Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-10-05


taGnal Revenue. will leave the city tomorrow
evening for Illinois. He will probably be alb
sent til after the election. He has eight ap
p0lhtments TO speak In the eighteenth Con
ereSsonal district. During his absence Deputy
Con missioner Rogers will be acting comms-
siOner.
DELEGATION of Pittsburg republicans
called Oh Secretary Schurz today to request
him TO repeat his Cincinnati financial speech
In that city: 1t Is not at all likely that the
sgeech Will be repeated.
THE FEVER AT NEW ORLEANs.-The follow.
ing dispatch was sent to day by Mr.. Hazen,
acting postmaster general, to Mr.. A. S. Badger,
the postmaster at New Orleans:
What is the actual condition of the yellow
lever sufferers and those made destitute by
the epidemic? State whether organized char
table Institutions and private charities have
the means to provide adequately for necessi-
ties OF sick and destitute, and if they are do
tual condition of affairs"
The following reply has been received al the
to. y. - department: aal1t The actual condition
the country. Nearly. every family in New
Orleans has been visited by the epidemic
Wnieh takes ss age and infancy natives and
properly for the sick and destitute.
Reports to the contrary are false. y
Business, is completely paralyzed; thousands
are out OF employment. and sh ,uid the yellow
fever disappear to morrow. the Charitable as
sociatlons, with their present means together
relieve the destitution entailed by this terrible
visitation"
NEW LIFE SAVING STATIoNs.-The work
upon the thirteen new life saving stations on
the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina is
pelng pushed forward rapidly, and they will
be completed by the middle of next mouth.
Three other new stations on the Delaware
coasts h,A
afterwards.
Mr.. EUGENE HALE left Tor Ohio yesterday.
Oh the invitation OF The republican committee
of that state. He will make two or three
speeches, enc of which will be at Athens and
The other at Cincinnati.
THE FALLING OFF in the receipts of nation
al bank notes for redemption since the order
Of the department making the senders pay for
their transportation. is shown by the following
comparative statement OF the pts for the
week ending to-day, as compared with the
corresponding week last year. The order
that caused this falling Off went into effect
last Monday:
New York ............... $4,000 sisi,0o
Boston .......... go. 200 S67,g10
Inihiiaae, laai,a phia:. ......'.... 151,uU 29l0
MlsCciidueUuS. ttf,hbj 9i3,pJJ
Total. So $4,000 s2,0l4,Olo
ment this morning for furnishing articles of
outfit for sixteen life-saving stations on the
coast of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and
North Carolina, as follows, for each station:-
FuInitnre-J.W Mcknight & Co, Washington,
lyn, \: Y, slc3.20; L. c. Salisbury, Norfolk.
"a, Sl2210; s. l.. Fogg, New York, $l3i5O !:
yoan j. Frey, Baim9re sl4l5o; Charles p.
Washington, d. G.. $l29 95; Robinson, Lord &
Co. New York, 1910. This last bid i; objected
to by Other M ! bidders Id on the ground tnat Robin
s9, doId M are not deaeIs In furniEure
Sl5996; Robinson, Lord s Co., New York,
$lzst9; L. T. Ecker, New. York, sl63 s.; !;
Washington y :, kNsy.Iey, Baltimore, sl65o2
and iiftyfve one hundredths cents per pound
Tor c9Tdage Of all kinds. Robinson, lord 4
90, New York, II cents per pound for fifteen
thlaaI !anl'td t.ud i cents per pound for ali
Oti.eI kinds.
The AcKLEN scANDAI.--A special dispatch
t. the n \. Times from New OfleaGs, Oct. 3
says: Inc Ack!en c0mcEittee wee still in
secret Session to-day. They will probably
dee are Judgment to morrow, but utterly re-
ius" 10 give The slightest clue now to their
tut r. action. Acken stated last ght, at a
aie hoisi- that Tie affair would now become of
lDtelest TO republicans as well as To democrats
!o-aay, III court, permission Was G anted Mr.
a ZecIarIe, as the representative of tue
absent heirs OF Smith, To take charge of
Smiths effects: He eEt to the house in com
the papers in the case. Zacharie then de-
clIned further service as administrators of the
effects, showing that the object was to enable
Ackien to get possession of the documents.
THE YELLOW FEVER at New Orleans car
rled OH "a of It's afflicted people yesterday,
ana 2e3 new cases were reported showing
decided increase in the epidemic. General T.
M. Griffith. of the United States army, and his
daughter have died at Cayuga, Kinds county,
MlsslSslppl. AT Memphis warm weather has
returned. and there is no decrease in the num-
ber OF new cases. Among the deaths are Mrs.
J. H. Kerr and her son Willie. They fled from
returned on Sunday last The president of the
HoWards has issued a circular cautioning
refugees not to return. Hon. Casey Young, of
Memphis, after a three weeks illness, is 40
again assisting III caring for the sick.
THE GERMAN ANTI SOCIALIST bill will prob
In committee. as there is a fair prospect of its
amendment concerning the duration of the
law, and also to make it retroactive for the
punishment of newspapers for articles printed
before its enactment.
THE MARQUIS OF LoRNE and the Princess
Louise VIII hot sail for Quebec till the 1ttn of
November, instead of the 1ith of the present
month, as previously announced.
THE BRITISH TROOP sH P Himllava sailed
from Portsmouth yesterday for Marseilles,
where the lords OF the admiralty will embark
ior tour OF inspection OF Malta and the Island
of cyprus. The secretaries of war and of the
colonies Will accompany them.
A MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONALs at Flor
ence has been killed in duel by an officer of
Inc bersaglere, causing intense excitement
against the military, in consequence of which
they are confined to their barracks.
SURPRISING REPUBLICAN GAINS IN Colo
RADO.-The election returns as they come in
from the mining and Mexican counties IN Col
0rado show surprising republican gains. In
Las AnlmaS county, which gave a democratic
majority OF nearly 7C0 for governor two years
ago, gives democratic ajOrity of only 3lS.
The state central committee now figures up a
figures may reach s., ,5O0-a republican gain of
l,5t0. Denver elects a republican mayor by a
majority OF ,1D-a gain of 600.
1HE CHINESE QUESTION IN OREGuN-A
Portland (Oregon) dispatch says: THE legis-
!atlve committee on federal relations has re-