Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1878, Page 1

ee Nw THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, Except Sunday | AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, | Peansyivania Avenue, corner Lith street ay The Evening Star Newspaper Oompany, | S. H, KAUBFMANN, Pree’, ) pseribers in ce oar to oe, usrown aecooat, we 9 | each. Gy mall—postage Bre- | oat SShonths one year, 98, hyn WaEELY Sean pouting On Fritay—s2a | JeioP eS DeeData. ge" All mail subscriptions must be paid 1% nde | "c@: no paper sent longer than so pald for. "sa ates of advertising mde kn0WD O2 gpplica- copies far $15; 28 copie, “——______. Che Loening Star, % 52—N°. 7.943. AT emer: T WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1878. SPECIAL NOTICES. | THE EVENING STAR. | WEERFUL AWA <ENING, OXEAT | REVIVAL, GLOBIGUS SUCCESS. Over | the reviva: at Foundry cuurch, | ¢ TO-NIGHT, 7 PO-MORKOW, Tl a. |. m. ess and revival, Conduc'ed by thd y@ ine | evar gelist. DIVIDEND —Urrice of Covempta | RA(LWAY Co. September 1th, 1373, — Tr ‘annua, Dividend oa the stock of ihe | COLT MBIA BR. K. 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COOK. i Dit, REULIN, Surgeon tn charge of the Wp maryiana Hye aia Ear Ipfirmary, bas re- Fonef bis «Mes hours—from 12 to 3 p.m—at No, 1209 Per ns} lvania ave., every WEDNESDA angB-2 is 80 ce Serv H2YWAED & HUTCHINSON, $17 NiNTH STREET NORTHWEST, (Near the Avenne,) Have 500 Slate 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 iower than ever offered, and, with « large force of mechanics in their several trades of Pinmbing, Furnace, Range, Stove, Tin | anc Copper work, solicit jobbing orders. | au.3i tr | ~ TO A!L PERSONS ENGAG THE RETAIL DRUG BUSL DISIRICE OF COLUMBIA: 7B, andeutttiod: | f Pharmacy in ihe £67 Colnmltity hereby monty ail per Sons cutitied to be registered as pharmacists unter | 2 j sision of the above named section of said ey will be ready to receive applications for ‘registration on and after the M47H DAY OF >, 1878, at thetr office in the Colonization g corner of Penpsylvauia avenue and 4’ from the bour of 11 a.m to J p.m.. on AY, WEDNESDAY aud FRIDAY of éaci | w requires that all persons entitled to reg- ister as provided for in section 4 shall do so withia | @ days from the ite of tli! ~*~ 8, which time taro ‘ i expire with t par uext. 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All work done on th: premises, and teed nal toany house in the country, and pricesas low. “ail parties. wishiug work doi by sending nove by mall will meet with prompt a | A party representing, that le has worked for m2 as Restorer of O1) ae and has injured some valuable pictures, 1 warn all persous against. He is an Imposter, and has never worked for or with me. N. B.—No connection with any other frm, aags1-3in Fuse INSTALMENT or i FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING SCST RECEIVED A. STRAUS, 4011 Pennsyleania avenue, ‘Three Doors from 11th street. MEN'S DRESS SUITS, MEN'S DRESS SUITS, MENS DRESS 3U1T3, BOYS” SCHOOL SUr BOYS? 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The Lasvel on every geuulne, Bertie ts printed on BLUE paper. aiia28-wim,eow. 3m ASPHALT ae | i BITUMINOUS CONCKETE PAVEMENTS. | ‘Toe undersigned are prepared to lay ROADWAYS, WALKS, STABLES. CELLARS AND WAREHOUSE FLOORS, In the best manner aud at the shortest notice, AT LOW PRICES FOR GOOD WoRK. | CRANFORD, HOFFMAN & FILBERT, ser6-Lin OFFICE: 1420 F st. m. tw. FAY HOOFS AND DAMP WALLS 1HON-CLAD PAINT Fesists all atmospheric changes, and as int and for Damp Walls has woegual. guarapieed. Call for circalar. 4HON- CLAD PAINT COMPANY, HOLTOS & MCLAIN, Proprietors, bogts-La No. 742 @ Street nites | Surer was dissatisfied with Mr. Wilson as an | nation of the dischat | counts be made. | Haypew ; and coneluded that nothing could be done but | with Washington News and Gossip, A TREASURY DEFALCATION,. A Dismissal and Arrest. An Assorting Teller 8800 Short. Last Saturday evening Treasurer Giliilla discharged Mr. W. V. S. Wilson, assorting teller of the national bank redemption agency. The discharge was because the Trea- officer, one reason being that he was ad- dicted to the use of intoxicating liquors There were no suspicions as to his integrity This morning Mr. Wilson was in the o! from which he had been discharzed. He Stated to several of his former fellow-cin- ployes that he had intended to go to New Jer- sey last evening to raise some money—abont $1,500. He thought, however, that to leave so stiddenly would excite suspicion; somebody inight think something was wrong about him. Treasurer Gilfillan happened in the redemp- tien agency shortly after Wilson’s visit, and what he had said about raising money was mentioned .to him. It excited suspi Mr. iifillan immediately directed that an exami- ‘ed teller’s books and ac- This w done. It was quickly discovered that he was short $80). He had withheld the money on the 9th instant, and covered his defaleation by false entries. THE ARREST. | Wilson, who had left the building, was sent for by the Treasurer. He was esc the private room of the Treasurer Mr. Eitan informed him of what & ciseovered in the mea » sending Mr. Graves, chiet agency, out for a warrant Wilson admitted that he was short in his accounts * even Or eight hundred dollars.” rrant was served this afternoon by Deputy U.S. Marshal Wolf, who took Wilson into eustody Wilson resides in the northwestern part of the city and isa man of family. He isa_na- tive of New Jersey, aud has been an employe of the Treasury about sixteen years, ‘The warrant was issued under sect SUBSCRIPTIONS to the lour per cent. loan to- day amounted togi624.400. THE PREstpENT will visit the Ohio state fair at Toledo on the 1%h inst. To-morrow he will attend the soldier’s reunion at Wil Joughby, Lake county, Obio, and the annual meeting of the trustees of the soldiers’ hom on cance Tay: From Toledo, Thursday, he will return to Fremont. TELEGRAMS FROM THE FEVER DistRIC The following telegrams were received by Sur- (aoe John M. Woodworth too late to be inserted in his official report of Saturday: Vicksburg, Sept. HM, I p.m.—Seareity of physicians and increase of work makes itim- ossibie to obtain accurate returns promptly. bere were 2:4 deaths from yellow fever dur- ing the last week, 25 of these occurred duriug the past twenty-four hours. KEYES, Surgeon. Raton Rouge, Miss.. Sept. 14, 10 p.m.—First ease of yellow fever occurred onthe lith of August. There have been 435 cases and 27 deaths to date. Tuos. J. BuFFINcTON, M. D. PERSONAL.—Col. Robert J. Stevens, wife and daughter have returned from their summer trip to Newport and elsewhere. ....Mr. Geo. W. Adams and Mr. J. W. Boteler and wife, of this city, have returned trom Europe,—arriv- ing at New York on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Stickney have gone to Maine for a brief vacation. ....Mr. James R. Young, who returaed from Europe more than a week ago, is stauing in Philadelphia until he recovers tue use of the English language, as he prefers pot to be thrown entirely upon the French- speaking attaches of legations for compan- ip in Washington. .... General Lew governor of New Mexico, and Judz+ Black are in the city Miss J. M. Seavey. chief of the recording division of the internal revenue bureau has just returned from a three months’ tour in Europe, When she entered her office this morning she found her desk completely covered with hand- some bouquets, etc., and the motto “ Welcome Heme.” The ladies of her division took this way of ex pressing their pleasure at her return. ---. Mr. K. F. Boisseau, of the New York As- sociated Press, has returned from Orkney Springs, where he has been for the summer. He willtake charge of the Associated Press bureau in this city until the return of Mr. Phillips. ....G. L. Magruder, of Washington, . C., was registered in Paris at No. 29 Boule- vard Haussmann on Saturday. Jerre MR. JUSTICE HARLAN returned from New- port last week and established his family in this city for the winter, and has again left Washington for circuit duty the states of Indiana, Mllinois and Wisconsin. Tue U. S. STEAMER TICONDEROGA, now at Portsmouth, N. H., is ordered to be ready for sea as soon as possible. She will be the flag- ship of Commodore Robert M. Shufeldt. now chief of the bureau of equipment and reeruit- ig, and will have a roving commission and also a band. A LIBERAL CONTRIBUTION PROM NEW York Navy Yarp.—Commodore holson, U.S.N., commandant navy yard New York, informs the Le department that the officers and men of his station and cenploves: of the navy | yard have contributed eight hundred doilars | ‘or the benefit of the yellow fever sufferers. How SURPRISED ONE OF URVEYING PARTIES —A letter just received in this city from Mr. Wilson, a member of the Hayden Survey whose mules were taken by the Bannocks, gives the follow- ing particulars: On the 2th of August the iS Surprised us at Henry’s Lake at 3.30 p.m. We were sitting around the camp fire en we were fired on by the Indians, who were not more than seventy feet dis‘ant. Strange to say, they hurt none of us by the fire. We made an ineffectual effort to protect, to vet away alive. We heard the Indians driv- ing off our animals, and then knew that our party was inreality afoot. Taking provisions jor three or four days, and our blankets and guns, we got away under cover of the night, and ane off about a mile in the woods we remained there until daylight, when the in- dians reopened fire on our deserted camp, and we started for the upper Geysers ; and after a hard walk of three days we reached there and found Jackson's and Gannett’s parties there, and all safe. Before abandoning our camp on Henry Lake I carefully hid away my theodo- lite, and to-morrow I start back to the camp my trusty friend, Harry Yount and one mule, to recover the instrument if pos- —_—-ore-—____ THE CASE OF STRONG AGT. THE DisTRICT. Today in the Cireuit Court, Judge Hum- = the case of Strong agt. the District of ‘olumbia was resumed and the counsel for laintiffs, Cook, Totten and Cole, asked leave ‘© withdraw a juror, and moved a continuance of the ease and filed a stipulation to that effect with the counsel for the defendant. The court overruled tuis motion and directed the coun- sel to proceed. Bothsides answered that they were Dot ready to proceed and after some dis- cussion, Judge Humphreys took a recess to two o'¢lock At two o’elock there was a large attendance in the court-room—mem bers of the bar filling every seat. After a breathless silence the counsel—Cook and Totten for plaintiff and Hiddle and Miller for defendant—appeared. The court asked if they were ready to pro- ceed. Mr. Totten.—The plaintiff is not. The Court.—Very weil, the case will be called to- trow morning. ‘The plaintitt will then be ed. Consult the rules of the court. (To the crier.) Adjourn the court until to-morrow merpiug. The court was accordingly ad Jeurned. list OF PaTENTS granted to the residents of Maryland, Virginia and the District of Co- Jumbia, for the week ending September 3d, iss: Samuel L. Bean, Washington, D.C.) ane generate. noe E. Braun- s ore, Md. cou: Plant, Washington, pe. separat rence E. Gannon, Washin; pack sible. Md.. curtain fixtures. Baltimore, Md., dental M. Wilkerson, W. Maughlin, Baltimore, Md., Wm. Bed otto ms, AMONG THE SWITZERS. WHAT ONE SEES AT LUCERNE—AN EXCURSION THROUGH THE LAND OF TELL; IF THERE Was —THE AXENSTRASSE, AND OTHE. (OADS—UP AND OVER AND DOWN THE I—AMERICAN WRINKLES IN SWITZZK~ ) — AMERICAN MOUNTAIN - RAILROADS, AMERICAN STEAMERS, CARS, MILK CONDENS- EKS, AC —ZURICH THE SWISS BOSTON—SWISS SCHOOLS AND SWISS NEWSPAPERS. ex itorial Correspondence of Tie Star.) Cuamovny, August 31, 157: Lucerne with its execlient hotels and attrac- tive position : and asa sort of cross-roads point for tourists, is, like Interlaken, a good place to meet people. Landing on the Sehweizerhot quay We came across Mr. John Boteier and wife, of Washington, and at breakfast in the morning at the Schweizerhof, who should saunter in but Mark Twain, with that inim- itable deliberation of manner which charac- terizes him at home; and he has lost nothing of the lazy drawl of speech that makes hima marked man amongst these glib-tongued con- tinental people. He says that European travel, after all, resolves itself into the matter of find- ing a few rood hotels ; but yet he thinks it pays to get out of the stream of petty politics and commonplace news for awhile. He is accom- panied by his family and by the Rev. Mr. Twitebell, ef Hartford, a young clergyman of the sterling sort, who seems to have won the approval of Mark’s rather critical judgment in regard to the cloth. In the Lucerne paper that publishes the hotel arrivals I noticed the names of “ Theodore Tilton and daughters” in large capitals, and it is evident they are con- sidered distinguished Americans. Lucerne one must see the Thorwaldse: dying lion, which, I suppose, it is hardly ne cessary to say commemorates the bravery and fidelity of the Swiss Guard, who laid down their lives in defence of Louis XVI. and his family at the Tuileries in 17 it isa noble conception, grandly executed, and I do not see why it has hot the Same claims to immortality that those older sculptured inspirations of renius have—the Laocoon, the Niobe, the Dy- ing Giadiator, The imperfect nature of sewiy sandstone in which it is cut makes preservation in its present position oniy a juatter of years, and already portions of the figure have been replaced, but the origina) model by Thorwaldsen, from which it was ex: ecu‘ed by the Swiss artist, is carefully pre served iu a building near by, and from that it cau be reproduced at anytime. At Lucerne the lion is naturally the subject of the wood- carvers, as the bear is at Bern, and some of the more elaborate copies in wood are spirited reproductions of the great work of the Danish seuipter. Near the licn of Lucerne is the Getschergarten, % great curiosity, showing that at one time the site of Lucerne was at the bottonr of a glacier, thousands of feet in depth. ‘That was inthe time of the ice period, when all Switzerland, with the exception of the tops of the mountaius, was covered with ic; and the fact that the ice did not reach the highest poinis. accounts for their retaining the peculiar sharpness that gives them the names of horns and ueedies. Most of our American mountains, at least on the Atlantic slope, have rounded crests, from the grinding action of the ice going oyer them in this ice period. The Lucerne “ Glacier Garden” was discovered in digging the foundations of a wine cellar, and some gigantic ia or glacier holes, caused by the whirling of stones driven round by the melted ice, and which in geology are known as glacier mills, were found there. By way of contrast to this illustration of the period when ice covered all the northern hemisphere, there is shown in the same inclosure a fine specimen of the petrifaction of a palm, the product of tropical heat, and which was found in quar- rying inthe same neighborhood. Of corre: ponding interest is the fine collection at Lu- cerne of the relics of the laké-dwellers of Switzerland. WHERE ONE MAY GO FROM LUCERNE. From Lucerne one may go up the frowning Mount ,Pilatus (supposed to be the abode of evil spirits and to be haunted more especially by the ghost of Pontius Pilate, who, according to tradition, committed suicide in a black lake on the mountain) or up the Rigi, or make the tour of the lake of the Four Cantons througu the land of William Tell, and then ascend the Rigi on one side and then go down on the other, as we did. Lake Lucerne, or the Lake of the Four Cantons, is generaily held to be the most beautiful of the Swiss lakes aud it certainly has, in its four arms, all the varied charms of pastoral landscape and grand moun- tain scenery to satisfy every taste. Our preity and swift steamer, patterned after the Amer- ican side wheel steamers, starting out from Lucerne on a lovely morning crossed the lake so many times in making landings at different villages on either shore that we got a most de- lightful variety of views. yitznau, the landing for the ae railway, we left our lug- gage at the wharf in charge of a porter, to be reclaimed on our return down the lake in the afternoon. Then we got almost immediatel: into the Tell country. eee may be consid- ered quixotish to make a pilgrimage to waat is called the band of Tell, since the modern his- torians declare that immortal hero a myth, but I feel like entering a protest in behalf of the buy population of the world against this summary aiehieal of the patriot archer; and show my faith in his existence by visiting all the places identified with his name; especially as those places are all handy of access and will not hinder us in the least in petting up the Rigi in time for the mountain sunset. Soon the boat Lyne at Brunnen, the resort of French and German artists, and which is tie port of the Canton of Sehwyz which gives its name to Switzerland and the Swiss. Onan eminence of this beautiful place is the villa residence of one of the penzlueee Bros., who carry on the great Catholic publishing estab- lishment at Einsiedel, on the other side of the mountain from Brunnen. Etnsiedeln is the monastery or abbey town of Switzerland tha: he acred shrine so famous that an average (CO pilgrims visit it every year. The Benzinger Bros. emp:oy seven or eight hun- dred people in their establishment; a larze business lor Switzerland. They print Catholic books in all languages, and have an extensive house iu Broadway, New York, and another in Cincinnati. Leaving Brunfen we pass to our right a monument fo Schiller, who helped to immortalize William Tell, and then on the same side, about a mile further on, is the Field of Grutli, where the Swiss patriots met to es rebellion against the Austrian tyrants, It is a little shelf of green on the side of tall cliffs, and does not look like a very g place for a patriotic ieee fl but it js explained that by having precipices in could get out of the way in short order if attacked in front, as they were better climbers than the Austrians. Next ou the other side was Teil’s chapel, on the identical spot where he sprang from Gessler’s boat; but that we took in on our return. Af. ler one or two more zigzags across the lake to village Tanging laces, We reached Fluelen, the end of the lake, and from thence took an omnibus to Altdorf, where William Tell was born—if he was born—of which, however, there can be no doubt. It was a delightful fact for the believers in Tell to notice some very old Epple trees on the road in the out- skirts of Altdorf; and it was observed that the one were very small. which is contirma- ton. of the accuracy of Tell’s aim. Then, just in sight of the quaint old stone inn, where we got dinner, was a statue (in plaster, and not in enduring marbie, as it should be,) of Tell standing on the spot where he stood when he shot the apple from the head of his boy. Then there isa Tell tower and a Tell tountain at Altdorf, and pictures and images of Tell all about the place. Aitdorf wouldu’t be a healthy place, evidently for the histurians who. Want to makea myth of Tell. Everything i old-time and quaint about Altdorf, notwith- standing it is within a short distance of the St. Gotthard pass, and on the line of the tide of travel over that pass into Italy. Our din ing-room at Altdor{ was on the third floor of the hotel, and the first tloor was a stable. Our dinner popludedsamoness other odd things. an omelette served up with a mixture of stey fresh plums. The walls of the aa ont b some pictures fearfully and wondertully pai ed, be pair the storming of Gessler’s cas- tle. The sound of martial music called us to the window, and it proved to be the driil march ot the candidates for non-commission- ed officers of the Swiss militia. ‘Chey were ac- tive, soldierly-looking young men. At Bern We had seen the school-boy “cadets” going through their practice and review. ‘The pupils of all the upper schools in Switzerland receive instruction in military tactics, and are provi- ded by See Govern sent with equipments, mus- kets ‘and feld-pieces, for the training. We noticed at Altdorf, as elsewhere in Switzer- land, that the school children, both boys and irls, carried their books in knapsacks on eir backs. They are encouraged to do this, it seems, to learn them to throw out the chest and keep the shoulders square. ‘We took a carriage at Altdorf on our return, in order to enjoy a ride over the famous road, the Axgustrasse, which foows the Jake high TWO CENT up the mountain side, commanding lovely Views of the Jake aud opposite mouataias | This road,which is considered one of the finest in Europe, and which is a laborious and co: piece of work, with many tunnels and a con- | tinuous parapet of masonry, was constructed by the canton, and like all the roads of the country is a free road; no tolls or turnpike bars being allowed to obstruct travel in Swit- zerland. At the point on the road near Tell’s Chapel we leit the carriage and scrambled down the steep"path to that tiny structure. The wails are coyered with paintings repre senting scenes in Teli’s life and the Swiss war for independence, but the weather and the vandalism of tourists seeking cheap immor tality by scrawling their names everywhere have defaced the pictures almost beyond ree ognition. The Historical society of Switzer- Jand, who don’t believe with the outside histo rians that Tell isa myth, or won't let on tuat they do, are going to have the pictures restored anda guard placed there to keep the notoriety hunters from defacing them. At the wharl a Pumber of women were offering the “ edel- weiss” for sale. This is supposed to be a rare mountain flower found only along the snow line, in places difficult of access.’ It is sad. therefore, to record that the thrifty peop/s of Brunner grow it in pots; hence the abundance of the article for sale here. UP THE RIEI. We took the steamer for Vitznau and there got aboard the cars for a ride up the Rigi, The Rigi is a group of mountains about twenty-five miles in circumference, but the name is now applied only to the north peak, which commands a remarkable view of 3)) miles in circumference, reaching hundreds of showy mountains, and overlooking nearly the whole Jake system of Switzerland. “The “Kulm,” or highest point, is 5,906 only above the sea, nearly a thousand feet lower than the summit of Mount Washington; and the rail- road. which was patterned after the railroad of Mount Washingion, presents nowhere any sueh, startling eliimbs ou trestieworis over ravines and along precipices as that up Mount Washington, In fact it is a very mild ascent ver le never beyond one foot in four, on ted track, up through orchards, cultivated fields, green pastures, groves of fiz. chestnut and aimond trees, villages, hotels aud boarding-houses, and verdure-clad to the very top, so that one does not realize much of the element of danger that goes to make the sub. i oad, as above stated, is on the an invented by Sylvester Marsh, of Littleton, New Hampshire. for the railroad up Mount Washington. Consul General Hitz, who was t ing in New England, heard of Marsh's project, and went to see him with a view of “ascertaining if, the invention could not be applied to the construction ot raii- roads up some of the Swiss mountains. M Marsh very Kindly | exhibited his pl ud drawings, and Mr. Hitz was impressed with the belief that the idea was feasible and so reported to the Swiss government; with the recommendation that an engineer of capacity be sent over to report with precision. This was done, and as the result of this en- ‘ineer’s report a stock company was formed in Lucerne and the capital promptly sub- scribed to secure the construction of the road up the Rigi, without a resort to any of the make-shifts and expedients for building the road on insufficient means, which hampered poor Marsh so long. The Rigi railroad was a Success from the start, and the stock rose so rapidly that a dividend of 40 per cent. was made the first year, and it now pay divi-e| Gend of from 9 to 12 per cent. annually. The success of the road prompted the capitalists of Zurich, Lucerne’s rival city, to build a rail- road up their side of the Rigi (known as tie “Arth: tigi” line), and subsequently a branch railway 474 miles long along the Rigi ridge to some of the hotels, was constructed. Soe, for a mountain, the Rigi 1s tolerably well supplied With ratiroads. In the speculative movements inspired by the construction ‘of the Rigi rail- road, a credit mobilier was formed to gobble up all the real estate upon the Rigi to monop- lize the hotel sites and business, but it “bit o!f more than it could chew” and failed, and there are now six hotels of large size on the mountain, several of them fitted up in city pies and there are a number of boarding ouses, SUNRISE UPON THE RIGI. The sunrise is the great feature of the Rigi. We were routed out at 4a. m. by a most per- severing Alpine horn blower, who seemed to be an enthusiastic sort of a chap who wanted to get everybody up to view the grand display of nature; but when we tumbled out half | dressed and shivering there he was, hat in haud, asking pay for his work. He’ wasn’t biowing for nothing. The view was really wonderful, but why can’t the inventors of the age supply some means of enjoying mountain Suprises without so many discomforts from wind and cold at that inhuman hour of get- ting out of bed? hotel, something on the plan of the latest grandest of the San Fran- cisco hotels, where every guest has a private bay window, ought to make money on the sunrise mountains. Seen comfortably behing plate glass, one could really get enthusiastic over the Rigi sunrise,with four hundred snow- Clad mountains, thirteen lakes and hundreds of hamlets and villages touched up and titri- vated by Posy fusered Aurora, but as it is now those who say they enjoy it, just lie! Our “Kigi-Kulm Hotel Schrefber” did not have the placard of the Mount Washington hotel requesting guests not to wear the bed- clothes to see the sunrise, but in its place was the following curiously worded warning: “Considering the great afiluence of visitors of all nations to this house, we beg to take goode care of all objects of value and to lock weil the door during the night.” We went down the Rigi on the Arth side and then on to Zurich by steamer on Lake Zug and by rail from Zug fo Zurich. The de- scent from the Rigi on that side is by no means as interesting as the ascent on the Vitznau side, but an opportunity is afforded to see the track and extent of the remarkable land-side of the Rossberg which in 1896 buried the large i Goldau and three other villages, 500 people, and filled up a considerable ie of the lake of Lowerz, which in turn id great damage by flooding the adjacent country. The Rossberg (mountain) is com- ase like the Rigi, across the valley, very largely of a conglomerate of pebblesembedded ina sort of calcareous cement, (such as wo have specimens of near Washington,) inter- stratified with layers of sand, and’ one of these sheets of conglomerate, two miles in length, 1,000 feet in ‘breadth, and 100 feet in thickness, was precipitated 3,000 feet dowa pon the villagesin the valley below. The scalp ol the mountain on that portion of the side from which the slide occurred remains as bare as if the accident perpened yesterday, and it is seen that the conglomerate strata all have a sharp dip, so that when heavy rains, a3 in 186, weaken the sand strata underneath there is always an avalanche or landslip im- Pending for the valley people. From the bumber of people destroyed by this laudslip, itis supposed that the pressure of air must have kil'ed them, or incapacitated them for escape before the rocks reached them. The debris gained such immense impetus in the descent as not only to cross the valley, but to mount some distance up the side of the Rigi. Crossing Lake Zug, we saw in the distance, at the village of Cham, the smoke rising from a milk-condensing establishment, the property of a couple of enterprising Yankees, which uses the milk of 4,000 cows. These same Americans have other milk-condensing estab- lishments in Switzerland, and also one or two in England. The cars from Zug to Zurich, a3 elsewhere in Teutonic Switzerland, were on what is called the American plan, but the: have only approximately the conveniences an Sbportunities for seeing the couutry passed through that our cars have. They are, now- ever, a vast improvement upon the awkward old-style compartment cars still in use in French Switzerland. ZURICH. We were greatly pleased with Zurich, —the Athens, or Boston of Switzerland, —and wouid have liked a longer stay, had our programme permitted. Itis superbly situated, and is not ouly the literary centre of Switzerland but it takes the lead in manufacturing enterprises, and has altogether the look of a busy, wide- awake eae yo Ic is famous for its Schools, universities, Polytecnic and in its fostering care of the Pub! and the magnificence of its Public buildings it a the foremost of Swiss cities. But in all Switzerland the pablic Schools are the pride of the country, and th-re are points in their ADMIRABLE SCHOOL SYSTEM not unworthy of imitation in our land, where the cause of public education has been carried on so zealously and with such great results, The discipline of the Swiss public sehools is described as one of self-respect and self-re- straint. The children are taught “how to think and act, no less than how to read and write. Instruction is but a part of education. As much attention is yee to the things of life learning. Thus a we ce 18 seen to; pulsion is rare in consequence of the value ia Which an education in the public schools 1s hed, and the pains parentsand guardians take y | toenforce good behavior upon the disobedient ones. There are three degrees of expulsion. und thethid and final one is a public act which the master, the inspector, and the cational Department must concur. Every form of corporal punishment is prohibited by law. “No bodily pain, no bodily shame is suffered in the schools. The boy has rights. His food cannot be stinted: he cannot be jocked up, or put in a corner: or laid on his back ; or crowned with a dunce’s cap, or made a guy, ofin any way. The discipline is wholly moral.” A SWISS NEWSPAPER. The Swiss newspapers have some peentiari- ties. Take, for instance, the Tughlatt, Teas.) of Zurich, which has a circulation of between thirteen and fourteen thousand copies. Passing the office in the morning, it looks something like issuing a Star Extra. People of all ages and every class were calling to cet their paper; there being no regular sys- tem of carriers, the pesonen acting as such (the paper bein jailed) to the more distan’ sections of the ci! or local news agenis per- forming the service. There was a constant stream of people at the delivery window, ob taining from one to twenty paperseach. The “Information Office” was crammed with peo- ple answering advertisements, &c. In looking at this paper, it is a matter of surprise to sea that this,—the most popular journal ta Zurich, among business men and the laboring class- €s,—contains nearly six pages of advertise- ments, and only one quarter of a page of hews, compressed into the 1} possible space, and no telegrams. The news columns in in condensed shape news from the iss seat of government, (Congressional pro- ceedings,) locals, cantonal and foreign news, &e.; and the papers from whi culled are erediied by initials, only That the paper is well supported is shown by the adver- ising columns. The obituary notices are pe. Among the advertisements headed * Beerdigungen,” (funerals, ) ‘ou See it stated, | ubr aufgesteli,” “ Urne v — which means, Kk.” This implies el representing an urn, or some similar to a ballot-box, is set ona stand in the hall-way of the house in which the fune- ral takes place, and between the hours indi- cated Ponte Ss can Jeave there, or send and have dropped in, letters or ecards of condo- lence; which answers all the purposes of per- sonal attendance, as no one except the imme- diate family of the deceased is expected, or usually attends funerals here. C.8. N. oe District Government Affairs. Attorney Riddle has submitted a blank form for the drawback certificate contemplated by | the act of June 11, 1878. This certificate is ap- plicable only in payment of special improve- ment taxes issued we Legislative Assembly approved May 29, The published statement Yo the effect that Commission:r Dent has not been able to at- tend to the duties of his office for three weeks in all siuce is appointment, is almost too ab- surd to need contradiction, but may mislead a few. The fact is, Commissioner Dent has missed but three days from his office on ae count Of illness, aside from the ten days oceu- pied by his recent trip to the west, since his appointment, and all the rest of the time he has been unremitting in his attention to his official duties. __. DISTRICT FINANCES. The District Commissioners to-day trans- | mitted to Controller A. G. Porter, of the U. 8. Treasury, a statement of the District auditor and controller as to the balante in the U.S. Treasury to the credit of the District of Co- lumbia, July 1, . and the receipts of the District ‘Irom ‘July 1 to September 10, 1875, showing total balance, subject to draft, July |. 1878, of all the various finds to have been $161,142.84, and receipts from July 1 to Septem- ber 10, 1873, $214,125.28. THE GARBAGE CONTRACTOR EXPLAINS. This morniug Mr. John McCauley, con. tractor for the removal of night soil, dead animals and other offal, fled an answer with the District Commissioners to the complaint of citizens in Maryland near Broad creek about the disposition of offal at that point, which has, as they allege, become a nuisance there. He states, in relation to the complaint of Mr. Wm. Durr, that he has no just cause for complaint, as he had leased his premises to the former contractor, who had used the Same for that. purpose. The nuisance com- piained of by Mr. Durr is located twice the distance from his residence it formerly was. The former contractor used to unload both garbage and night soil in the creek for months ata time, whereas he (McCauley) has done so but a few times, while they were preparing their wharves to receive the offal. As for the dead animals, he denies that any have been thrown overboard. Mr. McCauley is now using the premises of Mr. F. Sawyer. Mr. McCauley states that he has called upon a number of the residents of that neighborhood, who say that they will make affidavit that no nuisance has been created and they have no reason to complain. BIDS WERE OPENED TO-DAY in the office of Lieut. Hoxie for the construc- tion of a stone apron at the south side of the culvert at Foundry branch, on the new cut road, as follows: J. Desmond & Co., rip-rap, $1.75 per cubic yard ; hydraulic concrete, $2.) per cubic yard ; block-paving in cement, $1.74 per square yard; flagging, 2 feet by 4 inches, “1 cents per lineal foot ;do., 1 foot by 2 inches, 24 cents per lineal foot: bolts and nuts, Tr pound. Shipman, for same, 75 cents, ES I, $1.80, $1. , $1.50, 99 cents, 50 and 11 cents. J. Coyle & Co., 70 Goose 80. $2.00, 60 cents, 25 cents and 11 cents. Simon Carmody, 4) ents, $2.25, $1.25, 75 cents, 65 cents and 7 cents. Henry Hunton, informal. No awards were made. “SHORT” MEASURES. Mr. James all, sealer of weights and measures, in going his market rounds Satur- day seized eleven half and quarter peck mea- suies, five half and wholo peck measures, and two quart and one pint measures for not being up to the standard, The parties will be pro- ceeded against. The Stricken Soath. TWO THOUSAND YELLOW FEVER DEATUS IN NEW ORLEANS. A dispatch from New Orleans says the fever Seems to be spreading more rapidly than ever. A homeless woman was picked up dying iu Camp street Sentry create Total number of cases to date 6,446. Total deaths 1,932. NEARLY SEVEN HUNDRED DEATHS IN MEM- PHIS. The weather at Memphis has taken a change, it is feared for the worse. The nights are cool and the days warm. Saturday night's reports show an increase in the death rate, 117 deaths having occurred Saturday, including 40 colored persons. . Death is taking away many of tho best citi- zens. Col. 8. Knowlton, a postmaster, died Saturday morning. About noon Satur- day a foul stench was vered in the neigh- borhood of the Mosby & Hunt block on Front street. A negro policeman, detailed for the purpose, made an examination of the premi- Ses, and in one of the rooms he discovered the dead and decom! body of H. L. Waring, cotton buyer, who had evidently been dead for several days. Wood and tar fires were burning in the streets Saturday night. The city is wrapped in smoke. Total deaths to September 12, 687. ICKSBURG. ¥ The weather at Vicksburg Saturday was clear and warmer; thermometer 88. "phere was a light frost Friday in the Mississippi bot- toms. Fever abating in new cases, but deaths continue large. Deaths Saturday 22. Rev. Father Vitello is among the dead. ‘The death of Rev. Father McNamar has been announced. Bishop Elder is reported convalescent, but ex- weak. recovery will be slow. roy has been there several days. Rev. ‘alloway is convalescing after a relapse. Rev. Mr. Price and Capt. ne. Carroll are con- valescent. PLACES, iD, OTHER PLA Col. H. W. Walter, a distinguished lawyer, Soldier and citizen of Holy Springs, Miss., was taken yesterday morning. Of the orizinal Hoe dea it Sutaceayageveekead fe" jature gregat 3. The deaths at Canton, Miss jiss., Saturday, m bered 3; new cases 51: to:al cases to date deaths 4: Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, death ; new eases 42; deaths to date 27: caves 433, ....At Gallipolis, Ohio, Wm. Walker and the Clodius brothers died. One new case. At Port Gibson, Miss., there have been 56) cases m Ken- tucky, who arrived at Cai on sick, on Wednesday, died Sunday with symptoms of ellow fever. Five em) loyes of the Cairo Bul- tin office, who were taken sick Friday, are now very low, with the same s: those who died Thursday. oe DIPHTHERIA IN PaTERSON. Physician a WAS 3; aan alarming extentand that measures, shoult be to date, and'% deaths. ....A boy fro! iro, Ti! instituted at once to check it. It is of a mulig- nant character, and its victims drop off very suddenly. It is confined w the of the city and to by authority of the act of | du- | CAMPAIGN. Causes of the Republican Defeat. ews of a Close and Intelligent O»- server im that State. (Szecial Correspondence to The Star} TENORSCOT BAY, MAINE, Sept. 14, 1878. Tt is impossible for an outsider to judge cor- reetly of the causes which led to the republi- can defeat in this state on Monday last; and I take it that this holds true, to a greater or less extent, of all elections. There are usually ‘ocal intrigues and local feelings which do not appear on the surface; but, which have more ' to do -with determining results than the so- | cial issue was called paramount issues of the campaiga. During the ag Sec in this state the finan. e only question publicly dis- | cussed. There was but rarely even an fuci ‘h the items are | dental mention of any other topic. But these set speeches, I am convinced, had little or no- thing to do with intluencing Votes. It was the speeches on the street corners and on the hizh- Ways which did the business Of the many campaign speeches delivered in a neighboring city I listened to nearly ail, and but one of them had any appreciable effect on the audi- ence. That was a brief speech by Leg Miller on TRE ORGANIZATION OF PARTIES, He spoke of the national party as the off spring of necessity, and said that in this coun. try two parties seem to be necessary. One is Progressive and the other conservative. When the progressive party gets into power it be- comes cons rvative. and continuance in power makes it corsapt. That, he said, had been the ise with the democratic and republican par- ties, and won? be the c how organizing. A new party, he continued, unites the best r of the old parties, etc. ‘There was not only a good deal of truth ia what Mi d, but Lis delivery was excel lent, and evident that every word t upon his h ANITHING TO BEAT TRE REPUBLICANS It is inevitable that the resuit of the Maine election will be heralded abroad as a green- tiation. d communists. only do gre good sense of the people, but is really wide of thetruth. Not one per cent. of the greenback vote Was cast by thuse who believe in repud ation and inilation, Most of the greenba Ihave met said y Wanted was a green back equal in vaiue to gold, and that they will soon have. But the great majority of the gieenback votes were cast by democsats, who Went into the movement simply and solely because they fancied they could thereby defeat the republicaus. With Searcely an excep they are hard money men. The republica election. so far as it can be figured up now, Was less than five thousand in the state. The increase of this year’s yote over last year was about 2244), of whieh increase Connor received 7,(0@. “An ‘additional 3.000 taken from the greenback column would have given lim the This will not required majority. Itmay be said here that | the republican organization remains intact; that word has gone along the line that there to be ny bergaining or coalition with green- backers in organization of the legisiaiure ; and that next year's campaign will be fought, as this has been, onan honest money platform. THE REPUBLICANS CLAIM, and apparently un conclusive grounds, that the democracy are hopelessly divided and de- moralized, and will never more be heard of in this stale as a party. A very large percentage, ai least one-third, of the democrats, did vote with the greenbackers or the greenbackers voted with them, whichever way Hi look at it; but while the greenbackers did all the work, the democrats here secured the spoils. As you are no doubt aware, the election of the democratic candidate for governor by the le- reared is more than probable—even the ongressmien elected inthe 4th and 5th dis- fricts are both Jemocrats. Dr. Ladd, elected in the 4th district over Powers, is not only a lifelong democrat, but was styled a copper- head during the war, and went about declaim- ing against greenbacks as “rag money.” Murch, elected in the Sth district over Hale (rep.) and Martin (dem.), never yoted an ticket but the democratic ticket in his life, and his friends say since his election is ; hat he never will vote any other ticket. He failed, however, to get the endorsement of the democratic con> Yention, which nominated J. F. Martin, of Camden, a merchant, a man of good abilities, who had made his mark in the state senate, and who has a good war record. Murch, on the other hand, is au uneducated mau, form: erly a working stone-cutter, but now secretary of the stone-cutier’s union. The leading can- cidate for the nomination was Wm. M. Rust, editor of the Belfast Progressine Age, but a republican organ, and who was among the first to pepouee the greenback heresies and ere his time to organizing greenback elubs ‘hroughout the district. But he was rejected, and an unknown man, a democrat nomina‘ed. In the 2d district, Solon Chase, one of the ear- liest of the greenback advocates, was defeated, as was his lieutenant, one Fogg, a candidate for the legislature. In Waido county the dem- ocratic Convention adopted the nback ticket, and of the ten Senators and Represent- atives el-ct, eight are democrats, or have been heretofore. THE CONGRESSIONAL CONTESTS. A word or two as to the results in the fourth and fifth vonprcestonal districts. The defeat of Powers, who was considered the weakest man in the delegation, was generally antici- oes here by Jovy oy Not so with the de- leat of Hale. That he would have a hand- some plurality was conceded by everyone, while the more sanguine of his friends counted upon a majority. Waldo county, with its aed of 2,425 votes for Murch, defeated ale, and this large vote for Murch is mainly due to the exertions of a democratic lawyer of Belfast, who for reasons of his own wanted to slaughter Martin, the regular dem: nominee. The Belfast Journal says intention was to run Martin’s vote as low ossible, in order that he might not be a trou- lesome competitor in 188). But Mac over- kcaded his gun, and elected Murch! one cf those mistakes to which men of genius are liable.” “HARD TIMES” AND THE DESIRE FOR A _ CHANGE. In conclusion, it may be said that the “hard times” ; the desire for a change, with the be. lief that any change must be f the demanc for retrenchment in state and county expenditures; and a hope that the real | or imaginary rings at Augusta and Washiag- tou might be broken up, had more to do with the vote of Maine this year than the mere sur- | jf face issue of the financial problem. The people generally have arrived at the conclu- sion that there is a vast amount of rascality at Washington; that they are being systemati- cally robbed there; and they think that by ling new men to Congress they may put a ‘stop to it. From present indications | am _in- clined to believe that this will prove a bad year for rings, political or otherwise; and while I have no fear that the fallacious finan- cial theories of the greenbackers will ever prevail in this country, some is =, to result from the present agitation and shaking up of parties. C.A. PL MARYLAND CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS. The foliowing are the Maryland congressional hominations as far as made: ist district— Daniel M. Henry, of Dorchester, democrat ; Col. Sam’! A.Graham, of Wicomico, republi: can. 2d district—J. Fred C. Talbott, of Balti- more county, democrat; no republican nom- » democrat; Robt. Turner, Bienen) nominated but ee a ph ompson, temperance candidate. 41 trict—Robert M. McLane, of Baltimore city, democrat ; Jobn C. Holland, of Baltimore city, Jepublican. 5th district—Eli J. Henkle, of Anne Arundel county, democrat; J. Parran Crane, of St. Mary’s county, republican. 6th district—Democratic convention meets Sep- tember 18; Milton G. Urner, of Frederick county, republican. DEATHS ON THE RaIL.—Geo. W. Cameron who was struck by a locomotive on the Pia delphia and Baltimore Central railroad, Fri- day last, near Rising Sun, Md.,died some hours afterwards. He leaves a wife and seven child- ren. John Holmes, brakesman on way freight, Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore rail- road, was struck by a bridge at Paschall’s station at an early hour Saturday morring, aod instantly killed. MR. MuRc#, who has been elected to Con- ‘ss by the Maine greenbackers over Mr. fae, is the secretary of a stonecutters’ union, and has been the head centre of all the strikes and — = = Sans 2 his Fy accepting 01 ion he that hehad never seen the inside of a schoolhouse since he was 16, that he was not 5 and ~ be ‘aid not own a doliats’ worth ai property. See BakKER Pasua is to complete the defensive lines on the positions la‘ely occupied by the Bu and then commence the construc. tion of another line of defeuce nearer to Con- stantinople. Turkey, in his the light of a se with the new party | 1Y, 4 triumph of inflationists, repu- | t injustice to the intelligence and | It was | lor the better; | | porariiy living with | FUNERAL OF THE Gipsy QUEE ‘Telegrams to The Star. Proregued. . Septem 16. — Parliament has deca further prorogued to the 2th of Novem- ber. Promotion. It is reported that Lord Cairns, lord high chancellor, is about to be ereated Eart Cairns, The Australian Cricketers. The Australian cricketers who have en- gagements to play in the Uniled States durin; the month of October will sali from Liverpoo! on Thursday bextin the Inman steamer City of Richmond for New York. Fire. ZANTE, September 16.—A fire in thts city Priday bight destroyed. seve n dwelling b nd Much other property. A reat ‘der prevailed aud many robberies commitied during the panie caused by ation and demotition of buildings he progress of the flames. American bark Lav here have been arre: diar sm. A HORRIB: TRAGED Murder of Right CINCINNATI, Olita, Sept. patch says the eight ebildren of Geo. Lyneh, the ecidest 17 years of age, living at Hockley, Texas, were murdered Friday night, by an unknown party. Lynch, the father, was awakened by a pistol shot, the ball striking him in the breast. He sprang up and sawa masked man standing in the middie of the room, pointing a pistol at him; another shot aud incen- 16.—A. special dis- Was ‘fired, and Lynch fell, unconscious- When he “recovered he’ found him self the lane, outside of his ¥ The assassin, thinking Lynch was dead, seized a hatchet and proceeded te put the witnesse: his crime out of the way, aiter which he set fire to the house. The dis tracted father regained consciousness only to see his house burn and faliin on the Dodies of bis murdered children. The bodies were af an inquest beid. rwards exhumed and Several of the skulls showed hatchet marks. Lynch, it is thought, wii re- cover. Suspicion rests upon a young man bamed Boatwere, with whom Lynch had had a difficulty Afraid to Trust the Banks, but was Robbed While Aslecp. CrvcrxnaTi, 0. Sept. 16—A special dis. patel states that’James Broadbelt, of India | Dapoiis, Ind., while enr to Chicago, claimed to hav a from his pocket while me time last roadbelt received notice that he woi ceive alarce sum of mom | ment of the oe as Supposed th Broadbelt stated to a repe he had cartied the $150 on his p: more than a year, being afraid to trust i banks. 1 | Aw Express Dri Ropped—or « © S assaulted ning, men on robbed of $1400 and a it in a badly bruised and dan ndition. The us mey belonged to he Matthiesson and Hegler Zine Co., and was sent by the First tional Bank of Cuicage. The piace where the robbery was commit'ed ts | much frequented, and it is remarkabie that the deed had no witnesse ¢ Shocking age ti LEWISTON, ME., September 15,—On Satur day night as'a young Frenchman and a lady were returning home from a circus they were seized by six roughs, two of whom. held the man whfle the other four ravished the young lady. Five men have been arrested for com Plicity in the crime. ae aac Declines the Nomination. NEWaRK, N.J.. Sept. 16 —Cortlandt Parker has formally declined the republican uo miaa- tion for Congress. Yellow Fever Deaths. CINCINNATI, Sept. 15.—Three deaths from yellow fever have occurred at Gallipolis sinec riday. —_———___ The Markets. BALTIMORE, Sept. 16,—Virginta sizes, 010, 20; do, deferred, og do, portle i~ Bay: de. eecond series, 31%. North Carolina sixes, old, 16 8: do. special tax, 1 bid to-day, Sugar firm. 5ig 9%. SBE, Sept. 16.—Cotton quiet—mi ding, pominaliy 11 4ail's. Flour, fair de; | Stesd} —Howand streetand western super, 2.5283. co. extra, 3.500450: do. family, # 7516. c mills super, 2,663.25; do. extra, 3.6004.00: Rio brands, 6.60: Patapsco family, 6.25, “Wheat, southern firmer; western bightr and closing easier—southern red, 1. : do, amber, 105 aL07; No. 2 Pennsylvania red, 1.06%; No. & }, Beptember aud October, 41.075. Corn, southe southern white, 6&a55; 83:54: western mized, spot and Repvein GOctover, 51 iga51: Steainer, 48iga43 9. apd firm—sournern, 26488; western wh) 2 ; do. mixed. 26427: Pennsylvania, °7az Bye cuiet. 63065. “Hay duli—prime Pers) + ata and Mary laud, 14.00a12.00. Provisiour, (5 ing tare and iierket firm. Pork, mrss, 10.50% 10.75. Bulk meat 78, BS 88'S; clowt rib sides, 6) ders, 6% | 1 | | do, new, active and BALTL er, B western ess hy sterd Ons 8, Big. —western. 16al7. Petroleum rat: 7%; refined. 9% 10, we cargoes, 144a17\. Whisky 4. 184 000; corn, 3. steamer quiet—cuttou, 6-16. ; flour, 23,61. ; gra, °NEW YORK. Sept.16.—Btocks arm, a z 22. Gold, 100. Exd ong, 482. stor’, 48655. wats sierdy. oe We eS ging ten Moyet —_ un changed, Whest, spr! er and winter Gu Suanged: Corn Arm and unchanged SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—A man named Con Sullivan. employed by the District in clainine the pubiic fountain in front of the Marble Saloon, about ) o'clock to day, fell from the ladder on which he was standing and struc his head on the iron basin, producing a dan gerous concussion of the brain. ———— i NBACKS.—The greenbackers of New York want a daily Paper. The New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger says | Mr. J. Gideon G. Tucker will probabiy be its editor, if the paper is started. .... After a greenback meet, in Maine recen'ly the ora- tion, and found ¥ Pieces of paper inscribed, “This is fifty cents.” Se. -.-.Hon | A. R. Boteler, of West Virginia, has writtea a letter declining the greenback nomination for | Congress. DIPHTHERIA iN PaTTERSON.—Reople In Pat tersou, N.J., are greatiy exercised over the | appearance of diphtneria in that vor bod are apprehensive that it will not be checked until many have been carried away by it. (nm ail ides it i ly stated that the present visi- 7 malady is due to the filthy condition of the city, which, it 1s further stated, has not received a thorough cleaning | in months. At present there are about fifty } cases of diphtheria in the city and several per- | Sons. mostly children, have already died with KILLED IN A WELL.—Wheeler_ Cost = Student at the University of Morgantown West Virginia, went down into a weil to ex- amine it,and was overeome by the foul air. A man named Mayer attempted to rescue hii and was also overcome, and both died. Catirornia Races.—At the Oakland (%al.) track, Saturday, in the race for best three in five for $2.00, between Col. Lewis, Oceident and Fullerton, Lewis won in three it heats. Time 2:18}4, 2:19, 2:21. CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS.—The repub- licans in the first Missouri district have nom- inated Louis Gotschalk, and in the third dis. trict L. 8. Metcalfe, the present incumbent, SUICIDE FoR Love.—At Marysville, Obio, J. L. Grossenbach, a young, enterprising drug- | gist, committed suicide Friday evening about :30 o'clock. He 1s supp to have taken prustic acid. The deain of Miss Dora King. is intended, a few weeks ago, is the probable cause. Cut Hex Takoat.—At Worcester, 5 Isham Lewis cu.ored, of late became infatu- ated witli Miss Naunah Courtney, aj ly, and because sbe repeiied bis advances he laid in weit for ber Saturday evening aud cut hi threat ith a Kuite, severing an artery, ant | the chunces of her recovery are doubttal. Lewise Tw SUICIDE OF A eLVE-Y} » Lav— arlie E. Ordw eed 1? pearh we phan, 12 years, tem- Frank P. Marta, of Pori- tend, Me., bung himself in the bara Friday whiie the folks were away. Despondency a” ihe loss of his parents and sisters was the cause. Cc Stentey, known as the Gipsy Queen, copnized as such by all the tribes thr ibe United States, was buried at Wo cemetery, in Dayton, Ohio, yesterday. Tho queen Was a woman tee jufiuence among her race. She died in Vicksburg las’ «inter, and the body was embalmed and p) servea until the present time for final buria!. The cemetery was filled with people, the [finer attracting visitors from the surroundiny coun- try, 25,000 people being in atiendance. Fosser, moms evo toon rags on th north side of the Columbia riv-r, Ne ehincton territory, for several days. The i sse: are at half a million doliars, AGe'man loffman perished in the fle a: ona pamed. Hi point. es aa-Mr. Alexander H. Stephens’ heali* is feeble, owing to unusual exertio.. Bis politcal canvass: ° a