Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-08-06
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-lnternal
revenue, s23l, ,552.4; customs, s533,56O93.
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the tour per cent. loan to
day, amounted to s642,3o0.
THE PRESIDENT will not go to Cape May
this summer.
AT THE CABINET MEETING today it was
divulged that news had been received from
army officers on the Rio Grande that the Mex
lean troops Oh the other side of the river were
orgaanlzng org an Eng under orders rs from their command
notification was laid before the Cabinet that
the Chinese Embassy would be present i'm the
city about the 1st OF September. and some
discussion concerning our relations with China
followed.
THE FOLLOWING ORDER has been issued by
the War Department: The frequent applca-
tiOns for the modification of General Orders
No. 3S, relating to the removal of division and
and department headquarters to posts within
their geographical limits, in so far as they
affect officers of the general staff serving in
military divisions and departments, make it
necessary to announce officially that such Off
GERS of the staff as are directly connected and
doing duty with a commanding general at
division or department headquarters, and who
form in fact the division or department staff,
must take quarters at the posts or places at
which the headquarters have been establish
ed, unless specially excepted by name by the
Secretary of War. AS it is the evident inten-
ton OF recent legislation that as far as practic
directed that whenever it can be done in the
interest OF the public service, officers of the
general stall serving under the command of a
division or department commander, and who
are not properly part Of the division or de-
partment staff shall be established at posts or
places within their command at which there
are public quarters, When, from. the nature
this cannot be done, officers serving at stations
at which there are no public quar- rs are en-
titled to and will receive cOmmut~ IN of quar-
ters as heretofore"
SITTING BULLS MEN CROSSING THE LINE
Information has been received at the Indian
office that number of Sitting Bulls men and
some of the northern Indians are crossing the
border into the United States and are advanc-
ing in the direction of Fort Belknap. No buf-
falOes are now found north of the 18th parallel,
and the Indians have come south to hunt. and
have not, 1t is believed, any hostile Intentions.
These Indians, as we'll as those left behind,
are in very destitute condition.
PERsoNAL.-Capt. j. B. Eads, of the Missis-
sippi jetty system, arrived in the city to-day
Sir Edward Thornton left Montreal yester-
day for Washington.
INDIAN FARMERS AT OMAHA AGENCY.-The
Rev. Owen Dorsey, of the Protestant Episco-
pal church, who recently left the scene of his
successful labOrs in Prince George county,
Md. to 60 out among the Indians, writes to
friends in this city, giving. encouraging ac-
counts of the condition of things at the Omaha
agency. Mr.. Dorsey is well known in philo-
logical circles for his valuable labOrs in the
pared by him is to be published by the Smith
sOnian Institution. His pathological researches
among the OmahaS cannot fail to have i'm
pOrtant results. Mr.. Dorsey writes I'VE are
among farmers liVinp
frame houses, raising better wheat than the
whites. The Omahas furnish all the supplies
crops this year double those of last year, but
| owing to the insufficient supply of mowers and
reapers thousands of bushels of wheat will be
| lost. They have broken this year many acres
of parairie. so that there is a prospect of
still larger crop next year. They havesup
| piled the agent with seed wheat. Doors and
windows stay open all night except in rainy
weather. Theft, drunkenness, oaths and
fighting are unknown. All are very friendly,
and are pleased to find that can talk with
and can not see much of them till their work
is over. So expect to start in a day or two
for the WinnebagO agency, eight miles dis
There is material enough here to keep me six
months, and / find four or five to help me
among those who speak English
NATIONAL CEMETERIEs.-The division of the
q. nj. G's office having charge of National
Cemeteries is having season of brick work.
At AndersOnville, Fort Gibson, Memphis,
Baton Rouge, Port Hudson, Beverly, and
menced, all of which are expected to be COM
pleted this season. The outlay has principally
been for walls and lodges and for roads to con-
meet the cemeteries with the adjacent cities.
AT Antietam considerable has been done in
improving the grounds, but the more i'm
portant work has been prevented by the delay
in transferring the titles OF the ground held by
sixteen different states to the United States.
All OF these states but four have made the
transfer. AS soon as they have done likewise
the government is authorized under an act of
Congress to pay all the outstanding indebted
ness OF the cemetery and assume charge of the
ground. The legislatures of three states are
which event work on the cemetery will be
pushed forward as rapidly as possible next
season.
COMMANDER GEORGE f. HAYWARD, COM
manding the Michigan, reports to the Navy
department the arrival of his vessel at Port
Huron, Michigan on the Sd instant, from De.
troit. He would sail on the 18th for Marquette,
Michigan, which will be the address of the
ship while in Lake Superior.
ABOUT SENATOR BRUCE.-Editor Star: Hay
ing seen it currently reported in the press of
this city that "SenatOr Bruce of Mississippi
will settle near Cleveland, Ohio, when his SEN
atoriaI alter term expires having bought farm
OF the Senator, to state that the above is un.
true: that at the expiration of his term in the
US. Senate he will return to Mississippi, and
will, as he has done in the past, devote his
time and energies to the upbuilding OF the
people and the development of his state.
G. G.. SMITH.
CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS.-JOhn w
Ryan has been nominated democratic candi
date for Congress in the 18th Pennsylvania
district. The Nationals Of the 18th district of
Ohio have nominated Rev. Geo. w. Pepper for
Congress.
A SALOON-KEEPER'S FOLLY Cost HIM HIS