Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-08-24

f.uHOT Oltsf:-AS tneEe is To De q celeOratlOn
at the Centennial grounds at Philadelphia
on the 18th and 30th instant at the reception
OF the state governors, would il not be in
order for the railroad companies to afford the
the same at excursion rates? There are many
that could not attend last sum mer that
would go now. EXCURSIONIST.
Filth Dumped I'm the River.
Editor StdT;-Wlll the Board OF Health
please inform the public by what authority
The contractor for the removal of night soil
and garbage dumps their barges loaded with
the above in the Potomac river in sight of
both Washington and Alexandria, to be
brought back by the incoming tide? All of
hat part of the city between Shepherd and
GiesbOro' is made very offensive In the AZ
ternoon 1t is impossible to remain outdoors
west. The Board of Health will please give
this matter their prompt attention.
TAXPAYER.
A CRUEL WRETCH KILLS HIS BROTHER
young man named Walter BROKER, aged
- years, has been lodged in the MOntrose,
Pa, Jail, to await trial for the murder OF his
brother Addison, a firemen on the Erie rail-
way. They got into dispute over game OF
base ball I'm Liberty, Pa, and the elder
brother boxed the ears of the younger. TIE
latter drew q pistol and shot his brother I'm
the breast, inflicting a mortal wound. The
murdered man was the sole support of an
aged father and mother, and also supported
the brother who killed him, he being worth
less vagabond, having been already twice in
Jail. prisoner In the jail asked him when
lie was put I'm what he was there for. "Only
for killing fellow" he replied.
PENNSYLVANIA MILITIA.-Knapp's bat
terry, sixth division Pennsylvania national
guard, Mai. Gen. Pierson Commanding.
which has been for some time stationed at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, has received orders to
proceed to Pittsburg to recruit up TO its full
standard. Three companies of the 18th in
fantry, regulars, passed. through Wilkesbarre
Tuesday night, reaching Scranton yester-
day. The headquarters of the Sd, regulars,
are transferred from Scranton to Wilkes
barre. The strikers on Tuesday stopped the
pumps on one of the Erie cOllieries near Car
bondale, and company Il, goth militia, left
Wilkesbarre on Tuesday night 10 protect the
works.
DAY GAMBLING HOUSES IN THE HEART
OF NEW IoRK.-These institutions, that do
thriving business, are located in the center
OF trade. Two or three of the most notorious
are within a biscuit toss of the post office
They occupy the second floor of large build
ings. and are marked by green biinds con-
stantly closed. The method Of closing is the
trade mark, and Indicates 10 the initiated
where these Institutions are. Here clerks.
statesmen, young men, and even boys spend
their incoming, or turn ont of their course on
an Grand to try the game OF hazard. These
places are as well known to the police at the
city hall, but they are unmOlested.-fNe ,0
York Correspondence.
STEAMER SUNK WITH ALL ON BOARD
Advices from New South Wales received at
San Francisco state that the steam collier
YanP- Yana upon entering New Castle har-
Dor on July Is was boarded by n heavy sea
in gale and went down stern foremost
with all hands. Capt. Lummerbell Miller,
Chief Officer A ndersOn, Second Officer Eddes
Chief Engineer Baxter, assistant engineers,
twelve seamen, fremen, &C. The body of
Capt Miller was recovered.
THE GEORGIA CONVENTION has "made
the rifle" The state treasurer, under the
decision OF the attorney general, would not
advance to the convention more money than
was appropriated by the Legislature, that
appropriation being exhausted. The con-
vention passed an ordinance authorizing the
president to borrow money to defray the ex-
pepses of the convention, to be repaid by the
next general assembly, upon which Gen.
Toombs loaned lhe convention SO 900.
THE CLAY SrATUE.-The hands for the
10 replace the mutilated ones were received
in Richmond on Tuesday from Florence
Italy. They are made of the purest Italian
marble and are OF exquisite workmanship.
The old man in his dusty clothes and soiled
linen will look odd with his white, clean
hands; but his hands were always clean
lRtchmoad Id.) SAFE.
A REVENUE COLLECTOR FIRED UpoN-
Deputy Revenue Collector l.. Doolittle, with
squad Of four men, while out in the noun
iains about six miles from Hinton w. Va.
ferretirg out Illicit distillers, were fired upon
by bushwhackers on Wednesday afternoon.
tNvIC6-0nce
left arm at The elbow, and once in the right
leg just below the knee. The other four men
escaped unipjured.
Boss TWEED AGAIN,-when other topics
grow scarce in New York the inevitable Boss
Tweed is sure to turn up. Tuesday afternoon
adopted q resolution calling upon their coun-
sci to ascertain whether he could be COM
PEELED to come before them and testify, and,
If so, "what are the most appropriate mea-
sures to be taken for that end?'
DISTURBING A CAMP MEErINe.-Iast
Monday while DR.. hummelshine, was
preaching at Corrigansville camp meeting,
Pa. a copperhead snake three feet long
rushed from the altar among the audience
and broke up the congregation. The snake
and three OF its relatives were killed.
CANAL AFFAIRs.-The coal compan,es
have not yet signided their acceptance of the
terms for coal shipment as proposed by the
directors OF the Chesapeake and Ohio canal.
land Wednesday, and forty more were loaded
and ready for clearance.
SPeaches are now SO plentiful in the
to hogs.
sSAbout half the fashion plates sent out
female convicts.
HThere is a large export from Marseilles
10 Egypt OF sugar plums containing has
heesh and opium.
~ n u0Qe journal states tn8t "mOre play
ing cards are sold in summer than in
winter" Perhaps the camp-meeting season
has something to do with this-f Phila. Bu,le-
tin.
WHATEVER tends to kee the blood pure surely
Z nos prOloT 2 life. DR.. Bulls Blood Mixture by
Ms specific ac.inE upon the pl5oi keeps 1t ways In
q condition 81 puri Ii
MILWAUKEE LAGER BEER.
The best Lager Beer sold in the District OF Co.
lumbia, recei ed the following atieing mention at