Evening Star Newspaper, November 26, 1888, Page 1

a ae THE EVENING STAR PUBLISHED DAILY, Except Sunday, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Northwest Corner Pennsylvania Ave, and 11th St, by The Evening Star Ne 'y S. H. KAUFFMANN, Pres't $3. {Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C.,as second-class mail raatter.) WEEKLY StaR—published on Friday—@1 9 sear ponte reraid. Six months, $0 conta rh in EZ, A caail rubscriptions mst be paid in advance; Rates of advertising made known on spplication. ——— ee Vo. 73—-No 11.083. Che ening Star. ‘WASHINGTON, D C., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1888. TWO CE) T SPECIAL NOTICES. q=> SPECIAL NOTIC! AV Fegvons having: on, deposit with H. K. FULT wen re rr is + poof more, are’ notied to call at once and. pay interest, OF the goods will be sold at auction December 4, 1588. HK. FULTON, Puwnbroker and Auctioneer, a> DK. 8 T. MASON DENTIST, 1201 Pennsylvania avenue n. w., opposite Palais twelve y: rt Koy: ‘ears practice in this city, has extracted over 20,000 teeth with nitrous oxide gas: teeth sud cocoane used; artificial and crown teéth oc! SPECIAL NOTICES. : v4 ei . CLASS OF '88, W. H. 5., WILL MEET Woe sr ait of the itieh ‘School WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER “28, at 3:15 p m., for the purpose of arranging class reunion. a> 8 ES AT 11 AM. AND 7:30 P. M. Se Re ee . ree. towns D. Gaby Hey. 9. Le Morrow, evangelist. “Gome with us, and we wilido yousood. " it — THE “FIELD TRIALS” OF THE WASH- INGTON CITY KERNEL GLUB will ve tn. ely Postponed on account of the weather until _____ PERSONAL. R ADOPTION, A HEALTHY NEW-BORN MALE Fond 2 it can send address to ADOPTION. Stat ofce. °° nz6-3t Cu sERvice, EXAMINATION QUESTIONS ‘and ane Te. Vv . McELFRESH, AUTHOR- Agency. 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IF YOU ARE A LOSER BY THE RECENT ELECTION, ARE THERE NOT A HUNDRED AND ONE THINGS OCCUR TO YOU FOR WHICH YOU COULD HAVE JUDICIOUSLY EXPENDED THE MONEY YOU GAMBLED AWAY IN YOKING A WISH AND AN OPINION? THERE ISN'T A LOSER OR A WINNER OF SUCH BETS WHO WON'T READILY CONCEDE THAT THE WHOLE PROCEDURE ‘WAS UNMITIGATED FOLLY. WELL, THERE ARE OTHER NOT ALWAYS SO PALPABLE PERHAPS. IT'S FOLLY TO DEPRIVE YOUR FAMI- LIES OF STOVES, CARPETS, CHAMBER AND PARLOR SUITES, OR HOUSEFURNISH- ING GOODS OF ANY KIND, BECAUSE YOU HAVEN'T ALL THE MONEY IN HAND TO PaY CASH DOWN. WE SAY IT’S FOLLY, BECAUSE OUR CREDIT PLAN 18 ONE YOU ‘WOULD EMBRACE AT ONCE IF YOU UNDERSTOOD IT. THEN IT'S FOLLY NOT TO CALL AND EXAMINE OUR GOODS AND TERMS. AGAIN, ITS A DISASTROUS FOLLY, ‘WHEN YOU DO KNOW OUR TERMS, NOTTO LIVE UP40 THEM. MORE DISASTROUS FOR YOU THAN FOR Us, BUT THERE I8 NO FOLLY CAN EQUAL ‘THAT OF DEPRIVING YOUR FAMILIES AND ROBBING YOUK HOMES OF SIMPLE COMFORTS, FOR THE SAKE OF INDULG- TAG 4 MANIA FOR BETTING. HOUSE & HEREMANN'S CASH AND CREDIT HOUSE, AND 923 SEVENTH STREET ¥.W. AND 636 MASS. AVENUE ecl-2m $10. $10. 810. $10. THE KNIFE HAS BEEN DRAWN AND THE FIRST BLOOD OF THE SEASON APPEARS—THE GRANDEST BARGAINS OF ALL. ‘WE HAVE PLACED ON SEPARATE COUNTERS, AND WILL SELL FOR ONE WEEK. OUR $15.00, $16.50, $18.00 MEN'S SUITS, RANGING IN SIZES FROM 33 TO 40, AND WHICH WERE EXCELLENT VALUES AT ABOVE FIGURES, FOR THE RE- ‘MARKABLY LOW PRICE OF - FIRST COMERS WILL HAVE THE BEST VA- RIETY TO SELECT FROM. DONT HESITATE “PROCRASTINATION 18 THE THIEF OF TIME.” THE GOLDEN EAGLE CLOTHING COMPANY, 400 7TH ST. N. W.. COR. D. ST. —— WITMER & CO., = te GROCERS, 1318 PENN, AVE.. Vednesday, *? one — each eus- py very finest JAVA AND MOCHA COF- FEE either Toasted 01 rand, for 25¢. itis oF gro 25. Our price for and no reliable hotsé will sell 1 resrularly to less, | Our object o get you to use this suger coffee with a view to extendlour td. Es ~ = TO THE PUBLIC. We Tre make known that I. Hamburger & Son: have not settled with the Tailors’ Union, as previously publis! ‘Tailors’ — No. K. JOS! HATZPELD, M. W., HENRY 8. WEBER, R. 8. er December 10 all merchant tailors will be uished that are recowuized by the Unione "uge-ist OR. J. F. HARTIGAN HAS RETURNED Sisthat nw. Hours 8 iggoam.: 1 wo neo ing mnt | ‘AND BALL OF THE KNIGHTS ving evo. WEDSESDAY cts, admit gentleman an n24-3t* GERMAN LECTURE MRS. JOHANNA GREILE, of New York, will deliver her Culturauigabe des XIX Jahrhi Grand Paar Lats day, November 27, 1888, a sion, 25e. <7 THE NEW REPUBLICAN DAILY. Tiptic for THE WASHINGTON PRESS will ereceivegl st th flicaiduy No. bi 10ue be received at the office of pul Price for dail; rercent Sundays, 40 cents per month. Includig Sunday, 50 cents per month. Delivered by carriers or mail. — ‘ oe subscription for daily, @5; including Sun- ber year, in advance. desi establish carrier-routes will Rlease make written application with reference. The tasne will appear Monday, December 3, 1888. WILLIAMS C. FOX. ze rs, will be held at Marini’s Hall, Ma- sonic Temple, corner F and 9th sts. n.w., entrance on F street, on MONDAY, DECEMBER 33, 1 at 7:30 O'C! KP.M. E meas is reques' to be present. n22-10t ‘McGINN, SON & CO. LEWIS bes ri <a Loe and it lowest et ee CENTRAL UNION MISSION, 930 PA. “Observed as mn. NESDAY, Thanks by UBSDAY, Thankerving se. | Thani Nov. 28, 1888." Tickets lady. ‘Ivana ave., on. Tues- Oelock t'g Sec'y. n23-5t RECEIVED_TWO CAR LOADS OF ‘Cail and examine. POOLE & BROO! ot DST ta erec hw. FRIENDS OF MR. JAS. Aohsc rt, to give indness and tender mercies to ki n23- Pa, a1 nazis” EQUITABLE CO-OPERATIVE BUILDING ASSOCIATION, “EQUITABLE BUILDING,” 1003 F 8ST. ASSETS, $971539.64. Subscriptions for shares in the 16th issue received daily at the office of the Association, Equitable Build- ing, 1003 F st. Shares are $2.50 per month. $1,000 advanced on each share. newspaper pul once a week for six weeks.’ OWS. E. LEWIS, amit rar ian Be ope ue ‘ann Columbia, for the election of pa ee be held at the pia gt aw on MONDAY, Ins, lew York. Hee Goat fat st. D.w, Ne Sper Rote mere. Bq HOGS TSTALMENT HOUSE — AND ze. 7TH SAA ae 06 car iy careers vase or a ee: CHEAP! LUMBER! LATHS! SHINGLES! LUMBER! OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. asa ee Sa rn ae See Washington News and Gossip. Index to Advertisements. BOOKS AND STATIONERY. BUSINESS CHANCES... CITY ITEMS..... COUNTRY REAL ESTATE. REEL ECLE LLL Ce LLL WH AAMNSRGRWISD & 3 Hy: i Govenxmext Recerrts To-Day.—Internal revenue, $628,461; customs, $806,983. To-par's Boxp OrrEnixos aggregated 280,- 550, as follows: Registered 4's—€50,000 at 128. Coupon 4’s—$30,000 at 128%. Registered 434'e—$550 at 10935. IsTerNaL Revexve Appointents.—The Secretary of the Treasury to-day appointed the following storekeepers and gaugers: Al- | bert 8. Johnson, at Louisville, Ky.; James O'Donnell, at Chicago, Ill.; John C. Conley, at Daingerfield, Tex.; James A. Allen, at Paris, Ky. Post Orrick Derartment Estimates.*-The Postmaster-General has submitted to the Sec- retary of the Treasury his estimates for appro- priations for the postal service for the fiscal rr ending June 30, 1890. They aggregate 812,073, as against $60,860,333, the appro- priation for the present fiscal year. ‘This is an increase of $5,951,839, and is stated to be neces- sary to meet the present and prospective ex- tension of the postal service. The revenue of the mo depo for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1890, are estimated at $61,508,658, an increase of $9,813,482. Ix Favor or tue Nortuern Pactric Com- Pany.—Attorney-General Garland has rendered adecision in the case involving the right of the Northern Pacific railroad toasecond in- demnity belt in Minnesota, and the right of the road to take indemnity in one state or ter- ritory for land lost in another. This decision was made in Fesponse to an inquiry from Sec- retary Lamar. The Attorney General decides that the company has these rights. Anmy Leaves have been granted as follows: Assistant Surgeon Edward B. Moseley, three months’ extension; Second Lieutenant Wm. J. Pardee, eighteenth infantry, one month's :ex- tension, and First Lieutenant Lawrence L. Braff, ordnance department, one month and fifteen days’ extension. Inrantry Recaruirs.—The superintendent of the recruiting service has been ordered to send Lpitr f recruits to the Seventeenth in- fantry and sixty to the Twenty-first infantry. ge Tae Beer Trape Ixvesticatine ComMITTrEe of Congress, which adjourned in St. Louis last Friday, will resume its sessions in this city er 5. This will heavily increase the expensés of ‘the investigation. Frencu Spouiation Cranss.—The Court of Claims to-day reported findings of facts in the French spoliation cases connected with the schooner Snow and the bark William,and certi- the cases to Congress for action. ViotaTine Pxxstox axp Posran Laws.—The commissioner of pensions has been advised that Augustus Ball, of Hewett, Boone county, W. Va., was indicted by the grand jury in the United States district court at Charleston, W. Va., for violating both the pension laws and the postal laws in the claim of Jane Tawney. Jno. T. Taylor, of Eaglestown, Hamilton county, Ind., was, on the 2st instant, tried in the U. 8. court at Indianapolis, In; id con- victed upon three counts of an indictment charging him with forgery in his own claim for pension. Also, that Shadrach Green, of Wilders, Mitchell county, N. C., who was in- dicted for making a false and fraudulent claim for pension, came into the United States court for the western district of North Carolina at the November, 1888, term, and entered a p of guilty. Ju unt was suspended. A Maryianp Postmaster APPornteD.—Wm. D. Bell has been appointed postmaster at Lay- tonsville, Montgomery county, Md. ———— PersonaL.—In a letter to a North Carolina friend, under date of Rio de Janeiro, October 26 United States Minister Jarvis stated that he would sail for home on November 17. The Brazilian summers always make Mr. Jarvis ill, hence his return at this time.—Mr. J. E. Macfarland, of the editorial force of Public who has beensspending the summer and autumn in Braseels, Sau renee Meee overnment named valier of the “Order of Leopold. Dr. J —| J H. Barnett of St. Louis, Judge H. H. of Richmond, Jas. C. Stout of Auburn, N. Y., J. A. Davidson of Chicago, and C. Hoagland of Cincinnati, are at Willard’s.——Henry J. Pain of ‘ork, is at the National.—Senator Faulkner. Rey tative Ford, Fred. W. Cameron of , and M. W. Hunter of St. tional.—Nathaniel Francisco on Lge ed pe nen Denia, meee oe TALK AT THE CAPITOL. A Few Members of Congress Here in Readiness for Next Monday. WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THE DISPUTED CONGRES- SIONAL DISTRICTS AND THE ORGANIZATION OF THE NEXT HOUSE—A LONG CONTEST PROBABLE IF THE UNCERTAINTY CONTINUES A YEAR. Congress will reassemble a week from to- day. Final preparations for the event aré be- ing made at the capitol. Clerks and officials who have been off on a vacation are appearing on the scene, but few Senators and Representa- | tives have as yet put in an appearance. The ‘ appropriations subcommittee of the House and the joint cqmmittee investigating the aqueduct tunnel are the only fragments of Congress that have got together yet. The only suggestion of the approaching session about the Honse this morning was the appearance of Representa- tives Bliss and Buchanan, hard at work on their correspondence at their desks in the hall. During the session Mr, Buchanan is always one of the first to reach his seat, and he is con- stantly at work. MR. BUCHANAN ON THE ORGANIZATION OF THE NEXT HOUSE. | ‘The only thing he had to say about politics | to-day was that if a majority of the republi- i j i cans were elected they would certainly organ- ize the House, whatever sharp practice the other party might resort to. Each House, he | said, had a right to judge of the election of its own members, and the announcement of the clerk would not bind them if it was known to be based on false returns. The House would be judge of its own affairs, He said there would be no play about it. THE DOUBTFUL DISTRICTS. Very little but the possible complexion of the next House is talked of at thecapitol. The employes are struggling with the hope of a democratic majority, with all the indications against them. It now appears that the repub- licans have all the districts in dispute, upon the face of the returns, and that it is only recount or mandamus proceedings that they can be deprived of the certificates, The face of the returns, as is understood, igives the republicans the one dis- puted district in Tennesse, in North Carolina, that in Lou y Kentucky, and three in West Virginia, besides | Rayner’s district in Maryland. It is not thought | likely that there can be such a wholesale over- | throwing of apparent majorities as to reverse | these returns or enough of them to change the complexion of the House, If democrats shonld be certified from the disputed districts of Ten- | nessee and North Carolina that would not give | the majority to the democrais. SHOULD THOP UNCERTAINTY CONTINUE. It is very probable that if the dispute and un- certainty should continue up to the time of the meeting of the next Congress, it is most likely that the returns of the clerk, if showing a democratic majority, would be disputed and the juestion of the admission of certain members to Satraentebe put toa vote of the House composed of members whose election is acknowledged. Having beefi sworn in they would properly con- stitate the House, with the hold-over clerk act- ing as chairman, and motions could be made and voted on, Resolutions could be offered declaring this set or that set of members enti- tled to take their seats. With a tie, as there t be, excluding the members whose ad- mission was objected to, there would prob- ably be A LONG STRUGGLE. Such astate of affairs is not without prece- dent in the House. The returns presented to the House by the clerk, as they are made to him by the certificates of election, need not of ne- cessity be accepted by the House for the pur- pose of organization. THE TENTH KENTUCKY DISTRICT. ‘There is rather an odd state of affairs in the 10th Kentucky district, now represented by Mr. Tanlbee. By the face of the returns, Wilson, republican, is elected by a clear majority of five or six hundred. There is no dispute on that point, and the governor will have to give him the certificate. unless the courts are in- duced to interpose. But is claimed by the democrats that frauds have been perpetrated in three of the strong republican counties so as to increase their majorities. Speak- in of the matter, Mr. Taulbee told a Sran reporter to-day that he had just re- ceived a letter from one of the elections of- ficials stating that in two of the counties the in- creased vote was extraordinary, and that in one of them, where the census, which is taken every fall, showed only 640 voters. Wilson got by the return a majority of 750 or thereabouts. They can always count on 150 democratic votes in this country, Mr. Taulbee said, He added,how ever, that if there is fraud he is confident that Mr. Wilson is not party to it and knows noth- ing about it, as he knows him to be a very hon- orable gentleman, ALEXANDRIA. ’ Reported for THE EVENING STAR, Tue Pupiic ScHoo1s.—Washington schools No. 1 and No. 2 were opened at the new school- house this morning. These schools are both supplied with good furniture, Washington fchsol No. 1 having the Susquehanna dosks and No.2the Barton school desks. Paragon school desks are now being manufactured at a cost of $1,300 for the six other rooms of the building, and they will be in place the close of next month. Washington schdW@ No. $ still occupies a rented room at Paff’s hall, on King street, near Pitt, but all the other schools are in the Peabody building. On the 2d of. January next all the white boys’ schools will be removed from the Peabody building, and for the fi time the white boys and the white girls will have separate school buildings. AFauu at tue Gas Hovse.—An old wall at the city gas house fell during the high wind this morning, and gave rise to a report that the gas house had been blown down. The fall of the wall will not interfere with the sup- ply, and the injury will soon be reme Niopes.—The religuoia interest (here: esciied by the coming of Evangelist Yatman still _con- tinue: o Keith opened circuit court for the county here this morning.—As the soldiers’ monument, to be erecte the intersection of Washington and Prince streets draws near completion a roster has been pre- pared of eighty-eight names to be placed upon They are those of the Alexandrians who died in the military service of the confederate states. There are twenty-three from the Old Dominion rifles, sixteen from the Alexandria rifles, fourteen from the Mount Vernon guards, eleven from the Emmet guard, three from the O'Connell guards, seven from the Alexandria ar- tillery, and fourteen from other commands, P. P. Heisley has sold for $850, to Mr. Warty Hulfish, a two-story frame house, with lot, on Queen near Pitt street.— Both sides have bets | of CIVILIANS IN THE ARMY. Staff Appointments for Officers of the Line. Although it is in the power of the President to fill any or all of the existing staff vacancies in the army by civilian appointees, such a course is not generally regarded as probable by officers here. These places are looked upon as about the easiest billets that fall to the lot of an army man, and always attract innumerable aspirants. The promotion is more rapid, the duties are light, and, asarule, the stations are pleasant. So that it has come to bea kind of precedent to reserve such vacancies as rewards for line officers whose records in the field have made them and their friends feel that they were deserving of reward. Hence it is that while the President may occasionally make civil ap- pointments to the line, he respects the tradi- tions of the army by generally disregarding the claims of civilians ts staff places. “Yet,” remarked an officer the other day, “there is but little of the prejudice against civilian appointees in the army by the West Pointers that is almost universally supposed to exist. Itcannot be denied that at one time the graduates in the army made the life of a civil appointee almost unbearable with their assumptions of superiority, and there was prac- tically an aristocracy that discountenanced the introduction of civilians into the its. This feeling, I am glad to say, has about disap- ed, and a West Point * eciaraad no longer feels that he is immeasurably superior to all others. He may, perhaps. feel that way for a very short time after leaving the academy, but he soon discovers that such an attitude is un- popular, Atthe same time there is a great Prejudice among line men against the appoint- ment of civilians on the and Iam a=) to believe that the President is not going to pur- sue such a course in the present cases.” THE BOSTON’S BAD LUCK. Naval Officers Deplore the Outbreak of Yellow Jack on the New Vessel. The cruiser Boston is still in quarantine at New York, and will probably remain there for at least ten days or two weeks. No additional reports fom Capt. Ramsay have been received at the Navy department, but Commodore Walker, who has just returned from an official visit to the Brooklyn yard, says that two or three of the men now sick on board the ship with yellow fever will probably die. The ship, he added, will be kept in quarantine until the cases now under treatmeng have culminated and no other cases develop themselves, It is then a question of medical procedure as to the dispoisition of the vessel. She will first be thoroughly cleaned and fumigated, buteven then the danger from the plague will not be eradi- cated. Great sorrow is expressed among néval officers that the fever should have got a hold upon this new ship. It is sometimes impossi- bia: they say, to get the germs out the” vessel, and when the ship is thought to be entirely freed from the dis- ease a trip into the fever country will develop the germs and cause an outbreak of the plague. A fever ship is always feared. for no positive method of fumigation has yet been discovered that is regarded as reliable. It isa question, however. whether the germs will find a foot- hold in the Boston, for she is a new ship, con- structed for the most part of iron, and with no rotten or soft wood anywhere in her frame. As these materials usually furnish the hiding laces for the seeds of the plague, it is hoped t the Boston will escape the reputation of being a “fever ship.” nue Collections. POINTS FROM THE ANNUAL REPORT OF COMMIS- SIONER MILLER. The report of the commissioner of internal revenue for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1838, shows that the receipts for the year were $124,326,475, an increase of $5,489,174 over the previous year, and more than any year since 1883. The estimated receipts for the current year aggregate $125,000,000. With reference to the Maryland district, which includes the District of Columbia, the tables submitted give the following information: The aggregate collection from all sources was €3,389,377.19, A comparison between the first three months of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1888, and the first quarter of the present fiscal year show a decrease of 151,547.32. In the manufacture of tobacco during the past fiscal year 2,313,744 pounds of tobacco was used, 96,753,595 cigars manufactured and 122,405,620 cigarettes. There were eleven tobacco factories in Maryland. ‘These used the following material in manufac- turing during the calendar year ended Decem- 887: ‘Tobacco and snuff, leaf, 9,364,366 P. 25,134,’ sugar, 400,768; other ‘material, 402,352. Maryland tobacco factories are not ‘credited with the manufacture of any plug tobacco, but made 630,982. pounds of fine cut, and 7,318,436 of smoking tobacco and 2,828,182 pounds of snuff, ‘The commissioner estimates $265,280 for sala- ries of officers, clerks, &c., in the office of the commissioner, and #10,000 for expenses inci- dent to the enforcement of the act of October 12, 1888, for the prevention of the manufacture and sale of adulterated foods and drugs in the District of Columbia, which provides for the analysis of such articles under the direction of the commissioner of internal revenue. The Yellow Fever at Gainesville. Several sums of money were received at Tre Srar office after there no longer need of outside pecuniary help at Jacksonville, and at the suggestion of Surgeon-General Hamilton the aggregate amount was sent to the surgeon in charge at Gainesville, as the point where its use would be most likely to serve the purpose of the donors. To the letter of remittance the following answer was received. We publish it for the information of those who may desire to make farther contributions: GarNesvIL_e, Fua., Nov. 18, 1888. 8. H. Kavrrmann, ag “ Dean Sm: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 5th inst., cov- ering check for the sum of £42.08 to be applied tothe relief of the yellow fever sufferers in Gainesville. Its arrival is timely. With a | Serene of five thousand i people, whose en- business has been suspended in consequence of the epidemic, you can readily imagine or conceive that assistance from abroad is much needed. The authorities here deferred their iM. Assistant Surgeon U. & N. The Ament-Karr Case. A DECISION IN FAVOR OF THE DAUGHTER. ape See the bo, t and. $3,0 © ate NAVAL ORDNANCE. Annual Report of Commodore Sicard— The Gun Factory in this City. The annual report of | Commodore Sicard, chief of the bureau of ordnance, to the Secre- tary of the Navy, contains the following esti- mates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890: Fuel, tools, material, labor, prizes, proofs, bat- teries of new types for two ships now in serv- ice, general armament with secondary batteries and small arms, $514,150; general repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines and append- ages, $15,000; freight and miscellaneous. #10, 000; civil establishments at navy-vards, €24,980. torpedo station, $70,000; towards the armament of vessels authorized, 34,077,000, and for com- pletion of gun plant at the Washington navy- Yard. $625,000; total, $5,336,130. The hij pwer steel cannon for the navy complete: te are two 5-inch, twenty-four 6-inch, eight $-inch and three 10-inch. Since the last report sign of 6-inch gun has been completed, and thirty-two of these guns are in construc- tion at Washington, Cold Spring, N. Y., and Boston. Ten have practically been finished at Washington. This design is in several im- portant respects SUPERIOR TO THOSE HERETOFORE IN USE. The tube is hooped to the muzzle, thereby greatly strengthening it against strains in the chase. The powder chamber has been reduced in diameter, thus making it possible to reduce the exterior diameters and to save sufficient weight there to hoop the muzzle without in- creasing the weight of the gun. The ve of the rifling removes less metal from the gun than the ordinary groove, and will probably be subject to less erosion from powder gas. The twist increases from zero at origin to one turn in 25 calibers at the muzzle. The gun is considered to be rather superior to the best types of guns of its class and kind now extant abroad. The standard t: of thes-inch gun has been improved on the same lines, A 10- inch gun intended for the U. 8. monitor Mian- tonomah has been lately fired at the prov: ground, the projectile showing a velocity of 2,002 feet per second at the muzzle. QUICK-FIRING GUNS. In Europe considerable attention has lately been given to the development of the rate of fire of cannon of moderate caliber, and what are known as ““quick-firing guns” of 3, 4 and 6 inches diameter of bore, are being experiment- edwith. Reference is made to the powder now used, to samples of shells submitted by manufacturers, and to the work on carriages for the new guns, The armament for the Boston has been com- fileted, that for the Atlanta virtually so, while that for the Chicago will be completed by about January 1. The work on THE NEW GUN FACTORY AT WASHINGTON is progressing rapidly. The walls of the large gun shop are practically finished. Great difti- culty was experienced in excavating the shrink- ing pit, owing to the existence of quicksand. On this account the expense of the pit has been very much greater than expected, but it is now entirely safe, The gun sent to the bureau by the Pittsburg steel casting company is now at the proving ground awaiting tests, while that of the Stan- rd steel casting company is at the Washing- ton yard, undergoing the finishing processes. GEORGETOWN. Arnests.—Saturday night Wm. Clark, col- ored. got drunk and went to market. He stag- gered through the crowd and came near pushing several persons off the sidewalk. He was ar- rested by Officer Shanks. This morning in the Police Court he was fined #5,—Sunday morn- ing, about 1 o'clock, Officers Welch and Hess were on High street when three young men came along. One or more of them had been drinking, and the officers advised them to go home. They needed no advice, so they thought, and one of the party gave the officers to under- stand that they had better not arrest him; that his father was a lawyer, and wound up by dar- ing them to arrest him. He was then accom- modated by the officers, and when taken to the station could not scare up a five-dollar note to leave as collateral, aud had to send for it to the saloon he had visited. This morning the young man changed his mind. He did not ap- pear in court to dispute the officer's right to arrest him and his collateral was forfeited, — Lewis Smith, Jos. Ranson and Jno. Scott, charged with disturbing the quiet of Bridge street, forfeited £3 each in the Police Court to- day.—Frank Nelson and Ashburton Wormley went gunuing Saturday. Before shooting any game poe were picked up for trespassing on a farm and were released on collateral. This morning Judge Miller took their personal bonds.——Patrick Hartigan and Philip May were charged in the Police Court to-day with engaging in an affray on M street Saturday. May drove upon the newly-laid asphalt pave- ment and Hartigan, the engineer on the steam roller, put him off to prevent further dam: A fight ensued and both left collateral. Har! gan was acquitted and May forfeited his col- lateral.——Edward Feldmayer aud Wm. Leim- bach, pie bakers employed by the Connecticut Pie company, had some trouble Friday, and a fight resulted in Leimbach’s getting a black eye. The trouble was renewed Saturday, and Feldmayer charges that Leimbach threatened to cut his (Feldmayer’s) heart out. Last night he said he found a razor under Leimbach’s pil- low. “I am willing to make up,” said the - cuting witness. “And so is the defendant,” said Mr. Carrington. The judge thought that was the best way to settle their difficulty and discharged the defendant on his personal nds, TEMPERATURE AND ConDITION OF WATER aT 7 A, m.—Great Falls, temperature, 38; condition, 14; receiv temperature, 46; condi- tion at north connection, 16; condition at south i ; distributing reservoir, temper- ature, 42; condition at influent gate-house, 11; condition at effluent gate-house, 15. WHO EXPECTS TO BE MARSHAL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA—OTHER Gossip. more than they will get. Some of the old friends of Gen. ‘Harrison, who have aided him eaty in — en ones are aw, to tly disappoint mong are Gen. Frea. Knefler and D. M. Ramsdell. Gen. Knefler, it is believed, will be made commis- sioner of pensions. He was the Indian agent for many years, and has a as one of the best ursing officers in the It is expected that Ramsdell will be made MARSHAL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. He is an ex-soldier with one arm, the other having been shot away in the battle of Peach Telegrams to The Star. LOST IN THE FURIOUS GALE. | Schooner Wrecked and Crew Drowned. TELEGRAPHIO SERVIOE IMPEDED Blockade of the Zanzibar Coast. IT WAS A BIG BLOW. Fears Felt of Disasters at Sea. * New Yorx, Nov. 26.—The first storm of the winter is about over in this immediate vicinity, but is still raging with unabated violence along the Now England coast. Telegraphic com- munication with that section is entirely sus- pended. The Western Union Telegraph com- pa ee el southern The Associated Press Washington, circuit, an ji morning, made up by wa: Cleve- land and Pittsburg. dedin’ = FEARS OF DISASTERS ON THE Coast. The storm along the coast all the way from Hatteras has been very violent. and it is feared that many marine disasters have occurred, al- though it will be some days before reports will begin to come in, as the storm would drive the vessels off shore. The wires to Sandy Hook are all down, but the last message received from that place stated that the highest wind ever experienced by the observer there was raging. D oe. v og ng red epee ANVERS, Mass., Nov. 26.—The present storm is the worst that has ever been experienced here at this time of ‘year. | ‘The wind blew a hurricane and snow drifted to the height of three and four feet. Horse cars were aban- doned all along the line and religious services atthe churches were suspended last night, Sleighing and wheeling are equally bad, tele- | phone and telegraph and electric light wires |are down; drains are full and the streets flooded. ‘Trains with double engine service are nearly on time this morning. —.—__ WRECKED IN THE GALE. A Schooner Driven Ashore Near Scituate and 15 Men Drowned. Scrrvate, Mass., Nov. 26.—A terrible loss of life is reported here by a wreck this morning. | The large fishing schooner Edward Norton, © | of and from Boston, went ashore off First Cliff | Point at 6:30 last night and immediately went | to pieces. Her crew consisted of 16 men, and 15 of them have perished, < CLUNG TO THE VESSEL AND WAS SAVED. One man, Allen by name, clung to the vessel and when the tide left her this morning he succeeded inreaching the shore. The vessel was discovered by the midnight patrol of the life-saving station, but too late to render assist- ance. She lies bottom up and is a com wreck. She is owned by Beabbe & Co., of ton. The Zanzibar Blockade. AN INTENSE ANTI-GERMAN FEELING IN THE I> TEnton. Brossexs, Nov. 26.—In accordance with the vernment’s request the authorities of the Congo states have published the | under which natives of Zanzibar are enlisted, | These relations show that entire freedom of contract is given to the natives. The sultan continues ill and is unable te issue a proclamation announcing the blockade. It is now arranged thatGermany blockades the southern coast and England the northern coast, British missionaries report that an intense anti-German feeling exists far inland. ornm. POSALS. —The Standard’s Berlin The government has re- jected France's proposal to join the blockade of East Africa on the condition that slave dhows and dealers under the French fiag seized by other powers be handed over to Franch for punishment. The Emin relief com- mittce has passed a resolution severing all con- nection between the committee and the East Africa company. It is expected that the com> pany will ask the reichstag for a loan of 10,000, 000 marks at 81g per cent. THE FREEDOM OF 1,500 SLAVES SECURED. Zaxziman, Nov, 26.—The question regar the fugitive slaves harbored by the mission Molbasa has been settled by Messrs, Mackenzie | and Matthews to the satisfaction of the natives, who have invited Mr. Mackenzie to « public | feast. The arrangement secures the freedom of 1,500 slaves. ee Franco-Italian Relations. Rome, Nov. 26.—King Humbert y. | gave audience to M. i, the nowiy-ape pointed F ambassador. ming In welcoming the ambassador his majesty said that if France met the good intentions of Itally in a friendly spirit all differences of opinion could be easily set ———__ General Foreign News. AN AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL BURNED OUT. Pag chin’ . w., Hos, 20-—ahe omens ¢ Town ‘ountry (qowapaper! im this city have been destroyed by ¥ The loss is £100,000, The offices were the finest im Australia. ‘ THE DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND DEAD. Lonpon, Nov. 25.—The Ruchess of Suther land is dead. LIEUT. WISSMANN’S PLANS. Benrxtrx, Nov. 26.—Lieut. Wissmann will wait ‘on the emperor to resign his commission in the army and to state his p! for the Emin relief — He will not leave Berlin for three weel A COUNTERFEITER SENTENCED. Brussets, Nov. 26.—Duplessy, who was con- victed of being an accomplice ‘in the issue of counterfeit French bank notes, has been sen- tenced to five years’ imprisonment. INCREASING KUSSIAN IMPORT DUTIES. Nov. 26.—The import duties on sheet copper have been increased to 30 kopecks per pound. The duty on -bot- tomed wooden ships has been fixed at 12 roubles for the first hundred tons and 6 roubles for every additional hundred tons, eee Cheering Gen. Boulanger. Pants, Nov. 26.—On the way tohis home the banquet of the Patriotic league yesterday, ulanger was continuously cheered, ————_ In Honor of the Manchester Martyrs. Dvs.ix. Nov. 26.—Thopsands of persons af tended a demonstration in Glasnevin cemetery yesterday at the monument to the ‘The proceedings were orderly. John Bright’s ition Worse. 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