Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-08-25

THE A@oUST OF ratiooal bank note cur
rency received at the Treasury to-day for
redemption ag2ro gated s6I5,57.
pIsCHArGE ORDErED-The Secretary Of
War has ordered ire discharge OF Felix
Myers, general service, L. S. A, at Fort
NhiIPle, Va.
ARMY ORDrrs-second Lieutenant y. F.
C-rrirgham, Sth infantry, has been relieved
from duty as n member OF the general court
marital - meet ~ NewroTt barracks, Ky.
ard First Lieutenant L. II. ThOmp ;Cu, 9.th
ir.11trys hcs been ie' ill in his stead
TIE MARRIAGE OF the Postmaster Gen
erals caUghter "a Air. Arthur Dodge viii be
one Or the CciaI events Of early fan in Wash
irgiou. TIE W !Glrg VIII to Ike place at ST
Johns church, ard will he followed by the
GSUai bridal ievCC perception at Mr. JEWELS
residence -Phi',, Pres
RATHER AN EXPENSIVE TRANSACTION
California POEtmaster sent S25 in nickel
currency 10 Treasurer New to-dly by mail,
ana put three cent stamp on the y .ckage
The 20 staee due when the Hickels reached
the Tree SUry was >H45, which was Il iuctci
from The remittance, and the balance re-
turn6d - check.
NAVAL Orders. Midshipman Viucen-
dOre L. ColtIran mas reported his return
home, having been detached from the Tusca-
rora on the 18th instant, and has been placed
81 waiting OTierE. Nidshipmen Harry NJ,
II, 3gc and walter : Hughes detachCt from
The Swaf1ra ana order to the Richmond,
South Pacific station, per steamer Of Seth
instant.
PEI o:AL.-Commi-si oner J II. Ketcharl
returned 20 the city this morning after aa
absence Of four days in New York, and has
resumed his official dutiel. Representa-
tive Garfield Is recovering his health at Lit
re Mountain, IN Lake county, O. ''''CharleS
Lan1nan and wife, of Georgetown, are spend
Ing the summer at Block Island, accCmpa-
III i by their Japant e ward.
UNMANNFRLY BARBARIASs.-R Recently
the American consul at Tripoli was grossly
insultcd by some Of the people, and two war
vessels from our squs iron in the Mcditerra-
mean were order 4 there To demand an apOl-
ogy. Their arrival provoked fresh out
ashore being hCOte1 at by the rabble IN the
str, cts. The obtaining OF eparatiOn hal
not Ten completed at the latest advIces, and
the ships remained in the haTbor.
TIE DEADHEAD BUsINEss.-Some of the
papers are making a great 10 over the dis
cOvery that EenatOr Morson's dispatches
over the Western Union telegraph lines are
"tea I-lea Z /" The truth is that a great
many other members of Congress beside
Senator Morton are "Gead-headed" over the
W6s, Union. Most every prominent Of
fetal, whether in Congress or in the depart-
mentS, whose influence is considered worth
anything, and who will accept the tender,
rrieS in his pockets the dead-he9d stamps
OF the Western Union. 1t is probably this
deaf-head business which Infiicts higher
tariff than is just upon business people and
others who pay for their dispatches. One of
the most important of the many needed re-
forms under this government is a law abS0.
lutely prChi biting the acceptance OF dead
head compliments of any kind by any one
branches OF the government.-Wdsh. C0q.
Bat. Sun.
ST. SwIrHIN A wATERY HUMBUG-In
connection with the moisture of the past
iOrtv days, IL is interesting to note the fact
that the ST Swithin prOverb has been now
scientifically investigated and completely
exploited. AT the celebrated Greenwich OBJ
servatOry. in England, record was kept Of
the rainfall and drought subsequent TO St
SWltnIn's day for twenty successive years,
apd the forty DAYS rain or drought affair
was not Verif~d in any one OF tho, e twenty
years oh .eTvdtions. Undoubtedly st. Swi-
thin Is duck OF saint, but there is rare
record OF his having been able to accomplish
forty successive days OF padding. That he
has succeeded this season, after - thousand
years trial, Is merely moist happening.
THE CoLoRED MEN AND EDUCATION
The col1red educational convention IN ses-
iritiatOry steps toward the formation of "A
sOcie.y 10 be known as the Virginia Flu
cstiOnal and Historical Society" An ad
dress vas delivered by j. W. Cromwell. Of
Portsmouth, on the difficulties surrounding
tie cOlOTed youth of Virginia in obtaining
sn education, anc by Rev. w. r. Derrick. OF
Rohmoni, on compulsory education. Reso-
IuficnS were adopted providing for monthly
publication OF educational progress ana sta
ilstlcs, and asking the state board of ejuca-
ton 10 establish colored normal school at
The earliest practicable date.
THE TERRIBLE FATE OF DUNAIDsoS-A
Dispatch fran Ria, Pound ia Il BJttle.-A dis
patch from Port Hope, Mich dated yester-
gay. says: A bottle was found washed ashore
this mo- ming containing the following.
"Over Lake Michigan at p. IN. OF the
evening Of starting. about thirty miles from
Chicago, about three thousand feet high. "A
gale coming rom the northeast; balloon is
getfipg out ~ Orier. gas escaping fast: can't
remain UP much longer, will surely lanl ia
the lake; fearful storm.
lSigued} 'DoNALDsos."
The writing is well preserved.
SHOT.-AibeTs MOlitor, merchant, of Rogers
City, E!ch.. and Edward Sullivan, his
COOEkeeper, were both shot. probably fatal
" on Monday night, while standing al 4
desk in MOlitOr's store. Fourteen buckahOt
ertered NOlItOT'S side, ard IL IS scarcely pos
Sible he car recover. Sullivan was shot in
The face, receiving a flesh wound. The
assassin is supposed In he one OF MoiitOrs
laboreTs he had been guarding with.
THE MAINE ELECTIOH.-In Maine the
September election Will have for one of It's
effects the adoption or rejection by the people
OF a series Of constitutional amendments, the
laws IS opposed 10 special legislation, for the
executive appointment or municip pal ju-
dietary and police, and for the exclusion from
the night OF suffrage for ten years OF all per
sons bTIbing or being bribed at elections.
| ATTACKED BY A DEVIL FISH.-In July a
diver IN Submarine armor, working at a
wreck on the coast OF y ormandy. was seized
| by "A devil nSE. which held fast to mel ghbor-
| ing rock. His cOmrade came 10 his assist
| snCe and was seized also. II was only with
| great difficulty that they could give the sig
| nal that they needed help. Others Went
| down. CutiaSSeS were brought and the mon
| steIs arms were hewed of.
! DEATH OF THE "QUEEN OF THE LOFTY
1 WIRE."-Nirt )ria Anderson, a rope dancer
1 from Sheffield, who Will he remembered as
the queen OF the Lofty Wire at Barnnm's
\ Hippodrome, aged three, fell, " On
day. August 3, from a velociped on a rope
| eighty feet high, Oh which she was perform
| ing. She was fearfully injured and died
4 shortly afterward.
THE PROTESTANT CONVENTION. - The
\ ste amer City Point, from Philadelphia, ar
4 NV at Sea Grove, n. J., yesterday, with
| nearly two hundred delegates 10 the Goa.
/ vention OF all Protestant denominations