Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-02-12
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| at any of the houses usually open on that day.
Mrs. Jones, of Nevada, held her last reception
for this season in her beautiful home .on Capt.
tol Hill. She intends going to Nevada the l>t
| OF March, to visit her own and her husband s
| relatives. Senator Jones' sisters. Mrs. Cor
ham and Miss Lester, are visiting his wife, as
| well as his niece, Miss Jones, and Miss Nor
| ton, of cincinnati. The five ladies received to
gether yesterday.
A very fashionable and apprecative audi-
ence assembled at MariniS Hall last evening
to hear the concert given by Miss Corinne Bou-
| ligny, assisted by talented artists and ANA
teurs of our city. The concert gave great
future was = predicted Tor @ Miss Bouligny.
should she adopt the operate stage as pro-
| feSSiCn.
friends yesterday in her parlOr down stairs.
| She still suffers with her foot but is otherwise
Well. She will be compelled to use a crutch
for several weeks longer. That she should
| have met with an accident which will prevent
her going into society during the season is
| greatly regretted.
| tiOns of yesterday was that of Mrs. Linder-
| man. Among the callers were the wives of
Senator's Blaine, Randolph and Dorsey, Mrs
| Randolph Tucker, the Misses GOuvenellr Miss
| Hurd, and other young ladies. Gen. B. f. Le-
! fever and General FarnSwOrth put in an early
| appearance, and before the close of the after
| noon Dr. Linderman Joined the pleasant circle
Mrs. Llndermans s last reception will be held
Monday. 25th inst.
Mrs. L. II: Painter gave very enjoyable
| company last evening to her two charming
| guests Miss Brown and Miss Simpson.
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs Hayes will 90 to
Baltimore tomorrow morning to attend the
fair of the Methodist Campmeetng ASs0ca-
ton. The Philadelphia Union League ex-
tended an invitation to the President to visit
| that city on the 22d of February. but the Pres
ldent has declined.
The L. S. SUPREME COURT will take a recess
from the 18th of February until the 18th of
March.
Hon. GIDEON WELLES died at Hartford
Conn.,, last evening, in the seventysiXth year
o. his age. He was delegate to the Chicago
convention in 1860. and in the following year
was selected by President Lincoln for Secre
tary Of the Navy, continuing to occupy that
position through the terms of President Lin
coin and johnson. Secretary Thompson issued
an order this afternoon expressing regret. and
ory OF the deceased the Navy department be
draped in mourning until after the funeral
and closed on the day of the funeral. In ac-
cOrdance with the order of Secretary Thomp-
son the Navy department was draped in
mourning today.
Hon. CHARLES NJ. CONRAD. who died at New
Orleans yesterday. aged seventy-three, was
born in Winchester, Va, but when very yOilng
removed to Mississippi, and thence to Louisi-
ana, where he served in the state legislature,
and subsequently as Senator and RepreSen-
tative in Congress, and in August, 1885, was ap-
pointed Secretary of War under President
Fillmore. He closed his political career by
serving as Srigadier general in the rebellion
SSceiItary Sc M iMGMFary My intends issuing an order
draplng the war department. in mourning III
honor of eXSecretary Conrad and closing the
department on the day of the funeral.
WILLIAM WELSH, formerly Indian Commits
sioner. and brother to our Minister to Eng
land. fell dead yesterday at Wills hospital in
Philadelphia, which place he was visiting at
the time. He was president of Girard College,
and identified with many other benevolent in
stitutions in Philadelphia.
TIE PRESIDENT AND THE RETURN1 BOARD.
The President has written a letter to Attorney
General Devens, which he read to him yester-
day. relative to the Louisiana returning board.
The letter is brief and is not intended for pub
lcatlOn. 1t calls the attention of the Attorney
General 10 the fact of AnderSon's conviction
and the probability OF the ease coming within
| his jurisdiction upon transfer from the state
| to the federal court.
THE INVESTIGATION OF DOORKEEPER POLK
| was resumed this morning by the committee
| on reform in the civil service. The only new
| point elected was that the dOOrkeeper had his
daughter on the pay roll at $l,2UO per annum
as clerk.
| INVESTIGATION OF THE METROPOLIS DIsAs-
| TER.-Capt. MerrimOn. Of the life saving ma
| rine service, who was directed by the Secre-
| tary of the Treasury to investigate the loss of
| the Metropolis, has returned from Currituck
and submitted hiS. report, that the ife-saving
| marine Sery ice did all that was possible and
! has been unluStly cenSured. Some specimens
| Of the Metropolis frame work, brought by
| Capt. MerrimOn. show that she must have
| been In very rotten condition.
WEST POINT DEFENDED IN THE HOUSE,
While the West Point appropriation bill was
! under consideration in the House, yesterday
| afternoon, Mr.. Aiken moved to amend so as
| to reduce the pay OF cadets from $40 to $500.
| lie criticised the action OF the appropriation
| committee in several OF its appropriations. In
| conclusion he said that West Point was an in
cubuS on the people, OF the country. If the
| people knew for what the $275, 900 was appro-
| priated annually, in less than thirty days the
House would be flooded with demands to put
! New York, and lie was bold enough to say
! that he would vote for either proposition.
! Mr.. Hewitt, of \. Y, retOrted No doubt, no
doubt: the gentleman coming from the state
he does, he would be glad to give West Point
to anybody else: but West Point has vindi-
Gated itself in the history of this country, and
hammer or be closed up. GApplauSe.l Mr..
House, of Tenn. (excitediy)-I think it would
better become the gentleman from New York
to answer the arguments OF the gentleman
from South Carolina than to make the ad cap
| tandum appeal OF a demagOgue which SIAN
ders the Representatives of the whole south
| Side.l Mr.. Durham defended the West Point
| academy. Congress should stand by it, for it
! had turned out the best and bravest men that
| had ever been seen in this any other cOun-
tries tApplause.l The amendment was then
! rejected.
ONLY ONE-FoURTH of the ice crop has been
| gathered. and if the mild weather continues
| the ice men will rival the bonanza mine owners
next summer-tN. Y. Herald.
In THE MARYLAND HOUSE OF DELEGATES
yesterday, there was minority report by MI
Houston, from the committee on federal rela
tiOnS in reference to Hon. Montgomery Blaif's
resolutions as to the election OF President
Hayes. and cOndemning a reOpening of the
| subject.
THE Coal COMBINATION.-The New JERSEY
house committee on corporations, of which
Major Harris, OF Jersey City, is chairman has
convened To investigate the coal combinations
Several presidents and superintendents OF
railroads have been SubpPnaed, and it is the
intention 10 make the investigation thorough
and searching. Railroad companies proved tC
be involved in the combinations will be com
PEELED to forfeit their charters.
| RECRUITS for the army of tramps are has
tenlng TO the front. A lady in Watertown n
y, put her eleven year-Old girl and eight year
old boy to bed without kissing them, Tuesda,
! night, because they had been nauphty and