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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-02-26
THE WHISKY WARIN TENNESSEE
Illicit DfstiIling. Conspiracy and
NnrInt.

NEW YORK. Feb. pa dispatch from Nash
vile. Tenn. says: That L. 5. Revenue COllec-
tor Davis and his raiders returned yesterday
from weeks ride through Putnam, De Kalb
and White counties. They had destroyed II
illicit distillerieS and arrested u men. among
them Redley Brown, Jas. Milan and Franklin
Lewis. The two latter are also charged with
having conSpired with another party to cut
INTO pieces five men whom they believed to
have given information to the revenue Off
GERS. Armed with axes they waited until the
quartette reached the door of their distillery
and attacked them, each man having selected
his victim. One was badly crippled but man
aged to make his escape, while man named
Jones had an axe driven with great force into
his back, after which he was terribly butch
ered and murdered. The other two begged
on upon condition of silence for the future
the state court. Illicit distilling has been sup
pressed in Macon county, the people of the
vicinity having assisted the officers by giving
information. Collector WOOdcock asserts that
while there are only p legal dStillerieS i'm this
district there are 300 illegal concerns i'm the
mountain uaSturpS
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kilograms to The Star.
AN INDIANA MARES NEST.
President Hayes VS.. Gov. Hendricks.
POLITICAL BREEZE IN UTAH.
WHOSE TURN NEXT INL0UIsIANA2
WAR SIGNS IN EUROPE,
THE EUROPEAN COMPLICATION.

THE EUROPEAN COMPLICATION.
Peace.
LONDON. Feb 26.-It is stated that another
aMtten,pt ate to hold peace meeting in Hyde Park
VIII De made shortly, with elaborate arrange
mentS for preventing any disturbance.
War.
LONDON, Feb. 26.-The Times states that
orders have been received at the government
WORKS AT Bull Point for an increased OUTPUT
oil cartridges and SmallarmS ammunition
A Spy at Malta.
MALTA, Feb. 26.-An order has been issued
10y the governor. requiring extra vigilance in
Notifications without a pass because a Spv i'm
the pay of some foreign power is known to be
at Malta endeavOring TO make plans.
Russia Means business.
BUCHAREST. Feb. 9-The railway admins
ratlon at Jassy has been ordered TO suspend
goods trattc, SO that the passage OF Russian
troops shall not be impeded.
Peace Expectations.
TINS fro PeS Pera 80 SPECIAL dispatch to The
rumorS OF delay in the negotiations owing to
the turkish refusal TO surrender the iren-
cindS, ;S n general eNpectation prevails that peace
soldiers are forbidden. under penalty of death
10 enter ConstantinOple without Special ner
mission from the Russian Headquarters. Bar
racks just outside of COnStantinopie are being
prepared for Russian sick who can find no
other cover
Russia Insists on Having Those
IrOn.Clads.
LONDON, Feb. 2f, p. m.-The daily Terc-
GfNpR PRINTS special edition containing the
following dispatch: ''Pera, Feb. 25-The Rus
slams are still endeavoring to prevail upon the
Porte to permit their troops to enter the city
but the Porte refuses. The terms of peace
still include the demand for the Turkish yes
SelS.''
ROumanfa DenOuncinc Russia.
BUCHAREST, Feb. 26.-In the senate yeSter-
day, Nj. StOurdZa. denounced RuSsia'S treat
11d i'm nj
and demanded that the government ask the
guaranteeing power TO recognize the indie
pendence of Roumania, solicit the
ADMISSION OF Roumanian representa-
tive at the peace conference. refuse 10
negotiate with Russia for an exchange of
territory, reject all StipulatiOns between Rus
Sia and Turkey concluded without Roumanian
participation, and recall the Roumanian army
from the right bank of the Danube This
StOurdZa is not Prince Stourdza mentioned in
last nights dispatches.
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The District in CONGRESS,

THE FREEDMENs BANK COMMISSION ERs.
A resolution was adopted by the House yes
terday requiring the Commissioners of the
Freedmen's Bank to report to the House why
the funds in their hands have not been dis
tTlDuted, and also To give an itemiZed account
OF how they have expended them, and a gene
raj account OF the Indebtedness of the bank,
WANTED TO SEND FOR PERSONS AND PAPERS
Gen. HuntOn, of the District committee.
yesterday introduced resolution in the
nenaSn moase autn9rizng the committee to send for
object was to compel the attendance of wit
nesSes touching an investigation by the com
mittee as 10 whether the District Attorney and
the Attorney General had executed law of
Congress. Mr.. COnger objected unless the
request was more specific.
THE WHISKY QUESTION.
John nj. Johns had hearing before the sub
committee of the ways and means committee
of the House District committee to- day and
urged the committee to perfect a bill reuuir-
ing the use of the Moffett bellpunch in the
District of Columbia, under the same proyi-
sions as the punch is now used in Virginia.
The committee have under consideration the
question OF a thorough revision of the LIQUOR
license law in the District, and will probabl
recommend that the license to sell liquor be
fixed at $500. This, tbs thought, will close up
the low drinking saloons.
PROTECTION OF PUBLIC PROPERTY AT THE
CAPITOL.
The bill introduced Yesterday by Mr. jones'
OF Ohio, to protect public property in and
about the Capitol, proposes to punish by fine
and imprisonment of varying grades any per-
the Capitol grounds OF the Botanical garden,
OF indecent exposure, using prOfane or bOis-
ferrous language, being Intoxicated, Obstruct
ing passages in those places, OF interfering
discharge of their duty, or assaulting them.
and it invests the Capitol police force with the
same power and authority in relation to max
ing arrests In the domain under their charge
as is vested in officers of the Metropolitan po
lice force.
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A WEDDING AND 4 FUNERAL-A Nelc Node
Bride FOIlOTiRg Her Fathers C1fiR 10 the
Craze. The funeral of the late sylvester
HOndlOw, the well-knOwn real estate croker.
TOOK place yesterday afternoon from the
Church OF the Holy Trinity, at the corner
OF Clinton and Montague streets. BROOKLYN
Heights. The attendance was large, but by
request OF the daughters, there were no floral
decorations. The rector. the Rev. DIR. Charles
ii: Hall, read the burial service and made an
address. in which he spoke i'm warm appreci-
alton of the worth of Mr.. HondlOw About an
hour before the funeral the rector SolemniZed
al Mr.. HOndlOw's house. No. q Monroe Place,
the marriage of Miss Minnie HondlOw. Mr.
Hondlow'S eldest daughter, TO the Rev. VIM.
7. Short, assistant pastor of the church. Mr.
HondlowS unexpected death left his mother
less daughters without a living kinsman TO
whom they could look for protection and conn
sci, and il was deemed best by the friends of
both the bride and the bridegroom that Miss
Minnie be married at once to Mr. Short, whom
she was expecting to wed i'm the spring. The
young lady was finally persuaded TO waive her
natural reluctance, and with tears i'm her ewes
was welded i'm the house where her fathers
remains lay ready for burial The marriage
covenant ratified, the bride and bridegroom
went together TO the church, and thence To-
gether followed the fathers remains to their
resting place in GreenwoOd.-[N Y World. =
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AFFAIRS In UTAH.
Mormon Incendiarfsm-POIi Ex.

NEW YORK, Feb. "a special from salt
says on Monday night, the WaSatch smelling
works Oh the Big Cottonwood. was entirely
destroyed by fire. The loss is $4,000. They
are supposed to have been set on fire by Nor
mon farmers i'm the vicinity who claim that
the fumes destroy their land and killed their
cattle. At Salt Lake the feeling of indigna-
ton over the signing of the election bin dis
franchising nOn- MormOns and the bill taxing
mines b? Governor Emery is increasing, and
a meeting of leading citizens is called for
Wednesday night to denounce the act.
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Of for DarSs

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. &.-The u. S. frigate
Constitution left this port at noon today, with
cargo OF 500 tons of exhibits for the Paris ex-
posltl0n. She was accompanied down the
missioner General Mccormick, G. w. Childs
Mayor Stokely and others. The TalapoOsl
VIII arrive here next week to convey tie re
naming exhibits to the Brooklyn navy-yard
where they will be transferred TO the L. s.
ship Portsmouth, which is expected to sail
about the 18th prOX.
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LOUISIANA REPUBLICANS DIS.
COURAGED.
They Don't Know Whose Turn IL
will

NEW YORK, Feb. ga dispatch from New
Orleans says that 1.-THE sentencing of General
Anderson has cast a gloom upon the republi-
cans here. The leaders now say there is no
any time. on any charge, be arrested, tried
and convicted. A close canvass of the Senate
shows that if Governor Nichols pardOns
Anderson he will be sustained.
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one of the two chmpanzees or man monkeys
recently brought to this country from Africa
died in the New York aquarium Friday of
quick consumption. This couple were the first
alive. 1t was not believed when they arrived
that either one could live long. Coming from
the southern part of Africa, where the ther-
mOmeter varies hardly half a dozen degrees
during the entire year, it was thought that this
variable climate would soon kill them. On
the second day after their arrival the male
cough. Drs. Gayler and DOrner gave him
medicine liberally. All through his illness he
was like child. When he died the female
showed unmistakable signs of grief She has
cough.
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THE VICTIM OF THE MURDER at West Point
on Sunday morning was not cadet as an
n0unced by telegraph. Two private soldiers
OF the detachment of the engineer corus now
stationed at West Point quarreled abont a
woman, and one shot the other. The murderer
is in the guardhouse awaiting the demand of
the civil authorities
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The New JERSEY LEGISLATURE evidently

THE NEW JERSEY LEGISLATURE evidently
thinks that the times demand little stringent
ministratOrs, trustees, and guardians honest.
A bill has been introduced providing for the
fine and Imprisonment of those VINO shall
traudulently convert any money or goods held
by them in trust for the benefit of estates or of
wards. Such law seems to be specially neces-
sary for the protection of women and minor
children where estates, in the rage of specula-
tl0n, are not seldom deyOured by untrust-
worthy agents or attorneys
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A GANG OF MoLLIE MAGUIRBs have been
discovered in the neighborhood Of Twins sta
ton, Pa. on the Pennsylvania railroad. Two
OF the number have been captured, and the
detectives are in pursuit of two others who
have been guilty of many outrages, including
murders
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AN ALABAMA STUDENT KILLS HIS MAN.
A special from Decatur, Alabama, says: TX.
lectOr of Madison county, shot and Instantly
killed one Ostell, at Tuscaloosa, yesterday
Harrison IS a student at the University of
Alabama, and was preparing to return home
when attacked by Ostell, who shot him twice.
inflicting severe wound. Harrison then shot
Ostell, and surrendered himself to the anthOri-
ties
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AN EXPRESS AGENT MIssING.-Isaac Miller.
express agent for the Philadelphia and Read
ing railroad company at Ashland, Pa, has
been missing since last Friday. The KEYS of
ms safe cannot be found, so that il is MOI
straight or not. In 1876 he lost sysO which he
mad collected for a church. He has been paw
Ing the money back gradually since. and as
the subject preyed upon his mind, il is feared
Dy his friends that he has committed suicide
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The liquor dealers of New Orleans have
met and determined to submit to the Louis
lana legislature protest against the intro
ducllOn III that state of the M0ffett liquor reg
lister.
kSIt is stated that Of the old cathOlicleaders
III GeLmany, only Pr0is. D0llinger, Reusch,
and Mlchaelis are opposed to the abolition of
eelibacy, and the question is considered
fofegOne conclusion.
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ABOUT FIFTEEN THOUSAND MEN are out of
work in San FranciscO-so say the papers,
though 1900 is the figure sworn to before the
legislative committee. The employers-at
least in the iron trade-admit that the dull
times prevailed long before the present anti
Chinese labor agitatiOnS.
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GENERAL FOREIGNNEWS,
II. g. R0nSIS I'm InmslAn

LONDON, Feb. 26-The financial article of
the Times says that U. s. bonds are dependant
on New York orders for their market
Failure i'm Scotland,
GLASGOW, Feb. 26.-StevenSOn & Coates
grain millers have failed. Their liabilities
are $5GG0O0l
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YtcttEns OF the Wreek

DUXBURY, MASS, Feb 26.-Three more
bodies were found on the beach here yester-
day. They are supposed to be victims OF the
wreck Of the fishing schooner Little Kate, lost
bodies have so far been found.
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The Coal Combination Showing Up
the Prices.

NEW YORK, Feb. ga special from Easton.
Pa, says:-The retail coal dealers of this sec
tiOn have received notice from. the mining
companies that they must advance the price
OF all coal TO a certain figure, or they viii not
be furnished with any more coal from them,
and they have in consequence advanced its
price about fifty cents on the ton.
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A9-A resumption of hOstilities between the
freshmen and the soph0mOres of Brown uni
yersity, last week, has led TO number of sus-
pensions.
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The PISTOL WAS UNLoADED. Coroner
Croker yesterday took the deposition OF Chas.
Leonard, of 10th avenue, near l2Sd street,
father OF the boys Charles and Nathaniel
Thomas Leonard, the former of whom was
shot dead by the latter in 10th avenue on Sat
urday night. The boys were playing with a
pistol supposed not TO be loaded, and after
they had exploded several caps on il without
harm :" it went of, y and the bullet lodged in
tween the boys. The coroner released Sa-
thaniel on nominal bail.-[N. Y. World. s5th
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NEW YORK, Feb. @.-The Lehirh Nal,.v
Coal company has announced its prices per
boat, $50; broken, S&2S and 80: ,.t,r, sSSS
and $50: stove. SS.A: chestnut. s. D
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LOCAL OPTION IN NMARYLAND-IutbeM Mary
land legislature yesterday Mr.. Smith. dele
gate from Baltimore city, denied that he had
been offered a bribe of 5000 TO vote against
the proposed local option bill. There was
much discussion about the local option ques-
lion, but no conclusion was reached. The
minority made Some protest against the option
law as not belng IN the interest of the temper
ance movement, while several members
claimed that its principles contain good dem
ocratic doctrine.
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CONFUSING Two HUNDRED BURGLARIEs
Louis Napoleon, Louis Vernon Azavildar and
Blanche Delacroix We're committed without
bail yesterday, by Justice Wheeler, for trial
for their many burglarieS i'm MOrrisania. The
prisoners all confessed their guilt Louis Ma
pOleon admitted the perpetration of over 300
bufglarleS since his arrival in this country
six years ago. His father is SAID to be a
DelacrOiX says she was educated at ST. 10.
sephs convent, Philadelphia. AZayildar is an
educated man and looks like college profes-
s0r. The prisoners spent Sunday in singing
selections from various operas. A large guan-
tity Of stolen property still awaits identifica.
ti0n at the MOrrisania station house. Among
other articles are fifty new Overcoats.-{N, Y
Tribune, g6th.
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A6At West Bronze, Quebec, Saturday even
ing last, Elmira Allen followed Hiram Washer.
her seducer, to Capren's hotel and shet him
dead
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BALTIMORE, February 26.-virgInia sizes
deferred. Al; DO. consolidated, IS: do sscond
series, S9' North Caroina skies, old I6; do. new,
8 bid TODAY. Sugar steady. 9a9R.
BALTIMORE. February 9.-Cotton steady
middiing. I07ral0&. Flour dun ami prices Gn-
changed. Wheat duh and for western cents
lower u; hcru red. Seal 81; PennSy lyanIa red
IS al 81; Ne. western winter red spot Feb
rual, and March, 20 also. Corn. southern
steady; western active and y cent lower southern
VII te and yellow, 6S -; western mixed, spot
February and March, %; ApriL 55; May, - q /.
osts Qniet and steady-SOuthern. SSa36: western
White, S4a35: Pennsylvania 34S35. Rye nominal
oo.62 Hay urcl anggd. Provisions Very dan aud
unchanged, only Juhhing demand. Butter, prime
tcaIce ard wan'td-chotce weStern roll. 2oi22: do.
Iat ked' 2la23. Petroleum duh and nomlnai-r,-
hntd. II. Coffee dul,-Rio cargoes l4aai7s
whisky dun and unchanged 100. Receipts-nour.
200; wheat, - 600; corn. ll6. 600: oats, LUlo
snitmsntsINs % ,-G, heat, =. 600; corn. j., ,oco.
Money. 8. Gold, l0lTs. Exchange, long, zs3:
short. 49,. Governments better.
NEW YORK. February 36.-Flour dun and
declining. Wheat dun and 1 and 2 cents lower.
Corn dun ana a shade easier.
LONDON. February 26 1880 y. m.-U. =
four and-a-half per cent. bonds, l0aia: 1861
Erie, SNB; preferred, 22s. Illinois Central, 7S .
PennSy yNania Central, -.
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The ELECTION FOR CITY CoUNcILMEN i'm
the ten wards OF Frederick, Nd, took place
yesterday. The republicans had but two can
dldates In the field. The democrats carried
All the wards. The present board stands five
democrats and five republicans. But little in
tereSt was manifested I'm the contest
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No TROUBLE TO BE FEARED FROM SITTING
BUlL:-Gen. Crook has returned to Omaha
from the Indian territory. Concerning the
published statement ina Cheyenne paper that
spring against Sitting Bull, Gen, Crook makes
an emphatic denial He says no immediate
trouble need be feared from Sitting Bull, un-
less the buffalOeS range south, which is hardly
probable, as they have not done so of late
years. No expedition against the hostile Sioux
is now contemplated.
WHAT THE GOVERNOR OF NORTH CAROLINA
saba few days since Col. Bradley L. John
son. Of Richmond, Va, requested permission
from Coy. Vance for the Walker Light Guard
to pass through the state Of North Carolina ON
their way to Charleston. Gov. Vance respond
ed as follows: Permission granted to pass
through North Carolina with your command.
BE BE virtuo4s and you'll be ehappy-but you won't
DARING ROBBERY OF AN EXPRESS CARA
traln on the Texas central railroad was
poarued on thursday night last by six armed
and masked men, who robbed the express ear
OF $2,5n The messenger appears to have
made % gallant defence. and it is thought sue
ceeucu III klnng one OF the robbers The
others escaped with their booty The utmost
CONSERVATION seems to have seized the mas
sengers, and there was general scramble i'm
were not mOlested. ''
THE REV. CANON PULLEN late of Salisbury
eathedral, England, and the author of Dame
EurOpa's School" and other popular works
has gone over to Roman catholicism.
CAPT REDMOND, an English officer of repp-
lars, who refuses to live with his wife, has
been ordered by the London divorce court to
take her to his house once more as his spouse
within thirty days, or be declared i'm contempt
A1Captain BOyton is about to swim from
Toledo to Lisbon, a distance of 100 miles: then
he viii try to cross the Straits Of Gibraltar.
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IMPORTANT TO TAXPAYERS.

Pending the passage of the bill introduced in
Congress, authorizing the adjustment of
CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES TO REAL ESTATE,
and to correct erroneous and excessive charges for
SPECIAL IMPROVEMENTS,
property owners should prepare their claims for pre-
SrniatiUn.
Special attention will be given TO this class of
business and all taxpayers interested Will find it
advantageous TO intrust their claims TO me.
SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT TANES
laid AZ a large discount.
WILLIAM DICKSON.
222 FoaP-dH6-d-k0tfs street,
fe21-lm Three Doors above Columbia Building.
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AdCaptain BOytOn is about to swim from
Toledo to Lisbon, distance of 100 mikes: then
he viii try TO cross the Straits Of Gibraltar.
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Death Of Consul General Harrf.
ASsignn,ertt-

NEW IoRk. Feb. a-Town~end Harris. rN
United States Consul General To Japan die,
yesterday, aged - years.
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The Markets.

CINCINNATI, Feb. 2G-MeSSrS. TAYLOR, IeSl
Co, the large lth street notion house, ma,
an assignment YESTERDAY
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A IL WHO VALUE THEIR yl6HT To
a anow the best One Dollar
Ge GH; h. HEHfLER's Opti.
1a>R, 70 -. ave. y. W., co., tK StTee1.
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THE REV. CANON PuLLEN late of Salisbury
cathedral, England, and the author of Dame
EnrOpa's School " and other popular works.
has gone over to Roman catholicism =
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In view Of the likelihood OF the passage OF an
act Of Congress providing for the audit of claims
against the District government the undersigned
will undertake the prosecution Of such as may ne
entrusted to him.
A familiarity with such matters, acquired by
long experience, leads him to believe that his
vices may he beneficial 10 persons disposed 10 pl ace
their interests in his hands.
An early presentation of claims will, of course,
insure speedier attention thereto.
RICHARD WALLACH,
feE15-lm No. 40 Louisiana ace.
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CAPT. REDMOND, an English officer of regu-
lars, who refuses to live with his wife has
been ordered by the London divorce court TO
take her to his house once more as his spouse
within thirty days, or be declared i'm contempt.