Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-04-20
Mere Enquiries.

M. E,it0r:-Not knowing where else To
look for advice ard counsel, as a necessary
consequence we come to YOU. VIII YOU
please enlightcn Us as to what 10 do with the
blank forms now being left by ex-bartenderS
ticket-takerS at theaters &c. &c at orr
homes and places Of business? On eXamina-
ton of one left ON Monday, the 18Th. il is
found to De dated on the 18th of ApriI and
on further enquiry IL appears that all that
have been left are so dated. Now whaS is
wanted TO be decided i: Is this not an At
tempt TO induce the ignorant to believe that
a legal delivery had been made of the seine l.
ules delivered? IL appears that the first one
was delivered on the evening of the 10Th.
four days after the date: and yet II
states that il must be filed up ana
retuSned within - days, or the penalties fol
low thus the man that received the blank
on the 10th had only II days; those thar re-
ceiNed them on the nth had 10 days, while
those that received them on the 18th have
brt days, and as some have not got them
yet, it is doubtful whether they will have
any time at all. So much for this point.
The ne Xt point is, they are signed for Nie as
SCISSORS by some sub, deputy, or anything else
you may choose 10 call them. They are not
officers, and cannot be made into officers. as
the law never, with all t. follieS. thought %
anything half 50 stupid aS placing the exam
ination into the private business affairs Of
every man and woman in this District into
the hands of irresponsible persons.
Mr.. Editor, let us have an opinion by some
legal mind. Have the schedules been deliv-
cred at air? We claim they have not-they
stamped lin penciD on their face.
Second. Ought the citizens To pay any heed
TO such delivery? We think not, but want
answers Yours, Two OR THREE.
THE HOSTILE CHEYENNEs.-India Agent
COvington, of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe
agency, Indian territory. under date of April
10th, writes 10 Commissioner Smith of the
Indian bureau, "a follows In continuation
OF my report OF the 9Th instant, in regard 10
The status OF Indian affairs in this agency.
ha ~ t,arr ,S.f
instant we had roll call" of friendly Cilcy-
enncs with the following result Chevenu.>
lWhirlwind's hand)-Alen present. GG; absent
II; total, 50. OF the above abSent.eS seven
have returned, being out after horses
when the roll was called, and five additional
OF the remaining Seven have been accounted
Tor; but Of the party OF eleven Northern
Cheyennes who came with Fox Tail nine
nave left the agency. and il is supposed
joined the hostileS. No definite information
OF The exact locality or intentions of the e.
capped hostile Cheyennes have reached this
office. Tie women and children belonging
10 the camp are being concentrated at the
camps OF Whirlwlnd and Little Robe and
already number several hundred. Il is now
definitely known that il the affair Of the Slh
instant nlne men and two wQnlso were
Killed and number wounded. some of VIII oU
have since died. The troops suffered severely
IN wounded. but there have been no deaths
up To date. The one man killed. reported in
my ietter OF the tth instant. was badly
wounded, but not killed.
y MATTER NEEDING EXpLANNTTgN-
Many OF our business men VINO reside out of
town upon the line Of tie Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad are i'm the habit of supplying
themselves with THE STAR at the sta
lion on reaching IL for the > p. m.
train; this being the only opportunity
they have OF getting It. Yesterday after
noon STAR boy was passing through q
car in response 10 a call from several pas
sengers, when he was seized by an over
grown railroad employee and dragged the
length OF the car the empiOye meanwhile cuff
Ing and beating the lad in such a brutal man
ner as TO call for the indignant Interference of
the passengers. One Of tfese gentlemen a
prominent lawyer Of this cit. warned the
brute TO proceed at his peril. and advised
him that he was liable To punishment for
outrageous assault and battery. He told
him further that he bad no business what
ever TO Interfere 10 prevent the pas
sehgers i'm a public conveyance from
purchasing HE STAR; the train being
stationary on the track at the time.
The railroad officer gave as an excuse for his
conduct that he was acting under the in
structiOns of Thomas r. Sharp, master of
transportation of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad; the said Sharp having made con-
tract with a Baltimore news vender, giving
him the exclusive right TO sell papers on the
cars.
We have made this brief statement of facts
from undoubted authority, TO give Mr.. Sharp
the opportunity to say il this brutal employe
OF his company was truthful in naming him
as the authority for his acts. There ought TO
be no doubt that Mr.. Sharp viii make a
prompt disavowal of the i'nputation. We
can not suppose that the officials of the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad indulge any such
pieue against THE SrAE for its legitimate
and perfectly fair criticisms upon the policy
of that company as TO wish To prevent pas
sengers from purchasing il; and in pecu-
mary point Of view it would seem that
there Is quite as much to be lost as
gained by excluding THE STAR from
the train for the benefit of the vendors of the
Baltimore papers, thereby endangering the
custom to the road of numerous patrons Of
this paper, who judging from what we hear
of the temper OF the disguised passengers
yesterday would quite promptly chang
their summer residences TO some other line
of road If the Baltimore and Ohio company
propose to interfere with club law to prevent
them for buying the newspaper of their
choice. AS for the knock-town aad-drag
out employees of the company they may, per-
haps, find some legal obstacles i'm the way of
indulging i'm the amusement OF beating news
boys TO jelly.
DIFFICULTY at Edgeneld, 9. c., between
n. o. Glover and two brothers, named Ste
vens, growing out Of a dispute about land,
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