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day TO the amount of s67l zoe: during the cor
week Of last year the receipts were
81 ,6l4, GOO.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Surgeon j. II. Kfdder, to
duty at the marine barracks in addition to his
present duties, relieving Passed Assistant Sur
geon A. NJ. owen, who is ordered to the Ashue-
San Francisco, California. Passed Assistant
surgeon P. +. FitZSimmoDS, from the Ashuelot,
on the reporting of his relief and ordered to
duty at the naval hospital at Yokohama, Japan
THE WORK upon the Capitol improvements on
the House side is now being pushed rapidly
forward, and will be completed by the time
Congress meets. Three weeks ago it looked as
il it would not.
NUMBER OF OHIO CLERKS In the several
executive departments leave for that state to-
night to vote on Tuesday next
THE CHANGES under the new arrangement
made for the transportation of fractional sill
yer are three -tenths Of cent per mile for every
as stated in TIE STAR day or two ago. No
express company is bound to receive less than
fifty ceRts for every package transportated by
1t.
THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Will meet here On the 26th OF November to pre-
pare one or two of the regular appropriation
bills in advance Of the meeting of Congress.
ARMY ORDERs.-By direction of the Secretary
of War. the following changes in the stations
and duties of the hospital stewards have been
made: Michael O'Malley is relieved from duty
in person to the commanding general. depart
ment OF the south, for assignment to duty
Wm. p. Marshall is relieved from duty in the
department OF the south, and will report In
person to the commanding general, department
OF the east, for assignment to duty. The fol-
lowing assignments and changes in the sta
tions and duties OF ordnance sergeants, Y. S.
army, are made. Ordnance Sergeant Chris
ttan ProZeller is relieved from duty at
Fort Trumbull. Conn.,, and will proceed to Fort
Griswold, Conn.,, and assume the duties of ord
nance sergeant at that post, reporting by letter
to the commanding general, department Of the
east. Ordnance Sergeant James Coleman, date
1st sergeant Battery NJ, 1st artillery Will pro-
ceed tothe folt, at Sandy Hook, n. j., and as
sumo duties OF ordnance sergeant at that post,
lel1eV1ng ordnance Sergeant Adolph Koch, and
reporting by letter to the commanding general
Adolph Koch on being relieved will proceed to
Folt Trumbull, Conn, and report in person to
the commanding officer of that post for duty.
THE SHOOTING OF POSTMASTER Nlx.-The Post
Office department has received the report of
the special agent who was detailed to make an
investigation in regard to the shooting Of Fred.
Nix, IT., the postmaster at Blackville, S. G.. The
report strongly condemns not only the assault.
Ing party, but the community at large, for not
having protected the postmaster, and attributes
the attack upon NIX to animosity, arising from
his politics and his color. The department has
not as yet taken any action upon the report,
but the matter will be referred to the Attorney
General to ascertain whether anything can
for the postmaster's protection from further
injury.
PEACEFUL UTEs.-Oficial letters received at
the Indian bureau from W. NJ. Stanley, Indian
agent at Los Pinos, state that all the head
chiefs of the Utes deplore the trouble existing
at White river agency, and are anxious that no
further fighting or bloodshed should ia ke
officers to aid the chiefs In rest orng pelce and
order N,th as little bloodshed as possible.
GEN. MERRITT WILL HAVE FIFTEEN HUNDRED
MEN TO FIGaT THE UTEs.-Gen. Sherman has
dispatch from Lieut.. Gen. Sheridan, saying:
"Gen. Crook notifies me that when all the
troops now en- route between Rawlins and
White river agency join Gen. Merritt he will
tions were sent from these headquarters to
push on to the agency, and to leave no stone
unturned to punish these Indians, who attacked
ployes, and that only their unconditional sur
lender should be accepted"
NATIONAL BANK SEcUR1T1Es-Tne following
is statement Of the securities of national
banks with the Treasury department to-day:
US. bonds for circulation, $359, ,346, 900; U. S.
bonds deposited for circulation week ended to-
day, SI59,OOO: U. s. bonds held for circulation
Withdrawn, week ended to-day, $50, 400.
TEE STANDARD DoLLAR.-This being the sea-
son of the year in which small money is In de-
mand, the orders received at the Treasury for
the standard silver dollar are increasing daily,
both in number and amount.
RALPH MERKER SENT TO TIE UTE INDIAN
Secretary OF the Interior has
employed Ralph Meeker, son of Indian Agent
Meeker, to proceed to the Ute Indian agency
and take charge of the United States property
there for which the Indian bureau is RESPONSE
BILE. Mr.. Meeker viii proceed to perform this
duty. leaving here tonight. The Secretary's
hes been murdered. Chief Clerk Lockwood
says there is chance that he is alive, although
the probabilities are four to one that he has
correspondent OF the N Y Herald, and has had
the experience of life among the Indians.
Mr.. RALPH MEEKER, SON Of the late Indian
Agent Meeker, leaves here tonight to bring his
mother and sisters home from their present
location within the Indian lines.
AGAINST HOLDING TWO oOFFIcEs,-Acttng Com
missioner Armstrong, of the General Land
ONCE, has instructed the surveyor general lof
Montana to refuse to receive any papers certI-
fed, sworn to or subscribed before any notary
public OF that territory who Is also deputy
all such deputies that they must surrender one
Of their two offices, as both cannot be held le-
gally.
THE ANNUAL REPORT Of the Commissioner of
the General Land ONCE will contain af inter-
est1ng comparative statement of the disposal of
public lands to actual settlers during each OF
the last f1ve fiscal years, The total range
from about three and a-half to four mtl-
lions acres each for the fiscal years Of 1875, 1876
and 1877, to 7,166,94 acres for the year ended
June 80, 1885, s,65O,119 acres during the twelve
months which ended with last June. The to-
tails OF entries under the homestead and timber
culture laws contrast as follows: for the fiscal
year OF lsIl 2,69S,Il acres; 1878, 6,2SS7l9 acreS
1879, s,026,6S5 acres The cash sales show
decrease OF 255O 600 acres since last year when
they aggregated about S77, 900 acres; but the net
increase in the amount Of land taken by actual
settlers during the last fiscal years IS found to
have Deen nearly one and a-haH million acres,
SOLDIERS HoME.-Adjutant General Towns
end, Surgeon General Barnes and Commisary
General MacFeely, commissioners OF the
Soldiers Home, to- day made a visit Of inspec.
ton to that Institution.
THE ESSEX arrived at the League Island navy
yard yesterday from South America. She win
now undergo repairs.
Personal - Hon. VIM. M. Randolph and
Ralph Meeker, of the New York Herald, son Of
the murdered Ute Indian agent, are at the
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