Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-09-10
THE EVENING STAR.

THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS sTo-DAY.-Internal rev.
enue, 1927 ,16s. SO; customs. SITS, ,499.1s.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Lieut. Adolph Mark to duty
at the photographic Office. Surgeon B. S.
Mackie to recruiting duty at Philadelphia, Pa.
Passed Assistant Engineer B. G. Gowing to tenn
pOrary duty on board the torpedo boat Intrepid
at New York in addition to his present duties,
Stivers, who Is ordered to the Pensacola at Cal
lao. Peru, per steamer OF goth inst. from New
York.
AN ORDER just issued from the Navy depart
ment directs that each mess of officers shall
have caterer, who shall have charge OF a.,
expenditures. He shall render an account each
month 70 the mess, and must pay all bills b.
fore leaving port. In all officers meSSeS the
senior line officer present shall preside.
ARMY MATTERs.-Major Richard Lodor, Sd
artillery, is assigned to special duty at the ar
tillery school, Fort Monroe, Va, until May 1st,
1850, and will report to the commanding officer
OF the school accordingly. Col. James II. Jones,
commanding the marine barracks at Boston,
has been granted one months leave OF absence
from the 18th inst.
POLITICAL ASSESSMENTS AND THE CIVIL SER
VICE ORDER.-Congressman Fisher, of Penn
sylvania, who in the absence of Hon. Jay Hub
bell; of Michigan, acts as chairman OF the re-
publican congressional committee, is in the
city. He says that the amount Of money raised
for political purposes among the clerks In the
several departments Is not nearly so large as
many have been led imagine. The amount
contributed by the Treasury department was
In the neighborhood OF $1,000, the War depart
ment 81 AGO, and that In all the other depart
ments of the government there was not ST 900
raised all told. 1t is said, too, by prominent
republicans that prior to Secretary Schurz's
departure for the west he issued orders to his
subordinate officers forbidding the canvass in
his department by the collectors for campaign
FUNDS. gentleman who once occupied an
Official position at the White House told rep
Iesentative OF THE STAR to-day that the cele-
secretary Schurz, and that it was at the White
House for two weeks In one OF the drawers of
secretary's desk before the President acted
upon IT. and tnat s n ne only did sign 1t at the
after the President signed the order and directed
that 1t should be promulgated an officer Of the
government who happened to be In the Presi-
prove failure. "Why?" said the President
WELL" said the interlocutor. s.any civil service
order that is based simply on policy and not on
MAJ datory statutes viii fail, because you will
make exceptions to it, and once an exception
is made the bottom falls out" "Sure enough" :"
saith THE STARS Informant, "the very day the
order was promulgated an exception to ITS
provisions was made, and at the request of the
Identical Cabinet officer who wrote it, Mr.. Sec
retary SchurZ."
A CONSCIENCE REMITTANCE In the amount OF
$3.50 has been received at the Treasury from
New York.
NEWS FROM THE SOUTH ATLANTIC SQUADRON.
Rear Admiral E. T. Nichols, commanding the
In cfo
partment his arrival at Rio de Janeiro, August
"a, IN the Hartford, after pleasant passage of
ten days from Montevideo. He was daily ex-
pect1ng the Essex, which would be despatched
In the Hartford about the 1st of October The
health OF Rio Is said to be excellent, the deaths
from yellow rever averaging not more than two
day. The weather was unusually warm for
the season and there was some suffering for the
want OF water. The health of officers and crew
was good. Il. B. NJ. Garnet and the Italian
fr1gate Gartbaldi were In pert, the latter en-
route to the Pacific.
BULLETIN FROM BLAINE.-Senator Blaine sen
the following telegram at II O'Clock last night:
AUGUSTA, Sept: 9, 1879 To Gen. Grosue,or,
Washington, D. Give have made a clea..
sweep, carrying senate and house, and prob
ably governor by the people. j. G. BLAINE.
AN ALLEGED MURDERER IN CUsroDY.-Charles
E. Smith, a white man, charged with being an
l.. Smith, at COshOctin, Ohio, about lionth
ago, and who was recently arrested In Loudoun
county, Va, passed through this city last night
OF on s.y bis way to &c Ohio Oficer Erwandu had him
ceased, are indicted for the murder, and the
wife Is In custody in Ohio.
THE PUBLIC WILL HAVE TO ABANDON the idea
that Hendricks does Lot know his own mind
"You may stack the Bible as high as you
please" he said to friend in New York, "and
l Will swear from the tOpmOSt down that l
won't take the second place" meaning thereby
that he would not accept the nomination for
vice president.
APPLICANTS FOR ENLISTMENT. During the
month of August there were 1s3 applicants who
presented themselves to Capt. Corbin, the US.
recruiting of11cer, in this city, for enlistment
Of this number only 80 passed the required
physical examination, and 151 were rejected.
The moral OF this Is that probably the whole
number 1s3 were "hard up," so to speak, and
that only one man In six has constitution suf-
fciently robust to become one of Uncle Sans
soldiers.
COMMANDER HAYWARD, commanding the
training ship Michigan, reports to the Navy
department from Green Bay, Wisconsin, that
ne anchored at that port on the 5th inst., from
Sheboygan. But six boys presented themselves
for examination at ShebOygan Three OF them
were accepted, but only one was enlisted, the
UtHcI cWO utCun'nH ~ Inc laSC moment 10 sign
the ships articles. The Michigan would leave
Green Bay to-day for Port Huron.
PERsoSAL-Postmaster General Key will
leave Washington this evening. for Hartford,
Conn. District Commissioner Phelps ar
rived in the city this morning on a flying trip
from from the Warm Springs, Bath county. Va,
Wnere ne Is stopping for treatment of his lame
ness. He will return on Monday to the springs.
Ex- Ex-CoDgressman Swami, OF Maryland, is In
the city, looking letter than he has for years,
..o.Rep Representative Ward, Of Pennsylvania,
dropped 10 town this afternoon and will leave
again tonight. He reports politics in Penn
sylvania booming for the republican party
Secretary Sherman went over to Baltimore
last evening to attend the Baltimore county fair.
He Will return tonight. ... Hon. Alex Ste
phens Will leave here tomorrow at 7:4O for
Atlanta, Ca, going by way of Louisville, KY.
POLITICAL TALK.-Gen. Thomas Keogh, chair
man OF the North Carolina republican state ex-
ecutive committee, made flying visit to WASH
ington from New York city to-day. For month
or more Gen. Keogh has made headquarters
at the Fifth Avenue hotel In New York, and
quite.recently was among the politicians at Sar-
atoga. He says that just now the New York
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