Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-11-10
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

GOVERNMENT RECEIPTs To-DAY.-Iu;er-
nal revenue, s-62,4.1 p; customs, s5229
THE AMOUNT of national bank note cur
rency received at the Treasury to- day for
redemption aggregated s5?o,2lO.
Mr.. j. b. MOTLEY, of this city, has bsen
appointed a commissioner of deeds in the
District of Columbia for the states of New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio. Indiana Illinois
Missouri and Nebraska. Ofiice, 93i street.
THE Washing ton correspondent of the Gin
ctnndtf Commercial says: 1.-The number of
Ohioans in Washington has frequently been
commented upon. Last night there were
seven of them in one of the guard. houses in
this city" VINO Were the other six, Captain?
Ohio S'd'e Journal
PERsoNAL.-Bayard Taylor will arrive in
washington by the limited express train to
lecture before the Washington Schillerbund
tonight, the occasion being the anniversary
OF Schillers birthday. '''-Quite number
OF members of the House are IN town looking
for winter quarters. Hon. Smith Ely, OF
New York city and Hon. James Kelley, of
Pa, came yesterday.
MR.J.P. TICE, the inventor of the Tice
meter, well known in this city, died yester-
day In New York. Some time since, while
riding along the river, he saw little bow
fall overheard and Immediately plunged In
and rescued him. He had to ride some dis
lance In his dripping clothes, from the eff
fects OF which he died.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Surgeon F. NJ. Dear
bourne, ordered to the receiving ship Sa-
bine, at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Sur
geon George F. Winslow, detached from the
receiving ship Sabine, and placed on wait
Ing orders. Boatswain Joseph Mcdonald
from the navy yard, Portsmouth, N. H, and
ordered To the Richmond, South Pacific sta
ton, per steamer of 30th instant from New
York. Gunner George l.. Albro, from the
receiving ship Sabine, and granted three
months leave.
UNITED STATES CENTENNIAL SANITARY
CoMMIssIoN.-TheS Secretary of the Interior
has appointed Hon. c. C. Cox and ID. w.
Bliss. of Washington city; Prof c. w. Chan
cellor, Of Baltimore; Prof. Stephen Smith.
OF New York; Hon. A. w. Boardman, of
Boston; DIR j. III. Ranch, of Chicago; DIR. A
e. Clendenin. of Cincinnati, and c. b. White
M. d., of Louisiana, to serve as commission
ers for tire purpose of representing the de-
partment of sanitary science at the centen-
Mai exhibition ID be held In Philadelphia In
1876.
THE ScaILLERBUND CELEBRATION To
NIGHT.-The interesting event Of to night
will be the celebration of Schiller's birthday
by The Washington Schillerbund at the Con-
gregatiOnal church. The principal features
OF the celebration will be an interesting talk
about Schiller and his contemporaries by
Bayard Tay lOr and music by Prof Rischoff
In consequence OF the interest felt i'm Baya,d
Taylor lecture by those connected with the
schools, arrangements have been made by
schools will be admitted at half price. and
the requisite tickets can be procured at the
junction News Depot, corner 9th and F.
REV. H. w. B. WANTS Protection
Some time since Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
complained to the Post Office department,
that he was continually receiving scurrilOus
postal cards, and forwarded a specimen at
n Rr -.ff .nr Nns.H To-
Brother Shearman, Tracy & Co.'S Plymouth
Chulch, BrOOslyu.' Upon tie back was
written, Thou shalt not bear false witneSs
against thy neighbors, :" and following IL a
urinted verse OF doggarei descriptive OF thc
fail OF Brooklyn, because of its wickedness
and Its iiolatry Of Mr.. Beecher and ending
with Gone to meet Sodom and Gomorrah,
Assistant Attorney General Spence decides
mat the sending Of n h cards is an abuse of
Inc mails, aid should be excluded from
them.
ARMY ORDERS.-A beard of examination
having found Captain Hamilton Lieber,
military storekeeper, Quartermaster's de-
partment, incapacitated for active service
on account OF wound received and disease
contracted i'm the service and in the line OF
his d"ty, he Is, by direction Of the President,
retired from active service. Major H. c.
lodges; quartermaster, having relieved
duties connected with the settlement of the
Indebtedness OF the southern railroad COM
panles TO the United States, is, on the recon-
mendatlon OF the Acting QuartermaSter
General, hereby designated as the disbursine
quartermaster TO whom all payments on &C.
count OF such railroad Indebtedness shall be
made Leave of absence on surgeons celtih-
cate of Instability for six months from No
vember I, 1915. is granted Assistant Surgeon
George NJ. Sternberg, with permission to
go beyond the sea. The resignation Of I'd
Lieutenant VIM. j Ross, 2lst Infantry, has
been accepted by the President, to take effect
October 10 1875.