Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-07-08
THE EVENING STAR
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal
revenue, S669,65o35: customs. si10,l75.12.
THE SUBscRPTIoNst to the four per cent. loan
to-day amounted TO $4,000.
SECRETARY SHERMAN will go to New York
tomorrow, His business is presumably con
nected with the early resumption OF specie
payments.
THE PREsIDEET will leave on the 2lst inst.
to attend the soldiers reunion at Newark,
ONO. He will return Immediately after the
celebration.
SECRETARY THOMPSON and party, about fifty
in number, left this morning on the Tallapoosa
for the navy yards along the coast. They will
go as far north as Halifax, and will be absent
about six weeks.
PERsoNAL.-Albert ID. Shaw, the newly ap-
pointed United States consul to Birmingham,
is at the Arlington. IA. M. Clapp, Esq,
editor of the National Republican, went to
the, S5th birthday anniversary of his wife's
father. In his absence, Mr. E. P. Brooks has
charge OF the editorial conduct of the Repub-
ttcdn.
ACTING SECRETARY OF THE NAvY.-During
the absence of Secretary Thompson, Attorney
General DevenS will act as Secretary of the
Navy devOtlng from to in the afternoon to
that duty.
Hon. ZACHARIAH CHANDLER and his pri-
vate secretary, Mr.. GOrham, are at the Airing
ton. 1t is intimated that the ex-Secretary has
been invited to appear before the Potter in
ySSlgatlng committee.
THE ARMY COMMISSION, of which General
Ambrose Z. Burnside is president, will hold its
fist Secsion at the White Sulphur Springs, in
Virginia. during the present month,
THE P0LARIs KEp0RT-The English goy-
eminent has subscribed for $50 volumes of the
POlariS Arctic expedition report, which is a
Work luln'ShCd by 5ubsCrintiOn by the Public
Printer at trife more tnan the cost of its
printing engraving and binding.
COMET DISCOVERED Lewis Swift of
Rochester, NY, announces to the Smithsonian
institution the discovery by himself, at two
O'Clock yesterday morning of large faint
comet in oeyenteen hOuiS forty minutes right
ascension, eighteen de~TeCS north defamation
with Slow motion G0uGhWe3t. No tail OF nu-
cleuS, but central condemnation.
GEN. B.F. BUTLER has ordered 4 large edi-
tion of his speech made the last night of the
session of Congress against the payment If
the Halifax fishery award AS the payment Of
this bill is not popular New England mea-
sure, the General evidently thinks it will aid
!
| OF the Old Bay State commonwealth.
DURING THE ABSENCE of Adjutant General
| Townsend on a months leave, Gen. A.C Dunn.
| an accomplished officer, is acting adjutant
| general of the army.
| THE CONDITION OF JUSTICE MILLER of the
| Supreme Court, who recently underwent a
severe surgical operation, has greatly m
| proved of late. He was able to sit I'D two or
| three hours this morning. and his family are
iS N
UNCLE SANS CAPTURED COUNTERFEIT
| MONEY.-The secret service division has on
| hand about three hundred thousand dollars in
| counterfeit money. OF this amount about
| nine thousand dollars is in coin, ranging from
| the cent piece to the twenty dollar god
piece. The remainder is i'll paper currency.
| 1876 Some of the,e counterfeits are yerv
| good ones, bnt the larger number of them are
miserable The latter is especially the Ca. g
| with the counterfeit silver. Most of this coin
so poor that even after being melted it can,
not be utilized in any manner becoming as
brittle as glass lass II is generally compound of
| when struck with the hammer used for in
| denting the word bad" on captured counter
1elt. coin break in pieces The paper coun-
terIelts can be rendered to pulp and used for
manufacturing paper of an inferior quality
GEN. HARRY HETH of Va, has received his
commission as Especial agent of the Treasury
| department.
PROTECTION OF HEBREws.-The Secretary
OF State, in compliance with request made
| by MeSSrs. nj. S. Isaacs, of New York, and
Simon Wolf, of Washington, president and
| vice president of the beard of delegates of the
| American 1sraelites, has instructed our consul
| at HANGERS, Morocco, to cooperate with the
| representatives of other governments in using
| his good offices in behalf of oppressed Israel.
ties in the empire of Morocco. The instruc-
| lions are similar to those given several years
u fn My TO
| which proved to be SO beneficial for the relief
| and protection of the Jews who were at that
time prosecuted by the ROumanians.
| COL. w. II. CROOK, in addition to his duties
| as disbursing clerk at the White House. has
been designated by the President to act as his
ASSISTANT secretary to sign land warrants. No
| salary for the latter position, which was held
by MIR. Lang, was provided for by Congress
ORDER REvoKED.-The order detailing Car
tain George Butler as cOmmandant Of the ma.
rlneS here has been revoked.
DIR. L. j. DRAPER whose restoration tn tha
navy as assistant surgeon created such a
breeze, was to-day ordered to the Naval Hos
pltal at Norfolk, Va.
TIE CHAMPION Observation-Disclosures David
tInnegan, L. S. A, has been sentenced upon
me hndlhg OF general court.martial, to serve
10ur years In the Leavenwerth military prison,
HIS offence was repeated deSertiOn and re-
enlistment. Between 1874 and 1878 he deserted
and Ie-enlisted five times, under as many diff
terent names
LIEUT.. WHEELER'S SURVEYING PARTIEs.-
Lieut.. Wheeler left last Saturday night for the
scene of his survey work this summer. Lieuts
Birnie,. Griffin and Symons had preceded
him. The work OF the survey this year will be
very extensive; There will be two parties at
work in New Mexico, pretty close to the Texas
line, Ole east and one west of the Rio Grande
The eastern party will be in charge or Lieut..
Birnie and the western in charge of Lieut..
Glifin gh In Oregon m there will be one party, in
Lieut.. SymOns. In California four parties
will be at work; one in the Sierra Nevadas
north OF the Pacific railroad, in charge OF
Lieut.. Timan; another in the Sierras, South
Of that railroad, under Lieut.. MacOmb: and
two in south California, conducted by Lieuts.
Young and Ludlow. Lieut.. MacOmb's party
will cover the Yosemite valley land Lieut. Lud-
low viii lin addition to his regular survey.car
system OF triangleS Overa portion California
In addition to the above surveys there will be
three I astronomical parties in the field: These
VIII determine the latitude and longitude of
points along the Rio Grande and the Column
bia river, IN Oregon. The astronomical par
h9 hpI tIa f,,t It.