Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-07-02


SUBSCRIPTIONS to the tour per cent. loan tC-
day. Slll COZ.
THERE was an Increase in the public debt
for the month of June, 1875 of s. l49 3S1.1S, and
not decrease, as a glance at the figures in
The STAR yesterday will show.
THE Gil ORIoUs FoURTH.-By direction of he
President, Col. Rogers, his private secretary,
has addressed note to the different Cabinet
off GERS directing that their offices be closed on
the 4th instant, TO allow the employees to par
ticipate in the attendant celebra ions. The
departments will be closed at three O'Clock to-
morrow afternoon.
GOVERNMENT PURCHASES OF SILVER Bull
LION.-Secretary Sherman has directed that as
soon as the annual mint and assay office shall
have been completed the purchase of silver
coinage into dollars will be resumed, under
the regulations heretofore in force, but no
offer at price above the equivalent of the
London rate computed at the current rate of
sterling exchange on the day of purchase will
be considered or accepted. AllpurchaSeS will
be paid for in standard silver dollars.
PRESIDENTIAL APPO1NTMENTs-The Presi
dent has appointed Melville B. Hoxie, of Ne
braSka, register of the land office at Grand
Island, Nebraska. +. w. RObb to be collector
OF internal revenue for the district of Nebras-
ka, vice Henry A. Newman. suspended, and
John {: White, 10 be secretary of the legation
to Brazil.
SECRETARIES McCrary and Thompson did
not read THE STAR carefully last evening
therefore they walked under the broiling sun
ard over the hot asphalt pavements to attend
a Cabinet meeting at the White House to-day
to be informed after their walk that the PreSi-
dent had left the city.
DEPARTURE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL FAMILY
FOR ORPENNsYLvANIA.-The President and Mrs.
Hayes, Secretary Sherman, Attorney General
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and Mr.. Q. l.. Pruden, the Presidents assist
ant secretary left this morning at 10 O'clock
by the Baltimore and Potomac railroad, to
attend the Wyoming massacre centennial
which takes place on the 4th instant. The
family will stop at Harrisburg at 3 o'clock
this afternoon, where they will remain until
L to night. They will be the guests of Gov.
Hartranft who viii tender them an official
reception at the governors mansion. At l.
the party. will leave Harrisburg for Wilkes
ton. They return next Friday.
PERsONAL.-Bshop Pinkney is sufficiently
recovered from his late attack TO be able to be
out. Rev. Dr. Levin is also improving and is
in Washington en- route for the Jordan Alum
Springs.
CAPT RICHARD l.. LAW, U. S. navy, has been
appointed chief of the Bureau of Yards and
Docks, in place of Rear Admiral John c.
Howell, who is to be assigned to sea duty.
THE BUREAU OF RAILROAD ACCOUNTS pro-
vided for by Congress at the last session has
been organized in the Department of the In-
terror by Mr.. TheOphilus French. the newly
created auditor. Mr.. Southwick Guthrie, OF
Iowa, formerly cashier of the I. S. Treasury,
has been appointed boOkkeeper of the bureau,
and August DuddenhauSen, of Ohio, assistant
bOOkkeeper.
BOULDS BAKER, THE RECUSANT WITNESS
The Potter investigating committee, in exec
utiye session yesterday decided to refer the
case Of BOulds Baker, the recuSant witness, to
L. 5. District Attorney Wells, for his decision
as 10 now The committee should act in the
case.
IHE NUMBER OF DISCHARGES that will have
to be made in the Patent Office on account of
the reduction in appropriations by Congress
has not yet been aScertained. 1t will probably
be between forty and fifty. By cutting down
the number of higher class clerks, which the
legislation permits, it Is hoped that the dis
charges may be reduced.
THE RECEIVING of applications of those who
wish to enter for the competitive examination
to be held on the 9th inst, to fill some ten
vacancies in the Interior department closed
Yesterday. Over 800 applications were re
ceiVed.
REAR ADMIRAL HOWELL, who was relieved
yesterday afternoon as chief of the bureau of
yards and docks by Captain Law being ordered
to that position, will probably succeed Rear
North Atlantic station.
NAVAL APPoINTMENTs.-Secret Thomp.
son to-day ordered Captain VIM. B. Remy u
s. marine corps, to duty as acting judge adyo
cate of the Navy department.. Captain Remy'S
duties Will be somewhat similar to that of
naval solicitor, for which office no provision
was made by the last Congress.
LABOR AND WAGES IN FRANCE.-The United
States commercial agent at st. Etienne,
Er1r MAO in hic &a1~
that business is good in that district except
with the United States: especially good with
Germany and England. Weayers of plain rib
PC 60ns earn n 40 to so cents day, better grade
day; women, who do most of the work on rib
b0ns, except weaving, make from 80 to s. cents
d day. tarm hands av rage sis month.
while their cost Of living is p or l3 dollars a
earn $l.O5 to Il Is day: above ground, IS TO IS
cents day. No improvements are manifest
IN machinery or in the manner of doing bust
ness.
CAPTAIN REUBEN +. BERNARD, first cavalry,
who has so distinguished himself lately in the
BanIock Indian battles, is well known in this
city, and is a son-in-aw of a well-known citi-
zen OF Washington, Mr.. Jacob Frank. He was
appointed lieutenant in the first cavalry in
1863, having been promoted from the ranks,
and has long been recognized as one of the
most successful Indian fighters on the Pacific
coast.
THE INDIAN WAR.-Delegate Fem, of Idaho.
has received letters and kilograms from his
constituents, setting forth the condition of
affairs in that section of the country as very
serious. In his territory alone and in the por-
ton of Oregon Immediately bordering on it,
from LOCO TO l,5O0 hostile Indians are virtually
committed to war, and some of them are
already driving of horses and cattle. The
Deef derived from the cattle they are drying
for future use. The fOrtresseS in which they
can retreat are as inaccessible as any portion
OF the territory which the ModOcs occupied in
their famous war. Mr.. Fem said yesterday to
reporter OF The STAR that from his intimate
knowledge of the country and of the Indians
he was convinced that the Indian war would
be an almost general one. What we have
already heard of it is only the beginning 1t
would assume much larger proportions, ard it
would be impossible 10 thoroughly suppress it
before the advent of next winter and the dis
| appearance 0fth grass where the Indian feeds
his pony.
LABOR IN ENGLAND.-Mr c. 0. Shepard the
| United States consul at Bradford, England.
| furnishes the Department of State with a
variety OF statistics as to labor in his district
The wages OF railroad employees are-Station-
master. $3.50 to 500 a year, with a house
guards, 50 TO $50 week; engine driver 81 81
| to SIS day; stoker, 81 cents to ST per day.
Factory handS-general foreman, S3 to 5 Der
| day: foreman, $50; skilled hands, man ST. 25
woman 10 cents; common hands, 81 to so cents