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CITY AND DISTRICT. GZ A recently published work on “The Art of Advertising” seys: “A point which will af- ford reliable information as to the value of a publication as an advertising medinm is the closeness with which the publisher adheres to his advertising rates.” Tur Stan invariably holds to its rates; and, what is of greater im- Portance to the advertiser, it charyes everybody the same price for the ame sercice. This fow papers do! LINCOLN, GRANT AND SHERMAN. & Hitherto Unpublished Letter of the Last- Named Hero. wth American Levine for March ap- pear some hitherto unpublished letters of Gen. Sherman. One of them describes the visit paid by him and Gen. Grant to Presid board the Ocean Queen, near City Point, Va, on Marca 27, 1965. After telling how and In the where he found Gen. Grant, Gen. Sherman | ‘We had quite = long and friendly talk, when he remarked that the President, Mr. | Lincoln, was near by, in a steamer lying at the | dock, and he proposed that we should call at once. We did soand found Mr. Lincoln on board the Ocesn Queen. We had metin the early part of the war, and he recognized me and received me with » wart of ma: x and expression that was most grateful. We then sat some time in the after cabin and Mr. Lin- coln made many inquiries about the events | that attended the march from Savannah to Goldsboro and seemed to enjoy the numerous stories about ‘our bummers,” of which he beard much. When in lively conversation his face brightened wonderfully; but if the con- veraation flagged bis face assumed a sad and sorrowful expression. Gen. Grant and I ex- Jained to him that my next move from Golds- oro would bring my army—increased to 80,060 men by Schofield’s and Terry's rein- forcements—in close communication with Gen. irant’s army. then investing Lee in Richmond. and that, unless Lee could effect his escape and make junction with Johnston in North Carolina, he would soon be shut pin Rich- mond, with no peng of supply, and would | have to surrenc ‘Mr. Lincoln was extremely interested in this view of the case and when we explained that Lee's only chance was to escape, join Jobnston and. being then between me iz North Carolina and Grant in Virginia, he could choose which to fight. Mr. Lincoln seemed unusually impressed with this, but Gen. Grant explained that at the very moment of our conversation Gen. Sheridan was passing his cavalry across James river from the north to the south; that he would with this cavalry so extend his left below Petersburg as to reach the South Sbore Toad, and that if Lee should ‘let go’ his fortified lines, he, Grant, would follow him so close that he could not possibly fall on me alone in North Carolina. I in like manner expressed the f est confidence that my army in North Carolina ‘was willing to cope with Lee and Johnston com bined till Grant could come up, but we both agreed that one more bloody buttle was likeiy to oceur before the close of the war. “Mr. Lincoln repeatedly inquired as to Gen. Schofield’s ability in my absence, and scemed | anxious that I should return to North Carolina, and more than once exclaimed: ‘Must more blo rd be Cannot this last bloody battle be avoided? We explained that we had to pre- same that Con. Lee was a real general; that he must see that Johnston alone was no barrier to my progress: and that, if my army of 80,000 veterans should reach Burkesville, he in Rich- mond was lost, and that we were forced to be- lieve he would not wait that inevitable conclu- sion, but make one more desperate effort. I think we were with Mr. Lincoln an hour or more and then returned to Gen. Grant's quarters, where Mrs. Grant had prepared for Us some coffee or tea. During this meal Mrs. Grant inquired if we had seen Mrs. Lincoln. I answered ‘no: I did not know she was on board.’ ” said Mrs. Grant, ‘you are a pretty pair, and went on to explain that we had been ity of apiece of unpardonable rudeness. it the general said: ‘Never mind, we will re- Bist the vasit tomorrow, and can then see Mrs. ii alli casa Indians to Be Enlisted. Secretary Proctor has issued the following order from the War Department, providing for the enlistment in the army of 2,000 Indians: ‘The following named companies, now skele- tonized, namely, troop L of each of the cavalry regiments, except the ninth and tenth, and company I of each of the infantry regiments, except the sixth, eleventh, fifteenth, nineteenth, twenty-fourth and twenty-sifth, will be recruited by the enlistment of Indians to the number of fifty-five for ench troop and company. When- ever practicable the enlistments for each regi- ment will be made within the department in which the regimental headquarters ure located. ‘The officers, in making such enlistments, will be governed by existing laws and regulations; but a competent knowledge of the English language need not be considered an essential qualification, and married men, not exceeding ten for each troop or company, may be enlisted Sith the approval of ‘the department com- mander. listment of Indians under the pro- ¥al Visions of this order will be distinguished from enlistments of Indian scouts. Regimental commanders may, with the ap- proval of the proper departmental commander, jy attach to the Indian companies cl eTS us are especially fitted for service therewith. Ultimately, non-commissioned officers for these companies will be supplied by the ap- intment of Indians in the manner indicated y regulations; but until this is practical, avail- able non-commissioned officers of either of the skeleton companies of a regiment may be util- ized, or, if necessary, non-commissioned offi- cers from organized companies of the regiment y be temporarily detailed. he number of enlisted Indian scouts will be reduced without unnecessary delay to 150, ap- portioned as follows among the several depart ments: Dakota, 25; Platte, 25; Missouri, 25; ‘Texas, 15; Arizona, 30, and Coiumbia, 10. fe 2+ i Good Roads Attract Immigration, From the Prince George's Enautrer. ‘The Washington Stax, referring to acommu- nication from George Alfred Townsend advo- cating federal aid for public roads in propor- tion to revenue tax collected, reads Maryland and Virginia a iecture as to their backwardness im the improvement of the public roads. As our readers are well aware we have repeatedly urged the need of some comprehensive and thorough system of road improvements. It is ‘useless to take measures to attract immigrants from sections of the country which have excel- lent roads while our miserable patchwork prac- tice of mending the highways continues. Noth- ing impresses a thrifty immigrant so much as well-built roads, which insure easy communica- tion with markets at ail seasons, and the peo- ple of the counties can agitate for no reform which so near:y concerns their welfare and the future prosperity of their communities as a systematic and intelligent expenditure of the sums now wasted cr: te public thoroughfares. Cody Thinks 1 “Secretary Proctor’s iden of enlisting Indians as soldiers up to tLe 25.000 limit, as he is legally empowered to do, is a good one,” snid C8L Wm. P. Cody to a New Yor Heraid reporter in New York Saturday. “It has my hearty approval. Itcan be done successfully and it is a good i all around. pS “You know the vw fn to sine ney ont Seewtry of ae Es good deal of authority as it is and can do as he Proposes without trouble. There is but one thing in the way of success and that would be ‘the reluctance of the Indians to enlist for any such length of time as five years. The Indian is very chary about making long contracts: but be makes the best soldier in the world and we have three companies of them now—about 150 men—who are te oe as light cavalrymen. “I wisn you could see the i it forma- tion of the Indians when they brought in the hostiles to Standing Rock agency. It was only = bini, of course, but it made a magnificen: spectacle—fuily eqnal to any by regulars. The Warriors surrounded the non-combatants, with their tepees. &c., marching in columns of four court im St. Louis has handed down a decision im the Wyman case, which is of vast importance to importers of the United States. Wyman im- ported some guns, upon which the collector amessed the duty imposed by the i | F f i a ETFEE: Lincoln on | —- +22 — } indians Make Good Soldiers. | BANCROFT AND BISMARCK. An Interesting Page of History Written From a French Standpoiut. A STRIKING PARISIAN COMMEXT ON THE DEATH OY TE YENERAPLZ MIsTORIAN—DAXCROFT CHARGED WITH SCHEMING WITH THR GREAT CHANCELLOM AGAINST FRANCE. George Banerott. the author of the History |} of the United States, dicd a short time ago at | Washington. Ho was born at the opening of years too long for France and for his ood name among us, for if the regrets of his fellow countrymen follow him to his grave as histo- rian and statesman, we may add that the Ger- man government also loses in him a more than devoted servant and Bismarck one of his ac- complices in the seizure of Alsace and Lor- raine. Yosterday, on the 20th of January, his obsequics were pompously celebrated at St. John's Episcopal Church in the capital of the ited States. President Harrison, accompa- nied by his cabinet, assisted at his funeral in the presence of the whole diplomatic corps, the French minister alone being absent and justly so. On the coffin lay a crown of roses and he- ing the card of the Emperor William. At thi moment, as the faneral oration of the Ameri- can citizen is being pronounced on the other te of the Atlantic, it is well for us toremember and to recall to our children his true history. It was in the latter part of September, 1370. plockaded Paris was about to close her gates. | Washburn, then United States minister to | France, and charged by Prussia to protect all German subjects, had permission of the prefect of police to relense all Germansdetained in our | prisons except those held for trial or con-| demned for crimes against the commoa law. | ‘The French republic had not wished to refuse | this act of clemency to the American republic, whose representative encou: in the mind of our government the hope of the official ix- | terference of the United States. The very next day Gambetta, then minister of the interior, came tose me at my office. “Anything new?" he seid to me as he entered. “Yes,” I replied, | “here is a letter, found this morning while searching a ruspected house, which was left there by % German officer ‘attached to the private staff of the king of Prussia, and who, | never again try to break through our Gamperta’s RAGE. Gambetta seized the paper and read it It was the text of @ dispatch, dated | the 11th of September, from Berlin to Presi- dent Grant: cable.) This is not the moment for ica to interfere. Germany declines all | forcign intervention. The other powers will | America will be alone and can do | : Our interest and our dignity de- | nd that f present we hold ourselves oot. igned) Baxcnorr, United States Minister to Berlin. Gambet imbued with De Tocqne- Me's ideas and indulged himself in the dlin- sion of a great sister republic, grew purple at this sudden revelation end dealt « heavy blow with kis fist on my desk; then, pacing up and down like a caged lion, he ‘cried: France, she, too, bas her Judas.” Bancroft. while writing these lines. had sin- gnlarly forgotten the lessons of his own history. Nearly a century before France had been the one to streteh out her hand across the sea to the thirteen revolted English colonies. Her interest—when Franklin besieged the doors of Versailles to beg for men and money, when, ith a depleted treasury, the sovereign of France gave him grudgingly ot his nobles aud his p te fortane--her interest, we say, com- anded her to remain neutral and immovable. Who can tell, if the United States and Washing- ton hal been left to their own resources, to face the English regiments, how soon they would have freed themselves ‘from the mother country? All these thoughts rushed through Gambetta’s mind, who well understood the glorious eat of his country. these bitter recollections came back to me in Washington last spring and summer at. the sight of Bancroft, 3 under my win- dows, leaning on the arm of his German secre- tary, whom he had retained since 1874, the period at which he resigned his diplomatic functions in Germany, without, however, breaking off his relations with the chancello: . Yor, he was truly bound to him since 1867. When the northern democrat became republi- ean at the close of the civil war he was re- warded with the post of minister to Berlin ‘The old scholar and professor of Harvard Col lege and the ardent combatant at the diet of Frankfort, both students from the universities of Gottingen and Berlin and who had imbibed the same ideas of history and philosophy, w: well prepared to understand each other in their manner of considering and managing Frence affairs. It is sufficient to read the pri- vate letter that Bancroft addressed to the chan- cellor, then at the height of his power at Ver- sailies, to find signs of concerted action, agreed upon long before ‘My Dear Count—I have been as much sur- prised as flattered to see that, while you were engaged in the task of rejuvenating Europe, yon have found time to send me your friendly congratulations on the advanced age which has been granted Itis truly a great privilege to live at a time when three or four men, who love peace above all things and who, after long 1 difficult labors expect it, acquire in a deft sive war a fresh military fame that the boldest imagination would not dare to dream of, and in the space of three months place Germany on the road to realize its thousand years of hope. Laccept with gratitude the kind wishes you ex- press that my life may be lengthened; for old age, narrowly separated from eternity, hns this year shown itself of value on earth. They are ¥eterans who lead this German war to its close. You, it is true, are young, but Koon must already be reckoned as venerable. Moltke is only twenty-three days younger than I, and your king surpasses us all both in years and in youthfulness. May I not be proud of my con- temporaries? Continue, 1 beg. to honor me ith your esteem during the short,period of ife which remains to me. BaNcnors. Nothing is wanting here, neither fawning n misstatement. The “rejuvenation of Europe’ by fire and sword! A defensive war! ‘The author of this dithyramb thought differently when he wrote on the 16th of July to Mr. Fish, Secretary of State, at Washington. “The great majority of the French people ure opposed to this war.” The veracity of the historian, the neutrality of the diplomat represen calling itself friendly, the gratitude of the American citizen to old’ France are all wanting in this letter to the conqueror. BANCROFT'S CORRESPONDENCE. We have only to follow Bancroft in his corre- spondence with his government to be assured of his complicity with Germany. Affer the 2ist | of September he initiates Mr. Fish in all Bis- marck’s plans, for he is kept informed of them, and begs him to influence public opinion in the United States where the Irish clement, which counterbalances the German, does not dissimu- late its sympathy for France. He finishes thus a long dispatch: to the Ger- Material guarantees are necesea: mans for their own protection and for the peace of Europe. These guarantees will not be de- manded of any transitory government ii France, but of the French nation, which has always shown: itvelf ready, as the history of past into war, and undez any of them to seek an in- er ase of territory at Germany's expense. In | or ler, then, to establish peace, Germany must Ootaim guarantees ¢ the imminent ap- Prosching attack of France, and can find them only by changing the defenseless frontier of southern Germany, so that the entire point of attack may be more distant, and that the forts, with which France until now has threatened Germany, may be brought under her power to constitute thenceforth a defensive - bulwark against invasion. Bancroft knew in advance ali the chancellor's plans and ail the treaties which were being | made with the southern princes. The 20th of November he predicted the coming of the Ger- man empire, but it was his mission to disguise its true tendencies, and to gild the pill for American republicans: in my preceding reports I have induced you to expect for united Germany the most liberal government that Europe hax ever seen, and all ty inductions seem about to be realized. In one sense new government will be the child of America. fhe head of the United States of Germany will bear the title of presi- nt. ‘This is where the old northern iy if | And how the ehows itself! 5 ! the nineteenth century. He lived twenty-two | liotrope, tied with the German colors and bear- | centuries has proved, to follow its governments | ia be) hates of of d and of 80 | many others who have trod the | how must you tremble! ‘THR TWO REPURLICS.. Ati Bancroft’s erafty policy, hand in hand with the chancellor, and all this full of venom againct our country ean be fol- lowed step by step in the dispatches of the time. Nothing is more interesting than, the | | pamphlet, “Les Deux Republiques Soeurs,” so | complete in documents and so ve, pub- lished in 1885 by a French Alsacian of San Francisco,Joseph Avon, a true patriot, who had the courage to refuse the mayor of New York, who personally asked him to join in the honors America was about to pay to the memory of President Grant. For he was Bancroft's worthy collaborator, whose message of the 7th of Feb- ruary, 1871, out , and which Victor Hugo stigmatized in indignant verse. To give the trnth its due let us say that avenging voices rose from many generous American hearts to condemn the presidential message in its adulation of the new German empire. ‘endel! Phillips, the great abolitionist and agitator, said in Steinway Hall. New York, the | day after its ap “Without France the English aristocracy of the whig — would heave bein inpped apex Matupe fa eustarios tocome. France bas done more for civilization than ary country in Europe. The place that she now occupies is a permanent protestation in favor of the rights of humanity and of the amass of the people. Ido not think that it worthy of the Cuited States to. send their co ratulations to the Emperor of Germany for ruel conquests in this infamous war.” © American press applauded this vigorous phillippic elmost unanimously, from New York to Chicago and New Or And Bancroft later crowned his diplomatic career by signing | a humiliating treaty by which in certain cases the United States consented to the forced in- corporation of naturalized Americans in the German army imprudent enough to go back to Germaay, where they hoped to be safe under the title of American citizens. A very convenient method of swelling the Pomeranian batialions for future combats! On May 29, 1871, Bancroft scemed to believe in Bismarck’s omnipotence. He wrote apropos of the 5,000,000 promised to Germany: The total seems to exceed what @ country even as rich as France can furnish. ‘The pros pect is then yery sad for a people who surpass all others in Europe by their habits of crder and their power of analysis and generalization. As we said above, the philosophic historian, the chief upholder'of German influence in the United States, has lived to be too old—for him- self. He has seen the Bancroft treaty torn up his own countrymen, who did not care to remain vassals of Germany. He has looked on at the fall of Prince Bismarck, his idol, and he has known before his death that France was still rich and could bring 14,000,000 to those who asked a million of ner savings. As for France, Victor Huge has eloquently spoken for her in his ode to Mancroft: cette erande France? Va usqu'a Pignozance, of America, Un nain vat & sa petitesse ajouter con venin, etre un ain, et quinporter Patome? affront vil ani tontbe de une? Jes néants qui passent et sen Vout? Cre E. pe Keraray. ee. SILENT FOR SIXTY YEARS, An Old Farmer Who Will Speak to No One Save His Brother. * John Pratt, accompanied by his brother William, the only person to whom he has spoken in sixty years, walked into police head- quarters at Danbury, Conn., and gave himself up. He was charged with shooting James Mor- row. He made no reply to the charge and all efforts of Judge Hough and attorneys failed to elicit a response. When Clerk Holmes put him to plea Pratt wrote on a card “not guilty,” and handed it to Judge Hongh. Pratt's written ex- planation of the shooting being an accident was accepted by the court and Pratt was dis- charged. Morrow's face and neck are filled with shot, but he is not seriously injured. Morrow is satisfied the shooting was accidental and con- gratulated Pratt on his acquittal. Pratt, how- ever, made no reply and only smiled. Pratt on Friday afternoon fired a chargé of bird shot into Morrow while trying to shoot a dog. Pratt is perhaps one of the most peculiar men in the world. During the sixty years of his life he has been dumb, yet ao fur as one per- son is concerned he is in full possession of all his faculties. ‘That person is his brother Will- iam, who is several years his senior, and for whom John has profound affection. John has never spoken a word to any living person except his brother William. With him ie converses tivently and with freedom, but always assures himself that there is no other Natener within hearing. He has been married twice, each time his being a sister of his mother. His second wife is now living. No children blessed either union. ‘The efforts toentrap John into conver- sation have been many and ingenious, but never sucessful. His hearing ix unnaturally acute. When he was a young man the boys used to resort to all sorts of scliemes to find an oppor. tunity to listen to him while talking to his The brothers were farmers and the tields together. The boys would creep along behind the fences until near John, and lie there hoping to hear his voice, but they were only successful a few times. Then John became wary, and one day he caught Lemuel Taylor eavesdropping and gave him a thrashing. John was urrested and tried for the offense. All efforts to induce hin to speak in court were ineffectual, and John spent thirty days in the county jail for con- tempt of conrt. Perhaps the best explanation of this strange man’s peculiarity is that given by a relative who is familiar with the tamily history. He says John's mother incurred the enmity of her husband's father, who lived with them. She she would never speak to her father- gain, and she kept hier oath for fifteen she died. On her deathbed her husband tried to persuade her to at least say the would forgive his father, but she would not relent. Three months after the strange oath John was born. ~ #00 -- DERAILED AT A SWITCH. Wreck of a Passenger Train in a Terrible Snow Storm Near Peoria, I ‘The Jucksonville Southeastern fast passenger train over the Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fo, which left Peoria, IlL., at 1:80 o'clock yesterday morning, met with aterrible accident at Ha- vana, forty-one miles sonth of there. The train consisted of baggage car, coach, chair car and two sleepers, and was an hour and a half late, owing to the terrible storm which raged all night. At Havana there is « curve a mile anda half from the depot, and the engine struck the curve at the switch and left the track. All the cara followed, piling up in great confusion. ‘The helf-dressed passengers clambered out of the windows and through the roof of the de- molished cars and hastened, barefooted, | throngh the sleet and over the icy roads for the nearest houses. hap earn ony who were in the coach extricated in} . was Pikeman Saddler, who Under the was instantly He came @ few days ago from the Baltimore and Ohio road and was a stranger. By the side of the engine was neer Burkenhead of Peoria with one arm and a leg cut off. 4 ‘The others injured are: Edward Hommell, Peoria, burned and badly bruised; Walter Con- over, Manito, IIL, left arm torn out and fatal injuries; Charles Mi Streeter, Ill., back aad head crushed—will ‘Mise Emma Rash- Further facts have come to light regarding the murder of Dr. Leidermann, whose body was found in a ravine near San Remo, and who ‘was at first supposed either to have committed suicide or to have fallen by accidext down the ravine. Dr. Leidermann was % German, and formerly resided in Manchester. In December last he engaged quarters at the National Hotel, at San Remo, and paid frequent visits to Monte Carlo. Subsequently two Germans Joined the doctor at the hotel, and all three departed to- gether by rail on December 29. On the even- ing of the same day the two Germans returned to the hotel without Leidcrmann. In response to inquiries they explained that Leidermann had suddenly become insare and had been Placed in confinement in an asylum at Nice. t night the two Germans left the hotel withont having given notice of their departure. The body of Dr. Leidermann was afterward found as described. The spine of the mur- dered man was broken and the beay punc- tured by a pin similar to thore used — ing cards at the gaming tables at Monte Carlo. The ts of the dead man had been rifled. It was evidently the intention of the murderers to give the idea that the deceased had been ruined by eT at Monte Carlo and that in desperation he had committed suicide. After fruitless attempts to unravel the mystery the San Remo police sent a pho- tograph of the dead man to the officials of Monte Carlo. ‘The police of the latter place remembered having seen the deceased gambling in company with s reputed Polish countessand her German paramour, and the woman and her companion were arrested and sent to San Remo. The theory of the police is that the alleged countess decoyed the unfortunate aoctor to her room, where ho suffered a fate similar to that of the victim of Eyraud in Paris. It is not at all cer- tain that ‘so-called countess’ companion was the actual murderer, the police being it clined to the belief that a large gang are impli- cated in the crime. a THE CARDINAL ON LIBERTY. He Defines the Attitude of the Roman Catholic Church Toward the Hebrews. The cathedral in Baltimore was crowded again yesterday in every part at the solemn mass eervice. Cardinal Gibbons preached from the Epistle of the day, Gala- tians, chapter 4: “Jerusalem, Which is Above, is Free; It is Our Mother.” He said: “There is no name more dear to the human heart then the name of liberty. Withont it life itself would bea burden. I proposo to offer some remarks on religions and civil liberty, and will conclude with some reflections on moral freedom. “A man enjoys religious liberty when he pos- sesses the free righ: of worshiping God ac- cording to the dictates of a right conscience and of practicing a form of religion most in ‘accordance with his duties to God. Every act infringing on his freedom of conscience is justly styled religious intolerance. This religi- ous liberty is the true right of every man, be- cause it corresponds with a certain duty which God has put upon him. A man enjoys civil liberty when he is exempt from the arbitrary will of othérs and when he is governed bj equitable laws established for the general wel- fare of society. So long as, im common with his fellow-citizens, he observes the lawy of the state, any exceptional restraint im; upon him in the exercise of his rights as 1 citizen is so far an infringement on his iberty. “The Catholic church bas always been the zealous promoter of civil and religious liberty, and that whenever any encroachments on these sacroil rights of man were perpetrated by pro- fessing members of the Catholic faith these wrongs, far from being sanctioned by the church, were committed in palpable violation of her authority. It cannot be denied, and the fact is to be deplored, that the Jewish peo- ple have been periodically exposed to trialsand rsecutions by professing Christians. It is a fact equally incontestable that their most val- int detonders have been the sovereign pontiffs or bishops of Rome. “One of the popular errors that have takén possession of some minds in our times is that in former @ays the church was leagued with princes for the oppression of the people. | This isa base calumny which a slight acquaintance with ecclesiastical history would soon dispel. The truth is, with some honorable exceptions, the most unrelenting enemies of the church have been the princes of the world, and so- called Christian princes, too. jut, thank God, we live in a country where liberty’ of conscience is respected, and where the civil constitution holds over us the egis of her protection without intermeddling with ecclesiastical affairs. And perhaps at this mo- ment there is no nation on the face of the earth where the church is less trammeled and where she has more liberty to carry ont her sublime destiny than in these United States.” BURIED SPANISH WEALTH. ‘The Latest Device of the Glib “Fakirs” of the Sunny Land. ‘The First National Bank of Pittston, Pa., has received a letter from Spain, signed by a priest, stating that a vast sum of money is buried somewhere in that vicinity. The letter says one of the most favored of the courtiers of the late Alphonso was given a large sum of money, said to be 1,000,000 francs, while the king was on his deathbed in return for the performance of a dying wish. The queen was jealous of the courtier and at the king’s death instructed her ambassador to arrest the courtier for stealing a casket containing a number of jewels from the ee. reasure, but returned to Spain and was ar- rested and put in prison, where he died. ‘The plans of place where the treasure was buried were in satchel, which wax taken by the tribunal, who, not knowing of the con- tents, offered to dismiss the suit on payment of couts. The priest asks for money to pay the costa and obtain the satchel and plans. ————---s00 CONTRACT LABORERS LETURNED. He fied to America and buried his | ‘Opinion in Whecling is divided as to whether the shooting of Dr. Baird on Saturday by Dr. Garrison was justifiable. The circumstances leading up tothe tragedy were peculiar, and not without featares. Garrison, who is a comparatively young man, had been, when ‘astudent, a protege of the man he killed on Saturday, and they were united with strong bonds of friendship. It was through Baird’s infuence that Garrison was first elected health officer, both being democrata. 80 warm was their friendship that Dr. Baird performed the duties of office for Garrivon while the latter attended a course of lectures at Philadelphia, and forwarded to that city to him the mlary of the office each month. Since then Garrison bas become a physician. It so happened that when Garrison's first term ex; Baird's eldest son became a can- didate for health officer, but as he had four years before left the democratic party Gar- rison lim and succeeded in defeating him. . Baird resented what he considered a iece of ingratitude and from that time dated the bitter feud which ended in the tragedy. | Baird was as relentless an enemy as he had been warm as friend and pursued Garrison to the end. Every time he met him in the stroet or elsewhere he hurled epithets at him and charged him with baying negro blood in his veins. Garrison says he has hounded him un- til life was made a torture. On two occasions recently patients on enter- ing his oftice found him in tears, when he would spring to his feet and ery out: “My God, must I go through life hounded by this man; must I continue to bear his insults and not re- sent them?” Garrison tried to avoid his enemy, but once, two months ago, they met at the city hall, words ‘and Baird was knocked down: This widened the breach and hostilities in- creased until Saturday, when thoy met face to face. Baird hurled the usual epithet at Garri- son and the latter shot him dead. Dr. Baird will be buried by the Masonic or- der, he having been grand master of the state. A singular circumstance is that both men be- longed to the same Masonic lodge, and the lodge is in an embarrassing position. The funeral will occur today and Dr. Garrison's preliminary hearing will take place Tuesday. orem — PROTESTS AGAINST THE NUDE. Philadelphia Ladies Condemn Certain Pic- tures in the Academy of Fine Arts. The publication of a protest from several- Prominent ladies of Philadelphia egainst the display made of nude female figures at the | Academy of Fine Arts in that city, had a great effect the Saturday when the exhibition closed. ‘The Indies had given the numbers of the pic- tures to which exception was taken—chiefly the works of Alexander Harrison and Kenyon Cox. Saturday the Academy was besieged by a great crowd of people, all of whom sought for the objectionable pictures. The artists and the hanging committee are in a great state of mind over the charges made against them, and defend themselves with spirit. ‘The facts in the case are, says the Philadelphia correspon- dent of the’ Baltmore ‘that the nude studies by Alexander are si pictures that should not have been publicly exhibited. They are studies usefnl to the artist but not pictures in the trac sense, and objectionable ‘ou that acconnt. Kenyon’ Cox's pictures are also objectionable, mainiy because they are ly in subject and painted for no other apparent. purpose than to attract attention by the exhibition of nude forms. The general defense of the nude in art is not affected by the attacks on these particular pictures. Josiah W. Leeds, a reformer, truly said, in entering his protest, that if any saloon should | exhibit these pictures it would be denied a license. ‘The trouble has reached the board of directors. Edward H. Coates, the president, writes to Mr. Leeds that he is in accord with him, and adds the significant phrase: “The present circumstances are somewhat unusual, and I am of the opinion that you are not Iskely to have so much cause for disapproval in the future exhibitions.” A Big Diamond. ‘Mr. J. W. Carroll Saturday exhibited to news- Paper representatives at his office, 78 Duane street, says the New York Times, what he claimed to be the “third largest diamond in the world.” He said that it was worth $70,000, and he called it the “orange stone.” It is asserted that this stonc weighs 115 carats, that it was found in the African. mines in 1884, and that its original weight was 200 carats. It is further as- serted that two years were occupied in cutting the stone into the form of a brilliant in Hol- land, and that in the jubilee year of Queen Victoria it was purchased by the Indies of the British court as. present for her majesty. It iv not, however, asserted that the diamond ever belonged to the queen. ‘The story runs that she expressed her preference for a cash contribu- tion wherewith to endow a hospital, and tha the gem was disposed of toa London jeweler for something like 250,000. Mr. Carroll says that in January, 1890, the stone was purchased in London by R. 8. Lawrence of Colorado, who is believed to have parted with #80,000 to get it. From Lawrence, according to Mr. Carroll, the stone passed to Mr. Edward Bruce, for- merly secretary of the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company. From him Mr. Carroll secured it, along with a bill of sale executed at the Savoy Hotel, Victorin Embankment, Lon, don, W. C., February 26, 1891. bin <r Foreign Topics of Interest. Prof. Franz von Miklossich, the well-known author and leader of the slavist party in Aus- tri, died in Vienna Saturday from brain fever. He was seventy-eight years of age. London newspapers are indignant with the British census department for spelling the word labor on its schedules in what is termed the American fashion. ‘The insurgents in Chili defeated the govern- ment troops Saturday near Pozo Almonte. Before half the debutantes had kissed her hand at the “drawing room” Inst week at Buck- ingham Palace Queen Victoria got tired and wuitted the throne room, abruptly leaving the Twenty-Eight Italians Sent Back to Thetr | Princess of Wales to finish the work. © half Native Country. ‘Twenty-eight contract laborers who had been brought to New York from Italy by padrones were sent back there on Saturday. They had been assured before leaving their Italian homes that they would be welcomed here and would get big wages. When it was discovered that they had come here under contract to work in the mines of Pennsylvania they were deprived of their lib- erty. ‘They were held for a fortnight, though not aware that they bad been guilty of any crime. When at Inst they were sent aboard a ship to be sent back to Italy it was evident by their faces and their words that their hopes had been blasted. Next week they will be in Italy giving woeful accounts of their experi- ences as fortune seekers in America. ‘There is hereafter to be more vigilance than there has been in the enforcement of the law for the exclusion of ecntract imi ations of Italian labor contractors in thia country. These contractors have agents in Italy who or- geaize gangs for, shipment to Americs, and county, Tonn., cut the throats of her slecping daughters, Mary and Ella, on Friday night and ‘then enther own. The wus not dis- covered until Saturday. three are dead. terrible hour later she was being driven through Hyde "ark. ‘The English Shipping Federation is winning all along the line in its fight with the seamen, firemen and laborers. A big fight is expected in the summer, and the federation is amprep- arations for ‘M. Herbette, the French ambassador to Ger- many, who waa blamed for advising the Em- prea Frederick of Germany to visit Paris, will visit that city in April on a furlough. It is anid he will not return to Berlin. ‘Misa Mary Anderson (Mrs. Navarro) has created some stir in theatrical circles in Lon- don by advertising the sale of all her stage dresses, theatrical scenery and stage ; thus confirming the announcement that it is her intention to retire definitely from the stage. ty > ‘There were hardly a thousand spectators Present yesterday at the races at Auteuil, france. “The Temps learns that the govern- ment will reconsider the whole question of bet- ting on horses. ‘The receipts of the Auteuil Racing Society yesterday were only 33,000 francs, against 10,000 francs on the corresponding day in 18%. While the races proceeded there were isolated cries of “Down with Constans!” but otherwise there was no disorder. A commission of six medical men of Spain appointed to investigate the Koch method of treati es has = question. Se A Mystery in Toledo, Friday night Inst » young man registered at the Boody House, the leading hotel in i} Real 4 a FUTURE DAYs. ATCLIFFE, DARK & CO., Auctioneers, R 420 Pennsylvania ave. aw. IMPROVED, PROPERTY ON MARY- LAND AVENUE BETWEEN | THIRTEENTH AND THIRTEEN AND A HALF STREETS SQUTHMEST BEING HOUSE No; Ilo MARY. LAND AV SOUTHWEST, Ait AUCTION. y AFTERNOON, FE) |, at HALF-PAST FOUR O of the Le, ‘property js on the line of the Baltimore and Tallrond and ie particularly adapted for ware 8 ‘THE ABOVE SALE I8 POSTPONED ON AC sna of the rain atl TUESDAY: THIRD. DAY OF AKCH. at saine hour and fe2t-dids RATCLIF ARR & CO., Aucts. S7-THE ABOVE SALE IS FURTHER POST. 1 on account of the itt DaYo, MAKCH, A.D. 1801, same hour and Place. RATCLIFFE, DARK & 00... ‘Auctionsers, Se-THE ABOVE SALE IS FURTHER Post. Bene on account of thesnow until MONDAY, NINTH AY OF MARCH, 1161, game hour and place, TRI USTERS" ‘MIRRORS, rat LEY.” Nos. x4 NORTHWEST, 4. DEI MARY ANNIE M. mhod cH CARP! ‘AND a HALL L. STOTSENBURG, RATCLIFFE, DARR & 0O., Aucte, SALE OF ENTIRE EURN) PIANO, “StooL. & ND AiG FIFA DIOINING Shy y FU . STOKES, s, KNITURI BOARD, ENSION SIDEBOARD. EXTENSION TABI CHINA AN The Evening Star is the Oldest and most firmly estab lished newspaper published in the District of Columbia, having won the high position it holds in the confi- A iF THE “SHY TH STREET THE SHOREHAM, ik TRESSES, rt hig dence of the people of Washington by forty years of faithful and unswerving devotion to their interests, without MUr| regard to any other influence or coo- OUT +} Trastess. i RATCLIFFE, DARK & CO., ‘Auctioneers! PCLIFFE, DARK & CO., mh7-ikds im DAR Coctionsers. RRATCHPFE, DAKE & CO., Auctioneers VALUABLE BUILDING LOT ON THIRTEEN- ASD-CHALE STREET BETWEEN MAKYLAND AVENUE AND D STREET SOUTHWEST, On FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH SIXTH, at HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK, we will offer for sale, im front of prensises. the north 21 feet 6 inches of ‘ot “15, are 207, Tronting on 13% 8, Ly adepth of 105 feet 10 mches. ‘Ferns: One-half cash, balance in ome and two years, with interest at 6 per cent per annum, payable seunt- annually trom day'of sale, secured by trust om the property, or ailcash, at the option of the purchaser. | A deposit of $200 required at thine of ale. Terius to Wise right Fesorved to reeell the jroperdy” at the. ak w to y and cost of the defaulting purchaser. alter 9 days’ ad- Vertisement of wuch in souie newspaper DUv- shed in Washington, DC. Ail'couveyamcingand re- cording at the cost of the purchaser mhtdads RATCLIFFE, DARR & CO., Aucts. {B-THE ABOVE. SALE 19 POSTPONED ON AC: gyunt of tieanow ntl! MONDAY. INTH DAY OF RATCLIFFE, DARK & CO., ‘Auctionsers, NCERY SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE IN THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF CULUMBIA. By virtue of the decrees of the Si Court of the District of Columbia passed in Rauity cause No. 10340, on the 11th day. Of Deceniber, 100, sud on the “4th day of February. 161, the undersigned, trustee ‘will offer for sule at public auction in front of the re- spective premises the tollowinx ‘described lots ‘of srountand at the time following :that tsto say, be | Wal first offer tor sae on MONDAY, THE NINTH DAY OF MARCH.” Ini, at HALF-PAST FOUR | OCLOCK P.M, the south twenty-eight feet and | eight inches by the depth or twenty-five feet im square t4) and also tha west twenty-five by the depth of ‘nity-one feet four inches of said Jot six in square #43, improved U3 irane dwellings. He wall neat offer tor auve “on the ‘sause ‘day ‘and ‘at FIVE O'CLOCK P.M. lot 18, in square 85, im- Proved by strame dwelling, He will next offer tor sale on the saine day at HALF-PAST FIVE O'CLOCK P.M. alt of square 797 which Legins street sour, 165 ieet west from the | Sid syuare ‘and rauning thence feet inches: thence north to an tivision of said square; thence ou said alley to ‘of ‘besinning, and thence south’ to | »_ upTUved that the Bec ae ee eee: Hewill next oflerforsaleon TUESDAY, THE TEN DAY O8 MAKCH, 1801, at HALF-PAST FOUR Vextuinis ORLOCK P. Mus the north 13 feet Oy inctes front by the Gopi thereof trieinal fot Wit sgunre 3 the Sane Ueing finproved vy a tramwe dwelling’ ite will ext offer for mje on the sauic day. at FIVE O'CLOCK PN. Tote 15, 1%, Inand Iara © Be wilh ext ofler tor sic on WEDNESDAY. the ELEV Day ?OF QAKCH, Test at HALESPANT. FOUR re sks the cart T3 feet Sinches front by the | Meythe thereof of lot 24 im square 728, the manne beth ituproved by'a lrick dwelling” He wil went ofr for sale, on the same day at HALE-PAST FIVE O'CLOCK the west bait of lot in square 5, improved aime dwelling, all of sald Jove bevua in the city of ton, District of Colum instullinentsin six and twelve months from theday of suie, for which the purchaser or purchasers are to vive his, her or their promissory notes dated the day of sale and to bear interest at sux Det centum per auutin, or all cash at the option of the purchaser. If terms of sale kre not complied with in ten day from the day of sale, the property to be resout at of defaulting pure! ‘THOMAS DOWLING. auctioncer. CANIND'S ART STORE Of New York and Saratoxa, N. ¥. (lately of 13.W. Lexington street, Baltimore). VENETIAN ART SALE : AT AUCTION. in order to cl the beeutiful and tance {You of Works Of Art Selt inrour handy ou siesine ur Baltimore ‘branch store, we will sauie, which comprises VENETIAN AKTISTIC FURNITURE, VENETIAN WOOD CARVINGS, VENETIAN WROUGHT-IRON LANTERNS, NOVE FAIENCES, AND OTHER FINE | ANTIQUE AND MODERN ITALIAN BRIC-A-BRAC. Also the balance of the. | eomtiy JAPANESE, ART POKCELAL late Lexingt ar THe th street and MONDAY AND TU EXHIB BY LIEIPE oF TH deed of trust to ‘of George W. Mobray and fradinz. a8 Dubreail, Mobray & C: ic auction on the p oh WEDNESDAY, Mi, at FOUR P.M., the Globe on said trade, GRAND FRENCH SNGLine end other INS and WORKS OF ART trom our | ‘ou street store, Baltimnore. ‘AT KOOMS OF THOMAS DOWLING, now enee DAN, MARCH NINTH AND | Press and the United Press, supple- E POWER. ame from John Offers for the purchase of the DOWLE: AT AUCTION. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, HORSES. WAGONB, will be received to abd including” can be seen at any ual } T= SIS TE, pea Auctioneer. ‘Steam Laundry, ‘situate Premises and now in operation with « rerular ‘The said laundry is nate ss fully equipped with ry and muproved mac 8000 per week. Tar Star is the Largest peper published in Washington, with a general equipment and printing facil- ‘Ob Clombyt Cur ‘at auction the | those of any other Washington paper; Urisg stgrsset and, having the full Day Reports of both the New York Associated Darth west. mented by an unequaled service of Exclusive Special Dispatches from al. prominent points in America and Europe, it prints more and fresher Telegraphic News than any other Washington paper can possibly sup- ply, furnishing at the same time a greater amount and better quality of Local, Domestic and General Intelli- gence, and a lurger quantity aad CONT, NIH, INvl, all the to doa business of et private sale March dy ime. it CARTS, CARRIAGE, BUGGY ANP SLEIGH, FARMING IMPLEMENTS, LOT OF Literary Miscellany than any paper CHOICE CHICKENS, &e., AT THE RESIDENCE OF JOSEPH W. DAVIS, BELLEVUE, WESLEY HE'HTS, OFPOSITE COMMENCING AT ELE | Teall sell cn the above-uentioned premises the fol- lowing effects: TW No. 1 WORK HORSES, TWO BROOD MARES, TWO-HORSE WAGON AND HAY CARRIAGE. GRASSLANL 4, on WEDNESDAY, MARCH ELEVENTH, 1891, N O'CLOCK, WATER CART, MARKET WAGON, CARRIAGE. AND BUGGY, CART, SLEIGH, FARMING IM- PLENTS, AND LOT OF CHOICE CHICKENS. ALSO LOT OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. ‘Terms cash. mb5-dts THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer ‘haser. FRANK T. BROWNING, Trustee, ‘416 Sth st. now. RATCLIFFE, DARR& CO., Aucts. fe2u-dids TOMORROW. M OF THE SECOND-HAND DEALERS will be neidut $57 7tt: stree: northwest TOMOR- ROW, THREE O'CLOCK P.M, “Every dealer is re- quested to be prosent. at Fox ', Auctioneer. I will sell at public auction at store No. 527 7th street northwest a large stock of goods to ine by owner, cousistim o:— x SILVER WAKE, JEWELRY, TABLE AND POCKET CUILERY, PLATE TA AND TABLE SPOONS AND 4ORKS, GLo&S WAKE, CHINA, WOODEN | WARE, 11 'WAKE, & Sale cominencing TOMURROW, TUE 3D. NTH.at + LEVEN A.M.and EVESING. at SEVEN \d continuing daily at sane hours until sold. in want of the above mentioned goods will be kreatiy benefited by attending this male, as the xoods {ire cotisigned to me and will be sold without reserve. mb ‘M. FOLEY, Auction: W2U TEE B. WILLIAMS & C0... Auctionsers, 1001 Dst., opposite Penn. ave. sale REVI Q STREETS SOUTH BY AUCTION. ‘rte of a deed of trast given tous and duly re- in iver No. 1108, solo land re -ords of the District of quest of the party secured thereby, we will offer 1 front of the premises on ENTELNTH DAY in front District of Columbia, to wit: All ot tour (4) ated the south half of lot numbered five (2 Square numbered sx bmndred and. fifty-six (3 tie city of “Washingtca, D.C Irame houses. ‘Terms: One-third cash; balance at one and two Yeage, eoctred Wy deed RATCHPFE, DARE interest at the rate. OF Makon ‘© 0O.. Auctioneers, 20 Pennsylvania eve. n.w. | TRUSTEES’ SALE OF IMPROVED REAL ESTATE | ON FIRST STREET WEST BE ETWEEN P AND Being delivered at the homes of regular subscribers for trifling sum of ten cents per week, THE STAR ' ‘one of the Wet seq. jumbie, aid at the re- TUESDAY TA De ison at nu =| in | iimproved by three in the District, quantity and quality the risk and cost of the defauluye 1 after five days’ auverti lished in Washington, D.C. 8 juired at time of sale. Ail conveyancing, recording, EY rat purchaser's cost, pun NILLTAM A. RICHARDS, AUSTIN 8. KATCLL mh4-dkds FRANKLIN, ') Trustees. DARK &'00., Aucts. t in SOME Dewsp deposit EXTRAORDINARY ART AUCTION SALE. TOMORROW (TUESDAY) MARCH TENTH, ané also each ensuirs day during the present week, ‘we will sell at our Art Rooms, without reserve, a very” large and rich collection of JAPANESE OBJECTS OF ART. ‘Sale will commence each day at ELEVEN A. M. AND THREE P. &. Ladies especially invited to attend, mb9-0t FE, DARR . RATUPFE, DARE A CP ifcuayivants ave. 2. ness, found on a well stoc "Terms: A credit of six cash, abv CLEMENS, antorney, UCTION SALE OF ¥ A PROPE! i ‘Corn i oro Me Neem | ‘Ture SaR’s circulation in the City tar. montis snimsabove €20. All under cash. cent on all formation see J: at. new. iubd-Ot? er, ‘Carriage, Har- will be rN of Washington is more than three wiven on all ‘of b per times larger than that of any other torn 1341 F | newspaper, and the number of its DE LASHMUTT BROS. HANDOOME, NEW AND SLIGHTLY vouSiTogh GAMER. Minzors, PARLOR SUITES. AL HE ‘LATEST DESIGN! WALNUT, CHEERY, OAK AND OTHER CHAM. BER SUITES, WARDEOBI LDING Bi: Y Al ENG! 3, MIRROR-FRONT Bs ‘GLASSWARE, SCREENS, ‘MAT SPRINGS, iD BOLS! pis, COOKING. AND ‘ATING STOVES, KITCHEN REQUISITES, Old at auction on TUESDAY MORNING, Haute Ten'tat toptnnine at TEROCLOCK witht our ivania event west, to we all the attention of parties re- | = NOW ON EXHIBIT: JUNCANSON BROS., Auctioneers, SPECIAL MOLD FURNITURE, L Ef if ATCLIFFE, DARE & 00., Auctionsers. readers more than five times as many, EES) SALE QE A VER ee Si cae It is therefore in that (or even greater) LAVE- ON T STREET - FIRS’ NUE NORTHWEST. "AND NEW By virtue of a deed of trust, 1494, toto 43, 38 ks i if! 8 E days" 08 FERED Shaves SO ct iY, a STRLnAeh Paze reconied in Iéber there is no ground for argument or doubt, even. It is the common testi- ode cve| ‘Tae Stan gives the exact figures y praise | of its circul-tion every week, and its statements, so that its patrons