Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1878, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, Except 8 AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Pennsylvania Avenue, corner 11th street, The Evening Star Newspaper Company, 8. H. KAUFFMANN, Pres’t. pela cimld ryed to subscribers in LY STARSB prepaid. 1D copies for $13; 29 cop Che vening Star, yon, BI-N®, 7,754. _'THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1878. TWO CENTS. AFITUL M. EL er © present, . Capitol HiT. be - WM. WHITTHAPT, President, P. VIERBUCHEN,. Secretary. fers 3° he ensning year. will be hekl at the Office of the company: 1505 ne in ae new. SAT: IRDAY. Februar Ope F chee at Spam. PRANK T. RAWLINGS, j23- Taw td Secretary. PRUDILOMME >? MADE MOISELLE FRENCH CLA advertisement. feb2 10% SISQUOI SPRING WATER, US AFFECTL m ippurities of the BLOOD. and pamphiets cont bad by aidressing anty, Vi. jau3-m, is BUFFALO LITHIA WATER, _ A fresh supply received and for sale by W. 8. THOMPSON, $25-tr 703 157m STREET. iS HOT SODA, WITH COFFEE, TEA AND CHUCOLATE, aT MILBURN’S, 1429 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. COLD @raught during the winter. deed-tr ti erie Meeting THIS ck; Kev. Wa. B. Speake, BUILDING as- the Association | {URSDAY | The President has directed that company L, Stoel ned without | as with this meeting the books will be THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE Steckhold f the ARLINGTON FIRE ANCE COMPANY. the District of the election of Nine Direetors to New term Feb. 13h, ing is a specifie for SE, SCROFULA, 3. and all diseases ‘The Water is sold by all prominent Deuggists, ing wonderful cures can be Jissisquoi Springs, Franklia | force. - THE Liquor TRaFrH ‘vy. Dr. Rankin. of Mrs. F } this | DA AND MINERAL WATER on S SAMUEL @. YOUNG, NOTARY PUBLIC, octhT-tt OFFICE—STAR BUILDING. G*"F , FLEISCHMANN & CO.'S COMPRESSED YEAST. All first class grocers keep it. Everything that sncceeds Wy ASH INGTon HOME REMEDY. DR. LEWIS’ PLASTER. N FOR A QUARTER. iii Drvggiste. Ask for a Circular. 1 has merit, has tmi- | morning, and made an argument giving rea- X small. Surpasses Capeine and e cure for Cuts, Burns, Bruises and SE OF INDUSTRY, 1E MISTEKS OF CHARITY, ‘and 21sr stree 201 DRE=S MAKING, ‘under the direction’ of a French Dress Maker. Ladies’ Trousseaus and m Children’s Suits. TPPHE WORLD I) OVER ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN FOR S By far the largest and fi scopic Views ever knows for sale by Mr. Thomas Dow mr e@elock Spacious auct east corner every portion has been enabled to penetrate, ‘that life-like m: imitate. The er and Ca-toms of the N trayed in r' is here iflustrated tecture and 3 of th dless p seen and adinired a travel. There are hich will admit of worthy the attentic ews in this coll been on sale in which are gr . many of Ww tors and others. Ler | House should be preserved among the ¢ ion of Stereos | Will be offered F ne globe. where the photograph =r din h are por- fusion. Many if not all, the great wonders of the world can be t many Curiosities in- | ecial attention is called to the ¢ Miaminated and Transparent y h have hever his country, and nearly all of beyond deseription. For full par- tienlars see catalogue. A rare chance for collec= LUMBER. LUMBER. LUMBER. WILLET @ LIBBEY. CORNER SIXTH STREET AND N. Y. AVENUE. OUR PRICE LIST IS THE LOWEST ON LATHS! LATHS! LATHS! LATHS—Best Bangor, per thousand... JOIST STUDS; per hundred feet........-.... 150 FENCING 1:6, 16 FEE; per hundred....... 150 WASHBOARDS, Dressed & Jointed; CLEAR 1.56 WIDE 18-IN GEORGIA HEART FLOORING, LARGE STOCK. PAILINGS, DRESSED, 4 PATTERNS, With | #00 ‘Berool Work. DEY LUMBER Under Cover in our Large Day LUMBER SHED. WILLET & LIBBEY. CORNER SIXTH STREET AND N. ¥. AVENUE. | svat @@ No Branch Yards.-¢s APOLLINARIS NATURAL MINERAL WATER. THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS, Highiy Effervescent. DR. J. MILNER FOTHERGILL, Low °* The Exquisite Apollinaris; A Delicieas erage. PROF. J.A.WANKLYN, St, GEORGE'S Hosv., LONDON. ** Highly Eiferveser nt, W! DR. BK. ton and art! ficially aerated waters. ** DR.PETER HOOD. Presi bent oF THE HERTS. MEDICAL Society, Etc. ‘Superior to Vichy and Vais. PETER SQUIRE. F. L. 8., CHEMIST To THE KEN. 10th Edition of Companion to the Exhilarating; Good iritixh Pharmacopoeia. for Sickness. Dy spe] and MACNAMARA, FCC S.C. Hosr s of Appel Bone 1 7 eR Loxdox. Wholesome and Refreshiing than Soda or Seltzer ater.” REULIN fing and refreshin Wale FRED*K DE BARY & CO., 41 & 43 Warren st., New York, Sole Agents for United States and Canadas, For Sate by Dealers, Grocers, and Drug- gists. Every genuine bottle bears the YELLOW label. aug2) mw, f,eow, Ly ti |X | The House Congressional committee onexpen- | ter | the charges. Three sub-committees have vecn + $2.00 UH BOARDS, Dressed.....-.... 3.50 some, ‘and absolutely Pure: superior to all others. "* 3. VEN DOREMUS. ** Absolutely pure | ‘and wholesome; superior to all for daily use: free from al! the objections urged against Cro- More 3, Baltimore. ** More spark- than any other mineral F, followed by excellent results in Dyspep- GRIST MILL. ALL KINDS OF FEED GROUND TO ORDER, hand Setansly on and for sale Corn Meal foe purposes, every description and MILTON W. JOHNSON, ms 12th and F sts. family and ‘Mil Feea. 27-3" E BEST HAIK WORK (D PE Me RIES ts the FRENC! EeTABLIGE. re @ig Sth street, opposite WU, B. Patent Of "Washington News and Gossip. GOVERNMENT Recerpts To-DAY. revenue, #215, eystoms, HA7,f To Be EqvirrenD a8 LIGHT ARTILLERY.— Internal 4. 2d artillery, Capi. John 1. Kodgers, be tempo- ¥ equipped as a battery of light artillery. A TIE ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE.—The House committee on the judiciary took a vote on the female suffrage amendment to the constitu- tion. There was a tie, five for and five against, Mr. Harris, of Va., who is opposed to the pro- ject, being abse! AMONG THE CALLERS at the White House to-day were Senators MeDonald, Voorhees, Matthew’, Plumb, Randolph, Windom, Kel- logg, Armstrong, Todd, and Representatives Jovee, Harris of Va., Williams, of Pa., Overion. Evans, Mitchell, Covert, Har- mer, Leonard, Strait, Admiral Scott and Gen. Alvord. Cooper, Trunnell, Rhodes, Teeple, Voltman and Woodruff, of the Metropolitan police foree, had a hearing be- fore the sub-committee of the House District committee this morning in opposition to the Glover bill for the reorganization of the police and others, made a judiciary committee this morving in favor of | the bill, recently introduced in the House, pro- viding for the appointment of a commission to investigate the subject of the trafic in aleo- holie liquors. THE INVESTIGATION OF DOORKEEPER POLK. The committee on reform in the civil service to-day resumed the investigation of the charges sainst Doorkeeper Polk. H. A. Silver testi- i Doorkeeper Polk has be nterested nina claim of the Neufchatel paving company, but he did not know whether he was yet interested or not. The claim is pending fore the House District commiitee. Mr. A a n May last he had g nd Silver at the Metry- ty; Silver seemed then ‘olk’s confidential adviser. The meet- ing had reference to paving Polk’s election as Doorkeeper, It he suece r was to be appointed chief en some mining operati member where the mine was located, nor did he know anything a i Tue TREASURY Print Edward McPherson, chief of the Bui a of Engrav. ingand Printing, had a hearing before the committee on banking and currency this sons why the government should print all its ik notes. He exhibited figures to show at the work was now being done $80,000 per annum cheaper than under the old system of dividing it with the bank note com panies. THE WRITINGS OF THE DOORKEEPERS of the ities of literature. This morning when $ was being examined with reference to the charges against “Doorkeeper Polk, he was asked if Polk ever promised him ? Silver said he had not, whereupo produced a letter written by Si to Corry- ell, in which w rpt from a letter wr ten by Polk Iveryin which he said ected, he led to look out they came and give what was left Congressmen. bia or ¢ to democ SES oF the House commiltees ap- cumstances of S follows: The ith © Flovida committee, #), THE REPORT OF THE EXP! S of the House, as just made by the Clerk, shows the following sums paid to counsel on 3 unt of the Kilbourn case: Robert Christy $1,00), Samuel Sheliabarger $1,000, and W."M. Mer- rick, W. H. Treseott and H. W. Garnett $2,500 between them. THAT MIssInc 00 Pac) ‘The Secre- tary of the Treasury has appointed Second Controller Upton, Assistant Secretary French and @hief Clerk Upton.a committee of inves- tigation to see what light can be thrown upon the loss of the missing bank-fine fund of $1.80 collected by ex-Treasurer New, and at the me of the transfer of the treasury from Mr. ew to Mr. Wyman, placed stody of the chief of the redemption division. The com. mnittee began their investigation today, and examined several witnesses. THE INVESTIGATION OF MIN the presid Louisiana comm committee, #142 STER SEWARD. ditures in the State department has taken up the charges against Minister Seward while consul general at Shanghai, and against M Bradford, who has been Sppoinied to the lat- oftice in place of Mr. Myers, who br appointed to inquire first, into the contingent expenses of the department at Washington; second, the expenses of the Oriental consul- ates, and third, the expenses of the European and other consulates. PERSONAL.—Mr. Cowardin, of the Richmond Dispatch, a gentleman greatly respected in his profession and in private life. is in Wash. ington. Ir. Thomas Russell, Minister to Venezuela, has resigned. ***’Senator Blaine will address the Senate on the silver bill to- morrow at] p.m. THE UNROOFED PATENT OFFICE.—Secretary Sehurz has written to Speaker Randallealling attention to the necessity for the immediate repair of the Interior department building, partially unroofed and otherwise damaged by fire in September last. The Secretary asks for for the purpose of securing plans under the competitive system for a new roof, and for ab appropriation of $100,000 to commence the work on the roof immediately upon the adop- tion of a plan. Naval Notes—Midshipman Richard H. Townley ordered to the nautical school ship Jamestown, at San Francisco, California; Master Chas. E. Freeland has reported his re- turn home, having been detached from the Ashuelat 13th of December and placed on waiting orders ; Midshipman C. F. Pond, from the Tuscarora, ordered to the Jamestown. The Powhattan arrived at St. Thomas on the 3d of February. All well. Midshipman Edward D. | Bostick, ordered to the Constitution, 15th inst | Midshipman George Stone: tothe New Hamp- shire, at Port Royal, inst. TuE POLICY OF THE ADMINISTRATION, so far as giving ofticesto democrats is concerned, has been so strongly opposed by republicans generally, and especially republican members of Congress, that after a thorough discussion of the subject by the President and Cabinet, it has, it is said, been decided to turn over a new leaf, and give to republicans the prefer- ence hereafter in Executive appointments. A CoMMITTEE of the French Chamber of Deputies has been formed to promote a com- mercial treaty between France and the United States. M. Leon Chatteau is to be dispatched to the United States with an address showing the benefits of an increased commercia! inter- course, and to convene a Franco-American | Congress to be held in Paris during the exhi- bition. OFFICIAL RETURNS made to the bureau of statistics show that during the month of Jan- uary, 1878, there arrived at the port of New York 1,71] immigrants, of whom 1,276 were males and 435 females. SysTEM OF COMPENSATING FOURTH CLAss PoOSTMASTERS.—The postmaster at St. Louis reports that for the week ending February 1, ‘1S78, 102,584 more three-cent stamps and 13,232 more postal cards were cancelled than sold. The total value of stamps of all denominations and postal cards, not including, however, offi- cial and periodical stamps, cancelled Goring the week in excess of the value of those sold. is $849.41. This would make the excess dur- ing the year $179,309.52. To this should be added the value of, say one million envelopes at $3 per thousand, or $3,000, making $182,369.32, whieh represents the total annual loss to the government at this one office through the ope- ration of the law allowing fourth-class post- masteys @ commission gn sales of stamps. { Dla Society. Yesterday furnished one of the most brilliant | displays of the season. Many who had held ho reeeption during January, have opened their houses in February. Mrs. Bloomer held her first reception this season, which was very largely attended. She was ably assisted by Miss Maud Gouveneur and Miss Pelouze. from 4 to 6, given by Mrs, N. charming affair. Four sp jous rooms: the first floor were throw pen and crowded during the allot ed hour Mrs. Lincoln was assisted by Miss Nanni Smith and her cousin Miss Gould, of New York, her gw M Rhodes and Miss Jo sephine Boutecou Ella Ray, and some oiher attractive girls. Among the pleasant receptions on N street may be nam # those of Mrs. MacArthur and Mrs. Keith, Mrs, Biake and her daughters Mrs, G k Mallery. Mrs. Bryan, Mrs. Wylie, and the ladies at the Ebbitt House the Riggs also had numerous visitors du: the afternoon. ; The President's levee last night was one of those crushes which it seems impossible to ob- viate or ameliorate. Not even the newly adopted plan of receiving in the large East Room, with its wide door opening dir into the corridor, had the effect of les the difficulties attendantjupon the ma: several thousand people in a limited spac The police arrangements were admirable,and the most perfect order was preserved. There was no confusion in the cloak rooms nor i depositing reclaiming of w me Who s curious to know how many ple were present suggested that the Presi- nt should t Supplies with a beil-punch, ich would re every hand he shook. This ‘ould be interesting in making up social sta- tistics. ; The hour whieh closed the reception found hundreds still struggling to get in. The at- tendance comprised not only a large represen- tation of official life, but of every class cf peo- je Who enjoy the opportunity of shaking Hands with the President of atma'ion and his wife, ; One of the most elegant private balls of the season was given last evening by Colonel and Mrs. Christmas. who, after eight years’ resi- dence in Europe, have cast their lot in Wash- ington for the present winter. They have taken the nee in Lafayette square so. wellremembered in soc nnals as the home of Mrs. W.L. Mar nd afterwards the resi- dence of the late and much-lamented Mrs. Franklin Kinney. The inv: ions were for nine o'clock, but it was not until the reception Was ov t the White House that a majority of the guests arrived. The three large parlors on the first floor presented a haudsome ap- pearance with baskets of choice fiowers pen- s a bed of bloom, and the hearths filled ferns and foliage plants. Miss Christmay isted her parents in receiving. She and her nother both wore rich and becoming toilettes of white satin. uristmas’ dress was trimmed with bands of shaded embroidery and garlands of flowers. Her diamondsadded of her elegant dress. Miss Christ: ite satin Wascombined with white nd the flower garniture was exqnisit She wore pnts of pearls. The hy Wife of C ‘al i eyesand teeth.and is most fasci ting in ina ner. She wore blue broeade silk. Mi ling is the guest of Judge Raynor. | $ $ th daughter of the inventor of the celebra‘ed gun. One of the most striking-looking ladies pre sent was Mrs. Carlisle, U1 feof the Ri Hs sentative trom Kentueky, Her command setice were shown to vanta Uing black velvet, rel nid diamonds. Miss Se’ he shirred front was banded with ce. This elegant toilette s very be- coming to the fair wes . Mrs. Barclay, of . , Wore a superb dress of white’ silk combined with vet. Her ornaments were strand Madame Mantilla wore white silk ly immed with tine V aus White sil perfect t and dancing. aud_a_fine as served at this char ment. Ainong those and Miss Ellie Sher Miss A Wolfe, the Mr. and and Miss Cole, of Or lisle and Singleton. h, handsome Miss Bai ley, of Virginia; Dr. and M Lincoln, First Assistant Postinaster Gene! ner, Miss Anna Key, Miss Pelouze and her guest, Miss Wesson, Mrs. and Miss Voorhees and their guest, Miss Baxter, Colonel and Mrs, Hannegan, Mr. Nelson and many others. The daughter of Judge Richardson, Mrs. Magruder, gives a reception Friday afternoon to th At actress, Madame Modjeska. Colonel and Mrs. Robert H. J. Goddard, of Providence, R. I. are the guests of Sen . Burnside, at_ 1823 H_ street, where Mr: daad will receive on Thursday. ‘The second sociable given by the h took place last evening at M: a decided success tendance select ie les present seemed to vie with each other in elegant and tasteful toilets. The entertainments of thi always looked forward to with pleas- pations, which never fail to be fully al and Mrs. realized. Mrs. Wm. B. Shaw has issued ecards for a large reception I dancing party, tu be given on Friday next. Mrs. Set ‘ater: her regular cobs, a Pennsyl n from 2 until NoMINATIC Senate to- the following nominations: John G, Pool, collector of customs, Sandusky, . Passemequaddy, Me.; ‘gent, do., Castine, Me.; M. Ball, Alaska; Israel 8. Abrams, do.; rhor, N.J.; J. H. Bartlett, do., J. and a number of minor postmasters. SUBSCRIPTIONS to the popular four per cent. loan up to two o'clock to-day amounted to $12,000, mie ABouT SIX THOUSAND PROPOSALS for the mail service in Texas were opened to-day at the P.O. D. When the proposals have been stamped and numbered they will be handed over to the contract office for the examination and Comparison, on which the contracts will be awarded. The work of opening the bids was done outside of the contract office, not at the suggestion of the Postmaster General alone, which might carry with it a reflection on the contract office employes, but at the request of Mr. Brady, Second Assistant P. M. G., who wished to remove all foundation for charges of unfair dealing, and to shield his subordi- nates from suspicion. PLENTY OF IcE.—A dispatch from Dutchess Junction, N.Y., says:—Men are now engaged at this place filling up the four ice boats of the Knickerbocker corn peny Last Saturday night twenty-one cars arrived here, containing ice thirteen inches thick, from Billings Gap pond, onthe Dutchess and Columbia line. Another iee train is to arrive this eventing trom the above place. Ice men need not anxious about an ice famine. YESTERDAY'S RACES AT CHARLESTON.—At Charleston, yesterday, the South Carolina jock- ey-club races were run. The mile dash for all ages Was won by Egypt. Belle Isle second, Pio- neer third. Time, 1:49. The second race, two-mile heats, was won ‘Wash Booth in two straight heats, beating Sister to Hatteras. Time, 3:52 and 3:5344. The third race, one. mile heats, was won by General Phillips in two straight heats, Dalgasian second, and Gor ernor Hampton third. ‘Time. 4 and 1:50. NEw YORK FAILures.—Dr. Clemence 8S. Lozier, of New York, has failed, with $112,000 Vabilitles, of which ‘$110,000 aré secured’ by bond and qnorteage on cit property 5 nominal assets $4,000, real $452, wher, St.John & Co., drug brokers, New York, have failed. with $172,000; asset's $63,000. ARMSTRONG'S MURDERER.—The _inques! over the murdered Armstrong was concluded in Philadelphia Ms The jury returned the following verdict: hi N. Armstrong came to his death by violence, fracture of the skull, the result ef blows on the head, received at the hands of some party or parties to the iy unknown, on the evening of Lima | % ean Vine street, near th, in Camden, N. J., and died in Philadelphia Jan- uary 25, 1878." it between the doors of each room, the V. THE INADEQI A\ 0! | The number of p: | tail duty and cannot b Th | trol of a ti | not taken The District in Congress. BILL FOR GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT. | The House committee on the Distriet of Co- lumbia met to-day and had a long diseussion | on the bill to provide a form of government for the District of Columbia. It was decided that no one should be entitled to vote here who. shail not have resided here three years and within that time never claimed a residence | elsewhere. In addition, that every one enti- tled to vote shall have paid the poll tax, the amount of which the committee will her determine. The qualifications for ete the council were a'so decided upon. that no person shall be eligible te body Who shall not have been a bor deni of the District for five years, fee simple at least $3,000 of prope! The committee adjourned with an pending that the council shall coi Stead or24 members. WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY. The bill introdueed in the a ago to make the 22d of Februa uy in the District of Columbia was referred to the dudiciary committee. ay, on motion of Mr. Edmunds, the bill was referred to the committee on the District of Columbia. NEW LIFE INSURANCE COMPAN Stanley Matthews introduced a bill in the Senate to. day to incorporate the National nrity Life rance Company of the Dis. uict of Colum! The ineorporators of the company are Ja Husted, L. J. B: ney Dean, Jas. F. Starbuck, Enoch 1 son, K. W. Mackey, 0. A, Hadley, Oliver Gold- smnith, Wm. Barnés, Julius L. Clark, Jolin C. Ti A.J. Kellar, . Davis, Harry M ston Roberts, K.D. Simpson, John. D. W.C. Wheeler, A. H. hh, i Wm. Preston, Robert ¢ A. J, Creswell, C. B. Farwell, J P.W. Hitchcock, E. W. Key Joseph T. Patten, Charle Logan, WW. Wilshi mith, Ha to W at in th fide resi- nd own in Samuel O. finith, C. L. Ma de Je J B he n, Seth 1 Phelp m”», John K ball, George W. € Orlando The nine first named, or any of commissioners, to ity during sixty day passage of the act to open subscrir capital stock of the company. Dir less than seven nor more than thi Ze the business, and tlh Any Will consisi of a pr presidents, a secretary, a t actuary. The capital st fixed at a sum ot exceed ves of $100 each. : Y OF THE POLICE FOI: The Attorney Genera! hassent to the Spe: f the House a communication from the si retary of the police board to Seeretary Schurz, whi ‘S:—** The executive force consis: 1 major and superintendent, 1 Spector, 10 lieutenants, tes, thd 6 detect comprising for active e on the street: This allowance was made in 1866, when the population was half of itis, and the area requiring police sur ance not one-third. Through tailure to ap- propriate by Cony! for the the number is much below th OW in do ns meet in this ants. 24) pr Of these 180, number duty ve 10 det t, there are number 5 made—notably in the publi ares—bul owing to the inadequacy of th force, the number has been restricted to those absolutely necessary. The District nto eight precineis, under the immediate con eutenant. Themen in are divided into two platoons. into two sections. Du © ring the night a fut pla the day a section. ) miles of streets and s requiring police pai Now, but 70 men can be put on duty at night. It follows that, when the city is patrolled as thoroughly possible under the present allowance, each an ha: ly five miles of beat. A serious hampering of the foree by lack of appropria. | | tion and insufficiency of numbers, is the few | mounted men we ' bie to retain. Outside the city limits of Washington and Georgetown the eo is infested by thieves and burgla '€ useless for et ti, an area of five by thirty mile should be atleast thirty mounted men. There SEVE NTY-FOUR Bovies Metropo.is have been on the € i rom the lost steamer vovered, and buried Dk. SeYMoUR ELECTED Bisopr.—Dr. Sey- meur's election to the beneh of bishops of th Protestant scopal chureh has been s tioned by a majority of the standing dioe committees. Of the fort ight iow twenty-five have given their canonical con- seut, twelve have withheld it, and eleven ha not yet vote necticut, Ns a eeyen, Bs sey, Pittsburg, Rhode Island, South Carolina, it and West Michigan. THE GLASGOW PRESBYTERY of the Estab. | listed chureh { Scotland has notified the i be demanded a} hy of Scotland the supreme civil court, and the laws. will be rigidly enforced against it. Priest FINED.—Public assemblages of all kinds have been prohibited in Huntingdon, Pa., during the prevalence of the small-pox epidemic, but last Sunday her Murphy, pastor of the Catholic chureh, persisted in holding services, and Monday morning prompt paid a fine of $10 and cost for viola: ion of the ordinance. A WOMAN AC D OF ROBBING THE Matis. Miss Emma Dayenpo. ged 25, was brought to Richmond Monday ‘under arrest, charged with robbing the mail at @oochland Court- house, Va. Spe Mail Agent Henderson, who worked up the case, makes affidavit that she emaloyed at the post office at Gooch- land. and that while so employed she stole two packages of jewelry and one silk d ern. Her father has been postmaste Goochland for many yeu Dr. CROMPTON, an English ph ‘ian, attri- butes the deformity of bow legs to the habit very young children have of sleeping with the soles of one foot pressed tight against the sole of the othey. Kunockknees he ascribes to another habil, that of sleeping with one knee resting in the hollow of the other. TRADE DOLLARS NOT TAKEN FOR SCHOOL Books.—The public school teachers in Brook- lyn informed the pupils yesterday that here- after trade dollars will net be received in pay- ment for schoo! boo! FATAL SHOOTING OF AN AMATEUR NECRO- MANCER.—A negro named Date Tyson, living near Bashi, Clarke county, Ala., Was shot in a singular manner some two weeks ago. It seems that Date was noting wizard, or imagin- ed that by certain evolutions, gesticulations or articulations he could surround his body with a magic armor that would prove entirely impenetrable to shot or ball. The strangest part of the story is that any one should be wicked enough or simple enough to experi- ment with his imaginary armor. Two young negro men and a white man fired a few shots at him without imjury; when one of the negroes fired at him again and shot him down. He lingered about a week and died. C. & O. CanaL.—At the annual meeting of the Maryland Coal company, in New York, sterday, the old officers were re-elected. sand dollars repair bonds of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal at par. IN THE Onto House. yesterday, the house joint resolution whinge to repeal the resumption act was adopted by a party vote— the demoerats voting in the affirmative and republicans in the negative. SHOT "THE WRONG MAN.—A negro abused the jail keeper at Memphis for refusing to ad- mit him to see a prisoner. The keeper drew a revolver and fired, but missing the negro the ball killed the keeper of a grocery two hundred yards distant. Is THE TRIAL OF GEN. ANDERSON, of the Louisiana returning board, at New Orleans yesterday, rebutting testimony closed and Attorney General Ogden opened the argument. for the prosecution. Messrs. Castellanos, Cul- lom and Ray follow for the defense. the dis- triet attorney speaking between with them, and the orney genera making we closing argument. The case to-day. Littlefield has arrived in New Orleans. He will be used as the main witness against Wells, who will be tried, it is said, in Mareh. Wells is stili in jail. THE PuBLic SCHOOL BoarD IMBROGLIO in Allegany county, Md., has been definitely Settled ty the resignation of Ji udge Buchanan, which places the newly-apy in power, that board having also the official recognition of the controller of the treasury. The Government “+ National City.” Boynton, wri ceeded For the | FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, ng to the Cincin | zeite in regard to the question of govern- it for this District, says: True, much good work was done by the beard, and Washington transformed into a Capital of which the natiot 0) € now regrets the change, or wishes proper improvements undone. no good citizen desires to see restored the irre- sponsible methods which were then so iargely v The greatest care, combined with is but just that the | general government should hecessary to prevent the care and Piovement and development of this essentiaily decoming a most unjust The present gov- economical and It-has the confidence of the mass of property holders. Under its management ex- have been greatly red mprovements aid rep: cariied forward. , It only the confidence of the citizens, but what is more important, of Congres doubly important when the control of appro ; he hands of an o WebnEsDay, February 6. SENATE.—The Senate was opened with er by Rev. Dr. Newman,a former chap Mr. Davis (Il.) presented copies of resolu tions relating to the remone held in Chicago, Dee. 13th, 1 i munds, from the reported back a bill mak iday in the District of a asked its reference to the District of ¢ y be proud. No ut, While this is so, judiciary committe Mitchell introduced a bill to reduce service on the Pacific coast es that the Postmaster ¢ consider proposals for carrying the mails on the Pacific coast, which were detained by a delay in the mails froma storm.] The ext pf time er ten days from the 2d instant ) burden upon the eitiz yy commission irs have been 8 banks that missioner of insolvent; but been paid, and on! Hlection thereof woul chinery of democrat ny has even been charged, mue against thiscomn an attention to duty - ministration as commend their work still more y to the property holders of th h; constantly labored und nherited from the old gover: embly and the Bo are thus freeing ulties thus imposed, and dy to render a service i ybarrassed by this inheri he movement to re ations no seandal less established. sand such effici amendment, emptions of the bill to two or thr load which wa ard of Public pending whieh th id the bill went ov ‘sey introduced a bill to authorize the 7 District of Columbia to Keferred to the Disirict moruing hour ex lest: men, be- tthews introduced a bill t ional Security Life Insu hington, D.C. n then proceeded to addres restive under ‘0 put their hands upon the ma- ry Whieh controls the di rs the pubite funds. » The Commissioners are by | men for taxpay heir government by such 1 suffrage would set up is almost whol hose Who have itching palins for pub- ion that the silver would driv n from the country, he said | impossible for fifty million silver to drive out two hundred million gold. It could only drive out fifiy million, and not that unless | was in excess of the requiren He did not believe th would demonetize er silve aise her stand machinery as uni m- | gore Kenyon, NED. — A Women wing Murdered her Hushend million, whieh. it was sa he thought would be m sia. so far as Germ at there Was an unva ue either in the one or There was no produc. bsolute stan nd they conelided to live apart. fe all his propert with his wite, He left his w and went to | ig arried a man named William C ot long aftery cumstances that aroused rrested on ch:rge dt for muder at y than the Cnited St rand yet we h: “She was acquitted, ve with her father. | ward he died very das much the nl yet no American the abolition aptain and in | of one of the ni rd in our own lan Khe ery of distress and an equal or greater gold countries of Euro} th wail comes from th It had been said id be disjointed by she wrote to and that she expec property to be he of congratulation that ou The strength of ace lay in’ the fact that the held by their own’ peop! those | ieian pronounced | livided a ng the true me h must at times oc e Standards were used. y currency could not be ed on the gold standard Hi by means of this flour, it had been sold t | Went to look for Mrs. C: i | | | _ MINISTERS H —While the Baptist min isters Were iniently diseussing the su t m of the Resin. Williams (Mich.) off mn so amending the rules as to give the | privileges of the tloor of the House of Repr to the Commissioners of the Dis. tunbia for the time being. Referred nittee on rules. 7 ens introduced a preamble resolu at it was alleged that funds ap -ducational purposes in the In- | erritory were di that too much money was relaboraie argument, y Javerous stranger excitedly ‘anger to you cards the resurrection of 1 you [sensation and more ‘e righteous shall be | ody, let me tel 5} “that the he protection of this | ye filth q ger stalked down the aisleand went out.—[. Ss ton, and directing the committee on In 's be instructed to invest e with regard | tribttion of said funds and report s been used for the payment of nd how much ha a special from Ch About six weeks ‘ant Rogers, a boy eleven y bya stone which was thr |. The inflammation whic was subdued in 2 short the Indian tribe: ed leave to offer a preamble ting that the trade dolla and by nation: nly taken by brokers and mer nd therefore directing ‘easury to stop the fur- geof the trade dollar, and to con- reulation to the purposes for which it Mr. Peddie thought oor that the e» but was followed |, Mt Pedic as comitose eonditio: during which the bo both the skull ata discount the Secretary of the mater adhered | also that a watery serum had formed, pressing down upon the optic nerve, had been it ‘inally intended. a great hardship on the Har should be subject discount, and the House should at once take the subject into consideration. Mr. Bright suggested that a remedy be found in the remonetization of silve: i referred to the commit- THE Papa ABL sion to the United Stai Right Rev. Dr. Conroy, land, to the Dominion of Canada, to investi- gate the condition of the Cati Holy See, is alre to most Catholies in the United State: bie information has just been received in this city from Rome that, owing to the satisfactory manner in which the ablegate disc! nerous duties imposed on him, the sphere of his labors is to be extended to the United States. An eminent theologian in the arch- York states that there is a strong probability that Dr. Conroy will remain ATE—An Important Mis- The mission of the p of Ardagh, Ire- tie Church and report to the ly well known The resolution w ephens introduced a joint resolution authorizing the President of the United State to invite an international monetary commis- sion to consider the establist alue for gold and silver coinage. Referred. M ad resolutions of the ature of California in relation to the im- certain harbors there. ment of a uniform diocese of New provement of Telegrams to The Star. THE EUROPEAN SITUATION. RUSSIA TAKES RUSTCHUK AND SILISTRIA. meteors FLOOD EN CALIFORNIA. ——— APFAIRS IN EUROP! The German Parliiment. Bentiy, Feb. &—The German Parliament Will be opened today by Herr Camphausen, Vice president of the Council of Ministers. speech from the throne was read by Hert mphausen. Inthe passage reiative to for eign aftviis the Emperor expresses the hope 1 will enable the © cou! and durabiy estalvished. Sight partic ipation of Germany tn eastern a fairs allows the Empire to display disinterest- ed co-operation in the arr ange be made by t arautees agair the east, and for the amelioratic dition of the Christian population the Emperor's policy attained its object, inas much as it bh ~ d the preservat a hail ‘ins not only peaceful but alto. rm gether friend Roun: ) Roumania insists on ha yey te sobrud ja withont ceding Bessa- bia to Russia.” The Russians a io apy Rustehuk rin. The correspondent of the 7 quarters of the Czarwiteh t lows: * Three hours before the news of the armistice a Russian officer, with a flag of t had started for the Rustehuk to demand its Surrender, and if refused to notify the consuls a her fore when the pl conditions of the wes at the head phs as fol rival of the give up Rustehuk withdraw the farriwon to Shur Seven days are to be allowed ment of the garrison. On the eighth shall mareh into. Rustehuk. —P peace ts hailed with gi delight cers and men.” [2 tion of Rustchuk and § understood to. be will be unw tothe Ton day news of voth any other great capital. It ¢ tranquillity of a smailtown in one of U states, and the authority that would be deliberation by the pi eign ministers of the po S80 al result suring a Zood and practic: Rus eves this Would factlitate a sp disposal by conte tions it would h of a lastin eof the important ques- ve to deal with in the interest ud of humanity ‘alifornia. 6.—The | acramento are to the eflect no danger whatever from the break in the levee ts to hended within the lim- its of the city. ‘The outlying portion of the city south of the K street levee is flooded, the water standing in some houses to a depth of two feet, but that neighborhood is thinly pop. ulated the overtiow will w extensive The principal . nd_ orchard owners f below the city, tance of rough estimate neighborhood of of the ne million doilars. Betails Atent of the disaster must necessarily, however, come in slowly, and the abi mates may prove excessive. From the e figuration of the ground it is not impossi that at a point some miles below th gteat portion of the tlood-water may be turned of i . stward of the tim proved pr latter save Irom the worst ny A Party Evizasera, N, 3 the city council | which commenced on the Nuary, Was broken last night by a » between the democrats and re- After a mi ht session and in of the whole the salary ordin all offices filled, thie bon e ats, . pass republicans fill | purpose of mak investigation | as regards the a ination ing lle The Gover OTTAWA. ( NOT ¢ this morning. dent Hayes turned from ashington accompanied by a son of Prest Acqui New York. Feb. ed. he impeachm: case of Police Justice Dufly was concluded to-day. The court unanimously acquitted him. he Markets. February 6.—Virginia sixes, consolidated, 56%: do. second Caroina sixes,'old, 16 bid to-day. ten pruary 6.—Cotton dull and steady—middling, 104210%. Flour dull and un- changed. Wheat, southern dull and easy; weste dull and closing’ firmer—southern red, 1.25al.30 40. amber, "1.831.305; Pennsylvania. red, 1-30; No. 2 winter red western, spot aud Febraary, 1.28'sa1.2545; March, 1.30a1/30's. Corn, southern firmer for white: ia, 35238. = A fair demand and steady — Maryland, 14.0046, s 0al6, ally unchange Butter, ehoice 20: firm—roll, n20: 5 i} bi peoomor rl San onet ag ra Hmoed dull aud nowt: sky steady, 108550100. Roce | four. wheat, 26,000; corn ate, 000: oats, 10,000, “Shipme in this country a legate of the dowed with ail the muncios in “Catholie countri pected action of the Holy See w Jon of the divine referred to, “ inual complaints sent ard to difficulties between bish The recent ville and Detroi favor of the appellan’ tude in the propa; cipline in this ¢ u owers conferred o1 Mr. Muldrow introduced a bill to make the it i: | department of Agriculture an_ executive de- partment of the go’ . Mr. Landers presented memorial of ¢ 1, asking an investig conduct against Al | of Providence, certain charg postmaster of t! S| LOND | ops and pas. lution, which pmmittee on tigate the causes and cir- vreck of thesteamer onduct of the life saving serviee,and also to report such legislation as may be necessary to prevent unseaworthy and overladen vessels from going to sea. ; Mr. Butler asked leave to offer a resolution eaker of the House of Repre- journ the House at 3 o'clock leliver the hall over to Mrs. la Beecher Hooker to make an argument in favor of the right of suffrage for women. Objection was made by several members. Mr. Harrison rose to a and said he was not di lege to refute anything he saw in a newspa- personal nature: but when a attacked a committee of this House an lead the members, he felt it his duty to correct the error. He found in a paper this mornin; rd to the investigation o! rkeeper of the House, and acer committee of conducting the investi; secret, He wanted to state for the informa- tion of the House that the committee at its first meeting had resolved that it would con- tion openly and in public. ad asked adi nda regardin n Where the chureh is king such rapid strides, as instanced by the arge number of Catholic churehes in New York city alone, and its Catholic population of 660,000, any attempt to deprive priests of the benefit of canon law, though technically exist in our mis: cannot fail to as agreed to, instructing the commerce to invest cumstancesatten Metropolis and th ce o productive of seandal. adjust such disputes is the mission of the ab- rding to the information in my N.Y. Herald. directing the Sj sentatives to ac SUICIDE OF 4 DocTor.— prominent physician of Ber! ‘a., committed suicidt Gerardstown, Monday evening. About ‘ei o'clock, without any intimation of his intent, li walked into an unoccupied room, and his iami gun rushed. inand r. W. F. Smith, a ‘Keley county, privileged q le at his residence, near to u! hearing the re und him weltering in his No cause for the suicide is as- ee eae THE NEw KING OF ITALY, says Anne Brew- ster, “has an iron will and an_ obstinate, He is rather after the cut Brandenburgs: he has some- thing of the rudeness of the middle - Prince Amadesu, the ex-kin: an almost monkish temper. go over to the Vatican, see the and soften matters. ig Hi out in arage: ‘I prohibit ‘thee! commence my reign wit miliation or submissi GEORGE CRUIKSH: rist, Who has just di a statement in re duet the investi No one was excluded who ha sion, but as the room was small, all could not There was no dis} hing in secrecy. Everyth there was not @ man on the committee who Was not disposed to do equal and exact jus- ice. Mr. Dunnell wanted to know what paper the gentleman referred = Mr. Harrison replied that it was the Wash- the democratic dif it had been at the truth in this error, it would not of Spain, sof ‘ition to do any- ing was open, and 4 single actof hu- | 4j, HANK, the English caricatu- ied at nearly 86 years of earned with his very fruitful pen a good in his line of work, and with a coarse, but healthy British humor, and an honest and eager moral purpose, did good kind and deserves to be remembered. He was fortunately discouraged in his youth from be- coming a medicro artist in oifs, and early in he became noted as a ical caricaturist on the whig side, a broad satirist upon social vices, trated several of the early books of Dickens, his “Boz” sketches, “Olive: Twist, Mr. Dickens’ d meeting voted to subscribe for ten thou. | as industrious in get: service to his Mr. Wilson, from committee on foreign atf- fairs. reported a bill to amend the Revised Statutes in relation to refundin; cranny imposed, in violation of treaty Aiter debate the ill the committee for further examination. Th ed to the considera- tion of the contested election ease of Wij ton vs. Pacheco, from the 4th California t as recommitted to » &e. Since, ny leath, the old artist has ad- vanced the idea that he himself was the origi- nator of ‘Oliver,” and it is said that he had of this fond conceit to a similar responsibility for “‘Dombey and Son,” or for rtions of it. Among his notable works n many in the interest of total and his series of cartoons entitled “The a) as well known in this country as A WoMAN BURNED TO DEATH.—A New Y. Norfolk, Vi Herald special, dated ay ol ‘oeintal Gonth inte yentorday at f ned a few miles rom, this city, EDESTRIAN’S DEATH.—Chas, A. Cush- edestrian, of Boston, who recentl: walk 134 hours with only a resi 'es, has died from the et the undertaking. BEN Wabe's Wixnss.— Wade, who has been , is Somewhat h prostrated, liable to set Lem to of five minut , 200, 5 | “NEW YOR ruary 6. vy ain | lower. Money. 5. Gold, 11%, and 102. Exchange Jong, 4814; short, 4834. Governments weak and ower, NEW YORK, February 6.—Fiour without im- | portant change.” Wheat 43 and Lcent lower, Corn quiet and declining. ’N, February 6, 12:30 p. m.—Consols, oth money and the account, U. 8. nt. bonds, 106s; IB6T's, s, coupon, 108'4; ‘new fives, 1044 > D4; Iinois Central, 7744. New Jersey Cen- tral,"17%. Reading Rallroad, 15, ——_—_—-<ee--____ Was it EAnTHQUAKE?—A mysterious at- mospheric shock or earth throe, wh a great part of Long Island on Mon ing, is the subject of much spe regions affected. It is descrit vere in Flushing, College Pe although ho damage is rep these towns. Houses shook and win- rmingly, with no other result its. Jacob Roemer Was much more perceptible. Miss Robertson, the ticket agent at the Bridge street depot, who has felt California earthquakes, is sure that the ground did not shake, but that the shock was from a concussion of the air. This description is generally agreed with. The phe- homenon was not felt west of the Flushin: flats, but is reported as fur east as Islip an Bay Shore.—[N. ¥. Sun, 6th. EIGHTEEN MONTHS IN STATE PRISON. — Christian Ohlandt, charged with criminal Sault on Mrs. Adie W. Oakman, of Boston, in New York,on the 30th of January, was’ ar- New York yesterday. le pleaded lity to assault and battery. Judge Gildersieeve, in passing sentence, said the complainant was much in fault, and as the circumstances were of a very peculiar character, he would only impeats penalty of eighteen months in state prison. STATEMENT OF THOMAS Loxp, JR.—The New York World publishes a statement from Thomas Lord, jr., in which he char, that his father’s estate has been so greatly Neted By. the exorbitant demand for mom . Hicks ey past ae that its one check $100,000; in another $100,000, one ie, $240,000, and that she owes him, prin- cipal and interest, $900,000. Bonds amounting to $10,000, the S-_ of his oldest ren who has long been insane, which were inhis charge, cannot be found. The had nearly perf nts to have the a go in the hand of a 5 without involving the famfly and its head in unpleasant publicity, when he sprung the mar- longest and mort obdesste pak That has eu a e em- barrassed New York's trade for CA say be, sewed mo os helio sul as turers have suflered heavily in loss of trade a th the spelling ss raw ee] members. ts ized. and 4