Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-08-25
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

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INTERNAL REvENUE.-The receipts from tbs
source to-day were S5ll.5i5.S3.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY SAWYER returned to
Washington yesterday morning, ard reslm1d
his duties at the TregSu department to-day.
TIE receipts and expenditures o the Treasu-
~, by warrants, foT the quarter ending June
80 1873, foot up: Net receipts, 81 los, GSJ92;
net expenditures, Sj9.Il9.3i9 So
A NEw COMET Discovered at Paris to-day by
NJ Henry. Right Ascension; seven hours and
twenty --even min1'es. Declnation north,
ffty-nine degree aud thirty minutes. The
comet Is bright, vita mo On )ward the east.
PAYING THE SkrrEMBga IxTEREsr.-The
Secretary Of the Treasu y has isSued an order
for the payment o. the September interest. to
commence t0-day, August p, without rebate.
1t is on the 1910 bonds; the total amount Of the
payment about S5.Oc),CJ0
JUDGE ADVOCATES AssIGNED.-On the rec
emmendat.on o. the Judge Advoe 4te General,
the following assignments are made Major
Thomas F. Barr, 10 the department of DAKOTA;
Major A. Il. G-rdner, to the department of the
South.
ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAMS left on Sat
urday night for Long Branch, where he will
remain a few days, andfrom thence proceed tc
visit his parents in Syracuse, y. Y. He will be
ab"ent about ten days. During his absence
Solicitor General Phillips will act as attorney
general.
LIFE SAVING STATIoSs.-S. I. Kimball, OF
the Revenue Marine Bureau of the Treasury
department, and Capt. Faunce, who have been
charged with the duty of selecting sites for life
saving stations, now inspecting Lake Su-
peror, having completed the other lakes. They
will return 70 Washington next week and soon
thereafter proceed to the Pacific coast for a
similar INSPECTION. the pOmDletiOn
their duties on Lake Superior all the navigable
waters will have been inspected and sites Sc
lectS d with the exception of those of the Pacific
coast
THE "LATE PHILETUs SAWYER, NJ. Co." TO
whom the EreRiHg Journal and the Times of this
city devoted their obituary talent yesterday, is
in astonishingly good health for a suicide. He
left Eau Claire yesterday with no trace visible
of the eight gashes in his throat with which, ac-
core ng TO the Times, he took his own life. The
origin of the report of his suicide was in the
mistake of a telegraph operator, who, in chrOu-
icing Mr. Sawyers arrival at Eau Claire aud
the suicide of a man named Thompson, got tho
two things badly mixed - Chicago Tribune.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PREsIDENT.-The
following appointments were received in this
city to-day from the President for record -
Herman Bendell, N. Y, consul at Elsinore; E.
Z. Jannis, Fla, consul at Stuttgart; Theodore
Il. Gi1liDgham, Neb., agent for the Indiars of
Omaha agency; Warren j: Lurty, Va, U. S.
following pOstmasters;-James c. Burke, Crion
city, Pa; Thomas ID. Thomas, Hyde Park Pa;
ID: A. Baldwin, New Milford, Conn; G orge
Hill, jr, Georgetown, d. c.; and Otto II. Pattie,
Narrenton, Va.
THE WEDDING of Miss Mabel, eldest daugh-
ter of MIR. N G.. Ordway, sergeant-at. arms of
the U. s. House of Representatives with Col
II. l.. Whitford a prominent railroad man of New
Hampshire, and a nephew of Ex-Governor
Stealns, OF that state, IL announced to take
a ont hn mid Of G..
fathers old homestead in New Hampshire. 1t
is understood that Rev. DR.. Sunderland will Of
fciate on the occasion. Miss Ordway is amia-
bic and beautiful and is both esteemed and adj
mired by large circle of friends in this CITY
Mr.. Whitford is gentleman of iutelIi gence and
ability, and one of the best railroad mar gers
IN new England The marriage promises to
be happy one.
AND NOW that Captain Jack aud a few of
his most faithful followers have been ordered
TO the hunting grounds of the Great Spirit, the
War department Is exercised as to what dispo-
stiOn shall be made of the others who furnish
sprightly additions to nomenclature The state
of Oregon has made a requisition fo- them.
Secretary Belknap says he will tell on Saturday
what be Is going to do with them. In the name
Of all that is good, let the state of Oregon have
them or anybody else, first, however, allowing
them to take a prominent position at Fort Kla-
math, on the 81 of October in the obsequi-s
of Jack, Black Jim, and One-eyed Bill. Let
the department commander allow them to act
as pail bearers.
PERsoNAL.-General Albert j. Meyrs, of
re signal service, sailed for Europe on the
steamship Abyssinia on Saturday, and has left
as a legacy pleasant weather. ''''Hon. John
Bingham, Minister = japan, was at Salt Lake
City yesterday. IA. b. Mullet, Supervising
Architect of the Treasury, returned to wash
,ngton on Saturday night from an extended trip
on the Pacific coast. Second Lieut., Carl F.
to report to the superintendent of the United.
States military academy at west Point, for as
signment to duty in the department of mathe-
mates. IA private letter received in this
city from Gen. Eaton, commissioner of educa-
ton, announces bis safe arrival at Queens
town.
SENATOR MORTON ON BACK PAY.-Senator
Morton, of Indiana, and Governor Noyes, of
Ohio, opened the state campaign at Athens,
Ohio, ON Saturday, and the Senator being called
grab, said -" Well, can say have not taken
It, and never expect to- ICres of "Goodr"
the pasags Of shs b
had an interview with my distinguished col
league, Mr.. Pratt. Of Indiana, and we then
agreed we would not take it, believing that the
one. / desire expressly to say, that while 1
entertain that view myself in regard 70 the
principle Of back pay, 1t Is due to other mem
to say that they thought they had a right to it;
that what they did was sanctioned by prece-
peents3 by votes and actions OF Of the
nation. 1t is a matter upon which men have
the right to differ honestly. / have simply
stated my convictions while want to do Justice
to their motives"
NAVAL ORDRRs.-Lieut. Commander f. W.
Dickens to the Asiatic station, per steamer of
| 10th September from San Francisco, Cal; Sur
geon Z. G. Bogert to duty at the marine bar
racks, Washington, d. c., and as recorder of
the medical examining board on the LIST OF Sep
TENDER next Detached-Lieut. Commander
James G. Green from the receiving ship Ohio,
and ordered to the Asiatic station per steamer
10th September from San Francisco, Cal; Lieut..
| +. W. Greenleaf from the naval observatory,
| wsshing.o On, d. c., and ordered to the Asiatfc
| station per steamer 10th September next; Lieut..
X. E. Carmody from the receiving ship New