Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1889, Page 6

6 ; THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY FEBRUARY 8. 188 THE FRERET INVESTIGATION. Sensational Testimony Before the Sen- ate Subcommittee. ARCHITECT AVERY'S SHARP CRITICISM OF METHODS YS THE SUPERVISING ARCHITECT'S OFFICE— FRERET REPORTED TO HAVE SAID HE WOULD WRECK THE D—D OFFICE. The investigation into the methods and man- agement of the office of the supervising archi- tect of the Treasury was resumed yesterday by the subcommittee of the senate committee on Public buildings and grounds. There were Present Senators Spooner, Morrill, Daniels, Pasco, and Stanford, the first named, chairman of the subcommittee, conducting the examina- tion of witnesses, ARCHITECT AVERT A WITNESS. Mr. E. T. Avery was the first witness. He INFORMER BEACH’S STORY. He Continues it Before the Parnell Com- mission in London. Upon the resumption of the sitting of the Parnell commission in London yesterday the witness Beach, alias LeCaron, made a cor- rection in the testimony he gave Wed- nesday. He said it was Boynton whom he saw at the Philadelphia convention in 1883, and not Sheridan. as he testified yesterday. The latter only arrived in America in 1854. Attorney-General Webster read a postion of the constitation of the “U, 8.” In March, 1884, witness attruded a district convention of the “U. 8.," where he saw Sullivan and Lomassey. Attorney General Webster asked the witness what services Lomassey had rendered that the brotherhood should support his family. : Witness explained that a convention of the reunited sections, now known as the “U. B., was held in June, 1888, when a delegate from Detroit, where the widow of Lomassey lived, A A FAMOUS INSTITUTION. What It Is, Where It Is, and How Con- ducted. NEW ORiEans, Dec. 18.—{Special to the Omaha Bee,]— Many thousands scattered over this great country, | from its extreme eastern to western, northern to southern boundaries, are waiting and watching to-day to learn if thé wheel of fortune may not bring to them that erand capital prize of $600,000, which isa little Jess than one-fourth of the immense sum this day dis- tributed by the Louisiana State Lottery Company. Circumstances so order that I make the Louisians State Lottery the basis of my first communication from this city, believing that it will prove interesting to your readers, as picturing one of the institutions of the State of Louisiana, which is the main support of that celebrated Charity hospital, that welcomes the Poor and friendless stranger as readily as the needy special and protonged ezaminstion, and s comparison of chirography, that the company is enabled to deter- mine the writer of the original letter containing the remittance. The question solvedto their own satis- faction. they so advise the writer, and fill his order for the coming drawing, if requested, or return his money. But the company do not wait for letters of inquiry from their careless correspondents. For instance, if they can decipher the name of the party and town— while there may be nothing to indicate the State—they siean from the Postal Guide, every state and territory in which is located a town of that name, and send ® postal card to each one, advising the party named thst they are in possession of a package of or hers, to write giving description when sent, name of town and state,” etc, Thus, very often they anticipates letter of inquiry, and fill an order with but little delay. Your correspondent was told of one particular case in which # patron failed to give any legible address, and all inquiries on the part of the company failed to discover him But at about the same time it was receiving letters from some one who was calling it hard names, because it failed to send him a ticket as ordered. This party was requested GENTLEMEN’S GOODS. _ G. T. Kuex 414 9TH STREET. H. D. Barn IMPORTER AND TAILOR, Has the honor to inform you that his NEW GOODS reed. GRE UAC peonanty sta al garmente madein bie ATTRACTIONS FOR 1888-'s, 2211 PENNSYLVANIA AVE. testified that he was hitect, and was em- | introduced the subject. one at home, and cares for all alike. to give. if possible, the date of his oririnal letter of re- mh17 ‘Washington, D.C. ployed in the office oe phapetoan tres architect | Mr. Charles Russell asked the court whether | When your correspondent received instructions to ee ath cs ee koe ee of the Treasury. He had knowledge of outside | this was evidence aguinst the P areltint’ these | PrOSttd southward. New Orleans being the objective | onyer It Wy express or other ‘im, only an additional RAILROADS. Work being done by employes of the office on | , Attomey-General Webster held tt'that the | Polt he remembered that this belng his first visit to | Souivecomiene SS Feit Mr. Vou Nerta, the chief draagbteman, | gvideuce may admionble’ Deentge Egan, Sheri | te Creat it. it would by well oarm hime | "oll. the manager, “a mancame toto the | wha. oki which thet at go Mtaat fess: MO*Ralo"% Wiaetan | . rr n_and others were directly connect wit : zs Me wile bit ¥ | ea eae san eee So tek & and eT UB. Prominent and distinguished of her citizens. He was | {8 cOMPAnY had roubed him of his money without | of ladies and gentlemen in front, Gonions¥ estate »onrg- and sianens | Greatly Improved and Better Than Ever. rn n + . IN Particularly favored by being brought into contact quently, on its being renewed by Mr. Roberts, BEACH AND PARNELL. general manager took him aside, and by clever ques- | and prosperous business men, I thonght that here, at | R2°: gutwowery, and or per Washington to'New Orleans. another employe, witness had agreed to it, and] Sir Henry James also contended that the} with the Hon. G. W. Nott, postmaster; Col. Page tioning got out of him in a few minutes more definite | least, they seemed to feel no more out of place t! M.—Fast Mail Duly tor Warrenton, Char a ently saw Mr. Von Nerta on the sub-| witness’ @ulleged conversation with Parnell | Baker, managing editor of the Times-Democrat; Mr. P. | information than 8 serion of letters had extracted. — would, enjoying the play at (iy og ele Qhilo Route, ject. Von Nerta told him that it would be made his evidence admissible, Parnell had re- | 0. Fazende, of the well-known banking house of | T#sing him into the ‘old horse’ vault, one of the boxes ‘house in Omaha. mecessary to get original letter was tain things when | Fazende & Seixas, as woll as other leading citizens, | iscovercd "Immediately reemeien tty tho, tan uested the witness to do ce: SOME OUTSIDE FRIEXD TO TAKE THE CoTRACT. | HO°O Di VOg “in America’ and. it had been | and during a short formal conversation, the principal The witness and Roberts had called| proved that the request had been carried out. | points of interest_to dine-tancanenie ynchbury, v “hl and Danville, G: bo! CharletityColumbiy ukes Aorunta Aan, Birge Dan, Mouurcmery, Kew Orle us Teiae and a, Pullinan ‘ew (0 Atlanta: Puilwan Parlot Pe rig) asses aan ‘Auauta to Monteonery Palisa Sleepers Mout: ‘Tue WEEKLY Sran, in its new dress and under very ol that I seni that gomery to New Qricaus aud Mann iF Sleepers | . at the offices of two architects U3 herefore the first step a ‘Mr. Fazende, saying he would at once order his car- | YOu got pinned on there. self ee the ~ seme) ry = latter bo the small | for a and Shreveport. Pullman | careful editorial supervision, commends iteelf as ing, hi found | the nature of the society which it was al- if “Yes,” was the reply, “‘you see we did not steal your | wheel, after eac! opent doors in the same; | Sleeper Gree on to Atis: oo i ee ae cn ae Wat Paa aubes Ge ten We occas nr ee thzoneh the city. Asweneared | sscoey or put it in our pockets, but you notice tooce | the boys stood st the openings between tae wheslsund | SE Pte pois Sundays, "m= B0t counect for | one of the most attractive and desirable news and wed by Mr. ‘Von Nesta, to have the fon. | about to be proved was the acts of the associa- | the corner of St. Charles and Union atrects my es- are no directions in any part of your letter whereby | the commissioners, and General Early said: 30 £. a= Bay, excep? Sunday, for Manassas, family journals published. It comprises eight ii i , ii me into said. pointi Asome, substantial-look- | we could ‘send you proper returns.” “We're ready."" jediate stations. | [eee gpa ep pect aga hog vir peer im ee fea Gites Gee fem igh TGS La | ate eerie The house was ge still as death ina moment.asa| Goin Ma Weegee ates Daily for Warrenton, | peges of solid reading matter—the very cream of or three = — in’ the wrehitect’s OBJECTIONS FROM PARNELLITE COUNSEL. home of the Louisiana State Lottery Company, | , N° doubt he isa recular patron now, but more care- | tube was handed from the big wheel to General Earlys and Solid Trains Washington to Office. Mr. Roberts wrote out a proposal ~- the contents of the eight; daily issues of Tae ho unfolded it, and announced inaclear, resonan | Louisville: also tor Lynchburg, Bristol, Chattanooga, ‘page : : Sir Charles Russel seid that the attorney-gen- | and by the way to-morrow is the appointed day for, | Stwene fener ney But the company is not | who, ss Meant tle Kock Tanda Sere ts acs | EViNEee Bran, tegumer wtih eftidonsd fonaeen (which was signed by = Masato 4 = eral s theory made Parnell and his associates | the mammoth drawing, in which over $2.000,000 is | account ab in this cass and thus a large amount of | “Thirty-six thousand two hundred and twelve.”” without acm as Met prenented to the Geeretery Of {he | 04.4 be thie actions of tie U. Bi, or ihe BR to be distributed, and the first capital prize is $600,000, | money necessarily remains to ite credit. Simultaneously the boy at the samgll wheel handed | | 11:08 P. M—Southern Exprees Daily for Lynch- luding @ department devoted to Farm, Home for his approval. The building | ¢) ~ Gente Dae tube, when he, in adelib- | Pure, Danville, Kaleyh, Asheville, Charlotte, Colum: for which the pro 1 was made was | C-; to the end of time. You should attend the drawing by all means, and on | President Daupbin decrees that as it doe@not belong uregard a prize . Dia.” Aik ny fen, Augusta, Alanta, Mon’ xy, New Or- | and Garden interests, carefully compiled and ed- Mr. Reid said that the attorney-general be- to the company, the company must not touch it. A | erate, plainly heard voice, exclaimed: Jeans, Texas and Califoruis. Pullman Vestibule Sleeper | at Helena, Ark. It was to cost $60,000, Mr. sag 4 ws i Ro account fail to visit the company’s offices.” Then | concern that eta ei ha standard of honesty in its ‘Two hundred dollara.” Washington to New Orleans via Atlauta and Mont- | and the witness was to get for the plans and | fore proving proceedings in America against | ft wae T learned what an intanee interest wae taken by ver 'P sucl ty ited expressly for the weekly edition. rn “ 7 Washington to Augusta, i the Parnellites, should produce more definite dealings with its patrons cannot help compelling con- | General Early then handed his ticket to an assistant een 4, drawings 600. The reason why the meres | octinae af the piseetlauto and conduct of | the people of all grades in society, not only in the city | fidence in all its methods. - standing up beside him, who again announced the ‘Trains on Wests iston and Ohio division leave Wash. | 1M @ddition to its unexcelied attractions as @ Peete rene Wt | he comaphaey. and tne tpGlt obter, Wine | of Mie Colseas, saa itech ae, oe ah ae sn 'il the correspondence appertaining to exch drawing zane, “36,212.” st tbe sane tine holding it up so BAIS fetec and PT Sa end $45 FM. | Weekly newspaper, it has issued a list of valuable t ii ich the evidence had so far been ten- | roun ran iphal form ani away according Squres, Generel | jeturcing leave Hound fill 6:09 At Det 10 DISTRUSTFUL AS TO ITS HONESTY frac! Sg pen ei ned poe bapa ae rranrecaka bea emesis eu vveny | todatein appropriate pigeon holes, 20 that in an in- | Beattregard also handed the prize ticket to an assistant | RC apt ‘Suuday, arriving Washington 8.30 | M4 useful premiums, given either to single sub: and propriety. They had not been discouraged | tions innocent in themselves without proving y generally kn e readet stant almost the letter of a fortunate winner. showing | stauding beside hiu, who for the second time an- mes or club raiser, which will be sent, sie r . Bee, is not only the only legalized one in this country, | name and location, may beascertained. This was veri- | nounced the prize, $200, for the nuuiber just drawn. trains from the South via Charlotte, Dan- uilty knowl of such object as was con- burg arrive in Wash:n 7:00 AM by Von Nerta; on the contrary, Von Nerta had ne ledge 5 Geriving its original charter from the State legisintnre | fied later on, when, after the drawing. Tcalled on Dr. | The ticket 36,212and the prizecorresponding,which | Ti YM. ; vis East Tennesser, Bristol and Lynoe: | er With a sample copy of the paper, free and post Loge mioarecm et rpaaneagese ed pm mreeaiaamae| FY voor ES Webster said he had never | in 1868, but in 1879, by act of the State constitu- | Daurhin to learn, if possible, the localities and names | by the way, is printed in similar lange black figures, | burg at 11-13 A.M. and 0-40 Pl via C but witness had at once declined. been prepared to suggest that Mr. Parnell OF | tional convention, was ineorponted ay nace or ae veg | Of ‘the Jacky ones who had secured the capital prizes. | are then handed to young mm siting tn front of the | gud, Ohio route wid : | Paid to any address, or given to any one applying “ ” Ti, il od lappening to be in the president's private office | commissioners, who fol wo toget] TOeces Tick ‘sleepin “ ‘ tio’ aa saat ta Meguician ‘a can oka SS bees rasan ace certonely Constitution formed by that body,and this act en- | about 10 o'clock on the morning of the drawing, your | thet in a box arranged in compartments, according to | gurnished, sal’ hatgsae Themmation and Information | at ene counter of the business office, es ». 1500 Penn Von Nerta had in having this work done in this way, and in resorting to such makeshifts to evade the law, witness said the understanding in the office was that it was to serve Mr. Freret, the supervising architect. because Freret wanted to have the work done in time to include all of the public buildings embodied in his annual report, so that when he went out of office all of the buildings should be under contract and his name should appear in the annual report as the architect. Witness was asked whether any such | work had been given out in the office since this examination began, and stated | itas his understanding that a contract for foe and drawings had been recently given to | fr. Pedone. an Italian sculptor and modeller. Pedone had come from Venice a few years ago snd bad got a position under the last super- | ts | | vising architect, Mr. Bell. He was A FRIEND OF THE ITALIAN MINISTER and also of Mr. Yon Nerts. He was competent | as asculptor and modeller, but witness knew nothing of his qualifications as an architect or designer of public buildings. He was told that Mr. Hubbard, a typewriter and stenographer in the office. had also taken contracts for furnishing plans and drawings for | and | public buildings at Tuailahassee, Fla. Statesville, N. C. Hubbard was not (strictly speaking) ‘an architect, although he had done | some work in that hne for the Baltimore & | Ohio railroad company. Witness was inquired of as to young Mr. Freret and said that he was not an architect and not a skilled dranghtsman. Sketches had been made on tracing paper for the Ottumwa (Iowa) building and handed over to Mr. Freret. who worked them up on white paper in order to send them to the Secretary for his signature NO NECESSITY FOR HAVING WORK DONE OUTSIDE THE OFFICE. To the question whether there was any ne- eessity for having these plans and drawings done outside of the office, the witness replied in the negative. The oifice force was not so crowded as not tobe abie todo it all. For a year and a half all the necessary drawin have not been made in the office. presumably on the score of economy, but the failure to do so put the contractors to great disadvantage and led to increased cost in the construction of buildings. Fall-sized detailed drawings are not | furnished, as is the custom in all first-class architects offices in the United States and was | the practice before Col. Freret took hold of the office. | THE ARCHITECTS POSITIVE INSTRUCTIONS were not to make any full-sized detailed draw- — whom they knew to be, or could have nown if they had made proper inquiries to e been. prominently connected many years with such outrage. The court decided to admit the evidence on the ground that the U. B. and the Clan-na- gael and the I. R. E. were practically the same body. Beach told of his relations to Sullivan, O'Donovan Rossa, and other prominent Irish- was a member of the U. B. in 1883, and believed that he had since continued to be a member. Eight of the thirteen principal officers of the American league were members of the U. B. Witness identified a report, dated September 24. 1834, congratulating the members Npon the increased strength of the organization, and upon having connected all the broken links in the open convention with the secret power which originated and controlled all their ac- tions, The executive, the report said, intended to plant the seeds inevery land. Strict silence concerning the work was enjoined upon the members. Beach declared that Rossa falsely claimed that he did the work of the organiza- tion. Witness compiled a key to the “U.S.” sy bols for the judge’s information. Witness said he visited the southern states in November, 1835, with a letter from Egan describing him as a most devoted friend of the Irish nationalists. This testimony was greeted with laughter, in which the witness heartily joined. --Egan,” witness continued. “presided at the league meetings in 1884 and 1885. A cir- cular issued in March, 1886, referred to the ‘emasculated and unacceptable home-rule scheme’ and urged the camps to remit funds for ‘delusion,’ the cipher word for dynamite.” Beach described the Chicago convention of August, 1895, He said that Messrs. O’Brien, Redmond and Deasy were present at a secret meeting held in Pittsburg before the conven- tion, at which the Irish national brotherhood was formed, A SPY IN HIS COUNTRY’S SERVICE. Sir Charles Russell then began the cross ex- amination of the witness. Beach said he went to America in 1861. He had previously been in France and was a draper’s assistant in Lon- don and Colchester. After his arrival in Amer- ica he joined the army. He became a Fenian in 1865 while still in the army. His object was to obtain all the information possible. He swore to fight for Ireland's independence, and took the Fenian military oath of allegiance. In reply to further questions Beach said: once adjutant-general of the Fenian military brotherhood, and attended a council of war. T consider myself a military spy in my country’s service, From 1868 until February 1, 1889, I men in America. ‘He saifl he knew that Egan | the State, and the people of New Orleans and Louis- jana have never had reason to regret that action. From 1868 to the time of the adoption of the new constitution, the company contributed over $500,000 in support of the public schools, and since that time (1879) have set aside a yearly fund of $40,000 for the use of the charity hospital heretofore mentioned, be- sides its more than princely support of all other insti- tutions, charitable and otherwise in the city and State. In fact Mr. Fazende told me that good and charitable deeds were not confined to the company asa wholé, but individual members are foremost in contributing liberally from their private means, for the encourage- ment and success of schemes that conduce to the inter- est and welfare of the city and State. The officers and directors of the company are among the most popular, respected and lesdingcitizens, and the commissioners, who alone superintend and manage the drawings are those old generals of the confederacy, loved and revered by the south, Generals Jubal A. Early and G. T. Beauregard. These two gentlemen have no interest whatever in the company, as General Early told your correspondent in conversation after the drawing to- day; and the company have neither voice nor vote in the manner or management of the drawing proper. ‘Thus is provided a perfect safeguard—if such were for the time being necessary—for the patrons of the lot- tery, thoroughly divorcing the management of the company from the management of the drawing. And now a few words as to the details of the compa- ny’s management. Armed witha letter of introduction your corres- Pondent visited the offices on St. Charles street, and was courteously received by Dr. M. A. Dauphin, the president, who requested his general manager to es cort me through the several departments and explain the methods of conducting their vast’ business. The building is a handsome three-story granite front structure, built and owned by thecompany, and devotedexclusively to their own uses. The general office on the first floor presents at first sight the ap- pearance of alarge banking house. It was crowded with people eagerly waiting their turn to purchase— what each individually hoped would prove the lucky number that would draw the capital prize of $600,000. In the several departments there are perhaps over one hundred clerks employed, and one peculiar, yet neces- sary feature of the assignment of them is, that they are in pairs at desks, so arranged that they face each other; this is for the purpose of acting as check on the ‘Mmutual errors of each other. Here in one apartment toa large force of clerks is Y rn is ent for contention was that they were allied with dorsed by an almost unanimous vote of the people of | correspondent had the pleasure of meeting that old | the grade or value, Thus there is a compartm veterau of the confederacy,General Jubal A. Early,one | $200, #400, #800, 1,000, $2,000, $5.000, $10,000, of the commissioners, who comes down once a mon! 25,000, $50,000, and so on up to single compart- from his home in Virginia to superintend the drawing, | ments for the three capital prizes of $100,000, #200,- The old gentleman, although somewhat bent under | 000 and $600,000. While this is being done a clerk the weicht of years, yet looks rugged, and is as active | seated Just behind General Early keeps record of the on his feetas many men thirty years younger. He | Dumber as drawn aud the correspénding prize,in a Presents @ most venerable appearance, with his long, | Printed book adapted just for that purpose. The gray beard and broad brim slouch hat. His eyeissharp | tickets thus folded—the number and the correspond- and piercing, und his voice as firm as in the old cam- | ing prize—are verified next day by Generals Early and paigning days in the Shenaudoah valley. He greeted | Beauregard, with the record kept by the entry clerk me cordially, and after making some inquiries of the | 8o that no possible mistake may be made in awarding general manager relative to “the bags” containing the | or withholding the prize to the holder of the lucky tickets, he casually mentioned that he had just re- | ticket. ceived a dispatch from some old friend in Rhode Island | Thus the drawing procceds—a number from the big to wire him immediately after the drawing the num- | wheel, a prize from the |i wheel, until twenty are ‘ber that secured the capital prize. drawn ont, when an assistant who keeps tally sings “Now. of course,” said the general, with a merry | out: twinkle in his eye, “he expects in some way T canhelp | “Roll.” him win it, for he sends me the number of his ticket.” | And both wheels are rolled back and forth for some “Trecoliect not long since,” the general continned, | time, the doors of each in the meantime being closed “aman in Rochester wrote me that if I could ‘pull’ | by the two commissioners, who allow no one near the capital prize of $100,000 for him I could keep | these openings except the blindfolded boys who take $80,000 and send him 090. The — focl.” | out the tubes, After sixty tubes have been taken from added the old veteran, “if Icould dosuch a thing and | each wheel the tally-keeper sings out: was rascal enough to do it, did he suppose I would be} “Roll, and change boys.” foolish enough to dtvide any part of it.” And immediately the doors are again closed, the “And so it is.” said General Early, “some people have | wheels several times revolved, thus thoroughly mix~ an idea that General Beauregard or myself can, in some | ing the tubes, sud two other little fellows come for- way, give the prizes where we will.” ward as a relief party, are blindfolded, and the drawiug And as we wended our way to the Academy of Music, | goes on. For some fifteen minutes the prizes an- which is but a short distance from the Louistana State | nounced ranged from $200 to @400, with a Lottery Company's building on the opposite side of | occasional $800. It was really straining on St. Charles street, the general said he would explain | the nerves of the anxious ones. Then Gen. to me how utterly impossible it wotld befor himor| Early called out “59.630,” which was an- General Beurevard to do any such thing. swered by Gen. Beauregard with “2,000.” Then it The Academy of Music, where the drawing takes | varied fora time with the #200 prizes, all seemingly place, was soon reached, and at the general's invita- | at the very door of the prize wheel The command tion your correspondent wasassigned aseat upon the | “Roll” came two or three times (after every twenty staxe, where he was introduced to General Beaure- | tubes) and “Roll, and change boys” for the third time gurd, the associate commissioner, and Messrs, W. I, | before Gen. Early called out “36,67 Hodgson, Willian Pinckerd,G. G. Roux and J. A.A. | sponding prize being $5,000. Rousseau, who assist the commissioners in the detail | During this time the audience sat immovable, but work, These are all prominent and well-known busi- | eagerness, wistfulness, hope, was depicted on every ness men of New Orleans. Seated upon the stage was | countenance, while the prize wheel declined to deliver the gevial Colonel “Dan” Wilson, 90 well known to | up any of the little tubes that denoted more than every one in the Crescent City, who never fails to wit- | $5,000, with an ever varying $200—8800—8400. ness the grand drawings, Over one hundred and fifty numbers had been drawn On the stage were two large boxes, which contained | froma the wheel when General Early called out: the ten bags in which were the tickets—100,000—each | **89,5:30." wrapped or tighly rolled and encased in a strong gutta | Which was answered by General Beauregard with: percha tube, the ends of the tickets slightly projecting | $25,000. beyond the ends of the tube or case. Each ticket is | A little buzz of excitement was perceptible through printed, from 1 to 100,000, in great big black type, so | the audience, but all was quiet in au instant, and there us to be readily read by the audience in front when | was no sound heard except the monotonous calling of held up to view. The prize tickets, 848 in number, | numbers and small prizes. {t was after a “roll and are similarly printed and encased in like tubes, for be | change, boys,” that General Early called out: it understood that while there are but 848 prize num-| “69,704.” bers drawn out, there are in addition 2,208 approxi-| When General Beauregard immediately arose from mation prizes, which are explained below. In the | his seat. and takings step towards the footlights, aid first place, tobe explicit and give a definite plan of | in a slow, distinct, but very impressive tow: “Six the present Mammoth Drawing, there are 848 prize | hundred thousund dollars.” Then excitement was ap- tickets, enumerated as follows: parent among the ¢reat audience. This was the louged- 1 prize of $600,000 1 for moment, and each one eagerly scanned the elip of AND SOUTRWEST, DID SCENERY CENT VOUIPM Pres 10200 pam. daily, for’ bre West, with through Sleeper to Pittsbu: BALIIMOKE AND POTOMAG RAU.ROAD. sport, Lock Haven, and Eins For New \ork « 1 E at “arlur junday, aud 3:45 p. Talus connect at Jer. yu Aunex, affording Woiding douvle sR, sey City with boats irect transter to Fultop stree ferriuge across N: 3 For Philadelpine. ays, and S45 pw. 03. 1 7:40, 8:10 100 0am. and 4:40 p.m. daily, 20 and 9:00 a.m.. 12:05 an except Sunday. Sundays, A AND FREDERICKSBURG RATL- ALEXANDRIA AND WASHINGION | 0, 6:35. pers Crock Line, 7.2 For Aunapolia, 7 ne ALTIMORE AND OHIO R A further inducement to secure a largedin- sit | crease to its subscription list, Taz WEEKLY Stam has arranged to give A PREMIUM TO EVERY SUBSCRIBER . Who simply pays the price of subscription, $1.00 per annum. This premium isa i WORCESTER'S POCKET DICTIONARY, Something needful in every family and useful alike in the office, work-shop or at home. It is the inost complete smal dictionary ever offered to | the public. It is nicely and substantially bound in cloth, comprises 298 pages, over 500 lustrations and contains more than 10,000 words, the spelling Pronunciation, and definitions of which conform to those of the largest and Intest editions. It is well printed, in plain and readable type, and containe besides the vocabulary a list of Foreign Words and Phrases, Explanation of Abbreviations, Rules for Spelling, and Tables of Weights and Meas ures, &c. This handsome and valuable litte book, which re‘ails at 40 cents, exclusive of postage, will be given and sent, postage free, to every subscriber | Peceived by TRE WEPELY STAR at $1.00 each. It wil also be given free and post paid to any one sending fro (2) subscribers to Tar WERELY Stak at $1.00 each $2.00), each subscriber, as well getting & copy of the dictionary free and post paid. AND YET ANOTHER PREMIUM. ‘We have still another premium to be givento subscribers— THE WEEKLY STAR'S POCKET ATLAS. THE POCKET ATLAS i 1 paper held in hand forsooth, while each one knew that Schetiale in elect Dee Otte SSR. POCKET ATLAS is a handsomety-printed they did or aid not bold that masic mumber, they | Leave Washinton irom station corner of New Jersey | book of 191 pages; # are full-page colored and knew that within @ certain limit they might belucky | po. ¢y, a “ae “ . enough to get an approximation prize of $1,000. for | press, Aailg 0-55 ain reaps, Oe et Mimitedex- | thoroughly reliable maps setting forth the geo p.m. graphical features of the whole world in minute ; ont irect i ‘ti ~ | assigned the duty of opening and strippi ings in the office. Going back to the Helena | Co™™unicated directly with the British gov. ign 'y of opening and stripping the letters S ernment. My usefulness is now stopped. My | received by every mail; one set opens them, another building. witness sai d the cost of Preparing | communications number hundreds of thous- | set verifies the contents with the letter, another set the plans in the office of the supervising archi- | ands. They were very numerous up to 1870.” | rect. them acconting to the nature and valee of the been about 2370. Witness —— — tect would have been about 3370. ‘stneet Sandy Creek Excited. enclosure; to another set is confided the care of such — auy number within fifty on either side of 69,704 | 7 For Cucliaat Louis, express, daily, 3 and would so entitle them. sburg and Cleveland. vestibuled limited ex- said that the interior finish of many of the prizes of 2,000 are, Quildings is drawn from a stock sheet of a very inferior design, which greatly reduces the labor and cost of preparing the plans con- tracted for. This system of contracting, Will- iam A. Potter, a member of the American In- stitute of Architects. had denounced as THE GAS WELL CONTINUES TO ROAR AND ATTRACT MANY VISITORS—THE LUCKY OWNERS, From the New York Times. The people of Sandy Creek, Oswego county. are all agog over the success of the natural letters ds call for some special numbers, or enclose money for some future as well as present drawing, which must be taid aside for the present, to be taken up and attended to after the regular mail that involve no “outside methods” has had attention. Another set Although the other two grand prizes of 8200,000 100 prizesof 800 are & 4 #100,000 were ret to be druwn. it was exsily dis- 200 prizesof 400 are veruable that the great and overshadowing interest 500 prizes of 5S wasallayed somewhat. But nochange was noticea ble The appro: on prizes are as follow in either Generals Early or Beauregard; they sat calm 100 prizes of $1,000, approximating to $600,000 | and unmoved amid the suppressed din that for a while prize, are 2100.000. Permented the Academy of Music and kept on the Yor Lexington and detail; 101 are filled with reading matter, con- densed into a graphic presentation of all the facts | im the social, religious, political and industrial bis tory and condition of every State and Territory im Stations between W tending to a most disastrous state of things. | Bas well in that village. The gas continues to | fill orders for the tic ‘kets, which are verified and “0. or inet ! " prizes of $800, approximating to $200,000 | even tenor of their way—the one calling out the num- | mone, OO, ens beet | the Cnion, together with 48 colored diagrams Witness said the architect had sold plans made | roar out of the well with frightful noise and | K’a" by anotherset. Another set records alphabeti- | P72, are $80,000. fi ior nove berrep aan gmegmclced grant Ane op ame | Showing the relative strength of different industries in the office to contractors all over the coun- | the air is filled with peculiar fumes. Some of | cally the name anil address of every swopder of a lorte, |, 100 828 of $400, approximating to €100,000 try, becoming common property. One set of | the tools are in the well yet, and it is impossi- plans that witness had made had been photo- | ble to tell much about the flow until these are ithographed and forty sets sold for #5 apiece. | removed. Just how to get them out is a puz- This zler. They weigh tons, and the gas sways HAD NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE — ao raises them. ee precaution is in the office of the supervising architect, | being taken to prevent the gas from igniting. > The fizes in Blodgett’s tannery, 300 feet from The money went into the treasury of the| 1.0 wcll, have been extinguished for fear of United States. The witness had sev Sug- | lighting the gas and causing a tremendous ex- gestions to make respecting changes in the or-| plosion. Hundreds of people are vi ganization of the office and the method of se-| scene, and much excitement prevails, lecting sites for public buildings. In the latter | well stock can't be bought at auy price. articular. witness said that if any honest, in-| contractor thinks there is plenty of gas, and | pases throteh mune ftegn or sixteen different sets of | series of fifty numbers on each side of the num! was closely watched and superiatended by the com-| » im. stopping at all’ stations on’ iettopoiiing Sipanteal man was chosen to select sites he | the company are making srangemacaie cup- clerks—each paired, to verify each other's work, before | arawing the three larceat wines hee counties misioners, General Early and General Desuregard. Beaten’ ick, 110:100m., 14:35, $5:20, | would wish he were dead before he had chosen ply the town with fuel and light. the letter of ack: dement containing the ticket is | ticket > 1,246 draws the §600,000 prize, those | Each bag was securely tied by General Early him- PR ree = 10am. 14:35, 15:30pm. Sun- | many. In numerous cases commissions of repu-| A stock company organized in July last } finely placed in the envelope and mailed, tickets ubered from 31,196 to 21,206 inclusive | Self. the string wound round with manila paper bear- | “PE. Hw 470. 10 a.m...and ¢: table, responsible men had been chosen, and it | for the purpose of sinking a well for natural| Itappearsto be a complex system at first sizht; in | (100 in all) will led to $1,000, - If ticket 281 | ine the autographs of the two commissioners aud then | Truinsurrive from Chicago dail tarned out that they were interested in certain | gu. The company immediately commenced | realfty it is simple, but thoruttch aul pertecr teite | drews tne @200,000 prints here eee feet pretergthpapmdanrcente ode rag arreiizaed seer od rein ‘Pittsburg sites. operations on the property of O. G. Staples, | Working. no possible chance, apparently, for | from: 231 to 381 inclusive will be entitled to g800, | from the company’s vault. The committee took a recess until 2 o'clock. proprietor of .1e Willard hotel, Washington, | error of any and so on according to the above scheme. After verifying the record of prizes as kept by the | PHILADELPHIA DIVISION. CIVIL-SERVICR REFORM WITH A vexGEaNce. | D.C. The work has proceeded with more or | Another department that presents a busy appearance | ‘Tickets drawing the capital prizes are not entitlea | entry clerk with ugg — fraghass — | oF or Philadelphia and Wilmivevon, daily, 8:15am, After the recess Mr. Avery continued his tes- | less interruption ever since, the most serious | is the mailing and foldine department of the prize list, | to teraninal prizes, A ticket drewine a three-number eee meaeee bea] Sp ascennaes aiaar cua teak not | ER abe, luk Cars on tas Selle tail a hd data Va eka wovtesiy at (= having occurred in August, whe nthe drill | Heres force of clerks is envaced ad iressinz envelopes | terminal prize will not be entitled to a two-number | counted again to mal chix cr Ban. 00G. 200.000, and in consequence there is one hapr: (and if an ordinary currency enclosure, registered let- THREE NUMBER TERMINALS. sie swcnian tn Gomnclt Bins te-nlehh, hb, eine ter, money order, postal note, express package or | _9f prizes of $800, decided by $600,000 prize, are | tuke not, was a former resident of your city of Omal draft). ina book especially for each corresponding re- | 87! with dste, month, ete. Another set ad- and of different products in various States, and 3 F | other items too numerous w mention These : “ day ¥ 00, "40 | 9,900. ‘The third capital prize of 100.000 was drawn by | 7: hecho $1 prizes of 8400, decided by $200,000 prize, are | ticket 43.085, and the $50,000 fell to ticket 5,896. For Anuspolis. 6:44 | sell at $1 each, dresses the envelopes to each patron or correspondent, 00. Sieg cada estos from the wheel | Deus eaa eee By enclosing 10 cents for postagejthe POCKET -d envel a TWO NUMBER TERMINALS. nearly all interest wae lost, many of the auiience | E27 es 4i0p.s. i referred to above. Rie ice eesiae 900 prizes of $200, decided by #600,000 prize, are | leeving. Yet the commissioners and their assistants or Statiopa | ATLAS will be sent free, in addition tw the ae above premium. thus practically giving | | that the onder is properly filled as required by the let. | #180,000. Fenton, tn the same methodical manner as before, | {10:1¢ or etc | ker of request, and that the ticket or tickets paid for | | 00 prizes of $200, decided by $200,000 prize, are | 424 so continued to the end until the lst prize tube ur Gaither \d intermediate points, 19:00 a | are with the return letter of acknowle: nt before | 8180.000. of the 848 wes tzken from the wheel and announced. 2:30, t4:40, FHT es | being placed in the envelope for mailing. In fact, to | Aud these are explained as follows: ‘Then came the work of replacing the tickets left in the pret, ded aud! interuiediate stations, 17-00 pam | te it at once, in brief, the letter received unopened | The 200 approxitnation prizes are awarded to the | biz wheel back into the bogs aczin, and this operation Church train leaves Washington on Sunday st 1:15 TWO PREMIUMS TO EVERY SUBSCRIBER A WORD TO AGENTS. Wishing to further encourage the work of ex | tending the circulation of Tar WEEKLY STak, the commission heretofore allowed agents has been iucreased, and hereafter all agents and club raisers will be permitted to 452 eeping Car on we P. : ii open at pan. he ni 4 el issing. [: ne between, and was lost at the depts of 400 f e work’ of | fromthe recorded list of correspondents, for before | terminal prize a single one is missing. os Kor intermediate jolts between Baltimore a cal of Col. Freret’s administration of the office. | recovering this me long and tedious and was | thesun sets on the dayafter the drawing. to ever | And herein tn a point that is overlooked by many, | Perhapsere this reaches you the winners of all the | Fuiladelplin, *6:0 a.10. “2:05 RETAIN A COMMISSION OF 25 PER CENT, Witness said he had conversed with those who not accomplished till the close of November, | P40” is mailed s list of the prize numbers. Syatem, | viz: That they fall to grasp the enormous amount of Perea gary = var eae verges PE Ps ee prepared the civil-service examinations for | when the driliing recommenced. and the well | thorough system, in every detail is the shibboleth uf | money that is distributed in these mammoth drav- in the papers of the several toe cepredirt caren nduy. “Daily.” $i As ofice appointments, and it was their intention | was sunk to a depth of nearly 600 ur- , the manawement, and were it not so it wonld be utterly | ins. It will be seen that over €2.000,000, or to be | (of this kind) travels fast, aud each one is eager to tell | _Jiusgae ented for sud che key hotels and resi- sre ake whe Gzamination so difficult that no | day afternoon the workmen were startled by a | Possible to manaco the enormous business that | explicit, £2.118,800, wos iatribuied today by The | his neighbor. but it ia egen-ral rule of the company | deicezcu orders felt ei ticket ema Mot ANG Resi: one who would compete could pass. The mem- | ru: remitting invariably the balance with the order and subscribers’ naines, : aiar Ta vve, . be i must be transacted day by day in the building. To | Louisiana State Lottery Company, a much larger sum | 20t to publish the names of win: patrons without A. CLEMENTS, CHAS. 0. SCULL. sam ae d Ginectameba heard Ue cus te Cee ae ae down 519 feet | facilitate the work, and prevent anylovs of times | tout ever, before, Bat thin, te itera cgiiengy pom ee PEE Gen. Muniveer, Gea, Pass. Avent, ne es Cane an ee amine the papers in behalf of the architects’ | about on a level with the surface of Lake On. | Wl to maintain discipline and secure the em. | the first extraordinary drawiug in which the arena | To Dr. M.A Dauphin, the honored president of t b ; f ¢ : ° aha State Lottery company, your correspondent Office caid that if anyone did ; > ployes from possible outsids tem e company | capital prize was doubled, placing it at 600,000 in | Louistana be apices beer ide ype Le ee a oe Sea at their own expense, furnish a first-class Inneh to al | place of as formerly at $300,000. And perhaps it may | #8 U2der creat oblisration for the courtesy yur Col, Freret shortly after appointment. Witness | Geen coeo Ce nrktiae their clerks, at stated intervals during the dxy—oue- | not be in the very far future when this «reat institu. | #iving bim the privilege of — said that when Col. Freret was letting outrage | 0: Staples is the principal stockholder. half only at @ time repairing to the restaurant or din- { tion will pluce the graud capital prizo at $1.000,000. porno eae emg tina ar pe wos Sn . Freret w sone =e ing-rooi fitted up in the rear of the main office on the | Suffice it, at the semi-annual drawings during the | minutely. AMER WW. CORCORAN Fa et ee Deas epuildings there was no betel viernes Lae Gm (OMG Wolonne. | cres doce.” Shey creaiervel Tun tees minces G [ace pin etl eee eee a Lon PM eb lee trelenp carp etasiar gee marcna! Se thretreet wart dally (except Sunday» for Mt, rush 3 ranscript. : rouebly convinced that thi raigh ver Lanai poracicnz anda For two months workimen have been tunnel- | Bf! hour. when thes retum to their seserai stations | such a prospect in view. how futile to talk to men emg wre sent upon application to any duly constituted agent to any post-office address. Thus any agent cap havea number mailed direct from this office to the one he wishes to canvass, saving the trouble wn us Glymout, | of carrying them from place to place. ns et be. Keturuing, reaches Washington < and the other half repair to the lunch room. Thus the | tell them lottery isa delusion and a snare. Ninety- | forward, honorable gentlemen conducting aay busi ead The next witness was ¥. A. Hubbard, an | ing Red mountafn, near Birmingham, Ala., the | work ever gues on during the duy, and a veriect hea | Lite eee etary lee delusion and ss found to hug | Bess1u the world than President Dauphin and the offi- a LL. BLAKE. Gptain Every subscriber sent in by an agent or club- employe, who was another of those who took | object being to allow the passage of water | systematic control of it is maintained by the chiefs of | such adalusion, when it may possibly be embraced | CeP® of The Louisiana State Lottery company, and - contracts for plans through a friend. This friend was paid $20 in each case for the use of bis name. - ee the several departments, at so insignificant a price, that uo lottery drawing that ever existed could be pitt iboree trom tee Colijwaberiver ta Birmingham. -L90W'| Witt suse canvare Caen iaraaciinis ie: Sete ee appointed hour to begin the@pore fairly superintended or conscientiously con- vatreet whart on MONDALSTTACIRDAY | mailed to his or her addres if asked {or when the bon ie Bag teers besrriglhccers This | ce where the mail is first opened, the manacer called | drawing General Early in presence of General’ Bese Se eee Se lr ae ee PB end CUNDAYE pea ae CERO ‘ mbvenneb , : : . lea staal Pings O0 | my attention to the fact that even in writing tor lot- | regard) explained to me how the tickets were counted | €Ux7d. ndings aan Scene Segeneie Sie Francis B. Stryker, an employe, testified to | each side of the tunnel, One day last week an Sere ckets where one would naturally suppose every | by bhinself end his associate commissioner with the | A Word inclosing: Tt will be found, perhaps, upon | Lag ]inin ss fer as Nomin! Creck. Va. St. ‘und 0 ‘| many do not wish them. Subscribers sentin at Baring supervised the plans of the Ottumwa | immense amount of dirt aad rock from above | correspondent woull bs vers cocotal Coenen ene, | be bs ouly such assistants.0s selected by themselves | €amination like all other social and economic institu. Sheagende See schedule. JOHN B PADGETT. building.drawn by Will Freret, who was at | fell in. completely filling the tunnel for a dis- | fal leforection that very often letters reached them | from 1 to 100,000, and placed in tne gutta-percha | tious, Whatever indictments lie against the lottery ays. | ©. W. KADLEY. Manager. club rates can get the Pocket Aflas also by em that time under ¥. tance of 30 fect. When this had been cleared ! with no signature or no address, or may be the name | tubes described, the time xonsemel te dotug so being | tem are traceuble, not to the system itself but to its Charles Herman. another employe, sensa-| away the workmen found themselves in the raiser is entitled t « premium, which will be i | scrawled very illegibly and nothing to indicate town | ugually from five to #ix days: how. also, the prise | abuses, SE er ae tionalized the proc: ss it by relat- | center of a bef rock-walled room. The cave | or tate, and in many cases neither can be deciphered | numbers are 20 counted and similarly & ants thee eee = ___OCEAN STEAMERS. __ Further particulars can be had if desired by ing the substance of a conversation he had with | on the left of the tunnel remained unchanged, | from the blur or blotch that Uncle Sam's postivactocs Placed in canvass-baxs, tied with @ string,and this] BOOKS AND STATIONERY. | Guont noure Col. Freret at the colonel’s house, andin which | but the opening on the right had egtended | use in some country offices as @ postmark. string wrapped with strong manilla paper, on the in- = ——S————— rarg 8.8 CO. ‘Writing @ postal or letter to this oflce, the colonel said — it Prins? Creeley feet in length and 15 feet | “These lettera eee eee what disposition | side of which the autographs of General Early and Vv ‘ALEN' nog SB “WOULD Wanck TEE >—D coven.” igh. Some of the men sturted to explore the | do you make of then?” I ask: General Beauregard are placed, and then sealed with 2 ; ey ted Fe, Events during the next twelve months promise Charles Kunkel, an employe, said he had | °a¥e. After afew winding passages they came | | Foranswer I was conductal to what he termed the | esx. pon whic, the mesl “Dr ant: Bria ae Se Eg Nas, fe, : to an immense opening, the descent of which | “old horse” vault,and sonding for a clerk who broucht collected about $100 for the democratic cam-| was almost perpendicrlar. At one place q| bunch of keys with him, opened a long coffin-like paign fand. | spring of clear water was found, When first | case, and therein disclosed to me thousands of such Chauncey G. Graham's evidence was to the poe hel stream was flowing, but presently | letters, with the orizinal remittance pinned to each. effect that his brother had secured contracts | it ceased. After an hour or two it began again, | Iu this vault are two such boxes. which at the present and had been paid $10 in each case for the use At the beginning of these periodical spurts the | time contain perhaps from $5,000 to #10,000—the <* — —s work was done by witness water is —r a : os Seine a iz - A. Hubb: warmer, unt ward the close it attained | em With C. E. Young’s testimony, which was of | the’ boiling Point. It ameils like sulphur. | ,,Whst.course do you pursue,” I asked, “in casee like but little especial value, the session ended and | Huge stones were rolled to the entrance of the | these? Surely t ee en ae Ste So Semumitice adjourned sxbject to the all of | pit and pushed im, bud notody beard them | Swine toeteveaitiemeen so the chairman. “ strike. An engineering expert, who has visited | “Ob 3s peteumpe ne en ~ several extinct craters, says the character of | TY Sivess little rdipere Tur Scsqurnaxn. Prozex.—A Havre-de- | the rock and everything about the place indi- — ee es ee Sarton Says: | cates that the tunnel has encountered a section cold enap wi strac! re on of the crater of a long extinct volcano, Bight has rete the Susquehanna river to the ——: —<o2——_—____ thickness of an inch. Except in small Tae Brewixonam, Ata.. MURDER MysTery.— the river is a solid mass of clear. ice | Recently discovered evidence tends to prove from Furnace wharf to Port Deposit. It is that the body found ina sink hole near Bir- abont two inches thick in the dock and on the | mingham, Ala., last Sunday was that of Dick canal basin. Should the cold weather continue Thompson, it is oo ‘two days more the small intimate with Hawes, it is that her husband killed Valentine =e oes amen snort” rte ; ING STAR, of course, will be first and foremost in — a to the collection and prompt publication of ail the 6 g ews, and the compilation of the latest and most important into THE WEEKLY STAR makes tat mental and local news, literary and scientific mie cellany, agricultural department and market reports, # weekly journal unequaled in any re ‘spect or in any country. 2 . ‘The city patrons of THE EVENING STARcen