Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1879, Page 1

ee a, ee LL re THE EVENING STAR. | PUBLISHED DAILY, Except‘Sunday, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Pennsylvania Avecne, Corner 11th Street, BY The Evening Star Newspaper Gompany, &. H. KAUFFMANN, Pres't. Tee ye Stax Ss gezves to subscrivers in eaty by carriers, on their own account, at 1 hts per week, or 44 vert ns Eeouts. Copies at the ao oo per Hi wot pce EE ene each. Berit somne: FP ev cents a month ; one year, $6. Tee Wrexty Sran—pnblished. on, Eridsy Feaiglasiae? wreeata. 10 copies for $15; lor ptions must be paid m ad- vad no Balsa Tar ats pad ‘Rates of advertising made Known on apriication. a = | SPECIAL NOTICES. | [ ST CHURCH Rev. Atex! ET reac, ig Pah Hall To. nna Scbool at 945 a.m. morrow, Per, NEW JERU eee on “gente al free. 2 > REFORMED EPISCOPAL—~ CP FEE Messtadt- (Sovereim’s Hall near New York v. J. B. Nour! ‘All are cordially invited. Seats Tree, , ‘HRISTIAN CHURCH. Vermont be- CS EN nd Onte_ tusrrnice D. Fowes wi! reach at 11 o'clock Tomorrow morming aud 7 30pm. All welcome, Seats free. 1 = VIOES AT FOUNDRY CHURCH at EF hE Op te Re LN Bern, of the First horeh, Baltimore; 76 pam. by the Rev. A J. 6m “a ROL eee RS >~_, TWELFTH STREET 8.E. %.E. CHURCH. Preach row at ile m. and 7:3 1. OP patcinw To morrow at om and 7: tat m. by Kev. E. RIcP&RDSON, of ference. > METROPOLITAN M. E_ CHUROH. 4% Tastee her De Warton, diam collowed by [enmunion eervices) and T'pm. Sunday school ‘om. : t .: BAP1EST CHURCH.—Rev. H. sD. D., president of Crozer Theo- will‘preach morning and e farch 9th, at the Calvary Ba; corner of 8th apa H sts. MT. VERNON PLACE M. E. CHURCH, en sieeee Sere cts at am. by Dr. a Pio peas Frof. $F. Hvcues, of Newbeiry Ool- lege 8. C. “TRUE LIBERTY,” of Man, Woman and childs secured in the Gospel, and no where v. Dr. Davib WILSON at - 30 pam. ing at 1am. All = iGHWAY SHALL BE THERE. it anail be called the way of Holiness.” Pome to the Holinces Meet! ‘Metropolitan ‘Gites evens Sabbath at 2:30. tation to all! ALL SOULS’ CHURCH. Rev. Cuay Mac t <r Vora 7 gor B onions, ag Mire a.m. Subject—“The Hight of Reason in Matters of Reli gion.” Strarcers cordially invited. Vesper services at7:30 pm it LIVE MEETINGS AT THE PEL BLESSING Jack Tih & nw. ovety, Night. ‘tanctification, * Bouis seeking . “Come and nee Tem Wednesdays and Returdaye "He that commitet ‘sin. is of the . BW. ‘DREWS will preach in the ainth Presbyterian Church, "on Sti et nest ‘land avenne &w.,on ay Skeptics are | civil Dill as i finally passed shor V%, 538—N°. 8,090, Che Koening Star. a WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1879. SEITE ca RET ee SET EE Washington News and Gossip. GOVER! —Internalrey- euue, SUBSCRIPTIONS Lo th day amounted to $/,1 ENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY. INSTEAD OF 090 from vice division, Treasury department the sundry S a cut de ‘This will render necessary a reduc- LO $00,000. ‘and the salaries paid those employed. Ex-SENATOR PATTERSON to-day received a let- ter from the attorney general of South Caro- lina, granting bim full pardon and oblivion for any indictments pending agatnst him in the State of South Carolina. The ex-Senator will Yeave here in a day or two to accept an im- Portant trust under the Southern Pacific Rail- Toad Company in Arizona. THE REPUBLICAN CONTESTANT from the 9d New York (Brooklyn) district has served notice on the democrat who holds the certificate—Daniel OrReilly—that he proposes to invalidate o’Reilly’s claim to his seat, on the ground serter from the Union army. left the city last evening for Fostoria, Ohio. ....Hon. Eugene Hale left Washington last evening for Chicago. Mr. Webb C. Hayes lett the city last evening for Fremont, Ohio. and Levisee unite in the following day from San Francisco to Commissioner Rau Have to-day.caused seizure of Gordon & Burke’s elgar factory for removing and selling un- stamped cigars, Value about $2,000. INTERNATIONAL Postal. CARD CHESS TOURNEY. W 4. Berry, of Beverly, Mass., has resigned a Leigh po to his antagonist, Rev. C. E. Ran- ken, of Maivern, England. Total score—Great Britain 17, America 16, drawn 4. THE AWARDING OF Mall CONTRACTS under the recent letting of routes tn the northwest, has begun at the Post Office department. It is Pe ry that the making of the awards will be Mnished by the last of next week. in. he wil: hola a childrea’s seme place. All children GH M. E. CHUKCH, corner Sd ana A EF cectone biting erion Nomerer eae ) at Li o'clock aim and 7: Dm. Sunday school of the We iow York Cohference, Evening ver. ‘Dr. Absots, of the lilinols Coafer- oHUROH OF THE REDEEMER—RE- EP vote eeisourah, Freedman's Beck and 7:30 pm. Dr. Rea will preach moe nh 7 OSB of Tne camp or the separation of R. E. Church justi- \OTHER INV! OF THAT WON- ES Sse Rona aioe s- BOOKSTORE, . above New York avenue. maré-Im = THE KEYSTONs CLUB ‘Will meet THIS (Saturday) EVENING, at ¢ ‘7:30 o'clock, at Fst, adjoining Ms “RE aetEvivaniana in Washi in Wi on invited to Samar amntins n e AND SAVINGS BUILDING AS- no .—The | monthly meeting THE ANNUAL MEETING O THE MARKET COMPANY, for the elation of eee ANY, for ction of mine ak of the Comps No. ie Beis frooa oe me Satie oe No at Bocthwest, Maren 1), Isvy. Polis open at 1 and BAE: Us SP at ne EXisbaent or we B MoBES « BOB, corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Seventh treet nw. * marétr PURE NEWFOUNDLAND COD LIVER CF ote Deas Dru eer oe ke sth street and Ivania avenue. 50 cents a bottle ful pint. feb26-1m EB pEAYING BovGHT THE PATENTS FOR | Dr. Colboun’s Porous Evaporator, we recasi. mend :tas the best possible way of moistenine ot dry air from furnaces, latrobe stoves colle. It is attached to the register, and renders the HAYWARD & EUTCHINSON, t 317 Orn STREET, NEAR THE AVENUE. Brass Fire Sets, English Tile, Slate Mante!«, Par- Fr MILBUEN'S PHARMACY, 1429 Peyte YLVANIA AVENTE. ae anD MINERAL WATERS on draught all Lick, Bedford.and Bethesda Waters by the octilte i. 1 epee pment O&PaULEs, ne Used ower 2 with great success of Baris, Now York and Loudon: sad casos ra Paris. Sold every- oct tth&sly B zivm INRUR ARO a COMPAN ¥, TE0 (par values). ©. @SngTOT82 2 $iabitlciss dises Slandard. $1,113;357.63 ee se set Cah 2,357,424.65 ‘Ket values). 8 5,937,161.18 C. ‘ |. B. Pearson, | cates in exchange for lawful money at the | Sury here or at any subd-treasury at par. After 1 Ni In Ri ) Richmond Tae Law Orrice of the Post Office depart- ment is engaged in preparing rules and regula- tons under the act for the reclassification of mail matter to go into the Postal (uide of April first. The work of preparing a new code, for which $20,000 has been appropriated, is also oc- cupying the attention of the office. * Remsrarep.—The order of the Secretary of the Interior suspending R.S.and A. P. Lacey from practice as pension claim agents has beea revoked, as it has been shown that they were guiltless of complicity in the alleged conspiracy of certain claim agents to improperly obtain money from pensioners. THE SICK CONGRESSMEN IMPROVING.—Hon. James A. McKenzie, of Kentucky, since the ad- Journment of Congress has been seriously {ll of | inflammation of the bowels, at the National Hotel. Dr. Morgan, his physician, his col ion a8 much improved to-day. Hon. J. Hi. Acklen, of Louisiana, is steadily improving, and his physician, Dr. Garnett, is confident that he will be thor hly able to take part in the organization of the House. EXAMINATION OF APPLICANTS FOR CLERKSHIPS. According to an order issued by the Interior De- partment, a competitive examination for ap- pointments to clerkshs; oe of class one, in the Pension Office, will be heid on Tuesday, Wed- besday and pomp March 25, 26 and 27. ‘The examination will be conducted’ so as to as- certain the lar qualifications of the candi- dates for ex: ation of pension claims. ‘Those notitied for examination should report to the chief clerk of the department at tite time named in the notice. Ercut Hour Law.—Congressman-elect Murch, of Maine, has declared his intention to intro- duce the following joint resolution in the spe- clal session: Resolved, «c., That according to the true intent and m of the actof Con- June 25th, 1868, entitled “An act eight hours a legal days work for all laborers, workmen, and mechanics, em- pag eS on behalf of the government of United States,” eight hours constitute a days work for all such laborers, workmen, and mechanics, and while said act remains upon the wages pald by ‘the government by the day op Wi y vernment by Such laborers workinen, aud mechanics, on ac- count of the reduction of the hours of labor. and that all heads of departments, officers, and agents, of the government, are hereby directed toenforce said Iaw 80 ko p23 the samme ‘gunre- pealed. passed fouse on the 91 Of May, 1378, but failed tn the Senate. A Very Poor CounTsrrgir of a Bowen bond of the District of Columbia was presentea at the Treasury for redemption to-day. The counterfelt was numbered 105, of the denomina- ton of $1,000. All the coupons were attached, The original No. 105 $1,000 bond was redeemed some time past. The counterfeit had the sig- | Batures of Ex-Mayor Bowen, and the Register, Bosswell forged. The seal of the District of ; | Columbia was not affixed. The party present- ing it said he did so as attorney for another party. Tur Fock PER CENT. REFUNDING CERTiFi- CATES to be Issued under the act just passed by Congress, entitled “An act to aid in refunding the national debt,” will date from the first of Aprilnext. The certificates will be of the de- nomination of ten dollars, and will be converti- ble into four per cent. bonds in sums of filty | dollars and multiples thereof. Unless so con- | verted they will weno interest. On the first of April next any one can obtain the cer wards the accrued interest on tle certificates will have to be added in the purchase. The Interest on the #10 at four per cent. is about one cent. in nine days. The ce reason April Ist {8 taken as the date of issue of the certificate is that the interest on ihe four per cent. bond, which {s due quarterly, will be paid on that date, and the certificate and bond will start out even, ‘Thus there will be no difficulty on account of difference in Interest between the two ineffect- ing the conversion of the former into the latter. CT TO APOLISH THE VOLUNTRER NAVY OF NITED STATES, passed at the last session of Congress, provides that the Secretary of the Neers of the navy, whose duty it shall be to make an examination of the eighteen acting and three acting passed assistant surgeons now in the service should they desire to present | themselves, which ¢xamination shall be such as is required in the examination of medical of- ficers for admission as ass{stant surgeons; and in all cases wkere the board shall find the of- | fcers qualified to perform thé duties of their position it may be lawful for the President of the United States to appoint them assistant surgeons in the ular navy of the United States. Where suci officers ‘are found to be disqualified to discharge the duties of their posi- tion they shall be musterea out of the servic within six months after the passage of the ac with one vear’s pay. ine of duty. the officer upon the recommenda- Uo of the retiring board. may be placed on the retired list, with the pa} of oficers of like de Signation in the regular navy. Under this act the Secretary has designated a board to con- duet the examination of the medical officers In the voluteer navy. The board designated isthe same that examines candidates for admission } In medica! department of the navy. itis as fol- lows: “Medical Director George ‘Peck, Medica! Inspector T. J. Turner. Medical Inspector J.C Speer, Surgeon N. L. Bates and Surgeon J. W Coles. <-- < IN Ricuoxp.—Senators James G. plaine. 0 Maine, and J. P. Jones, of Nevada, and Repre- sentative G. B. Loring, of Massachusetts, are in Richmond, Va., ing after the proposed and ‘oon railroad enterprise in which they are un Ae Buz Yous, nineizentn mite, of the Young, has written a letier Mia, President Hayes woman suffrage in Utah a delusion and snare, and asking her to influence the vast and in- creasiny” crime of polygamy. ae ‘TEE BopY Of Mrs. M. r, of Harrisburg, Pa, who hav been missing since Nov. 31, 1806, Wad found in » Malll-pond in that day: ste was 1y dexanged at the time of her dis- ay pearance. $100,000 in the appropriatiop tor the secret ser- | tion both in the force employed by the bureau | (mane onter things) that he (O°R.) was a de- | PERSONAL.—Hon. Charley Foster and family | THE EVENING STAR. | The Overt, cions of the Fishery Com- | y. | VEN! 2URE.— ue Ay Gayett | they first become acquainted, provided the phy- ete aa el le | sical conditions are favorable. A temperature | completed their investigation some weeks ago, ‘avy Shaliconvenea boardot five medical of- | In the event, however, of | plissical disqualitication. which occurred tn the | i Gf€ss to furnish the Fish commission with a Bsh-hatching steamer. of the commission. of government revenue cutters was necessarily | pected that the new steamer will be ready for | ‘That this officer shall have the di 8 TWO CENTS. Missions YER WORK FOR THE SEASON. | 'ThS sum of $45,000 was appropriated by Con- Such a vessel will greatly inerease the efficiency of the operations Four flat-bottomed scows, now at the navy yard,for which the steamer will be substituted, have in the past been towed to and from the places of hatching. Much time was lost under this system, as the convenience awaited, the commission having no money to ‘spend in hiring tugs. The scows were old and clumsy and fast rotting, and were so slow in their movements that only a few points could be visited in a season. The steamer to be built will accommodate all the hatching ma- chinery and the men n to at- tend it, and can go rapidly trom place to lace, touching at many localities when the fish- ing season is at its height at each. The ma- chinery and men to hatch and distribute mai more tsh than at present are available, and Uthat has been needed is the improvement now provided in the means of ae ae fishing waters of the eggs to be hatched. It is not ex- the shad-hatching season, but it Is thought that the cod-hatching which has been carried on at. Gloucester during the winter with such success will profit by it. The steamer will, of course, have the advantage of ability to go directly out to sea to obtain the cod eggs, and the hatching may be carried on while the vessel ts on its way to the place where the fish are to be distributed. COD IN SOUTHERN WATERS. Prof. Baird’s purpose Is to bring next winter twenty million or more of artificially hatched cod southward and place them in the waters at i the mouth of Chesapeake bay. The young fish will return to spawn In the waters with which of water at least as low as 45 or 50 degrees is | necessary. Records have been made of the | temperature of water at different localities | and at different depths all along the } coast. It appears that the waters of Chesapeake bay are in the winter much | colder than the maximum temperature at which the cod can thrive. Indeed stray specimens of theJish have been caught all along the coast as fafsouth as Virginia. Prof. Baird contemplates a Series of cod fisheries much farther south than, | any now exist, and will make the first experl- | ment in neapcare bay. When each coast state as far south as Virginia has its cod fisher- Jes we can snub Canada, which places its marine products at exorbitant prices and enjoy a | noble food-fish cheaply. | BAD OUTLOOK FOR THE POTOMAC FISHERIES. | In reference to the shad fisheries of the Poto- mac, Prof. Baird believes, after trial, that noth- ing effective can be done by the Fish Commis- sion to restore them to former productiveness; until the poisoning of- the river by the coal tar’ from the gas works of the District and Alexan- dria is stopped, and until restrictions are placed on seine and gill-net fisking. There are no rospects that anything in this direction will be lone soon. Concurrent action by Virginia and Maryland is necessary for effective legislation on the bong Lat ge od nrg way are necessary revent the refuse of the gas works from going into the rive: Geological Survey of the Country. ENACTMENTS OF THE SUNDRY CIVIL. BILL 48 PASSED. In the sundry civil appropriation bill as finally passed 1s the following under the head of * Geological Survey:” “For the salary of the director of the geologi- cal survey, which office is hereby established, under the interior department, who shall be ap pointed by the President by ‘and with the ad- Vice and consent of the Senate, $6,000: Provided, rection of the geol survey, and the classification of the public lands and examination of the geological Structure, mineral resources and products of the national domain. And that the director and members of the geological survey shall have no personal or private interests in the lands or mineral wealth of the region under survey, and shall execute no surveys or examinations for Pepe pelea = corporations; and the log- an ical survey of the territories, | and the phical and geological survey o the Rocky opengl, grate ler the Depart ment of the Interior, and the hical sur veys west of the one hundredth mer! y unde the Nar Separcanent, are hereby discontinued, , to take effect on the 30th day of June, isi9. And all collections of rocks, minerals, soils, fos stls, and objects of natural ‘history. Archaeolo ro and ethnology, made by the Cost aid In- rior Survey, the Geological Survey, or by any other parties for the Government of the United States, when no longer needed for investiga- tons in progress shall be deposited in the Na- tional Museum. For the expenses of the Geo- logical Survey and the classification of the pub- dic lands and examination of tue Geologica structure; mineral resources and products o | the national domain, to be ex) under the direction of the Secretary of Tnterlor, $100,- 000. For the expense of a commission’on the isting laws rel vey and disposition of the public domain, and for other pu $20,000. Provided, That the | commission shall consist of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, the Director of the United States Geological Survey, and three civilians, to be appointed by the President, vzho shall receive a per diem compensation of ten dollars for each day wi actually en- gaged, and their travelling expense: and neither. the Commissioner of the General | Land Office nor the Director of the United States Geological Survey, shall receive other compen- sation for their services upon sald commission | than their Lis aoe hl except their Gaveiing bp gd wh engnerd on said du- Ues; and tt shall be the duty of this commission to report to Congress within one year from the Ume of {ts organization; first, a codification of | the present laws relating to the survey and dis- | position of the public domain; second, a system | and standard of classification of public lands; as arable, irrigable, timber, pasturage, swamp, coal, mineral lands and such other classes as may be deemed proper, having due regard to humidity of climate. supp) of water for irriga- Uon, and other physical characteristics; thira, a system of land parcelling surveys adapted to the economic uses of the several classes of lands; and, fourth, such recommendations a3 they may deem wise in relation to the me- thod of bis eg of the public lands of the Western portion of the United States to actual settlers.” For publications of the Geological Survey, preparation of reports, maps, Lilustrations, etc., | appropriations are made amounting altogether 10 $160,000, TRE Fitz Joun PorTER Case.—The board of inquiry tn the case of Fitz John Porter having are to reassemble for their final session in New York city on the i2th inst. ‘The board consists of Major General Schoheld. Brigadier General Alfred H. Terry, and Colonel Geo. W. Getty, of the 3d artillery.’ ‘The voluminous testimony. 1s now all in print and in the hands of the mem- bers of the board, and it only remains for them to make up their findings and report to the Pre- sident what action they advise him to take in the matter, and what ts thelr opinion as to the guilt or Innocence of Gen. Porter. A HARTFORD Pastor's RESIGNATION.—Rey. F. F. Emerson, pastor of the Asylum Avenue | Baptist Chureh, of Hartfod, Conn., at a meeting ‘Thursday night read a letter resigning his pas- torate because, upon consideration, he cannot approve the ideas held by the denomination re- garding commuioy. and baptism. He pieeened there about two years, and taken a leadng position as a preacher. Less than a sear ago the pastor of the leading Methodist church there went over to Congregationalism. to which It Js supposed Mr. Emerson will go. SUIT FOR 4 MILLION.—W. J. Merritt: has com- menced suit in New York against the adminis- trators of the estate of the late John Merritt, | aiming tbat he is the only son, and conse- auently heir to @ll the estate, which is worth over $1,000,000, ‘The administrators retuse to acknowledge the claim on the ground that he is an iMegitimate son, which pla ntiff denies. \ FIRE IN PEARL STREET, New York, damaged the bag factory of ¥. 8. Atwater to the exten of $60,000—ingurance $57, are thrown out of work. ‘The rooms of the pro duce exchange were partly destroyed—insur ance $2,000, George S. Hart « Co,, butter and cheese merchants, sustained a 103s of $20,000— fully insured, A GOVERNMENT CARPET SEIZED VOR FREIGHT (piAkoRs.—The Wheeling (W. Va.) Standard ‘tes that on Wednesday morning a lot of tine pet was recelved at the custom-house tn tiat 'Y trom Washington, to be used in carpeting the rooms of the various heads of the postofiice. Soon after it was delivered the Baltimore and ohio railroad authorities returned and took it away. as the surveyor refused to pay freight on \taceording to instructions from Washington, which notified him that the freight would be Paid there, BA Stickney, the Fall River (Mass.) A ates a (Maas.) defaulter, is five years’ term in the jansachusetts state prison, at Concord. hee Mark Twain Will return from abroad ina | amendin; | and elsewhere, $5,000. DISTRICT APPROPRIATIONS. Items in the S Finally The following ts a correct list of the items af- fecting the District of Columbia, included in the sundry civil appropriation bill, taken from the act filed in the Department of State: Under the sub-head. “ District of Columbia,” in the dill is the following: That the sum of $1,632,098.78 be, and 1s hereby appropriated for the purpose of paying one half of the estimated expenses of the government of the District of Columbia, for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1880, namely: For improvements and repalrs, as follows: Work on Boundary street aux! mol Sewer, $100,000; lateral sewers, $15,000; wor! upon sundry avenues and streets, $100,000; re- Placing of pavements, at not to exceed $2.25 per square yard, $150,000; repairs to concrete pave- ments, $100,000; material issued for permit work, 15,000; in all, $480,000. For constructing, re- pairing, and maintaining bridges as follows: Ordinary care of Benning’s, Anacostia, and Chain _ brid; including fuel, oil, lam matches, and so forth, $1,200; replanking an painting Chain bridge, $2,500; repairing Ben- ning’s bridge and its carriage ways, $2,500; rais- ing embankments of Anacostia bridge and re- ring piers and abutments, $3,000; repairs of Rock Creek bridges, $1,000; in all $10,200, And one of the two railroad tracks now on said Anacosta bridge shall be at once removed. For maintaining institutions of charity, reforma- tories, and prisons, as follows: Washington Asylum, $45,160; Georgetown Almshouse, $1,300; Hospital for thé Insane, $17,000; transportation of paupers and conveying prisoners to work- house, $2,500; Reform School, $20,000; and section thirteen of the act entitled “An act revising and the various acts establishing and re- lating to the Reform School of the District of Columbia, approved May 3d,. 1576,” is hereby continued in full force; Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, $12,000; Children’s dry Civil Bill, as Passed. | Hospital, $5,000; Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum, ‘£5,000; Industrial Home School, $5,000; National Association for Colored Women and Children. $6,500; Women’s Christian Association, $5,000; relief of Cele $15,000; Howard University, $10,000; Washington Aqueduct, $20,000. For salaries and contungent expenses, as fol- lows: Executive office proper, $21,000; auditor and comptroller’s office, $19,000; sinking fund office, $2,700; coroner’s office, $2,500; collector’s office, $13,800, Attorney’s office—One attorney, $4,000; one assistant attorney, $1,900; one special assistant attorney, $960; one clerk, $960; one clerk, $192; contingent expenses, including books, stationery, and miscellaneous items, $955; in all, $9,000. And for the expenses of a revision of the laws of the District of Columbia, $5,000, ‘Treasurer's ofiice, $5,300; i tors of buildings office, $5,880; superintendents of as- sessments and taxes office, $7,900. That from and after the passage of this act, a Inlles north ot thelCapitol, being the property miles north of the Cay prope: known as “ Prot the estate of" (he late oe — ae United arene Pp ae and all the buildings, groun properi eae thereto, and used im connection therewith, in the District of Columbia, shall be exempt from any and all taxes or assessment, national, municipal, or county: Provided, That such exemption shall continue — until the 30th day of June, A. D. 1880; and ail taxes, to- gether With the interest and penalties now due | and unpaid, upon ae: shall be, and they hereby are, remitt Inspector's of and meters, office, $3,000; assessor's office,$7,250; harbor master of George. town, $50; sealer of in all, $160; en; repairs, genei US expenses for District offices, $3,000; for the public schools, $475,000. For the Metropolitan police, as follows: One major and superintendent, $2,666; one captain, $1,500; one property clerk, $1,500; one clerk, $1,500; three surgeons, at $450 each, $1,350; six detectives, at $1,320 Gach, $7,920; ten Heuten- ants, at $1,200 each, $12,000; twenty sergeants, at $1,140 each, $22,800; seven acting sei ts, at $1,080 each, $1,560; seventy-three privates, | class one, at $900 each. $65,700; one hu and twenty [eigen class two, at $1,050 each, $129,- 600; sixteen station keepers at #516 each, $8,256; eight laborers at $420 each, $3,360; two telegraph | operators at $790 each, $900; one messen, intendent, mount service, $360; one captain, mounted service, $240; fifty Meutenants, ser- eants and privates, mounted, at $240 each, $12,000; rent of dogs Station houses and police headquarters, $6,200; fuel, $1,543; repairs to sta tion $1,200; miscellaneous expenses, in- telegraphing, ice, ee prisoners, re] $12,164; in all, "Shanti; Pe all new appointments shall be made to class one; And provided: That the number In apy class shall not at any time exceed the num- ber herein designated. For the fire dey nt and fire alarm, $105,700. This includes: “Two commissioners (one of whom shall be appointed by the Secre- tary of the Interior to represent the iaterests of the ral government on said board of com- missioners), at $200 each, $400; one commissioner and secretary, $400.” [The entire force is pro- vided for as at present constituted, without change in number of men, or pay of officers and men. .. Police Court: One ieee $3,000; one clerk, $2,000; one deputy clerk, $1,000; two bailiffs, at $8 per day gr $1,578; one messenger, $900; one doorkeeper, $540; one justice of the peace, act- ing as judge in judge’s absence, $620; United States marshal’s fees, $2,316; rent of ding for Police Court, $1,708; cont! at expenses, $1,560; one messenger, Including books, stationery, fuel, ice, gas, wit- ness foes and tslegellancons items, $2,046; judi- cial expenses, $2,500; In all, baie pe age iwuishing street lam street 4 Cleaning alleys, repairs to pum} ber sewer; in all, $326,455. M. nses, $30,375; health department, $24,400; Forest and ang fund on funded debt, $1,15 583.55; contingent expenses, $20,000. The clause of the bill providing for the re- demption of the District 3.65 bonds was printed in yesterday’s Stax. The final the District clause of the bill is as follows: “ All moneys appropriated under this act, to- gether with all revenues of the District of Co- lumbla from taxes or otherwise, shall be deposited, to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States, in the Treasury, as required by the provistons of section four of an act approved June 11th, 1878, and shall be drawn therefrom upon the requisition of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, such requisitiohs spe- cifying the appropriation upon which the same {s drawn; and in no case shall such appropria- cleaning Ti. ilaneous ° } ons be exceeded, either tn- requisition or ex- penditure; and the accounts for all disburse- ments shall be made monthly to the accounting officers of the Treasury by the Auditor ot the District of Columbia, upon vouchers certified by the Commissioners of the District of Colum- bia as now required by law. And-section two of an act approved March 2d, 1877, entitled *An act for the support of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year endin; June 30th, 1878, and for other purposes,” be, an the same is hereby, repealed.” PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. Items of District interest under other head- ings In the bill are as follows: Bureau of En- fraving and Printing, viz: For labor and print- Ing, $350,000; expenses of the removal of the bureau, $50,000; inting pension checks for fis- Cal year 1579, $8,500, and for the fiscal year 1850, $9,000. General expenses—For rent of buildii for oflices, workrooms, and workshops in Wash- ington, $13,600; for rent of ftre-proof building No. 205 New Jersey avenue south (excepting rooms for standard Weights and measures,) for the safe keeping and preservation of the origi- hal astronomical, magnetic, hydrographic and other records; the original ' topographical and hydrographic maps and charts; instruments, engraved plates, and other valuable articles of the Coast Survey, $5.000; for maintenance of the United carp ponds in the city of Washington . improvement and care of Public grounds: South of Executive Mansion, ‘$5,000; for ordinary care of greenhouses and thé nursery, $1,500; Lafayette square, $1,000; Monu- ment grounds, $1,000; iron fences, $500; manure, ‘$4,000; painting iron fences, vases, lamps and lamp posts, $1,500; Seats, $500; purchase and re] Of tools, $300; trees, tree stakes, lime, whitewashing and stock for nursery, $3,000; removing snow and ice, $1,000; flower pots, twine, ets and lycopodit $1,000; care and of lountains in the public grounds, $1,500; abating nuisances, $500; beget A various reservations, $10,000; for filling, leveling and {mproving the ‘Treasury and State depart- ments and the Executive Mansion, comprehend. ed between 15th and 17th streets, $10,000, Executive Mangion—For care of and repairs, ee o = fuel for the eecounye a mn, and care of and necessary repair to the greenhouses, and fuel for the same, and ering the roof of the mansion with tin, $25,000; be necessary to re-cover si cae, nr de a utive Mansion and public $ g = no more than be thisbin; and in case a contract 4 made at that rate, the engineer in charge is hereby r, $360; Ohe major and super- | alleys, county Coy sprinkling streets and avenues, | Paragraph of | authorized to substitute other iuminating ma- terial, and to use so much of the sum hereby ap- Propriated as may be necessary for that pur- | Bose; repair of water pipes and fire plugs— 2.54 ‘“Buliding for State, War and Navy depart- ments—To complete the east wing and its ap- proaches, and for continuation of construction of the north wing of the building $515,000, which. shall be immediately available; ferniture for new War department building, $50,000; continu- iog publication of official record of war of re- bellion and preservation of Brady's views, $10,- 490; support of transient paupers, $15,000; for printing and binding the first second vol- umes of catalogue of the library of the Surgeon General's office, $20,000, to be immediately avail- ab'e: for turniture ‘and flung up shelving, file cases, fire apparatus, and similar necessaries for the Secretary’s office and the bureaus of the Navy depaitment fa the east wing of the new building for the State, War, and Navy de = ments, to be availabie as required, under - Uon of the Secretary of the Navy, $50,000, Capitol extension, $50,000. No work of art or Manufacture other than the property of the United States shall be exhibited in the national Statuary hall, the rotunda, or the corridors of the Capitol. For renewing and Saeed por- Uons. of the heating apparatus in the Senate wing of the Capitol, $4,000; to pay C. Brumidi for retouching and blending the picture in on the canopy of the dome of the es fee and fora constructing a scaffold under said pic- ture, $700; for impro' Capitol junds, $60,000; for Ughting Capitol, and inds about, the same, including Botanic len and Senate stable, $30,000; for the pure! of dynamo- electric machine to take the place of the bat- teries now used to ignite the in the rotunda, — tholus and House of Representatives, For the foes es reconstruction of the Pa- tent office building within the present walls, under the plans submitted to Congress by the Secretary of the Interior, $150,000, in addition to the unexpended balance of the amount ap- propriated for this purpose by the act of June 20th, 1878, which is hereby made available for the pu originally intended; to be expended under cl ee sie of a board consisting of the Comi loner of Patents, the architect of the Ci ae poo ae in charge of pub- lic buildings and groun ‘To pay the Ameri- Attempts to Burn Columbus. can Photo-lithographic company, the sum of $2,000 is hereby appropriated, or 80 much there- of as may be necessary, to enable the Commis- sioner of Patents to reimburse said company for the actual expenses it incurred in, reproduc- ing. ten copies of drawings in 1869 and 1570. ‘or annual repairs to court-house in the city . ewer ge and ata en furnaces, tgoes improvement of grouni riment of Agri- culture, $6,500; for stable and t building for the better preservation of stock, tools, implements, ‘din, and so forth, $1,500. Columbia Institu- ion for Deaf and Dumb, $50,000. For wrapping Bureau of Educa- and packing publications of tion, $1,000, Freedmen’s Hospital, $41,736, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. tip ge pg ion of duy 5,000, vation of col- i ‘Bmithsonian Tosti Armory pee ee ee oie Led re, $3,000, For completing ant preparing | scniaiemg the contributions to North. nology, $20,00: Provided, That all chives, records and materials relating to the Indians of North America, collected by the geo- ey and geological survey of Rocky | Mountain Tegion oral be turned over to the Smithsonian institution, that the work may be for ication under 5 & 5 g a 3 g fifty feet, with its north the Agricultural Department and of the Smithsonian Institution; and all expenditures for the purposes herein mentioned, not includ- ing ne for architectural plans, shall be audited by the proper officers of the ury department. MISCELLANEOUS. Support of convicts transferred from Distric of Columbia, $15,000; for improvement and re to mous =. grounds of = en, ; public printing and binding 1,500,000; for tire proot extension of the Govern ment’ Printing building, upon plans ap ated by the architect of the —— and } to be done under his mn, including heating lus and piumbing, said appro- | priation to Wailable during the present. 1 | year, $43,800, and any expenditure on a that’ shall cost a ier sum to complete it shall be deemed wil; for the pure! of Portable fire extin; $1,000, after com- petitive test of such apy as may be pre- whers thereof; for the. irs Of the tel sented by the agents or annual rental and necessary le- Capitol with id several eer and lines connecting’ the the Government Lalisg Bh ice ani departme! , OF SO much thereof DISTRICT DEFICIENCY. executive nts, be sont (Sma BER cane for ‘the Dis- De credited to the of the government of the District ot ‘Columbia, as established by the act approved June 1ith, 1878, the said amount taken in connection with | the $1,250,000 appropriated by the act of June | 20th, 1878, for Eeperet expenses of the Dis- ; trict of Columbia, ig fifty per centum of the ones of the government of the District of Columbig for the fiscal year ending June 20th, 1879; all said a) riations shall be ex- nded in accordance with the estimates of the -ommissioners of said District, approved by the much of the act “making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the goverument. for fiscal year ending June 30th, 1879, and for other purposes,” approved June 20th, 187s, which makes an appropriation for the expenses of the Reform school of the District of Columbia, shall not be considered as modifying or repealing the thirteenth section of the ‘act entitled “An act revising and amending the various acts estab- lishing and relating to the Reform school of the District of Columbia,” approved May 1876. RIVER AND HARBOR. The following item is in the river and harbor bill: For im; ghee | the harbors and channels at Washington and Georgetown, District of Co- lumbia, $50,000; of which Sum $20,000 shall be ex- pended in big ha channel of the Potomac river between the Long bridge and the United States Arsenal, and $30,000 Shall be expended in Georgetown harbor and channel; and the whole of said sum of $50,000 is hereby directed to be so expended as to produce the greatest im- mediate benefit to navigation and commerce. NEARLY BURIED DvRinad A TRaNce.—Mrs. | Owenslagie, who lives about five or six miles south-west of this city, was taken violently ill several days ago, and in ashort time died, to all appearances. The friends and relatives were convinced that the lady was dead, and preparations were made for the interment of the remains. Saturday the body was dressed for burial and placed ina coffin. The friends began to collect at the residence of the bereaved family. Suddenly pcligat moan was heard to issue from the cofin In which the body had but receany: been placed. This greatly: the assembled neighbors, and people were about to rush from the room, when the husband of the lady approached the coffin, and was as- tonished to find the body moist and warm. A closer examination disclosed the fact that the woman was breathing. Restoratives were a) plied, and the supposed dead came back to li fe, and soon was able to sit up and converse.— (Portland Oregonian, Feb. 19. a F AN AUDACIOUS FORGERY of a telegraphic sage is reported from New ‘York The sent his message to J. K. Fisher « Co., brokers, Chicago, directing them to sell 3,000, 000 bushels of wheat on account of James R, Keene, the well-known grain operato: sto} ing tn New York at the Hotel Brunswick. acterized the market yesterday. A tee will be offered for the dstection Mt the mes- GENERAL MITE's SISTER.—Gen. Mite, who Is age and weighs but nine a Mrs. Flynn, now in this Tuesday gave birth to a daughter ne pat bd ead more than the General.— N.Y. World, ith, ‘Mrs. JRNNIR RK. Surrn, whose hysterics were for whlch che ism cane cana met. awi c ludgon county (N. J.) in jl yesterday. Count *hysician Converse says 4 VGangenne tie ¥. World, ith, Henrietta Boulby "ac Now York aging ai vy, lew v1 Buckley, supply wor during six months to her husband’ thes =! the jury, being locked all a Verdict yesterday awarding #51 damages. Thursday, rendered. been increased and many have been placed on duty. _——__ Telegrams to The Star. CONSPIRACY OFSWINDLERS. two g ° Py 1 2 L 3 i in the E. church, in Bal nection. Messrs. Milburn and lected to deacons’ orders, e deen ordained previously. Methodint Conferences. BALTIMORE CONFERENCE M. E. CHURCH. Baltimore annual conference M. Page Milburn and Harry years’ trial, were admitted into con- y, were introduced. Rev, J. ‘. |. 4 E. Lawson made addresses. Mr. New York and Washington. idle said when his Wras inaugu- i, 15 years aa 1.000 woemibers.” Tt now had 15s promchacs INCENDIARISM IN onto} 4 —_—e —_-—__ GREAT TELEGRAPHIC FORGERY. — as POLITICAL SITUATION IN FRANCE. FOREIGN AFFAIRS. jety, “addressed ‘the ‘conference. The belutent Stuwntlen, tm Wenn | Gin att ne peachrant mart dal iy — B bh. tor the it impeachment of the De Brose te oe Candidates for the ministry were continued on the French chamber of les recommend ce | F. Stepny. 5 Di pa is saith, nik A.W. the chamber is given as follows: “The chamber | Brown. ‘were introduced recommends the tm, ipeachment of the ministers of the 16th of May, orders the sending up of the senate contrary betta, who desires the fusion of all sec- | The 8 the fusion is also repul s defeat is fortunate, as would 2B Fi ss Time: e radicals, Ti UE é rt fe Bg a it : if i ; i i E : ape Het ie F E ie i et ie ing discloses a plot by which a of confi- dence men have been in city and Washington to obtain toa tended Bayard Taylor Bx. for the week attempts have been made to city, and re | Private watchmen the wires and the poles. i Teport and its a) ices to the ter greetings. Rev. W. W. ot ints a commit ee of five of Its members 40 pro- Ww conference, ep ceed with the charge and act as public prose- be WR ARs ko — wee { Waddington, president of the council and | Brown, J. & Williams, Joshua Bares, 5. H- minister of foreign affairs, and M. LeRoyer, | Nugent, C. W. P. McPherson, W. ‘Sid- minister of justice, also conferred with thecom- | Rey. W. ¢ Reed. A. Ford was mittee on the subject of the return of thecham- | changed trom to effective min- bers to Paris. ‘They declared that they would | istry. W. Hicks, F. At B. Brown and J. be willing to take tbe inttlative in favor of the | Gross were continued on the superannuated return, but for the fact that for the chambers to | lst. were made deacons of the effect such a change in the constitution they | second J. H. Jackson, J. W. Waters and would have to be constituted as a national as- | F.F. Sawyer. Candidates aamitted to the min- sembly. The ministry would also prefer that | istry before the altar and the question be postponed till after the im. | Ames them the duties peachment discussion. The left center at a | Tes] of The * meeting at which y members were tt | a ited to investigate the of immor- aferwards decided return to thos against Rev. oct. of dis- Cabinet and "eons TH” are -stRe | ferred the eae the pe eat and se cal cent - a a Which is the group of 3. Wheeler, for action, 98 members, y1 that none of its BALTIMORE M. E. CHURCH SOUTH. ibers can de Col r ‘his church continued its were ‘out of sums of fifty and under, and it is | feared that their have been extend | Austrian 4 Into other cities, circulars, invitation. | Me tact and notices are taste! print on expensi' observation to both paper, and the elaborate py by | the wire and the sounds will find that the invese the conspirators would seem to indicate that | make ‘obvious likewise when there they expected to be well Fepald before their pa gf as oo yu A urst. There is no cl at S- | “4 ~ ent to the identity of the swindlers. " P"®* Sener acer? the thickness See, ae ti i Mysterious, Attempts to Burn Com | jn isthe se a is 108 {oally que Acoore: jumbus, Ohio. due, not to the wind, but to ‘of atmos Covcunes, O., March’ 8,—Night after nignt | U6 changes of atmos- fire all the Ings with rags saturated with | ga. strange epidemic has bro peels oi the destserey banana , n- | cattle in Jamaica, and much fee stock has the Milinois Mechanics’ and $100 In the Hartford | ‘St Company of Hartford. The police force has | jury. in the Natchitoches case im the 8. New IS. have jet of acquittal. _ | were | including 1: ‘immigrants, > the | sa Father Ryan, the poet-priest, is m is | ar his home in Mobi ied, i a Srobie from & partial paralyais 82” Mrs. Thomas Hicks-Lord % rope in a few days. be wil bee — wi in favor of fe- Garo. | wate suttrage ‘Sugar | land ieguisees gles ~mid- $2~ John Connor is a Brooklyn person ‘Wheat, | chal the world to drink ‘ulouma ga 4 taney ig a thousand hours. ° 87" Wade now ae tackles a mule. : — ‘southern, | _ 6@7In the case at 31; Penn: tk ie