Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-10-05
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To. DAY.-Internai rev
enue, S271 ,C04.47; customs s623 319.45


enue, s27l .C04.47; customs. ss23, ,31s4s
An EMIGRATION MEETING was held by colored
people last Saturday at the fair grounds, Mont
gonery. Ala. Four thousand persons are estt-
mated to have been In attendance, numbers
having reached there on foot, mule and horses,
and la wagons from the surrounding country.
A determination to remove somewhere seemed
70 actuate all, while Kansas, Colorado and Ii
Dt ria were the favOrtte places. The great major
1ty favored settlement In the young African Re-
public. The next expedition by the American
Color1zation society viii be by the bark
MoDIOvia" from New York, about November
1St leXt.
A GRtESBACK DOG.-A mutilated five dollar
note was received at the Treasury to-day from
Marion county, Indiana, and redeemed. Accom-
panying 1t was the following affidavit: ''Before
me. John E. Scott, a notary public in and for
said county and state, comes Walter Rivers,
who being & duly sworn w m deposes M and says st tnat
the city Of Indianapolis, dog owned by the de-
poEent did felOniously and with malice intent
seize five dollar bill numbered 56,460, series
1875 and bank number 40, and after chawing Off
the right hand lower corner and the entire LEFT
and edge OF the aforesaid bill, In spite of all
due effort on the part OF deponent succeeded tn
swallowing the same, and no amount OF after
effort In choking the aforesaid dog availei to
recover The torn portion OF said bull; and, fur
thermore, deponent declares the said dog t } oe
duly licensed by the City OF Indianapolis under
number Isl, taxes paid in full to May l. 1885,
and seeks TO obtain from tne Hon Treasurer
CT the United States all proper relief in the
shape of new five dollar WI liam." The new
BILL was sent.
ARMY ORDERs.-Leave for two months from
November is granted Captain E. NJ. Heyl. 4th
cavalry. The superintendent mounted recruit
ing service viii forward 50 recruits to Fort
Smelling, Minnesota, for assignment to the 7Ch
Cavalry.
ABOUT KAEsAs-Ex- Congressman Phillips, OF
Kansas, is in town, and In answer to the ques.
tton of STAR reporter says that Kansas will
give Garfield $4,000 majority, but that there l.
sCme opposition TO Governor st. John, the re-
publican candidate for reelection, on account OF
his decided prohibition liquor views. This oppo-
sltlcn Will not In the opinion OF Mr.. Phillips
amount to enough TO seriously endanger Uhe
election or ST. John.
MASKED MISUNDERSTANDING Commissioner
Of Internal Revenue Raum to-day received the
following telegram from Revenue Agent Wag-
ner at Atlanta: 1.-the body of armed men who
forcioly rescued the property held for violation
OF the United States internal revenue laws at
Dalton on Friday night last wore black masks
and gowns and their horses were covered with
sheets. | have visited Dalton aud obsa1ned
some evidence. Investigation progressing fag-
o1ably."
YELLOW FEVER DEATH IN NEW ORLEANs.-A
dispatch was received this p. M. by the Ma.
4th, 2p, m, which says: "a death foom yellow
fever occurred last night at No. 400 south Liber-
ty street, nearly one mile from commercial
centers, and one mile from harbor. Disinfec-
tlon, immediate burial, and all oter means used
to prevent spread. f. h LeSher, Acting Pres-
dent State Board of Health"
THE GERMAN ORPHAN ASYLUM APPRoPRIA-
TIoN.-Deputy First Controller Tarbell has de-
cided In the case Of the German orphan asylum.
In this city, that the money appropriated at the
last sessfon-$10, ,0OO-tO erect suitable building,
cannot be used in the purchase Of building
already erected. II the association wants to
buy building with this money, an enabling
act v Ill have to be first passed by Congress
The language of the law making the apprOpria
ton is vely specific that that the moley shtl
be ustd to erect building.
Gov. SHEPHERDS SILVER MINE.-Mr. John
Ogden, OF this city, is here on flying vi.i,
ON ex Covert or Steobe.d'5 MeAi e n niue. the
ratorilas He reports the party all In cool
health, the yield Of silver ore rich ana easily
got at. he has some fue speed mems with him
MIR. Ogden goes back to New York and will jola
Governor Shepherd in San Francisco In aOoI.
SIX weeks.
PERsoNAL--Secretary Evarts aad Judge Bar
ley. CT Washington, were registered in New
York last eyening.-Mlnister Lowell is to de
liver the opening address Of the session for 1880
81 OF the Edtnbarg Philosophical Institution on
the 5th OF ovember.-EX- Governor Hoffman
of New York, returned with his family from
Europe yesterday.-Dr. White, the elocuton-
1st, who was called north by the serious illness
OF his aged mother, has returned 10 the city,
Hon. Horace Walbridge, OF Ohio, is in town, the
guest OF District Attorney and Mrs. COrkhil
IN. Ba1tholomel, the new Russian Minister
terday.-A Newport dispatch says that Mi. T.
!. White, the new editor OF the Providence
Ecenlng Press, Is to assume his duties this week,
M. Bailey, A. l.. Barber. and I'll. C. Swain. OF
WASHINGTON in
last evening.
THE KILL CHILDREN HABEAs CORPUS CASE
was eefore Judge Cox In chambers yesterday
afternoon. Mrs. Kill asks the custody OF her
two children, who, it Is alleged, the husblnd
1oTclbly took from her few days since afJer
beating her, and she alleges that the respoa
dent, John Khtl, Is unit TO train them In the
proper way. Judge Cox held that until di.
Vo1ce or legal separation took place the colrG
would not consider the subject OF taking the
children from their father, ana they were re.
moved to his custody.
THE EPIzooTIC.-The New York Evening T.,e-
gram says 1t was estimated yesterday that there
het horses SIS suffering from the epzooty in
Gistemper will continue until every animal
has been affected The horses In BROOKLYN
and Jersey City are also affected. Not sin sle
death has SO far occurred among the diseased
animals. The distemper has extended as far
north as st. Johns, New Brunswick. It pre-
walls along the Hudson river, has appeared 10
Philadelphia, ana seems to be getting general
MORE HYDROPH0BIA VICTIMs.-John L. Marti-
nett, aged p years. died yesterday In New Yoik
OF by drophobia, having been bitten by pet dog
12 years ago. Joseph Morehouse, of Elizabeth
port, Nd, bitten by pet dog three weeks ago
has not taken any food since and has violent
symptoms Of hydrophobia, four men being
scarcely able to hold him during The spasmS
Death is momentarily expected.
CONNECTICUT Town ELECTIONS held yesterday
suited as follows NOrwalk, republic ms 1O6
majority instead of a democratic majority the
year before; Norwich, republicans 400 majority;
Meridian. republicans $50 ma jority gain oveI
last year OF 100. Hartford was carrle1 by the
republicans, with the exception of town clerk
Returns from I6 towns show that the republi.
cans nave carried 46. the democrats "a. and
are equally divided. Large republican major1-
ues In Hartford, New Britain, Meridian, New
London and Norwich, and republican gains in
me control OF boards OF registration among
toWns are claimed to Indicate favorable results
Der. 0 ''A'o :" A>ofoiA-
ns.sns nsuII S, HSDER THE CoPYRIGHT LAws.-The
MessTs BLACK, Edinburgh publishers of the En-
cyciop9dia Britannica, are suing the agent ot
fhIaoeiphia reprint publishers In the n 8
court AT New York to restrain the sale of voInma
Two OF tnat publication. on the ground OF yfOa
t1On or the u. s. CODyrpht law - 'NoA"-