Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-09-21

revenue, si09, ,25i.C5; customs s332.9l9.ol.
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the tour per cent. loan to
day amounted to el5n.00O
ORDERS for s75,Ol5 standard silver dollars
were received at Treasury today.
SPEAKER RANDALL arrived here on the ca ly
train this morning from Philadelphia, and left
for home at ] 80 o'clock. He was at the Capt.
tol 1Or a half hour or so. On Monday he goes
into western Pennsylvania on a stunning
tour. He thinks that the democrats in Penn
ssylvania Will elect their governor, and that
the legislature will be democratic and green
back, which will insure the defeat of Don
Cameron for the Senate.l
Mr.. L. j. BAXTER, chief clerk of the Gene
raj Land Office. has been appointed land clerk
in the Office of the assistant attorney general
for the Interior department, and Mr.. j. M.
Armstrong. OF the Land Office, has been al
pointed to the position vacated by him,
OHIO GREENBACKERs.-Adyic received by
the Republican Congressional Campaign COM
mittee are to the effect that Ben. LIE Fevre.
well known in Washington in connection with
with Texas Pacific railroad interests, and
nominated by the democrats in the 5th Ohio
district for Congress, will be defeated by his
greepback antagonist, although the district
has large democratic majority.
DAVID s. GREEN, a well-known clerk in the
warrant division of the Treasury department,
uiSG ldSJ evening O1 lypHOlu pueulnOuI1 tie
had been sick only six days. He was during
the war in charge of the draft rendezvous di
vision of the paymaSter generals Office, the
most responsible position at that time in that
bureau.
SPREAD OF TIE PEsTILENCE IN TIE SOUTH
Judge Chalmers, of the supreme court of Mis-
Sissipp, now in the city received a telegram
last night from his home at fernando. Miss.
announcing eight deaths there from yellow
fever. Great distress exists and the public is
appealed to for assistance. Hernando is on
the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad
tionS can be sent to Hon. Edward Bulington
mayor of fernando. A private telegram to
Col. MeCardle. from the chairman of the re-
lief committee. at Canton, Miss, announces
in that town but frost. Another telegram an
nOunces dreadful state of affairs in Green
vile, Miss. Over one hundred deaths have
is olated and demands immediate reliee
Contributions sent to Gen. E. s. Butts, presi-
dent of the Vicksburg Bank, at Vicksburg.
will be promptly forwarded.
THE CHINESE EMBASSY have kept quietly at
their rooms today at their street residence
Mr. Bartlett, the American secretary, has Off
cialy advised the Secretary of State of their
arrival, and he In turn will make arrange
ments for their formal presentation to the
President of the United States.
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given to the public the expense incurred by
the government in collecting the internal reve
nue. tax. The Treasurer of the United States
collects annually about seven million dollars
In taxes Oh the capital and circulation of
banks, at an expense OF less than One-tenth of
one per cent.
AN ILLINOIS APPLE FOR THE PRESIDENT
Logan county Qllinois) farmer has sent to
the White House for the President what he
SamOla 4nntef1 q in hio
county, The apple is 17l1 inches in circumfer-
ence.. 1t is Of the "Capp's Mammoth" variety
The farmer appends the information in the
plentiful in Illinois, and the crops beautiful; ;
also, that we are a blessed people, living in a
lard OF abundance and plenty, if we could
only realize it,
AN EX-CONGREssIoNAL SCANDAL.-Cincin
natl and the western portion OF Ohio are
good deal interested just now in the case of
the counts in q short time in the shape of
divorce suit. Col. Ozro j. DOdds, who rep e.
sented one OF the Cincinnati districts in the
42d Congress, M charges his wife1Wel known to
daughter OF Hon. Charles N. LamisOn. who
also represented an Ohio district in the AID
and 45d Congresses,-with gross and repeated.
which he proposes to bring suit for divorce
On the wife's part, Col. Dodds is charged with
drunkenness, neglect, and extreme cruelty,
and she, she has gone home to her fathers house
the result will be cannot, of course, be fore
told, but meantime the gOsSipS and scandal
mongers seem to be busy with the private liie
of both parties
MRS. FAssETT is still al work on her painting
OF the Electoral Commission in the rooms of
the U. 8. Supreme Court, at the Capitol. She
on Pennsyvania avenue. WIFI the U asa exceptio1 et
of few finishing touches on newspape men,
the painting is nearly completed.
THE TOBACCO MANUFACTURERS OF THE
WEST have filed protests against the continu-
ance of the exclusive contract of the New
York Graphic Company for the printing of
tobacco stamps. They hold that it is an unjust
tie reason that while a New York manufac-
turer can order from the company stamps in
such quantities as they actually need, the
western manufacturer is compelled to order in
tiGn. The western men want stamps printed
IN Cincinnati. Chicago and st. Louis as well as
New YORK. Mr c: ". MoultOn. of Cincinnati,
a nrother.ln.laW G OF Secretary Shherman, rep
resenfs the western trade In the matter before
the Internal Revenue department.
REVENUE CIRCULAR ABOUT SPIRITS IN
SToRE.-Mr. II. G. Rogers, acting Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue, has issued a cir
cular directing that in CARRYING out the in
struetiOns concerning tax paid spirits in the
naDdS OF wholesale liquor dealers and recti-
hers, october 1st. lS7S collectors are requested
10 see that spirits in store are not reported
more than once, so as to show a greater
amount OF spirits than Is actually on hand
Persons and firms making report Of spirits on
hand should report all spirits shown by their
records to be on hand. wherever the same
may be stored, and persons and firms having
IN store spirits not belonging to them, but car
ried on wholesale dealers or rectifers' books.
should exclude such spirits from their reports
IMPORTANT Law SUIT DISPOSED OF BY the
decree passed in the Equity Court in the suit
of j. M. Latta AGAINST Kilbourn & Olmstead.
which has been on trial for the last three davs'
the large amount of real estate belonging to
KilbOurn & Olmstead is released from claim
on the part of Mr.. Latta and is DISCHARGED
from the cloud upon it caused by the tendency
OF the suit.
The OUTBREAK OF THE NORTHERN CHEY-
ENNEs.-It is learned at the Indian office that
the police notified Agent Miles at 3 am. that
the Northern Cheyennes left the agency. leav-
ing their tepees standing, at 10 o'clock the
tihed the commanding officer at Fort Reno,
and the next morning cavalry started in pnr.
suit. The total number of Indians, men, wO.
men and children, was $50. There were 81
bucks among them.
NAVAL ORDERs-Captain A. E. r. Bsnham
to command the Richmond, at Boston, Mass.
2lst October. The following officers are also
ordered to the Richmond: Lieutenant Com.
mander n Lewis Clark, as executive officer;
Clay and N. j. R. Patch Master s. d. May;
Cadet MidShipmen A. G.. Rogers, j. H. Heth-
G. N. AtWater, f, j. SDraguo W. G..