Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-01
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
GENERAL SHERIDAN arrived in Nav OsIasps

lAtl night.
IHE REPORT Of the Congressional Printer has
been compiet d, and will be submitted 10 Con-
eress on the Gay of ressSembliDs. The report
shows that in the expenses of that immense es-
tablshmeut there has been q reduction of about
thirty five thousand dollars as compar III VITA
the estimates and approprist
COMPETITIVE ExANInATIoN ON the 18th of
January the Board OF Civil Service Examiners
IN the Interior department will hold a public
competitive examination for the purpose of fill.
lpg one or more vacancies In the grade of third
assistant examiner in the PateL; Office. This
examination will be he'd in strict accordance
with the civil service rults ana will be open 10
all who ME applications hefOTe the 5th proximo.
THB SOUTHERN INTERCHANGEABLE Con-
gress.onsl Committee of Investigation IN New
Orleans spent yesterday in examining General
Ogden, commander of the white league, who
was perfectly frank in svowing the existence OF
the organization, which he testified, WAS created
for peaceful and defensive purposes had no DO
htcal ends 10 serve and had on various Ocels-
ioLs, afforded protection to negroes.
1he fele grams by the Associated PTess last
night from Montgomery, Contain nothing i'm
portsnt. The committee took considerable tss-
timony, and were 70 leave for Mobile this morn
lDS.
The Congressional Investigating Com mittee
at NicksJuTg yesterday, examined Mayor
Leary and Gen. Horace Miller, who com
maHded the ciuZen forces during the late riot
The statements contained no new points being
merely review OF the late Vicksburg trouble
THE WEATHER IN DKCsaBRR.-The meteo
TOlogical summary for the month of December
az this station, prepared by Theodore MOsher
sergeant Cf The signal service, shows: Highest
barometer, so syo, on 3Ist; lowest barometer,
- oJ7 20. b; range, 49,. Highest Temperature,
20. on 2Stb; lowest Temperatures; Is s. on 18th;
range, 81 3. Prevailing direction OF wind from
the south. Greatest velocity OF wind 81 miles
Per hour, on l4th; total number OF miles, 5.3T2.
melted ~ inch
Number of clear days, 3; number OF clsudV
dsVs, ); number OF days on which rain fell, II
number OF fair days. .. Comparative temper
atUTes-DeCember. 1870, 29S1; December 1871
q 3; December, 1872. 3I.O5; December IS73
A. 90 December, 1874, 39IO1. Comparative
Irt cipitatiOn-Decem mber, 1870, I6 inches De
lnchesi December, 1873, y, inches, Dscember
lsi4; 80 inches.
a CAPTAIN IN The NAVY SCBJsCrzD TO
DIsClPLINB.-Csgt. K. Il. Lowry, At present
commanding the L. 5. steamer Cansndaig1a
hiss incurred the displessure OF the Secretsry
Of the Navy and in cOnseq quenee has been cur
loughed' On board the Oanandaigua literary
jonInSl has been edited and published by the
Ohcers and crew called the CdnaHidigud Jour
HGI. Recently there appeared in that journal
sn article IN which the adIni Ms tratiCn OF the
Navy department was subjected to criticism
A copy OF the journsl containing the offensive
article was taken ashore at New Orleans ami
tie cTltlcisD copied INTO one Of the daily papers
OF mat city, and was thus brought To the eye OF
Secretary RObesCn. Can't. Barrett has been de
taied 10 relieve Capt. Lowry, and left here yes
ter0ay. To "furlOugh" officer OF the naVy
IL Kind OF punishment rarely administered.
me fnIlough places the officer on waiting or
C-Te, with but half the pSy aud allowance OF
his grade. Capt. LoUry's sea pay is $1,000 per
eEnum; his waiting orders paw AZ 500, and the
fcslC12h, reducing this one hair, will leave him
but 81 go per annum. The time which the
tuEloush Is TO continue is not designated.-
Vase Cer. v. /. TEss.