Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-10-17
THE EVENING STAR.
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Washington News and Gossip.
Go sKRHMENT RECEIPTS rsTc-DAY.-Internalrev
enr4e, $3.50, 7l7.7l; customs, s65s, ,2s7.e
NAVAL oRDxRs.-Commande W. s. schiey
from the command Of the Essex and placed On
Z waiting orders; Passed Assistant Paymaster II
z. Stanclif from the Essex and ordered to settle
accounts; Lieutenants Asa Walker and Clinton
K. Curtis, Master L. P. Jouett Enstgns c. r.
Moore and s. c. Lemley, Midshtpman c L
Bruins, Passed Assistant Surgeon A. NJ. Moore
Chief Engineer 2. A. Rearick, Passed Assistant
Engineer g. B. Ransom. Boatswain F. A Dram
and Carpenter w. w. Richardson from the
Essex and placed on waiting orders.
BY DEC1sIoN OF THE TREASURY DEPART
AENT, redestals aud statues imported are ad-
| mitted at a ten per cen. ad valorem duty. This
has been taken advantage of by marble manu-.
facturers and dealers TO bring In pedestals not
belonging to any imported statuary. at the re
duced rates. An order just issued from the
New York to charge the full rate 50 per cent
ad valorem, unless the pedestal and statue
clearly belong together as one work Of art.
SUDDEN DEATH.-Adam Nase, who was COL
lector OF internal revenue for the third district
of Illinois since July, 1873, died suddenly yes
terday. Deputy Collector A. Fl. Hershey has
been directed to take charge OF the Office as act
ing collector. With deaths and designations
the President will be called upon soon after his
arrival to fill four or five vacancies among the
collectors OF internal revenue.
BEFORE THE NIPsIC sailed from the Washing
ton navy yard, for Norfolk, yesterday, dock
trial of seventy-two hours was made to test
her boilers ard machinery. All this work was
designed by the bureau Of steam engineering.
The boilers were made at the yard here. They
are the first of new style-high pressure, with
two boilerS-constructed The official report
states that they were perfectly tight before,
during and after the trial, and that their post
ton With arrangement In the ship afford excel
lent opportunity for repairs: in fact every part
OF them Is accessible, and the whole Is COM
plete success. AS q test of the steam capacity
OF the boilers, it Is stated that during the
greater part of trial the water was very muddy.
and the tide so low as to bring the bottom Of
the ship in contact with the accumulated mud,
near the wharf. Under the conditions of the
Trial, however, the circulation Of the water In
the boiler was all that could be desired and the
steam room perfect.
PERsoNAL.-Gen. Daniel E. Slckles has gone
to Rouen to follow the movements of the Third
army, corps. Gen: Sickles commanded the
nha army q the uRsa states dun
Paris for London, On her way back to Washing
ton. -. congressman Springer, of Illinois, Is
In the city; also ex-senator Pomeroy, of Kan.
SaS, and eX-CongreSSman Logan II. Roots, Of
Arkansas. Gen. q. A. Gilmore, U. s. A.,
and Hon. Hugh Mccullough are at the Ebbltt
House. -. Hon. E: J.. Herkle, of Maryland,
Judge Keath and Capt H. r. Garden, of vir-
glnia, and Hon. B. F. Marsh, of Warsaw, Ill,
are at the National. 80 Nathaniel Starkey,
Wm; Newcomb, Of England, Gen: Collins Levy,
Of Melbourne, Australia, and F. S. Ba5sett,
US. Navy, are at the Metropolitan.
THE CoLoRED JUROR CASES IN THE US Su-
PREME CoURT.-Argument In the case of Com
monwealth of Virginia against Judge Rives,
before the US. Supreme Court was concluded
yesterday, and the case of the Commonwealth
Of Virginia and j. ID. Coles, petitioners, was
taken up. Argument was commenced by James
petitioners. and continued by Assistant Attor-
ney General Smith in opposition to the peti-
t1ons. This cause, like the preceding one, of
involves the question of co1ored jurors, and the
legality Of the action OF the Virginia state
judges In excluding negroes from the jury lists
POSTAL EsT1MATEs.-The estimated amount
to be required for all branches Of the postal
service during the next fiscal year is s39 900,
against which it is estimated that the postal
s7,71O.OOO to be met by congressional approprIae
tions The appropriations for the current fiscal
year aggregate S., ,457, ,3I6. The estimate this
dtionai faeities % for trunk mi lin lines as5 mail ser
v1ce), 100000.
TIE ANNUAL REPORT OF CoMMIssARY GEN.
ERAL MCFEBLY, of the army, shows that the
total amount disbursed for subsistence stores
during the past year was s3,OO3, 3,475, OF which
Sl91, gil was reimbursed by sales of stores to
officers and enlisted men, including $122Oss for
tobacco sold to enlisted men. From tables ac-
companying the report, it appears that the cost
to tie department of subsistence supplies has
been constantly diminishing since 1877, notably
The construction Of railroads, the settlements
In the vicinity OF posts, the cultivation OF lands
adjacent thereto, and their utilization In feed
ing stock have greatly reduced the cost OF feed
ING the QrmV. NOT OnlV nv rp6uctnO ORIGINAL
cost Of the stores and of transportation, but
also by avoiding the wastage and loss which
remote points, transporting them long distances
and keeping them on hand in large quantities
for long periods In this connection General
Meaeeiy earnestly I'm a recommends M that the appro
from the passage Of the act, for the
reason that stores for remote posts can
seng ee ss risk sPa 81 In the
1oration than In the hot months of summer
Attention is invited to the fact that the sub.
sistence department has not been reimbursed
sued to Indians and transferred to Indian
agents, the Interior department claiming that
they should @ be M Mehargeable to the congressional
ing that it has no funds available for that pur-
pose. In making his estimates for appropria-
tions for the next fiscal year, the commissary
for Prisoners OF War" only Indians, for the
subsistence Of whom no other appropriation Is
made; De1ng OF tne opinion, as stated by him,
that at was not intended that double appro-
priattons should be made for the same persons"
THE UINTAH UTEs PEACKFUL.-J. j. Critch-
low, Indian agent at Uintah Valley agency,
writes to the Indian bureau, under date Of the
4th instant, that the reports Of the murder and
fight at White River created great excitement
among bis Indians. They were afraid the
soldiers would come there and wanted to go
into the mountains to avoid trouble. They
manifested great deal Of interest for the safe
ty of the agent and his family. The agent per-
suaded the Indians to remain upon the reServa-
ton by promising to write to Washington and
ask that the soldiers be kept away from the
agency.
AN IMPORTANT CASE pending in the present
term Of the United States Supreme Court is
one which will be argued by Judge Hoadley, Of
Cincinnati, which involves the constitutionality
OF the trade mark lard. 1t will probably be
argued this week.
BIDS FOR GLASS FOR THE NATIONAL MUSEUM.
At noon to-day bids were opened by Gen. w.
T. Sherman and others, at the Smithsonian
Institution, for delivery on the grounds OF the
new national museum, the necessary glass for
the windows and doors. The bidders were as
follows: Window glass-Seamop, Bache & Co.,
d1lfU OfY An II 20.