Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-08-12
THE EVENING STAR.
" ashington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS sTo-DAY.-Internalre rev.
enue, $3.50, ,s39 81; customs, s472,
CRlEF CLERK HoGG, Of the Navy department
will leave tomorrow morning for New York.
1Or lew days recreation.
MR. j. j. NOAH, who some years ago was
supervisor of internal revenue, has been ap-
pointed special revenue agent.
NAVAL ORDERs-Passed Assistant Surgeon
Edward II. Green to recruiting duty at st.
Louis, NO.; Assistant Surgeon L. J. Draper de
tached from The Michigan and from recruiting
duty at ST. Louis, aud placed on waiting orders
MEAT FOR SoLDIERs.-By direction of the Sec
retafy or War, sugar r-cured hams and other
articles which are purchased by actual net
weight will hereafter be sold to officers and
eniiSted men 0y actual net weight at the time
OF safe, at invoice or contract prices, with ten
per cent. added.
THE FOURTH OF July IN BOG0TA.-Our min
lister resident at Bog0ta, Colombia, in dis
patch to the Department of State. gives an ac-
count OF the manner OF celebrating the Fourth
OF July In that city. All the public buildings,
national state and municipal, foreign legations,
decorated with flags. The President, his cabi-
net and all the chief officers of the government
the Judiciary and the army visited the United
States legation with congratulations to our
the increasing reSpecC felt for the United States
by our neighborS.
TELEGRAMs ON PUBLIC BUsINESS.-By dlrec-
ton Of the Secretary Of War, general orders
No. 81, OF 1S79 Is modified so as to authorize
payment for kilograms on public business, with
out copies OF the same being furnished with the
vouchers, IN cases where the message Is of
n
cate to the voucher presented for payment will
be changed so as to read consistently with the
subject being OF confidential character" in
stead OF "that 1t is 1mpract1cable to furnish CO.
pies thereof"
THE PASHA SHooTER.-The State department
Is In receipt OF telegram from the American
vice consul general at Alexandria, Egypt con-
veying the intelligence OF the shooting of
Daham PaSha by one Miriam, q naturalized
be taken, in the absence Of the consul general.
for Mi1zans trial. The department has replied
that by the act of February 1st, 1876, Vice
consuls- general are clothed with all the powers
OF cODsulS- general in the latter'S absence, and
that there Is no reason why the trial should not
proceed.
INCREASE OF IMMIGRATION.-There arrived at
the port Of New York during the month Of July,
1879, IT, 432 passengers, IL, 10 Of whom were i'm.
migrants. During the corresponding period of
1875 the total number OF passengers arrived at
the port was 1850, OF whom $3.50 were immi-
grants. OF the total arrivals at the port dur
ing the month Of July, 1879, there we're from
England, 2,641; Scotland, 641: Wales 96; Ireland,
1,s00; Germany, 2,912; Austria, s4S; Sweden,
Switzerland, 23O: Italy, 40; Russia, 6l2; all
other countries, 39S. The arrivals at the port
OF New York during the twelve months ended
Ing period OF ISIS, were as sfolows:-Immigra-
t1On-Year ended July 81, 1879, 10s,2 ,245; year
ended July 81, 1873, 74,139.
INVESTIGATING POSTMASTER TYLER.-The two
special agents of the Post Office department
who are to conduct the Investigation of the
charges against Postmaster Tyler left for Bal
timore last evening. They Will begin their
examination OF the matter at the post Office
to-day.
THE MYSTERIOUS GIBRALTAR PLoF.-Mr.
Sprague, our consul at Gibraltar, In dispatch
to the Department of State, dated July 10, re-
ports that he has received third anonymous
letter from the party trying to extOrt money
from him. person has been arrested suspected
OF completely in the plot. The letter asserts
that the man Is entirely innocent. At the same
time the conspirators, In this third letter. with
draws prOfessedly wholly from the attempt, and
abandon all demand for money, and disciaim
consul or his family. Mr. Sprague's family and
relatives reside in secluded country places out
side OF the city. He has been consul at GIbra!-
tdI IOI tuiIty -Ouc years.
DUTIES IN JAPAN.-Mr. Bingham, U. S. minis
ter to Japan, informs the Department of State
that the export duties On the following articles
have been removed: Cotton and silk manufac-
lures, MADE dresses, porcelain ware, precious
bamboo, manufactured copper, paper, fans and
umbrellas. Whenever export duties shall be
reimposed notice VIII be given. 1t is predicted
that all export duties In Japan will soon be
abolished. A proportionate increase of import
duties Is also expected.
How MICHAEL MULLEN Won HIS MEDAL OF
HONOR.-Capt s. B. Luce, commanding the U.
S. training ship Minnesota, reports to the Secre-
tary of the Navy that on the 5th Of August
while hauling out awning, T. p. Scott fell from
the hammock rail OF the vessel, distance OF 20
feet, striking the Starn of the dingey, which
was in the water alongside, by which he was
disabled, and then fell overheard. The tide
was running very strong at the time, and he
Mullen jumped overheard from the dingy,
caught the boy In the water, and with the as
sistance OF line thrown him swan with him
back TO the dingey. The crew was not In the
dingey at the time, and but for the bravery and
presence OF mind displayed by Mullen, Scott
would probably have been drowned. The Secre-
ten Capt. Luce, stating that the department
commepds the conduct and bravery OF Mullen.
and Will have prepared for him medal OF honor
BEFORE THE WALLACE INVESTIGATING Con-.
MITTEE, at Providence, R. l., yesterday, DIR. +.
N. Snow, superintendent Of the state census.
gave the opinion that the number of natural,
lied foreigners disfranchised by constitutional
restriction In Rhode Island Is 200O to $500
Mayor ThOs. Doyle denied ever having removed
a policeman for voting the democratic ticket
The hearing at Providence will probably con-
clude to-day, and the committee will sit at Bos-
ton tomorrow.
SUIT has been commenced in the United
states court at New York bY the pOvprnnant
against q. T. Babbitt, the soap manufacturer
for $s3, "a, with interest and penalties for
alleged deficiency In his income tax paid the
goSernment from 1862 TO 1871. The interest