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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-26
Wall Street To-day.

NEW YORK, April 26.-The Posts financial
article says: At the Stock Exchange We have
a dull but feverish stock market. With prices
below yesterdays closing quotations, the
largest decline being in the coal stocks and St
Paul common. Government bonds are un-
changed. The bankers selling the AZ per
cents report an enlarged demand since the
order yesterday for the second instalment of
S5O0,OCO. Gold opened at 100I&, fell at IL 40
o'clock to 10O5s, and has since stood at that
price. On gold loans the rates have been 2aH
per cent. for carrying The treasury will next
interest due on the first day of May In the
loan market call loans are 4a6 per cent, with
per cent: the ruling rate, and with more busi-
ness below than above that rate. Prime
mercantile paper is sac per cent. At the Pro
duce Exchange there is much irmer market
is both breadstuffS and provisions wheat and
OOrn being to 2 cents higher. In provisions
lard Is cents per hundred pounds higher, and
pork 10 cents per barrel higher, this on ac-
count OF the Interpretation put on the foreign
news, SO lar as it relates to England and Rus.
Sia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-26
THE BEECHER-TILTON SCANDAL
Startling Revelations Expeeted.

NEW YORK, April 26-The Herald prints the
following; 1t was rumOred last night that
there viii be some startling revelations i'm the
Beecher-Tilton case before the close of the
present week. Persons who are i'm a good
position TO know of what they affirm, assert
that MI. Beecher has at last determined TO
take the offensive as against TiltOn, and that
the result will be the speedy bringing of a suit
against Tllton and MOultOn on charge of a
conspiracy TO blackmail A party i'm this city
who claims to have knowledge of certain ar
legged transactions between MoultOn and the
1lltons, and which led to the alleged cOnspira-
cy, is TO be produced during the trial OF the
suit, IL is said. The facts which he claims to
be in possession of have already been submit
ted to one OF MIR. BeecherS lawyers, and il is
at his suggestion, it is cOntended that Mr.
beecher has consented, If not to begin the suit
at once, at least, to hold a conference with the
expected witness, his own lawyers and few
personal friends. III these rumOrs should turn
out to be founded on fact, the great scandal is
pOuSnpSS
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kilograms to The Star.
THE FLORIDA SENSATION.
bttCHtR ON THE WAR PATH.
Startling Revelations Threatened.
THE EUROPEAN STRUGGLE.
Plottings Of the Powers.
THE FLORIDA SENSATION.
Startling Revelations Threatened.
Plottings Of the Powers.
THE FLORIDA SENSATION.
Dennis Coming I'm WaSbi,ysan


NEW YORK, April &-The Jacksonville
Ia, correspondent OF the Herald telegraphs
iiipn inptIi EIlh as follows: The anti Hayes repub-
IcdhS are AT work collecting testimony. The
GthocGatS ol New York certainly and proba-
hly Washington, have been at work throngh
agents; Dennis and two others who have been
AT work collecting proofs left at this morn
ing FOR the north. Dennis stops i'm WaShIng.
Ion; others go direct 10 New York There Il
une3SlneSS here today among some of the
prominent republicans I'm consequence of Dem
mis- confession.
McIin's second Confession,
Mcl.ln has made two statements in writing
The first was obtained by the special agent
who was working the matter up. lie showed
II 10 the state Senator Henderson and asked
what he thought of il. Henderson replied IL
was too vague and timd, and that McLin
could do much better il he wanted To. He
showed several points on which more definite
assertions might be made. The special agent
then gave Henderson this paper to keep, and
said he would get a better one as McIfn was
In earnest about giving the truth, and the
VagueneSS was simply unintentional. lie went
TO see McLin at once. and in few days re-
turned with an amended and fuller state
ment. The first statement has been read
generally, once or twice copied, aud offered
Tor publication. Ii contained nothing more
than what McLin had said time again I'm con
NerSallon. The last statement is kept very
Secret, and the custodian OF il remarked that
$1,000 could not purchase a copy of il.
Dennis Confession.
NEW YORK, April 26.-The sun, among a
w ltN. puUuNutN one indut III
washington 10y l.. G.. Dennis, who was mem
Der of the state central committee of the re-
publican party of Florida. and also chairman
OF the republican committee of Alachua
coanty.
The substance Of the affdavit is 90 the effect
that the election officers in Archer precinct
informed him that they had added 3uO names
10 the poll list as having voted, and had in
creased the republican vote To tnat extent
and he afterward learned that they had added
2l9 names TO the poll list. After completing
the returns i'm this manner, they filed them
with the ballot box, with the county clerk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-26
BANKRUPTCY.
Taking Advantage OF the Nearly
ReneaIed Law

NEW YORK, April 6.-ThOmaS Burns and
John ID. Taylor contractors aud builders. have
filed voluntary petition in bankruptcy The
copartnerShip liabilities amount to S220,OOl.
and MIR. Burns has individual liabilities of
Sl3,N0. Claims to the amount of $4,000 are
secured. The assets comprise few acres of
land at SearSdall, mortgaged for $4,000.
Register Dwight has received a voluntary peti-
lon IN bankruptcy by Charles l.. Cornish, a
prominent real estate operator, who owes
$222, 600 on account of the depreciation i'm real
estate, which he carried for himself and
others. His assets consists of 400 acres of land
Co, tobacco commission merchants at No. a
Brad street, have gone into voluntary bank
ruptcy with liabilities amounting to $4,000
The assets are 800 600
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-26

PRESIDENT BEN. MOVES ARREsT-At Tren-
ton, \. j., Wednesday, Warden johnson of
the Essex county jail produced Benz. Moves
ance Company. who was arrested in Washing
ton on March llth, before Judge Nixon i'm the
United states court, in compliance with writ
Oh napeaS corpus issued by that court last
week. Mr.. keasby, after reviewing the cir
cumstances OF Noyes' arrest, claimed that it
was Illegal, and that he was now falsely i'm
pflSoned; Ihe requiSitiOn was issued for per-
hanging over him for conspiracy to defraud
lne New Jersey Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany. The return showed that he was held in
lali On all three, and he (Keasby) claimed
that he should be discharged on the writ of
habeas corpus on the charge for perjury, and
being so discharged, could not be held on th
others. He asked for apostponement i'm orde
to bring all the facts before the court. Mr.. Va
natta resisted the motion to postpone. Judg
Nixon granted a postponement until Wednes-
day next, when the taking of testimony would
be commenced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-26
FORTY-FIETH CONGRESS-.
FRIDAY, April 26.

THE SENATE was not in session to-day.
HOUSE.-Mr Hubben. from the committee
on commerce, reported bin relating 10 yes
SeiS not propelled by sail or steam. lit eN-
emptS from admeaSnrement barges &C.. that
ply between the United States and foreign
territOry.1 Passed.
Mr.. BlOunt moved that the House go into
committee of the whole and resume the con
sideratiOD of the post Office appropriation
bill.
Mr.. Rice hoped not. This was private bill
day, and also objection day. and he hoped
there would be a morning hour.
The House decided TO go into committee
Mr.. Mills i'm the chair
The pending question was upon the amend.
ment OF MI townsend tOhioD TO increase the
appropriation for compensation 10 clerks i'm
post offices from 100000 10 SS,6OQOOO The
amendment was adopted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-26
Another Bank I'm Treuble.

PROVIDENCE, April 26.-The Mechanics Saw
ingS Bank, the second largest i'm This city to-
day commenced TO enforce the charter proyi-
sion requiring notice of withdrawal of depos-
Its. The statement OF the trustees shows A
surplus of $4,000 to S40O 900 over an iabilities
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-26

Now that the public printer has resumed
the p o. department is able to send commits.
sions to newly appointed pOstmasters Over
500 have accumulated within the past three
weeks, during which the department has been
Without The necessary blanks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-26
Railroad Accfdenf

RICHMOND, VA, April 26.-An accident oc-
CURED between and o'clock this morning
70 last nights mail train on the Richmond and
Danyllle railroad, near Glover, 96 miles from
ing injured, ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-26

THE VIRGINIA DUEL.-Alfred III. Thorn.
who shot and killed Major Sidney Pitts, at
Baskerville, Northampton county, Va, few
weeks ago, and was himself severely wounded
by Pitts, was tried Tuesday and acquitted ON
the ground of self defence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-26
THE EUROPEAN STRIFE.
German Bankers Went Lend Russia
M0naN.

LONDON, April pa special dispatch to the
Times from Berlin says: A number of Ger
man bankers who were induced To meet here
10 consider the practicabiity of floating
another Russian loan have unanimously re-
fused TO engage in the work"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-26
British Censure Of Austrfa's Selfish
paIiey

LONDON, April 36.-The London newspapers
this morning take discouraging view of the
course of the political negotiations. They
claim TO see i'm AuStria's changing attitude
desire to wait in hopeful silence TO see what
she may profit in the calamiteS and weak
neSSeS of the combatantS.
The Daily NeIrS says: 1t is time TO give ND
all Illusion respecting Austria's effective in
tcrference in the present strife. Her govern
ment has long ago made military preparations
on the borders of Bosnia and Herzegovina in
anticipation of war between England and Rus
Sia, and will watch its development, get what
il can, and congratulate itself on having done
SO without lighting. 1t will be glad if We help
its designs, but will owe us no tnanksn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-26

The ENGLISH STRIKERS.-In the Lancashire
district there Is no prospects Of compromise
employers say there is no room for a conces.
sion on their part,
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line vienna correspondent of the daily
NeTS says, in confirmation of the foregoing
utteranceS, that Notwithstanding the various
denlalS, ii is maintained that the Austro Rus
Sla negotiations at st. PETERSBURG are proceed.
ing fayOrably, and that the chief objection df
Austria against the peace of San StefanO have
met with due consideration,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-26
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY.--Internal
revenue, 1881, $3.50: customs. $444 ,6o0.A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-26

SECRETARIES Schurz and Sherman returned
the Presidential party VIII return tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-26

TRUNKS: TRUNHSm TRUNKs!:!
TRIVELING BAGS,
SATCHELS,
In great variety, of MY OWN and other makes,
and at prices lower than ever, at my FACTORY and
SALESROOMS,
42S Serenth Street,
One door above Odd Fellows Hall.
JAMES s. TOPHAM
TO ORDER.
Trunks, Of any style desired, made to order on
the premises.
REPAIRING.
Trunks, &C., Repaired, and Trunks covered at
short notice. ap8-tr
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-26

THE SUBSCRIPTION to the four per cent. loan
o. day amounted to $33. 600.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-26

SENATOR DENNIS has received hundreds of
letters from Maryland and other states of the
Union approving his speech on the Blair reso-
luton. A weekly paper printed at College
Station, on the Washington Branch of ire
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, dominates Senal
tor Dennis as the reform candidate for next
Governor of MARYLAND. AVA neA'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-26

Hon. GEO. N. MCCRARY, Secretary of War,
accompanied by his two daughters and Gen.
Sherman and daughter, and Col Bacon and
his staff, arrived at Fort Monroe, Va. yeSter-
day, to attend the commencement exercises
OF the artillery school, and will remain until
Saturday. The Secretary and daughters are
the guests OF Capt. L. E. Campbell.
SENATOR GORDON will make an elaborate
speech on the subject of the finances on We'd
neSday next.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-26

The INVESTIGATION of Paymaster Cutter
was continued by the committee on naval
affairs to-day None of the charges aoainst
Mr. Cutter have been sustained thus faT. and
tneIe Is scarcely any doubt of his complete
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-26

GEN. JAMES SHIELDS writes from Boston as
follows: Gen. LOgan's letter was a magnih.
cent epistle. 1t has the power of q cannon
pail None but a soldier could write such a
letter, Tor which you will present to him NV
klndest acknowledgements
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-26

SECRETARY SHERMAN returned from Phila-
delphia this morning. A reporter Of the STAR
inquired of him what ne thought OF the So
called McLin confession, and if he would be
willing to say anything on that subject The
Secretary laughed slightly. and replied: "Oh!
no; nothing except that ! regard it with great
contempt"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-10
The Signing Of the Treaty.

The house where the treaty of San
Stefano was signed is described by a
Standard correspondent as standing
upon the brink of preciepitous cliff,
into whose cave-eaten base the waves
seem to boom constant protest against
peace. The plenipotentiaries met in
an elegantly furnished room, about
twenty-five feet square, upholstered in
blue with yellow flowers and stripes, and
carpeted with the produce of the looms
of Smyrna in green and red. Porce-
lain vases Of evergreens stood in each
window AT the opposite side of the
room was divan, in front of which
stood large table covered with maps.
Ignatieff and M. de Nelidof took their
seats with their backs to the window, so
that they could scrutinize every play of
feature which at this supreme moment
must surely break through the impas-
sive stolidity of the two representative
Turks commissioned to ratify the de-
feat of their nation and its consequences.
Safvet sat on Ignatieff's right, there be-
ing small round table between these
two functiOnaries. Saddullah was
nearer the centre of the room in large
fauteuil bordered with heavy gilt fringe
The other occupants of the room were
Prince Cherofteli, NJ Brazil, and two
Turkish secretaries. When all was
ready Ignatieff and Safvet signed stimuli
taneously, the latter holding the docu-
ment on his hand as he wrote, after the
Turkish manner; the Russian writing
on the table. Each then took the others
paper and signed again, and the Treaty
of San Stefano was completed.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-10
w hy Printers Die Young.

A writer fully accounts for the rea-
son why printers die young, and why
they are continually tramping from
place to place in search of peace and
quietude. He says that working for
forty editors and scores of authors,
every one of whom is rs sensitive rs a
hornet, no wonder printers die young,
and only pachydermatous, mulish speci-
mems get their share of life. The
writer wishes he could offer himself rs
al awful example of the perils which
environ the man who NEEDLES with
cold-type. A thoroughly-trained
printer should have stepmother, and
then stepfather, and then should have
been bound out to u tanner, and then
married II scolding wife, and lived in a
smoky house. and have had family of
babies afflicted with the colo. He
should have added to all this discipline
q thorough knowledge Of science, law,
theology, languages, history and biogra-
ply. If: in addition, he has vicious
looking countenance and M alniable
disposition, he may stand some chance
with these authors and editors; but
probabilities are, after all, that they
will worry him to death. This picture
will have veay depressing effect upon
ambitious boys who are anxious to learn
the " art preservative Of all arts" The
picture, however, is tolerably correct
one
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-10

other words, not to lynch the villain
but to leave his punishment to God
This was the most artfnl trick of I'll.
and was calculated to insure vepce.
ance.
The jury rendered verdict of fifty
thousand dollars, and the night after
wards Hopkins was taken out of his bed
by tho lynchers, and beaten almost to
death. AS the court adjourned, the
stranger said: "John Taylor will preach
here at early candle-light."
lie did preach and the house was
crowded. have listened to Clay, Web
ster and Beecher, but never heard any
thing in the form of sublime words even
approximating to the eloquence of
John Taylor, massive as a mountain,
and wildly rushing rs cataract of
fire.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-10
Sound Passing Through Solid Rock.
Virginia City (Ncb. Enterprise.

virginia Olly NNcD.J LutcIpTlbe.
1t now appears from an official state
ment made by Mr.. Sutro last Saturday,
that the header of the Sutro tunnel was
at that time 1888 feet distant from
the point where it will strike the Savage
incline. The statement is undoubtedly
correct, yet the workmen in the Savage,
at the 1000 level, are able to hear the
steam drills used in the tunnel header
so distinctly that all have heretofore be-
lieved the face of the tunnel to be not
farther away than 300 feet. 1t was
thought impossible that the drills could
be heard a greater distance through
solid rock. At the Combination shaft
they now say that they were able
to hear the blasts fired in the header of
the Sutro tunnel when it was 1900 feet
distant. Afterward when the tunnel
was opposite the shaft, they heard moth
ing of the blasts, nor could the men at
work in the tunnel hear those fred in
the shaft, and Sutro finally sert to
inquire if they had discontinued work.
1t is supposed that the qualification and
hardness of the rock have much to do
with the facility with which it is travers-
ed by sound. Hard rock no doubt con-
veys sound to a greater distance than
that which is decomposed and mixed
with clay. Sound would also be likely
to follow qualification. Of late the
header Of the Sutro tunnel has been
much harder rock than that through
which it passed when in the neighbor-
hood Of the kind called "heavy," being
wet, spongy and much inclined to swell.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-10
Airing Beds.

No housekeeper has any valid claim
to neatness, cleanliness, and tidiness,
who makes her beds as soon as thew are
vacated or, if she has such a claim, il is
based on the condition of ignorance.
TO demonstrate this, let it be remem-
bered that of all food and drink taken,
about three-tifths pass out of the system
through the outlets Of the skin--the
pores, about seven millions in number.
This waste and efiete putrid matter is
dead and poisonous, passing off more
rapidly by night, and becoming more
or less entangled in the bedding and on
the surface of the body. Hence the
necessity, for bathing and brushing, with
still greater necessity for airing and
purifying the bedding. This is done
most eflectually by exposure in the
light Of the sun, and in the morning
air. Indeed, the sun is the great puri-
fer, and nothing is hid from the heat
thereof" And here it may be remem-
bered that the bedding of the sick, 80
soon saturated by the filth of acute dis
eases, by being changed once in at least
six hours, and exposed to the free sun
light for the same time, will be safe with
half the washing otherwise absolutely
needed. Such clothes cannot be kept
too clean, while there is no danger of
too much care in these respects, rs one
of the means of controlling such acute
diseases rs fevers and intlammations.
The Dutch method of placing all of
the movable clothes of the bed on
two chairs, near the window, allowing
them to remain till afternoon, might
well be copied by housekeepers.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-10
A Great Curiosity.

Silver Spring, Florida, is one of the
greatest curiosities in the south. 1t
bursts forth in the midst of the most
fertile country in the state. 1t bubbles
up in basin near one hundred feet
deep, and about an acre in extent, and
sending from it q deep stream sixty to
one hundred feet wide. and extending
six to eight miles to the Ocklawaha riv-
err. In the aspiring itself sixty boats may
lie at anchor-quite feet. The spring
thus forms natural inland port to
which three steamers now run regular
ly from the St. Johns, making close
connections with tie ocean steamers at
Palatka. The clearness Of the water is
truly wonderful. 1t seems even more
transparent than air; you see the bot
tom eighty feet below the bottom Of
your boat, the exact form of the small
est pebble, the outlines and color of the
leaf that he has sank, and all the pris-
matte colors Of the rainbow are reflect
ed. Large fish swim in it, every scale
visible, and every movement distinctly
seen. If you 60 over the spring in .
boat you will see the assures in the
rocks, from which the river rushes up
ward like an inverted cataract.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-10

GERMAN newspapers daily mention
the fact that Germany is, if possible,
more sadly plagued with tramps than
this country is. In rural districts WON
en- are in hourly anxiety because of
these pests, and keep their doors care
fully locked whenever their husbands
are away from home.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-10
A KIND-HEARTED clergyman asked

A KIND-HEARTED clergyman asked a
convict how he came to be in Jail. The
fellow said, with tears in his eyes, that
he was coming home from prayer
meeting, and sat down to rest, fell
asleep. and while he was asleep there
the county built the jail around
him, and when he awoke the jailer re-
fused to let him out.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-10

WHERE did this baby come from ?"
asked a three year old girl of the nurse,
who was washing the squcaling little
stranger "Why, from heaven of
course" replied the nurse. "Well, if it
screamed like that there, don't won
der they sent it of" was the. stunning
rejoinder.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-10

A FEW evenings since an up town
woman heard some one at the front
door at midnight. Hastily going to the
door, and thinking it her son Sammy
she called out. NO." was the reply;
cit amt yer Psalm, but some other
woman's Hymn. Gut 'er wrong (hic)
house, 'ole woman.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-10

A BIG gold watch, sacred with the
memory Of having been owned and
worn by Brigham Young, was lately sold
at public auction in Salt Lake for 5000
and the chain for $500.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-10

ACCORDING to a Virginia newspaper,
a Wytheville dentist extracts teeth
painlessly by simply pressing on the
temples Of the patient during the oper-
alton.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-10

ALONG the elevated street railway
through New York city will be erected
fourteen handsome double station
houses, at cost of $50, 600 each.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-10

An associated press dispatch from
Washington of the Sd inst, says the
committee on commerce have agreed
mon the following appropriations for
rivers and harbors on the northwestern
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-10

The will of Howard Wheeler, who
died in Nashua. n. H., worth $1,000,
reads; "Expend it all on my tomb
stone"