Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-10-18

ODER Is, 1875.
MARVELLOUS ESCAPE FROM BURNING
SHIP-lntelligence reached Plymouth GU
Oct. of the total loss by fire OF the Aurelie,
2is tons, OF Quebec from Liverpool 10 La
Plata, with coal. She left on the 18th of
March, and reached Barbados on the ID OF
August Smoke, however, was seen to come
In the coal speedily became red hot. For
seven days the crew used their utmost exer-
tons TO put out the fire, but with no result
and at length they had to take their two
boats, badly pIOvisioned and i'll clothed
They were In the boats five days, and were
then rescued 10y the ship Moonlight. While
child, and singularly enough, both sur
viVed and are in good health.
SPORTING NOTES.-The GalIa,ia fTsanl
races OF the Albion Jockey club wound up
Saturday with a fox chase. in which about
one hundred ladies and gentlemen particle
pat The race for the hotel stakes mile
heats, was won by Sue Wynn in I4G aud
LAZY; the club purse, mile heats, best tn rec
10 hNe, by Sallie Gardner. best time 1:4IH
and the consolation purse by Pythias in LIS
The Yale fdH regatta took place Saturday on
Lake Saltons;alI. The shell race was won
by the law school; the single scull race by II.
Livingston, of class of rs, and the barge race
by the crew of class of ~.
Mr.. BEKCHER's LAST FRIDAY EVENING
TALK at Plymouth church was on death
ana Tire Christians sombre view OF it, He
urged a brighter and more cheerful view OF
the end OF life. When Mr.. Beecher concluded
W m. McDermott, who claims Bessie Tur-
ner Tor his sister. prayed long and fervently
Tor hat young lady, and seemed very thank
inl that he had discovered her When Mr..
McIerrnott had finished Mr.. Beecher an
nounced that Andrew Bradshaw and Mrs.
Martha Bradshaw requested letters of dis
mission from Plymouth church.
THE FIRST snow STORM of the season in
Port Jervis, n. Y, occurred Saturday night.
Snow fell at COchectOn, on the Eric railroad
growing heavier further west. At SuSque-
hanna, Pa, it was five inches deep. A severe
gale also visited Port Jervis Saturday night
uprooting trees aud damaging some build
lnsS. terrific tornado, accom- panied by
heavy bursts OF rain, passed over Milford
Pa. and immediate vicinity between six ana
seven O'Clock Saturday evening. Trees were
uprOOted, fenceS blown down. outbuildingS
upturned, windows broken, &C. The storm
lasted thirty minutes.
ExTRAvAGANCE IN HARD TIMFs.-Tbe
Christian lntelligencer, of New York, well
remarks that the people OF this country are
row laying capital and compound interest
Tor their lavish expenditure i'm the flush times
OF the war and the few years succeeding IT,
Shoddy put on its plumes and Haunted itself
In siiss and velvets and gold; sober minded
people caught the plague; everybody and
everything giittered, Now the tinsel has
worn off. Financial reaction has made hard
times.
DEMOCRATIC RETALIATION ON THE GER
MANs.-It is shocking to read of the dreadful
Work OF retaliation which the democrats
nave entered upon toward the unfortunate
Germans. In Chillicothe they are going To
enact an ordinance shutting no the beer.
saloons, and there are horrible threats of the
same san, nature uttered in this city. the chief
difhculty in carrying out such programme
VIII be The inconvenience that IL will occa-
sion 10 the democrats themselves r,lrip-
fdti Gazette.
MoRRIssEY FOR SENAToR.-Last evening
a large and enthusiastic mass meeting of the
Tammany Hall met at Botanic Hall. No Is
East Broadway. Dennis O'Holohan in the
chair. Addresses were made by Messrs
George w. Curtis, Dennis Griffin, Masterson
and others. John Morris5ey was nominated
Tor Senator TO represent the Fourth Senator
1al district, in opposition to the TammaDy
Candidate. john Fox-M y Ee'utd, Eth.
THE TURKS are reported to have crossed
the Al trian frontier, and now menace the
village OF ETZeg. Troops have been seat to
the scere. The district OF Zubci, the last
refnge OF the insurgents. is held by the Turks
"A Eerlin despatch says negotiations are in
purI ose OF demanding guaranty from Tur-
key for the pay ment OF the interest on her
debt in five years.
EXHUMING A MAsroDoN.-Prof. T. B..
ComstOck of Cornell University. with as
slstahts, was engaged last Friday in exhum-
at Lisle, lear Binghampton, N. Y. They
have taken out one piece of tnsk, I feet in
cEes long, and length off feet of the others;
Numerous. IS inches long; hyoid rib 30 In
ches long. and 81 shorter ribs: the atlas. 10 by
IL inches, and several tail yertebre The
skeleton is well preserved.
AN AFFRAY AT SANAToBrA, Miss. Sat-
urday night, between Colonel j. II. Cooke, a
prominent merchant, and B. McHenry, in
which several pistol shots were fired by both
parties, resulted in the mortal wounding of
Cooke, who then drew kniie and stabbed
McHeniy 70 death. A political quarrel
sHoRr.HoRN HAIRIsroCRA oY-At a
n cent sale in the Kentucky blue grass region
the following prices We're obtained. Forty
four native cows and heifers brought
5s,210, and twenty imported ones s5l .225;
four native bulls sold for sl,7l5, and five i'm
ported ones for So 800. The total for seven
ty-three animals was S123, $50.
THE FINANCIAL CHRONICLE reminds
Gen. Butler of the truth that mo paper
money has ever been permanently kept at
PAR with coin, except by the expedient of free
redemption of the paper In coin on demand;
and, with this, universal experience in view,
they will hold to the assurance that his pro-
posed feat is impossible"
ANOTHER Boy MURDER-An ARRAY oc-
Cured between party of boys and some or
puons Vi 81. Joseph = asylum. OF ST. Louis,
yesterday, during which a boy named James
Duffy had bis skull fractured by a lump of
coal thrown by one of the orphans. Duffy
died in a few minutes.
SHOCKING DOMESTIC TRAGFDY-At
HackeitstOwn, n. j., Saturday, James Rker
shot and killed his TWO sons, aged 6 and 10,
and shot at bis wife, but missed his aim He
then shot himself in the head, but the wound
is not serious. Riker was arrested. Domes-
tic troubles led To the crime.
GOVERNMENT SUIT AGAINST RAIL
RoAD.-A suit has been commenced at st.
Louis by the United States against the Ohio
end Mississippi rail DAD company to recover
SCI, Co., the amount of internal revenue tax
on the net earnings of the road from January
1868, to January, 1872.
ARRESTING DCELISTS.-Major John n
Edwards, who recently fought q duel with
Major Foster In Winnetago county, ILL.,, was
arrested on Saturday at st. Louis, under the
Missouri law preventing dueling. All the
other participants in the affair-principaI
seconds and surgeong-Will also be arrested