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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-10-03
The EptscopaI Convention

BOSTON, Oct. Sine triennial convention
of the Episcopal church of the United State.
opened this morning at Trinity church al II
O'Clock. y vast cOncourse of people wa:
present in the church. The morni lg
was devoted entirely to religious services
and the sight which the church presented
from the beginning to the end of the exer
cises was such as has probably neve
been seen before in this city. The ritua
OF this mornings service was of caurse from
the high position OF the digni;aries conduct
ing il, the most imposing and elaborate
which the Episcopal church has. Toe bod
OF the church was reserve 1 for the delegate
10 the general convention, and these consist
ed OF four clergymen and four lay deputies
from each of the IS dioceses in the different
sections OF the country. Besides these Their,
were over 200 clergymen and theological stu
dents present.
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BALTIMORE, oct. 3.-sirginia sizes, old. 70
do deferred, 81; co. corsoiidatad, S. do ss.copc
series AZ, North Caroline sixes. old, AZ, bad to
dsy. Sugar active and s.rong, lOi<
BALTIMORE, Oct S.-Cotuon steaiy-mi 'dling
Dtsh4 EiCur duii, - ally and unchanged Whsa,
southern fairly scti'e egd steady. western .po'
easier III ures s.eafy-s0uthert red, good grim
lfeal A. do eIb@T, l.0ai 81 western, steamer, LIZ
hlc. 10. No winter red. scDt, -, October, ! 81
November, loaina!ly / y1; do No 5 whit r red
So. Con-, steady aud firm sill rpuni--sOutherT
white, 69a7o, do yellow. elae2; western nixAi, $50,
and October, So, November. 500; s-esmer, So osts
siesdt al Erm-southern, Scas7; western white. IS
aS6: do. mixed: 3aS Rye quiet, 6Sa69. Hay firm
and unchanged. Provisions active, firm and m
changed Butter, choice grades scarce and firm,
tow and medium doll an> nominsl-cboice western
:Ge25. PeiroieuIn dul,erud.' sHasA; refund, Is Z
daII, iish. Receipts-Fiour. soc; whest, o 40:
9orn; 5000; oars; 30; I'VE, 40. Shipments-whest,
NEW YoRK, Oct. s.-stocks, although irregular.
have been buoyant In the main. a. ney 4 Gold,
lO2x Exchange. long. 81: ehort, Sss5f Govern,
NEW Yo4k, Oct. 3.-Fiour dull and heavy
Wfesf stot doll and heavy, futures steady. Corn
without deci3ed change.
LONDON, Oct s, 1870 p. MI. 8. bonds 1867 s,
10; n.u folr-snd s-3affs, loss: new fyes, l07H
lIie, nsS do. prefer d. Is Few York Central, leg
llliBois Central 7lz. Pennsylvania Central, g.
New Jersey Central. s6S. Reading RalwGy shares,
l6a
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THE NEW FORK DEMOCRATS.
The Convention nf ALBANY

ALBANY, n. ", Oct s.-The democratic
slsie convention met In T~eddle Hall al
Lz'oo O'CLOCK TO day. Tue delegates occupied
Ine pafquete seats and the audi ence the dress
circle and galleries. All the seats were occu-
PED and very large number Of persons
Il. HUI, OF Chemung, was chosen temporary
chairman.
A committee, OF which Augustus schell
was ore, was appointed TO conduct Mr. III I'M
TO the chair. Mr.. Scheil said Mr. Chair.
man, feel honored and copplimentet by
the notice you have taken of me In recos
mixing me as delegate TO this convention
regret TO say, however, that am informed
that persons not connected with any regular
organization, who have no standing In the
democratic party, have been re- OgnlEed by
be state general committee and appointed
delegates. / must decline the honor until
my title 10 a seat shall have been passed
upon by the convention" Mr.. Schell is q
Tammsny deleeafe from New York.
Park Goodwin, OF Queens, was substituted
for Mr.. Schell. He said the Democratic party
lonorably and fairly carried a majority o
the electoral votes I'm the last Presidential
election, but IL has been basely deprived or
the fruits Of that victory, and the American
people are, for the first time. witnessing the
spectacle OF an administration In possession
OF the Federal Government which was repu-
olaied by majority OF over a quarter
OF a million OF its electors. This strange
result was accomplished by means of
corruption most foul and fraud most afro
clous. Rather than plunge the country into
civil strife, and dlsoTganize aud destroy all
its business interests, the democracy OF the
country chose 10 quietly submit TO the out-
rage; but no lapse OF time, no more silence,
no specious plea that The result was n ially
accomplished through the forms OF law, can
OBSCURE The enormlty OF the act or excuse or
Justify 10. and IL will go down into history as
the most fiagrant usurpRtion OF modern
times.
Temporary secretaries were appointed. The
roll was then called. There were contestants
nom the first district OF Albany, and their
cases were referred. When New York was
reached the chair announced that New York
county was contested, and woul be passed..
Mr.. Beebe inquired why a different rule
should be adopted in the ca sc OF the great
county of New York from those In other
cases? The chair said that the list OF CON
testants bad been furnished. An exciting
debate followed, interpreted with misses AID
hoOtings.
Tammany and Anti.Tammany.
Before the democratic state committee ad-
Journed at 1890 a. m IL was agreed to issue
tickets TO 81 Tammany and % anti Tammany
delegates to seats in the convention.
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~Butter is firm.

III butter is nrm.
~ Only the female mosquito bites.
SA Kentuckian has lain in Jail three
weeks under refusal TO pay his dog tax.
DA Saratoga county woman and her
Leven children have died OF diphtheria with
in q month.
SProf. Prime says that the "fossil re-
mains" dug up at HazeltOn, Pa, are nothing
but iron ore.
a0-A Maine postm aster, q woman, has
been fined S1.I.sC for opening q letter passing
through her Office.
IDr. @. E. Porter, the republican nomi-
nee for comptroller OF the Maryland TREASURY.
has accepted the nomination.
n0Nother Eve on being asked IL she could
not see with her husbands eyes, remarked:
"Not by Adams sight, Whitehall Times.
~A special dispatch to the Balumore
6tr from Princess Anne, Nd, states chat the
Worcester and Somerset railroad WAS cold
dred dollars TO George A. Rahm, Of Phila-
delphia.
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Double Payments 60 Mail Contrac.
tors
DISCOVERY OF FRAUDS IN THE POST OF
FICE DEPARTMENT.

DISCOVERY OF FRAUDS IN THE POST OF
FICE DEPARTMENT.
J. z. O'Brien, who held an important cleri =
cal position in the Office OF the Sixth Auditor
OF the Treasury, has been dismissed, facts
having been di,c)vered during his absence
OF leave that led TO the conclusion that he
had conspired with mail Contractors Ia de-
fraud the United Stats Wne the pres {
Auditor, j, NJ McGrew, was promoted from
the Chief lerkship TO the position he now
holds, he, for the better protection of The in
terests OF the government, SO arranged the
several divisions of his Office that one would
daloes of O'Brien ante date Mc(irew's Audi
torship, and have dot been carried on since
his incumbeDcy.
THE MoDUs oPERANpI.
OBrlen was connected with the pay divi-
Sion OF the office. His duties were to pay
mail contractors for services rendered. To
iacIitate All interests con cerned, payments
IN part are made TO mail contractors through
local postmaster; that is, the accounts of q
contractor would be made up aud sent to
some postmaster In the district in which the
service was being rendered, and he would
pay the amount specified TO the contractor
ana return to tine department the voucher re-
ceipted as an evidence of payment. O'Brien
mao charge OF accounts thus paid. Through
collusion with the mail contractors his plan
OF operations was TO credit the postmasters
with the amounts thus paid to the contract
ors, but Jailed 10 charge against the cou-
tractors the amounts thus paid them. Tne
consequence was that when finai settlement
with the contractor was made his account
would not show the partial payments made
Dy Tue pCStmasters, and he would again be
paid This practice by o. Brien began some
SIX years ago, and would have been brought
to light long ago had he not, as is suspected
been also In COLLISION with one of the book
Keepers OF the office now dead, and whose
name IL is unnecessary to mention.
HOW THE FRAUDS WERE DISCOVERED.
Recently OBrien left here on his annual
leave of absence, and the clerk assigned TO
hls desk, by accident discovered one of the
duplicate payments. An Investigation OF his
books was then gone into Ia detail, and 1t
was ascertained that two Illinois contractors
bad been overpaid in the manner hereinbe-
fcIe described 10 the aggregate of SI5 600
When O'Brien returned here he was COZ
frOpted with the evidence of bis guilt, and he
made confession.
RESTITUTION.
1T so happened, in the run OF good luck to
the United States, that the contractors with
whom O'Brien had been in collision were
still In the mail contracting service, and Au-
iior McGrew demanded of them restitution.
One of them has paid up, and the other has
Indicated that he Will do likewise so that the
Co eminent will not lose a cent.
y Brien Is man of family, about forty
years Of age. He halls from New York, and
has heretofore been considered q very valu-
able and efficient cle.k. 1t is not yet deter
mined whether he will be prosecuted, mas
much as he aided the auditor In compelling
the contractors to make good the amounts
overpaid.
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81 The Pope has been contemporary with
all tbs Presidents, being seven years old
when Washington died.
@The Rev. Hubbard Minter eloped from
Nelson, KY, with a fourteen year-old girl,
deserving bis aged wife.
~Cordelis Howard, the original EVA,
in the play OF "Uncle Toms Cabin" 10 q
wife now, with two children.
~A Georgia editor says there Is some
thing grand about Toombs. Come up, Rob-
ert, and be searched.-l Rochester DeDsocrG.
~Alanta renews the proposition TO do
nate City Hall square and build capitol as
good as that in Milledgeville, n the civ is
selected for the capital OF Georgia
The Montreal Witness says tina, a phy-
sician an that city is restori ig the faculties
tons OF Its skull.
ga Louisiana paper urges john III. Rsa-
gan, OF Texas, for the Speakership. He was
postmaster general OF the confederacy. We
are moving fast-lN Y. Times.
~Henry N. Wilcox, OF Detroit, claims
$4,000 from Railroad Commissioner Stephen
:. Cobb, OF Michigan, for the seduction Of
the formers wife.
s-The Scranton penny Republicans es;i-
nave thus Tar cost the state half Q million
dollars. The people have TO pay this.
HA Massachusetts preacher In freak OF
salary to 500. The Congregation went him
nifty better and made IL $50.
6-The schooner Ocean Wave, from New
Orleans 70 Galveston, Texas, ,onnoesee IN
the Gulf on the 10th instant, ana tne captain
and seven mea were lost.
nYThe fact comes out In 81 Louis dt-
yorce case that Joseph Siemon compelled his
family 10 dine every day solely on soup
ma &c from q ten-oent shin bone, and habit
ually skfmmed cut all the meat for himself.
o0A miner q Ballaret va 20 elated ON
striking . rich deposit Of gold that he kisssd
the drsf woman he met; bat his excuse vs.
not deemed good BY the woman NOT By tho
magistrate. who nDsd him.
u0Nr Miller and his wife were in Rusa-
ehuk during the bombardmeut. Mrs- MfllSr
was much frightened. She ADD her husband
were sent 20 England by the British Congul.
fright
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EUROPE TO-DAY.
Death or Madame 1iriQus

LONDON, Oct. 3.-Mada anne Teresa Tltiens
the celebrated Operatic Ginger, is dead She
was attacked last evening with difficult
breathing and faintness. She rallied and
appeared better until o'clock this morning,
when she died quite peacefully.
Russians QuellinG An InSurreetiOn
The inactiOn of the Russian armies in Asia
is explained by an official dispatch from st.
Petersburg announcing that an insurrection
had broken out in the central districts OF
Daghestan, about the 18th OF September, and
gradually spread until all central and south
ern Daghestan, including the coast districts
were involved. On the sd and oath of Sep
OF the insurgents, numbering 5000 strong
and defeated and dispersed them II is Low
believed that the Instruction will not give
further trouble.
Turkeys Campaign Against the Mon.
tenexrins
RAGCsA, Oct. 3.-Two thousand BashI Ba-
zouks and 2, eco cavalry have arrived al Mos
ter, in Herzegovina, where a force OF I0,OOo
Is concentrating TO recover the territory con-
quered by the Montenegrins.
Jules Simon Seriously III
PARIS, oct. 3.-Jules Simon Is suffering
from carbuncle. The ECene7ient saws he
under We mt an operation for it. which was
not attended with favorable results. His con
ditien is precarious
Thrice Elected
LONDON, Oct 3-SIr john bennett. who
has been twice elected alderman for the wa.L
of Cheap. and each time rejected by The Court
OF Aldermen "a person uafit 10 discharge
the duties OF the position, has again been
been elected TO that office.
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EXCITEMENT IN WALL SrREET-Wall
street, New York, mad an excitement yester-
obtained from several banks on raised insu -
cnce script. At one bank $4,000 had been
borrowed, and other banks are said to be suf-
ferers. VIM. 9. Gilman, who is Charged
with the fraud, was in town In the morning
bat disappeared before detection. Certificates
issued for 81 200 had been raised TO over
$S7 COO
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RAILROAD RIOTERS ON TRIAL.-The trial
Of the Reading (Pa.l railroad rioters began
there yesterday. The courtroom was dense-
ly crowded. Two true bills have been found
in number. Samuel Humphreys, indicted
for burning the Lebanon Valley bridge
pleaded guilty and subsequently turned
states evidence, confessing that he held a
kIndling wood, thrown from the upper part
OF the bridge by accomplices, with coal oil,
and set fire to 1t, through which the bridge
was burned.
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DEMOCRATIC TICKET AND PLATFORM IN
M1NNESOTA.-In the Minnesota democratic
convent Oh at st. Paul yesterday majority
and minority resolutions were submitted,
the former yielding somewhat to the green
back and labor conventions, which nomi-
mated Banning for governor, the latter being
stiffiy conservative and aiamautine on the
morey question. The former was adopted
with amendment They denounce the fraud
by which the Presidential election was re-
versed, but congratulate the country because
the President has adopted the democratic
policy They also denounce the republicans
Tor making the public debt payable In coin,
Tor demonetizing silver aud passing the re-
sumption act. They recognize gold and sill
yer as the only constitutional iegal-tender,
a ID say that resumption should come as soO,i
as the business matters OF the country Will
pertiit, and that the Old silver dollar should
be r9stor: i. The following nominations were
made: VIM. Banniuy, governor; l. l. Ames
lieutenant gOvernoI; John X Johns, aitOr-
ney general; P. Lndholn, secretary of state:
John I. Meagher, treasurer; Il. W. Hill. rail-
road commits Sj9uer
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Six DEATHS From YELLOW FEVER
were reported yesterday at Fernandina.
leaving only two able to attend the sick.
The funds are exhausted, aud further help ID
needed. The mayor OF Port Royal, 8. C.,
has sent 70 Savannah Tor physicians and
uUIDe9s
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Death Of Archbishop Bayley

NEWARK. N. j Oct. "a rchbtsnOp Bay
ley died at 1880 O'Clock this morning.
tArcb bishop Bayley was formerly q Prot
estant Episcopal minister. He embraced
Catholicism in 1892, subsequently entered
the priesthood, was made bishop OF Newark
in 1853 and archbishop OF Baltimore IN 1872
five months after the death OF Archbishop
Spaulding, who desired Dr. Bayley TO be his
successor, as DIR. Bayley desired Bishop Glib
bons To be made coadjutor chbishop OF Bal
timore, with the right OF succession. DIR
Gibbons is a native OF Baltimore. and was
educated an Ireland. Archbishop Bayley
was unconscious since Monday afternoon
at which time he momentarily rorsed him
self from letbargic stupor, recognizing DIR.
Caldwell. surgeon of the Cunard steamer
Russia. The archbishop had been . patient
of the surgeon in his late voyage across the
Atlantic. He said TO DIR. CALDWELL can,
go with you now, God bless YOU" and soon
after relapsed into Inconsistencies. This Is
The last time he spoke1
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ODD FREAK Oh A WOUNDED SOLDIER
There is a man living near the railroad Tin
Orange county, Va, we think who belonged
10 a Florida regiment during the war. He
was wounded in one OF the numerous battles
fought in that part OF Virginia. The surgeon
told him be could never recover the use n.
his leg. Then" said he, al shall never
leave this battlefield" And he has kept his
word. We saw has crutch standing al his
cabin door rs the cars hurried on by. His
tobacco lot, too, was pointed out 10 US, anu
We were informed that he has little factory
where he makes chewing and smoking to-
bacco.- D0HUiUe Val Times
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A CoNvICr's VAIN CRY FOR MERCY.-A
Willis, Texas, dispatch OF the 2lst instant
says: On Saturday, the 18th inst, a con-
vict Was placed In The stocks on board the
convict car al this place by Sergeant Sven
son. His cries for mercy, Take me down;
am dying, - were not needed. He was taken
from the stocks and laid on the floor of the
car dead. The coroner's yer iict ia that tue
deceased came 10 his death by strangulation
and exhaustion, whereupon Stevenson was
arraigned before a justice OF the peace, and
the evidence adduced seemed TO warrant the
justice in placing Swenson under $500 bond.
Gdlpes,Oa NstgS
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THE DANGER attending the Frsyne shoot
ing has at last found an illustration. Clara
Butler, while shooting at an apple in her
husbands Frank Frayne'sl hand, took of
two fingers at the middle joint. Frayne con-
cealed his suffering with remarkable forti-
tude, and the audience knew nothing of the
accident. The two fingers were afterwar
amputated. The fair marksman tainted
when informed OF the accident
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AN OBEDIENT WIFE. - Yesterday Mrs
Mary Mayer, or No. sos East 26th street had
quarrel with her husband. He told her
that she had become a nu isance, aud that
the best thing she could do would be 10
drown herself The woman rushed out of
the house 10 the wharf al the foot OF 18Th
street and jumped overboard.1N Y. Times,
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RUSSIAN REPULSE IN ASIA Mukhar
Pssha reports his rear guard attacked on
Monday by eight Russian battalions, with
cavalry and artillery, which after five hours
fishting was repulsed, the Russians losing
560 killed. An attack on the Turkish right
wing, made to create . diversion. was also
repulssd. Osman Pasha aud Mukhtar Pasha
have rec eived the title OF conquero from the
Sulta.l.
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The BALLOT is doing more than anything
else 10 harden the women OF Wyoming. Some
OF them are actually so lost % womanly in
stinct that they declare themselves older than
they really are a. order 10 get a caance 10
vote. Probably Wyoming l. the only place
or earth where such thing ever happened
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We INFER from paragraph In the Phila-
delphia Press that IL rs customary in that
city for the whole family TO rush 10 the door
when any one rings, TO 'ssee who Is there"
Ole family did IL Wednesday evening, but
found nobody in sight, and when they re-
turned 10 the sitting room they discovered q
visitor-a baby In q basket, which had been
put in through the back window.
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JUDICIAL DIGNITY IN KENTUCKY.-Last
week Squire john Cahill held term of his
court at Knoxville. AZ n said that Clhill's
rulings are equal, n not more severe than
those OF the famous Judge Mcnamara. Pre-
paTatory 10 opening his court the Squire re-
lieved himselfo! The following: Gentlemen,
you are not IN court yet, but you soon will
be, and / want II understood tnat you must
respect the Court Ifyoa don't do Il, I'll be
Id II / don't make you do it, PtlmOsath
ludefeudenf
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THE SITUATION ON THE RIO GRANDE-
Return Of ShdHer and BUHis.-A despatch
from General ord has come 10 hand Confirm
ing the newspaper accounts of the crossing
O. the Rio Grande. A press despatch from
Galveston denies the report that Skaters
ter in Mexico. Both have, returned to the
American side without loss. The pursuit OF
tie Indians was unsuccessful, EXCEPT that
twelve horses and two mules were recap
tursd d. A small body OF Mexican cavalry
kept upon the trail Of the command and
within sight during the march from the San
Diego to the Rio 0rande, but made no often
stye demonstration,
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THERE WAS A q CEER MATCH for 500 be-
tween man and a morse al Lynn recently
j T.. Besson was TO walk dve miles back
ward while the horse walked eight miles
backward, and the horse was withdrawn ar
ter two miles, the man having walked them
in IS I'D Il = minutes
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The sitting Ruu Comm,~sso,

FORT SHAW, NJ. T., Sept. 80, (via HELE-
Ma, NJ. T., Oct. 2.l-The Sitting Bull COM
mission is still here awaiting an escort.
Most of the troops in the territory are nearly
worn ont with the long chase after the Nez
Perces, who may yet, perhaps, be struck by
the cavalry accompanying the commission
before they reach the Canada line.
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WHITEHALL, n. Y, Oct. 3.-A kerosene
lamp exploded in the boiler house OF the Port
Henry iron company, at Mineville, Ny
last night, and set the building on FIRE, de-
stroying IL. Loss sos 600.
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READING, PA, Oct. 3.-The trial of the
rioters was resumed at O'Clock this morn
ing, the court being again crowded. The
prosecution called to the witne ss strnd Jas
Lowe, George Alexander and Jas. bowman
former employees as foremen and engineers
of the Philadelphia and Reading railrosd
who were induced TO leave their employment
and become members Of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Eepglneers- They testified 10 a
union meeting being held on Saturday eve
ming previous TO the burning of the Lebanon
Valley bridge, at which Suggestions were
made that the bridge could be blown up with
keg of powder. Something was also said
Of general agreement to stop trains, but no
definite action was taken. Witnesses saw the
rioters burn the bridge, tear up the tracks,
break open tool houses, burn cabooses, &c !,
but could not name any particular person
engaged In the disturbance, though they
mentioned several they saw In the crowd.
Fatal Explesion OF stesmer's Boiler
WAEELING, w. VA, Oct. 3.-Additional
particulars from Pipe creek, 1e miles below
this city, where the boiler OF the steamer
Comfort exploded yesterday, says Captain
Kirkebridge, Pilot Umsettef, and passen-
ger named Soupless, were killed. The
wounded are Rev. Mr.. Baer, Of PIttsburg
AnereW Harrison, the mate, and several pas
sengers, whose names are unknown. The
cause OF the explosion u not known.
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DFATH FROM SPIDER BIrE.-Elleu
Canley, aged years, OF West New York.
was bitten on the cheek by black spider a
week ago. Soon afterward the 1iesh began
TO redden and swell. She died on Sunday
MIGHT N Y Am