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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-11-22

THE SECRETARY of the Joint Special Com
mittee to frame form of government for the
District OF Columbia, to-day turned over to
Judge HuntOn the draft of the bill prepared
by him under the direction of the committee.
Judge HuntOn well make the necessary re-
vision and submit IL to the full committee,
which meets on Friday next
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-11-22

ARMY ORDBRs.-Major q. B. Dandy, quar-
termaster, is ordered to act as inspector of
certain articles of clothing at the Buffalo, n.
Y, recruiting rendezvous, for which Capt. w.
H. Powell is responsible; the leave Of First
Lieut.. f. g. Motley, 9TH cavalry, from head
quarters of the department of Dakota, is ex-
tended six months; the leave of First Lieut..
VIM. A. Thompson, 4th cavalry, is extended
to December 3isf 1876.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-11-22

REVENUE APPoINTAENTS.-W M. Cur
~ and John Murphy were yesterday APP
pointed revenue storelleepers for the second
district of Georgia; Jas. A. Park, John c.
Chamberlain, John W. Lane, and Isaac =
AxtOn, for the second district of Kentucky;
Richard Il. Rowe and Samuel ID. Sheppard
were appointed gaugers for the same district.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-11-22

OFFICIAL REPORTS PROM THE WANDA
LA, dated at Lisbon, November 5th, have
be IN received at the Navy department. She
intended leaving that port on the next day
for Nice. Full statements are given OF the
collision between the Vandalia and the Nor
souihward OF Cape st. Vincent. The vessels
had communicated with each other, and the
bark In getting away, ran directly into the
Eantlalia, making no effort TO avoid a COLI
ion, as she supposed the Vandalia was
under steam. The Vandalia accompanied
the bark 10 Lisbon, and towed her into that
Tort She is supposed to have been damaged
70 the extent OF about a thousand dollars.
commander Robson, of the Vandalia, re-
ports mat they have searched unsuccessfully
Ior week or more for the supposed rocks
situated lat. $50 O6s north and Ion 40 2ss
west These rocks are said to have been seen
June 8, 1873. The health OF the ofYicers and
crew was unusually good
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-11-22

THE House COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIA-
TIONs did not meet to-day on account of the
absence of Chairman Randall, who is ex-
pected tomorrow. The estimates OF all the
departments are in the possession of the com
mittee, except for the denciency and legiyla-
tive, executive and judicial appropriation
bills. The estimates call for so, OOO, OO& more
than last years appropriation, or n>round
numbers Sis, 900 600 as against $50 900 900 APP
pIopriatCd at the last session of Congress
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-11-22

THE SUPPLEMENTARY CENTENNIAL,
AWARDS which have been made by the COM
mittee of appeals, at Philadelphia, are now
ready for the action OF the executive commit
tee. They will probably be ready by to-day
for publication. The chairman of the centen-
NAL press committee has issued circular
thanking the editorial fraternity of the Uni
ted States for their continued efforts in behalf
OF the exhibition, the success of which, IL
says, is in no small measure due TO their aid
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-11-22

COMMISSIONED BY THE PREsIDENT.-The
President has signed the appointments of
Peter F. Bacon to be commissioner of the
Metropolitan police force of the district, for
the term of three years, and of Ell. Al den To
be agent for the Indians of the Fort Berthold
agency in Dakota.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-11-22

NAVY ORDERs-Commodore James d.
Graham ordered to command the Passaic at
Norfolk, Va, LIST December next; Chief Engi
neer George w Mage to the receiving ship
Colorado at New York; Lieut. Walton Good
win detached from the command of the Pas
sale at Norfolk, Va, LIST December, but or
dered TO continue on duty on board that vessel:
Lieut.. Isaac j. Yates has reported his ratnrn
home, having been detached from the FrOlic
South Atlantic station, ON 1st of October last.
and has been granted s x months leave from
the 2Cth inst.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-07
Personal, Impersonal and Political.

Personal, Impersonal and Political.
-, The President has nominated VIM
G. Ritch, of Wisconsin, to be secretary of the
territory OF New Mexico.
The Turneys have brought suit for
the setting aside of A. T. Stewards will, al
leging malicious influence upon the testator
as illegalizing the probate.
Charles O'Conliioor Has been fully vim
dicated of the charges brought against him
for improper conduct as counsel for Mrs. For
rest in her suit for divorce.
Murad Effendi mounts tile Turkish
throne under more favorable circumstances
then could have been expected, and is con-
graduated by the authorities Of nearly every
district in the realm.
G. NJ. D. Bloss, editor of the Cincin-
natl Enquirer, and man of infinitely worse
chirography than Horace Greeley, was acct
dentally run over by train OF cars, and
killed, on Sunday evening last.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-07
CONGRESSIONAL.

A bill was placed on the calendar of
the Senate, on the 25th, to create a sinking
fund for the liquidation of the bonds advanced
to the: Central and Union Pacific railroads.
The bill provides that IL, OO0, 900 acres of land
snail be re-conveyed to the government and
government shall credit the companies with
$40, O00, 600; the companies to pay into the
treasury, annually, the sum of s66 600. =:
MIR. Dunnell introduced in the House
bill for the relief of certain settlers on pub
lie lands-passed. The bill for the relief OF
6. B. Tyler and others, vetoed by the Presi.
dent, was passed over the veto, l8l to IA. J.
the House. The bill for the retirement Of
Judge McCandless was passed, and the House
adjourned.
On the Goth ult., the Senate occu-
pied the entire day in consideration of the
articles of Impeachment, resulting TN the
adoption of a resolution to proceed with the
trial by vote OF 81 to %, and fixing Thurs
day, the LIST inst, as the day Tor opening the
case.
The House was engaged in desult-
DRY debate on the tariff bill, and after much
aimless talk adjourned.
On the 3lst inst. the Senate con-
sumed the day in consideration of the Japan
ese indemnity fund, but came to no con-
clusion.
| vs MIR. James, OF kentucky, offered q
resolution in the House that Congress should
pass without delay bill repeating the
resumption act-reterred. Morey, the sit
! ting member in the Louisiana contest
ed case, was unseated and W" b. Spencer
seated. vote OF thanks was passed to thir-
teen young ladies of the Franklin School, of
Washington, for decorating the hall with
flowers, and the House adjourned.
The Senate did no other work ON the
LIST than to open as court Of impeachment
and adjourned to Tuesday.
~, The House had in consideration the
bill to reduce the army and to promote its eff
fciency. Alengthy discussion was participate
ed in by Messrs. Small, Mackey and Hurlburt,
when the bill was passed-120 to 81.
The Senate, on the I'd inst, passed
the bill to exempt from clearance, all vessels
navigating the Mississippi river Or its ztribu-
taries. The appropriation bill for paying
the Legislative and judicial expenses OF the
government, coming up, the amendment re-
ducing salaries of Senators and Representa-
tives to 5000 was passed without division,
Nearly al the other amendments were then
agreed to until the question came to reducing
the Presidents salary to this objection Was
made, and pending discussion the Senate adj
journed.
The House went into committee of
the whole on the Indian appropriation bill
and considered no other business. :.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-07
PLANKED SHAD.

In view of the prospect of planting
OF shad in all our streams within few
years, the following account of new
dish is Of general interest.
'sYOu know the shad, or, if you don t
know him, you know Of him. In New
York, they fry, or broil, On bake him ;
but here they plank him, and they
have artists who can do it, and trans
fer the fish to the wood as well as
Landseer used to transfer q dog to- can
vass. A plank, generally Of CEDAR two
feet long, foot wide, and two inches
thick, is taken, and with it shad.
The tish-properly split Through the
back and dressed-is laid upon the
plank, with the outside OUT. and Sc
cured in place by few nails. Then
the whole arrangement is placed be-
fore the fire, and the shad is cooked
by the heat. When he and yoal are
ready, he is brought to the table and
placed before you. A little salt and
less pepper, with collaterals Of stewed
corn, green peas, and tomatoes, bread,
butter, and such odd tritles, and yo'lr
planked shad has gone where the
woodbine twineth. When you four
have eaten an entire shad, and thought
you, have had enough, they bring You
another plank with another and larger
shad upon it. You eat this also, and
then you will sit back in your arm
chair, go to sleep and dream YOU are
mud-turtle who has got on his back.
and can't get over again. They wake
you, and you come home feeling at first
much like anaconda that has Swallowed
a mule with shoes and harness On, but,
after q time, you find the food easy Of
Digestion, and are prepared TO- vote
early and often for the man who in
vented planked shad.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-07
TIRE GOVERNMENT POLICY.

Gen. Sherman says he does not con-
cur in the apprehensions concerning
the safety of the frontier towns on &C
count Of the employment of troops in
the field against the hostile Indians.
He does not think that all the damage
is attributable to Indians, but to some
bad white. men. He says that the war
department does not give very recent
advices from the Black Hills, and he
does not know what is going on there.
So far as the matter of furnishing
arms to settlers is concerned for their
own protection, he was positive in his
assertion that the government would
not comply with the request made up
on the President, and he thought it
was absurd to consider such propo-
sition. The President, having been
applied to for troops to aid in protect
ing some of the frontier settlements,
has responded that it is impossible for
him to do so, as they are now all upon
the march in the pending campaign,
which will take the whole summer.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-07
VALUE OF TIMBER. ),

An illustration of the value of tim
Der on waste lands in the Highlands
is afforded by the sale of wood which
took place on the estate Of the earl of
Cawdor, in Nairnshire, the other day.
In 1920 two hills on the Cawdor prop
erty, of about 300 acres in extent, and
of almost no agricultural value, were
planted with fir and other trees, and
after successive trimmings, the sale Of
which realized large.sums, the remain
der of the wood has just been sold for
the sum of $4,000. The sums realized
for the wood on this waste land dur
ing the last fifty years are said to be
equal per acre to the return for the
best arabic land in the country.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-07

Capt. Eads is getting the better of
the sandbars in the mouth of the Mis-
sissippi, us it looks to a man up tree,
but reports to the contrary are indus
triously circulated. Only last week an
ocean steamer drawing over seventeen
feet was put to sea from New Orleans
through Eads' Pass, but it was report
ed that the channel was temporarily
made with dredge boats. ..,...,..
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-07

So far the attendance at the Phila-
delphia fair has been about $4,000 a
day. This, if continued, will give a
total revenue Of not more than four
millions for the season, which will pay
the expenses and leave so little surplus
that small pocket~book will be large
enough to convey to the federal treas
ury the entire amount to be paid back
on the subsidy.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-07

The Berlin conference modestly de-
mands that Turkey rebuild the hun
dred and eighteen villages destroyed
in the Bulgarian rebellion. On the
same ground the United States could
be expected to rebuild Atlanta, Column
bia and other towns destroyed during
our great ''unpleasantness.'
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-07
MINNESOTA DEMOCRATS.
of the State Convention ut St.
Paul.

Paul.
The State convention of Minnesota
Democrats was held in St. Paul, on the list
inst. Nearly every county was represented,
and the result was the best representative
Democratic body ever convened in the State
Hon. E. w. Durant was chosen President,
and Hon. Aaron Goodrich, A. C.. Smith and
retaries were A. E. Haven and J. T. West.
Gen. H. H. Sibley, for the committee on
resolutions, submitted q platform, in brief as
follows.
First. Endorsing the constitution.
Second. The constitution limits the pow
ers OF the federal government.
Third: The right Of self government Of
States affirmed.
Fourth. Maintaining the public credit.
,,s Fifth Gold and silver coin the only legal
Sixth. "A tariff tor protection is oppressive.
Seventh. Retrenchment.
V. Eighth. Denounces improper use of pub
Ninth. Purchasing votes criminal Of
i Tenth. Public schools free to all.
/ Meventh. No partial legislation or taxa
~ Twelfth. Reform in the federal govern
ment, and arraigning the Republican party
on it's record of the past fifteen years.
Finally pledging the Democratic party to
work INCREASINGLY for the overthrow OF the
dominant party. q.
A resolution was adopted endorsing Samuel
j. Tlden, and advocating his nomination as
candidate for the Presidency.
The following delegates to St. Louis were
elected: Eugene NJ. Wilson, VIM Lee, J. H.
Mckinney, D. Buck, c, +. Buck, NJ Doran,
J. F. Norrish, Geo. L. Skinner, T. e. Mealey
and J. N. Castle.
3 Alternates-Col. Jas. George, VIC. Robin
son, w. R. Bennett, D. l.. Buell., A. M Sackett,
T. OIeary, H. Pohler, w. p Murray, Man
ley Tello and A. A. Ames.
= The candidates for electors are Edmund
Rice, J. +: Meagher, R. A. Jones, w. T. Bon
niwell, and Joseph Capser~
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-07

Gen. E. F. Beal, who succeeds Orth
as minister to Austria, is an old army
officer and personal friend of the Pres
ident, with wealth enough to make a
respectable appearance as our repre-
sentative, regardless of his salary.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-07
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
Crimes, Criminals and Casualties

Crimes, Criminals and Casualties
By a fire in Chicago, last week,
Field & Letter lost $4,000.
j. A. Holtzclaw, late collector at
Atlanta, is defaulter to the amount of
$l3, 900.
dt<Asterrible conhagration visited Que
bee on the 3Oth ult. One thousand buildings
were burned.
Four Sing Sing convicts captured a
locomotive on the Hudson River Road and
escaped Two of them were afterwards cap
tured .eu.z ss... .es.. ..av. .xsss
- Nine minor members of the St.
Louis whisky ring have been sentenced to
one days imprisonment and to pay = fine OF
one thousand dollars. -. -'
The brute, Perkins, who shot his
son dead while the son wasonshis knees beg
giug forgiveness, has been convicted Of man
slaughter, by a jury at Columbus, Ohio. f
Geo. Belhard, of Dublin, Ohio, tried
to terminate family feud by killing his
brother, but after firing several shots and
wounding his brother, desisted, because he
had no more bullets.
A German woman living in Chicago,
drowned herself and two infants on Sunday.
She threw in the eldest, a child OF two years,
and then jumped into the lake, holding the
younger to her breast. Insanity was the
cause.
John C. Hall, a son-in-law of Parson
Brownlow, was killed at Hot Springs, Ark,
on the Goth ult. He had built store on
ground claimed by the postmaster, by tn
name of Walsh, and Walsh emptied the con-
tents Of shot gun in his side
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-07

The scarcity of change, among men
who use money, has moved Congress
to attempt to put twenty millions
more of silver change in circulation.
The sooner the bill is passed and the
sinners put in circulation the better.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-07
Miscellaneous News Items.

MAoCCA0AcOuS NC"S 4Uc1uOs
Commodore Vanderbilt is again very
ill.
The Presbyterian general assembly
finally adjourned on the 31st ult.
The La Crosse bank middle has been
settled by the payment Of fifty cents on the
dollar.
Daniel Webster's estate near Boston,
known as Marshfeld, has been sold for
S., 500.
Decoration day was more generally
observed than on any former year since it's
inauguration.
The Pittsburgh and Fit. Wayne rail-
road carries passengers from Chicago to Phil
adelphia for sl44O.
A Fort Laramie dispatch says the
story of the massacre of the Cincinnati party
is believed to be false.
The Pittsburgh puddlers, failing to
agree on wages with their employers, were
locked out, on the I'd inst.
Preliminary work on the tunnel un-
der the British channel to connect France and
England, has been commenced on the French
shore.
American residents in Paris propose
celebrate the Centennial Fourth and to
place a commemorative slab on the tomb OF
Lafayette. a"~s@"7"s"-" a~ss9"' q 'a'<'- '~-1~~
! Goldsmith Maid, in an attempt to
to beat her famous time of 2:14, before retir-
ing from the turf, failed. She made the mile
in 2:l5, however.
The tribe of chihuahua Indians of
Arizona refuse to be removed to the San Car
los reservation, and force OF cavalry has
been put in the field to enforce obedience.
The leading trunk lines between the
east and west have reduced their fares nearly
ne-third. The fare over the New York &
Erie from Chicago to New York is now SIG.
A general war with the Sioux In
dams is no longer a subject of doubt. All
the young warriors Of Red Cloud and Spotted
Tail agencies, numbering one thousand, have
joined Sitting Bull and are prepared for war.
Chicago's city debt proving more
burdensome than the most reckless can en-
dure, mass meeting of citizens adopted res
olutions asking for an extension of. one, two
and three years on the outstanding city Ger.
tificates.
| The resolution passed by the assem-
bly, of the Presbyterian church south was
read in the Assembly of the church north, o,
the 29th ult., and received with loud and con.
tinued applause. The reunion was then de-
clared complete.
i A suit Of the State of Missouri
i against the Hannibal and St. 10. railroad to-
= $53, 900 back taxes has been decided in ia.
vor of the railroad, the court holding thai
the board Of assessors have no right to 60 be-
hind the reports of the company.
The most imposing demonstration
ever witnessed in this country was the re-
cent parade of Knights Temular at Philadel
phia. There were 10, 900 Knights in the line
and nearly every commandery had band
One hour and twenty-five minutes were re-
quired for the procession TO- pass a give1
point. .,.
An unexpected turn of affairs in Tur
key was announced on the 3lst The Sultan
}, Abdul, sAziz, swo dethroned and Murad
J, Efendi, his Oldest son, declared Emperor
The dethroned monarch was placed unde,
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-07

New York papers complain that the
new courthouse in that city is so ill.,
ventilated that a whole bench of
judges was Frustrated the other day.
The trouble is that when the court
house was built the New York bench
didn't care to have itself ''ventilated. :"
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-07

A man named PattersOn-nOt the un-
fortunate Billy-has been appointed
doorkeeper of the House of Represent
atives in the place vacated by Fitz-
hugh, who was, according to his own
confession, "a bigger man than old
Grant,
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-07
Centennial Notes.

Centennial Notes.
Mark Twain will preside at the OPEN
ing of the California building on the Centen-
NAL exhibition grounds, which takes place
on June Is.
Custom-house officers are stationed
at every door Of the exhibition buildings to
see that no dutiable articles are carried away.
This makes a good deal OF troublefor visitors
with bundles. T.
The proprietors of places of amuse-
ment are, cheered by the estimate that there
are only 100000 strangers in Philadelphia
now, but that there will he 100, 600 a month
hence. There are l1ore than 40 places of en-
tertainment open e.
Whittier's Centennial hymn was
sung in the old Christ church in Philadel-
phia on Friday. This most venerable of Rev.
dictionary edi6ces was thronged. II %~'
The pay visitors to the American in
ternational exhibition are more than three
times as numerous, thus tar, as those to the
Vienna exposition during the corresponding
period.
The Philadelphia Times says that
the principal thoreughfares Of that city are
swarming with an army Of sneaks and des-
peradoes. The names of several ''audacious
outlaws" at present utilizing the Centennial
are given 'ssatchea Jack, - late of Sing Sing,
under the alias of lanes Godfrey; Frank
Powell, alias Hutchings, alias ..The Snoozer;;''
'tFly-Cop Mealy," 50 called; ''Moscow Bill, i"
"Waterspout Climber" of New York, with
many French and English pick pockets.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-07

The Presbyterian general assembly
passed resolution ''reiterating it's
cordial desire for fraternal relations
with the church south on terms of
perfect equality and reciprocity.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-07

Edward S. Stokes, the murderer of
Jim Fisk, is nearing the expiration of
his term of Imprisonment. He sleeps
in the dissecting room and eats hearty
suppers but is not troubled with night
mare. He expects to return to New
York to live on the Goth of October.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-07

A San Francisco paper, speaking Of
the extensive Chinese quarters, says {:
1'the Chinese should not be allowed to
cumber the ground We infer from
this that the Chinese are new vari-
ETY. of queue-cumber.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-07

Spain is reported to be negotiating a
large loan in England to expend on the
island of Cuba in stamping out the re-
bellion there. The loan is to be guar
anteed by the customs revenue of
Cuba.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-07

The Cincinnati Enquirer severely
flashes the editor of the Cleveland
Plain Dealer for Kissing speakers in
the recent Ohio Democratic conven-
ton, thus playing the part Of black
guard
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-07
TIMELY TOPICS.

B1ick Pomeroy's bust has been
placed on the outer wall of his news
paper Office. How long will it be be-
fore we will hear that his newspapers
bust go 49,
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-07

By and bye, when the various par.
ties get their presidential candidates
ON the track for the white house. Geo.
Francis Train will break out of the
mad house and make things lively for
the hOvS aHas' ~--=s''~~"'+ ' ,