Evening Star Newspaper, September 4, 1878, Page 1

ay THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, Except Sunday, ar The Evening Star Newspaper Oompany, 8. H. KAUFPFMANN, Pres’, Pennsylvania Avenue, cormer llth street ! Syne EVENING STAR !5 “oryea j suoseribersin | specity BY CAF on their own Foto gente 2°" Lex, or ah conte per month. Copies at Friday—$20 mail subscriptions mast be paid in ade eal : | made known on applicae "2. 52—-N®. 7,933. WASHINGTON, D. C.,. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1878. Bon. Ss SS AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, | SPECIAL NOTICES. TENTION, BEICK GAY ERS!—A rec-. TEEN cing of the BRICKLAYF 43 ular KLAY F Tie 1 heid TO-MORROW NiG’(T, Ones Sg tt Beck's Hall, 631 Louisiana av-gauc. Se importance wi sac i Iv The great re- NDRY M. B. CH'SRCH ~ ereasit tere Conversions PY. merous an evel ars vice TO-NIGHT at7:3). Conducted the young Kevivalist, Rev. Ti omas aes SCHOOL BOOKS tS AT ECHOOL BOARD Prices, ‘With Covers free, at ROBERTS’ BOOKSTORE, augSl2w ‘1010 7th st., above New York av. a HAYWARD & HUTCHINSON, 317 NINTH STREET NORTHWEST, (Near the Avenue, ) Have 500 Siate Mantels in stock, and employ a large force of mechanics and artists in producing new designs and colors, and are filling all orders promptly at prices lower than ever offered, and, with a large force of mechanics in thetr several traces of Plombirg, Furnace, Range, Stove, Tin and Copper work, solicit jebbing orders. su; 31 tr S THE BEST SUMMER DRINKS, MILBURI’S POLAR SODA, With Ice-cold Tes, Coffee and Chocolate, at 1429 Pennsylvania avenue. tyS-tr SODA Is unrivalled. JX onvEE To REDUCE STOCK WITHOUT DELA ¥, TO MAKE PREPARATION FOR A LARGE FALL STOCK, FOUR THE NEXT FIFTEEN DAYS I OFFER THE FOLLOWING SPECIAL BARGAINS. Extraordinary Reduction. DRESS AND BUSINESS oe a Fren’ al. .---+-.S0ld at $20, reduced to. Bonsis Gasctinere...7..s0id at “1B, reduced to ‘Taft Weeden Cassimere.sold at 16, reduced to ‘Empire Mills Cassimere.sold at 15, reduced to 10 Bi- Wool Cassimere....soid at 12, reduced to fi] ry sold at $20, reduced to $15 French D g ial ‘ITaold at “16, reduced to 12 Bagot Worste ‘sold at 12, reduced to 3 DRESS AND BUSINESS PANTS. sold at $7, reduced to $5 00 er eee eee csold.at By reduced £9 4 00 Wang on Mulls Cass.sold at 4: reduced to 8 00 Diagonsl Cassimere....sold at 8, reduced to 2 00 ‘Union Cassimere,......s0ld at 2, reduced to 150 BOYS’ SUITS. se 7 6 5 n 3 ra 3 2 All other Goods at same proportion prices, NoTE.—1 am determined to reduce this stock, in order to make room for an tmmense stuck of Fail and Winter Goods, which I have ordered already, to be expressly manufactured for me, Cail at once . A. STRAUS", 1011 Pennsylvania avenue. auglé-tr Between Tenth and Eleventh ste, "Ss GA X¥ OF FINE B ABLOW aS ee 1225 Pennsylvania Avenue. ON FRKE EXHIBITION AND FOR SAI ou Easatings, Engraviogs, Pootogravares 3. ‘rames in Rutsia Leather, Fine Gtlt, Velvet, an Nickle, for Percelains and Miniatares. partouts and Mats to order. a ‘li the New Styles of Velvet and Silk Frames. Gold’s Frames of all kinds for Portraits. Land- &c.. made toorder. Vid Frames Rgilt. *Shrrors, Picture Rods and Cornices put up. Pictures unpacked, packed, and hupg up by com- petent workmen. {lt and Copper Wire (plain and twisted.) Sarde! with or without wire; Screw Eyes, Nails, ac. ‘Paint Cleaned and Restored oo =H NbARLOW, | try, snd pricesas low. c%) party representing that he has worked for me aa Rbstorer of on Pats and has injured some valuable 1 warn all persons against. He isan Imposter, and has never worked for or with N. B.—No connection with any other firm, 3m APOLLINARIS NATURAL MINERAL WATER. Highly Effervescent. PROVED by the Academie de Medecine of prance, sod its Sle'ts Frasos sathorized by #pe- mn cial order of the French Governme! Recommended by the highest MEDICAL AU- THORITIES in New York as x relief for sea-sickness.** “A itful beverage; mildly antacid; most bese out ri r to Vkiy. Seltzer, or any other.** «Absolutely pure and wholesoms, superior toall ure and Ww! Deotutely Dy co n gas. **Heaithful and well suited for Dyspepsia and cases ot acute disease, and where there is a gouty ont the most agreeable, alone or mixed with wring asetalin Catantls ‘of Stomach or Bladder, and in Gout.” = only a luxury, but a necessity."* dhe had of all Wine Merchants, Grocers, Drag- ‘sand Mineral Water dealers throughout the rnited Btates, and wholesale of FRED'K DE BARY & CO., Nos. 41 and 43 Warren st , New York, Bole Agents for the United States and uine bottle bears the low picforial latel of the Apoll (Limited), London. ‘aug2l- G@* FIXTURES. THE LARGEST ASSORTMENT IN THE CITY AND THE CHEAPEST. ALL THE LATEST STYLES. FULL LINE OF REFLECTORS And GAS STOVES, EF. BROOKS, No. 539 Fifteenth street, augis-tr Corcoran Building. ABE FOR W HEATEKs, RANG ES and COUK- ING STOVES. Now is the time to have your, Fire-) Heaters, ‘Cook and ‘Heats ing Stoves work guaranteed, Ke- member the PSeO. E. GARTRELL & CO. augwsm “815 Tih st, bet. Had Lb, EAKY ROOFS AND DAMP ; IRON-CLAD PAINT, WA ULS jectually resists all atmospheric c and 33 a roofing Paint and for Damp Walls ie no equal. ‘All work guaranteed. for cireular, . Call = IBON-CLAD PAINT COMPANY, HOLTON & MCLAIN, Pro; ang%4-Lm No. 711G Street mi ENNEDY’S KEAL ‘ATE O1 7 KA esis Ba. Oi oney Loaned on Real Estavs,” Property at and Soild on Commission. Rents collected, paid and insuranceetfecteq without charge. irlo-1y Gold Stxes, for sale. “ = 8-6 Bonds of D. C., guaranteed by the United * Otne investment Reuritios bought on ordore. JOHNSON & OV.. Bankers. LUAN ON WATCH Dia- EWELBEY axDBILVER' 1b. WALLAUH B, (late ot 8, goiassin & 0e,} awe ‘ Washington News and Gossip. GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DaY.—Internal Tevenue, $359,655.28; customs. $513,069,29. $1x PER CENTS CALLED IN—The Treasury issued a call this afternoon for the redemption of five million six per cent. bonds. PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENT OF A MINIS- TER.—The President has appointed the Hon. 8. ‘Newton Pettis to be U. 8. minister resident and consul general at Bolivia. This position was abolished some — ar: but the last di- plomatic appro) riation bill again made pro- vision for it. e appointee is a native of Ohio, and went to Pennsylvania in 1815, where he has resided since, except for a short time when he held the position of justice of the U. 8. court of Color: under President Lincoln. He filled an unexpired term in the Fortieth Congress. He was char; with selling a eadet’s appointment to West Point. This charge was never proyen. Itis stated that the jpointment was made by the President with- out consulting Secretary Evarts. It is also stated that Mr. Pettis withdrew from the con- gressional race in the Meadeville, Pa., district at the instance of the friends of Col. Dick, who has secured the nomination. The ‘‘instance”’ consisted ‘in a argon that if he did not op- pose Colonel Dick the mission to Bolivia, or some equally — Place, would be procured for him. Mr. Pettis is a republican. Ir Is Not TRUE, as telegraphed from this city, that Secretary Schurz opposed the ap- pointment of General Lew. Wallace to the governorship of New Mexico. RECORD OF THE LATE SESSION.—The Public Printer has about ready for issue the bound volumes containing the proceedings of the 45th Congress. This Congress was in session 28 days,and its record complete fills 3,328 pages. AN AGENT of the Republican Congressional committee named Baker, an ex-employe of the Treasury department, was foraging through that department to-day for subscrip- tions to the republican campaign fund. THE (QvID NuNcs now have it that John B. Hawley, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, is to be relieved, for the reason that there have been so many compiaints of his discour- teous treatment of visitors, the Secretary con- templated a change. Secretary Sherman, however, says he knows nothing about it. THE SttvER DoLLaks.—The Treasurer of the United States has been directed, upon the receipt by him from any person of a certificate issued by any assistant treasurer, designated depository or national bank designated a3 a ublic depository of the United States, stating, ‘hat a deposit of currency has been made to his credit in general account.of the sum of $1,000, or any multiple thereof, hot exceeding $10,000, to cause shipment to be le from some mint of the United States to the person in whose name the certificate is issued of a like amount of standard silver dollars, the expense of transportation to be paid by the mint. Until further notice, ae receipi By the Treasurer of the United States of Unite: States notes or national bank notes sent for redemption in multiples of #1,000,and not ex- ceeding $10,000, standard silver dollars will be returned under the provisions of this circular. In response to the circular announcing the above facts, large orders for that coin were received at the Treasury to-day. BACKBONE OF THE WHISKY REBELLION BROKEN. ‘he revenue officers in South Caro- lina write to Commissioner Raum that since the recent whisky troubles in that state and their almost complete settlement by the gov- ernment, the people there evince a much better spirit toward revenue officials, and do much to discourage illicit distillation. Tne officers are of the opinion that “the backbone of the unlawful manufacture of whisky in South Carolina is broken,” and do not antici- ate any future trouble. From Tennessee Roltector Cooper writes that the prompt back ing up by a large force of deputies of the reve- nue officers in the performance of their duties has done a good deal to bring the people to their senses. They are beginning to reatize that the government intends to put the quie tus to moonshine whisky. Collector Cooper also says that a number of illicit distillers have expressed a desire to come forward, sur- render themselves up, and acknowledge their guilt if they can receive terms similar to those granted the offenders in South Carolina. INDIAN CHILDREN aT HAMPTON INSTITUTE. Capt. R. H. Pratt, U.S.A., is in the city making arrangements to proceed to the Sioux country for the pu! of bringing east a number of Indian children of that to be educated. The children, about Dc bes number, malesand famales, will be entered at the Hampton, Va., Normal and Agricultural Institute. After their entrance to this school Captain Pratt will retain charge of them until they become satisfied and at home amid their new sur- roundings and duties. The males will be taught pe co eg and given a good common school education. The females will be in- structed in branches of parallel usefulness. The expense of educating them will be borne by the Interior department. In addition to these children a number of young women from the Kiowa and Comanche tribes will also be entered at the Hampton Institute. This will be at the instance of Gen. Armstrong, its resident. There is now at the school a num- ber of young male Indians, who were released — fee Prt at st. nent oo time ago rel rary. ral Armstrong thinks ‘that if they be thrown in contact with young women of their tribes— the Kiowa and Comanche—they will unite with them in ee et It istaken for granted that educated Indian couples who are Chris- tians and have been married as such will have an ereue effect upon their tribes when they return tothem. Kesults similar are also expected from the bringing up of the fifty Sioux children of both sexes. An Honest MEXICAN ALCALDE.—Informa- tion has been received at the War department that the alcalde of Las Vaccas, on the Rio Grande border, lately co-operated with Gen. Mackenzie, securing the recovery of seven- teen head of cattle which had nm stolen from American graziers. This is the only practical instance thus far of co-operation for such purposes. Gen. Mackenzie was prompt in returning his thanks to the alealde for this manifestation of friendfhip. Tne PRACTICE SHIP CONSTELLATION sailed from New Bedford, Mass., Tuesday last, for the Chesa} e bay,on her way back to An- napolis with the cadets midshipmen who have been on a summer cruise. EXCRUITS SENT WEST.—The superintendent mounted recruiting service has been ordered by the War department to forward fifty re- = to Cheyenne for assignment to the 3d cavalry. NAVAL ORDERS.—Lieuts. A.C.McMeacham, W.H. Jacques, and J. H. Dayton, Ensign A. M. Knight," Passed Assistant Paymasters Stephen Rand, jr., Cadet Midshipmen J. H. Fillmore, P. B. Bibb, 8. F. B. Biddle, H. H. Hooke, T. 8. Rodgers, and J. J. Knapp, and Gunner C. B. Magrauder to the Quinnebang at League Island, Pa.; Lieut. Commander C. W. peer tothe Quinnebaug as executive. Lieut. C. C. Cromwell detached from the Asiatic squadron and gran one year’s leave. Lieut. E. W. Bridges to the Quinne- baug: also Master Joseph L. Hunniker, Sur- eon Daniel McMurtrie, Assistant Surgeon J. . Murray. Acting Ri teeel J.E. Keen, and Acting Sailmaker G. P. Barnes. A CrRcULaR has been issued in the Post Office and Interior departments directing that mission be given to all clerks who desire to attend the tournament for the benefit of the en fever sufferers to leave for that purpose after 12 m. REMOVAL OF PosTMAsTER FILLEY.—The President to-day removed Gen. Filley, post. master at St. Louis, and appointed Samuel Hays in his stead. fh have been made against Gen. Filley of loose methods in conducting the of the office and also of violating the civil service rules. ‘he new r, Hays, is a friend of Sec- retary Schurz, and there was a warm fight both inside and outside the Cabinet when Filley was reappointed last winter over Hays, r who Was then strongly urged for the place. ios ee Dr. Basil Norris, U.S. A., was nintentior day's Oran. ly misprinted Morris in yester ; es hopes veep penn iy just finished at . navy will be put a 9a Bp in Important Revenue Decision. PEOPLE WHO SELL LIQUORS PUT UP AS PATENT MEDICINES LIABLE TO TAX AS LIQUOR DEALERS. The following letter, written by Commis- sioner Raum to Collector Sturgeon, St. Louis, Mo., is of interest In this section as well as in the west: “Your letter of the 16th ultimo has been receiyed, transmitting a letter from Messrs. Stern & Albert, of your city, making inquiries about the goods which they put up ana sell as proprietary articles; also sundry formulas, according to which those articles are compounded. [have also received from that firm by express samples of these goods, with the labels they use attached. In their letter Messrs. Stern & Albert claim that these articles are really medicines, put up as such, intended for use as tonics and alteratives where fevers and other malarial diseases so much prevail, and they ask to be informed as to whether these is are—ist. Proprietary medicines or m ‘inal preparations subject to stamp tax? and 2d. Whether parties selling such icles properly stamped are liable to 8) tax as liquor dealers? The law (sec- tion 18, of the act of February 8, 1875,) defines adealerin liquors as a person who sells or offers for sale foreign or domestic distilled spirits, wines or malt liquors, and imposes a special tax of $25 or $100, according as he sells at retail or at wholesale. The fact that a rec- tifier, manufacturer or dealer attaches labels tothe bottles, flasks, phials or other enclo- sures containing distilled spirits or wines, and holds such spirits and wines out and recom- mends them for popular sale and use as ton- ies, diuretics, appetizers, or as specifics and remedies for the cure of various diseases, does not relieve the dealer in such spirits and wines from the special tax if they are sold under the name of brandy, wine, gin, or whisky, or are substantially and essentially in use and effect distilled spirits or wines. A large class of wines and distilled spirits is be- ing put upon the warket under ,the several names of “Medicated French Brandy,” *‘Med- icated Holland Gin,” ‘Medicated Bourbon Whisky,” “Medicated Port Wine,” &c., forthe reason. it may be, that there is a popular de- mand for such spirits. The character, quality, use and effect of these liquors are substantial- yy, those of ordinary wines and distilled spirits, slightly modified in flavor by decoctions of barks, bitter herbs, ce. But the law imposes @ special tax for seiling distilled spirits or wines; and liability to this tax cannot be can. celled or evaded by any process of medication, nor by any, ponting out, or recommendations of the medicinal virtues and qualities of such spirits, whether real or pretended, if they are sold under the name oi wine, gin, brandy, or whisky, orif they are substantially wines or distilled spirits, or are used or sold asalcoholic beverages, Labels, such as have been referred to, attached to such liquors may subject them toa stamp tax under schedule A, as similar imported liquors are subjected to it, though classed as liquors at the custom houses and taxed there as such. The liability to the spe- cial tax as liquor dealer attaches for the sale of their spirits, such as those above deseribed, and attaches whether they are sold by the drink or in the unbroken packages. All rulings in conflict with this are are hereby re- yoked. You will please communicate to Messrs. Stern & Albert the decision herein made of the question submitted by them.” THE DEMAND FOR THE NEW FOUR PERCENT. Bonbs is still greater than the supply that cana be printed by the bureau of engraving and printing of the Treasury department. In view of the rapidity with which this loan is being subscribed for by the people, in the denomina- tions of fifty and one hundred dollars, it will be up hill work for the democrats to make a campaign in 1880 upon the issue of deprecia- ting them or any other of the bonds of the United States. If the democrats propose to make a campaign on the Thurman Key-note, it will be found that in every village and ham- let some of these securities are held, and those holding them will hardly vote with a pany which proposes to depreciate them. Hence some republicans claim ‘lat the four per cent. bonds now being issued by Secretary Sherman are the best financial campaign documents which are being circulated. Nearly every day those desiring to invest call personally on the U. $. Treasurer and his assistants for infor- mation. Most of those thus calling have small earnings laid away in savings banks, and in nine cases out of ten they withdraw the same and invest in this popular loan, the success o which has been unprecedented. SUBSCRIPTIONS to the four per cent. loan to- day amounted to $723,100. INFORMATION has been received at the Indian office that the Spotted Tail Indians have arrived safely at their new location, the Rosebud agency. DEATH OF THE Posts ASTER OF MEMPHIS.— Information has been received at the Post Office department from Memphis, Tenn., of the death of Mr. R. A. Thompson, postmaster at that place. The department has telegraphed to Mr. Thompson’s sureties to take charge of the office until a successor can be appointed. THe MITCHELL Divorce Casz.—On Sec- retary Schurz’s return from Deer Park, last week, Mr. R. W. C. Mitchell called his at- tention to the cnatees purporting to come from Mr. Mitchell's former wife, and singling out the charge that he had,in Writing, tried to induce her fo Tse! members of Congress, investigation. Mrs. Mit fatement, said she had the proof ia her late husband’s writing. On Monda: and sein yesterday the gentlemen eras to make the inquiry waited on Mrs. Mitchell, but she failed to produce the alleged letter or letters. In his letter to Peed Schurz Mr. Mitchell emphatically denies that he ever made such a proposition in any shape, and challenges the production of proof. The other charges he has breed denied in his divorce proceedings under oath. own hand- rostitute lemanded chell, in| the THE WORK OF THE REVISION of the con- federate archiyes in the custody of the War department is tobe resumed. Secretary Mc- Crary will place the records in the hands of some intelligent officer of the army, and after they have been carefully edited they wAl be printed by the War department. AMERICAN SILVER IN Haygi.—Hon. John M. Langston, American minister to the repub. lic of Hayti, has furnished the Department of State with an interesting report as to the use of American silver in that country. He says that our silver is used for all purposes by the government and peor! le. The amount of it circulating in Hayti is not far from $300,000. In the busy season, when coffee is being ex- porced. silver is very abundant in the island. uring the dull season, when exports are less abundant, silver is shipped from Hayti to the states to meet the demands held by American dealers against Haytien co ees. Within the past four months not less than $300,000 of silver has been shipped in this way froma Bare to the United States. The steamship on which the minister ee ne brought $108,0¢0 to New York. Mr. Langston states, further- more, that the ont, Sar! of silver which have been circulating hitherto in the republic haye been the half-dollar, the quarter, and the five and ten-cent pieces. e transactions of the government and the merchants of Hayti are now frequently so large that the need of a larger silver coin is especially felt. Mr. Lang. ston expresses the opinion that the new Amer- ican silver dollar will be received with great favor ie Bayt, and soon have a large circula- MUTINY ON BoakD OF A BRITISH BARK— Two Lives Lost and Several Wounded.—The Department of State is informed by Mr. Hora- tio J. Sprague, the American consul at Gibral- ta, under of August 12th, that the British bark onaway, under the command of Captain James W. Witmott, on a voyage from New York, bound to Trieste, put into Malta on the 3d ultimo in consequence of a case of mutiny, which occurred on board that vessel on the 13¢ ultimo, when she was about 28 miles from Cape Passano. Two of the crew assaulted the chief mate, whereupon a general scuffie ensued, in which the chief mate, boatswain, steward and @ seaman were severely and dangerous: wounded. The master defended himself wit! @ revolver, and shot one of his assailants, a Greek, who, seriously wounded, jumped over- |, and was followed by his comrade, also aGreek. The captain has undergone a court of enquiry, and has been acquitted. THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION in Wilmington, Del., yesterday, es very, quietly, and the democrats carried the day. The vote for mayor ee P. Allmond, jemocrat, Fes sone er, rep., ; Wm. ‘urphy, back ator, sb offtne councilmen elected 7 democrats ge! be composed of 12 demo- The new council will crats and 9 republicans. The president of the council is a republican. 4#@-The open-air meeting of the nationals at New Hayen last week was disturbed by boys who pelted the speakers and Mr. Atwater, the nominee for governor, with rotten eggs, Potatoes ADA BHODee, 4 LADY'S TRIP TO MINNEAPOLIS. {Oorrespondence of The Evening Star. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., August 26, 1878. In this age of fast travel we retire to rest in @ comfortable palace-car berth in Washing- ton, wake to find ourselves descending the mountains of West Virginia, and after break- fast lazily settle ourselves for a aay of pano- ramic views. After crossing the Ohio, which in its present low stage of water hardly merits the old name of “the beautiful,” we skim swiftly across fertile Ohio farms, past comfort- able farm-houses, and reflect upon the host of illustrious men who have called this state home. We cross Indiana at night, and awake the second morning out whirling over the prairies of Illinois, and by the signs of ele- gance visible in the residences, are rapidly nearing CHICAGO. We devote one day and night in Chicago to rest and sight-seeing, mainly to rest, however. Chicagois a beautiful city, more beautiful than before the great fire; but its beauty is around and above, not under foot. Wooden pavements and wooden sidewalks, everywhere rotten and broken! ‘here is n9 city, it is presumed, that enjoys a better supply of good, pure water than Chicago. A tunnel exten’s two miles out into the lake, and twenty-four feet below the surface, through which is drawn water, more than sufficient to meet an extraordinary demand, and free from all impurities. ‘We were told that west of Chicago the ac- commodations in traveling would be much better than east of that place, and though secretly doubting it, afterwards found the as- sertion true. The cars were cleaner and sleep- ing berths and dressing-rooms larger, and last, but not least, by any means, the fare which we found at the eating-houses on the way was more palatable. MILWAUKEE may fade from ou. memory, with its shady streets and beautiful cream colored houses, but the dining-room’s shining neatness, the dinner cooked as “mother used to cook,” and the quiet. prompt attendance with which the dinner was served, will make it a green spot in memory long after things more worthy of remembrance have faded. It is impossible to convey an idea, with the pen, of the wonderful clearness of the air. Objects against the ho zou stand out clearly defined, and when some house or tree is pointed out as being eight or ten miles away, we doubt it, and think it only three or fuur. The day spent in CROSSING WISCONSIN was one long pleasure. Sitting in the doorway of the rear car, watching the track recede, whirling by numberless lakes, covered with fragrant water-lilies in bloom, until, tiring of these, we turn to our fellow passengers and make new acquaintances, one or two of which we eRe will bot terminate with the journey. Just in front of us 18 a teacher from New Hampshire, who, broken in health and so weak that he is unabie to sit up, is going to Minnesota to recover; but we gravely shake our heads and fear he will never make the journey back. It would seem from the num- r of invalids going to Minnesota that the State is one vast hospital. . _MINNEAPOLIS. Arrived at Minneapolis, our destination, we sought a ae family in want of boarders, and succeeded in finding one exactly suiting our needs. If I were compelled to express in one word the characteristic trait of the Minneap- olis people, that word would be hospitality. The chief charm to the stranger, first seeing Minneapolis, lies in the beauty of its homes. There are a few elegant residences, but mostly cottages, which, with their beautiful lawns, many without fences, gives the place an air of home-like freedom which is very agreeable. The devastation caused by the mill explosi of last May is being rapidly covered. Six mills were destroyed by fire, three of which are al- ready rebuilt, and will soon be in running or- der. The chief manufactures of the city are flour and lumber. The new patent process en- ables millers to make from spring wheat a food flour, remarkable for its nutriment, and y this “middiings pane has given a double value toits milling interests and has raised Minneapolis to the rank of the largest flour cities on the continent. There are twenty saw and shingle mills, with a capacity for manufacturing over 200,000.00 feet of lumber, and an equal quantity of shingles and laths in the season of six months. THE FALLS OF ST. ANTHONY are nearly or quite in the center of the city, with a fallof eighty feet, equal to 120,000 horse power, which is conceded to be the finest water power in the west. The rocks are com- posed of soft limestone, and it is said the falls were once at Fort Snelling, six miles below and have worn away to their present position The face of the rocks over which the water falls is now faced with boards to protect it from further wearing. The suburbs of this city are unsurpassed. The two charming lakes of Calhoun and Harriet on the west, within two miles of its center; the Falls of Minnehaha, about four miles to the southeast, with its romantic scenery: and two miles be- yond, Fort Spelling, with its magnificent view of the Mississippi valley, are enough to fur- nish food to all lovers of the beautiful—and, indeed, they are constantly resorted to by all classes of people. The old residents have a saying “that one must go out of the state of Minnesota todie.”” So with this comforting assurance, and the de- light there is in breathing such clear, bracing air, we are aieaay, encoul that our search for health will not be in vain. M. —<———————< A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD FRATRICIDE—Futal End of a Quarrel Between Brothers.—A special dispatch to the New York Times, from from Boston, September 2d, says: A lad, 12 a old, stabbed his brother, 15 years old, in a quarrel this afternoon over a rabbit-box, the ownership of which both claimed. The culprit fled alter the deed, and was arrested only after a four honrs’ search by the police. ‘The boys quarreled in an alley inthe rear of their parents’ house, No. 9 Short street, East Cambridge. From hard words they came to blows, and the older, holding tightly to the box and endeavoring to push his younger brother away, was stabbed by the latter with a common jackknife, in the breast, directly over the heart, and died almost instantly. The youthful murderer at once took to his heels, running toward the city. Details of police- men were soon out scouring the neighborhood, and after a while the boy was discovered hid- den in the woodshed of ‘his aunt's house, No. 7 Wail street, in this city. When told what he had done, the aunt immediately surrendered him, and he was lodged in the lock-up in East Cee He does not seem to realize the ‘avity of his situation or the magnitude of is crime. He says he was determined to make his brother take his hands off the box, and refusing to do so he made a pass with his jackknife at his fingers, but not being able to reach them he struck his brother’s breast. The father of the lads isan industrious me- chanic, and feels keenly his position, with one son dead and the other in jail as his brother's murderer. The affair created intense excite- ment In the neighborhood. ‘Was IT YELLOW FEVER?—The report of the illness of Mrs. J. P. Jordan at ill arket, a3 mentioned in yesterday's Gazette, was con- firmed and Bs vaguely last night by the news of her death, which occurred yesterday morni It is further reported that Mr. Jor- dan is sick, and that the p! ee have given @ certificate that Mrs. J.’s death was caused by typho-malarial fever and not by yellow fever, and that Mr. Jordan’s brother, who came to this city for a coffin, had that certificate in his ion and exhibited it to some friends. The body of Mrs. Jordan has been interred at Haymarket.—[ Alex. Gazette, 3d. THE RESCUE OF a CHILD.—On Thursday morning, five miles below Chester, on the Illi- nois shore of the Mississippi, sixty miles below St. Louis, a boy about 7 years of age wasfound floating on the trunk of a cottonwood tree. Two farm hands, who were crossing the river in a skiff, noticed the trunk of a tree float- ing and something lying on the top of it. They J ares up to the tree, which was about 100 feet long, and found a oan boy. The little fellow was lying in a kind of hollow formed in the trunk. He was unconscious and in a high state of fever, and his wasted form and emaciated look bespoke long absti- nence from food. The boy is still unable to converse, and it is not known who he is or where come from. The presumption is that he must have.drifted on the trunk from some point near the mouth of the Missouri, venturing upon the trunk while it was lying Close to the banks. The little fellow must have been on the trunk five or six days, drifting 100 Sones during which time he had no suste- ce. Bound TO Ki.L HIMSELF SOMEHOW.—Mr. Henry J. Heath, an English 32 ne old, who had tes lor some mont committed suicide in New York city Tuesday, by cutting his throat with arazor, and then jumping from his room in the second story of a dwelling to the ground, and throwing himself into a well. He was suf- fering from pho fever, and was delirious at the time of the act. uf 4@-Prof. Watson whois employed by the University of Michigan to find planets for that te, has had his salary cut down, there being 99 ttle demand at present for planets, TWO UENTS. District Government Affairs. The questions at issue between the Treasury department and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia relative to the manner of keeping expense and cash accounts, method of drawing upon the Treasury, making de- fae of the District revenues, &c., having en settled, the District is again in funds to meet current expenses. The District Commissioners have notified Health Officer Townshend that hereafter for each mule impounded they will aliow for forage 6 poundg of oats and [2 pounds of hay daily, and for +h horse 8 pounds of oa id x — of hay daily while the anima e! An order has been issued by the District Commissioners that in the transportation of stone, earth, the products of coai tar or as. phalt, or any other materials, the carts used shall be of such construction as will prevent the falling or eeanine of any refuse upon the streets, and the police are charged with the enforcement of the order The District Commissioners have approved of the request made by Mr. Francis Miller, assistant attorney for the District, that Mr. Daniel Donovan be detailed to assist in the defence of some of the cases against the Dis- trict now pending in the courts. UNSAFE BUILDINGS. Inspector Entwisle has addressed a note to Mr. Allison Nailor, jr., stating that the west 60 feet of the building on E, between 1334 and ith streets, owned by him, being about to be removed by Mr. Washington Nailor, upon ex- amination it is found that the removal will endanger the east portion—some 82 feet on E street—making it dangerous to life and limb. He therefore condemns it, and notifies Mr. Nailor to securely prop the walls, to prevent accident while the removal takes place, which must be done within thirty days. Mr. En- twisle has also condemned the south party wail of the house corner of 13:h and E streets, owned by Mr. D. B. Groff. as out of plumb, and notice has been served for its demolition and reconstruction. INTERESTING TO DELINQUENT TAXPAYERS. It may be a matter of interest to many readers to know that the time provided in the act of June 11 for extending the time for payment of delinquent taxes expires on the Liti This provision was embodied in the act viding a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia, and fixing the rate for its support at 5) per cent. upon the general government. Many delinquent taxpayers do not seem to realize the advantage of this pro- vision. Itstates that ‘*All penaltie: post by the act approved March 3d, 1877, chapter 17, upon delinquents for default in’ the pay- ment of taxes levied under said act at the time specified therein, shall, upon payment of the said taxes assessed against such delinquents within three monthsfrom the passage of this act, with interest at the rate of six per cent. thereon, be remitted.” The penalties men- tioned embrace all costs of advertisement and sale of property for iailure to pay, &c., and makesan important item in the settlement of taxes which may be saved by attention before the llth instant. BUILDING PERMITS issued by Inspector Entwisle: Mrs. McCloud, repair frame 227 lvth st. s.e.: #25. Alfred Hay- wood, repair frame 324 E st. s.w.; $10. James O'Connor, repair frame corner 4th and K sts. -€.; $25, Providence Hospital, construct a story laundry, 2d, between E and F sts. 2,300. Mrs. Ward, repair frame 1312 I st. w. ; $30. Richard Francis, repair brick house 212 G, between 2d and 3d sts. n.w.; $500. Lewis Baum, repair brick house 705 7th st. n.w. ; $1,000, Robert Jackson, repair frame house 1240 25th st. n.w.; $100. Mrs. E. Lowe, repair frame 606 10th st. n.w. ; $25. Jos. H. Fletcher, repair brick 1233 5th st. n.w. A Husband KILLs His WIFE.—A special to the Baltimore American from Centreville, Queen Ann’s county, says: A domestic trage- dy, involving the violent death of a married woman at the hands of her husband, occurred near Hillsboro’, in this county, on Saturday. About three o'clock on the afteriioon of that day Mrs. Lang, wife of Richard Lang, col- ored, alias John Mines, was shot and almost instantly killed by a charge from a gun in the hands of her husband. The woman was found lying on a sofa in Lang’s Mouse with a wound in her left breast, and lived only about seven minutes afler receiving the injury. The state- | ment of the husband was to the effect that he was about to proceed ona gunning expedition and in fixing a cap on the gun the weapon was accidentally discharged, killing his wife as stated. The neighbors, however, state that he and the deceased woman had been separated for some time, after an existence replete with domestic broils, and the latter, it is said, was told by her husband that if she ever returned to his house he would killher. She had been back about a week, when the presumption is that the old quarrel was resumed, and culm}- nated in the execution of the threat. A jury of inquest was summoned, and after nays the facts here stated presented to them faile: to agree on a verdict, whereupon Lang was dismissed from custody. State’s Attorne: Brown, of aS Anne’s county, was appris of the facts in the case and caused a warrant to be issued for Lang, who was subsequently arrested by Constable Jump in Caroline coun- ty, by whom he was brought to this place and lodged 1n jail. CAPTURE OF A GANG OF NORTH CAROLINA BURGLAKS.—A negro named Albert Atwater, arrested in Orange county, N. C., charged with breaking into the house of Mrs. Hendren, in Chapel Hill, and attempting to kill her with an axe, has made a confession of that and nu- merous other burglaries committed in that vicinity by an organized band of robbers, of which he was one. The gang, he said, was composed of himself, LewisCariton, (colored,) Alfonso Davis and Henry Andrews, (whites. ) They broke into the house of Mrs. Hendren for the purpose of Legere when about to be detected they struck Mrs. Hendren with an axe and nearly killed her. They had also entered the houses of two other persons in Chapel Hill for the express purpose of com- mitting an assault upon two single youn: ladies. After they got into the house they al tempted io administer chloroform to them, but fortunately the young ladies screamed and thus frustrated their plans, They had also agreed torob the houses of five other citizens. Atwater detailed the various crimes to the committing magistrate, and informed him where the stolen goods were secreted. and they were found in the places desig- nated. Upon thisinformation the other three members of the fans were committed with Atwater to Hillsboro’ jail upon several ebarges of burglary. The feeling was so strong against the robbers that an attempt Was made to Ivnch. them, but was frustrated by officers of the law. FRIGHTFUL DISASTER IN ENGLAND—Over Six Hundred Excursionists Drowned.—The excursion steamer Princess Alice, returning from Gravesend to London last evening, with about 800 passengers on board, was run down off gel about eight o’clock by a screw steamer. The Princess Alice was struck amidships and sunk almost paiposately: The number of persons drowned is variously estimated at from 500 to 650. The higher esti- mated is the latest, and is given the by London Steamboat Company, the owners of the Prin- cess Alice. The company’s wharf is besieged by crowds of people, anxious to hear of rela- tives and friends who were passengers on the ill-fated boat. GoLD MEDALS FOR AMERICAN EXHIBITORS IN PaRIs.—An additional list is published of twelve gold medals awarded by the juries to American exhibitors in the Paris Exhibition. The successful competitors are Abendrath Brothers, of New York, for stoves; Lyman G. Bigelow, of Detroit, for photographs; Leroy & ork, = gold . Fairchild & Co., of New ns; Globe Nall Company, of Boston, for orseshoe hails: Owen Jones & Co., of Phila- copnin for revolvers ; Mallory, Wheeler & Co., for hardware; L. Marcotte, of New York, for furniture: Osborne Manufacturing Company, Auburn, N. Y., for mowers and reapers; Ty Writing’ Machine Company, of New York, 0: ype writing machines; Wamsutta Mills, New ford, -» for shirting muslins;' Yale Lock Company, of Connecticut, for post oftice oe) and the Nashua Manufacturing Com- SENATOR JAMES G. BLAINE addressed a large audience at the Minneapolis (Minn.) ct eer ol daeass Sag 3 = was an en —_ “en ol y ir ssi regioi closing with the remark that “gradually the overument of the republic is slug under fite control of the tarporeot the} Mississippi Indeed it is practically there to-day. ‘The swelling and on-rushing tide of population that ie between the Poe mnceaesns Paces ot en the continent.” ae JUG-BREAKING is a symbolic temperance di- Yersion in Ohio. The people meet ina church, cece ue eae eer o garee charity are found in the jugs. “ THE ARKANSAS ELECTION.—Nothing official returns of the in Palate pa Ags decide the result. The Greenback tickets are elected. goes democratic by 2,000 majority, Telegrams to The Star. THE THAMES HORROR. ——_+—__. Loss of the Princess Alice. Over Six Hundred Drowned. ORVIL GRANT INSANE. FRIGHTFUL DISASTER IN ENG- LAND. What Is Known of the Sinking o the Princess Alice. LONDON, Sept. 4—The paddle-wheel excur sion steamer Princess Alice, which was run into and sunk with such frightful results last evening, while on her return from Gravesend to London, by the screw collier Bywell Castle, Was one of the largest saloon steamers of the J.ondon Steamboat Comyany. She left Lon- don at about 11 o'clock yesterday morning for Gravesend and Sheerness, many excur- sionists pelng. induced _by the fine weather to go for a holiday trip. The vessel left Graves. end on the return journey soon after 6 o'clock in the evening, and arrived within sight of the royal arsenal at Woolwich at about 8 o'clock. The Bywell Castle was then approaching on the opposite course. The two steamers were near the middle of the stream. of London gas works, at Beckton, and below the North Woolwich Gardens—almost the pre- cise scene of the fatal collision between the Metis and Wentworth ten years ago. What happened is impossible accurately to detail. All that is known amid the maddening excits- ment is that the screw steamer struck the Princess Alice on the ide, near the fore ad no parallel v, Very few, persons clambered on the other vessel, but nearly rushed to the after pat of the Princess Ali As the bow subsided gradually under the water THE SHRIEKS WERE FEARFUL, and nothing could be done to save life. There were a dozen or more life buoys on board, some boats were swinging in the da even if they could have been got at they have been of little service under the cirew: Stances. Within five minutes the Princess Alice heeled completely over, and went down in deep water. Some small boats hasiened to the scene, and the Duke of Teek, another steamer belonging to the same company, which was also on the passage up the river with a party of excursionists, went to the res. eue, but the river for a hundred yards was full of drowning people, screamingin anguish and praying for help, and as it was growing dark then not much could be done. About Six mane dand Fifty Lives Lost. Itis believed that not more than one hun- dred and fifty persons escaped out of the eight hundred aboard the vessel. The Prin- cess Alice was a long and low river steamer, built for excursions down the Thames, of which the middle and poorer classes of Lon- doners are very fond. She had saloons on the forward and after decks, and her passen- fer.cartying capacity was unusually large. A jarge portion of the passengers last evening were on the upper or saloon deck, and must have seen beforehand their impending doom; but those in the stern of the steamer had no warning until they heard the crash and found the passengers from the forward partof the yessel running to the after part. Beyond the fact that the tide was about two hours’ ebb, which would enable the Princess Alice to ease and stop sooner than the serew steamer, which would be borne on the tide, it is impossible to discover any of the circumstances immediate- ly preceding the collision. Before the boats came in collision there were cries from one to the other to keep out of the way, but as usual in such cases the accident was probably due to misunderstanding, the one misinterpreting the intention of the ‘other. All the rules of sailing were cast to the winds in the moment of peril; each taking the wrong course to avoid each other's biunder. Cause of the Collision. Lonnon, Sept. 4.—The cause of the Princess Alice disaster is believed to be that both ves sels were rounding the sharp bend in the river, caused by the projection of a point of land whereon the powder magazine of the Wool wich arsenal is situated. In order to turn this point the Princess Alice had crossed over to the right bank of the river, and was thus out of her proper course. Her lights were proba bly obscured by the shadow of the powder magazine, and being much smaller and lower than the Pywell Castle, the latter was upon her before the danger was perceived. just off the city YELLOW FEVER. _ Relief from Various Sources. NEW YorK, Sept. 4.—The pels of Wells, Fargo & Co. Express Co., of this city and San Francisco, have contributed $550 for the relief olxclow fever sufferers, and that amount was to-day pees to Memphis. One thousand dollars has m raised at Rochester, N. Y. The Young Peoples Literary Society of Water: fon: N. ¥., has forwarded $100 to New Or- ns. Yellow Fever Deaths. NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 4.—The weather to- day is unfavorable, a heavy rain prevailing. Two hundred and twelve new cases are re- Ported and 72 deaths. —$——__ THE CUSTOM HOUSE INVESTIGA- TION. The Testimony in New York. NEw York, Sept. 4.—The custom house in- vestigating committee met to-day. The first witness examined was James Hoffman, the cashier of the custom house. He said his de- partment was not so subject to political changes as other departments of the custom house. It would not be safe to change men often. He believed that many of the forms in use are considered burdensome by merchants, and that they could be consolidated some- what. —_—_——_ ORVIL GRANT A LUNATIC. ___ Sent to an Insane Asylum, ELIzasetH, N. J., Sept. 4—Orvil Grant, the ex-President's brother, was taken in custody here last night on his arrival from New York, and was sent this morning to the insane asy- lum at Morristown. His mind runs on im- mense speculations, starting a new business on a gigantic scale, &c. He was sent to tae gyicm at the request of his friends and Dr. (orton. Arrest of a Murderer. LONDON, Sept. 4.—Peter Froman, the self- confessed murderer, who was arrested at on the ar- bark C. Wm. Donkin from Bull river, 8. C.,on which vessel he wasa stowaway, who has bee! and in twice was to-day again remanded for one week. Sf ———— Death of a Baseballer. SPRINGFIELD, Mass , Sept. 4.—Wm. Crook, of Philadelphia, third baseman of the Clinton g from. Ses last. ing. Crook was formerly of the Athletics. Chi was Who Want to See th Pe President. ‘ St. Pavt, Minn., Sept. 4—Seventeen Chip. pews: Indians arrived in town from the White ney last night for the pur; of meeting President Hages om Thursday Democratic Nomination. EasTon, MD., Sept. 4—Hon. D. M. He was to-day unanimously nominated for Com gress by the demoerats of the 1st district. ope Sept. 4.—Vi 20; do. 3 do. second series, 29; u ner ‘bid '» Sugar strong, 85a9) 1 BAD ‘s s ORE,” Sept. 4. a quiet—mia- ing, 12. Flour 1 ‘and a ing, 1. Flour ‘qui seedy lunchanged ve and lower— .04; do. tinier Loastofs No. wana rod, 1.07: The Eoening Star. *s Republican Majority. New Sept. 4 A prelal dispatch tine, New York 7imes from Burlington, says the’ Vermont state election yesterday was gener. ally quiet, with seme close and ae con- tests for the local offices. Returns indicate a Majority of 17,000 or 13,000 for Proctor and the repul oe state ticket on a light vote. In the Vermo: New Yor st any -ngressional districts, Joyce and licans, are elected by the usual majorities for off years. There is no election in the Sd district. “In S2 towns in that district Barlow, the greenbacker and bolting repubit- can candidate, has 4.98; Grout, the regular republican, 5 5S; Waterman, democrat, scattering, 0. The democrats voted for Bar low In large numbers. In some towns, such as St. Albans, they voted for him almost en masse. The senate will be almost unanimous- ly republican, and the house of representa- ives 3 or 4 to I, though the three largest towns in the state sené democrats to the legislature. St. Paul Races. St. Paul, MIsN., Sept. 4—In the stattion race at the state fair yesterday the entries were Bertram, Alexander, Fearnaught and Pat Herod. It was for a purse of #1, 0), best two in three, and was won by Fearnaught, © took the first and third heats. Time— “4, 2:283,, 2:29. In the 2:28 class race Jim, Raven, Lady of the West and Albion were en. tered, and the race was won by Rave being distanced. 2: Atheistone employe of the jewelry house of Rosenkrans & Co., has been arrested, charged with stealing #10 (00 worth of jewelry. oo Word of the F aarti has_ been recovei Winters came from Jersey Clty, where his parents re side and are reported to be wealthy. Prohibition € cress MINNEAPOLIS, . 4—The State Proht bition Convention yesterday nominated Con eressmen as follows: First district, G. W. Greer: second district, J. C. Stearns. The third district was referred committee, No Hope for Jack Kehoe. HARRISBURG, PA., Sept. 4—The board of pardons this morning refused to recommend the commutation of death sentence to life im- prscemens in the case of Jack Kehoe, the Mollie Maguire. Republican Renom Kress. MILWAUKER, Sept. 4.—The republicans of the third Congressional district have renomi nated Geo. C. Hazelton by acclamation. —__-+e-___ CONDITION OF TRADE AND LABOR IN Sax- oNY.—A valuable report has been received at the Department of State from Mr. Joseph T. Mason, the American consul at Dresden, as to the condition of trade and labor in Saxony. The consul = that the condition of the la- boring classesin Dresden and the raral dis u is very unfavorable, wages belag decid- tion for Con- edly inadequate to the cost of living. “In the acricuitural regions in the vicinity of the cap. re generally a hed to the old ers are really part and parce Wages in motiey being geverally merely nom: inal. The price of ordinary agricultural labor upon lands not belonging to the nobility is #1 for men and $2.50 for Women per mouth, plain lodgings and simple food included. Mechan iesearn from $2 to #10 per week, when em- ployed. A large percentage of many classes of mechanics are now out of employment, and the amont of suffering among them ts very great. Universal complaint is heard as to the depressed condition of all sorts of trade. The consul is of the opinion that the hard times have been more severely felt in Germany since 1s73, than in America, and that the process of recovery is much slower than with us. Zo ra. P THE PARTIAL ABOLITION OF THE PRUE ZONE, a years ago the Mexican government, to conciliate the turbulent —_ along the Rio Grande. and perhaps because of the difficulty of establishing custom-houses on the frontier, set apart a strip of territory border. ing on the river within which all goods pass- ing from Mexico into the United tates and from the United States inro Mexico were al- lowed free transit. The consequence ha» been that the free zone thus established has for years offered all imaginable facilities for smug. gling. Against the retention of this free zone our —- has frequently protested, but until now its protests have passed unheeded. While Cortina exercised almost unlimited au- thority over the lawless but scattered Mexican population on the Rio Grande, not only was smuggling counived at by that ‘border ruf- fian,” and every assistance rendered to those engaged in it, but constant raids were made upon the stock ranches of the Texans and upon all sorts of portable property within reach. Ever since the deportation of Cortina, ostensibly asa prisoner, to the City of Mexico, the raids have been continued by his old fol- lowers, though less frequently, and smugglers have had the same countenance and protec- tion that Cortina extended to them. The pursuit of these raiding parties into Me: y United States troops seems at leng to have aroused President Diaz to the danger of the situation, and as a friendly measure he has abolished the free zone, except asto Matamoras and Laredo, and interdicted commercial intercourse at other points. The people of Camargo and Mier, two intermediate points on the Rio Grande be tween Matamoras and Laredo, have forwarded to the Mexican government an indignant pro- test against the change. It is not surprising to learn also that the order has created great excitement among the border population gen- erally, who have found their profit in smug- ging, and at no time have been in awe of the lexican authorities. The cerry fopaee fore extended to the contrabandists made them a power along the river, as weil as in the interior of Tamaulipas and Nuevo, almost up to the gates of Monterey. To deny them the crac on they have ‘enjoyed So long is to de- stroy their vocation, and as they are not at all given to industrial “agen it would not be surprising to hear that they had defied the or- der of President Diaz, and issued a fresh rev- oluti Pronunciamento. If Cortina was among that in all probability would be the course they would take. In the absence of that old chief of guerrillas, and with no leader capable of taking his place, and protest, and yet conclude that discretion is the better part of valor.—[ Balto Sun. CONGRESSMAN SWANN, of tRe 4th Maryland district, has written a letter,in which be says: “While the duties of a member of Congress and chairman of one of the principal_commit- tees are arduous and responsible, I should, nevertheless, not have felt at liberty tode- cline a renomination had it been the wish of my constituents that I should continue to rep- resent them. But I had never proposed toen- ter upon an exciting political contest at the = election. On myarrivai in Baltimore ‘rom Newport a few days since I learned from my friends that others were desirous of filling the place I now occupy, and the presentation of my name for renomination would result in what I had determined under no considera- tion to again encounter.” THE YELLOW Fever ScovRGE.—Among the yellow feverdeaths at Vicksburg are Joseph *. Doll, mayor-elect of Vicksburg, who was to have taken his seat to-day, and Father McManus, of St. Paul’s Church, a man beloved for his charity and goodness by all sects and all creeds. ree Pullman sleeping car con- ductors, running between New Orleans and Cincinnati, are down with the yellow fever in the lattercity. The police superintendent in New York has ordered boxes placed in all sta- tion houses for subscriptions for afflicted Neemen and their families in the fever tricts. Archbishop Wood, of Philatelphia, has issued a circular appealing for aid for the fever-stricken Catholics of the South. It wilt be read in the Catholic churches of the diocese next Sunday. BisHOP McCoskker Dgposep.—The House of Bis of the P. E.Church, met at New York y afternoon and adjourned sine ag at7 ee See at bee (cCoskrey, from the ministry. THE PRESIDENT met with an enthusiastic reception in Chicago yesterday, = bis tour in the northwest. There was a of — and a general er of cil . A lute from the battei the arrival of the train, an im- , but s the streets that the distance of half a dozen blocks wag not accomplished for nearly an hour. THE CUMBERLAND SHOOTING CaSE.—Tho hearing tho-case of Thomas Gook Ei ane i ckiston, on morning in Cumberland, Md., was set for terday, but Hughey waived an examinations and he was committed ,to to await the ac- tion of the grand next month. Bail had D y could hava Boots: "$ SAD DgaTH.—A New York A BOOTBLACK’S, TH. ow York forehead, Mostay eventag, Killing’ hieg 1n- lies ‘arrested the bartender, one Frederick A. who said fas the eat ‘Decause he want-