New-York tribune., 1878-05-27
ALARMING SICKNESS IN WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON, MAY III le|S'
The application OF Captain Eads for amodicaton OF
the Jetty Act meets with much favor.
The furniture and fixtures of the Metropolitan and of
Wizards Hotel Will be sold at auction during the com
ing month.
The Bureau Of Engraving and Printing has delivered
to the Treasury $40 600 Of silver certificates and
engaged In completing the order.
The House Committee on Appropriations will report
early this week the remaining general appropIia
ton bills namely the sundry CY Expenses ana the De
nCeucy bills.
Representative Phillips, OF Kansas, WILL at the first
opportunity introduce the House bill declaring the
contract between the secretary OF the Treasury Hnd inc
syndicate for o sale of4 per cent bonds OF the Uhited
States 10 hayetcen contrary TO law.
Representative Potter OF Ncw-York, Will deliver the
Grafton before the literary societies Of Roanoke College
Virginia, onthc l2th Of June. number OF members 81
Congress have been layiicd To- be presrnt ~ the Pn'o
centennial reunion, which VIII begin june H.
The Secretary Of the Interior has ordered IN invcs
gaticn Of the Of the Columbia Hospital for
Women Frequent complaints have been made that the
wards Of this hospital are occupied 10y friends oi cu
bers Of Congfcss 10 ihc exclusion o thos" f"r whom
they were drsgacd but the evidence OF this has never
before been deemed suhccnt 10 make IL inc OASIS "a
special inquiry.
some Northern ladies interested In collecting funds for
the erection Of a monument 90 the memory of the CHS
holm family, The victims Of the Kcmpcr County Mlssa
ere Mississippi IN 1877. held meeting last night and
formally organized Secretary EpTtwcl. Senator In
gals ana George C. Gorhlm. secretary OF The senate
have Shown an interest la 'his movement MF'' '''Ho'
was prl sent at the meeting.
The passage by the House OF resolution calling the
Attorney ener for st OF all pardons issued during
the present Administrations has called attention 20 the
fact that President HAYES has granted unusual
her OF pardons during The fourteen months he has been
I'm Office Many Of the criminals released have b0cn those
convicted for political offences, some for ku-kliN ont
RACES the South, and uhCr- FOR violations OF Tic cleo
ton laws Ia the North and West.
A first mortgage bond OF the Chcsapcakc aud Ohio
Canal Company, for the sun OF 100000, To secure
bonds issued by the Legislature Of Maryland
10 that cornpany. was flied the office 81 the
Recorder oi II, eds, In this city. Yesterday. Inc
trustees under the bond l. l.. Lowndrs lr, Alfred
aud James sloan, jr who, a. representatives, OF
the STATE Obtain possession ut the water franchise tolls
revenues and property Of the company along s line, Ia
De- held security Tor the redemption OF the bohus
Minister Seward sends 10 the State Department ac-
counts of the Chinese famine. which impdrt Information
as late as the middle OF March last The distress occa
stoned by the famine Of last year il spreading over
much wider area, owing 10 renewed drought The dis
t1ct now infected comprises parts o. the whole of
the Provinces of Shansi CHh Shartuug Shcnsi, ouau
Szchucn aud kansu. Actual famine Is pressing upon
10000 900 of people, while fully 6o,ODopO are suncr
ing more or less the Chinese Journals teen
with OF the sun one Of the most rtiahlc
textures famine l. that there iS abundance OF
food IN the country aud IT IA Only the lack of ttnsp0rta
tOn winch causes - much misery and loss oI ll!c.