Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1881, Page 1

PUBLISHED DAILY, Except Sunday, THE EVENING STAR. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Korthwest Corner Pennsylvania Ave. and 11th 8t., by ‘The Evening Star Newspaper Company, GEO. W. ADAMS, Pres't. ‘Tre EvExtxe Stan is served to snl im the Eee ga et wea Coye oaeel year 00 ae ‘ow cents a mont mont Office at Washington, D. C., a6 {Entered at the Post second-class mail matter. } The Ebening Star. ‘Tae Weexcr Sr, lished on Friday—$2 ‘Bix mouths, $1; 10 copie for $15,00 | Copies for $20. pl mail Soe oat be paid in advance; sent longer than id for. Hates of ‘advertising made rown on application. WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1881. TWO CENT EXTRA! 1:50 O'CLOCK P. M. STRUGGLING FOR LIFE —— RENEWED HOPE THIS MORNING. NO UNFAVORABLE CHANGE NOTED. TR. HAMILTON SAYS THERE 18 SOME REASON FOR ENCOURAGEMENT. THE NOON EXAMINATION. ——— NO RECURRENCE OF RIGORS. | INCREASE OF TEMPERATURE) THIS AFTERNOON. [2S Great Anxiety Still Prevailing. Special Dispatches to Tug EVENING STan. Lone Brancu, N.J.. anxiety still prevails touching the President. | 1°? The bulletin issued this morning is unfavorable | in the sense at least that the patient’s tempera- | ture is now below normal. Since this state came on the President has been spenged with hot alcohol and flannels saturated with hot alconol have been wrapped around him. The doctors do ¢ THE SITUATION AT MIDNIGHT ‘was summed up as follows: “There has been a slight improvement, but it has not been main- | ed themselves greatly shocked by the bad news. tained. The case from the first has been one of | They were aware of the low state of the Presi- fluctuation, and each depression has resulted in | dent, but had not antici; aloss. During’ the intervals between the re- | for the worse. lapses there have been but they pee Boca improvements only in com- | eral drove up to the hotel gave them a history of parison with the lower points reached in the de- | the days of their absence. He told them that pressions, and have never lifted the patient up | while the symptoms of to-day were not indieative t 4 ition he held before the relapses.” eg apa President was reported to | nature to make the presence of the full Cabinet be quietly resting and the situation was un- | desirable. hanged. IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY HOW LONG. Dr. Boynton was asked last night: there been any indications of a chill before?” “ Yes; there was an indication of the approach of a chill yesterday, but it was obviated.” “Do you anticipate that any more will oc- eur?” “It is quite possible and within the range probabilities, and would not be surprising.’ “ He is not as strong now as he was when the rigor oceurréd at Washington?” *-Oh, no; not by any means.” “Would he be able to stand a continuation of rigors any length of time?” “Tt would be impossible to say how long he could stand them.” “THE WORST SYMPTOMS SEEM PASSED.” Dr. Agnew and Dr. Bliss came together from the President's cottage after the bulletin, and were overwhelmed with congratulations over the unexpectedly good news. The people almost refused to believe the figures, and the surgeons said when they were 1 — first indicated they had doubted and looked a pt. 18_“The greatest | second time with great care. at the instrament. he figures were found to be correct. 1 expression of amazement that the ident should have so completely shaken off the il effects of rigor. the surgeons referred to uni Pi Garfield’s pheaomenal revivals heretofore. “It was a chill,” said Dr. Bliss, “and was caused. we think, by the depraved condition of yhave been other causes, the blood. There n & pot yet say what the cause for yesterday's | but not noticeable.” disturban ce was. They do not admit the formation of a new pus cavity, but fear one. Dr. Boynton sent a dispatch to @ Cleveland friend last night that he did not expect the Pre- | sident to recover. He says achill is probable any moment. All that can be said at this writing is that the President’s condition re- mains stationary and he is greatly prostrated. | worst sy mptoms seem passed.” serious. There is more gravity in it than there He is no worse than yesterday, but no better. | Dr. Bliss said last night that they had admin- hase er been before.” Dr. Biiss said last night that he attributed the | istered during the preceding twenty-four hours |‘ Will he die?” I ask. Jung trouble to bronchial eatarrh. All of the Cabinet have returned except Secretaries Blaine ‘and Lincoln, who are expected to-night. At Noon To-day. RECURRENCE OF RIGORS—THE PRESIDENT MIND CLEAR. Loxe Brancu, N. J., Sept. 18, 12 m.—Up to this hour there has been no recurrence of the rigors. The President has gotten through the morning quite comfortably, and has had a pow- erful enema of beef blood, an ounce or two of whieh is equal in strength to a porter-house steak. Among the Cabinet, while there is an easier feeling prevailing, there is much appre- heusion. If there is a return of the chill, it is expected toward six o'clock this evening. Mean- while hot alcohol cloths are constantly kept upon the patient's lower extremities. At the examination made at noon, the President's con- dition was about the same, as to pulse, respira- | tion and temperature, as when the morning bul- letin was issued. The failure of the temperature to go up is a source of annoyance to the sur- geons. It is said by the doctors that the mind of the President than it was yesterday. | AN ACCELERATED PUISE AND INCREASED TEM- | RATURE. Lone Braxcn, N. Sept. 18, 1:05 p.m.—The President's pulse is now 120, temperature 100, and respiration 18. The increased temperature is more favorable | than when lower, but taken in connection with | the accelerated pulse indicates high fever. | By Associated Press. The Morning Bulletin. THE FAVORABLE CONDITIONS OF LAST NIGHT UNCHANGED. Exzenoy, N. J., Sept. 18.—[Official Bulletin). | At the examination of the President at 8:30 this a.m. the temperature was 98, pulse 102, respiration 18. There was no perceptible febrile rise during the night—the pulse ranging from 102 to 112. The cough was less troublesome than on previous nights, and the expectoration unchanged. He is able to take nourishment and stimulants required without gastric dis- turbance, nor has there been evidence of mental | aberration during the night. (Signed.) D. W. Briss, Frank H. HaMILtoy, . D. Haves AGxew. RENEWED HOPE THIS MORNING. Exsenron, N. J., Sept. 18, 9:15 a.m.—The Presi- dent passed a comfortable night, and had no febrile rise. There is renewed hope. DR. HAMILTON SLIGHTLY ENCOURAGED. Enero ‘pt. 18, 10:15 a.m.—Dr. Hamilton, in conversation with a reporter of the Associated \ Press. said that while the bulletin is not re- | assuring to a decided degree, there is reason to | feel slightly encouraged over the President's condition. THE WOUND MORE HEALTHY IN APPEARAN At the morning dressing, General Swaim say the discharge from the wound is more healthy in appearance and the wound looks better. Last Night at Elberon. RVIDENCES OF THE PRESIDENTS VITALITY—THE SITUATION NOT MATERIALLY CHANGED. The evening bulletin issued at 6 o'clock last night and published in the third extra Star was as follows: “At the examination of the | President at noon to-day his temperature was | 102, pulse 120, and respiration 24. At 11:30 o'clock | this morning he had a severe chill, lasting half an hour, and followed by perspiration. Since the noon examination there has been a gradual | fall of temperature with diminished frequency of | pulse and respiration, so that at the evening examination the temperature was 98, pulse 102, respiration 18. He has slept most of the time ae soya a taken nouri | ment als. Th 2 ei ment at proper intervals. ‘The cough has been THE LOWELL bispatcn. Attorney General MacVeah sent the following dispatch to Minister Lowell last night: “The President had a severe chill this fore- noon, lasting half an hour and followed by con- siderable fever and perspiration. Since then there has been a gradual decrease in pulse, lure and respiration, and he has slept | of the time. There has been no gain in| strength nor evidence of repair, and the situa- | tion is probably more grave and critical than at any time heretofore.” THE PRESIDENT'S VITALITY. The evening bulletin indicated a slight favor- abie change, but not decided enough to mate- rially affect the situation. Both the physicians at Elberon and the general public expressed amazement at the ficures, which it was after the vicissitudes of the day would be very unsat - ‘The physicians, in fact, ‘Were so much surprised at the favorable result | cal | new pus cavi | The Presideni | Dr. tention. difficult vity in the | the cause. however. His stomach Inued na He had no reason to think there was a pus cavity in the wound, and believed the ball had In regard to the reported “The Presi- thoroughly encysted. chill Fridey night, the doctor said: dent had an approach to a chili just before the febrile rise last evening. H his ‘as attendant “Do you think there is any indication of a pus “T hope there will be no and I think there will be none. pulmonary trouble seems less pronounced to-night, and there seems to be a | yielding of the more malignant symptoms. The | respiration has been 18 since 2 p.m. It is impos- | sible at this time to attempt any prognosis of All we can say is that the wound ?” it | about five and a half ounces of beef blood, also beef tea and a small portion of peptonized beef, | some milk punch, half a doz jand two strawberries. B. | President had just taken his porridze, and his attendants were giving him brandy and water. Vomiting on the rigor, and no con- sea followed. He ate after the yom- ithout discomfort. BLISS DOES NOT THINK A PUS CAVITY HAS refused to retain either. FORMED. mue! without his ki severe as those suffered in Washington.” How long could the President stand such chill That queney. wear periodic.” would depend, of course, on their fre- In his present condition they would im down very quickiy. “Has the President show “I think there is no malaria in his system. The intermittent character of his trouble is quite | “Peo as characteristic of blood poison as malaria. We have given him six grains of quinine to-day. and wili give him three more at midnight. This is given as a tonic, however, and not as an anti- AND HE SAYS THERE IS NO ABSCESS. The di harge from the lungs, Dr. Bliss said, consisted of about three-fourths of muco puru- lent sputa and one~‘ourth part white mucus. The President. he said, had pulmonary bronchial caiarrh, and he added: there was an abscess. know the pleuro was entered.’ He said last night that he considered the Presi- dent's general condition was better than at the same hour during the preceding night. PRECAUTIONS AGAINST CHILLS. The chill might recur at any moment, but as a preventative the patient had been wrapped in hot flannels. During the day a hot alcoholic bath was given him. No fear of stomach trou- ble was entertained unless there was confined pus present in the body. stomach would respond at once and the result become doubtful. The President had no febrile rise during the early part of the night, the conditions mentioned in the bulletin remaining unchanged. MRS. GARFIELD INFORMED. A dispatch from Elberon last night said: “Both the President and Mrs. Garfield compre- hend the situation perfectly asked by the President to-day what his real con- dition was. replied as encouragingly as possi- ble, telling him the facts in the case and express- ing a hope that he would tide over the present Mrs. Gartieid is naturally exceedingly anxious about her husband. She fully realizes the gravity of difficulty as he has the most serious ones. the situation and hopes for the best. “Dr. Bo: some time.” DR. BOYNTON DESPONDENT. Other dispatches from Elberon represented Drs. Bliss and Boynton as very despondent last Dr. Boynton stated at midnight that the President was comfortable and suffering no pain, which, he said, meant nothing more than that he was quiet. weak, he said, and he cot but little hope. Both Gen onel Rockwell were evidently depressed but night. have not surrendered hope. we summoned in an; change for the wor THE CABINET OFFICERS. Secretaries Hunt and Windom and Postmaster General James returned last night to Long Branch, arriving there at 10 Windom is quoted as saying: official notice to come to Long Branch, nor were 'y form. On learning of the ise in the President's condi- trip, 5 “We received tion, we determined to give up our pleasure from feelings of sympathy, and visit him. believe the President will recover.” THE Some letin. Dr. by_ say! that many authorities give 98° rmial. « surprised at the, figures when T saw t his, round and the White House 98.5° was co) normal point. surprise was ex) low temperature as i PRESIDENTS LOW TEMPERATURE. ‘pressed at the Devecpate indicated by last explained it Bliss The malse th a. The \palse this While the President was MIDNIGHT AT ELBERON. At midnight the lights in the President’ tage were chamber with thewatchers. Ing tage door elicited the fact was sleeping hallucinations wi all turned down except in Dr. eat that the continued and ti about 115, with the tem above 100. The latter, however, taken since eleven o'clock. The clear and a blazed in trifle cold. parent improvement, “Has At the Delaware grapes fore vomiting the His extremities were So as to attract his at- lannels were applied and the owing it. He the same time of pain in his and slight coldness. This succumbed to me treatment.” “Tt was an absolute chill to-day, was it?” “It is extremities were cool for about thirty- | nine minutes, although the rigor was not so jzns of malaria?” have never believed We know one lung has been dull when we sounded it. and that one lang may have been impinged by the bullet; for we In that case the Dr. Boynton, when yn- ton does not think that if the President grows worse he will be liable to sink rapidly, and that if he does not rally from this crisis he will linger Presi 450 bushels, Shipments—wheat, ee Ra ee O43 bushels Sales—wheat, Swaim and Col- bushels; corn, 214,980 bushels, o'clock. Secretary saw them, but afternoon was msidered to be the THE CABINET SHOCKED. The returning members of the Cabinet express- ited so sudden achange Soon after the members arrived and while they were at dinner the Attorney Gen- of certain and speedy dissolution, they were of a DR. BLI8S ON THE PRESIDENTS LOW TEMPERA- TURE. According toa night dispatch from Elberon, Dr. Bliss was asked: “What significance is to be attached to the fact that the temperature is about half a de- gree below normal to-night?” Dr. Bliss here made a statement which, in view of what all the surgeons have hitherto said in fixing the normal standard of tempera- ture at 98.4 or 98.5 must be deemed extra- ordinary. He said: ‘With regard to that, the belief of many yery able physiologists is ‘that normal for temperature in a perfectly healthy man will ordinarily represent 98, and from that to 98.6 is considered normal. I think his tem- perature absolutely normal. I wasa little sur- prised that it was so low, but not alarmed about it, as it was about normal. It is not an indica- cation of poorness of blood. There was abso- lately no febrile disturbance at all at the even- ing bulletin; but I should not want the tempera- ture to go below that.” Dr. Agnew Talks, “THE SITUATION MUST BE GLOOMIER THAN NOW WHEN WE HAVE NO HOPE.” The New York Herald correspondent at Elbe- Ton telegraphed last night as follows: Of all the number about that sick bed there is not one to give an encouraging word in reply. All they answer is:—‘‘We hope for the best. There is yet room for hope—there is yet a chance, but the condition of the President was never 80 grave before.” Even those whose friendship with the President takes on itself the nature of a love that could not bear to hear one word spoken that told of danger are forced to admit to-day that the spark of hope is dim in their hearts, and the werst that could be feared seems certain to become the inevitable. Dr. Agnew, with that stern conservatism which sits with such splen- did dignity upon him, declines to speak of the future, but says simy of “The condition of the President is most “ His condition,” replies the doctor, “is most serious ” Jo you think he can live? ” The situation isso grave fhat. T have few words of encouragement to speak.” “Do you have hope?” T asked again, “The situation must be gloomier fhan now when we have no hope.” was the reply, and leaving the impression on the mind of his listen- ers that he has little or none, he bows te them and crosses the lawn to the cottage where the President waits the summons of death or that change that will bear him from danger. A Bare Chance, WHAT DR. BOYNTON SAID AFTER THE RIGOR YES- TERDAY. The New York Heraid correspondent tele- graphed last night:—For an hour or go none of the doctors made their appearance. Finally |, looking calm and _self-possessed, | ut of his clothes and the way he wears his heard suggesting very much the Eng- lish tourist, strolled across the lawn. “Yes, the rigor is over,” he said. “There is no immediate danger, but the situation is very serious.” “More dangerous than ever before?” ask a half a dozen voices, and the Doctor, with that calm deliberation which never fails him, said: “Yes, more dangerous than ever before. They will come and go.” ‘* What is the cause, doctor?” I asked. “The trouble in the lungs and the poisoned condition of the blood. He has pywmia,” “And it ” y anything about that. He has a chance—a bare chance. He may not die; he may live along time. Ihave not given | up hope.” ““ What are the lungs doing?” “ Getting worse, I think.” “And the wound?” “Just about the same.” “ Are there any further complications?” “None at all.” NOT ACUTE PYAMIA. The Trifune correspondent at Elberon tele- hed late last night as follows: “It was cur- Tently reported that the surgeons agreed to-day that the President is suffering from acute pyrmia. This is not correct. Even Dr. Boy ton, who has held to the belief that it is a bad | case of blood poisoning, says decidedly to-day that he does not think it is acute pyemia. Both | he and Attorney General MacVeagh wereamong those who did not give way to-day in any de- gree to the panic so general among outsiders.” ‘THE BEEF BLOOD. The new treatment mentioned by the physi- cians is the administration of defibrinated beef blood by enemata. The blood is procured frest every morning from a New York abattoir and whipped until it is entirely freed from its fibrine or stringy parts. This process also prevents the danger of its becoming clotted. The Markets. BALTIMORE, Sept. 17.—Virginia 6's, deferred, 13; do. consols, &: do. second series, 30%; do: due coupons, 9%; do. new ten-forties, 33 id to-day. BALTIMORE, Sept. 17.—Cotton dull—mid- dling, 12. Flour firm, with moderate demand. Wheat, southern firm under light receipts; west- ern higher and active—southern red, 138a1.43; do. amber, 1.50a1.55; No. 2 western winter red, see and September, 145\¥al.45; October, 146% aL 503; Decet November, 1.503 (a1 mber, 1.53548 ES rn, southern quiet and casy; western higher, closing steady—southern white, 88490; do, low, nominally 72; western mixed, ‘spot and Reptemiber, eiasdige October, Tadic fovember, 764076%. Oats steady—southern, he53; western white, 5las2; do. mixed, 50251; Pennsylvania, Sla ye stead; . Ry Hay unchanged. visions unchanged. Butter ‘es lis heat Brass, 14a25. fi 16. be rm, etroleum uf- changed. Coffee quiet—Hio cargoes, ordinary to fair, 10ai2x{. Sugar strong—A soft, 104. y quict, 1.19," Freights to Liverpool per steamer hanged. Receipts—tiour, 2,07 barrels; wheat, 82.82 “Dushels; oats, 4,200 Sept 17.—Stocks higher. Money, long, 48034; short, 484. Gor ments weaker. inane Wiese. tien aa nepetter a nana cash an ‘ptember a s! better. Corn fairly active. LONDON, Sept. 17, 2 p.m.—Atlantic and Great Western first morgane trustees’ certificates, 56; Atlantic and Great Western seconds, ns New 184 NEW YORK, 4a6. Exchange—! vern- NO | York Central, 14 Illinois Central, NEW YORK MARKETS THIS AFTERNOON. The followitig quotations were current in New York to-day at Dodge, of {39 lith street Western Union, 883s; 42x; Lake Shore, 125) %: lew 643;;_ Northwestern, 126%; St. id 51; do. prefe SSE ere es ind 18; Ohio at iuiry at the cot- President Letter From Old Point. PREPARATIONTS FOR THE CENPENNIAL—LIVELY TIMES AT THE HYGETA. Correspondence of Tu EVENING Stan. Hyorta Hore, Va., Sept. 15th. This hotel is well filled with guests, and at every turn one meets pleasant aps where ladies are chatting gaily as the F mbrolter in bright colors, as with amassof gay worsteds spread about them, they make charming pic- tures, while the gaily uniformed officers add to the effect of the back ground Mr. Phoebus is making very extensive preparations for a great number of guests. In the new hotel which is ‘an exte old one, there will be 180 new sleepin; with open grates for fire, king tubes and handsome furniture for each room. There are in all eleven parlors. Two elevators, Bates best, will be in operation and the agdition when com- pleted will be handsome and imposing. Improvements are being made with special reference to the cold weather Sanitarium, which will be a resort for invatids all the year round. There are guests here from all parts of the coun- try. and at this date one hundred rooms haye been engaged for the Yorktown centennial. Gen. Grant, ex-President Haves, Hon. Schuyler Colfax and Gen. Hancock will be among the guests. Gen. Hancock will be accompanied by his family. Among the guests from Washington now here are Hon. T. M. MeMillan, Paymaster General Brown and family,J.§. Bradford, of the coast survey; E. H. Moore, U.S.N.; Milton Davis, J. W. Martin, C. H. Bailey, Messrs. Miller and M rg; Mr. Upton, Mr. Davidson, Miss Gardner, Miss Knox, Judge Lacy and family, 0 Virginia: Dr. Page, of Virginia University; Mrs. Huzh McCulloch and many othets. It is very cool and pleasant to-day; a good breeze and the dim sunlight are both agreeable. An accident occurred to-day, by which a carpenter, Mr. Hoffer, was badly injured. A scantling: fell on his head, bruising the ear and head so much that congestion of the brain i feared. The sur- geon in attendance says the injury is not neces- sarily of a fatal character. : sear 0S Letter from Kansds City. THE RECENT TRAIN ROBBERY—JESSE JAMES AND HIS IMMUNITY .EROM PUNISHMENT—THE POOR PROSPECTS OF THE CROPS. Correspondence of THe EvENING Sar. Kansas Crry, Mo., Sept. 12, 1881. Kansas City is a beehive of industry. You never saw so much business in a city of its size in all your travels. It has been five years since I was here, and I could scarcely tell where 1 was. When we rolled into the grandest depot in the United States it was almost impossible for me to realize the change from an old shed that stood on the same site for years to a perfect palace, with a train from some direction arriving every half hour during the day nt eva = The greatest excitement prevails here now over the train robbery that @ccurred within al- most gunshot distance of thé court-house, and within view of 100,000 people and with ail the startling developments and_eXciting adventures in the pursuit and supposed capture of the real train robbers, the whole will end in a farce—all the noise will end in much ery and little wool. The men who unmereifully robbed us of our all, | not eyen leaving a fellow enough to secure a glass of iee water to cool our parched tongues, live in Kansas City and Jackson count The mother of Jesse James, law, comes into Kansas Cit across the river in Clay county, and he (Jesse Jar goes there, sleeps there, and the authoriti know that he is there halfjhis time, and yet they cannot find him. Poe gueritt is afraid’ to arrest him, and this fear springs to a great ex- tent from a political source. |The moment tie James’ are interfered with that very moment the votes of his friends are given to Some other official who pledges that he will look everywhere | else except in the place Where the outla’ is. This is a true statement of the wh thing. They may arrest every man in Jack- son county. and they will pot get the men who committed the robbery,, With all their splurge it is not the intention to capture the right ones, because they are afraid to. This is my prediction. Some of the rebbers may eventu- ally be arrested, but all the boys (for that is all you can call them) that have een arrested will e released one by one after the excitement dies out and the people think they have the right ones. The friends of the James boys are going to stand by them, and they are legion, and a great political power in this (Jackson) and Clay county. The James’can commit any crime here ‘they want to and they will never be arrested. The weather here is delightfal, but the rain that fell a few days ago came too late. The crops are almost a total loss, Vegetables can scarcely be procured in the mdrkets. This state of aflairs prevails the entire way from Washing- ton to Kansas. Everything thie way of eat- ables have gone up 50 per cent within the past ten days. Laborers and meehanies are arranging for an advance in wazes. After you leay Quincy, IIL, all through northeastern’ Missouri, the farmers are feeding their cattle to keep them alive. Thousands of acres of the finest lands one ever laid his eyes on looks a8 barren as a barn yard. ———+es—____ Alexandria Affairs, Reported for Tux EvENrno Star. Ciirrorp’s Contract CompLerep.—Mr. Clif- ford, the contractor for introducing the odor- less system here, has declined to purchase Car ter’s machine in Washington, because he has been notified by the Eagle company, of Philadel- phia. that Carter’s rights do not extend beyond the District of Columbia, He will contract with the Odorless company of Baltishore. THE Pronger Mitis—The Jarge building on the river's edge in the souther® part of the city, built on public ground, has p freeof ground Tent and taxes into the handé of the Potomac Manufacturing Company of .the District of Co- Jumbia (the iron boom) and is being fitted up as a vast work shop. Rerorrer’s Notrs.—The Co-operative Asso- tion’s brick houses on Cameron street are cial completed.—aAn effort is being made to unite Tepublicans and readjusters on one county ticket.——Efforts are on foot to form a company to buy the steamer Mary Washington.— Next Monday further permits for the public schools Will be issued.—The oarsmen of the Old Do- minion club practice now every day.—The market people say the grass hereabouts is im- Piecing rely crtully. —— There have been high ‘ides lately, over! lowing some of the lowest wharves, but no damage. oe Funeral of Madame Bonay Bartimore, Mp., Sept. 1%—The funeral of Mrs. Susan May Bonaparte took place this fore- noon at the family residence, on Park street, Rey. J. C. Backus, ‘of the Presbyterian church, officiating. Admittance wag by card. The re- mains were intefred at London Park cemetery. peices 16.6 murder case, at New Haven yes- terday, Samuel R. Bunnell, a new witness, who ‘was acquainted by sight with both Jennie Cramer and James Malley, jr., testified that on day evening, at Savin Rock, he sav the two with an- other lady on the flying horses, zi The horses attached to a hearse in a funeral procession in Leadville ran away yesterday, and the coffin was thrown out the body, which was that of a lady, rolled outin the road. It was run over by the teams followed and was horribly trampied and mufflated. Divers are _pursi their--work daily this season over the wreck of the British man-of war Hussar, which lies off ‘Fort Morris, in vesnee county, New Yori. Rev. Campbello, canon of 8t.Peter’s cathedral, Rome, has abjured Catholieity"in the chapel of the Methodis 8. He says hig aetion was caused by the Pope's continued ho: to Italy. Dr. Joel Pomerine, surgeon @f Preside! Gar- field’s regiment, and widely wn Toranglieet the country, died yesterday at | Ohio, ot a disease contracted durt late war. ‘The annive: of Mexican was celebrated in Mexico by the inau- ee of public Won ireipinat the ‘count The ‘Tepublican rimaries %@t Ithies, N. Y. ‘Thuraday, resulted’ in a victdey for ex-Seuatot Conkling. He took an in the elec- In the piolleg continue the investigation of the charges against their testimony. axainst Evans, preferred eluded the little episode with the sister- to be comprised in thi might become attorneys for pestmasters of the amount due those officials. Souls’ church, has returned to the city.—The C. Kennedy and wife and daughter, Mrs. Morrison; Gen. Schenck and evening, much bopeored in health. He left for turned from Kentucky yesterday Washington News and Gossip. GoveRNMENT Receirts To-pay.—Internal rey- enue, $488,346.79; customs, $731,359.14. Tur TaLLaroosa left the League Island navy yard at 9:30 to-day for New York. Tue following was issued from the War de- partment to-day: To correct certain misappre- hensions existing as to the meaning of general orders (No. 44) it is ordered:—Theservicerifleand ammunition will be used in department, division and army contests. ‘Marksman’s rifles” will only be issued as prizes, three to each division team annually and three to the army team every alternate year. No “marksman’s rifles” have yet been made or issued. ‘Markeman’s rifles” when issued as “prizes” may be admitted in con- tests, as they will be suited to the service am- munition. The long-range rifles are not ‘“‘marks- man’s rifles,” and will be used for experimental purposes, but not in department, division or army teams. How THE News was Receivep.—The very un- favorable news from the President to-day cast @ gloom over ali the departments, and, in fact, over the entire city. The feeling, after the news that the President had had another rigor was received, was one of general despondency. In the reduced state of the President, the impres- sion is that he cannot withstand another relapse, and the public mind is almost prepared for the worst news. THE PeNsacota arrived at Panama midnight of the 4th, having touched at Acapulco for coal. The Richmond had not arrived and is not to be expected at Panama before the 20th. The offi- cers and men on the Pensacola are weil. WorkMeEN at the National Museum building are engaged in laying the border of the tiling in some of the unfinished rooms. These border tiles have just been received from the manutfac- turers. Army ORpERS.—The superintendent mounted recruiting service will forward 50 recruits to Fort Snelling, Minn., for assignment to the 2a caval Leave for eight months is granted | Captain Stephen G. “Whipple, Ist cavalry. | Leave for one year, from September 1, 1881, | is granted Capt. Thos. Drury, 2d infantry’ | On the mutual application of the officers con- | cerned, the following transfers in the 6th cay- alry are made: Second Lieut. Benjamin H. Chee- yer, jr.. from Troop G to Troop B: Second Lieut. ert S. Bailey, from Troop B to Troop G. lain Geo. W. Collier, U. , is assigned to | at Columbus barracks, Ohio, until October 31, 1881, Leave for one year, with permission to go beyond the sea, is granted First Lieut. Geo. B. Sage, 5th artillery. ATOR Hi.1’s Conpirio.—Information re- ceived here, in regard to the condition of Sen- ator B. H. Hill,"is to the effect that while the recent and second gperation performed in Phila- delphia for an affection of the tongue was tem- porarily a relief, apd satisfactory. in its i diate results, there has since be the worse. ‘There i will lose the pows First Assistant POSTMASTER Tyer has gone to Indiana for several weeks, and Second Assistant Postmaster General Elmer is now in charge of the department. THE Omtvovs E watched the Presiden that yester¢ and it was An —People who have closely calculated n day of his suffering, During Com- electric ELectar missioner Raum’s absence one of the cure men was put on the list to. pay taxes as a Medicus. He came on to Washington last night with his whole apparatus and lots of pawphlets. To-day he converted Commissioner Raum’s room into an electrical laboratory, and explained about his patent. He made ail sorts of electrical experiments and tests, with a view to showing that he should not be taxed. The electricity man also put in a word that he wanted to try his electrical apparatus on the President. POSTMASTERS COMMISSI — Commissions were sent to-day to the following postmasters at ed: H. C. Williamson, Wise | Wise county, and J. H. Dickenson, ‘s Mills, Russell county, Virginia; D. Newfound, Wyoming county, West Vir- © Ti. Focr AGAIs.—On and after Mon- day next the Interior department will resume its former hours of business, opening at 9 a.m. closing at 4 p.m. ins! of closing at three 48 now, except on Saturdays. The de- partment will close at 3 p.m. on Saturdays. Suppen DEaTH.—Mrs. W. R. Holloway, of In- dianapolis, a sister of Mrs. Senator Morton, and the wife of Col, W. R. Holloway, who is well known in Washington, died this morning at her home of typhoid fever. She was a very estima- ble lady, and during the latter years of Senator Morton’s life she was @ frequent visitor in this city, where she had a large circle of friends. Her death was very sudden. Tug Evans InvEsticatiox.—The solicitor’s office of the Treasury department did not to-day Majer Evans, of the collection division of the Sixth Auditor's office. mentioned in Tue Star last evening. No witnesses appeared. Notices were to-day sent out to several other people, who are expected to appear Monday to give | In that way the investiza-| tion will progress—three or four witnesses being examined daily until the list is closed. There is an evident reluctance on the part of | people who know to appear and testify. It was stated in Tue Star yesterday that the charges Mr. Lazenby, in- law ofa prominent post office official,and certain other irregularities. The ii larities are,it is learned, specifications of drunk- enness and the disclosure to parties that they Rey. Mr. Shippen, pastor of All PERSONAL. following Washingtonians were at the U. 8. Hotel, Saratoza, September 15: Judge Miller, U. 8.8. Court, and Mrs. Miller; Mrs. Franck Taylor; Major D. M. Taylor. U.S.A., and wife; Jos. G. Gen. W. M. Dunn, U.S.A., three daughters, F. B. McGuire and wife— Right Rey. Bishop Keane was in the city last Richmond last night.—Mrs. Gen. McClure re- 'y.—— Assistant Postmaster General “A.D. Hazen, Commodore Temple, Rear Admiral John J. Almy. T. x Condensed Locals, The trial committee of the Metropolitan | Police in the case of Private S. H. Reeder, @arzed with gross violation of the rules and Tegulations and conduct unbecoming a police- | man, found a verdict of guilty of the charges and recommended his dismissal, to take effect after the 2ist instant. The report has been adopted by the District Commissioners, and W. T. Harbison, station-keeper, promoted to fill the | place made vacant. An adjourned meeting will be held at Cosmo- politan Hall, next Wednesday evening, instead of Thursday, as heretofore stated, to perfect the organization of a new building association. A colored man named Anderson Williams, was charged by Mr. King, of the S. P.C. A., in the Police Court this morning, with working a horse, haying a trightful sore on its back. He = sent to jail for 60 days in default of a fine of | Tue National base ball club returned from | Richmond, Va., yesterday after a visit of three | days’ duration. “While there they played three | games, defeating the Richmonds twice. They | are well pleased with their trip, having received all the attention necessary to a pleasant time. Scores for three games as follows: ional 3, Richmond 1. tional 2, Richmond 11; National | 8, Richmond 7. Capt.-C. R. Vernon, of the metropolitan police, who has been quite ill, is reported as con- valescing. ——— The Vermont Avenue Christian Church. NEW BUILDING TO BE FRECTED. At a meeting this morning of the building committee of the Vermont avenue Christian church the treasurer reported the amount sub- scribed to the new church building up to the present time to be twenty-six thousand dollars. A resolution was passed to immediately proceed to have plans drawn for a new church building, to cost not less than thirty-five thousand dol lars. The following were elected as permanent trustees: Jas. A. Garfield, W. 8. Roose, A. K. Tingle, H.Clay Stier, Isaac Exrett, W. H. Lape, Jos. Smith, jr. ge The Yorktown Centennial. GONE TO NEW YORK. Mr. Win. Dickson, of the committee on proces- sion, leaves this evening for New York to meet a number of gentlemen for a consultation upon several new features to be introduced in the coming Yorktown festivities. He will return next week and report to the next committee meeting. TO MARCH FROM WASHINGTON TO YORKTOWN. Light battery A, 2d U. S. arti . Remington, under order from Gen. Hancock, will march from Washington barracks to York- town, where it will form a portion of the forces to take part in the centennial observances. The battery will move on the 20th instant, taking the best practicable route, and its march will be timed so that it shall reach Yorktown not later than October 8th. Assistant Surgeon Walter | Reed and Hospital Steward W. H. Dail, battery | B, are assigned to duty with the battery. ee p.—Capt. R. W. THe Micuican Rev FF Tyler, treasurer of the Michigan relief! commit- M. tee, yesterday afternoon reported to Hon. § Marble, president, the following contributio Treasury department, $928.55; Patent office. Pension office, $144; Land office. €130; | Indian office, Department of Justice a office of Sect = , $104; War partment, $81, and | Among the citizet contributed are the | 4 Middieton | $10; Britton & $10; Tyler & J.H.Squier, department from busin of Washing 35; M. George Henning, % Lansbur: Mrs. H. E. Guest, 5; D. | Loftus, $5; J. F. Johnson, $2: A. Saks & © | £2; William H. Dunn, $2; W. H. Hubbard, €2. Capt. Tyler yesterday forwarded to H. G. Bar- num, cashier of the First National Bank of Port Haron, and treasurer of the relief fund; a draft_on New York for $2,216.55. Mr. Geo. W. Driver has offered the use of his sammer garden to the committee for a benefit performance. Col Ainger has received a handsome screen and a | Japanese table, to be raffled for the benefit of the relief fund. ae A-Tenniric Storm 1x Facquier Co.—A letter received by a gentleman in this city from a friend living near the Plains, Fauquier county, Va., states that on Wednesday last a terrific wind and hail storm swept over that section, completely hing the cropsin its path. “The corn on y farms has been destroyed, and, as a sequel prices have suddenly advanced in and aroun that neighborhood. ——. THE Mart Bac Tac Fastener Case.—In the case of G. H. Fayman agt. James, Langley, and Sheridan—bill to amend assignment of letters atent, fur account and for an injunction filed in May last, answer of Gen. Sheridan has been filed ‘ubpeena to testify issued to Langley. Sheridan, in his answer, calls attention to ‘scandalous allegations * * * in refer- ence to using unlawtul and improper influence to affect the acts of a public officer,” and denies the charge. Sixgine Funp Estimates For 1883.—Es- timates of appropriations required by the commissioner of the District sinking fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1883, has just been received by the District Commissioners rom U. 8. Treasurer Gilfillan, as follows: For interest and sinking fund on the funded debt, exclusive of water bonds, $1,213,947.97; curreat expenses for sinking fund office, including con- tingent expenses, $2,700. The report states that the estimate does not vary from the amounts from the current fiscal year except in one item, for salary for Treasurer of the United States, commissioner of the sinking fund acting as treasurer of the sinking fund, for which an appropriation is estimated of one thousand dol- lars in accordance with the provision in the act of March 8, 1875 (whieh act is quoted). Tus Cunistiancy Rospery.—There has been no clue as yet to the perpetrators of therobbery of diamonds from ex-Minister Christiancy at the National hotel yesterday morning, that the pub- lic can get hold of. The idea that the thief fol- lowed Mr. Christiancy from New York is not entertained, as a robbery could have been per- petrated much easier and with more safety on the train than at the hotel. Tue Nationa Farr.—At the meeting of the directors of the National Fair Association last evening, a resolution was adopted inviting Gen. G. B. Loring, the Commissioner of Agriculture, and Hon. J. C. G. Blackburn, to deliver the ad- dresses at the fair, commencing October 10 and closing the 15th. —>___ eee The Courts. Propate Covrt—Judge Wylie. Friday, the will of Reuben Alexander Phillips and Sarah A. Longer and Bilizabeth Herbert were filed for probate. Willof Marcia Houns- O. Selfridge and Pay Inspector F. C. UL S.N., are in New York.— Bishop Wightman. proving the .E. Chureh South, is in imy child; decree granting yee as to per- 80) to L. Schade; bond $200. Will of Cath- enschmidt; let: nenschmidt; bond $1,600. Catherine A. Reed | court, called on the }u | the soldiers. The section by car | to $2 per bushel, an unusually them. gave himself up tothe police last nig! he had murdered his wife because she was unfaithful to him. granted C. W. Son- | tuck A Conflict of Authority. ALL ON ACOOUNT OF 4 CIRCUS. Crxctynati, 0., Sept. 17.—A_Lonteville Cours ter-Journal special from. Ky., ape: A few weeks since the city council raised the clr cus license from €35to #70. This Forepaugh, the proprietor of a circus, refused to pay, and rented grounds just out of the city. Th oun cli then passed ‘an ordinance prohibiting him m was from unloading in the city. An injunct obtained and an order served on restraining him from interfering w loading of the show. This order M refused to obey, and with the police endeavored to stop the unfoading. Sheriff Hawkins seeing he was powerless to enforce the order of the governor for aid. He promptly ordered Cay to report to the sheriff with the MeCreery Guards. «This he did, and when the militia arrived at the depot Mayor Taylor still refused to allow them to unload, and jot was imminent. He said he would shoot first man who attempted to take a wagon the train, He was carried by from he scene and the street taken posse of by cars were unloaded and a parade took place. The military will remain on guard until the cirens leaves town. = Wall Street To-day, New York, Sept. 17.—The Post's financial ar- ticle (1:40 p.m.) says:—“ At the stock exchan, United States bonds are i lower for all the issues. State bonds are ‘4 lower for Tennessee és, and railroad bonds are irregular, bat gener ally higher, the advance ranging from 1, cent. The share speculatic livelier than of 5 ng been Hanni- bal and St. Joe preferred, which has advanced to 121 from 113!g, and the trunk line stocks, of which Lake Erie and New York Central have | advanced 247 each, Michigan Central 24, Erie 134, and Canada Southern %. The rise in Han nibal and St. Joe preferred is due to the feat that there is @ ‘corner’ in that stock as well as in the common, for which latter there ism quotation to-day. The rise in the trank line shares is due to reports that the railroad war will be settled next week. These reports would be little heeded were it not that several influ- ential railroad men are now known to have bee. yesterday and to-day buying the trunk line Stocks. ‘There is less doing in Western Union Telegraph than yesterday, and the stock is rather firmer than then. The notably strong stocks after those named haye been Missoui Pacific, which advanced 18, Denver and Rio 135, the coal s Tala, Milwaukee St. Paul, Union Pacitic and Wabash 1g, and St. Paul and Omaha lali¢. Rock Island is also up Lg. In the money market a6 per cent is the quotation for call and time loans and prime mercantile paper. Old World News by Cable, THE COTTON Loxpox, Sept. chester yester mously fa: for am s stopped, lent of two th running only thre during such time as the spin vided manufacturers to the inde of the looms are willing to adopt that course. BISMARCK AND HK VATIC A dispatch from Rome to the Standard says that an envoy will go to Varzin nit te Prince Bismarck a list ofbishops, which the Va- tican proposes to nominate in the place of Cardi- nal Mieasslau Ldochowsky. UE CONVENTION. In the Irish national con vention, Mr. on read a telegram, stating that the Illinois branch of the land league passed a resolution declaring that the land bill is a papable travesty of the indefensible right of the Irish people to the ownership of the felds they cultivate. TH Loxpox, Sept. 1 more, presided at Conference to-day. the opium Dori ICAL. COUNCI Bishop Pay the Methodist nning dum calling om he addendum. ebureh, read a Methodism abre _— A Georgia Vendett Ga.. Sept. 17.—Near Powder aunty, there occurred a horrible on ‘Friday morning. For years there has been an old feud between the Mitchell and Cooper families. They live on adjacent farms. On Friday Cooper discovered the Mitchells driving his chickens from his corn field. This renewed the bitter feeling and a fight was the result. Cooper was armed with a shotgun, and instantly Mitchells and mortally wounded anot! per was badly cut with knives, and his great Jeopardy. All the parties are well known and highly ree spectable. The affair has caused the wildest excitement. ee The Shooting at Creedmoor. CreepMoor, L.1., Sept Th day is clear, with an 0 good clear light for the state match No. now beivz shot. The skirmishers’ match No. 10 will be shot this aficrnoon, at half-past twe o'clock. —_—_» Charles Smith's Double Crime. Boston, Sept. 17.—Charles Smith, who was reported last night to have shot his wife, near Rockland, Maine, was found on investigation to have first shot Mrs. Robbins, his wife's mother. He attempted to kill Mrs. Metcalf, an old woman living in the house, but she, taking with her her two children, escaped. The murderer entered the room where his infant boy lay sleeping, and shot him twice in the mouth, killing him in- stantly. Se es Landed in the Woods. Brockvi..x, N. . .—Miss McBain, who made an ascensi ina balloon from Red- wood, N. ¥., yest ded in the woods 2g miles west of hb balloon caught ine tree top, but Miss McBain got safely to the earth. > ‘eather in Towa Curcaco, Sept. 17.—Unusually cou weather has been reported from Des Moines and other parts of Towa for several days, Snow fell all along the Rock Island road, between De Sota, twenty miles west of here and in Nebraska. Ie was two inches in depth at Omaha. The tops of the cars on the Rock Istand road on arriving here last night, were covered with snow. The weather is cloudy and very cold for the season. Scarcity of Potatoes. Frenotp, N. J., Sept. 17.—Owing to the great scarcity of potatoes in the western portion of Pennsylvania, they are being shipped from this shippers paying from $1.50 high for “ arate Telegraphic Briefs, Charles Smith, of Rocktand, Me., a laborer, , saying An explosion of a boiler in Card & Co.'s saw mill near Monroe, Jasper county, lowa, caused the instant death of E. N. Garnant, and’ fatal in- jury to M. L. Card. The Belgian steamer Daniel Stienmann, from Boston for Antwerp via New York, misjudged her distance from land, and ran ashore at two o'clock this morning, on West Chop, off Vine- yard Haven, Mass. A fire broke out early this morning from some unknown cause on the fourth floor of No. 81 phy, an employe of the Nanga- Railroad Company. slipped from the foot- beard of an engine on the switch at Bridz town, last evening, while engaged in swit letters | ears, and was instantly killed.