Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1878, Page 1

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AMONG THOSE WHO CALL House to-day were Secretar D at the White y Sherm PERSONAL. man’s stat. has spection Sith ¢ department of Missou returned last Fric on. of Gen. Sher. in his tour of in Sheridan, through the “Webb C. H: y from his visit to Dufferin, governor general of Canada. | --- Gen. O. ©. Howard arrived at the Ebbitt this Gen. di Cesnola, the Cyprus hg at the Arlington, «l fami e at Wormley’s. h Albany Journal, i ¥ Ntre Ahio hon v ly il at last accounts from his + and it Was feared could not recover. NAVAL OnpeERS.—Lieut. to the naval acadet minauder Chas y, lth Mareh. Frank Beatty, Robert M. BD, - Wood, Harry J. Hunt and Cau » tempor: I the t ing ship Minnesota at New York. Acting maker George P. Barnes to the receiving ship Franklin at Norfolk, Vit. Ist Mareh. WHISKEY PuNcH. gument before a sub Distriet committee tod ducing the Moffet bell punch in the District of Columbia. “He w ed to bring sample the punch to the committee room, and ex its Workings to the members, When he said, “Weil, Dean bring a Sample of the puneh, bat it off nicely Twill be compelled to so some Whisky.” ttee of the House y in favor of intro- Tue Hovse ComMMitte AFFAIRS to-day refused to allow Secor & Co., and Nat. MeKay, to withdraw the papers in cases respectfully from the files of the committee reom. The petitione: faver, have been urging the committee to al- 1 compensation for work on iron clads built by them, and upon which an adverse report Was made. “The committee also decided to proceed forthwith to an in- vestigation of the Portsmouth and Kittery navy yards. ON NAVAL GENERAL Brrier in the House today pre- | | sented a petition 100 feet long, and contain ing W000 signatures, done up ina reel testing against the transmission through mails of obscene Jite e. pro: the AV6vst BELMONT. licate banker, York bankers, . Whereat the friends of tie t their presence here at this good to that measure. the sy are at Wormley silver bill say th Time forbedeés SURE.—Col. Simeon K. Donovan to-day tinted his testi ivil service in the matter of the of Doorkeeper Polk's official ‘The pith of his statement was that sive Was brought to bear on Polk Gy the chairmen of several of the House coin: tees to appoint messengers for their com ttees: there was no | nts. but in seme ea ded to this pressure. r yiel Tre IMPRESSION AT THE Capitol To-pay lent will velo nd that it will be retarned tre tothe House of Repre- it originated, to-morrow. iso the impression that it will be p his veto. It is among the when the veto comes up in the Senate for ac: tion Senator Conkling will deliver an elabo- espeech in favor of susiaining the veto. President Wheeler said yesterday that the silver bill, out his si ives, wh wi OWING TO TH Senate this morning the regula MM ER. ineelings of the Senate were postpened. The oo = ) committer on finance was to ha taken a ote on the bill for the repeal of the resump : = | tion he committee on foreign relaions LUMBER. Mas to have considered the sublect of Chinese ) immigration. _ . LUMBER. | Siatoxs’ DEATH BLow.—The nomination of | Beard to be collector of the port of Boston in . | place of Simmons created eonsider: LUMBER. | ment Corner Sixth street and New Vouk: avenue. WE HAVE AGAIN REDUCED THE PRICE ON ALL KINDS OF Lu { 1 i MEER. | ct Our Latest Price List Before Buying. WILLET & LIBBEY, WILLED & LIBBEY, WILLET & LIBBEY, WILLET & LIBBEY, fevl9 tr Cor. 6th st. aud New York are. WEDDING PRESENTS. M. W. GALT, BRO. & €O., Rave made large additions to their stock of SILVERWARE, embracing all the newest designs. ‘They have also just Imported the Latest Novel- thes in PARIS FANCY GOODS, Mus. BANNING AND THE OFFICERS’ A Denial—Washington, Feb. Editor: The statement in the Wash: of yesterday, that * Mrs. v ut by army offi i anning’s army y destitute of truth. I feel satis. i Sa gentleman, hot want his charming and estimable placed in thi se position, and he owes: himseif to i the statement. The of the army are willing to submit to ticism, and to have all their actions ; igated; but they do aot consider it just or honorable to be slandered. A cause which requires a departure from truti to sus. tain it cannot be a good one. A.B. THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AF- f meeting to-day, and one agreed upon and reported Paine and Gr ho is opposing ¢ Ss made by the President, zuments for cireulation They oppose the contirma- of Lieuts. Ford, Hartz, Blair, MeGuingle, h, Money and Hegewaid to the grades of captain and first lieutenant. on the ground that to contirm them would be violation of the provisions of section 1.204 of the Revise . Jor the reason that while the Army that the officers promoted were ers of their grades in their re- spective regiments, it also shows they were hot the senior officers of their grades in their respective lines or arms. military nominat have prepared among Senat PRESIDENT PRO TEM. OF TE ‘NATE.—The republicans, in caucus this morning, agreed to nominate Mr. Ferry for the temporary presi- dency of the Senate, and elected him, as stated elsewhere. Judge Davis, of llinois, voted with the demoerats for the election of Mr. Thur- man. As some doubt has been expressed as to Judge Davis's party affiliations, his vole with the democrats for the election of their leader in the Senate to the dignity of presiding officer | has some significane POTTERY, PORCELAIN, & All of which are designed especially for WEDDING PRESENTS. fevil-tr STAG WHISKY. » meet the tonen we have reducedthe price of this popular brand of Whisky, unequaled for flavor | | we SB Rega: | HALL & HUME, ad _ _ __ 807 Market Space. ECREATION | EXEMCISE! G@AUTIER’S BOWLING ALLEYS, | orner 6th and © Sts. N. W. Pive Excellent Alleys. _ New and Complete." fev15-Im* EW AND SECOND-HAND CaRRi | aun AT A SACRIFICE. AUEs Coupe: "two Coupes Pane i 3 ¢ four J s; three Yi ten r-top Bi and fifty other styles. ral av. P. D. BC; pository. Ga FLEISCHMANN & CO. COMPRESSED YEAST. All first class grocers keep it. } has merit, has imi- refore if you wish to succeeds and (oie ot then cones uality of ot Pleschnann Ca."s COMPRESSED YEAS see imitations are not palmed off upon & Co.'s COM- ‘wrapper our firm wortbiess | Boston and Charlesten, Mass. ; Mike Sh be U ‘shi The President sent to the y the following nominations: Clanson W. Beard to be collector of customs, eh. Utah: J. W. "AL eastern district H. McDongall, postmas- W. Dunham, postmaster, s introduced in the Heuse yesterday Were several providing fer the coin- | age of silver for the benefit of the depositors of bullion. Another bill was to incor porate a company for the coustryction of a railroad from New York to Fort McIntosh on the Rio | Grande, with a capital not to exceed $200,000,- (uo. A proposition for a new. constitutional amendment was submitted. It provides for the election of three presidents, to sit as mem- bers supreme executive council, at sala- ries not exceeding #0,000 each, and the vice president to be elected by the Senate as presi- ding officer fer four years. Proposes Triumvikate.—In the House yesterday Mr. Southard, of Ohio, introduced a roposed constitutional amendment, provid- ing that the executive power shail be vested in three presidents. one to be chosen from the south, one from the west and one from the eastern and middle states. THE DEMOCRATIC SENATORS held a caucus yesterday afternoon to select a candidate for the position of president pro tempore of the Senate and unanimously agreed to cast their ballots for Senator Thus man. THE SILVER BIL1. was delivered to the Pres. ident yesterday afternoon by Representative Kenna, of West Virginia, a member of the House committee ou enrolled Muse The tha Was discussed at the Cabinet meeting to-day, with what rest has not transpired. mt | this | ony before the committer on | | ment costs the government 7 } deemed | terday to Monday, Mareh ) Mr | terior in | is no Tue U.S. SurreMe Court adjourned yes Pay of Navy OPricers. — Mi den, of Missouri, introduced a House in the ficers red sent Mk. ALANSON W. BEARD, Who was nomi- nated by President Hayes to-day for collector of the port of Boston in place of W. A. Sim- mons, isa prominent merchant, of that city. He has been the head of a large elothing house, and while he has never held any prominent ofiice, he has taken ann active part in the. polities of the state. He was for some time chairman of the republican state committee of Massachusetts. He was largely instrumental in securing the election of Mr. Dawes to the Senate, and his. appointment has been urged upon the Presi- dent by both Senator Dawes and Senator Hoar. ‘The appointment will be generally acceptable to the republicans of Massachusetts, although many of them would have preferred the re- appointment of Collector Simmons. r. Willis. ot Ken- sting report to the House yesterday on the Chinese question. It rts that the number of Chinese in the Pa states is not less: than 150,000; that in the cities 100 Chinese will oceupy & room that pitten- in the terday to reduce the pay of officers vy and to reduce the number of of- The bill provides for a , per cent. from the pre- pn of about jaries paid. Tre HEATHEN CHINEE.— v With their families. The report dep immoralities as loathsome in the extreme, rendering them most undesirable members of Wherever they loc: ‘sin value, and th to render sanitary preeautions fu J plu his appended thi of the United respondence. immed y hina and Great Br ning a change or abr i trea immigration of States. cor: govern n with the zation of all eh permit Chinese to the: NETT'S PROPOSED ARCTIC EXPEDITION, umes Gordon Bennett has presented to Congress a memorial setting forth that he h purchased the British Aretic vessel Pandora and will fit her out and man her his own expense to proseeute and, if possible, bring to suceessful issue the polar explorations which hive so long oceupied the attention of the jengifie wore To nationalize the enter- prise he asks the passage of a bill t to the US. flag: the change id should it be deemed advisal aty be commanded and ofic s haval officer: Stat Stat United that the Py such add ni esident be empower al authority upon ti it he may be enabled in his. iso. enforce discipline in cases of ing offic lated position extreme emergen Tue PROPOSED TRAN: OF Tir Beneav.—Representative Scales, the committee on Indian affairs, in his oY the Dill transf » Interior to the V ment. claims to show that the pr ing thé Indian var depart. While under the proposed bill the : vernment of all agents, employes and Tu ns, will not exceed $4.28 per capite, Within the th years past, since the bureau was transte partment, millions of money 1 much blood has been shed lives sacriticed in the etiort to straggling After a full and all the faets and What is best for the 2 ty of the committee— ave reached the conclusion that the present system: ess: that the inte. rity of te service, the good of the Indians. ‘ansferring | f we command. | uid not aecommodate five workingmen | k their | ved from the War to the Interior de- | ii nave been Spent, | ind many valuable | s the difficulties that sur- | Society. Rarely bave two as successful entertain. 4 ments for charity occurred on the same eve- ning in our city as those given last evening. The charity ball at Masonic Temple and the “pound party” at the Riges House were both unusually handsome entertainments. The former was unanimously declared to be the most beautiful of the series of balls whieh haye been annually given to benefit that most commendable charity, “The Children’s’ Hos- pital of the District of Columbia.” The at- tendance was large enough to comfortably fill the hall without overcrowding it at any time, and the dancing was Kept up vigorous! he well-waxed floor. Colonel Audenreid acted as floor manager, with several able as- sistants. The decorations of the bal! h most tasteful and elaborate which the commit- tees of these balls have yet essayed. Each year they improve on the last in this and other respects. The walls were fairly covered last evening with flags draped in festoons, between which were gayly ornamented shields. From m were the the chandeliers hung gilt cages with canaries, ru: ie baskets filled with growing plants. form at the head of the room was bor- dered by plants and flowers. Immediate! n and Th | front, in the eenter of this dais. rose columns | entwined with green, supporting an arch of red on which Sppeated the words “Children’s Hospital” in white lette: d abeve blazed in gas jets the word “Charity.” Beneath the areh the statue of a child kneeling held a_bas- et of flowers, above which was written T S$ were received at the dressing room door by gentlemen of the reception committee, and conducted to the head of the roem, where Mrs. Rickets, . Ross Ray, Mrs. Powell, Miss Loring. Miss Edes, Mrs: Jobn Jay Knox, M x i Mrs. re ing the par The toilets worn were among the ric! served this seaso! Rickets wore black velvet combined With green satin, garnished with bands of embroid Ars. Rog: Ray wore an elegant F of white, draped with black lace. Miss Edes wore blue silk, embroidered in wi hs of colored flow. e irs. Knox and Mrs, Foster wore elegant white dresses. Mrs. Redfern wore amber col- xanze and satin of the same shade, ped With lace and relieved with scariet Mrs. Hiekok, who wa pinpanied by Mr. Fernando Wood, was dressed atin, draped with tulle and Nn flowers, Mrs. Steuart wore bla Schenck, Who was with her wore pale blue silk with plisse: Mrs. Tyner, who came. with h band, the Ist A] P.M}. wore a very lusion. | ing Dive silk of handsome design: ss Gat- ling, of Hartford, Conn., wore black tulle over Diack silk, relieved with searlet ribbons Miss Bettie E dress of white Tenciennes lace. The supper was, quite and of the best qualicy, ¢ ments, tu HS wore alo’ Paris mashn trimmed with relaborate yr st siting many compli- S| | | At the Riggs House no pains were spared to | make the “pound =p: a brilliant one. Dressing-rooms were provided on the parlor 00) Prva ve for the wi e dining used as a ball-room and handsom rated. It was crowded all the evening. Ti ladies and gentlemen ot the reception com- mittee stood at the door of the Blue parlor, and cordi; Welcomed the guest hose who were receiving were Representative wud Mrs. Banning, Representative and Mrs. Kim me! presentatiy Cox, Ri senta e and Mrs. isle, ~ and Loring, Mrs. Landers, (who v most elegantly dressed lad. the evening,) La Representative Powe sentative nd Mrs. Pr pre- Miss pre: U Mrs. Wood- fe, Mrs. Maury, 's. Lock Wood. All the sed. ; hotel open for the enter- ladies were richly ¢ The porsion of th v lainment snsely erowded all the even- well as great economy. require that the win i it is 1 at handsome sum was question should be transferred to t e- | realized for the poc ment and control of the W | Many persons attended both the so/rees a | named. Among those noticed at one or both, Dr. i My in addition to th ly named. the for the relief of Dr. | Speaker and Mrs. Rai i t Samy Mudd, of Maryland, authorizes the | Cockerill, Col. and Mrs. Singieton nent to him of $3,000 for ser \ ughter, Hepresenty 1 surgeon in the yellow feve | ive ve Bee Jefierson, Florida, in 1 tr | Mrs. Morrell M | . Brooks, the seu volunteered his s One of the reason: rued for don subsequently was is fai uring the fever epidemi ¥ veferred tot mMmnittee on WANTS TO GE v bill was r T partment of the Interior, has petitioned the House of Representatives to be released from bilily for the $1,167 paid out by him in Sep- mber last on forged vouchers, burport signed by certain employes of the ) forgeries were R. Goodridge, a clerk in the oftie hh the duties of preparing voucher! -., and the facts were all oodridge Was subsequently nud sentenced to two years 'y. The Secre yor the L- dorses the petition of Mr. Joseph, acquits Ofany carelessness or negleet the matte! be patent in the penitenti; whom of duty in AVPOINTMENT.—The Presi- appointments of honorary Ee oners to the Paris Exposition seems to have een misled in selecting for vepresentative from the District of Columbia (Mr. EH. Knight) against. whom fonable transactions at our centennial, where he represented the P Office, Were preferred. ‘The « proven, as no official investigation. w: e but Mr. Knight's answer to them was not _ Satisfactory: by, Seeretary Chandler. He was informed that his resignation would be acceptable,sand he did resign. The hon- ionership from this District is not a particularly remunerative one in itself, but it will doubtless open the way for the nour: ishment of Knight's Patent D had its birth in the P: tent 2 e ele at the expense of th ‘gular duties. ably there was nothing criminal in Mr. Knight's use of his position at the centennial for per: sonal advantage, but it was irregular. In dit Mr. Knight is not a representa’ but an Englishman, and it is said has never been naturalized, although holding four government positions already. Let us send pestering Paris whoare Amer- t f Columbia should have some claim to repre- sent us. — + 2ee-—____ TO BE FEARED FROM SITTING BULL.—Geu. Crook has returned to Omaha from the Indian territory. Concerning the published statement ina Cheyenne paper that «large expedition would be organized in the spring aguinst Sitting Bull, Gen, Crook makes amemphatic denial. He says no immediate trouble need be feared from Sitting Bull, un- less the buffaloes range south, whi: is hardly probable, as they have not done so of late years. No expedition against the hostile Sioux contemplated. WHAT THE GOVERN F NORTH CAROLINA Sarp.—A few days since Col. Bradley T. John. son, of Richmond, Va., requested permission from Goy. Vance forthe Walker Light Guard to pass through the state of North Carolinaon their way to Charleston. Gov. Vance respond- ed as follows: “Permission granted to pass through North Carolina with your command. Be virtuous and you'll be happy—but you won't have much fun.” DaRING ROBBERY OF AN Express Can.—A train on the Texas central railroad was boarded on Thursday night last by six armed and masked men, who robbed the express car of $2500. The messenger pears to have made a gal lant defence, and it is thought sue- ceeded in killing one of the robbers. The others eseaped with their booty. The utmost consternation seems to have seized the pas- sengers, and there was a general scramble in seereting their money and valuables, but they were not molest THE REV. CANON PULLEN, late of Salisbury cathedral, England, and the author of * D, Europa’s School” and other ular works, _has gone over to Roman eatholietun. |" Cart. REDMOND, an English oficer of regu- lars, who refuses to live with his wife, has been ordered by the London divorce court to take her to his house once more as his spouse within thirty days, or be declared in contempt. 4#@-Captain Boyton is about to swim from Toledo to Lisbon, a distance of 700 miles; then he will try to cross the Straits of Gibraltar. ing to | published | Joseph, disbursing clerk of the de- ; | Mrs. aan son,Commissioner, Mrs, and Miss Clark, Representative Cole and rard and Mr. Emory of Cine ren Smith of New York. Miss Hill, Miss Thompson, “Miss Tay! Miss Lippincott, Miss Kernan. M niece of the Senator), Count Mrs. Henry Howard. Miss Ri; iss Minnie Stout, Major and | and Mrs. Gore Jones, dM. M and M ual M endell ive, Mrs. and Miss Goode, Gen. Shi nd daughter, Major and M Goodloe, Beck, Mr. and Mrs. Pollock, Mr. and Mrs. ieo. ns, M, lover,Mr Mrs. Horatio King, Lieut. Pa Niles, Gen. Van Vliet, Mrs. and Miss Cole, Representative and Ifo Miss Sallie Auderson, Judge and Miss Embrey. the Misses Bright, M futehins of the Post, Mr. A.C. Buell, Capt. Col. Benjamin, Mr. Redfern, : - Knox, Mr. and Mrs. B. MeDonald. Mrs. Van Vliet gave a lunch party yesterda: toabout forty ladies. ‘The fair fiancee of > ator Cameron Was present, wearing her en. . avery large diamond and sap- re joined. Miss Mary Booth, the per’s Bazar, who is her arriage of her brothe Miss Florence Lock woow to-morrow. ‘ame to attend the Capt. Booth, and which takes ‘place —__—__-+ee-__ The District in Congres: THE FREEDMED A resolution. @ yes- terday requirin joners of the Freedmen’s Bank to report to the House why the funds in their hands have not been dis- tributed, and also to give an itemized account of how they have expended them, and a gene- ral account of the indebtedness of the bank. WANTED TO SEND FOR PERSONS AND PAPERS. Gen. Hunton, of the rittee, yesterday introduced a resolution in the House authorizing the committee to send for persons and papers. Gen. Hunton said its object was to compel the attendance of wit. hesses touching an investigation by the com- inittee as to whether the District Attorney and the Attorney General had executed a law of Congress. Mr. Conger ebjected unless the request was more specific. THE WHISKY QUESTION. Jobn M. Johns had a hearing before the sub- commiltee of the ways and means committee of the House District committee to-day and urged the committee to perfect a Dill requir- ing the use of the Moffett bell-punch in the District of Columbia, under the same provi- sions as the punch is now used in Virginia. The committee have under consideration the question of a thorough revision of the liquor license law in the Distrigt, and will probably recommend that the license to sell liquor be fixed at $500. This, itis thought, will close up the low drinking saloons. PROTECTION OF PUBLIC PROPERTY AT THE CAPITOL. The bill introduced yesterday by Mr. Jones, of Ohio, te protect public property in and about the Capito], proposes to punish by fine and imprisonment of varying grades any per- son guilty of defacing property in the Capitol, the Capitol grounds or the Botanical garden, of indecent exposure, using terous language, being intoxicated, obstruct- ing passages In those places, of interfering With oflicers of the Capitol police force in the discharge of their duty, or assaulting them, and it invests the Capitol police foree with the same power and authority in relation to mak- ing arrests in the domain under their charge | us is vested in officers of the lice foree. Metropolitan po- CONFESSING Two HUNDRED BURGLARIES. Louis Napoleon, Louis Vernon Azaviidar and Blanche Delacroix were committed without bail yesterday, by Justice Wheeler, for trial for their many burglaries in Morrisania. The prisoners all confessed their guilt. Louis leon adinitted the perpetration of over 200 urgiaries since his arrival in this country, six years ago. His father is said to be a wealthy merchant of Picardy,France. Blanche Delacroix says she was educated at St. Jo- seph’s convent, Philadelphia. Azavildar is an educated man and looks like a colle; rofes- sor. The ‘primers Spent Sunday iy a ial eran oni ch cee olen y a lentifica- ‘tion at the Morrisania station . Amon; ‘other articles are fifty new overcoats.—{ V. ¥. Tribune, 26th. fre: yA reeuapption of ai a, Bat ‘ ae si] wi i versity, last week, has toa number of sus! pensions. rofane or bois- | don by the Senate and House, by con- , current resoluti | Mr. Davis ex) da hope, that the resolu- | | tion would be, if not | so readily with th e | thinks that the times demand a little stringent | legislation calculated to keep executors, ad- | least in the iron trade—admit that FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. TUEsDay, February NATE.—The Senate was called to order by the secretary, the Vice President bein: absent. Mr, Anthony offered a resolution, that W. Ferry be declared President: pro tempor of the Senate. | Mr. Bayard moved toamend, by striking out all after resolved, and insert that the Senate proceed to the election of a President pro ten pore by ballot. Lost—yeas 28, nays 23. Mr. Wallace then moved to strike out the name of T. W. Ferry and insert A. Thur- man. Lost—yeas 2 ys 29. The original resomtion was then adopted Without division, and Mr. Ferry was escorted to the chair by Messrs, Thurman and An- thony. - king the chair Mr. Ferry thanked the Senate for their expression of contidence, and relying upon their generous support, would enter upon the diseharge of the duties of the of the office. The journal of yesterday was then read by Mr, Gorham, the secretary. Mr. Gordon rose to a fetes explanation stating that in announcing that his colleague (Mr. Hill) on the fi vote onthe silver biil | Was paired with the Senator from Tennessee, he was in error, ving misunderstood Mr. Hill, the pair only extending to the amend. tient reported from the finance committee. He could not pair on the bill for he did not know what the bill would be when the final vote was taken, and had stated to the Senate that he would support the bill in a certain form. He was compelled to be absent, and had secured a pair en the proposed amend- ments. nae Among the petitions and memorials pr sented during the morning were several pr: testing aj fer of the life saving service from the Treasury to the Navy depare, ment Mr. McCreery presented resolutions of the legislature of Kentueky favorit bankrupt act, 1 a repeal of Reterred. lar resolutions i x on tobacco and for liber appropriations for the taprovement of nay gable rivers in Kentucky. All of which were refer mb called up his resolution of yes irecting the Secretary of the Iu inquire of the government direc tion to the see Union Pa z certain braneh roads, and to the Senate. At the suggestion of Mr. Paddock, the reso- lution was again laid ove Mr. Beck called up his resolution in relation | to the imposition of taxes for the purpose of creating a sinking fund for the extingnish- ment of a portion of the publie debt, in’ duced January 24. Mr. Morrill asked if the Senator proposed its reference to the finance committee. He thought a matter of so grave where the faith of the nation had the creation of asinking fund, sidered by a committee. Mr. Beck thought the resolution formed the | vi f action for the committee, and should i been should Pleds cl, be con- ferrea, be taken out of | that those who differed and who had been referred to by hin ins of false figu of Treasury of might haye an opp tunity to express their views. Pending tu ther discnssion, the morning hour expired, and the Senate proceeded under the existing order to the consideration of the calenda laying aside such bills as were objected t and ing only on those to which no obje tion was made.” Bills for the ef of Charies H. Mosely, and the bill to authorize and equip awn expedition tothe Arctic s: re passed. HOUSE.—The reading of yesterda: j nal oceupied fifty minutes, Mr. Reagan, from commi reported back the bill te commerce, and to prohi ion by common ¢: 1 recommitted. Ir. Butler presented housand men and 11 of the post the mo: ning hour re prohibit the through the mails. The Speaker Referred. proceeded. a 1 committees for reports. from the committce order, to ¢ Mr. Ede clan forthe payment of cl: by the commissioners of claims under the of Mareh Sd, 1871. Ordered printed and re. H committed. . Mr. Tipton, from the committee on manu- factures, submitted a long report to show th: the duties of that committee were not ¢ defined under the rules. and askin; amendment of the rules as that they may spe- cially have charge of domestic manufactures. | The report claims that all matters of internal | revenue properly belong to that committee. Mr. Wood nade the point of order that the | subject-matter of the report had never been referred to the committee, and they could not, therefore, report under thie rules. on reported 2 bill making appropriation war ms reported allowed | portance, | Se Telegrams to The Star. AN INDIANA MARE'S NEST. President Hayes vs. Gov. Hendricks. POLITICAL BREEZE IN UTAH. WHOSE TURN NEXT IN LOUISIANA? WAR SIGNS IN EUROPE. THE EUROPEAN COMPLICATION. Peace. 6. is stated that another r meeting in Hyde Park will be made shortly, with elabor: range ments for preventing any disturban War. Lonpon, Feb. 26.—The Ties states that orders have been ved at th vernment Works at Bull Point for an inereased out-put of cartridges and small-arms ammuaitic MM A MALTA, Feb. 2 by the gover Y has been + requiring ext. admission of str: Without a pass, ne foreign p avoring to Russ: BUCHAREST, nee in ners to the because a spy in isknown to be e plans, Business. ; The railway adminis. tration at nordered to suspend xoods traff 0 fhat the passage of Russian | troops shall not be impeded. | = P Mt Ta, Feb. rumors of d®lay in the ne urkish refusal we Deli an find no racks just id stantinoy prepared for Russian sick wii other cover.” Russia Insists on Having oxe Tron-Clads, Loxpox, Feb. greyh YEUMS a Spe folowing dispateh sians are still endeavoring Porte to permit their t but the Porte refuses. Roumania Denouncing Russta. BUCHARE: Feb. 25.—In. the senate ter: lay, M. Stourdza, denounced Russia’s treat- ment of Rowmania, and introd: a motion | and demanded that the government ask the sua nteeing power to reeoguize the inde- pendence of | Rouman Sol the admission of a Roumanian — representa refuse to the peace conference, e with Russia for an exeirange of all stipulations between Rus- ncluded without Roumanian nd Feeal imanian army yanube. This Stourdza is 1 last night's desp: T Illicit Distilling. Conspiracy and Murder. New York, Feb, 26.—A dispat je. Tenn. says: That U. 3. ders retuy pugh Put pad ch from Nash evenue Coilec- vi tor Davis and his va x na week's ride thi ud White counties. it distilleries and a them Redley Brown, Jas. Lewis. The two latter are al having conspired with another into pieces five men whom they be have given information to th cers. Armed with a artette reached t nd attacked them. is Victim. One v aged to make es had an axe driven w k, after which he was ¢ The other t at foree into buteh- wo begged Wis have dst been indicted by rt. Ilicit distilling has been sup: ed in Macon county, the people of the Vicinity havin, sted. information. Collector Woode: while there are on i district there are mountain pasture A POLITICAL MARE'S NEST IN DIANA. A Movement to Oust Hayes and Seat Hendricks. New York, Feb. from Indianapol asserts that alleries in this —A special to the Herald ere fore iia: 3 says: There is said to be a ana Re (hair sustained the point of order, and | very secret movement on toot to contest the Mr. Steele, from the committee on axricul- | Hayementis said to be eleven ad by wae ire, reported back the bill for the appoint. ie eee : by yery ment of a commi: jon to investigate the ori. ginand best m s of destroying the army cotton worm. I ithorizes the Commissioner of Agriculture to appoint three persons skilled in natural sciences and in agriculture and in cotton-growing to inquire and report upon the above subject. Each is to receive a salary of $1,500 per annum, and the sum of $10,600 is appropriated. The bill was referred to committee of the whole House. Mr.Seales.from committee on Indian affair yeporce t bill for the relief of the Chocta' ndians. a Hooker presented an adverse report, and both were referred to the committee of the whole, ; Mr. Banning, from committee on military affai reported billto authorize the Secretary t ribe rules and regulations for ication and opening of bids for co: tracts under the Wardepartment. Passed Mr. Southard rose toa personal explanation to say that the bill introduced yesterday re lation to the office of President was not an e: pression of his own opinion or that of his eom- mittee on electoral count. The bill was pre- pared by another, and was introduced by id it will be considered as other bil 2 of uick consumption. This couple were the first that have ever been brought to this country alive. It was not believed when they arrived that either one could live long. €oming from the southern part of Africa, where the ther- mometer varies hardly half a dozen degrees during the entire year, it was thought that this variable climate would soon kill them. On the second day after their arrival the male seemed uneasy and Jeveria and had a slight cough. Drs. Gayler and Dorner gave him medicine liberally. All through his illness he was like a child. When he died the female showed unmistakable signs of grief. She has a cough. THE New JERSEY LEGISLATURE evidently ministrators, trustees, and guardians honest. A bill has been introduced providing for the fine and imprisonment of those who shail fraudulently convert any money or goods held by them in trust for the benefit of estates or of Wards. Such a law seemsto be specially neces- oar r the protection of women and minor children where estates, in the or of specula- | tion, are not seldom devoured by untrust- worthy agents or attorneys. : _ beth are out of San Francisco—so say the papers, h 5,000 is the figure sworn to before the legislative committee. The emplo Nght =| e dul iimes prevailed long before the present anti- Chinese labor agitati jons. AN ALABAMA STUDENT KILLs His M. A special from. Decatur, Alabama, says J. Harrison, of Huntsville, son of the tax col- lector of Madison county, shot‘and instantly killed one Ostell, at Tuscaloosa, yesterday.” Harrison 1s a student at the University of Alabama, and was preparing to return home when Go attacked by Who shot him twice, inflicting a severe wound. Harrison then shot Ostell, and surrendered himself to the anthori- ties. 4%-The liquor dealers of New Orleans have met and Ais es, to submit to the Louis- jana stature a protest against the intro- atuetion in that state of the Moffett liquor reg- elt is satcaisbee a Sere and celibacy, avd the foregone conclusion. | influential parties in Washington aud > York, as well as by certain people in the west. The idea is to prepare a writ of ouster. This new scheme meets with more favor than its predecessor, because it is ee that Mr. iden will be too ill to avail himself of the anees of possession that might result under ich a writ. and that therefore Mr. Hen- dricks would obtain the prize. I should add itis also asserted that this movement in if ef Hendricks iy scheme for inflation. ‘a plied as follows: Levanon, In ». 25.—To Herald cor- respondent, Indianapolis, Ind.—I have no knowledge whatever of any wril of ouster or | other proceedings to raise the question of the | a right of Mr. Hayes to the office of President of | the United st THOs. A. HENDRICKS.” AFFAIRS IN UTAH. Mormon Incendiarism—Political Ex- citemen NEw York, Feb. 26.—A 5 Salt says on Monday night, the ch smelting works on the Big Cottenwood, was entirely destroyed by fire. The loss is $32,000, They are supposed to have been set on fire by Mor. | mon farmers in the vicinity, who claim that | the fumes destroy their land and killed their cattle. At Salt Lake the feeling of indigna- tion over the signing of the election bill franchising non-Mormons and the bill taxin; mines by vernor Emery is increasing, and a meeting’ of teading cilizens is called for Wednesday night to denounce the act. LOUISIANA REPUBLICANS DIS. COURAGED. They Don't Whose Tarn it Next. will be New York, Feb. 26.—A dispatch from New Orleans says that ‘the sentencing of General Anderson ‘has cast a gloom upon the republi- cans here. The leaders now say there is no guarantee for any one of them, as they may at any time, on any charge, be arrested, tried, and convicted. A close canvass of the Senate shows that if Governor Nicholls pardons Anderson he will be sustained. GENERAL FOREIGNAEWS. London 26—The financial article of mes says that U.S. bonds are dependant orders for their market. Failure im Seotland. GLascow, Feb. 26.—Stevenson & Coates, grain millers, have failed. Their liabilities are ecial fro! Sal dition of silence for the future. | the officers by giving. | vurdza meutioned in | bE WHISKY WAR IN TENNESSEE | or | | { ance ¢ | vcratic doctrine. Off for Paris. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 25.—The U. 8. frigate Constitution left this port at noon to-day, with a cargo of 500 tons of exhibits for the Paris ex- position. She was accompanied down the river by the tug Stokley, having missioner General MeCo rmick, Mayor Stokely and others. Talay 4 will arrive here next week to convey the re maining exhibits to the Brooklyn mayy-¥3 where they will be transferred to the U. 8. ship Portsmouth, which is expected to sail about the 15th prox. The Coal Combination Sheving Up . the Prices. NEw York, Feb. 26.—A special from Easton, a age retail coal dealers of this sec- tial ‘ave received notice from: the mia com they must advance pe of to a certain figure, or they not Coal Prices. . Feb. The has announced Lehigh Vatiey its i Death of Consul New Yous. § United States © yesterday. a eneral Harris. —Townsend Ha nsul General to years Assignment. Crxcrxxati, Feb. 25.—Messrs, Taylor, Lestie & Co., the large 4th street notion house, made an assignment yesterday deferred. 4 series, 30'.; North Caroina six 8 bid fo-day_ Sugar steady, 9 BALTIMORE. February middiing. 10.a10%. Flour changed. Wheat dull, and 2 Jowes_s utberu red, 1.30al. 35; Penns) ivania red, L&al Sl; No. 2 western winter red, spot, Feb? ruaty and Match, 1.290150. Corn, southern steady; Wesiern acti dy cen’ Jower—southern Wh te ‘and yellow, western mixed. Febru prit, BS: Ap ern. 38136: Wi ‘ctroleum dill and momin dul—Rio ea 4 Shipments NEW OY Money. 5. short. 485, NEW YORK. Februa -Flour dull a} declining. “Wheat duit a nd 2 cen Corn duil ana a sbade . LONDON, February 12:30 p. m.—0. 8, four and-x-balf per cent, bends, 102: 18% rred, 22'3, linols Genial, 75 A Gint’s Horrin.e Svrerpe Jrom a Sixth story Wendow.—Vester noon Louise A. Sievers, aged forty-five, em ployed ‘as nurse by Mr. SB. Hard, who has an ‘apartment on the sixth floor of the Si vens apartment-house, No. 4 West 27th street, committed suicide by “jumping into the street from a sixth-story window. The woman, who Was well conducted aud much est been suffering from neuralgia, aud believed, taken morpiiine to al “ping ayafter ferings. erday mor vmplained of “a bad feeling inh About 3 o'clock. she 1 ' which is immediately tran A thud was In found on the sidew. sa very det awl out of th » the lows ingheight from t ard, » woman alk horribiy mangled. ermined one, ursery Window and th fitth and Sas to did, She was of course kilh some he payed st y. Th into t Te police, having wrought to the sidewalk upon which she was p ssly covered over, and with ing was ed up Broadway nd down 1th st to Uhe sta . followed ewsboy .—| ve body was the feet ¢ three block tion-house crowd of boott World, 2th A Frerry by a ¥. E BANK PRESIDENT’s I Excvses.—Joseph ©. Dunean, the San Frau cisco bank off Whose mysterious disap. pearance and reappearance have. t n- nounced, denies having been guilty and says his hands are « a misappropriation of funds. He the failure of the Pioneer Bank by t in business since the suspension of of Califorma, and the usurious terest he was compelled to. p: orde p the bank afle sing t stock up law. He believes he can yet save the deposit ors much from the ruins of the bank. CoaL ¢ SUSIBLE STIGATING THE INVE MAIN ATION h 1 jon, met xamined Presi. ized by exces: proposed to limit emand. ln May Ivauee pric t ton, as prices then did not pay ex The meeting in December last was to regulate and make the trade uniform and central: hence the board of control. The anizatien has had but little effect. The result of the organization would be to ad vance the price and regulate trade. In rep] toa question whether the combination ¢ hot advance the price $1 as readily as fifty cents, he r “tin the negative, and said there were other interests to subserve besides g the price of coal. The blotting oat of iron manufactures is the chief cause the reduction of consumption, and the reduction isnearly fifty per cent. “By the present a Ss proved satis cers. It combina demand N ad it Was to the d i fifty cents 4 i aterest of th price unless t Coal had been sold z rl should requ York as low as #2 and $14 per cover all hands of le thought #2. penses of putting coal sumers in New York. Turner, who taken a firm me of the better class of freedmen. wired colored persons are now : ou of the bark hold Seve awaiting the Azor (purel “ai by freedmen), which is to take the The South Caroling rence of the A. M. Church has appointed a minister to go with the expedition as the representative of the chureh. IPTION IN MARYLAND.—In the Mary Sinich, a dele- $5,000 to Vote against the proposed local option bill. There was much diseussion about the local oplion ques- tion, but no conclusion was reached. ‘The minority made some protest against the option law as not being in the interest of the temper- movement, while several members med that its principles contain good de: A WEDDING AND 4 FUNERAL—A New Made Bride Following Her Father's Cofin to the Grave.—The fureral of the late »& vester Hondlow, the well-known real estate vroker, took lace yesterday afternoon from the Church ‘of the Holy Trinity, at the corne! ~ | of Clinton and Montague Streets, Brooklyn Heights. The atten nee was large, but, by request of the daughters, there were no floral Spcctaitons. The rector, th . Dr. Charles Hal! ad the burial servic pd made an address, in which he spoke in warm appreei ation of the worth r. diow. About an tor solemnized No. 21 Mouroe Place, a Minnie Hon Mr w's eldest daughter, to the Rey. Wm. . Short, assistant pasior of the church. Mr. Hondiow’s unexpected death left his mother. less daughters without a living kinsman to whom they could look for protection and eoun- sel, and it was deemed best by the friends of both the bride and the bridegroom that Miss Minnie be married at once to Mr. Short, whom she was expecting to wed in the spring, The young lady was finally persuaded to waive her hatura) reluctance, and with tears in her eyes: was wedded in the house where her father's remains lay ready for burial. The marriage covenant ratified, the bride and bridegroom went together tothe church, and thence to. gether followed the father’s remains to their resting place in Greenwood.—{ N.Y. World, 25 AN EXPRESS AGENT MISSING.—Isaae Miller, fxprese agent for the ee “ and Read- ng railroad company at nd, Pa, been missing since last Friday” ‘The keys at his safe cannot be found, so that it is not known at present whether his accounts are straight or uot. In 1876 he lost #4) which be had collected fora church. He has been iy ing the money back gradually since, and as the seb ject preyed “ae his mind, it is feared by his friends tha Las committed suicide THE VICTIM OF THE MURDER at West Point on Sunday morning was not a cadet. as ai nounced by telegraph. Two private soldiers of the detachment of the engineer corns no’ stationed at West Point —} abont a Woman, and one shot the other. The murderer is in the guardhouse awaiting the demand of the civil authorities. A GANG OF MOLLIE MaGuinEs have been discovered in the neigh! of Lrwin’s sta. tion, Pa., on the Pennsylvania railroad. Two of the tlumber have been captured, and the detectives are in pursuit of two others who have been guiity o murders. many outrages, including ‘ol |, of id avenue, father of the boys Charies the former hot a mf the seer in pe TO The were with a po not to be loaded, after had ex, se’ harm “it went off,” and " heart. THE ELECTION YOR D1 the ten wards of Fi crc Si oak -