Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-08-15
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
Z GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS ToDAY.-Internal
revenue. s3l5, 4Ol.b7: customs. s63S, ,31375.

Z GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal
revenue. s3l5, 4Ol.6z: customs, $685.. 1875.
THE SUBsCRIPTIoNst to the four per cent loan
today amounted to s5O2,7OO.
SECRETARY SHERMAN does not expect to
return to Washington much before the end Of
this month. After remaining here few days
he will 60 to Ohio and make at least one cam.
paign speech, as an Offsetfo the late speech .
Senator Thrrman.
PRESIDENTIAL APPoINrMENTs.-TheP Presi-
dent today appointed Henry Z. Osborne, of
California, to be receiver of public moneys at
BOdie California, and Simon w. SwitZer, of
Nebraska, to qe register of the land Office at
Bloomington, Nebraska.
SECRETARY SCHURz is in bad health, due,
he thinks to touch of malaria, ard expacts
to leave the city tomorrow night for visit Of
few days at Deer Park.
DECISION IN LAND CAsE.-In the case of
Hans HOgland VS.. Northern Pacific Railroad
company, the Secretary OF the Interior has
decided that the grant Of the Northern Paci-
fic Railroad Co., attaches to lands acquired
under SesSctOn and WahpetOn treaty. (OutSde
of reServatiOn) they having been acquired
prior to the definite location of the road, and
that settlement claims upon granted sections
1864. making grant to company. The decision
determines the right to a large tract in the
wheat lands OF Dakota.
AT TIE CABINET MEETING Tuesday, the
President affirmed the decision of the court
martial which sentenced Lieutenant Maxwell,
of the regular army, to two years imprison-
ment. Maxwell was charged with selling
duplicate vouchers OF his pay several months
in advance, SO that he realized about 5000.
Charges were preferred against him by the
paymaster general, with the results stated
above.
A FEW MORE NOTARIES.-The President to-
day added to the list of nOtaries public for the
District the follow ing:-E. B. Hay, Charles S.
LuSk, /. G.. Kimbali, Aaron Bradshaw, Mac
donald Douglass, and j. Thomas Turner.
A REFRACTORY PosTMAsTER.-The mem
berS of the state executive committee OF Ohio
have made formal complaint to President
Hayes that Postmaster Loge, of Cincinnati.
not Onlv returned the circular of the commit
tee asking for contribution for campaign eX-
penses, but that his letter declining to con-
tribute was very tart in its terms. Extracts
to the President.
ExPERTs.-Edward Lee Plumb, late charge
d'affaires of the United States at Mexico, has
been appointed all expert in the Bureau of
Statistics, to collect data and Information as
to the trade OF the west and southwest, and the
development of commerce with Mexico. The
CHIEF OF the bureau has also in contemplation
u,
be to accumulate data for a full and compre-
henSive report OF the value and Importance of
the internal commerce On the great rivers and
lakes.
PERsoNAL--Vice President Wheeler is at
Martha's Vineyard. Mrs. V. Hagmann
and children have spent the hot summer days
at Seneca Springs Mrs. D. N. Key, Misses
wife have arrived in the city from Chatta
nOOga, Tenn. Attorney General YOumanS,
OF South Carolina, arrived in the city to-day.
DEMOCRATIC ADvICEs FROM GEORGIA are
to the effect that the state is undergoing small
commissions over the Congressional nomina
tiOnS. In but one district, Mr. Stephens, is
there less than five candidates for nomina-
tiOD, while in others they range upward to
twenty. There is going TO be some of the
liveliest sort OF political fighting before the
nomlnations are made. The probabilities
however, are that the present delegation, with
one or two exceptions, will be returned.
JUDGE YOUMAN's MISSION TO. BOSTON,
Judge Youmans, attorney general for the
state of South Carolina arrived in the city
this morning. He will leave this evening for
Boston to be present at the hearing of the ex-
tradition case OF kimptOn, the quOndam finan-
cial agent of South Carolina. Gov. Hampton
Rice, and Hampton has employed the ablest
legal talent to prevent its being granite d.
Learning this, Governor Hampton has direct
pear for the state of South Carolina and de-
mand Kempton's extradition, if there is law
n. dOr 1t. or r. to ascertain a. why the law does not
bribing whole legislature.
ASIAN ADDITIONAL GUARD against frauds
in the distillation of liquor, Commissioner of
Internal Revenue Raum is placing two lots of
gaugers in the different districts throughout
the liquor producing sections of the country
On lot will, as heretofore, measure the liquor
in the distileries, while the other will regauge
1t after it has been drawn OFF into the ware
houses This plan will it is expected, pre-
vent the possibility of cOllusiOn between dis
tlllcrs and gaugers.
PROF. BAXTER DRowNED.-The Signal corps
station at Cape May reports gs follows: Prof.
Baxter, professor OF elOcution at Harvard col
lege, was drowned here about ii o'clock this
morning, while swimming out beyond bis
depth. The body is nOt yet recovered.
The WHEAT CROP IN CANApA.-George j.
Abbott, U. S. commercial agent at Goderich,
Ontario reports to the Department of State
that the wheat crop of that district is the
largest ever threshed. For one month there
was no rain, and the farmers had a grand Op-
portunity to harvest their wheat in the best
condition. Fifty bushels TO the acre is not
unusual, while forty is common. One farmer
gets 2,GUO bushels from 81 acres, another 444
from II, a third $40 from 26 acres. One farmer
fhreShed lO6 bushels from q acres The aver
age Yield in Ontario this year will exceed 25
bushels to the acre, which MIR. Abbott thinks
l higher aS erage than in any of the states
during the last ten years. Ontario has an area
OIL lpi.UU0 square miles, and population of
l,b1O,UGO What state of equal size can CON-
pute with 1t in wheat raising? NOtWithstand
1.ig its great fertility and Salubrity of climate
there Is constant emigration going on to the
United States and to Manitoba. Our liberal
homestead laws are great inducements, eS-
pecially to farmers with large families of sons.
OBSERVING THE ECLIPSE FROM YELLOW.
STONE PARK.-The Secretary of the Interior
has received a letter from P. D. Norris, super.
intendent OF the Yellowstone Park, in which
he says, under date Of August l: "Otitted
at BOZeman and pushed on here, arriving at
eve OF the 2Sth ultimO, observing the eclipse of
the sun the next day from a lofty, unexpiOred,
unnamed peak, tamid the snow, with ther-
mOmeter at 45o. overlooking these springs,
and the forks OF the Yellowstone and Gard
ner's rivers, where Mr. Sturges observed the
eclipse, and my assistant MI Bush, Cinnibar
Mountain. Fair day, fair view, total obscurty
aud nearly darkness. Although am not certain
but what the Indian signals upon the
mountains were mada by white men to in
duce me TO employ scouts, still, as all the
settlers above BOttler'S have fed l.
as mater of prudence, have sent our
trunks with official papers and IOther val
uableS down there, have purchased only one
SADDLE horse and outht 1or my own use, hlrin :
the balance OF my saddle and pack train with
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