary T. Helmbol¢, in which a writ of habeas cor- pus Was granted on the application ot Clar- ence Deringer, esq., bis counsel, has been amicably setUed through Mr. ‘Ss @x- ertions. Itis necessary to add that the doc- tor is declared to be perfectly sane and that his memory is not in the least impaired. His detention by @ near friend was due solely tu a may perl not know (hat these things | desire to keep him away from exciting com- have wuarted movements that will in time pany. This is the whole matter in ‘* nut- ruin their business. Powerful organizations | shel]. The doctor is at liberty at any mo- of the producers and the consumers are mov- | ment that he may fee! so disposed to retura ing from both sides u the enemy’s works, | to the active cares of business life.— Phi. and between the two will yet be crushed | Press, 2d. as between the upper and nether milistones. We shall yet have the actions of the farmer and of all other classes delivered to us at first cost, not with ee don cent. add REEN. : y, D.8. August 31, 18:5. More “Tricks upon Travelers.” Editor Star: In the absence of J. W. Thomp- president of the 9th street railway line, the jt would be a good time for whoever be in charge of it to discharge the deaf blind drivers now employed, and put on chars who cen Sao sea heat Kiteading sepgers a) hing on the cros; s' — whieh the’ present feces almost invariabi A Boy MURDER IN BALTIMORE.—Lewis Trample, fourteen years, was almost instantly killed in Baltimore yester- é afternoon’ by + Frederick Rapp: aged The boys were pisying m: t Hi ft refuse to This <sort.of thing may port upon practicabiil! ‘improving ot mstke much diferente $e the reese oee a som ee ‘ es - oe while the public in the no: 5 a E Bg i means of travel, but when the new 11th street (3 line is opened to the Avenue, the old concern july. will lose many a dollaron account of the in- some attention or want of aecommodation on the part of its em; and the irregularity and eee ve which Its cars are run. received at new company hurry and ‘has open up for business. . x. a ee &7-At a meeting of the Young Men’s Chris- resol! ees was aased to invite Moody ‘and. only at key to hold meetings there. pees Herts county vomarte wae arrested fis Chicago: ‘on the charge of embezzle- I 3d mentof the public funds walle in office, =; Sig | was in communication was keeping him off their track. TEE HORSE AND BUGGY. Mr. Leslie now read a statement by Wes- tervelt, made on the ith of April, wivich substantially as follows to walk With bim, and we went to Wasuing ton Avenue anc a horse aud | bugey; he said b glut Ukem; the | boree with Walilog, ana bay aud tue bug- ey was, 1 think, + lighi-bodied, aud sianting downwards; be suid he bad’ pald sixty-Bve dollars fur tt Wes that he had stolen them; Mosher wrote 4 Jetter that afternoon, aud 1 took it to York end mailed it to Roudou want togive Mosher away horse; my suspicion 5 4 di bat I was wil ing to give Douglass away, aud that was why I told Walling bv enild by taking Doug lass: vari of this abdue. tion when I saw li in the papers, 1! made no impression on me; I met Mr. M | after, and he spoke aboat th: nd Said be though! it was M lass, and this was the fire atten © directex! to these men ir | with the crime, but I piaced cr story George W. Walling wes then sworn, and court took @ recess. ALLIN imony wa rettoaid the seareh for the child, and that he arrange! With bim to inform tim (the superintends | ef the movements of Mosher and Douginss | Jor the purpose of securing their he Lad repeated interv: ness, and that while be act with him, fa i | tion which be possessed, whieh would bave d to the arrest of Mosher aud Dougiase also, that he (Westervell anade false state- | ment AN INTERVIEW WITH THE WIDOW OF MOrad EL The New York Her ports to be at Teporters a2 Wa. Mosher, o: Winter at id pubiishes: what par- nlerview betweea Ove of its TS. Mosher, the widew of of the burglars Killed last y Ridge, Loug is universally acknowledged au‘tu ley Koss. “Mrs. Mosuer denied ever havin seen the missing boy’, but in reply to a dite inquiry as to whether the boy was living « ccad ehe replied s living & + wil turn ap before long. I am sure ‘hat he ie living as I aim that I breathe; I would net believe bim dead unless I should see ais deal body before m: Sait she wasa mother and knew tt Sof Mrs. Rows, and if she knew where it known. In rej FHS SO POSTLIY, Line y wes inquiry why she ive ale said ow be | band would ot warm atr of bis bead (quiesiy rocoverine her self and very nervous) —1—3 wean if he bat ng todo With it.” Mis. Mosh ris also Westerveit, now oa trial ia Phil morn- ia the clutog te | the a ie pope as well as by drowning. Two ren were pulling a whemy avene of the steamers aud Ub | ro ine was with diMtculty | thrown up Y ToW-batt. ‘The moose, | however, canght over the ueac of a man oa ; deck and before ueiy someones individual vcs was a into the water and uearly strangled. The noose nearly choked lulra to death and the water almost Snisved him. He was with simoults drawn up by the cod of the line attact to the boat, the “steamer was Stopped and be was transterre! to ber deck, where restoratives Were applied aad be 8003 recovered.— Balt. Shan, 3d. A BANE TELLEP TURNS BANK Konner — Louis Kebm, tclier of the Planters’ Natiouai Baxk of Loutsvilic, was met on the street a: 1 be rendered the lassoed was