Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-07-23
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.


INTERNAL EEvENuE.-The receipts from this
source to day were 1851 ,5l34L
SPoTTEC TAIL and is chiefs and young men
expect to tave talk with their Great Father,
the President, to morrow.
Mr.. ROBERT b. LINES, of Wisconsin, has
been EpPoiuted stenograPher - the Postmaster
General, at a salary OF 81 600 per year.
SURGEON c. f. GODDARD he's been relieved
from duty in the department of Dakota and OF
dered TO the department of the east.
TIE REPORT that the Utcs gre preparing for
hostilities is roatradicted in report received
at tie Iud'an office.
DELEGATE MCCORMICK, of Arizona, who
hos been i'll at his res dence in his Guy for the
past ten daye, is able II he out aga'n, We are
glad II hear.
JOHN PORTS, ESQ, chief clerk of the War
department, we regret - learn, IS still in a very
critical condition, but, as he passed comforta-
BILE night LIST night, and his symptoms are
.omewhat more favorable friday, it is hoped he
will recover.
LIEUT.. Col. II. c. RANSOM has been relieved
from his present duties and ordered r. duty as
chief quartermaster of the department Of Da-
kota, relieving Lieut.. Col. C. h. Tompkins,
who has been ordered to Arizona to report ID
Gen. Crock.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PR-sIDENT.-The
President to-day appointed L. NJ. Foulke, Cal
vim Brow and Eugene L. Sullivan, all OF Cal
ifornia, = be commissioners TO examine and re-
port on the railroad and telegraph line con-
structed by the Southern Pacific railroad COM
paly of California.
The CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINING BOARD of the
Treasury Department i'll hold a competitive
examination 70 fill the post on of deputy con-
trOller of the cui Iency on Friday, August I'd.
The standard, O. c0u..e, in this examination
win be fixed higher than that for ordinary cleri-
cal IOsit'ors.
TIE BOUNDARY SURVEY COMMISSION left
this city LIST night for Pembina, where the first
POINT at the boundary will be fixed The line
to be established is about one thousand miles
in length, and will require the erection of field
astronomical apparatus at about forty stations.
1t is expected about two years time will be oc
cupied in the survey.
THE TRANSIT OF VKNUs.-The commission
under whose direction the appropriation made
for the observation of the transit of Venus Is to
be expended met yesterday at the Naval OBJ
servatory. There were present Rear Admiral
Sands, superintendent of the observatory,
President Henry, of the Academy OF Sciences,
and Professors Harkness and Newcomb, OF the
Observatory. Several Recommendations con-
corning expenditures were adopted.
THE PRESIDENT and Gen1 Porter returned
here this morning from Long Branch on the
early train, and will remain here until to-mor-
row evening. But very few visitors were re-
ceived this forenoon, the President being en-
gagged in attending to public businefs. Several
department officials, among them Commodore
Amman, Commissioner Walker AID Register
Allison, were with him during the morning. At
noon the Cabinet met, with all the members
present except Secretary Delano, who was rep
resented by Acting Secretary Smith.
VALUABLE MAPs.-A series of maps are in
process of execution at the Census Office, and
when completed will accompany the different
census volumes, adding greatly to their value
20 works OF reference. There will be in all
about twenty OF these maps, all of them being of
the United States, and each one showing by he
va 'ious colors used, for instance, the death rate
rom consumption in different localities; another
shows the death rate from malaral diseGses:
and another the rate from intestinal diseases in
the same manner. Other maps illustrate the
density of population, the percentage of the
foreign element, industrial products, sc.
TRANSFER cF NAVAL OFFICRRs.-Assistan
Surgeon j. L. Semple he's been relieved from
duty in the department of the lakes and ordered
to the department of the Gulf; Assistant Sur
econ q. Nj. Sternberg hes been relieved from
0uty in the department of the lakes, and Or
dered to the department. of the Gulf; Assistant
surgeon y. W. Williams has been relieved
from duty in the department of the East,
and ordered ID the department. of Dakota;
First Lieut.. Jno. II. Weeden, engineer corps,
he's been relieved from duty upon the joint COM
mission for the survey of the boundry line along
the 10th parallel, and ordered to San Francisco
toreport to Lieut.. Col. b. s. Alexander for duty
on the Notifications on the Pacific coast; Second
Lieut.. Carl Palfrey has al been relieved from
duty on that commission and ordered to Will
let's Point, N. Y.
SERIOUS STRIKE RIOTS AT WILLIAMsPoRr
PA.-T'he Military Called Out.--The strike of
the mill workmen at WilliamSport Pa has As
a strikers m cd