Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-05-10

! CONVENIENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY.-Inter-
nal revenue, si53 .9lS %; customs, sI43, 645s6.
DIR JIFFRIEs, Assistant Printing Clerk,
has been removed OF Clerk Adams, of the
| House OF Representatives, TO make room for
| democrat.
| NAVAL ORDESs Master A. c. billing
| ham, detached from the Nantucket, and
placed on waiting orders. Lieutenant w.
N. Reisinnger, from the photographic Off &c,
and ordered 10 OTdnsuce duty.
COL. NORTON, president of the Mt. Vernon
Military Academy, situated at Morgan
Park, lear Chicago, arrived here this morn
| ing 10 make application TO the Secretary of
War for ordnance and rides for the ca lets OF
| TIE Academy. The cadets will visit the Cen
teDDial exhibition and also this city IN the
month OF June.
Mr.. CHAs. ENGLISH, collector of the port
Of Georgetown, against whom charges have
been made for allowing the entry of liquors
Without compelling the amount due for
Gnties TO be paid down, has paid into the
Treasury the amount due, 200. Nothing
further will be done in his case until the
secretary returns from Philadelphia.
THE --LATEST BRIsTow SCANDAL Ex-
FLAiNED-The published statement that
Secretary BIistow suspended proceedings
sgalrst John Buekner. collector of internal
revenue at Louisville. who was defaulter
20 the extent OF 500, 900, because Mr.. Miles
foster father of Mrs Bristow, who diet and
ieit her andsome legacy, was on the bond
Is positively denied. Buckners cashier,
jackson, robbed him of $685. 900 aud subse.
quently committed suicide. Miles's name
j. ON none OF Buckner's bonds, which are Tor
SI'Oooo, ana amply secure the government.
BENJAMIN WILSON, Representative in
Congress from the Wheeling (W. Val dis
tIict, who was for a long time so dangerous
" i'll here, has so far recovered as to be able
hopes to return again by the LIST of June TO
resume his duties in the House OF Repre-
stda.s ~ sited gong thr1ugh severe
from successive hemOrrhages, which left
him in very pTecariOus condition, and his
cure and unexpected recovery are pronounced
Dy his attending physicians, Drs. Thomson
and Garnett, 10 be almost without parallel
In two OF his hemorrhages he lost no less
than i've pounds OF artertal blood, and was
raced Win physical pain which any but
Ire most extraordinary nerve and vitality
must have succum0 bed to.
ARMY ORDERs.-A general court-martiaI
Is appointed TO meet at West Point, ". Y,
May 18th, 1876, for the trial of Sergeant Jas
Nia1Ian, company battalion of engineers,
and other prisoners as may be brought before
II; the court TO be composed of Captain K. B.
beaumont. 4tb cavalry; LIST Eieutenauts
Sedgwtck Pratt, Sd artillery; T. III. Barber
IL artIleTy; Cnas. Shaler, Orenance depart
ment; ID. ID. Johnson, 9Th cavalry;2t Lieu
tenants o. l.. Helm, 1st cavalry: Wallace
Mott, sth infantry, and 81 Lieutenant H.
IL. Harris, LIST artillery, to be judge advocate
Oh the court The superintendent general
recruiting service will cause 100 recruits to
he prepared and forwarded, eighty five to
Bismarck, Dakata territory, for Gth infau-
tryj eighty 70 Fort AbercrOmbie. Dakota
territory, for 18th infantry and tWenty-fiye
10 Fort Smelling, MIMI, for 20tn infantry.
Japan James w. Piper, battery C., and
W. r. Randolph, battery A. will exchange
posts LIST Lieutenant ]. A. Fessenden, bat
terry q. and Frederick Robinson, battery a,
VIII also exchange posts. Leave of abs5uce
-OT one year, On surgeons certificate of dis
ability, is granted LIST Lieutenant @. s. len
nings. LIST Infantry, Fort Sully, DAKOTA ter.
r.tOry.