Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-05-25

The RECEIPTS TO-DAY were, from internal
revenue, sl2s ,55i.23, from customs, Sll5.59s.Ol.
THE AMOUNT OF national bank note cur
rency received at the Treasury to-day for
redemption aggregated s553.lOO.
MAIL FOR THE FAR EAsr.-The Pacific
Mail steamship company have notified the
Post Office department that their steamer
tthe Colorado will sail from san Francisco
Tor China and Japan on the 18th of June.
THE PRESIDENT has recognized Adolphe
PBilibert Tray as consul Of France at
Charleston, s. c. He also TO day signed the
commission of Mrs. Eliza =. Phillips as
Postmaster at Union Springs, Alabama.
CASE DIsNIssED.-In the Police Court tins
morning the case of VIM. f. Sawyer against
T.. F. Wilbur. principal examiner i'm the
Patent ONCE, for perjury, was nolle pressed
oy direction OF the l. 5. District Attorney.
PFRsoNAL-Judge J. j. Martin. formerly
Sixth Auditor, and at present postmaster At
Montgomery, Ala. is in this city for few
days. Mr.. f. W Barber, Third Assistant
postmaster General Will return TO this city
this evening.
THE COURT OF CLAIMS Yesterday rem
dered judgment in about 80 separate cases,
covering $50 bales of cotton, valued al near
~ million OF dollars. Col. Robert VI. aud
stephen A. Douglas sons OF the late stephen
A: Douglas, OF Illinois, receive an award OF
l.i5I bales. or about S2jJ. 600, seized in the
state OF Mississippi, on the maternal planta-
ton.
THE I. :. STEAMER COLORADO has been
ordered from Hampton Roads TO New York.
after transferring part of her crew to the
Constellation. the practice ship OF the naval
academy The officers and crew of the
Omaha. South Pacific station. are TO be soon
relieved by others TO he sent out from New
ork i'm the POwhatan. The POwhatan Will
carry the relief TO ASpinwall. from whence
they viii proceed by rail to Panama.
ARMY DEsFRTIONs AND RE-ENL1sr-
MENTs.-A statement prepared at the War
Department of the number Of desertions and
rC-enliStments i'm the United states army
during the fiscal year ending June 30. ls14.
ana the ten months OF the present fiscal year
10 April 80. lN.j. II shows for the fiscal year
ending June So. 1871: De>eTtiOnS-FrOm July
!, l.'3, To April 30. 1874, SIS: from May /,
liSimentS-FrOm July I. 1913. to AprII 30
1N14, 40; from May l, ISL to June 20. 1871.
2i9; total, 600 For ten months OF present
fiscal year to April ,, 1875: Dcser.iOns. l72i:
re-enliStnentS, l,119.
THE WESTERN FOLK are thoughtleSsly
sending through the mails and per express 10
their eastern friends whole boxes fun of the
devastating grasShOpper. Such presents are
as unacceptable as would be boxes of lizards
or rattlesIakeS. The grasshopper is indigo
nous 10 almost every section of the country.
and hardly comes under the head of a curioS-
ity. II j. related that quite recently on one
of the trains running between this city and
Bal timore box containing several thousand
OF these insects was broken, when almost in
stantly the car became dark with the hop
pin pests. The ladies. as may be imagin~i
screamed in very lively manner, while the
gentlemen FASTENED to open the car windows
and let the hOppers out 10 multiply. replen-
ish, and wax fat on Mary land soil.
THE WHrCL<v Ttrr COS
TINCED.-The Commissioner OF Internal
Revenue to-day received a telegram from
st. Louis announcing the seizure by revenue
ollcerS of large vinegar factories with com
plete dlSulling apparatus in operation. \
telegram from Chicago to the revenue Office
says that gauger John w. Hood has been
arrested and held in =. 600 bail charged with
conSpiI ing with whisky firm to defraud the
soYernmcnt' Supervisor Powell, at Gin
cInnat. t2legraphS that he mas seized the
dlStillerieS Of Howe n Hubbell aad Am9nu
60. Two eaugerS are Implicated. and they
VII be dismissed from the service. VIM.
Meredith has been appointed StorekeeDar for
the first Missouri district, and Linden y
Smith gauger for the same district.
THE MARRIAGE OF LIEUT.. GLEN AND
MISS FRESCH.-Lieut. John l.. Glenn, T. s.
A, once familiarity known as the drummer
boy of Chickamauga, and Miss Anita T.,
daughter of Gen. VIM. Il. French, command
ant al Fort McHenry, Were married in Ralti-
more last evening, at st. Luke'S Episcopal
church. y large and brilliant aSSeInblage
witnessed the nuptials. There were four
bridesmaids and grOOmSmen. The bridal
procession moved up the aisle in the follow
ing order Capt. ThOs. II. Fish, of the 22d In
fantry, and Miss Annie III. Martin; Lieut..
Geo Mitchell, adjutant of the "a artillry. ana
Miss Florence Lockwood; Lieut.. E. NJ. Cobb.
of the 2d Artillery, and Miss Rose French a
sister of the bride; Lieut. w. NJ. Coffin of the
9th Artillery, and Miss Birdie Jones, and
lastly Gen. French, Lieut.. Glen. and Miss
Anita X. French. The beautiful marriage
service of the Episcopal church was read by
Rev. Mr.. Rankin, the rector, assisted by Rev
Mr.. Gibson. The bridal party, with several
invited guests, were driven TO Fort McHenry
where reception was held. Miss Birdie
Jones, one of the bridesmaids, is the daugh
ter of Gen. sam Jones, formerly of the CON
iederate states army, and Miss Martin
another of the bridesmaids. is also the daugh-
Yer of an eX-c0nfederata officer, Major Gen.
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