Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1882, Page 5

‘Water Supply Question. ‘The National Fair Association. PROVISIONS OF THE BILL. REPORTED TO THE SENATE | THE QUESTION OF POSTPONING THR ANNUAL EX- 7 ‘YESTERDAY. ‘The bill reported to the Senate yesterday by Mr. Harris, cheirman of the District committee tor the extension of the Potomac water works, of which a drief synopsis was given In yesterday's Star, di- ects the Secretary of War to have madea survey ‘and map of the land necessary to extend the Aque- uct from its present terminus to the high grounds Rorth of Washington,near 6th street extended,and Of the Iand nec*ssiry for a reservolr of a capacity Rot less than 300,000,000 gallons, and a like sur- ‘vey and map of the land necessary for a dam across the river at Grert Falls, and necessary for the extension ot am. And When these sur- veys and maps shi been completed the Sec- Fetary of War and Attorney General shall pro- ceed to acquire titles to the land necessary, either by private contract or by contemnation’ the land for the extension of the dams De acquired by private contract the § tary of War and the Attorney General are authorized and may, in their discretion, compromise, settle and adjust with the owner oF owners of suid lands and water rizuts all. ques- tions of dameges claimed by seid purties by re: Bon of the erection of the present. dam and th diversion of water from the channel t that pots Section 2 8 and direct cretary War to extend t x3 eintet from Its present t ams to th t point a million Pssaty connections Btreet cx mi tO cor 3 than Jso to construc jay such main to adequate reat Falls to xtenl it across Conn’s ; and to ris the emban! rand canal above nal trom flooding, ction of | ereinaiter appropri that purpose, ites for tie work the following Sums, or may be ary: To | ny for jnedut, £51,370; for ex- snsion of nded, $599.— 534.55; for scary ms, $115,400 to pay for ‘oF reservoir, $35,250; for Werk ai Material in con-tructing reservoir vad gate house, $81: to pey for water rt nd land neces- sary fo extend dim at Great Fails, $35,000; to pro- tect the Uh @ and Oho canal from in Baoding ‘by reason of completin, ‘The bili went to the calendar, Up by 3 possibie Affairs on the Virginia WEATHEM NOTES—CKOOKED POLITICS AND THR RE BULTS—GETTING DISCOURAGED ABOUT A FREE BRIDGE—BAD SHOW FOR PEACHES. Correspondence of Tae EVENIsG STAR. Fats Cuvncn, Va., April 17th, 1882. ‘Weather, weather. What weather? All last | summer, fall, winter, and thus far this spring, there has been nothing but weather of the most extraordiniry character, ofextremes, So far this year ali the storms clear off cold. His congre- tion with his | son of Dr. Lester Lloyd, of this | rthe Isthmus of Darien, In the —if I remember Ly—the Tehaunte- | ‘acific Ocean K-R. He fs to work on the ssle work for tunneling. i Our readjustersolons Seem to be demonstrating | that the course of crooked polities cannet run | smoothly st Last. ave given up all freest nation on 3 to continue to toll the tal. The owners of a big paying toll bridge appear | to have a good deal of power In Congress. If potatoes are a crop th 1 look out. for them at from 3 cents to # cents per bushel. New comers are here looking frequently for houses to rent. Mr. Nathan Lynch, Ike the man tn scripture, “married a wife"here on Thursday evening last in the person of Miss Sallie Walker. Nathan was thouzht to be a first rate fellow even before he 0k to following seriptural examples. The peaches, alas, the peache: LSA grinded cee “Higoto’s” Review. ‘WHAT THE NEW YORK SUN'S STOCK CRITIC THINKS OF LAST WEEK'S WALL STREET. ‘There was practically no market for stocks last ‘week, and there will probably be none for another two months, till the prospects of the crops both at home and abroad are fully established. Habituay stock gamblers have been beaten beth ways. They Jost money when they went long; they lost money ‘When they went short. The attempt to entice the | Outside public into the market by official state- ments of Gould, Vanderbilt, and Field was a Signal fallure.” The great gamblers showed no | Saying power. ‘They their chips too soon, | the smali fry ran as soon as they discovered | that they were left to play against thelr own Stakes only. Three weeks ago there was not man on the road, from Shepherd Knapp and Foster Dewey down to the smallest stable bo, Who had not some Lake S! stoek bougist | uyee points which the Great U ed di-trib- uring his afternoon drives. To-day they | areal! out with pockets clear d of money and Mouths filled with bad I Projessionl dealers, wo are anxious to swim with the cur- Tent, and who took to Western Union, Mis Pacific, Denver, Wabash and other spec | fared in no way better. They have all lost, i they Will all require time to recoup both cour: and cash, and unt! tained by a large foreizn dewmand or fhally by a panic, will probably remain for many weeks to come the most dismsi place of bustness trans- actions upon this ¢ per ‘will be the only ones left to play, and they never Play anything Dut a scalping game of 3g or 1 per cent By June or July, however, the game fs sure to be Fesumed, forone of the curious features of Wall Street Is ‘the fascination ft exercises over Its vic~ tims. The habit of speculating comes back like gout—periodically. A frugal diet drives the latter away, and an empty purse dissipates the former for the Ume being. But bottle of port wine or a 2d dank accotint brings ack the disease. A jew Yorker seems to inherit a taste for stock ‘ulation, just as an English ‘squire inherits e gout. "Every one who has any connection Frith the Street is thoroughly conversant with this t ‘Tune are eleven columns of new advertisements in ‘Tar Brak to-day, equal to neatly two paces of the Paver, ‘The total nimber is 200, being the larcest num= ever printed in one day in the history of Tur Stax. Evening Star, Ayzil 1. ‘THE Stax is to be congratulated on {ts increas- Ing business, which 1s well deserved. In this com nection {t may not be out of place to state that the Rew advertisements contained in the last issue of the Sunday Heraid fall only about one column of ‘Tur Stan's space short of eleven columns. It will thus be seen that the Sunday Herald ts also recetv- ing Its share of business. A good paper that looks. Out for the interests of the community and prints ‘the news will command the circulation in tts fleld, and will in the end receive the patronage of intel- Bgent advertisers.—Sunday Herald, “ ——see- ‘THE FORD BROTHERS CONVICTED, SENTENCED AND PAkposeD.—Dispetehes from Missouri state that the Ford brothers, who killed Jesse James, Were indiet-d for murder yesterday, brought into court, pieaded cuflty,were sentenced to be hanged May ish and Were Subsequently granted au un- conditions! pardon by Gov. Crittend ORIENTAL INDIFFERENCE TO Livk.—It needs a| very long time and much bitter experience to | feach the European how lightly an Oriental stakes | Ils life, how quietly he pays forfeit when he los=s. | Be tt a suvace foe or a remorseless climte against | ‘Which he pliys, the low class Hindoo will wager | @eath and torment for afew copper coins. Thad a Dheestie in that war, who was Invailded tor | frogt-bite, and probably lost both of his feet, while | all the time he was carrying in bis knapsack the | good English boots and long warm stockings Thad given bim. Thess he meunt to seli, putting them ‘On only when sure of seeing me; but he waited to secure a greater price. And he trampd barefoot, he in cotton clothes, when the thermometer Jail below zero, until he sacrificed his limbs, haps his ive.” Playing the same stakes against | @ human enemy, the Hindoo ts still more reckless, Beigraria. Wail street, unless su: —Perhaps, In the Evror: ‘at France and Germany. In both these countries is a regular tariff for the visits of medical Practitioners, ofven—nay, generolly—exceeded by Fich patieats, but affording a guarantee aguinst er. It ts also a satis- erally to know ex- 1 pay When calling in & ‘point or medical etiquette in Norn Gemeene o ical etiquette in Nort TmaAny. Bxcept in cases of severe tliness, when dally at. tendance {3 absolutely necessiry, a doctor never repeats a visit. He must be requested to do so. custom has tts advantages, as it will often oo omhag cases of slight tllness that a single visit It wnedical fees are too high with us, they are too low in Germany and France, 2 marks and 2. a visit.) excepting, of course, fn’ the fashiona- tering. Whither none but rich folks Must betake themselves.—Letter to the Pall Malt ———___+¢._ es Bosrox axp Irs Mivisrexs.—Offer a clergyman other public man salary enouzh to live on and is easy to get him to come to Boston. They all ‘Wish to do so, and their wives even more so. 43 why St. Paul’s church secured the Rev. Fred— erick Courtney, of Chicago, so easily; why Holts street got the ‘Rev. H. B. Carpenter, and why Ar- Bngton strect is to have the Rev. Brooke Hertord. Robert Collyer will come by and by. As rector of St. Paul's, Mr. Courtney: wit City, a brilliant reputation for elo- generally regarded asa growi nishman by birth, an Americon Dy r- | rs’ fees, It might be well to glance | ‘HIBITION DISCUSSED, BUT NOT DECIDED—STATE- MENTS AS TO THE CONDITION AND NEEDS OF THE ASSOCIATION—AN ADJOURNED MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLDERS, An adjourned meeting of the stockholders of the National Fair Assocation was held last night at Vernon Row, the president, Mr. James S, Edwards in the chair, and Mr. J. C. Rock, secretary. The chair, in calling the meeting to order, stated that the principal ebject for meeting was to continue the discussion as to whether the board of managers shovld hold a fair the coming autumn, and also to discuss the important matters as to what the association will do to some current debts, settie up for some pre- miums awarded at the last fair, and to meet about $1.50) Interest on the funded debt in May . He sald the old indebtedness had nearly all been paid. There was about $900 now due be- sides the May Interest, and some few premiums, for which the assoctation have no funds In hand: He said that there was $25,000 of the stock yet unsold. If they can get throuch the rub of {his spring they will go all right In the future. The funded debt will be about $50,000, and 1t will Tequire about $3,000 annually to meet the Interest. Mr. Holmes mnoved thatthe action taken by the board of directors, at the list meeting, to hold a fair during the coming year be endorsed by the stockhold: A member asked ff any money had ever been out of any of the fairs, McKibben explained that the first fair held Satd If the stockholders will come up and’ con- tribute their means and moral support he would say “go abe: bs Mr. Holmes explained why the two last fairs had been faflures. One was held during an excit— ing presidential campaign, und the other when the nation was in grief over the assassination of the President. Dr. Magruder thourht they could best get out of the present difficulty by having a running meet- ing im May. In speaking of the causes of faflures in the past Dr. Magruder sald the character of females who Visited the grounds “had driven away the respect- able pul Mrz Mills Dean offered a resolution that tt 1s the ens? of this meeting that It is inexpedient to hold ir this year. 1. G. Weller spoke fn favor of a fair this A advocated the offering of small pre- im ums. Mr, Jolin R. Kelly took the ground that the mat- trot hoiding fair rested, by express terms of Jaws, with the board of directors, and sald © stockholders had nothing to do with the mat- Ifthe stockholders are to decide as to hold- afairhe was in favor of giving notice of a the by-laws, So as to make their author- y binding. Mr. Brown'ng hoped the stockholders who favor iding the fair this year would show thelr faith by thelr works and come up with money to ald the project Mr. William Dickson said there appeared to be mitch apatiy among the business men of the city. > elted the apathy existing everywhere about fairs, and sald the project of holding a world’s fair 1h New York had practically been abandoned. ‘The gveat fair in Philadelphia had been a financial f.fture. He could see nothing to be gained by holding a fair in this city. They must devise some now ineans of attraction, as the old beaten paths | hat become irksome. Mr. Kelly held thata falr would cost no more than a troiting meeting, Mr. Weller and Mr. Wm. R. Smith were in favor 9¢ postponing further dis mn and leaving the le subject to the board of directors, Mr. Edwards made a motion that when this meting 2djourn it be to meet the 29th of May. He explvined tht he did this with the view of meet- ing this emerzency of paying the interest due at thit time. He thought the stockholders were too indifferent. The board of directors were powerless Without the material support of the stockholders, at he wanted most was to mect the interest on ‘bt and save their splendid property from be- ing sold. Mr. Browning argued that the condition of the association and its prospects were better than it had ever been, Mr. B. F. Crabbs safd the importers’ tea compa- ny had taken more money out of this city than Was necessary to meet all the Interest and other expenses. It looked like child's play to discuss so trivial a question with so much gravity. Mr. Edwards made another appeal for funds, and said he would lead off with a $100 subscription to the notes of the assovlation. The following sums were then Immedately subscribed, some for st: and others for the three years 6'per cent. notes: P. H. Christman, $100; Weller & Repettl, $100; Benj. F. Crabbs, $60: J.’ C. McKibben, $100; John R. Kelly, $100; Geo. Holmes, $0; John P. Hamlin, #20; Matthew Goddard, $20; Dr. Lloyd Magruder, $20; F. M. Draney, $10; W. R. Smith, $10; John Shinnahan, $20. Col. Blackburn safl ft was not a question as to whether they can hold a fair, but as to whether tiey will holt one. He spoke of the a Sources of this District for holding attractive fairs at any time tt was necessary. Mr. Smith favored postponing the question. Mr. J. ©. Rock favored holding the falr. He had no fears but that the owners of the stock would come up to the ald of the managers. ‘The public oF the District of Columbia has got to be educated up to these annual fairs, the same as they had 1) the north, in the west, and are now being In the south, A motion to postpone the discussion of this ques- ton until the meeting 29th May was adopted, and the meeting adjourned. —— The Garfield Memorial Church, THE EDIFICE TO BE BUILT ON VERMONT AVENUE THIS BEASON—A DESCRIPTION OF THE PLANS, ETO. The congregation of the Christian church (Campbellite), on Vermont avenue, between N and © streets northwest,of which denomination the late President Garfleld was a communtcant, are about erecting on the site of their present frame build- ing a flue building as a memorial to the late Presl- dent. It will be remembered that after the elec- tion of Mr. Garfield, and when, with his family, the President worshipped there, the congregation grew rapidly, and steps were taken towards the erection of a’new edifice. The pastor, Rev. F. D. Power, assisted by Rev. Dr. Errett, of Cincinnatt, and other ministers, called on the communicants throughout the country for pecunlary assistance. WHAT MR. GARFIELD 8ATD ABOUT IT. President Garfield took great interest in this project, and in the winter of ’60 and 81 wrote as follows as to the enterprise:—“In regard to the new church building in Washington, Tam glad to learn that the work 1s to be undertaken, and, in answer to your inquiry, beg leave to offer but one Suggestion, and that is that our brethren do not undertake to build too large a house. Let us keep within our means, and also avold anything like ostentation, either in size or decoration, Let it be a neat, modest church, of undersize rather than of overs! ‘The assassination of the President in July last caused the project to flag for a time, but after the oe - Mr. Garfield the congregation determined erect A MEMORIAL CHURCH Such as should be an ornament to the capital of the nation and a credit to the denomination. Tne building committee—Messra. W. 8. Roose, J. F. ‘Scum, H. C. Stier, Jacob B. Thomas, and J.K. Ten- ner—were continued for this purpose. This com- inittee has recently determined on the plan of the chureh, accepting that of R. G. Russell, of New Haven, Connecticut, and a sufficient amount of money having been'subseribed the comunittee 1s engaged in receiving bids. THE WORK TO BE ‘COMMENCED AT ONCE. It fs the intention of the committee to have the butlding commenced at once and completed, 1 possible, ere the close of the season. While the work 1s In progress on the new building the con- gregation will worship in the frame church which will be removed toa lot on 14th above N, the use of which has been given by Mr. J. F. Gimstead. The cost of the new edifice will be in ‘the neigh Dorhood of $10,000, and the plans contemplate a structure of th? gothic order, fronting 70 feet on Vermont avenue running back about 120 feet. It will be built of selected red brick, laid in Diack mortir with Ohio and Seneca stone trimmings and the front will be quite handsome with three entrances—one in the tower on the southeast corner, which is to be surmounted by a graceful spire rising to a height of nearly 150 feet. In the center of the tower will be a circular window with five smaller ones Immediately beneath, and three near the top, all of the best quality cathedral glass ‘The audi: ence room ts to be 64 by 6 feet, the ground floor containing about 100 pews, seating 490 persons, and the gallery in the east ¢nd seating 135 more, making & totil seating capacity of 635. At the west end will be the platform for the pulpit ana the baptistry. This room will be lighted by five windows on each side. In the rear of this room Is the chapel, 27 by 50 feet, with entrance from the auditorium and from a walk on the north side ot the edifice. An infant-class room will occupy the ges conser the buildi ane et ae chapel room pastor's - ee with convenient book-cases, closets ae, Will be located. Over this study and a mM of the chapel will be the church parlor, 2 by 27 feet. The hamber of communicants at the present time 1s about 325. es Bask Batt. Yesreupav.—At Cincinnati—Cleve- lands, 7; Cincinnatt, 4; 11 imnings. At Pittsburg- Buffaios, 10; Allegni & “At Philadelphi Worcesters, ‘3; Philadel 2; Athletics, uaker City. 8. At New Metropolitans, 18; jncetons, 9. 4 ‘Tue Pracu Cxor.—Mostot the peninsular Togally and. edteori- p upon have someting to say, both. ally, about the effect of last week's cold snap u| Ltracted considerable attention by his ——— in St. Thomas’ church, or years ago, and went rather | at ‘the peach buds. The general conclusion drawn 1s that if the buds escape any further damay Was nearest a success of any, but even that one had not been too much. ap: kholders, and thought tha nt funded indebtedness | 6¢ $51,000, with a probable additional amount to be added from each fair, they should go slow. He 2d Edition. adlest Telegrams {0 The Star. Wall Street To-Day. New York, April 18.—The P+ ss financial article 8138: At the Stock Exchange United States bonds continue strong, but there Is no confirmation of the report that Mr, Vanderbilt is, buying more of ioe 4s snd 414s; it 1s possible, of course, that he | | may and yet there be no visible prov: . Southern state bonds are a «ton le er or Tennessees, and otherwise lower. R. K bonus, sulle irregular, are generally low: In the market for the speculative shares’ dapres- ~.01 ts the chief feature. ‘The weakest stoc! 8 have been the Vanderbilt and the coal shares, Western Union ‘Telegraph and Missourl Pacific, each (f watch has +0! at the lowest price for a long time. The Vanderbilt followlng are now openly “bears$? {2° professioaal traders: remain “bears,” and the “street” generally is either “bearish? or non- committal. Such domestic buying as there 1s on “ong accouat” 1s chicfly on “scale orders” and apjarently not with the view of any important upward turn In the market at present, except in cise It be:oms oversold. ‘The money market con- very easy at 8 tod per cent for call loans on 3, aid 243 per cent on U.S, bonds. Time loans On stocks are easily obtainable at 4 per cent. Prime mercantile paper 1s 5a5ig per cent. Some of the prime drawers of sterling this morning ad- vanced their posted rate for to-day’s bills to 4873, oters continuing 487. Jay Gould En Route to Nebrask: St. Louis, Mo., April 18—Jay Gould, ‘wife, daughter and party lett here for Kansas City this morning en route to Nebraska. ee A Sudden Death in Court. New York, April 18.—Jennle O'Brien, aged eigh- teen, whose’ parents reside at Saratoga, was ar- Testéd last night charged with burglary from the Sturtivant House, When in the prisoner's box of tie Jefferson Market police court, previous to being arraigned before the justice, she seemed very ex- c:ted, wept coptously, and finally became uncon- scious, in which condition she died. Be es Sale of a Newspaper. Rocursrer, N. Y., April 18—The Kvening Ey- Dress was sold at sheriff's sale to-day, E. Kirke ‘Mt ond George Eliwanger being the purchasers for $20,000. ‘The franchises and good will are to be Sold on the 27th inst, ee A Big Book Sale. New York, April 18.—The semleannual trade Sule of books, Stereotype-plates, and stationery commenced to@ay and will continue during the Week, nearly 1,000,000 books being offered for sale. Among the firms represented were Tibbals & Sons, Baker, Pratt 4 Co., C. F. Dillingham, Lee & She; hard, J. B. Lippincott and others.’ Twenty vol- umes of Thomas Paine’s works brought 49 cents per volume, and ten volumes of his complete works, ‘Were sold at 95 cents per vol. Twenty vols. of the Ted-line ed. of Milton’s poems brought 5734 c. per vol. ——+___ Held to Trial for Shooting a Woman. HarnispurG, Pa., April 18.—Charles Walters, ac- cused of shooting and killing Elmira White on tne second of February last, was given a hearing this morning and was held for trial ‘The shot is sup- Posed tv have been accidentally fired. janet Ee, ‘The Strike at Reading. Reaprn, Pa., April 18—The superintendent of the Reading cotton mill, in which the em- ployes refused to go to’work this morning, says the order for a reduction came from New York, and was made in order to have the Wages contorm to those paid at the Cohoes and Warbinger Falls mills, New York, operated by the same estate. The strike originated among the boys in the spinning and carding room, who, to tie number of about 60, refused to work yester- day, and who were’ joined in the " alter- noon by the girls In the weaving department. The mill ran as usual with a reduced force until last night. It was thought other hands could be procured and the mil continued, but so quictiy and well was the strike organized that it was found necessary to close the works. The strikers say they will not return to work until their terms are complied with, which 43 that the wages, be kept as t present,’ About 250 employes are thus tarown out of work, whose wages aggregate about $5,000 per month, —__——___ Destructive Fires. Brrpaeronr, pril 1%,—At abont quarter Pp broke out in the carpen- ter shop occupied by 8. B. Squires and Burr Curtis, and, despite the efforts of the fire department, the building was soon consus Mancuester, N. J., April 18—A large tene- ment house, owned by John Torrey, and contain- ing seven families, caugat fire Sunday night from burned to the ground. pril 18.—The zine works and st Providence, both of which ted for some time, were burned a dwelling house in E had been unoceu: known. | The property was owned by the heirs of Archibald MeMartin. Catxo, ILt., April 18.—At three o'clock this morn- Ing a fire broxe out in Bell & Halliday’s box fac- tory, and entirely consumed the building. A three story boarding house on the opposite side of the sirest Was also burned. Bell & Hailiday’s loss 1s reported at $25,000, partially Insured, A small boy, nimed Logan Yarbee, who roomed atthe boarding house, is reported to have heen burned to death. A ‘Timber Fire in New Jersey. LoxG BRancu, N. J., April 18.—A fire was started ina cranberry bog, south of Eatontown, yesterday, afternoon, to burn off old bushes, and the flames spread s¢ rapidly thet they sct fire to a strip of pine woods destroying timber worth $6,000 or $7,000. ————— ‘Woman Murdered by a Saloon Keeper. New Yonx, April 18.—Michael MeDay, of Cherry street, wien arraigned to-day in the tombs police court on a charge of intoxication, asserted that he witnessed the murder of a woman named Mary O’Sherry in a hallway at No.7 Mulberry street last night by James Devenny, a saloon keeper, who he alleged kicked her to death while she was under the influence of liquor. Devenny was ar- rested and arraigned in court. He is 45 years old, and the proprietor of a low drinking saloon where the woman O’Sherry was murdered. The woman was a vagrant, about fifty years of age. She en- tered Devenny’s saloon, and after having a drink Tetused to pay for it. Devenny, it 1s alleged, pushed her into the hallway and kicked her in thé abdomen, from the effects ‘of which she died in- stantly. "Devenny was held to await the result of the inquest. ——s———_. The New York Fire Last Night. New York, April 18.—The losses at the fire at Nos. 201, 203 4nd 205 William street, last night, are as follows: David Valentine, owner of the bulld- ing, loss, $10,000; Insurance, $10,000. Simpson & Weght, loss not yet estimated; Insurance, $7,500. L, Naumann, druggist; loss about $800; insurance, $3,000. Walker, ‘Tuthill & Bresnan;’ insurance, $12,000; loss not estimated, but supposed to be con- siderably more than the insurance, pina Telegraphic Briefs. H. G. Lantz, of Pittsburg, while endeavoring to bowrd a moving freight train on the Pennsylvania railroad, at Lancaster, this morning, was thrown under the train and fatally injured. James Clifford, a lawyer of Philadelphia, charged with embracery in attempting to influence a juror in connection with the Kennedy trial, was before the court this morning, and was held to answer at tue next term of court. ‘There are no indications of a general strike of miners in the Clearfield, Pa., coal region. ‘There are about 300 men employed at the seven mines on the Campbel’s branch ratiroad, near Philipsburg, and the majority of other miners are sald to be averse to a strike. — The Markets. BALTIMORE, April 18.--Vinginia 6e console, 6934: do. ‘second series, 36: do. past due coupons, 62; do. new ten-forties, 44%; bid to-day. BALTIMORE, April 18.—Cotton iteaily—middling, 12hal2h._ Flour active and unchanged. Whont, south: ern higher; western hicher and active, closing’a shade easier—couwthern red, 1.4! do. amber, 1,581.66; No. 1 Marsland, 1 ‘6dai. 2 western’ April, 1. 1.4744: July, 1.24 low, 92; western mi ny, 8734 8 ‘bid; June, A 88 asked. Oais dull’ pts—southern, 61a 63; western white, Gla 1; Pennsyl- do. 5 yania, G0a63., steady, 1 00. Hi hanged and Brine’ ‘Provisions ayaa’ aha withost’ ebange. * Borer dull and ; roll, 20a: z 8. 17. us-W page octane aia Sees dra oth 0, copra rehned guise, Tei: way nil unchanged. Reociptsflour, 8, 648 barrels: wheat, 15,218 bushels; corn, 9,810 bushels; oat, 9.246 ‘bushels: "Balce—wheat, "707,679 bushels; corn; Ce orig NEW YORK, April 18.—Flour firm and quiet. ‘Unsetiled—cash and early mouths Earn uneetisd ond Weis tent loose vor frm and a BO et Te onde, 4 is :30 pom. —U. FT A eg Rin tenon at meee eae ivania 2 extern, 26%. Milwaukie and Ste Paul Common, 413. : sor ccliais dashes DETAILED TO THE WuITs Hovae.—Officer Stephen L. Kearney has been detalied to duty at the I~ dent's House again, Kearney was for many years at the President's House, and was sentaway Trom there about two years ago. He is tho ofiicer who gave three passing shots at glars who broke into Mr. R. and bursted the safe open. tais morning. The loss is $10,000; Insurance un- | PROCEEDINGS IN THE COURT TO-DAY. To-day, in the Criminal Court, Judge Wylle, in the case of Angustus C. Soteldo, charged with the murder of A. M. Seteain, end manatengter, the deren q risty, his counsel, a tnocion borqeean ther indictment in the iatter case. eee ae ereeeeind iy has and an exception Mr. Christy then inquired as to the amount of ball which would be sald he had intended iret Papanbrnd cain; case early. Mr. Christy Srepiled that he would need some time to re for trial and procure his witnesses. ict attorney then stated that he woul call the case on Thursdsy of next week. —_>_—_ ‘tne District Goverament Affairs. Buliding permits issued by Inspector Entwistle: eo repair brick, 1314 V street northwest; ‘A NEEDED AMENDMENT:TO THE CRIMINAL LAWS. At tho suggestion of Judge Snell the District Commissioners have forwarded to the chairmen of the District committees of both houses of Con- gress a draft of a Dill prepared by Judge Snell to meet such cases of burglary as occurred a few mornings ago at Fleming’s carpenter shop. The Dill 1s “to punish breaking and entering banks, snops, stores, and other Buildings in the District olumbla with intent to commit larceny or any felony therein, and makes the punishment by im- prisonment Lot less ‘than one nor more than ten Years. RIVER TRape.—Harbormaster Sutton reports arrivals at the river {font as follows:—Schr. B. Olivent, Conkling, 50,000 feet lumber, Willett & Libbey? schr. Wm. R. Huston, Crowley, 1,000 tons ice, Great Falls Ice Co.; str. Sue, Geoghegan, with frelght, Stephenson & Bros.; str: Norfolk, Lawson, merchandise, Johnson Bros.; schr. Agnes, Smith, 210 tons coal for dealers; schrs. George and Mar- tha, Mary Shea, Richard Lacy and Caroline, with cord wood for dealers; Schrs. Sallie Gibson, Sarah Jane and B. F. Marsh, with oysters for dealers; str. G. W. Pride, fish for Wm. E. Stewart; str. Kate and Wm. Yates. pungy, Coral MeKenny, schrs. Mary Rebecca and John Francis, with fish for. A. Golden. Steamer Kate, Kills; steamer Wm. Gai Childs, and_schooner Ragan, all with fish for R. Golden. Steamer Pride, Peddingill, fish for Wm. E. Stewart. Pungy Charite and John Wililams, with oysters for market. Schooner John J. Brady, 27 tons coal for John Miller. Schooner Mary A., 172 tons coal, Stephenson Bros. Longboat Ada Lee, 30 cords wood, Carter. gia adh Some EXcITEMENT was caused at the Corcoran building about 1:45 o'clock this afternoon by the issuing of large volumes of steam from the doors and gratings In the lower stories of that bullding. ‘This caused the report to be circulated that the botler had bursted. An examination of the boller- Tooms showed that the trouble resulted from the colored fireman unintentionally moving the weight on the safety valve, which caused a sudden and large escape of steam that filled the lower part of the building, and made the temperature almost ‘unbearable. GovERNMENT PROPERTY AT HaRren’s FERRY.— ‘The solicitor of the Treasury still has under ad- visement the proposition of leasing the govern- ment property at Harper’s Ferry made by the company who propose to utilize the water power for enting both Balt bn more and Washington by electricity. The property was offered for sale several years ago, but withdrawn for want of Digs ‘The solicitor prefers to sell the property rather than lease {t, and he has sent to the Balti more and Ohio rafiroad company to know what they will give forit. If they are not willing to pay a good price for it, tt willbe leased, when the contracting parties have satisfactorily shown that they are responsibie and able to give bonds. The price offered 1s $4 ,000 per year. THE Brix, introduced in the House yesterday by Mr. Bland, to retire the circulation of national banks and to continue them as banks of discount and deposit, embodies the first three sections of tue “Crapo” bill, except that it prohibits the banks from issuing circulating notes, any existing bank from increasing lis circulation, and the organiza- tion of any bank with authority to Issue notes, ‘The Dill provides for the continuance of banks as Danks of deposit and discount, and that all banks all go into liquida- Whose charter may expire | tlon, as provided by law. When the notes of the bank surrendering circulatfon come into the treas- ury In payment of taxes or otherwise they sh be destroyed, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall issue treasury notes in Heuof such bank notes; and sald treasury notes shall be exchanga- bie for legal-tender notes in sums of $100 and over edvemable at the pleasure of the gov -tender notes or coin. NAVAL ORpgERS.—Rear Admiral George H. Cooper ordered to command the north Atlantic station on 1st May; Commander Francis M. Bunce to com- mand the receiving ship Wabash on the 2th inst. ; Lieutenant Wm. 8. Cowles to the Tennessee on Ist. Ensign Richard T. Mulligan to the Tennes- 1st May; Zleutenant Commander Frat Mor- examination for promotion; Captain Joseph N. Miller, detached from cojmand of the Wabash 27th Inst. and or- gered to" command the Tennessee 1st May; Com- mander Charies V, Gridley, from the Michigan, and ordered for torpedo instruetion at Newport, R. Surgeon A. M. Moore, {rom the naval hospital, orfolk, Va., and ordered to the naval station ew London, Conn.; Surgeon Wm. G. Forwell, from duty at ‘w London, Conn., and ordered to the naval hospital, Norfolk, Va.; Passed Assistant Surgeon J. H. Hall, from the Wabash, and ordered to the naval hospital, Chelsea, Mass.; Passed As- sistant Surgeon C. G. Herndon, from the naval hospital, Chelsea, and ordered to the Wabash. set ris and Licutenant F. A. Miller to. SECOND ASSISTANT PosTMASTER GENERAL ELMER as at the department to-day. ArMy ORpERS.—Capt. Warren C. Beach, 11th n- fantry, will report to the commanding general de- partment of the east for temporary duty. The general court-martial appointed to meet at Colum- bus barracks, Ohio, s dissolved. . First Lieut. John G. D. Knight, corps of engingers, will repor’. to Lieut. Col. Quincy A. Gilhnore, corps of engineers, resident of the Mississippt river commission, for uty with the commission. ‘The leave of absence granted col. Rufus Saxton, A.Q.M.G., 13 extended one month. Lent. Col. R. Smith, D.P.G., ts directad to take station at Portland, Oregon. Capt. Paul R. Brown, assistant surgeon, U.S.A., will proceed to New York city and report by letter on his arrival there to the surgeon general. The Courts, CrrmivaL Count—Judge Wylie, To-day, Thomas J. Brady et_al., conspiracy; re- cognizance of 8. W. Dorsey set aside and plea of not guilty entered. Thomas Handy, assault with intent to kill; motion for new trial filed. ‘A. C. Soteldo, assault with intent to kill; motion to juash Overruled; exceptions taken,’ Andrew J. derson, burglary; on hearing. Circuit Court—Judige MacArthur, To-day, Shea agt. Sovereigns’ Co-operative asso- clation; referred to J. G. Payne. Joive agt. How- landet'al.; jury out. Tinney agt. Corbett et aL; on hearing. Equrry Court—Juage Hagner. To-day, Bauer agt. Tschiffely; appeal bond fixed. Keller agt. Ashford; hearing resumed. sir ae CONDENSED MORNING ‘!'ELEGRAMS.—John Kelly ‘Was re-elected chief of the Tammany Socicty last night, having recetved 416 votes. The opposition ticket, headed by Purroy, only Tecelyed 85 votes. -.-.The Providence, R. L., Trot company has sus- pended business. ‘he bill to redistrict the state of Ohio, giving republicans fifteen and the democrats six districts, became a law yesterday. ‘The opening of the Narrow-gauge Steam rail- y from Baltimore to Towsontown, Md., was formally celebrated yesterday. ....The lower house of the Massachuselts legislature yesterday de- feated the bili to allow women to vote for prest- dential electors,....Archbishop Michael Hannan, of the diocese of Halifax, N.8.,died at that city yesterday.....The Ohio legislature adjourned yes- Verday tlil the second Tuesday in January, 1883, ...-Hooley Parker and Kate Harris ‘have been arrested at Tomakawk Station, Powhatan county,Va., for the murder of Edmund Broadus. ... Preston Gowens, a painter, of Emporium, Pa., iast night shot and killed his'brother-In-law, cut his Wite’s throat, killing her, and then shot himself... Hon. John Russell Young was banqueted by the Stylus Ciub in Philadelphia fast evening. ...A fire ovcurred at Hollaston, Mass. yesterday, and Mrs. Todiana Smith, aged eighty, Was burned to death in her house....Hiram D. Brown, aged eighty-tws Seltizen of Loudoun. county, Yat. as found dead inhis bed at the Howard house, Baltimore, last evening....Fifty convicts at Fourche Ark, attempted to escape yesterday, and of eight who succeeded in passing the guards ono was Killed in- stantly, two wore badly wounded and the remain- ing five are being hunted down. shutconl Boba Go ed Se Moemon Rerantation.—A dispatch from Salt Lake City says the burden of all the discourses the Mormon tabernacle Sunday was that saints must not trade with or patronize in any wi pee Gentiles, who are blamed for the Edm W s Faw or 4B. & 0. RAILROAD Tuxnet. ‘While workmen were engi in_ widening the Hor ratisvad, yesterday, about. tveUty feet pars . Fatlzoad, ye : went ve way and buried nin> men Jn the debris. ‘Tho men Were rescued without se! fojury and travel ‘Was not interfered with. - Manone Deveatep.—S¢hatoe Mahone has met pe EKA of his con b re: ment Gin." this plan had ‘Becht camdea. Sue he (os in the next pes i this game has been block¢ cans in the sena’ tact of breakt be accom: at | ‘The House judiciary committee directed Repre- ‘sentative Hi t report to the Honse and ask the of 3 DI] fixing salaries for United bey attorneys who have heretofore been An adverse ‘was directed tobe made on Mr. Urner’s it Tesolution to restore certain causes tothe docket of the Court of Claims, and to provide for the hearing thereof. ee nes afternoon Spl ee Dill to gocept Tatify an agreement e Crow Indians for the sale of a portion of their reserva- tion in Montana Territory required for the use of the Northern Pacific railroad, and Sppropeiating Leyte therefof,on motion of Mr. wes, Was R The Senate, at 2:15 this afternoon, resumed cnn- sideration of ‘the Mississippi and Missouri rivers Uuaprovement Dill. ne hearing in regard to the proposed tax on oleomargaring was to-day postponed by the House committee on ways and means for one week. ‘The tenth child of Hon. Richard Crowicy, of New York, was born yesterday. ‘The New York deloga- tion ‘subscribed $100 to buy the baby a gold mug, and in it was placed a $20 gold ptece. lay the health of the little one was drunk in bumpers of champagne. ‘The House committee on public lands will report favorably on the bill for the disposal of the Chero- kee reservation in Arkansas. ‘The House committee on the judiciary to-day decided to hold a special meeting next Monday evening to hear arguments on the pending propo- sition declaring the forfetture of ce: lands granted to rallways. ‘The House committee on commerce to-day heard the arguments of members of Congress from Louisiana, Tennessee and West Virginia in advo- cacy of items to be embodied in the river and har- bor appropriation bill. THE CANNON-CAMPBELL CONTEST. The House committee on elections to-day de- ‘voted the greater part of itssession to a discus- ston as to how the time of the House should be al- vided in the Campbell-Cannon contested election case of Utah, which it is expected will be taken up to-day. A motion to dismiss the contest was made in the Witherspoon-Davidson contested case of Florida, and was referred to the first sub-committee. THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON TERRITORIES to-day directed Representative Richardson to re- Port to the House favorably the bill to extend a territorial form of government over the entire dis- trict of Alaska. Representative Dawes was instructed to report to the House adversely the bill to create a state government in the Territory of New Mexico, Representative Dugro, from the sub-committee having charge of the bill to amend sections 1926 an 11927 of the Revised Statutes so as to extend the limits of the jurisdiction of justices of the ace in the Territories of Washington, Idaho and fontana, presented a favorable report on the bill and was dlrected to report it to the House. PASSAGE OF A LONG PENDING CLAIM. After sixty-seven years of suspense, the House, yesterday, pagsed the bill for the rellef of the heirs of the captain, owners. officers and crew of the late United Stites privute armed brig General Armstrong, whose gallant fight with the British fleet in the harbor of Fayal, in the year 1816, prob- ably decided the battle ot New Orieans in our favor, a81t detained the British reinforcements. ‘THE ACTION OF THE HOUSE YESTERDAY in refusing to suspend the rules and to assign a time for the consideration of the bill reported by the naval com mittee to construct six ships of war, practically disposes of the matter, and fs an indi- cation that no ships will be built. ‘This for the reason that In the ordinary course of business the bill cannot possibly be reached, as It is very far down on the House calendar. It the bill could be gotten in a shape to reach a vote it would nodoubt pass, because the vote of yesterday, witich was a pst one, disclosed a large majority’of the House in favor of the bill. The democrats, however, almost solidly are recorded against It. A similar fate was also met by the bill to establish a fas! ine of ocean steamships. The House even re- fused to assign a day to the postal committee for the consideration of its business, unless tiere Was added a clause to a resolution to fix a day that the ocean steamship subsidy bill should not be brought Up. All in all yesterday was a very bad day for the lobby. THE NEW YORK STOG! KET. The following are the onening and clostag 92°38 of the New York Stock Market to-day, as repocte 1 by special wire to H. H. Dodge, 539 15th street: Oventng. Closing, Bia. ‘4 3 | A.D. Tel. Z 2 | Canada Sout a7 47% Central Pacltic. SB bid 8535 21 19 DE RB Zig Chesapeake and Ohio 2a pfd.... 21g 21g Chicago.Burlington and Quincy 129 29 cs. and N.O. rd 0. ©. G, and 69 . C. and LC ns Col.’ Coal 50 Delaware and Hudson. Delaware,Lackawanna and W Denver and Rio Grande. Erles 5.0500 Erie preferred. Erle seconds . Houston and ‘Texas. Lllnois Central, LB. & W... | Lake Erie & W. Lake Shore. Lou i Manhattan Beach... Michigan Central Missouri, Kansas and Texas. Missourt' Pactfi Mobile and Onto | Manhattan Ele etropolitan K w York Elevate jew Jersey Central. 4 New York Central . . 126% 12555 Norfolk and Western preferred. 513g 503g Northern Pacine....... - BT% Northern Pacific preferred. 7635 Northwest.......... 126 Onto Central. 164 Ohio and Miss, 3636 Ohio and Miss. preferred. = 9 bid Ontario and Western. By Pacific Mail .. 8 Peo., D. and E. By Pennsylvania Centrai- 61% ing .. 3S Rock Island. 12636 St Pauw 10914 St. Paul preferred. + 118% St. Paul and Omaha - ert 343g ‘St. Paul and Omaha preferred.. 9935 85 ‘Texas Pacitic. 38% Land Grants, Ng 64 Union Pacitic n0% 1097, Wabash and Pacitic.. wy 204 Wabash and Pacific preferred.. 54% 547% Western Union A Discarded Vehicle. Washington Cor. Baltimore Sun. Attorney-General Brewster has been induced by uncomplimentary notices in certatn newspapers to discard hls old-fashioned yellow-wheeled carri- age, decorated with his coat of arms and various heraldic devices, for a more modern and less pre- tentious conveyance. His yellow-wheeled vehicle was bought wjtn his own money, which is more than some of his predecessors could say of the equipages in which they used to air thelr great- Prohibition in Marylai From the Baltimore Sun, April 15. Much Interest is being taken throughout the ‘state in the ninth annual meeting of the Maryland State Temperance Alliance, which 1s to be held in Baitimore next week. Delegates will be present from temperance associations, churches, Sunday schools, and religious and reform associations thi hout the state, and it is expeeted the assem! nee will be the largest of the kind ever held in Baltimore. Col. George W. Bain, of Ken- tucky, and the Rev. William H. Boole, of New York, have been invited to be present. Prohibition of liquor, through local option,already exists in the Taber Fog nt of the eee Lae Cec Caroline entire. In Somerset and Dorchester counties prohibition prevails except in one district of each county. It also prevails in about one-half of Frederick and Queen Anne’s oe as in five districts of W: county. are also several localities elsewhere in the state in which prohibition e: ine} six different parts Baltimore county. to vote ‘On the prohibition question was obtained for seven counties at the recent session of the legislature, aN Shiswioe ford, W ronsee foie dishes, ree 1 rehester (one district), Somerset (one district.) Besides these, there is to be a vote on ition in several localities throughout the stat Zani Is. From the Boston Herald. Zuni Mes in the extreme western part of New Mextco, but.a few niles to the north of the thirty- fifth parallel, and only twelve miles to the east- ward of the Arizona boundary. - For some time after Arizona was set off from New Mexico there ‘Wasa doubt as to which territory Zuni belonged to. Until within afew months the tion with the outside ‘The Epsom spring meeting comes off this week, and, a8 usual, will be a notable one In the Eugits! Tacing year. Since Iroquois was struck out of the City and Suburban handicap, American Interest tn the events of the week has decreased; but they will be contested by many of the best English horses of the year. The first race of importance: Wil be the Metropolitan handicap, run to-day. ‘Tae distance 1s two and a quarter miles, and over talrty horses have ace] Petronal has the top ‘weight, 183 pounds, with Chippendale at 195, and $9 down the list. Reveller has but 110 pounds, or 1 ss than in lest year’s Cesarewiteh. But ‘the reat event of the mecting 1s the City and Subur- in handicap, to Le run to-norrow, “Troquols was exceedingly favored for this event, until stru oit in order that he migut be rserved for the eat cup races. His disyppearance is likely t F,crase the number of start nong the “un- wually lange list of those that had accepted. tise was at one time expected, in the absence of Foxhali and Iroquots froma this meeting, to uphold the renown of the American colors; bul after run- ning elghth at Newmarket, last Friday, in the In- ternational handicap, which he had won “he pre- vious year, less Will be expected of him this week. Perhaps the two American horses which havi been sold to Englishmen, Passaic lenstein, will be those most looked to for a ood performance In the City and Suburban. But Ehedatter’s pensity oF ten. pounds for bis ¥ at Liverpool will greatly decrease bis otherw excellent chances ees — Labor and Strike Notes. The Harmony mill spinners, at Cohors, N. Y. have decided not to accept the 10 per cent reduc ton, and this will cause a complete cessation of working. The upper mill at Lawrence, Mass, has been ordered closed for six months, the men having re- fused to return to work. This Ulrows 2,500 per- ‘sons out of work. The trackmen of the Hutson River rafiroad, who struck for $1.50 day, have been granted an increase of 15 cents, whica some have accepted and others have not. An extensive strike Degan at the Reading (Pa.) cotton mills yesterday. A general reduction in Wages was orered to take place on the 2th. The Kaolin laborers at Hockessin (New Castle) Del., who struck for $1.50 per day, have resumed work. The striking miners at Cambridge, Ohio, re- suned work yesterday, accepting 623g cents per ton. ——___—~-e-_____ Petrifaction of President Lincoln's Remains. A telegram from Springfield, IIL, says: Last Sat- urday memorial services were held at the National Lincoln Monument in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Governor Cullom and Major Connelly deliv- ered addresses. Ever since the attempt to steal the remains about three years ago, every- body save a half dozen persons intimately con- Rected with the monument association sugposed that Mr. Lincoln's remains were enclosed in the tmaarble Sarcophagus which stands tn the vestibule leading to the crypts, where the other members of the family are entombed. ‘This ts not so. ‘The re- mains of Mr. Lincoln have been buried in the ground under a portion of the immense granite pile forming his monument, and are now ina com- plete state of petritication, the form and features of the dead President beins preserved. —s GAMMBEDTA. Hew the Famous French Statesman Looks Since His Resignation, Coming from the chamberthe other day, writes a Paris correspondent of the New York Evening Post, saw M. Gambetta on the bridge opposite the Palais Bourbon, urging nis portly person against a wind which churned the Seine ihto a whirlpool, and made most pedestrians clutch their hats despairiagly. The great man has grown old with almost alarming rapidity, but not since his fall. On the contrary, it is only from the moment of his departure ftom power that his eye has brightened and his step has grown comparatively light. His face Is flushed and his eyes are sunken, not. as a reliable infor- mant who was with me when he passed told me, becanse of dissipation, but because of overwork. Never man toiled as Gambetta toiled for 12 or 14 weeks previous to his resignation. His doctor gave hin the choice to die or to stop work, and before he was compelled to adinit publicly’ that his physical energies were flazging came the political crisis which gave him repose. down to the chamber on the day that I saw hi with the air ofa inan who still had an important place there; and I observed that hats were doffed on all sides as he went aiong. Wicked De Blowitz, the Paris correspondent of the Lon- don Times, says that Gambetta still keeps the tri-colored cockade, which belongs to the prime minister's equipage, upon his coachman’s hat, which, if true, might be considered as an indica- tion of great expectations. Gambetta is more mentiy seh in public—at the theater, in ety—now that the strain of his labor is re- d. He is now visible in a box at the Fran how heard of at a dinner party where the brilliant and gay. not aman of the world,” once said Gen. Galliffet of him; “he caunot boast of fenue, but he can say a neat from his corner of a sofa after dinner he nes sends forth a flizht of witty and caustic sayings, sure to be long remembered.” Eyery one who ‘has heard him in the tribune nows what a remarkable faculty he possesses for crushing an adversary with a sharp retort, which stings for many days. so satiate Bar The Haunted House. ‘Wm. Hamilton Gibson, in Harper's Magazine for M: Old Aunt Huldy was prone to tell, with half- frightened look and bated breath, of the “terri- bie secret of the old Benson well,” and of the unpardoned soul that was doomed to “hant sea arth tell the Angil Gabriel should blow his orn. What is the secret of that overwhelming de- pression that weighs upon one’s being when in | the presence of an old deserted house? _Itover- powers you. You may strive to laugh it down but the echo of that laugh is a weird reproof and mockery; you may strive to reason it away, but it is not obedient to the intellect; not the slave of reason. Come with me to that old house in the shadows of the twilicht, and see how quickly are the smiles of ridicule dis- pelled. T sought this ruin upon an autumn evening; I picked if way through its wilderness of weeds following the beaten track of scme prowl- ing tenant that had his chosen path to door and cellar way. I saw the yawning roof, I saw the yellow leaves of twenty years that had been whisked in at the gapping sashes, and had been whirled by the blustering wind into great piles in the damp corners. I looked out upon the | hizh-crown weeds and mildewed lilacs that swayed against the window-sills. The drop of the squirrel’s nut rattle on the rafters overhead, and every sheltered corner was festooned with heavy cobwebs laden with the dust of genera- tions. I saw the chimney-place, the old brick oven with its empty void, and in the fire-place below an ashy ember of an old black-log lying upon the hearth that once was radiant in its glow. Here were worn hollows in the floor that seemed to speak—imprints of the old arm- chair that told whole volumes of past cozy com- fort at this fireside; here a nick in the plastered wall, and a round spot above, which, with the testimony ofthe dents in the floor beneath, told plainly of the evening pipe and figure in the tilted chair. There was a cu door w its worn with the visible upon the wall—a hundred things, and each seemed trying to tell its story in some ap pete language of its own. sought out the nooks and Tremember at length find! deep day-dream merely at t! dewed it which I had kicked up on the It was nothing but a musty bit of leather —nothing but a little baby shoe turned up from a pile of rubbish on the closet floor. aa was ap oppressive suggestive ness talk expected whlapee from every gloomy career alf-e: wi every y corner and that riveted my restless eyes as seeking for an answering look recess. Why do you peer 80 slow! tiously into the shadows of Why Li sclarddy oprah LJ is, and myself lost in a sight of a mil- be A E ? i zi z 5 z & bat ER : a : i z Fi Fy e HEL ils l He went | Praying im China for Snow. Prom the London Dafly Tolagraph. It appears that the temperature bas boen 9 abaormally high and the weather so uniformly mild in Northern China, as well asin Buroper throughout the last winter season, that not ® single snow-fall occurred during the months of December and January in regions usually vistted by frequent and heavy snow storms at that tue of year. The inhabitants of those districts, ape prehensive that a spring and summer drought might result from the absolute dearth of snow ‘nits customary places of winter storage, petl- tioned the Emperor to intercede in person on their behalf to the supernataral authority whose special business it Is to regulate the annual dis- tribution of frozen quid to the inhabitants of the flowery land. On receipt of this application, the brother ot the moon straightway betook himself to the temple of the snow god and fer- vently entreated that deity to favor the suffer ing people with a first class snow fall at his earliest convenience. As no immediate result accrued from this supplication, bis imperial majesty repeated his visit to the’ temple, even- ing after evening, thirty-fve times in sucees- sion, renewing his request for snow upon each occasion with a pertinacity that did him honor, At the expiration of the fifth week, however, finding the snow god still insensible to bis prayers, the Emperor gave up personal interoes- sion as a bad job, and resolved, as Mrs. Glasse has it, to “try another way.” By imperial de- cree, signed with the yermilion pencil, and yub- lished in the official Pekin Gazette, he com manded a certain number of princes of the blood and military commanders te form a deputation and convey to the recalcitrant deity an address setting forth the miseries entailed upon North- ern China by his unaccountable reluctance to dispense the usual dose of snow. “The Em- peror,” so runs the decree’s concluding sens tence, “ventures to hope that the pleadings of so Illustrious and distinguished a deputation will have more weight than his own with the sublime kwang-foo. = —.e2_—_____ Color in Dress, From the Magazine of Art. We frequently hear it remarked that people never looked so well as in black; that although it is not desirable that all the world should lay bright colors by, nothing is so becoming as black to the individual wearer. It is quite trae that black, being negative, does not jurer with complexions of any tint, and, well relieved with white, forms the simplest arrangement of light and shade we can command. To thefair skinned | European races, indeed, black and white dress | is naturally becoming; for the delicate tones of the skin form a middle tint between the two. On the other hand, if we come upon a negro dressed in black, the features and the pupils of the eyes which we wish particularly to see, have vanished; we cannot get rid of the whites of the eyes, which are forced into startling and unpleasant forwardness, and which, under a normal siate of circumstances, are intended only to enhance the dark pupilandiris, A light dress, which brings out the dark features and tones down the white of the eye, is the proper wear for dark r: In fair’ races the rule— with individual exceptions, of course—tis that the dark eye harmonizes the fair skin with the dark dress, or is a telling point of color when a light dress is worn. To my mind people ot ifui coloring—not at ‘all uncommon in Jand—look best attired with equal attention he tinting and the light and shade of the complexion; but the effect ean never be com= piete without the mediation of some neutral color—white is best-—between the face and the | hands and the dress. ‘The white may be slightly | toned. like old lace. We want the suggesti ‘an linen as well as the actual color of the white. For st people pure white linen and muslin look better than anything else. A very pale dress often | accentuation of a dark hair and eyes of the wearer are ey darkest tone. Dressing, in truth, is much lke | composing a picture. and as we are not allartist we are not happily attired. It must be owned, too, that we have to contend with a good mani unfavorable circumstances, and that we are i placed for knowing what is right, much less for | doing it. All qualities—or color, light and shades, and form—are beautifully perfected in the peasant costume of various countries; a re sult, no doubt, of centuries of elaboration. | Now we suffer constant changes, and every one | has to choose for herself; and, as we have found, | it is very easy to make mistakes. sabessermascomas EN Eavesdropping an jictable Offeace. | From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. It is, perhaps, not generally known that, under the laws of Pennsylvania, eavesdropping | is an indictable offence. True, a grand jury ne | recent case ignored the bill; but any over curl- | ous individual who should presume upon that | fact might have serious reason to regret his hasty action. In the case in question the bill was based on the affidavit of a pretty young widow, who, though she has some property, has to toil industriously for the support of her two young children, and her “best holt” is her ex- cellent character. Her diligence enables her to maintain a comfortable home for herself and her children, and to keep up appearances in every way. her style of dress being that of a lady of gome means. These indications of pr excited the suspicions of a gossiping neighbor, and he resolved to verify them. He commenced operations by scraping acquaintance with the widow. This it was not particulary difficult to do, for half of the neighborhood were her friends, and quite a number of the jury of the vicinage | were his acquaintances. Having once obtained admission to the lady's parlors, the “Curious | One” availed himselfof his advantages with such surprising tact, delicacy, and good taste that he succeeded in getting himself ordered out of the | house by his fair hostess, who declared that he had insulted her. After this brilliant triumph he judiciously went on to aggravate his offence by lounging about the outside of the house, watehing the comers and goers, listening to whatever he could hear, picking unconsidered trifles of chat, which he dovetailed into a very pretty piece of patchwork and circulated through the community, seriously to the detri- ment of the lady's reputation. The widow, at the suggestion of her counsel, then made an affidavit before a magistrate, and an indictwent for the criminal offence of eavesdropping was drawn up and laid before the grand jury. That body was considerably puzzled by the unex- pected cropping up of an offence at law so old that it had become entirely new. plese ordi An oases Measurements of Men. Francis Galton, in Popular Science Monthly for May. What I propose to speak of /in the present memoir are those measurements of the bodily form and faculties that can, or apparently could, be made with some precision, but the personal data in respect to intellectual and emotional om ities, and — a and ors juire a fe statement. The the art of measurement of the more purely bodily faculties has been by no means uniform. It has never been specially directed toward furthering the knowledge of the life-hi: of individ but for the most part toward theoretical investigations. In some cases elab- which certain faculties have been tested with extreme minuteness; in Pegg aber Nemes pee | tem of examination exists. A should be stated by which profit, the effect would be not unlike of some ly-settled country, drawn on @ scale so as to show the cadastral survey of its pri town-lands. A fraction of the ‘adjacent regions would be ‘represeated. by wide it woul a few lines of route, and the remainder consist of blanks. In order to com tee tH pied