Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-08-24
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.


GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY.-lnternal
revenue, s409, 1924; customs, s562,sl2&
THE SUBSCRIPTIONS to the four per cent. loan
today amounted to s6539O0.
CONSULAR APPOINTMENT.-The President
today appointed Henry Dlthmar, of New
York, to be consul at Breslau, Germany.
FERDINAND JEFFERSON, ESQ.,. chief of the
bureau Of rolls and archives. Sta e depart
ment, died this morning at his re ,idence, on
11th street. Mr.. Jefferson wa, oue of the old
est officers OF tie depart nent, and was greatly
and integrity OF character.
AN OsTRACIsED PosTMAsrER.-A postmas
ter in Mississippi town recently went to
return the quarantine authorities refused to
let him pass. AS he cannot get back into the
town, "Othello's occupation is gone"
FOR THE FEVER SUFFERERs-Mr. Lock
wood, chief clerk of the Interior department,
has sent word to the Howard Association,
New Orleans, La, to draw for 1920 collected
in the department., or to advise where it should
he sent. This amount has been collected in
and more is pledged. The amount raised in
the Land office and the Pension office is not
yet known. When the different bureaus come
aggregate will be handsome sum.
PERSONAL-H.V. Redfield, of the Cincinnati
Comm erc5al, has returned from a trip to
pennsylvania .--COl. Bacon OF Gen. oner-
mans staff, has gone to Kentucky.
CAPT W. j. VANCE, appointment clerk of
the Treasury department, to-day notified his
mated he would maxi the race for Csngress in
that district. The friends of Capt. Vance are
sanguine of his success.
INTERNATIONAL POSTAL CARD CHESS TOUR
NEY.-Mr. j. E. Orchard, of Columbia, S. c.,
has lost two games to his British antagonist,
J. Parker, of Grimsby, England; and CIV.
Stevens. of Coventry, England, has drawn a
game with II. Holmes, of Bay City, Wis. This
91aWn, draw f l. MI H. " Moson, Of Belfast T Ire,
land Zone of the British International Team,)
has met with fatal accident. the particulars
ss5 s
U. S. REVENUE OFFICERS WOUNDED IN
TENNRssEE,-CollectOr WOodcock telegraphs
from Nashville, Tenn, this morning to Com
missioner Raum, as follows:-"My special
Overton county by Campbell Morgan and his
band, and three of the deputies were wound
ed" The Commissioner has authorized Col
lector WOOdcOck to adopt the most vigorous
measures in order to enforce the law and Sc
cure the arrest of the guilty parties. A posse
sufficiently strong to enforce this purpose wi |
Since the adjournment of Congress certain
democratic member of Congress from TenneS-
see has been writing to the Commissioner of In
terna RI Revenue Vigorously pgotesting against G
revenue officials in Tennessee against the
sacred rights of citizens" Among the recent
arrests made in this members district was the
members own son, charged with carrying on
illicit diStillatiOn.
MONEY ORDER BUSINESS IN INFECTED DIS
TRICTs.-The postmaster at Brownsville, Tex,
has sent a dispatch to the Post Office depart
ment stating that communication by gulf wit
New Orleans has ceased, and asking whethe
he shall send money order funds to that cit
by overland route. He has been notified to
send the surplus funds to Galveston, from
which place they will come to this city by way
of New Orleans. On account of the quaran-
tine, mails from New Orleans cannot enter
the receipt of funds from Galveston by the
postmaster at New Orleans must be sent to
this city and 60 from here to Galveston by way
OF st. Louis.
GEN. SHERMAN.-A dispatch, dated yester.
day. was received at the War department to-
day from Gen. Sherman. He was at Manitu
Springs, Colorado, and would leave there to-
day for the Rio Grande.
AN APPLICATION for bounty has been for
warded to the Commissioner of Pensions from
the White House. The only thing of note
about this transaction lies in the application
itself. This attracts attention because it is in
verSe-or rather in forty verses, four lines
each, one rhyme to each verse. The applicant
is union soldier, and says ''he went through
the war, and received many scar" He gives
how ''the bullets did fly at the battle Shili''
and is authority for the statement that 'there
was not much fun at the second battle of Bull
Run
MR.. JOHN nj. LANGsTON, U. S. minister to
Hayti, arrived in New York from Kingston,
Jamaica in the steamship Atlas Thursday.
The New York Herald says he intends to re-
turn to his post in October.
RATIONs FOR YELLOW FEVER SUFFERERS.
The commissary general, by direction of Sec
retary McCrary, today ordered that 5000 ra-
tions be sent to Grenada for the yellow fever
sufferers. He had previously ordered 10000
ratiOnS to be issued to Memphis. The Secre-
tary cannot, of course, feed all the people in
the infected districts. He will. however ex-
tend as much aid as possible, and hopes by a
judlciOuS management in the distribution of
supplies to do good deal for the relief Of the
sufferers
THE CHINESE MINISTER has taken for him.
self and that portion of the embassy which
will remain in this city permanently, house
No. 1925 F street. cor ner of 10th, the late resi-
dence of Alexander Ray, esq, deceased.
Notice has been given that the occupancy of
the new minister will begin the 18th of next
month. This house is one of the largest and
most solidly elegant in the western part of
the city. 1t has two stories between the base
ment and attic; is of pressed brick, of some
fifty feet front with deep extension back
ward and contains some twenty rooms IL is
brown stone trimmed The whole house ia
completely appointed in every respect. Con
nected with it to the east, there are large
grounds occupying more than half of the
square. The grounds are laid out as yery fine
flower garden, containing summer houses, etc
NAVAL ORDERs.-Captain Ralph Chandler
is ordered to command the Lackawanna, at
the navy yard, Mare Island, California, 2Ist
OF September next; Lieutenant Commander
hates Stirling to the Lackawanna, 2lst Sep
temper as executive: Lieutenant John +
Er1ce, SURGEON Stephen ID. kennedy, Cadet
EngIneerS VIM. F. Bartlett and Charles l.
Wight and BOatSwain James Farrell, to the
IackaWanna, 2lSt September: Gunner Edwin
A: Mcdonald to duty at the navy yard, Mare
Island, California, 2lst September; Lieutenant
John +. Wallis is detached from the Passaic
Norfolk, Va, Sd September: Lieutenant
Franklin j. Drake from the Pownattan, and
ordered to the Lackawanna, 2lst September:
Lieutenant VIM. p Potter from the naval
academy, 5lSt instant. and ordered to the Pow