Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1875, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, Sundays AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Pennsylvania Avenue, corner 1ith Street, BY The Evening Star Newspaper Oompany 8. H. KAUFFMANN, Pres't. ——_o——— THE BVENING STAB ts served by carriers te NTS FER WEEE, OR FoRty- Bubscribers ai Tun OF: by eh = a2 pear. ua in advance, and apap sent longer than paid for” WF Rais of advertising Surmished on appitcaiion Sa anE EE EEEEEEEREEREEEIREemneneemeememeememe reel AMUSEMENTS. Che nening Star. vo. 46—N2. 7,101. SPECIAL NOTICES. ‘The periect success ce, with al is FF ts * Drought from Paris, will be an evént in thisc ty Bever before bas the marvelous beauty of the grand st Sane ete. he world beea represented in this city ty. The La: je English; the Scenery aad Propert Wrerc OUND THE OBLD IN EIGHT Habite, Dane * Di Any one can ge Arourd the World in three hours at the 1 heater. Extra Matinee WED ince SATURDAY By January 3, Furbs PHANS. decid tr HEATER CoMIQUE, | Beeventn Ser W Peansy/vania Avenue. OPEN THE YEAR ROUND MET dbatines for Le WEDNESDAY and SAT CLASS IN EVERY RESPECT Vartety. Drama Barwon nd omed nova? b OLp No.) Om Kxhipit New No. ane and Saie 439 7tm = 8T. 5 7TH St. aT MARCRITER'S sires, bettovem D and B prrects, otghs a Be. 639 Ter doors abowe Old Fellows" Oboies Uil Paintings. Engravings, Chromos, &c, isc, largest “ch of Paper Hangin, Wictow ‘ Frames, Picture Oords sad Tas &c., in the District. ber Nameand Number. jy!-ly FESTIVALS. ‘NANO CONCEPT, THURSD LY 3, at T% o'clock, m: GRAVE M. EF rner nh and 3 PIANOS, &c. DDECKES BROS? AND, SQUARM, ax UPBIGHT PIANOS ABE MATCHLESS. «. KUHN, SOLE AGENT, 407 TENTH STREET NORTHWEST, Above Pennsylvania Avence, BF Prices Reasomadls. Terms Easy. novid-Im Ww SNARE & CO. s WORLD-RENOWNED PIANOS, ment cf fence w nich have been ries. Tuning and Hepat pron uy ationded . Tuning ani " REICHEN ae *s, ee PIANO WAKREROOMS, Oct!S-Iy 423 Lith st.,.— fow doors above Pa. av. TRE SIELE PIANOS, unsurpassed in tone, touch, snd durability, on easy er large diseccut tor cash. im... G. L. WILD & BBO., Sole Agents, 723 7th street northwest, half square above Patent Office.) Pianos for rent. one ee tr FOR THE HOLIDAYS. REDUCTION IN PRICES aT RAUS’, 1011 Pa. Av. OVERCOATS. ABTHACAN BEAVER OVEBOOATS selling for 2. oreaet price 28 cB BE SVER OVERCOATS seting for 915, for- k SEY OVEROOATS selling at 814, , ER OVEROOATS sclling tor ~ EaaVEE ‘OVEROOATS sling for emer perks WHITNEY EXAVER OVEROOATS selling for >. former price $12. eBfeUB ILL Uv ERCOATS selling for @6, or- mer price $10. BUSINESS SUITS. DEESS SUITS. ENGLISH WORSTED SUITS, Prince Al- rom 92 to 920. CH DIAGONAL WORSTED BUITS, allack siyle, from @15 to 925. CHILDREN'S SUITS. LDREN’S SUITS, from 4 te 8 years. BENS OV ERCOATS, from 4 to 3 years. SUITS, from 9 t Jears. , OVEROUA TS, from 9 to 4 years. ITHS’ SUITS. trom 15 to W years. UTHS’ OVERLUATS, fom 15 to 30 years, BS Cail carly to avoid the rush. A. STRAUS, 1011 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUS, a Jerk aod Lith streets. tech tr Be JRESSING ROLES ASD KING JACKETS Ip 8 great variety of styles. “DOLLY MOUNT,” “WIMBLEDON,” and “CREEDMOOR,” ‘Three cew Styles of TLETERS. FINE PERFECT FITTING SHIRTS Made to Order. 4 SPSCIALTY. 4BMY AND NAVY UNIFORMS, Samples of READY-MADE OVERCOATS. DEVLIN & CO., (OF NBW YORK) Druggist; by) 21s Press. bet. 11th and 12th sta, UGS, MEDICINES D EMICALS. pape td 2S FOILE? Boops Det quaitiy- ‘uss BAI. WALL and TOOTH BRUSHES, SO4is aut PREPU MES. 3 MODERATE PRICES. 1113 Pennsylvania avenues, between iit and 12th pov in streets. Frewsns ENAMELED IN WAL, SO COUNTEArEIT. THE ORIGINAL FLOWERS USED. PATTERNS —Agoncy ‘or Cat Pap-r rattorns. a ROB- TIONERY STURE. Loty enue. decd) 2w* THE NORTHEBN LIBERTY (Kk # reet MsRKET will be o; a8 usael 0 RIDAY MURNING aud SATURDAY AFIERNUON. Ne market on Friday afternooa or evening. t tart Trib.g0rieie) GTON BUSINESS COLLEGE, corner ith and L «treets northwret.—New Year seerions, day January 3,1 ores + Dece he exercises will c ~ Music, Kecitations and Addresses. ‘Tbe public are cortiaily iavitad to be present. Admission free. [Trib.It} dec3v-2t OF THE MEXTUAN WAR 1 Veter ace of will m: NEW YEAR Da¥ Yelock m., with Badges, and proceed ina body t their reapects to the President of the United Regular wonthly meeting sans evening at ‘chek. By order. fees 2° A. M. KENADAY, Secretar AT ¢ ‘ Da » the 3st ine-ant, duri also.on SATUBVAY MORNL + dane 6. from 5 o'clock to 1 o'clock @. m. Thore » Saturday Eveniag Market. P_S. SMITH, Clork. METKUPUL'S SAVINGS B«NK—The cord memi-aunual divitend of interest to Te will be payable on or after Jananry 20; At the rate of five per cent. per sunum on ali *Ieiton deposit ope or more calendar months « the half yor ending January }. reat not called for will bear interest like the principal, from Jaunary 1. SAMUEL NORMENT. Presito: asbier. dees) th. wi ™ ING OF THE DIRECTORS of the COBCORAN FIRK INSURANCE PANY, held Deesmber 2d. the somi-annasl «15 per cent. was declared, payable on aud after tbe Ist pry: 0» Macc at’ 5. DYER, ree OF WASHI De The Trostees of this Bank have this day 4: a DIVIDEND of FiV& PER C&NT. out “ past six months. payable r the 24 of January, 1875 ceczi-3t* ©. A. JAMES, Cashier. ior tAL NOTICE. lotice i# hereby given to sil having goods de- ite with us to renew or redeem the same on or he 1-t of Jaamary. 1876, or they will be sold MONDA . tinge a all sold, at our place of basiuess, rtheas: co uth ane D streets = Ener Wt ag “GOLDSTEIN & CO., decd9-3t eretary. Loan and Commission Brokers. F ¥IREMENS INSURANCE COMPAN ; GINGTON AND @KOBGETOWN, Koom No. 1, Over Bank of Washington —The Stockholders ‘of the Firemen’s MONDAY, Junaary S16 between the bors ote | Zil; has arrived at Port Royal, 8. C. a. 1p. m., for tho ¢ of electing thir- | on board. Ss of the WASHINGTON 4&ND GEO. - VN BAILROSD COMPANY, for the elestion irestors, will be held at the office of the ¢ Jet street west and Peansy lv: 09 WEDNESDAY, the 2th day of January, 1576. The polls will be opened at 12m , and cloasd at T books will be closed on the 10th of Jan and opened January 13. 1576. - HUBT, President ©. M. KOONES, Secretary. dec3s td WASHINGTON MARKET OUMPANY.— The Annual ting of the Stockholders of {he Washington Market Company will be held at the Office of the Company, ou the market grounds, ip the city of Washingtot m ths FIRSE MONDAY, being the 3d day, of January, 576, for the clioice of t! mn Directors for the en: suing year. and to act on auy other subject withia the power of the corporation. BENS. D- WHITNEY, Secretary. Wastington, D. © , Dec. 20,1578. “dec2i-tJani teres MEN'S OHBISTIAN ASSOUIA- T streets. tr" MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLD ‘at 12 0'clock noo! 1ON, Corner 9h and D . EE BEADING ROOM. CIRCULATING LI- BEARY, PARLOR AND CONVERSATION ROOMS. EVENING CLASSES IN GERMAN vit Se RSONS DESIRING TO LEARN PITMAN’S SHORT-HAND may find an experienced teacher at Boys’s Academy, Sunder land's church, 43 street northwest. Full course of » me, @10. ‘Thorongh mastery of the whole subject guarant cd | © | paaniad HOT OB ICE-COLD T&A, COFFEE AND CHOCOLATE, Pure and Frasrant, WITH MILBUKN’S UNRIVALLED SODA, 1429 PeNNsYLVANIa AVENUE, near Willard’s. SE LOMA ot Holmes’ Old Man ofthe Mountain Liver Pulls at Dr. Thos. H.Qollins Drng store, corner 9th and MW streets corthweat. $1,000 for the detection of Morcary oF any mas eubstance in them. Sold by 8 octi8 Liw* Fa JOBNSUN & CO., BANEEBES, Corner a) With Sivest and Pennsylvania Avennt, Dealers in Goverument and District Seourtties, Foreign Exchange and Gold. plely Ss E. OF FLEY & CO BANKERS, Corwen Fivreenrn anv F StkEets, Opposite Treasery Depar:mens. BABE OF DEPOSIT, EXCHANGE, &&. Deal in GOLD, Government and District BONDS, Foreign EXOHANGE, &c, Collecttwus made on all pointe. Investment Securities on Commission. maré-tr H. D. COOKE, Ja. & CO, BANKEBS, octs0-tr apld-tr 1429 F street, REMOVAL —WM. F. HOLTZMAN, Aitor- mey-at nem ne sasores to No. 1321 # st, and business acquaint- ances. Legal businefs solicted, and money invested. Booms and Offices for rent iu'same buliding je9-tt [PABUR CXOUNG) otic, URL SorAnY PUBLIC, Orrics—8: otu7-tt tak BYILDING, AN & CO, FN CLANS, No. 1227 Pexnsvivania AvRNvE, Genaine Brazilian Pebble Spectacles. , ¥ DAVIDseN & Co., . “BALTIMORE, MD. * dec?-1v lat CLOCKS. STATUARY. BRONZES, GAS FIXTURES GAS FIXTURES PUT UP COMPLETE IN WASHINGTON FREE OF CHARGE, The Largest and Handsomest Stock = GOODS BETAILED aT § pinerty sf WHOLESALE PRICES. Bo OA LTiMOME. MD, deco. BRAZILIAN PEBBLE SPECTACLES. Beat te MEMPoRE Orrician, dec$-tristp 453 Penna. ave., corner 4% street. ACEIFICE—One. bt LANDAULBT, Tubes cucelar front COUP! ES, one, ’ Coupe ROCKAWAY, all nearly new.' WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1875. EVENING STAR. Washington News and Gossip. New Year Calls, THE STAR of Friday next will contain a lst of those receiving on New Year day who may request or autherize the publication of their names in such lst. Matter intended for these announcements, for which noch is made, may be sei Friday noon. ew Year Reception r reee 1 be helt cording to the —At Il o'clock a. m. eive the Cab! An 1 rece € ms, the Com- missioners of th ctof Columbia, and the Judges of the Supreme Conrt of the Dis- trict of Columbia will be received. At 12m. the officers of the army and navy will be 2:30 the Assistant received. Atl Secretaries of Departments, the Assistant Postmasters General, Solicitor General and Assistant Attorneys General, a 1 the heads of the sev- eral burcans will be received. At 1245 p.m. the Associ ‘ted Soldiers of the War of the Associated Veterans of 186, and me: bers of the Oldest Inh: tants’ Assoctatio: of the District of Columbia will be received. The reception of citizens will ecomuence at 1 o'clock p. m., at which time the gates of the inclosure will be opened, and will term nate at 2p. ta. Carriages will approach the y the eastern gate, aud leave by gate. CABINET Recepric The members of the Cabinet will reecive on New Year's day Lows retary of State, at 1509 I street 1to 3 ecretary of War, at 2622 G s Secretary of } = 1537 K stre Postmaster General, at 25 Lafay 1to3 p.m. Attorney General, at 1239 Vermontavennue, 1to3p. m. 1to4p. m. GovVERNMENT Ite nal revenue, ©: 131.3 of the Interior, at 1493 H. street, IPTS TO-DAY.—Inter. customs, $229,619.16. THE AMOUNTOf national bank note cur- rency received at the Treasury to-day for re dlemption aggregate 2.850. THE U. TEAMER S SPEAKER KERR, who lef: Philadelphia last week to visit « brother lying serionsiy iil in Pittsburg, has return and is himself quile unw: AMONG THOSE who ‘fc interviews with President Grant to-day were Secretary Bri.» t_w, Attorney Genera’ Pierrep: Treasurer New, Senators Ferry and Pa: Commissioner 0° Internal Revenue Pratt. Alber NAVAL ORDERS.— Commander Kautz ordezed as light-house inspector of the lith district. Ensigns £. B. Underwood and Wm. P. Halsey to special duty in charge of draft of men. and for service ailoat. Lieut. Charles H. Rockwell detached from light- house duty, and placed on waiting orders. THE RETIRENENT of Dr. Brodhead as Sec- ond Controller of the Treasury Department, creates a vacancy in the Board of Audit of the District of Columbia. The act designat- ing the first and second controllers of the Treasury to constitute this board did not name them in person, but merely designated the officers hoiuing these positions for the service. Henee. Dr. Brechead’s suce>ssor Will be the member of the Board of Audit. tFUND OF RatLRoapD TAx.—Attorney Genera! Pierrepont has decided the question as to the refund of #176, tax illegally col- leeted on dividends of the stock of the Ili- nois Central railroad company, held by non- resident alien stockholders, in favor of the company, the issue being whether thercfand should be made to the company from which it was collected or to the non-resident alien stockhoiders interested. The Attorney Gen- eral holds that the government shoul! pry the money illegally collected back to the company, and the stockholders can recover from the company. To ILLUSTRATE how the government is Swindied in the payment of pensions, one in- stance is furnished by Judge Burnham, the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. It ap- pears thatin 1572 a merchant doing busi- ness in Richmond, Ky., had occasion to dig @ cellar for the purpose of enlarging his busi- bess premises. One night a@ resident of a neighboring village fell into it. He alleged that be broke his arm and was paralyzed in the right side, as aresultof the fall. Suit was entered for $10,000, and judgment was given the sufferer in the sum of $1,500. Sub- Sequently the merchant ascertained that the injured man was 2 pensioner upon the government. Inquiry at the Pension office developed the fact that he was and had been since ltt. The strangest part of the story is, that he was pensioned for the identical injuries in 1866, which he claims were sus- tained by him in 1570 by the fall into the cellar, Itisclear that eliher the court was bamboozled or the government was. iN VIEw of the Inbor and hazard incurred by the Treasurer of the United States and other independet treasury officers, by the re- ceipt and collection of drafts and checks re- ceivea by them from national banks, public oficers and other parties having payments to make into the Treasury, the Secretary has advised these officers that he thinks it better they should receive in all official transac- ons only the lawful and proper moneys of the United States, as provided By law and reguiations thereunder. This will prevent national banks from paying their semi-an- neal duties, banks and other parties from paying for fractional currency, and collec- tors of internal revenue from making depos- its in the offices mentioned by means of érafts and checks, thus doing away with a practice which seems to have crept into gov- ernment transactions without any special autbority of law or regulations, and which had become a burden to the officers who yol- untarily undertook to collect for parties the cbecks and drafts transmitted for the pur- pcse Of making the payments mentioned. The Sugg Fort Witowski Fran ds. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF INVESTI- GATION—SEVERAL RESIGNATIONS THE RESULT. The committee consisting of Hon. D. D. Pratt, Commissioner of Internal Revenue; D. W. Mahon, F irst Auditor, J. 4. Robinson, Assistant Solicitor of the and John W. Porter, Acting Chief Clerk of tne Treas- department, submitted their report to the Secretary of the i ecg nm the matter of the Witowski Sugg fort Large assoraneat of new and claims. band OARBIA GGT band ‘committee find P ; SMD. ScuMITER COS. — | gape commlties fod, bot ee eee declS tr __ No. 319 12th st., bet. © and D Gontrotier thse a Analtor and tion as the la aires; that the Third CHEAPER STILL! = § Fa | Atantor, ‘aoa ‘sents peta! fhe Thins George Doolittle, clerks in his office, and the troller, his deputy, Mr. Cartis, Ks FOR LADIES. and Mr. Jobn C. Wilson, @ clerk in bis office, TROL UR RS POR MEN, had failed to give such claims the ‘TOY TRUNKS FOR CHILDBEN | Cxamination, and are fore chargeable SATOHELS FOR LADIES, a Lataiote Sunol wnamicocn orice SATCHELS FOR MEN, B ALL connected with the department, corrupt or ae a Tine Becte submitted the to the CARRIAGE ROBES, HOBSE COVERS, WHIPS t this morning, and on return to FINE HARNESS, SADDLES, &c., &c., at Ereniden y oa nF 426 77H STREET, bead, Rutherford, Cartis, Promptly (Adjoining Odd Fellow’ Hall,’ by port was also shown to the threecierks above c their relations with JAMES 8. TOPHAM, =| fieucvartment n'a lik PRACTICAL MANUFACTURES, sROREE rz Rand oer mes we Pe ad 3 a a ‘tions for ‘exhibi- ir. Gladstone does not want ean for the discovery of an- Oa com bonds, including TWO CENTS. Social and Personal Matters. Serator Stevenson, of Kentucky, is at the Arlington. After the holidays he hopes te be joined by his wife and daughters—Misses Mary and Judith. One of the most beautiful toilets seen at the Washington german on Monday night Was that of Miss Jewell, the niece of the Postmaster General. It was white silk wit & ‘abliey formed of successive garlands of ex- | quisite flowers. ‘The train was fan-shaped. he Postmaster General chaperoned his niece on the uceasion. Miss Florence Jewell has returned from | New York, after visiting her sister, Mrs. | ho did not come to Washington for | lays, as she had intended doing. Mrs. Bristow wiil have the valuable as. nce of Miss Dennison at her reception ear. New 3 Mrs. and Miss Christmas are established at Wormley’s for the winter. Tnese two 1 after residing abroad nine years, ring which time Miss Christmas was being educated in Paris, have passed the last two years San Francisco. Possessing remarkable beauty and many accompiish- ments, the mother and daughter are a great acquisition t oe .x-Senator Gwin, of Califor Wormiey’s. He visits Washin, son for the frst time in fou expects his wife and daughter int Mrs. Gwin is still @ leader in gay. jast evening gave at her residene? ia Sa: Francisco one of her most brilliant enter- tainments, Her Wednesday evening recop- ions are reckoned the mosi delightfai of San Franciseo’s divers Mrs. Derby is pas: the Christmas yaca- tion with ber son, who is acadet at West Point. Her beautifal daughter, Miss Da. Derby, is visiting retatives in The entertainmeut given by Marshal anc Mr rpe totheir son Dent and Mis Bessie Sharpe was ove of the me the younger members of society have en joyed during their holidays. “Pete and Reese, who is now visiting Mes. is a grand niece of that lady and a Reese resides in San Fran- prior to visiting Mrs. Sharpe she was est at the White House. The entertainment to be given by the Sec- retary of War to his son, this evening, is limsted to twenty-five couples. Mr. Willard (ex-M. C. from Vermont) a Mrs. Willard gave a mos! charming p: last evening t their lite danghter, at their residence on Capitol bill. The young people of the families of Senator Jones, of Florida, General Ewing, and of Paymaster and Mrs. Carpenter, and the young folks generally of Capitol bill, enjoyed the eveniog vastly. A unique and beautiful spectacie was the costume german given by Miss Leila Ry last ever ing, Ir ich Lwenty couples par- licipated. Mr. McKinley, of St. Lo of the lamented Mes. J at the Arlington. Col Wharton, of Kentueky, s,the gra n J. Ceittead » Whohas b “n the guest of Secretary and Mrs. Bristow, left the city last evening. Captain and M K ir r. Dov : of Louisvitie, and their son, glass Shirley, a few days at the Arlington. ez hopes that his wile will acrive 1i in about two montis. cap, with his beautifal b: north, and is Low Admiral (nd Mrs. J. P. Lea. THE ‘ORDER OF THE AMERICAN USTON” his published a manifesto setting forth its & m<and methods, which are: An acceptance S the basjs of moral, religious, Capt. H returned from the ting support of the constitution vernment of the United States; the p-eservation of the present unsectarian School system; that no part of the public fands shall be used for the maintenance of sectarian schools or institutions; opposition to interference in political affairs by any man or body acting under the direction of any ecclesiastical body, and while profess- ing to make no war on any man’sreligion, declines to make known its methods of con- ducting its business, or the means by which it | peg to arrive at the desired results, but invites all patriotic men to join. The com- mittee in their statement also declares that “third term or one term, hard money or so‘t money, crooked whisky or straight” are en- oar outside of the aims and plans of the order. IN THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY yesteriay the press bill was finally by @ nearly Unavimous vote. During the debate a prop- osition was made by a radical ‘ee to raise the state of siege throughout the ‘country but it was rejected by a vote of 377 , The bee oir pe! of the government to continue the state of siege in Paris, Versailles, Lyons and Marseilles was carried by a large m tjor- ity. After the passage of the press bill the assembly proceeded to consider the report of the committee on dissolution. OUR NORTHERN NEIGHBORS AND THEIR MILITIA.—When the British troops were withdrawn from Canada in 1576, an agree- ment was entered Into by the Dominion gov. €rpment with the Imperial vovernment to spend one million dojlars annually in keep. ing up the defensive force of the militia for five years. As that time expires with the present month, the Dominion parliament Will consider the militia question at the ap proaching session; and it is said that the gov- ernment will largely reduce expenditures. DEXTER is now considered, by his friends, & faster horse than ever before in bis life. He bas had bad fect for several years, and Mr. Bonner bas been pursuing a system of cut- ting and doctoring them, until two years Ago, when he gave up ail hope of curing him, and sinee that time has let his feet entirely alone. The result has been that they have grown out sound and strong, and he has given convincing proof that he is able to beat his 2:17 4 by several seconds. OUR MEXICAN NEIGHBORS.—A San Diego dispatch says the entire Mexican population in the neighborhood of ee in that county, were concerned in the late raid on that town. The revolution in Sonora, is pro- gressing disastrously to the state troops, they having been recently defeated by the insurgents with heavy loss. The revolution- ists are represented to be composed of the better class of the population, and are said to have the sympayiy of the Americans. REY. MR. WRIGHT, a primitive Baptist minister in Dooly, Ga., while oe home from hit mill stopped to warm himself where an old stump of a tree bad been fired and burned intoa hole. Search for him discoy- ered that he had fallen into the hole, acci- dentally or in a fit, head foremost. His head and shoulders were burned to a crisp. Dr. HAYES, in a recent lecture on his visit to the millennial celebration in Ice) last summer, ref to 8 fact that shows how diflerent ig the civilization of that little Dorlhern island from ours. The capital, with population of 1,700, has a jail whica, though built nee ye ago, has never had an in- mate, with the exception of the jailer. HARD TIMES FoR MINERS.—A partial suspension of mining operations will take place in the Wyoming coal ion, beginning early in January, but it more than two or three weeks, and will not separ of SovtamiRStadFaineiono cpr ‘@ contemp! r cent. in the wages of employes. RGES OF CRUELTY AGAINST A tio a @ meeting of the U: Hill trustees ppt gtd to 3. to in THE BIBLE QUESTION.—The Philadelphia common counetl last evening passed 2 reso- seneatiod by what authori fF the reading of Fs had been ued GRAND Re-uNIon of Ki 1S, marist peer e cee ee | To the Bakiior of the Sar: Earthquakes. Having read several publications in refe-- ence to the recent shock of the earthqaak? Which was felt in our city on the 241 instant, one of which asserting it was the first occur- rence cf that nature in our city, I send thi following, taken from my carefully com- piled «Incidents in the History of Washing- ton, order to correct the faise impres- sions created by said statements J.T.C.C. ¥ of December, 1811. two nake were felt in Wash hours of 2 and 5 o'clock The undulations of each shock co for nearly twenty seconds, and bh. enongh to wake the faraiture in Ss and move doors upon their hinges some instances, clocks were stopped ng their penduiums thrown « ular course of vibration. On the 18th d shocks of an ea ington, between the a.m. tinued fe d day of January, 1812 utes past 9 o'clock a. m., @ Shock: quake was feit in Washingte inha’ It was more viole parts of the city than in others were seriously alarmed, others sear ceived it. Cups, and other table ware heard to rattle, and pictures hanging Walls were seen to vibrate. Its continu was about twenty seconds. T sed by it were fainting, sicknes: vertigo, &e. The oscilations h tosouth. It was felt as far as Charles- 8. C., and on the Ohio river. The shc rieston @ an ear most of tb: On the sth of February, 18 &.m., another shock of an aquake was | felt in Washington. Numbers of persons | were awakened from their sleep and ma alarmed. instance, a portion of aceil- | ken down by it. Its ec to be some th Zetween the oars of 10 a on the Sth day of Mareh, 1525, of an earthquake was ‘felt in Wastiagto The same shock was perceptibly felt as far south as Richmond, Va., aad north as far as | Philadelphia, P2 “ About 20 mi y -m. | the sth day of &n earth ington eity Vv About 1 o'clock April, 188: similar to distinetly fe in different portions shock Was of s many persons for the st: about 4 quake w: 1 Pp. mM. on the 29th day of tremulous vibratory motion > number of f Washington ided character that y left their dwell ee of intens nm those below. ANTHONY'S ASSA hot Ce postmaster and in Leavenwort inflicting a wound from which Antho rowly escaped death, was tried 2 quitted last week, the jury agreeing upon a verdict in less thau five minutes. Tue saoot- ing took place ina theater,and was at that time pronounced a great outrage. But the Leavenworth Commercial, in noticing tne trial, says: “The whole prosecution edd upon Col. Anthony's testimony, and ail his material statements were contradicted by Mr. Brooks, who saw the whole tran: Thus the proecation impeached C thony, and the case lagged ever afier. The statements of Mr. Embry were clear, frank and were corroborated by a large number of witnesses on both sides. Then many of our best citizens swore that Col. Anthony was a bad, quarrelsome, turbulent and dangerous man,” FIRES AND Sap Loss oF LIFe.—Mrs. Ra. che] Gordon and three children, aged 12, and & years, were burned to death in t dwelling, ten miles north of Rising Sun Ind., Saturday. A fire at Greece City, Pa., Tuesday night, destroyed the residence of David Morrison, and his wife and ciild were burned to death. The Lovingston block, a large tenement house, and several adjoining buildings, were burned yesterday morning; loss $35,000. Also, at Pittsfield, Mass., the barn of O. Perkins, with 125 tons of hay, oxen, § cows, 3 horses, a number of hogs and @ large quantity of farming implements. At Cambridgeport, Mass., the barrel factory of Jaynes & Co.; loss $32,000. E. C. Southwiek & Co.'s dry goods store at Northampton, Mass.; loss $55,000. A LABOB CONVENTION at Tyrone, Pa., composed of representatives from that state and New York and Connecticut, has resolutions declaring against any Texas Pacific railroad subsidy; requesting the gov- ernment to give the Union and Central Pacific a certain time to pay their indebted- ness, and on their failure the government to assume possession; providing for a national industrial convention at Pittsburg next April; favoring the electionof President of the United States directly by the people; declaring against a third term, and also reso- lutions for state laws in Pennsylvania “protecting workingmen frova being drawn into private contracts by their employers, whereby uearly all their earnings are ab- sorLed by store credits, &e. ERITISH SCANDAL.—It is remarked that the children of members of Queen Victoria's houseboid very often make ill-assorted or miserable marriages and otherwise come to gtlef. The Marchioness of Ely’sonly daugh- ter is & divorcee. The Duchess of Roxbuargie’s daughter is the wife of Dr. George Russell, whose notorious card sharping compelled his resignation of an official post. The eldest son of Lord Charles Fitzroy is married to a member of the demi-monde, and that aoble- man’s daughter became a few months ago the wife Of the notorious Monaco card cheater, the Hon. Walter Harboard. Lord Desart, whose mother has long been a lady in waiting, came most miserably out of a el RORiers about a year ago—New York ‘orld. THIN-SKINNED AMERIC: Sas of the Bremeriaven crime, and to protest against unjust com- ments of the beep oct was held last nigbt, and was attended by two hundred Americans. A resolution was adopted de- claring that the act of Thomas, or Taomas- son, is in no respecta fruit of American ciyi- lization; it affects the honor of humanity, not thai of a particular nationality; and protesting against the unjust aspersloas on American character which have 2>peared in some German newspapers in connection with the crime. The Germans present testified to their cordial concurrence in the resolution. STILL ANOTHER SUIT AGAINST BEECHER. Dr. Salmon Skinuer, of 2 Elm place, Brook- lyn, haying sued Mr. Beecher for £500. for the value of a set of false teeth for Mrs. Beecher, that he says were furnished six years ago were not paid for, the case has been noticed for trial in the January term of the supreme court, circuit. Mr. Beecher, in his answi first denies that he employed the plaintiff to do the work named; second, him he has tten it; he the statute of limitations as a ot amount demande. ANOTHER COAL OIL HORROR occurred in Baltimore last evening. ——_ Was upset while the family of Mr. Reinhold, No. 40 Portland street, ‘of his wife and six children, were at the tea table. The fluid set fire to the car- and j Homan Life st | cation of importance to the vai Telegrams to The Star. A TERRIFIC TORNADO. SEVERAL LIVE, —o——— THE BROOKLYN LITIGATION. LOST. MYSTERIOUS MURDBR IN NEW YORK. FRIGHTFUL TORNADO IN KEN- TUCKY. rw York, ch says: A terrific tornado passed twelve S east of Hickman, Ky., on Sunday evening, sweeping down whole forests in iis pathway. The force of the wind was so zreat that persons can now walk over unks of trees where before was dense Woods. Twelve dwelling-houses and barns were blown down. Some of them were shat- tered Into fragments, the inmates barely es- caping with their Iyes. The worm fences, from the bottom rail, were all lifted and blown away. At Mayfield two persons were CRUSHED TO DEATH ender the rutos of houses. A negro was illed outright at another point. A man amed Chucks and a Miss Searcy were Her sister was badly crippled. The at Reeloot lake was blown dowa, the ony escaping. Some were badly y flying timber. Death and de on left their trace along the entire ® of the tornado, which made a noise leard for miles. — FOREIGN NEWS. Spain and Cuba MADRID, Dee. 30.—The Jmparcial asserts that Spain will shortly address a communi- lous Euco. pean cabinets ou the subject of Caba. New Cable Tarim. LONDON, Dec. 30.—On and afier January ist. Iv"), the Anglo-American telegraph tari! for political and general news other toan commercial dispatebes to the press, un abbreviated and not in cypher, will be ouc shilling (tweuty-five cents gold) per word. British Shooters Coming. Loxpon, Dec. 30.—The Times this morning makes the following announcement: The National Rifle Association of Great Britain have accepted the challenge of the NewYork association to take part in the mateh for smal! bores to be held in the United States during the Centennial celebration. Sir Henry Halford has been appoint 1 captain of the English, and is now busily engaged in arranging the preliminaries. A Ben from Count Moltke. BERLIN, Dec. 30.—The statement published my and Navy Journal of August 7 an alleged utterance of Count ike on the West Point Military Acade- and its pupils duripg the war of the Re yn in the United States, is according to reliable information —tneorreet, Count Moltke, besides, never having made use of the Observations attributed to him, would sol Rgree With many of the views express¢ i in them, and in many points even enter- tained opinions directly opposite. petals sen THE BEECHER LITIGATION. withdrawn as Mrs. Monlton's counsel in the matter of the arch council, cause, fret, be is not a Congregationalist and thinks her interests can be better served by some one of that denomination, and, sec- ond, because his appearance as counsel for r. Moulton in bis suit against Beecher might make tt adverse to the interests of his citents for bim to act in both cases. Jaige ‘Vancott succeeds General Pryor. ———— _ Singular Shooting Aqair. EW York, Dec. 30.—About balf-past 7 oclock this morning an officer attached to the 22d precinct had his attention called to house No. 355 west Sod street, and on enter- ing found aman named Myers and his wife and child in bed. The two former were in a State of insensibility and suffering from pis- tol shot wounds, while the child wasaireaty dead, tig mg shot in the corner of the righteye. Myers had a wound on the right side of bis head, and his wife had been shot over the lefteye and in the right side of the head. The wounds are of a fatal nature,and Ube coroner will endeavor to-day to take the ante-mortem depositions of the man and his wife. The theory of the police is that Mvers sbot bis wife and child and thea shot him- self. A small Smith & Wesson revolver, with which the shooting was done, was found in the room A Swindier Arrested. Boston, Dec. 30—Charles A. DeLargar- diere, formerly @ teacher in theschools here and well-known, was arrested here yester- day by the state police force for swindling about 50 persons whom he had induced to join a bogus Masonic lodge. He had pocketed all the fees, and was detected only by his peculiar method of initiations. “He had relied op his victims ignorance of Masonic laws to carry out his scheme. —o——— The Centennial New Year. MIDDLETOWN, N.Y., Dec. 30.—The Mid- dletown trustees have ordered the church bells to be rung and locomotive and factory whistles blown in bonor of the advent of the centennial year. The churches will have open services from 1! to 12 o'clock, and will be illuminated until 1 o'clock. There will be bonfires, illuminations, fireworks, aud a torchlight procession of 100 horsemen. see coreest thccdnns Tweed’s Bondsmen. NEw York, Dee. 30.—Judge Donohue’s or der declaring Tweed’s sureties on seven crim- inal Indictments recently found to have for- felted ten recognizances, was settled and = today. A writ of certiorari was taken out on the spot, which has the effect of astay. ——_.+—__ Serious Charge Against a U.S. Mar- shal New York, Dec. 30.—Charges have been made against Peter R. Carll, U.S. Marshal for the District of Connecticut of perjary and embezzlement. . ——e—— Bank of California Shares. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29.—One bandred and fifty shares of the Bank of Califoraia tL 35 at 12% per share. were withdrawn. ——— Sentence. efit Re peg a yp poms cently convict sending through the malls ah obscene sheet knows as the Tolecio €m, was to-day sentenced to 15 months imprisonment, and to pay $50) fine. ganas cn ts Bay The Centennial New Year. PoRTsMOUTH, N. H., Dec. 30.—The advent of the centennial year will becelebrated here = large mass meeting, coucert, parade, NEw YORK, Dec. 30.—$150,000 in double eagles were shipped to Europe to day. ——— Hart, the Milltenatre, Sacd. MORE ABOUT THE OFFICIAL LIFE UF AU | form pute the amount due him. Tn his billof particulars Mr. Hart says that Mr. Mierson’s New Yorker Journal was made a tion in June, 1839, and that in May, 1870, Mr. Mierson received ap- ‘Ward of $20,000, $2,500 having bees paid fo James Watson for obtaining its paymeat after Judgment for it had been secured. Taea in October he paid Watson $5,000 for paying & judgment in favor of Mierson for Ce; and in January, 1871, paid him ano’ for getting the New Yorker Journal mad corporation paper under the charter of 1570, ar for facilitating the collection of ¢ 1 Mr. Hart says be paid 00 for procuring the mak: 4 corporation paper uader besides, from the city, for advert'sing, NINILisTs In New York reports were spread regandir Russian sect termed N who gay great umbrage to the Russian government, and caused ® despotic banishment by the czarof a large number to the banks of the Volga. A number aged to escape over the frontier, and among them one Beresy Feodorowltsch, with bis wife, two marrie? cops and their wives,and three daughters, with their husbands and families. came to New York, aod are living in a tene- ment house Thint street, where they manufacture cigars. The men dress in sheepskin Coats and wear heavy top boots, Not long ago communistie aud the wi wear the brass tiarass fre- quently *een upon the heads of female Rus- sian peasantrs. They are learning to speak a little and say that their sect wishes al 1e8 perfectly equalized, inasmuch as there ts quite a sufficiency of riches in the world to enable all to livein abundance. Thrones and class distinctions, they say, must be aboilshed, and all shoul be /practicalls e aed equal, socially well as politica All persons, they con- sider, over the age of teu should do a certain amount of daily work, and the state should be ruled by r Tesentatives of the com- sis bellewve in the coming is to bring avout the ings they look forward pevery evenlag from pecaliarity of these sever buy for money parchase with cigars SLANDER IN BROOK- CLERGYMAN I8 PLALN- ison, in the Brookiyn city » yesterday, listened to an jumert ip e case of the Rev. Adaibertus Micicuszny, storo! the Polish congregation of New ork, who nes ‘ituted sult for $50,000 damages against . maker, of 17 F' alieged slander. that on the 15th of November, in thestore in Flat- bush avenue. and in the presence of the plaintiff and Thos. Bstecke, Jos, Czarnecks, nd Minister Jos. Wiedzielskt, the defendant remarked as follows: “Ksiadz Mieleussn: ukrad ty7 pam sto syeze dzteviat doleron; Which, being interpreted, means: “Pastor Mielcuszny has also stolen from us #160.” The motion was to vacate an order of arrest against the defendant, on the nd that it eranted on the origt comptaint, which did not contain a translation of the Polish words given above. Judge Neilson took the papers. ¥. Sun, 29th. THE ALLEGED OUTRAGE IN VIRGINIA. A dispatch from Harrisonburg, V: The report of @ negro havis yesville, in o. They 7 five to six « people is th hey pay f ANOTHER S LYN IN WHICH N young lady living near McG: Rockingham county, On the 2ist inst, was exaggeruted. He attempted to commit the outrage Ubere, but bis cous seemed to fail him at the last moment, he released the young lady and rs He was caught on the morning of the by some hot-blooded young men, Who immediately proceeded to bang the rascal. Some more judicious gen- tlemen. bowever, cut him down before he was seriously injured, and tok bim beforea magistrate, who € the negro the choice of standing a irlg! ip the county court or thir- ty-nine lashes well laid on. negro chose the latter, and received severe castigation, some half cozen gentlemen bandling the cowhide. He was let loose and told to leave the country, and warned if he was caught after ten days Le would be mobbed. Tae Resvit or Two Bors Gorse TeRevcH A MINE won a Bursxino Lamwp.—An explosion «f fire damp occurred Tuesday, in the Hutchinson mines, Kinston, Pa.. killing three men and severely burning &@ number of others. The explosion was in @ portion of the mine not in use. A wall had been erected between the two B but av opening was through it, some boys, agafnsl orders, went trough with a burning lamp. A es eat fol. lowed, and Dennis Foster and Martin Ryan were killed, while the and several otbers working pear were James Hutchinson was blown into a and hel ge A § ed in every shape, but otherwise to the works were not great. 5 SPARKS FROM LocomoTrves. — Ci mel gh States circul for the New Jersey district, presi cently at the trial of a uit agaibet the Pens, sylvania railroad company, for arising out of the burn Umber = ro thang ng by sparks from locomotive elonging to company. The judge charged tne Jury that, in d ae ton whether the fre was the resul carelessness on the of the they must consider that the law req use of all practical means to pre escape of sparks, and that the proof isop defendants to show gine was provided with the required appii- ances. The jury rendered a verdict plaintiff, awarding hiro $2,157.67 for the dam- 4ge@s sustained. BEECHER AND THE Pew Renvs.—Afier bis Sunday morning sermon in Plymouth Cbureb, in announcing the sale of thechureb ws, the event of Tuesday, January 4, Mr. cher soggested that, in view of the de- pression of business, families should rent pews jointly. oceapying ibem alternatel; morning and evening. “I know,” smiling, “what will be said if the just as well as if they down already. It don’ et nowadays. I kno’ be said, and notwit ti g wil