Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-09-30
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERN MENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Inter
nal revenue, s317 ,693; customs. 1915, 453.


GOVERN MENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Inter-
nal revenue, s3I7 ,693; customs. 1915, i53.
THE Treasury shipments for the week
ending to-day-Curreney, sl,306, 3S2 40; Sill.
yer, s11, 14o.ss.
BONDS WITHDRAwN.-s3s9 600 bonds held
for bank circulation were Withdrawn from
the Treasury TO day, aud four and a-half
per cent bonds substituted.
CONGRESSIONAL Alex.
III. Hobbs, rep, third Maryland; E. W.
Early, rep, seventh Virginia; George T.
Eebert. Iep., ninth Virginia; Tompkns Mat
teson, dem, twenty first New YORK; w. w.
warren, DEM, eighth Massachusetts.
On the 1st proximo mail service will COM
mence on about seven hundred routes which
were let under regular advertisement on the
3lst Of July. The Postmaster General has
also Issued advertisements FOR the regular
lettings Tor this years service, TO take effect
January 1, 1871.
THE MEETING OF THE ARMY OF THE
TENNESSEE Robert Macfeely vice
president of "the society OF the Army OF the
Tennessee" in the absence of General Sher-
man, the president, requests the committees
of that society, and also the citizens COM
mittee, to meet at the Ebbitt House on Mon
day afternoon, at 3 O'Clock.
REAR ADMIRAL STEPHEN d. TRENcHARp,
commanding the north Atlantic squadron
paid visit to Fortress Monroe, Va, yester-
day: He was received by General Barry
with the customary salute and the troops
were passed In review. large number OF
officers from the iieet were present.
THE TREASURY now holds 1887 ,9i2, 300 In
q. s. bonds to secure national bank circu-
lation, and SIS, 1928 900 to secure public de-
pOsits. q. 8. bonds deposited for circulation
forweek ending to-day, So les, 900. U. S. bonds
held for circulation Withdrawn week ending
10 day S2,l2s,l 100. National bank circulation
now outstanding-currencyn notes, 1922 1854 A O.
gold notes, $1,000 100.
MISSIONARY KILLED BY THE INDIANS
dispatch has been received at the Indian
bureau from James T. Cravens, Indian agent
at the Cheyenne river agency, stating that
the Rev. II. A. b. Tfennell was shot dead
WI Ws5 MIb mile OF the agency on the plight OF
ant Episcopal missionary, who has been
laboring among the Indians at that agency
for several years with much success, and as
he was very popular, 1t is supposed that be
was KILLED by mistake for some other person.
There is no clue to the party committing the
murder.
AMONG the autumn visitors TO this coun-
try Is Major the Hon. w. lie Poer Trench, OF
the Royal British Engineers, whose brother
has for years most efficiently acted as secre-
tary TO Sir f. Thornton at Washington.
fortune, was candidate In the famous Gal
way election of1S72, when his costs amounted
10 100000. His father, the late Lord Clan
eaI,y' was resident landlord In that county,
ground. the Trenches are remotely con-
nected with the clan Mccarthy, whose chief
was Earl OF Clancarty. This title was at
tainted and their estates were coniscated I'm
the eighteenth century, for adherence to the
Stuarts.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Surgeon b. f. Ktdder,
ordered TO the naval hospital at PhiladeI-
phia, in place OF Surgeon j. H. Finkham,
detached from that hospital and placed on
waiting orders. Captain A. A. Semmes, de-
tached from the command OF the Alaska,
and placed on waiting orders; Lieutenants
Hamilton Perkins. VIM. s.. Cowles and Ed
wIn Longnecker, Master Francis Winslow,
NJ BOwyer, Surgeon NJ icbael Bradley, Pass
ed Assistant Surgeon X. A. Marmion, Chap.
lsin Z. b. Van Meter, Chief Engineer John
o. C npnst Ass,s,apt Engineer q How
+. III. Hay and Sailmaker Alex. W. CasselI,
detached from the Alaska aud placed on
waiting orders; Midshipmen John F. Par
ker and N q. Rey nolds, lately detached from
duty In the Asiatic station, have been placed
on waiting orders; Passed Assistant Engi-
neer julius 8. Ogden, ordered to the New
PERsoNAL.-Rev. 8. s. Mitchell has re-
turned TO the city. ..-.Messrs. Hutchinson
and Jeffries have returned from their sum-
mer visitation to tn 70 home OF the fur seal on
the Pacific cost. Hallet Kilbourn switched
of on the return trip TO make a visit to his
former home in Elkhart, Ind, TO recuperate
on his native heath from the rigorous Inn
prfeOnment he endured at Washington last
spring. '''-Gen. Williamson. commissioner
OF the general land office, has returned from
his summer trip and resumed his duties
..''Colonels TOurtellotte and Bacon, Of Gen.
Sherman's stan, have returned to the CITY,
waller Trumbull, eldest son OF the ex-
senator, and well known TO many Washing
tonfans,w married In Chicago on Wednes
day evening to Miss Hannah NJ. Slater, of
that city. The wedding was followed by q
reception at the residence OF tho brides pa
rents, after which the happy pair started on
Tour eastward. 80. Miss Olive Risley- Sew
ard is at Colorado Springs, Col, where she
expects 10 spend the winter with her father.