Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-07-16
THE EVENING STAR.

THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-lnternai rev.
enue, s3ls, ,,42 S5; customs, s344, ,2'sa.
APPorNTEp.-J. B. Howell and L. W. Sebas-
tian have been appointed storekeeper5 and
gaugers for the 9th district Of North Caroiina.
MAJOR GEN. IRWIN MCDOWELL, Z. S. A., ha
been relieved from duty on the board Of officer
to examine and report ugen the codificatton o
the Regulations of the Army, and will return to
his proper station.
SECRETARY SHERMAN and party were en'er-
tanned last night at Newport by Senator Burn
side at his cottage In Bristol.
GEN. SHERMAN win arrive at Omaha on the
18th inst He is expected In Washington
August 1st.
Mrs. SHERMAN and Miss Lizzie Sherman re-
turned from Canada, Wednesday, with Gep.
McCook. They will leave tomorrow for Oak
land for The summer.
THE BOARD Of army officers, of which Gen.
Terry is the president, to revise the army regu-
lations, viii meet In this city on the Goth inst.
sEKGEANT-AT-ARMsT THOMPSON is at Wallard's.
He has been east for ten days with his boy,
the Hudson, and is rapidly convalescing
SECRETARY THOMPSON AND PARTY.-A tele-
gram received here to day says that Secretary
Thompson and party will reach Denver, Col,
to-day
INTEREST ON DISTRICT BOSps.-Treasurer Gill
fillan today made requisition upon the Secre-
tary OF the Treasury for s244, ,1s3.17 to pay the
semi-annual interest on the District g. 65 bonds.
Which falls due August 1st next.
Z. s. MARSHAL DOUGLASS, of North Carolina,
will be succeeded shortly by somebody else.
Ex-PosTMAsTER GENERAL JEWELL visited the
Post Office department to-day and had long
conference With Gen. Hazen.
SECRETARY SCHURz leaves for his western trip
next Sunday night.
THIRD ASSISTANT POsTM ASTER GENERAL HAZEN,
who has recently returned from Connecticut
says that the sentiment of the business men In
Connecticut is In favor OF the election OF Gen.
Garfield.
THE GULNARE.-Capt. Howgate has received
dispatch from the L. S. consul at st. Johns,
that the Gulnare would leave that place the
10th inst. On her expedition.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Lieut. Fl. r. Stockton to the
Asiatic station via Europe. Lieut. C. A. Clarke
to the Adams from San Francisco. Leave Of
absence was granted In todays orders to about
thirfy-f1ve officers.
THE WALLACE SENATE COMMITTEE resumed its
labors in New York yesterday, touching al
legged frauds In naturalization and voting. Sena-
tors Wallace, Hoar Blair and Mcdonald were
present. Ex-United States Attorney Bliss re-
peated his testimony given before the Lawrence
Senate committee. John /. Davenport will next
be examined.
THE DEMERARA SUGAR FRAUD INQU1RY.-The
Snpfsal committee IA
menf, consisting OF Messrs s. E. Chamberlain,
Abbott and Endlich. which was sent out last
January TO the West Indies and British Guiana
to investigate the processes OF reducing sugar.
cane juice which are reSOrted to In those Sec
tions, has returned home and made full re-
port. The conclusion of Col Chamberlain and
his associates is that Demerara sugars are artt-
fcfally degraded In color In order to introduce
them into the United States market at the low
est rate of duty, and such rate as is much
lower than the amount OF saccharine which
these sugars yield JuStiheS. Mr.. Chamberlain
seems TO concede that, even when supplement-
Ing the Dutch standard test by the polariscope,
the United States still does not reap all the rev
enue they should derive from sugar.
THE REPORT On THE WHITAKER CAsE-The
report OF Gen. Dunn, Judge Advocate General
OF the Army, upon the Whitaker case was read
to the Secretary Of War this morning by Col
Barr, Judge Advocate OF the War department.
The document is very lengthy and reviews
critically the evidence and findings OF the West
occupied in reading it. The Secretary will not
pass upon 1t for some days, and In the interim
declines to make public its recommendations.
THE CABINET MEETING To-DAy.-But little
business was transacted at the Cabinet meeting
this afternoon. Commodore Jeffers, acting Sec
retary OF the Navy, called attention to the
matter OF international code of signals for
oceanic navigation adopted by the maritime
powers except the United States. There was no
authority, without action OF Congress, for this
government to adopt the international code.
At the last session the attention of that BODY
was called TO the necessity Of action, but none
was taken. 1t was decided that the inrerna-
tional code and that in use by the United States
shall be published SIDE by side and distributed
In order that our Seagoing ships may under
stand the signals OF vessels other than Ameri-
| can.
! PERsoNAI.-Secretary Evarts will leave Wind
sor tomorrow for Newport, where he will re-
| main until next Tuesday as the guest OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Levi p. Morton, at whose dinner party on
| Monday he will meet Prince Leopold.--Ser-
| geant-at-Arms ThOmpson's family are at
| Brighton Beach.-Mr. w. II. Holmes, who has
been travelling In Europe for several months
| past, on sort OF amateur art tour. returned
/ home yesterday: He reports the Washington
| artists on the other side all right.-Mrs. A b.
Stoughton has gone to York Harbor, Me-, for a
| U. S. A., is spending his vacation at Doubling
| Gap Springs, Pa.-Representative Ewing, Of
Ohio, goes to Colorado next month on a mine
| inspecting tour.-MiSs Louise Pollock. Of this
city, has been elected one OF the vice presidents
for the ensuing year OF the National Educational
Association. now In session at Chautauqua-
Z. a. Protais, OF Washington, was among the
Americans registered at the n. Y. Herald office
III Paris yesterday. Morgan
left last night for weeks vacation ct the sea-
s1de.-The following Washingtonians were
registered at the Atlantic Hotel. Atlantic City,
yesterday: solicitor Rayner wife and daughter
Edward Farquahar, DR.: w. T. Oke, r. E. Smith,
5. NJ. Steel, A. Carson Warren, Miss Snowden.
THE WEEKLY STAR, now ready. contains all
| the News OF the Week, home and foreign; the
Presidential Campaign; Sporting Notes. Political
| Affairs: White House and Department News;
| Local Items: Proceedings of the Courts; House
| hold and Religious Notes; Choice Stories; Poems
and Sketches; Agricultural and Household
| Matters.
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