Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-04-08
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
1ETTRNAL REvRNUE.-The receipts from
this source to-day amount To 21J,T2i.29.

THE AMOUNT of national bank notes re-
seiyed al the Treasury department. today
for redemption aggregated SJi0,915.
DAVID T. HIcKky has been appoiu t4l
saHger Of internal revenue Cor tine fIss dis
tri.i of Tennessee.
GEORGE NJ. SwENEY, OF Illinois, has
been appointed "A frst-elass clerk in ;he con.
irae; Office OF the Post Once department.
BCwLEs BAKER ard ether Texans had al
audience with President Grant this morning..
Their object was 10 have further changes in
political Offices In TeXa, made.
NATIONAL BANK REsoURCEs-I, appears
from the reports made 10 the controller OF
The currency up To the close of business
March Ist. that The entire resources of ali the
national banks were 81 .SGs 600 20. They have
among their assets ( ID 5o7 ,0ZJ Of specie, AMI
STf 49, 800 OF legal tender notes,
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THE PoSF OFFICE DEFARIMENf to-day
received from the postal department of ia
pan number OF fine Photographic views Of
The new post office buildings recently erected
1T Yokohama, SagasatIi, HiOgo. and ToAi0.
che architecture is modern in style and Il
great improvement on the prevailing archi-
lecture OF Japan.
NORF NATIONAL BANKs.-The following
national banks have been authorized TO com
mcnCe business with the amount OF capital
SCI after each Of their names respectively
t1ty National Bank, Fiaintie!d. n. j
$50 COO; First National, Clinton, y. J..
sI0c 600; First National. sharon Pa. s2l9. uao
First National, Mayleld, Ny, sioo ,0O}.
a pELFGATION representing a committee
APPOINTED at recent meeting OF the busjneSs
men Of the city Of Baltimore had an Inter
view with President Grant this morning.
and presented n memorial adopted AT tiIat
WI
al the refusal ~ the President To remove
collector Booth.
WANTS TIE NEW AUTOGRAPH--Au
rfiicial communication was received at the
Treasury department to-day address :
Hon John c. New. Treasurer OF the United
S,ates, The writer requested the auto
gIaTh OF NJ. New, "juSi to see II il hal the
sane elements Of 81 -Gtne>S il its chirograpIT
as was evidenced IN zen. Spinners.'
RESIGNATION AND PRoIoTICN n THE
PATENT OFFICE.-General ~ Ii. Brown.
principal examiner OF ira ie-marks in the
Patent Office. aud an excellent officer. has
TesiGned, ia return 70 the practice of law il
this city. MI j. T.. N. Bowen. iTst assistant
examiner. has been promoted principal ex
aminer %! trademarks. vice Browne, fe
Sig ed, The salary i $1,000 per annum
TRANSFER AND PRoMOTIOS OF Postal
CLERKs.-AlexaTdcr Leeds has been trans
route in Maryland anu promoted TO assist
ant clerk in thu railway post Office between
Washington, ID. c., and Grafton, West Va
Eugene Won Tagen, temporary assistant
clerk IN the washington and Grafton rail
way post office, has been permanently an
pointed. w. T. Erwin has been appointed
route agent between WcvertOn and iIagers-
town. Md, vice Leeds, transferred aud pro
NOTED.
NAVAL ORDKRs.-Surgcon c. j. CIeborne.
II. fI.. md Mt 10.
Passed Assistant Paymaster w j. Thomson
TO duty in the bureau of provisions AMI cloth
1 z Detachei-Lfeut. Commander GeOr9
". Bache, from ordnance duty at nayy-yarl
Washington, and placed on waiting Orters
Medical Director Lewis j. Williams. fro n
the naval hospital at New York, and or
dered tOduty in charge of the ma val laiOra tory
a. New York. Surgeon samuel +. Co ,"s.
fnon the aTyyard at Portsmouth, Y. H
ard placed ON writing OrerS.
ESCAPE OF NOTORIOUS CoUSrrE-
FELTER-The Attorney General has received
kilograms announcing that the notorious
counterfeiter, Pete Mccartney, who. with
three other cOuHteTfeiterS, had been arrcS tod
through the efforts OF the secret service Off
GERS al Dallas, Texas, a few days ago, made
his escape yesterday morning while in the
custody of l.. =. Marshal PurnelI. eastern
district of Texas, at Bremond, in that state.
Mccartney stands Indicted in four different
judicial districts for cOuuterfeiting. in 9uV
one Of which his conviction would be Ger
tain if he could be brought 10 trial.
WHISKY, BEER AND CIGARS IN THIS
DIsTRICT-The number of retail liquor deal
ers licenses issued by the internal revenue col
lector for the District OF Column bia T. l.. TUT
lock, for the license year ending April 20.
leaJ, was 9s2; dealers in cigars and tobacco,
1874; manufacturers of cigars, %, and brew
crs, -. The total number of cigars manufac-
tured iii this District during the calendar year
Is, 4. and on which tax has been paid, was
tured was 6,13S barrels. These figures Sc I'm
pretty high for such luXuries as beer and
cigars, yet il is estimated by Mr.. TullociS
hat not more than One-twentieth Of the
cigars consumed in this District are manu-
lactured here, and not above one-t third of the
reer drank annually in this District is mae
ufactured here.
DANGEROUS CoUNTERFEITS IN CIRCULA-
fioN-The only dangerous national bank
C'unterfeits of the denomination of five dol
lars in circulation are the issues of the Ira
ders' National Bank, the Third National
Eank. and the Merchants National Bank
all of the city of Chicago. These counterfeit Is
are exceedingly well done, and calculated to
deceive. All but 50 600 Of the notes OF the
Traders and the First National banks OF
lhicagO have been retired and the notes of
all four of these banks OF these deromina-
lions are being rapidly redeemed in the re-
compton Office OF the Treasurer, and no a l.
tltional notes of the denomination Of 50 will
De issued TO these banks. The public gener-
ally should refuse notes OF the denomination
OF 10 of these banks. and all national ban :
are REQ uested 10 return all - notes issued by
these associations to- the Treasurer for re-
demptiOn, in their packages of mutilatc,i
notes.
DECEIVING LIFE INSURANCE CoMPA-
NIES.-ln the case of Jefries, atministra tor,
versus Economical Mutual Life Insurance
Company, error TO the Circuit Court for the
district of Missouri, the u. s. Supreme Court
has rendered the following decision: In this
case il is held that where an applicant for
Insurance upon his life who was married
when asked If he was married or single, re-
piled single, and, being already insured,
when asked if he had applied elsewhere for
insurance, replied no, such replies amounted
TO Intentional deception and defeated the
policy. and this notwithstanding the fact
that the answers may not have been mate
rial TO the risk, and even though they made
the applicant appear a better subject than
the ruth would have done. The express con-
tract being that the company should not be
deceived, IL makes no matter whether de
ceived TO its injury or benefit, the result /,
the same. Affirmed. Mr.. Justice Hunt de-
livereG the opinion.
INNOCENT RECEIVERS OF STOLEN BONDS
Hotchkiss VS. the Natiora shoe and Leath