Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-04


revenue. 1896, 132.6s: customs. s349, ALTO.
THE government of New South Wales has
proposed to our own the establishment of an
international money order system.
THE Post OFFICE DEPARTMENT is running
by proxy. 1t luxuriates in an acting P. NJ G.,
an acting chief clerk, an acting first assistant,
an acting second assistant, an acting assistant
attorney general, and an acting sixth auditor.
A NUMBER of citizens of the District, under
the lead of Mr.. Columbus Alexander, have
arranged for a meeting with the District COM
mittee tomorrow, at 10 O'Clock, to discuss the
bill introduced by Senator Dorsey i'm relation
70 certificates for special improvements in the
District.
AT HALF-PAsT Two O'CLOCK the House was
still engaged in debate on Col. Folks case,
with the probabilities that a vote would be
reached late in the afternoon.
DELEGATES are here representing the navy
yards in the several large cities of the country,
urging the House committee on education and
labor to report bill making eight hours
legal days work.
WANTED.-A few ''diseased' democrats for
the soldiers roll. Apply to Col. Polk tat this
writing), dOsrkeeper of the House of Repre-
ssentatives. Those learned in drilling and trou-
bled with asthma. and who have seen service
with the home guards preferred.
TIE P. D. d. INyEsTIGATION.-The HonSe
committee on post offices and post roads ex-
amined MIR. Wheeler to-day, one OF the Arkan-
sas witnesses to the signatures of the inyesti-
gated contracts. This ends the Boone part of
the investigation. The Arkansas steamship
routes, alleged to have been obtained for j. ID.
Adams, through the influence of Senator Dor
sey Will be taken up tomorrow
The PROMOTIONS consequent on a competi-
tive examination held in the Sixth Auditors
office March q, in which there were 36 entries,
were announced to-day. Mr.. Henrie A. Dob
son, New York, heads the list, and is pro
Chandler, Massachusetts, and Miss Isabel
MacAdamS, Pennsylvania, stand next, and
are promoted to second class. There were
only two ladies who entered the examination
and both were promoted. And yet they say
woman IS an inferior being
COUNTERFEIT COIN.-Jim RittenhouSe and
Mrs. Missouri RittenhOuse, of Indiana, were
recently sentenced, respectively, to eight and
TWO years Imprisonment for cOunterfeiting.
After they had been taken, new family
moved into the house formerly occupied BY
them. The secret service division has re-
celved from this family counterfeit $50 and
s. gold pieces and quantity of counterfeit
silver coin, aggregatlng Sl,Gsh
GOOD News FOR DISTRICT LABoRERs-The
President to-day approved the joint resolution
making an appropriation of $4,000 for filling
anu Placing III SOOQ sanitary con-
dillon the grounds south of the Capitol, along
the line OF the old canal and for other pur-
poses.
IN THE ABSENCE OF JUDGE KEY and First
Assistant p. M. g. Tyner, Mr.. Brady. the Sec
ond Assistant P. M. G., is acting Postmaster
General.
APPOINTMENTS TO THE BOARD OF VISITORS.
The vacancies in the Board of Visitors to the
Government Insane Asylum, caused by the
expiration of the terms of Walter S. Cox Viii
liam GuntOn and Moses Kelly, were filled to-
day by the Secretary of the Interior. The
neWiy-appOinted members are ChaS. .WOrthing-
ton, Anna NJ. Gangewer, and Amelia Rowland
As many of the patients at the asylum are
women. it is thought that both sexes Should be
represented on the board of visitors.
COLLECTOR BEARD, of Boston, announces to
Secretary Sherman that he intends to retain
three out of the four deputy collectors at that
port, and asks the appointment of j. H. DAN
forth as deputy, in place of II. W. Hagerty.
The request will be granted.
EQUAILZING SALARIES-In letter to Secre-
tary Sherman, Collector Tuition, of Phlladel-
phia asksthat the salaries of three of his clerks
be raised two hundred dollars each per annum.
saying that clerks OF the same class in the Gus
tom house at Baltimore receive two hundred
dollars more than the Philadelphia clerks
account of the falling off in the revenue. con H
sent to an increase of salaries, but that If such
a difference in the salaries of clerks i'm the
Baltimore and Philadelphia custom houses as
stated by Collector Tucker exists, he will
equaGZe the two.
NAVAL APOTHECARIEs.-The House com
mittee on naval affairs have agreed to repOr
with a favorable recommendation a bill to au-
thOriZe the appointment of apothecaries as
warrant officers in the United States nayyand
that no one shall be appointed an apothecary
ned by board OF naval medical officers deSig-
mated by the Secretary OF the Navy.
CHEAP GAs.-The House committee on pub.
lie buildings and grounds have now before
them the proposition of James Crutchett, who
offers to supply gas at 25 cents per thousand
feet for light and % cents per thousand feet
Tor heating purposes by the atomic steam coal
process: The cost of gas for lighting the pub
nearly S2OOO, and the proposition now made
would reduce the expense to $4,000. The cost
Of lightning the Presidents House alone is
$4,000 year.
To SUCCoR THE GREEKS. - The Admiral
commanding the United States squadron
cruising in Greek waters, is reported to have
sent man-Of-war-the MariOn-from SMYRNA
to F0lo where massacres and pillaging by the
Turks are continued.
THE ALLEGED FALSE sCLAIM CONSPIRACY.
1O-udN III tIc COuTJ Ol InlS DlStrIct,
Judge Wylie, the trial of ex-Secretary Saw
yer, w. I. HaineS and Frank W. Brooks, on
the charge OF conspiracy to defraud the gov
ernment, was resumed, and VIM Fessenden
H.A. Lockwood and j. w. WancOurt testified
THE COMMITTEE on WAR CLAIMS of the
House have agreed to refer to the Court of
Claims the claim of A. II. Herr, of George
town, for 81 900 for the occupation of HerrS
Island, near Harper's Ferry, by the United
States forces during the war. The committee
also report in favor of paying VIM. Falls of
Alexandria county, Va. $252. .26 for his furni-
ture used Tor hospital purposes during the
war.
STANLEY's DISCOVERIES AND THE AFRICAN
SLAVE TRADE.-The United States CONNER
cial agent at Gaboon reports to the Depart
ment of State that the knowledge of the Congo
OF Livingstone river, derived from Stanley'S
discoveries Is already bearing practical fruit.
English missionaries have followed the course
OF the river as far as the first series of RAPIDS
and are about to establish missionary sta
uOn at that point. There are reports that a
modified form OF the slave traffic still exists
between that region and the Portuguese
Islands OF st. Thomas and Princess, through
former agents of the slave trade between Ga
boon and ST. Paul de Loanda. A British gun.
boat recently captured brig with over 100
men, women, and children on board in MIS-