Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-08-28
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS ToDAY.-Internal
revenue. s31i, ,sf909; customs, 1913
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the tour per cent loan tc.
day amounted to $33l,750.
SECRETARY SHERMAN is expected TO return
to this city and his offi ,ial duties next S,tur-
day night. Assistant Secretary HtHey viii
leave on Saturday night for his home In III
Dois to remain about a month.
ORDERS OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR are
published for the information and guidance
Of all cOncerEe ed, being regulations established
10 carry into effect the Sd and 4th sections o
the act approved June Is, 1873 which provide
fer the '.promofion Of meritorious non CON-
mlSsioned officers"
PERsoNAL.-General Peter F. Bac) IN has
returned in good health and spirits from Oak
land, Nd, where he has been spending two
weeks with his family '.'' The London Times
bucharest correspondent says" 1t is report
ed that Count Sprinzenstein will be transferred
here from Washington as Austrian envoy eX-
traOrdinary."
EXTENSION OF THE CAPITOL GROUNDS
To-day District Attorney Wells, for the Secre-
tary OF the Interior, filed petition in the
name of the United States ex rel. c. Schurz.
against sub lots l, 2 3, and 5, square SIS, and
lot l, square 576. The petitioner represents
that for the purpose of extending the roadway
around the Capitol grounds it is necessary for
the government to OO:ain possession OF these
lots, and that the act making an appropriation
for such extension makes it his duty to ap-
point five commissioners to make lust ap.
praisement of the lots in question, and asks
that notice and summons be issued return
able on the 1St of October, in order that they
may proceed under the act
Coal CONTRACT AwARDED.-In the matter
of the contract for providing the Interior de-
parIment with go tons of white ash furnace
coal, the award of which was deferred until
the return of the Secretary of the Interior
from Deer Park, decision has been made to
accept the bid OF Johnson Bros, of this city,
who will furnish Baltimore vein coal, the kind
which has been used to the satisfaction of the
departing mt for many years. There were lower
bidders for the contract, but the difference
between The price Of the whole $50 tons at the
figure proposed by Johnson Bros and that OF
the lowest bidder was so small (S32 50) that it
was not thought advisa bic to exuerim mt wi h
new kind of coal for so small a con>idera
ton.
TEE FOLLOWING PROMOTIONS from the
position Of third assistant to second assistant
examiner in The Patent Office have been m, ,de
by Secretary SrhurZ as the result of a recent
competitive examination: Henry Blandv, jr..
OF Ohio: c: Il. Gould, Of Vermont: Frank
Brown, OF Kentucky, and w. H. BlOdgett. of
Wisconsin. These names were the four highest
en- the list. TIE promotions will take effect
from Sep N Der lst
TIE WHISKY WAR IN Two STATEs.-Collec-
tor WOodcock telegraphs from Nashville this
morning that his men were surrounded by
two hundred men, led by Campbell Morgan,
he glorious mOonshiner of OvertOn county,
Tennessee. The revenue officers escaped
without making any concessions, and wereex
pected to reach Nashville this morning. Col
lectOr WOodcock announces his intention TO
organize for work again at once.
s,in Revenne a gent CHAPMAN mar ma tie @telegraphs from
from raid in Yadkin county, found thirty
nine still houses. fifteen recently in operation;
captured and destroyed five stills and fixtureS
OF bt er, and fifteen thousand gallons mash and
De eer, five hundred gallons pumice, three hun
dled and fifty five gallons low wines, and
tWtDS gallons whisky.
Inform alton Received here from North Caro-
ira states That recent Cereal A. M. Sea eS
democratic candda'e for Congress, in
Spet CheS delivered in R ndolph county, abused
the revenue laws and officials and advised the
petp'e that the officers had no right 10 destroy
their stills, though they mie ht be running them
IN violation of the revenue laws. He also ad
visfd them to in let and sue IN the state courts
any officer who might destroy their stills. In
medlately after the delivery Of these speeches
OF the ''mOOnShinerS" in that county, and their
armed resistance tn the efforts of the revenue
officers to enforce the laws 1t will be next to
impossible for the government to break up
Illicit di>tillatiOn throughout the country if
members Of Congress, in order to secure their
reelection, advise distillers to disregard the
very laws the represe ntativeS help to make by
their votes in Congress
PREMIUM FOR INvENToRs.-Charles Bart
ett, United States consul at GuadalOupe in.
forms the Department of State that the author.
tiles OF that colony have offered a premium of
NN,UtO francs to the inventor Of process to
obtain yield Of over fourteen per cent. from
sugar cane. The competition Is open until
June 80. 1880: 1t is not for an improvement in
sugar mills. but for the discovery of process
bearing upon the yield Of turbinated sugar.
All the expenses OF transit, putting up of ma
ehinery or implements to be borne by the in
ventor.
GENERAL B. F. BUTLER has written to the
Boston Globe saying that he will send an open
letter to The Register OF the Treasury as fol-
lows:
You have my full consent and wish to show
any book or paper of the Treasury in regard
to the registration Of any United States bonds
Id my name, or to my ownership, to any ras-
see them, especially the one on the National
Republican,, who says he shall find 100000,
upon condition that If he don't find single
United States bond standing to my credit or
post
A postscript says
not exceeding twenty, standing to the credit
of the National Home of Disabled Volunteers,
ID my name, as its treasurer, they being the
pensions OF the soldiers in the Home, which
put into the Treasury last July when ascer-
talned that the savings banks in which they
had been invested were in danger Of falling.
B. F. B."
A reporter of THE STAR to day asked Gen.
Schofe II he would on the strength of the
letter which General Butler had witten him,
furnish statement of the government bonds
held In the name Of General Butler He re-
ceived the reply that he could not without a
written permission to that effect from Acting
Secletary Hawley. Mr.. Hawley being applied
to refused. He could not grant any such re-
Newspaper squib." When the letter of Gen.
Butler Is received by Register Schoheld, per
mission may possibly be given him to furnish
a statement Of the national bonds entered on
his books which are owned by General Butler
| or OF which he Is the custodian. This state
ment would no doubt show that the postscript