Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-05-21
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
THE RECEIPTS TO-DAY were, from internal
revenue, S2I3. Ol9.Gs; from customs. SA11S3.

THE RECEIPTS TO-DAY were, from internal
revenue, s2I3, ol9.6s; from customs, SH7.ls3.
THE AMOUNT of national bank note circu-
lafion received at the Treasury to-day for
redemption aggregated s70933O.
THE PRESIDENT to-day appointed David
p. Dyer to be United States attorney for the
eastern district of Missouri.
Mr.. SAMUEL X. STRATToN, of Pa has
been appointed a frst-class clerk in the
finance office of the Post Office department.
REVISED EDITION of the nation NJ bank
amendments TO date has been completed,
and is now being distributed TO the national
banks by the controller of the currency.
PRESIDENT GRANT will leave Washington
about the first week IN June for Long
Branch, to remain during the summer
months Next week a number of servants
Will be sent over from the city to put the
PRESIDENTIAL cottage in good order.
DEATH OF A NAVAL CHAPLAIN.-A dis
patch received at the Navy department from
Portsmouth, N H., this morning announces
the death of Chaplain Geo. III. Henderson,
u >. N, at the Portsmouth navy yard yes
terday at noon.
PERsONAL.-COl. George B. Corkhill, of
the Chronicle, sails for Europe on the steamer
Russia next Wednesday. ....Prof. j. E.
NOurse, of the naval observatory, has been
ordered TO Europe, and will sail from New
York in the steamer Baltic to- morrow.
POSTAL CoNrRACTs.-The Postmaster
General has issued an order for the re- letting
OF those postal contracts in which frauds
were recently discovered. No bids will be
received from the parties who were guilty
OF frauds IN connection with the previous
contracts.
DIVIDEND TO THE SHAREHOLDERS OF A
SUSPENDED NATIONAL BANK.-The Con-
troller of the Currency will declare a divi-
dend OF twenty per cent in favor of the
shareholders of the National Bank of the
commonwealth, New York city, as soon as
the claims are proved, and the necessary
schedules can be prepared by the receiver.
Dividends of one hundred per cent have
already been paid to the creditors. This is
the first instance where dividends have ever
been paid to the shareholders OF a suspended
national bank.
NAVAL Observation-Disclosures
Commander f. j. Higginson, from the re-
ceiving ship Ohio and ordered to Newport,
r. l., LIST June next for instruction in torpedo
service; Lieutenant NJ. l.. Johnson, from the
POwhattan and ordered to the receiving ship
Ohio at Boston as executive; Lieutenant
Commander +. f.. Chadwick, from the naval
academy and ordered to the Powhattan as
executive; Lieutenant Com WANDER Chas III.
Davis, from the naval observatory and or
dered to Newport, II. l., June next for in
structiOn in torpedo service; Chief Engineer
neer stores at the navy yard at Philadelphia
and to continue as president of the examin-
ing board.
DEATH OF EX-SENATOR JESSE ID. BRIGHT.
Last evening Hon. Jesse ID. Bright died at
his residence in Baltimore, No. 81 West Mad
ison street. He was born at Norwich Che
mango county, n. Y. December Is, 1872 was
Circuit Judge of Indiana, state senator, mar
shall OF the United States for the district OF
Indiana, and Lieutenant Governor of that
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1876 TO 1857, and President of the Senate dur
Ing several sessions. He was elected for an
additional term in 1857, and was chairman of
the Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds, and member of the Committees
on Finance and Pacific Railroad. He armly
eSpoused the side of the south at the COM
mencement of the late war, and, on account
OF correspondence with Jefferson Davis
was expelled from the Senate.