Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-10-17

Ii appears that the company deposit their OfTal
within the limits OF the village OF Hyde Park.
Chicago. and the authorities haved secured a
restraining order from the Chicago courts, which
was appealed and Is now TO be determined by
the supreme Court.
4 Defence OF THE NATIONAL BANKs.-Comp-
uoller OF the Currency Knox has commenced
his annual report. In view of the great agita-
ton OF the subject OF the abolition of the ma,
tonal banks. good portion of the report will
be devoted to that subject. The comptroller
will show that they cost less than the old state
banks and by far more useful in the business OF
the country. Mr. Knox will make a strong de
fence OF the banks, and will support his asser
tOnS by facts and figures.
STANDARD SILVER DOLLARs-The following is
an official statement of standard silver dollars
and silver certificates issued and on hand. 1t
is from returns up to the close of business yes
terday: Silver certiticates:-lssued $217S,070;
on hand S1,1S2,92O; actually outstanding
from mints 81 957 ,O46; on hand S1,513 100; bal
ance outstanding s.. .443, $50.
GENERAL @. NJ. DEPoT.-By direction OF the
Secretary of War, the quartermaSter'S depot at
San Francisco, Cal, is announced as a general
depot Of the quartermasters department.
\ CIRCULAR has just been issued by the Sec
retary of the Treasury prescribing new uniform
FOR officers OF Z. ). revenue marine.
The President at Winchester.
HIS spEECH-HE QUOTES EMINENT vIRGINIANS
ON THE MONEY QUESTION.
Upon the arrival of the President and party
at the Winchester Na.l fair grounds yesterday,
Governor Holiday addressed the large assem-
bly, III front OF the main stand. and alluding 10
the President OF the United States said he knew
they would warmly welcome him on account OF
ms exalted position. The governor briefly
spoke df the beauty and fertility OF the valley.
and said that such exhibitions as that before
them would have the effect to smooth whatever
remained Of the aSperitieS occaSioned by the
late war: In conclusion. he formally introduced
the President to the men and women living in
the Shenandoah Valley.
THE PRESIDENT MAKES HARD MONEY SPEECH
When the President rose to reply, he was
greeted with applause: He made telling
the fathers of the republic great number OF
opinions OF the most eminent VirginanS in op-
poslton to the paper money hereSy. In doing
so he told his auditors that in that part OF
Virginia at least, 1.-The opinions of the men who
made Virginia so famous will, am sure. be re-
celVed with more than ordinary consideration
He quoted from WashingtOn'S Well-knOwn let
ter TO Thomas Stone, one OF the Maryland
slgnelS OF the Declaration OF independence,
In which he says so pointedy in regard to cur
rency matters. that sit is by the substance not
with the shadow OF a thing, we are to be benefit
ed. Hequoted from Richard Henry Lee and from
JEFFERSON that pungent letter to Col. Yancy in
which, IN 1916, he seemed to draw picture of
our condition in 1873: 1.-The American mind is
In state OF fever which the world has so often
seen In the history OF other nations We are
now taught to believe that legerdemain tricks
upon paper can produce as solid wealth as hard
labor In the earth.' Madison was several times
cited, George Mason also. and Chief Justice
John Marshall, and the President said forcibly
that these We're not only the opinions OF the
men who made the Constitution, but that they
held them so strongly that they embodied them
In that instrument when they came to frame it,
SO that 1.-The money OF the Constitution is cOin,''
and no act OF Congress can change it,
The President was frequently Interrupted by
applause. Gov. Holiday then introduced Sec
Nr1 6.l 70.
Last evening the President and Mrs Hayes as
sisted by Gov. Holiday and Mrs. Mason, his sis
tef held reception at the governors residence,
ana at IL O'Clock the party left for Washington.
THE VALUE OF Two SECONDS OF TIME.-Exana-
ination into the causes OF the late disaster at
NciiastOn, Mass. on the Old Colony railroad
commenced at Quincy yesterday. The engineer
fireman and brakeman OF the freight train teSti-
| ned; the testimony served to show that Hart
Wen. the conductor, now under arrest, did not
take proper precautlOn to send out signal on
| the track to warn approaching trains, upon the
supposition that the excursion train had arrived
| IN B0St0n. Iiartwei1 after the accident, said if
| he had had two seconds more he could have
! thrown the switch over and prevented the acci-
| dent.
BUTLER BARBECUE.-The latest sensation
| provided by the Butler managers is a Butler
! barbecue at Worcester, Mass. Gen. Butler
| made the speech Of the day, and spoke to the
| largest gathering Of the present campaign. The
| general said he was accused of favoring conti-
! continental money, he thought did good ser
vice In its time, and he would be satisfied to
have as good now. The national banks and the
| money sharks, as he is pleased to call them
| came in for their share Of abuse, and then the
| speaker branched off to the consideration of the
state government. On the question of the hard
| t1les, the basis OF Buffers campaign, he said
| the cause was under consumption, not over pro-
| duction. The people were not able to purchase
the neceSSaries and luxuries Of life as they once
| were, and, consequently, while the granaries of
the west and the factories Of the east were
| teeming with abundance, there were hungry
ana ragged men, women and children through
was, OF course, more money made and issued by
| the government, so that every body could have
| enough for the asking.
| THE GREAT EPIDEMIC.-At Mobile yesterday
| there was Is new cases OF fever reported, max
| ing total of 73 eases and % deaths since the
| disease broke out in that city, JEFF Davis ir.
| only son OF Jefferson Davis, died in Memphis
last night. Seventeen physicians OF the Howard
medical corps In Memphis reports forty new
cases twenty-one in the city and nineteen in
| the country. The operator at Hopeield, Ark
reports two deaths yesterday and four on Tues
! day. Advces from Arkansas City report that
the fever has broken out at Wfnterville. eight
mlles from that place. and east of the MssS-
! sippi river.
CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS are announced
| as follows: James w. Covert, dem., 1st New
; York; John Ross, dem 18th New York; W. F.
Whitney, greenback, 10th Massachusetts; Mat
| thias Ellis, democrat and greenback, 1st Massa-
chusetts Rev. A. B. Lamberton, dem, in the
Soth (Rochester1 New York district.
QUEER SORT OF CRAZE is striking Pittsbure
The German Liquor Dealers Association there
have brought suit against twenty-five horse car
| drivers because they work on Sunday. The
dealers are about to go further and sue the door
keepers and ticket-sellers at the Apostle Murphy
meeting in Lafayette Hall on Sunday nights.
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gan
| der, they argue.
THE WEST VIRGINIA ELECTIoN.-The Official
| returns from the first congressional district of
West Virginia give Wilson, DEM, 1905; Hub
bard, rep, 125OS; Basel, greenback according
10 unofficial returns, received about 4,GO0 In
the second district as far as heard from the re-
turns from all the counties except three give
Martin, dem, II, 1885, Burr, rep, 7,l4s; Thompson,
greenDack, 3,600 No Official returns from the
thlrd district have been received, but according
| TO the information at hand Kenna dem re,