Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1882, Page 2

See ee tee we THE CITY MARKETS. 4 BUSY SEASON IY NEARLY ALL BRANCHES OF TRADE—POULTRW GAME AND LIVE sTOCK— OTHER PEATUKES OF THE WEEK. The activity of trade in the city markets has continued pretty uniformly through the past | week. The busy season seems to affect all Kinds of trade except the flour trade, which re- mains quiet. Not much change is anticipated until after the holidays. The grain trade is steady, with oats advancing. In the hay and straw trade market is brisk, with good grades in demand. Potatoes are on the advance all over the country, and are as cheap in this Dis- trict as in any market in thecountry. In butter there is an advance in cholce creameries, and on western trade is active, though good grades of | the latter are scarce. Trade generally is lively In the best stocks of butter. The lower grades are less in demand. The supply of evs has | been more abmmdant the past week, and the walling cold turn to the weather has stiffened he market, and most likely an advance may foliow. POULTRY AND GAME. pts of poultry have been ample for sd, but an adv: is also anticipated in this kind of merchandize with the cold Weather. Most the fowl are brought in dressed, is very little call for the live stock. poultry sent to market is not d poor qualities being mi ther. ants are searce, yet all sorts of game. are growing In common nge. have been ice catile is un- pts have been ship- farms in Loudon | s eo dull, e is a dema: ad ipts of w but the price changed. Much of the ped her county, V at least, should the wea- for poultry, fresh fish, game, WHOLESALE QUOTATIONS Wholesale quotations of four may Dde| Roted as follo Minnesota patent pro- | bakers’ brands, 8 ress, 26.25a6.5 trade Bnboltew Gral roil butter, che western, 30a3le.; ctory, new, fine, 1214: 10. et, and no y 4 st quotations. ‘on, shoulders, 11 a 1 dressed, per | undr: wn, per Chicken, alte. oes Cong: THE SENATE DEBATE onal Notes. \ THR BANKRUPTCY BILL. vated the bankruptey | orida, offered an to, giving a nt to be thrown into involuntary right to demand a jury trial as to Sof the bankraptey. Mr. Morgan ich was alsd enday. at, which such as corn, addressed OFFIC MONITOR. relief of of AND CREW OF THE Who par- tiety pel iron-clad | Stricken out and the committee rose, | tion on its teport was takea by the Mr. Bin, sand post roads, | rted a bill reducing | nts, and it was referred | to the committee of the whole. > — ay afternoon re tter pos! Sro.en Property Ipentirr Mdentitied yesterday at po! i .—There was ce headquarters a | silver,plated tea- af make, and ase, April Joseph Harbour’s . Mrs. RC. Fox stolen trom her | nd found among the ice headquarters, —— REAL Estate Transre ‘been recorded as follow s.—Deeds in fee have | H. A. Willard to H. | K. Willard, undivided fourth interest in sq. | BS; S100. Phebe A. Whitehead et al. to Whyte | and Ove J. in | Bis, tra: k, lots 1d 17, sq. | 216; $1,500. Blirz to A. H. Herr, all of 14.29. Brinker- north grounds Columbia S006. F. Douglass to W. G. Tail- ec. 8, Barry farm; $103. John A. Moss to same, pt. 2, sec. 1, same; 3310. W. Joyce to H. Kraak, pt. 9, sq. Hannah J. Matthewson to ie Simon Jot 9, sq. 322: 2—. W. Clabaugh to J. W. Ross aud Mills Dean, pt. 4, sq. 60; #30. ee Sone! Rifles, sul lary D. Biddle, tr hoff, lot 4. block will make her debut ton audience on Monday even- Shakespearian character of Juliet, Young Salvina as Komeo, and Miles Levick ereutio. Since 18% when Fanny Kemble &ppearance on any stage in the fame character, and assumed at ‘once a position first magnitude on the boards—few ax have achieved more favorable enlorse- from the critical world than Mis | skating. As for the girls, poor things, they | that they had better wait until the next day to | last evening. | rate, and_ prime sport It was. | he | Was covered with a smooth sheet of ice. | Long bri | wharve: | Babcock lake ye | styl | performed the same duty for some pretty girl, | four miles. and crew of | 22; total, 460. Number of surgical operations, | tumbla. Gliding on the Ice. A DAY OF RARE SPORT ON BABCOCK LAKE—HOW THE BOYS ENJOYED THE FUN—NEW AND OLD FASHIONED SKATES, ETC. Tt is not often that the small boy, or for that matter the big boy either, in this latitude has an opportunity to indulge in one of the most delightful pastimes of the winter season, namely hardly know what real genuine skating is, for when by some unusual meteorological combina- tion the ponds and river become coated with ice, it is only for a few days at best; the chances are that the girls who always have the very latest news about the styles, don't hear of what Jack Frost has done to the water courses until the next day. Then THE CAUTIOUS MOTHER in reponse to eager entreaties, is of the opinion | make sure that the ice will bear. By the next day it Is evident that the sun, which very | promptly attacked the ice as soon as it invaded this latitude, sacred only to the former, is get- ting the upper hand and the air about the pond and river is filled with the sounds of mysterious erackings and a suspicious mellowness 1s ob- served on the smooth surface. When these signs are observed it is all up with the girls, | and the mothers secretly rejoice that the sun | has been so successful. The ice makes one | or two feeble attempts to lock up the flowing waters during the rest of the winter, but never | quite attains its object. So the ice has come to | be regarded as one of those fleeting joys that must be utilized at once, if at all. it rarely stays here so as to furnish skating for more than | aday or two, and unless the girls s their skates and start for the pond the first day it is real cold they never get any skating at all. BUT THE BOYS | ly walt for the ice to form before they are | if over the smooth surface and kindling | bon fires on the bank. The majority of people | yesterday morning had hardly begun to realize | that it was cold before the surface of Babeock lake was thiekly dotted with the swaying figures of the skaters. How the boys found it | out so soon is a mystery, but it is thought that | the banks of the lake has been patrolled day | and night since the signal office announced | that a cold wave had started from British | America. Perhaps boys are not up in metero! ology. but they were on Babcock lake y day ‘morning ‘bright and early, about as soon | Jack t had finished his icing | 038, What arrangements —_ they | Je about school was verhaps the subject of | private investigation In the several households | They had their day's sport at any In spite of the h vind that prevailed, the surface of the post | and better skating has not been known here for | The shel position of the pond, lylag be- neath the high banks on each side, is undoubt- edly the cause. THE ICE ON THE RIVER is rough and hummocky, and even it the chan- nels should freeze over, it will hardly be possi- ble to skate upon the surtace. The last time | the river froze over was two years ago, and | then it was smooth only in places. A targe number at that time skated as far as Alex andria, but the ice soon became dangerous,and in the breaking up swept awaya portion of the ce, and did great damage to the The ley experience of two years ago iparatively rare one in this section of the and there is so little wlater here, of ice and snow, that it is a wonder her can be utilized when they do come. are no lack of skates here, as any one re who looked at the groups that dotted erday, and they were of all the handsomely polished h club skate at the one extreme and the wooden skate, with its array of straps and buckles and its nose turned up fantastically, like the prow of a gond . at the other. a isa ce count kinds and_variet! The — latter 2 idently heirlooms and had been transmitted from a re- mote generation. A few years ago, when TH oLD BOYS | they strapped these ar- ir feet after having gallantly first learned to rangements to th and liad a good deal better time than they have had since in the most expensive elub skates. Of course their feet were strapped so tightly to the skate that circulation was impeded and those | nseful members froze stiff. Then, just at the t of the fan, a strap broke or a buckie ¢ off, and there was no help within three or | But these were mere trifles. The ‘ate, with its bristling and intricate | array of straps, retires with honor from the chief | pl It may in its day have caused the youth- ful feet to stray from the steep and thorny path of rectitude into the harness-room and been the cause of the disappearance of trunk and shawl- straps without number, but nevertheless it is ated with many delightful memories. The boy, in the absence of certain hard dol- s still obliged to use the old-fashioned and only the keen enjoyment of the sport | nuciles his youthful spirits to the contrast with Its more brilliant successor. Tur Broro cleTY.—At the meeting | of the Biol neiety, last evening, Prof. | Theodore Gill presiding, the announcement was | that arrangements had been made for a ies of lectures to youths, the first to be de- | livered in the lecture room of the National museum, by Prof. 0. T. Mason, at 3:30 p. m., saturday, December 16th. Prof. Gill read a paper upon the Stromateidae, and was followed by Dr. D. W. Prentiss in an interesting essay entitled. “Changes produced in the bird fauna ot the District of Columbia by modification of thetopography.” This paper is the advance no- tice of a report upon the bird fauna of the Dis- trict, prepared by Drs. Coues and Prentiss and von to be published as a bulletin of the Na- ional musenin, Tue Emer NcY Hosprral general report of the Emergent r the month of.November shows th t white male adults tpeated, 45; white females. A. synopsis of hospital | number female children, 18; col colored females, 176; col- §; colored female children, | male children, 9% adult males, 79; d male children, 2; scriptions compounded, 1,677; emergency cases, 23; house patients, 2; number of days with house patients, 12. > pears Fmes.—An alarm was turned in carly this morning from box 28 for a fire in the green- [ house of John Gtorious, corner 8d and Boundary | streets. Prompt response was made by the | fire department, which soon extinguished the flames, with small loss. It seems that Mrs. A. L. Barber, who lives near there, discovered the fire, and telegraphed police headquarters by telephone. . Sergeant Perry turned in an alarm of fire from box 28 last evening for the discovery of fire in an old shanty on 7th street road. The officers extinguished the flre without the aid of the fire department. —— Desperate Tactics of the Star Houte Gang. From the New York Herald, Dec. 8, in their desperate attempts to escape trial the star route gang yesterday reached a degree ofimpudence which is simply scandalous and intolerable. Having failed to secure delay by | pleading Dorsey's alleged illness, they presented to the court an affidavit charging the govern. ment with endeavoring to influence public opin- ion against them and attempting to intimidate witnesses, jurors, and officers of the court, and they made this contemptible libel upon the government the pretext for a complaint that a fair trial cannot now be had inthe District of Co- They then proceeded to make a most scandalous personal attack upon Judge Wylie by charging that he is so-biased and prejudiced against them as to be incapable of fairly and im- partially trying the case. Judge Wylie rightly denounced this proceed- ing as “an insult to the court,” but he would have been fully Justified in going further by ex- ereising his judicial authority to punish the of- fenders for contempt of court. For such a course he would have found an apt precedent in the courts of this state. When Tweed was ar- raigned for criminal trial before Judge Noah Davis in this city his lawyers moved for a trial before another Judge, ostensibly on the ground that Judge Just to suit their p Judge roperly imposed a fine on each of the lawyers who had signed the offensive affidavit, and his action was sustained by the court of ap- peais and popular sentiment. The analogous insult to Judge Wylie might well have been dealt with in the same summary manner. Having resorted In vain to these | tactics the next move of the defense was to se- | cure aseparate trial for the hi ; it is fitting also that it | e such a welcome to the she will recall her great. With pride as weil as pleasure. Brady,and they still at feast another obstructive fg tor to-day. These men have become in their attempts to prevent a fair wale ‘trial for their misdeeds, but for the publie they have found a formidable barto thelr suc- cess in the judicial learning, 1; and uprightness of Judge Wylie, | tion in this District that is said to be strong and | assessments made and required by the District | ministration bowis of panel, were novices be | costume, will be given, under the auspices of THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY. President Thompson’s Answer to the Speech of Senator Edmunds, Asa reply tothe remarks of Senator Edmunds, made during the consideration’ of the bill for the extension of the Capitol and north 0 street railway, in reference to the delinquency of-the Metropolitan street railway, Mr. John W. Thomp- son, president of the latter company, yesterday transmitted to Senator Ingalls, the chairman of the Senate committee on the District of Colum- bia, the following letter: Orrick or THe METROPOLITAN RalLwaY Company, Wasiinctos, D. C., Dec. 8, 1882— Hon. J. J. Ingalls, Chairman of the Committee on | the District of Columbia, United States Senate— Sir: learn from the morning papers that dur- ing the debate yesterday in relation to the ex- tension of the O street railway in this city some erroneous statements were made, which do | great injustice to the Metropolitan ratlway, of | which I am the president. It was sald that, according to the evidence taken at a former session, there fs one corpora- rich that is taking the blood out of the tax-pay- ers of this District and out of the treasury of | the United States by refusing to pay a penny | for the pavements that it, by its chgrter, was bound to pay for. ‘The Metropolitan railway is, undoubtedly, the company referred to. The facts are, however, that since ts organ!- zation this company has paid for changing the grade of its tracks and relaying them and for | paving and repaving streets and avenues under | authorities over $200,000, which is nearly third of the capital stock of the compa This company has paid all a charges, and taxes of eyery Kind. ex which are the subject of litigation ina suit now pending In the Supreme Court of this District. | The question Involved In that suit is not | whether the company has failed in its duty to | keep in repair streets and avenues, but whether | or not the company can be required to pay for changes of grade and for new pavements when- | ever and as often and at such exhorbitant rates as the board of publle works thought prope to charge. It is a notorious fact that by changesin grades this company was compelled to take up and relay its tracks three times in some places, under the orders of the District authorities,and that in some instances the of the pavements | alone, which were charged azainst the company, was at the rate of nearly 250,000 per mile. This company having paid in full such large sums for the extraordinary expenses incident to the improvement of this city, has considered it | its right and duty to subniit the qnostion of | the new ad additional liability, which is sought to be imposed by the District’ authorities, for Judicial determination, and will pay witatever sums may be found due from it in respect thereof. I respectfully submit that while this suit, which it is not sought to Melay, is pending in | court, it is obviously unjust to accuse the com- | any of a purpose to evade its responsibility and obligation Linclose a copy of acommunication addressed to the chairman of the Senate committee, dated March 4, 1880, which contains a statement of the taxation sought to be imposed. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Joux W. THOMPSON. Amuse: 1» Kee Lixcony Hatt.—Miss Emma Thursby will give her farewell concert here this evening. The choice program arranged for the occasion and acknowledged ability of those who will particl- pate will make thisone ot the most enjoyable events of the season. Miss Thursby is extremely popular in Washington, and her reappearan here is a signal for crowded houses and he; w | en.—Great preparations have been made for the production of “Twelfth Night” at the National this evening. The many | admirers of Mme. Modjeska here will doubtle: fill the theater this evening to its utmost lmit: Joe JeErFERSON.—On Monday eyening the at comedian, Joseph Jefferson, will begin an engasement, which will open with “The Rivals.” JeiYerson {8 unrivaled in_ his im sonation of Bob Acres, as he is in all the rol in his repertory. Wednesday and Thursday evenings Coleman the younger’s comedy of “The Poor ntleman” will be performed for the first time In many years. Forp’s Opera Hotst.—The inimitable Han- lons will make their last appearance here this evening. On Monday the new dramatic star, Miss Margaret Mather, will make her first ap- pearance in Washington. Very high praises of her ability have preceded this lady. On Mon- Will appear in “Romeo and Juliet.” ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS.—The announcement is made that a first of a series of concerts by Bernay’s famous orchestra will be given at Lincoln hall next Wednesday evening. Seats can be secured at Metzerott’s. At WILLARD Hatt, this evening, an enter- tainment, consisting of jubilee and plantation songs and dances, by twenty-five children in Friendship Division, No. 14, S. of T. Tue Wasuincton Lecture Lyceum.—The first of the series of lectures to be given at the Congregational church will be delivered next y evening, by Rev. John Hall, D.D., of ‘k. His subject will be ‘The Seriptures and the . TueaTER Comiqve.—The Richmond Specialty Company are. giving entertainments, brimming full of fun, wt the Comique. An attractive pro- gram will be offered next week. se he “Not Locked,” They Say. Tothe Editor of Tux Eventxe Sran: Permit me to ask that you will recall the gross misstatement made by you in your editorial column to-day relative tothe 9th street doors of Lincoln Hall during the Thursby concert last night, The doors were not locked nor Justened inany way. At the close of the concert I passed down from the hirhest, northwest exit door and met persons on the lower stairs returning to the Hall I was Intormedzby them that the doors below were locked; I continued down to the doors, pushed them open, and was followed out by’ those who had .turned back and had not yet reached the Interior of the Hall on their way to other exits. As one of the board of directors of the Lincoln Hall bullding I make the above re- quest. O, W. LONGAN. December 8, 82, [The above 1s published cheerfully, as a matter of Justice to all coneerned. The writer of the para- graph complaiged ‘of did not test the doors in question, and therefore cannot testify personally that they were “lucked,” but the fact that the portion of the audience which tried to get out that way Was obliged to turn back and seek out- let by the perilous D street passage is pretty con- clusive evidence that for some reason or other the 9th street doors could not beopened. For all practical purposes they might as well have been locked, if they were not. Perhaps some of the Persons who tried the doors, and, falling to open them, turned the hurrying throng back into the Hall will now kindly explain to the public what was the matter.—Ed. Star.] SS ‘The Mystery Abont august Gecka HIS PROPERTY SUPPOSED TO BE ON PAPER ONLY} —HIS SINGULAR CONDUCT BEFORE DEATH. In the case of August Gecks, the old soldier who was found dead in his bed at the National hotel, Lieut. Kelly has been making an investi- gation to trace his family connections and also the whereabouts of money which Gecks was ‘said to possess, but so far has had little success, Gecks had a note-book in his possession in which there was a row of figures rooting up $19,000. This gave rise to the stories that Gecks had a large amount of money somewhere. Before his death he told some of his friends that man named Smith would attend to his busi- ness if anything happened to him, and made various statements which induced them to believe that he had property, and a large amount of it. A singular thing was that whenever he received a letter he destroyed tt at once, 8o as to leave no trace of his friends. The police have searched in vain for the man named Smith, sup} to be managing Gecks’ business. As Gecks had written a letter to New York addressed to a certain post office aes telegram was sent there, and elicited the information that there wasno such post office box. Dr. Rudolph Ravensburg oe. ap- plied to the Probate Court for auti to take rot Msi Ste, rates ‘appo! col by the police that Gecks was ates mental ion, and his statements and memoranda about property were the result of hallucination. —>—__. | demoralizing’ practice of {PS J not ho; RELIGIOUS NOTES. ca 2 THA CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERB. —Archbishop Gibbons confirmed 132 persons on Suny at'the Church of the Holy Cross, in Baltimote, 314 —The ‘presbytery of New York proposes to Pir oe ‘an Italian Presbyterian church in that > atk BF —Therevivat meetings at Ryland Chapel, of which Réy."Richard Norris is pastor, are still in progres#: and thus far nearly sixty have been converte. = —On Sunday Iast a new Methodist chapel, called after Rev. J. J. G. Webster, of George- town, erected near Fulton station, Baltimore, was dedicated. —Rev. J. Clarke Hagey, of Grace M. E. chureh, of this city, who has been under medi- cal treatment at the Hot Springs, Arkansas, is much improved in health, and writes that he believes that he has been permanently benefited. | His return is expected in a few weeks. —Rev. Dr. Lanahan, now stationed in Balti- more, takes issue with Rey. C. H. Richard- son, ofthis city, as to certain statements ina recent letter of the latter; which Dr. Lanahan ‘says wave the impression that. had President Garfleld lived, he would have restored the old using intoxicating liquors at ‘state dinners. Dr. Lanahan says that had Mr. Richardson made inquiry he would have learned that Mr.Garfleld not only intended to keep out wine, but to abolish state dinners. As to the charges that during Mr. Hayes’ ad- ministration bowls of punch were provided, he he a lopsided (morally) office-seeker.”” —The Lutherans have established a mission at Concord, 8.C., in charge of Rey. J.D. Koontz, | a colored missionary. —The recent missionary convention of the Christian church at Lexington, Ky., raised $30,000 for missionary purposes. —In Baltimore, including the “ Belt,” there are forty-two Methodist churches, exclusive of the German and colored churches. — The Right Rey. A. C. Ganett, D. D., Bishop ot Northern Texas, is in the city, and will preach on Sunday morning at Epiphany chureh. —Bishop Crinnon, of the Catholic diocese of Hamilton, Ont., died recently in Florida, where he had gone for the benetit of his health. —Key. John Rankin, of Ohio, now in his 90th year, recently preached in the pulpit of a Pres- byterian church which he had served for forty years. —In Canada there are 117 French Protestant laborers (54 being missionaries and 41 school teachers) with 94 preaching stations and 3,276 chureli members. —Rey. Edward T. MeNerhany, a native of shington, and for ime connected with Georgetown College and St, Aloysius church, died in Cincinnati December Ist. —Calvin Whitney, president of the Chase Organ Company ot Norwalk, Conn., recently gave Chaplain McCabe $10,000 for the church extensiou fund of the M. E. church. —The new Catholic congrezation of St. Mo- nica, in Baltimbre, have purchased ‘the Hill- street mission property in that city,on which they propose to erect a fine chureh edifice. —Mr. H. K. Carroll, the secretary of the sub- prrespondence con- cerning the centennial celebration of the organi- zation of the M. E. church has begun his work. —Christ P. EB; chureh, at Cambridge, Md., a edifice, erected im 1707, was re- Rey. Mr. Barber was ars. Cireuit (Ironton, Ot Butts, there haye been $18 acce the M. E. chureh during five wee —On Lawren revival work, and itis proposed to keep up the meet- ings seven weeks longer. —Rev. Dr. Charles E. Feiton, ot the Union M. E. church, St. Louls, has been transferred from | the Missouri conference to the Baltimore con- ference, and it is expected that in March he w be appointed to Mt. Vernon church, Baltimore. —The fold ‘Orchard-street (Baltimore) M. E. congregation (Colored) have built a new honse of worship, costing #24,000, of which one half has been paid, and it was dedicated on Sunday last, Rey. Dr. J. McK. Reiley preaching the sermon. —The New York Christian Advocate says: “The Passion Play will probably be brought forward again. A professed preacher, a crank, or some- thing worse, It is said, has consented to take the part of Christ. Atheists might be expected in the name of common decency to protest against this outrage; but doubtless the morbid, the profane and tie fools will give it some sup- port.” —At Calvary Baptistchurch, of this city, Rev. Samuel H. Greene has just entered upon the fourth year of a prosperous pastorate. During three years 186 persons have united with the church, making a present membership of 525; 747 scholars have been added to the three Sunday schools, making a total membership of 1,547, having an average attendance last year of 1/017. The total receipts, $23,930; benevolence, $2,900. —The protracted meeting at Westminster, Md., conducted by Rev. John Edwards, has re- sulted in eight conversions, and the interest in the meeeting is increasing. At Mi. Vernon Mills church (Rev. G. C. Bacon) 47 probation- ers have been recently recelyed. At Solomon’s Island (Rev. H. H. peetwr00d) the protracted meeting resulted In Sconyersions. At Smith- ville (Rey. T. E. Peters) there have been 16 con- versions. At Mt. Harmony, in the same cir- cuit, there were 60 conversions—52 joining the church. On West Falls circuit, Baltimore county, (Rev. G. W. Cecil) there have been 12 conversions. — The consolidation of the Brooklyn Clinton street Presbyterian church with the Second |.Presbyterian church has been effected. The two pastors, the Rev. Dr. Van Dyke and the Rev. Arthur Crosby, are to preach on alternate Sun- days, but if either accepts another call the other is to resign and leave the church free to select a permanent pastor. The prety of the second chureh’is to be sold if $75,000 can be obtained for it. The second church was consolidated with the South Presbyterian church several years ago, so that the Clinton street church is now the consolidation of three congregations on Brooklyn Heights. The Baptists there have consolidated, and the Methodists are discussing a similar proposition. —The Baltimore Methodist, in referring to.a sentence of Judge Phelps’ of seven lashes atthe whipping-post for wife-beating, says: “It is greatly to be hoped that the whip may be well lald on, as,it 1s a species of argument very effect- ive with such scoundrels. * * In most cases the woman. poor fool, refuses to testify against her beast of a husband, and he goes free to indulge at pleasure his little pastime. Whenever he is- caught and convicted ‘let him taste his own methods, and even if the lash is not acommend- able reformatory measure it seems to par- tially balance accounts. There is not much sen- timental humanitarianism about it, but.a good deal ot plAin, cammon sense, practical, soul- satisfying justice.” The Catholic Mirror, of Baltimore, also commends the action of Judge Phelps in enforcing this law. isc LITERARY NOTES. Burning of the City z nsGwuln B.C. 3 trans: Guonax SEM: New York: i Worth The legends filustrating the early history of Rome have ever been fascinating reading for all classes. In this superb folio volume, to the full text of Livy are added Macaulay's stirring “Lays of Ancient Rome,” and something more than 150 woodcuts, representing antique coins and sculpture, and noted historical paintings illustrating the poetioal and heroic incidents of the traditionary period, making it a work of un- usual interest and value, whether as a holiday keepsake or an addition to a standard library. PO Dnawonn Wansnews.- Rew torts Charice So ner's Sons. Washington: Robert Beall. Mr. Matthews’ attempt to bring together the best patriotic poems of America,—those which depict feelings as well as those which describe actions,—is as successful, probably, as any effort of the kind could be. He does not, of course, give, nor pretend to give, all that are worth Ee serving in such form, but it would be difficult to make a better collection without including many to be found here. The publishers’ part of the work has been equally well performed. The book is exceedingly attractive in appearance. SIX GIRLS. A Home Story. Faxxy Berce Jarre, Boston: Estes & Lauriat. Washiuyton: Not a powerful story, but a very charming one, abounding in pleasant pictures, and marked throughout by a healthy tone. The characters are well individualized, the incidents are fresh, the humor {s natural and sponta- neous, and some of the episodes are extremely pathetic and touching. NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS. By Rorrrt Lours Stev- ENSON, w York; Henry Holt & Co. Washing- - Chapm: A collection of stories, which, though cleverly told, are in the main weird and unpleasant; and Just why they should be brought out under the title they bear is not easy to understand. DOCTOR ZAY. By Enizanerir ant_Purures, ates Ajar,” cc. Broxton: Houghton, Washington: Robert Beall. Miss Phelps lays the scene of this story in the backwoods of Maine, and gives readable but not strong study of New England scenes and character, The heroine is a physician,—Dr. Zay, the natives call her,—and the hero, a rich and fashionable Bostonian, literally falls into her hands through a terrible accident. She at- tends him skilfully and successfully, and he finds himself in loye with her. But he does not win her so easily as might be supposed. She strugyles hard en her love for her profes sion, In which she is Voth interested and asetul, and her love for her patient. Any one can guess the result; but Miss Phelps leads up to and clo: this brief summary would indicate. curm, A Story. By Avoevsrus M. Swier. New Scribner's Sons. Washington: ‘Son. In that the whole story 1s told in the form of letters, this 1s a new departure in novel writin The hero, who Is a victith to the opium habit, has a terrible experience trying to break hi self of it, In a sanitariun t despairs, when an M.D. steps in b iver of are rows instead of a im d brin him happily through. The st 50 €: and naturally that it reads like a real e ence. RACH. L ¢ S SHAR EOF THE ROAD. Boston James Warhinzton: Wm. Dailantyne & | Son The latest of the “Round-Robin Series,” and an excellent story in every way. Rachel, the herolne, vely character, fresh and sweet, and willing to take her share of the road, of which her father is manager, by striving to lighten the burdens of the hard-worked em- A poor young physician aids her pro- and of course falls in love with @ are the romantic features of the book, the purpose of which is to plead for better relatio between employers and employés. : D. A Story of a Girl. By Savcy Pratr of ‘, Author of pe Cod Fo.ks." Boston: A. Wiliams & Co. Wasiington: J. J. Chapman. We have a liking for Miss McLean, for the plain, frank way she spells her christened- name; but we nevertheless feel obliged to say that the expectations awakened by her first story are not realized in her second effort. Although not without merit, many of its inci- dents are improbable, and the character sketches are rather commonplace. nn Some Holiday Books, One of the mostattractive books of the year Is the sumptuous folio volume entitled “Hours with Art and Artists,” recently published by the Appletons. It contains one hundred attractive engravings, twelve of which are on steel, the remainder being wood cuts, executed in the highest style of the art, These represent some of the best known works of about seventy of the most distinguished artists of the present period, including, among others, Bouguereau, Rosa Bonheur, Bridgman, Boughton, J. G. Brown, Bellows, Corot, Doré, Detaille, De Neuville, For- tuny, Birket Foster, Frere, Gerome, Landelle, Millet, Meissonier, Munkacsy, Millais, Regnault, Salentin, Vibert and Zamacois. The text is by Mr. G. W. Sheldon, already favorably known to the public as theauthor of “American Painters,” who has brought together in its pages a great deal of useful and interesting information on his subject, making the book at once a valuable contribution to the literature and history of modern art. Prompted to his task by the noteworthy fact that the men who formed our government. or began the building or the nation, as the author prefers to phrase it, had no model by which to fashion it,—that up to that time there had been no government by the people,—never a written constitution,—Mr. Charles Carleton Coffin, who is one of the most popular writers for the young, tells, in the handsome volume entitled * Building the Nation,” (published by Harper & Brothers; received through Robert Beall) a most interesting historical storye covering the period from the revolution to the late war between the states. It is rather aseries of historical sketches and studies, so grouped and connected as to form a complete whole, and all done in a most entertaining way. Its numerous illustrations-— aggregating nearly 500—add considerably to the attractions of the volume, though they vary nearly as widely in quality ‘as in the purposes for which they were evidently originally pre- pared, and many of them do not appear to be very nearly related to the text. Of the attractive holiday order is ‘Boys in the Mountains,” published by D. Appleton & Co., and for sale here by Brentano & Co. The text, which is accompanied by numerous well exe- cuted wood cuts, is Py . William H. Rideing. who. in addition to being an entertaining and reliable descriptive writer, had special facilities asamember of the Wheeler surveying expedi- tion for the collection of his material. He has made most excellent use of his opportunities, end combines Information and entertainment in agreeable proportions, which the publishers present to the public in one of the handsomest volumes of its class. sitinamuch more fascinating way than | The thanks of afl people who “don't know | THE MEETING OF what to get for a Christmas present”—and their name must surely be legion—ought to be voted to Messrs. Estes & Lauriat for bringing out in Such handsome form and so beautifully illus- ‘trated, in time for the holidays, Mrs. Aker's Justly popular song “Rock Me to Sleep, Mother,” and Scniller's famous “Song of the sale by Morrison, 7 ell.” For Messrs. Roberts Brothers have met the popu- lar demand for “A Little Pilgrim,” the Easter story, or sketch, attributed to Mrs. Oliphant, which appeared in 'Macmillan's Mi ine last spring by publishing it in a neat little volume with fi lecovers; and this demand is justified, We may add, by the sweetness and imaginative beauty of the narrative. Its aim is to depict , but its ten- derness and charm can rome, - ated. Mr. Robert Beall has issued a Christmas Cata- logue which will not only be of great use in ald- ing purchasers in making selections for holiday ts, but is almost attractive enough in Itself for a keepsake. Kate Sanborn’s “Sunshine Calendar,” pub- lished by J. R. Osgood & Co., is at once an at- tractive ornament, a useful appendage to the desk of a library or counting-room, and a pretty good sized volume (365 pages) of choice prose aud poetry. <—_____see BODY SNATCHERS EXPOSED. Grave Robberies in Three Cities, THE REMAINS OF A RESPECTABLE WOMAN FOUND IN A KANSAS CITY DISSECTING ROOM. A Kansas City dispatch to the St. Louls Globe- says: snatching case of Mrs. Anna Hudson 1s still at white-heat to-day and \s in everybody's mouth. that the body was found at the Kansas City University, on the corner of 12th and McGee streets. The body lay on the dissecting table but the knife had not been applied. The long tresses which the dead lady wore were, how- ever, missing, and Instead of the fine silk dress in which she was buried a common robe shroud- ed the body. This is regarded as one of the worst features of the affair, but there is little doubt that the body-snatchers removed the silk dress and replaced it with the robe before the subject was delivered. [t is evident that the demonstrator in charge of the dissecting roomsof. the Kansas City University did not know where the corpse was procured. It is clalmed that it is customary for body-snatchers to get subjecta from the potters’ field, and what the motive of the men who stole Mrs. Hudson's body was re- mains to be seen. The disappearance of the silk | dress and the euttingofthe body's hair priorto the | delivery of the subject at the dissec‘ing room point to the motive of the larceny on the part of the scoundrels, Undertaker Carlatt said to the correspondent: ‘I was told to go to the univer- sity and re-inter the body. When we entered {one of the rooms I saw Mrs. Hudson's remains | iying on the floor. The body had not been cut, t the hair had been cut off and’ the flue silk ress whieh it had o minon robe. V removed and replaced by ut the body into the re- "| ceiver and drove to the Union cemetery. We uiet Superintendent Skues on the road, he being | on his way to town ina buggy, and [made him so back to the cemetery with me. The dirt had becn removed from the graye, but the coffin was | in good order, not having been broken at all. Ww in the coffin and I put the which had been left by the body snateh- et myself. The gi + day. There is no clue what- ification ofthe body-snatchers.’” THE PHILADELPHIA GHOULS COMMITTED. The graye robbers, McNamee, Pillet, Levi Chew, aad Robert Chew, arrested recently by reporters of the Press, were arraigned yester- day for a further hearing. Twenty-five police officers were present to protect the prisoners from violence. Among the witnesses examined was Dr. Forbes, demonstrator of anatomy at Jefferson college. He testified that he never thought that he could be regarded as an acces- sory to the “body-snatching,” merely because he never made any investigation of the manner in which the bodies were procured. The college had been getting about 150 bodies a year. The students paid €10 each for a “ticket” and $1 each for every subject upon which they operated. The four prisoners were committed in default of ash each for trial at the present term of ———_-e-____ Maryland Items, The three prizes of $20, #13 and 87, offered by the Kent County Agricultural association to the three boys in that county who should sac- ceed In raising most corn on one-quarter acre of land, have been awarded to Ed. A. Corey, Ed. Morris and Medrord T. Porter. The residence of Mrs. Sallie Hayden, of St. Mary's county, was burned Sunday. She and ne oe children are left homeless and des- ute. The farm of Mrs. Helen J. Andrew, in Talbot county, 55 acres,-has been sold to M. B. Brown, of Philadelphia, tor $4,000 cash. Wm. Francis, of Wilmington, Del., has sold a farm of 262 acres, about twelve miles from Elk- ton, to David Rosine, for 25,100. Wm. Stottlemeyer, indicted for forgery, was acquitted in the Washington county circuit court Wednesday. - Hamilton Burdett, one of the best known citizens of Montgomery county, died on Wed- nesday. ————++-_____ Israclites and the New York Sunday Law. A number of Israelite merchants on Avenue B, New York city, have obtained inthe superior court a temporary injunction restraining the police commissioners from interfering with them in their Sunday trade. A Christian baker joins with them, claiming that his business is a necessity. Israelites are exempted from the operation of the code where they prove that they have kept “holy” another day-than Sun- day. The cases will be argued on the 19th inst. Police Commissioner Jourdan, of Brooklyn, Heap called all the police captains before him, and instructed them, when enforcing the penal code on next Sunday, not to ingerfere with barbers, except in the sale of cigars, nor with bootblacks. Newsdealers are not to be interfered Sak except when they hawk news- papers thro the streets. He told them no manual labor was to be perfc and stores could be opened for the sale of butter, meat, fish, bread und rhilk until 9 o'clock in the morn- ing. Drug stores could sell but not clgars. loners must close. “ Public travel was not to be interfered with, and Jews were to close their stores the same as Gentiles.” A FRAUDULENT InsuRANCE COMPANY AND A Broken Banx.—The Denver (Col. ance com} has alae fifteen months ago with a capital stock of $1,000,000. On January 1, 1882, the officers made a most flattering statement. A telegram from Denver says: “It now transpires that the company never had a dollar in the its only assets consisted of unsecured notes tracts of unimproved land to which they hold an “The sensation of the body- | The (lobe-Democrat correspondent wasitformed | THE REPUBLIL CAN NATIONAL COMMITTER, — District Representation.—The Breake ing Down of Imsetructions aad the Unit Rate. From the Philadelphia Press, Wasntvotox, Dec. 8.—The republican ‘tim tional committee will meet in this city on the 17th of next month to consider and adopt a plan for district representation In the next repubil- can national convention. Prior to the adjoura- ment of the Chicago convention, that body ai. rected the national committee to ibe methods or rules for the selection of co to the convention of 1884 in such manner as to secure to the several Congressional districts the right to elect their own delegates. The com- mittee was required to formulate tts methods or rules within the twelve months following the adjournment of the convention, but it has di led this instruction. William B. Chandler, Edward McPherson and George Gorham were requested by the chairman and secretary of the committee to apply them- selves to the preparation of a plan, and all ro- publicans were tnvited to send to the committee suggestions bearing upon the subject. At a meeting of the committee in this city on the 6th of March, 1881, Mr. Chandlerand Mr. McPherson united In recommending a method of calliag the next republican convention. Thelr plan provided that the convention should consist of four delegates at large from each state and two delegates trom each Congressional distriot; an additional uelegateat large foreach republican Senator in the then existing or next preceding Congress, and du additional delegate for each republican Representative In such Congress, all to be chosen at popular conventions, in such manner as the republicans of each state may de- termine, provided the delegates from each xressional district shail be the choice of the publicans of that district in a convention hel within the district for that purpose. It was pro- vided in this plan that conventions for the tion of delegates should be held at least one month before the meeting of the national con- vention. Notice of contests to be given the committee, the grounds of contest to be made public and determined in the order of thelr pre- sentation. Mr. Gorham proposed that the conventio: 1884 should be composed of a number of gates equal to twice the number of its Senators and Representative In Congress, and the repub- licans of each state should dectde the manner of choosing Its delegates. John A, Martin, of Kansas, 2 member of the committee, presented a plan providing that the convention should be composed of four delegates-at-large from each state, one delegate from each Congressional diss trict and one delegate for every 12.000 republl- can votes polled in each state for President, in 1880, or fraction of over one-half that number. Messrs. McPherson and Gorham respectively urged upon the committee the adoption of thelr different plans, but no agreement could be reached, and at last the whole subject was re- ferred to a committee of five, composed of Wil- liam E. Chandler, of New Hampshire; T. C. Piatt, of New York; John M. Forbes, of Massa- husetts; J. A. Martin, of san, and C. I. Fil- s, of Missouri. This committee will make a report at the meeting next month. No plan can be adopted in conformity with the rule of the convention that does not provide for dis- trict representation. = — INITIATING A STOCK BROKER. Mr. Hatch is Warmly Welcomed on the Floor of the Exchange. From the New York Herald, yesterday. A handsome and well-dressed young man quietly slipped past the doorkeeper of the Stock Exchange yesterday afternoon and entered upon the crowded floor. One minut the great, room resounded with yells and shouts, and vise ttors looking down from the gallery saw the young man, hatless, almost coatless, with dis- ordered hair, and wild, rolling eyes, struggling in the midst of a mob of excited men apparently bent upon lynching him. exclaimed an old lady in the crowded gallery, “he’s been caught a pickin? their pockets, I s'pose. They'll Kill him, sure. Such a nice looking young tellow, too. Who'd a thought he'd do it! “Pardon me, Madam,” said the Rey. James Thomas, who was amongthe spectators in the gallery, “but your conjecture, though very natural.{s, I assure you, incorrect. 1 happen to know him'to be a very estimable young He is Mr. John R. Hatch, who has recently pi some €30,000 for the purpose of mingling ou the floor with those gentlemen, and this bemg his first appearance they are, according to custom, striving to outdo one another in tendering him the hospitalities of the house.” Meanwhile Mr. Hatch was hustled to and fro, surrounded by a hundred of his new associates who shook him vigorously by the hand or the hair or the ears, or in fact,any of his anato- my they could reach. The athietic training of the young broker, who is a Yaie man and holder of the Class Cup of ‘77, stood him in good stead and helped him to elude many over-enthusl- astic attentions. His Wall street training, how- ever, proved to be less complete. Notwith- standing his five years’ tuition in the office of Fisk & Hatch he proved to be ignorant of the depravity of stock broking human nature that may exist under gray hairs and @ vener- able exterior, and he knew nothing of the favor= ite exchange pastime of “walking Spanish.” He fought his way toward what he believed would rove a haven of refuge ina group of elderly kere, who stood Jooking at his tormentore with what he took for an express f stern re- buke upon their countenances. When, out 0! - breath and almost exhausted, he reached the spot he received a double shock—mental aswell as physical—for the gravest members of the y, When his back was toward them, is trousers, and In a twinkling he was **walk- ing Spanish.” Caught up by a dozen hands, ec that only the extreme tips of his toes touched the floor, in that premier danseuse posture he Was rushed madly round the room, receiving as fe, revolved @ sort of “baptism of oy 1 the der brokers striking at, him with caps, hand- kerchiefs or whatever came to hand as he fitted st them. When he at last managed to shoot hrough one of the doors and dizzily pulled him- self together on the sidewalk, he said it waa more exciting than any college’ foot ball match he ever engaged in. Mr. Hatch Is the purchaser of the seat of Mr. Robert Stuyvesant, who had been a member of the exchange for many years. He enters into business as head of a new Hatch, Brooks & Hamlin. ———_ __«ee —_ THE STUBLA-STILES TRAGEDY. More Testimony in the Cave—Miss Sturia, Again in Court. In Chicago, in the Sturla murder trial yester- day, about the usual number of ladies put in an appearance. The defendant took her accustomed seat and preserved her familiar pose, with vell Another volume likely to be largely in de- mand during the holidays 1s ‘The Knockabout Club Alongshore,” received through Ballantyne &Son from the publishers, Messrs. Estes & Lauriat. The author is Mr. ©. A. Stephens, whose “Knockabont Club in the Woods,” “Young Moosehunters,” ‘Camping Out are popularly known. In thi: nes aay imperfect title.” The bank ot Breckenridge at Breckenridge, Col., suspended this morning. ee eo gegen oN ihrem 8. . Langley, of the eney Observatory, says concerning’ the ingterious Spot. discovered by himon the planet Venus during the transit: “* had determined to make a critical examination of the line of light, observed in other transits, glasses, had left her out in the country, and she wanted to know how soon she could get the car which would take her to the Palmer House. Her con- duct was — oon she did not seem excited. She said they had a little quarrel on the out. On the witness sald * o- “ 4 —At the recent Protestant Episcopal Conven- tion, held at Baltimore, the question, “ Shall colored mén have charge of colored congrega- tions ?” was discussed. A prominent del x the Rev. Dr. Grammer, rather startled the con- vention by,edvoggting the plan of *‘ colonizing’ the entire colo race in the United States in order, as he expressed it, that Shey might culti- vate their ‘idlosyncrasies,” as well as their tal- ents, without Interference from the whites, to be a race by themselves, ‘‘as God intended.” The colored people, Dr. Grammer said, could to be in this country ever on an equal- ity with the white race, either socially, politi- cally or spiritually. The mistake was, as in philosophy, “you cannot unite in name those things ‘which’ are in nature.” . Dr. Grammer 8) of Lil and Haytias practi- cal applications of his theory of solving the nineteenth century problem in this country. - —The southern Presbyterians have decided to build.a house of worship at Salonica, Greece— the ancient Bhessaloi their mission, and the Sunday schools are expected to raise $5,000 that purpose. Tue NATIONAL Riries’ Aawony.—The Ne-| for tional Rifles, Eicon their Smounting Yo 60,504.28, fr pend te Parente, foe which new armory. The'2work w! soon as the ‘ate a Fin be ogs between hall, upon 3 in bank the mone, —At a recent meeting in the interests of the American board of foreign missions, at Portland, Me., it was related that a lady of that state who recently died commenced some years azo which he received. aay at et oe Boston, via St. Johns, along the lor coast to Green- land, and gives them not only the scenes and incidents to be had in_ such a trip, but a good deal of information about the their explorers and peo le, wil the m; and mythology of the No. “Picturesque Journeys in America,” (pub- shed by R. Worthington, and for sale by Chap- man,) will prove to be a popular volume. The ath ona tour to Spite pe that is new in the surrounding the outer edge of the planet. led to the dleoor of the light spot. It e frigid 201 ti something of | De Post “y F 3 | i ' u i i we id | at th 4 | : a i a i § i & et i fi Hi was raining hard that night, and the woman was very wet. Dr Same 836 the next ness, said he had made a eases of the nervous ibs