Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-07-05
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

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INTERNAL REvENUE.-The receipts from this
source to-day were s1.OO1, 71Is.
THE SUBSCRIPTIONS to the new loan to-day
were $4,000.
MASTER ADoLPHUs MARK of this city has
been ordered to duty at the Naval Observatory.
SENATORS RICE, Of Arkansas, and Spencer, of
Alabama, are in town.
SECRETARY RoBEsoN will not return here
until Tuesday or "Wednesday OF next week.
TEE PRESIDENT will return here about Tues
day evening next ii is understood, and Cabinet
meeting viii be held ON Wednesday.
SEcoED ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL
SMITH left for Minnesota, with his family, on
Monday.
THE PARDON for eN-Congressman c. c. Bowen
convicted OF bigamy, had not reached the Jail AZ
O'Clock this afternoon, and he was stin pris-
oner at that hour.
ORDERED TO WEST PoIHT. First Lieut.
James W. Reilly, ordnance department, and
Second Lieut.. John NJ. X. Davis, lst artillery,
have been ordered to temporary duty at West
Point.
REAR ADMIRAL SANDS Superintendent Ofthe
Naval Observatory, viii leave here soon for an
official tour during which he will visit several
prominent observatories and scientific institu-
lions III this country and Canada
CLERICAL PRoMoTIoNs.-ir. n. A. c. Smith
has been promoted from first to a second class
clerkship in the appointment Office OF the Post
Office Department. About fifteen temporary
clerks in the Patent Office have been appoint
cd TO first class clerkships.
THE BRANDY MAsIFAcTVRz-The detailed
statement of the spirits in and out of bond in
the United States on May LIST, 1871, shows that
Of tie 2G3,000 gallons of brandy in the country,
but 101 600 gallons is the genuine product of
fruit, the balance being compounds from dis
titled spirits.
FRUIT DIsTILLATIoN.-The regulations of
the internal Revenue Office governing fruit
Installations published last year are undergoing
revision, and will receive but slight changes
except in the instructions for making surveys
which will be materially modified. The revised
regulations viii be ready for distribution in a
few days. The information received at the
Internal Revenue Office indicates a very favor
able fruit distillation during the presen. year.
DIsTILLEEY SrArIsTIcs.-Reports received
at the Internal Revenue Office, show that I92
grain and ] molasses distilleries were in opera
ton on the LIST instant, producing $50 S39 gallons
OF spirits daily. On the list of June last there
were PA distilleries in operation, producing
1883 gallons per day; decrease in the daily
sl1lCc June per
day. The decrease for the same period in 1863
was ~ 81 gallons daily. OF the 1872 distilleries
in operation - are III Illinois, 10 in Idiania, 80
in Kentucky, 50 IN Ohio, 3Oin Pennsylvania.
THE CIVIL SERVICE CoNNIssIoS-The mem
bers Of the civil service commission, except Mr.
Medill, who is temporarily absent, were to-day
sworn in by James Lawrenson, ESP, on the Post
Office Department. The commission to-day re-
su1ned the consideration OF the system Of open,
competitive examinations. They have received
documents relative to the English civil service.
and also reports from several OF the departm ents
in Washington in regard To the number OF en-
ploy6s, with details as 20 the present methods OF
examination.
AN ARRANGEMENT has been made at the
Treasury Department by which the salaries OF
government officials which are paid quarterly
will hereafter be promptly forwarded on the day
on which they become due, instead of DELAYING
four or five days, as heretofore. On account of
the large number of attorneys, judges, marshals
and other officers Of the government who are
paid quarterly, four or five DAYS were required
at least after the LIST of the month to make out
the warrants; but hereafter the warrants will be
made out beforehand and promptly forwarded
ON the LIST day OF the month, when they become
due.
In a so-called poem entitled "Broke," in the
Overland Monthly for July, the new school of
vulgar dialect minstrelsy, founded by Bret
Harte and developed by John Hay, gets reduced
TO its lowest terms, as follows:
And when the Good Master above us was
Teachin' US lOvin' each other down here,
He didn't tell any such ornery fellers
As these that their title was clear.