Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-07-31


sister was sent % jail These are nearly alp
the complications up 20 the time Of going 20
press.
TRAsPs USDkR CoNrRACr.-Tae Ma
comb, Ill, Eagle says:-One hundred and
eighty tramps - three carloais passet
through Macomb on the cas- ern- bOunf train
last Wednesday evening. These tramps
were switched off on The Rockford road at
Bushnell, and taken 20 Davenport, Iowa,
where they are under contract TO 20 into the
harvest fields, and they will work their way
through Iowa, Wisconsin. Michigan and
Minnesota, the harvest season in these states
lasting about three months. This gang of
men came up the river by boat 10 q lincy,
have lheii officers, and are under almost as
rigid discipline as battalion OF soldiers.
About one-third OF tie number are negroes.
TIE WIDOW OF the late General Custer has
OF her husbands remains al the West Point
cemetery. The gallant Indian lighter il tn
lie in the historic little burying ground next
To Major General Hartsuff. Two generations
Of Indian fighters are thus brought together
Hartsufi fell in the Florida every AIDES,
pierced by three Seminole bullets, about the
tine Custer was born; de lived TO be washed
ashore in the Lady Elgin disaster, and To
receive another bullet at the heal OF his
division at Antietam; but he carried the
Seminole bullet, as well as that from Antie-
tam, with him 10 his grave. The time for
the ceremonies connected with the nnal
burial OF Custer has not yet been fixed.
EMIGRArIoS To LIBERIA-A meeting OF
four thousand colored people was held sc
Charleston, =. C., last week, TO promote en-
igrailon 10 Liberia. The speakers, who were
chiefly colored, argued that there was not
room in the south FOR both the white and the
colored population, and that In the south the
colored people must continue 10 hold an in
ferior position. 4 proposition was ma ie to
form joint stock company with a capital
OF $500 900 for the purchase OF steamers 10 be-
used FOR emigration and trading purposes.
Subscription looks was open ID July p. The
meeting was quiet aud orderly and appaT-
emily in earnest.
SUICIDE OF WEALTHY NEW YORKER.
Mr.. Leon Furniss, a scion of an old aud
wealthy New York family, committed sui
eide on Friday might. Mr.. Furniss had a
large number OF friends ia society, but had
gradually become estrsnged from them on
account OF the violent temper and intenper-
ate habits which OF late had characterized
him. He was, however, OF very liberal dis
position, and though possessed OF a large in
come, variously estimated at from $40. 900 10
So, 600 year, he always was in debt before
the end OF the quarter. He had been
estranged from his wife for several months.
THE ANroNELLI LAwsUIT.-The hearing
OF the Antonelli case will be resumed on the
sth Of November, on which occasion Signor
Tajant, IT is calculated, will open the case N
favor Of the countess with a speech u not
less than two days duration. Tfe Counts
Antonelli show their anxiety as TO the re-
suit, not only by engaging Mari for the de-
nas viii vii This they 40 ts iS secure
the two-thirds OF the CARDINALS fortune.
which must be theirs, even should the COUNT
Neips.
COUNTING THE CosT.-For the twenty
heurs that the mob held possession of tbs
city each hour saw not less than a million OF
dollars swept out OF existence. Twenty mill
lions, indeed, will hardly cover the losses i'm
amount was directly consumed along the
Two miles of flame and smoke and riot and
plllage. What the consequential damages
viii De cannot yet be estimated, bat they
will far exceed the direct losses sustained n.
the very heart OF the city PussbllT0 Tee
graph.
THE SoCIALIsTIC DoCrRINAIREs-H
meeting OF socialistic workingmen was held
IN an East New York beer garden yesterday.
MI J. l.. Hall said that the time hai come
Tor the working classes to throw down the
gauntlet 10 the capitalists lie urged the
purchase by the government OF all railroads
ana teiesraphs, aud asserted that notwith-
standing all the corruption that might exist
IN them, IL could not exceed that s,rea dy ex-
listing; cheap transit ard cheap telegrsphing
would be obtalned.-.N " S9s, S0'h
A COMPROMISE BETWEEN PORE AND
kING.-The Jesuit Father Curcl, who has
for some years advocated a compromise be-
tween Italy and the Papscy, has published a
scheme for attaining this object. He pro-
poses, without trenching on Victor En-
manuel's political authority, the Pope shouIcf
have some kind OF sovereignty over all italy.
with solid securities against any legislatioI
contrary 10 religion or morality Il London
Times.
On TO ADRIANoPLs!-There are reasons
for believing that the Turks were beaten
more severely south OF the Balkans than thew
admit. Suleiman Pasha has been badly De-
feated The Sultan has made ready 10 cross
the bosphorus 10 get into safety; he has re-
called Nj idhat Pasha; he has telegraphed to
The Hungarian General klspka 10 come On
DIS assistance on his own terms. All these
ms lNnef l. 49,.
Ia In sort OF panic.
SHOOTING AFFAIR IN VIRGISrA.- In
formation has reached Richmond that
Robert Ould, Jr., son OF Judge Robert Oulds
OF that city, on Thursday last, al Curdsvilles
VIM. Saunders, Son OF Albert Saunders. the
Dali striking the upper part OF the LEFT arm
penetrating Saunderss chest under the lefn
await the result OF the wound, which IL ID
feared will prove fatal. The parties are cou>
sins.
ACCIDENT TO ANEwARK Mrss-At New
ark, n. J., last Friday afternoon. while Lot
with q revolver at the residence of ex-citv
treasurer Stout, corner OF Astor street and
Frelinghuysen avenue, the weapon accident
ally exploded. The ball entered Miss Bar
peit's skull over the right temple. She can
not live, the doctors say.
MURDER BY SrEPsoN.-On Satrrsav
last a. o; Shields, an old citizen living near
Bollyar, Tenn, was most brutality assassi-
nalea py DIS stepson, named Alous Phillips,
wLo was assisted by VIM. Burras. Phillips
ras has escaped.
SILK CULTURE IN UrAH-Mr. James
Mitchell, OF Riverdale, Utah, has COM
menced the culture OF silk, and established
coooonery adjacent 70 his dwelling. He
Which weighed, whom dried, some seven
~ t IL reported that the hank Of Montreal
Canada, win lose about go 900 by the failure
OF 4eekes In Chicago. His total tndebteoc
neos p the bank " over e3oQo0M