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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-07-24

CONGRESSMAN LAMAR has q politIca
speech In readiness which rs will en- ieavol
TO Gre off this week. 1t is intended as 8
SEQ her to palliate the mischieyous utter
ances OF Sunset Cox on the Hamburl
tragedy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-07-24

WOULDN'T GIVE THE RAG BABY A
sHows-The morning hour in the House
tois morning was used up In reading in full
every bill offered under the call of states.
Inc OBJECT was to prevent the infietionists
from bringing up currency resolutions
under suspension of the rules.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-07-24

PERsoNAL.- Ex- Congressman Dreamer,
who has been very Ill, is convalescent at
West Point. ''''Gov. Dingley, OF Maine,
has invited Mr.. Blaine to spend the summer
with him on Squirrel Island. Mrs MIN
lister Washburne will go 10 Switzerland for
the summer, while Mr.. Washburne will 90
to Carlsbad. e0
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-07-24

TIE WASHINGTON MONUMENT APPEo.
PRIATIoN.-The House Committee on Ap-
preparations this morning considered the
bill, which passed the Senate on Saturday,
appropliating 500 900 to aid In the compile
ton OF the Washington monument. The
committee is In favor OF the object for which
the money Is appropriated, but incline to
the opinion that the present members of the
monument society should be continued In
some manner as an advisory board, so that
the proposed commission can have the BEN
eft Of such In formation as IL can give II is
probable that the bill will be reported to the
House favOrably, with an amendment to re .
tain, as identified with the work, the mem
bers OF the WashiDg ton monument society.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-07-24

hhADQOAkTEhSb BIG HORN AND YELLOW
Stone EXPEDITION, Camp on Goose Creek
Wyoming, July 10th, (via Fort Fetterm 40 .
wyoming, I'D )-Ge1leral Sheridan, Cticdyo:-
L send In courier to-day to carry In du oli-
Gates OF my dispatch to General Merritt, for
rear the originals may not have reached
their destination. i send q courier to az
eral Terry tonight, to inform him that /
VIII co operate with him, and where to mad
me; also giving what information have in
regard TO the Indians. My intention IL TO
move out after the hostiles as soon as Msr-
rltt gets here with the fifth, and shall not
PROBABLY send In any other courier ualess
something special should occur, requiring
me TO do SO. am getting anxious about
Merritts ability TO reach me soon, as the
grass is getsing very dry, and the Indians
are liable 10 burn Il any day.
GEORGE Crook. Brig. GaneraI.
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The sioux Campaign.
OFFICIAL DISPATCHES FROM GEMS sHERT-
DAN AND CROOK.
The following dispatches were received

The following dispatches were received
last evening:
CHICAGO, July II, 1876.
To Gen. W. 4. SheTnsdn:-The folio wing dis
patch from Gen. Crook is transmitted for
your information. Gen. Merritt will reach
Gen. Crook 8 camp on August LIST with ten
companies OF cavalry instead Of eight as
his depot from north OF Powder river to Bi z
Horn or Rosebud, and has notified me of mis-
intention 10 form q junction with Crook
Z. IL. SHERIDAN, Lieut.. General.
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Fire in the Pines.

The pine timber lands belonging
to Messrs. Herring, Garrett, Stumps
and Payne, was set on fire by burn
ing brush in the neighborhood, on
Friday, and spread rapidly over a
large track, III consequence of the
dry weather. After hard work all
day, by the neighbors the fire was
gotten under control about dark. A
large amount of fencing was destroy
ed, and also the stable belonging to
Mr.. Jacob Stump.
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Market Regulations.

The committee appointed by the
Council to submit a report in regard
to Market-house regulations, have
reported in the form of an ordinance
which will go through the regular
course prescribed for the adoption of
an ordinance. The ordinance, as
mentioned in our report of Council
proceedings yesterday morning, is
copied after the Hagerstown Mar
ket-house regulations, and contain
many good ideas. If the people of
the town really desire a good market
some such rules and regulations must
be adopted. That there will be OBJ
jections urged against the report of
the committee, we have no doubt, as
there would be against almost any
plan submitted, but it's feasibility
can only be thoroughly tested after
a practical trial. 1t met with great
opposition in Hagerstown at first,
and has some opponents still, but
nevertheless it is working admirably
and to the satisfaction ola large ma
jOrity OF the citizens of that place. =
The Council have provided for the
publication of the ordinance as sub
mitted by the committee, and the
people of the town and county-for
both are interested-will have an OPP
portunity of expressing their opin-
ions on the merits or dement's of the
proposition. The columns of the In
DEPENDENT are open for the discus
sion of the question pro and con.
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Fine Shoats.

We have quite number of persons
III town who take a great interest in
raising heavy pigs, at least when they
make their purchases they look to
breed and the different points requi-
site to make fat pigs, but when win
ter arrives they have nothing to show
for all the attention they have given
the matter. We learn of a gentle
man of town who possesses as fine
shoats as can be found in the coun-
ty, if being sleek and slender has any
thing to do with making selection,
but they occasion him considerable
tronble, as every night before he re-
tires he is compelled to seize the
shoats and tie knot in their tails
to prevent them from going through
the knot holes OF the boards of the
sly and entering his garden. There
rs nothing had without labor. = rso
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Berkeley Manufacturing Company

This company is now fully organ
lied. The following are the officers !:
President, Jacob Ropp; Vice Presi-
dent, G. M. Shaffer; Treasurer, j.
q. A. Nadenbousch; Secretary, H..
g. Robinson; Directors, A. J. Thom-
as, A. p. Shut, VIM. Wilen, Henry
j. Seibert, Peter Riner, NJ. S. Gran
than and G.. w. Buxton.
The Company has purchased the
Planning Mill property of III. G. Rob
inson for the sum of Sl3,6 75, that be-
ing the valuation put upon it by Mr..
Graham, of Baltimore, and Mr.. Phil
up Dieffenderfer, of this place, who
were selected to examine and ap-
praise it.
The amount OF stock now taken is
S2l,725.
The next stockholders meeting
will take place on the Sd Tuesday in
May.
Now that the Company is fully or
gained, we presume operations will
lie commenced in short time.
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Snisances.

At the meeting of the Council on
Thursday night there seemed a man
ifest disposition on the part of men,
bers to spare no trouble in the abate-
ment of all such nuisances as foul
pig stys. This is rig',t. The nui-
sance committee ought to keep Il
sharp look out, and act promptly on
all such matters, upon the immedi-
ate correction of which depends in
"A great measure the health of the
people of of the town. We should
like to see the Sergeant, and others
of the police force instructed to fer
ret out all pig pens, stables, privies,
&c, which are kept in a condition
to poison the atmosphere and engen-
der sickness. Everybody, in town
like ours, should be guaranteed pure
air, if every pig sly in the place had
to be removed during the hot sum-
mer months.
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GAMMA.
Grange Purchasing Agency.

The Executive Committee of the
State Grange of West Virginia has
entered into an arrangement with
the Executive Committee of the
State of Maryland to establish in the
city Of Baltimore an agency exclu-
Sively under the control of the Ex-
ecutive Committees of the two States.
The agent receives a stipulated sala-
ry, the West Virginia Grange paying
One-third of the expenses. Henry o.
Devries is the agent and has opened
his Office at No. 80 Camden street.
The Committee in a circular to the
patrons of the State announce that
they have ample room for the storage
Of wool and agricultural products,
where they can be kept until the
stock can accumulate to command
better prices.
Arrangements have also been made
with w. III. Hill, of Cincinnati, the
State agent of Ohio, to furnish gran
gers in the Southern part of the State
with goods. The failure of State
agent appointed in January to accept
the appointment, as we are informed
by the chairman of the Executive
Committee, led the committee to
adopt this plan to meet the wants of
members of the organization. Wheel
ing Register.
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Mr.. Hess's Bacon FOund--Two Ar
rests.

On Sunday night Mr.. Luther Mil
Ter, Constable, succeeded in obtain
ing clues to the whereabouts of Mr..
Hess bacon, and proceeded to exam
inc the garden belonging to Jerry
Handy, colored, and succeeded in
finding large portion of the bacon
in a trench that had been dug, the
meat placed in it, covered with
boards, and the boards covered with
earth. Jerry was arrested, and also
Andy Lee, a colored man who lived
with him. Justice Mathews held an
examination Monday, and commit
ted them for court.
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Bailcd.

John Warfeld who was committed
by Justice Mathews on Saturday last.
was admitted to bail Monday morn
ing in the sum of $500 for his appear
;lnce at the County Court. Mr.. War
field says our report erred in stating
that he was in u caboose and about
going east when arrested. He states
that he had been on duty from
O'Clock p. NJ. that day, and was GO
ing from Dry Run to the gas house
siding to watch the coal train that
had backed off there, and with no
intention or purpose of evlding ar
rest
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Easy Going Fellows

Some young men we have In all
communities who are easy-going fell
lows. They do not appear to care
much what the noXt day will bring
them to eat, drink and wenr. Time
is nothing to them. Life is mat
ter-of-fact affair. They never worry
about what they are to do for live
Iihood ; more than that, they do not
appear to care. Yesterday, meeting
one of this peculiar class on the
street sporting fine cane and right
royally-flavored cigar, we inquired
''John, what do you do fora living?"
He replied, Mother keeps boarders. :"
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A Scrimnaee.

We hear that on Thursday a fra
Gus occurred between one Samuel
Taylor and Mr.. James T. Halle
wood, at the residence of the latter,
in which Mr.. Lakewood was pretty
badly injured, being hit by club in
the hands of Taylor. 1t appears that
Lakewood had posted his land, and
had specially warned Taylor not to
enter his premises, which warning
was disregarded, and hence the trou-
ibie. A warrant is out for Taylor's
arrest
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Bon Voyage.

There was large crowd of per-
sons-friends and relatives of the
young men-at the b. x O. r. r.
Depot Monday last to see the party
of young men off who left ON the 7.40
trim for California. There were
sixteen or seventeen in number, ten
or eleven of them from Martinsburg
and the others from the neighbour
hood of Gerardstown andDarkesville.
We dislike to see our young men
leaving the county, but wish them
success in the land of promise. Bon
voyage, boys.
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A Novel Recipe tor Health.

The best place in the world for a
pretty girl to get a bloom upon her
her cheeks as pure and as fresh as the
blush of the rose, is to stand over a
wash-tub and wrestle with a dozen
of her daddy's shirts until they are
clean. She'll eat square meal and
sleep well if she repeats the dose Of
ten enough. -Ez.
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stop 1t.

We are in favor of enforcing the
law to it's fullest extent againt those
parties who erect fish baskets and
traps in the tributary streams of the
Potomac, by means of which, bass
and other fish are taken by hundreds,
and of all sizes. A wagon load Of
bass were brought to this place the
other day and readily disposed of,
which had been caught in a fish trap
on Back Creek. 1t is bad enough to
capture fish in this way at any time,
but more especially at this season of
the year, when they go up the tribu-
tary streams for the purpose of spaw-
ming. If this thing is to 60 on, and
men are permitted to erect traps
which will catch all the fish that as
cend the streams to spawn, how long
will it be until the Potomac will
again need restocking? The Gov
eminent is spending annually thou
sands of dollars for the purpose of
stocking the American waters with
every species of fish priced as food ,
and yet there are those who are neu-
Trailing the noble efforts of the Fish
Commissioner in this direction, by
erecting traps and baskets and CATCH
ing fish of all sizes, in and out of sea-
son, in quantities that must soon
make them scarce article, if they
do not become entirely extinct in
many of our streams. We notice
that Fishing Clubs have been organ
lied in many Of the States, whose
members pledge themselves to indict
and prosecute to the bitter end all
such offenders as we have alluded to.
1t is a good idea, and we should like
to see a similar organization in this
place for the purpose of looking after
"fish trappers," and all offenders
against the laws for the protection of
bass and other fish in the Potomac
and tributary streams. If one or
two offenders are indicted and pun
ished, we think it would effectually
put an end to the unlawful proceed
ing.
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April

Rain, shine, snow, blow, cool, hot,
and SO SO, such is April, such the
weather, titful as flying feather;
changeful as the leaves she's germ
ing ; fretful rs the youngster squir-
ming with the measles; or like beau
ties, pouting over household duties
mad one minute, and the next one,
sorry that she ever yexed one.
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On the evening of the 10th instant
the residence of Mr.. Jas. Stewart.
near Onancock, Accomac county.
Va, took fire while a portion of the
family was at church. The dwell
ing was totally destroyed, and Mrs.
Stewards father and five children.
the eldest being IS years old, were
burned to death. The Sun is in
debted for this information to Mr.. G.
=. Marshall, editor of TIE Eastern
Virginian, published at Onancock.
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Spring Fashions.

Black promises to remain the ia
vorite street costume.
The hair is worn low on the fore
head in large waves.
Cambria suits are to be worn on the
streets this summer.
BLACK corsets are worn by some la
dies when in mourning.
Sashes are made Of soft silk, with
heavily fringed ends.
Jean dare belts, made of tortoise
shell, are very elegant.
Black velvet bracelets, fastened by
gold studs, are something quite new
and pretty.
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A car load of horses purchased in
this county, was shipped from this
point Saturday evening to Baltimore.
A large number of horses have been
sold out of this county during the
past few months, and there are still
a great many that would be disposed
of if the owners were offered the
price at which they hold them.
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An Old Soldier.

He was picked up by Officer Car
per. He was drunk through and
through, but plead in extenuation
that it was not his normal or habit
u al condition. He was soldier of
the English army, and had fought in
the Crimean war. He came here a
stranger, and by rare good luck met
an old comrade with whom he had
marched and fought. They took a
drink together, and then sat down to
fight their battles DER in memory's
sweet rehearsal. The calling up of
old scenes aroused his patriotism and
he invited his friend to take drink
with him. The excitement caused
the Bourbon to fly to his head-and
that was the whole story. He was
utterly opposed to a soldier of
Queen Victoria's going to Jail. He
hoped the Sergeant would not force
such calamity and disgrace. He
was on his way to Harper's Ferry,
and if the Sergeant wouldpermit him
he would leave the town never again
to return. The Sergeant thought it
best, and sent him adrift. He went
off apparently happy, singing:
"Give us a song, the soldiers cried,
The outer trenches guarding,
When the heated guns of the camps allied
Grew weary of bombarding.
They sang of love and not of fame,
Forgot was Britain g glory,
Each heart recalled different name
Butall sang Annie Laurie,
And as his reeling form receded
from view out the Shepherdstown
road, we caught the last lingering
strains of the old soldiers voice re-
peating:
Now Irish Morals eyes are dim
For singer dumb and CORY,
And English Mary mourns for him
Who sang of Annie Laurie.
Razor fatfapc esaro n;uxs, ,Nlar+a
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on Wy

'tHold me close and don't take long
steps, dear our reporter overheard
a sweet feminine voice address IL tall
young fellow the other night, as two
forms came carefully down the steps,
and he wonders if that fellow would
care if the weather ever got any bet
For
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Messrs. Bristor & Herring We're
The real estate agents who sold Mr..
w. +. Cunningham's farm for S13,-
900. These agents are now showing
a. great deal Of property to persons
from distance who are looking for
homes in this Valley.
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sabbath Courtesy.
Hospitality IS nowhere more

Hospitality is nowhere more excel
lent than in the house of God, and
nowhere is its neglect 50 inconsis-
tent. He who opens a pew to a
stranger may strengthen a heart and
save q soul.
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AT the republican caucuses held in
Worcester for the election of dele
gates to the State convention, three
of the wards declared formally for
Bristow in resolutions. A majority
of the delegates from the other wards
are understood to favor Bristow.
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Released.

Henry Moore, for several weeks
confined in jail upon the charge Of
shooting with intent to kill James
hill, has been released OH bail by
Justice Gardner.
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Shippensburg is agitating the mar
ket question.
Some of the Hagerstown mer-
chants are paying out silver change
The boatmen are leaving Cumber-
land and returning to their homes,
being tired and disguised with wait
ing for a resumption of business.
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Ivory and cream colored silk for
wedding dresses are extremely fash
iOnable.
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Beer fattens geranium plants.
, 1876-01-01

done, if we do not succeed, is a point for
such serious reflection, that he does not
like to dwell on it; it is impossible TO
form an idea of what may be done in that
event; but his presence in Copenhagen might
In this respect be serviceable, in considering
what can be done to make the passage from
the present state to the future as easv and
light as possible. It was not possible for him
now to decide whether it would be of any
use tor him to go TO Copenhagen now, but he
would first telegraph to the Home Government to
decide If it would be the right time to come and
to give him the necessary leave of absence. And
he would beg to assure the honorable Council
that whatever personal digagreeableness might
be connected with a voyage now at this time
OF the year, he would never regret it, if onlv
he could have the pleasure of returning with
q satisfactory communication
4th Member for Frederiksted's Country Dis
trict Mae WsUaam) thought we lhould not
allow the Meeting to be closed without passing
a vote of thanks to His Exoellency the Governor
for the great perseverance and zeal he had
SheWn 10 all respects concerning the Island.
All the Members rose from their seats.
No one else desired the word the discussions
were closed and the Proposal was adopted
unanimously with Is votes.
The Go0ern0r would beg to call to mind that
when he leaves for the purpose stated, it must
not be thought that further action here should
cease He would ask the Committee in charge
OF the matter, and of which the honorable Chair.
man of this Counoili is the Chairman, not to omit
what can be done in the matter, especially to as.
certain ifcash subscriptions may not be obtain.
ed and to secure that the signatures for cane
delivery be extended to the end of 1876. ANY
sign of continued interest on the parto Of the COM
munity in this matter will be of use to him while
home, and he would beg the Council to pre-
serve it's interesti in the matter.
The meeting was closed at So o'clock.
, 1876-01-01

home will have other means to judge Of the
interest and sympathy of the Island than
the money contribution.
The President: The only assistance in acts
to the matter is the pecuniary contribution.
The Governor: It is not to be denied that
the pecuniary assistance Is the barometer by
which money men would judge in this matter
that would be the way by which the Public
could shew their willingness to partake in the
business; therefore he was so anxious that our
barometer should shew fair.
The Chairman resumed his seat and gave
a respite Of Is minutes.
After the lapse of the respite, the Council
resumed.
The President was present.
The Chairman notified that he had re.
oeived a proposal from 4th Member for
Frederiksted's Country District Mao William)
that the Council would solicit His Excellenoy
Governor Garde to proceed to Copenhagen
and by his presence and influence there do
what may be possible in the interests of the
Island.
The Chairman remarked that the proposal
was in close connection with what had taken
place in the earlier part of the meeting. It
was made by the honorable member not only
in his own behalf, but in behalf also of several
other members, whose mind it had been occupy
ing for several days. It was very much to be
desired, that the proposal should meet with a
prompt as we'll as a careful consideration
OF the Council, and he should therefore, after
having conferred with the honorable prepayment
and other members, who seconded him, advise,
that the whole Council at once 60 into Com
mittee on the matter.
Which was adopted unanimously with 10
votes.
The Council adjourned at 81 O'Clock.