Evening Star Newspaper, June 21, 1873, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. fublished Dally, Sundays excepted, AT THE STAR BUILDLNGS, Penmsylvania Avenue, Cor. Lith St, n YENING STAR NEWSPAPER COMPANT, 4 M. KACPP RANA, Previdest. THE EVENING STAB ws served subecibere at Tan CENTS FE! Fon Qarte PER Monts. Ourts cach. By Bit crouths, 93.00; ons year, OS. EK ‘AB—Publishet Priday—| oran = arialy in advance, ip both cases, aud be paper sent icnger than paid for. OF Rates (f atvertixing furnished on appiteation. | The Evening Star. Vo. 41—N2. 6, 20. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1878. SUMMER RESORTS. WUMMER BOARD : snk five additions! BOAR! dated at the LOCDO on moderate terme. fine scenery Ersappiy to THOS. abe Aid VIEW HOTEL. JAKE VIEW MOITRINS, NEW YORK. a ‘open for the enterteln- or for the sea. ADI onte, = ad Shroezhout! Gueet> will fined rt capeciali¢ ada for healt! comfort, large aud airy rooms and thorough vei | “Fine Groves, hamisome Walks, cod Drives, and s Lak od Havana oeuppiied with the beat the mar Ciicieat corps of attendances evening Rooms « pp'ication by mail YER, Proprietor of ¥ yet & gE Lake View Hotel, Watkt RExexo Bete. br od healthy mmer tosort, located on the west h of the Susquehanna river, sur by beantifal mountain scea-ry fine troutiog streams in the vicial FOR BOARDERS JONE Irate Philatelphia by depot, Thirty -cscond « ab palace and © mand 12 4 and tog at Be- and 11.15 p 1.05 a.m. The route is one of the most attractive and pictar- esque scinmer tripe that can de enjoyet. Bxcarsion ete at Teduced rates forsale at Nos. 901 and streets, No. 116 M inton County, Pen yeld-eo3t QEENANDOAH ALUM SPRINGS, Ps JPEN FOK BOARDERS. ybeate and Sniphur Waters; ply of ice. A.J. MYEBS, Orkney Springs. Sh- 7 ROCKBRIDGE ALUM SPRIN S. VA. OPEN JUNE ler, 1573. bis favorite and elebrated Watering place will net ea kr + by rail. ail in oso the Chesa Cui Manager; 8. M neger 7 sale by COLEMAN & ROG- a re Descriptive pamphlets sent free on application. 3 lm! popular and very Suicker’s Gap, sod a by’ the Blue Bidge mountain, two hours’ ride by rail of Washington y, i now open for the reception of 33.” Improvements since last year: Fine front, bath-room, an ice-house filled, ® Bouse. The dailting» are stone, airy rooms. Beantrfal mountain scenery. | Those wishing to enjoy the cool breezes of this elevated region Will address, A. 0. WRIGHT, Bound Hil! P_ O., Loudoun Oo.. Va. SF References st 1209 F street NW. md0-tf LADIES’ GOODS. MISS McCORMICK, * 0S PENNSYLVANIA AVENUB,' ‘Bas constantly on band a fine assortment of IMPOBTED BONNETS, STBAWS, CHIPS, FLOWERS, RIBBONS, &c., Fubas' esteemed Deen OAPs ent OU EAD AND SAVB YOUR MONEY. SPECIAL NOTICES, Guard against Cholera, Tt fe wr li known that if a proper remedy {s instan- ly taken in a case of Asintle Cholera, or even era Morbus or kindred complaints, th patient is much relieved, and it happens not unfreqnently that Sch timely deses prove of incalculable eervice in an wl v9 1 do ood as e. hot wish to be anders! Advising not to call in @ physician at the earliest Dossible moment, as euch a conree is imperatively Recessary; but sometiines a physician can notbe had St a moment's noti and it is for anch cases th: AN'S CHOLERA SPECIF- nd efficient remedy, cateu- strong, acti Ic, a lated for much canes ea here stated, and which every wel should have on hand or im- ring 186, while the cholera ¢ eeverely in Brooklyn, N. ¥., Twas + being much better than Senibba’ Mixture and Son @bolera Cure, both of which were tried. It_will also give immediate relief and cure Cholera Morbns, Colic, Cramps. Breem ary, Diar- thea. and ail disorders sual at this season. Full directions accompany each vial. To be had only of ABTHUR NATTANS, Braggist, er of Mand D streets northwest. ON THE BREAKFAST. LUNCHEON, DINNER AND SUPPER TABLE, Lea & Perrins’ Worcestershire Sauce IS INDISPENSABLE. JOHN DUNCAN'S SONS, New York, Octl&-tawly Agents for the United States. mdacted famit: eo-tr per BRANCH BACK COURSE. Grand TROT MATCH for bove course BUN 100 a side will t , June 24. C. Kopp:r names s. h. Honest Jobn to wagon; C. Chamberla’o names s. Z = Reed Bird to harness. The trot to be mile hate, best three in five. The race to commence at 40'clock pfnod day and track; if net, the next fair day, ima jou 50 cents. a AMOS FOX, Propritter W45LL's NEW OPEKA moUsE. THE RENOWNED SAN FRANCISCO ME Formerly of Califi And for the last Seven Years The Sta Company in New York AGOMPANY OF TWENTY-TWO FIRST ULASS PERFORME Under the management of BILLY BIRCH, DAVE WAMBOLD, . AND CHARLEY Bat&i s. Will appe r MONDAY at The Gyora Honse, Will app ar MONDAY at The Opera Hone, Will appear MONDAY at Tho @ WITH A PKOGRAMME OF T HOME MOSIC AN IN at & RAKEST » THE KICH E FUN NE OF THE FINEST OROHESTRI country can be at Mr. SCHWART ZENBERKG’S. 465 Pa ¢. Tits inswro Tent was imported Tesents an fumen and mph Cons ‘aud bar properties of the finest c lie are cordially mvited, tree of O=pNo On Exbiti 486 and 5: } 439 Ter St Tr St at MARKRITER’S, 439 Tee arent, Between: D aad & strecte, eight ve ‘eilow' abi. Qhotee Oil Paintings, Rugravings, Ohromos, Ro. Also, largomt stock” Paper Hangings, Window , Pictures, Frames, Pictues Tes seis, Rings, Nails, Be , i ee ria Uaaig S the Districe | _Please remember Name and Nnmber yel-ty™ | ALE KINDS OF OasT-oFrr Ww iG AP- | A PARED cen be wad riot pens avout ry bow advantage GOLD, SIL’ Bi OOPPER, Erc., Oestd penie ries trata das 0 d pty attended to by AUGERSTEIN, 1408 lvanis avenne -Ly" _EXCURSIONS, PIC NICS G®45D FaMILy Festiva ST. DOMINICK Ss NEW CHORCH BUILDING ABLOCI TION, On MONDAY. EB oes, TZEN PARK. The O muittee of Arrangements bare beee hs Paleed af G00; also.s Bowing seein es ‘The Ring will be'given to the gentioman, umber and the Sewing Machi: u y ay ora, - achive to the lady, who disposes _ de, their parents or gnar- a tal?-lawtr ¢ BYPOBT EXCURSICES. a and after FRIDAY, 2 Sy . ea arene ns UNE 15, 1873, thé ~ id will commence Row and FRIDAY. foe lair Switches that have faded us have them restored to their natural excursions down the Potomac, leaving wharf shade in superior manner. We have avery large | foot ef 7th street, at 6 o'clock p.m., returning at assortment of @1 Curls; v: jong bandsome | 11 p. Du the snmmer ot 1872 these excur- jehes. very cheap. Now is the time to buy at c Tan tronized by many of our best MADAME "8 Bair Factory, 618 ish st., | citizens, who found in them acool a: Pleasant os @ asi-tr aes free toad od ond duet of the city. Not stet aba Spal uring t coming simmer to make NOTICE. —Bergaine are now omered tm | them picasant aud agreeable in every respect. De, MILLINERY tectives will be stationed at the boat to prevent the = sdmission of any improper characters. No intoxi- cating liquors sold. Music, dancing, and refresh- FANCY GOODS, ments on board. Fare, single tickets, $1; lady and By B. LENZBERG & 0O., gentleman, “#1 y to WM BYU oer 707 Market Space, | Agent, 608 ivaniaavenne. msi-1 STAM DE ats = TRUNKS, SATUHELS 617 Suvexte Steest, tepm-cr Opposite Patent Office. S' =o SELLING OFF! 4T COST, TO DISSOLVE PARTNERSHIP. entire ort EW YORK BAZAR, «41 enth street, near 5. wart-tr HUMBUG. w zs" L” 87 SNAMEL the beet article in the world for Linen or Bot ie fabric. ‘sale by all memes CO Pg street, janie ly Baltimore. Maryland. METROPOLITAN DOLLAR STORE. MORE NEW Goops!: THEY ARE ALMOST GIVEN AWAY): LOOK AT THIS LIST: Children’s Sun Bonnets and Hats, 0c. Marvcilles Hate, very pretiy, $1 Lawn and Lace Hats, $1. Plasd Mastin Aprons, cover entire dress, METROPOLITAN DOLLAR SToRg, 31¥ SEVENTH STREST. scar Peansyiveate evense. Pay ae or a ror TRAVELING BAGs, a IN GREAT VARIETY AT VERY LOW PRICES. HARNESS A tull stock of Harness ar own make, and everything appertaining to the Saddlery, Harness, snd Frank busiuess.Fiue Haruess aul Trankstsls “ys Sole agents for Hill's celebrated CONCORD HAR- MESS and COLLARS, which we are scliiag at Coe. cord prices. Coucord Harness room im secoud stry of buildiug. a SURE OF THE NAME AND NUMBEK. LUTZ & BRO 497 PENNSYLVANIA AVEN Next to National He Jell-Im see ND FEET. * AND FREQUENT EXERCISE im the open air and sunshine being the best pre- servatives of both physical and mental health, aud consequent uscfuluess and LONGEVITY, sands of persons come frou far and near to visit DR. WHITE, the well known Chiropodist, No. 35 lath strect, opposite the Uuited States Treas: ry, Washington , for relief from Corns, Bun- one ails, aud other diseases of the feet, and @s to suitable fitting shoes, His treatment generally gives immediate and painicss relief, and even in extreme cases, if none but suita- ble shoes are worn, often effects a perfect cure. The feet being used so constantly need occasional atte: janger in tampering with Corn by uife, razor, or other unsuit- tances, the majority of the intelligent por- tion commanity visit the practicaily ex peri- enced Chiropodist in order to better insure salcty, economy of time, comfort, and health wet 7 OnLy 66, 4. 8. HEMPLEB, Optician, ar ©6 street. IME: LiMg: LIME: D BU! = ae oer REY LIME ot se we near Lua. aves, northwest. NOTics. mg tuo aes See reyes og 187 GRAND OPENING 1873 SUMMER STYLES or BLACK ALPACA COATS, DBAB D'ETE COATS, DIAGONAL MOHAIR COATS, FRENOH SERGE COATS, LIGHT COLORED STBIPED ALPACA COATS A. STRAUS, the Clothier, 1011 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUB, | Of the vaca EVENING STAR. Washington Nows and Gossip. INTERWAL RevExve.—The receipts from this source to-day were $339,537.24. Presiperr Grant left Washington fer Long Branch last night. He was accompanied to New York by Commander Ammen of the navy. SECRETARY RrcHaRpson leaves Washing ton to-night to attend the commencement exer- cises at Harvard College. Secretary Devane left for Ghio last night, and will be absent a week or tem Gays. Solicitor Smith is acting Secretary during his absence. Tue Paxiy of Secretary Richardeon go to Long Branch next week to remain during the summer menths. Tax Acromaric TeLeorarm Company is about to sell out its lines and franciuses to the Western Union Company. Heap Stores ror Sovprers’ Gravre.— The War department will next week invite proposals for supplying 280,000 head stones for the graves of the Union dead. SkeneTaRy E<ON left on this morning's early train for New York, and will be absent about ten days. His visit is in connection with the fiitang out of the Tigress for her expedition search of the Polaris. Barinernc’em To Timx.—The Secretary of War to-day issued an order notifying the clerks ip the various bureaus ef the War department, that hereafter any clerk not promptly at his desk at 9 a. m. will be considered us having ten- dered his resignation. ‘THE Latest © R with regard to the filling ‘yot Chief Justice of the United States, places the Hon. BE. R. Hoar, of Massa- chusetts, in the foreground. It will be remem- bered that Mr. Hoar’s name was once sent to the Senate for the position of Associate Justice, but the Seuate failed to confirm the nomination, Tae Postar Carp MANUFACTURERS at | Springfield, Mass., are turning,out about 900,000 cards per day, whieh indicates that they are s reasing their facilities, and willsoon ie to come fully up to the requirements of the Post Office department m re: to the 000,000 per di FALSTATU The state of Maskachu- * its contribution tothe statue hall at the Capitol in this eity, Las selected the his- toric Governor Winthrop and Samuel Adams to its ; representatives. Mr. Greenough at work at Newport upon the former, Miss Anne Whitney has recent! atuette of the latter, be al ale with her to produce it in ma: these sculptors are natives of Ma SexaTor Sueemay is out in a letter with reference to the back pay business in which he F determined [ would not receive the ay, but would leave it where it now he Treasury of the United States. I so notified ing oflicer of the Senate, and when asked by any one about the matter 1 have answered that I would not receive it. 1 did not and do not now deem it nm ary for- mally to receive the money aud then jay it back again.” A RUMOR prevailed on the streets to-day that acase of collusion had come to light in the Treasury department, wherein a clerk was ac- cused of transferring a draft for £30,000 to cer- tain parties acting a8 attorneys in this city who were not entitled to receive it. It was also ru- mored that Secretary Richardson had ordered an investigation, but upon applying for infor- mation concerning the alleged fraud, the Sec- retary stated to a Srar reporter that he had heard nothing of it, and had not ordered any investigation on any such subject. Way Cart. Jack WovLp Not STavon Tan KLAMATH RESERV arion.—Indian Agent Dyer, of the Klamath reservation, reports to Super- intendent Odeneal that although many erops were planted around his agency almost all of them are a total failure and entirely insufficient to supply the Indians. It will be remembered that the main reasons given by Capt. Jack for not remaining on the reservation was that ine seal vould not produce enough to support his ribe, INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL ConGREsS.— Edward Young, chief of the bureau of statis- ties, received yesterday from Mr. Semenow, the Kussian counsellor of state, an invitation to be present at Vienna on the 2d of August next, to attend a meeting of the permanent commis- sion of the International Statistical Congress, of which commission Mr. Young was designa- tedas a member during his attendance as a delegate of the session of the congress held in St. Peteraburgin August, 1 is chairman ot the commissioi CrimIx as STaTistics.—The Attorney Gen- eral bas issued a circular to the wardens of the several penitentiaries, calling upon them in order to comply with the act of Congress re- —- criminal statistics arising under United ‘States laws, and, as far as practicable under state laws, to fill'up and return to the Depart- ment of Justice blanks which he has forwarded to them, including the number of convicts in their soupecire institutions on the Ist of Janua- ry last, the terms of their respective sentences places of their birth, nature of their crimes, number of convicts discharged in 1%72, and other minor details. Tue La Crosse Raitroap Braioor Ques- Troy.—Hon. J. M. Rusk, of Wisconsin, is at the Ebbitt house. He comes to Washington in the interest of his constituents in regard to the lo- cation of the La Crosse railroad. There is no doubt that the proposed Union bridge will be location by the Secretary of War, or rather that its location will be approved by that officer, at some point on the Mississippi whieh will accom- modate @ majority of the bay pets J interests, and that the attempt of the Milwaukee and St. Paul company to effect its location at a point where the interests of other roads, as well as the city, would suffer, will prove unavailing. Tue Storen Recorps Srory.—While the Secretary of War is not disposed to entirely credit the statements telegraphed to newspa- pers north that a number of private letters ana Bie ms filed in the Wat omice by the late Ed- win M. Stanton, relating to frauds, intrigues, &c., have been stolen or mislaid, he has taken steps to ascertain exactly how much truth, if any, there isin the assertion. It is stated th: paragrap) ing the war eld-a prominent position inthe War depart- ment, and that a search made by him some few weeks since, developed the fact that papers, he knew should have been on file, were not to be found. In a few days the resuits of the tuvesti- gation will probably throw additional light on what is now a somewhat dark subject. CarTarn JACK WASTED TO BE TRIED BY A Jury ov Iepians.—Mr. Meacham, the peace # i i E PEPE} El ine z 3 t i i "Nar-La Jack thay cll hm pew; and his tribe tery to the funds of an inebriate asylum. i i The New Civil Service Rales, The modified civil service rules are ten in number. One of them declares that while it is not the purpose of the rules and regulations either to restrict the power of removal or to extend the tenure ef service, such power will ‘not be exercised arbitrarily, and no person will be removed for the mere purpose of making a place fer any other person. Female clerks, copyiets and counters, at $900 a year, being be- low the grade of clerkships of class one, selec- tions may be made by the appoititing power, at discretion, from the list of these reported com- petent, being at liberty to give preference to tach as may justly regarded as haying the highest claim to’ public consideration. Apypti- cants for appointment as cashiers of collecters ‘of customs, and other custedians of large sums public money, for whose fidelity another ofi- cer has given official bonds, may be appointed at discretion; but this rule shall not apply to any appointment to @ position granted below the grade of assistant teller. In cases of defal- cation or embezzlement of public money, or other emergency calling for immediate action, or when a Vacancy happens ata place remote and difficnit of access, and the metheds pre- scribed for filling it can be applied without causing delay injurious to the public service, the appointment may be made at discretion, but this rule shall not apply to any place which is provided to be filled under the rules of com- petitive examination. The new rules provide that the states shall be gronped in tive districts. The President will designate a suitable person to be chief examiner, whose duty it will be,sab- ject to the supervision of the civil service com- mission, to promote uniformity in preparing for conducting, roporting and igen the exam. inations other than at Washington city. The examinations in the first district will be in held altern: at Boston and New York the second, which e: ‘aces the states of Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Mary North Carolina, Virginia, West Virg the District of Columbia, at Washing! third at Cincinnati and Detroit; in U at St. Louis; and in the fifth at’ Savannah and Memphis. The district examinations shall be held not more than twice in any one year in the same district, except in Washington, where an examination may be held in rexpect ot each ‘ot the departments as frequently as the head of such department, subject to the approval of the President, may direct. The commission are convinced that the suecess of civil service retorm is to be decided by the intelligent fidel- ity with which its friends shall present its true methods to the popular judgment. They recog- nize the right which requires that a victurious party should be able to name the officers so far down the official scale as their principles may justly be involved in fair and honest adminis- tration, at the same time that they have re- sisted that peruieious theory which insists that every clerk in @ public office shal! mingle asa partisan in every contest, and go out, as a mat- ter of course, with a retiring head of a depart- ment. A Philadelphia Horror, TWO LITTLE CHILDREN DISCOVERED Loc UP IN A CLosEr, Yesterday afternoon two children were found in an uvoccapied honse, locked up in a closet, in the 25th ward of Philadelphia, on living. Their names are Annie Maggie Mulroy, aged five years. been missing since last Wedrie as rumors were rife as to the cau: the death of Annie Kean. Maggie Mulroy, the living child, was bruised slightly. At the post mortem exam ination yesterday aiternoon it was clearly shown that the dead child had not been ravished; she died of suffocation. Her stomach reveated the fact that she had eaten nothing for nearly 43 hours. This goes to strengthen the opinion that the | ttle ones bad strayed into the house and accidentally locked themselves up in the closet; but the testimony of Officer Dinger and others is to the effect that they made a search of the house Thursday afternoon, and that the chil- dren were not there at that time. A physician says the bruises on the knees, hips, and elbows of Annie Ragan are easily accounted for, as they might have been caused by the child’s own efforts to get out of the closet, or inflicted by Maggie Mulroy, who, when found, was sitting on the dead body of her companion. Maggie, when taken from the place of confinement, made the remark, “A woman took me to the country for a gum doll-baby, and when I got back a man put mein the closet.” The child Was laboring under great mental excitement, and the statement is not credited. The theory is, that some one, out of pure hatred of the Mulroy and Ragan families, hid the children to annoy the parents; or that some boys or idiotic persons caused their imprisonment in the clovet, and now fear to contess. INCREASE OF CHOLERAIN THB SOUTHWEST. There is considerable excitement in Memphis, Tenn., in regard to cholera, owing to the publi- catior of the mortuary report of Thursday, which showed the largest number of deaths in since the cholera epidemic of 1866. ere were 24 interments yesterda: inst 33 Thureday. Of this number 17 died of cholera. ‘The cholera is increasing in Nashville. There were 49 deaths of colored people and 24 of whites yesterday. Every sanitary measure being observed, but the indications are discon aging. Persons from Paducah, Ky., report the appearance of cholerainthatcity. Fivedeaths oceurred there yesterday. Three deaths Thurs- day and three yesterday have been reported in 1 } ENTERS ene eeeee TWO CENTS. TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR This Afterneon’s Dispatches, paclovortes ciel ASSOCIATED PRBSS REPORTS. eager Peace Commissioner Meacham Ister- viewed. REPETITION OF THE STORY OF THE MODOC MASSACRE OF GEN. CANBY. Nuw Yorx, June 21.—A.B. Meacham, chair- man of the peace commission to treat with the Modocs, and whe narrowly the fate of his associates, Gen. Canby and Dr. Thomas, is in this city, on his way to Fort Klamath, where the military commission for the trial'of the captured members of the band will sit. Meach- am_ has no use of his right hand, the nerves of which were par zed by a ball through the wrist. The fore-finger of his left hand is twice the natural size. There still remains a slight sear on his forehead, @ ball, and from the same eause a lump ison the right side of his hend. Other wounds—received on the ear, in the side, and elsewhere—have entirely healed. HIS STORY OF THE TREACHERY which resulted in ¢he death of Canby and ‘Thomas is but a reiterationof that already told. Meacham says that himself and the others had full information of the fate in store for them; but as Canby and Thomas would not accept the warning he could not remain behind while they went into danger. It was Captain Jack who gave the signal for the slaughter and shot Gen. Canby, while old Schonchin attended to himself with pistol and knife. In the issue of the Forthooming trial he expresses no doubt, but the Modocs who participated in the assas- sination will be CONVICTED AND EXECUTED. The effect of a virtual scquittal or pardon after conviction would be disastrous. With such a reault before their eyes, the turbulence of other tribes could not be restrained. The vhite men who murdered the Modoc prisoners shoald be hanged, Meacham thinks, on the same gallows with the Indian murderers. DURING THE WAR the Modocs killed and wounded about three soldiers for every warrior in their force, at one time numbering not more than sixty-five, and during the first three days’ fight they not onl: held Ont against eight bundred troops armed with every appliance of modern warfare, but kept a passage open for retreat which even the Warm Spring Indian seouts could not close. Meacham advises that these not guilty of par- ation in the massacre be remanded to their reservation. To distribute them among other tribes would be punishment to some only. His idea of the best policy for the future is that all tribal lines be abolished, and that the Ind be made answerable to the laws, and be pl ed on the same footing with other murderers in the community. —e—_—. New York Notes, THIS IS THE WAY IT WORKS York, June Wm. H. M New Nevens. sente to be hanged July 1, 1571, for shoot ing Edward Hines, and after @ new trial sen- tenced to fifteen months in the state prison, has been arrested again for drawing a pistol on another man. = THE SWEDISY PRINCE COMING TO AwERICA. A ten-column untof a recent interview with King Oscar, of Sweden, is pablished here this morning, wierein the king is represented assaying he had ior wany vears been desirous of visiting America. ‘+1 should have gone to America when I was a prince, and it was al- Ways my intention, but many duties devolved upon me, and in later years, when my brother's health was improved, | could not leave. Now Iam king, and the best place fur a king to be isin his own country. I mean to send my son, the prince, as soon as his stu:lies are far enough advanced to permit him to travel, asdid the Prince of Wales. The Swedish people in the United States will be glad, I know, to see him. Ail the accounts we receive show that they are welcomed by the Americans. WOMAN MURDER WITH A HATCHET. Mary Reilly and Catharine Green quarreled in a 3d street tenement house yesterday, when the latter fatally brained the former with a hatchet. THE WEEKLY BANK &TATENMENT is as follows: ns, increase, $1,159,400; spe- cie, increase, $430, legal tenders, increase, $307,200; deposits, increase, $2,221.400; circula: tion, decrease, $50,700. THE JURY IN THE SHARKEY TRIAL have brought in a verdict of murder in the fret ee, but added @ recommendation for mercy. takes 250 tons of coal for the use of the steamer Tigress when the latter reaches Disco. The Juniata also takes two steam launches. The ‘Tigress expects to reach the Brooklyn nary yard on Monday, when the work of fitting her out will be immediately commenced, in order that she =p! leave here for her cruiseon the 4th or 5thofduly. The Tigress will be provi- sioned for two years. —+—_— Destructive Fire in Pottsville, Pa. POTTSVILLE, Pa., June 20.—This noon a fire broke out in the Planing ‘mill of Charies Martzelin, on 28th street. The wind blowing pores | from the northwest soon spread to the adjoining houses. The entire block, bounded ee aan en aeeetanaas ae street, north by Minersville road, south b: Cincinnati gs cholera. High street, comprising stores, shops an: 7 dwellings, were |. Kopitasch’s exten- Dxap.—Mr. John A. Kennedy, who was for | sive soap and tallow chandlery was completely some years Superintendent of Police at New | destroyed. Insured for $100,000. The sparks York, and became widely known whilst iu that | were blown over the principal portion of the ition. died in that city t bec He was a | town, and on Center ta number of stores istinguished member of the I. 0. 0. F.. | and residences were sct on fire. Clor's confec- ition of Grand 8: having fillea For some months past, w permit, he has m engaged in writing cere or the wher, Batis bass = participant therein for over forty y. «.3. a ve Vinermia Crops.—The Page county ( Va.) Courier says: “Corn is now growing finely—the last few rains and the present hot weather giv- ing ita rapid start. A large crop was planted thie season, and the present indications are for an abundant yield. The oats crop—last year a total failure in this county—never presented a more flattering prospect than now. A larger crop of hay will be m this year than for several years previous. Tue Snau 1x Loxpox.—The city of London gave agrand ball last night for the entertain- ment of t the Shah of Persia. Three thousand guests were present, including Princes, noble- men, diplomats, and much of the rank and beauty of the Kingdom. The Sh: with an pected the Lord D¥ATH IN THE PULvIT.—Key. A. &. Hughes, Spromipent Prespytériad iminister of Orange county, N.C., receptty went to a chureh in that county to A! an afternoon appointment. A lar Asse, popomy" was present, and shortly after king is text he sank down in the pulpit y speechless. When he was waited upon mem)ors of the congregation life was found to be extinct. owsRs of Delaware held a at which the was given at This ite is over 100,000 more than that of last year, when the },000 baskets more than the esti- an ae SMUD HBRe livid BRIGHEE Jin i fo, six squares off, took fire and was con- siderably damaged, but was speedily extin. guished. The fire gaining so rapidly in the up- per section of the town, and several «stores taking fire in the business portion, en Center street, and many of the citizens becoming alarmed and fearing a general destruction of hed to tl.e surrounding towns i responded cial traius trom Mahony city The Minersville and St. Clair pal les on foot, hauling their reel and hose, in sixteen minutes. Forty buildings were consamad principally tenement houses. Onechild was h lied and supposed to — bag hae deg anot! or =. fecangre pl in- jured by jumping from 2 seco: windo anda Gentionss was bh cacao Sever: firemen were wounded b) the falling of debr! and others were severe:y burned. The loss i¢ estimated at $120,000. “Insured for $50,00), principally in home cop: panies. —_—— From Europe To-day. TRE SHAR, Loxpow, June21.—Tke Shab of Persia wiil visit Woolwich to-day and will make a tour of inspection of the dock yard, arsenal, and royal academy. FIRE ON A STRAMSHIP. GLascow, June 21 —A fire broke out last evening on the Cunard |.ne steamship Marathon, now at this port,and the fames were not sub- dued before the ve--cl had been burned. Lo: Pine aonb cial dispatch from NPON, June 21.—. Constantinople to ths Daily News says the Sultan is ill. PAYING OTT THE CABLE. to noon yesterday, at 35, 45m, longitude 28 w., 140 miles of cable had B., 28 w.,7% been paid out. ‘THE UNITED STATES OF SPAIN. Caster engnges tn arawing up ra a strtuion for the tera) abl Pahich is to be to that of United States LOCAL NEWS A Klee Little Job Defeated. AN UNSUCCESSPUL ATTEMPT TO APPORPRIATR $75,000 OUT OF TRE DISTRICT TREASURY. Mr. John W. Thompson, chairman of the finance committee of the Council, deserves eredit for his report last night exposing the barefaced renewal of the attempt to appropriate $75,000 from the District treasury to pay cor- taim claims heretofore shut out by a very excel- ye commendation that it do pot pass. This bill proposes to enact “That all and singular the debts enumerated in the act approve J 12, 1872, entitled an ect, making an appropri indebtedness of the Ite corpo- own, ant the Levy reby, required to be joners of the sinking fund of the amounts and with the int by provided, a in the et to the contrary notwitstan Tt will be perceived that the pur f the Dill is to repeal or direct the commiseloners of the sinking fund to disregard the proviso to the act of January 19, 182, whic oviso is in the words foll ae “brocade. Phat no clatm be patd that has not been ¥ the anditing commission and b committie on indebtedness of the District Honse ot aud approved by them The committee on finance suppose that there member of the Legislative Assembly who will Tecognize the propriety aud the justice of this pro- viso. The claims preferred against the late cv rations were very numerous, aiid, ia order that fall nstice might be done te various claimants, the iret Legislative Asse rinted ai v8 commission to receive and ju claims and report their de in each case to the Legi« © Asse . ¥ Commission was jn session nearly six months, bay ing during that time advertisements in the different pewspapers inviting alt persons ba reveni them for rted to the Legislative Assembly b hundred claims, which had rec proval, and also such as they kad Fr: Ths yected. report wee referred to the committee on, todebted- als ness of the House of Delegates, which passed red by bly on the claims al 1573, eported said clatms in toa bill which hac pr read recommitted to that The amendments 80 reported consisted of nearly six-handred diativct items of appropriation. one for each cla‘mant ,w the sinount awarded to | a epecitie ‘This wass of mai was introduced at the heel of forty-eight hours of the fual ad wag no time for reading or print tion, Every member of the Le; do justice to th: orsof the pone juestioned the int-lligence or of the anditing commission, which had b: er, in the form of appropriations, ton, within at the se mn Ther: rm their a be erropeons by the committee on indebtedness, ‘as unwilling togo any furtber, as is clearly shown th i9o directing that no the bill abould be a it was made had be approved by ing ission and the on indebtedness. Without the pro id not have been passed. It was essen- as well for the protection of the t ry as to Hy the hasty legislation which a zed the ireement of nearly a million dollars eo peu- money The proviso proved to be wise and efficactons, for nthe law was published it disclosed the fact that ny ite propriation had been interpolated eloam) h had never been presented tothe diting ission, and some items for claims en been ‘rejected by that comm st. How thess items got into the act is a myste payment of ti which are the m of the auditing c Some of the items are then reviewed, among them the much-talked-of Donovan claim $13,772, which wiil be remembered by many of our citizens. A pretty full history of it is given, and the remark made that “it has been re] by the executive, judicial and legislative author- ities of the late cerporations, as well as by the auditing commission organized b: for the government of the District, | meets with general favor, e=peci tiom | of red the position as for | residence, and id jected | man, of 4 CASE OF THE OERTT WASKINGTON. To-day of or yaicians t prem! janitary cond: Stal oe ee water, bat with th : 35 kel ube wou 4 S Gret taken with cramps after having caten some cucambers, snd on Sit “Tee sar latleg he ees tie was suffering from a looseness of the bow. eo SS at ahe sey for a phy » and by the time be reached (0 house was insensible. On Dr. Keene re~ porting to the Board of Health, the disinfecting ‘was sent to the house, end it was thor oughly and a drain was dag to lead of the stagnant water. Washington a salt » Foren VEGETABLES —Potators, Irish, 4 oo % pk ome, Se. by , oh pk, - 2 ; ; ‘ “ 1 ® peek: me sahon got ch, letrnces Salon ® Bike pi plan, ~® bun + burch: cymiins, dc. Pdoren; cucumbers Sie P dox Li Apples, he oF m.; oranges, “ De apples vaet.; cherries, se, perteberrien, a unpeeled), Toc) Dlackiberrioe “ ‘ pS te! om fine, ye ee ee ; wheat, £17081 8: beane— 75. mixed, 1@ 22. dried fratt— Dusnel, Técte.@Hi. ouloue S) Bees rg ae f ee ¥ meer cl . 356040 b F? bb inde | butter, 2% bb | pew Bhox. peas, About 140'tons Straw have been gold | prices as follows:—Best quality. §1.> t, and | *ecome yuality Toc. Straw at €1- im “ at $40 $4.80 1. SW Durhelsonts ar Se appointment of Captain known and popular 6ujerri1 ac ferry company, ouncil caused by t! Dante. Smith, of the elev: Weshington, which portion oi th represent. Capt. Gedney is « Hourishing village of Coeyma N. ¥.; is 53 vearsold, and ir strong taste for engineer study, under a thorough E. Coffe, of Philadelph: He came District in 1850 as engimeer on the steamer Thomas Collyer, which had been batlt ander the superintendence of Gen. Joseph Belknap, & celebrated engineer, and late chief super. vising inspector Of steamboats under the gov- ernment. After the steamer George Washing- ton was built Capt. Gedney took command of her, and held the position until the Potomae ferry company purchased this line of boats, and consolidated the company; after which, he was to this superintendent ef the company, which he has retained until the present time, making South Washi his tify Dusiness interests of the river, been in active business life, and isa the cwnef of one St the most valusbic corms es : ¥ the Hudson river, which is ro at by some ch valuable in unknown it has been included among | village and in this city ria. Prob- the Appropriations in the bil ofthe 194 of Jan- ps ay steamboat man in Ube coun! uary, 1872, and its payment prevented only by | more and favorably known than © force of the proviso w! the pending bill pro- | Gedney. ‘was unsought on his poets 0 28 _ am sa oe See rt, be will no doubt prove a valuable pol in o' are ¢ payment | member of the board. Of claims for pretended extra work.” SS ce aide The report concludes as follows : Tae New Tcenoat “ URL GEDNRY. “Your committee are therefore constrained to re- | This new boat, which bas bees built for Tetea Gert any tare ere, Tr fartes | ETGEMrTiceatrines are abet interested have ample means of redress by appeal: Assembly. Your committee cannot advise their ment in the indirect manner it is proposed to be by the bill which is now adversely reported 1) ‘be claims which won'd be required to b= pass, will amount to about —_-—___ Pablie School Examinations, WHITE SCHOOLS. Third District.—Intermediate No. 1, (mate,) Wi uilding, Miss Kate Murphy teacher, i by Trustees Moore, felted saving fuel and wood Th pilot-] is on the upper deck; the dining- : room, kitchen and other cabins and —. elger, Wim. Dares 9 igo — neatly fitted up with every modern conve- phen Stelle; attendance, Eugene Fartner; | ™Be- stip eres lpnstibilais nship, Sian peak nae music, Goo. A XEW MOTEL AND CATTLE YARD is about Kurtz. There are 40scholare on the roll, 17 of | {.® guauushed im the eastern part of the whom will be . ‘The school-room was | {. ton ot a ater heme “ deautifully decorated, and the examination was | oom and ten pin allen at the jumeion ae creditable to the pupils and their teacher. Blaaensburg and exai 1873, this examination being also the twenty- firth und:r the same teacher. The exercises were hek! in the school room, where the classes were bett-r beard, though visitors were more crowded ‘han in the large hal! of the Jefferson. ‘The exer, ises were opened about ove hour after the time tixed by the trustees, on account of the heat end consequent slim attendance of uh interested im the schools. the sugge: ion, which the trustees may be com- pape to e Jopt, which is, that the order of time lor written and oral examinations be reversed. tions as at present, they should begin with oral examinati us, which would undorthaterrunge: pent, take tage before the heated written éxaminations should in, and tr follow inte last weeks of the term, and the whole we « should be given to them, so as to | da; ii sf i Rotel will contaln stout te To THE HosritaL.—Th: 18 months with the email-pox. where she was taken THERE will be a solemn requiem mass for the late Rev. A. next ewe the 234, at "8 , corner 4 yester- by Constance