Evening Star Newspaper, July 24, 1881, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, Except Sunday, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, ‘Northwest Comer Penneyivania Ave. and 11th 8t., by The Evening Star N Company, GEO. W. ADAMS, Pres't. Bvewtes Star is served to subscribers in the Set ee eer chee tok ican ecliniergd st the Post Office at Washington, D. C., a8 Tai} matter. } Tux WeExtr Sr1n—published on Frid: tice \ay- Cie TeNes Six mouths, $1; 10 copies for et be paid in advance; 2 All wail subecriptions m ao it ‘than is paid for. Hates of advertising made knows om application. — Che Vu: ‘58—N?. 8,828, EXTRA! 1:45 O'CLOCK Pp. M. THE PRESIDENTS RELAPSE CAUSED BY IMPRISONED PUS —_»—__ SUCCESSFUL OPERATION BY DR. AGNEW TO-DAY ——— = THE PATIENT MEASURA- BLY RELIEVED. lel. An Operation Upon the President. AN OPENING CUT TO THE PUS CAVITY. FORDS RELIEF To TH 2 PATIENT. The President did not pass a goodnight at all. He was restless and did not obtain much sleep. Drs. Acnew and Hamiiton, who staid at Attor- | ney General MacVeach’s last nig the White House this morning early. They made their first examination of the President. — Pot pape BENEWED HOPE FOR HIS RECOVERY. | | quickly and generally these mysterious messag | fron the mansion were way! appearance IN FRONT OF THE WHITE HO! front gi tieir way into the gates. People clung to the IT AF- | jyon railings and peered steadily at the White e something | House as if they expected to se which would satisfy them. The neighborhood of the White House was quite as well peopled | as on a week day. A CORPS OF NEWSPAPER MEN - | t, arrived at | were actively engaged in sending away bulle- tins. Messengers were hurrying hither and thither. The report that an operation had been They went into the President’s room shortly | Petformed which had relieved the President and after 9o'clock. It was decided to perform an | operation upon the President to remove the pns | from the cavity, to the accunmlation of which | the President's unfavorabie condition is attrib- uted. Dr. Agnew performed the operation, the | President having been first: put under the influ- | ence of ether. The cavity was located and the | opening made about two inches deep. When cut into the pus flowed freely and the discharge Felieved the patient somewhat. Whether the | relief will be permanent will be shown in the course of the day. One of the most unsatisfac- tory signs of the President's condition is the re- | currence last night about 12 o'clock of the chill | and rigor. Official Bulletin. WHAT 15 HOPED FROM THE OPERATION. The following official bulletin was issued after the consultation and operation this morning: “The President was more restless than usual | during the night and had another rigor just | before midnight. This morning at 8:15 his pulse was 98, temperature 93..4 respiration 18. A con- sultation was then held with Dr. Hamilton, of New York.and Dr. Agnew, of Philadelphia, after which a counter openii as made through the | integument of the back. about three inch below the wound, which, it is hoped, will facili- | tate the drainaze of pus and increase the chances of recovery. The President bore the operation | well, and his pulse is now 112.” THE PRESIDENT NO WORSE THAN HE WAS YES- TERDAY. The physicians are reticent but it is evident that they are very apprehensive. The people at the White House are not in as good spirits, as last night. The best that can be said is that, the President is no worse than he was yester- day. Noon—The President's Condition Improved Since the Operation. At noon to-day Postmaster James sent the | following dispatch to New York: “At noon to- day the President is quietly sleeping and the physicians report his condition as much im- proved since the performance of the operation this morning. ste ‘FUL OPERATION—A GOOD SI The operation was very successful. Dr. | *, upon inserting the knife, struck the | at once and the pus began to flow. The President's improvement since the operation is considered a very good sign. RENEWED HOPE AT THE WHITE HOUSE. The doctors, except Dr. Reyburn, at noon left the White House. The President was then, Testing very quietly. He will not be dis- turbed again until this evening, when the even- Ing examination is made. Strong hopes of favorable result from the operation are enter- tained. On the whole the President is consid- erably better than he was this day three weeks ago. ALTERNATING HOPES AND FEARS. The discharge from the wound after the ope- ration, while described as free, was not as satis- factory as the physicians could have wished. ‘The President's condition is very serious. Post- ‘master General James, who has never lost confi- dence in the President's ultimate recovery, said, when he left the White House this afternoon, ‘that he still had that confidence and that he felt more reassured to-day than yesterday. No ehange either for the etter or worse is expected @uring the day. The President is sleeping this afternoon under the influence of morphia. DR. AGNEW GOING HOME THIS EVENING, BUT WILL RETURN TO-MORROW. All the members of the Cabinet were at the | White House to-day. There were many anxious Inquiries about the President. The bul- Ietin im front of the gate was con- tinually sarrounded by a small knot of | people. Dr. Agnew has some patients in Philadelphia who absolutely require his pres. ence. He will leave this afternoon at 5:40 but will return to-morrow. DR. BLISS SAYS THERE IS NO BLOOD POISON Dr. Bliss said thi blood poisoning had not set in and that he did not think it would. Qn the contrary, he was prett} confident that it would be avoided. = * THE VICE PRESIDENT. Secretary Blaine when asked last night if he had telegraphed for Vice President Arthur to come to Washington, said that the condition of affairs was not such as to warrant anything like that. He said he had kept the Vice President NG dence of the same popular solicitude concern- ing the President’s condition as was noticeable day. given new hope to those about him was quickly disseminated. The expediency of having this operation performed was discussed by the crowd. The bulletin which it was announced would be issued about noon was watched for with re- | newed interest, because the people were eager to have their hopes confirmed. When it made its appearanPe a little before noon, however, aad it was seen that it did not announce a de- cided change for the better, the old anxious expression crept over the faces of the watchers. Last Night at the White House. Crowds were assembled about the places where bulletins were posted until a late hour last night, and a general feeling of uneasiness pervaded the whole city, the cautious wording of the bulletin issued at sevén o'clock rather tending to excite anxiety. The consulting sur- | geons—Drs. Hamilton and Agnew—arrived at | eight o’cloek, and were at once ushered into the ‘sick chamber. Reports from the sick room later at night in- dicated that the Presi ng comfort- ably and that the physicians were reassured by the healthy flow of pus. The fever and chills which had given rise to fear were attributed to the stoppaze of pus. The physicians decided not to disturb their patient during the night, | the two consulting surgeons deeming his condi- tion very satisfactory considering the events of the day. At 10 o'clock fast night Secretary Blaine cabled as follows to Minister Lowell at London: t 10 o’clock to-night the President's symp- toms are better. Pulse, temperature and res- piration improved, distressing nausea has left, and there is no reappearance of chills.” The Postmaster General telegraphed to Thur- low Weed, the Union League Club and others the following: “At this hour, 10 p. m., the President is sleep- ing quietly. Pulse, 106. There is a manifest subsidence of the disquieting symptons of the ‘At half past ten o'clock the Cabinet ministers and all the physicians left the Executive Man- | sion, except Drs. Bliss and Woodward. who re- mained to care for the patient during the night. Later unofficial reports indicated that the Presi- dent passed the night quietly. At midnight his pulse was reported at 100, temperature 100.9 and respiration 21. DR. REYBURN ON THE CHANGE IN THE PATIENT. Dr. Reyburn said yesterday afternoon: “The situation is serious; more serious than at any time since the President was shot. We do not know what grave complications may arise, but the wound looks well, and there is no glazed appearance, as there generally is when pyamia isto be feared.” Being asked to what he at- tributed the change in the President's condi- tion, h@observed: ‘It undoubtedly is due to a change in the condition of the wound. There must be some new cause of irritation. There is evidently a retention of pus, a stoppage of some sort. Asac depot or cavity may be forming in the track of the wound, at a point where there may be adhesion, between the bullet and the mouth of the wound, or a sac of pus may be formingabout the bullet itself, preliminary to an abscess.” He also said there was a change in the President’s appearance; that his face has assumed a dusky color; that the chill was se- vere. There was a shiver throughout the Pres- ident’s entire frame, and the pulse increased at one time to 125. It fell in two hours to 110, and the temperature fell nearly two degrees, Dr. Reyburn, being asked whether the President was strong enough to resist such a shock as two chills, said: “The President is certainly not strong. He is very weak indeed. He is not so strong as he is generally supposed to be. Hehas to be lifted on sheets, and whenever we wish to give him a glass of water we have to raise his head.” MORE HOPE LAST EVENING. Dr. Reyburn said last night: “The President's condition to-@ight is very much improved» He is very much easier. Of course there is room for apprehensions, but we have every reason to hope that the danger will pass away. He vomited three times this morning. He is, of course, taking very little food, but wé are increasing the quantity now. We have to feel our way along in order not to overload thestomach. The tem- perature was the most Important symptom; that has now fallen from 104 to 101.7. The pulse has gone down to 118, and respiration is 25. The vomiting has stopped. The condition of the patient was really threatening in the middle of the day. We were fearful at first that there was blood poisoning—pyxmia; but .that is preity much past now. The President has complained good deal of fatigue, and. although handled with the tenderest of care, yet this sense of fatticue has not abated.” Dr. Reybarn said that the rumor current in New York that the physic- jans had been probing for the bullet, and had thus brought on the fever and accompanying dangerous symptoms, was false. The unfavor- able symptoms are entirely due to the forma- tion of a pus cavity. THE CAUSE AND NATURE OF PYeMtA. Dr. N. 8. Lincoln, one of the surgeons who ‘attended the President soon after he received the wound, said the symptoms of the President as stated in yesterday's bulletin were more like pyemia than anything else; that pyzemia means during the few days after the shooting, when the President's life hung in the balance. Crowds eollected early in the day about the places where Bulletins are usually issued. Considerable anxiety was expressed when It was found that ihe seven o'dock bulletin of last night had not yet been displaced. At points distant from the ‘White House ‘were current, the very delay in officially announc- | ¢ Ing the condition of the President serving to in- opening upon the crease the general fear, which prevailed on account of the nnfavorable symptoms of yester- day, About the White House though there was | the ball itself is unwarranted. a more hopeful feeling. Here a large crowd | inelined to ive the physicians eredit for know- | was collected dnving the morning and | ing how to use this article. such reports as could be gotten from | ver attendants and others going in and out of | ane the gate were quickly passed from mouth | in the slightest degree.” | to mouth. Some way the reports from the sick 2 | room reach the crowd outside the gates very to the people are very accurate. Cabinet minis- | | ters,newspaper reportersand others going toand , and as a rulesur- { rendered all the information they kad at once, | | tne anxious appeals for.news being irresistible. ept the presence of the soldiers with their | white helmets and burnished gins. Occasional- | the p | ly pedestrians would stop to con over the sheet . tacked upon one of the large trees in the latest official report from the | sick room. To-day this was changed. The | guards had to keep the throng from pushing rf WAS DEEN FEARED pus which is s quick and weak; breath has a f moist, and att wandering pains are felt in | often contains albumen.” CITY AND DISTRICT. THE CAREER OF A FREE-LOVER, The Burlingame Divorce Suit. SOME DOCTRINE. jana finally he concluded to take up his abod | ars and her magnetism was exhausted: | learned of Burlingame’s desertion of his wife, | id provided her with the attention her con: take forcible possession of his youngest child, a with neighbors near her. When the youngest ly covered with bruises and welts, and had ingame crazy. . COLUMBIA Sarah A. Burlingame 8. { Equity No. 77. Franklin Burlingame. To the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holling an Equity Court for said District: THE DEFENDANT REPLIES AS FOLLOW: Warwiek, in the state of Rhode Island, That he came to Washington asa soldier in the Union army, and has since resided here because he has most of the time been employed by the U.S. gov- ernment. 2d. That he was married, and has children, as stated by the plaintiff in her complaint. 8d. The defendant has no wish to attack any statement, the plaintiff makes in relation to her conduct during the twenty-one years of their married life, and sincerely regrets that he is | required to defend himself from any attack on |the part of the plaintiff. He is compelled to deny the charge of desertion contained in this count, and to assert in the most positive and | truthful manner that it is unjust and untrue, and by and is very repugnant to him. 4th. This count charges that about eight years ago the defendant abandoned the Christian church, beeame an Infidel, a Spiritualist, and a “believer in the so-ealled doctrine of Free Love, and from that time ceased to be either a good husband or a kind father.” The defendant ad- mits with profound satisfaction that he “aban- doned the Christian church” (somewhat longer ago than the tine named); that he “became an Infidel,” a Spiritualist and a believer in Social Freedom. He, however, denies that ‘from that time he ceased to be either a good husband or a moral, intellectual atid spiritual growth have life. The defendant avers in this connection that knowledge and belief, been inside of one since: that she also ists of modern times, has greatly inereased the difficulty of attaining to the best methods of training the children, Thi obedience, respectfulness, affection, modesty, tive to themselves. These He said:—“‘I am It is composed of a pliabie, soft material, and in the hands of ient surgeon surely should not work harm that the President might have blood polsoning. | The following are the symptomiof that disease, according to the “Manual of the Practice of | Surgery,” by Fairlie Clarke, of the Charing Cross | Hospital, London, a standard authority: “When | 8 person fs about to be attacked by pysemia the For the past fortnight there hasbeen no unusual | Wound usually becomes dry and unhealthy. The creted is scanty and thin. At the | same thne there is inereased frequency of the | pulse and breathing. The temperature rises and fent hasarigor, more or less distinct. soon followed by a copious perspiration and coincidently the temperature falls. When the disease is fully established the complexion is | sallow or leaden; the eyes sunken; the features pinched; the tongue dry and brown; the pulse | the respiration hurried; the int, sweetish odor; the skin is well-marked rigor it is bathed in sweat; there are oceasional shiverings, and avious parts. With all this there is great prostration and rapid wasting, and a tendency to delirium. The urine THE PRACTICAL WORKINGS OF AN UNWHOLE- The unique document published below is the answer of Franklin Burlingame to his wife’s petition for divorce from him, The plaintiff, | Mrs. Burlingame, bases her application for divorce upon the grounds of desertion. ill-treat- ment of herself and children, and of general im- morality in theory and practice on the part of Burlingame. Burlingame has condueted the news stand in the Capitol corridor near the main entrance to the hall of Representatives for years, and his wife has assisted him. Some months ago, while Mrs. B. was quite ill, Burlin- game moved all the furniture from the house they occupied in Sherman’s rew on F street, between Ist and 2d northeast. Burlingame’s free-love ideas and practices had, it is alleged, been the cause of continued trouble between nd and wife. He had-taken a faney to a female fortune-teller and insisted upon sharing his home with her. To this Mrs. B. objected, with the fortune-teller. In leaving his wife ne told her he had no complaint to | i K inst her, but they had been married } that he wanted to find a female companion of | the magnetic kind. Some of the neighbors | | dition required. ‘The next incident in the fam- | ly dificulty was an attempt of Burlingame’s to about eight years of age. “He handled the child so roughly that some of the neighbors interfered. ‘The resutt was that Burlingame got knocked down and the child escaped. The | charge le by the wife that Burlingame abuses his ‘children can be substantiated by several | families residing in Sherman’s row. Since Bur- lingame left his family his wife has had no home of her own. The children haye been staying | boy first left his father the members of the Heel into which he was received say he was ite besides several running sores caused by beatings and kickings his father had administered. The fed of Sherman’s row generally pronounce Buri IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF Ast. That his legal residence is in the town of | that the idea of desertion was never entertained kind father,” and claims that these proofs of been priceless aids to him in all the relations of the plaintiff also abandoned the Christian church at the same time, and has not. to the best of his became, and bas ever since been known as an Infidel, a Spiritualist and a believer in Social Freedom. And as sufficient proof of this, the defendant cites the fact that our young- est child, now nearly 9 years of age, is named after one of the grandest Infidels and Spiritual- 5th. In this count the defendant is charged ith “brutal and ferocious” treatment of the zhildren, and threats of personal punishment to the plaintiff at times when she interfered in their behalf. ‘‘Bratal and ferocious” are very the wound has been applied injudiciously and | side in wee he Lore Khe for he [elec hi se" in ‘een years, to name the time or place, when or as caused more iuflainination and trouble than | tec aie cecnaee ee could be truthfully describedas vulgar. As to what is commonly thought to be profane and | blasphemous language the éefendant is com- | complaint whieh fam him. severe and protracted diseage | of their married life up to ie time of this ili. for nearly ten years he kepta wnnected and de- tailed account in writing of every cent, h pended; that he has this acecpuit now in hi: policy the defendant has protection from the influenceof the change. fendant under the most stances. have been of the parest, the most refined and pure relation with her or sytain an association most ennobling principles. In this count it is sed in the form frowned upon and abhorrel by society, that practices of the doctrines if Free Love and Spiritualism.” The defendat feels called upon in, and quite a forcible and ateltigent advocate has often been fully and radcally discussed by the plaintiffand defendant. That about eight cate of Social Freedom—tiat snce that time the penis has not at any momeat been one whit in this principle. In regaré Spiritualism, while the defendant's belef in its essential fea- wavered and was never strmg and decided. The odium in the opinion of tle court attaches to an honest belief, especiallyin Social Freedom, should justly be shared byeach, or neutralized as a factor in this suit for divoree. In regard to the chargeof desertion, the de- fendant has never ceased to feel the greatest pain. It is unjust and unirvthful. It is con- trary to his desire and intertion. It is so wicked and devilish as to seem to lave been inspired by acommon enemy. When tledefendant famiven to his present residence tie plaintiff was con- fined to her bed, the weatier was unpleasant, and it was known to have jeen unwise to move her, but the defendant had jo suspicion that the plaintiY would not join himas soon as she was able to be moved, and he sdemnly avers that he had nothi: in his heart lat love and kind- ness for her; that he left thi very best of the furniture in the house for ha use, giving his convenience that he thought she would need was left for her, and sendingher food gee bs the children, until it was refused and returned, with the request that no more be sent, and that the defendant should come a once and take away the furniture, as ste wss about to move into an elegantly furnisied house, which had been provided for her inGrant’s Row. The de- fendant, at some pena meonvenience, it being Saturday night, aranged toremove the furniture, it on sendiig word learned that the plaintiff had been deteived in regard to the house in Grant’s Row, and wes not quite ready to part with the furniture, and itis yet in her possession. The defendant was then informed that the plaintiff had condudlal to remain where she was, and that the reat’of the house for five coal had been aid satisfactory ar- rangements had | ee ay her future come fort. The defendant hay asuspicion that the plaintiff was by pote decei sited the agents, Ken John Sherman & deer) oer no such arrangements hai ben made, an it the house would have to beyacated. The de- fendant then, for his own protestion,deputized the agent to inform the plaintiffthat he would send an ambulance for her at enteif necessary, and repulsive and expressive words, and excite in the mind of the defendant a feeling of deep ab- horrenee. They are grossly pene and untrath- fal in their application, and the defendant be- lieves would be repudiated by the children them- selves in an unbiased expression of opinion. The views of the plaintiff and defendant upon parental discipline have clashed, and this fact defendant has never punished the children when he wouid not gladly have received more severe yunishment himself if the object could as well Fave been attained in that way. While in the opinion of the defendant the children excelled in 00d manners, &c., they were affticted with two gross and pernicious vices which were intensely aggravating to the defendant, and very destruc- exas) vices were b and stealing. They hte in the | them. carefully remove her to themew residence. He also made the same offer in writing through the neighbor, at whose howe she is now being entertained, 9. This count is composedientirely of a state- ment of the defendant's finagcial resources. In reply to this the defendant s compelled to say that on the publication ofthe scandal in the newspapers he was promy from his government office, amd ealmost totally dissipated by prejudgment md condemnation. 10. This paragraph ment of thie destitute condelod of the pater as a basis for her prayer: That a subpena lant_to answer. 4th. That a decre of divorce and alimony granted oh Such farther relief : ee may require be | pelied to adinit that he habiteally and deliber- ately uses it with more ‘pesonal satisfaction than is perhaps agreeable to his friends and as- Soviates. If, however, tl is a ground for di- vorce most members of ont le@islature, exeeu- tive and iudiciary, espectalfy icluding the able and ambitious young Ia ‘ho framed this to answer, are in as unsuspected danger ap vas the defendant at the time these charges, vere sprung upon 7th. This count charges feciect in providing for the family, tbe diversion of income into im- proper and unknown chanfek and the conse- | quent imposition of unreagomble hardships in business and mactad dst resulting in The defendant denies in fi/and in detail each and all of the charges contaned in this count, | and avers that the plaintiff-emtinually and vol. untarily acknowledged the <efendant to have been a generous providerduphg the many years advised complaint. The deendant also avers that so careful was he of hig expenditures that pos session and will submit it §o he inspection of the court; that he always fully acquainted the plaintiff with the manner in which his in- come was used and habit@aly courted her ad- vice and consent in itsdisburement; that he has | no con. cious bad habits of my kind whatever, and if any person can conyine him of having one he will esteem ita fave’ and break it at once. That the plaintiff wax never obliged to attend the news stand in theCapitol, but did so from very decided choice, ard could not be in- duced pleasantly to discontimeit. The domes- tic policy of the defendant for the many years since he has outgrewn the babaric notions re- garding the sphere of woman has been that of freedom and equality. in @rrying out this feltzalled upon to ac- quaint himself as much @: possible with all branches of housekeeping an has cheerfully (estat! as occasion required, everything in he housekeeping line except the washing and froning, always being williny and anxious to lighten the burdens of the plantiff. The defend- ant also avers that the diseag of the spine, in | his judgment, was caused bypersistent sitting during the day where a curses of heat was con- stantly pouring upon her bak and afterwards walking home inthe cold sir without special 8th. This count comprises: detailed narrative of alleged improper relations on the part of the plaintiff with a woman named in the complaint, a statement that these allggd improper rela- tions were had without thecmsent or concur- rence of the plaintiff aud; very aggravated charge of desertion of the yaintift by the de- ssing cireum- The defendant denies tlat he ever had an adulterous or an impropei relation with the woman named; that all hig relations with her | power. the most exalted character; hat during his brief acquaintance with her she ls commanded his most sincere respect, and that he believes her character to be such that no,me can hold an im- j | that is not governed by tigtruest, purest and of a charge, and as jsomething to be this woman was a ‘teliever in’ and to afiirm with some pride, an the most absolute truthfulness, that the plainiff herself has for ny years been an earnest,ind honest believer of, Social Freedom, (or FreeLove as it is pur- posely put in the charge on ecount of its sup- posed offensive significance and the question years ago, in a public halk lefore a society of Spiritualists and Free-thinkes, while the plain- tiff was seated by his side, he defendant an- nounced himself, with her mproval and en- couragement, to be an usconpromising advo- ehind the defendant in the aor of her belief ture has been strong and vessistent, that of the | plaintiff, though generally aszenting, has often | defendant, therefore, feek that whatever of personal attention te see tha every article of months had been paid in-advance, two tons of of the plaintit The Christian Church, WHICH THE PRESIDENT WORSHIPS. Clay Stier, A. K. Tingle, J. F.Saum and F. ian Standard and the Evangelist, says : able house of worship in this city, we have $16, | people. "In the providence of God the day in Angust, or your first on New York, to J. coran street, Washington. D.C. others. The treasurer of the Washington cit; great as when it was | almost closed is once more set wi unitedly in this great interest, we would sug- aside as a day of thanksgiving to God, and that John W. Allen, Melvin Mckee, D. S. Mugri E. B. Stevens. The slow responses received to the appeal made last winter is accounted for on the ground made personal communication difficult. The offering towards the erection of this chi eae C. and 0, Canal Interests, FIRST COAL TRAIN OVER THE NEW CROSSING. man and shipped for Georgetown. THE LENGTHENED LOCKS. mencement of operations. see Ee DEATH OF A VENERABLE LapY.—Mrs. Susan. nah A. Savage, relict of the late George Savage, and mother of Mr. Joseph L. Savage, died this avenue and B street northeast, in the 76th year oe her 3 tee been in ie, health for sevei years , and espec! since the death of her husband. Mrs. Savage was a na- tive of Baltimore, where she was married in 1826, and removed with her husband at once to this city, where she has ever since resided. She ‘was of @ most cheerful and kind disposition,and a large circle of friends will mourn ber depar- ture. The funeral will poten take place next Tuesday moming from St. Aloysius church. DEATH OF AN OLD WasHINGTONIAN IN NEW Mexico.—John H. McCutehen, a former resident of this city, died suddenly at Socorro, N. M., on the 10th inst., inthe 56th year of his age. He came to this city and resided here until he was 45 years of age, following his fession of the law. In 1870, on account of ill health, he removed to Salt Lake, Utah, where he resided seven years. Thence he went to Deadwood, and after practicing law there three years and meet- ing with reverses in the great Deadwood fire he a) _ cues oe ae Sota leaves a wife and two children. He was respected in Socorro and his funeral was Poo attended. He was a Christadelphian and when he resieed here was a member of the Christadelphian Ec- the old municipal system. The deceased was a Mal der. He mar- ried Miss Annie Dawes, daughter of the late Dr. Frederick Dawes, and she with two children survive him and were with him at the time of his death. Three of his sisters also survive him— Mrs. J.C. Gibson and Mrs. E. E. Griffin, of this city, and Mrs. Robert Coggins, of New York. Judge McCutchen left here for the far west in 1870 and spent first seven years in Salt Lake City, then went to Deadwood, in Dakota terri- tory, spending three years there, and for a few years past has resided in New Mexico. — CHaRce oF OccuryING PUBLIC FOR the Police The Georgetown Elopement Case. WHAT IS SAID BY THE FRIENDS OF THT PARTIES. In regard to the Boyle-Hardle elepement, attention of some one, | friends of the parties make the following state S¢¢8 in our streets on | Ments: Mr. Boyle, on the 284 day of June last 4 Went to Baltimore, and three day ~ | Hurdle left her home in Georgetor | day ofher departure she was on terms of inti- | macy with Mrs. Boyle, who is described by those | city..and_ Mr. Jo CONDITION OF THE BUILDING FUND—A PROPOSED THANKSGIVING OFFERING —THE CHURCH IN | The building committee of the Vermont ave- nue Christian church—Messrs. W. S. Roose, H. Power—have addressed a circular to the various eburches of the Disciples throughout the coun- try, which, after quoting articles from the Chris- | her when she had heard from her husband, when After Miss Hurdle left, used by several “In harmony with the above suggestions from brethren outside of Washington, we make this | eppeal. So far, toward the erection of a suit- he would be bac! Mrs. Boyle had her suspicionsa: persons who had become aware of a great de- gree of intimacy between her husband a: | friend, which had been matter of common report for some tine. After Miss Hurdle’s marriage to Smith was announced in the papers here came home, it is said, and sistersand Mrs. Boy 000. Itis our desire to build ‘such a house as will accommodate our increasing congregations and fairly represent our brotherhood at the cap- ital of the nation. To do this not less than $20,- | 600 mere is needed. The President is a regular | = aa Ledihat is given us. cos church the le | President attends is the church of the strangers | Baltimore to see her husbat. Ls | visiting Washington from all parts of our coun. | Lal’ poirot try and from foreign lands, and thus we haye | | large opportunities to present the Gospel to the | President | | has just been delivered from the very gates of | death. It was the purpose of the assassin to” so, strike him while worshiping in the house of God. | After We would give an offering of thanks for this deliverance, and commemorate God's signal mercy in the escape of our brother from the as- sassin’s blow by the erection of a house of wor- | Ship in Washington, to be known as ‘The Memo- | rial Christian Church.’ Will you join us in this | | effort, and at your meeting the second Lord's | regular meeting pees take oe be nagioh ears and collec- lons as the people may be willing to give? Re- | out, which he did. re det Y mittances can be made, by postal order or draft | the in eo Saum, treasurer, $21 Lou- | that isiana avenue, or F. D. Power, pastor, 1821 Cor- | eursion will, at Mh Finding that Mrs. Boyle was preparing to zo with her, Miss Hurdle departed without waiting for her Invited guests. This served to strengthen in company witb a female consulting the lice wuthorities she tox with her a detective her truant hus- Finding that he was at work at his trad —bricklayinz—they proceeded to the building Where he was ~mployed. The detective asked Mrs. Boyle to point out her husband among t men at work, but she was so nervous that she had to retire to ore in the neightorkood | street and asked a_hod carrier to scaffolding and accosting his wife was waiting to see him at the drug ‘tore opposite. He unsuspecting! and as he eatered seemed consider at meeting bis Georgetown —1 do you meai The following circular was issued from Chica- | go on oe Tthinst. Zo the Blatt Brother- hood: Youwill bear with us in suggestion we are about to make, which has no doubt already occurred to many. of you, and to which we now beg leave to invite the attention of the by running after He did not deny that he was living with reported was registered . Boyle.” The bona to discover evidence Miss Hurdie, who it on the hotel books as **M, fide Mrs. Beyle then tri of a marriage between the parties in Baltimore, | but could not find a minister of the name printed, | or any other who had performed a marriage cet | mony between Miss Hurdieand Boyle, or “Smith. | Boyie afterwards caine home for his clothing, as Mrs. Boyle—the deserted | wife—was married in Baltimore in April, 1873, | by the Rev. L. D. Maier | ing Geiger. She is of excellent family, and is a and well educated lady. She has been married eight years, of age when married, which makes her but 24 | years now—her husband being 15 years older. | She is almost heartbroken at the affair, and | thinks her busband more sinved against than yle, it is said, had a wile before he married her, but claimed that he had been di. | vorced. The statement that Miss Hurdle was in the store of the Boyles was erron church fund has just submitted a statement of the condition of that fand, in which it appears | that our contributions have so far been shame- fully meagre. We have been slow to enter the { open door, which God in his providence set be- fore us, and which was so nearly closed again, and forever, by the assassin’shand. Tis said | that “blessings brighten as they take their flight,” and never did our opportunity seem so passing away, and never did our beg! of zeal — liberality, and ; appre- | ciation of a great trust, appear so utterly inex- | cusable as when God ‘seemed hiding his face from us. But the great opportunity so nearly removed is here in its fullness aga in—the door fe open before | us. God has heard the prayers of his people, and has given baek to us the life of our beloved | President and brother, James A. Garfield. It is fitting that we should render thanksgiving to God for this signal display of his goodness and nd what more appropriate expression | of gratitude could we give than to build at the national capital a memorial church incommemo- ration of his mercy in restoring to us this great and goodman? And in order that we may act | eastern section of the city against the location of the Asphalt rendering nuisance ou North Capitol, between K and L streets, belonging to Messrs. Fletcher, Murdoch and Baily, paving contractors, was handed to the Commissione: ) To-day the health offic notified the 2sphal company to discontinue the nuisance at once. A COMPLAINT AGAINST THE FIRE DEPARTMEN’ Superintendent of property John B. Clarke, | a right to credit licenses when the corpe yesterday afternoon sent a complaint to the | law sioners that for some time past without | ness. Either, | his consent horses have been taken from the | or the city borrow money to meet its public stables by the foreman of engine com- | ments, and he does not think one citizen pany No. 4, or some one of that company, by | right to compel another citizen to help to pay his direction and used; that on Sunday iast one | of the police ambulance horses was used, and another horse kept for the assessors use was | taken: that the latter was found in his stall | early the next morning with a dry sweat coated | into his hair, showing that the animal had been badly used and not properly groomed when re- Mr. Clarke further states that the fore- | man of the company claims to have authority from the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department to use any of the District horses when in his | Jndgment one is needed. He recommends that | as soon as a horse can be spared, he be au- thorized to turn it over to this company for the | exclusive use ofthe Fire Department; and that heretofore stated. her maiden name be- —— District Government Affairs, ALONG PETITION AGAINST THE ASPHALTNUISANCE. and very cousiderable additional appropriation A petition over eleven feet long, signed by 546 citizens and property holders in the north- | had to be mad: gest the second Lord’s day in August be set | on that day a collection be taken and pledges be | received for the Washington church fund, our | offerings to be an expression of our gratitude fo | God, and the church we build a memorial of his L. S$. Major, M.D., James rday affernoon. of the severity of the winter. The greater part of the membership of the Christian ehureh in this country is in the west. The severe weather organs of the denomination very heartily com- mend the scheme of making a thanksgiving setting in a sort of pit below the the judge could not see them when he them, have been placed upon an elevated form to the right of the court, as in other houses. The railings have been changed #0 to give the clerk more room and make the iff's seat more available and give him a view the whole court room. The court room been handsomely painted and the walls tinted. it be fed from the forage of that department. Re- eThe clerk’s office has been painted, grained, re- Ene a modeled and put in complete order. At Cumberland, Md., yesterday, the first coal carried to the Chesapeake and Ohio canal over the Georges Creek and Cumberland railroad was taken over the crossing and connection of the Baltimore and Ohio road. The train of hopj ers with coal of the American Company was taken by one of the new railroad’s engines to the point | ot connection, where a Baltimore and Ohio engine took the train to the basin wharf. There erred to the Chief Engineer. the coal was loaded on canalboat George Sher- ‘ ep * itis stated by the officers of the fire depart- | ment, and willbe so reported to the District | Commissioners to-day, that the horse in ques- tion was used to haul fuel to keep the cooling apparatus for the relief of the President going, | in accordance with general instructions of the fire department to use ail means and appliances available in the emergency growing out of the President’s illness. BUILDING PERMITS issued by Inspector Entwisle: Patrick Sulliv repair brick, 214 E street southwest: £200. A. Anderson, erect two two-s' 'F, between 41g and 6th southwest THE TOY PISTOL INVESTIGATION. Health Officer Townshend has taken st to investigate the recent deaths from lockja caused by wounds inflicted with the toy pistols. He will request the history of each case fro the physicians in attendance, and classify the records. One object of this examination is to | determine whether the lockjaw was produced in | way or whether there is not some — mous quality in the powder used Lumber and stone to lengthen the locks of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal in Maryland are being delivered for use when navigation closes. It is expected 33 locks will be lengthened during the winter. In the meanwhile material is being forwarded to various conyenient points along the line. Superintendents L. G. Stanhope and J.J. Moore and Chief Engineer Smith, of the canal, with a number of the boss carpenters, are going over the work preliminary to the com- morning at her residence, corner of Delaware THE COST OF POLICEMAN DUBOIS’ DEFENCE. re nnial Acting First Controller J. Tarbell, in to | ley did the work... .Supt. is the letter of the District Commissioners of the | his street forces busy, and the seria ore aa 2st inst., in reiation to certain costs in the suit | Tolan police, and’ seking’ the opition of the politan -police, i opinion Controller as to- what fund aald ‘costs sd oe palnone the ypriation f can of ion for Judicial expenses. it THE SCHOOL REPAIR FUND. The school committee on buildings and havesent a report te the District Com in cae they state that the repairs for the year’ inning J be divided among tipi school di ist division, 1, 2d $836.00; 4th do., $1,127.20; 5th do., $1,006.80; 6th do.. $720, 7th ao., areduction of 20 per cent on the original esti- mate, making altogether $7,901.40, and leaving a reserve fund of $2,198.60 for repairs in case of has been referred to the selene el ‘Transfers of Real Estate. Deeds in fee haye béen recorded as follows: Heirs of Sarah R. Balley to Cornelia W. 8. Baird. sub 5 sq. 217; $17,000. ly becomi: would | states that the meetit since the county went back to for $100,000 each have been clesia on Capiiol Hill. He was also a member of railroad company, and the Washington board of common council under John Evans, the president ofthe latter rem a The suite are based on the Tribune's Ex-Governor Evans, and the management of his emergency. The paper W. J. Newman to T. J. Putmanto F. M. Lee, to Geo. 8. Sprind le, lots, 4 and 5, block 8, Le | A Ton, lots 71 and 72, sq. sam . Fardon to J. D. Came- 184; €8,008-78. Jas, B. i i Another Ol Citizen Passed Away. PRATH OF MR. JOHN PORDY. } | Mr. John Purdy. for over 50 years past a rosie | Gent of this District, died last evening at his nes- idence on 4!, street, near the City Tiatt, in the 78th year of bis age. Mr. Pardy was born Annapolis, Md., Dec 27. 1808, and learning jthe trade of house ter in Battimore he came to this city in 183. He was soon on the Tead to affluence and became one of the bead! in his business in the District. Heimvested, ly in real estate, purchasing nearly the ire square bounded by Fennsylvania avenue, st, 2d and B streets northwest, in which Is y He. in early tife, became con- nected with the old Patriotic Rank on 7th street, —— Finally he bought all its stock and Property and for some years was the president of the 5 Some fifteen years agu be became interested in the imanufacture of giass, and erected the works on 25th and N streets, but this enterprise was a fiture. Under this reverse his mind gradually gave way. and his health commenced to fail, For years he has needed the constant been frequently f a colored ser- vant. Mr. Purdy was mari Miss Christopher in 1824 and secc Sarah Crane, of this city, in S64. He leaves hiree children, all by the first. wife, vi Dr. W.F. Wallace, Mrs. Jas. E. Thompson, Pandy, jr.. who lives in Pen= sacola, Fla. He was member of Washington ». 1. Knights Templar, Lebanon P.AAM., Columbia R.A. ( d the Masonic Relief Association. He was also vice presidentyof the Oldest Inhabl- tants. His funeral will take place next Tuesday, - Picuies, Excursions, &e, rth Star Lodge, No. 8, Independent Order Samaritans, will give an excursion to ick. Md", next Thursday Col. H. M. Rogers’ select musical evening ex- rhest request of his frienda, be repeated next ‘The Knights of wili picnic at V The Mary Wash to-morrow mernit The Courts. Potice Covnt—Jurige Snel. To-day, John Butler, loud and boisterous; & or 15 days. May Brown, vagrancy and publie prostitution; bonds or 3) days in the worklouse. Kate Prank, do.: a s. Fisher azid John Mo- Kenny, charged’ with being vagrants and sus- as characters; bonds or § workhou: Frederich Richter, terous; #5 or 15 days. el Barrett: forfeited collateral. Patrick B. or, Michael Burke, Win. Byan, Caleb Adams and Mrs. J. D. O'Con> nell, charged with oecupying a street for pri- vate purposes; continued. > Asoruzrn Deati prom Locksaw. — Arthur Morse Ritter, son of Dr. Fred. Ritter, a lad 14 Years of axe, died last ‘nigut at hix bome, No. 2215 T street. Death was caused by lockjaw, produced by running a rusty nail in. his foot about two weeks ago. Sy ns of lockjaw set in two days ago, and tie most expert cal attention was ubavailing. poe —— West Washington, nee Georgetown. ANOTHER ELOPEMENT Cast Is reported, that of & Metropolitan street car driver, residing in this place, who, according to rumor, has left his wile and fatnily and is living elsewhere with another woman. Tue Coat Trave.—Twenty-three boats left Cumberland, Thursday, with 2,658.11 tons of coal for Georgetown as follows: —Consolidation. Company, 1,054.01 tons; New Central Company, 685.06 tons; Borden Company, 579.18 tons; Blaem Avon Company, 216.16 tons; Despard Company, | 122.10 tons. Seco Alexandria Affairs, ‘Tae EveNtNe STAR, Crry Mo SSI-82.—The appropria- tions made the city council for th ast of running the city foot up this ye 832.50, while the appropriations last year were $79,625, Reported fe during the year.The appropriation for salaries is increased 5 per cent. For cleaning and repairing streets 33 per cent. The court appropriation expanded from $3,600 to $4,000. A new item of 3150 for fire plugs is introduced. Otherwise there is little change, It is to be ex= pected, however, that considerable additions will be required to several of the appropriations. Bustvess Licrnsrs.*More money has beon paid in for bus licenses up to this time than | during any simitar portion of the fiscal year for many years. The mayor does not think he has ration ires that license shall be a cash busi- says, the licenses must be paid i interest on licenses issued on credit. Covrt Hovst BrerrerMents. — The court room and clerk's offices at the old cours house on Columbus street have been much improved under the supervision of Mr. Austin, the county clerk. The ji # f fate County Covrr.—Judge Sangster will open the county court on Monday. Among the cases to come up are those of Orlando and Jacob charged with assault upon Daniel M. Aiken, u case will be postponed. Rerorter’s Nores.—The coal shippers here | expect to put a larze force of men to work early | next week. | town to-day veral Washingtonians were in quiring as to rents and real es tate. Good small houses with water in can be gotten at €5 per month, and very old fashioned 3-story bricks at from #16 to €30 id | per month. ...The Israelites here at the Wash- ington street synagogue to-day continued to pray for the recovery of the President... The temperance choir, recently organized e | improving rapidly, and will make a most tive musical organization... The city market this morning was unusually full; prices did not LIBEL SUITS FoR $400,000. Den Cot.., July 23.—Two more libel for $1 0 : making fe me ishing company, four [ for ing been filed by the Denver & New Orleans three by Ex-Governor FATALLY SHOT BY A CHIEF OF POLICE. Last evening, whlle“chhet of police William a