Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-07-22

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BILE supplies. They had no time to gather and
run off their many ponies scattered over the
country. At my request, 81 Umatillas came
brought in the head of Egan for Identification
and ten scalps Seven teamsterS have been
killed on Wolf creek road during the las t five
days Umatllla allies report hoStiles breaking
up into small parties, and getting off as fast as
possible, evidently trying to get into the Wei
ser country: will so dispose of my troops as
ward the Weiser. I have guards at Cayuse,
Meacham and Pelican, and will escort m al
coaches from La Grande to Umatilla agency
@ untli road IS SAFER think the indications are
very favorable.
MCDOWELL. Major General
The Louisiana Investigation.
TESTIMONY BEFORE THE POTTER sUB-CoM
MITTEE.
Inc Potter subcommittee, in New Orleans,
on saturday, took further testimony as to the
general bad character of Hiram Smedley T.
". Dalton, Annie Mitchell and Riley N0rfiiSs,
formerly had OF We West Eeliciana parish all of whom
testified before the Howe Senate committee.
were on the witness stand. Their testimony
Was the same in character. They recanted
tnelr previous afhdavitS and testimony as
given before the Howe Senate COMMITTEES.
saying the statements made were not true
and they were made at the instance Of others
1or political purposes.
SECRETARY SHERMAN's NINETY-THRFE WIT
. NEssES TO BE HEARD.
Mr. John Ray, attorney for Secretary Sher
man, has addressed letter to the committee
submitting request from Mr.. Sherman thai
he be allowed to prove the character Of the
election in the Felicana parishes before the
bc0mmittee; In reply, Hon. W. S. Stenger,
chairman of the sub committee, has replied,
saying, u" am directed to inform you that
they the committee) are now ready to fur
nlSh the subpCcnaS for any or all of the ninety
the written request of MI. Sherman, and any
other that he or you may desire to have
called to testify with reference to the matter
further directed to say that it is the purpose of
the subcommittee to afford the fullest op-
portunity for the taking of any testimony
upon this subject that may be had upon the
one side or the other.
WHAT ST. LOUIS PAPER SAYS ABOUT
from the heat is, with few exceptions,
directly traceable to intemperance and
vicious habits of living. The heat is not
INJURIOUS, and people who know how to take
care OF themselves are not apt to suffer from
It's effects OF course, there are cases of ill
ness which are aggravated by the heat, and
the infant mortality is alw .ys larger when the
thermometer is up in the nineties: But an ex-
animation OF the list of deaths shows that at
least ninety per cent; OF the mortality is the
result OF alcohol, while the other ten per cent.
IS due to an unfortunate imprudence. Ii we
mad had no drunkardS in the city the increas
ed mortality would not have been noticeable
and the lesson of the heat is lesson against
lntemperance in eating and drinking. 1t has
been dreadful and an expensive lesson, and
its warning is worth needing by all: but it is a
! disaster SO clearly and so easily preventible
lnat IL ought not to cause any apprehension or
alarm, but it ought to make Us more temper
ate and more careful.-[St. Louis EUering
Post.
ANOTHER MINISTER IN TROUBLE-A Gouv-
erneur (N.I) correspondent of the Water
town Dispatch says that last Thursday Mrs.
applied through the superintendent of the
poor to justice. OF the peace, for a warrant
1or the arrest of the Rev. Herbert c. Miller,
rector of the Trinity Church, charging upon
oath that she was soon to become mother,
and that said Miller was her guilty partner
The warrant was issued, and an officer found
Mr.. Miller at the reCtOry, but too unWel to be
put upon examination. He StOuty maintains
his innocence, and says he only went to the
nous mouse "a at her request for the sole and only par-
and asserts that he IS the victim of con-
Spiracy. The community is about equally
divided as to the guilt or innocence OF Mr.
Miller. He was supposed to be engaged to
lady OF GOuverneur. His examination has
been postponed to AuguSt4 4. In the mean
time he is held in $1,000 bail
"A LADY SHOT DEAD ON THE PORCH OF
HER DIV Observation-Disclosures was received
Steamer Of is s'esh which ore
CURED at the village Of louisville, in Acco-
mac mac county, Va, at late hour last Thursday
nlght: Ia MIS-; William Richardson, an elderly
the porch OF her residence about o'clock on
the night named. was fatally shot by some one
unknown, whether by accident or design has
not tranSplred. She fingered during the night
and died Friday morning. The house in which
she resided stands in an isolated position on
the outskirts of dense forest, and it was
from behind one OF these trees that the fatal
shot was Tired. The county authorities were
at once notified, but have not as vet succeeded
IN capturing the guilty. party. The affair
lty, where Mrs. Richardson was well known
and highly respected. LocuStvIlle is situated
about seven miles from Drummondtown, near
the Atlantic coast.-[ Bait. Gazette, ed.
TRANSFER TO THE CANAL CoMPANY.-The
negotiations which have been pending be-
tween the Chesapeake and Ohio canal and
Messrs: Walsh & Mcliaig relative to the trans
Ter OF the valuable coal wharf of the latter to
the former was completed yesterday and the
deed filed and recorded in the clerk 5 ONCE of
the circuit court. The price stipulated in the
deed as the consideration is $SS,000.-T Cum
tertdnd Times, Goth.
A DEAD GIRLS MANGLED BoDY.-In Des
Moines, Iowa, last Thursday, some boys, while
discovered box floating down the river, which
they tOwed ashore. On being opened a hOrri-
bic sight was disclosed, it being the body of
gled. There is intense excitement, and officers
are working up the case.
SINGLE SCULL MATCH-The New Orleans
Times says that 81 900 has deposited in the
hands OF Mr.. Joe Walker, as an earnest for
ODonnell, OF the Club, to row single-scull
match with Crotty, of the Galveston Boat Club
1t is understood that Judge McTyre, of Texas,
will cover this sl,OOO and add thereto 81, 800
A DEsOLATING CYCLONE visited northern
and western New York yesterday Its force
at and near Albany was very destructive, un-
roofing many houses and doing considerable
Damage to vegetation. 1t seems that two
storms coming from apparently opposite
points, met at West Albany, forming the
cyclone.
DEATH OF L. S BOILER INSPECTOR
Samuel II. Bowers, United States inspector of
boilers for Norfolk, Va, died at his home i'm
that city yesterday of inflammation of the
bowels. He was appointed to the position only
two months ago.
COUNTERFEITER ARREsTED.-Horace Hues-
ties, an English farmer, of Crown Point, has
been arrested in New York for passing $50
counterfeit OF the TradeSmen's National Bank
OF Canada, supposed to be part of a large
amount recently stolen from a Canadian bank,
were found on him.
The NEz PERCEs PRISONERS who have been