Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-02-27
The District i'm Congress-.

STANLEY Matthews presented in the Senate
today the petition OF w. III. MusSey and others.
OF CINCINNATI. policy holders of the National
Capital Life Insurance company. requesting
the repeal OF the cOmpanyS charter, and the
apP!lcatlon OF its assets to the relief of the
policy holders.
Senator Cameron, of Wisconsin. introduced
In the Senate today bill for the relief OF
Lewis johnson & Co, of the District Of Colum
Dla. The bill inStructS the Secretary of the
Treasury TO pay the firm SI43 TO- gold coin
with interest at the rate of ten per cent. per
annnm from September 9, 1861, to reimburse
the firm for moneys advanced by them on a
draft for Il 500 drawn by B. f. Gallaher a U,
5. navy paymaSter.
MEETING OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE TO-DAY
1he House committee on the District of Co
lumbia at its meeting to-day agreed to report
favOrably bill whereby the United States is
TO quit claim and release TO Geo. w. Watson
his heirs and assigns in lot s and the north 81
feet in lot Z, in square 796: and to William III.
Tyler like quittance to the south Il feet of
lO1 lin square 996. The committee also agreed
to a bill making similar quittance to lot 3, i'm
square $50, to Ellen S. Harding and Mary
Long, the heirs at law of Daniel Long, de-
ceased.
MARRYING A THIRD JUST AS THE SECOND
DISCOVERS THAT HE Has A FIRsT-As Robert
Baker pleaded guilty to an Indictment for
bigamy in the Kings county court of sessions
yesterday, he confesS sSed TO Judge Moore that
he had been married three times i'm The last
four or five years: He was marrying his third
wife on the night on which his second wife
III y.
He married first in WilliamSburgh three or
four years ago, and then left his wife. In
October last he met one Catharine Kenny at
concert, fell in love with her. and on their
marriage went to live i'm New Jersey He de
serted her in December, and on returning to
Brooklyn fell in love with one Mary Mcmahon.
On the night set for his marriage TO her the
second wife appeared to denounce him. He
told his friends that She was crazy, and put
her out of the house. The marriage was
effected, but on the next morning he was
for hiS vt-if Il
after he was sent TO Raymond street Jail his
first wife came to the bars of his cell to taunt
him. Judge Moore sentenced him to four
years in the Kings county penitentiary.-[N
Y. san, Goth.
A FAMILY IN TIGHT PLACE.-The Maxwell
famly'S adventure near Fort BOZeman was
like an incident in an Indian dime novel
They numbered six men and two women. and
We're travelling in wagon on their way to a
border settlement. Seeing the approach of a
band of hostile sayages, they decided TO select
favorable position i'm which to defend them
selves, and soon found spot that was bounded
hastily built a barricade of the wagon, stones
and earth, working all OF one night at it. In
the morning the Indians made an attack, but
the men i'm the FORT armed with breech-lOading
Iifes, repulsed them. During two days the
fighting was kept up, and then reScuing
party of soldiers arrived Eight Indians We're
killed and one OF the white men was injured.
A RUNAwAY's LUCK-7he Good Fortune
L1ttte CT2Tt fOufN.-On the 1Stn Oh October
last Mr.. 0ber, a Baltimore merchant, out driy.
ing with his family near that city, overlook a
little girl tramping along i'm the road. She was
taken up. and, being questioned, said her
name was Mary Armstrong, her age Ii, that
her parents had died i'm Philadelphia, and she
was on her way to Washington to find her
uncle, whose address she gave. The ladies
became interested in the Waif, and easily in
duced Mr. Ober to retain her while inquiries
were made for the uncle, but these proved un-
successful. Subsequently Philadelphia gen
tleman, visiting the Obers. questioned the girl,
and received answers which led to an investi.
CATION by a gentleman here i'm the interest of
the s. T. c. c.. who discovered that the little
girls name was really Catharine Jane McKin-
ley; that her father was an experienced engi-
neer. but had lost his situation through intem-
perance, and that the girl had been driven
away from home by cruel treatment. In the
interim the father had disappeared, and the
mother. with two small children, was in the
almshouse. The gentleman finally found Nc
Kinley, and, acquainting him with the desire
of Mr.. Ober to adopt the child, the latter
readily consented to the step. in which the
mother also aequiesced, and the society SO no
titled Mr.. Ober.-I Phttd. Times
The LABoRERs on Judge Morales planta-
~s.r~ Il tr.a,.