Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-07-16
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY.-Internal
revenue, s25I. .41l.2l: customs $t99O2}.39.

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| GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY-Internal
revenue. s257, ,47l21: customs $i99,O2}.39.
THE CONDITION OF JUSTICE MILLER of the
| L. S. Supreme Court, has rapidly improved
| during the past few days, and it is expected
that he will have entirely recovered in week
| or ten days.
INCREASE OF INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS.
| comparative statement made by Commits
siOner Raum, shows that the receipts from in
terna! revenue sources from June 10Th to July
| 18th, 1878, is over $1100,000 more than for the
corresponding period OF 1877.
THE FOLLOWING ASSIGNMENTS of interna
revenue agents have just been made: F. Meyer
| to duty at Omaha, Nebraska; George w. At
kinson. to the district of Virginia and West
| Virginia, with Headquarters at Lvnchburg
Va, and Edward Leer to duty at Chicago.
Mr.. s. X. RADFoRD, of this city, whose
nomination to be an assistant paymaster in
| the navy was not acted On by the Senate, has
| been reappOnted to that position. He is the
| son of Rear Admiral RadfOrd.
OF THE LARGE NUMBER OF APPLICANTS
| for the two vacant assistant paymastershps
| in the navy only twenty-One presented them
| selves at the navy yard yesterday for exam
! inatiOn. OF these nearly half failed to pass
the physical examination.
REVENUE GUAGERs APPOINTED.-W. r. Will
| liamS has been appointed internal revenue
| guager for the 1st district of Minnesota and
Robert L. EfferSOn for the 4th district of
Texas.
PERSONALITIES. ID. C. Forney and Miss
DOvie FOrney left the city this morning for
the north, to be absent until the 1st Septem-
Der, and will take in Cape May and Rye Beach
before they return.
GEN. MARCUS A. WRIGHT, formerly of
Tenn, and more recently resident of st.
Louis. has been appointed an agent of the
War department to collect confederate re
cords OF the war; which are not in the cOnfed-
crate archives.
TIE BOND for $4,000 of Mr.. Burt, appointed
naval officer for the port of New York, has
been received at the Treasury department
and approved, and his commission forwarded
! him. The bond OF Collector Merritt has not
| yet been received
| SECRETARY SCHCRZ denies the statement
that the political assessment circulars were
| distributed to the clerks while in the depart
ment. The circulars reached their deStina-
uons through the usual course of the mails.
| THE Books FOR THE TRANSFER of 8 IS bonds
| of the District Of Columbia will close on the
| Goth instant Under a recent law of Congress
| the Secretary. OF the Treasury is required to
create a sinking fund for the payment of the
principal OF the debt, and for this purpose will
| invest in those bonds in preference to other
| securities.
TIE WASHINGTON MoNUMENT-The work
| of removing the wooden roof from the Wash
mgton monument will be completed to-mor-
| row, and Col. Casey will soon have his plans
| Tor strengthening the base completed.
| THE CONTRACT for doing the excavation for
| the new building for the Bureau of Engrav
| ing and Printing has been awarded to MI
John q. Stafford, of this city. Mr.. Stafford'S
| bid, l2Ls cents per cubic yard, was the lowest
OF some So.
SPECIE PAYMENTs.-The Secretary of the
| Treasury and the Attorney General have had
| acOnference on the subject of specie payments
| generally. The Attorney General has deliy
cred no formal opinion on the subject, but
| both he and Secretary Sherman agree tLar
under the law I. 5 notes cannot be redeemed
in gold before the first of next January. This
conclusion does not, of course, interfere in
any manner whatever with the payment by
| the government Of the current obi cations in
| coin. 1t is highly probable that the smaller
| CON VIII % soon find its way into general circu-
| latlOn in this manner. The coin balance in
| the treasury at the close of business to day
| was $2U6,546,COO, and is steadily increasing The
| number OF instances where gold is paid to the
| government for greenback obligations is also
| increasing. One instance has occurred where
| parties in San Francisco have with gold pur-
| chased silver and then with the silver pur-
| chased silver certificates. These certificates
were shipped to New York and sold at a Slight
| advance and used in the payment of custom
duties. Gold being the currency of the Pacific
slope, there is, OF course, no premium on it
| there. Therefore the object of the transa elton
| is 10 secure Slight premium by saving the
cost OF Transportation of the bulky gold and
selling the certificates at a slight advance.
The Treasury department has no objection
whatever to this IN fact, rather likes it.
ARMY ORDEKS.-Leave of absence for six
months is granted Major j. W. Mason, Sd cav
airy The leave granted First Lieut.. C. B.
Hall. 18th infantry, is extended two months.
Leave for four months is granted Col. w. B.
HaZen 9th Infantry.
GEORGE w. FISH, of Michigan, has been
commissioned by the President of the United
States consul at Tunis to fiji the vacancy
caused by the promotion of Mr.. G.. Harris
Heap. to be consul general at COnstantinople.
RESPITE BY THE PREsIDENT.-Carolina
Grayson, Peter GraySOn, a man named Servis,
and Robert Love, were recently convicted of
murder at Fort Smith, Arkansas, and SEN
fenced to death. subsequently the sentences
Of the three last named were committed to i'm.
priSonment for life, while the sentence of Car
DINA GraySon, to be hung on the 18th instant.
remains In force. A communication having
reached the Department of Justice that del,
egatlOn Is on its way here to plead eXtenuating
circumstances Ill the case the President has
given orders for respite until they have an
opportunity to make known such circum-
stances.
NAoEl ElNHlOSlANSl IN ECROPE.-A CaDlegrlm
from DR. LoOmis received at 10 a. IN. today
informs us that Miss Seavey, Miss Wright.
and Rev. q. B. Patch, of the Treasury DEPART
ment, +. l.. Freeman, of the Post Office Mr.
n. p. Gage, of the Public Schools, and Mrs
Mark Reeves, Miss Tenie Somerville, and Miss
Lille Thomas arrived this evening in Lucerne
and will enjoy the moonlight of tomorrow
night on Mt. Rigi. They had delightful trip
up the Rhine, and found letters awaiting the
party.
MIR. ROLLA j. REEVES, formerly of Iowa.
but now of this city, has been given the con-
tract by the Secretary of the Interior for the
survey OF the boundary line between Utah and
Colorado.
LIEUT.. F. j. DRAKE, US. n, is ordered to
| the POwhatan at New York.
A REPORT.-Budd Doble, the present owner
| OF Mollle Mccarthy, is reported as having an
nounced his purpose to enter her for the fall
races at Baltimore, Saratoga, Long Branch
ana jerome Park, and possibly take her to
Louisville at the fall meeting of the Jockey
Club.
THE GREENBACKERS of the second Kansas
| district nominated r. p. Elder for Congress,
and then, as though not qAite sure he was
their sort OF a man, adopted resolutions