Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-10-02
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.


CONVENIENT RECEIPTS To-pAY.-Inter
nal revenue, s6Os, se2.77; customs, es4l.ssa 50.
NATIONAL BANK MOTIFS received to-day
for redemption s711 .3os.
LIKUr. CoMMANDER CHAs. g. CRAvEN,
U. 8. N, is ordered to the navy yard, Mare
island, Cal.
BONDS WIrHDRAwN.-s137,00 900 bonds held
for bank circulation were Withdrawn from
the Treasury to-day, and four and a-halr
per cent. bonds substituted.
PERsoNAL.-Secretary Chandler resumed
bis duties at the Interior department on Sat
urday. Commissioner Smith, of the Iu-
dian bureau, has gone to Ohio where he will
remain until after the election.
CONGRESSIONAL NoMINATIoNs SArUR.
DAY.. V. Lemoyne, democrat, Sd Illinois;
Carter 81. Harrison, democrat, ID Illinois.
The deDocT ats of the LIST Illinois district had
split In their convention, and ]. II. Hoxie
ana Bernard Canneld were nominated.
INVITATIONS have been sent to all OF Gen.
McPherson's classmates, including those
who served In the confederate army (among
them General j. B. Hood), to be present at
the ceremony OF unwilling the Mcpherson
statue in this city.
BIDS were opened In the bureau OF yards
and docks at the Navy department, Satur-
day, for works OF improvement at League
island, Pa. Among the bidders was Austin
p. Brown, OF this city. The contract will be
awarded next week.
A CORRESPONDENT BADLY BEATEN
Mr.. George B. Shaw, a correspondent OF the
Boston Herald. was attacked by some mis-
creant on the Centennial grounds on Friday
night, and frishtfully cut and muttlated
with knife, and now lies In precarious
condition. The would be assassin escaped.
PROMOTIONS in the medical corps of the
army, In accordance with the act Of the last
session Of Congress, are now being made.
Under the new law surgeons will take rank
as colonels In the order OF seniority, the num-
corps Of assistant surgeons is Ii mited to one
hundred and twenty -nve.
GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES FOR Sep
TIMBER.-The payments made from the U.
g. Treasury by warrants during the month
OF September, 1876, were as follows: Civil
and Miscellaneous, "a SCI ,924 CT; War, q, 553-
2O sa Nay, s22i4 ST. 52i Interior, Indians
les "a. The ABOVE does not include payments
maze on account OF the interest or principal
of the public debt of the United States.
THE DEAD LETTER OFFiCE-The Discon.
ti'udnce Of a Part Of its Work Recomnlended-
Third Assistant Postmaster General Barber
has written a letter to Postmaster General
ductiOn OF force in the Dead Letter office,
and the impOssibility OF assigning clerks for
that work from any other division, 1T Is
obvious that considerable portion of the
business heretofore done must De aoaudoned;
and, that as the return Of ordinary letters is
The least important To the department, al
though OF considerable value To the public,
recommending that this part OF the work be
discontinued.
THE POSTAL RAILWAY CoMMIs sIoN-At
Cincinnati, Saturday, the special postal
railway commission examined officers OF the
railways terminating at Cincinnati as to the
transportation OF mails, and business men In
regard to the accommodations furnished
while the fast mail was In operation, aud
also as 10 the present arrangements. There
was conflict Of testimony among the mer
chants, bankers and publishers Of newspa-
pers, some testifying that they were a. well
operation. and others that there was delay
OF twenty hours between New York and
Cincinnati. The commission have gone to
Louisville.
THE WEATHER IN SEPTEMBER The me-
theological summary for last month at this
station, prepared by Theodore Mosher, jr.
signal service observer, shows-Highest ba-
rOmeter. (l6th,) 3O.226; lowest barometer,
Q7th,) 29162; highest temperature, ust,) SO
deg; lowest temperature, (2Sth,) IS deg; pre-
vailtng direction OF wind, north west; greatest
velocity Of wind, SO miles per hour, at
6:25 p. m. Of the 18th; total number OF miles,
., 237; number OF clear days, 6; number of
cloudy days, 4; number OF days on which rain
fell, 16; number of fair days, 4; compare
tive temperatures-1sTl, 62.6 deg 1872. 69
deg; 1873, 6S.3 deg; 1874, 20 4 deg; 1875, 6i9
deg; 1916, 653 deg; comparative precipita-
tion-lsI1, 2.l0 inches; 1872, go inches; 1873
34S inches; 1874, 7.S4 inches; 1875, 50 inches;
1876, 1881 inches.
ARMY ORDERs.-Capt. John F. Weston,
commissary OF subsistence, will proceed to
Sioux City, Iowa, for temporary duty as
purchasing and depot commisss ~ at that
place; LIST Lieuts. Il. 8. Godfrey, Go. X, and
Cherries Broden, Co. L, 7th cavalry, will
exchange stations; 1st Lieut.. ]. G. Tnomp-
son, Sd cavalry, is relieved as judge advocate
OF The general court-marttal appointed to
meet at st. Louis barracks, Mo-, and Capt
William McCleare, Sth cavalry, is detailed
TO I'LL the vacancy; leave of absence of Capt.
~. K. Brown, corps OF engineers. IL extended
q days; leave OF absence for four months,
with leave TO apply for extension OF two
months, Is granted Assistant Surgeons W.
HI. Gardner and p. Mofatt; Assistant Sur
geOn j. w. Williams is relieved from duty
IN department of Dakota, aud Will report ia
person to the Surgeon General.