Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1879, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR, PUBLISHED DAILY, Except Sunday, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Pennsylvania Avenue, Corner lth Street, BY The Evening Star Newspaper Oompany, Ss. He 1UFFMANN, Pres't. p EvESING STAR is by carriers, on their own acc eek, or 44 cents per r, 2 cevteeach. By mail nts a month ; one year, 26, TRE WEEKLY STAR— published on ostave prepa 10 copies f: BOOKS, &e. TAL BEFPERENCE OK BE xEw an FOR THE veAR If AN AMERICAN ALMANAC Ax» TREASURY OF PACTS, STATISTICAL, FINANCIAL axty POE wv AINSWOKLA BK. SPUFEOu rian ¢ wrens Bound in a handsomy Daolecimy V vawes, scarlet cloth. Price, 81.00 MOHUN BROTHERS, Boonstrrens 9x1 feb2R-tr Textans, Just ope ved pers are w.vited to ree them meee EW HL, & OH. MORRISON, 475 Pa. avenue n Meck ZA. & Son) bax cor HE ANDREWS SPENCYR, Pu orders to Mra THERESA J EAstor, Room Wo. 10, Bapadt's I WILL CONTINCE DUCTIONS Is HOSE IMMENSE RICES OF RE WINTER GOODS FOR THE NEXT ¥ DAYS. OVERCUATS. YEHOUATS a : £¢ WEECOATS OVERUOAT= OVERCOATS: OVERCOATS O¥ERCOA TS OVERCOATE ni: 3 $ $ pee that SUITS that SUITS that = BUTTS that SCITS thet OATH and VESTS GOATS sud VESTS COATS and VEST: OOATS and VESIS PANTALOONS. PARTALCONS sold for 33 PANTALOONS sold for #7. PANTALOONS sold for 36 PANTALOONS sold fer $5... PANTALOONS sold for 34 PANTALOONS sold for $3. --° PANTALOONS sold for #250. Qiu THE Paice Tickets Have Been Manugp Dows Fos THs GREAT Sata A. STRAUS, Tee Porvian CLorHien, 1021 Pennsylvania Avenue, febi8.ar ‘Between 10th and 1th streeta. TO REDUCE MY STOCK, WILL SELL FOR THE NEXT THIRTY Days, Awgcod Woman's PEBBLE GOAT BUT. SHOE “Goo Latics TTON HOLE WORKED BEORED BUETUN “Kib. 8125, chea: S\satimore made SLIPFER, for the! OL SHOES. #11), 8 SCHOOL SHOES, 1t 2 im 0. um GAITERS. 31,125 3. W. 1914 ant 1916 Pa. avenue, SELBY'S, ferre pEConaTED FRENCH AND EN DENNER, TEA, xo and 2th ISH = e TOILET SETy. NEW DESIGNS JUST RECEIVED. : -ERIDGE, Late Webb & Beverndye,) Ho. 1009 Pa. ac. Fo! Lest. - Boston Codiish Balt bs fand Crown Herr Columbia River Salm > ——— ra Fish Chowder tain Trout _— snned Deviled Orabs. Bardines in Mustan. Surdines in Tomatoss pardines—Noel brand—ouly And many Other seasouab!e delicac: BW. Impotted and Domestic Tab’e Luxur'es, febat-tr 1216 F street. (QEAMPAGNE WINES, AT COST FOR CASH. |APOLEON CABINET, quarts $21.50, pints $23. CABINET VERZENAY, only $21.50. VERZENAY, quarts $13.50, pints $20. ae ‘MUMM, quarts 820.06, pints $21.75. HAVANA AND DOMESTIO SEGARS ff for CASH on all grades masking ol cept of SE SAS aE Sea et uncred. Br THOMAS RUSSELL, yenzS-tr 1913 Penne. avenuc. IX FINE DRESS SHIRTS made to order of the fest Muslin and twenty-one hundred Linen Enh SHIRTS made to order tn the most elewant manner for $2.25. Satlelaten ON TSS. 1002 F atrest nw. WORK aND PEBFUMESLES. Bair breaigg sna Chltg's eeu at the Freach bee ste Hadlie U. 8. Patent office. i + | Fried Sea Troat. | t { | | Ere |Telegrams to The Star. ‘& * WASHINGTON, D. €., SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1879. the ps eMaty CHURCH aso G S1— stor, BE Lasauas, st Aland Dr. W) pln Young peomie's meetin (45 r of fat hu c sy Lh a.m cut wevery Bit m.. by Rev. Dr. m. Publ RE! oth. issienary An Rev. Dr. De Indiana. 7 Sunday, the fo the ¢b = EKSOLL ANSWERED. % fidele—4 ~Moses va Tne P, >. at it At Mzsi Dari dial = DRESM. BE CHURCH, 3 and 10th: Temple, Preachinz, . ANDREW he peter ion Chr r 26, £ inst dren. Rou, Goth #4 tino ARY, COMPLET "BOOKSTORE, 1010 o-MORKOW t MeCrany will preside. wher of HOW ath Aumsal rt Wastxetox Crry, D. O. Febrnary NOTIC! mittee of Cain = of woverpn: property eum Re Is WEDNESDAY, y 13, HAHAUY GIVEN, ‘That d States a for injnries to life t the Committee Room ot at the Capitol at Washiazton, March 19, 157%, to proceed ad di- | 2@ ted Vy the resolut on raisins the committee Ail | commun | ber, Wathington, D. Conn ittee on feb19-2aw3w PURE oe street and Be a fal pint hould be addressed to, Nicsracuan Gaims," Senate Cham- IL HAMLIN, an of Gi EWFOUNDLAND COD LIVER REW'S Drug dStore, corner ta nia avenue. 50 cents a bottle— fob26-Im N D playing an also bas feb: nunaber 61 1CE. ing the c'ty or others desiring the ser- “er tion of their ef- emploving the hel interests b AS DOWLING, 1lth street. Toous {Or storaze purposes. Des are offered at th BON, corn th ITURE, CARPETS, UPHOLSTERY and BEDDING i he estabizhiment of Vy & het. and Pa. ave. nw. HAYWARD & HUTCAIN: on Brass Fire Set tor Grates, Furnaces, Ranzes and t THE PATENTS FOR evaporator, We racer. ie Pewinter, ” If you wish to avoid nd sore throat, use them. ON, STREET, NEAR THE AVENUE. ta, English Tite, Slate Mantels, Par- Latrobe | Pimubiny, Tin Roofing and Jobbing Work. decl7 (er M-vurn’s Fuarmacy, | | 1429 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. SODA AND MINERAL WATERS on draught ait the yet Biue Lick, Bedford and Bethesda Waters by zallon. oct tL MATHEY_CAYLUS' CAPSULFS, Used tor over 2 the physicians of Paris, rs with reat success by Now York aud London, tid | superior to-all others forthe prozapt cure of all Gases ! \ | of Prepared’ Ly where. diseases, recent or of Tons standi ca SEIN & CO, Paris.” Sold every- CLIN & CO., Paris, Sold ever MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE INSURA INCE COMPANY, N. J. 1845. “Penery MUTUAt. 1, 1879 (par values) ; SU § 2,957,424.65 INCORPORATE Assets, Jan. Liabill Amzi Dodd, F.T.Freting' ities (Mass. Standard). tus, including dividends of 1 Supius ‘on New York Standerd (Mur- Ket values)... 8 5,987,161.18 Directors. HenryMcFarlan, J. B. Pearson, BC Miler, "ie A. Btrone, ©. L. taldwin, ‘Theo. Mache ysen, Wm. Clark, Ed. B. Wright. Orricens. Lewis C_Groven, President. B.O. Milter, Treasurer. J.B. . Pearson, Vice-Presd’t. E. A. otront, Secretary. B. J. Miller, actuary. NN. Cor GRANVILLE Adjuster, FH Teese, Counsel. ¥. HYDE, piscict Ageut Room 2, febi5-im_ Le Droit Building, Washinton, D. 0. Gs FIXTURES. ‘The finest and largest stock of GAS FiXTURES EVER OFFERED FOR SALE IN THE OITY. THE BEST AND CHEAPEST. ‘Will suarantee entire satisfaction. E. F. BROOKS, febl8-tr Corcoran Burzorna, 15th St. ome, 1 | "| patent law: toves. | the | tr THB EVENING STAR. Washington News and Gossip, Svascrirrions to the four per cent. loan to- | yay amounted to #194.650. | | THE NeMMER of post offices in th United | States touched 40,000 yest | | _ THE CovMission of Gov. Hartrantt a3 post- Nadelpbia was issued esterday, THE DEFEAT in the House of the sugar, pat- | ent, and Northern Pacitic railroad bilis demor- | alized the lobby ANOTHER ONE KiLiED.—The House to-day killed the bill providing for a revision of ti , by Fefusing to suspend the rules | | and pass It. It will never get another consider- ation this Session, THe BERLIN Missi There i3 very good an- | thority for the statement that Hon. Stanley Matthews {s to be given the Berlin mission. | Master at P) pttons {1 shat the Us. and outstand! HS TO The terms excepts all ¢ Lowd pass, as proposed. would stibscriptio under (he ou endl con im produced 4 ppointed posts not well { din his uew mY department Urtinent d= e question is What ts 19 3 ANS Post oftice? It adser will be catled upon to rat untii MeMilten IS ready” to 5 just h d to pr sal A GRap AT TH Prsiic Pr vapitol to-d dry civil ing out t Gibson t e@ heads put forward t nd afternoo: fon of will be sent in tals to which | that bre downs at lensth es fond to be B pili haying oriei abe lock. Tis it reviews the € gives wita p: Sous for not approvin reason stated 1S priety with do If it bec as the mes ie a law. THE HOUSE AGAIN Her a . Lo even set aside a time eration of the Robesor the democratic me: baval affairs, d upon by | aitfee on SON. oF the Hy Was presented S in Congress witt, an elegant watch and chain last night cently he had a handsome watch a olen from him, and his frieads rep! tth one cjually as : THE FRIENDS OF THE BRAZILIAN Supstpy not- | Withstanding their slaughter in the House yes | terday while somewhat dismayed have not vet is now with a ndail has ap- memberson the part | ker, Clymer, Blount. all favor the conference pointed thiee antl- of the Hou: The senate confreres, subsidy can a and the Post Ulice appropriation vil fvil DIL aj tend the Coreoran Art We POTTER ComMiTrEe. ‘The democratic members of the Potter comin't- tee, ata mecting held to-day, agreed to the pert submitted b man Potter, agreement ot all the inerubers it will b ted on Monday to the 1 members have been caught napping, | they are busy preparing the minority repor whereas Chairman Potter has been engaged for {wo mnonths on the majority report. Gea. Bu'- Jer will make a report on his own account, | | | THR LEGISLATINE, ETc., ArrrorRiatios Brit. | ‘The Senate committee on appropriations 1 { night completed their consideration of the | legistatt ecutive and judicial appropriation | C1 | | | { | dill, and Will report it tothe | merous amendments, the purpo: Which is to make the bill sub: to the corresponding bill Hnally became a law tor he current fiscal committee strike out the House provide tor re pealing the federal elect law and the test-oath requirements 0} ed statute: and the House prov Changes in the law concerning the method of drawing jurors {s likewise omitted. The coni- mittee also strike out the clause by which the | House proposes to consolidate the Various scien- \ lute surveys of the territories. he re ENBACKE | At the meeting of the | greenback Con sional committee yesterday, convention before the Ual nominating convention bic printer, writes to hairman of committee on printing, as follows: “My attention has bee! } Called to an amendment proposed to the sundr: etal BI by Which the government printing | = over $511,000, 15 turned over to pri- Yate parties for the titling sum of $5.00) per year, who are to do the public printing and Dinding 10 per cent. below the present cost. | | The cost of this work is regulated by Congress, j IU txtng Uke wages ai fatr living rates to be paid employes. Give this work to private parties and the wages cf workmen would be reduced, in these hard times, 30 per cent. at least, and Use hours of labor increased. The pay-roils of the last fiscal year amounted to $1.032,35S.37, On this amount they could make a clear promt | Of 20 per cent., amounting to $206,477.67. This | amount will be taken from the wives and chii- dren of the he old and but into the pockets of private parties. The scheme ts impractica- ble, and cannot be carried into effect for many Tearons, which I have no ume to give. I notice that it proposes to make me the custodian of the office. I wish to say that i shall not be a Party to any sich ment, which must Prove disastrous to the public interest.” | Merced members of Congress | events of Property to + report will her voyage, on which she 1s expected to start | pestilen ! Jarly cautioned to look out for imaported | and’ similar | Works, property and franchises of the James An Extre Session Probable. The opinion today among the old and exp~- Ided tha’ an 15 unavoid- ht that the legislative, exee 1 appropriation bill, the ar and sundry civil appropriation | 1, The democrats intend to fin in the amendment to repeat the sa; visors’ law. and also not to vote to pay the ses of federal supervisors at the , stonul elections. ‘The republicans will Temain firm in their position. ‘This je the legislative and the deticiency bill. dry civil bil! will fail on account of the hn ber of items the Senate hasineorpora ted iuit, to which the House will not agree. The triend$ of the scheme to reorganize the army ar- bly strong enough to defeat, it passage, ua the House amendment providins fo zation be allowed to remain in if. extra session of the 46th Con: eble. tive Ne Posy, comitatus clause 1s also a bone of contention, ‘There fs also danger that the arre. of pea sions Dill will fail. ‘The Senate last night added an amerdmentto it, to pension the Mextc in- war soldiers. ‘This the republicans will rest-t, unless the democrats will Vote directly to. pou! sion Jef. Davis as a separate proposition Representative Foster sald to-day, to the rey sentative of THE STAR, that the Prestdent wor call the session early : In April. "That fs essary. Ne thinks, too, that if the legislative bill 1s rented to the President with the supervis law re it. Se ‘onsid y Of finishi b next Tuesd of the committee ¢ propr fon fon has ch €S HOT sce Low the ed and enre s. Hayes ts be P Wine nestio oft versal comment is Ura the supper-reoms was in trast to the Indecorous be! les.even stnall ones at priva his and oth At some sm: remove, eat ved. not to efter ¥ them, eve ned whenes assed, and the clusion Hayes. of all, abe n loner is is The Festri » press £0 1) nesday. i afternoon ng ert to their r THE Deco of the Commissioner of ab Land ©; e that Valentine laud se p located On portions of the old Fort De: ervation in Chicago, from which appea § taken by that city, was reversed yesterd noon v etary of the Interior he value or millions Is involved in ike deciston. SPEAKER RANDALL EXONERATE. Among the Witnesses examined yesterday by the House e the charges regardin! ion with ts were Tre ppropriation warra an, Chie Clerk Powe fon. and Col, Hemphill Jone ferk of | the compiro the bookkeeper or the bureau of enero nd printing, and Mi Moore and Wii he testimony s no irregulart pd the ndall, THE VOYALE OF THE J ITE. orizing the President to accept tr the purpose of an A m James the President yester The control of the neon turned ov AY: yT jer the Dill, a ptrcl of the ve HL expenses iheid her fitting out se being borne 3 Bennett. The Jeannette is now at the Mar Island, California, na\y yard. Preparations tor > in July, Will be immediately put un- ry ‘Thompson will direct ti sted for her just as they are for any S. vessel. All that ts ece: equipment will be done by the 3 ment. An account of expenses in the Gut akd In the voyage. even to the pay men ent pt, and Mr, settle 1 gover present Liewt. De Long and Ensign | are the only officers det ‘wo or three wore deta: medical offi nenhow led for the Jeannett« will be made. and # Secretary Evarts, At- , Senators Plumb, An- thony, Hirnside and Mitchell, and Representa- | tives Lindsey, 1 rdiier, Ratney, Hale, Danford, Ric? (onto), Powers, Mills and Kenna. called on the President to-day. GEN, SHERMAN 15 expected to return to the city next Monday from his tour of southern in spection. <> —____—_ m the reports of Ame outhern ean} diplom Virulent plague, an sian authorities. Our ment is parti substances likely to bring tb plague to this count} INxcenptanies SENTENCED.—Cha; and Abraham 1D. Freeman were . Berm: in entenved in New York yesterday to the state prison for life for setting tire to & house, in complicity with Perlstein, who 1s already in the state prison. Both inen protested their innocence amidst the Sobs of their female relatives who were present. THE TRANSFER OF THE JAMES Riven CaNan. ‘The bill authorizing the sale and transfer of the river and Kanawha company to the Richmond and Alleghany railroad company was on Thurs- x oo by Goy. Holliday, of Virginia. 1s now a law. ey Dog tingiey Conneetions oe passed only two dissenting vores, the Proposed constitutional amendment ready led In the House, providing for biennial ses- eerie the legislature, and it will now goto the 1 55 | pertcd on the third pag | ter the Insane from $160,009 to $170, FORTY-FIFTR CONGRESS, ht Session of the Senate. pProceedings up to the passage of the pensicn arrears appropriation bill are re- 1 The Senate next voted to take up the sundry Mr. Windom said the bill as it came from the Keuse appropriated # 000, to which the e committee on appropriations had added ‘The first amendment of the committee in- creasing the appropriation for the custom-house ard su The Senate agreed to the following amend- went proposed by the committee: Strixing frm the bill the following words: “And s> munch of the act making appropriations for the les lativ peutive ahd judicial expen: We cevernment for the fiscal year ending 30, Isis, and for other purposes, approved Jae 19, 1 iS authorize ary of the T) sury fo isstie com 5 in exehan: bullion deposited for ge at mints an fay offices other than those mentioned tn Uon 3,545 of the Revised States be and. the same Is hereby repeated.’ Mr, Fdmunds raised a question amendment of ¢ not germane to the Dill, if bel in th of general ad he Was stist the Senate by four mator Wing and instructin . the ‘oma sd by ste The w ther be fon sums th "The Se in addi) agreedio the folloy by the commit r of the law Increasing the appropriation fo! Warand X. dor paid ta committee's for the pa at And the med by nd pred 1 2S)OI n hereatter whi that th te reassembled at 1 President laid befor se from the President of t er toa res y of State in re- aid on the table route bf from th ed ihe le: sundry. cis question betr 3 of Jun B dawhier have by te prev not received aid in ship Antietam at League Islan tonal Statua 9 provirte for tae marines for freprooting in the Capitol, and v'cing that no Work or art or manufacture he exhibited in tonal Statuary Hall, the Rotunda or Corridors of the Capitol. not’ the property of the United states; $1,000 for renew- ud repairing portions of the heating appa- re ort Senate; $1,400 for elect vloch the Capt ‘The ame h ment appropriattn Ade'e Fasse ndment, and said the ihe Was not particularly ed an eyent which he ee credit upon Mr. Hear a’so opposed the pur $ on motion of Mr. Windom, the tl rule was appticd to debate on this Mr. Eaton presented the credentials of Hon. ae ed Se from the state of ieut for six years, from Maren Alt, 1533, oon to pur- storal m= >: Appropriating and equipments at the icure: increasing the ap- ne The public lands fr lidating the appropr protecting tinber on pa axing the amount #4), NO clauses each, appropriatio Se bill. 1€ AMenawent appropriating £39,009 for the cf celtaln lands west of the Indian ter- Mlory’ Was ruled out on a point of order by Mr. Famunds, that 1 was new legisla‘ton; a5 was also the amendment of the committee providing for the isstte Of patents to land where the claim has been contirmed by Congress, and no provi- sion made by contirmatory statute for the issue of such patent. ‘The vext am toenable thi ndme appropriating #1 ct the Interior to pa tor lands wrongtuily taken from the owners by the act of March 5d, 1575, to establish the boun- dary line between the state of Arkansas and the Indian country. was discussed, and the point of order raised by Mr. Edtuunds that it was not in order, ng new legislation. The Senate, by a a5 109 Nays decided the amendment 2nd it was ped to. S of the committee were agreed -—Continuing the geological and geographical survey of the territories under Prot, Hayden, and appropriating 4) Lo pre- pare report and complete the oitice Work of the survey, and the same amount to complete the reports, maps, c., of the geolog!- cal survey of the Kocky mountaln region, $20,099 for preparation of reports, maps, xc.’ of tne a to as follow: | Stveys west of the luoth meridian; increasing th appropriation for the Government Iospital 000. ‘The House inserted a clause repealing that in the sundry civil bill for the current fiscal year appropriating $: to reimburse Charles P. Birkett, late U.S. Indian agent, for the amount expended by him for the Indians of Ponca ageney, Neb. ‘The Senate committee reported iu favor of striking out this clause and {nsert- ing in lieu thereof one allowing said Birkett to bring suit in the Court of Clatins for the recov- ery of the amount claimed by him, Agreed to. Messrs. Dorsey, Blaine and Wallace were ap- pointed the conference committee on the Post Office appropriation bill, and Messrs. Allison, Dorsey and Wallace, the committee on the de- feiency appropriation bill. -Amendinents of the committee on appropria- Uons to the sundry civil bill were agreed to Piithout, division, (as follows: Appropriating $20,000 to remove certain bands of Ute Indians $250, lor a fre-proot of National Musourn, Smithsonian Institution; in the map osPay judg. ments of the Court of 125,000; increasing the appropriation for fire ectingeisnens for the Government Print of- fice from $1,000 to $1,925, and providing for a competitive test of the ex: The committee an amendment to I tinuance cf Friday’s se TWO CENTS. | pay D.'T. Corbin, late contestant for asoat in the U.S, from the state of South Caro- | lina, bis exp contest, $04 Mr. Hil opposed 2 le denied that the expenses of Mr. Corbin we Mr. were between # Aiter further det | an endment was rejected —vea: Mr. Hill moved to lay tye amend committee on the table. Rejected. Days 3. By avote of 2s to the amendment to pr Was reported HOUSE —The House met at 19 o'eio. oa, And the follo» »nt of th yeas he Senate coneur orbin 2 ron rail For the protection of settlers on lands, {It provides that settlements road lands preemption or homestead laws shall be deemed to create a contract. between the government and the settlers } land district in the Black Hil: relief of cer and for the re misstons ou said rt 1 entries of public and coni lands. HE SESSION OF SATERDAY ‘The session of Friday here ended, and the ses- urday was opened with prayer, bat reading of the journal was postpoued until Uden, chair reported i owed by t nof committee on claims, for the payment of claims reporied | lcers of the Treas- | priated is enate amen ation BIL Ww Tamittee on conte ¥ ap curred tn, anda then announced the fott ssrs. Bi ost olliee appropri! 1 ; Sparks, and Baker Ind.). on w the bin to disabled s The lic ation of te upon the sugar bill, t, stating that {0 wo! ssion. D suspend s apart Mone nsideration of the reso! m committee on nav reia 1a, cd dispo: —nobt the nec “thirds in the afirmative. chairman of the nd ther nding the j nis by the from the Speaker's table tor consideration meLdiment Senate billextending the tn the construction and completion of the Nori!- ern P: ad; debate to be Hmited to ten minute: not Ube neces- rmaiive. © Public Deb The recapitulation of the statement of the | Public debt of the United States for the month of Februa Tollows Tatevest be Bonds at Bonds at Bonds at 44 per ¢ Bonds at 4 per ¢ Naval pension 14000-08000 | Decrease debt since June Current Liabilities: Interest due and unpaid Debt on which interest has ceased is Interest United States notes held tor re- demption of certificates of de- posit Sees nena United Stated notes held Tor re demption of fractional cur- Calied bonds not fed for which 4 percent. bonds have been issued... Cash balance avail: 1, 1899. 5.10, 00 $519,741.00 216.62 May 200.00) able March 42. H S447.202,408.48 | Bonds tssued to Pacifie Railway | rest ‘standin: not yet United states, $41 transportation of mails, et ance of interest: paid by P15 companies, —Prineipal rucd and | id by the int LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. Relics of Barbari “iter Star:—Washington has become a model | city inthe matter of pavements and cleanli- ness, but there is one spot that seems to have been neglected In the march of prozress. Upon one of the great thoroughfares. i3th street, near | the foot pavement has not been graded with | est of the street, and the elevation coming | toasudden end, there Is a precipice of about Ubree feet In depth, which upon dark nights aS occasioned lnany accidents. Two years azo a child’s leg was broken by a fall at this spot. On Sunday evening, the i6th of February, two gentlemen fell_here—one was severely injured and the other sertously bruised. Policemen say falls are of frequent occurrence at night al. | this place. Why does the street’ commissioner allow this relic of old Washington ——— the city? The Rip Van Winkle owners of the property should be fined for the injury already acne the pedestrians, and this Indian mound be leveled at once to the same grade as the street. A SUFFERER, | A DEFAULTING TOWN COLLECTOR.—A tel gram from Plymouth, Mass., Feb. 27, says: euiuel Bradford, one of the oldest and most Uustworthy citizens, and for a long period of | years tax collector, overseer of the poor and se- Jectman of Plymouth. 1s said to have been un- | falthful to his public trusts, defrauding the town Of from $3,000 to $4,000, Mr. Bradford has heid the office of collector of taxes for the last four- teen years, and has ee the utmost con- lidence of our citizens. “What he has done with the money ts aquestion difficult to solve. He lived economically, kept no horse and carriage, and Is aman of temperate habits. He ts and always has been an earnest and sincere dem- ocrat, and took an active part in politics. He represented thistown one year in the legisla- ture, and has been chairman of the democratic town committee for seven years In succession, THE BELL Punch IN Two STaTss.—The bill providing for the introduction of the Moffer | speakers HS, Jacol T | chanwed. re No Arpagrs. ish Labor roubles. asters apd wort Lancashive met at Man- yesterday and resolved to recommend. . WA list” be gene . Mion of wWeay duction. A de: sot ers Was and Weay sien ith a Pestponed (On have Ther Destructive GESKVAN WAS struck Dy Allied, seral Lake of Geneva damage in Thoussnd pos Turkish pr & Roundary, as itis ty of rertia, The con w elaborated and ¢ > Turkish hit the Greeks deserve sts of pegottation, British Amxicty as to Affairs im Seuth Africa. Loxnon, March i.—a spec loner, a ceding all 1 to the Paiiy Neos trot Cape Town says ators ta the ‘Trausvsal wre causing considerable anxisty It ts reported that the r con Votksre: vy us Shepsi« den) Transvaal repubi also that a ing jorty of the Transvas ns - a former part against the 74 Iywayo to Gen hork eh from president ¢f the Transvaal, asking the toers 10 remain veutral las been intercey Vae com- mander of a Dutch station had selved and sent tle captured and sid to the at be recapture 4 tasted a pander, but ably be for- seltlers, on the ground that the Zu ‘cled 10 Invade the Transvaal t wistrate i an attempt to exec would pry cibly res lers of to rein ndt Doth by Se by the Kafiirs borders. Joes nol appear t sonable foundation tor the a pressed in rights, Paso order of cardinal yy nal pando Bar 1. atid nount- meno as cau ono of 1 Ferilerl, whos also prose cardinals au. Lonpon, i daily 7: Hae Paris says: « en Victoria will Lopdon at restore night In t ritish emb and procecd t P10 the he will be mer by the Ds of Ma She with in Paris Newman th created a cardinal March 2. will ba ory Lo be held na Crushes a Rebettion, Sr. Perresnceg, Mare Dasbkend, printed in the st the th n territory, __ A Strike Compromised. NEW CastLb-ON-TYSNE. “Mare —The ship- ders strike has been compro) 2 Peston: tng been mad Heferm in New he Tencment cal me sent alike for t of the subject was dise Among bs, 1. Brown and E. J.. Sharer, addiessts were business-like and practical. resolutions were adopted, but 2 couunlttes CT nine Was appointed to arrange the plans to carry tenement house reform into effect. W. astor, C. Vanderbilt, F. W. Steve ave members of the commute Lenry and Ennis to Walk Si New York. Mareh 1.—Daniel John Ennis, of Chicago. Charles Nowell, of London, and C. A. Harriman, of Boston, met ta the St. James hotel yesterday afernoon to make arrangements for a six days’ walking match, to begin at Gilmore's garden March i. The Markets, March 1—"y ee A 1 susie. | stay, Sugar auiet a ~ ‘TIMOKE, March L—Cotton steady and un- Flotr firm and unchause southern steady ard juiet; ern re, 1138114; Pennsylvania red. ial winter red, spot anil March, 1.1 Corn Hra—southern white, 45 dike: western mixed, sj Apnl, 4i\a04%4: May | Oats steacy and tire: aud uochan and Vachapged. Hay rtesdy Visions steady and unchanse d utter guiet unchanved. dull ane unchauged. betroleam, ¢asy and unchanwed, Coffee dull and unchanged, Whisky duli and tinchanwed Kreutits to Liverpool ber steamer steady and wnachansed. Raoeipta— Bour. 180; wheat, 69.700: com 1000; cate oo, Sbirmente— wheat, 110,148. corn, 82K). NEW YORK, March's —Stocks weal. Money, 3. aah Tons, 485%; short, 488%. Governments au NEW YORE, March 1—Flour quiet. Wheat quiet. timer, —_—___— Nashville, ‘Tenn., A Rowastic Escari last week, the wife of B. F. Pitt, who was under arrest, charged with forgery, was admitted to the jail to confer with her flusband, as 1s the custom, and after the usual lapse of ‘time she, aS Was supposed, came out deeply grieved and weeping, aud departed for her home. The sur- = Of the jailer can be better imagined than lescribed when he discovered, instead of Ben- Jamin Pitt as his prisoner, the wife of Pitt un- dergoing imprisonment. The accused had donned the apparel of his wife and had fled the scene. ROMANCE OF THE CUSTER Massacre.—Colonel Benteen, of the Seventh cavalry, left the im- Pression In his testimony in the Reno inquiry Uthat Dr, Lord and Lieutenant Sturgis, wlio were with Custer, and whose bodies were not found, might be still alive and with the In- dians. Away down in Maine this ray of 34 Tell upon the heart of a young lady who Is in reality, but notin name, one of the widows of that fatal dash for vindicatton. There was more tn the Colonel's words to her than he in- Dimer xc pictfutiy tn ing if there Was aay. arc y inquil was any ‘sible hope that Benteen’s intimation wag founded upon fact. Her friend Here answered “No.” If Dr. Lord was alive and in sitting Bull's camp the Canadian mounted police would have found it out before “this, Major Walsh, who 1s on the best of terms with ‘the hostlles, and is with them a great has made every effort to discover'a survivor. is great admirer of the dead Custer, and his per- sonal feelings have been heartily in the vain search. All that he has found hag been one horse of the white-horse sieved “bell punch” in the saloons of West | Dr. Lord may be altve, but it is as Vir; on Thursday passed the Senate of that | @8 Jules Verne's ly-day trip around the state, and was cominunicated to the House of | World. The lady in Maine, however, has an in- Delegates. The North Carolina state Senate, | Uultive belief that he is alive and she will by a vote of 35 to 5, has adopted a resolution in- os see him. She paches herself for some structing a special committee to incorporate in | little thing she did, itsent him of with the bill for the sale of spirituous liquors the | Custer, and thathe was to the con- principle of the bell punch now in use in Vir- ginia. ‘The bill is to be made the special order. THE Dest GF NoxtH Canoiina.—The bill to compromise, commute and settle the North Car- Olina state debt the House Thursday, to adopted by the ture aS a means of in- creasin the ta fren ao THE LoninG ConTsst. in the contest of E. M. ing for the gina city, Nev., yi jem Just as it came from the Senate. There seems | woman wl be no doubt that the bell punch will be | her dispersed rescued the woman, however, and in the A CHINESE RIOT IN Virginia Crry.—At Vir- to recover