Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1876, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, Except Sunday, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Penasylvania oo, cormer Lith street, » The Evening Star Newspaper Company, 8. H. KAUFFMANN, Pres’t. naib Tue Evenine STAR is served by carriers fo subseribers at Ten Cents week, or Forty- Two et sage ¥ - Cents Bexty Cents a month, one year, $6. Tue WEEKLY St. on Priday— Sh peeeme oe St, 48—N®. 7,395. SPECIAL NOTICES. MEMORIAL CHURCH, Vth-street circle Pastor, JG. Beviem. Allwats free. Ser "i es reqniarly at m ta Pays iS Bi and sth streets norte ew S08, pastor. w » Sul Ke corner Kev AF 7 CS THE Fit GATION have take: NGRE ENDENT ¢ jasenic Teraple for the EVENING STAR. Washington News and Gossip. GOVERNMENT RECKIrTs To-Day—Inter- it " pecech To-umercw.at il s mand | nal revenue, €:00 196.02; customs. $42! 353.49 tat ni Peac ——— RECFIPTS of national bank notes received for redemption for week ending to-day as coming year. and will hold their first services there | compared with corresponding week of last Bex! nday Morn: al ening au Lith strest. TMBERT. Dae y RST BA < between G and H, Rev. Dr tor —Services To morrow morning and evening weteome ¢ year: 1815, £5,716,0C9: 1876, $3,584,000. CoNnsULS.—The Presideat has recognized Ch. Henrotin as consul of Belgium at Chi- “ST PAUL'S ENGLISH LUTHERAN | €4€0. And Cassimiro Castro as consul ad in- OS chttndt Tse a Tith and LH streets — ig To-morrow. am. a m.. by ®. All welcome. Seats ASCENSION atiia.m. Ne The course of lect @ur Lord” will be Evening UNITARIAN SERV Barenrs. ™ aU RCH — Morning service ening sirvice To-morrow. ox en“ Questions Addresed to resamed on the next Senday CES —Rev the Unitari ly iS CHURCH, corner Masa- and Isth street —Sunday ser- sermon aad holy eomman amdlectare at7's pom. Offer ngs for the poor. will be “Guild. sent to Rector = resi- 24 Netecet. Seais fr am A. HARROLD. P Aponties. t in His King advocated every Sunday. at the Circuit Court-rooin (City Hall.), Ail el #3 ™. interested aware 2" a THE “WASHINGTON CITY DENTAL OS" sdeihry will hold its annual meeting at huell Penney! Leonard's,” corner of 9th street and on MONDAY EVENING anid avenue } at d o'clock ETY, No. 3, |, corner $d street ani SUNDAY, Deceu x o’eleek, in full uniform, to attend the faneral of oar late Brother, Paittir J. Exy'=. By ‘of the Presi it it JAMES KELLY, Ree. See E WOMAN S CHRISTIAN TEMPER- UNION will hold Prayer Meetings on DAY. WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY NINGS 0; next week, at the Met Chureh on 9 sireet, commencing at half-past six Jock. in connec.ion with the Union services now persons interested in the cause of ited to he present. dec? S. FINE STATIONERY, OTIONS for the Ser reat ‘RTS BOOKSTORE, 1010 7th st. venue decs-2w OS necting § NSOF MEXICAN WAR Regula necting SATURDAY EVENING, Deectiber - at ; ochek, at I DP ig pd avenue. mnet! attendance ewes order. Be ee Ee KENADAY, Secretary. TMP_0_OF RED MEN —The chiefs and GE TRIBE. hed ae Tequested to be present & he Tribe (12th Sheep Hant ness of vital importance to every cor sidered: By order of the Tribe. Attest:— decd 28 JAS. E. DEMENT ©. of Records, SPECIAL N E. Owing to the increasing demand for money. We are compelled to notify all having goods deposited with ns. cither on Joan or on commission, and over to Renew or Redeetn the same on or before De- eember 16th. 1876, or the same anetion according t. aye, by THOS. DOWLING. Auctionser corner Ith 3 GOLDSTEIN & CO. street and Pa. bests 7 vine sdf Rn Ea dec 7t ae cs SABBATH AFTERNOON. LINCOLN GOSPEL MEETING Corner ioth and D ste. AT 35: O'CLOCK, iv HALL, SINGING, LED BY CORNET AND ORGAN EN S HOT SODA, ith the cueqnaled TEA. COFFEE, AND CHOCOLATE. OLD SODA and MINERAL WATERS all the Year novat-tr 1429 Pewxevtvaxra AVENE, Deva3 tr _ Near W illard’s Llotel. > Cspies” croaks. and most attractive assortment in Mate- Insee. Kil and Plain Clot! terim of Mexico at Brownsville, Texas. PROF. SEFLYE, M. C. of Mass., is repre- sented as having said that he believed the Presidential question would be thrown into the House for final settlement. PostroNEMENT—On account of the in- clement weather and lack of time to perfect the desired preliminary arrangements the reecption by the Artists’ Club, which was to have taken place this evening, has been postponed until further noiice. REVENUE APPOINTMENTS.— Orville C. Gordon has been appointed revenue store keeper, 4th district of Indiana; George A Grace, John G. Springer, Pleasant H. Speers, Samuel! Dyer, John Pearson and Wm. C Robe ppointed storekeeper and ga the Sd district of Arkansas. ois $337 504,300 in U.S. bonds to secure national bank cireula- n and $18 983,000 to secure public deposit. S. bonds deposited for cireulation for week to-day 700. U.S. bonds held for during the week end- . National bank cireula- ing: Currency notes, $19,882,611; gold noies, $2,099,190. LARGE CONVERSION OF 3.65 Bonns. few days ago the New York Mutual Life snrance Company of New York sent on to this city 1,148,000 coupon District of Colum- bia 3.65 bonds for conversion into registered bonds as a permanent payment. This makes nearly $4,9¢9,000 in registered bonds iasned to date to different holders for long invest- ment. THE LEADING Democrats held several conferences last night. One was at the house of Mr. Hewett on New York avenue, where the caucus commitiee of ten ‘held council untila late hour. Then there was a coterie of deroerats assembled at the residence of W. W. Corcoran,esq. Still another council took lace at the residence of Senator Thurman. his cozitating so much would seem that the A liticlans are awake to the fact that they ama | ha: ve heavy responsibilities on their shoul- ders. J. Proctor Knorr, chairman of the House judiciary committee, is quite anxious to have the Blaine investigation renewed. Con- s.dering the way he was “sot down” on when he tingercd with that pie, it is strange that he shon!d again “want to rash in where Angels fear to tread.” Sut then Mr. Blaine is noi In the House now, and Knott would have it, he thinks. hisown way, It should be remem- bercd that there is ‘a Pine Knot from Maine waich will sei tothe Frye—ing point if the Kentacky siatesman atiempts to renew the old quarrel agaiust Mr. Blaine on personal grounds. NAVAL ORDERS. Inspector George L. Davis ordered to the naval asylum, Phil- adelphia, 1st January next; Pay Inspector C. P. Wallach as inspector of provisions and clothing at the navy yard, League Island, ist January; Lieut. Commander Frederick Pear- son detached from special duty conuected with the Centennial exhibition, and ordered to the chief of bureau of ordnance ¥ Director John 8. Gulick from naval asylum, Philadelphia, ist Janu- and ordered to settle accounts; Paymas- Arthur Burtis from the nay. League Island, Pa., ist January, to seitle aecount THE Democratic Cavcrs ComMITTEE.— Representative Lamar, as chairman of the democratic caucus, has appointed the fol- lowing comunittee. to take into consideration the sabjeet of the recent elections, &ec., and to recort from time to time such recom- mendations as they may deem proper: Rep- resentatives Hewitt, of New York; Payne, of Ohio; Weod, of New York; Randall, of Pennsylvania; Sparks, of [llinois; Holman of indiana; Warren, of Massachusetts; Ste_ venus, of Georgia; Watterron, of Kentucky; ‘Dolmas in Plain Cloth. Silk and Matelasse. Also. | Atkins. of Tennessee, and Lamar, the chair- Cloaks for Misses from four to sixteen years. all a the most reasonable pricesat_ = M. WILLIAN'S. made in the most superior style and at rea sonable prices by M. ASHINGTON, up stairs. novi tr SS a SAMUEL G. YOUNG, NOTARY PUBLIC, Orr ce—Srar Bo court PTIician ts A Philade} 5 ii ted patented EVEGLASS, manufac: °C Beasitinn Pebbles, “Ales on banda lores vente ot SPECTACLES. “OPERA” GLASSES” MICLO- SCOPES and SRADES for the Bret, 1. ALEXAND' cts triatp 1299 IRANKLIN & CO. PPRANBEES 6 oMians No. 1287 Pewxnsvicayta Avexce. Genuie Erazilian Pebble Spoctacies Reduced Prices. HEAVY BLUE “= OVERCOAT, GERMANIA i BEAVER, BOBEONS waeeminel ~ 4 BEAVER, LIPPRIT'S FANCY yg BAAvER, (Bine,) dect-ly isp mpan Of the caacus. COUNTING THE ELECTORAL VOTE—The House judic’ary committee has agreed to rc- portthe resolution introduced in the House Thursday, by Mr. McCrary, of lowa, pro- viding for a committee of five members, to act with any similar committee that y be appointed by the Senate, to prepare report without delay such a measure, her legislative or constitutional, as may, in ee ae be best calculated to ac- complish the end that the electoral votes may be counted and the result be declared by @ tribunal whose authority none can ques- tion, and whose decision all will accept as final. ARMY ORDERS.—By direction of the Secre- tary of War Lieutenant Colonel B. 8S. Alex- ander, corps of engineers, having completed the duty assigned him November 2d, will re- turn to his station in San Francisco, Cal. Upon his own application 2d Lieatenant H. L. Seott, ith cavalry, is transferred from company E to company I of that regiment. Lieutenant Colonel James Van Voast, 16th infantry, is relieved from his present duties, and will joi his regiment. A board of sur- vey. to consist of Lieutenant Colonel H. F. Clarke, and Captains H. W. James, assistant quartermaster, and Samuel Ovenshine, 5th cavalry, Will ‘assemble at the cavalry re- cruiting rendezvous of Capt. W. B. Kennedy, loth eavairy, in Baltimore, on 12th instant, to inquire into and fix the responsibility for the loss of articles of clothing, camp and FLORENCE BLUE, er fr' & BROWN BEAVER, | varrison equipage for which Capt. Kennedy +. ible. SIBERIA HEAVY Bi td FUR BEAVER, MPD WEST OF a al BLAIN BEAVER, BOYAL ERMINE OO SUITS. UXBRIDGE ae. VELOURS —i WOESTED, EULBOEUF FEENCH oo. jURLINGTON — BEAVER, EDW.BABEIS a CASSIMERE, BASE ENGLISH — BOY'S CHECK wenn? GLOBE MILLS ae ae. BULLOCE'S BLACK 4: BROWN PLAID, LONDON BASKET WoRsrE, RUSSELL DARK ee IRON CLAD STEEL — ‘WOODWARD BLACK RIBEED CASSIMERE, aLL WOOL “"homheaw Call and Examine. —————_— STRAUS, POPULARSCLOTHIER, noragtr 1011 Pennsyivania sevane, TRIMONIAL REVIRW— Published monthiy. r Negatitaly ‘Hrestrated: a. 18 resporis! — ee REPORTS OF AGRICULTURE. —Early next week will be issued the report of 1875, pre- pared last winter but ordered by Congress In August last, the edition numbering 200,000, An edition of 160,000 of 1874 has just been com- pleied. While sach numbers are ordered for . a1 distribution, the editor in his as statistician complains that no ade- «te provision is made for the continuance of either annual or monthly. as follows: “A more than Egyptian economy is re- quired of this division the coming ‘year; in addition to the task of making bricks with. out straw. it is required to dispense with clay; having not a dollar of allowance for « ting statistics. for investigation of any kind, or for drawings or engravings, or other material for reports, the entire appropriation being only $11,800, less than enough to pay the present cler'cal force absolutely required for routine work. It can only collate and record data gathered absolutely without cost, and the appropriation for printing will be so far exhausted by December, 1876, as to re- Guire the discontinuance of the monthly at af date, unless turther provision shall be made.” We learn that the extgence predicted will prevent publication beyoud the December issue NOW in press. THE EIGHT-HOUR CLaims.—The com- mittee on claims, through Mr. Cason, of indiana, has reported favorably upon the «bill introduced by Mr. Phillips,of Kansas, last session to amend the act in relation to the — ser et Shape = work. After the passage jaw making eight the officers hours a legal day’s work some of of the government, Ae pwr the military departinent, held that it did not apply to laborers, w: and mechanics employed by or on ee ee ———— refused to pay them. the same that they had paid for ten hours’ work pre- 5 i z i future by an act passed no provision for reimbursi i EF gs i relief, and Mr. & bill to reimburse in al a 2 i a3 i iv : [ 3s gene's BEPESy Che £0 WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1876. TWO CENTS. AMONG THE CALLERS at the White House Houre to-day were Senators Logan, Sargent, Pelitical Facts and Fancies. The oficial vote for the state ticket in Mis- Dawes, Alcorn, Harvey, Cragin, Blaine and | souri gives Phelps, dem:., for governor, 199,- Paddock. Representatives Frye, Page, Kel- bef ako map nd Bland. Judge Stone, of Col . Mr. Cortlandt Parker. the Sec- retary of the Interior.and Mr.W.E: Chandler. SECRETARY CHANDLER says in reference to the rumor that a subpeena duces tecum is to be issued by direction of the House of Repre sentatives for all telegrams he sent to Louis jana, Florida, and South Carolina, during the late political campaign, that he would be glad to have them made public. He has nothing to conceal, and if their publication is desirable to the democrats he would be glad to oblige them. Tue Hovusk ComMITTRE ON APPROPTA- TIONS will on Monday distribute the work of the several appropriation bills to sub-com- mittees, It is the intention of the committee to work ahead and put all the bills in shape for presentation, but they will withhold them from the House until the Presidential muddle is definitely shaped. The threat is now that if Hayes is inaugurated the supplies are io be eut off. PERSONAL.—Mr. H. J. Ramsdel! and fam- ily returned to the city this morning fom San Francisco. They are quartered at the Ebbitt House. ‘They say that the fiery “wah” temper of Watterson, of Kentucky, has to be restrained with the strongest seda- i «+. Springer, of Hlinois, is reviving t ancient law volume, the Federalist. +--- Gen. Banks, when speak: f the Clerk of the He gives the old English pronuncia- tion of “clark.” ++--Battz, the South Caro- lina member who has the certificate of the returning board to establish the claim to his election, is still “butting” away in his en- deavor to get a democratic House to say that he is allright. ....Col. Harry Clarke, of the American Press Association, has an educa- ted “‘dorg.” which is as astonishing in his way as the renowned pig known as “Wicked Ber «Judge Montgomery Blair and Hon. Jeremiah 8. Black write the paragraphs in the new democratic paper. -+--A. D. inks, a prominent political “bull dozer” of Missis- sippi, arrived here yesterday. ----Dr. F. Ju- lius LeMoyne, the Washington, Pa., crema- tor of the remains of Baron de Palm, is the father of Hon. Join LeMoyne, the present democratic member of Congress from Chica- Illinois district. ----Judge Kelly, of arrived in Washington last night from Orleans. 2x-Mayor Stokely, H. H. Bingham, John L. Hill and Wm. R. Leeds, notable, politicians of Philadelphia, are at jard’s. ——_-++e ______ THEATER Fixes.— Within the last ten years nine theaters have been destroyed by tire in New York alone. This puts the aver- age at about one a year. Among the theaters thus lost. the most important were Barnum’s, Niblo’s, the Academy of Music, and the Fifth Avenue. Meantime, in the other cities of the country, twenty-eight theaters and con- cert halls Were burned, including such lead- Boston Globe Thi ng ones G eater, the Philadelphia Arch Street_and American, Pike's Cincinnati Opera House, the Balti- more Holliday Strect, and the New Orleans Varieties. These facts suggest how great the risks these structures run are, and the need there is of their better protection against fire. (New York Sun. WHat Witt He Do With Her?It seems probable from the lates! developments in the Garnier divorce case that when the suit is brought to trial there will be no de- fendant. On Wednesday night a proposition was made by a friend of Gotendorf's to Gar- nier, looking to the sending by the latter of his wife back to her friends. Gotendorf said that the publicity given to the affair had af- fected and would Keep on affecting his busi- ness so as to prevent his marrying or su; porting Mrs. Garnier, even if she got a di- vorce. He proposed that Garnier should fur- nish funds to send Mrs. Garnier back to her friends. Garnier peremptorily declined.— CY. ¥. World, 8th. L. U. ReAVIS, the great capital mover. comes to the rescue of the king of thieves thus: +The millionaire reformer labors for the public, takes bread from the rich and gives it to the poor and appropriates his own reward. Such was Willlam M. Twec 1. Pile mountains of infamy upon his nam, dese- erate the blood of his ancestors if you will, imprison and impoverish him. and still he your resormer and benefactor.” The people of St. Louis had better keep their hands on THE Newport City CLerx Hearp From.—The family of the missing Newport city ¢ , Mr. Benjamin Marsh, have re- ceived a despatch from him dated Williams- port, Pa. He informed them that he was “bound west,” and that they must give up all search for him. This goes to prove that he is not insane, and that his motive for leaving so mysteriously will be apparent within the next forty-eight hours. The seeret investigation into his accounts, 2s adminis- trator and guardianship of no less than thirty-five estates, is progressing, and the result is awaited with painful suspense. A PaciFic Coast RomMANCE.—Several years ago the wife of Alonzo Hayward of San Francisco obtained a divorce from her husband, and received from him a full half of his proper , then amounting to many millions of dolla: Since the separation his circumstances have pte? great courted him so warmly thattheir remarriage is reported as soon to take place. A PROJECTED MARRIAGE —. To 2s ic Broken Orr.—The New Yor! News 8a: “Mr. James Gordon Bennett's ma » which : so —— = noun: is probab| ofinitely aa l up, the he tween Rimnself ‘and is flance having been, however, altogether amicable, and the result of a firm conviction on Mr. Bennett's part that he was not fitted for the married state. Whatever presents Mr. Bennett gave to Miss May, and they Were numerous, have been retained by her at his desire.” EE A PROJECTED MARRIAGE SAID TO BE Broken Or F.—Mr. James Gordon Bennett's marriage, which was so extensively an- nounced last spring, is probably definitely given up, the breach between himselfand his ftlancee having been however, altogether ain- icable, and the result of a firm conviction on Mr. Bennett's part that he was not fitted for the married state. ver presents Mr. - Bennett gave Miss May, and they werenum- erous, have been retained by her at his de- sire—[Dramatic News. WHY WAS Boss TwEFp Broucut HomE Pe gry ae to — ere Claw ‘rom city says: A petition mn handed to Mr. Wood, of New York, for pre- sentation to the House, asking that an in- uiry be made into the manner of capturing oss Tweed in Spain. The is to ascertain by what authority the United States government permitted the capture of the fugitive, being no lon treaty between this government of Spain, n, U.8. workmen head was severed. fein MAKING It WARM FOR Dersy—! before a bhi Ineeting in London on Thursday: Me Che De stone held the Eritish ier personally re- sponsible for the of the government in to the ‘Turkish matter, He the abolition of Ottoman supremacy In the provinces, eulogized the Czar, and de- ai ought 10 lov erticipete in liberation of the each YP —ae Back AGAtN.—Rev. John 580, and Finkelnbarz, rep., 147 694; majorit: for Phelps, 51,886. -*--Mr. Cronin, the demo- cratic el rin Oregon. isa brother of Mr. Timothy C. Cronin, of Brooklyn. one of the republican eiectors for New York. -*--The Tammany generai committer has pa:sed resolations complimenting the Hon. Abram S. Hewitt for his abie management of th democracy’s late campaign. Two U. Senators will be elected by the Tennesse jegislature which assembles on New Year's Day. ----Sammel J- is Speaker; and Samuel J. is President. Let us sing Psalms.—Boston Post. Nobody will want to see such a Centennial Presidential election again for at Jeast a hundred years. It early beeame a game of lying, and ended in force, fraud and sharp practice. Not much glory in beating at such a game—Hoston Transript. now known that the late Speak cided with the veteran journi rk. Mr. Ba clay, in the opinion that ail the joint ru became inoperative at the close of the 4d gress and must so until enacied by be the Ser nd the Hons ‘That Mr. Kerr ‘ws were regarded as cor- shown fact that the new jour- nal ¢lerk, w. suceeeded Mr. Barclay last session, has omitted all the joint rales from the appendix of the journal of the last ses- sion. The reason for omitting thus explained in a note in the joarnal w ten by the journal clerk: “The followin resolution willexplain the omission herein ofthe joint rules of the two Houses of ¢ gress as heretofore.” (Here follows the re lution of the Senate declaring the rui notin force.) In another part of the journ: the following appears: ©The joint rules of the two Houses, in force at the close of the 43d Congress. are herein given for inform: tion.” It fs understood that the question o omitting these rules from the journal was brought by the journal clerk to the attention of Speaker Kerr while he was in the chai 7 before the end of the last session, and that he approved doing *o on the ground that the rules were not in force.—{ Wash. Special, N.Y. Post. ——__. The Great Mudd THE OREGON COMPLICATION. A special dispatch to the New York Zribin from Washington says: “The democratic members appeare take their cue from Mr. Hewitt todas Were not, however,in the serene tnood men who were confident of their ground. bu were in bad temper and could not discuss t) situation in conversation with the repu' licans or even with each other without di: playing an_ excited and almost threateniny manner. The southern democrats were no- tieeably cooler than their northern brethren, and most of the conciliatory talk apneared to proceed from them. The republicans were ve and anxious. A comparison of opin- ions during the day went far toward reas- suring them, however. Sagacious men, look- Ing at the facts in the Oregon election, soon reeived a fatal flaw in the democratic case. ey Saw that is by no means certain that the returns declared by the President of the Senate will show a vote for Tilden. case stands thus: The governor of Ore- gon issued a certificate that Cartwright and Odell, reps., and Cronin, dem., were the law- tal electors. The certificate Cronin put in his pocket. He organized himself as the cle - toral college, moved that he fill the two va- cancies, put the vote to himself, declared it carried, elected two democrats, and made up areiura of one vote for Tilden and two for Hayes, which he will bring on himself to Washington and deliver to the President of the Senate. The two genuine electors met found a majority of the electoral colleg present, filled the one vacancy. cast the vot for Hayes in accordance with the verdict of the pple, and made up a legal return in due form. The President of the Senate will open both the returns. He will find in the fraudulen: one the ceriificate of the governor. By this certificate he will learn who ure declared t> be the electors. He will th , which comes & majority of the electors thus certified to. That return, it is declared, he will pre- sent tobe counted. The other will be treate} ity. There will be no going behind the certificate, because the certificate itselt. whenever found, will show which is the gen- ulne return and which is the fraudulent one. The circumstance that this certificate comes enclosed in the false return is not important At is perhaps all the better that it should so, for It @xposes the fraud whieh it wa hoped it would conceal. Republicans now undé:stand this clearly, and are not at all trovoled at this last trick of their opponents AvOTRER CONGRESSIONAL CONTEST. The Warrensburg ( Mo.) Standard elaims th election of Col. Stover, the republican ci didate, to Congress in the 7th district of Mi: souri,on the grounds which it states as fc lows: «The election law of Missouri provides that the tickets shall a meg define the 0! fice tor which the candidate is voted fo: Otherwise the Ueket shall be considered frau- dulent, and shall not be counted. The dem- ociatic ticket as voted in Johnson county al! read as follows: For Congress, Seventh Dis- trict_Thomas T. Crittenden. Now, there is ho such office as ‘Con; .’ The title of the office is ‘Representative in Venenese. The and so pe ete tickets were so voted printed. In this county Crittenden received ‘bo votes for any whatever. Col. Stover received 2,147 votes for ‘Representative in Congress,’ and even if the democratte tickets were correct in all other counties in the dis- trict, still Stover is elected, and should have the certificate.” Homre1pe IN PENNSYLVANIA. — Dr. Shade, a retired ysician engaged in the , Franklin coun- by his son-in- law, Criswell Reese, in his fat the place above-mentioned. Reese has been di m to Shaae’s daughtr,and itis said he avowed his intention to go to 91,600 from him, and if he failed to get it he would kill him. ' Shade al that not the money, and he had already paid bills =) Reese then shot Shade twice in 3d shot at her, which passed ea iare aan rr second 5] wi throu er her arm.— [Chambersburg A CENTENNIAL SMITH RAISING AN I) TERNATIONAL Row.—Last August a num fts were committed in th nt at th and ly placed elsewhere by General Capt. Au- J French commissioner, arrested for slander. He(Aufrye) was hel: in $500 bail. As Capt. Aufrye is entitled to ing connected immunity from arrest, with the French consulate in this country he intends to make it @ matter of diplomacy be. tween the French consul at Washingtos’ ani Secretary Fish. THE OPPOSING PARTIE: gy the of the left on the one ‘and President MacMahon, with the on the other, seeming to be as Wie ayers ag ever. The pola upon which we pp re error bra initation of the Pred ata Power ‘herein, than juestions on whi cabinet was defeated fn the THE NATIONAL ALL LEAGUE its session at Ohio, yester- day. W.A. Hulbars, of Chicago, was elect- ed president for ensuing year, and N.E. | and Odell, | itively refused to do. | drew and declared that, as the other two gen- the rules is | | lot, to the President of the Si to os | who refu ME ELECTORAL COMPLICATIONS. “s Dual Electors. A Portiand Press dispaich says in an inter- view with Watts yesterday he stated posi- tively that when Secretary Chadwick slipped the certificate of e] Jon through the door into Cronin’s hand the other electoral candi- dates were present and asked what the sealed envelope containec. Cronin answered that iteontained certificates of election. Watts, | Cartwright and Oxell asked to see the certifi- cates. Cronin declined toallof them. The request was made three times by the electors named, and each time denied. The electors then demanded he should produce the certifl- cates. Cronin refused im most emphatic terms, at the same time thrusting an envel- , Ope in his vest pocket and buttoning his coat. e electors aver that noone was in the room, but Cronin saw what he claimed were the ceriifieates. So far as they had posit judicial knowledge, the envelope contained nothing except blank slips. He claimed he was an elector and said he had a certificate, and asked per:aission to act with Cartwright These gentlemen did not refuse at any time to recognize or to act with him. They demanded he should exhibit his eertifi- cate and show what right he had to claim a seat in the electoral board. This he also pos- Cronin bizeself with- tlemen refused toact there existed two vacan- cies in the board, which he proceeded to fll, appointing Miller and Park, two staunch democrats, and then cast the so-called elect - oral ballot of the state. The republican electors, after casting the clectoral ballot, prepared a full and complete statement of what took place in the room, and of every- Uning that was said and done, to which each appended his affidavit. This statement ha been forwarded, together with the sealed ba! nate. LAIN’S SUPPLIES hird judicial court la temporary injunction n complaint of taxpayers enjotming two panks in the city, which are state deposi- ies of publie funds, from as ing oat any ies on checks signed T." L. Card ing to act as public treasurer. € pzo is the republican treasurer acting under Chamber and itis claimed by plaintiffs that his term of office under the constitution pired on the 3d of December. and bis suc- cessor has not been qualified. Ifthe injune- on Is sustained the republican government will be left without any funds tocarry on the government. THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE have put clerks to work to obta‘n 2 copy of the returns of the election as sworn to by the managers of precincts. These are the same returns which Senator Gordon requested the state board to permit him to have copied some weeks ago. They have since been in possession of the secretary of state, a mem- ber of the state board. Gen. Rager has not ret replied to the questions pr nded to im by the commitiee from emocratic house, but proposes to do so to-day. quiet, and both parties seem waiting for the action of the Congressional committee. Flerida Figures. The canvassing board yesterday concluded the canvass for governor and members of Congress. and the resuli “was declared against the protest of the attorney general, to sign the canvass on the grounds of fraud and irregularity, and in obedience to Judge White's order restraining the board. The other members of the board will answer Judge White's order for con- tempt by saying they had already canvassed the vote when the order was served on them, On this view the attorney general dissents. Whole vote cast for governor, 46,874; for Stearns, rep., 23,666; Drew, dem., 25,208; ma- jority for Stearns, 458. Lieutenant governor, whole vote cast, 46,551; Montgomery, rep., 2 Hull, dem., 23,273; majority for Mont- Ty, 304. Congressional vote, Ist district, Purman, rep. 12,354; Davidson, dem.. majority for Purman, 295. 2d district, Bis rep. 11.280; Finley dem.. 11,148; ; for Bis! gom BAL inajorit bee, 141. All the troops leave to-day for South Carolina, except oue com- pany of i BETWEEN 17,000 and 20,000 alligator skins are tanned yearly, which are consumed by boot and shoe manufacturers in every por- tion of the United States, as well as export- Jon and Hamburg. The alligators ame almost entirely from Louisi- ana, and New Orleans was the great center of business. The Florida swamps and mo- rasses are now the harvest flelds, and Jack- sonville, in that state, the great depot. The alligators often attain a length of eighteen or twenty feet, and frequently live toa very old age. “The hides are stripped off, and th belly and sides, the only portions fil for use, are ‘packed in barrels, in strong brine. and shipped to the northern tanner, who kee them under treatment for six or eight months, when they are ready to be cut up.— (Phitasetphia Ledger. Ir IS SUPPOSED that a larger percentage of the Danes than of any other nation has hith- erto Krag a ee — newspaper is regularly at Salt Lake Clty. Since the ‘eparation of Sehles- wig-Holstein from Denmark, the recruiting- ground of the Mormons has been reduced, as theyr preacning has been ay’ 6 suppressed in those duchies. Of late years the mimi za tion into Utah from the European missions has varied from one to four thousand persons annually. The most active attempts at ropagandism appear to have been inade about the year J82-'53, but in this country a Mormon mission was foun as as 1891, six years before th. “Revelation on Celestial Marriage” had given its peculiar character to Mormonism.—{Loendon Port- nightly Review. A PLA TO ABDUCT THE SULTAN—A London Standard f1 yn conspirators, six of whom were found in di ise in the lace itself and arrested, bea pioeaed to corey ofr the ex-Sultan Murad in a steamer, which they hadalready en , to Athens. W! red his reason and the 8: Hamid was consequently a usurper. prisoners are of various nationalities; one is a Greek, and is a brother of the chief drago- pons of one of the principal foreign con- sulates.”” STABBED WITH A SLATE PENCIL.—Liz- zie Taylor, a girl eight years old, while plas ‘ing with other children in the yard at- to the Church of the Holy Comforter, rely and fell. A slate cil which the irl bad in her hand when falling penetrated GEN. Por¥IRio Diaz, the Mexican reyo- lutionist, is about five feet ten inches in height, and when sitting in the C . is credited to the State of i i H a §; i Hid i ‘Telegrams to The Star. SOUTH CAROLINA. Gen. Ruger to the Legislature. Troops Will Support Chamberlain, TWEED’S CAPTURED PAPERS, Morrissey’s Election Bet Haul. THE BROOKLYN DISASTER. SOUTH CAROLINA. The ——— Mouse and the New York, Dee. 9. olumbia, South Carolina, © Herald says:—The committee ai ated by the de house, 0a waiting oa Gea. Rager ye aunounced its mission as follows: THE COMMITTEE'S QUESTIONS. You are aware that troops are in the state house. Will you be kind enough to infc us by whose authority these Lroops are in ml for what purpose they sh to avoid the least ap- pearance jolence, but our house being the leza! hdflse, we wish to ne house of representat nstructed to resist the peaceful of our honse into the hall? You k there is a force of state constabulary there as deputy doorkeepers of the house. er are guarding an illezal house. Are your troops authorized to support them tf they — the entrance into the hall of our mem- pers? Gex RUGER'S REPLY These questions were redueed to writing and submitted to the genera! at his request, and he said: I prefer my official reply to these questions shall be in writing, and shall so reply at my earliest convenience. I am willing, however. to state verbally a general poeta habe pe pen he ra 3? whole ground, a all jainiy. Tam, of course, the communion ar The ti in Co- lumbia, and they orders. My orders to them came from ¢ Presideni, and I act as I these oniers. Gov. Chamberlain applied to the President fort to preserve the against vio-~ lence insurrection. President Grant recog- nized Chamberlain as governor of South Carolina, and ordered troops to be placed at his disposal. The , as they are now , are to prese: ve th pl e and to pre- vent interference with in recognizes as legal. If the a cers or doorkeepers of that house were to resist your entrance, the officer in command of the troops would be compelled to come be- tween you and them and support them in their resistance against your entrance to the hall. This is my position. While I do not pretend todecide which is the legal house, or who has the right to seats in the house of repre. sentatives, yet as as Chamberiain is recognized by the President as governor, and 80 long as he pizes the republican house, my orders, as I understand them, will be to preserve that house against intrasion or in- terruption. Ihave been severely criticized for ng actions, but you can see very clearly how 1 am situated. While 1 dislike very much to tum back a very respectable body of citizens from the halls of the state yet Tam under orders, and must ob) as J understand them. HE PUTS IT IX WRITING COLUMBIA, 8. C.. Dec. 9—The following has been received by the committee of the democratic house: Columbia, 8. C., Dee. 18th, 15I6—To Hon. F A. Comer and others: Gontiemen of the com- mittec—I have the honor to say fn reply to your inquiries, based upon the resolution of which you handed me a copy on yesterday, that the United States troops in the stste house were placed there hy my order for the urpose of executins such onde he given. and in this connecti with reference to inquiries nambered 6 and 7, that if your body should appear at the state house for the purpose of entering the hall of the house of representatives, and should be refused admission by those having chars: the doors, and such’ persons should apply the officers in commitud of the troops at the state house for assistance noeessary to pre vent your entering, the present orders to the officers would req and Brevet Brig. Gen. § Nothing else has transpired today, that more federal tr ops are en roi place. Everything is remarkably qu er THE GREAT FIRE IN BROOKLYN. Tears for the eo for the ~ New Yorx, Dec. 9—The great funeral of the unrecognized victims of the Brooklyn theater fire, as well as of those recognized whose friends desire them buried by the city, willtake place at 1 o'clock this afternoon. The theatrical profession are making elab- orate arran; for THE FUNERAL OF MESSRS. MURDOCH AND BURROUGHS at the “Litue Church around the corner” to- morrow afternoon. A number of prominent singers, male and femais, have volunteered asa choir for the occasion. The bodies of the two dead actors will be taken to Irving Hall to-day, and lie there until to-morrow. Relief of the Survivers. John T. Raymond has donated $100 to the sufferers, and other contributions are coming to hand. The mayor of Brooklyn has already received $2,000. One of the morning papers fixes the fatalities at 25. THE NUMBER OF DEAD IDENTIFIED is now 231. Twenty-eight of the victims were buried yesterday. morgue still contains a number of bodies not identified, most of which are burned past recognition by features or cloth- ing. Mayor Schroeder. of Brooklyn, recom- mends that business be suspended to-day, otween 1 and 5 p. m., when the faneral pro- cession moves. Murdoch's Body. The Evening Post say ‘he body of Mur- doch, the actor, was discovered this morning in the ruins of the Brooklyn theater, and fully identified by bis costume. The body which was thought to be his because it was So near that of Burroughs must now be placed smong the unknown. @ future meeting. Silver is ‘quoted at 6d. War Tax in Turkey. ViexxA, Dec. 9.— Advices from Constanti- apie mane eats aaa eee ane Ot We peaaans has been levied upon every male between 50 and 60 years of age. Rigs sen hap oe d Ei he i | ; | i | : i af i Swe alge meine wae killed debris, A WINTER STORM. igh Wind. Snow and Bitter (eld. New Yor, Dee. 9.—There was a slight fall of snow and silect bere early thix morn ing, the thermometer falling to near sero. The sors signals are up,and there i # heavy sea in the upper bey. Sandy Hook reports a hurricane INCHES OF SNOW ws, N.Y. Dec 9. Snow fell and if ix still snowing hard. All trains are hate 1G ASWORF. ‘The Cay out serions damage after discharging ber cargo. RITTER COLD WIND. New Yor«, Dec. 9.—The low barometer, which developed over the a lakes Inet night and caused snow to fallovera largearea. of country. has heen foreed rapidly eastward over northern New York, the lower takes and Canada, and is followed by bitter sold Meather and high winds to the westward. The high wind reached New York at 5a.m., and hasaveraged between thirty and forty miles an hour since that Ume. The highest gust being 3 miles. The wind at 1 a at Sandy Hook, reconted 73 miles an hou sxow 1s reported this morning at the following sta- Albany, Boston. Bur fale, Burlington, Erie. Grand Haven. Hali fax, Ottawa. Montreal, Port Huron, Parry Sound, Rochester and Sungean PRERATORE am follows. aow enridge 2: Milw: 15, Keot st in. 3: 1 0. 6 borg, 3. Cleveland, 2. Zere Haven. Abe re jiladelphia, 12; Buffalo, 10. - FRENCH MUDDLE. The Political Situation Serions Parts, Dec. 8 > political situation ix considered very serious. There ix now a di rect conflict the left and President Me Mahon > latter is axserted to be in- fuenced by js which. though not re- uctionar unfavorable to the republi- cans, and is resolved , While the lef are equally resolved cry their kdeas. A state of feeling exists which renders compromise y dificult. The Repr Branceiae expresses the hope that the president will make an tnitiatory advance towants the majority of the Cham ber of Deputies, and points out the <ilem Which exists, fh either the ¢ adopts the programme of the chamb ters Up@p a struggle with the must lead to a dissolution.” Republique Francaise adds : ion by the majority because it knows that the country will be on it«side.” fro! > present cabinet will be main- tained in its entirety, ex ‘ing that M. Jales Simon will replace M. de Marces as minister of the interior. It ts said that President Mac- Mahon has approved of this combination. ‘The Conference. A dispatch from Berlin to the Pall Malt ette says Gen. Ignatieff has proposed that the Marquis of nalebvory yeos je a” the con- ference of the powers, Turkish repre- sentatives are reported to have objected, on the ground that diplomatic usages assigns the presidency to one of them. ——_o—_— ELECTION BETS OFF. __ & Geed Thing fer New YoRK, Dec. 9—Nearl, refunded yesterday by John Morrissey, on bets the Presideney declared off. «4 num- ber ot the larger bets were withdrawn by mutual consent, under the arrangement pre- viously made by Morrissey, but it ts probable nd gu than €500,000 BULL remain in his ands. 100.000 wax Gold New York, Dec. 9—Gold opened at M7 y, the lowest point reached since the war, excepi in November, 1873, when it sold at 10 oe —_ ollersbip 3 The Markets. Dec. ¥—Va. sixes, deterred. 6. Va. dy second series MQ. North Carolina the con! Barrinone ing, 12 uged. Wheat firm and quiet ; light supplies berk qniet and January tine, Tad), West RK mK. Dec, ba. 0 + auil end a at) 2 —Stocks dull and Exchange, long, #2; she wer prices mar quiet and mur aid deckining. “Gorn dull Der. 9 1290 and the lower co for mor M46: IGT». 10 Fre Worn Worth is i Parisian d again—with a spirited this time. He had. after a fall fortnight's © tiltation and an iudefin- ite deal of assisiance on the lady's part, de- signed a toflet of toilets, magnificent, unique. Not long a ‘wards the Cuchess, while at her milliner’s. was surprised rather than pleased to discover displayed on Une anilh- ner’s sofa the exact duplicate of ber costume, the same shades, the same trimmings, Ca i thing. The milliner also patronize’ Wi > patrician, furious, sent wont to M. Worth that she did not want the dress; be returned reply that ithad been ordered and exeented according to onler, and must be accepted. Thercupon the duchess took a fear- ful revenge. She wrote to M. Worth: «1 shalltake and pay for the dress, bat not wear it. Isend youthis by my cook; you Will be so goud as to alter the costume Fr» that it will fi." And now that cook on ber day out appears in one of Worth’s most ex- quisite creations, and the cream of the joke is that the blow has been effectual, “and Es thinks himself disgraced.—j Boston feral AN ANECDOTE OF ROTHSCHILD. —A French pamphlet hee this story of Baron Rothschild: “During the troubles of 1848, the great financier was one morning at work when two citizens, very dirty, but burning with the ardor of frateraity, and armed to the teeth entered his study, to which a stately butler had in vain attempted to bar the way. ‘Well, gentlemen, what can I do for you?’ dema Rothschild. This,’ they briefly replied, «yon have millions.’ The starve. You must share with us,or —— the ‘Thirty millions” «An uation. Divide 150 by 80, and you Every person will then be franes of my property. for you tw: 2 y cries: “that’s too “Well, say the ist of July.” “No. Putdown‘may be imme- diately.’ The ietot July fF te ly’ is any time. French