Evening Star Newspaper, August 6, 1877, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. | PUBLISHED DAILY, Except Sunday, | AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, sY ‘The Evening Star Newspaper Company. 8. HK A UFFMANN, Pree’t. pect tee cmcmat EVENING STAR ts served by carriers to Fo ws at Ten Cents per week, or Forty- i Cents per month. Cipies at the counter, Fro Cenis each. maul — poste Bixty Cents a month; one year, 86. Tar WerKLy StTAa—published m Priday— | 2 8 year, postage prepaid. K mubscriptums twwartahly i advanes. he SEW BUILDING ASSOCLATION—The per demand at fair prices, vestme al oud eee fr i JOHN BE. THOMPS! N 000 K, Secretary THK NKW RIGGS MARKET, P street between Mth apd 15.b strests, will be opened to the be, SATU BDAY. Avgust sth. at So clhoct Bm. and the regalar market days thorcafter will be TERED AMICRSDAY. wa a SATURDAY MORNINGS ang?im___ And SATURDAY N SP, SPECIAL NOTICE.—ail goods tort _witn i bas been advanced t 2, sud is overdue be taken out or the will be sold after ten days from or pudlic auction, awe . the money 8 ¢ 20., Commission Brokers, ug! it corner 10 hand D FRUIT pad the usnal fare . Terminus of ex- 90 sm, The we ZAWATOGA WATER ONLY 15 CENTS A BOTTL From the Usisbrated Hathorn Spring W. 8. TRUMPSON, Pharmacist, wry? 703 sth street. GENU CONGRESS WATER i a From the Oristral Spring SARATOGA, Fiftecn Cents per Boitle, HATHOBS WATE ce MILB PHARMACY, ae, near Willard AN, Dentist ew YORK AVENUR. as erronecasly Lime? in Trectory fer 1877 Ss MANY WHv ABE SUFFERING from the effects of the warm weather and are debili- are advised by physicians to take moderate whisky twe or three times during the fa little while those who adopt this advica y inereage the number of “drinks” and in sme confirmed inebriates A beverage which will not create this thirst for intoxicating Yguors. and which is intended especially for the Denefit of debilitated persons, whether at home or abroad, is Dr. Schenck’s Sea Weed Tonic. Contain- Ing the juices of many medical herbs, this prepara- ion does not create an appetite for the intoxicating up. The nourishing and the life supporting prop: erties of many valuable nataral prodactions con tained fn It and know edies! men have & Most strengthening influences. A single buttle of the ‘Tonic will demonstrate tts valuable qualities. For debility arising from sickness, over exertion or from any cause wbatever, a wisegisesfui of Sea Weed ‘Tonic taken after meals will strengthen the stomach and create an appetite for wholesome food. To all who sre about leaving ther homes, we desire to say that the excellent effects of Dr. Schenck 's sasonable remedies, Sea Weed Tunic, aud Mandrake Pills, are particularly evideat when taken by thse who are injuriourly aifected by s change of water and diet No person shonid leave home without taking a sup ply of these safeguards slong. Mor sale by all drug- 5 sugl-wfm im tate gist ce uae. YOUNG, SOTABY PUBLIO, ecti7.tt Orrice—Sr. UILDING. PTICIAN. Firs tpremfum awarded to me by the Great World's warts Phinda ted EYEGLAS ian Pebpies, “Also, cn hand's teres o Pet iso, om hand s large SPECTACLES. OPERA GLASSES, MIOBO- "ES and SHADES for the Eyes, &c. Wy OSDERS NEVER CEASE. WRITING WITHOUT INK. THE MIKACULOUS PEN! 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WE WILL MAKB & BEDUUTION OF 10 PEB OENT. OB LOWEST MARKET PRIUES. WE SELL Por Thousand JOISTS, STUDS (medium lengtha)............... 815 OULLE, 12 in. Stock, (best Quality). mee BO VIBGINIa PINE FLOOBING........ .......... 30 WILLET & LIBBEY, Oorner Sixth street and New York arenue, yeu Opposite Northern Liberty Market. M™£s4Min &@ CO. Oorner First street east and Penn. avenue, Have on band the largest and best selection of MARBLE and GRANITE MONUMENTS, HEAD. ever offered for sale south of New York. jy2i-$m* K. WAmD, ‘snd CFeam delivercd at any boar desired M25. coxa resi VP Sybian VEGETABLE DECOOTION! a1 DISEAS! SOROFCLA, ERYSIPELAS, and ail DISEASES mended by eatineat of Baltimore i le Erork & dno EWELL, Agents, Washington. : Rgcat, Georgetown. Peet 3 and Kotew re Ze Northwest cor. Fayette con ‘['HE PEOPLE CONTINUE TO PREFER win QEEIMPROVED 80DA, the NOSTHWESTEES nal revenue, f Che 2%, 50—N®. 7,598 EVENING STAR. Washington News and Gossip. GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.—later- 2,192.58; customs, $405,146.81. SENATOR JONES is still at work oa that Silver report. No CHARGES against Mr. Clarke,are iitect of the capitol, have been filed at tie Laterior depariment. Tur U.S STEAMER MAYFLOWER, with the cadet engineers on board, left New York barbor Saturday for Coid Springs. MR. W. H. Ropcers, the President’s pri- vate secretary, has gone to Gettysburg. He will return on Wednesilay. AT THE WHITE Hovse.—Among the call- ers at the White Hot today were Gov. Waiker, M. C., of Virginia, and Goy. Dennt- son, District Commissioner. PHILADELPHIA is, by an order issued from the Treasury, designated as the port from which imported goods can be shipped in bond to the Dominion of Cauada. MR. ADOLF CLuss denies that he has made any charges against Architect Clarke of the Capitol, and the statement that he did so is an impudent lie in all its details; that he has not spoken to Secretary Schurz for months and never on the subject of Mr. Clarke’s re- ™ oral, or about the Capitol grounds or we buliding. PERSONAL.—' city. his home in North Caro °T. B. Sanders, Assistant Chief of the Customs Division of the Treasury, has returned to Washington from a brief visit to New Eng- land, bringing back with him one of the fairest of the Old Bay State’s fair daughters, to be henceforth known as Mrs. Sanders. RESIGNATION.—Juige B. F. James, for many years a principal examiner in the Patent office, has resigned. It is understood that bis resignation was enforced on account of charges affecting his moral character. The friends of Judge James assert that he Will be able to prove the utter falsity of the accusations against him, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Patents and the Sec- retary of the Interior. THE MILITARY IN THE Diplomatic SERVICE.—Gen. Badeau, cousul general to London, upon being relieved from the office of consul there, will begin to draw the pay of a full captain in thearmy. This is under decision of the Attorney General, which declares that retired army Officers do not for- feit their right to receive their retired by entering the diplomatic service, and that, vpon retiring from the latter service, they acain draw pay as military officers. The precedent was set in the case of Gen. Sickles. No AcTION has yet been taken by the War department towards returning the federal troops recently ordered to different points in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Missouri, Maryland and elsewhere to the posts occupied by them before the labor troubles commenced, and it is not _—— that the troops will be re- moved from these localities for some time to come, the government being able to provide for the army atone point just as weil as at another, and there being ample facilities for the maintenance of the troops in the states above mentioned. GEN SHERMAN ON THE BIGHORN Coun- TRY.—The Secretary of War has received a letter from Gen. Sherman, dated on the Steamer Rosebud, Big Horn river, Jaly 25, giving an account of his visit lo the new military post in the forks of the Big and Lit- tle Horn, and conveying his impressions of artery | the couniry. The most important point in his letter is his statement the country West of this it country,and will rap- idly fill up with emigrants, who will in’ the next ten years build up community as a as capable of self-defeuse as Col- orado.”” THE GREED OF THE RAILROADS.—A spe- Cial dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazetie from this city says: “There is conside.- able comment in administration circles upon the fact that the railroads which were substantially prevented from de- struction by tne intervention of the fed eral government are making such haste to present bills to the government for the transportation of troops. One old officer, to jnre | Whose efforts, by the confession of a railroad company, at least $1,000,000 were saved, says that ben — is ewe of ‘nomareas agers of the corporation whose property he rescued from destruction. They have, he says, been grinding their employes for years, and now they seek to gri the gov- ernment for having protected their prop- erty.” THE LABOR QUESTION IN THE MESSAGE, A gool portion of the President's message, upon the reassembling of Congress, will be cevoted to a consideration of the labor ques- t on. it is Known that at the numerous Cabi- net meetings beld within the past two weeks Usis subject bas in several instances been discussed to the exclusion of all other mat- ers. Several mem of the Cabinet are known to be in favor of the passage of a law providing for the organization of a commis- sion, which shall have a due regard for the interest of all concerned—producers, mer- chants. railroad employes and capitalists— so that on any question a fair compromise may be effected. A member of the Cabinet, th @ recent conversation, spoke of this plan, aud argued that Congress has the right to yass such a law under the clause of the con- stitution authorizing that body to reguiate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states with the Indian tribes. He further argued that the theory uw which our government is founded is one of compromise. He thought Congress in tts wisdom would devise a x manner for the appointment of this commission, so that it sLould pot be open to undue influences, but pom composed of persons representing al! in- erests. THE GRIEVANCES OF W. B. MoorE.— Wm. B. Moore, who was at one time the su- }ervising special agent of the Treasury de- f pcigemene undertakes in a column and a pa to show that if article in @ morning pa) bis removal from office gauon by him of the account lector of the port of Norfolk, who is a de- faulter to the government, is calculated to impair the efficiency of the public service and Gefeat the ends of jastice. Moore as- sumes that he discovered the deficit in the 3 it unpaid, aud it was only after bir shortcomings were discovered by the ex- fn Ding officers of the byes department. It is alleged that Moore is a chronic gram- bler, with a desire to make charges against public officers without siving due weight to the truth. Jt ig said that he wrote several letters to President Grant recom: ing, the dismissal of 16 prominent officials in the ftom solely because he (Moore) con- ceived unfounded idea that the persons = bin — for decapitation were un. friendly to him. In the charges made by Moore against Boynton, no one in this community wil believe that Gen. B., in causing to be published one or two of the many letters Moore wrote President Grant, ever put htm- sei! In @ position to warranteven the suspt- cion that he desired to blackmail Mr. Moore, and the ridiculous he wanted a that large sum of money to a his silence scarcely needs a den: Gen. Boyaten ts now ai Rye Beach, N.H. He has been ad- viscd by telegraph of the substauce of Moore's ‘published statement, and he is abordantly able to defend himself, as he willin own way. Moore. it secms, has a grievance against Special it Tingle, becaase he has the snepieion Tingle forced him | to secure his place. The truth is that Tingle | a @ word to Sbermao before the latter sent for him to give him his Mn. A. B. MULLETT denies positively that be had anything todo with the preparation Or presentation of the charges against Archi- tect Clark. and that all the knowledge he has of the matter in any shape or form comes from what he has seen published. DAILY REPORT BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING.—Deliveries August 4, 187 To the Comptroller of the Currency—Na- tional currerey notes, $237,000. Low sion— Four per cent. coupon conaais, © miscellaneous, $3,006 Total. i Balance on hand at clove of day’s work, $185, 069,750. SECRETARY SCH URZ DISPOSES OF ONE OF GAIL HAMILTON'S EMBROIDERIES —Secre- tary Schurz returned this morning from Summit, New Jersey, where he spends a Saturday and a Sunday once a fortoigh: With his children. A reporter called upon him to interview him in connection with the statement of Gail Hamiiten, that W. H ble, of Pa., had paid him $1,500 for re- ating the same speech three times in a campaign In Pennsylvania, and that be “put in his pocket« thousands of dollars,” asked from committees for speaking ‘n political campaigns. Mr. Schurz replied that the Kemble story was utterly false and ridievlous, as everybody who Knows any- thing abont political campaigns would un- derstand at once; that since 1856 he has been active in thirteen campaigns, state and national, from two weeks to four months at atime—an average of six to seven weeks; that in most of these campaigns he paid the bulk of bis expeases out of his own pocket, sometimes when he could ill afford it and to the utter neglect of bis private affairs; that years ago, at times when he was unable to do so, he had. as under the circumstances everybody else did, to aecept compe i- sation for traveling and other inciteatal expenses, or decline campaign work; that the aggregate this eompensa- tion 80 received every quarter fell far ,short of the actual expense by him incurred; that he thus gave to those campaigns not only his labor and time, amounting to little less than twenty- four solid months, and a not incon- siderabie amount of money also; that therefore the Geil Hamilton story about the Kemble payment and the thousands of dollars Mr. Schurz put in his pocket is grossly false as to facts and conclusioas; and that inasmuch as Gail Hamiilton’s state- ments have repeatedly been shown to be utterly wild and entitled to nocredit, he now beforehand declines to be interviewed agi concerning her stories, or whatever she may set forth. of from A SUBMERGED CITY—S/rance Discovery by Divers in Lake Geneva —A strange discovery is reported from the Lake of Geneva. A tourist bavi. lost his trunk, two divers were employed to search for it. While they were below water they found what they sup- | oon to be a village, since covercd by the lake. Their statements led to an investiga- tion of the spot by the municipal auihorities, who took measures to ascertain the trath of the eacraordinary account of the divers. On covering the placid surface with oil, these latter were able to distinguish the plan of a town, streets. squares, and detached houses Marking the of the lake. The ruddy hue which characterized them led the observers \osuppose that the buildings had been cov- ered with the famous vermillion cement which was used by the Celts, Cimbri, and the early Gauls. ere are about 200 houses arranged over au oblong surface, near the middle of which is aspace more open, sup- to have been used for public assem- lages. At the eastern extremity lies a large square tower, which was taken for a rock. A superficial Investigation seems to indicate that the construction of these buildings dates from tome centuries before our era. The council of Vaud has decided to have the site of the dwellings enclosed by a jetty stretch- ing from the land, and to drain off the water, 80 as to bring to light what promises to be one of the most interesting archeological evens of our day. ondion Daily Tele» groph. ACTURE OF PAPER FLOUR BARRELS is one of the new and growing in dusiries of Wisconsin. Tnese barrels are made from straw-paper pulps, which 1s ran into mokis in the shape of half barr:ls and subjected to great pressure. Tne ends are made in the same way, and #o perfectly does the machine do its work that any piece ina barrel may be substituted for a similar one. The barrels have an average thickness of three-sixteenths of an inch, and are very light’ Their advantage over other barrels ae found in their lightness, durability and cheapness, for they will not cost athini of the ordinary price. Moreover, the grooves fit so perfectly that no floar is lost by sifting through in transportation, and thus a certain percentage is saved. THE IMPERIQHABLE | 0LORADO BEETLE. A wag, whodeseribed use potato beetle at Cologne, as crawling off the field after it had been burned over with petroleum, and com- Jaining of the heat, appears to have been a istorian rather than a joker. A Vienna letter to the London Economist a ‘The burning ofa ito field at Muhiheim, on the Rhine, wit the view of destroying the Colorado beetle, which had been discovered on it, bas not been quite effectu: After the burning, an expert examined the field, and by digging lower found that numérous stocks of @ and larva had been left un- touched by the fire. Since it has been found that burning the plants with petroleum and sawdust is insufficient, it has been pro; that be ene should be dug up with plow, and then be set on fire.” fh ed Sap DEATHS oF Two LITTLE Grats.— While the militia returning from the strike were sing the Colonade hotel, Philadel- ja, Sunday Leos Mamte Crump, aged 1 years, a daughter of the proprietor of that hotel, was Lemighon | the soldiers from the fifth story window, and leaning out of the win- dow she lost her balance, fell to the pave- ment, and was instantly Killed. nanie Brookman, 9 years old, recently fell from the stone bridge in Camberland. Md., across Wills creek, a distance of 25 feet, receiving probably fatal injuries. PAPER BARREL MAKING.—Tne manu- facture of paper flour barrels is one of the new and growing Industries of Wisconsin. These barrels are made from s'raw-paper rap Sais is run into moulds in the shape of if barreis and subj and 80 iy the machine do its work that any piece in a barrel may be e:b- stituted for a smaller one. The barrals have an average thickness of three-sixteenths of an inch, and are very light. DEATH OF MARSHAL VON STEINMETZ.— Field Marshal General Charles Frederic von Steinmets died last Friday night of heat disease at the baths at Lamleck in Silesia. Marshal De Stelometz was a promineut general of the German empire. In the war ‘with Austria, in 1366, he a inent part, and besieged Metz im August, 1770. A WoRTHLEss HuSEAND in Chicago was deserted by his wife, who took with her their three children, intending to return to Ger- mai He telegraphed to New York Satur- ben arrest heras a kidnapper. The woman an were Fivalat Nee York, but will aoattles bs ew ya dismissed without trouble” 9" i ee Coin COUNTERFEITER AERESTED. — Thos. Bailey and Chas. R. rested in Cincinnati yesterday counterfeit twenty-five and On searching their zinc and other metal, etc., were secured. ANOTHER RAILROAD IN TROUBLE.—A bill in equity to compel the a; Nntment of three receivers forthe Ogdensburg (N. Y.) for passing sin: afy cant’ pce ee ® quantity of with dies, plates, casts, rallroad was filed at Portland, Me., 8: day, by the drat mortgage vondholders and - of the Joint consol: mortgage trus- ————— eee BURGL ARS entered the store of G. A. Ainsworth and J. B. Gray at Cape Vin- cent, New York, Saturday, blew open the safes ard obtained money and valuable yapers. They then took E. K. Burnham's Loree and buggy and escaped. A St RONG feeling seems to be arising be- tween the Liberians and anti-Liberians in nth Carolina, the former charging the ~ with being bought up by white men, et the latter charging the former with being CONVICTED BORGLARS.—Eiward N. Robinson and Michael Mui a New York 3., on Monday last. for robbing Pulllin's dey the state prison for three years. without ballow mean La ‘Pha. Press, i mon- anarchy.— ‘The Labor Strikes. THE TURBULENT MINERS. The running of trains has been fully re-es- lished throughout the length and breadth of the land. There is still some troable in the coal regions of Pennsylvania, but this ——_ from turbulent miners and not om the railroad employes. The Pennsyl- vania state militia bave been for the most part relieved from duty, but detachments of U.S. troops are still qua iered at Serantoa and Wilkesbarre, and will remain there until the miners resume work. Goy. Hart. ranit has left the coal regions and has es- tablished his headquarters at Pittsburg. The miners at Scrantou, Pa., bave determined to demand 25 per cent. increase of wages, and there is no prospect that they will abaadou their demands, GOV. CARROLL GOING TO RAISE THE CANAL BLOCKADE. All the obs ructious to ratiroad traffic in Maryland being at Gw. cengiens ge ned proposes to open the Chesapeake and Quio tanal, whieh bas been blockaded by striking boatmen More than a mouth. The governor will use Whatever forse may be necessary to effect this objec. T.e Sia Maryland regt- ment, which has been ander arms since the 20 of Jaly, has been relieved from duty for the presetit, but the regiment is under marching orders, and it is suppose that it will proceed to ‘Sir Jon's Raa, the point at whieh the canal is blockaded, ifaay Tesistance is Offered to the civil aathorities. THANKS TO THE SECKETARY OF WAR. The Secretary of War hes received @ letter from the comittee of public safety at Pitt burg, Pa.,thanking him for his joa dur- ing the recent t bles. Tney also urge that @ large force be hereafter stationed at the Allegneny arsenal. The letter bas been re- ferred to the ad jutent general. STKIKE IN QUEBEC. Alloft the stonecutters on ue new Parlia- ment buildings, at Quebec, Canada, have struck. The coutractors decided 10 pay twenty cents per foot tustead of a dollar and a half per day. The men demand forty cents, which they claim is about equal to their present wages. COL, SCOTT'S THANKS. Col. Thomas A. Scot, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Uompany, bas is- sued a card of thanks to the loyal employes of the road for the mauner in which they withstood intimidation. The eard conclades as follows: “Your interests are identical with and inseparable from those of the com- pany. As you now share in the adversity conseqwent upon the universal depression and stagnation of business, you will be equally sure to share in the prosperity which 1 con 11s the company interests of we country In the early future. KILL¥D BY LIGHTNING.—The Loaven worth (Kansas) Conmeonwealth bas the follow- ing account of the killing of a mother and three of her children by ligutning: “On Fri- day, July 2, about 4 o'clock in the after- roon, @ dark, angry-looking cloud rose sud- denly in the west, and moving with great velocity, swept across the country from the Saline as far south as we have been able to bear from. Directly in the track pursued by a tevele port on of the cloud, a gentleman by the name of I. P. Barnett, lately from Ne- braska, but originaliy from Alabama, had o1.Jy the day before selected a claim on the headwaters of Cole Creek, and erected a tem- porary booth, into which he had moved his jamily. During toe prevalence of the storm the booth was struck by lightning, instantly killing the mother and three children, and se- verely stunning the father and the remaining three children, who, up to this writing, (10 a. m. Saturday, 28ub,) have not yet fully recov- ered.” AROUND THE WORLD IN SIXTY-EIGHT Days.—Dr. DeHasse, American consul at Jerusalem, writes to an Omaha paper giving the detatis of his tour around the world in the remarkable quick time of sixty-eight days. The journey from Alexandria, Egypt, via Brindisi and Paris to Londoa, and thence to New York and San Francisco, was ac- complished in twenty days, just the same namber of days going from a Francisce to Japan. The crossing to Canton, in China, took six days. A sail of ten days over the China sea and through the Strait of Malacca brought bim to Ceylon, and twelve more dass to Suez, in Egypt. and thence, a few hours by rail, to Alexandria, his starting point, making the entire distance of 25,000 miles—16.00) by water and 9,000 oa land—in sixty-cight days, without any accident or “etent‘on of any kind. He had better luck than Phin eas Fog; MILITARY SITUATION IN CuBA—The In surgents Sta Hold the Port—Ramors are car- rent in Havana that Joveilar will resign and be suceeded by Gen. Elanco. Gen. Martinez Campos bas sent dispatches to the klag ex- plaining the situation of the campaign, and Sta!ing that the insurgents ar» so well sup- lied with information by spies, and their ilities for disbanding when pursued are such that it takes five hundred soldiers to look after ten insurgents. Gen. pos therefore reqaires fifty Lhousand more troops to crush the insurrection. Campos further Says the insurgents will only surrender on receiving thelr independence, id recom- mends the Spanish government to adopt one Proposition or the other. « WHO was SuE?—A_beantiful woman closely veiled called this morning at the morgue and asked to see the body of James Murphy, the young gambler who committed suicide yesterday in a gambling house on 28th street. She was els tly dressed, and 3 her whole a, ance indicated a lady of re- finement. The body repared, and she Was conducted to it. She lifted her veil, and looked long and lovingly upon the lifeless form and then broke out in tears. The laty’s name and her connection with the case are unkoown, but a romance is suggested. It 1s said that @ purseis being made up at the Sturtevant house, where the young man led, to defray bis funeral expenses. —( NV. ¥. Express, ith Mount VEsv .— Italian: ‘e nousu- ally excited about Mount Vesuvius; and strange stories are told of the sounds emitted from ifs interior, which are likened to the roar of a disturbed sea, amid whica ts dia- lnguished a crackling as of many burning logs of wood. These noises are heard, tt is said, at a distance of two miles from the era. ler; and fears have been expressed lest a con- tinuous discharge of lava should effect a ‘Sage which would place the observatory n danger. Some thirty persons, ladies in- cluded, tnake a nightly aseent of ‘the moun. tain Fel raced the magnificent apectacie pr-- sented. THE Coming Eciipse.—A partial eclipse Of the sup will Coe Gees August 8. It will te invisible bere. Imost he who can get a fair vi in~ habitants of Alaska, the middle of the eclipse occurring near the sunset at Sitka. The shacow starts on the earth high up on tbe eastern coast of Greenland, and crossing thal peninsula goes westward thence some- w bat in the track of what polar navigators bave designated as the‘‘nortawest passage.” Afier Alaska is reached the sweep is more southesly, and the shadow ends inthe Pa- cific ocean. A THOUGHTFUL SUICIDE.—It is not every suicide who is as tfal as Mr. Jeaa Baptiste Marius, the old wine seller of New York, who took laudanum Saturday and went—in his own language—to “see what going on in the other world.” Mr. Marius covsiderately put off bis act for tweaty days io order toequare up the month's rent, left money In his ket to me bis luaches during the week, seu! fairs, aad apologized handsomely to his landiord for tue trouble he was about to make him. A NEGRO WoMAN MouRpgas HER CaIL- DREN:— Rhoda Robinson, a negro woman who was conspicuous in the triai of Rafus them was that she rent to tiary Where Fisher is confined, he having been sentenced for fifteen years.—{ ‘k ( Va.) Indez. AN IMPOUNDED BRIDEGZ00M.— James ONeill, who is very against the wishes of his tained D. C.. MONDAY, AU GUST 6, 1877. oening Star. WASHINGTON TWO CENTS The Russian “Ball Ran.” RESULT OF THE DEFEAT AT PLEVNA. Further particu are receivel by cable Of the late unfortanate operations of the Russians in Turkey In Eorope, their present condition, with qpecnlationsas, to their plaos and prospects. The prominent fact is with- out question that the Russiaus have bee. sharply checked, and have now very mue to do before their campaign in Bulgaria ant Roumelia can make any progress. Aa impe- rial ukase has ordered the imme !iate mob: ization of the entire corps of the Imperial Guard and seyera! ojher divisions. The major portion of the Imperial Guard aud some of the divisions are to join the army 11 Bulgaria withoutdelay. Ths remainter of the pewly mobil'zed troops go to reinforce the army ofthe Caucasus. Avother ukase, signed by the Czar at Biela, Jaly 2?, orders & levy of 188,600 of the landwehr. The levies meet with general enthusiasm. It is re marked that the matter bas now been turas! into @ matter of life or death for the Rus- slaps, aod that the Turks will be crushed {f there 1s power in Rossia to crush them. Later dispatches make very certain the oc cupation of Selvi by the Tarkish for which, it is said, exposes T raova, and co i Sequently the Ba'kan passes. Taney seem tc have taken the place unoppoved. THE VICTORIOUS TURKS. A Times correspondent, who left the Rus- sian camp before Plevna’ on Thursday, says the Russian advance guard is within six | miles of Plevna. The main boty oceuples a strong position nine miles farther east, on 4 range of bills ranning | south. Strong reinf reached Gen. Krud to resist any offensive movement of Osn Pasha. The Russians have sufferet a disa: | trous check, but that is all. Later accounts from Asia Misor report a’ advance with much apparent contiden Gen. Melikot?'s army along almost the en line. CHARGES OF USSIAN RARRARITY Aristarehi Bey Turkish mintater to this country, communicates the conteats of | a circular from the Porte, calling the atten- lion of “the civilized world” to new acts of barbarity committed by the Rassians in the cities and villages invaded by them. Among other atrocities, 1t is charged in the cirealar that having “met three hundred carts filled with fugitive families, they destroyed them With cannon shots, and then completed their work by massacrei»g all the menand women in every suburb or village” occupied by their troops. A later dispateh received at the embassy declares the report that the Rus- sian wounded were killed on the battle field at Plevna to be wholly false. Lost oN THE PLAtNs.—A telegram has been received at San Autonio, Texas, from Fort Concho to the effect that three soldi belonging to a scouting party hal come in that post and reported Captain Nicholas Nolan, Lieutenant C, L Cooper and twet.ty- six men as probably lost on the Stakei Plains. The three soldiers separated them- selves from the rest of the scon's jn search of water, for which all were suffering, and they prone tie 4 in finding some. Taney then re- turned to inform their comreies, but found they had scattered in every direction. The soldiers, on their return to ihe supply camp, picked up fourteen men. Tne suppiy cam, on Buell’s iv is one hundred aud forty miles from Concho. Captaia Smithers and Lientenant Stear started out immediately with all available force to hunt for their im- perilled comrades. It ts not certain by any Means that they have perished, but the gravest apprehensions are entertained. Lire’s Ups AND Downs.—Jennie Col- lins’ Buffin’s Bower, at Boston, has hal 1,106 applications for work within a year, and 630 Women were given work; 7,060 dinners were given at the Bower in the winter at a cost of boys Many applicants a work = wives of once prosperous merchants, clergymen, doctors, etc.,and Miss Collins says: Many kind ladies who have hired their servants of me in past years have been obliged to apply tor employment thems lves of late. I sent a ady toa hotel as housekeeper, and the most humiitating part of it wasthat her room was in the attic with two of her former servants. Another ease was that of agirl who learned that ber former mistress was in distress and without a home. She {immediately con- sulted ber husband, and assured the lady that it was her care, instruction and trainin that made her what che was, therefore pw ce to the best that her house a: forded.”? THE CRIME SARAH BECKER Is CHARGED WITH.—Mirs Sarah Becker, of Bern town ship. who is accused of baving locked her newly born infantin a chest, from the effects of which it perished, was brought to Readicg esterday by Detective Graul. Miss Becker is & prepossessing blonde, robust ia health medium in size, and was dressed in a pearl silk. She bad very little to say, and while with the officer was extremely reticent. She came to Alderman Becker's office, and when asked who she was and her business she sim- ply replied that there would be some one there shortly who would transact her busi- ness. Subsequently the alderman commit- ted herin the sum of $2,000. Her counsei, Edwin Sbalter, esq., therefore appeared be- fore Judge Hagenman with the young wo- men,and a further hearing of.the case the ye aelae oaa es to bail.—{ Reading ( Pa,) le. ——____. THE CUMBERLAND Mtvyers’ StRIke.— But one coal company, the Potomac, at Bar- ton, was worked yesierday. It is said there was an pcaarneme ggg poner’ the miners who went to work that if 55 cents should become the ruling rate of the region they should bave that ice, but if not, they should be paid the old rate. viz: 50 cents. Work, as usual, was offered by the companies at 5) cents, but not accepted, and the suspension of work in the region was general, with the exception noted. Such of the companies’ representatives as we bave heard from, em- bracing a large majority, declare their un- willingness to give the advance. Some state that oT Will close up for the season before they will pay it. Altogether, at th!s writing the outlook for the jon is anything but cheerfu L—-{ Cumberland News, ath. Mus. Tu.TON PERFECTLY Hapry.—There is absolutely no truth in the report of a quar- rel between Tilton and Moulto». Theodore has followed the letter’s example in quitting Brooklyn good, there is no proba- bility that he will ever resume his residence there. Mrs. Tilton is very contented, and, as Some one expressed it, 18 ‘‘not only as happy a8 a bird, but lives like @ queen.” Certain it he ier : — O: peed a than peal nis in ec} ug aad abstained from Jewelry, she has biossomed out into colors, and even makes up her face a little. She declares that she was “‘never so happy nor so religious.”—{ New York letter. —————__ SEVENTEEN ProPLY BURNED To DEATH In a Poor Hovuse.—The House on the Industrial Farm of Norfolk county, a mile Es nearly nort and | Telegrams to The Star. THE SWIMMING FOR THE CHAM i PIONSMIP ie Contest in Which One Expert . Fainted in the Sea a New York, Augus: 6Tne swimming for the championship of America and » purse of $250, altracted a I throu Rath Park, near Coney Island, - ag The contests were Thomas Coyle, champion of America, and George H Wade, the long distance champion. At 4% o'clock the swim- mers were taken out to sea two miles and a baf The word was given at 5 o'clock, and the men plunged tnto the ocean. For a’ few seconds they swam side by side. Tnen Wade shot a few feet ahead of Coyle. The waves rolled high and frequently swept over the heads of the swimmers, making them gurgle and sputter, and pass @ hand over thelr eyes to wipe away the brine. In fifteen minutes they were almost half way to the shore. Then the Arrowsmith steamed along. makin; @ great commotion in the water. Coyle ani Wace were caught in the wake ‘of the Steamer, and for @ few minutes were toase:! about like corks. When about two-thinis of the way hundred yards behind Coyie’s low Wade. Saddenty arms ceased to move, and bh head ducked under the water; then be taraei upon bis back and fluated on the surface. face was ce pale, and a man in the steam launches shouted, “My ¢ man has fainted. Take btw * A rowboat was pull wa longyide of they forg Wade is yish in appearance, nineteen years old. He is a Brookiyn: Coyle resides in Phil tbirly- jour years of age. and has years been noted as an expert swimme intends to challenge Wade for the cham ship. ——- — GENERAL FOREIGN NEws. Holiday to Londoa Lonpown, Aug. 6. first Mond: ist being one of the days app» parliament as a bank holt served asa general holiday th united Kingdom. Great Fires in Europe Special dispatches to the Tuncs rapor: thet the village of Garasee, near Marien worder Prussia, bas been yed by fire, and 800 persons’ rendered borneless, ani that- the town of Sundsvall, Sweden, has been almost totally burned. Saved from Famine. CALcuTTa, he latest offictal re- ports epaul, as well as Barmah and Atsam, have had ‘a sufficient raiafall, and are now sale. The Crops i KEOKUK, Iowa, August The Coustitu- tion publishes a complete report of the condi- Lion of the crops throughout the Des Moines: Valley, ext ing from Keokuk to Fort Dodge, from which the following summary is made. Wheat is above the 4 bey and of good quality. Oats will make a heavy yield, and average {rom forty wo sixty bushels. Corn, with a favorable season, will have more than an average crop. Kye and barley, but lite was sown. It is of yield ‘and good quality, ave: ushels per acre. Potatoes are looking Licely; there are the best ucts ever Known. Timothy, there is a fine crop, which will be equal to that of 1576. Flaxseed. there was but little sown, but there will be a good yield; it looks fine. The grasshoppers are plentiful in the northern counties, but are doing no damage. On the whole the prospects are very fattering. ——_s—__—— The New York Grand ry and the Excise La: New York, Aug. 6.—Judge Sutherland, in addressing the grand Jury al the ming of the general sessions today, said that while blood had boen shed in other parts of the country, owing to labor strikes, New York was to be congratulated in having given an example of peace and reason. He said the principa! duty of the grand jury would be ta enforeiny then ,» which has now be- come of paramount importance. Among the i on the grand jury today was that of Jay Gould ing forty rge and Aug. at to-day’s races is fair, and the track isdry Tho first race was for maiden two-year-olds three-quarters ofa mile. The betting was as follows :—Pique, 102 Ibs , 225; Clifton, 195 Ibs. 108; Albert, 105 lbs. Jeb, 102 Ibs., 59, With- ers’ Lexington-Invereauld ily, 302 ibe. 50; Medinger’s Phwton filly. 102 Ibs, 40; Tele phone. 102 Ibs. Fury, 105 Ibs., 20; Mi el's Enquirer, filly, 12 Ibs. was won by Pique ond; Telephoue third. Jersey Sojers How: al EvLizabeta, N. J., ‘August @0 C, the last of the militia from this place, came home from New Brunswick at noon to- mpany y. They are not dismissed, but await or- ders atthe armory. An attempt was made on Saturday to burn the bridge they were guarding, butthe fuse wentout. If not dis- missed company expects to be ordered to Port Jonnson to protect the docks. ———e—_—_ Labor Reform Confereace. Farr Point, N. Y., August 6.—A labor reform conference was held at 9.30 o'clock this morning, and the various features ef the labor question discussed. Key. Dr. Warren, of Philadelphia, lectured at 11 o'clock ou “The Forces of a Sunbe: Ww Street To-day. New York, August 6—The /’o financial Says: Gold opened at 105%, and every sale since has been at that price. Exchange is about Study, with #84 5 a%, the range for first - class bankers @ days bills, and #8548485 the range for the same class of demand bills. Tne »sted or nominal rates are respectively 456;,a487. In the money market the quota- tion forcall loans is 2a2);. Prime mercantile [awed ranges from jaty. Goverument is are \ higher than at the close on Saturday for 6's. and ¥ lower for the 4i’s; otherwise there are bo changes. The stock market opened as, higher than it closed on Saturday, the latter St. Paul Cyeeryte and Morris and Essex. Dai rst halfbour the general list advanced \ 1, the latter Western Union Tel ‘ the next half hour there was a « <, the latter also Western Union, Dela’ Lackawanna and Western and North ‘Weatern Union Telegrap, im Revues nion * in Common. % in Lake Bhiore ahd Rock Islnd. and x in New York Central. Since then the whole list has declined ya2\, the latter Del- ware, Lackawanna and . | Dela- ware and Hi %, Morris & Essex and Western U: x €ach, and No Batriwoag, August ttzva, - ‘ait Teftietss seccmne bid to-day. Brest 01 = middling, 1%" Floar duli pot ard street and western ; do. extra, 6 00a .00; do. family. 7. . Sins Fainpece tammy 9 3574 low: southern ‘red,’ good to Sam i ioe ieee a8, 14ik; 60. Bept., earls ane ety, wottere, firm—eouthera i 3 Sas et September Goie emntnnas, Bakes sce and, sieads— southern soccer = = #1043; do a ates a os: Penner a SR eeeaed aad = J 4 H: Hy : | 4 5 I tne rom the starting part Coyle was one | Coel Advice. The present reason openel in England With some extremely hot weather, the ther- Mometer in London stand for several | days at 92 degrees in the shad were fall of advice to the public as to how to keep cool. Some of their suggestions we borrow; they may be found timely by our | readers before the t dog-day season ix cut. We have so little really hot weather in this country that, although we make « digious fu°s while it lasus, the serious ele- | ments Of injury t the bealth whieh it tn- | volves are bot fully appreciated. They un- derstand tbese things beter tu the eqaator*al ons. An Englishman or American in the West or Hast Indies or China, who should walk abroad with the thermometer at 100 degrees fn the sun, with bis neck un- protected, would be considered crazy. And et that is what we do in this country | without hesitation. When the thermome- | ter rauges above eighty degrees in the | shade the impact of the sun's rays is positively and directly injarious to the covstitution, producing physical deterio- rations which may affect it for life. ot only are the effects of a sunstroke perma. nent and liable to reappear on hot days even | in a cold climat-, but there are also various minor degrees of injury from the san. not re cognired a+ strokes, which nevertheless pro | duce life-long consequences, one of which is @ peculiar liability to be affected by aleabol It is not the beat but the light of the san which produces these effects, for a good um- is brella prevents them abroad on hot « umbrella a« storms. Two times do the mi e man whe ng days should carry carefally as he does on seconds Of exposure wil! som: tef. Water drink! patton is vce the instinctive aud oan- doubtedly one of the most effectual protec: ions against the effects of at All the tropical races are prod igion or drinkers Bul water when drank the beat of thr body reduce the heat of water set in an apartme ble effect of this sort ficial surfac Pans or tabs of have a remarke- large T exposed « e tab of spring w the super - varse tae spen the across | it and drench that with water. tempora- | ture will Instuutly decline. rotracted | hot season a dev) cho n the east to | Secure cool bais. woul be found to re pay in 1 to be particularly Tals is the woven cane and matt st parts of India and Ca | comfort its expeoxe, » useful for invalids cover for pillows used tn the bo’ a The sitica wita which it Is coated never geu warm aud the material remains perfectly dry, cannot become dirty and is as sof ax any bard mattress ther this material tainable ix well as in | London, we cu the luxury of sound sleep in ng beat obtain- able by iis us ay considerable troubie to sect be Danube that the Turks were marching #08 Sistov er Rasstan | Stroy the bridge. aud compromise tie safety j of the Czar. Immediate steps had to be taken. One brigade of the lth corps was in Cearevica, The other brigades of the same corps were forwarded. Dispositions were made with the artillery and lofantry cover- ing the line of the heights frotgcting the line of approach from Nikepolis. The Czar him- self assumed the chief direction of affairs, and is credited by @ correspondent of the London Daily News with perfect coolness and Competent military ability. The seouts sent out broughi back the intelligence that the country in the direction of Nikopolis was quiet, and greasncy G@rrived iuteliigence rom Baron Krudener, commanding the 9th | corps, respecting his #uceess at ) It wes ullimately discovered that th rt clerk bad become confused and alarmed by the noise of firing at Nikopoiis, and concern for the Czar’s safety. A PARALLEL TO THE CAMPAIGN. Although the Rassians the Tarks were constantly at war during the eighteentn cen- tury, only one campaign offers a paraliel to the present military operations. Tae seat of war ay north of the Danube, in the Urimea and Bessarabia, and the Danube was scidom crossed. of 177 in the ——-. 74, how- ever, RomansofM bridged the Dauube near Braila about the middle of June, defeated the Tarks tn the vicinity of 8: listria, and in- vested the fortress. Tne advance of a large force from Shuinla compelled him to raise the siege, and he retreated across the Danube early in July. In October be ned the siege, and sent a colamn in the direction of Varna. His forces were again compelled to Withdraw, owing to the superiority of the Turkish cavairy. In the next year the Rus- sians crossed the Danube at Tartuka!l, which Suwarrow bad captured during the previous summer. The Turks made no attempt to de- fend the line of the Danube, but concentrated their forces at Shumla, leaving strong garri- sons at Rustchuk and Silistria. Kaminski and Suwarrow defeated the Turks im the field, and the grand vizier, almost deserted army, sbut himeelf up in Shumia abd sued for peace. Constantinople was = by the plague then, just as it was in FORTY-SEVEN STARBS.—One of the most terrible murders we ever heard of was com- mitted in the eighteenth disirict of this county on Sunday night. We gathered the following particulars of the affair: Au old gentleman by the name of A. O. Snields was waylaid on that night as he was retarning from me by bis stepson, Alvis Phillips, William Burrass. The assas- sins fired at him, the shot taking effect in the left arm. Mr. Shields ran toward a house y y of citi ~ to town by Constable Hu idle- in jail. Barrass bas not yet The cause o! this murder was gave * ning Phillips was arrested by a zens, brou; stou and lod AN ALL-NIGHT VIGIL . With Swap — Yesterda saorulag, by the 6 o'clock Urania, Mr. H. £. Quinn Mr. C. W. Scnuer- mann . fish commissioners, of Washington, arrived in St. Paul, bring With them 100,000 shad, whieh they re~ Jack- isht al in the Mississippi river at the foot son street. of the changing aw and over the road from here at 6 o'clock ing, and, Without waiting, the train and put ther to! fish. as fare called uarter of en mated hatrs.—;: y FIGHTING EprTors.—Considerable com- ob its iA commercial is & foolirh sogut and common ning in Kaneas in July. 7 Se-The Cossack is said to bea Don good Tellow, after all. and child in Pittsburg in $200 bead. shingle-ar proceeding —{ (A hE ros @7-Mr. Ruskin is somewhat intemperate of Of Fors Clavgera ye ge 67-Gen. Butler arrived at Rockland, on ‘bis yacht America. (wee y