Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-08-30

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THR NAVAL CoURT-MARrIAL in the case of
Medical Director Duvall, at Annapolis, have
completed their duties, and the adjournment of
the court has been ordered.
TIE CONTRACT for building ife-saving sta
toni on the coast of North Carolina has been
awarded to james Boyle, of Newbern, N. c., at
81 800 each. Ten are to be erected. Work will
be commenced at an early date.
GEN. OUsTRR's LAST FIGHr.-The War de-
partment to-day received a telegram from Gen.
Sheridan confirming substantially the report
of the engagement OF the troops under Gen.
Stanley, Of the Yellowstone Exposition, hereto
fore published in THE STAR.
THE FeRr SILL MASSACRE STORY NOT Re-
LIEvED.-As yet no information has been re-
ceived at the War department confirming the
reported Indian massacre at Fort Sill, and IL In
believed in army circles to be q cruel hoax
Gen. sherman emphatically distrusts the rumor
and regards it as false.
The SEVENTH ANNUAL REUNION Of the soci-
ETY. Of the Army Of the Tennessee will be held
at Toledo, Ohio, on Wednesday and Thursday,
the 18th and 10th days Of October next, COM
mencing at 10 O'Clock a. the 18th. The
annual address will be delivered by Major Gen.
John a. Logan: Gen. w. I. Sherman Is presi-
dent Of the society.
NAVAL ORDERS. Lieutenant Commander
oduucl LIE w liSUu OEucItu 10 Inc RECEIVING
ship Vermont. Surgeon A. G. Gargas to the
Naval Hospital, Annapolis, Md. Carpenter
Geo. W. Connover to special duty in the naval
construction department of the navy yard,
washington, 10Th September next. Detached
Surveyor A. A. Hochling from the Naval
Hospital, Annapolis, Md, and ordered to the
Monongahela, Sd September next.
THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES on the Re-
vision of the Laws meet next month to examine
the work of the subcommittee appointed to
revise the labors of the commissioners, who
have now been engaged upon the new coditica-
ton of the Federal statutes since 1895. These
commissioners have entirely arranged and codi-
fed all the statutes of the United States. In
many portions of the work they have radically
changed the phraseOlogy, and rewritten the
laws They have reduced the number of vol
umes from seventeen to three. Their work If
enacted into law, will take the place of all ex
lSting statutes, and in many respects will prac-
tcally become new system of laws.
No GERMAN GRANGEs.-The records of the
office of the secretary of the National Grange
associations here show that notwithstanding the
great number Of German farmers in the west
there Is, as yet, no lodge of German oranges in
the country, and very few Germans are mem
bers Of the American oranges The reason as
signed is that the manual and ritual of the
Order have not been translated into German
Prominent Germans in the west have recently
suggested that the lodges should be introduced
among the Germans. 1t is stated that plans
will soon be taken to have the ritual and manual
translated, so that exclusively German lodges
can be organized.
ANOTHER REMINDER THAT THERE Is No
MORE FREE PosTAsE.-Persons corresponding
with our navy officers and seamen abroad do
not seem to realize the fact that the Thanking
privilege has been abolished, and that letters to
foreign countries, in almost all cases, unless the
postage is fully prepaid, are sent to the dead
letter office. As matter of courtesy such let
tiers have heretofore been sent from the dead
letter office to the Navy department, which
ventured, under the Thanking privilege to for
ward them in their mail bags to their destina-
uon. This cannot now be done, and the Navy
department stamps cannot be used to forward
unpaid and short-paid private letters. The con
sequence Is daily accumulation of postal mat
ter, which officers and seamen are wondering,
perhaps, why they do not receive. Correspond,
ents cannot be too careful in seeing that the
proper postage is prepaid, and must not expect
double letters to 60 to foreign stations with sin
gle postage.
PERsoNAL-John Jay Knox, controller of
the currency; John NJ. Magruder, esq.,, and
John A. Patten, esq.,, of the same Office, are
spending few weeks in the mountains of Vir-
ginia. Governor Cooke will sail for Europe
s about the 18th Of September, and join his fam
shepherd left for New York last evening, and
-. Vice President wilson went to Oak Bluffs,
a guest Of ex-governor Ciailin, of Msssachu-
sets; ''.. The wife Of United States Senator
Matthew ". Ransom, Of North Carolina, is at
the White Sulphur Springs, In Catawba county.
she Is an invalid. 49, Ex-senator John r.
Hale, OF New Hampshire, is failing faster, and
ing already gone. 90" DR.. Chas. Z. Hagner has
returned with his family to the city, after an
absence Of several weeks. .'.'Senator Pome-
roy arrived In Washington to-day. "Mr.
Joseph MacFa rland, correspondent Of the Phil
adelpnia rress; returned t0 Washington thus
morning from Ralston, Pa. 49, Gen. WIN. II.
Emery, commanding the military department.
tiers Of the army to-day. 80. MI. wilmer s.
Shepherd left town for Chicago this afternoon.