Evening Star Newspaper, August 11, 1877, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. | DAILY, Except Sunday, AT THE STAB BUILDINGS, Pennsylvania Avenue. ceruer 111) street, aY 8. H. UFFMANN, Pree’t. pclae ati ‘TER EVENING STAX ts served by carriers te @ubsor@ers ai Ten Cents week a Forty- Gents each. eats Cents & month; one year, ‘Tax WEEKLY StTAR— on Priday— | Bia year, postage 89 AL subscrip‘ions invariably tn advanes, em Rates of advertising furnished on application. SE SPECIAL NOTICES. CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH Sth and H streets northwest — rt will preach To morrow a. m. at li o'clock and evening at 8 o'clock. LS re © rdially ii <DEL PBIANS CELESRATE 1 Messinh the Son of D vid, m Me Peunaylvania heast, every Sunday at li a.m. Seat free This Eceles’a advocates the ancien! Gospel, tanght by Jesus andhis Aposti-s. We rect the Pazan fiction of the immortality of human s-uls, taughi by theclergy. Wehave uo identity with Gath licten or Protestantism be ioviug them to be an from the Tratn augll MEMBERS OF HickERNIA Ba 0. LENT ASSOCI TION are requested ty meet at their Holi, Ist stres Tani kK », between k ok SUNDAY AFTERNUON attend O Nai, By orser HOLLOHAN. > KNIGHTS TEMCLA 4 — northwest, at 2 o WABBEN Hf ORCUTT, Recorder = NEW BUILDING A tATION ON > Ae : ING AS30CIA- t of dues will be nite Hall, cor 24 and B streets MONTAY BVENIOSG, the 13 bh inet., 1 to be sented for WM wit P. VIFRBUCH EN © tem MARKET, P ty be ~ te pe AY 7 oO oe reguiar m: SUERSDAY. = THCESDAY.ad SATURDAY MORNINGS, sng? m Avd SATUKDAY N = AL NOTICE.—All goods Gs, either on loan or on commissiun, © which money has been advanced thereon, and is overdue the time set the receipts, must be taken ont or the or the same will be sold after ten Ie or pudltc auction, he money. mission Brokers, corner 10 b and D sts. THE GERM*N AMERIOAN SAVINGS BANK. No. G32. F street, comer of 7th only. After first Ueverds received Bale posit Box Trent in ire and Burgiar proof Vanit. at @10. $15, $45 ant Bea year The largeat aud most conventort boxes im the eisy. J733 8.ly Ss SABATOGA WATER, ONLY 15 CENTS A BOTTLE, From the Celebrated Mathorn Spring. W. 8. THOMPSON, Pharmacist, myer 703 1th street. Fifteen Gents per Boltle. HATHORN WATER samo price. MILBUEN’S PHARMAOY, 1489 Penn svenue, near Wtilard’s. myer . McPARLAN. Dentist iF, = came 1340 NEW YORK AVENUE, | Hew Jersey sveuu erroneously p! Boyd's Directory for Ist. ane ly SAMUEL G. YOUNG, NOTARY PUBLIO, Orvice—Stax BUILD 300 YEARS’ RE, BOVER'S CARMELITE ISsSE UTATION. ME CORDIAL: Hau de Melisse des Carmes.) Helieves Apoplexy, Paralysis, Dyspep- sia, Colic, Headache, Indigestion, Faintness, Chills and Fever, &c. eral Depot ai BUYER $, 59 Park Place, New York. FOLD EY ALL PRUGGISTS PTICiaAan. First premium awarded to me by the Great World's Bair to Philade!phias on my inven nd patented EYEGLASS, manufac- in Gold. Stiver and Framei-ss, with geantne Pebbles. Also, on band large variety PECTACLES, OPERA GLASSKS, MIOBO- PES and SHADES for the Eyes, fo. ALEXAND) (Oc tristy 12239 SS ae *. NITED STATES FOUR PER CENT BONDS, Coupon aud Begistered, for ssle ia U. 5.3 GF BONDS. feened in behalf of tho Dis triet falitar D eLA BONDS of various anll-s2tistp of Columbia. fs STRICT OF COLUM ‘p errall lot of WASHINGTON GAS LIGHTCO 8 SCRIP. WIS JOHNSON & CO., Bankers. ogee = Ex we. and 10th street. LUMBER. OUR PRIC LIST. ANOTHER REDUCTION ox WHITE PINE PICKS, Drewed WHITE PINE SECONDS, Dressed. WHITE PINE SELECTS, Dreseed. WE WILL MAKE 4& REDUCTION OF 10 PER CENT. ON LOWEST MARKET PBIOKS. WE SELL Por Thousand JOISTS, STUDS. (medium lengths).............815 CULLS, 12 tn. Stock, (dest QUAlity bene BO VIRGINIA PINE FLOOBING......... 0 BO WILLET & LIBBEY, Oorner Sixth street and New York avenue, wise Opposite Northern Liberty Market. McMEN4MIN 4 Co., Oorner First street east and Penn. avenue, Mave on hand the F.2 ms te 1ILK AND street Bb A ter weal Dear tp PURE Rt aot, ‘sae egtea. bo. Aree ek Fi SOS Che Lvening Star, *, 50—N2. 7.603 _EVENING STAR. _ Washington News and Gossip. GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.—Inter Dal revenue, #337.617.57; customs, $527 72 AT THE WHITE Hovse—Among those who had interviews with the President to- day were Gev. Lew Wallace, Commissioner of Agriculture Le Due, ard Indian Commis- sioner Smith. DAILY REPORT BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING —Deliveries August 10, 18/7: To the Comptroller of the Currency—Na- Uonal currency notes, #2t 500. Loan Divi- sion—Four per cent. coupon consols, £39,000; Tn 'scellaneous, $15,458,860. Total, $19,196,369, Berg hand at close of day’s work, e 10. SECRETARY SCHURZ says members of the Cabinet do not propose to make any politi- cal speeches. He was aske! how about Sec retary Sherman’s intention to speak In Ohio “Ob,” said be, “he will only make a finan- cial speech. 1 would like ta go before ap in telligent audience and address itou the In- dian question.” PFRSONAL.—Lawyer Totten, Mrs. Gen Michler, Mrs. Leonidas Coyle and daughters, d Mrs. Carroll I ity for Rock Enon prings. Mrs. Desford, of New York, ts | there. Mrs. Thompson, the well known nthropist from Boston, is a guest of | Mrs. Briggs (Oliv Maple Square. r Gru ‘ ssissippi; Sevator Jones, | ad €X-Sehator Hiteheock, are | ve Interior ¥ enttoday w ppointment of the proposed commission 1 Sitting Bull and try aduce him to return to the United | Siates. The names of the members of the commission will not probably be announced before Monday next. It ts believed that Gen. Crook will be the Commissioner on the part of the War department. LOOKING AFTER THE P. M’s.—The Post- master General has issued a card, to be post. ed conspicuously in post offices, asking the public to report promptly to the chief special agent, Post Office department, at Washing- ton, D. C., all losses of letters and irregular- ities in the service generally. A elrouiar is addres-ed to the postmasters at the same time requiring prompt reports of all losses made to them, and thata record be kept of all complaints. SECRETARY SCHURZ IN THE LATE PRES- IDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.—Assistant Sscretary McCormick, in reply to an inquiry as to Mr- Schurz’s relation with the National Repuh- l'cau Committee in the Presidential cam- paign of 1% 6,says explicitly that during that period Mr. Schurz neither asked nor received irom the committee one dollar for lis ser- vices. When it was offered him to pay his traveling expenses he replied that he pre- ferred bearing them himself, and he did bear them throughout the campai! THE SWATARA, under the new command- er, M. Sicard, was in busy preparation iast evening to leave for Hampton Roads. A visitor to the ship found the sailors just at mess, 16 in @ group, dipping their coffee from a large pail, and eating their hard tack and meat, if they had avy of the latter saved from diuner. They were all in white uni- forms, and number 295 mi Lieuc. Totten complimented the good behavior of the crew under the new officers, and the spirit with which they joined the battalions which were ordered to Baltimore. The Swatara has the prospect of a cruise to uorthern and eastern ports. P NAVAL ORDERS —Captain Jas. A Green, to command the training ship Constitation, at League Island, on the 15th instant; Lent. Commander Charles F. Schonitz, to ceiving ship Coloraio, at New Y executive. Detached—Captain Ste: Luce, from the command of the B the 218i instant, and granted le: sence for one month; Captain James A. lis, from the ead f yard, New York, pstant, and placed on waiting orders; Cap tain Henry A. Adams, fro tue commando the training ship Constitution, ou the lun instant. and ordered tocommand the Hact- ford on the 2ist instant. Passed Assistaut Surgeon Charles L. Cassin has reporiel his retnyn home. having been detached from the F-olie, South Atlantic station, on ist June last, and has been placed on waiting orders. Su«ilmaker Samuel H. Boutwell, U. 8. navy, bas been detached from the receivi Franklin, at Norfolk, Va ,and orde U.S. ship Plymouth, at Alexandria, Va. THE INDIAN INVESTIGATION. — ington dispatch to the New York 7: Last June Secretary Schurz appointed a commission to investigate certain charges against Mr. Galpin, chief clerk of the Indian bureau, as well as the general management of the office named. Tais commission still ho'ds Gatly sessious, and bas already taken several thousand pages of testimony. Its meetings are secret, but it can be stated upon trustworthy a@uthority that the greater part of Lhe ev dence thus far heard is simply un- important departmental seandal retailed by disebarged employes who were removed for irregularities. Tous far the only practical result of the investigation has been the dis- seal of Mr. S. 8. Hayden, a second class lerk, who bad been in the office 2 years. It ts said that Commissioner Smith bas assar- a * that no evidence has been elicited which reflects upon him personaliy or = his general maLagement of bis oific=. Tne case of Mr. Galpin has to some extent been | lost sight of In the press of other matters, but it is now thought that bis exoneration is conubifel. He and @ number of minor clerks Will probab y be removed. OFFICIAL PROGRAMME OF THE PRESI- DENT’S Eastakn Pxip.—The following is the programme of the visit of the President and all the members of the cabinet, except Secretaries Sherman and Schurz, to theeast: Leave Washington next Tuesday, reaching Bennington, Vt, on Wednesday morning, and remaining there till Thursday eventog; t.en go to Brattleboro’, and return to Wind- sor on Friday morning, remaining there Secrei E and with 7 ‘varts over 8i Oa Monday morn ing the party will be charge 2 in y the committee of the New Hamp- So the governor of the state and staff. Col. Ordway, who introduced the | resolution in the legislature inviting the | President to visit New Hampshire better: eal the chairman of the | ve committee, ®rrenged this part of me. The sy Will be taken to the of ountains, and on Tuesday to the sumnjitof Mount Pb geo and return, On Wed- nesday they will pass down through New Hampshire by the lakes, reaching Soncord in the afternoon and spending some time there. On Thursday forenoon they will make & short stay at Manchester, and in the after- noon at Nashua. They will leave New Hampshire for Wash! we New PenTehy Silene RESTA PLEA SST day morning, so as to reach this city by Sat- ay. SITTING BULL A SUBIECT OF CABINET ConsIDERATION.—The Cabinet was in ses- on the part Canadi thorities, and arrange or. the the’ Unltcd. Rates. ‘Secretary the Unite ar Agape bog ag ladon oa ® conference in a day or two in toll 2 pveonnel of the commission, one member of whicl will be au army officer, selected by the of War; aLother a rson representing the Indian department,dciected bp the ‘Secretar of the Interior, eo third member wilt and th be Selecied afier @ conference witn the Presi- dent. The Cabinet also discassed the ques- { pending danger to the ipha@itanis in he vie.nlty of Puget’s Sound on »ccount of threatened Indiaa outbreaks, and it was de- termined that the Lamon & of the Navy Fiasco epee yPtatae | pu ing the white people there. accord! tele- Will leave for her destination in two or three pee Before the adjournment of the Cabi- dna) were for the Visit of the President, Saray Set bien, Ss Demme j Will be submitted to the Attoraey WASHINGTON D. C.. SATURDAY. AUGUST 11, 1877. TWO CENT ARMY ORDERS.—By direction of the Sec- retary of War Major R. N. Batchelder, quar- termaster, has been ordered to report to the quartermaster general for dut; Major H. i Borchass, nudge advocate, U.S. A., has been granted three months’ leave of absence, with permission to go beyond the sea. “A CooL Propusition.”—Under this head the New York Zimes prints a special which says: Much to the surprise of the War de- artment offictals, the Baltimore aud Ohio ailroad Company has presented a claim for payment for transporting United S:ates troops from Washington to different points alorg its line to protect the road from the strikers. This seems a little like imperti- hence. Without the aid of the troops the railroad company would have been com pletely at the mercy of the strikers, for the militia were of bo service whatever, and in Fome cases expressed the'r sympathy for the rioters in an unmisiakable manner. If the military bad been sent over the road to pro tect private or public property, the case would have been diiferent; but ho property required protection except that belonging to the railroad company. During the war of the rebellion many precedents were estab- lished under vhich this claim could be paid, but itis stated at the War department that there Was au understanding when the troops were sent that the railroad companies should furtish transportation. If this is the case the matter will probably go to the courts for lemert. No railroad buat the Baltimore and Chio bas yet presented its bill, and at the Cabinet meeting today, when this mat ter was brought up, it was lec action should be taken until all the railroads should be beard from, for an opinion. SFRENADE To SENATOR CONKLING —His Comp iment to Gen. Grant.— Senator Coaaiing, of New York, who returued yesterday n a brief tip to . as stated in last eve ning’s STAR, W ceived at Hoboken with Speeches, cannon firiug and other nolxy wel- come evening be had a reception and sereoade at the Fifth Avenue hotel. After returning thanks for the cordiality of his re- ception, be said he came back a sironger, if nota better, American than he went away. He never before was so proud of his country orso content with his countrymen as now that he had the opportunities of comparing them witb other countries and people. Great Britain had the accumulated results of gen- erations. She had had eight centuries of Par- laments, power aud wealth, but in elviliza- tion, liberty, progress, general intelligeuce and promise of the future, America need not sbrink, He spoke of Paris, its art treasures avd monumen s, and paid a tribute to the magnanimity of the Germans, who left them untouched when they bad the city in their wer. Of Gen. Grant Le said that wherever e goes, honors wait upon him, but they do notseem to wean him from things at home. He may remain long abroad, bat wheo he returns you are likely to find thatall the dis. Unctions poured upon him have not washed out a jot of his Americanism or made him anything save the same upright, downright republican bout cant or palaver. PoLitTiCaL CONVENTIONS — Calls have been issued for national and state political conventions and conferences as follows: Tuesday, August 14, Maine democratic, in Portiand; Wednesday. August 15, New York prokibitionist, in Utica; Wedocoaay, Aug 22, Pennsylvania democratic, in Harrisburg: Thursday, August 23, New York greenback, in Rochester; Wednesday, August 29, Iowa democratic, in Marshalliown; Wednesday, September 5. Pennsylvania republican, in Harrisburg; Tuesday. September 11, Wiscon- sin republican, in ivon; Wednesday, September 12, Massachusetts proiiibitioniat, in Worcester; Pennsylvania prohibitionist, in Harrsburg; Thursday, September 13, Massachusetts democratic, in Worcester; Wednesday, September 19, Massachusetts republican, in Worcester; Thursday, Sept. 20, Maryland republican. in Baltimore: Wed- nesday, September 26, National eouvention of Tepresentative colored men, in Washing- ton; National nce of prohibitionises at Perry-street M_F. church, New York city. ADMINISTRATION IN CUBA eral Luis Prendergast, chief af the Spanish army in Caba, has ar- rived in Havana, and a dispateb from that elty says: Taking his arrival in co nection with that of Martinez Campos, the ramored change of administratton of the island is ap parently well founded General Joveliar in augurated his adminisiration by layiig open the shameless frauds com nitted b army purveyors and imprisoning dea implicatiny’ thereby indirectly ex-Captain General Valmaseda and others. The efforts of General Jovellar were in vata. The ‘mppiory orders of Spain obliged him t lease the defa liters # army <7. 8. General Joveliar’s honor alms obliges him to resign. Ifhe resigns it is supp ed that Lieutenant General Prendergast will replace him temporarily. Gen. FIevp, of Frevteri recently returned home from he held @ high position in the army of the Khedive. His withdrawal from that ar: grew out of the Tarko.Rassian compli Uons, in which Egypt, through her vassal- age tothe Sultan, has been forced to take part. The American officer could not con- scientiously take the field for the Crescent against the Caoss, and so resigned. In fact, it is stated that about all the American offi- cers in the Khedive’s service have been got- ten rid of in one way or another. FAILURES IN PHILADELPUIA are an- nounced as follows: Newhouse & Rousenan, wholesale clothiers, have failed, but no state” ment has been made of their assets and jabilities. They have two j1dgments #gainst them for $15,000 and one for $10,000 Rosenbach & Co ,shirt manufacturers, have suspended and ‘are reported to have indorscd about $15,000 of paper for a broken clothing house. John Claybam, fish and provision dealer, has suspended. He pro- Poses to pay 50 per cent. A RECEIVER WHo R IVeD For Hin- SELF. —J. T. McGowan, receiver of the Guar- dian Savings Bank, ia New York, las ob- taned leave from Judge Van Braat to sue J. J. O'Donshue, a former receiver, for £24,000, part of money misappropriated by J. Quinlan. who wax first receiver of the b-nk, and also to sue Jos. Reilly, a broth -r- in-law to O’Donaboe ana cierk to Qtiolan, for 13,000 misappropriated by Quinlan. O'Donabue was Quinlan’s surety aud also his successor in the receivership. Rav. AvGuSTINE F. HEw!Tt, of the order of the Paulists, is now superior of the order and editor of the Catholic World, Father Heck- er’s 111 health having compelled him to seok release from his duties. Dr, Hewit is an LL. D., his degree having been ree2ntly con- ferred by Harvard, which thus supp! first instance of an American founded by Protestant sectarians so 10g an eminent divine of the Roman. urch. burg, Va., has Egy pt, where ANNUAL ConvaNTION of United bankers will be held at S i THE States and ii savings institutions. The Se oe bat ag me becessary remove the oppressive res*ric- tons that are said to have recently crippled the workings of the moneyed institutions of the country. DESERTED IN HE! Ar THe RocuEster, N. ¥., Taorrixa Races, yesterday, the race for th: was won by Lew Scott, AFFAIRS IN KANSAS. LARNED, Kansas, August 1, 1577. Editor of The Siar:—In a previous letter I | think I related the matters of interest that occurred to meas I passed along this way until I reached Larned, a new, thriving town about six miles east of Fort Larned, and named alter it. The fort at present has only one company of U.S. troops. Two compa- nies have gone to look after the hair-lifters, I amtold. But my account of what I have seen and done in the stateof Kansas would nol be complete in interest, auy more thaa in statement, if I fa‘led to historicaliy epito- mize the sights and incidents of my trip di ree;ly awey from the railroad for over ify miles south, in the direction of the embryo town yclept SUN CITY. One might think from its bigh-sou name that il was peopied by the al: eyed celestials; but it ts not, and its deniz: y their deeds, doas mxch al doctrine of “total depravity” as any ity of American citizens; they are not Glestiais Suga atripasI am about Lo dese.) € requires preparation and an oautt There must be private means of transporta- tion, and the same for caravansera ent tainment. Our mouve power wes a pair of Texas horses, not mustangs, bat about as large and hardy, with dispositions less dia bolieal. but th ait as much beating and try ¢ patience quite as mach as the mustaig. ‘Loey are what an able but eccen- te Methodist minister in Ohie in an early » which he Gay deseribed after # borse Linde Was a parly, “very / a blow wih whip > one better than that,’ half-co: Tre wa bles, S50 equipped we mov the fist twiles we saw in Ue dist very much scattered, ad ozen—I hardly What to call thein—farm-boases. Dit provd society denizens of ington think, do you think, what sort of 4 mers in this to live in? sel; bave bo W place for one, if they had. We stopped at one, and the last ove We saw after we left the roilroad settlements until we hal mate a ous drive. It was what is called in elegant (?) Lomenclature A‘ DUG vUT.” This sort of tarm house is made thus: A hole about balf of the depth of the proposed story is made in the ground, then prairiesod is cut and laid up for the balance of the Walis. Rafters are then raised and roof boarded, and the covering is nade tight with sods. I think there was only one room. Taen for \wenty miles we had no sign of a human habitation. Nothing but prairie in its prim live condition, and I think I saw in one piace, during that twenty miles drive, the 10 gest stretch of God's green earth” at one view that I ever saw in my life. [saw enough, I know, all [ want to see without a human habitation. At the end of this drive W-saw a house, a Kansas house, and a man, ent behad a family, I was told. His house was originally @ “dug oat.” Now he has made of boards @ shed with a gothic or sharp angular roof, giving him another story at ove he ‘dug out.” A piece of board is left off about four feet above the ground at one cor- Ler of the house as an opportunity for egress ard ingress for his two dogs. What a place for a human being todwellin! He bad sey- eral stacks of wheat and p rhaps other grain some may bave been hay. Toere was a reaper, asulky hay rake,» su'ky corn cul livator and some other implemeats standing out in the weather, and no bara. Taat man probably wastes enough every two yeas for the want ofa barn to pay forone. Hshad a corral and, I presume, a herd of stoex. Taere Was @ garden near. His cultivated flelds Was away as far as one could see. These were estimated a ‘ range” more than any other circumstance they kuow of. Poswibie, the usual surroundiugs of clyilization are uot agreeable tobim. Tuis maa ts notable more for whathe has not done than for what he basdone. Ye, I would do wuat I could to yake bi fxmous for what he has done, K»eelend—f r that is his narae—has piieied his wretcued old shed in this remoie soli- lary spet anlealled ithome. As I looked +t bimi and the place he tenanis, I asked myrelf in the name of social human avr, in the name of the brotherhool o: man, What has Kneeland deserted his kind jor aud planted his family in this lonely prairie fo: d I have racked my mind ever since for answer. I give it up. Leaving Kneeland’s, on the Rattlesnake creek, We drove aboul 15 miles and camped cocking our birds, coffee, ete., with “builal chips,” (dry buffalo or iure,) for we bad neg lected to bring wocd. The next day we mate +otdier's crcek, the end of our trip, 55 uaties south of Larned. Here, two to tirce iniles apart, were three or [our settlers. W~ saw, going down, some three or four small droves of antelope, but they were too coy to allow us to draw sight on them wih our Reming ton breech loader. There, we were only about 25 miles from the Indian territory. On the Medicine Lodge river, to which the Sol- dier is tributary, there are ledgesof gypsum. A little turther on, on the Cimerone river, there are pumerous sprivugs so strongly im? pregnated with salt thas the botiom of the streams flowing from them are coated with pure salt from i inch to 4 inches thick Wa- gon loads of Ue salt are hauled away by herdsmen and settlers. I saw some of the articie. A STORM ON THE PLAINS. Two acy uaintances,a little boy three years old. and myself made our party. We bad made about eighteen miles from the Soldier on our return, when we went into camp and commenced to prepare supper from prairie chieken and plover. We hat observed before halting that there was below the sun an ap- pearance of clouds extending round into northeast. The supper pot hal scarcely begun to boll when the sun dippe! below tlie clouds and we saw what was 1 store for us. Just above the horizon, reaching arouad from the northwest to the ucriheast, lay a continuous, dense, dari: cloud, showing that # heavy storm was prevailing there. Tue lightuings began to play win frightful Vividuess and frequency, and the thunders to roll with heavy, ‘continuous, fearful sounds. You may conceive tac the situa- Uon, with its probabilities and possibiilties: Was nol very comforting toone who has bat recently concluded nearly twelve years of life at the capital of the nation. From neces- sity, supper was cooked and eaten in the least poss. bie time. A scanty, Common mus- lin cover was drawn over the hoops of the wagon Clear down in front and on the rigit side, leaving one-third of our vehicle in the rear uncovered, and the left side, save at the Jeft frout corner open two-thirds of the dis- tance from the box up. Guns, ammunitioa, Jarder, culinary utensils, blankets hurriedly packed in, and “we four, no more,” piked up compactly on top. Tuts ely done, when_Eolus_lco:ed bo- reas, which bore upon its Wings the storm to sperd its fury on us. We had headed the wagon quarterly into the storm. The wind veered around from the north to the n.e.; east, 8.¢.; south, and 8.w.; thence back into the touth and the southeast, givin; us with each Cae @ powerful shower, and we were com: to we the position of the wagon with each change of the wind and 3; sometimes we were obliged to do this Oo Diauket know your ir provisions were ex! = ed, and we started early for Kneeland's to replenish for breakfast; but Kuoeeland was out apd was at Larned for asupply. We quartered our single ration, each one eating part, and started for Larned, tweaty-fivs miles off, arriving late in the p. m., giad to back to the habitations of men.’ During ‘storm the play of the lightning was aw- fally enblime, and the sound of the thunder Was frigbtfully heavy. Sometimes the whole f,mament blaz-d with dazzling brilliancy. the electrical combustion was P ol oo plains,” Dut, god of the storms! let me have no more A brief letter from Dodge City, the Texas cattle mart, another dey. LBA. RELEASE OF ARRESTED Sraixers.— Nine of the men arrested at | 2 it. Louts oa the of the executive Somaiitive of uke workingmen’s mak- lary speeches and ‘i ing incend! anolle ai, an of evidence to convict them. VENTION has Panes ey toestablish the | | The Virgt im Democratic Convention. Monk. liber: It, persixt the gov ther they would consider the temporary tion ‘of Constantinople by | Will bring the payment of interest upon our entire indebtedne-s within the resocrees o the state derived from the present rate of taxation, and do equal justice to all classes of creditors.” HOW THE NOMINATION was After thesixth ballot, (reportc! Gay's STAR) Col. Cameror adiressed the conver FECTED or of the Ex oe ties 4 Kight Hon. Wm. Edward For song mein ber for Bradford. & statem on with trem«ndou of the greater confidence whic whole co: - Of position, of the improbabilit erai minutes elapsed t atniee cd, wher ow, of Pet burg, alkon Mr. Hol in eloquest te J pul and lost, and order sired & call Of lol was proc breach of s have Mos | gressed cheer uj rs oc 3 A care u n ally considered everything that has beer changes of votes as they favored Written or said by the kov erame 4 | the candidates. At its conciusion th : - ; vir lasi dispaten Hi d to at j neutrality. Taat b it necessary t» do more than the heavy resposib:lity under waich lie.” This statement seems tndicative easier feeling generally prevalent. w: largely due to Earl Beaconfleld’s recent state- ment in the Hoaseor Lords, Enrolling the Pot Loxp 1L—A R we feel te by the theron ment and anxiety to learn the rest fever heat, and continued until it w nounced as follows: Holliday © Mahone}. The chair announce Wildest applause, that Col. Holliday was the | duly chosen nominee of the conservative pariy of Virginia for the office of governor. Result of the Russia 3 THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN CHANGED. Some cable dispatches give the details ofa reporied defeat of the Russians before Plev- pa on Tuerday of this week, while others positively assert that there has been no el.ting there since Jaly sist. The Loudoa Daily News’ correspondent, telegraphin frm Biela on Thursday, says his estimate DESTRUCTIVE FI of the serious effect of the Russian at at A Kerosene Fire Plevna, formed on the battle fiel, ts fully RUTLAND, Vr, August 11.—By the explo- borne out by the Rnssian appreciation of iv | Sion of a kerosene iamp yesterday morning. The Rasstavs staud waiting for necessary } &! Forestdale, near Brandon, five batldings reenforcements, and are thankfal that they | Of the Bush and Westin paint works, with a are assailed in the defensive positions. Tue | Valuable engine, were burned. Loss, $10,000; defeat has altered the whole pian of the cim- | partially insured. Newton & Thompson paign for this year, The Russians have vir- | pill box makers, who occupied a part of the tually abandoned the expectation of press- | Premises, lost their maclinery, including ing the war successfully across the Ba'kans. ¢ hundred laths. Their loss is $4,000, pai it will suffice them during the three months | Ually insured. still available for fighting If they can sweep Woolen Mills Burned. Bulgaria, north of the Balkans, clear of the BRIDGEPokr, CONN., August 11. - Several Turkish armies. The orders ‘are to with- | buildings, known as the North Bridgeport draw from all the trans Balkans positions. | Woolen Mills, and owned by C. E. Dean. of This is from no d:rect pressure of the Tarks | South Adams, were sel on fire and destroyed beyond the Balkans, but because of the risk | last night. There was but little or so ‘stock atiending unsupported advance. O1 this | or machinery in the buildings, which” were side of the Balkans the paralysis caused by | uninsured. the Plevna reverses still endures. Que bun her Fire The house and stable of dred thousand more men are wauted, and are forthcoming, but will have to be ited | Mrs. Apollos Randall, at South Brair polic aders er dispateb to an Poland all ge. are being the ro- says Maining classes of the general levy BOSTON, Aug. 4 re for. Thefirst brigade of reenforcements is | were burned this morning § L sss &5 & } expected to cross the Danube in a day or two. | surance £1,500. Tne stable was occupied by ANOTHER RUSSIAN REVERSE. Ross & F, , Shoe manufacturers. Tueir Mehmet Ali telegraphs from Rusgrad August 9 that ten companies of Rassian tn- wiry and six squadrons of cavalry attack Yuillak, near Osman Bazar, and were re pulsed with the loss of sixty killed and one tundrd and twenty wounded. Tne Tarkish joss is $15, GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Political Intrigues in LonDon, August 11.—Phe Tim sich bas the following: Tne F 0 mander on the northeast froniler of and clerical press have long be claims to 1 an at x Pee after ten ‘he Russians namber i at the strength Turkish Intrenehed positions ts con © Con pevsate for the numerical! i minisere of just deots make tim cy 1s an ob S him to How A TENNESSEE CoURT WaS Buu +» —Gen. Henry Darnell, on trial at Tip ile, Lake county. Tonn.. bulldozed th ovrtatthat place Wednesday and Thurs ‘ay with 25 armed meu, the sheriff and depn- lick being entirely ineficic Darnell re “An intrigue is ev t's dir. ction, bu’ the Dake I an Orleauisi, will searcely be ess as to hand over his cards & ntly gave bimecif up, bat refused to goto | P® ard instead was place’ in custody one of histriends. It having been shown the | gan ~ gy bond was insufficient It was so ansounced | 4 SARATOGA, N- ¥-, August The firet in court, and Dernell was ordered to jail. | (8Y Of the second meeting was spent with The sheriff refused to act. and Darnell and armed mob walked out of the court-roc nouneing the court and defying the authori- tes. The sberitt refusing to obey an order tosummon a posse, Gov. Por.er was tele graphed to send the Chickasaw Guards of Memphis to his relief, but the orler was countermanded, Darnell and squad having left for Ke y. MORE GIRLS STRIKING wenty of the eixbty girls employed in the Kings county ey. shoe shop by the Bay State janufacturing Company quit work yester- day, striking against a reduction of wages Mr. Decker the foreman, tried to pers beautiful weather. The track was in spl did conditioa and the attendauce of a) tors large. FOR THE FIRST RACE, the Kentucky stakes, for two-year-old entrance, H. F. with 51,000 added. T ond borse to receive $209 of uhe stakes, quarters of a mile, the: 4) sut of which started. T Wing rates: Spartan aud Perfect Duke of Magenta and Alb Village. 155; Bramble, : Bernard's Filley MeDaniei’s fawn, Pargears C Planet the Field, 8. The jast P. Loullard, 70; the field, 1 f.on by p00] Bold Was . fhe race was de | was won by Pride of the Village la lis them against striking. The girls expressel | Duke of Mageata was awarded second place, themselves as determined to stand out. | althongh three horses came in ina line, aod They did mere work, they say, for less money | Brambell was given Win! place. Tae second iban girls in other factories. Some of them | race was for the summer hand >, for all Proposed to hold a meeting so as to encour. | ages, $30 each. or $20 if declared out, with uge their fellow workers to remain firm. “A meeting would,” said one, “brace the weak ones up.” About 200 employes of Stearne’s silk factory at New Erigiton, 8. I., are TOWN out Of work by the strike of the em- ployees of the 42d street, New York, factury.— LN. ¥. Sun, 10th. Tue Deur or VIRGINIA AND THE Spr- CIAL SCHOOLS.—The Richmond (Va.) Whiy says: “In private we have | th admission of men who lave o and responsible positions in the state. who favored the payment of the whole debt, that it was impossible to meet their views without av increase of taxation, unless the appropriations to the colleges and tie asy- lums Were discontinued; and when met by the fact that yet @ dedicit would remain, their prompt answer was, ‘then the appro- Friation to the public schoo!s must cease.’ ” THE ELEVENTH VICTIM OF THE Reap- ING Riot.—Heary W. Corbit, one of the wounded in the Tole sted added. The sec out of the stakes, on ters. There were for! ovly five star‘ers, at the following Cruz, 200; Bashy d horse to recetve £290 2 aud three quar. y-sewea entries, and ou which . i org: Parole, tt There were Starts. The following saows tue we: his carried the betting rates: Pombast,3 years, % | 400; Cardinal Wolsey, 3 years, Ibs., Bertram | ged 111 Ibs. 191 Ibs. ajor Barker. The race was won by Ma, bast 2d; Cardinal Wolsey —_———__ Gen. Joseph Dodging Gen. Howard. MISSOULA, ay 8.—The Missoulian,@ newspaper published here, attributes the escape of the Indiaus by the narrow Lolo trall lo the insufficient number of men sent ed: the ball entering @ few inches eas A Looking Glass offered to ¢ive ap bin amet i offe: ve w is ammu- beg lge ear iene ee ne = tion in order toshow his geod luteations: ool until @ few days ago, when lockjaw et fn = Sth the — {lipped through the iid death wan the Fei, the deivaned wat | Derr cage, GONE OTA ae ey a prom an e 5 < Reapaaier sae "heteas eset | On ee ny 4 aren Marder and Suicide vax Exeaeuauy Nassow Uae Winchester pace Se han fam: Pes y i ter, Ky., on » the yr ‘A puseacaeee oe as reprint bana rot of James Williams was found with a bullet gauge railway between Billerica aud Bedford | Hole in the head ang a strap with @ sione at- ill'soon be fuished: and tie Tears, | tached to it around the neck.” Felix Holden, now buil at ia, N. H., will be a | ‘he son of a widow with whom Williams decided novelty, as they will have a row of | been li a of the crime, ar- single seats on each side. The road is eight | Tested and placed in jail, where he aa miles and a half long, and will cost about | bung himeelf in his cell. Thecause of the $50,000, or less than 000 per mile. being murder is not known, are en oe ome Oe Senlnnty amie Killed by 0 Fi : ae! ernest AME Ts tie sty ac SwINDLING A STREEr RAtLROAD —Tae > a nie liv! 2 a Avenue ratl; compauy of New York | walking in the Newark branch of the Erie bas discovered thats combination of con- | ratiroad at the junction, this lp , Was actors and d:ivers has existed for some | *truck by the eastward bound mai! time on their line, where>y thousands of | tra n abd instantly killed. soem bave been em! iy sao ’ ‘consouidatet,, 67: €6, aecot i ‘ a : ; i 4 cd | Telegrams to The Star. | COL. BOLLLDAY THE CANDIDATE FOR Gov- ERNOR. ane Se es cage jon, he nomination of candidates for | governor, Meutenant governor and auorney | HOW JOSEPH FOOLED HOWARD. eneral, which has been in sesston for three | nomination of Col. FW. Mt Beliitay, oF | Domination of! ‘ol. F. W. 5 jolliday, of | Winchester, for governor; Gen. James A THE EASTERN QUESTION. Walker, of Pulaski county, for lieat | governor, and Hoo. Rale-h T. Daniel. of See aa mond, for attorrey general. A platform . . . . Was adoptel which coutains the following | Discussion in Parliament. i pre’ | Fesolution relating to thestate deb: -— While x | = mag come eye a bopdgd the —_er a | rious history of Virginia aud proud of ber . . | good name and fameumongst the nations 9! Russian Draft in Poland. the earth, they would scora to repudiate her just obligations. and are resol ved to preserve ——— ee ree. inviolate the public faith and credit, yet we 1 ‘yor : cannot but view wich concera and dixiety | FIRES AND CASUALTIES. the accumu /ation of ovr financial diffi-atties and the increasing weight of oar pudlic ded: SIR hrge on the legisiative and ox THE EASTERN QUEST: ws of the government the im Bri | Rortanee of ‘sing ail just aad honorable Discussion im the meavs of bringing avout an a Juste it of aii diet the cbitgations of the commenweald: wi yrange Milled by « Railroad FLizanere, S.J. Aagust 1. deiphia express (new line) strock Thomas H. Ward, aged 69 years, last night at the crossing near Crawford,’ killing him in- Stantly. His horse was also killed and bi Ragou wrecked. Ward atiempied to cross in tron @ train wi is horse: and ran up the track —— ~— Terribly Fatal ©: CINCIBNATI. August 11 parch states that ® portable steam thre: machine on @ farm near Lawrencebarg, exploded its boiler yesterday, kilit Weis, Mr. Bunion, &od son of Mr na'hy. and wounding four others, thre: 4 gerously OTTAWa, Ont. | Richards d bas lef for N Catef Justice ty governor general of Canada, York, to remain a few days. } — _ | Chesapeake and Ohic Canal Troubles. STRIKING BOATMEN STICK | Correspondence oi the Baltimore Sun f¢ | Sir Jobn’s Run, yerterday | movement of Ue empty canal boats detweek this poiot and HL | east, Was commenend abou daybreak this morning, and up to® p.m. about f ty boats bave gone wes: from her » boats re- MaiNiAg EV iuce No disposit move, nor can tbey be compel shown that they were about 01 all on this leve: wh‘ch had not moved a ra der since the strike began in June Tae mov- ing boats are all bound westward towards Camberland he boatme: ¥ Most pow y that they are merely so unless It is getton. There in at pofnts along the r pascare i our correspond- fg the boatmen this moruing, and lew ed from them that they bave not weaker slightest, and they say they will not move a poand of freight until their d : ton freight ent dispe sition ment of boats, at Uoned, and the tly free to wu AYN The boaime | and unanimous!y r | It ts underston westwar gone of the center nt lnterru; pany F will pro companies will It is expected that will arrive mn Baltimore lay, and company G commanded by Capt others now under t Baltimore, aggrega: expectod on the same SITUATIC At the Baltunore offi ‘al Companies the situation « was reported in statu quo. ee who are lu the coal region, written on Thursday night, stated that only the five mines heretofore reported are in operation. The companies owning the other fifteen mines refuse to pay the price demanded by the strikers, viz, 55 ceucs a ton, and the miners had not at that time, asa body, signified a | disposition to want to go to work at the old | figures, 50 cents. ng Hn train. the mines Letters from the Tue HonoR oF VigGINIA._Toe Rieh- mond ( Va.) Sate is endeavoring Virginians how much they w: } repudiation. It eays.—< By th o port, the whole taxation of Virginia, state, county and city, is 85.000,000. This is raised annually to carry on government, make roads, keep schools aud pay interest’ ou the debt. Two million three bundred thousand dollars is for city and county purposes. Re- pudiation will not save that. One million dollars is for the support of government, pay of officers, judges, &c_, $500,000 Is for the sup- port of public schools, aud $1,000,000 lo pay | tax-receivable coupons, which must be paid and canpot be repudiate 1. These items make | up $4,500,000 of taxes, which repadiation cannot repudiate. We there‘ore save #2%),000 by repudiation. Wesell our birturigut for | this pottage. It is 4 per cent. on our taxation. | Tuat is, a man who pays $1 tax will i cents; Who pays €10 tax will say ts; and he who pays $100 will sve #4. The peo- ple whose heroes perpetuate lu broaze on heir Capitol Hill the virtues of the great race from Ww repuilate the bords given onumeat—to save 4 ce DEFENDED —How % gue tally de- < thus Patladium of Ta Tibed sday weat wih his varne, Mass., last Friday, to get a three days’ res! and be Wiib bis mot on her birthday He founa an okt playmate of bis boyhool and a friend y years, D.O. Fisk, charged with the of burning his own barr t the in urance. He defended hi on the trial, which began Monday morning and ended on Toesday evening, at Greenticid. Mass. Tue accused is a prominent citizen of Shelbarne, bas been inthe Mastachuse legisiatare dis now the president of the Frankiix County Agricultural Society, and @ farm: well known in western Massachusetts. Mr. Keliozg bad the satisfaction of having his friend triumphantly acquitted of any ground of probable cause for the charg crime, and the court room rang with che at the clese of his argument and the announcement of the decision.” THE Laron MOVEMENT IN PirrseuRG. The Pittsburg (Pa.) Pow says the labor ele. ment has been thoroughly aroused in that © Severai large meetings have been held, and eflorts are being made to effect an organization am the working classes Whose influence will be felt in polities. Meetings are announced to be held’ almost nightly for the next two weeks. Tae move- meut bas growa out of the workingmen party which was organized in Philadelph' Abort @ year ago, 4nd the re Pitisbarg has caused the labo: take bold of tt with determiuat Organtrations have been etlectn the wi ent troubles in Tae Inutsore Chicago Journal of Mox enth a. in ny n ag the national ine recent mob vie- w impetus tas been aulzation, and the ce in auy m and Adin much grat » militia pee! is that Ilic and effective army for se: sible emergency. Goy. € tant General Hilliard are by the promptitude and efficiency of the state troops recently called out for ‘eer- vice, and by the inspiration that recent men and the large for military events have given to the young veterans of the state organization.” B. Soule, tor of the Chureh of God, of this city, visited Camberland county and while riding ‘on the #, if