Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-01-18
Prevention of cruelty to Aujm..


Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Netting Of the Association lest Eiqst- DrlsS
fRg Fountains CTOtrGed Street CdYs-CLDpea
HOTSeS-3Ac "Bn Bur-" de-, &c.
A meeting Of the Association for the Pre-
Venhon OF Cruelty 20 Animals, was held last
night in the lecture room Of the Young Mems
ChrIsti2n Association Building the president
Theodore +. GStcheu IN the chair, and T.. /.
Booraem, secretary. After appropriate action
sB resolutions OF respect 10 the memory of the
late Joshua L. Gatcnell, Mr.. A. 5. Soiomous
IRON the special committee on the subject. re-
PcTts tuat lie lad called upon Gen. MehIer,
WHO LaG promised that he would a q the .. :ocia-
lion all IN his power in getting
DEiSKIS6 FOUNTAINS
paced AZ different points about tire city.
bT- GstCEeli stated that the bill iutrolucetl
IA the City Councils providing tor the erection
o tEe 1OIItains, had passed both boards. lie
lsid before the association copies % a CORES
Io"te zee WI q. he had carried ON with Mr.
Jehn Wsns maker, OF Philadelphia, VINO erect
ca n handsome drinking fountain in front of
ihdeI enCcnce Hail, in the Quaker CITY and
promises enc or more for Pennsy lyania ave
Rue, some tine in the early spring.
OyET LOADED STREET CARS
MI Blake, member. gave his experience in
a'iesiing the driver OF a crowded street ear, and
nss:ng ibe Pn7sepgers gel out and walk up
make h Gaze be45re the justice for the reason
that he D ID interte red with the passengers the
!1suce holding that the Pdsseny gers are not to
bianle such cases, aud should not be inser-
1eTed with. The justice was also of the oninton
That the Certificate of membership which he
carried, and which gives authority TO make ar
, shouid nave the seal OF the association at
Iached, ard not merely fac Simile put on by the
printer Some debate arose on this subject. and
Dr. Mason slated that Justices have no right to
s .t- me authority In this matter. but the
chcer making the arrest was the only one TO
Judge as 10 the authority, adding that the ass0-
citation had complied with the charter as TO its
seal
The Chair stated he had made some elexen
arrests since their last meeting two Ell which
were Ter cruel treatment 10 hOrses In one of
The cases he had paid the line imposed ont OF
DIS OVID pocket as the driver was unable TO nav
IT. He made state ment OF the cruelty he had
seen IN
THE TRANSPORTATION OF CATTLE
through this city ia railroad cars. The crueltv
was shocking. One animal he h adj seen with its
eve put out Dy british driver. The cars were
very much overloaded, and the poor animals
not move themselves, in which position thew are
Kept for many hours.
The Chair submitted code OF proposed laws
winch were TO be introduced into Congress on
motion of Mr.. Solomons, the section relating 70
The overcrowdln. Of street ears was SO amended
that sIeet-fallroad companies in this city be
PROHIBITED FROM COLLECTING FARES
nom any passengers who are not provided with
seats. After long debate the resolution was
adopted. 20"
DT. Mason made lengthy remarks in reference
"rHE BIT BUR-
= late invention; which consists of a circular
piece OF thick sole leather pierced with sharp
nall with another circular back piece TO hold
The nails IN. This contrivance is placed inside
Tue bTidle and SO arranged that by holding a
Isht rein The nails are pressed against The Jaw
o. the horse On each side. This Is done TO make
horse appear risky and rear no. The Chair
stated that he had been on the lookout for these
tarharous eontrivances on Pennsylvania avenue
ana had not seen any until Just before he came
IN the meeting, when he had discovered one on
tbe Avenue, which he went for :" but the fell
low WHIPPED up bis horse and escaped.
MI Shepherd moved that a committee be an
pointed TO irqUire into the practice of
SHAVING or CLIPPING OF HORSES,
which he thought cruel custom, and which
was getting TO be very fashionable
hir Major stated that he thought il a good
practice in many cases.
Dr. Regan de- ounced il as humbug saving
mat nature had provided the hcTse with a long
coat n the winter and short coat in summer
Inc inod0u was carried, and Messrs. Nailor
ShepheTd and Clark were appointed the COM
number OF new members were elected.
sinon g whom were several ladies. Adjourned.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND ATTRNPr To MIR
DIR "A bout O'Clock last night a man named
Jehn Kemp entered the grocery store of John
HeCarthy, corner Of % street ard Massachu-
S Ses avenue, ara asked for some iced fer his
n1IStS, AZ 'he san'e time showing some morey
MsCaIihy told HIM to come back when he va;
soper ana the iced would be sold 10 him Ne
en- s,,ea, ahH got INTO his gsgon and drove
80 ~ Sueet. Some minutes afterwards a CIV
of murder was beard, and Q atchm.- ~
No. Mn Co. went ." 80 -. NE B
.iies h'" nc place from whence tue
-~eoUsd, and found Kemp lying on the
road apparently dead. His pockets had been
ritied, and bis head was badly bruised as with a
blunt instrument, the skull being fractured.
About one hundred yards from where he was
found, a handle for a pitchfork. evidently the.
weapon used, was picked up. The fork had
been taken from kemp's wagon. He was re-
BY oceI OF S ms sSa
cal ard was summoned. 1t is probable that
Kemp viii die, as his INJURIES are OF such ma
fure that he cannot possibly recover. Three
coiorsd men, who were in the grocery store
when Kemp was there, were seen to run away
from the wounded man when the Waterman ap-
preached.
TIE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY held
ITS hity-fOurth anniversary at Dr. Surderlands
Church, on AZ street last evening, where after
an Interesting Introductory address by the
president OF the society, Hon. John Ii. B. La
frobe, the secretary, Nlr. Coppingen, read an
extract from the annual report showing that the
receipts during the year 1870. including a bal
ance OF 81 COS, December 81, 1869. and :, 2if5j
from investments realized, were so 9Gl. IS; and
the expenditures SO 49, II, leaving a balance
IN the treasury, December 81, 1870, of SSG99 AZ.
ihe report states unless the contributions this
year shall exceed those of last year. there can
&c no choice but to contract emigration, and
TINS, too, at time when numbers OF people of
color desire pssSaget0 Liberia. The number of
leTSors cOlOblZed daring the year exceeds by
IhI ,y-tOur those OF the year 1859, and make a
The whole number sent 10 Africa by the society
n B-5i3 The number of recaptured Africans
who have been furnished an asylum in Liberia
Is 5,s22, making a grand total of 20.2g6. Adj
dresses were delivered by Rev. Drs. BENJAMIN
4. Haight, Of New York; Elijah X. Craven, OF
New Jersey, and JOHN Maciean, ex-president
of Princeton College
The PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF wAsHISGTos-
According % The abstract OF reports OF the Pub
lac Schools for December, lssO, prepared by
superintendent j. Ormond Wilson; the number
of pupils on the rolls the last day OF the month
was 6,62s; decrease for the month iO6. Number
OF schools in first district 81; second, 90; third
Il; fourth. &c; total 10. Average number of
pupils in each school in the first district 5l3:
second, 55.5; third So 3; fourth, 54.5; general
average IS 2. Number of eases of corporal pun
IStmeEt in the first district Is; second, . third
~; fourth, IS; total ~. Decrease for the month
VI Number ofpupils dismissed in the first dis,
friet .; second, $; third, a. fourth. II; total s.
Number OF pupils suspended in the first district
~; second, o. third. 5; fourth, "A, total Al.
DEATHS III DKcEMBKR.-Dr f. Nj. String
heid, secretary to the Board of Health has
completed the report OF deaths in thi, city for
the month OF December last, showing a tota, OF
Is5-e9 Tales and SO females; 81 white and 10
coio-ed-of which 81 were from consumntion
n from pneumonia, from apoplexy. 4 from,