Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-05-24


| o'clock, when n motion to print, with the
amendments, prevailed, and the House ad-
joUrned.
The LIVE STOCK MARKeT-Bodrd of Hsalth
| TpsT ecfioHs-The Inspector Generals report of
live stock on sale at Drover's Rest and else
| where, for the week ending Friday. MAJ ~
| is as follows:
At Clark's depot for the sale of swine. SO
hogs of good quality were sold. Market I'M.
| changed, and sales ready at Ta7 &c per In net
At Center market and elsewhere, "a beeves,
Ia stockers III milsh cows with calves, 133 veals,
| 5swine, q sheep, and 107 lambs were offered
| Beeves sold at S4a6 per 100: cows AMI calves AZ
SZoa5O extra SEQ; veals seas, according to quail
lty; go beeyes, mostly of superior quality, were
purchased in Baltimore by city butchers
At Drovers' Rest 240 beeves were offered and
10 sold at SGa' per cwt.; so mich cows and
calves offered, and IS sold at s2os4O; 10 veals
prougn5 Gao c. per lb-mthe quality of the stock
and 800 sold at the following prices: Sheen -
a6k; lambs 81 SCAT 81; the quality of the stock
was good. The market this week for cattle and
sheep was very dull. Two veal calves and one
sheep condemned as diseased or otherwise unfit
for slaughter.
NATIONAL TEACHERS INsTITUrE.-Prof A
l.. Barber. principal Of the normal department
of Howard University. has, on the suggestion q
zen Eaton, lr, commissioner OF education, is
sued circular for a national teachers insti
tute. TO be held at Howard University from
July LIST TO August I'd OF this wear. The scheme
OF lnstructiQS is comprehensive, including rapid
reviews of the common English branches, with
a special view 70 methods of teaching them:
methods OF giving object lessons, including lee.
sons on objects, FORMS inventive drawing siza
color, place, weight, sound, animals plants
human body and moral instruction; lectures and
1amlllar discussions on the foregoing TONES AMI
on school government, discipline and kin are
matters; also. lectures on natural philosophy
and chemistry, with experiments, and on physi-
oIogy and hygiene.
FISH AND OYSTER MAEKRT-Bodrd Of Health
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS General Gatchei reports
arrivals
at from - to - per thousand; $500 shad sell
ing at from $40 to sl5 per hundred: 40 sturgeon,
dozen soft crabs; 500 dozen hard crabs
To-day's report: 20 900 herring, from 81 10 s5z
PER thousand; 5000 shad, from s12 to SIS per
hundred; 20 sturgeon; 500 dozen hard crabs; 81
dozen soft crabs; ii bills oysters.
THE PROGRAMME of the marine band for the
concert TO be given in the Presidents grounds
TO- morrow evening is as follows Il. Overture,
Cheval de Bronze, Berr; 2. "Thou art so near
and yet 50 far" Reichert; 8. Potpourri, from
Huguenots, Meyerbeer; 4. Blue Danube walt
strauss; o. Selections from Trovatore Verdi:
Is German peace festival march Wiepand: =
When the Swallows are Returning, Abt; g. Star
Spangled Banner, sc.
PRICES Dollar Jewelry Store, No. IS. Penn
the agency for the sale OF the first quality of
Oroide Buttons, Studs and Vest Chains. in ali
the gold patterns, and very durable.
SMALL-pox-N will be recoilected that po-
lice Officer a. q. Luther died few weeks since
o, smallpox We regret to state that one of hi9
children as since died OF the same disease and
ahother child Is now quite low with the disease
AN ALARM OF FIRE was struck from box =,
about noon to-day, caused by the burning of
the roof Of a building at the G street wharf
Inc IRE department. did not go into service.
STILL POLITICALLY DIsABLRD.-The list of
persons ST under political disabilities numbers
ABOUT one hundred and fifty. 1t embraces JEFF
IerSon Davis, ex Senators Clay, X. w. johnson,
1ulee. Mallory, Toombs, Iverson, BENJAMIN and
Nlgfau. Representatives Pugh, Curry, Scott
Crawford. Lamar. Vance, Miles Bonham Me-
Queen, Reagan, De Jarnett, G. W. Jones, j. Y.
Wright, o. Tennessee; Hon. James Lyon, John
GOode, il, Hon. John Il. Baldwin, Walter r.
staples, Fayette McMullin and j. z. Holcomhe
Lewis; r. Harnie, w. W. Crump and Charles
Bruce, of Virginia; G. G.. Memmin ger and e. A
Irenho m, secretaries of the confederate treasury
department; Thomas II. Watts of Alabama:
George Davis, of North Carolina, confederate
states attorney general, and others.
RAKTNG Up DOLLARS WITH OYSTER Tones.
Inc excitement at ElizabethpOrt, N. over
"Capt. kidd's treasure" still continues at a
white heat. Yesterday morning three brothers
raked up eighty Spanish dollars near the old
Drlek- yard where Van Pelt first found the sill
yer on Monday last. After three hours of ciraI-
glng with the oyster tOngs, Alex Dickson founl
slXty-tWo, harvey Dickson got thirteen, and
William Dickson secured five Spanish pieces
lhe CONS are very much worn. The few that
pore distinct dates showed the year 1904. An
old coin collector saws that they are what are
known as cob dolla made in Peru before
ltj2. Hundreds of adventures are here in fish
ing boats, and the place will be thoroughly
dredged.-N. y. Sun. 23d inst.
Cor. Tom SCOTT VANoUIsHED-In the co,,rt
OF chancery in Trenton. n. j., on Wednesdsv
chancellor Zabriskie read his decision in tie
case of PENNSYLVANIA railroad companv a1,ir-f
the New York and Long Branch railroad com
pany, in rule to show why the Injunction pro-
u oltlng the bridging OF the Raritan bay by the
latter company should not be made perpetual
The injunction was refused, and the chancellor
decided that the authority granted TO railroad
companies to use land under water gave them
TIE right 10 build bridges without c0mpcnsa, Il III
to the state
The DEFEAT OF THE IMPERIALIsrs IN
FRANCE.-Tbe Paris journals generally agree
in the expression of the opinion that the debates
In the Assembly on Tuesday and wednesday
inflicted crushing blow on the hopes OF the
friends of the empire. The Journal des DsBrts
says the result OF the discussion is Ha par La
mentary Sedan" 10 is understood that the
party of the left in the Assembly will. after the
close OF the impending trial of Marshal Bazaine,
demand the Impeachment of the members of the
last ministry under the empire.
CROPS IN THE VIRGINIA VALLEY.-Thon, III
the drought has dried up things considerably In
some parts OF Virginia, yet the Loudoun Repub.
hcdn states that in the Shenandoah valley the
1t is remarkable how, notwithstanding the
severe winter, the wheat has rallied from IL,
freezing and the dry weather, and Is coming
out. 1t is the general impression that wheat
never looked better at this season. The early
fruit crops also give promise of an abundant
yield.
THE ENGLISH LABoRRRs.-The farmers i'm
England are beginning to give way before the
bold stand made by the laborers. They have
raised wages from IL and IL shillings per week
10 IA and Is shillings, but the LabOrers' Union
sui dc mand 10 shillings, and the farmers will
probably have to give way, as labor is very
scarce, hundreds of men having LET. the agri-
cultural districts for the towns and the coal
and IRON districts. conference between the
laborers and farmers is shortly to be held.
"A DANGEROUS PLAYTHING-A lad ms med
Charley Daniels, living in Dubuque while
fishing few days ago with several companions
attacked large snake, and, as he supposed,
Killed the reptile, aud then twined 1t around
his neck. The reptile suddenly revived and
ughtened its coil about the boys neck, and