Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-10-01
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal
revenue, $233, ,173 So: customs, 1851. l45.12.

GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY.-Internal
revenue. s233, 173 So: customs, 1857. .l45.12.
AT THE WHITE HrUsE.-POstmaSter Ed
munds, Rear Admiral Stanley, and Judge
Shellbarger were among the callers a. the
White House today.
COMMISSIONER RAUM telesraphed to-day
that the guagers some time since transferred
to other cities should return to their proper
stations.
'MIsTAKEN ZEAL."-A report has been re-
ceived at the Post Office department from
Superintendent Hunt at st. Louis in reference
to the burning of "a packages of newspaper
burning was done through mistaken zeal by
an ageLt of the Texas Pacific Railroad at that
$ atiop, without authority from the health Of
1ieers or anybody else.
THE PRESIDENT GOING TO VIRGINIA.
President Barbour, OF the Virginia Midland
railroad, has rendered special car to Pres
ident Hayes for his proposed visit to Mont
pel1er, the home of President James Madison
IN Orange county. Va, on the 9th of October.
1t is understood the President will be accom-
RbGea on his ntrg BY Judgs Henry W. w.
ginlanS.
Hon. LOT NJ. MORRILL,, of Maine, who had
been IN this city for some days, has left for his
home He was one Of the commission, having
for his colleagues Judge Mcfarland aud Gen.
Hatch, to proceed to the country occupied By
the 1Ue Indians and arrange for their removal
to a reservation elsewhere. The reservation
selected for them is at the headwaters of the
Navajo and Bianch rivers, isolated from white
settlements and accessible to supplies. The
Indians who number 900, are satisfied with
the arrangements.
TIE CHINESE MINISTER and his assistant,
YUng Wing, have performed the usual diplo-
matte courtesy of calling upon the several for
ajC min iSta nd iaay tboir or1S in
Chinese characters and the other in English.
Sir Edward Thornton was the first diplomat
who returned the visit. The minister received
him in his parlOr, and the two, seated in ad-
Joining chairs, separated by slender shelf
which were brought from China-drank tea
together: Yung Wing has gone to Hartford
to bring his family to Washington.
THE YELLOW FEVER INVESTIGATION CON-
MISSION.-COnceTning the commission to in
yeStfgate the causes of yellow fever, DR.. Wood
worth, of the marine hospital service, in a
NJ Bemiss, NJ d., of New Orleans, and Jerome
Cochran, M. d., of Mobile, acceptance of
third member of the commission not yet re-
Elisha Harris, president of the American Pub.
lie Health Association, has consented to join
The yellow lever commission in the field about
the 10Th of October. Should the contributions
of money be sufficient or Congress so direct,
two or three scientific experts will be attached
to the commission for the purpose of extend
y. DTaCIlCdDe
and useful, into the nature and cause of and
conditions governing the disease itself. /
have instructed the commission that the great
object of the investigation should be to CLEAN
all important facts possible to be obtained
which have reference to measures of pTeven-
tlon OF future epidemics. The work will be
commenced at once at New Orleans, and as
many as possible of the afflicted cities and
towns viii be visited before the 10Th of Novem-
Der next, ON which day the American Public
Health Association win convene in special
- rt Whi "a
sion shall have gathered up to that time, with
view OF determining the best course to be
pursued by the commission IN concluding its
labors. Being charged with the execution OF
the national quarantine act. approved April
E3ih, / shall submit the report of TIE commits
sion 70 the Secretary of the Treasury, TO be
transmitted to Congress by the President
DEAN STANLEY, the celebrated English di-
vine, arrived in this city to-day He is the
guest of Sir Edward Thornton, the British
minister, and Will remain here several days.
Accompanied by his host he will call on the
President. 1t is expected that he will remain
here for several days, though nothing definite
concerning his movements could be aScer-
tanned at the British legation this afternoon.
AN IMPosToR.-A young man al oat q years
of age, 5 feet or inches in height, Roman
nose, sandy hair, with pleasant address, is
travelling about the United States under the
name OF VIM. Digby Seymour, jr., claiming to
be son of the Queens councillor of the same
name. He has obtained money of several per-
sons in the United States, generally from men
OF English birth. He is an impOstOr. Mr..
Seymour, the Queens councillor, an eminent
lawyer well known in America, has no son.
The real name OF the swindler is supposed to
be Ferris, Who left England more than one
year ago.
JUDGE WILTSHIRE, ex-M. G. OF Arkansas, is
in the city. He has just left that state, and
brings the information that the greenback ell.
ement has unsettled party calculations; that
Nhlle the democrats are sanquine, they are by
to congress. The greenbackers claim the
election of one Of their candidates sure, and a
strong possibility of two.
COINAGE STATEMENT.-The following is an
official statement of the coinage executed at
the United States mints during September.
1878:
Pieces Ealue