Evening Star Newspaper, August 27, 1879, Page 1

= _cococo THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, Except Sanday, 4T THE STAR BUILDINGS, Peansylvanis Avenue, Corner 11th Street, bv The Evening Star Rewsvaver (omoanv. ‘tre Evexrso is served to subscribers XG AT NE mm Sse Sais ee ge Gi fotered at the Poet Office at Washington, D. C., as eecond class mail matter.) ‘Waexix Stan—published on Fridsy—$2 & qerpagonee reve 0 copies for 15; 20 copies lor ‘All subscrirtions must be paid in ad- Rates of advertising made known on application, ea EY ES in it, ¢ %, 54—N®. 3,236. WASHINGTON, D. C.. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27. 1879. he Evening Star. TWO CENTS. ___ SPECIAL NOTIORS. _ LE: RE Er at mae Ree tere Keck, eter Johnson, Garret Fitewerah, Fin. Secretary; J ¥ fee Secretary, Charles Ban‘, Preasurer. aul 2t° —The different Catholic Societies ADs bistect of Sotseabin age hereby, not ltimeore snd tomac s on nasa Bb sospay ‘August ist 1879. ats Seicek sary, for the parncsé of atten ting tha care. nony of the dedication of the New Csthoitc Churc! at Manassas, Va. The public ge_eraliy sre invited tosttend. Tickets, round trip to be rocared at the Office, Nos. 601 and 603 Pennsyivs avenu> sere © SS CONNELL Chiat Marsal o Attacking the Grapes of Eusin da. G. T. CHASE, Sey. S NE OF FOBNI A FISE AND FULL Lr ‘Goods, in TURE, Carpets and Up 3 ito opies, Terries and Oretoanes Capt ned at W.B. MOSES & SON'S. corner Tta st. and La. ave. augid-te (eg HOS Wirar the Famous “SPA.” AT BLADENSSURBG. ‘This possesses in am emivent degree all the medicinal. properties a ee iain beate Byring. i hysiciare, MILBUBN'S PrakMauy. ister 1429 Pusnovivasca AVERUB CURE BY ABSORPTION “SAPANULE,” ternai Lotion and Fluid Absorbent. ‘The ities Hamedy Applied by s Natural slethod. Foot Bath, it Be sedee pan and “Soreness of Body and Lumb ee tears Melon tt aie on offered to the pubicto be used through the at for BAPANULE™ 's a sare and specific mine fe Boalds. Bruises, Sprains, fore ee eS disorders of the avn itemooth and este Price 50c. and $1 per Bottle. BOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. SAMUEL GERRY & OOMPARY, Prov’s, 237 Broadway, N.Y. S27-At Wholesale in Washington by STOTT & CROMWELL, 480 Pennsylvania ave. nw. m3I-8m have 760 Mantels “ENGLISH TILE for hearths, vestibules and deco- ne of the Celebrated EMPIRE HEAT- BUBTIS HOT BLAST FURNACE is deci- Qedis ths tat Parson te ere crr mee HAYWAED & HUTOHINSOR, ‘ko. wt Bes cs ea} LUMBER! LUMBER!! ANOTHER TUMBLE IN PRICES! POPLAR, 1 inch and 6-8, No. 2.....ver 100 ft, 6200 ‘WHITE PINE SHINGLES, No. 2..per 1000, 81.75 CLEAR SIDING, 3 toch (without « knot), wo “- per $100 VIBGIRIA PINE BOABDS.......per 100 ft, 95cta, CYPRESS SHINGLES, No. 2........per 1000, $4.50 WE ARE NEVER OUT OF THKSBI WILLET & LIBBEY, OBNER SIXTH AND NX. Y. AVENUE 5.W., OPPOSITE BHORTHERN LIBERTY MARKET, myst Wasuraron, D. 0. A FINE STONE CHINA CHAMB: SET, 12 PIECES, $2.25. 6 PIECES STONE CHIN’ TEA SET, a4 A larve assortment of ROGERS’ CUTLE@Y and PLATED WARE, which we will sell very iow. J. W. SCHABFER, aus léte 1016 Seventh street n.0. GAS FIXTUREs. GaB FIXTUBES. HE LARGEST STOOK OF THE MADE GOODS IN THE cit from the celebrated factory ‘Vance & Oo, WILL MEET ALL of Measra. Mitchell, IN THIS COMPETITORS € OITY AS WELL a8 OUTSIDE. All of our Goods handled by Practical Haus. ‘Will euarantee entire satisfaction. EF. BROOKS, THE EVENING STAR. Washington News and Gossip, GOVERNMENT REcEIPTs To-pay.—Internal rev- enue, $225,616.09; customs, $545,251.03, AMONG THE PATENTS Issued for the week ended August 26th, were the following: Wm. M. Lerch, Baltimore, combined buckle and heok: Charles H. Roloson, Balttmore, sash and window frame. Cot. TOURTELLOTTS, of General Sherman’ Staff, returned to-day from a trip to Long Brapeb. REAR ADMIRAL WYMAN, commanding the naval force on the North “Atlantic station, ad vires the Navy department that he will proceed from Portsmouth, N. H., to New York, and transfer his flag from the Marion at the forme: place to the Powhatan at the latter. SECRETARY THoMrson will return from th Virginia mountains to-morrow afternoon. Mra ‘Thompson, who js greatly improved in health Will return with hita. The Secretary will, upoa his returp, remain in Washington about a week, and then proceed to Indiapa on an extended visit. He will be accompanied to Indiana by hts daughter, Miss Mollte, and his son Charley, MOVEMENTS OF U.S. Naval VESSELS.—The practice ship Constellation with cazet midship- men from the Naval Academy on board sailed from Newport last Monday. A telegram from Portsmouth, N. H., to the Navy department announces that the Wachusett, which went aground, ts afloat, and ready to go into the dry dock this morning. A Patent has been tssued by the U.S. Patent Office to Thomas A. Edison, of Menlo Park, N. J., for the electric lighting apparatus on which he has been experimenting at his laboratory apd workshop for some time past. Mr. H. V. BEYER, a clerk in the hydrographic office for several years, has been appointed by the Brazilian minister superintendent of the coast survey of Brazil, and will immediately superintend the erection of a number of light- houses on the Brazilian coast. THe Contract for the vault and safe work on the new butiding for the bureau of engraving and printing has been awarded to George L. Damon & Co., of Boston. TEE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN IN MAINE.—The reperts which reach the Republican Congres- sional Committee daily from Maine give conti- dence to its members that the republicans will carry that state by a fair majority. All writers from the state unite in the statement that Sen- ator Blaine is conducting a magnificent can-- vass, Which he directs with clock-work move- ment. The Senator frequently makes three speeches aday. Letters received this morning represent that the republicans feel confident; that a strong current 1s now moving in their favor, with the chances of its strength tncreas- Jog rather than di between now and the day of election. SgnaTor Brvce has gone to Cleveland, Ohio. .Meanwhile a corps of experts is engaged In ex- amining the books of the late Freedman’s Bank. Senator B. is chairman of the Senate special committee appointed to make an exam- fnaticn of the affairs of this bank and the ru- mor js that some startling developments of facts heretofore concealed may be ex] . Anent Senator B. the statement ts made that he has abandoned the intention of again resid- ing in Mississippi. It is said that he recently purchased ten thousand acres of land in Kan- Sas, and will make that state his home when his present Senatorial term expires. ARMY OnDEgS.—Captain W. H. Jordan, 9th infantry, is appointed as inspector of certain recruiting property on hand at the cavalry recruiting depot at Chicago, Illinois, for which ist Lieut. F. K. Upham is responsible. The leave granted Major William Arthur is ex- tended two months, with perinission to go beyond the sea. nd the Navat ORDERS.—Lieutenant Commander F M. Green to the hydrographic office. Chief En- gineer G. D. Emmons from the Wabash and Placed on sick leave. Chict Engineer Joseph ley to duty on board the Wabash, at Boston, ass. Assistant to the Passaic, at Mn ie D.C., relieving Passed Assistant n J. R. W ‘goner, who 4g ordered to the 1 school ship St. Mary’s THE DECISION OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Telative to the arrears of pensions, mentione1 in THE Star of yest , affects favorably about fifteen thousand soldiers in the different soldiers” The amount involved ts about, one million and a half do! which, according to the decision, goes to the soldiers and not to the homes. ‘THE NEw ARMY REGISTER Will be ready for issue in about a fortnight. Captain Eabs, who left the city a short time ago for St. Louis, will leave soon for Europe. He will examine the important improvements on European ri and will utilize his ob- servations in the work of the Missisaippi Riyer Commission. Before leaving here he submitted to the government his plan for inter-oceanic canal communication by means of a marine railway. He received no encouragement, and has, It is understood, abandoned that idea. Henry H. Situ, esq., the journal clerk of the House of Representatives, is in the city pre- paring for the committee on rules, which meet Jn this city in November next, a compilation of the new rules of the House agreed upon at the recent session of the committee at Long Branch. Tion. WM. M. SrRINGER was in the city last nignt. He is reported to have said that he still is of the opinion that Clarkson R. Potter will se- cure the New York gubernational nomination on the democratic ticket, and that the Presi- dential nomination will, toa | eos extent, be Eecohadowes ‘by the result of the election tn Ohio. —— Laron TRoveLes.--All the freight handlers and truckinen of the Michi, Southern ratl- Toad, at Chicago, 300 in number, struck yester- day against low wages and overwork. About forty of the Lake Shore depot strikers act a compromise of $1.15 per day. ....The differ- ences that existed between the ee ot the Memphis Evening Ledger and Typo- graphical Union havé been amicably settled, and the union printers returned to work, Cut His Nosk Orr.—In a stabbing affray at Newport, R. 1, yesterday, between Edward Murphy and Wm. Madden, belonging to the United States surveying schooner Eagre, the latter's nose was cut away and he received other cuts which will probably prove fatal. SAME OLD PLaN OF BANK ROBBERY.—INS, S. Rickley’s bank at Columbus, 0., yesterday, a man engaged the attention of the proprietor on pretense of a negotiation, when a “pal” clim! in a rear window and got away with $5,000 cur- rency and $15,000 In registered bonds. A PECULIAR CAsE OF TRANCE has caused great excitement in Hereford, England. It 1s that of a young girl who had been laid out for dead, and for whose interment all preparations had been made, when tt was discovered that she wasin a trance. For three weeks before that she had paitaken of no food, and since her recovery from the trance she’ has had her longue protruding, the eyeballs rigidly fixed, while the frame at times has been hysterically agitated. ee A_ $5,000 Rowixe Pxize.—A. T. Soule, 0 Rochester, N. Y., offers a $5,000 prize for a sing) scull race and the champlanehtp of the world open to everybody, provided Hanlan and Court ney will row the race, to take place anywhere the United States agreed upon by the Principal and the donor of the prize. CALIFORNIA POLITICS.—The Alta Californian of San Francisco, says that the probabilities are that the straight. democratic ticket wall no get ‘20,000 ballots in the stat ite; but the democra:; ave fused with the honorable bilks on the gov- erncrship and on many of the local nominations Thus assisting to office the men who bolted from ‘heir own organization and giving encourage- ment for other bolts in the future. THE GENERAL OF THE JESUITS has been sum- mone d to Rome to receive the order to conform tothe Pope’s new Encyclical letter concerning the teaching of philosophy. The Pope’s medi- cal advisers have been com) laining that his constant confinement in the Vatican is injuring hig health, and the Cardinals have been con- sulted as to the policy of a brief change. sold to be anxious to throw aside the notion of imprisonment 80 carefully nurtured by Pius IX. —— rtrd fg” Mr. Gladstone thinks that the settlement of the »labama Claims by arbitration will rank ip history ith phe abolition of the slave trade. Surgeon General Hammond, FINAL ACTION IN HIS CASE—PCT ON THE RE- TIRED LIST WITHOUT PAY. Secretary McCrary to-day submitted to the President the following report in the case of Surgeon General Hammond: War DEPARTMENT, Wasuineron, D. C., August 26, 1879. f Mr, President:—I bave in accordance with Your instructions examined the case of Dr. William A. Hammond, late Surgeon General 0 the Army, and the report of tne board receatly convened to consider the same. * T have the honor to submit my conclusions upon the case as follows: First. In construtug the act of Congress of April 16th, 1852, as not depriving the Surgeon General of the power to purchase medical supplies Dr. Hammond was guilty cf no crime. The construction he placed upon that act whether erroneous or not was entirely consonant with an honest purpose, and such a purpose must be presumed until the contrary appears. The act authorized medical purveyors to purchase all medical supplies under the direction of the surgeon general. The surgeon general heid that the power to make purcha:es in person which bad been previously exercised by him and by his | geared ‘was not taken away by this act; that the purveyors were placed under his orders for the purpose of ald- ing him in the performance of that duty, ren dered very onerous at that time by a great war. He held that what he could command another to dobe could do himself; that what he could do indirectly he could do directly. I am clearly of the opinicn that the constrac- ton of the act was not so palpably wrong as to render all acts done in performance of it presumably criminal. It was the duty of the Surgeon General to construe and execute the act. Second. The acts of the Surgeon General in making purchases of medical supplles in per- son and not through a medical purveyor, and in directing medical purveyors to purchase par- ticular articles at specified prices from certain persons were not acts in themselves criminal. ‘The mere fact that these things were done did not raise a presumption of guilt to beoverthrown by the accused. The burthen was upon the prosecution to establish, by, competent evidence and teyond reasonable doubt, that the acts complained of were done with corrrupt in- tent. Third. Upon the question of intent the board recently convened finds that there is no evidence that the surgeon general was in- terested in, or profited by the contracts which were charged as fraudulent. It is further found by the board that there 1s no direct evi- dence to establish corruption, and that the cir- cumstantial evidence upon the question of in- tent is conflicting and some of it incomplete. But the board sustains the sentence of the court martial largely upon the ground that the acts complained of were unlawful in them- selves and that therefore a fraudulent intent must be (Legos until the contrary is estab- lished by the accused, the burthen being on him. This. I regard, is a grave error for the reasons already stated. Fourth. In my opinion the evidence does not establish the charge of corruption, and it is only {by assuming that the Lester ear of were in themselves so pal- pably unlawful as to raise the presumption of criminal intent, that any sufficient foundation for the sentence of the court martial can be found, and that Seremption not being war- ranted by the terms of the statute, the finding capnot be upheld. Fifth. The charge of false- sustained. hocd ts not Dr. Hammond stated in a Amie letter to Dr. Cooper that Gen- Halleck had juested the detail of Sur- mo Murray wOE duty at Philadelphia. it was chary that General Halleck had not made this identical request, but it was ad- mitted that he had requested the transfer of Dr, Murray from the south to “eastern hospital duty.” It was in proof that Dr. Murray had urgently requested General Halleck to secure his transfer to Philadelphia, and it is not im- Ss that this was mentioned by General lalleck to Dr. Hammond, ag the latter claims. General Halleck testified that he had no recol- lection of ha’ mentioned Philadelphia as the place to which he desired to have Dr. Mur- Tay sent. There is room for doubt as to what the Surgeon General un- derstood the request of General Halleck to be. There Is still greater room for the conclu- sion that an honest misunderstanding arose between the two, and I cannot but regard It as @ very harsh and unjust judgment which an nounced the Surgeon General guilty upon this charge. 1 recommend that the findi and sentence in the case of Surgeon General Wm. A. Hammond referred to, be annulled and set aside, and that the name of said Wm. A. Ham- mond be placed on the retired list of the army as Surgeon General, without back, present, or future pay, or allowance of any kind whatso- GEORGE W. McCrary, retary of War. The President endorsed the above report as follows:—The recommendation of the of War in the forerciang reget is approved, and orders will issue acco} ingly. R. B. Haves, Dr. Hammond was sentenced by court-mar- tial to dismissal from the army upon the charges ‘McCrary in his report. ever. mentioned by Secretary Bank OFFICERS TO BB PROSECUTED.—The directors and ex-general Of the Consol- idated bank of Montreal are to be prosecuted in ‘the criminal court for submit the govern- bank. A demand for a writ of attachment has Leper oe the Mechanics’ bank by a holder of ita Dilis. 1. 8.5 Ye » Was day on account of rough water. There was a large crowd of strangers and others on hand, and betting was lively. Hanlan declines to row Riley in Ottawa, Can- ada, this season, as he expects to row Courtney this fall. He, however, offers to row Riley at ‘Toronto for any sum. Mus. Bush’s Ficnt WITH SNaKEs.—A tele- gram from Flemington, N.J., A' ‘25th, says: Mrs. E. Bush, residing near Lebanon, in this county, had a desperate encounter with three enormous pilot snakes the other day. The Shakes came out of the woods adjacent to the une up to the doorstep. They enter the open door;when Mrs. Bush discovered them. She did not run nor Scream, but prepared to fight. She took up the Ker lying in front of the stoveand mashed in @ head of the first reptile. The other two with loud hisses ran at her and attempted to coil themselves around her limbs. She was too much for them, however, for she put her foot on the head of one, which settled its existence, and then she tried the poker on the other. It evaded her blows for afew minutes, and came near biting her once, but she finally succeeded in striking it a mortal blow. She kept the skins as a trophy. Miss Lypta SHERMAN, niece of the late Gen. T. W. Sherman, of Newport, It. I., whose dis- appearance after church Sunday night caused much anxiety none her her friends, has been found. She had si nly taken a freak to take @ trip on a Fall River boat. THERE IS A GLUT OF WATERMELONS in the New York market at the pment Uume, and maby are belng thrown into the river for ‘want of purchasers. The finest were selling on Mon- day at ten cents and the smaller ones for five, The vessels unloaded have an aggregate of about forty thousand on board. WHISKY AS FATAL aS YELLOWFEVER—The dead body of an aged colored woman was found In a room on the second floor of a New York tene- ment. house on Monday night very much decom- posed. Itis ei she had been dead five or six days. A ptied whisky flask was found on the floor. An excitement was creaed by a report that she had died of yellow fever, ee was denied by the Board of Health offi- clals. THE Kiss OF DEaTH.—A Memphis despatch to the N. Y. Herald, of to-day, says:—“Mr. Jake Kohlberg, a Howard visitor, related to your cor- respondent aa ‘ncident conn-cted with Mrs. Minple Wilkie’s death, which occurred this aiternoon, at 5 o'clock, just previous to diasolu- tion. She bad several attacks of black vomit and during the intervals called upon her hus- band to kiss her. Regardless of the danger tha’ attended her request her husband time an1 again imprinted kisses In her ips, He wa: warned of the risk he ran,but he was faithtal t» her jn death as hehad been in life. She diel with her arms around his neck. One hour after ward Mr. Wilkie him-self was stricken with + Paoey nelerane trie of ton although he had severe attac! year, kiss et Prov: the kits of death.” Lithia & Wisconsin has a wealthy farmer who 1 known as “the Cranberry Prince.” ©? Barksdale, who killed Dixon, is still thy ene for clerk in Yazoo county, Missis- €@In New Hampshire a g00d deal of opposi- Uon has shown itself to the recent state. law sane Ce prepay Sa, He) are ae 000, cases the been de- nounced from the pulpit. id ‘ SeRichard Wilcox, 1 ye while standing on the Old Colony yesterday by @ train near Portamou: was killed. th, R. 1, €a~The Canadian marine and fisheries depart- \t_has suspended the certificate of Cptain of steamship Stace of AFFAIES IN THE VIRGINIA TIDE- | WATER REGION. WHY VIRGINIA DORS NOT PROSPER—AN INTELLI- GENT VIEW OF THE SITCATION—CHANGE NEEDED IN INDUSTRIAL HABITS AND PURSUITS— FACTS ABOUT TIMBER CULTURE IN THE TIDE- WATER REGION—TAE PROFITS GO NORTH—IM- PORTANT HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS. [Correspondence of The Star.) KING GEORGE County, ViRGINia. It makes the merchants of this lower country feel like emigrating to read of In- creasing prosperity all through the north and west, and still to have the consciousness that hardly asingle drop from the golden shower will fall on their vicinity. Whether It is true or not, as “Dalton” affirms in the Brooklyn Argus of the entire south, that “it is growing steadily poorer,” it is certain that in Virginta the apnual returns of taxable property show a constant falling off in amount; and in this tide. water region there is an increased inability on the part of a majority to meet their taxes anda diminished Pcp aay generally owing to dl- minished production. This “decreasing abil- ity” Js the staple argument of the agitators for another “readjustment,” which, as they affirm, is entirely due to the incompetence of the “4ps” and would be remedied by a substitution of the “outs.” Now every one conversant with matters here knows that the reason of there be- ing so little accumulated capital here and so much real thorough poverty 18 not to be found in the government, nor climate, nor location, but in the habits and pursuits of the people. There was a ‘mass meeting” of the “dissatis- fied” at the Court House on July court day, and a study of those present would have satisfied an honest inquirer as to THE REASON OF THE LACK OF PROSPERITY. Here was a large audience entirely of farmers, or rather containing a dozen farmers and a crowd of cultivators of corn CR by the methods of their grandfathers and with vastly diminished results. About one in six was an owner of land, the rest were “tenants”—whites and blacks in about equal numbers—“craping” the land on shares, finding team and seed and taking two-thirds of the crop. Now it is not probable that any one of the “tenants” hasever drawn a cart load of manure in bis life and it 1s certain that this land, which has been in very general cultivation since 1650, has never re- ceived any. A mere surface scratching is the plowing, and when nature refuses to respond to this the “old field” ts ‘turned out” to sassafras and pine to rest a few years and renew its powers to endure another assault. There are Mmapy farmers around Washington who draw More manure on to their hundred acre farms ad cut more hay on them every year than 1s drawn or cut in any whole tide water county north of the James in the same time, Competent judges, who know whereof they affirm, do affirm that the average tenant crop has become less than fifty barrels of corn for the year’s labor of @ man and horse, which, at two dollars a barrel, gives one hundred dollars for a year’s work, And this infinitessimal re- sult has cost a year of severer labor than it costs the enlightened farmer, using modern meth to raise six times that amount, because the so! immediately under the two or three inches he disturbs, has become filled with “trash,” roots of Sasa es gum and locust, the sprouts of which it es a jong time to “grub” out in the Spring, and require a constant cutting all through the season, or they would overtop the corn. In “laying by” so much land that has been rende! completely barren to grow up, and it does grow up quickly, and shows how near beneath the surface is good soil, a consid- erable extent will develop into oak and other panes e = = = Bend pons a century have drawn the pilgrim ship carpenter and. lumberman from the north to Virginia, and whose visits are still nearly as frequent as ever. TIMBER PRODUCTS. During this month there have loaded on these shores one vessel for Manayunk with poplar wood for paper; one to New York with pine trees for piles; one to Baltimore with choice butt logs of oak, ash, hickory and wal- nut, to be sawed ee ery ane car- riage purposes, and one for ine, with the frame of a large ship. How protitable it 1s to grow timber as a crop to sell “on the stump” is st shown by an actual case. The ship “Solitaire,” which recently loaded at Balti- more with coal for San Francisco, where she will take on wheat for Europe, was just finished at Bath, Me., at a cost of $100,000. Two years ago her frame and another one still larger con- tuted a forest near here, and were sold toa contractor for four hundred dollars, From the time the land on which this timber grew was “aid by” from exhaustion till the crop of ship timber was gathered, was nearly a hundred years, and the money received DID NOT EQUAL THE AMOUNT PAID OUT FOR Ta: on the land during the period of its growth Since her frame went aboard till now, Including one on th> shore, seven large frames have been. sent from these forests, at a cost of less than $1,600 Bending. and nearly as much more has ‘Dee! for the locust tree-notls, cedar and locust stanchions, &c., every cent of which whether the amount equais that paid out for taxes or not, has gone out in current expenses, and there 1s nothing left but the stumps to show that these forests had ever existed. While the beg Of Maine will have in these seven ships at least $700,000 of taxable and productive values, we shall have our “consideration” con- sumed, and when the land around to “revise his lists,” he will “mark off” at Jeast a thousand dollars for the dimin- ished value of the plantations by the removal ofthe timber. Nor has there been any com- nsating incidental advantage, such as furn- ing @ market for our labor or baht while the timber was being hewn. The contractor brought on his own “gang,” scorers, hewers, teamsters and teams, provisions and provender, “tackle” and trucks, and the “camp” was a little Maine in the forest, Lega A secluded, and its doings as little known as if it had been on the banks of the Penobscot or St. Johns. To secure So much suitable timber they have gone Overabout 4x4 square miles—10,000 acres, on which reside fourteen white and four colored owners, and thirteen white and seventeen col- ored tenants—forty-elght families in all, and the entire amount of money received by owner and tenant for timber sold and for crops raised in the last year did not equal the amount paid for hewing and moving the frames to the store, allpaid to twenty-six men for about 130 days’ work each. LIFE IN THE TIDE WATER REGION. Now, Mr. Editor, if I might interject a state- ment here not exactly relevant, {t would be that these thirty tenant families all live in log cabins, the 1 it not over eighteen feet square, with a little laren overhead called a chamber, a window without a sign of Tool that they all have families, one seven, and most of them over three children, and one having his married son and wife and babe under his roof, with a son of his own, and the discou con- sideration 1s that they consider themselves rather “comfortably fixed,” and thissame style of domestic architecture and the same ideas of domestic comfort and pee prevail among that class through ali the lower part of the state, and lopg as the newspaper mail to a halt dozen counties can be carried on a very small horse, it will not soon be different, NOT POOR LAND. If you suppose that this is a country of poor, thin land, to which poor people gravitate, you are in an ‘error, as you will see when re call to mind the rapid growth which tim- r Makes on the most exhausted land. It is not diflicult to find oak pilessixteen to eighteen Inches at the butt and six to eight inches over au ay Teet that have made all that growth tn- sige of twenty-five years. Oak, ash and hickory logs for carriage work are f: the old corn rows are not obiit Less of soil is a mere cuticular which a little manure soon remedies. “I have never seen manure produce such results in westarn New York,” sald a farmer from that na few days since, and he makes ‘ farmin; pay” es here and now. But not to use the col of THE Star to advertise tide-water land, our leanness comes from a perversion of the inten- Uon of the Creator. A writer “@ gea-girt pepe ion is always @ nautical population.” lere 18 @ country as large as Massachusetts having a coast line as extensive as any whole state, so cut up with deep-water rivers and:bay3 that for ordinary locomotion a “dug out” is a3 necessary a8 a saddle, whose whole consists of a few oyster pungies and wood scows, and barge ott ber forests from which the north been drawing its best supply of “frame” for fifty years,—and yet our most energetic effort at ship building only culminated in a few long boats. a THE VALUE OF THE SHIPPING upon our timber as a basis 1s greater ie entire taxable valuation of all this juently cut where rated. The sick- develo} than ts, ireight money all that has been expended {i thelr construction. 1 ns at country furnishing the best wagon ber 1 the world, it shows there is'a soso an oe isev, when the ship Virginia was built at Alex- ardria, there has been a total collapse of that Which shoud have been a great interest. §ince abcut the ssme tite the quality of our azricul- tue has greatly declined, and of course the products of the soft have declined as well. We are left with two-thirds of the land devoted to a timber culture from which a distant peonls derive all the profits, and the other third so cultivated that at least a halt of the people derive an adequate support, OBSERVER, “CASTLE THUNDER” DESTROYED RY FIRx. Yesterday morning a fire broke out in R. H. Whitlock’s tobacco-bcex manufactory, at the corzer of Isth aud Carey streets, Richmond, Va., and before the flames could be gotten under conirol that extensive establishment, together with the large brick tobacco factory of Messrs. Turpin & Bro., adjoining the box factory on the east, Was tctally destroyed. A row of frame houses on the south side of Carey street sus- tained some damage, as also did the brick to- bacco factory of Jackson, Turpin & Co., on 18th street, west of the box factory. The building occupied by Turpin & Bro., which was de- stroyed, was weil known as “Castle Thunder,” and was used during the war as a prison house for both federal and confederate prisoners. The total loss 1s estimated at over $100,000; insur- ance $51,000. THE SITUATION IN SAN FRANCISCO.—Last Dight's dispatches from San Francisco say Kal- joch’s condition is continually improving, and it is bow reported that he is out of danger, though the repoit 1s probably premature. Ac- oe to the present opinion of the physicians the bullet merely grazed the 1 No effort has yet been made to probe the wound. The workingmen’s guards on duty about the Metro- politan Temple were replaced by police last ore. The workingmen held a mass meet- ing at Union hall last night, which was crowded to suffocation. The meeting had no particular connection with the Kalloch affair, having been called before the assault was made upon him. Everything is orderly, and there is no tendency whatever to reawaken the excitement. THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC, de} ment of New Jersey, opened their camp at Skili- man Station, on the Bound Brook and ware railroad, yesterday. There are on the ground over 500 tents and 20 restaurant stands. New Jersey .roops, several companies will be present from New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia end Bristol. Four thousand persons were pre- sent yesterday, including ee military compa- nies and three batteries. There will be a grand review and oration by Gen. J. R. Hawley, of Connecticut, and divers other attractions, ScIENTI: AT SARATOGA. telegram from Saratoga, N. Y., August 26, says:—Sclentists are arriving here in large numbers, to be ready for the opening session of the Association for the Advancement of Science. Prof. Otto Von Struve, of the observatory of Pultowa, Russia, will be present. Prof. T. A, Edison 13 also ex- pected. The club on entomology connected with the association held its first session to- fp 8 Prof. J. Fp fencer! ye pore elivered an address, telling of the great ad- vances made in the study of fasects and the in- creasing interest manifested on the subject. At the last session the names of 250 entomologists were reported. Investigation since has in- creased the list to S35 persons e) ed in the study of biccngrems f in the Unite At the afternoon ion Prof. Samuel H. Scudder, of Cambridge, presented specimens and a de- scription of the operations of the retina crusti- ana, an Insect now ravaging the pine trees of Nantucket and other evergreen trees in differ- oe sate Ere Comer w 8. entomo) st, ex! specimens o! larger species of thesame genus. Prof. Aug. R. Grote, direc- tor of museum of the Buffalo Society of Natural Science, stated that he believed the damage done by the Paris green remedy was greater than that done by the potato bug. His be parol was based on a careful study of its effects on horses, cattle, sheep, chickens, and even men and women. Prof. C. V. Riley, of the U.8. entomological lon, gave an account: of two a ee of moths affecting the Prot. S. H. Scudder told of a fossil inséct of a singular shape obtained from tet 8. Prof. W. 8. vel gist, gave an account of insects he had seen caught by the bidens, not heretofore supposed to be a carniverous plant. THE PROJECTED LINE OF Fast STEAMERS t? mails to all river towns between St. Loui and New Orleans has so far advanced that con dry, New Albany, Ind., for all the machinery and botlers for the vessels. Contracts will also be closed this week for six hulls, cabins and out- fits elther with James Mack, of Cin or With David Barmore, of Jeffersonville, Ind. The steamers are to completed and ready for business by the first of December next. ‘THE EXAMINATION OF MR. JewsETT, of the Eile railroad, was continued before the New setae pests eae Comme, a Sar yesterday. In rep a question as to the facilities in Baltimore a with New York, Mr. Jewett said they were much better and cheaper in Baltimore; and also in Boston, than in New York. Erie'pays to the city of New York $130,000 rent per annum for whart privileges. The witness could not say whether New York is in fault about terminal charges are exoésaive beyond toss er Pultadee charges are excesalve beyont l- phia and Baltimore. ‘TRE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION of the battle of Newtown, N. Y., will eo ieee battle ground, four miles east of next, A t. The ceremonies pI dress will be made by Horatio Seymour, ex- Qe of New York. Govs. Natt. Head, of N. H., McClellan, of N. J.. Hoyt, of Pa, and Y., with their staffs, will be Sullivan’s troops having come rom the states named. Gen. Sherman and staff and Secretary McCrary, with other dis- Unguished military and literary men, will also be present. THE SENATORIAL INDIAN ComMISsION returned. from Cheyenne a to Wichita, Kansas, yes- lerday. A searching examination of Indians. army officers and agents was had touching the causes that led to the Indian outbreak last sea- son Gn the Kansas frontier. Senator Dawes goes immediately to Massachusetts, Gov. Kirk- wood and wife will remain afew daysin Wi- chita, Senator Plumb goes to his home in Kan- sas, Senator Morgan and daughter and son and Secretary Perry and phonographer Jas. Morgan leave for the Pacific coast. The committee will meet again at the call of the chairman. A CAMPAIGN SLANDER.—About the roughest thing told on the Workingmen’s Gubernatorial cant tate that pad = attended a hanging near Santa Cruz, and, by permission of the Sheriff, said a few words to the condemned man as he prepared to mount the scaffold. Just as White finished bangman, a stranger in the pl stepped up and said: “Excuse me, but which of you two gentlemen 4s the one I’m to hang?”—[San Francisco Post, AT THE LONG BRANCH (N. J.) Racks yester- day Una, the favorite, won the mile race in 1:503,, Pique second, Pilot third; Monitor, favor- ite, won the one mile and three-quarters race in 3:253¢, Report second, Harold ‘het sold even in the pools with Monitor) third; Danicheft won the two-mlie race in 3:5134, Glenmore gec- one, Loulanier third; Sensation won the three- quarters race Jn 1:22; Erastus Corning won the mile anda Andee ts in 2:18, Virgilian sec- ond, Wayfarer third, and Rédding won the steeple chase in 4:4433, Coronet (favorite) seo- on “ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN.’ Friday, two men were arraign Muntay on a charge of robbery. It wag in proot that a few weeks ago a widow woman pu! from a furniture dealer a looking- and some other furniture for #16, payabie on the installment plan, @ portion of which had been paid. On Thursday two men appeared, and the Woman being unable on account of recent ill- ness to make payment of some overdue money, they seized and carried off a $6 Jooking-glass. Justice M , after hearing the he Would hold thé men for robbery; that the “money or your life business” must be stopped. Defendants then consulted, and their counsei sald they were willing to restore the ag lef whereupon the justice said: “All right; I will Gre you an hour and a half to have it back. Vhat is more, the prisoners must enter this lsdy’s house like gentler behave 80 there, and place the glass just “where they took 1 m.” Hon. Heister CLYMgR, survi trustee of Were of the South Mouse ina Rana naar a pe Naa ‘ain A Butler, in Philadelphia, yest , in favor of referring the foreclosure pi to a mas- ter for further examination. Judges McKennan aud Cadwalader had pre’ the sale of the road to secure $1,016,000 bonds, on Din Pulereee, was In default. Decisi servi where Now, the total of the whote Isthat since | Telegrams to The Star. THE SHOOTING OF KALLOCH HANLAN'S ROWING CHALLENGE. GERMANY AND AUSTRIA. BOYTON ACCEPTS WEBB’S CHALLENGE, FORE ‘AFFAIRS. Germany and Austria. 2 ViENNA, August 27.—Several morning papers here state that an alliance will shortly be con- cluded between Germany and Austria. Sir Rowland Hill Dead. Loxpon, a. 27.—Sir Rowland Hill died at his residence In Hempstead, at half past four o’cleck this morning, at the age or eighty-four years, Silver for India. Loxpon, Aug. 27.—The Témes, 1n its financial article seys: There was a smali demand for st!- ver for India yesterday, and a larger inquiry for the Continent. About £50,000 worth re- ceived from South America was sold. Lieut. Wyse Whooping Up the De Lt Pps Canal. Lonpor, Au ig Of the Leese} ist 27.—At the meetin; British association at ShefMeld yesterday 4 paper by Lieut. Bonaparte Wyse was read, set- ting forth the advantages of the canal route proposed by M. De Lesseps. Lieut. Wyse stated that a convention was agreed upon between -~ eee railroad veer ope flowy! pene whereby the company perm! agreed to aid the proposed canal™ Some discussion fol- lowed, and cpinions adverse to the De Lesseps route were expressed by Capt. Rixton and Capt. Cameron, the African explorer. Protest aaes a Reduction of The resclution passed by the rative spip- ners of Oldbam protesting aj the proposed reduction of their wages, etc., uy recom- inends employers to resort to other measures for the improvement of trade, evidently refer- ring to a limited production. The spinvers’ ps —— — ae themselves : a of a scheme for systematic emigration uc Uons In wages continue to be made. Count Andrassy’s Successor. Loxpon, August 27.—The North German Ga- zette publishes intelligence from Vienna that Count Andrassy has proposed Baron Haymerie as his successor, and that should the Emperor appre of this choice Herr Kallay will be ap- pointed under eecretary for for affairs. ‘The correspondent of the Standard at Vienna also says that Count Andrassy has communt- cated Baron Haymerle’s candidature to Prince Bismark, and that the official announcement of his appointment may be daily e: Money Market. ‘The Financier says: “According to the teach- now bright.’ ion re- | in Memphis THE SHOOTING OF KALLOCH. A Defence of Charies De Young. New York, A ‘This 8 pot cowardly,as charged by the press generally, because De Young Deeed the Consequences of his act, and It was one full of peril from work- ingmen and other friends of Kalloch. The Workin; ms MM it e ‘01 — leeting Last iz! San FRANCISCO, —— 27.—With the ex Uon of a vigorous attack ‘hronicie ing Tet night yas devoted © general campaign gs pics, after adjournment, ceptance of Capt. Webb’ swimming contest, gi' leges 28 in the last race, to twenty miles for one or more jars a side. He Boston harbor, an @ race to be ath, “ep three so fe for himself around two for his competitor, or a straight-away race Of agreed distance. Hanlan Will Only Row in Toronto New York, August oA Toronto special at St. Thomas last says that Haplan, neh said that he would toe any world on Toronto bay, BALTIMO} E : ‘lo. deferred, 53 ; do. consols, 587s ; do. second series, Bag; 1 ten-t 495% : do. Sif ba You ‘orties, to. pet Gna ov—apons, ‘spot and August, : 463; October, 479474; steamer, 45! stehiy with fair Gemsan - southern - boas; $1 y Ey! a Maryland, 14.00, teady and fairly active—mess ! imoate loose ond 336; clear en, 6: Hades oi Baton, Twat aed etled, t Tala, i ver Teck Sees ecto tad ar, Ta re firm and in fair Rio Tales. Whoky dull, L07aL 07 swhta to Lave meaner quict—ection SlGae ar, and era, 7s8d. Receipts—four, 1,879 barrels; 2 bushels: eorn, 18,000 H ; rye, 400 buahels 00 tna: ou, Sy bac bushels; corp, nope. Balee—wheat, 364.500 bushels; corn, “NEW YORE, Aurust 27.—Stocks weak. Money, 1. exch » loag, 481; ehort, 483. Govern: NEWYORK. August 27.—Flour quiet and stesdy. Wheat quiet Corn jai IN, At e %, 30 tie aety oo tear ES 5 ‘console, lew Jersey, 39%, 25; i, At 27, 4 p. m- I btike do, stoties to-day ‘at 1-164. per rupes decline. Read. Bs YORE MARKETS THIS AFTERNOON. The juotations were in New 8 2 hahaa ielpepidgmnapeed 4 100% ; do. Deg SS OS: “ts conte, 106; 133¢; W. U. Telegraph, 93%; S Ps. Sa There were 39 new Cases of total wo date or 109 cases alld 396 dentin Wi on. was included in the amount called in pursuant to the act of June 10th, 1879, al ssioners tO redeem certain fut indebtedness of the District with the new 5 per cent. bonds.) Of the sbove amount the sum Of $50,540 Is to the credit of said fand without certificates rep- resenting said amount of stock being drawn— merely noted on stubs. and the certifi- cates remaining uncut in the wks, but of equal force in law ag all the records show its gradual accumulation to the amount. stated, ‘The Commisstoners have ordered that tae oer- Uficates be delivered to the auditor and con- troner for schoo! trust and trust fund under the will of Matthew Wright. ‘The auditor is direct- | ed to present te same for collection, and that } ‘ — in 8.65 bonds of the District of Co- jumbia. SCHOOL BUTLDINGS. A meeting of the committee on butidings of | the school trustees met at the office of Tnapeo- tor of Bulidings Entwisle this morning to fider the plan for an additonal story to the Lauritzen school but , Which a hall 53 by 60 feet. get with her closets to a bull of the main building. Ow THE RaMraGE.—The trreputable locality, known during the war and subseq! “the paramaly oe but ~~ st et juiet, bh seemed to make th Officers Collins, them into up. nt A! wi and marched them tothe station and crowd followed them. Next Ella 2rd Ella Noah got into a dispute with a ‘ap Who was moving ber furniture out, and. i geant Arnold and Officer Clarke in to arrest them found that they had tarters, but by main force they got them to the station. Later, Ida Johnson Carrie Hinson, two colored women, raised a rumpus, when Ser- geant Guy and Officer Clarke ran them in and, 8s betore, an immense crowd followed them. About 10 o'clock last night Daniel Long started etree ana cre i ster at a street, ani icer Janifer arrested broke away and ran, the officer fring ih to bring him toa halt. crete himeeif. but Z 2 ‘ i HL i BE: Jonnson and Carrie Hiseon £0 oso aeaea nson ani or Long was fined $5, or 16 “4 Ella Randolph and Fanny Taylor were fined $7, or 15 days each. TEE —— ie ees ey BF artesian well being bored Riggs bed reached 132 feet, and inthe well. A st now been ficult and slow. LETTEES FROM TRE PROPLE. ‘The Luggage Delivery Question. Mr. Editor:—I arrived in the nyt f evening by the Baltimore and that I would not me ak ine peice was Sty ooate. I told him it. He afterwards came back and said he i : i | ; g 8 BH i blt i fl ii ets i i i E ju t ul HE | He 3 8 i Z iil 5 8 5 | i $ assertion our yp ee as a ication the ; i i ( i d t a ge ie fl Be 8 it i: Hf BS4 i Hi