Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-12-05

Late tonight number of the Tilden elect
ors arrived i'm New Orleans. They will all
DE here tomorrow. and will receive certifi-
Gates of election from McEnery, who still
Grams 10 have been legally elected to the
Ofhce which Governor Kellogg now holds
WITH these documents they viii proceed TO
washington, and claiming that they are the
only legal electors from Louisiana. will de-
mand that their vote shall be counted.
REPORTED REVOLUTION IN MEX.
Diaz President and Ierslo n Fugitive
NEW loRk, Dec. "a dispatch from Gal
weston published here SAYS a Rio Grande
special To the Galveston Ne,os saws: "A cour-
Ter has just arrived from the interior with in
formation that General Diaz has occupied
The City OF Mexico. and that President Lardo
and his ministers have fed westward"
UNITED STATES OFFICIALS SENTENCED
TO WORK ON MEXICAN FoRTICATIoNs-
The Galveston News has dispatch from
brownsVllle. November l6, saying There was
considerable excitement yesterday. Jessie
bennett, deputy clerk of the federal oourt;
MT Galloway and Mr.. Garland, deputy mar
shals; Mr.. White, special Treasury Agent;
and George Campion, member of the federal
grand jury, went to Matamoras, called on
Capt.. smith, the American prisoner, and went
70 John Clinch's barroom and restaurant
They were drinking. and a Mexican officer
WINS had been eating in the rear of the build
ing, came into the barroom. He was politely
asked TO take n drink. He told the party in
vitlngto -, the extreme of insults in Mex
leo. A quarrel ensued George Champion
tried to preserve the peace. The officer sent
LOT me ponce. champion tried 10 leave. and
was struck in the face. All were made pris-
oners except White, who fortunately evadeJ
arrest. The civil authorities fined them $50
each, and General ReyCel.at took the ease i'm
hin own hands and fined them $50 each. ami
in default of payment one months work on
the Notifications.
WOMEN VOTING IN UrAH.-The wife q
ex Secretary Black, Mrs. Maxwell, Mrs.
Ashman. Mrs. Lloyd, Miss Gepeyieve Hart
well, and several other Gentle ladies took an
active part in their respective precincts, and
electfOneered with the polygamOus wives of
the saints They would argue the point in
How can you for moment think of voting
for Cannon? He has four wives, and, being
a woman You know he cannot love them all
as he ought to. He is brute! Take this
ticket and vote for Baskin, man who does
not believe in degrading women" The Gen.
tile ladies turned out in full force, voted like
men. and did all their talking afterwards.
The votes OF several Mormon women were
challenged by GENTLE men, who did SO with
extreme courtesy and timidity. The women
are perfectly shocked. and seemed afraid OF
swearing 10 their voting qualifications. Two
of the wives Of Bishop Woolley were chal-
leDged. but they swOre stoutly enough to get
their votes in Letter 10 San Francisco Chroni-
Gle.
A KIowA CHIEF IN JAIL FOR LIFE
Santanta, the Kiowa chief who is under
sentence for life in Texas penitentiary, made
an Intellectual attempt to end his life by sui
eide short time since. HeprOcured a small
rope, and fastening one end about his neck,
and was caught dangling with his feet about
"a inches from the ground, but was cut down
before life was extinct. Little Bull, a Com
anche chief, is enduring his Imprisonment
were brought into the presence of Gov. Hub
bard during the recent visit fthe latter to the
prison. Santanta, snatching up Little Bulls
glass, said, whisky no good for papoose,
good for big chief" and pouring the contents
into his own glass, gulped down both por-
tons, and then smacked his lips in content
ment: The big chieffinds IL hard to be depriv-
ed of both liberty and whisky.
DOCToRs.-The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage
preached to a large congregation at the
Brooklyn tabernacle yesterday. He alluded
to the great injury which was done by quack
medicines, and warned his people to stand
off from such fmpositions. There were SO
many men who had found the essence of
some weed that could cure all the pains of all
diseases. 'These mOnstrOuS Indian mix
lures and noStrums," said ne, care emptying
the cradles, filling the insane asylums and
choking the cemeteries with more bones than
they can swallow. The tragedies of the pill
box and patent nOstrums have never been
described. 1t is time that somebody should
lift up his voice against this wholesale butch
cry ofthe race."1N. Y. World, All.
1T is EASY TO heat a street car i'm winter.
but very hard not to poison the passengers
with foul air at the same time. A device has
lately been patented by which a ret-hot ball
weighing 100 pounds is put into a neatly
heat, and fitted with small air-pipe AMI
register TO give out the heat. 1t Is said
that shot will heat car comfort
ably for two or three hours on the coolest
day. small furnace is used in beating
these metallic balls. The device scarcely
seems practicable, but one OF the Chicago
street railway companies will make an effort
to introduce II this Winter.
Narcisse Leathers, the inmate of the House
of the Good Shepherd who killed herself was
buried yesterday. There was no religious
appearing to claim the body, it was placed in
a cheap coffin in the morgue and taken to an
undertaker's shop in Sd avenue, near 18th
two men and three women, the latter ele-
gantly dressed in silks and seal-skins. They
rode in carriage behind the hearse from the
rndertaker's TO Eyergreens cemetery. where
the remains were buried In SO plotIN y.
Stra, 4fh.
THE APPROACHING CREMATIoN.-Tbe
remains OF Baron Won Palm are to be shipped
this evening by the Pennsylvania railroad to
buried Con- oicctt she hisS priest e of the be
Theosophs, and Henry Newton will accom-
papy the corpse. The fires are to be lighted
expected tina, by "Wednesday morning every.
thing will be ready-tN Y. Sun, 4th.
~Hayward, the wealthy Californian. is
to be remarked to the wife from whom he
was divorced.
IN is said that 10000 persons in the
United States have been driven mad by over
excitement in Spiritualism.
~ In London fashions the front line of
beauty in a woman Is perfect perpendicular
fty from the throat TO the feet.
0Lieut John p. Jefferson, of Company
A, Fifth artillery, u. S. A., is a son OF Joe
Jefferson, the comedian.
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