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ADJUSTMENTS. &C.

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SUMMEk THEATRE COMIQUE-l
- MONDAY, July q NIGHTLY. AND NATL
NEEs WEDNESDAY AND sATURDAY.-Re-
engagement OF the popular prtma donna, Mr.. Geo.
K. Fortescue, who Will appear in his great bur-
lesque success, entitled Was she led astray or dS
she gO?'' Engagement of the renowned EthiopiaR
comedian, Mr.. Geo. Thatcher. First Appearances
here Of the dashing seriOcOmic vocalist, Miss Emma
Brennan. Engagement Of the accomplished dam
seuse. Miss Rate BarOne. Murphy and Mack,
Welch and Rice, Geo. W. Harley, Frankie Christie,
Will H. Morton, and our mammoth company in \
grand bill. jy246t
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THE BEST EXCURSION OF THE

W Ill be that Of the Fourth Street East NJ E. Sunday
Scho0l. to Marshall Hall. THURSDAY, July q.
Base Ball, CrOquet. QnOits and other games for the
children. Two trips OF the Mary washington.
leaving seventh street wharf at $50 m. and p.
H., sharp and Guindnd's wharf Third street east
al $ 4. m: return to Guinand's wharf before o. m
Tickets-Adults, 90 cents. Children, IS cents ives
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GENERAL NEWS OF THE CITY

DISTRICT REPUBLICAN, CLUB
THE ARREST OF A FORGER
NATIONAL RIFLE CLUB MOVEMENT
An INTERNATIONAL CONTEST PROJECTED
FUNERAL OF FATHER YOUNG
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ATTORNEYS AND AGENTS

ca r d..
/ respectfully inform nv friends and the public
generally that have opened Office for the cOlec-
ton of mercantile accounts notes and other ooli-
cations at No. 1893 Pennsylvania avenue, in the
REPUBLICAN building, where will be in attend
ance daily from to a. m. and to p m. All
business entrusted to me will receive prompt and
vigorous attention, and sums collected Immediately
turned over. Your orders solicited.
Orders by mail promptly attended to. No. 1903
Pennsylvania avenue. WM. II. FRAZIER,
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p o r III A Il T e R.
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CUNDAY EXCURSIONS
MARY WASHINGTON

SPRINGS, where no intoxicating drinks will be
sold on the grounds or boat. Two trips, leaving
Seventh-Strect wharf at 10 M. returning at p.
m; fare Orty cents. Second trip, leaving at p.
returning at $50; fare Twenty-Five cents. Those
going on the first trip return on the second trip
free Ofcharge. Refreshments. including good coun-
try milk, be had on the grounds. Persons wish
ing to spend pleasant day in the country where
good water and shade abound, can do il. jyIq-tf
, 1876-06-04
MINOR MEETINGS.

THIRD WARD.
The Third Ward Republican Club held their
regular weekly meeting last night at No. $50
Wabash avenue. Mr. 4. j. Galloway presided,
and there was large attendance Of members.
There was no business of Importance before. the
meeting. AID Aldrich stated what steps fhe
Finance Committee are taking to tide the City
Administration over the present crisis, and as
sured the meeting that the working majority Of
the Council would labor in the cause Of economy
and retrenchment. Mr.. John 4. Clough, one Of
the ward delegates to Springfield, made q re-
port Of the proceedings OF the State Convention.
The Club then adjourned to Saturday evening,
the 18th inst
SEVENTH WARD.
There was to have been meeting of Seventh
Ward Democrats last evening at the corner OF
Twelfth and Waller streets, but there is an eyi-
dent split among the unter1idcd in that strong
hold, and all the efforts Of Mike Bailey and AID.
Hildreth combined seem poWerless to effect an
organization. The people Of the ward are, no
doubt, sick OF the conduct of their Aldertnanic
representative and have torssworn r. allegiance to
the Democratic leaders. The workingmen in
have just begun to open their eyes and take in
the situation. Bristow men are numerous
among them, and where there are so many hon.
est yeomen they are bound to support the rep
tesentatiye Of honesty.
NO MEETING,
4 Brlstow meeting was announced to be held
last evening at the corner OF State and Thirty
fourth streets, but only three or four persons
made their appearance, and these did not know
who had called the meeting, and consequently
nothing could be done.
, 1876-06-04
VICTOR HUGO


Victor Hugo (says French w11tor) lives at y
Rue dc Clichy, occupying an apartment IN tie
second story, above the one occupied by Nine.
Charles Hugo and her children. This apart
ment is very remarkable for its drawingg-room
for Ealon), DECORATED In perfect taste, although
pictures are banished from it. Neither is q
piano to be seen--a blank In the furnishing for
which he will not quarrel with the master OF the
house.
He begins his day early. Att o'clock he rises
and takes cold bath, summer and winter. His
toilet finished, he walks briskly through the dli-
ferent rooms Of his lodgings. This Is, 70 the
language Of Undergraduates, to s'bring on the re-
actiou.'' But soon his work claims him, anu ne
gives himself up to it until II: so:
The grandfather then breakfasts with his
neutrality-suspicious. at his right, jaime at
Ills left, opposite their mother. His affection for
these children is we'll known to his intimate
friends; it amounts to alteration.
After breakfast he works till 4, Then Victor
Hugo goes out-always alone. He ottenest
takes Ills promcnades on foot. Sometimes,
however, he scales the roof Of the first passing
omnibus-white, green, or brown, he knows not
ana rolls deep II t99ega' egt' ,s7 rti6a 96a
his remarkable poetic inspirations, often come
to him on this high place. When he is at last
Obliged to descend at the end Of the liue-the
Bastile, the Glaeiere, OF the Bridge Of Alma-he
mounts another carriage, which takes him back
to the point nearest his home.
They dinc late at Victor Hugo's. The cuisine
is exquisite, and proves his cook master. There
are always guests present. but no one ever BAN
isles the children from their place by their
graudlather's side. After dinner, every evening,
Victor hugo receives many visitors, not only
family friends, but strangers and the curious.
However interesting the day may be, the day
closes with the same regularity which pervades
1t from the. beginning, and at IL O'Clock pre-
cisely he retires.
, 1876-06-04
Prospect Of a Compromise on the
Appropriation Bills.
The Senate Non-Concurs On All the
House Salary Reductions.
An Idea OF Our Carterss Pet Method for
Cirilizing the Sayages.
Messrs. Coz and Seelye Fail to Appreciate
the Beauties Of the Scheme,

THE APPROPRIATION BILLS,
Special nspQkch to The Tf{t1tne.


Special Dispatch to The Tribune.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 3-The House
Committee on Appropriations indulged to-day
in some general debate on the state Of the ap-
preparation bills, and the members seemed to
think that an adjournment by the 1st Of July
was possible. The Committee has the Army
bill ready to report, and will also report the
sundry civil bills 7uesdny. The Army bill
amounts to s24 o0o, ,000in round numbers, which is
$30o0 600 below the appropriations last year, and
$1,00o 600 from the revised estimates submitted
by Secretary Taft. Mr.. Randall thinks that the
sundry Civil bill Will be cut down ST., ,0o0, 900,
and, therefore, that the total ten appropriation
bills as reported will be reduced from the e5ti-
mate of S53, 3,o5027S and reduction OF So, ,225O,
OF Congress. II thc Senate restores the SIS
600, 600 that the House Committee has stricken
of, Mr.. Randall finds that he will still have ef-
fccted a reduction Of $2o0W000 OF
the annual appropriations. An understand
ing has been reached By which both
the Consular and Diplomatic and the Military
Academy bills will be disposed Of in conference
committee next week, and the Democrats augur
that there will be no further deadlock, and
that the appropriation bills can be passed be-
The reports Of the investigating committees,
however, will likely occupy a good deal Of time,
and there Is little prospect Of an adjournment
before the 1st OF August, even it the Belknap
trial is put over until December, as is now
probable.
, 1876-06-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

NEW YORK, June IA dispatch from Mad;-
son, Fla, says: A bolt was made in the Repub
ncan State Convention yesterday, United States
Senator Conover and Representatives Purman
aud Watts conducting it. The boilers secured
another hall, and United States Senator Como
yer was nominated for Governor, and Afr. Lee
for Lieutenant-Goyernor. It was resolved not
to send delegation to Cincinnati. Gov.
Stearns is the leading spirit Of the regular Com
yention, and the quarrel between himself and
Conoyer is an old Affair.
ANTIsPKyCRR.
MONTGOMERY, June 3.-Marengo County,
one OF the largest negro counties in the State,
has rcpudiated the Spencer, or May q. ConVen~
tion, and iudoTscs the auti7Speucer ticket F.
Il. Threall, prominent colored Republican,
and alternate elector for the State-at-1argc on
the Spencer ticket, led the morement.
, 1876-06-04

10 tAf Editor cf The Tribune.
H1cAGo, June 3.-PeElous times have come
the great Republican party, and within the
next two weeks will be decided the question
whether It shall continue great or be broken
into fragments. For one I hope it will live,
provided it can be freed and purified from its
present debasing elements. But perish it will
and must If it still cltngs to these elements,
which in the foul atmosphere Of Washington
ere SO rapidly disintegrating It. Upon the choice
Of this years candidate hangs the future destiny
Of the party, which cannot survive and flourish
II It nominate at Cincinnati any professional
of1iceseeker. Nominate either Morton, Conk-
ling, or Blaine, those notorious "askers for
office" and the party is trretrievably hurt, II
not destroyed. Beggars and bargainers for Of
flee will not suit the people this year. This is
not the best time for smart takers, shrewd
scAemers, and ringsters to come to the 'front.'
The people are bound to give the Office to some
one who has not bored them to death BY often
kircly asking for It, and they have evidently
picked out the right sort OF person in Secretary
Bristow, who has gone right ahead in the per-
tormance Of his legitimate duties, neither ex-
pcctipg nor asking $50 far as we know) to be
made President. How unlike Conkling, Blaine,
n2l Norton, who hare ransacked heaven and
earth for influence to carry them on Republican
shoulders into the Presidency. It is about time
:hc Republican party throw of its fatal load:
, 1876-06-04

a1nanatiou Of this is that the original grant TO the
roa5 ,xas with restriction fosbidding the sale o1
land. At less than certain price Per acre and me
s.rrest deal Of trouble referred to was IN r.
,sd rn the removal Of that restriction, which Was
Ultimately accomplished to the decided advantage
The ITanscTipt sent reporter to see the
lawyer, and be admitted that the conveisat1on
ocrn,red. and, while he would not authorize the
.1se Of his ns1ne at present ho did not deny that
the version $ given shove mas substantially
correct, though adding that It was not " exastly
accurate" ;" md he voluntarily said that AZ.
Fisher made another statement to him which
was still more damaging to Mr.. Blaine
, 1876-06-04

EAST SAGxAw, Mich, june 2.-3fath:u
Me1gen and John Erd started home from
saloon last Wednesday evening partially filled
with beer. Both reached home IN demoralized
condition. Late in the night, Mergcn claimed
to have been shot twice in the back Of tic he'd
By an unknown masked man. Ezd was unable
to speak, and died this morning. A post NOR"
TEN at the inquest showed that he died from
from the effects OF wounds. The police could
hnd no one in the neighborhood who had heard
shots fired, and think none were fred. Mcrgen
being the last person seen With deceased before
the wounds were received, was arrested this
evening on 4 charge OF murder, and will he ar
raigned On Monday. Both arc well-known and
pcaccable German citizens. Ecd was once in
the Common Council aud was worth considera-
bic property.
, 1876-06-04
THE LIGHTNING TRAIN.


Eow It Sped from Omaha Westward.
Special Dispatch 10 Tie Tribune.
OMAHA, Ncb., June 3.-Thc train arrived at
Ogden at 10:22 Ogden time, or II ~ Omaha
time, and left Ogden four and half minutes
later. Time twenty-five hours aud seventeen
minutes from Omaha to Ogden. They changed
engines eight times and made twenty stops for
provisions ani water, on account Of hot
boxes, consuming two hours and two
minutes, making the actual running time for
1903 miles from Omaha to Ogden in twenty
three and one-quarter hours, and the average
rate 4H miles an hour. The fastest time from
station to station was 10 miles in nine minutes,
and the maximum ma time for single mile at the
rate Of 72 miles per hour. They arrived at
Ogden ten hours and twenty-ono minutes in
ADVANCE Of schedule, the gain on this road over
guaranteed time being ninc hours and hfty-onc
minutes.
passed Blue Canon at 1881 a. M at the ratc
Of IN miles All hour. Promoutory was passed
at 10: 81 .. m, up grade, 81 miles an hour. Ar
rived at Kelton at II :46- Stopped four minutes
for wates. The speed between Promontory and
race at 13: 81 p. m., and left at II: ST. Lett Te-
coma at IL: 20 at the rate of 46a miles an hour.
The average ratio OF speed to Tcco1na from Oe-
den was NJ miles per hour: The entire time
from Ogden to Tecolna, including stops, were
8 hours Ut minutes, distance 156 7-10 miles. En-
gine No. 149, drawing the train, has cylinder
l6x24 inches, and driver feet She is q
Mcqueen engine, weighing % tons. It is the
intention to run her to oakland Point If she
can stand the ordeal Of constant motion ut such
rate of speed.
Toano was reached at 2 p. m.. rnnning at 50
miles an hour from Terrace through the
hills. Relay engines were ready to RESPOND to
duty i necessary stationed at Promontory, Ter
Taec, E; Ioano, Deeth, Carlin, Battle Mountain,
NjnnpnIrfs1 NaGEN4rfA -
, 1876-06-04
CRIMINAL NEWS.
A Young Woman BrutaIly Muir.
dered Near Highgate, Vt.
Horrible Case Of Murder and 6uicide
Near Belleville, III.
Three Persons Poisoned by School.
Teacher at Easton, Pa
A BRUTAL MURDER.
Gpfd0i Dispatch to Tic Tribune,

cp<E4U4 015pAFeA 70 ]HE tf1ouNE
ST. ALnAHs, Vt, June 3.-Charles Butler, E
young farmer who lives about mile and hair
north OF Highgate Centre, went to the vii
1age about O'Clock last night, leaving hjs
wife alone In the house with young hired man.
IS years Of agge, named Edward Tatso. Upou
his return TWO hours later he vas surprised h
find no light In the house. On. entering
and going to his wtfe's room he stumbled
over her dead body. Her skull yss
smashed in, evidently With au II,
and her head was pounded so as to be hsrdl,
recognizable. The furniture in the room va,
broken, and everything bore evidence that
desperate struggle had taken place between the
murderer and his victim. It seems that whila
Mr.. Butler WAS putting up his horse befors
entering the house young Tatro rushed out Of
the house with nothing on but his shirt, vent Ia
the nearest neighbor, and reported that threa
men had broken into the house and murdered
Mrs. Butler. He then went to tha
next house and told the same storr.
but giving the number Of the
murderers as two instead OF three. It was evi.
dent, however, that be was the murderer, for
his shirt was torn, his neck scratched, and his
person covered with blood He was arrested by
Constable Sheridan. An inquest was held last
night. It Is supposed that Tatro attempted to
violate the person of the unfortunate woman,
aud falling, murdered her, hoping to avoid ex-
pos,re. Sheriff Morrill, has gone after him this
morning, and will bring him to the jail here
, 1876-06-04

this is not all. The National Executive Com
1nittee has had headquarters in Washington all
winters thing never before heard Of. It main
tains this headquarters at an expense Of nearly
pay the salaries OF two men, whose only busl-
ness here is to advocate on the floor OF the
House of Representatives the Texas-Fac1hc
job. One Of these men. KtngsbuEy BY name,
is the pet Of Senator Wallace, who endeaTorsd req
Clerks Office Of the House Of Repre-
sentatives. he Was, OF course, wanted there
for the same purpose for which nc Is now
kept here By the Democratic National Executive
Committee,-to lobby for Tom scotts job. Ae
would have obtained the official position he
sought had he not been SO tndiscretc as to otter
Clerk Adams $3.50 for the appointment This
cooked his guose with Mr.. Adams, who Is an
honest man, and above suspicion, either In the
matter Of accepting bribes or appointing lobby
lists. II he knows them.
The ticket this combination OF jobbers intend
to impose upon the Democratic party at st.
Louis is Hendricks and Curtin. The former al
WAYS supported, while in the Senate, subsidy
legislation, and tho latter has already had
swindle-thc lineal ancestry OF scott's Texas
Pacific job. The St. Louis Convention is to be
made at all hazards to indorse the Texas Pacific
scheme, and the ticket made here is to be the
standard bearer Of the army Of plundcrers In the
grand raid to be made on the peoples treasury.
Of course Tom Scott is not stalking his all on
the success OF the Democratic party in 1876. He
is no politician, but, like Jay Gould, lie is "a
Democrat with Democrats, q Republican with
Republicans, doubtful with the doubtful, and a
Texas-Pacidc man I'LL the time" BE is using
the same means to control the Republican
Convention at Cincinnati that be is employing
to manipulate the Democratic Convention at
St. Louis. His ticket to be made at Cincinnati
has Blaine for the fore end, and Hayes for the
rear end. All the influence which this adroit
manipulation, this unscrupu1ous manager OF
1000 miles OF railroads, can command, is now
two great political parties Of the country. Tru-
ly this Is something to cause the believers in
Republican institutions to pause and reflect, cs-
pecially in the Centennial year Of the Republic
, 1876-06-04
men through the fiscal year without large de-
ticit. The general prostration in business is as-
signed as its cause

men through the fiscal year without large de-
hcft. The general prostration IN business is as
signed as its cause
THE IgFLAT1oS1sTs.
The Committee on Rules has reported nc"
rule authorizing the Committee on Banking and
Currency to report at any time during t1l1s ses'
sion Of Congress- This is direct re-
suit Of the Democratic caucus on
finance recently, and shows the strength
OF the tnaationists. The purpose OF this new
rule Is to allow the Banking and Currency Com
conditional repeal Of the act for the resump-
tion OF specie payment 1t Is said that Coz,
Chairman Of that Committee, has SO far yielded
to Democratic imitation influence as to consent
that such bill be reported to the House from
the Committee
The Committee on Expenditures IN the War
Department have postponed the Kerr tnrestiga-
tlon TIL Monday, when an effort will be made to
close the inquiry.
The steamer Marion, recently ordered to the
Rio Grande for the protection Of American in
terests, was to-day ordered by telegram to sail
for Europe.
REPORTED s1AvE-sTEAa1RR,
This morning the Rev. Emanuel Van Orden
feq s y Eaw2sd ThqInt9s sPa stated ea
Of steamers running between New York and
Rio dc Janciro, and belonging to an English
company, though styled United States Mall
Steamship Company, arrived in Rio de Janeiro
On the list Of March last, carrying slaves to be
delivered. The British Minister promised to
inquire into the matter and report to his Coy
er1Iment,
New YoRK, June Sin regard to the com.
plant Of the Rov. Van orden, that steamships
plying between New York and Rio
Dc Janeiro carry slaves from one Bra
zilian port to another, the officers Of
the Company have exhibited the Eay-htlts
OF the steamers, and by them show that the
greatest number OF colorel men taken at any
one time from one port to another Of Brazil was
twenty, and these are body-scryants Of Cuban
passengers. II planter hired a passage for
himself and one or two servants, it would be
matter Of impertinence, the officers say, to in
Quirc whether or not the servants were slaves or
free. AS to conveying any number Of Slaves as
accompanying them, the story was entirely de-
void Of foundation.
, 1876-06-04
MURDER AND SUICIDE.


ST. LOUIS, June 3.-The dead bodies Of amau,
woman, and girl, the last about years old,
were found in secluded part Of the woods near
Bellevillc, H., yesterday afternoon. Thewoman
and child had been shot through the head and
the man in the heart. The parties are unknown
From the position Of the bodies and the manner
in which they were arranged it is supposed that
the man shot his wife and child and then Killed
himself. Persons living near by heard three
shots about sunset Thursday night, and now BE-
ieTe that this hightful tragedy was enacted at
that time. The Coroncr's inquest, to be held
to-day, will probably unraycl the mystery sur.
rounding the case.
ST. LoC1s, No., June 3,-At d Corpner's In
quest ut Bellevillc, ILL.,, to-day On the bodies
found In the woods near there yesterday. Tho
barkeeper of the Tienann House, in Belleyillc,
identified them as those Of family that stop
ped at that house from the 4th to tile 3lst Of
Mey. The man registered as Joseph Way, Of
Evansville, Ind He left a trunk at the Tic
mann House, in which was found photographs
Of all the deceased made by George Becker, OF
Evansville, and hymu-book with the name OF
Christian Becker in it. The supposition is that
the woman was sister OF George Becker. The
verdict OF the jury was to the effect that the
man snot the woman and child, and then killed
himself. It Is supposed that poTerty led to tue
art.
, 1876-06-04

NEW YORK, June 3,-John Graham, an O:l:c
boy Of q years, arrived at this port In l pilot
boat, having been picked up at eel He shipped
as seaman On the bark Eliza Mclaughlin, fo.
Antwerp, Saturday last, and was so brutally
treated By tho Captain and Nate as soon as tue
ship left the Narrows that lie made up hts mind
to 1eare. Accordingly, on Tuesday night Gzu
ham took leave Of his shipmatcs. and, rushing
on deck, threw the forecastie eteps overheard:
and leaped into the sen after them. The night
was d:rk and cold, and the vessel fifteen miles
from 1cnd.
Edward Smith & Co., an old established var.
nish and Japan house here, state that the G. {.
Reynolds, who pretends to be traveller Tor their
house, and has collected some money on forged
orders from merchants In the West, is dwin
d]cr.
Andrew Moore, aged H. fatally stabbed Fred
cEick Lawler, Of the same age, yesterday, At
Hudson and LaIght streets. Lawler and twd
other boys had been amusing themselves BY an
moving Moore.
, 1876-06-04
FIRES.


The alarm from Box 743 at 9:S5 o'clock last
evening was caused BY fire in the two-story
frame house No. 36 Larrabee street, owned by
William Hessncr, and occupied as tailor shop
BY Joseph Cush. Damage, SIS; cause and in
surance unknown.
The alarm from Box 81 at As O'Clock yester-
day morning Was caused by fire in the drying
room Of r E. Spaids starch factory, on the
corner Of Clark and Twelfth streets. 4 second
and third alarm was Immediately sounded, rs
the blaze WAS directly above the boi1er-room,
making m explosion extremely probable. The
flames were fortunately easily subdued with
was considerably DAMAGED by water.
, 1876-06-04
SENATE.

LONDON, juno .5.-sEeamer Presnitz, Capt.
Armstrong, from New York May for this port,
reported yesterday With shnft broken, arrived
to-day.
NEW YORK., June 3.-Arrtyed, steamship
Neckar, frorn bremen.
QUEENSTOWN, June 3.-Anived, steamships
Chelydfa, from Philadelphia, and Guiliermu,
from New Orleaus, I,avc arrived out.