Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-11-03


source to-day were s163 .O4l20.
No FINER PIBCR oF ACTING has been seen
Ia this city for years than that of Mr. McCul-
Tough last night in the part of RieReIiea.
THR NAVAL TORrEDo BOAT Alarm in com
pany with the Gettysburg, left New York on the
I'd inst. for Washington.
CAPT. r. X. BREEZE has been relieved as
commsndant OF midshipmen at the naval acsd-
emy, Annapolis. and will be succeeded by Com
mander Edward Terry.
FROM r. B. Mohun & Co. and Warren Choats
& Co. we have copies Of the British Quarterly
RsrielU (the Leonard Scott Publishing compa-
ny's repTint for October.
DEATH OF MATE JOHNSTON, L. s. N.-The
Navy department has received information Of
the death of Master Fl. II. Johnston, at Milton.
Florida: He was ordered in September last to
proceed to Pensacola to take command of the
tug Rose, and died on his way.
AN INTERESTING CAsB.-The United States
Supreme Court is now engaged in the trial of
the case of the state OF MARYLAND against the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad company, upon
the issue of which depends whether the com
pany shall pay in gold or currency the interest
on loan from the state.
The Boston BOARD OF TRADE have adopted
resolutions in favor of Congress making Iarxe
appropriations for the extension of the signal
service. and the providing of better facilities
Tor ITS observations and work In general, so that
storm signals may be displayed from ev ery hsr-
bor or any importance, and at every cape and
headland.
tXPBNsRs OF The GovERNMRNT.-The pay
ments made from the Treasury by warrants
during the month o. October were AZ follows:
Civil and miscellaneous, s6,si6, ,s67.O4; war,
tlr5Ji ,43546; navy, S2.33l ,9S24O; interior,
= SRs pfa oil he
does not include payments made on account of
the principal or interest of the public debt.
A DECISION IN REFERENCE TO THE REFORM
SCHooL.-Upon question submitted to him by
the president of the reform school of the Dis
trict of Columbia, the Attorney General has
decided that money received by the treasurer
from the District authorities for the mainte-
nance of boys in the school cannot he used in
payment OF debt incurred for the ereC ton of
building for the institution.
GHR GERMAN LEGATION has received no in
formation whatever concerning the arrest or
the alleged under secretary of Won Arnim, in
St Louis, nor has any communication been re-
ceyed at the legation from Bismarck on that
SUBJECT. The minister, Mr.. SchlOzer. pro
nOlnces the statement concerning the German
government and the alleged action of the lega-
lion here without the least foundation in fact.
For SOME TIME PAST Senator Jones, OF Ne
vada, has been annoyed by the reception of
anonymous letters rejecting on the name of his
fancee, Miss GeOrgiana Sullivan. The first he
tore up, the second he treated likewise, and the
third which came to his hand he carried to
Eugene Sullivan, the father of the young lady,
with the view OF obtaining his aid in detecting
il possible, the author Of these Infamous com.
municstiOns. The San Francisco Chr0nic1s OF
October g, says their efforts resulted in fixing
the ofiense on lawyer named Lee u. Ransom
NAVAL ORDBRs.-Lieut. Commander s. l..
Wilson to ths receiving ship Independence,
navy yard, Mare Island. Lieut. Samuel W.
Very to the navy yard, Boston. Passed Assist
ant Engineer Edward Olson to special duty at
Hartford, Conn. Carpenter VIM. F. Lightner
70 the receiving ship Ohio, at Boston. Mass
Detached-Lieut. Commander Charles s. H.
Davis from the Pensacola, and ordered 10 p~o-
ceed home and report arrival. Lieut.. Robert F.
lmpey, from the receiving ship Independence,
and ordered to the Pensacola.
ANOTHER CALL FOR FIVE TwRNTrEs.-The
Secretary OF the Treasury, in the thirteenth caN
for the redemption of hve-twenty bonds of l>62
gives notice that the principal and accrued il
terest of the bonds below designated, known as
e-twenty bonds, will be paid at the treasury
Of the United States on aud after tue 2d day Of
February, 1915, aud that the interest on said
BONDS Will cease on that day; that is to say, cou-
pom lords knows as the fourth series OF the at
OF February p, 1862, dated May !, 1862. az fol-
lowe: Coupon bonds, fifty dollars. No. 1921 to
No. 1861, both inclusive; one hundred dollars,
No. G2O1 to No. 105O0, both inclusive; five hun
dred dollars, No 5O0l TO 1000, both inclusive:
enc thousand dollars, No. II 90l to No. 2DOOO
both Inclusive. Total, s. 200 900. The amount
outstanding embraced in the numbers as
aboye) is five million dollars of coupon bonds"
The ERECTION OF GRAND Arsenal RE-
CoMMENDRD.-The report OF the chief of ord
nance has been presented to the Secretary of
War Gen. Benet quotes from the report Of a
board OF officers authorized to inspect the VA
rlOus arsensls in the United States, in which
they recommend the sale of the Allegheny, Co
lumbus, Detroit, Pikesville, WaterVliet, Wa
teTtown and Washington aT5enals, the sales to
be made AS rapidly as circumstances may per-
nit, the proceeds to be devoted to the purchase
Of site and t5e erection Of buildings for the
grand arsenal. The chief of ordnance heartily
concurs In these recommendations, and invoices
favorable consideration on the part OF the Sec
retary OF War and Of Congress The establish
ment of powder depot and an experimental
ground for heavy cannon are also discussed by
the board anu lts recommendations approved.
EDWARD s. STOKES IN PRIsON,-A CORES
pondent who recently visited the Sing Sing
prison, where Stokes the murderer of Fisk il
confined, had q talk with the surgeon. who.
referring to Stokes, says -" Visitors rarely
recognize him, from the fact that there is no
convict in the prison who takes more pains to
avoid the gaze Of visitors, and yet he never
shl inks from the performance of any work or
erTand that he may be sent on. Time and again
visitors from New York who said thew knew him
have asked where he might be seen and at the
very moment Of their speaking he mas passed
within few feet of them, unperceiE we'd. ON
my thkiug Cudfge OF tue DOSpiIal a teW weeks
ago, found bim located in the upper wGrl a
room 20 by 40 feet in size. There he sleeps on
the ordinary prison bed, at such times as he is
not compelled TO doZe IN a chair. He is a victim
Of asthma in its worst form, and no less than a
fortnight ago / was called up after midnight,
and was a witness TO his suffering, from which
he WAS not relieved for several nights. The
class OF prisoners to which he belongs requires
TO watching. in fact, we feel that they On'y
can be trusted and relied on in any emer-
gency."
TEE LATE SCICIDK OF FIELDER ). wEsKs-
Pscll'iJT Ffscts Of a Wound an the LyagS-Mr
Fielder 5. Weeks, of l3l First place, Brooklyn,
died Saturday night from the effects Of Injuries
Inflicted by his own hand on Monday last Mr.
Weeks was New York merchant, doing busi-
ness in Duane street, but recently failed IN busi-
ness, which greatly affected his mind. He took
some laudanum to aid him to sleep, but it onlv