Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-08-29
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip,

washington news and GOSSIP.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAf-Inter-
nal revenue, s29i ,i6O.55; customs, 1881 ,i52 6l.
JOSEPH LONG, OF Indiana, has been ap-
pointed by Secretary Schurz 10 go West ami
look after the timber land depredators. He
is a BristOw martyr.
STAR GAzERs continue TO visit the Observ
atory every night, Mars and his twin baby
moons being the attraction. Capt. PIggonsn
and Lieut.. Grsydon are kept on duty every
night 10 accommodate the visitors.
NAVAL NEws.-The Ranger was at Point
de Gale, July 18th, en- route TO China. The
TsllapOOsa LETT Philadelphia to day for New
York. The II chmOnd left Hampton RoadS
yesterday for Boston, where she will be pa
out OF commission.
GOVERNMENT GOLD SALg-A At a lat
hour yesterday afternoon the Secretary of
the Treasury directed the Assistant Treas
ureT at New York TO sell one million dollars
In gold on Saturday next. at noon, to re- ieem
that amount OF United States notes 10 be re
tired.
THE AMOUNT OF NATIONAL BANK
NOTES issued during the month OF August is
81 3O1 80; eighty per cent. OF the above
amount, s1.OiO,312, in legal tenders, will be
retired, as provided by law. thus reducing
the volume OF outstanding legal tenders 10
S55s ,C52 gOS.
REAR ADMIRAL THOMAS H PATTERSON,
recently ordered TO the command of the
Asiatic station TO relieve Rear Admiral
VIM. Reynolds, will leave here TO night with
his staff officers for san Francisco. at will
sail from thai port for the Asiatic squadron
on the cih OF september.
SENATOR MoRToN.-A telegram for First
Assistant Postmaster General Tyner was re-
ceived at the Post Office department to-day,
from Col. Holloway, which reads as follows:
THE Senator had another good nights rest,
and is getting on well. He took more noIr-
ishment yesterday than on any previous
day"
AMONG THE CALLERS at the White House
to-day were the Secretaries of the Navy and
Interior, the Postmaster General. Gov. Nc
COrmick, Senators Harvey of Kansas, and
Patterson Of South Carolina, COmmi SsiOner
OF Ind an Affairs Hon. Jere. HARRISON of
Alabama, Mr.. j. ID. Defrees. Judge BARLEY,
end ex-Representative q. q. Hoskins OF New
York.
THE BLUNT CHARG est is said a. the
Office of the chief of engineers that the state
ment as to irregularities In the Office of Col.
Blunt, engineer In onarge OF the government
works at Buffalo, n Y, Is much exaggera,e ed.
IL is claimed that the troutle was caused by
misplaced confidence in a clerk, and the
amount involved IN some hundreds OF dol
lars, and not several Thousand as stated.
ARREST OF UNITED STATES OFFICIALS
The Commissioner of Internal X venue has
received notice of the arrest of Depaty Mar
shall VIM. II. Deaver, L. s. Commissioners
jos eph w. Green and his son j. A. Green, at
Statewide, n. c., for presenting alleged
fraudulent vouchers for awards on account
OF giving information for the arrest of GRIM
inals.
CUSTOM HOUSE peciaI
agents of customs who have recently inves-
ugated the matter, report numerous in
stances of favoritism in emitting to examine
The baggage OF Americans arriving fro n
foreign ports. The Treasury tepartm .nJ has
low under consideration the preparation of
a Circular upon the subject, in (which IL Is
probable tult the collector of customs W II
be directed to allow no personal Saggags a.
riVlBg In foreign steamers To- pass wltGodt
examination.
THE GOVERNMENT PAPER MrT.Ls n. G en-
Mills, Pa, will be c.Osed on sep IA Der lSt
by order OF Secretary Sherman, the stock on
hand for bank notes and internal revenue
purposes being so large that the Trea sIry
department viii not neet al additional 81 >
Ply Tor more than year 10 come. A g
mlt1ee of competent clerks from the dep .r,-
menl Is now al the mills sup intending the
transportation Of paper from there to WASH
lngtOn, ard also Forwarding O!her COVER l.
ment properly which las been in use there.
REAPPoINTkD.-Assist Secretary Nc
Cormick has reinstated In the Treasury Da-
vid s. McCurdy, of Laurel, Md, who was
assistant paying teller In the United States
IIeasurer's Office I'm June, 1s15 when Si5 100
was stolen. McCurdy was charged with hav-
ing had access TO the funds when the case
was tired, but al the last trial the counsel for
the defendant exOnerated him. Yesterday
his former chief, General Spinner, repre-
sent d that the honor of the department re-
qulred his restoration, and Secretary Nc
he tn no
restored.
COMPETITION FOR A HALF MILLION
UEsIDY.-lnfOrmation has been received
az the Post Office department that the Paci fic
Mail (American) and the Occidental Brit
lsh} steamship companies are applicants
FOR subsidy OF five hundred thousand dol
lars per month 10 carry the Uaitei States
mails 10 Japan and China. Postmaster Gem
etsl Tyner made no IecommeIda, ions to
Col gTcss on Tie subject. Postmaster Gen
thought, but states informally that he Will
probably purs le The same course as his pre-
Gecessor.
The STRIKERS WHO DELAYED THE
MAILs.-The Post Office department has is
sued reports OF arrests by special agents of a
number OF leading strikers for obs tructing
ara delaying the mails upon the Penn y va
MIA, New York and western railroads. Con-
NlcjlOn or nine rtngeaders has been secured
IN The u s. circuit court at Philadelphia, the
sentence To be pronounced next Saturday.
Judge Cadwallader held upon the trial that
the defence made by the ikers that they
oHered no objection TO the passage of the 10
cOmotlve and mail car was not a mitigating
circumstance, the view being that as the La " :
1ul contract was for the trans portation of the
mails upon passenger trains any interior
e. &c with the trains upon which mails were
carried rendered the parties liable. Judge
DrummoDd has made the same ruling al
chicago, SO IL Is settled that the slri kers have
rendered themselves liable To prosecution in
the u = courts in all cases where they inter
lered with the regular running of passenger
mail trains.
DEATH OF L. L. SrANroN-Th;s COM
munity will hear with regret the announce
ment that Mr.. l.. l.. Stanton son OF tina late
"Rreat War Secretary" +. NJ. Stanton. died
at his residence, 100 Rhode Island avenue
northwest, about 81 O'Clock this morning
after an illness OF some weeks. Mr.. Stanton
Was n native Of PannS nj ar,I ne. -.