Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-08-21
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY.-Internal
SIS, $500: customs. s6l7 ,266.65.

GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS ToDAY.-Internal
revenue. SIS, $3.50: customs SOL, ,266.65.
SUBSCRIPTIONS TO the four per cent. loan to
day. amounted to slO7, 300.
THE YELLOW FEVER AT VIcksBuRa.-Hon.
John A. j. Cresswell has received dispa ch
from T. r. Roach. treasurer of the Howard
Association at Vicksburg. Miss, dated yester-
day. saying: yellow fever epidemic is cor
fering; money urgently needed; can your
blnks and people aid us?'
THE CONGRESSIONAL SEWERAGE CoMMIs-
sIoN.-Senator Harris, of Tennessee, is in the
city, awaiting the arrival of Senator Rollins,
Of New Hampshire, to organize the commits
sion OF Senators appointed to inquire into the
plan OF sewerage In washington, and make
PERsoNAL.-Mrs. C. E. Merrill and sister,
who are soliciting subscriptions to aid the yell
Ow fever sufferers in the south, were at the
that the President had already subscribed
money for the sufferers through a different
channel: Senator Bruce and his bride
will, keep heqse' upon their return to to Wash
York Bulletin. is in the west writing up the
dairy and cheese interests of that section.
THERE is CONSIDERABLE COUNTERFEIT Sill
YER afiOat throughout the country, and this
city has its share. Most of this spurious coin
age is SO poor it should not deceive any one
who gives it the slightest examination. Chief
Brooks, OF the secret service, has one of his
men detailed to go around among the Wash
ingtOn merchants and ascertain exactly the
amount OF it in circulation.
THE $4,000 APPROPRIATION FOR DISTRICT
LABORERs Certain questions which have
arisen under the bill apprOpriating $4,000 to
pay workmen under the late board of public
works, have been decided as follows by First
Controller Porter: lst. That claims for labor
perform. d by horses, carts, &c, under con-
tractors whose accounts had been paid prior
to June 23d, 1874, will be considered. "a.
Claims for work and labor for contractor
under contract which had been completed
anG the amount due paid prior to June 23d,
1874, may be filed, notwithstanding the fact
that the same contractor had other contracts
paid prior to said date; but the department
reserves decision for this class of claims for
the future. Sd. Legal representatives should
make their claims in their own names as rep:
reSentatiyes of the original claimants, and
should comply as nearly as possible with the
regulations. They must also furnish evidence
that they are legal representatives of deceas-
ed. 4th The fact that a party making atfi-
daVit under regulation 5 was a labOrer on the
same or other work. would not diSqualify him
from making such affidavit.
THE BIDS for supplying the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing for the next fiscal year
with Cumberland coal have been opened in
the Treasury department.. and the contract
Fer ton. The bids We're as follows: George l..
Sheriff, 1919: II. nj. Miller & Son, s3.12: john.
son Bros, s2.9S; Mayfeld & Hieston, s297.
DEATH OF A NAVAL OFFICER.-The Navy
department is informed OF the death from
apOplexy, at Bart, Lancaster county, Pa, yes
terday, OF Assistant Surgeon E. M. Martin:
Deceased was native Of PENNSYLVANIA, and
AVEssEL BURNED AT SEA.-The signal corps
station at Atlantic City, N. j., reports at 7:3O
a. m. to the chief signal officer as follows: AT
1:l5 this a. m. Private Bell discovered vessel
on fire at sea about four miles northeast of this
station. He Immediately gathered the life
saving crew together, who at once proceeded
to the scene of the disaster. 1t proved to be a
large, twO-maSted schooner, abandoned by her
crew. She is laden with coal. 1t is impossible
to ascertain the name of the vessel, as the
after part is burned to the waters edge. She
is expected to sink at any moment. Nothing
has been seen or heard of the crew, and it IS
thought they must have been taken off by
some passing vessel"
THE CINCINNATI WHISKY RING MYTH
Revenue Guager Bliss, who is in charge of the
duplicate set of guagers sent to Cincinnati to
supervise the work Of the regular set, writes
that he thinks Cincinnati diStlllerS are able to
undersell those in Chicago, because the de-
mand for high wines Is more than equal to the
product; hence, the distiller has his high
wines gauged hot and is allowed gallon for
the correction of volume. The supply in Chi =
cagO far exceeds the demand, and the Chicago
diStillerS have to be content with the cold
guage at low temperature. Bliss thinks the
high temperature guage is about all there is to
the so called whisky ring in Cincinnati.
A POSTMASTER TO BE INVESTIGATED
Charges have been filed with the Postmaster
General that Postmaster Eddy, of Toledo,
Ohio while being allowed slO,5 per annum
for clerk hire in his office so arranged the
clerks salaries that he is really paying for such
services a less amount by some $50 or 800,
and has placed upon the rolls person whom
he pays at the rate of $500 per annum out of
the postal fund, and who, il is alleged, does
no work In the office except on money order
business, for which he is entitled to pay from
the commissions OF the postmaster. An inveSti-
tiOn has been ordered.
ARMY ORDERS.-SurgeOn Jos. B. Brown,
now on duty as president of the medical ex.
amining board, New York city, is relieved
from duty in the military division of the
Atlantic. Leave OF absence for six months is
granted lst Lieut. G. M. Scott, 1st infantry
COMMODORE CREIGHTON, commandant of
the U. S. navy yard at Norfolk. has been
granted two weeks leave of absence.
TIE U. S. S. MICHIGAN arrived at Mil
waukee, Wisconsin. on the 18th. She sailed
for Chicago yesterday.
CONGRESSIONAL NoMINATIoNs.-Gen. j. A.
Garfield was nominated for Congress by accla-
nation by the republicans of the 10Th Ohio
Congressional district yesterday. 80. The