Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-10-02
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and GOSH D,

Washington News and GOSSIP,
INTERNAL REvENUK. The receipts from this
source to- day were 500, a6476.
PRESIDENT GRANT returned to Washington
fl ON the Carroll county (Md fair last night.
SECRETARIES Fish and Richardson had in
terviews with the President this morning.
APPOINTED By THE PREsIDEST.-Ths Pres
ident has appointed Joseph Isaacs, of California,
Register of the Land Office at Shasta, Cal.
VICE CONSUL REoosNIzED.-The President
has recognized Jose II. Snyder, the vice consu.
of the Argentine Republic at New York.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE to the following named
officers have been extended: Captain May ii.
Stacey, 18th infantry, four months; Colonel
George l.. Andrews, 25th infantry, six months.
THE NAVAL EXAMINING BOARD, after a re-
cess of upwards of a month, resumed its ses-
sions to-day, and examined for promotion En-
sign W. W. Kimball.
COMMODORE wYMAN, U. s. navy. was to-day
ordered to temporary duty as a member of the
naval examining board, vice Commodore Pat
terson, who has taken command of the Wash
ington navy yard.
THEY STILL LIvE.-Reports Of the biennial
examination of pensioners are coming in from
the examining surgeons, but thus far do not in
dictate that the pension list will be materially
reduced.
DEPUTY COLLECTORS OF CUSTOMS have been
appointed by Secretary Richardson for New
York city, as follows: Robert Desanges, Benz.
f. Wyman, Alfred F. Puffer, James Tanner,
and John j. Osborne.
THE PIXIES PEAK SIGNAL SrATIoN.-The
NIT SfotA
will be dedicated on the 18th instant. The
telegraph line to the summit is already COM
Pleted. The signal station is II, PIG feet above
sea level. An observer and three assistants
will remain on the summit all the winter.
THE PAYMENTS made from the Treasury by
warrants during the month of September were
as follows: Civil and misce aneous, IS ,SO4 4f595;
INDIANS and pensons,) 80, 1H Sab. Total,
Sl7 651 ,2I AZ. The above does not include paw
ments made on account of the principal or in
terest of the public debt.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Lieutenant Commander NJ.
L. johnson to the receiving ship Sabine, at
Portsmouth, n. H. Detached-Assstant Pay
master Nicholas II. Stavey from the navy yard,
Boston, and ordered TO duty in the Asiatic sta
ton, per steamer LIST November, from San
Francisco.
CONSOLIDATION OF REVENUE DIsrRIoTs.-
The President to-day signed an order cons)li
dating the first and third revenue district, Of
Vermont, and also ordering to the second dis
trict two counties formerly attached to the third
district. Chas. s. Dana and Arson j. Crow are
retained as collectors of the second and third
collection districts, respectively.
THE CANADIAN PATENT REcoRp.-The
Commissioner of Patents has received nun
Der of copies of the Canadian Patent Record,
publication which initiates in almost every re-
spects the American Patent Office Gazette
In looking over the list of those 10 whom Ca
madam patents have been granted it is seen that
tulIy two-thlrds OF the patentees are residents
of the United States.
LIEUT.. H. G. HUNTER, attached to the United
States steamer Wabash, who died at Barcelona
Spain. few days since, entered the navy in
1868, when the naval academy was at Newport
X. l., and won high rank in class merit grad
nating among the first in one of the most bril-
liant classes IN the history of the academy-the
class of 1863 In all the squadrons to which he
was attached he was known as q fine officer
worthy of confidence at all times of peril or diff
fculty. Lieut.. Hunter was q son of the Assist
ant Secretary of State.
UNITED STATES SUPREME CoURr.-The reg
ular annual term of the Supreme Court will be-
gin on next Monday week, the 18th instant
Nr. Justice Swayne and Mr.. Justice Bradley
are the only mem bers of the court who have as
yet arrived in the city. Justices Miller and
Strong, who have been spending the summer in
Lufope, are looked for any day in the steamer
at New York. All the other Justices, it is ex-
peoted, will be here on before the 18TH so
that the term will commence with full bench,
with the exception of the vacancy caused BY
the death of the late Chief Justice Chase.
PKRsoNAL.-General Negley, NJ. G. from the
Pittsburg, Pa, district, is in the city. ....Sen-
ator Sumner is said to have fully recovered his
health. ...' Senator Sherman has returned to
Cincinnati after a brief electioneering tour.
Among the arrivals at the Arlington are:
Hon. Abram Wakeman, N. Y; Hon. H. II.
5. A; Col. Albert Ordway, Richmond Gen. ID.
+. Marvin, y. Y. Senator Logan, OF I'LL
nois, had an interview to-day with Secretary
ly private secretary to President Grant, is in
town.
CONVENIENCE OF THE MONEY ORDER SYs-
TEM.-The Post Office money order department
has risen into some prominence in connection
with the events Of the late excitement and has
proved an unusually great convenience to the
public. The money orders being invariably
paid in legsl-tender notes, many business men
have taken them for the largest allowable
amounts. The receipts from their issue at the
Post Office have reached as much as $50 900 in
single day OF the present week, and the dis
bursements to $50 600, all in legal tenders Since
the beginning of the money stringency, the
business in this special branch has risen nearly
twenty per cent on the issue, and ten per cent
on the receipts for money orders.
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE OF MErEoRc-
LOGICAL OBsERvATIoNs.-The Vienna Con-
gress has just assented by unanimous vote to
the proposition of General Myer, sustained by
Buchan, Buys Ballot, Jellurek, Niewmayer,
Scott, Wild, Mohn and others embodied in the
following: "That 1t Is desirable, with q view to
their exchange, that at least one uniform OBJ
servation of such character as to be suitable for
the preparation of synoptic charts, be taken and
recorded idaily and simultaneously at as many
stations as practical throughout the world.1
The formal announcement of this principle
with such sanction, tends directly to the ex-
change of signal service and weather reports
between all civilized nations. 1t Is interesting
in reference to American reports to know that
the Chinese government is preparing the estab-
lishment Of a system of storm warnings and
weather reports for China and the Chinese coast
Of the Pacific.
PRESIDENT GRANT AT THE CARROLL
COUNTY (MD.) FAIR.-The President accom-
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