Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-12-20

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| revenue, S52o9s- Is: customs s19l.S7aI9.
AMONG THE CALLERS n the White House
| to-day were Senators Morrill, and Mitchell, and
| Representative Stone.
| SECRETARY SHERMAN intends leaving here
| on Monday for New York, TO b, absent per-
| hapS all the week.
Mr.. HUGH HARRISON, brother in-law of
Senator Gordon. has been appoint ID toa clerk
ship in the War department.
HORSES FOR THE PREsIDENT.-The PreSi-
dent has received from Virginia a pair of we'll
matched gray horses, IN improvement on his
former team.
OLD HUNDRED.-The Secretary of the Treas
my to-day received from Waterbury, Conn.
SEQ, 10 be placed to the credit of the con
science fund.
DIED IN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Engineer
Clarence 4. Strange, U.S.N., died al the naval
hospital at Norfolk on the l3ih instant. He
had been attached 10 the monitor Lehigh in
James river.
SENATOR PATTERSON is much worse than he
was yesterday. He Lad another relapse after
coming in from riding. and was bliStered on
his back, neck. and head His heart is trou-
bling him, and there is no feeling in his limbs.
ANOTHER HURON NICTIM.-The keeper of
the life-saving station at Kitty Hawk informs
the chief signal officer that the dead body of a
white man. very much decOmpoSed, was found
seven miles north OF station No. yesterday,
and buried.
TIE SPECIAL AGENTS of the Post Office de-
partment have been reappointed by the Post
master General. Among them are the follow
ing of this city: David B. Parker and u. l..
Iidcall, on the regular service, and III. VI.
IaTllt. Di fiip money order service.
THE PRESIDENT and the members OF his
family Who 90 with him tn New York land
who did not leave the city this morning Is il
was announced they would,) will leave this
evening IN special car for the commercial
metropolis.
The PARIS EXPosITION.-lt has been dccid-
ed TO send the U.S.S. Wyoming. now lying at
the Washington navy yard, 10 the Paris expo
Sticn about the 18th of March. This will make
three vessels, the Supply the first part of Feb
rliary and The Constitution the latter part OF
the same month,
APPOINTMENT. - General Raum, Commits
missioner of Internal Revenue, to-day APP
pointed VIM. s. Dodge. 10 be government
superintendent of the paper mill at EaSt
PepeIeU Mass, where Warren & Co, Of BOS-
ton. viii manufacture The paper for printing
internal revenue stamps for the coming year
PARDON FOR JOHN \. JOYCE. The PreSi-
dent has signed pardon for John \. joyce.
convicted of conspiracy to deiTaud the United
States 0I taxes on distilled Spiri,s. joyce, it
will be remembered, was sentenced to - 600
fine III addition 10 his imprisonment. He
had served his term and was unable to pay The
fire.
HOLIDAYS IN THE BUREAU OF ENGRAVING
AND PRINTING.-The days work has been so
managed in the Bureau OF Engraving and
| Printing during The holidays aS 10 give the en-
| p!oyeS ali OF the time between the 22d of De
| celnbcr and the I'd oi January, except three
| days VIZ, the 2o,b, 9TH ami 18th OF December.
Commemorative greatly regret that unin-
teHilOnaI injustice should have been done i'm
| yesterdays STAR, 10 Il we'll known District
| lIWycr = worthy resident OF Georgetown. NJ
BpI'i. j. Iarneiiln whose name was ina.lypr
tenilH and enormously connected by our court
| reporter. Nilha gambling debt ease with which
he had nothing whatever to do The plrty to
! the suit was another Darneile.
| THE MINNESOTA TIMBER DEPREDAToRS-
| Commissioner Williamson. of the General
! Land office. received a telegram yesterday
| from j. w. Jones, his special agent in Mime
| sofa, Tor the suppression Of depredationS on
public timber lands, announcing that the gov
eminent has obtained judgment in all the civil
| SUITS Tor the recovery of logs and lumber. and
| that all the parties, except one, have Plead
gully IN the criminal suits.
| ARMY ORDERs.-The resignation of ID Lieut.
| Frank D. Briggs, 2d infantry. has been ac-
| copied by the President, to take effect Deem
| Der Ii also the resignation of Assistant Sur
geOn L. >. DE Graw. To take effect January |.
III Lieut.. Robert LoudOn, 9Th cavalry, ordered
I 1oreioin his station. BY direction of the Pres
| ery. is relieved from duty at the West Virginia
| University, Morgantown. January l. and will
| Join his regiment. Leave of Capt. \. = NJ.
| Morgan, ordnance slorekeeper is extended
| four months Leave for three mpptlS fprI
| ability, granted Assistant Surgeon H. J. Phil.
| lips, january !, and he is relieved from duty
in Department OF the East. Leave OF lst Lieut.
Edmund Rice. 9Th infantry extended 10 cover
| time necessary for his return to his regiment.
|
THE LACHINE STRIKE RIOTs.-The laborers
on the Lachine canal still maintain their
strike, and Il detachment OF the Prince of
! Wales regiment, of Montreal are on duty AT
| Cote 81. Paul where the disturbance occurred
! on Tuesday. Paquette. who was wounded by
| CosgroNe the foreman of the contractor, when
| his Office was attacked is not expected to live.
| One of the grievances complained of by the
| strikers is that the contractors pay them with
| store orders, on which there is q discount of
| from ID To 70 per cent.
GOD IN THE CoNsrIfuTIoN-The National
! Reform Convention TO advocate the express
! acknowledgment of God in the constitution
| met i'm Rochester. NY, Tuesday. There were
| 20 delegates present. Resolutions were adopt
ed to the effect that ii was the duty of all good
| citizens To favor the express Acknowledgements
! OF the authority of God and Jesus Christ ia the
| government in words which the christian
| fathers evidently implied.
| REDUCING TEACHERS SALARIES. - The
Brooklyn board of education has resolved to
| reduce the saiarie of the public school teach
ers 50 that saving OF about 81. $500 will be
| made on the amount at present paid. The
salaries are in ten grades. The highest are
| reduced 10 per cent, and each grade is re-
duced one per cent. less until the lowest grade
| is reached. The lowest reduction is three per
cent.
THE ST. JOINS FORGER.-JOhn A. Miller,
| alias Chapman, who was arrested at ST. John
\. B., for forgery, has been forging paper on
his fathers banking house i'm st. John Tor sew
| eral years. and is supposed TO have obtained
$4,000 i'm that manner. When his guilt was
| disclosed he left Georgia, where he was living
and the detectives have been in pursuit of him
| for more than eighteen months.
HARVARD AND COLUMBIA NOT TO Row.
| The negotiations between Harvard and Co
lumbia in relation to the proposed boat race
between the two colleges have come to naught
Harvard declines TO contest under the only
conditions TO which Columbia can agree, and
| all efforts 10 make an arrangement by which
| the two crews could meet in friendly contest