Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-09-20

revenue, 500, ,590.l2; customs, s49s, 1906.
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the tour per cent loan to.
day amounted to $4,000.
AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT prepared at the
Treasury department gives the amount OF
duties collected in coin during the year ending
June So 1877. at $l2S, ,S2S, 164 and the aggregate
receipts from all sources in coin and currency
at $l32 Q2t4G9.1 .16. The number of persons EN-.
ployed in collecting is ,565. The average per-
cent, and compared with the previous year
there was saving OF $13O, ,S26.7S.
IT is SUGGESTED that the republicans, in
getting out their caricatures on fiat money
bearing some resemblance to national bank
notes, render themselves as liable to arrest as
the merchants who put out advertisements in
the same form.
ALL DEAD EXCEPT ONE.-lnformation has
been received at the P. o. department that all
the employees in the post Office at Vicksburg
are sick or dead except one. Authority has
been sent by telegraph to employ four add
tiOnal clerks.
TIE AMOUNT OF SILVER DOLLARS ordered
to-day is s53,SC4. This iS about the average
amount taken every day under the late circa-
lar of the department taking the place of all
others. These daily orders aggregate about a
million and half dollars gotten ont of the
Treasury per month. Most of 1t remains in
IN the payment of customs duties.
The DISCHARGE is expected shortly of some
fifty or sixty clerks on the temporary roll of
the Treasury department.
THE INDIANA CAMPAIGN.-Acting Postmas
ter General Tyner has received letter from,
member of the state republican committee
OF Indiana, saying that the greenback excite
ment in Indiana does not threaten disastrous
consequences; that the republican party is
as enthusiastic as ever, and the prospects OF
capturing the legislature and gaining one
memDer OF Congress are as encouraging as
they we've before the Maine election.
PERsoNAL.-Madame Durand, better known
to the world of letters and readers as Henry
Greville, has made a contract with Miss Helen
Stanley, Maryland young lady long resident
in France. and Paris correspondent Of the New
York EUening Post, whereby she will here
after translate all of the Henry Greville novels
3Ggha for thr IN N French into
mulianeousIy with their appearance in Paris
Mr. w: ii. Smith, chief clerk of the Bureau
OF Steam Engineering, Navy department, has
Col. l.. q. Washington has returned to the
city from the White Sulphur springs.
THE SUCCESSOR OF HON. EDWARD Nc.
PHEIsON, as chief of the bureau of Engrav.
ing and Printing, will be a man who has al
ready attained a position in public life, and
whose record as a man of business qualifica-
tlOns is excellent. Pennsylvania thinks the
less than her quota of public officers and
partly because MIR. Mcpherson himself was a
Pennsylvania, and should be succeeded, thew
think, by man from his own state.
IMITATION ILLUSTRATED. The mutilated
paper currency redeemed at the Treasury is
by maceratiOn reduced to pulp. From this
paper weights and images of various kinds
are made. The artist who does this work con
suit the greenbackers. It will be state OF
Mercury, the god of thieves. AS representa-
tive OF imitation, it will be of heroic size, OF
curry will have a carpet bag full of paper
money in one hand, his wings will be ragged.
and behind him will lay field OF land badly
in need of cultivation.
CONFESSED JCDGMENT.-Special Agent Car.
ter telegraphs to the Land Office that a third
defendant in the timber cases before the Mis-
sisslppl courts has confessed judgment The
three surveys sent out bv the Land Office are
bringing to light extensive treSpasSes on the
pubic land.
THE MAINE GOvERNORsHIP.-It appears
from the official figures that the fourth eligible
candidate in the Maine gubernatorial election
Robie. a prominent republican, He stanc
well in his profession. and community,
aas been n OF the Maine
II. votes for governor. There were several
other persons who polled few votes, but out.
side OF those cast for the regular nominees his
enough to make model dark horse but his
chances in the race are not to be despised.
Mr.. DOMINICK MURPHY, the father of the
Murphy brothers, the well-known Congress
photographers, died in Philadelphia on Tues
evening. n N
facturers Of KenSingtOn, and an esteemed
citizen.
VICTIMS OF WRECKED STEAMBOATs.-The
report OF Supervising Inspector OF Steamboats,
Burnett, OF ST. Louis, states that there has not
IN the past two years been a single casualty
attended with loss of life in that district. The
district in which the most lives have been lost
is New York. In it two hundred people have
met their deaths by accidents to steamers or
by their wreck. The majority of these two
hundred perlshed on the Metropolis.
THE EADs JETTIEs APPRoPR1 ATIoN.-Con
gress, at its last session, appropriated 500 O000
to be paid Captain Eads, in monthly install
mentS, for material furnished, labor per.
formed ana expenses incurred in prosecuting
work. work on + the Mississippi jetties. Under this
application to the Treasury for an advance.
me question OF paying the money came in its
official course TO Second Auditor Austin. MI.
IeuoeAh ASiuSOu ASo PoyuCuG Ou ground CndG
the money was only to be advanced for mate.
rial after 1t was used. Mr.. Eads was dis
satisfied, and claimed that material on the
ground, under the eye OF the engineer officer
In charge OF the work, was as good as il used,
and that he was entitled to his advance under
the act making the appropriation. The ques.
ton was referred to Attorney General DeyeDs
for his opinion. The Attorney General has
transmitted 1t to the Secretary of War. He
overruleS In toto the decision of Auditor
Austin, and says that Captain Eads is entitled
TO money for the material on the ground ready
10 be used. The amount of the first instar
ment 10 De paid the protector of the ietties
Will be determined by the estimates of the
engineer in charge of the work.
The GRAIN CROPS IN FRANCE.-The U. 3.
consul at Lyons has forwarded to the Depart.
ment OF State report concerning the grain
crops OF the present season in the following
departments: The RhOne, Isere, Haut- Loire
Haute-Alp Drome- Loire, SaOne ct Loire
AIN, Loire, Hauti Sayoie and Andeche, EN-.
bracing an area of about 1900 SQUARE miles
and containing population of over 4,GOO,OOO
The whole cereal crop only averages mid
ding IN the RhOne, 1sere, Ain, Loire. An
deche, Say0ie, Haute- Alps and SaOne eft Loire
Oats very good in the RhOne Isere and Haute
Loire, good in the Haute- Alps DrOme. Loire
SaOne ct Loire, and fair in The Ain Corn
good in the ISere, Loire, SaOne at Loire. fair
In the DrOme and Loire. Rye, good in the
Haute- Alps, Loire, Haute-SavOie and the
Rhone, fair in the Saone ct Loire, passabIe IN
the Ain, middling In the DrOme and Isere.
and bad in the SarOie Barley very good in
the Hante. Loire Haute;Alps, Andeche. Isere,