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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-09-25

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member, not entitled 10 he seat.
and in favor of Mr.. Abbott Mr..
To 1nsend submitted a minority
report on the same subject en-
bodying opposite conclusions.
Both reports we're ordered to be
printed. After some unimpor-
tant business the House adjourn
ed.
JUNE II. In the United States
Senate, a petition was presented
from Gen. ID. Il. Hill, of North
Carolina, asking for the removal
of his politicrl disabilities. On mo
ton of Mr.. Whyte the Senate* adj
journed over until Thursday next.
A joint resolution was presented
recommending an additional
amendment TO the constitution
providing for the election for the
term of four years of assessors,
po-tmasters, marshals and collec-
tors. The army appropriation
bill was reported from the COM
mittee on appropriations, and
made special order for to-day
The amount appropriated is $23,
155,077, against S27 900, $50 for the
present year. "A report was made
froln the committee on war ex-
penditures unanimously acquit-
ting Speaker Kerr of tho charge of
having accepted $3.50 from Law
renee Harvey for his influence in
securing the appointment of A. p.
Green to a second lieutenantcy in
the army. The report was nan
adopted by a rising vote.
JUNE 13.-The Senate was not
in session, having adjourned over
from Monday to Thursday.
IN the House, Mr.. Roberts, Of
Md, introduced a bill to reduce
taxation on the circulation of
state banks to an amount equal to
that paid by national banks. Mr..
Wood spoke at length in favor of
the army appropriation bill as re-
ported by the House committee,
and detailed the status Of the va
rious appropriation bills Mr..
Lynch spoke on the political status
of The colored people, and Mr..
Savage spoke on the financial
question.
JUNE l4.-There swas a very
slim attendance at the session of
the House. After the reading of
the Journal, the House went into
Committee of the Whole on the
Army Appropriation bill. After
speeches by Mr.. Bright, of Ten
nessee, in relation to currency. by
Mr.: FELTON, of Georgia. in favor of
granting pensions to the survivors
Of the Indian wars, and by Mr..
Lawrence of Ohio, in reference to
the Pacific Railroad sinking fund,
the committee ose and the House
adjourned.
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The Denver Nescs says: When
Michele Balotti, the Italian, was
sentenced to imprisonment for life,
he asked Judge Brace if he
couldn't have his violin restored
to him, it being held by an officer
as security f~or.fees. The Judge
informed him that the matter was
quite beyond the interference or
jurisdiction of the court. Balotti
afterwards told his counsel that
he put an estimated value on the
fiddle, partly on account of its
great age, but mainly because it
was a present from hia father, long
since dead.
His father was a master violin
ist-in fact the Ballotti family
were famous in Italy is instru-
mentalists. The violin, which is
unusually fine both in tone and
construction, is actually several
hundred years old, being one of
the famous instruments manufac-
tured at Cremonr by the brothers
Amati and Stedivarius. Balotti
says life will be endurable in the
penitentiary ifhe "a have his old
fiddle for a companion, but says
he woulderather die than 60 there
without 1T.
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Last Monday afternoon a party OF
friends, German, were playing cards
for beer In a saloon at Tenth and Ari-
o streets, when a general quarrel
arose, and from words the party soon
came to blows. In the row John
Quincer, a tailor, was kicked in the
stomach by baker named Francis
Bundscher. The tailor was carried to
his home, 1889 north 10th street where
he died from the effects OF the kick at an
early hour last evening. Before his
death the tailor said to his attendant
physician: ''That baker kicked me in the
stomach, and that's whats the matter
with me-" Bundscher was arrested
last night and locked up in the fifteenth
district station, to await the result of
the inquest. He admits that he did the
fatal kicking, but says he acted ia self
defense: The two men were warm
friends prior to the fatal ARRAY, and both
were hard working. orderly citizens.
The friends OF the prisoner say that the
tailor on his death bed forgave the baker
and said he provoked the quarrel, but
this is denied by the dead mans friends.
The deceased has resided in Philadel-
phia for the past twenty years.--TPhila.
Times, 9th.
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A Female Husband.

Extract of a letter from a gen.
tleman i'm Scotland to his friend in
Virginia. will now tell you of
two young women who had been
disappointed in marriage, and be-
ing intimate friends they revealed
THAR minds to each other, and re-
solved to live as man and wife in
some place they were net known.
They drew lots to decide who
should be the man. The one on
whom it fell assumed the name of
James Han. They then set out
on the journey, and at last came
to Epping, leased a house there,
and kept an inn. They had a SER
want, but each performed the du-
ties belonging to his or her sta
ton. They traded honestly, gain
ed a good deal of money, were
well respected, ana lived together
thirty-one years, until at last the
wife died, when the discovery was
made. James Han served in all
the offices of the place except con-
stable, and was often foreman of
juries, and was to have been
church-warden if the discovery of
her sex had not been made.
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Green Denounced as a Per
fur0r.

WASHINGTON, June 14.-Mr. JOS
eph b. Stewart, who has been in the
city several days to testify before the
sub-Judiciary Committee of the
House investigating ex-B Blaine, is out
in a card in which he denounces as
false in every particular the testi-
mony Of Thomas A. Green, SO far as
regards Mr.. Blaine and his alleged
connection with Kansas Pacific rail-
way affairs. He presents record and
documentary evidence conirmatory
Of each allegation contained in this
statement, and state that he holds
himself in readiness to prove Mr..
Green to be a falsifer and a perjurer.
He says Green has stated what is
positively false when he says, upon
oath or otherwise, that he (Stewart)
at any time or place, or under any
circumstances, Or for any purpose,
used or mentioned the name of "Hon
James G.. Blaine,u or "Congres-
man Blaine or "Speaker
Blaine,n or any other cognomen or
soubriquet which meant or could
mean the Hon. James G.. Blaine,
Representative in Congress from
Maine, in reference to any bonds or
any subject of litigation pending
between himself and the Kansas Pa
cifc Railway company in the circuit
court Of the United States for the
district Of Kansas or elsewhere.
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Roasting the Grassh0ppers

The Madelia, MIMI, Record gives the
following account Of the grasseopper
situation in Wantonwan county; As they
come in from the country we learn that
the pests are Matching in almost every
town in the country, and in some places
pretty thick. The farmers. especially
in the eastern part of the country, are
fighting them with fire, both by burning
the grass on the prairie and hauling
straw and distributing in over the
fields. They burn just before evening
when the 'heppers are gathered into the
straw, and millions are destroyed. Some
are keeping them out of their fields sue
cessfully by ditcbing along beside their
fields and scattering the straw beside
the ditch.
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Death Of an EsfimabIe Citi-
zen.

From the Washington Star, 10th.]
Robert Harper Williamson, a
notice of whose death appears in
another column of our paper, was
born in Martinsburg, w. Va, and
was Il descendent Of the Harpers
who were the original owners and
founders OF Harper's Ferry. He
had COR many years been a resi-
dent of Washington, where he
married and has since lived, oc-
cupying the house on 10th street
where he died. He filed for a
number of years, with credit to
himself, a position in the General
Land office, and when the depart
ment of the Interior was estab-
lished, with Mr.. Ewing appoin-
ted its head, MI. Williamson was
assigned the position of disbur-
sing clerk, in which he continued
until a change Of administration
caused all tho old officers to retire
Since then he has lived IA retired
life in the enjoyment of an am
pie competence and the society of
devoted relatives and friends. He
was well known to most of the old
residents of the city, and shared
the respect of all who knew him.
Perhaps his most noted character
istic was that of kindness and
cheerfulness in his domestic rela-
ticns. His desire to make all hap.
Ply, shed a continued ray of bright
ness, contentment and pleasure
over the family circle, and exer-
cised a most happy influence on
all within it. Besides the regret
which his death will cause his
friends generally, it brings with
it the deepest sorrow and grief to
his devoted and attached relatives;
who have for so many years x
perienced the benefits of his affec-
tionate care, and Of his solicitude
for their welfare and happiness.
His death was caused by no mark
ed disease, but was chiefly the re-
suit OF Il decline attendant upon
his advanced age. His departure
was tranquil and free from that
suffering which often accompanies
the severance of this earthly tie.
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~ spccial ulSpatcn 10 the tntiadel'
phia Times, from Denver, COL, june
q, says:-Last evening intelligence
reached this city that a fatal encounter
had taken place between two we'll
known cattle r~aisers. at Red Bend sta
ton on the Kansas Pacific railroad,
fity-six miles east Of this place. The
particulars oil the affair are ascertained
to be as follows: 1t seems that about
noon yesterday some difficulty occurred
between a man named @. Davis, late
station agent at River Bend, and one Of
his employees. Alfred D. Jessup. jr.,
was standing by and espoused the cause
Of the subordinate to the irritation Of
Davis. High words soon followed, and
blows, if not worse, seemed immi-
nent. But quarrels in the section in
which the affair took place are frequent
especially among herders, and the few
people around took no special notice OF
the disturbance. Presently Davis and
Jessnp were observed going out on the
prairie together, but neither at that
time displayed any noticeable anger
or excitement. In a short time, how
ever, shots were heard, and then the
men about the station realized the true
state of affairs The two men had gone
about five hundred yards from the rail-
way. ooolly measured off a distance OF
Gfty PAGES and were blazing away at
each othar Jessup was showing great
excitement. and was jumping wildly
about among the cactus plants. He
fred three shots from his revolver alto
ncther at his antagonist, none of which,
took effect. Davis, on the contrary, was
wonderfully cool and collected. Stand
ing perfectly still, he took steady aim
with his Winchester rifle, and irsd two
shots. the second taking effectin Jessup's
right side and piercing the heart, just as
the excited spectators reached the scene
Of the tragedy. Jessup lived only a
few minutes. His slayer continued to
display the most remarkable GOODNESS,
helping to carry the body to the station
Upon being questioned in regard to the
tragic affair, Davis stated that Jessup
had not only taken up the quarrel of an
employee, making it bis own, but follow
ed it up with a challenge to fight, each
to choose his own weapon. Davis ac-
cepted and selected a Winchester rifle,
and Jessup choose his Colts navy re-
volver. The contest was an unequal
one, not only as to weapons but us "a
men, Davis being a crack shot and
Jessup a mere novice with the pistol.
Many do not believe Davis story that
his vicrim was the challenging party,
as Jessup was never known to have
been engagerd In any difficulty ola Sc
rious nature before, and it is put down
to his credit that he lost his life by his
earnest desire to see fair play and because
he believed a man was unjustly assailed,
Soon after dark Davis mounted a horse
and disappeared. As yet no attempt
has been made to arrest him. Jessup's
body was brought here to-day. II will
be embalmed and sent East.
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LATEST FROM CINCINNATI
Nominations Madc-NO Ball
lot Yet.

[Special Dispatch to I~adepcndeat.l
CINCINNATI, June Is, S:25 r. NJ
The whole day has been spent in a
fight for position and for time on the
part of those opposed to Blaine
Blaine's chances IRE growing better,
as these tactics become more appar.
emit.
His friends remain unmovable and
use the efforts Of the opposition for
delay as IN argument in his favor.
The excitement has been up to fever
heat. The names of the candidates
have been placed before the Conven-
ton, but no vote will be taken until
10 o'clock tomorrow.
I =
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Tsa u + ~ AZ vi.
Specie Payments--tiviI Ser
vice OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Scholastic Heather Chi

@& F6NN T
CINCINNATI, June 15.-Mr. Haw-
ley, Of Conn.,, from the committee
on resolutions, reported. The report
opens with congratulations on the
part OF the republican party since,
under providence, it was called upon
to purge the country of slavery and
establish agovernment by the people
for the people.
1t declares the United States is d
nation not a league, and the republic
can party is the defender of popular
government. 1t proceeds to state in
detail the duties Of the party in the
protection Of our citizens everywhere.
1t demands a steady
PROGRESS TOWARD SPECIE PAY
MENT.
Applause. Senators and Represent
tatives should not dictate
APPOINTMENTS.
Fitness and capacity to be the sole
passports to office, and unfaithful Of
icers to be swiftly punished. 1t re-
commends a constitutional amend
ment against appropriations for
SCHOOLS UNDER sEcTARIAN CON-
TROL.
LGreat applause.] Latter re-read in
response to loud calls, and cheers re-
newed. 1t rcaflrms our opposition
to further grants Of lands for rail-
road purposes, and asserts the duty
of the government to protect immi-
grafton.
IL suggests a very moderate reso-
luton relative to an inquiry into the
effect of
MONGOLIAN IMMIGRATION,
on moral political grounds.
THE woMAN'sPLANK.
1t favors respectful consideration
Of women's claims to participation in
the government !; reafirms the duty
OF s~uppressing polygamy.
The duty to soldiers Is recognized.
1t d~eprecates sectional strife.
1t arraigns the democratic party as
the same in character and spirit now
as when it sympathized with and al
lied 1t to treason, and accuses it of
being unworthy and incapable.
President Grant deserves the con-
tinued gratitude Of the people for
for his patriotism and services.
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The Dining Room.

BY far the most important room in a
house is the dining-room. 1t shonld be
a bright, cheerful apartment, not located
in the basement, as it too often is, and
where only reached by cropping down
a dark and narrow stairway, but on the
first floor where plenty of sunlight en-
ters and an air Of comfort prevails. It's
appointments should partake of the
substantial rather than the snowy. The
table itself should have the appearance
Of great responsibility, and a seeming
consciousness of having sustained loads
of good cheer for generations past. The
chairs too should look invitingly hos
pitable, not stiff, STRAIGHTFORWARD affairs
which are found in SO many OF the
dining-rooms of the day; but chairs in
which you can lean back towards the
close of the dinner, slipping your wine
and cracking your nuts in an easy,
leisure!y way. Appropriate pictures
fruit, flowers and game - should
decorate its walls. which should be stain
ed a quiet neutral tint.
A cheerful dining-room, a table cover
ed with spotless damask, bright silver
and cleaning china and glass, add
greatly to ones enjoyment Of a dinner,
and give a zcst to the appetite; whereas
a gloomy apartment. soiled table linen
and greasy, half washed goblets and
plates, are abominaple and destructive
to anything like an appreciation Of the
meal ITSELF Barry Gray, in Home
Journal.
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Lightning struck an oil well near
Bradford, Pa, Tuesday, setting it on
fire. A large iron tank containing
q 600 barrels of oil was destroyed to-
gether with several small wooden
tanks and five Erie tank cars, all
heavily loaded, also several dwell
ings. A number of wells caught fire
and were badly damaged. The oil
tanks were the property of Mexican
Il Co., and the Pope Line Company.
Estimated loss $125, 600.
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AHtrange Epidemic.

PoRT JERvIs,N. ", June 13.-In
the town of Bethel Sullivan county,
a strange disease of a very malignant
type has made its appearance among
the children. Several have died re-
Gently after a few hours illness. The
physicians ire completely bafied in
their efforts to determine the nature
af the disease.
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Maine Democrats.

BANGOR, June 13.-1he demo-
cratic state convention met this
morning and effected a temporary
organization.
BANGOR, June 13.-The second
and fourth district conventions elect
ed Tilden delegates to the st. Louis
convention to-day.
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A good assortment of Brown and
BleachedM uslins ,cheapa as the cheap
est at DEATRICK'S.
March 80 ,tfdaw.
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Are you bilious? Do you feel drow-
sy? Hare you the s'blues''? Take a
dose of DIR. Bulls Vegetable Pills.
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-11-16
Beecher's Innocence.

NEW YORK, November 2.-The
Congregational Association Of Brook.
lyn have issued to the public a state
ment OF their action in regard to the
charges against Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher's morals which were to be
brought before the advisory council
commission. The committee ap-
pointed last winter t. cooperate in
bringing evidence before that COM
mission report that up to this day,
after more than six months opportu-
nifty to speak, and after mosL urgent
and public entreaty that every one
would speak who had anything to
say against him, no one had seen fit
to respond. No one had undertaken
to make either before the association
or before the com mmission, the slight
est responsible charge against the
moral character Of Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher.
The report OF the committee. was
adopted and the following preamble
and resolution passed
WHEREAS, The report Of said COM
mittee indicates that there is no SUBJ
stantial ground for believing in the
guilt Of Mr.. Beeehsr; therefore, be
IL
Resolved, That we do, therefore, as
an association, regard our brother as
worthy of our confidence and love,
and express to him our sympathy in
the severe trial through which he has
passed.
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-11-16
Standing FreaE.

Oae Of the most absurd Of all foolish
customs is that OF inviting . crowd OF
friends, or strangers, to walk up TO the
bar, and take something at my
expense" a
Men do not buy other things, sIth-
er useful or ornamental In this way
why should they make en- excep-
ton in favor OF this poisonous
draught, which is the cause OF most
of the crimes which fill the eomnuni-
ty with poverty, mourning and woe.
SOme one has sensibly said said
Nov, boys, II yoe want 70 be
generous and treat each other, why
not select come other place besides
the liquor shop Suppose, IS you 20
by the post Office, you remark 81
say, my dear fellow, come il and take
some stamps :" These stamps will
cost you no more than drinks all
around. Or gU to the haberdashsr's,
and say. Boys, come in and take q
box OF collars Walk up to Q
gr0eer's, free aud generous, and say /:
What kind Of coffee will you have p
Why not treat 70 the groceries by the
pound As well as liquors by the glass
Or take your comrades to a cutler's,
and say "I'll stand good pocket.
knife al around !" .... ...-
This would De thought . strange
way Of showing friendship, but would
it not be better than to offer to friends
msddeniDg, poisonous, deadly
draught?
Suppose 9 man should keep Q den
of rattiesn6kes and hllov man IN
come In and be bitten at sixpsnce q
bits Would 1t be Q sensible thing for
q man to invite all bis friends In to
be bitten ct his expense ? Is It worth
our while to turn eur friends into
brutes, maniacs, and murdersrs, sud
their homes into bells Of trouble and
distress by giving them ''somsthlng
to drink at my expense ?' "At the
last 1t blteth like serpent, aud sting
eth like an adder."-Tae Christian.
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-11-16

A short time since, q young man,
condemned 20 die for the awful crime
Of murder, lay in prison-eeII await
ing the day yOfexecution. A kind L.
dy, who had heard Of his condition,
visited him several times, and sought
TO lead him to penitence and faith Ia
Jesus, as his only hope. On one oc.
casion the lady was accompanied By
her little son, who spoke kindly to
the poor prisoner, and offered him
some fruit. The man seemed much
affected by the gentlensss of the child
and, drawing him toward him, said,
as the tears ran freely down his
cheeks
"My dear child, let me tell you
what brought me here. IL was dis
Obeyiny my parents then, breaking
Gods holy day, and, lastly, drinking
and gambling, that grew out Of the
other two. never forget this 10 you
would not bs where I now am, and
tell all your play-fellOws to take
warning Dy my sad fate. Always
obey your parents, never drink q drop
OF anything that can intOxicate, keep
holy the Sabbatb-day, and turn, As
from the evil one himself, from any,
ore vino would persuade you to enter
. gambling house, or engage In .
game OF chance" These are the
things that I'LL the prisons Of earth,
and crowd the gates Of hell with vic
Tins
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-11-16
Shooting Arrays.

VIENNA, ILL Nov. Sat q DEM
ocratic speaking at this place, Satur-
day, was witnessed q shooting affray
between ]. n. Arnet, known es Jim
Arnet, and VIM. Pearee, bc.d Of this
vicinity, and both desperate men,
and the community can spare them
without any loss. An old grudge
and whisky are the cause. Pearce
urged the matter on. To-day Arnet
and his brother wers making their
way toward Missouri, with guns
strapped to their saddles. Sheriff
Caster and party OF men are in hot
pursuit, but will probably find it diff
cult to capture him. Pearce Is dying
from wound by shot in the breast.
RICHMOND, IND, Nov. 5.-A col
ored barber, known as Dandy Jim. in
MeCoyis saloon, this afternoon, asked
for q drink, Tsngeman, the bar
keeper, refused him. Jim drew a re-
vOlver and fired at Tangeman, who
returned the fire with q revolver.
Each party fired two shots. The sa-
loon was full Of people, yet nobody
was wounded.
CECIL. o., Nov. S.-Johu CrEmer, a
slate foofer, resident of Fort Wayne,
while working on the roof OF the new
Cathedral church Of this place, yester-
day, fell from the roof, striking on q
picket fence, and receiving q fright
tul wound from the picket entering
his stomach, from the effects of which
he died to-day. The remains were
removed TO Fort Wayne for burial.