Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-05-09


by the Secretary of the Interior to employ
twentyOne additional temporary clerks. Part
of them were assigned to duty to-day, and the
rest will probably commence work tomorrow.
In THE ABSENCE of Judge Tyner and of
his Chief Clerk Mr.. Marr, who is kept at home
by sickness, Mr.. Brady, Second Assistant
Post Master General, is the acting First AS
S!Stant
The NAVAL MISUNDERSTANDING Thomp-
son to-day appointed the following board
Of visitors to the Naval Academy. An
annual examination exercises and report
thereon: Rear Admiral John L. WOrden, Us.
D., Capt G. H. N! Wells; us:N, Capt + ,I r..
wood, I S.N, Major Gen. John Pope, U.S.A..
Gen. Wager Swayne, Toledo, Ohio; Rev. DR.. A.
Wheereri ntf PittsbGrg' Pa:; Hon; & John Han @HaneocS,
city; VIM H. Parker, esq, president Maryland
Agricultural College; DR.. p 0. Hooper, Ark:
Hon; Alex. Brown, Charleston, s. C.: Prof G.
T. Dwight, Rochester, Mimi, and Daniel S.
Printup, Rome, Georgia.
REPRESENTATIVE KELLY AND O'NEILL
are both from Pennsylvania and both want
| Mr.. Woods tariff bill defeated. They have
| different views, however, as to the manner in
which that cOnsummation should be reached.
strangle the bill in it's cradle. O'Neill voted
for it, but Kelly did not O'Neill chided Kel-
| ly for his vote, Wherat the father of the House
became exceedingly irate, and denounced his
| colleague as little batherskite" and that ii
| he (O'NeilD ever spoke TO him Kelly again,
| he Kelly would make it a personal matter.
him. and for time the geSticuIatiOnS of the
two statesmen amused the galleries, although
| the sharp talk passing between them was moi
audible.
LAWS FOR ELECTING THE PRESIDENT AND
VICE PRESIDENTIAL meeting of the Joint
committees of the Senate and House to take
into consideration the state of the law respect
ing the dScertalning and declaration OF the
elections Tor President and Vice President
was held at the Senate judiciary committee
room this morning. The meeting was held
IOf general interchange OF opinion on the
subject, and the several plans heretofore out
lined in THE STAR for conducting PreSden-
TIA! elections were briefly discussed. No de
clSl0n was reached.
MORE p. D. ID. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
tatves Jere n. Williams and BrOgden, sub
committee of the House committee on the eX-
penditureS Of the Post Office department.
commenced to-day an examination of all the
heads or bureaus in the department as to the
details OF the work done under their direc
ton. Superintendent Burnside and Mr. Par
ker,, chief OF the special agents, were exam
ined.
PERSONAL.-Mr. and Mrs. NJ w. Gait, and
Mr.. VIM. Gait, left town this morning for
protracted and extended tour through the in
terror and Pacific states and territories
NJ. Shiskin, the Russian Minister to this coun
Try, IS about TO remove his official headquar-
view, probably, of being able to keep closer
eye on naval affairs in the event of a war be-
tween ENGLAND and Russia. .: Police Com
recruiting his health. Peter Cooper, hale
and hearty, ambled about the corridors of The
capitol today, with his patent air-Seat under
BIS ann. morton, the eX-Speclal agent of
the Post Offe Department, who was insfru-
mental in getting up the Florida ''confes-
HloGS, IS III the city, but lodges newspaper
mterVleWerS.
THEY SEEM TO BE SHAKING Ur the New
Orleans offices pretty lively a short time ago
all the talk was about the collectorship. Next
the fight over the district attOrneyship was
begun, and continues, with the chances in
favor OF Gen. Williamson. Now the talk is
that the collector of internal revenue will
nave to give way. His name is John Cochren,
having been appointed at his request. Judge
Morris Marks, of New Orleans, appears to be
the man who is to succeed COchren.
THE NEW RECORDER OF DEEDs.-George A.
Sheridan, nominated yesterday by the Presi-
| dent as recorder of deeds for the District of
| Columbia, is native of Ohio. He is about
| forty years old, and served in the union army.
Alter the wal, he went to Louisiana and To-
| Gated in Carroll parish. Under the reconstruct
ton acts CT 81 ne was @ appointed supervisor of cleo
l
| :Ome time. He was then appointed to a place
| In the custom house, under Collector Casey
during General Grants first term. Under
Governor Yarmouth he was made adiutant
| generalO OF the state. This office he vacated for
the position OF state tax collector for the 1st
district of New Orleans, an Office worth about
| S3O.OOO year. In the Greeley campaign he
ran for Congress on the liberal ticket, against
| Plnchback, republican. The election was con
tested, but, finally, decided in his favor, and
he was sworn in only few hours before his
| term expired: He is a warm personal friend
| OF the President, and canvassed the state of
Ohio for him during the great Presidential
| campaign He also did all he could to bring
| about the recognition of the Nichols govern.
| ment In Louisiana. Since then he has been in
| washington for the greater part of his time,
put has also been lecturing throughout the
| country on the late Senator Morton. He is an
| eloquent orator, a ready writer, and his
| speeches are noted for their wit. 1t thought
| that he will be confirmed.
| PRESERVATION OF FORESTS IN JAPAN
| The Department of State has received from
| Mr. Bingham law recently issued bv the
Japanese minister Of home affairs relative to
| the planting and cultivation of forests in the
! empire. The preservation OF the forests is
| styled matter OF urgent necessity. To ell
| courage it the government will lease tree-Iess
Nils ana plains to tenants, free of rent, receiy-
| ing It's remuneration in time by taking certain
proportions OF the timber raised, the amount
reserved Valylng from one fifth to one half the
| yield, according to the means of transporta-
llon and the quality of the ground. Leased
ldHuS dfe 10 Oe SOWn or planted as speedily as
pOSSlbe-within three years at most. Govern
ment appraisers and importers are to be an.
| pointed to carry out the provisions of the law
EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN.-MiniSter Bingham
| sends to the Department of State a very inter
esting. paper on earthquakes in Japan, read
before the Asiatic Society of that country by
native Savant, Mr.. j. HattOri The record
OF all earthquakes occurring i'm the larger
cities OF that empire for the past fifteen cen
turies has been kept with singular regularity
The number OF slight shocks is very large and
that OF disastrous earthquakes is great In
fifteen centuries 149 destructive earthquakes
have been recorded. The ninth century was
most prolific in these, 2S Shaving occurred while
there were Is in the fifteenth century Is in
the seventeenth, Is in the eighteenth, and Is
the present century. The recorded average is
one great earthquake every ten years, but the
nlneteenth century gives one every five years.
Unusually high temperature and strange at
mospherlc changes have been noticed as pre-
cursors OF great cOnvulSiOns, especially i'm the
earthquake which deSOlated YeddO i'm 1855 Mr.
Bingham adds that there had been several
SHOCKS within two months, one of which on
the morning of the 23d of February lasted
fully one minute, during which time the hOuSe
occupied by him rocked like a ship on an angry
sea.
STEAMSHIP LINE BETWEEN CHINA AND
PERU.-The Department of the State has re-
ceived dispatch from Minister Seward,