Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1878, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, Except Sunday AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, yivania Avenne, corner lith reet, 5 | The Evening Star Newspaper Compary — 8. H. KAUFFMANN, Pres’t. ——— postage pre- j ten “SPECIAL NOTICES. TIAN CHURCH. V c es. CRY. Will poeaca t wrelock. Seats free. THE Soler F S KNIGHTS OF ST. Cx a UARY +E or “it isis tion, hasdecided | 1 iE a man be rh etween est work —a | his vicarage the connecting Livine—God's no nth hy his wistom, Ki stabliity eet, Th: ight and stres kis ore Evenmna Star. TWO CENTS. One must cert admire the courage | ‘THE EVENING STAR. ‘Washington News and Gossip. GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DA revenue. $310,418.32: customs, $31 —W. Lowest Broo: w York, the ract of supplying the owvernmen cont MARINE OFFICERS request of Gove Russell and Z 060 TO Pat kK. 1 rine h Will zo to the Paris ex look after U.S. property. SUBSIDY FOR Brazitian Mar reads today bill to The bi No CLE wai TO THAT $1,800 ee investigating the loss of e yesterday submitted thei The + as the con and make i wud directness of act accomplished mere for the | AMONG THE CALLERS at the W kas teen tone since the Wimtand distant | this morning were Senators Boot he r life of the Chareh, bese! positive wits ef infidelity. and by the trucalent and ore dang being more insiduous attacks et skeptic He kept the faith of Christ feund if, though shorn of his temporal authority, he grew Still, and stood broal above Bis lextending the Church passed with it nel th h the fiery . more perfect do meet t spect to the Virtue thotie T have Be sul cee st In honor of the distinguished dead we diape our banner in mouraing for space of thirty days, beginning February 11 1878, 1 > BUFFALO LITHIA WATER. > posi A fresh supply received and for sale by W. S. THOMPSON, 703 16TH STREET, THE FAMOUS QUOT SPRING WATER | century has wromght sueb f KIDNEY DISEASES, * 328-tr MISSIS) wit COFFEE, TEA AND CHOCOLATE, a“ MILBURN'S, 1429 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, COLD SODA AND MINERAL WATER on @raught during the winter. SAMUEL G. YOUNG, NOTARY PUBLIC, | OFFICE—STAR BUILDING. decd-tr oeth?-if [Re CELEBRATED | PHILADELPHIA PRINT BUTTER. GEO. M. OYSTER & CO. 181m Center, Northern and Eastern Markets. Wasmneron HOME REMEDY. DR. LEWIS’ PLASTER. ne large and six small. Surpasses Capcine and Porous. Sore cure for Cuts, Burns, Bruises and | Rbeumatism. Boid ty all Druggtsts. ask for a Circular. Janz3-ly | | \ SEVEN FOR A QUARTER. | | | LUMBER. | j LUMBER. LUMBER. WILLET @ LIBBEY. CORNER SIXTH STREET AND N. Y. AVENUE. - | OUB PRICE LIST 18 THE LOWEST ON | LATHS! LATHS! LATHS! | LATHS—Eest Bangor; per thousand ..,......§2.00 JOIST STUDS; per hundred feet. 1.56 | FENCING 1x6, 16 FEET; per bundred....... 1.50 WASHBOARKDS, Dressed & Jointed; CLEA 1.50 WIDE 18-1NCH BOARDS, Dressed.....-...- 2.50 GEORGIA HEART FLOORING, LARGE 8TUC UCK. PAILINGS, DRESSED, 4 PATTERNS, With ‘Bcrool Work, Ww DEY LUMBER Under Cover in our Large D: LUMEEE SHED. WILLET & LIBBEY. CORNER SIXTH STREET AND N. ¥. AVENUR, @@ No Branch Yards.-Ga | qpemenear EUROPEAN NOVELTY HUNYADI JANOS. THE BEST NATURAL APERIENT. THE LANCET —*+Huuyadi Janos.—Baron Lie- big affirms that its richness in aperient salts | Surpasses that of all other known waters. THE BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL. —“Ilun- yadi Janos. eeatile, safest, and ** Invariably ood and prompt success; most valuable. ** PROFESSOR BAMBERGER. Vienna **1 have Preseribed these Waters with remarkable suc- cess. PROFESSOR SCANZO “I pre- Seribe none but this."? PROFESSOR LAUDER BRUNTON, M D.. F. R.8.. London. **More pleasant than its ri Vals, aid Surpasses them in etficac’ 1, Wurzburg. PROFESSOR AITKEN. M.D., F.R.S., Royal Military Hos * Preferred “to Pullna and Friedrieshail.** A WINEGLASSFUL A DOSE. Every genuine bottle bears the name of THE APOLLINARIS Co. (limited), London. FRED'K DE BARY & CO., 41 and 43 Warren st., mew York, Sole Agent for United States and Canadas. or Sale by Dealers, Grocers and Drug- gists. aug27-mwf,eow, ly LL HO VALUE THEIR si ray the best One Dollar wy ES secu) suited to bY H.H. H a oPur 453 Pa. ave. n.w., cor. &3g street, eee EAS FREER PERFUM- Patent Ot aoe ‘> CLG Sth strest, opposite U. B. | ot | Steamship lines to Conover and Plumb, Repre Herbert. Dwight. Pound ane Geo, Hazelton and Mr. W. L. consin. itati 1 Linco! COMMISSIONERS Pans E The President Texas; W. C. Homer Sanborn Ovegon, honorary Varis exposition: the ge The President has sign the seventeen a perts to the published 5 appointments before the list pleted. ro (Quinby. i John Van Th ihe conn HMISSIOL hose bein ‘affairs nt 4 an ehgageme f it tend to these ignity of bein liey or Str pardial. and yet also entitied to the Dattle.” The numbe: asa battalion to carry th ment, Shall be entitled to: upon 1s colors and upon the arm name of the batth ’ 3. Wilson & Co., of lowest bidders for the e Wilh ink, and will probably be awarded to command the gnard of a PACKAGE, retary ¢ the missing m n, and He ppointed A. W. Californi Slate commissioners to the They were nom »vernors of the States they r names. w will be three more will be com- ——— | ing the White House, wore a Jovely white dress Wat Is 4 Battn rd of officers, ; and pearl ornaments. Mrs. Powers. of Main k and Colonels | Wore an elegant toilet of und W.D. Whip of compantes which is which is necessary to a member of the Cabinet and his family who undertake to entertain in Washington. The possibility of choosing their guests is absolutely denied them. Every one, whether a resident or stranger, who chances to be here when there is iree given by one of the President's counselk nd who cares to attend it, feels t —Internal n- at printing U the same p d the entertainment. Varts: s doubtless been con- inced that the saer of his law elie was not the only impor RIS— AL the Jientenants have The Sifver Bill. AMENDMENTS TO THE } LAND BILL. nate Will vote on the silver bill to-d: FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, Fripay, February 15. ATE.—The chair iaid before the Senate ommunication from Joseph Henry, + transmitting the report of the bi regents of the Smithsonian institution, and the usual number of copies were ordered printed. Mr. MePherson introduced a bill to provide for experiment with, and the purchase of movable Lorpedoes for military purposes. Re- ferred. Important Decision in the Chicago Land Case. ' A GOVERNMENT PATENT TO ISSUE VALUABLE ACRES IN THAT CITY. | The Commissioner of the General Land OF | fice has decided that part of the old Fort Dear born reservation, now within the limits of the city of Chicago, is public land, and therefore declares that the application of Thomas B. Valentine for the location of government serip on the land must be granted anda patent It is not known that there will be any other speakers on the main bill than the two gentlemen named above. In additi the amendments to the original Bld made by the Senate ecommitier on finance, | iting the coinage to not than four Hions nor less than two millions per month, | must issue. This is a most imporlant decision, | Mr Antl mmittee on print and striking out the free coinage clause of the | involving interests of great mat inry, report olution for printing the pe- Vill, ther heramendinents. In their | land thus declared public propert | i titions and memorials presented present Congress in Yage, and it was agr r ing the ‘elation to woman's suf ed to. mendments are as fol By Mr. Allison, proposing an interna. 1 monetary conference to esiabdlish a com tion of which the scrip in the presi Will be located, is not more than ten g ai ndertaking to serve hte i extent, but is exceedingly valuable. The city | Mr. Voorhees called up his resolution of yes ny puderta king to serve, nly en Mon ratio of legal tender as betwee: of Chicago. was heard in ition to the | terday, directing an inquiry: relatios tothe position to | daughte their guests the co silver. for the purpose of establ claimant, and the case was el: elyargued. | bonds of certain railroads p ed for by the | last evening of really seem e | tionaily the use of bi-metallic money. By Tt is held by the commission in this case that | acts of July h, 26th, and 29th, 1865) and oceas They did no is le Limiting the legal tender vitlue of tie | the agent of the Secretary of War had not the | amended it by substituting committee on ter Service.— | found i sant to say to eve: . | Silver dollar to sims oy it | power under the act of 1819 to dedicate public | titories for the judiciary committee. The ¢ Ss great as on any” simi- ton, teoina | lands or dispose of it in any way, except as | — Mr. Dorsey ofiered au. amendinent, extend jlar occasion in the pasi, while the . Mr. Christianey. | provided by law. The meaning of the law w | ig the inquiries of the committee to the pr pointinents were in many respeets super 1 rs of 434 grains, lesal tender | judicially determined by Mr. Justice MeLean, priety of extending a territorial form of gov to those Which have usually characterized Py nd private debis, except where | in the case of the U.S. vs, Railroad Bridge Co... | ernmient over sich sections of the country as receptions, ‘The streets around the house ise provided 1 {. The | and also by Attorney General Butler. It is | were illum ed with a ealeium light 1 from the house to th street. rly as nine o'elock were im line 1 street, and by ha sded. Yet there sion outside, or_ inside. rooms for the I ond tloor, and for the © | the second floor one room ha ‘akes, and sandwiche sh themselves on arr The supper room down alithe evening, anda tive Waiter vakes, and pestaneny F-past the conta ressing ded on the see- eutlemen above. On | bles with te: where f the $1,500 FS hittee ha Hey, hite House | th, Ingalls, ves Hayes, | + the simpliet Mrs, Evarts Wore bias muslin over blue silk danvasse over the same evidently prefe Miss EvartS a white tie “a bly in. of Wis: Posttio: . of Many he si guests at as well as that of Secretary toilets of ne dle elegance Angus Cameron wore a ¥ ted by mi; ners ore the guest of Mr cently dre: lave.” Her nive u a brocade, d Miss Seott, who is ia urdinal red si With an overdress of point lace flowers: or diamonds. ton, of M ea very 1 estooned W Mis. Siu! Batth vnaments, dia- | ofthe value sto remain in force only one ye enacted by Congress. allowing bullion owners to cane at U.S. Mints in quantities ss than $109, and in ex- refor the officer of the mint shall n_ certitie: ‘ how have none. AL also held that the cussion the resolution was laid over m reservation and Yhat the factthat it lies with the limits of an*ineorporated city does not sufect its nature. Tt is therefore unoceupied and unappropriated_ publ nd within the | meaning of the act of April A By Mr. Morgan, deposit the aving been y'vluck, resun pleted the. e consideration of change th ¢ A authorizing THE SILVER BILL issu Y es. The retary of the | the issu Valentine s patent Mr. Ingalls addressed the Senate and said, Treasury is authorized to pay these certificates | must allowed | in his opinion, the fi al attairs of the in legal tender notes or silver dollars. | in whie y of the In- | country had suifere ot doctors than By MF. Booth, that the holder of « uthor- | terior. | trom: disease, and proceeded. lo. ¢ large ized by the act may deposit the same with any : number of the contradictory prescriptions U.S.t istant treasurer, and re- | The Investigation of Doorkeeper | tiat have been tendered 3 S for ex- Polk. | isting e If_ the proposition to demonetize THE TESTIMONY TO-DAY. silver Was now an original proposition, he ‘The committee,on reform in thi doubted whether there was a ¢ Yeasurer or therefor certificates of not less tha each; said certific ecting the Sec of the T lezen counties , et 3 : ions | inthe United States that would vote for it. Iver bullion at the market price, | Vice to-day continnaed the investigation He ciajn that there were 25 stat n three million doliars per month, | Doorkeeper Polk's department favored Temonetization, S that opposed ite and as inuch more as mal att Alfred Lee and John Bell, two colored lab: and 5 that were about equally divided. mints, and ¢ 0 silver dollar | ers, testitied t | the’ House sin | paid in tun, they had rendered service in e Oct. Dith last, but had not been HOUSE.—Mr. Wright presented resolutions of the legislature of Pennsylvania in relation the gain froin ¢ xo to the treasu Hereafter all dollars, quarter dol: ces coined at U.S. mints rommmitiee authorizing the ional monetat red Lo committe Niants making agai 1. Polk, testitied that he was appointed ant superintendent of t K ument room on Oct. 1th last and standard silv Amendment. stitute, by Mr. Christiancy gp coinage of silver dollars of mission. Re inaxe, et num, Subsequently, Mr. Ryan inwodueed a bill for r gold coinage of the United Is to be the | aut. said ht the Mlinois a ters on Osage Indian land, in I rd of value, present veat | ed the place for one of their men, and that | ferred. ary sil ‘al Polk wanted Bacon, who had the place M. for all sums after the pas: together wit hy law, and Shallenberger Was! ack, to please Hon. W. R. Morrison. He was redtced to $1.6 sa but Polk promised to make up by appoin ing hi age. Dutty told his memb r, Hendrie 3. Wright, of Pennsylvania, of the arrangement, Dut he objected, ise he nt one family to monopolize all the | offices to Which his district Was entitled. Polk | ked Duty to resign, and he would get | through making a place for hint the silver dt to the fact that th aple v i id property on account inade. f ad asking elie. Referred. ar order having been demanded. Spe: alled the committees for reports private nature. Knott, from the committee on the judi “| hills ta Teiove the political y r bullion in bars, stamped ny of the U hints, together with the trad doll shall be a leg tender for all debts, a cording to the market yalue ascertain and deciared int Mauner provided mth bill, of such silver coins and bullion as com- pared With gold at its standard value. It is . Seer ri ot Wan. ©, Whitth phn D. Sims, mons, «Singleton, and his | the duty of the Secretary of the Treas r. Dufly said he could not do iy. Win. Shar as J. ; laughter, Mrs. si companied her. Mrs. | at Pee er eat ioe | said yeshe could,as he hada eor recman, E. Nash mith wore one of the laudcomest white toi | ve the va silver coins and bullion. on Congress. and could get anything he | K.M. Spottsweod, of Virginia; C, H. William. letsseen. The wife of Assistant Paymas' | The Secretary of the Treasury s authorized to | Wanted from the commitiee s. | son. of New York, and Jolin B. MeCowen. of General McClure was one of the most distin. ; ¢Xchanze any silver coins, insums not exeeed- | Putty refused to 1 | Arkansas, and they were all passed. est guishe ry ed wealth | in 1 amount of U + | the Christmas holidays, When he was notitied Mr. Eden, from the mittee on war t inay be | of snowy hair attracting n itention, ed and cancelte by Polk of his discharge. élaim bs nl to transfer pends, it is | wore a Dlack satin, with revers of blue I tes. A HALLETT KILBOURNE REMINISCENCE. quart mmissary claims to the nztermed a |g flace. Mr deemed under this act ueky hospitalit ned with her usual courtesy. She wis antly a ed in blue damasse of the texture over blue sitk. A blue feather was he When reginien | fastened in her hair wih diamonds, and she solidated. which are emtitled to honors by the | also wore other diamond ornaments. Her rule laid down for reximents, the new organ: | gereeable husband and daughter were her ization is entitled to the combined honors of | Able assistants in ente dining. MissJohnson | he battalions consolidated. | | A CONSCIENTIOUS LADY'S OPINION | SILVER BILL.—The Secretary of the 1 ed the following letter one dollar | Fas conscien ni Small piec from England. to add t nf I * expression of may dom, thal which has weatl y ved f the sliver bill. TRE Massacnvserrs CLt evenmg for Washington. ably attend Mrs. Hayes’ ree and in the evening they nin their honor at the r Vm. Claflin, where they. will ssachusetts delegation anid se’ Wied guests. They er chal ‘ption “A NATIONAL CONVENTION of Trade” is to be held in this city on stant. Its objects are presented in To ask Congre: tee ss: lod utes mail s! hat « tender aid in es! JECTED RESOLUTION.—The on military a v yof the condition of affair tn frontier and the danger ai outbreak of Indian host! looking toward the reduction of t force of the army is not justiiea dition of the country is unsat wise. DECLINES 4 JUDGESHIP, judgeship of the second circuit of 0 States, it by the death of Judge A. s. | itol Hill, Mr. Nels . Perkins, Mrs. Den. toHon- Samuel Blateh, | Bison and Miss Williains, of Baltimore, and district courtand hae been | Mr. Philip B. Key, of the same city,’ Miss eutieman. The cireuit in- | J#hes and Miss Mann, ern and southern New Yor! CONFIRMATIONS. The Senate in sle tobe Uni | A sub-committee of the Commitiee of One Lyons: Edward Wheeler to | Hundred ; «i before the House commit nal revenue at Little Rock, | tee of the District of Columbia this morning Avk., and a number of army promotions. | and urged the committee to take some speedy . LE Dec Fousp ov His | action with reference to determining th DoonrsrE of the agricultural bureau und a step of the agricultural building a young man ed inebriated. He had him removed to ge station house. Among the effects of considerab and would willingly wait for action on the dill which he was possessed were several letters | to provide a form of government. for the Dis- from; Congressmen recommending him for a | trict. place in any of the e: ive departments. - HOVEY PROTESTS. ae = 2 peace Mr. Hovey, on behalf of the sehool board, AT THE CABINET MEETING to-day it was de. ‘ed before the committee, and protested cided to appoint Judge Blatehford, of New | against the section of the commiktee's bill York, to the ney in the U. 8. District | Which abolishes that board. The sense of the Court. The subject of the Louisiana return. | Committee was elicited through diseussion, : board Was not touched upon, ministration is waiting the result tion for a new trial. EX-SURGEON ( fore the House n ing. in his case as to permit him to be his old rank and resign. litary eommittee DECISION ADVERSE TO VALENTINE ScRIP. In the matter of the application of Blanchard to locate Valentine se some twelve acr cided by Comm land in’ question 1827 for the purpose of aidin: tion of a canal with Lake Michigan. The land is the state, or those kexing unde patent cannot issue to the elai in th bracing the Black Hills section of and Dakota, to be called the territory of Wy- oming. ——+ +2 -__. the State Depart. bandoned. ve The Grand Ball at ment not Al WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 15, 1878. Te the Editor of the Star:—It having been first authoritatively announced January 1, simultaneously in THE Star, the Philadel. the Gilobe-Democrat, and the ‘ew York Trifnme, that the Sect State proposed giving a grand ball at the De- pa ent of State after holding one or two at n residence, itean be mentioned by way ublished in THE Stak Re ia Press, his of correcting the letter Ce yesterday, that the + I retary W! mentioned immediate! Rarus, three races, mile heats fora #1.000a side each race, first trotted in Cleveland between June 1th and July Ist. I: left Boston last arrived 1-day. ‘ange matters irs yesterday rejected by a large majority a resolution, “that, in on the Mexi- ing from the es, any mei —The cireuit court | j¢ ont. Conneeticnt, northern, & the following — Yesterday Commissioner Le Duc, ERAL HawMOND was be- He wants the army record so amended sof land in Mlinois, it is de- joner Williamson that the is merely an accretion to a section which was granted to the state in connecting the Illinois river imant. TERRITORY OF WyOMING.—The Senate com- mittee on territories agreed to-day to report favorably a bill to create a new territory, em- after Lent. which there will be music and dancing. A CHALLENGE has been issued by Col. H. S. Russell to match his horse Savaper against Was attired in white demesse. Mrs. Mac. Avthur wore a superb white brocaded silk re. lieved with erimson velyet and a quantity of : point | led with flowers: ornaments from New | mag amonds. She was accompanied “A lady | by Mr hur. money, for | up tntil al _cotton mit: is presamy- dliplon: | lens attended | Strong's recepti } weil represented. fd Guraes arts’ and Jndge Cabinet was also . in addition to those Miss Platt, Assists General and M BI 1 Met b will prob. to morrow willattend esidence of 1 meet the ‘al other kKsou Potte nator Angus Irs, and © nd Mrs. meron and Miss Hiss Carpenter; Repres fiss Durham; Hon. Car ehter. Representative Mr. Fore and wife, iv y.) and Banks (Mass. geo Gen'l and Miss Barnes, Mrs. B Miss Newton. Representative Pow Judge, Mrs. and Miss Ashton, MissChevallie, M Mrs. Corwine, Mrs. Blake and Miss Sailie Wood and Miss Th of PI , Colonel an iss Febiger, lington and M and the Misse: Newport. the Export the 19th in- these thre to revise i) re bas Senator ss, Mrs. and Miss Shaw, M . Miss Dickerson and < Mr., Mrs. and iss “Andrews, House com- re T Fassett, Mrs. and Miss he ete e Schenck, Mr.and Mrs. Horatio King, by the cou- | 1 and’ Miss Christinas, Col. Win fe and me | te i Lys. and Miss Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Neil, General and Mrs. Williams, of indiana, Mr. Sanchez, peatue, Miss B: - of Tennessee, 3 | juid Miss Slierlock, Mi 3. Macdon: Smnith, of € the United S _A most delightful Valentine german was | Siven last evening by some of the young peo- | ple of Capitol Hill, at the residerice of Mr. | Clark, on venue, 1 executive ‘The District in Congress. THE HOUSE COMMITTEE TO-DAY. ¥ to be col. : Benjamin port the Dist terest on the bond: paraiuount quest and the people we > aud the payment of the i on the d oor. urgent to have it sett dd it seemed to be that while the bill placed the duties of all the various boards under the Commissioners, there was nothing in it whi prevented the continuance of the present sys tem if the Commissioners so desired. THE DISTRICT GOVERNMENT BILL. The committee agreed to bring up the bill } to provide a form of government in the Dis- trict in the House on Monday and press its onsideration. Mr. Hendee, to test the sense of the commi tee, made a motion that if the bill failed to orge T. pass the H that the bill introduced by upon him February Ith (the provisions of which were set forth editorially in yesterday's STAR) | be pressed as a substitute. ‘The proposition | received one affirmative vote. - DISTRICT ESTIMATES. The appropriations committee has referred all the estimates of the Distriet Comm to the District committee, which will recom. mend what appropriations are necessary to defray the expenses of the District for the next fiscal ye: as the ad- of the mo- this morn- restored to e coustruc- owned by Yr it,and a THE Discovery has been m world does not revoive with the same mome! tum it did a thousand years ago, but it still swings around fast enough to sai isty the man with a heavy note coming due.—[Cincinnati Breakjast Table. DAN VOORHEES says he has a thousand con- le that the Wyoming ) in the same amount the Cited States would pay to sup- | 6 gratulatory letters that he has not had time to open ~ You can’t most always generally tell,” "Mr. Voorhees, until you have read a let- ter, whether it is complimentary or otherwise. [Boston Grobe. DISAPPEARANCE OF A NEW JERSEY MAyor. Trenton, N. J., is perplexed by the sudden dis- pppearan ce of J. Vance Powers, the mayor of Chambersburg, an adjoining village. He has been absent since Monday, and his family and business associates do not_ know where he is. Rumor is busy as usual, and delinquency as treasurer of an Odd Fellows lodge and finan- cia} em! nts are freely talked of. He enjoyed a large share of public esteem. i aut ook Oersoy 3 a been Ubteated n nusylvania house of representatives, the vote standing 79 for the bill’ to 78 agai it. Forty-six members, twenty-six of whom were from Philadelphia, failed to vote. etary of ill give the at ree in five race to be Duly was asked if he eve ' hibitinga roll of money, say { itoutofthe E Went about ex- ix that he made | lett Kilbourne case when he | had him in his eustody i jailasa deputy | geant-at-a . He he had not | le money out out Kilbourn, but adimitted that he had’ frequently allowed him to speud | his nights out of the jail. | commissioner of cla reconmitted. M ims. Ordered printed and art of the sinking fund. ‘Th certifieates of deposit of silver bi certificates to be payable in silver ba H the stamp of the mint or ay office where | i y Mr. Blaine, to coin a silver dollar . Depesite of silver id tor in authorized siive per ounce of bullio Thompson. from committee on war ck a bill for the reliel of reported a 1) B. Corbett, of Alexandria county, Va. dona od to private ¢ Robinson (Ine ted a Dill to defi m_same committee, | his : oe ee , law in relation to i Nf | pposition was made to. going into that sub. supplies fur diveetor of the mint, the rate to correspond | jeetas irrelevant tothe iinvertigation pend: | fern a ; with the market rat fur Bult oF Pi Ly jug which the committee adjourned wutil Mr. Townsend ered into the reasury rd gold or silyer bars j auy coinage mint oi hall be exchangable for nations of U.S. miu coinage is to be Monday, Indian afiairs. ‘wnsfer thy Kees to th versely on the bill claims of the eas land of court of claims. Laid on the ‘The Returning Board Prosecution VIOLATED PLEDGES OF LOUISIANA LEADEW The resolution introduced by ex-Goy. V i | te ! Che | table. ; | “Pending further consideration of reports of sare se | fe Touisian legisla veduesd a private nature the morning hour expired. how issued by #old€0 : my Paleo ee ae re Weduesaa Mr. Springer moved that when the House Mis OWN HanxoMay.—August: Neumann. of ets the committee on the judiciary to repor adieu today it be until Monday next. Sr east 49th street, was told by his landlord, | without delay whether or not the proseeution | Agreed to—l ey mene rae itewor ena Mr. Jacobs, on Saturday, that he would have | of the officers of the late returning board is | The House nen eat ie 6 oes ok tee to vacate his rooms unless he paid hismonth's | Not in violation of the ‘pledge of the govern. | Whole on the private calendar, Mr. Hooker in rent. Jacobs obtained a dispossess warrant — ment, made on the 20th of April, 1877, in words | the chair. vainst eumaAnn on Monday. Neumann | : De: it | 7 z ~ ea trae ihen be pondent because he could not | _, Lorn-Hicks Cowprowise—Suits to he With house for his wife and three littie | ! grawn.—There is to be no he: children. He locked himself iu his room yes. | | ith Ss Hicks case ay, and made a slip-snoose with a small | rife, and join hands in honestly | live today. Instead alter ce fasicned one end to the transom “f the the prosperity of Louisiana, the | have been arranged by counsel, papers are to rdoor, placed the noose around his neck. | olls government will discountenance any | be sixned by all the parties that will doubtless 1 on a chair and then kicked it from | attempted prosecution from any quarter of r as the counsel si end the controversy under him. He was de have gone the pried open. He was 45 yea employed in Steiiwa iory—|V. ¥. ALONE IN HER Hovse.—Catherine when the door was | Sof ae. He had | V's pitho manufae- | Sun. 1th. {| individuals for past’ political conduct: that the governor be requested to forward a cop: of these resolutions to the President of th United States: that the imittee shall have end for persons and papers and ex i have been accepted as satish d rid, his wite and Mr. Lord’s children, and there have been in reality only one or two points difficult to adjust. “The conferences have had for their pbject such au arrangement regarding ine Witnesses for the purposes of Unis re- Kintzer, aged 35, who lived alone inz all | istribution of Mr. Lord’s immense estate Jrame house on Nelson a ate, Jersey City, | THE SUIMECT DISCUSSED. should be fair to all parti nd the sons’ Was found dead in pea yesterda: he had Mr, Jones defended the action of the law of- 1] expectations as the been dead fer seve Thy. Sun, ith, YOUNG JOUNSON, who recently attempted | to kill his wife in Brooklyn for presuming to | jeave him because he ill-treated her, has been sent to the i He Asylum, by his friends, but thatitis no indication that he is insane. The establishment is famous as a place of involuntary seclusion for any trouble- some member of a famil: N. ¥. Sun. ficer of the state, denied t any pledge had — Lord’s righis he ly co) been made that implied immunity for the | sidered. “Proper provision has been made for members of the returning board, or that any | the large loans made to Mrs. L person or persons had authority to condone ee oy aE Lord, their offences against the laws of Louisiana; | as likely to . that the charge upon which Anderson was | the attempt at settlement. In convicted was not a political offence, but was | understood that satisfactory prov: children as heirs and Mrs. Lord for the crime of forgery, Which was a violation ‘ a ini; Ww agreed upon. and the proceedings of inquiry relative to Mr. Lord’s mental condition are to Ss general aw Warmoth held that the Nt joint resolution approved April 20th was an seen = alti ct of oblivion by | be withdrawn. Mr. Lord and his wile have ppeam yRow BertiNc: — William | the law making power of the. government for hot met his éhikdren whi conferences Hi have s, residing in Amity several miles le school on township, Berks county been going but they will all meet northwest of Pottstown, wi to embrace all persons and acts of a political Friday engaged in a play at noon that result. | (li! soquht to be ersten a eee ed fatally to him. He was foolishly butting in wor a ve a his head st those of two other boys to see | Waitin in words may have betn made oe fe who could stand the most. He resiuned his place in school in the afternoon, but towards evening, wheir at home, complained of dizz hess, and soon afterwards became quite sic! His sufferings continued to grow worse until Sati government CHEATING THE GALLOW | ' | past political conduct, that it was understood. | | so understood by the republicans, and to ig: nore or defy the fact now would be bad faith art of the » nent. defined his | Williams, alias Lewis Hill, who was condemned | to be hanged on the 22d of February at Isle of | Wieht Court House, Va., for the eriine of rape, escaped from the county jail last Monday "7 7 i would ex- night by burning a hole through the floor of See ree ie ey Pian | ssiy whe ion required. but his cell. He is how at large, with 2 sherif’s deen Laprareat # blood vessel in the head had | he now simply desired to say tat Mr. Jones reward for his capt iov. Holliday re pture. Gov. did not represent his opinion upon the sub- the Isth of January for 50 ject, andt he dissented from his views. Upon M rmoth’s motion the resolution laid over. aims on A REMARKABLE Casi from Dubuque, low: sicians pronounce t Alsop, the) remark: A FRIGHTFUL Coroner Goodha telegram hy 3. SAYS: 'Y alive of Thos. as one of the most was covered et of earth, impossible ¢ with his head lower her ait nor food, and a ust hisface. When he recover yuried miner, GOVERNOR NICHOLLS has refused to interfere with the law of or the courts, or to express his view: mate friends say that he could not consis’ With his sense of duty interfere undoubtedly act independent of an inch, nis feet, with 1 Ying corpse almokt was returning from the country, where he liad taken a load of furniture. He was intoxicated, resene ssi | ence on the part of the federal aitho and standing upright in the wagon with the There Guy fe nee ies eae he had been | snr equally independent of domestic crvdicion’ | reins around is Geek. Going down a steep condition, but lowly recovering. ‘The | UW the welfare of the state should require the , bill, he shouted and clubbed the horses to son Was buried to-day by the Odd Fellows. i se of the executive function. breakneck speed, when suddenly he was . ae py Ree CuOws;: THE CONTEMPT Case. thrown headlong to the horses’ heels, dragged N CONVICTED OF Gi. the county court of Clarke county, Va. on Monday iast, in the case of Mrs. Pope, indict- ed for shooting John Grubbs, a tenant, last Jail, the jury rendered a verdict of guilty, im- posing a fine of $100 and twenty days’ impris- onment. Judge Page overruled a imotion for a new trial and pronounced jud; execution of the judgment was susp: permit the defendant to ipply for a wr errorand Supersodcas, and tl in penalty of $500. stamped upon, and finally run over by the SHOOr i wagon wheels and killed. A verdict was re- turned in accordance with th 8. Deputy Collector Tomlinson, Deputy Mar- shal Wurzburger and Commissioner 1 peared before the superior criminal court yes- terday, purged themselves of the rge of contempt, and were discharged. Mayor Pills- bury and Administrator Cavane, by direction of the city council, called on General W. S. Hancock i lerday at the St. Charles Hotel and formally extended to him the hospitalities of the city. THE DEAD Pore AND His SUccEssOR.—The remains of Pope Pius were consigned to their temporary resting pe on Wednesday. The celebration of the funeral will be completed on Sunday, one day sooner than by the pro- | but further than the landing of an unruly ramme before published. This will enable — Italian below the starting point there was no the poncisys ascmbe on Sanday. The | indication of trouble. sans he moderate party are very con- Ss eae ea Ran tof si etn ike THE NEW JERSEY PRISON TORTURES.—These ident of success. A discussion has already K e y i revelations of the Trenton prison tortures be- taken, place on the, propriety of binding the | fore the investigating Sombaltece of the New new Pope to a_ predetermined line of policy. nf Si ci, . Oppose Jersey legislature are almost too hideous for Cardinal Peeci, the Cameriengo, opposed the | whee Gas cekcoee Maatifies in an oft ean propasal, which was advocated by Cardinal way that he saw a5 many as five or six cow ‘anning. It was decided by a large majority f Pe viets at one time with gags in their mouths; that the Pope should have the fullest freedom Saw men chained downto the floor and at cir of action. The foreign cardinals announce at the public oninion of their countries is fame Aime faswed 50 tently: fiat, they | cond Norable:t0 a conciliatory poliey adaptation of the rack—the stretcher, their We've HEaxD TuIs BEFORE.—Advices {rom | hands fastened to the ceiling and their tocs Havana report that the insurgents are trying touching the floor; saw convicts chained to the to arrange terms of peace all over the island, floor with their handeuffs on: often heard and the end of the insurrection is rapidly ap- | screams coming from the dungeon ; had seen a vrists 0 Miss DavENPoRT’S PLEA OF GUILTY.—AS | up paar ¥. Sun, lth. ad been strung has already been announced, Miss Emma Dav ——— ernport, an attractive young Virginia lady, Gov. TILDEN AND THE RETURNING BoaRD was recently tried in the United States court, | PRosEcUTIONS.—The report liaving been re- at Richmond, Va. She was charged with ab- | vived that Goy. Tilden is the real inspiration Orr FoR BRAzi1.—The steamship Richmond, with laborers and pupplies for the Brazilian railroad contract of Messrs. P. & T. Collins, completed faking in cargo at Philadelphia yes terday, and sailed about five o’clock p.m. Her cabin passengers number 43, including Mr. Thomas Collins and wife. The Richmond also took out 416 laborers, It was rumored after her departure that a row had occurred on board between the Lrish and Italian laborers, and that three of the latter had been killed, tof he prisoner bailed Mr. Bramr’s RESOLUTIONS ABOUT TIE PRESIDENCY.—In the Maryland Senate yester- day, the unfavorable report of the committee on federal relations on the memorial and_res- olutions in reference to the presidency offered by Mr. Blair, was called up, and Mr. Blair spoke in condemnatory terms of the report and in favor of his resolutions, arraigning the methods by which Hayes was seated. Mr. Vandiver also spoke in favor of Mr. Blair's memorial and resolutions, and Messrs. John- son and Merrick in opposition, after whieh | the subject was postponed until Thursday next. RAILROAD OFFICERS PLEADING GUILTY.— In the court of quarter sessions at Philadel- | phia_ yesterday, John Morton, ex-president, and Samuel P. Huhn, ex-treasurer of the West Philadelphia Passenger railway, withdrew their pleas of not guilty to charges of making a false certificate of stock and publishing the ine to defraud, and pleaded guilty. A tech. ical difficulty arising asto the right of the state to present to the same jury other bills against the same prisoners, cliargiug separate issues of stock, they were remanded to jail until'the matter is settled. As the case stands ‘ i stracting a valuable silk dress and two valu- | of the proceedings against the returning board aid Score dierent oda B.'Fstones, | AMG Duekages of dency fom thera mais | 4t New Orin fhtels pel god satay * vas i %, 7] a Ss Is or Sayil wi mi ion. who was also Indleted, is ia lunatic asylum: | iaey Chaistmse. She's of good family and vers | (eRe that I is wholly without foundation. NATIONAL TROTTING ASSOCIATION.— The | Pretty, and there was naturally much sympa- | intimate terms with the democratic leaders congress of the National Trotting association, in session in New York, have elected Cel. ©. W. Weolley, of Cincinnati, president. Among the vice ies ga elected is George Stringer, of Philadelphia. It was resolved, among other things, that any association that shall here- aitee a pode cupelied Roast man on its ck, ue notice of sucl the secretary, shall be fined $100. Srualston: by FaTaL ExpLoston.—Five pounds of fulmi- nate in Leet & Smith’s pereussioncap, factory at Springfield, Mass., exploded esterday, dée- ne in| he en a small rame struc. ‘ure, and instant 5 > ITs partner of the ‘firm. 2 pee 3 hoeaities Insc eae aee Eectasaitae 43-Rev. Dr. Woodbridge, rector of the Monu- mental Episcopal church in iichmond V, = forty years, died yesterday morning, aged thy manifested by the crowd assembled in the court room. seems that her lover was in the court room, and that he was armed with a pistol, with which to blow out his brains should the sentence be the Albany penitentiary. But when the clerk said: “* What say you—guiity or not guilty?’ the fair prisoner replied, with a tremulous yoice: “Guilt, en there was a scene. With the word guilty Miss Davenport shrieked, threw up her hands, and fell back in the arms of her stalwart betrothed. The were moved racer and the judge i face in his handkerehief. It was hat an hour before the lady revived. The court im a and fine of $100, and then she faint the court ad |. Miss D: lover returned to Goochland the samme even down there, has studiously kept clear of them from the moment that he was convinced 7 ing, where they were immediately married. Ene oy hospital attende } by | —The negro Henry Telegrams to The Star. EUROPE ON A VOLCANO. ENGLANDS DEFIANCE >— THE SITUATION CRITICAL, —— THE MINE UNDER Who ts Going to Set t NDON, Feb. L.A d ROPE he Match to t zram Company from Constantino; y 14. says: The British fleet is expecier nter the Bosphorus to-morrow. One of the ships strack a sand bar, sustaining Slight dam Mr. Layard, the British ambassador, has aphed to Lord Derby that the Suitan has received a despatch from the Czar, stating that his troops would oceupy the vieigh ber hood of Coustantinople ia trend!y spirit With the same object, namely, for Ue tion of his subjects.'as the British sent. The Sultan Will Stick to the © The report that the cabinet has decided upon the depar.ure of the su roussay in Anatolia, fifty-seven miles from Constant noph inth th The Sultan wilizremain onstandnople in any ev Another | ple. date fornby’s tls Mstantine. ch from € as Admirat + SAYS: e-ship, the Alexand the Pemerairey 8. guts nitan, 12 guns and 2 16 guns and 90 ton Island at 8 o'clock thi ourt, 17 guns and 10,627 tons, and Swift + guus and 6,660 tons, remain at Gall The Raleigh, 2? guns and 5.00 tons: the 1), 3 gUNS and 4.010 tons, and guns and 1.Sdé tons, are at Be the morning. The Amxiety at St A dispatch from St to Reuter's t Petersburg. says :— y here, particularly idents, on a Russian wat coming excited A Little Crow by the Times. This 3 Timessays: = The s fleet to Constantinoy nits immediate in is now fi Position OSPHOFAS wn terested Advice to * Times hopes that Lord Derby's Ul motives, order psto take up a menacins it Says is wholly unnecessary for protection of their real interests. Wreck of an It Reuter’s Telegi 1 Athens sayingt yuan hat informa the Italian friga r Salonica last Terrible was an iron-c “0 carried six twelve-inch guns. Greece The She eek. tons. pa LoNpon ceived ye don anne i massacres the Greek provinces of Turkey and the entry of the British fleet into the Daraa nelles, the Greek government feel them justified in reoceupying the Thesi Epirus. General Grivas isto take ‘ Mobile are A Reuter dispat from Athens says: “Information from Crete States that the general assembly its d of the annexation of Gre The insu tos to attack the Tur cf to reinforce the g: ce Bis ms at Athens, rrison of Vant irek’s Eastern P. Lonpon, Feb. 15.—This afternoon's Geotte prints Berlin dispatch “Prince Bismarck is reported to to give a ful and eastern policy in answer toa qu to be put in : understood to ti " to tender his good offices to Er nd and Rus sia, with a view to the preservation of pes but he is net inclined to act in any way arbi r between them.” THE WRECK OF THE METROPOLIS. Metropolis, char an utter the Philade that he had been told ly that if he had any accident | way business of it; that if} the ship that he should make it a good the Lynn Labor Troubles 18.—Th Renewal of Boston, Feb tratio’ t strike to. mined to : do. consolidated, 56%: d ‘orth Carolina sixes, old, 17; Sugar <ul and easier, 8.9 ruary 15.—Cotton dull and minally 10's. F Howard street do, extra, 4, 0: city mills “super, 3 5046.00: Rio brands, iy, 8.00, Wheat, southera firm aud western firm and higher—southern red, a ber, 1, 40, B bid To-day. BALTIMOR mad active aud super. family. a u hi ; ‘a opened firm and rlosed n’ white, 55, Yellow, Bbabé: mixed, spot K 564: March. Jobbing shoulders, n—jobbing shoalders, ams, 105A rd, irm—roll, 2 par quiet and ual—12 for | refined, Coffee firm but quiet Rio cargoes, 15418, | Whicky quiet. held 1080109, Receipts—tieur. 2.800; ‘wheat corn. 65,000; oats, 6.700 Shipments— i. \, OF. 0. | NEW Yo $ dal and Sie . Exch ermments weak, 5.—Flour firm, Wheat hange, long, 1" | nols Central, 7 | aah +22 -—_____ is a Court Room.—Chas. it distribution « was brought be: r Whitehouse in Newark yesterday. | The father of Fredericks, whois more than 70 years of age, came in and was led to the chair where the prisoner was seated. For a moment he stood trembling before him, and then rest- PAINFUL SCENE F. Fredericks. 1 Newark post officr missic¢ ing his n the shoulders of his son, cried :—Oh, Charles, Charles; you have, you have— mother is gone, but before she died she said you would some ‘time break my heart.” When the wife and child of the a cused man entered the room, the wife, regard- less of those present, threw herself into his arms and cried:—*Charlie, have you done And have we been living upon these “ This was the first time,” was the The next moment the almost freu- zied wife was upon her knees before the Com - missioner, and cried out, in an agony of grief, “Kill me, murder me! do what you wil Jet me have my Charlie.” She was hardly co: scious when taken from the room. Examin; tion Was waived and Fredericks committed, in default of $5,000 bail. to the Essex +f — | The prisoner has been employed in the New- ark post office for over seven years. He is connected with several Masonic organizations and has peptondy nad mn excellent reputa- ae im tion.—[N "rib ELECTION OF JUDGES IN SOUTH CAROLINA.— The South Carolina legislature yesterday e1 ed six circuit judges to fill vacancies ove; sioned by a recent decision of the state su- reme court, as follows:—For the first circuit, . C. Pressley, Charleston ; second cireuit, A. P. Aldrich, Barnwell : third cireuit, A.J.Shaw, Sumpter; fourth circuit, J. H. Hudson, Marl boro: sixth circuit, T. J. Mackey, Chester ; and for the eighth circuit, Thomas ‘Thomson. Abbeville. The judges chosen were a a by a democratic caucus Wednesday night, and - ae democrats except Mackey, who is a re- publican. DROWNED aT Sea.—The steamer China, which arrived at New York ier from ies, rej “February 9, at 4.08a.m., while the officers were relieving each other, during a heavy gale, a heavy sea struck the ship, ba hw away the rails and screens on the starboard side of the upper bridges, taking win Balson, chief, and Owen Harris, second officer. Both were lost.” ED AND MURDERED.— Mrs. Mary Seago & a widow, residing at Little ‘iver, N.B., was outras and mui in her house Wed: a Vaughn on suspicion *@-The late Wm. Welsh was buried fone Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia Rd y. Ag-The funeral of Hon. Gideon Welles, ex- of the Navy, was atte aded at at John *s (PE) Church, Haiord, ome nyc geese 1 the Horde Pe saree isha injuries received - P