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IMPORTANT FROM EUROPE.
EMPEROR WILLIAM.
Attempt to Assassinate Him.
THE BRITISH ARMY.
THE SARDINIA DISASTER.
SITTING BULL DEFIANT.
A Bloody War Threatened.
EMPEROR WILLIAM.
Attempt to Assassinate Him.
THE BRITISH ARMY.
THE SARDINIA DISASTER.
SITTING BULL DEFIANT.
A Bloody War Threatened.
THE SARDINIAN DISASTER.
Tho ENnIoStnr, aud ~.


MONTREAL, May 1.-THE Messrs Alan have
received the following cable dspatch.-" The
Sardinian's spare boats exploded in Moyile
harbor The ship, taking fire, was run ashore
scutted and sunk i'm - feet of water. several
Steerage passengers were injured. All the
cabin passengers are safe. Two OF the crew
were killed. An attempt will be made 20 float
the ship next week. The Peruvian sails from
Liverpool on Sunday 10 embark the Sardini-
ans mails and passengers"
Greater Loss OF Life Than First Re-
ported.
LONDON, May II, ii a. m.-The Allan line
steamer SardiniaD, on which an explosion hap
pened yesterday afternoon at the entrance TO
Lough Foyle, While on the passage from Liy-
the time of the accident The explosion took
place In her coal bunkerS and she took fire
Immediately. The greatest confusion and con
Sternatlon ensued on the vessel. When order
was restored the compartments were searched
Tor the dead and wounded. Some of the latter
had arms and legs broken. A few were burned
about the head and face. 1t is believed that
when the full extent OF the disaster is ascer-
tanned the figures given i'm the dispatches last
night of the injured and killed will be consid-
erably increased.
Further Particulars.
LONDON, May III, | p. m.-Three Of the
injured in the Dover nfirmary were last night
pronounced hopeless. Two of the bodies re-
covered were Identified as members of the
crew. Some passengers are reported missing,
but this may be the result of confusion. as the
majority OF them are unable to speak English.
Among the SardinianS passengers are forty
orphan children destined for domestic service
In America. The improved fire brigade from
Derry went 10 the vessel in a special steiner
but all their efforts were unayaiIing. An
attempt was made TO beach her on McKin-
neyS beach, but she was finally scuttled and
filled and sank in five fathoms of water.
Missing.
LONDON, May IL. 5 p. m.-An OF the Sar-
dlnlanS saloon passengers are safe. Four
persons tsteerage passengers and members Of
crew are missing.
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almost indefinitely. Another class, like Silas
Wegg, drops into poetry The numbers of this
cIass are like the leaves of the trees. The two
poetic powers. The first concludes AN Ode
to George Washington:'
lnen come, then come, and see our change
And help us move along:
What you had once shall he our gain:
do come. George Washington.
The otht is from a song on the "Destinies
OF NatiOns:''
While Europe fights over boundary lines
ana small countries around her whirl,
Leg Americans hold tight to the plough lines,
Ana we soon shall rule the world
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BALTIMORE, May L-yirginia siIes, Old. 25;
do. deferred A.; do consolidated, 60A; do. second
SERIES 32: past due coupons, S2E; North Csrolins.
skies, old, Is; do. new, g.; dc. special tax, bid
to-day. Sugar firm and higher, sa94
BALTIMORE, May n.-CottoD firm and held
higber-middliDg. nomlnay 10 1a10s. Flour dull
and in buyers fayor-prices nominalIy UNCHANGED.
Wheat southern shade frmer: western frmer-
southern red, 1.15a1 %; do. amber, T. 2Sal. 30:
Pennsylvania red, l. 26aI ,26: No. 2 winter red,
western, spot and May. L % GAL 26x; june, 1a7l,
al 27le: July, 1.23s1 20. Corn, southern steady:
western fin IN and higher-southern white, b2a53:
do. yell w, SO: western mixed, spot and May bIE
a61k: june, blSsL51E; July, 63; August, Is bid
Oats dull ard 5s and cent lowsr-soufhern, 83aS5;
yania- s3a35. Rye quiet and unchanged-nonli-
Dally. 66s6S. Hay duh and unchanged. Provisions
9nie,, with fair lobIing trade only: Butter dun
tone-refned. nominally IL. Coffee firm apd
higher-Rio csrgoes, 141sa17k. Whisky dun and
easier, l0575alo6. Frelghts TO Liverpool per
steamer 81, ,ady and unchanged. Receipts-boar
2 700; wheat IL 600; corn. los, 600; oats, 8. 900
Shipments-wheat. 80. 600; corn. 100, 600.
NEW YORK. M.y 1L.-Stocks generally Arm
Money, 4 and 8. Gold, 100k. Erchanve lons'
4S6: short. 49,. Governments firm, -e'
NEW YORK. May n.-Flour more steady
W beat and cents better. Corn y cent betfsrs'
LONDON, May Ii, IL 30 D. m.EConsoi.
IS l5-16 for money and SO for the account. W' II
bonds, un-forties. coupon, 101t; new Hves foec
krte, preferred. 30.9. Illinois Central 76x Pennn.
syNaaA Csa'ral, as4. New Jersey CsntTn. Ssx.
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Railroad Train wrecked by Tramps.

fOKT JEWS, n. Y, May H. About 9
o'clock last evening engine ST. attached 10 an
eastward bound Erie freight train was thrown
down an embankment one mile east OF this
station, badly wrecking III and iniuring the
engineer, who was compelled to Jump OBJ
Structions had been placed on the switch at
that point, it is supposed by tramps, with the
undOubted intention of wrecking the fast
passenger train which passed over the road an
-Four and half before,
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l.. e. DENNIS. the Florida cOnfessor, left the
city last evening in disgust at the backward
ness OF the democrats in commencing the
leng,talked of Presidential investigation. Be-
lore leaving he said he had no faith in the sin
eely OF the in protesting to desire
when they, open the inquiry state of facts
will be developed which will quiet their
Benr aHd y he agast bsd the
House would take action on the proposed in
vesllgat10n, he replied: II think about the
time time OF kingdom come as they say. The
democrats don't seem to have either the abi-
lty or the courage. There must be Something
rotten ON the Democratic side, which they are
teaIimi lea VIII be exposed imagine they think
also said. THE published statement purpOrt-
lhg TO be mine, in relation to the canvass in
Aiaehua county. Florida, was deliberate and
Wlllful violation of confidence"
ANOTHER HITCH.-There seems to he
another hitch in the Florida investigation
business. Up to the time the morning hour ex
pired in the House, there was general i'm
preston that Immediately thereafter General
the Florida bomb shell into the House. When.
however, that time arrived and Reagan took
me moor TO have further considered the inter.
coming to time, sat TRANQUILITY in his chair.
there was murmur of disapprObatfon among
Inat DIVISION OF the democracy which had an.
~ PooieIsCiy tude tuc HidtcH 10 Gne treSl-
SemIlal gem, a. powder magazine was TO be lit to-day
Now II is said that the resolution will Certainly
come In on Monday that Speaker Randall will
not take the responsibility of deciding il to be
aquestion of privilege but will submit it to the
House Tor its decision. If a majority decide
ns @ M TO De privileged one the investi
scheme will have to be devised to bring # IT. !"
the attention OF the House.
Ine Quld nuncS who have been circulating
the gossip that ClarkSOn N. Potter. of NeW
YORK, was to explode the bomb, now abandon
MN as the head OF the Presidential smashina
motor He returned from New York IaSi
IIghI, g anu was on the floor of the House To-
Gay, Dut GENES that his visit had ANYTHING In
&c with the present agitation of the Presiden.
tial question.
Ire plan agreed upon to have the resolution
come from member of the judiciary commit
lee has been abandoned, for the reason tha a +.
as that committee will be the one by which the
investigation will be prosecuted, it was deemed
lmpollilc, as well as lndelicate, that member
OF That committee should offer it.
1t is said that the hitch is Occasioned throuob
the fear that the judiciary committee will not
TAKE SulfcIent interest in the matter and tbe
taik Is now that special COMMITTEES will he
asked. Looking at the subject serjously
mere seems to be good deal more frOth than
peer In lt: About two dozen hOt-heads i'm the
investigation, and those who represent the
party brains. have about all they can do to
hold them back. Wv ~
1HE STEAMER CIMBRIA, at Southwest bar
Dor, Me, was boarded yesterday by an officer
OF The Y. 5. revenue cutter Hugh McCuIIOch
and subsequently by Capts. Hunt, Younger
ana Grlppenberg, who are officially Connected
Win the Cimbria. Nothing of interest trans
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An Order for Removal Of Indians
COUntermanded.

TT. LEAVENWORTH, KAN, May ii. = An
order was received here today from the divf-
sion headquarters countermanding the order
for the expedition to remove the Ute Indians
to New Mexico. Everything was in readiness
to START when the order was received, and the
trains for transportation, the baggage and
horses were being loaded. The organization
was at once diSbanded and the soldiers sent
back to their regiments. The horses will be
returned 10 Rock Island, and everything will
remain in Statu quo, awaiting the action of
Congress-
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The RIue and sba Gray

NICKsBURG, Miss, May 1l.-Memorial day
was observed here yesterday by ex- Union and
ex.Confederate soldiers, and the graves of
both were decorated with flowers The blue
and the gray marched in the same procession.
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The NattopatCeme,

CHICAGO, May l.-Gen. ID. h. Sacket, in-
Spector general of the military division of the
Missouri, has returned from tour of inspec-
tion among the national cemeteries i'm the
South: HerepOrtS finding all the cemeteries
in first rate order.
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Attempt TO Assassfnate the Emperor
William

LONDON, May IL, 5p.m.-A dispatch to Reu-
terS Telegram Company from Berlin says: AT
$50 o'clock this afternoon, as Emperor vii
liam was returning from a drive with the
Grand Duchess of Baden, several shots from
a revolver were fired at HIM in avenue Umter
Der Linden. Nobody was hurt, and the per-
son who fired the shots was arrested.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-05-11

THE PREsENTs.-The principal gifts re-
ceived by Mrs. j. Donald Cameron were the
grOom'S present of necklace and bracelets
of diamonds worth 5000, a gold horseshoe set
OF diamonds from near friend, diamond ear
wife, check for 5,0O0 from Secretary Sher
man, and innumerable articles of gold and
silver TO the amount of not far from SiOO am
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-05-11

u SEIZURE OF SMUGGLED MILLINERY.-The
Boston cuStOm-house authorities have seized
a quantity of millinery and other goods be
longlng to a lady milfner of that city. The
they were brought i'm Paris and smuggled
through New York. The lady is said TO have
smuggled large quantities of similar goods
during the past two years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-05-11

RETRENcHMENT DEMANDED.-Mayor How
that city of the absolute necessity of cntting
down the annual city and county expenses
s4oO,OO or it will be impossible to carry On the
government -i' VA WIZ
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To BE Hung i'm Juue.

BUFFALO, n. Y, May ll.-Carl Marke was
this morning found guilty of the murder OF
John A. Hon, at Elma, in this county, on
April I'd last, and sentenced to be executed on
lime Dist ~
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The MArkefa.

LONDON, May ll.-It is expected that about
hall million pounds from the east will go
INTO the Bank OF England to-day or Monday.
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DEATH OF BEECHER.-Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher announced last night, at Plymouth
church, the death of his sister, Catharine
beecher, OF apOplexy, at Elmira, N. Y. She
was the author OF many books on the subject
Of female education. s~e'sS'
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THE COMING WAR In EUROPE.
AHmK aIaNamanIS

LONDON, May ll.-All the British regiments
in the Mediterranean, are to be made up 10 q
thousand men. Reinforcements are ready 10
leave England for this purpose. Prince
Charles of Roumania, will leave Bucharest to-
day, for the army.
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Dfed I'm France
Gone In EuHono

NEW YORK, May ll.-Mrs. w. L. Herndon-
Navy, died at Hyeres, France. recentIyo
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LEWISTON, ME-, May lI.-The state eentra,
committee of the National Greenback PARTY
has issued call for state convention 10 he
held in this city on Wednesday June &
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A MAJORITY of the Servian revolutionary
cabinet and twenty-five other conspirators are
condemned to be shot At the instance of
foreign diplomats, however, Prince Milan de-
clines 70 sign the death warrants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-05-11

GEN. ORD AND Gov. HUBBARD, of Texas.
have been in consultation at Austin on from.
tier affairs Ii Is reported Esc0bedo has re.
turned TO New Orleans,
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A COMMUNISTS SENTENCE.-David Coproy,
a leading spirit among the communists OF New
York, was yesterday sentenced to eighteen
months i'm the state prison for aSSaulting An
drew Gallagher with knife short time ago.
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Money from the East.

NEW YORK, May ll.-Fiye hundred and
twenty-eight passengers sailed for Europe To-
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COMMUNICATING Senate yesterday after
noon confirmed as captain in the 95h cavalry
George A; Armes. who was dismissed by Sec
retary Belknap some years ago. He returns
to the position which he occupied at the lime
of his dismissal.
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PERsONAL.-Mr. j. w. Miner, the assistant
L. 5. fish commissioner, who returned recently
from Albemarle Sound, has again left the city
for Hayre-de-Grace, where he will establish
station for the propagation of shad.
" Prof Simon Newcomb, L. S. N. has re.
ported for temporary daty at the Nava,
Academy.
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y HAI ARD 4 HUTCHINSON
~ SlI 9TH STREET NORTHWEsr
~-t 'eJ extensive facilities for maaufae-
turing, are now showing . line OF Marhieizs,i
40 IsS.IIn Sea n for richness Of design and color
- -su .Hahng N extent any establshinsnt in the
country. Architects designs for Wantiss AZ snd snd
.srs ~ closely followed. and initial IONS OF
Assnts for BARsrOW WROU UGHT YRRpN " LTfR Wiz.
AZ, Baltimore KITCHEN Err RANGEss Ciuo
BE hossa fireplace STOVE. ContranIoos, - -
= t ,sis 4ing and all Tin and Copper Work w.
seS soSe oIce or competent mechanics In thai IN
A. sI ISnchss and long sersOnal experience win
90 soca wPrk cheaper than any ot6er house. nv WI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-05-11

rs BUFFALO LITHIA.
HUNIADl JANOS,
.,., SPRING WATERS,
At
mar14-tr .sn n nSi M Az
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AMONG THE CALLERS at the White House
to-day were Senator Plumb. Represen, a; YES
Gardner, Stewart, Campbell, Shallenb 1rger
Errett, Bayne, Bridges and Phillips
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-05-11

SURGEON j. W. WILLIAMS is relieved from,
duty with Il oops at the arsenal here. and will
report for duty in the department OF the Mis-
souri,
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THE EVENING STAR,
DOU BL r : III f E II,
Washington News and Gossip.

GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY.-lnternal
revenue, $40, ,S25.93: customs 1855 Is.
SUBSCRIPTIONS TO the four per cent. loan to
day TO amounted $4,000.
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The STEAMER CIMBRIA. at Southwest bar
Dor, Me, was boarded yesterday by an officer
OF the Y. 5. revenue cutter Hugh McCuIiOch.
and subsequently by Capts. Hunt, Younger
pired. 't"hs'
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HOME FROM THE WEDDING Secretary
sherman, General Sherman and General Van
Eliet re,ui ned to the city to-day from Cleve.
land, Ohio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-05-11

A GENERAL ORDER from the War depart
ment, issued today, shows that from October
1st, 1877, to April 30th, 1878. there were fortv
promotions among officers of the army, five
transfers, four retirements, ten resignationS
twenty deaths and two dropped from the rolls,
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ONE OF THE NOUCHERS.-Cha Glover
who IS running over the vouchers of expendi
lures for the Morrison Louisiana committee.
has found voucher for 1896 for champa gne
brandy, claret and whiskey
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-05-11

CONSUL GENERAL BADEAU.-By direction of
General Sherman, in conformity with the Opin.
ION OF Attorney General Devens, the dropping
OF Major Adam Badeau, formerly OF the U.
). army, now consul general at London will
re dated in the army records from MAY 10.
1869, the date of lis appointment to his consul.
GCneralShip.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-04-04
For R ent.

TWO LARGE COMFORTABLE k=zA
| rooms, suitable for an office, or a Essssm
store. can be rented cheap ii applica- E-AA
tion is made Immediately. at
MRS. NJ. A. ASHTM'S.
Eureka. January IL. 1878. il2-tf
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EUREKA DAILY SENTINEL.
,um1sHEp EVERY MORNING (ExcEPT MONDAY
BY
CASSIDY d SKILLMAN.
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cUAS. w. CRANE, at No. 1873 Montgomery
s,reet, Room No. 10 Safe Deposit Build
;ne. is Sole Agent for the Eureka Daily
sEsrIsEL in San Francisco. Persons In that
sity having business with this office are re-
aisstsd to communicate with him.
q SNYDER is authorized to receive SUBJ
sripions for the SENTINEL and collect for
The same in this town. Al persons in Eu.
rcka owing tor subscriptions will make
paymen I to him.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-01-04

A correspondent, who writes from Mention
in Southern France under date of Oct 31st,
last, contributes to Nature, the leading Eng
lsh scientific periodical. the following inter
esting and remarkable narrative -
Last winter we occupied the rooms we now
do at Mention. Early in February we heard
as we thought the song Of canary, and fan
cied it was outside our balcony however we
soon discover that the singing was in our 81
lon, and that the songster was n mouse at that
time the weather was rather cold, and we had
little fire, and the mouse spent most of the
day under the fender, where we kept il sup
piled with bits of biscuit in n few days it be-
came quite tame, and would come on the
hearth in an evening and sing for several
hours sometimes it would climb up the
chifonier and ascend vase of flowers to
drink at the water. and then sit and sing on
the edge of the table and allow us to go quite
near to it without ceasing its warblc one of
its favorte haunts was the wood-basket. and
it would often sit and sing ON the edge of it.
On February ~, the last night of the carni-
val, we had n number of our friends in our
SdlOR, and the little mouse sang most vigor-
ously much to their delight and astonishment
and was was not in the least disturbed by the
talking. In the evening the mouse would Of
ten run about the room and under the door
into the corridor and adjoining rooms, and
then return to its own hearth after amusing
us for nearly n month it disappeared, and we
suspect it was caught in trap set in one of
the rooms beyond The mouse was small
and had very large cars which moved about
much whilst singing the song was not un-
like that of the canary in many Of It's trills
and it sang quite as beautifully as any canary
but it had more variety, and some itSnotes
were much lower, more like those OF tke bull
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-01-04

The gorilla occupies well-woodtd coun-
try extending along the coast of Africa from
the Gulf of Guinea southwards across the equa-
tor. When full grown he is equal to "A man in
height but much more powerfully built. "Of
specimens shot by Du Chaillu, says Rymer
Jones. the largest male seems TO have been
at least six feet two in height; so that, max
ing allowance for the shortness of the lower
limbs. the dimensions of n full-grown male
may be said to equal those of man of eight
or nine feet high and it is only in their length
that the lower limbs are disproportionate to
the gigantic trunk. In the thickness and sol
idity of their bones. and in the strength Of
their muscles, these limbs are quite in keep
ing with the rest of the body When up
right. the gorrillas arms reach to his knees !:
the hind hands are wide. and of amazing size
and power the great toe or thumb measures
six inches in circumference the palms and
soes, and the naked part of the face are of
an intense black color. ms is also the breast
The other parts are thickly clothed with hair
of an iron gray except the head. on which it
is reddish brown, and the arms, where it is
long and nearly black. The female is wholly
tinged with red"
The gorilla is n fruit-eateT, but as fierce as
the most carniyorous animals. He is said to
show IN enraged eumity against men, proba-
bly, because he has found them not only hos
tile to himself, but successful in securing the
fruits which the gorilla loves, for he shows "A
similar hatred to the elephant, which also
seeks these fruits. We are told that when the
gorilla 'sees the elephant busy with his trunk
among the twigs, he instantly regards this as
an nfraction of the laws of property, and,
dropping silently down to the bough, he sud
denly brings his club down on the sensitive
finger of the elephants proboscis. and drives
of the alarmed animal trumpeting shrilly with
rage and pain" His eumity to man is more
terribly manifested The young athletic ne
groes in their ivory-hRunts," says Gosse,
well know the prowess of the gorilla. He
does not, like the lion, sullenly retreat on see
ing them, but swings himself rapidly down to
the lower branches, counting the conflict, and
clutches the nearest of his enemies The hid
eous aspect of his visage (his green eyes fash
ing with rage is heightened by the thick and
prominent brows being drawn spasmodically
up and down, with the hair erect, causing a
horrible and fendish scowl. Weapons are
torn from their possessor's grasp, gun-Larrels
bent and crushed in by the powerful hands
and yice-like teeth of the enaged brute. r.
RichdFd 4. Proctor.