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THE WOMEN's HOTEL OPENED. The
Women's hotel in New York was opened for
neSday. About IS bOarders moved i'm during
the day, aud over 200 applications have al
ready been accepted, but all of these women
will not have taken up their abode in the hotel
before Monday next. Eleven hundred appli-
cations were received before the hotel opened.
The indications of Wednesday were regarded
as most encouraging for the success OF the
hotel on the present plan. There was almost
constant inquiry at the Office by women desir-
ing to obtain admission as boarders. Without
exception these applicants were refined and
lady-like i'm appearance. and i'm dress and
manner gave token of education and acquain-
tance with the uSages of good society.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-05

BUTLER, ON INCOME TAX-In the letter of
Gen. Butler on the subject of revenues and
taxes he says: Not thinking an income tax
pected deficit in the revenues of $40. Coo 600 by
stopping the funding of the public debt to
that amount | suppose the gentlemen repre-
and New York, seeing where this funding of
the public debt must land. at least would Vote
with me, and therefore it never occurred to
me to converse with them upon the subject.
exceptions, notably Mr.. Wood, of New York.
that they all voted against the proposition ap
parently inviting an income tax, which invita-
advance to wash my hands of the necessity of
an income tax. Ii the Representatives of
OF massachusetts, and New York will vote
dehelt ln the revenue, nothing on earth, in my
and an income tax
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-05

GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY.-Internal
revenue, s352, ,39l.75: customs. s57S,O447S
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> THE FAMOUS
MISSISOUDI SPRING MATTER

Which for nearly half century has wrought such
WONDROUS CURES of klDNE DISEASES,
DYSPEPSIA and CANCER, may be had OF az
Druggists Its curative properties are almost
mirac1lOus For Pamphlets. containing remarka-
bic cures address NlISSISQUOI SPRINGS, Frank
lin county. Vermont. apl-E, ,W.1.oW
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-05

SEVEN of the late employees of Col Polk, ex-
doOrkeeper OF the House, received discharges
written to-day and dated yesterday The men
singled out were those whom Polk had reason
discharged ones went to the sergeant at arms
who Is acting dOOrkeeper, fOrinStructiOns and
he advised them to pay no attention
10 the discharge, inaSmuch as Polk violated
tempt to usurp the functions of an office
tweHty-four hours after he had been turned
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-05

AT THE CABINET MEETING to-day Secretary
Thompson was directed to issue his contem-
plated order directing the commanders of the
American men-Of-War in Pacific waters to seize
and convey to the nearest United States port
the COOlie trade 80
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-05

EDUCATION OF COLORED PEOPLE.--SenatOr
Bruce O-day introduced a bill for the endOw
ment of the Lowery Industrial Academy at
Huntsville, Alabama, and to accept donation
of buildings and lands i'm aid of the same. The
school was started by the Hon. Ruben Chap
man, and is designed for the education of the
cOlOred people. The bill provides for the per
nuhlic lands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-05

SUBSCRIPTIONS 10 the four per cent, loan to-
,asD-
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The REPORT that the President will spend
the summer in Ohio is untrue. He will take
up his old last summer quarters at the Sol
dierS Home
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-05

INDIAN FUNDS.-At the meeting of the Sen
ate committee on territories this morning fur
ther consideration was given to the question
of the jurisdiction of the committee in the pend
ing investigation into alleged corrupt uses of
money by Indians in holding on to land grants
as against territorial legislation. While the
committee is about equally divided as to the
legal right into the premises, it is believed
probable that majority will favor the power
to overhaul these charges.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-05

IHE EXCURSION TO CHEsTER.-The party
which leaves here tomorrow to witness The
steamship launch at Chester will be a very
large one. 1t will leave in special car over
the Baltimore and Potomac railroad at 9:30
tomorrow morning. The party will include
the President, all the cabinet, quite number
OF congressman, and large number of others
EX-SECRETARY SAWYER ACQUITTED.-This
afternoon, Judge Wylie, in the Criminal Court,
directed the jury in the case of SAWYER
Haines and Barstow, charged with conspiracy
evidence on which to convict, and 1t was done
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-05

PERsONAL.-Bret Harte is in the city; he
called on the President to-day. ''''Deputy
Quartermaster-G General James A. Ekin, ar
rived in the city last night and is staying at
the Ebbitt. Mr.. Mcclure, editor Of the
Philadelphia Times is in this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-05

MRS. ROBERTS" who has charge of the
eating house for the benefit of the poor in the
District, made convincing argument before
bia this morning. in favor of material aid to
her very Iaudable charity: so convincing that
the committee unanimously decided to offer q
resolution giving her fifteen hundred dollars.
TO be paid in weekly inStallmentS of one hun
dred dollars each.
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BATTLE WITH THE HOSTILEs.
The sRvAgeB Fled In DiHmRy, and
Large Numbers of Them Killed.

SRvageB Fled in DiBmRy, and
Large Numbers of Them Killed.
SAN FRANcIsCo, June 27'-Silvcr City
dispatch: In the recent attack Of Ber-
nard's command upoa the hostiles the
latter wal reported to have 1900 warriors.
The Indians we're not aware Of the pres.
euee Of the soldiers. Their stock was
u~nguarded. Bernard addressed his
troops, Informing them they we're close
by the enemy and could whip them, He
charged them not to retreat; if they did
they would be shot, aud they might as
we'll die by shots fred by the savAges as
our men. The soldiers went s%ilently
forward and attacked the savage force,
three times greater than their own.
When within FIVE hundred yards of the
enemy the order was given to charge.
McGregor's company was near by, and
they charged also. The savages fed in
diSmay, and large numbers of them we're
killed. An encounter took place be.
tween Bearskin, a Bannock chief, and
Sergeant Richmond, Of McGregor's com.
pany. The sergeant finally killed his
man. Between l and 2 o'clock on the
morning Of the Path the hostiles were
compelled to retreat. They we're pur.
sued BY Bernard ten miles. Generals
Howard, Downy and Miles subsequently,
arrived on thu ground; also Bendere's
company. All are anxious for a fight,
The body Of one soldier, captured by the
Indians, was cut up and burned. The
Indian camp was destroyed by the
troops. Many hostiles were wounded.
Colonel Perry's company, as well as all
the other troops engaged, are reported
to have done well.
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PETTY REVENGE.
why UOnklinE. nfaane 4 90. OPP
posed Payment OF the Louisiana
Commts0lon,a EKnennea.


why UOnkling. Rtaiae q 90. OPP
posed PRymsnt OF M Louisiana
COmmisSion's Expenses.
A Washington correspondent of the
Pittsburg Telegraph thus explains the
opposition to the payment OF the Louis
lana commissions expenses;
The publication Of the correspondence
between ex, Governor Brown and Secre.
tary Sherman, regarding the expenses of
the Louisiana commission, gives rise to
comment on the action of the senate in
refusing 10 adopt the amendment TO the
sundry civil bill providing for the pay
ment OF this account. The drift Of re.
mark is that Messrs. Blaine and Coak,
ling, who were chiefly instrumental in
securing the rejection OF the amendment,
have not yet forgiven Mr.. Hayes for hav.
ing defeated Them for the nomination at
Clucinnati; that they have resorted to
small methods to obtain revenge, and
that neither OF these gentlemen are pre-.
pared TO deny successfully that the ad.
jo:imeut brought about by the Louisiana
commission has been productive of bene.
6cient reeulis which would have other.
wise been dearly purchased at the cost
OF bloodshed Involved in the revolution
that'would inevitably have occurred in
that State.
1t was thought that the Democrats OF
congress would refuse the appropriation,
but when the time for action cameit was
found that while the Democrats were
raadv IN v0fa first II WA raaarvad for
the "sOreheads' in the Republican ranks
to wreak a petty spite in defeating the
proposition. The amendment would IA.
doubtedly have been adopted, however,
despite the opposition Of Blaine and
C~onkling,if time had permitted. IL was
apparent that if pressed it would give
rise to a long and probably acrimonious
discussion OF the Southern policy, and
the friends Of the administration deemed
it best, under the circumstances, TO let it
die to be revived again in the lex ses-
sion,
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TWO GIRLS IN A 0 A
Going Over n Dam on the Pasaaic
and Coming Out Right Side UP.
New York World. Juna On

Going Over n Dam on The Pasaaic
and Coming Out Right Side Up.
New York World. June 20
About 1880 p m. on Tuesday 40 excit.
ing scene occurred at Little Falls, N j.,
absut five miles above Patterson. The
Passaic river at this place is crossed By
a dam fifteen feet high. Above the river
is smooth and below there are rapids.
On Tuesday evening. two little girls,
both grandchildren Of Rjbert Beatty,
one OF the principal mill owners of the
place, aged respectively nine and four.
teen years, we're in the river rowing
They went too neal the dam and we're
swept over ii to what appeared 10 be q
certain death. A number Of persons
who had seen their efforts TO reach the
shore ran 70 the lower side Of the dam,
and, to their establishment, saw that the
boat had gone ever and landed right side
up, against a rocky ledge, almost under
the waterfall. The children we're in the
boat and apparently uniDjured. No
one had ever gone over that dam
before and escaped, and the specta
tors could scarcely believe their eyes
Ihere was still great danger, for the boat
was likely 70 be swamped at any moment
or swept down the rapids. After various
suggestions a rope was stretched across
the river near the boat. The current is
TOO swift TO wade, and Mr.. Henry Stan.
ley volunteered TO pull himself By the
rope out to the boat. The current was
TOO strong for him, and be had to let 90,
being nearly drowned himself. Mr.
Slmonson took his place, and after q
hard struggle succeeded in reaching the
girls; He seized the younger one and
fought hs way back to the shore safely
with her in bis arms. Then he started
for the other. She, however, was a larger
girl, and the first attempt to reseue bfr
was unsuccessful. A long ladder waa
then found and stretched between two
rocks, and with the aid Of this and the
rope the girl vas safely got to The shore
amid the cheers Of the crowd on the
bank.
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TELEGRAPHIC.
LATEST UP TO Pm. TODAY

LONDON, June 2s.-The town council
Of Berlin 10 considering q resolution that
the grand historical painting, cOmmemo-
rating the meeting Of congress, be made
q. the expsnse Of the town.
II is said orders have been issued to
reduce the force and expenditures Of the
Portsmouth navy yard, aud it is under
stood the autumn mansuvers Will be
abandoned this year to aid the rstrench.
ment. b
VIENNA. June % The Presse says in
consequences Of violations on the frontier,
near Liono, by Surkirsk troops, the
frontier town Of Bolibag has been occu-
pied by DalmAtion Sandwich Buttlelin.
MADRID, June 2s.-King Alfonso has
received kilograms Of coincidence from
all the European courts. All the shops
we're closed yesterday, the th0aters have
ceased playing and business on exchange
is suspended. 1t has been decided that
the body Of the queen lie in state three
days. The funeral will probably take
place next week.
RoME, June % The Italic states the
pope will celebrate the solemn mass Of
requiem in Sestins chapel for the re-,
pose of the soul Of the queen Of Spain,
CoEsrANTISoPLE, June %. = Count
zichpy the Austro-H hungarian AmbAsss,
dor to Constantinople, visited Grand
Yizier Ssfet PashA at I o'clock yester.
day morning An extraordinary cabinet
council was subsequently held. the sultan
presiding, aud the question Of Austrian
occupation of Bosnia and HERZEGOVINA
was discussed. The result was an order
to the Turkish pleuipotentiaries in the
Berlin congress to protest against such
occupation without the period Of its
duration being previously fixed. The
council lasted the whole day.
AGRAM, June 28.-Military magazines
are being constructed at Agram, Hun.
gary, and provision contractors have
been ordered to deliver at the Agram
railroad station, BY the 10Th Of July. pre-.
visions for 10000 men and forage for
cavalry. n.p SIS Isa
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In AIu.ic.
Music Trade Roviow.l

MUSIC trace heVleW.I
The honest boor who declares that be
likes the Anvil Chorus" much better
than the Seventh Symphony, has a clear
moral advantage over the dishonest anna
teur who declares that he prefers the
Seventh Symphony to the Anvil Cho.
rus" This advantage is one Of sincerity
and frankness,
There is o we'll marked scale Of taste
as there's a scale of sounds, aud scarcely
any two persons can be found who are
upon the same round of this very long
ladder, Our ears get cultivated Without
our consciousness. We all remember
that when we took our first music les.
sons, we could not detect the difference
in the intervals Of the natural scale.
Our teachers told us that from the third
TO the fourth and from the seventh to
the eighth we're only half steps. By
and By We felt it, SO it must be when
the cultivated friend tells us that the
music Of Beethoven is much pdrer and
sweeter than that Of Verdi and we do
not understand it. Our ears arc not yet
able to appreciate the superiority Of one
composition over the other-that is all.
Then let US say SOL The moment we
pretend to ike Beethoven because we
have observed the intelligent and expe.
rienced musicians do so, we are trying
to make people believe that we are occu.
pying a higher rouad on the ladder Of
taste than We really do. IL is here that
snobbery steps in.
But it is always a great deal better for
art that simple honesty should not step
out. The pretense Of admiration for ia.
tellectual music, because such admira.
ton argues an advanced taste, is the
worst sham with which modern music ia
beset. 1t has led to an evanescent and
shifting kind OF fashionable idolatry.
1t has presented US with the spectacle Of
genteel audiences assembling to worship
that which they do not comprehend, be-
cause such worship argued intellectu-
atty. 1t has raised and difused the
error that music can express ideas. 1t
has set up popular pets where we wanted
masters, and kept sterling and honest
merit out of sight because such merit
did not agree with the factitious standard.
We cannot, OF course, expect all the
men who have never learned the alpha.
bet to 60 about oonfessing it. But we
can certainly demand Of those WHO have
never learned it, that they shall not 20
about insisting that they have. Music,
when it performs its mission perfectly,
affects the judgment through the sensi.
bilities. We cannot make a diagram Of
OF ethereal pleasure. 1t is only the
quacks who pretend hat sunlight can be
bottled, and a son pressed out for pres.
ervation 10 a herbarium. Intellectual
snoobery narrows the domain of intel
%lectusl delight. It would give TO its own
set exclusively what belongs to the race,
aud makea man give the password and
the grip before he shall be acknowledged
as a creature of feeling.
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THE heavy rain-storms reported from
Southwestern Kansas. twenty-five inches
Of rain falling in one day, are doubtless
unparalleled in that part of the country.
Such heavy rain-falls in the interior OF a
continent and far from large mountain
chains are uncommon. and the figures
from Kansas may be a misprint. But in
the great mountain chains Of India as
much as thirty inches Of rain have fallen
in four hours. That is moist part Of
the world, however, the annual rainfall
at Cherra Poejen on the Garrows Noun
tains amounting to fifty feet, and it all
falls in seven months, from April 10.
October, inclusive.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-28

ers in Alaska. There is no, the sem.
bIance Of United States authority there.
Although the Commercial Company has
only a lease from the government Of the
sea islands, Eve hundred miles from the
coast, it has taken possession Of the
mainland practically; and there win
doubtless be q great deal Of trouble in
the future for the government when it
sees fit to assume control and give the
protection needed so sorely by the in.
habitants, The resources Of Alaska in
ship timber and minerals, besides the
salmon and seal fisheries. are very great.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-28
The Hnrvnrd.Ynle nontRnoe

NEw LONDON, June 2S.-The Harvard
and Yale boat race has attracted i'm.
mense crowds, and the streets, especially
in the neighborhood Of the hotels, pre-
scented an animated appearance this
morning with the throngs of ~collegiaDs
wearing the colors Of their respective
colleges. Great numbers from a dis,
lance arrived this morning by steamboat
and train, while the people Of the neigh
boring country poured into the city by
every conveyance. At IL o'clock, the
time appointed for the race to begin, the
water was smooth, and continued so I'm.
til ll:3O, but still no start. At IL o'clock
the start was effected. Harvard won by
about twelve lengths. Time about ~
minutes. nHia'
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-28
A Secretion that concentrates the
Blood. Ha

When the bile is diverted from its proper
channels. into the blood, which ii always the
case in liver complaints, it ceases to be q
healthy secretion, and becomes q poison. Its
abnormal presence in the circulation and
skin with a hideous satfren tinge, BY head
aches, vertigo, nausea, pain in the right side
and under the right shoulder blade. by indi-
%gestion. obstruction of the bowels, aud other
minor symptoms. Order may DO substituted
averted By using the benebcent alteratiye and
tonic. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which, by
relaxing the bowels. promote the escape from
the circulation Of bilious impurities; besides
rendering the action OF the liver regular, and
removing every trace OF dyspepsia, This
medicine is not only infinitely more effective
than any form of mercury, but is on account
Of its freedom from hur,ful properties, inf
nitely to be preferred to that poisonous drug.
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j. w. X. BROWNE.
WASHINGTON.
Proceedings of the Potter Invesii.
eating OOmmtttee.

eating committee.
WASHINGTON June 2S.-The Potter
committee appointed Hunton, Springer,
McMabon, Batter and Hiscock a sub
committee to remain in Washington
and take testimony. Potter Morrison
and Cox will act as a relief for il and a
subcommittee in New Orleans.
AT the session to day l.. Il. Dennis re-.
sumed his story. He said that box No.
2 Of Archer preeint, at Aehua county,
Fla, was objected to by the Democrats
on account Of alleged fraud. The in.
speetor of the polls had, in a confden.
tial conversation with witness, admitted
that there had been 2l9 fraudulent
names added to the list of voters, and his
knowledge Of this fact was partially the
cause Of bis declining to testify as re-
quested by Governor Noyes. The add
ton Of these 2l9 names was a matter Of
public notoriety.
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New .YoRK, June 28.-A letter from
HaYanna says the campaign of the
Spaniards against the Cubsns, without
any battles, cost the former eighty thou
sand men, and the island is n vast
cemetery. Five steamers are reported
on their way from Spain to carry home
the troops.
Martinez Campos had begun a reduc.
ton Of government expenses on the
island by giving up ohe.half of his own
salary as captain general.
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SEEISG that there is no real occasion
for the Chippewa Indian scare in the
remote and spsrsely settled counties Of
Wisconsin. people are wondering who or
What could have started the alarm. This
Is natural enough; but out on the front
iers, when the traders have no other
way 10 start business" an Indian war
is always counted upon as 50 uafailing
resource. Sometimes the mere starting
Of 9 rumoE will answer, for thea the
restless and adventurous spirits begin to
move about in squads, get excited BY
liquor, and, II there are anT idle indians
in the vicinity, 3 quarrel is the next
thiDg-and the next Is somebody killed.
Whether the victim 10 a red man or q
white man does not make much differ
snee, for either ezcitss more hot blood,
and then the work Of murder aud de
%struction begins-and then comes the
demand for supplies for war parties,
blankets, provisions, wagons, horses,
harness-snd then busiRess is brisk for
q while among the traders; for they i'm.
partially supply both the white men and
red meu.
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ALASKA, for which this government
paid Russia seven aud a half millions Of
dollars, in 1861, has been turned over by
John Sherman into the hands of the
monopoly known as The Alaska Com.
mercial Company John Sherman and
that monopoly, in which he is said to be
interested, are absolute rulers over
$4,000 square miles Of territory and
masters of 10000 Indian serfs, who are
obliged to hunt seals for them and bring
in the furs-a business which is i'm.
mensely profitable to John Sherman and
bis ring Through the Influence Of Sher.
"a and the monopoly every United
States soldier was Withdrawn from the
territory n year ago, and Alaska is to.
day free from the control Of the United
States. the Commercial Company paying
the government a beggarly triae only to
give the territory the name OF a collec.
ton district. This private company
md John Sherman are the sole law civ.
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River TeIegrams.

CINCINNATI, June %. River falling.
Fair and hot. f-gtI d
CAIRO, June 20. -Arriyed -Alice, St.
Louis, 10 pm; John A. Scudder, New
Orleans, 3 q. mi Mountain Oak, Ohio, 8.
Departed-Alice, Pittsburg, II PM ].
A. scudder, st. Louis, 4 lam. Fair and
warm
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Father HyAoINTHE. in bis second lee
ture in Paris, q fortnight ago, advocated
a reform Of Catholicism BY means Of a
popular election, aud a restriction OF the
papacy to a simple presidency over all
Episcopal churches. He urged that
characterization owed its strength to at
taoks on the church and to the fathers Of
families who declined to accompany
their wives to mass or to be the religious
teachers of their children. BE was loud.
ly chsered on incidentally remarking
that he could not understand how any
Freshman could now be other than a
Republican; but he added that we're he
EnglishmaA or an Italian, he would
be a monarchist.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-28

II that Wal a representative COM
msnder of the Ecuadorisn navy who
went into the magazine Of a coast guard
vessel with a lighted candle in his hand,
it is, perhaps, we'll enough that Ecuador
had only one vessel to be blown up. If
there we're aver one more vessel in that
navy it would have been good discipline
to send the remaining officers Of the &c.
uadoriau navy as apprentices to some
stone quarry in the vicinity, where they
d light learn something about the nature
Of powder and Of keeping FIRE at q dis
lance.