Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-09-22

COCNTERFEITER CAUGHT.-Wm. Liest was
arrested by secret service officers at Detroit.
Michigan, yesterday for making and selling
counterfeit coin.
PERsONAL-Hon. Ben. Wilson, member CT
Congress from West Virginia, is In the city at
tending to some business in the departments.
80: Colonel Casey, superintendent Of public
buildings and grounds, today returned from
the New England mountains, where he has
been e en- trying to get rid Of the hay fever ;,
his family, but will return In a day or two. Mrs.
Rogers will spend some time at her old home In
at a. s4 ,6e of
Comptroller Knox left town on Saturday even
ing for KnOxboro', N. Y, where his children
have been spending the summer with relative,
CritteDden, who has entered the lecture field
in New York, is gushingly pictured by a re-
potter of that city as "perfect and N itch
less blonde A gentleman staying at the hotel
where she stopped in New York described her
as a red haired woman. ID. Hubley Ashton
and Hallett ktbourn, of this city, We're regis
s,na ca of Il Florida G is at the National e.
Flagg and Nathaniel Paige were registered In
Paris on Saturday. w. V. Birney, son of
Gen. Birney. has been admitted, on specimens
OF bis skill in art to the highest or life class in
the Academy of Fine Arts at Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. X. Chapman have returned
to the city and are stopping at the Hamilton
House. Commissioned Raum will leave TO-
MORROW or next day for Ohio where he Is an
nounced for series of speeches, commencing
at Alliance on the 25th.
DEATH OF ASSISTANT DOORKEEPER SAYRE.-
Philip D. Sayre, one of the assistant door
keepers of the House of Representatives for
the past four years, died in Montgomery, Ala,
was not altogether unexpected. as he had been
In i'll health for some time. He had many friends
here who will regret to hear of it. The Mont
gomery Mail speaks of him in warm terms.
NAVAL ORDERS Commander j. F. Kane to
duty at the Naval Observatory. Medical In
spector w. NJ. King from the Shenandoah, and
as fleet surgeon OF the South Atlantic station
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the Norfolk navy yard for that duty. Cadet
Midshipmen b. Sturdivant, J. L Purcell, ana
G. S. Walsh from the Naval Academy, and
placed on waiting orders. Assistant Engineer
F. II. Bailey from special duty at New York
and placed On waiting orders.
AUSTRIAN BEER.-The Austrian Minister at
Vienna furnishes the State department with
some statistics of the production Of beer In
Austlla, which show that aggregate manu-
facture has fallen of go compared with last
year. The revenue derived by the government
amounts to tax of about one dollar upon
every hectolitre (26k gallons.) The annual
consumption is about 8 gallons for each in
habitant.
THE FETER INCREAsING.-A dispatch from
Memphis, received by the national board Of
health at one o'clock this afternoon, says
eight new cases, white, colored; death,
white"
Mr.. GoRHAM's PoLITICs.-Hon. George c. Cor
ham arrived In the city last Saturday evening.
Those who think he has turned democrat would
De greatly surprised to hear htm tax, while he
says that under the same circumstances he
would pursue the same course as he did in the
late California elections.
HON. LUCIEN B. CROKER will, it Is under
stood, be appointed collector of internal rev.
enue for the second Illinois district, vice w. B.
Allen, who died recently.
PASSES TO THE TREAsURY.-The following
was to-day posted at the east entrance of the
Treasury: "Notice is hereby given that all
passes or other authority for admission to this
building after once hours Will expire on the
30th. Persons will be registered for admission
thereafter as heretofore, but upon new passes
which will be good for one calendar month";