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District Government Affairs.

District Government Affairs
The District Collector to-day seized q horse
the kennebec Ice Company, for personal ia xes,
and took them to the District stables They viii
be sold should the taxes not be paid.
REMOVING THE SNOW FROM THE AVENUE.
Or: E. n. Chaplin, superintendent OF street
repairs, to-day commenced with gang of men
and horses and carts to clear of the Ice on the
north side OF Pennsylvania avenue, and hopes
to be able by Monday night to have the job
warm weather yesterday and today has so
softened 1t that 1t very readily yields to the
pick and shovel. The dump is made on street.
LIQUOR LICENSES.
the Distr1ct commissioners TO day approved
Hartigan, No. SO Water street, Georgeto wn;
VIM. Widmayer, 7th street road: between Mar
shall and Farragut streets, and Alfred Wande
SO. North carSlna Avenue Porthsas1 the
I'd street; Herman Lauler 1926 18th street: Rich
ard ROOD, 423 10Th street; Edward Brennan, 800
18th and streets southwest; Bernard A. Nc
Donnell, 11O4 Sth street southeast; Daniel Hartt.
gan. 81 High street, Georgetown, and VIM. A.
Quackenbush & Son, 80 High street, George.
town.
Thinking that the Ice taken from the river,
below mouths OF the different sewers, might be
impure and unfit for the use to which 1t Is
usually put, Health Officer TOwnShend several
days since secured samples from the gathering
gIOuAuS VI lne lnuepenOenC anO Cooperative
companies for the purpose of examination. He
today received reports OF analysis of samples
from Chemist De Schmedt, showing that the
water from the samples Is polluted by sewage,
swarmiDg with bacteria, and totally unit Tor
use. The superiDtendents Of the two compa-
MES were Immediately notified TO discontinue
gathering ice at the points named and the use
OF that already taken prohibited.
The Cooperative company claim that they
have not housed any of this ice but have been
gathering 1t for freezers purposes only. The In.
dependent Ice Company have been housing It,
but no answer has been made as to the Dur-
poses for which 1t Is intended. The Ice gathered
Is from to 10 inches in thickness.
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Preparing for the Inauguration.
MEETING OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.

NETTING OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE
The Inauguration committee on finance met
hast night, and In the absence OF the president,
Hon. Levi p. Morton presided, with Mr.. Hallett
Knbo1rn secretary protein. Some ten or twelve
Of the gentlemen appoint ed to solicit subscrfp-
tons made reports OF subscriptions thus far
4f. Fitch reported that he had canvaSSed the
Business men on Pennsylvania avenue between
Sth and 18th streets, on both sides, exclusive OF
hotels and restaurants, and had been guaran-
teed q $50.
Several OF the collectors In the government
apartments made reports OF progress.
Who was present, said he was disappointed at
the small number present, but he supposed the
Ieason was that the canvasser5 had not had
time TO complete their books and see all their
f1eDds. The time was getting short, and the
necessary amount of funds had to be raised,
and It was time they were alive to this fact.
plans for most Of the decorations and other re-
4uirements to successful occasion had been
completed and adopted, and now they must
sure that sSe decorations and sesommodations
fer the ballroom should be carried out to the
letter. The admirable plans of Lieutenant
Greene for street decorations would require at
Ieast SIC, 600 and the fireworks about 81 900. 1t
WIN not do to simply meet together and
talk. The money for these expenses should be
raised Independent of the sale Of ball tickets,
have to depend upon the sale of tickets to meet
these expenses. They should collect indie
pendent OF the ball from $50 900 to $40 900. and
II they could not do IL they might as well give
up. He hoped the committee would have
another meeting very soon, not later than Mon
day or Tuesday, and bring In all the sub5crip-
Hon books so that they can ascertain to GER
BaiDty how much they can rely upon, and If the
citizens and business men all over the city
made as good showing as had been reported
BY Mr.. Fitch. on the ground he had canvaSsed,
II would be great encouragement A motion of
Gen. Brady, that meeting OF the committee be
held next Tuesday at 7:3O O'Clock, at which all
Of the collectors are to meet and MAKE definite
reports Of their work, was adopted.
INAUGURATION NOTES.
At meeting OF the Illinois Republican As
ISOLATION, last night, at $40 18th street, 1t was
voted that the committee on halls be Instructed
to procure q suitable hall, or room, for the pur-
pose OF entertaining IllinoiSanS during the Sd,
4th and 5th days OF March next, and that the
president OF the association appoint commit
Tee, consisting OF three members from each con-
Eressional district, whose duty 1t shall be to
BOX after strangers from Illinois, showing them
the places OF public interest, etc.
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Wonderful Cures.

What cures Of Blood and Skin Diseases. and Scalp
Affections With loss of Hair, can compare with
those Of the Hon. VIM. Taylor, Boston. state Sena-
tor of Massachusetts,; Alderman Tucker, ,ston ;
8. A. Steele. esq Chicago; F. h. Drake, esq +,
Detroit; Il. E. Carpenter, esq, Henderson. n. Y.
Charles Houghton. esq, Boston, and many others,
details of which may be had on application to
Messrs. Weeks Potter, Boston.
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RDaAa1 CoueH SPECIFIC 70 the pest known
remedy Tor egpyhs and col0A
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PROBATE CoUKTCyadge Cor.
YESTERDAY, after our report closed. the VIII
OF Mary C. FIere was admitted TO probate: bond
OF executor 81 600. Last will and codicil OF 5.
Louisa Yeaboger; filed for probate. EXem
plifed copy OF the last will and testament or
William b. Arnold. from Orphans Court, Prince
Georges Co.. filed and admitted TO probate.
Estate OF VIM. NJ. Walker; answer OF admins
traitor to PETITION John Mcclellan; filed. and
cause taken to the Equity Court. Estate OF
Rudolph Tldberg; decree directing executors TO
deliver TO widow certain notes Estate OF Sarah
S. Mundy: the administrator qualified and gave
bond. Estate OF Hannah A. Dick; inventory OF
personal estate returned by the administrator
The new ana stringent temperance laws OF
Kansas have induced Brewer Gunther OF
Paolo, whose property was rendered worthless,
to commit suicide.
Aboie Howard was driven from home In
Fender county. n. c., With her baby IN her
arms. She wandered ten miles tn at day, and
at night was permitted by farmer TO sleep on
the bare floor OF an clubhouse. But he would
give her nothing to eat, and drove her away In
the morning. On the second evening she stag
gered into a house where q religious meeting
was being held. and begged the worshippsrsrO
pray for her. She had Killed her child, being
unable TO feed IL.
Moody and Sankey state that tlev will not
be able 10 visit anG save New q leans issprng.
At the same time they are planning TO MAKE
pleasure trip 10 Europe I'm the summer. They
are continually doing something clerical and
religious though they are not ordained
preacEers.-N. o. PfCavune.
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TURNING THE TABLES on A CAPITOL. WATCa-
hAN.-AbOut . O'Clock last night a coiOred man
named Taliaferro, Waterman OF the statuary
room OF the Capitol, called upon son OF Rep
reseDtattve Fort, OF Illinois, aged about fifteen
years, TO stop his playing In the hall The boy
paid no attention. and TaliaferrO carried him
down stairs. where he locked him up. Some
person In the meantime informed Mr.. Fort,
who went after the colored man. and met him
coming up stairs. He Immediately struck him
when policeman appeared Tue matter was
explained TO him, whereupon he arrested the
colOred man. who Is said to have been tntoxicA-
ted, and released young Fort.
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The Brptal Assault ON Annie Car
teTs

sHH rs STILL UNCONsCIOUs-sTUPID AND CON-
FLICTN6 STORIES OF HER BROrHBR-HIS AT
TEMPrS TO ESCAPE FROM THE NIT OF EVIDENCE
AROUND him.
The colored woman, Annie Carter, who was
% cruelty beaten by her brother, Oh lrles Shaw,
last Sunday night, and found lying by the road
side early Monday morning by passing coun-
tryman. and subsequently removed TO the aims
house hospital for treatment. iS reported as
sim In critical condition. Yesterday Lieut.
Boteler, OF the eighth precinct and Sergeant
AcCathran, In charge OF the SubStatiOn at
EniontOwn, made a visit to the jail, where
Shaw Is serving out term OF 30 days for the
ROBBERY OF George Carriers house OF clothing
on Monday last, after committing the murder
Gus assault upon his sister, Mrs. Carter. They
found Shaw suIlen and Indifferent to his crime
AND his statements contradictory. He at first
denied having been with his sister Sunday
night, but when told that George Carter ac-
companied him and Mrs. Carter 70 the street
ears on their way TO visit their mother on that
night, he then admitted that he did 60 with her.
He stated that when they got to UniOntOwn they
stopped at house for a few hours, and that a
tan coloTed man named Davis and a short man
whose name he did not remember went With
them on the road to Oxen run: that the tall
man on the way asked his sister II she had any
money; that she answered that she always had
little oy her. He then heard this tall man
and the short one agree to take 1t from her;
that the tall one picked up stope and struck
her with II, and the two then beat her and got
nothing about II. The officers took very little
stock In his story as to having any other COM
pany than his sister with him, but willing to
verify II II true, yesterday afternoon hunted up
. man In Un1ontOwn named Davis, described by
Shaw as the tall man. and took him to jail, and,
confronting them, Shaw said that was not the
man, and Davis, who is represented as re-
spectacle cOlored man, denied having
ever before seen Shaw. The officers are
more than ever convinced that SHAW lies
about there being any other man present.
The officers also have proof that Shaw and hts
sister were seen together on the rOai the other
side Of the Asylum near the old race course, no
third party Deing with them. Another impOr-
tant fact Is that Shaw was seen early Monday
morning on bis return TO the city, passing the
his arm. Learning these facts, the officers dis
missed Davis who said he could be found at
any time IL wanted. The officers state that
there Is but one other colored man named
Davis In that neighborhood. and he Is q re-
spectacle man about 81 years old. who never
goes out at night.
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Eczema.

Manuel ManintZ, New Orleans, La. writes: INC
others can CONF pare with the CUTICURA REMEDIES.
have used them In all forms for a severe case OF
what the doctor called Eczema which WAS effec.u.
ally cured In eight weeks
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HOUSEKEEPING GOODS.-The firm of Tyler
Chewing, elS eth street northwest, are Offer
Ing some remarkable bargains In housekeeping
goods, especially In the line OF all linen doyIies.
napkins, towels, all linen table daInaSkS, wine
dAmasks and cloth, blankets, spreads, pillow
and sheeting cottons, aud, In fact, every article
OF staple and fancy dry goods known TO the
market and at the lowest possible prices. Their
stock Is varied and well selected and cannot
fail TO please purchasers. I
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-01-22

BRACELETS. enamel chased silver, coral, jet,
at PriggS.
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OHTICURA REMEDIES are prepared by WEEKS b
PoTTEB. Chemists and Druggists. $50 Washington
street, Boston. and are for sale by ali Druggists
Price for CUTIoURA. Medicinal Jelly. small boxes,
90 cents large boxes, 81. CUrIoURA REsoLvENr,
the new Blood Purifier. 81 per bottle Cur1ouRA
MEDICINAL TOILET SOAP, 25 cents. CurIouRA
MEDICINAL SHAVING SOAP. Is cents: In bars. for
BARRIERS and Large consumers. 50 cents.
"AH mailed free on yeceiDt of Drtoe,
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HowsoEs superior ice cream. Si.25 gallon.
Jl0I nth.
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WHO PAYS THE BILLS?
Mr.. Reed remarked: alt Is bad time to take
up collection, and there are some bills to pay
Perry CarsOn.-"Glve us the bills; we'll paw
them. Wen do anything for you now Mr.
Gleason took the bills and quietly remarked,
I'm see them attended TO-" The meeting then
adjourned.
AS the crowd was leaving the hall Washing
ton said: What does 1t all amount to? The
committee Will meet here on March 5th, aud no
one WI" pIr Oe lePresen ted from the District"
larry elected at the meeting OF the committee
on New York avenue; that there were then
present IS delegates. representing majority of
the districts; that he received over two. thirds
vote OF those present; that he received his Gre
dentials which have been transmitted to the
chairman OF the committee, and he has been
six months no protest had been filed; that the
meeung last night was based on q misappre-
heDs1on, and Mr.. BOwen's friends had talked 1t
around that ne lPuryis) had not been nor would
ne De recognized, and that II they could elect
Bowen ne would be made District Commits
sloner: &C. Some OF them assert that q cliaue
81 OIL, - BoW p men. w Including Gle, son,
been meeting privately for some time, ana that
the meeting last night was q put up lob far
which the wires were all laid by the Clique,
Dr. Purv1s has letter OF Mr.. Jeweh, OF the
national committee, announcing the receipt Of
his crelcAtialS.
The Bowen men deny that they are responsi-
Die for the meeting. or that they put up the Job,
SOIL party that Purvis was not legally elected.
less than majority OF the full committee hav-
Ing voted for him, they intended to take no
it was M IngersoIis friends Who Gale called ' the
meeting, and they had counted noses in su,h q
way tnat they were certain that they could
elect nlm. The Bowepites claim that the In
quietly vent TO work to show that that faction
could not rule the party and that thew accom-
plished their object
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-02-01

The reference of the nomination of
Stanley Matthews, of Ohio, as Associate
Justice of the United States Supreme
Court, to the Senate Committee Of the
Judiciary, is very clear evidence that
there is considerable opposition to his
confirmation. Usually when an ex-
Senator has been nominated for any Of
fee the Senate, as an act of courtesy,
confirms him unanimously and without
reference In this case, however, this
courtesy of the Senate" was not adj
hered to, and very properly.
The nomination is regarded as so emf
nently an unfit one, on the ground of Mr..
Matthews lack of ability, that one or
two leading Republican papers have,
it is stated, pronounced it altogether re-
prehensible But this is really not the
worst feature of the case Mr. Matthews
was not only an active participant in the
Louisiana returning board infamy, but
it will be remembered that during an in
vestigation of the frauds committed 10y
that board, Matthews was convicted by
his own letters as guilty of falsehood,
and virtually confessed his guilt by
throwing himself back upon his dignity
ss a Senator and refusing to appear be-
fore the investigating committee. En-
gaging in Credit Mobilier practices may
be sufficient recommendation to the
country at large for the Presidency, but
we do not see how a Democratic Senate
can confirm. as Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States, a man with
such a record as that of Hon. Stanley
Matthews, of Ohio.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-02-01
Al fnsnsrsIlnE kznsrimeni.

Louisiana is rejoicing over the pros
pective success of a movement initiated
some time ago TO substitute Italian for
colored labor in its cotton and cane
fields. The first instalment Of these
Italian emigrants, two hundred and ten
in number, have reached New Orleans,
and it is reported that other laborers Of
the same class are expected in large
numbers during the winter and spring.
Heretofore the drift Of Italian emigration
has been towards South America, and
principally to the Argentine Republic,
of which Buenos Ayres is the capital,
and the province of that name the
richest province. The climate there ap-
proximates so closely to that of Southern
Italy that il agrees well with the emi-
grants from the latter kingdom. Whether
they will find that of Louisiana equally
well suited to them, or the labor in the
cotton and cane fields congenial to their
habits and constitutions, must necessari-
ly be at present matter of doubt. The
attempt to introduce Chinese labor into
Louisiana failed signally. The present
attempt to substitute Italian for negro
labor may fare better. 1t is, at all events,
an interesting experiment, for all &C
counts agree that as laborer the Italian
is honest, frugal, temperate and indus
trious.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-02-01

DAVIS AND STEPHENS. Mr.. Redfeld
writes that some jealous friend of Alex
ander II, Stephens has sent him copy
of letter written by Mcclure. of the
Philadelphia Times, wherein it IS men
toned that Stephens has managed to
keep on the soft side of things, while his
Confederate colaborer, JEFF. Davis, is
communicated from official life. MIR.
Stephens has been quietly at work for
several days getting up material for a
reply. 1t will be in the form of an open
letter to Mcclure, and the reasons given
why the President Of the late Confede-
racy remains out of public life and the
Vice President remains in. The letter
will be thoroughly kind in tone toward
Dir. Davis, but it will severely criticise
Mr.. Mcclure for some of his observa-
tions.
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The Worlds Fair project will reach an
important crisis at general meeting of
all the representatives of industry and
commerce, to be held tomorrow evening
at Delmonico's, with view to pushing
forward the finances and to hear reports
of the progress that has already been
made in that respect. 1t is understood
that General Grant will be present, and
that he will probably be called upon to
preside. Unoficially il is understood
that the Finance Committee feel much
encouraged by the subscriptions that
have been received within the past week
or two, and they are of opinion that it
but needs the co operation of the general
public to place the undertaking upon q
basis which will establish its success
beyond peradventure, and that too with
out any appeals to Congress or the Leg
islature. The Executive Committee will
visit Menlo Park this week to see what
Mr. Edison can promise as to supplying
the exhibition building with the electric
light.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-02-01
3ndes Weeds bsslsloa III the D., I
4 VI. RAILWAY Case.

Our Atlanta contemporary, the Con-
stitution. says that Judge Woods Is
expected in that city during this or the
coming week, when it is thought he
will render his decision in the case Of
Tilley vs.. the Savannah, Florida and
Western Railwsy-which case, as our
readers know, involves the question
of the constitutionality Of the Railway
Commission law of Georgia
The general impression in that city Is
that the decision will be in favor of the
railroads, and that the court Will hold
that while the Legislature has, itself, the
power to regulate the tariff of freight
and passenger rates, it has no right to
delegate such power to Commission.
Our contemporary says: "Of course
nothing is definitely known regarding
this decision, but circumstantial evidence
points very strongly to the opinion above
expressed" 1t is quite likely, however,
that some information OF sufficiently
reliable character to justify the above
impression has been received. At any
rate the late rise in Central stock from
107 to iii in Atlanta is attributed to the
fact that the court had made up its mind
against the constitutionality of the Com
mission law.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-02-01

A NATIONAL MONUMENT FUND.-The
Senate Military Committee has agreed
to and ordered to be favorably reported,
Senator Randolph's bill providing 'that
whenever any monument association or
historical society shall propose to desig-
nate a revolutionary battlefield, not a.
ready commemorated by monument
completed and dedicated, and shall have
procured charter from one of the United
States, or shall have so organized under
State laws as to be corporate body, and
shall have commenced to raise money to
carry out its patriotic object, it shall be
entitled to one dollar from the Treasury
of the United States for every dollar actu-
ally raised by its own efforts Provided the
sum so raised shall not be less that ten
thousand dollars and not more than fifty
thousand dollars" No moneys, how
ever, shall be paid out of the Treasury
until the design Of the proposed monu-
ment snail have been approved by the
President of the United States or by a
commission appointed by him; nor until
the moneys raised, together with the
amount from the Treasury, shall be suf-
ficient to complete the monument This
bill is intended to facilitate the erection
of monuments on revolutionary battle
fields.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-02-01
CHATHAM sHERIFF's SALE.

FINDER and by virtue of a mortgage e. ia.
u issued out of Chatham Superior Court
in favor of THOMAS HARRISON, JOHN HAIR
RISON, NJ. LEIB HARRISON. GEORGE L.
HARRISON, Jr., and THOMAS S. HARRISON.
partners under the firm name and style of
HARRISON BROTHERS & CO., VS.. CHRIS
TOPPER MURPHY. l have levied upon the
following described property. to-wit:
All those two lots of land in the city of Sa-
yannah, county and State aforesaid, designa-
ted in the plan of said city as lots numbers
seven "a and eight 81 Greene ward, bounded
on the north by Broughton street, on the east
by lot number six (6) on the south by a lane,
and on the west by Price street, subject to an
annual ground rent to the Mayor and Alder
men of the city of Savannah, that is to say, lot
number seven ca to an annual ground rent of
thirty-two dollars and sixty two cents. and lot
number eight (Sl to an annual ground rent of
forty five dollars together with all the rights,
members and appurtenances thereunto be-
longing, the prope ty OF CHRISTOPHER MUIR
PLY. which he mortsaged to THOMAS HAIR
RISON, NJ. LIEB HARRISON, JOHN HARRI-
SON, GEORGE L. HARRISON, Jr., and
THOMAS s. HARRISON, partners under the
firm name and style Of HARRISON BROTH
ERS & COMPANY, by his mortgage deed,
dated the I'd day of March, A. d. 1877
And I will offer the said above described
property at public outcry before the Court
House door Of Chatham county, In the city of
Savannah, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN
MARCH, 1881, during the legal hours of sale,
to satisfy said mortgage fl. ia.
Terms cash; purchasers paying for titles.
JOHN T. ROMAN,
feb1-Tu5t Sheriff @. Co.. Ga.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-02-01

As the proportions which the arrear-
ages Of pensions bill is beginning to as
sumo are realized they are startling.
Commissioner Bently estimates that it
viii require $50. 600. 600 to meet the
claims under it, and that the pensions
due this coming year alone viii LrequiFe
at least SJO,O0O,OOO This is sum Of
money eqnal to one-fOuTth the entire
national debt, and Congress little I'M
agined what a burden it was fastening
upon the country when the bill was pass
ed. It actually makes the United States
Government pay more for pensions than
does any country in the world
The passage of this bill is another evi-
dence of the great evil to be worked by
careless legislation, and 1t is also an illus
tration of the danger of voting in favor
of measures hoping that they may be
finally defeated. AS the Baltimore Ga
zstts well says, nobody particularly cared
to have the Cummins pension bill pass,
and the House thought that the Senate
would not agree to it. They were mis-
taken, for the Senate depended upon Dir.
Hayes to vetoi it. Buthe didn't, and so the
bill became a law, because neither the
House, nor the Senate, nor Mr.. Hayes
cared to get the i'll will of the soldier
wofn