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VJ. 8,352. WASHINGTON, D. MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1880. TWO CENTS.

TSE VENING DAILY, Except Sunday, AT Braa azAprea, Avmue, Coalr 11th by The Evcng 8tar er Cown y. "z0mOE W. ADAMS, Ev BreSAn is served to subscribers in the by on their own ao 10 oets r. 3i3onth. at the ent a the I 16 at: Taeonddmnam W- ermcean Wahat1 made known b.a appliomoa.

vanes SPECIAL NOTICES. VACCINE 15c. EACH. 10 FOR 1 3100. VACCINE QUILLS 2b5c.

eac.i 5for $1.00. Fresh and pnre from the State Vaccine Far at Chambersbunr. Pa. For sale by J. W.

Apothecary cor 9th at. and Pa. ave. n.w. jan12-3t GRAND LODGE.

F. A. A. M. OF THE DIISTRICT OF Stated Communic ition of the Grand Lodge F.

A. A. I. of the Dietrict of Columnbia will be held at Masonic Temple on 1.EDNEYDAY, January 14, at 6 o'clock Bmy order of the M. W.

Grand Maater. jan12-2t W. R. SINGLETON. Grand Sec.

SERIAL SAVINGS AND BUILDING rewnlar meeting of the Serial will be held WEDNESDAY 14th instant. The few shares remaining in the 4th series may be rescribed for at the meeting No. 615 7th opposite Patent Office 7 p.m. tares ch. JAMES S.

EDWARDS Preadent. JNO. A. PRESCOTT, and treasurer. BOLLINGER CHAMPAGNE.

ExTRa QUALITY DRY. BOLLINGER CHAMPAGNE. EXTRA QUALITY DRY. THE MOST DELICIOUS DRY WINE IN THE MARKET. FOR SALE BY THOMAS RUSSELL, Jane 1213 PENNA.

AVENUE. BOVINE VACCINE VIRUS, from the New England Vaccine 10 points $1 (doubly charged): single Solid Lymph Cone $3. W.d.THOMPSON.70315th st.n.w. jan3-2w' OFFICEOF THE MUTUAL FIRE INs. Co.

oF D.C., No. 636 Louisiana avenue, WA4HINGTON January 2, 1880. The annual meeting of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of the Ditrict of Columbia will be held on te third MONDAY of January, 1880, the 19th instant, at Odd Fellows' Hall, 7th between and sts. n.w., commencing at 9 o'clock a.m. By the charter of the company the election of seven managers to constitute a board to conduct the affairs of the company is required to be held at the above meeting.

By the 6th article of the by-laws of the company it is provided: 'At the annual meeting of the company the first business in order shad be the appointment of a cbairman, who shall conduct the meeting and electian in accordance with the act of incorporation, between the hours of 9 o'clock a.m. and 6 All policy-holders are requested punctually to attend. Amount of premium notes held by the $1,310,188.66 Cash 20,782.27 140,151.00 Real 35,000.0 Losses by tire during the year ending December 31, 1879............. 10 001.00 By order of the Board of Managers of the Mutual an3-14t J. WESLEY BOTELER, Secretary.

NATIONAL METROPOLITAN BANK. Ii WASHINGTON, D. DEc. 29, 1879. The annual election for Directors of this Bank will be held at the Banking House on TUESDAY, 13th January, I880.

Polls will be open from 11 o'clock a.m. IL 1 o'clock p.m. tEO. H. B.

WHITE, Cashier. INVESTMENTS. Bonds and Stocks bought and sold. New York Stock Exchanges and other cities STOCKS CARRIED ON MARGIN. Foreign Coins dealt in and Foreign and Domestic Exchange.

H. D. COOKE de16-Im Bankers. 1429 WasDingbm. D.

C. SPECIAL NOTICE. CONGRESS WATER. Its superiority as a cathartic and alterative consists in its entire freedom from everything bitter, acid cr crnde that produces headache, internal soreness, and tends to destroy the mucous membrane. All mineral waters that are dangerous irritants may be known by an acid after-taste.

dec8-3m fresh of PURE NORWEGIAN COD LIVER OIL at DREW Drug Store, corner 9th st. and Pennsylvania at 50 cts. ger full pint bottle. ct4 BEDFORD WAT BETHESDA WATER, DEEP BOCK WATEB, AND GAYSER SARATOGA WATER. A fresh supply of the above natural waters.

For sale on daught in all quantities. At MILBVBN'S PHARMACY, sep4 1429 PntEsyaraaa Avawun. AMUSEMENTS. MONDAY, Jan. 12, htiv.

and MATINEES. Engagement of the great LEONZO BROTHERS and their wonierful actin dog, TIGER. in their own drama, entitled RLPERlT'ts DOG. The Great Irish Four, Miles and Daily. 3 Milo Brotoers.

3. Al. W. Fifson, Neil Smith and his Trained Dogs, Professor Steen and Mile Addle. 112 Fun and Ploltcs.

OUR CANDIDATE RICHMOND OUR CANDIDATE AND VON BOYLE. OUR CANDIDATEOUR CANDIDATE' COMEDY COMPANY. OUR CANDIDATE' OUR CANDIDATE! HENRY G. RICHMOND OLR CANDIDATE! OUR CANDIDATE AS OUR CANDIDATE OUR CANDIDATE' HON. JOS.

GRIMWIG. OUR CANDIDATE: OUR CANDIDATE' VON BOYLE OUR CANDIDATE OUTR CANDIDATE! As OUR CANDIDATE' OUR CANDIDATEI THE CHINAMAN. MATINEES WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. January BLACi CROOK In its entirety. jan12 NATIONAL TEATER.

ot WEDNESDAI AND STU OA EMATNES. Only appearae this easnn Washington of the SOTHERN, AND HIS COMPANY OF COMEDIANS. Monday and Tuesd aju ings and Saturday OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Grand Family Matinee on Wvednesd'iy at 2. Thursa Evenings, AND AN ALARMING SACRIFICE.

FRIDAY EVENING. FAREWELL BENEFIT, Dundrears Brother AND DUNDREARY MARRIED AND SETTLED) Baturday Evening Laat Annearance, THE CRUSIE)TRAGEDIAN. Monday, January 19 -LOTTA. jan12 EO3. JUENEXAN'S UNT VERNON LAGER BEER BREWERY AND PLEASURE GARDEN, NarwsE 4TH AND ATR AND AND STE.

Is ap29 D. IDo. 626 i ON EXHIBITION INo. 626 E8. AND RALE 8t.

ATWARKITER'W FREE ART' GALLERY AND STORE, No. 696 ABert. Choe Pai Envi Chr, PcueFrames, (Jrsand Ts eN iame in.Wi raeaememer Name and Number. 528-lw WATCHES. JEWELRY Willibesold at SILVER WARE, COST To Reduce Stock, For next 30 days, I.

P. Cash only. janS-3m a7ta, AmmmGONAND REW NORE STOCK AGENCY. Exclusive and direct Telegraph Wires between Agpency in and New York nomea. N.

H. DODGE, A. G. WOOD, 3o. 1, WUI'si'a Negel, D.

0.. AGNs 10n PRINCE WHITELY, iroca Enomms, 65 Dno.nwAT, Nuv Yoan. W. R. TRAVERI, peial.

vosh ad, New Orders in COTTON BM NTHESUBEJ.Aaws SaMego. NATIONAL SAFE DMOUIT 00MPsAN, 1ZQ 48bM ad Mme Jegh essne.s THE EVENING STAR. Wa8hington New8 and Gossip. GOVZRNMEiNT RECEnPs revernue. customs.

$412,109.79. PROTEST AGAINST A PATENT Foi Sawyer has protested before the Patent Office against Edison being granted a patent for his horseshoe lamp, claiming a first patent for the Sau ye-Man electric lamp. This protests all right, bat can have no effect. Before a patent to any one a thorough examinat-on 1s made t) discover if any infringement upon others' invention has been male by the If has been an infringement no natent isissaed. No more thorough examinat ion of Edison's lamp will be made now than if Mr.

Sanoyer had not filed a protest. ArrR Tb have been received at the War department that the renegade Apache Indiars recently followed across the border int3 Mexico by Gsn. Mocrow have rcturned, and the Mexican authorities requested permission to aid in tae pursuit of the Indians on the Ame-'can side, which was granted by the Secretary of War. PENSION resolution was introduced in the House to-day to provide for a special committee of seven members to examine into the method of the payment of pensions and back pay, and to recommend legislation which will correct what is now alleged to be the irregularities, delay, and abuse of the, present sy 3 p. resolution was adopted by yeas, 185; nays, 56.

The special committee ill be announced to-mo-row. 0 NAVAL B. B. Tayloe and Henry De H. Manley to special duty at Lieutenant Commaader P.

F. liat cingion to duty at the Naval Academy. Pay Inspector Richard Washington to hold himself in readiness for duty as fleet paymaster of the Asiatic station. ON BEING RELIEVED from duty at the military academy First Lieut. Alexander Rogers, 4th cavalry, will report to his regimental headquarters for to duty.

AMERICAN SHEEP IN Treasury department is in receipt of information that the British government has issued orders which went into effect on the 1st instant, under which sheep from the United States may be landed In Ireland without quarantine and without being slaughtered at the place of landing. To PROTEcT TELEGRAPHIC Western Union Telegraph Company has prepared a bill to be presented in the U'nited States senate by Senator Saulsbury, providing that all telegraph messages shall be deemed private papers of the senders, and shall be protected from unreasonable search and seizure, and from production as evidence in individual and legislative proceedings to the same extent as letters sent by mail. The United States Supreme Court has decided that letters and sealed packages in the mals are as fully guarded from inspection, except as to outward form and weight, as if they were retained by the parties forwarding them to their own dumiciles. THE ANNUAL REPORT of the national board of health, containing an account of operations during the pist year, has just been completed, and will be transmitted to Congress through the Secretary of the Treasury. The expenditures of the board from the date of its organization to Dec.

31, 1S79, were $154,002.42. Estimates for defraying the future expenses of the board are submitted as follows: From January 1 to June 30, 1850, $284.330. From July 1 1880, to June 30, 1881. $202,060. It is also advised that an appropriation of atout $100,000 be made to hold in reserve for the emergency of the occurrence of such an epidemic as that of 1879, and to be used solely for the purpose of inland quarantine in case of such an outbreak THE CENSUS Secretary of the Interior has approved the scheme for the formation of supervisors' districts prepared by the superintendent of the census.

Maryland is ed into three districts, as follows: First ustrict. Baltimore county; second district, Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, larford, Kent. Queen Anne, Somerset. Talbot, Wicomico and Worcester counties; third district. Alleghany, Anne Arundel.

Calvert, Carrol, Charles, Frederick, Garrett, Howard. Montgomery, Prince George's, St Mary's and Washington counties. The list of supervisors will be considered in the Cabinet meeting t-morrow and probably sent to the Senate Wednesday. ARRIVAL OF OURAY AND and the rest of the Ute delegation arrived in the city yesterday were taken under guard to the Tremont House, where they will remain during their stay here. To-day they were furnished with store clothes.

At the hotel the Indians are guarded, and no one is allowed to approach them. The newspaper folks are headed off at every turn. It seems to be feared that the reporters will steal an Indian or two, as they are not even allowed a glimpse of their red brethren. The interview of Secretary Schurz with them will be secret, as stated in Saturday's STAR. The Secretary expects to do more with them than was accomplished in the west by negotiations.

The party of Indians consists of Ouray and Mrs. Ouray, Chipeta, Jocknickl Sieblo and Augustine, of -the Uncompagure tes; Jack, Sowaw ick and Unca Sam, of the White River Utes, and Toppaganta and Alhanda, of the Southern Utes; W. H. Berry interpreter; Otto Colorado, and Mr. kelly, of Chicago, ex-Indian agent at Los Pinos, accompany them.

Ouray was at the Interior Department to-day, and held a long preliminary conference with Secretary Schurz. The Indians, as a body, will not be examined probably for a day or two. The conference with Ouray was secret. The conference with the Indians will be a continuation of the work of the Ute commission. Gen.

Adams arrived in the city day. GEN. BRADY, second assistant postmaster general, appeared before the special committee of the House committee on appropriations at their meeting this morning, and submitted his reply to the letter of the committee asking for information. The document has been printed and makes a pamphlet of eighty-six pages. DISTRICT ATvRNEYs CORKHILLs NOMINATION executive session this afternoon the Senate confirmed the nomination Of Colonel George B.

Corkhill to be United States attorney in the District of Columbia. A DEMOCRATIC democratic members of the Senate and House Committees on Appropriations held a secret conference today and talked over the business of the session. No formal action was taken, but all the members expressed themselves in favor of getting the regular nppropriat ion bills as rapidly as lble. and In favor of pubuc expniures dowvnto the lowest figure practicable. The questien of equalizing the pay of Senate and House empleyels was also discussed but no decision reached.

The House Committee on A ppropriations has heretofore insisted that it has the right to reguilate the pay of employes of both Houses and to cut the Senate emlyedwnto the figures paid by the House. Th eaehas resisted this, and will, no doubt, continue to do so, in spite Of conferences. DEPARTnENT oF AGRICULTUJRt The House committee on agriculture will hold a meeting on Wednesday, at which action will oe taken on Gen. Ie Fevre's resolution to investigate the Department of Agi iculture. A majority of the committee favor the proposed Investigation.

BACK FROM Hamnlln and Representatives Frye and Lindsey are the only Maine Congressmen who have returned to Washingrton since the holiday recess, the others still remaining at Augusta to witness the legis. lation proceedings. George W. Waling, the c. tinguished sanitary engineer, is in the city.

It is understood that he will at no distant day, this season, deliver one of thle lectures of "Toner Coure" under ofpiesc the Smithsonian sjetto be The Sanitary ImfprovemientO ahmgo. Algernon Sartot is, son-in-law of tin in New York from Ungianaeie47 and Mrs. Ham1tn are.atWilr. J. D.

Cmo.Repsmaatate Luttrenl and Ju ge re. S. wleck in Phildephalast eve Awhich)mhtgehrmh 5 nent olitial, was gvnto gO ohn Ausun editor of theN a amerfmzn NIsfory, New Yesh, on evening. The ooeeasp. of the was thae smmIuhi ofa lraneh itmln Dublcatonmen nt anmar Aamnm Lotteries in the REPOnT OF THB POSTMASTER OBNEBAL.

The Postmaster General tranamitted to the House of Representatives to-day a report in response to the House resolution of December 16, 1879, requrirg him to furnish such information as the records of the Post Office department might contain respecting the extent to which lottery companies or agents make use of the mails for the conduct and circulation of their correspondence, and the extent to which the mails are used in reply. The report Is very voluminous. Although the resolution calls for Information regarding lottery schemes only, the Post Offiee department have taken it for granted that Congress desired information In relation to the use of the ma1ls by the agtnts and originators of other fraudulent schemes, and have Included in the report an outline of the various methods employed to obtain money through the mails, together with particular cases illustrating these methods. There are six different classes of schemes referred to in the report, of which the lottery companies, or roposing to have been organized by the state authority is first considered. On this head the Postmaster General "Onders have been Issued in puraance of the statutes during the last four months against various parties operating in Louisville, Covington, Newport and Frankfort, Kentucky, under what they claim to be 'grants' for.

certrin purposes by the state of Kentucky." The repr then gives a history of those which claim to be operag under an act of the Kentucky legislature, of 1839, and says: This contract, It is claimed, has, by various assignments, come Into the hands of Simmmons and Dickinson, of New York, and Murray, France of St. Louis, the latter the managers of the lottery. In the advertisements and circulars of this lottery, printed or circulated through the publlc are Informed that "holders of prizes are secured by ample bonds, deposited with the state by the lottery managers. In a.letter Nov. 71879, the state treasurer says that neither the Kentucky state nor any other lottery has ever made such deposits with him.

The attention of the House Is called to the opinion of Hon. John Rodman, attorney general of Kentucky, In respnse to a resolution of the state senate, in which he holds that the various lotteries chartered at different times under state grants have long since raised all the money authorized by their charters, and that those now in operation are carried on In viole, tion of law. The case against the Commonwealth Distribution Company retts upon the same kind of evidence as that upon which the order against the Kentucky State Lottery was issued. The corporation claims to act under the Frankfort grant. Among the lottery companies which have used or now use the mails extensively mention Is made of the Wyoming Lottery and Cheyenne Lottery companies, the Grand Disltibutlon Company of Victoria, Canada, and the New wick Grand Gift Soiree, of St.

Stephens, New Brunswick, "operated by one J. M. Potter one of the most persistent. Ingenious and ubiquitous persons using the malls for the purpose of deceiving and defrauding the public by means of gift enterprises, schemes and devices." A number of his are named. The Kentucky Cash Distribution Company, the Louislana State Lottery, and the Arizona Lottery, have also' been subject to investigation by the department.

The draw.ngs of the Canadian and the New Brunswick companies taking place outside of the United States, no action could be taken by the department in the matter of return of registered letters and non-payment of money orders. Orders have been Issued, however, to the postmaster at Calais, where the New Brunswick Lottery has an agent, in regard to such letters and orders. The lottery company most extensively using the mails is the Louisiana State Lottery, claming to operate under a state law of 1868, which is asserted to be recognNed by the new state const'tution. It is not deemied compatible with public Interests to submit now the evidence upon which the Postmaster General acted in this case, there being a suit pending, brought against him by the lottery marager3. The next case mentioned is that of Edgar W.

Jones. alias the Union Publishing Comany, alias the Magnetic Watch Company, of Ashland, and having several other aliases under which he sent through the malls in 1876, 800,000 circulars and advertmeats of obscene books. and a "geulne Swies magnetic which was in fe 't a brass compas of no value. For months the complaints from parents, teaehera, from all parts of the country in regard to the vile document sent by Jones to their chtldren were piling up en the hands of the Postmaster General, until through the exertions of Mr. Anthony Comstock, Jones was indicted and his business broken up.

The next case is that of H. D. 2. Allen alias the National Banking Company, of 79 Nassau street, N. Y.

This so-called company flooded the country with flaming circulars offering to sell what they called bonds on the Havana, Kentucky and Louisiana lotteries at half the regular rates for tickets, and to add extra prizes to the drawings. A special agent of the department reports that he arrested H. P. P. Allen, otherwise known as the National Banking Company for violation of the postal law, and procured hisindictment.

He states that Allen Informed him that he sold tickets or bonds dependent upon certain lottery drawings as to whether prizes were received or not, but said nothing about any banking business. No contest was made by the concern. The Texas Gift Concert Association, of Denison, Texas, is spoken of as "one of the most successful swindles disclosed by the department records." Its receipts were about $100,000. The report of Agent Edgerton on the case, dated St. Louis, September 18,1875, and published in full in the New York ibune, Is enclosed.

The Denver Land Company" Is a title urder which a species of fraud, very common fifteen or twenty years ago, but more rare of late years, was successfully pet The prospectus of the company makes a very brilliant showing of the future prospects of the city of Denver, and offers to send by return mail to any one sending them their name and post olice address and one dollar to pay cost of making and acknowledging deed, postage, a clear warrantee deed to a lot 25 feet front by 125 feet deep In North Denver, Colorado. clear of all taxes. The name of North Deaver carries with it the impression that It Is an addition or suburb of the city of Colorado, purposely selected by this swindling company to dupe people into the belief that they are getting property contiguous to Denver, Col. North Denver, the post orlee officials have learned, is 34 miles northeast of Denver and entirely unimproved. S.

A. Grant one of the persons engagd In the swindle, has 6en indicted by tihe gadjuiry Of the U. S. court of Rapahoe and Is now awaiting trial. "The Kansas Lan'd company," doing business at Topeka, Is mentioned as one belonging to the same class as the Denver Land compan.

This concern adverlists to give away 'Kansas homes" for $2 each, but as It was started about the time of the exposure of the Denver Land company's swindle, It was irustrated almost at Its Inception by the prop and energetic action Of the post offce Various arrests and seizures are detailed in the case of Max Borger, alias Borger alias Wachsman "-Bners," 54 Nassau street, New York City. These names were used to cover the sale of tickets in the Royal Havana, the Ducal Brunswick--Luneburgh--the Free City of Hamburgh, the Louisiana and the Kentucky lotteies, and the Commonwealth DIstribution Company. It being proved that no other than lottery business was done by these men, the proper order was Issued November 14h 1b79, forbidding the delivery of matteradrse to thiem and directing the return to senders of regTistered letters and money orders. Thr sanother class distinct from the tery, in that It assumes to conduct Its business upon legit'mate principles, nt dependin upo under the advc of men of experience, judgmenit end ntriyin the actual purchase of stocks in Wall Set.holdngthem until a rise, when they aec ose uot an the profits, less a moerate cmmifo paid toagent effectn Som tepr adancing th oney ineither closely resembling those of reputable dealrs or In some cases Identical with thezm. Among these areIlAwrence Co.

and Heath aCo. Mr. Cnmatoot la ntrmed that the fflraof their a nd that, money lost under it the cout a aa metted tie be in certain ces New York state. I am clear there Is no bona lids bUying ad 5ellihg Of Stock on orders that are received hrmaiL. I am informed that Baxter tok 600 of Government bonds with him to RuoeThis Is rumor." ofokcuIcars of Bate and of their great astrous investmenta ag.

aminseLOdrswr issued ea the tt ef the retrn te Ard stn Lawrence and other heretofore reported. In conclusion the report says: "I have to say that while desirous of avoiding an unnecesaarily lg it has been found difficult to treat the sub matter of the resolution of Congress Intelligibly without setting out cases Illustrative the various methods adoptad by the diversified classes of persons who seek to obtain money through the mails, by means of lottery and other gambling speculations. I deaire to say further tha ti of ofee have allowed me but little time to devote to the preparation of this report, which Is In the main the work of A. H. Bissell the very efilcient law clerk of this department." Society Notes.

Every one seemed inspired by the fine weather of Saturday, and even before three o'clock, the hour for the reception at the White House, a crowd had assembled in the vestibule and East Room, and as soon as the doors leading to the Blue Parlor were thrown open the visitors began to congregate there In numbers. Colonel Casey made the introducfions to Mrs. Hayes, who presented each person to Judge Harlan's wife, who stood next her on the right. Mrs. Ramsay and Senator Randolph's wife also assisted in the reception.

The four ladies were kept busy hand-shaking until five o'clock, when they left the parlor. Each one of the receiving party was richly and becomingly dressed. Mrs. Hayes weatring a tinted white silk, with draperies brocaded in white. In her hair were natural flowers tastefully arranged.

Mrs. Harlan wore a heavy black silk, with gold vassementerle trimming; Mrs. Ramsay a delicate cameo silk, full skirt, with a basque of the same shade of embossed velvet. Mrs. Randolph wore brown silk, with brocaded velvet trimmings.

She Is a Kentuckian, her father, Mr. Coleman, having been for many years an esteemed citizen of Lexessr, Mrs. and Miss Baird entertained Invited guests in their pleasant home on Massachusetts avenue, from 3 to 6 on Saturday afternoon, and many divided the afternoon between this and the White House reception; among the number many ladies and ntlemen of Congressional families, many of the diplomatic corps, and numerous representatives of the scientific men In and out of official life who are now in Washington. When the Director of the Smithsonian is understood to be "at home" to visitors with his family, the guests are sure to include- a number of ladies and gentlemen whose busy lives, devoted mainly to intellectual pursuits, give them little time to indulge in the ordinary round of fashionable pleasures. Amongother charming entertainments of Saturday evening was the meeting at the residence of Judge Sanders W.

Johnston, on street, of the Literary Society, which includes a goodly portion of the fashion as well as much of the culture of Washington. The literary feature of the ever ing was a consideration of the relative merits of the prose writers and the poets of America, touchin which papers were read by Mrs. Chapman Coleman, Mrs. Cary Long, and Co). E.

Clarke, and remarks were also made by several other members of the society. After the literary exercises the company was charmingly entertained with music by Miss Mary Johnston, daughter of the host, and Miss McGrew, each of whom both surprised and pleased the company by the fresh, rich quality of her voice. not less than by the ease and grace with the several selections were rendered. The attendance, which was quite large included not only nearly the full membership of the society, but a number of distinguished invited guests, and the occasion was one thoroughly enjoyed by all The dinner given by Attorney General Devens, at Wormley's, on Saturdry evening, was attended by the following gentlemen: Chief Jus1 ice Waite, who rat on the right of the host, and Sir Edward Thornton, who sat on his left; Mr. Bancro.t, Mr.

S'dney Bartlett and Mr. Shattuck, of BG iton; the French Minister M. Outrey; Justices Clifford, Strong, Miller, Harlan, Bradley Swayne and F.eld; Senators Edmunds, Hoar and Thurman; Assistant Secretary of State Payson, the Solicitor General, Mr. Smith, of the Attorney General's office; Mr. L.

P. Morton and Mr. Flag. The dinner was very elegant in all its appointments. The table was handsomely decorate4, and the li'en'i very elaborate.

Mrs. Comptroller Knox gave a musicale at ber residence on 10th street, near Saturday eventug, the attractions of which were keenly appreciated by all who were fortunate enough to be her guests on the occasion. During the evening the company was entertained with a large and choice selection of vocal and Instrumental masic, given with remarkable skill and effect by both lady and gentlemen participants. Aside from these, there were a number of persons well-known in society and politics present. The Secretary of the Navy gave a dinner to the gentlemen of the Cabinet on Friday.

McLean, daughter of Mr. Allan McLean who is passing the winter at Wormley's, will give a lunch to about fifty young ladies next Saturday at 2 p.m. Garcelon, (daughter of the governor of Maine), attended Mrs. Hayes' reception Saturday, with her aun Mrs. -Frye.

a Preston Powers. wife of is visiting Senator Morrill's family on Thomas Circle. SEcRETARY SHEiMAN was on the floor of the House to-day. ARONG THE PREsIDENT's CALLERS to-day were Senators Teller and McMillan, and Representatives Hiscock, Wilber, Wait, Williams and McCold. DUPEs OF A PRETENDED New York Tribune says an adventurer, calling himself Count Maurice de Fez, has been swindling some very respectable persons in that city by promises of marriage and offers of introduction his titled friends.

The young woman who hoped to become a countess sold her furniture, and a confiding friend contributed his dress suit and a fine shirt, and In return was to be introduced to the Count de Kergarlon, who has never appeared. The swindler is supposed to have lied to Montreal. REVOLTING CONDITION OP A PENITENTIARY.Gov. Luke P. Blackburn.

In his late message to the legislature of Kentucky, draws a revolting picture of the condition of the penitentlaryof that state. They have 173 more prisoners than cells. As a necessity nearly 350 wretched men are immured In cells, which are but three feet nine and a-half Inches wide, six feet three and a-half Inches high and six feet eight Inches long. These cells, dark and ill-ventilated, do not contain sufficient air to support one man. and the death record gives abundant proof of it.

From the 1st of January last to date 74 have died-a tearful mortality. The governor recommends that something be done to vindicate the honor of the state. A GovERNOR RAIsEs A Indignation Is said to prcvall at WVilkesbarre, Pa. because Gov. Hoyt has apinted Hon.

Stanley Wo odward, democrat, udeof the eleventh judicial district In rfeneto a republican. A Kingston, Gov. Hoyt's late home, the Hoyt Club tore down a transparency in front of their club house because it ore the Governor's picture. Boyt and Woodward are warm personal friends, and the.latter supported Hoyt for Governor. ERoPE IN and Germany are going to see about that concentration of Russian troops in Poland.

The Paris Rep Uqupe P'anmaise says Russia has cast herself upon a path of conquest and chimerha. An Increase in the number of French consulates in America is mooted. Pneumonia prevails aogthe British tropsIn Agantstan. A new Saish loan is ploosd.Fihtngbetwreen Abnians and Montenegrns hasiben Inant since the 8th Instant Herr Hungaia ournalA PLwcaY YoUNG LADY-In New York, Friday eveni Emma Jessup, a prepossessing young returning to her home met Walter J. Keena and another young man hurryin down the sar y.She seized Mccamea andestruge ihhmuntil an ollicer whose igteye wa discolored frmabown flicted byMiss Jesse was held in 6100N bel.

They hdbeen rbigMiss Jausaat ments, and ilst rsoere hiS og jeelry belonging toiss' Jessup in his possesBeneLana attempted tp enter the Tyer Jew. and wounded brga.Two ahots were fired at the warahman. without eVeot PVIUSgE Rom.m ui 3 0pn-A tiru that The abraiml.o tsr-zL under a i a a a Iae Ie ZOIRTY-8IT tYDNGRE88. MOIDAT, Januay 19. Vice President laid before the Senate various communications from the Secretary of War, detailing examinations and sureye made in compliance with the river and varbor act of 1879.

Mr. Hamlin presented the memorial of citizens of Maine asking for legislation which will give all rightful climant upon the Geneva Award fund an Immediate an sufficient opportunity to present their claims. Mr. Paddock Introduced a bill to authorize the appointment of commIssioners to ascertain and report losses sustained by citizens of the Unie States on account of Indian depredations, and to adjust laims arising therefrom. Referred.

Speaker proceeded to can the states for bills and resolutihns, under which call the following were introduced and referred: By Mr. Ballou. To reduce tax on deposits, subject to payment with persons and associations enggd nbanking business. By ir. Robinson.

In reard to the compensation and expenses of pension agents. By Mr. F. Wood. To facilitate the refunding of the national debt.

By Mr. Chittenden (by request). For a naBy Cox. Relative to a monument to Thomas Jefferson. By Mr.

Clymer. Exempting from taxation promisory notes issued for wages. By Mr. Ryon. For the appointment of official stenographers for U.

S. circuit and district courts. The Fire Coamissionership Recent articles In the Sunday papers here and in the Washington columns of journals outside of this city on the fire commissionership question contain so many misstatements that it may be as well to briefly give the facts in the case fairly and dispassionately, so that wrong Impressions may not be made. On Aug. 7th, 1878, the District Commissioners reorganized the Board of Fire Commissioners by dropping four of the seven members.

This they had full power to do under the act of Congress. But among the members so dropped was Mr. Wm.B. Reed, then absent In Europe; and whom the Secretary of the Interior had appointed to represent the federal government on the fire ard-such appointment having been made also in conformity with an act of Congress. Upon Mr.

Reed's return to the city he claimed that his removal was Illegal, he still holding his commission from the Secretary of the interior. obtained when Mr. Morgan, the former government appointee, left te board. The District Commissioners took the ground that as the law under which Mr. Reed's appointment was made, provided that the appointee should be a resident of the county (I.

e. the county of Washington outside the limits dIf Washinon city and Georgetown, as always understood), and as Mr. Reed lived in this city therefore he was not and never had been legally a member of the Board of Fire Commissioners under his commission from the Secretary of the Interior. In this view they were sustained by the law officer of the District, Mr. Riddle, and on Mr.

Reed's taking the case into court the decision was against him, and the District Commissioners' construction of the law was sustained against the construction of Attorney General Devens, to whom the question had been referred by Secretary Schurz. So the matter rested until the last session of Congress, when there was inserted among the District appropriations in the sundry civil bill a clause appropriating $400 for two fire one of whom shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior," and $400 for the third iire commissioner as secretary of the board-not and secretary," as erroneoufly pub lished in some of the articles above referred to. Secretary Schurz thereupon appointed Mr. Reed, under this law asone of the members of the fire board. The District Commissioners refused to recognize Mr.

Reed, not solely on the ground that there was no vacancy in the fire board, as erroneously published, but because the clause In question did not repeal the existing law that the government member of the board should be "a resident of the county," and they notified Secretary Schurz that if he made an appointment in conformity with that law they would promptl reconstruct the lire board and admit hin. This the Secretary would not accede to. In the meantime the District Commissioners had sent to the secretary swornStatementsin reference to conduct of Mr. Reed while a fire commissioner, which they thought unfitted him for reappointment. These statements Mr.

Reed denied under oath, and the Secretary sustained him. So the matter stood until just previous to the retirement of Captain Phe from the District Cnmmissinrship, wr the papers in the case were submitted to the President. It Is understood that the present District CommLsioners have stated to the President that while they are satisfied they have acted in the matter in strict accordance with the law and for the best Interest of the District, yet they do not desire to set themselves aid their opinion against the federal authorities, and will cheerfully obey his orders in the premises. That is the present status of the case. It is not worth while to say much about the twaddle concerning the refusal of the Board of Fire Commissioners to recognize Mr.

Reed. What have they got to do with It any way? They are appointed by the District Commissioners to perform certain duties under the law. Their recognition of Mr. Reed will not make him a fire commissioner If he is-not one, and he will hardly admit that their refusal to recognize him unmakes him. One of the badly-informed writers on this matter, a correspondent of the New York Times, says: "The act referred to legislates one of the old members out of office, but neither of them care to retire, and the District Commissioners seem afraid to select one of them for decapitation." In view of what is stated above, It would seem to be extremely doubtful whether Mr.

Reed would be any nearer the realization of his ho in case one of them did retire. Thf fact is, that at a very early stage in this controversy the three members of the board, in an interview with the District Commissioners, informed them that the resignation of any one or all of the members of the fire board were at their service whenever necesary, to relieve them of embarrassment. The District in Congress. ANOTHER STRES RAILWAY COMPANY. Senator Butler to-day introduced a bill to incorporate the Capitol Hill and Potomac railroad company.

The bill pro to create E.C. Dean, D. W. Middleton, E. Paine, H.

O. Claughtn, Geo. Win. F. Grafton, Wn B.Webb and their associates a body cor1raeand politic under the name of the Capi1 iladPotomac railway company, with power to construct and 0 ueeither a snl or double-track street follw ing Bei igat Marladavenue and Tth at.

n.e., (W ih ocntuta short line on st. n.e. toconnect with main lie)thence on Maryland ave. to at. n.e.

and wetto 84 at. n.w., (wth ihtto laysatrack on 3d st, nw. from Bst. to ndlana and thence along Indiana ave. to 3d thence north on 3d at.

to Indiana ave. and west to Louisiana south to Market thence west on MarketSpc to 8th cenorth on 8th to Dand ws along to 1oth on 10th to and thende-to 1St to 18th to connect the lnes rpryt be subject to taxation and tracks tbeli center 1fstreets and avenues; to be constructed In msaprvdmanner, with best materiat, ecThe cptlstock shall be not less thaa iI6OOnor moethan 5300 000 and one per cent. of the net erig must bereserved as a sinkringr fund to rde the bonds, in all other respects the peiin are about the same as are usuyenacte to Incorporate a street railway company. suNE UNDE A Senator ilarris tdypresented a the steet and comtte oftheDl The Mimnataa1thelnDistal, bag asaaset Iwuz se. 3M ao "I Telegrams to The Star LATEST FROM MAINE.

Compromise Talk. FOREIG NEWS BY CABLE. THE SITUATION IN MAINE. Compromise Talk in Augusta. Boeros, Jan.

rourna's Augusta special of last. night says: But very few of the rebpublican mem rs or claimants left the city toand to-nightIt is said that every man except one or two is on hand. Various rumors are afloat as to the movements of each party tomorrow. The question whether the committee on gubernatorial votes Will report and whether both branches will attempt to elect a governor to-morrow is freely liscussed. The general opinion Is that they will not presume to elect a vernoras the house Is at present constituted.

It is rumored that leading fuslonists made overtures to-day for a mimise, when they were old that the admission of members-elect of the disfranchised cities and the towns of Farmington and Skowhegan would ensure the full attendance of the republicans. This would add 14 to the 62 repubhcan members. The committee find that 6 persons received votes for governor-Davis, Smith, GarceIon, Bradbury Chamberlain and Greenleaf. The first four would be the names from which two would have to be chosen tasend to the Senate. Thus, if the house should be republican and the Senate fusion, a fusion governor would be elected.

A quorum of certificated members would give the republicans a majority of one. The tuslonists will hesitate some time before accepting these terms. Bloody Work was Contemplated. The republicans feel greatly relieved that JJie arms that had been in the state house are'1-eturned to the state arsenal, in Bangor, and consider it a great move toward a peaceful solution of the difficulty. It is reported, and believed by a large number of persons, that the reason the galleries were not allowed to be occupied on Friday last was that orders had been given to allow certain armed men, concealed in the state library, in case of an attempt on the part of republicans to capture the hall, (as the fusionists feared), to come down by a short cut and enter the south gallery with loaded muskets and command the representative hall.

The finding of muskets loaded and cartridge boxes filled shows that bloody work was contemplated. Both parties keep their movements very cloudy to all except the members and claimants. and especially do they avoid making any disclosures to newspaper correspondents. Proceedings To-day. Jan.

the assembling Of the senate this morning President Lamson sent in a letter announcing that he had assumed the duties of governor. (The letter is the same as that telenraphed last Senator Ellis, of Waldo, was chosen as president pro tempore. The committee on gubernatorial votes reported the following votes were thrown at the election held in September: Whole number of votes necessary for a choice 69 404. Daniel F. Davis received Joseph L.

Smith, Alonzo Garcelon, Bion Bradbury, 263; Daniel F. David, 200. The remainder are scattering. The constitutional candidates F. Davis, Joseph L.

Smith, Alonzo Garcelon and Blon Bradbury. On the proposition of the senate to hold a joint convention for the purpose of qualifying on the acts of the governor, there was some acrimonious debate by Messrs. Locke, Barker and Stricklanid. The joint convention was formed, and in the presence of the secretary of state and several members of the council, Jno. D.

Lamson took the oath, and was roclaimed as acting gv ernor of the stateof Maine. But 60 me were present in the house, and that body adjourned without thetransaction of any business. FOREIGN AFFAIRS. The Plague in Italy. LONDON, Jan.

dispatch from Rome to the Standard says: Very sad accounts are given of the condition of the populations in the northern provinces of the former kingdom of Naples, where fever 1s epidemic over large districts. In a population of 62000 the sick amount to 33,000 persons. The dea 3Gs from July to ecember, 1879, amounted to 3,423. American Influence in the Pacific. PAms, Jan.

Nord (Brussels newspaer) scussin German emigration, dob hter Germany will ever be in condition to contend with English and American Influences in the Pacific. A state confined within the narrow limits of the Baltic, and possessing only two forts on the North sea, cannot balance in those remote regions the influence of America. German Distrust of France. LONDON, Jan. disDatch from Berlin to the Times says: Particufar attention is now being paid here to the developement of affairs in France.

It was hop that time would remove national antipathies and that war might be altogther avoided but this ho has been much shaken by recent events in oance. The new French cabinet and particularly M. de Freycinet, the premier, is mistrusted, the latter being regarded as a creature of M. Gambetta. Political Troubles in Spain.

LONDON, Jan. dispatch from Paris to the Times Martinez Campos is said to intend quitting Spain an act construed as an expectation of political troubles. Affairs in Afghanistan. LONDON, Jan. dispatch from Candabar to the Times leader of the lerati troops has been decoyed into the city and put to death by Ayoob Khan.

No reports have reached here confirming the announcement that Abdul Rahman Khan the pretender to the Afghan throne, had arrived at Balkalr. British Occupation of Herat. PARis, Jan. Russian press and varilous continental special correspondents now pretty freely discuss the probabilities of the British occupation of Herat. for Ireland from one Church.

LONDON, Jan. at the Roman Catholic churches. in the diocese of Southwark, a letter from the bishop to the clergy on the ubject of the distress in Ireland was read and a fund collected which it is anticipated will reach Atlantic and Great Western R. R. It is understood that Sir Henry Tyler and Sir Charles Young have consented to act as trustees of the Atlantic and Great Western railroad company's leased lines rental trust of 1873 in the place of Messrs.

Blake and Herring, who have retired. Miurdjered in a Quarrel about a Dog. CINcINNATI, Jan. special dispatch totle Gazette says that while Wmn. Millken and Henry Crane, of Belleville, were fighting about a dog, on Sa wmliken came to the ce of his fatally stabbed Crane.

He escaped wto arrest. Yo0 Jan. 1-Th stamhipAra which left Bristo. Dec. lHz9 an which ahortly after her was rumored to have been lost, reached this morning.

The Markets. new ten-frtem il. North Crln 6. CE.eUE do duDgandsaG. 1.81-6 4d.

ib Cmi 2.eseea Wio I LYNCB LAW EN MARYLAND. Outrage on a WANMe Gll. The GUsty Negro 7wU P.rf6cwlsrs of rhe Ager. brresponderne of the ar.l BIAsvnu. Jan.

11th, vicinity, 85 miles from WashIngton, was thrown into a great state of ment yesterday by a dastardly attempt at out. rage by a negro on the person of a 11 year ol child, which culminated in his being executed about 11 o'clock last night at Poolesville, two miles from this place. The negro, George Peck, a somewhat notorious man who has heretofore been in jail several times, and when a boy had made a similar attempt and narrowly escaped haning, had been working for Mr. Lemuel Bea the proprietor of the store here for several months past. le was a black negro.

2 years of age, and weighed about 160 pounds. His itended victim is a little girl named Ada Hays, a bright and good looki child eleven years of age, a step daughter of r. John Reeves. THE caum. Saturday morning the little girl went to do he milking in the cow yard of Mr.

Reeves, as was her custom, and the negro was engaged in feeding the stock. She states that when the went to the stable yard Peck came out from behind the straw rick, passed by her and went on into the stable. She commenced milking and finished milking one cow and went to anotherone standing near the straw rick-and 00dmenced milking. Just then the negro camegm behind her, caught her in his arms and carried her around the straw rick, where he had previously prepared a hole In the straw. She scremed as soon as he caught her, but as soon as he her in the straw rick he put his hands over lec mouth.

Fortunately for the girl Rev. Mr. Amy. who lives just across the road from the stable. happened to be out in his ya and heard the girl screaming.

He ran Immediaty to see what was the matter, and came upon the ngr before he had accomplished his purpose or bad injured the little girl to any extent. Mr. Amy yelled out at the negro to know what he was about and the man ran to the stable. Mr. Amy had a pistol on his person at the time, and says he at first was tempted to shoot the negroon the spot, but upon reflection concluded to let the law handle him.

He took the girl to the house and went Immediately to the store and told Mr. Beall what had happened. They at once sent to Poolesville for an officer, at the. same time keeping a watch on the ner who seemed to contnue at his work about the About ten o'clock the officer arrived and several men were In readiness to assist in capturing the he saw the tro.ward the stable HS LTrEMPTED To SCAPE. He ran across a field into some pine but was surrounded and captured.

He was taken to Mr. Beall's store and tied, Rev. Mr. the girl both testifying to his fiendish acts. When he was asked by the officer whether he Intended to accomplish his purpose, on this Innocent girl, he replied that he would have done It If It had not been for Mr.

Amy interfering with him. He was then BAND-CCFPD AND CHAINED and taken to Poolesville and lodged in the Odd Fellows' Hall, preparatory to taking him to the Rockville jail. It was about 5 o'clock p.m.when he was taken there, and a crowd soon began to congregate around the hail making threats of lynching. The officer would not permit any one to come in, and about 11 o'clock the crowd disappeared from around the hall, and the officer attempted to take his prisoner over to his (the officer s) house a short distance from Poolesvllle to guard him all night. After leaving the hall the officer went Into Mr.

Walter's store just across the street to make some purchases before going home, taking the prisoner with himand locking the door. TnE PRISONER CAPTURED AND HANGED BY TER MOB. Ie had not more than got in before some one rode up In front of the door and fired a pistol shot in the air, and it seemed as if men rushed In from all directions to the spot, with cries of "Lynch him," Lynch him." They burst the door open and the crowd rushed into the store, some with masks and some without, and demanded the prisoner. The officer tried to resist them, but he was blindfolded and held by some, while others put the rope around the negro's neck and dragged him out of the store. In the scuffle the stove was knocked over, and came very near setting fire to the store.

The crowd dragged the man by his neck across the road from the store, threw him over a post-and-rail fence. then dragged him across a lot to a locust tree, threw the rope across a limb, and all hands drew him up about live feet above the ground and tied the rope to a fence near the tree, and, as soon as they thought he was dead, disappeared. As the crowd left there were several pistol shots fired at the hanging man's body, btthey did not strike him. Some went through his clothes and several into the tree. He was left hanging until 10 o'clock Sunday morning, when the officer went out and had the body cut down and moved to a stable shed near by, as people were coming to church.

The tree the man was hanged on was just In front of the church. A jury was summoned and a verdict rendered "that George Peck came to his death' from strangulation by the hands o' parties unknown to the jurors." It was subsequently ascertained from an examination by a physican that the child was no seriously injured. J. W. H.

Wail Street To-day. NEW Yon, Jan. 12-The Post's financial arti cle says: The week opened at the Stock ex change with the list of the proposed bill for the regulation of railroads in tis state and the text of the Wood refunding bill before all concerned in the markets. Government bonds are K' higher to-day except for the 6's of 1880-'81 which are lower. Railroad investments of a' kinds are strong and higher.

The market for speculative shares Is strong, and prices are 5 per cent. above Saturday's closing. Chesapek and Ohio has advanced to In the money market the quotation for call loans on miscellaneous stock collateral is 5a6 per cent, while on U. S. bond collateral the quotation Is 4a tr cent.

Prime mercantile pa is as cen Currencysgradually from hg interior. Trains All Itnnning. ELIZABETH, N. Jan. broken drawbridge at Woodbridge, where Tuesday's accident occurred, has been readjusted, and all the etrans are running through to Sea Girt without A GRAIN BLocKADE of prdgous porprln Is the feature of the grain tae in Chicago at resent.

The elevators of the city, which contain an aggregate of 18,000,000 bushels, are very nearly filed to their utmost capacity and several roads are refusing to receive grain because, when It arrives, there are no accommodations for It. In this condition of affairs the directors of the trade are considering the propriety of accepting as regular the receipts In tne elevators and storehouses along the line of the various railroads. It is also in-contemplation to provide temporary storage outside elevators, and to build new elevators In various quarters of the city. Large numbers of cars are lying along the tracks in the ciyloaded with grain which they are unable to deoi. There are In storage 8,000,000 bushels corn, and enuhof oats adoerginto make the total 42,000 bses gis a total of 10,000,000 busesat this tielast year.

There are also about 1,000,000 bushels afloat In the harbor. The elevator outside the city and of the over-crowded. For this coniont affairs the only explanation is that the grain syndicate, of which James R. Keene is the reprsnatie, hve, byconsan urhaas where It is a dead lose to ship it to New York and to a pint where It cannot be sipdkr New Yor to Liverpool, even at the pealn low rate of freights, with an rsetof a return of the money nvsd.Matime tae farmers are unable to find a market flor their the prcsare to therlkn. will be watchiedith arese gq PnovD or His a recent dismoslon of thete qatninhnnam fretoa member ofonea province who had not long ire bee rhgvein mumso en and that the uimwsjust as and legtima asamlg wo'k as be seeaI imuaepters WPni meaan a UthI.SBIIRT sant.

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