Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-06-10

source to-day were $3.50 ,2o1.22.
AN ORDER was issued from the internal row
enue Office to-day to discontinue the use Of the
fire spirit meter.
SENATOR FENToN is recovering from the
attack of bilious fever, from which he has been
suffering at Jamaica, L. I.
l.. NJ. PRICE, Chief Clerk OF the Division of
Issues in the Office of the Controller Of the Cur
rency, has resigned.
THE ARMY RETIRING BOARD at Philadelphia,
of which Gen. Meade is president, has completed
the cases before it, save those of a few officers
ordered from distant stations.
SECRETARY DELANo writes to his Chief Clerk
that he viii probably 60 from the South to his
home in Ohio, and will not return to Washing
ton in several weeks.
TREASURER SPINNER was in London on the
sd ult. His health had improved, and he had
commenced operations in connection with the
negotiations for the new loan. He will shortly
return to America.
CHIEF ENGINEER j. w. KING, Chief OF the
Bureau of Steam Engineering, Navy Depart
ment, left here last night for New York, and
sailed to-day for Europe, on special duty con-
nected with his Bureau. Chief Engineer VIM.
II. Shock was detailed as Chief of the Bureau
during the absence of Mr.. King.
THE AWARD OF DIPLOMAS AT WEST POINT.
Major Gen. Meade will be called on To give the
graduating class at West Point their "sheep-
SKINS The President does not make the
award himself, as he proposes leaving on Mon
day, and the diplomas will not be conferred
until Tuesday. Before leaving for Long Branch
the President will visit Newbu.g to inspect
Brownies statse of Scott.
m
RoUTE.-By an order of the Postmaster General,
Just issued, the great mails between New York,
Washington and New Orleans, heretofore trans
mtted ria Chattanooga, Tenn, Grand junction,
Tenn, and Canton, Miss, are to be changed
from this date to the route of the Alabama and
Chattanooga Railroad, running by an air line
from Chattanooga to Meridian, Miss, thence
over the Mobile and Ohio Railroad to Mobile,
and thence over the New Orleans. Mobile and
Texas Railroad, reaching New Orleans twelve
hours sooner than by the former route.
REFORM IN THE INTERNAL REVENUE
BUREAU.-Col: Mc8Iichael, Solicitor of the
Internal Revenue Bureau, has so far completed
the examination of pending compromise cases.
as TO be able to commence acting to-day on each
case as 1t comes into the office. That this prompt
manner of dealing with these cases will be bene-
fetal TO the public service will be more fully
understood when il is known that, heretofore,
the papersin compromise cases have generally
remained in the Revenue Bureau from two
months to two years before they been acted
on. The average number of compromise cases
presented is about 90 a month.
THE CIVIL SERVICE CoMNITTEE-The COM
mittee appointed by the President under the
recent act Of Congress TO make inquiries and
suggest system of improvement in the civil
service of the government, has been assigned
apartments in the Interior Department The
first meeting will be held on the 10Th inst. Col.
Cox, OF the Interior Department; Mr.. Elliott,
of the Treasury Department, and Mr.. Blackfan,
OF the Post-Ohice Department, have accepted
their appointments on the committee. II is not
yet known outside of the State Department
whether George William Curtis, ex-senator
Cattell, of New Jersey, and Joseph Medill. of
Chicago, have accepted or not. II Is underst BOD
that Mr.. Curtis will be president Of the Com
mission, and Mr.. Elliott or Col. Cox, secretary.
BIDS FOR MATERIALS FOR THE STATE DE-
PARTNENT Misunderstanding Fish and Su-
pervising Architect Mullet lin the presence of
witnesses, to-day opened bids for concrete, rub
BILE stone, cement and sand for the new State
Department building. The bids were as fol-
oWs:-Concrete, (per cubic yard. )-Thomas b.
Brown, S2.99a; j. +. II. Hall, 1914; Austin z.
Brown. s3.19; Maryland Free Stone Company,
50; s. ID. Castleman, $3.50; Thomas P. Morgan,
$40; George o. Cook, $500; Alfred Lee g. Co.,
s3.6i >. w. Vanderburg, 1870.
hubble stone, per cubic yard.-Austin p.
Brown, S4.59; $. d. Castlemsn, $50; MARYLAND
Freestone Company, $500; Alfred Lee g. Co.,
burg, s420; F. c. Adams, $3.50; Albert Ordway,
for James River Granite Company, s6.e7; Geo.
o. Cook, S2.85.
mac Mills, 81 Leo; Austin p. Brown, 81 81; Bangs
& Gaynor, of N. Y, s1.sS.
Sand, per cubic yard.-JOhn Berry, 81 .18; Jno.
and sI.1s; d. NJ Davis, 81. 81; Geo. T. McGIue,
SLIP; Thcs. II. Bowling, S1.GX; Thos. B.
Brown, S209S; RObt. II. Ryan, Sl.S2; VIM.
Beckett, s1.5o; Edward CrusOr, s1.75.