Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-09-26
THE EVENING STAR,
Washington News and Gossip,

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GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY.-lnternal
revenue, s-s3,4G3 Is: customs, si55, 5,5sl2l.
SUBSCRIPTIONS 20 the tour per cent. loan to-
day amounted to $4,000.
AMIET1 sc OF THE CABINET was he'd this
afternoon. The President. Secretary Evarts,
Secretary Sherman, Secretary SchurZ, Att .r-
ney General Devans, and Acting Postmaster
General Tyner were present. The Navy de-
partment was not represented. The meeting
was principally devoted to routine business
which had acc accumulated during the Pre- ,it"nt's
to the President, accrediting the embassy to
this country, and the Letter of the Embassa-
dor Chm Ian fn IN enclosing his eredsnss
TO the Cabinet translatiOns OF them. 1t was
decided that the Embassy should be accorded
their reception by the President and Cabinet
next Saturday morning, at II CLOCK. No sue.
cessOr to Chef Mcpherson, of the Bureau OF
Engraving and Printing was determined on.
The PRESIDENTS S NEXT EXCURSION out of
the city will be to the fair at Winchester, Va.
Speaker Randall has also promised to attend.
SECRETARY SCEURz' SPEECH.-The Associa.
ted Press were to-day furnished with a copy
OF the speech which Secretary Schurz will
deliver in Cincinnati on Saturday night. 1t
west, with the understanding that it is not be
printed until Sunday.
COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS ELLIS SPEAR
yesterday resigned that position, and his re-
signatiOn has been orally accepted by Secrr.
tary SchurZ. There is no dOu bt that eX- Con-
gresham Halbert E.. Paine, of Wisconsin,
Will accept the position, which has already
been tenaered him.
CHECKS for the payment of the October in
terest on the registered per cent funded
loan are in course of preparation at the Trea-
sury. The number of checks necessary for
this .purpose is l5,C0o, and represent sums
varying rom 80 cents up to $1,000.
INTEREST SCHEDULES for the quarterly in.
terest ON District securities due the first OF
next month are being prepared. The interest
is paid by the Treasurer in checks on the
treasury and on tie assistant treasury in New
York. Persons to whom interest is due leay
ing their addresses With the Treasury win
have their checks for the amount forwarded
them.
INDIAN AGENTS APPoINTED-TheP President
today made the following appointments as
indian agents: Thos. B. Ellis, of Brooklyn, n
Y, at the Berthold agency, Dakota, vice E. II.
Alden, resigned; L. NJ Kelley, of Elgin, H.,
at ,s6f+ the Los plnos agency COLORADO, vice J. B.
at Standing Rock agency, Dakota, vice Kelly
transferred.
The WAY OF THE TRANsGREssoR.-At the
instance of the Treasury department the U.
s. district attorney for New Jersey has instt-
tuted suit against W. " s. Wilson, the de-
1anltlng as asserting 50 q tell teller Of the redemption
pending. against Wilson, two of them civil
suits and one criminal. His property in New
Jersey has been attached by the government
TIE CHARGE HAVING BEEN MADE by the
greenback orators in the West that the 8 10
bonds passed as currency there, the Treasury
department is havi ing fac SMILES of the bonds
photographed to show the CupOns which We're
attached. and OF which there were five upon
each bond.
fERSONAL.-A telegram received by Secre-
try sherman from DR.. Basil Norris, the at
tending physician upon Mrs. Gen. Sherman
at Atlantic CITY. is to the effect that while his
patient is dangerously sick, he has hopes OF
ner recovery. ...COngreSsman Ashe, Of
NoI,h Carolina, is a. the Metropolitan. 49,.
Hon. Henry B. Paine. Of Ohio, who was a
member OF the Presidential electoral commit
sion, is at the Riggs House.
The YELLOW FEVER INvEsrIGAT1oN.-Dr.
Woodwork, chief of the marine hospital SER
vice, left here last night for New York, to con-
suit with the officers of the American public
health association in relation to the Organza-
ton OF a commission to investigate the yellow
IeVer epidemic. The commission W ill be deS
ignated in few days, and active work viii be
commenced without delay.
The STAMP TAX ON PATENT MEDICINES
Il. G. Rogers, Acting Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue, has forwarded an answer to
letter from ST. Louis, Missouri, in which he
says:
vised Statues of the United States, and accord
ing to the published rulings and decisions of
this office, all patent or proprietary medi-
cines, medicinal preparations and compost
lions, which are really such, and which are
made, prepared or compounded by any pri-
yate, formula, occult secret or art, or of which
the 1ull and proper formula is not published in
some medical authority, are subject to stamp
tax; and, although, alcoholic or distilled spirits
may be used as an element, ingredient, or com.
pOnent part OF such articles preparatiOnS
and compositions, still, il there are In all and
eHects, as well as In name, medicinal articles,
anG are so held out and recommended to the
pupIc, tne manufacturer or cOmpOunder is
not held liable to tax as a rectiHer, nor those
persons who sell such medicinal articles liable
10 pay special tax as liquor dealers. But, on
the other hand, articles which are held out,
Labelled and Sold as medicated liquors-Wine,
gin, brandy, whisky. cordials. bitters-which
are substantially wines OF distilled spirits or
are used or sold as alcoholic beverages, even
though having stamps attached to the pack
ages, such as the law requires to be attached
70 pate1r and proprietary medicines, cannot
pc legally sold except under special tax
stamp OF liquor dealer; and the maker,
compounder or manufacturer Of such liquors
and beverages is liable to pay special tax as a
rectifer."
NAVAL ORDERs.-Paymaster Geo. Cochran
is ordered to the navy yard, Mare Island, Cal.
2lst October as inspector of stores, sc. AS
slStant PaymaSter o. 81. Tiffany, to the Rich
mond, 2lst October, and on arrival on the
Asiatic station to duty on board the Alert;
Passed Assistant Paymaster II. G. Colby is
detached from the navy yard, Mare Island, on
reporting OF relief, and ordered to settle ac--
counts; Assistant Paymaster Geo. E. Baugh-
man, from the Alert, Asiatic station, on Re-