Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-07-19
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL REvExuE.-The receipts from this
source to-day were s4lo,7ss.3i.
BLACoUE BEY is on his way here again rs
Minister from Turkey to this government.
HoN:ORANGE FERRIss, of New York, is at the
Ebbitt.
SECOND AUDITOR FRENCH leaves here to-
morrow on his annual vacation. During his
absence Chief Clerk Herring viii act as Auditor.
COLLECTOR RoBB, of Savannah, Ga, arrived
in town to-day, and had an interview with Sec
rotary Boutwell,.
GOVERNOR BULLOCK, of Georgia, passed
through this city yesterday on his way to New
York.
BARON SCHLossER, who has been appointed
to succeed Baron Gerolt, as the Minister of the
German Empire here, is now on a special mis-
sion to Rome, and is not expected here till
Autumn.
ASSISTANT SURGEONS Henry NJ. Crankhite
and VIM. j. Wilson are relieved from duty in
the Department of Texas, and will proceed to
New York, reporting on their arrival to the Sur
geon General.
THE New York Globe wishes DR.. Sunderland
won d come to that city ''and stop not only the
mouths of the newsboys, but the milkmen, the
bakers, butchers" and other people who make
morning hideous.
INCREASED CONSUMPTION OF LAGER.-The
Commissioner of Internal Revenue issued during
the fiscal year ending 30th June, 1871, % 7O3 sos
beer stamps, of the value of 81 ,4S5 49, being an
increase over the previous fiscal year of ,2 653
stamps and S129 ,562.
NEW WORKERS IN TOwN.-Horace F. Clark
Augustus Schell and s. L. Fairchild, of New
York, are at the Arlington. They had a long
interview this afternoon with the Commissioner
OF Internal Revenue relative to the payment of
the tax on the undivided scrip dividends issued
by the New York Central Railroad Company.
PRESIDENT GRANT, accompanied by General
Porter, Collector Murphy and Hon. William c.
Rogers, left Long Branch this morning for
Plattsburg, on the Hudson, on a visit to Mr.. W.
y. Dinsmore. The President will return to
New York this evening, and attend the banquet
given by the Army of the James.
STARVING INDIANs.-The Indian Bureau has
received from the War Department letter for
warded to Gen. Ord by Sarah winnencas.
daughter of an Indian chief of that name appeal-
ing for aid to rescue her nation from starvation
Gen. Ord recommends that military rations be
issued TO these Indians, who are on the Pyramid
reservation, California.
A NEW PAPER.-Arrangementsa are on foot to
start new journal in this city, on the LIST of
September, which shall be the especial chain
pion of Southern Republicans. 1t will support
the present Administration, favor the refucfion
OF taxes, and oppose the payment of the national
debt by the present generation. It has not vet
been decided whether it viii be daily or weekly
paper.
Mr.. RANsDELL, the correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Commercial, is naturally puzzled to know
why the "o'fas Homer Ramsdell" should appear
IN connection with his name in the Treaty-ap-
LTopTiating indictment made by our grand Jury
lie says in his dispatch: - The name of Homer
X. Ramsdell belongs to an estimable millionaire
OF Newburg, New York, former President of
treaty in his life, and why the Senate and the
grand Jury should desire to immortaIize him
a.S@; does rot appear"
CLERICAL CRANGEs.-The following clerical
changes have been made in the Second Auditors
office: Promoted from first to second class clerk
shiPs-Daniel a. Burrows, Samuel Y. Thorne
=. Z. Snow, Newton Whether, and III. z. Wells
from second to third, Thomas Rathbone George
n Roberts, and Henry A. Higgins Trans
ferred-A II. Speir, from the Second to the Sixth
auditor oftIce; n; Child, Jr., Mo; Louis Ross,
X: l.; JohnW. Bell, OF Ohio and c. W. Holcomb
OF Conn, have been promoted to second-class
clerkships in the General Land office; r.. C.
Ford in same office, to third-class.
FABRICATION ABOUT JEFF DAvIs.-The
Baltimore Sun, referring to the story going the
rounds that jefferson Davis ran off with another
mans wife on Tuesday night, the 18th instant.
from Memphis, Tennessee, says:
AS there is class of people who are ready
70 believe anything that may be said against the
confederate ex-President, 1t will not be amiss To
state that he was at Barnums Hotel, in Balti-
more, on "wednesday, the 18th instant which
would have allowed him about twenty-four
OF course the story is a pure fabrication, and a
very uisgraceful one for its author"
LADY KILLED By LIGHTNING WHILE
PRAYING WITH HER CHILDREN - The ST.
Joseph MOI Gazette of SATURDAY. gives the fol-
lowing particulars of the death by lightning of
Mrs. Lowell and Mr.. Rlakemore, during the fer
rible storm in that vicinity on Thursday last
The house in which the two persons named were
killed is situated about five miles southeast from
St Joseph. 1t is three stories high. with three
principal rooms and hall on each floor. When
the storm commenced Mrs. Lowell was ND stairs
In back room, reading the Bible to her little
daughter. The windows OF the room having
been blown open, she took her children ran
down stairs, passing from the hall into a bed
room, put the children on the bed an q kneeled ar
the bedside In this position the lightning struck
her, causing instant death. Mr.. Blakemore was
IN the hali and the same bolt kiledhim. Several
other persons was more or less injured. Mrs
Loveu was the wife of John s. Lowell, Warren
county, Va Her husband is now in Virginia
CITY, Montana. The two daughters with whom
she was kneeling in prayer are aged respectively
ana years. They were uninjured.
VIRGINIA AND THE VALLEY RAILRoAp-The
enorts lately inaugurated to supply the deficiency
OF over S200,000 in the required subscription of
81 300 o0 in the Virginia counties along the line
or the Valley railroad, in order to secure the
:! coo Of the city of Baltimore and the
81 100000 of the Baltimore and Ohio road, have
gone on quite successfully. Rockbridge county.
which had previously voted a subscription of
S4oe 600, on Saturday last took vote on further
subscription of 100000 or more, which was
carried almost unanimously.
WOULDN'T SURVIVE THE LOST CAusE.-La