Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-07-15
Political Notes.

greSs by the liberal republicans OF the second
d'S,IIct OF Penpsy lyania.
Southern Kansas republicans urge Congress
man David p. Lowe for the United State Senate,
a. successor Of Samuel G. Pomeroy, whose tern
eNpir6s next year.
The republicans of Burlington, Vermont, will
open the campaign on Monday evening by
grand open-sir msss-meeting in the city park.
Senator Matt. II. Carpenter will speak.
The democratic candidate tor governor OF
North Carolina speaks of the NcBC National Era
as "an obscure weekly paper published in
Washine on city, edited by negro name d Fred.
Hon. John A. Kasson. of Des 8Ioines, Iowa, is
out in card announcing himself as candidate
for tie regular republican nomination for Con
gress. The contest will be between him and the
present incumbent, Mr.. p almer.
The FCmGH's Journal p-oclaims the Baltimore
convention a failure, and calls upon the woman
suffrage democrats to rally 10 The support CT
Grant aud Wilson.
4 salute was fred on the Staten Island shore
IN honor of the democratic nomination. kind
hearted Irish woman, hearing the guns, said -
dead body!'
Mr.. Charles Sumner, in letter to a friend in
ST. Louis, says that Mr.. Greeley and hirse
had been C0-,aborers in many things, that he
honOrs him very much, and between him aud
another person who shall be nameless," he is for
him earnestly.
Voltaire used to say of the diminutive territory
of Geneva, "When / shake my wig cover the
whole republic with powder" II Il the prouier
boast of Horace Greeley, "When put on my
white hat l cover the whole democratic party
with felt."-Rdriford CourGnt.
A republican convention is to be held in
Wheeling, West Virginia, on the 25th instant II
nominate a candidate for Congress III the second
district, to be voted for on the I'D Of August.
The counties are to hold conventions and ap-
point delegates on the 10th instant. Hon. j. L.
McGrew, the late member, declines being a
candidate.
The democratic committee and some i've hum
bred citizens assembled at Chappaqua, on Sa
urday, and were addressed by Mr.. Greeley. lie
made no alluso1 to political matters saying tia.
i was mere social gathering for congratula-
ton and pleasure. Ex-senator Gwn, Judge
Regan, of Texas, and others, made speeches
fayoring his election.
LUSATICs' LRTTERs.-AL London journal saws:
"There is at last some protection being institut-
ed for lunatics abroad-unfortunately not, as
yet, in England. Brussels correspondent.
writes: "A lunatic girl who had made her escape
from an asylum at Brussels, presented herself
few days ago at the Office of the Procureur du
Roi. She asked that official whether he had
received letters of hers complaining of the
treatment she was receiving. No letters had
arrived, and at the asylum il was pretended
that The lunatic had never written any. In
consequence of this the Procureur du Roi has
ordered TO be placed in all lunatic asylums
safely-shut letter boxes, accessible to all pa
tients from which his own subordnates are to
collect every week the letters addressed to him.
We who boast so much of our improvement 5 and
the like, may perhaps follow the example of our
Belgian friends We have, we regret to say,
had TO report on more than one occasion cases of
cruelty in our lunatic asylums, and in our col
umns last week two scoundrels were sentenced
10 five years penal servitude for cruelty to a
patient. We unhesitatngly assert that no
means should be left untried in our hospitals at
home and abroad in furtherance Of the object
which has been inaugurated by the Brussels
Procureur du ROi"
PURCHASE OF VALUABLE PROPERTY BY
TIE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD CON-
PANY.-The Baltimore and Ohio railroad com
pgny during the past week have consummated
the purcf use, pending for some time past, OF all
the water front at Locust Point from the gram
elevator to the fort, running back to Fort ave
nue.. property embraces about 10 acres, and
the price paid for il was 300, 900, the sale being
effected by VIM. Scharf for the owners, VIM. G..
Vious TO its recess, passed an ordinance for the
extension of the port warden's line on the north
sue OF Locrst Point, as requested by John w.
Ohio railroad company. The character of the
Improvements contemplated by the company
upon the property recently purchased has not
been definitely determined upon, but in refer
ring to the property ia his communication to the
)Uncil, Mr. Garrett says the company desire to
erect additional grain elevators, much larger
than the present one, which is already taxed -
its capacity. They desire also to erect ware
houses OF the largest size opposite to that pcr-
ton Of the Port warden's line that they ask to
have extended.-Bdh. Sun, 18th inst.
FIRE IN ST. MIcBAELs, MD.-The great ca
lamity which befell the town OF ST. Michaels,
Talbot county, Nd, in March, 1870, when the
Comet Office and five other dwellings and store
houses, were destroyed, has repeated itself. The
ST. M ichaels COBltt of Saturday saws: Where six
buildings stood on Wednesday evening there
remained but ashes and charred logs on Thurs
Gay morning. In the course of a few hours, in
The night, SIX families and business men are
thrown upon tie streets to view the utter de-
motion OF their houses and contents. The
following are the losses: John X. skinner.
$500; Mrs. Camper, 81 500; John s. Handle
ton: 5000; Alexander Hambeton, $3.50; Charles
w. Wiley, 5000; William NJ. McMahon, Il, 900;
Captain Edward Jones, SIS; II. c. DodSon, s25;
BeIl Leeke, SO; Seth heirs, $500. Aggregate
ioss Is about $4,000.
OF REFUGE-The st. Louis grand jury has
reported on the house OF refuge. They saw they
have discovered that great cruelties have been
pIaeticed on the inmates. They cite three case
where young boys have been terribly whipped
and one case where pieces of flesh have actually
been cut Off boys back by the lash, Boy.
have also been placed in a dark dungeon for
Trivial offences, and kept there forty-ei1St hours
without food or drink. The report saws that the
house OF refuge, as now conducted, is deep.
canning disgrace, and urges the court TO effect
a a change In Its management if possible. F. s.
W. Gleason, superinte ncept for twenty years,
pronorncos the statements exaggerations, sn6
asks suspension eft public opinion until the
next meeting OF the board of management.
A QUESTION OF SQUATTrNG MIR. Watson.
the new Charge d'Affaires for England at Yoko,
mama, IS trying 10 inauahrate a new system of
receiving dgnataries IL the latter place He
refuses TO meet the hikado unless he stands in
MS presence instead OF sqgatting. This the ia
paDese minister refuses TO accede 10, and in con-
sequence Mr. Watson Is awaiting instruction.
from hIs government, while on the other hand
the japanese minister will not be received in
London until the squatting question is settled
meanwhile the fate Of nations hangs upon the
decision OF this momentOUs issue.
SRAsoEABLr FoOp.-No kind of food Is 50
wholesome at this season of the year as fruits
Not only are they pleasant, but they are abso-
lutely necessary to supply certain wants ard
wastes OF the system, and should therefore be
eaten freely at proper times by all classes Rui
1t must be remembered that fruit must be r;ne
when eaten. While ripe fruit il healthy and
nutritious, uDripe fruit is the very worst thing
that can be used for food. A single green ap-
PIE may be as mortal as a bullet, and the person
or persons who offer them for sale to the Young
should be severely punished.
THE HAyRE REGATTA took plack on Friday
Twelve boats started. Twenty hours was the
time allotted for the race. 1t was expected that
the Guinevere, Livonia, and Sappho would SAIL
but the Guinevere was Withdrawn, and copse,
9uentiy the Sappho was withdrawn, because the
Livonla was the only large schooner entered
and Mr.. Douglass would net saii With shhnr,