, 1880-02-27
FEDERAL AFFAIRS.

TIE gold disbursements Mt the SuD-Ireasury
yesterday amounted to $o0,0oO+
THE sub-Trcasury paid out 81, 900 in silver
yesterday. aud redeemed $4,000.
TIE tnternal-revenue receipts at Collector
Haryey's Office yesterday footed up SCI, ,5A. Of
this amount, S17,834 was for tax-paid spirits.
2,DS2 for tobacco and cigars, and S545 for Deer.
THE dutiable goods received yesterday were as
follows: Charles Gossage & Co., l. c1ses linens;
Hibbard Spencer Co. scases eaoiery fco o1rtsS Tn
s. Strauss, case hosiery; W. 2. nurlock s. Co.,
: cases hosiery; A. B. Mcckcr & Co., 1ls tons pig
NUN Hichurdson manufacturing Company, 10
tons pig-iron. Collections, Sl3,5A-
The case of C. D. Hoffman, the alleged pro-
prietor Of an Illicit still ut Grown Point, nd
called " and oba
fnthor and son, testified to Honman's having On
several occasions brought keg; Of liquor to
was expccted that Zuifcr, the Twenty
street dealer, who was arrested lust week, would
be present and squeal US to the source from
Dear, ar However, t @ and his fawycr stated that he
would not testify unless granted immunity.
The case was therefore continued Until satur-
day morning.
1zEnoE SUCCEEDS HICKEY.
A Washington dispatch to THE TRIBUNE day
or SO ago contained \ crumb of intormnuon 70
tho effect that Miles kehoc had been appointed
a. en1 IN out
the inside facts in connection with the appoint
mcnt- It seems4that Il ccrtnin Wcst-Sider, who
whcluning desire to run for Congress, has been
interesting himself in Niles behalf lately to the
extent of going down to Washington and labor
the end that something might be done for him.
He labored so successfully that ut last Niles WAS
provided for,-at the expense, however, OF ~ e;
Hickey, who has beeh employed and reemploycd
on the quarterly renewal system for some time
past, but who hus ut last received the chilling
information that his services nre. no longer de-
the late occupant Of desk-room In the fourth
story Of the Government Building, nor tho gen
tlemnn who was influential enough to provide
service, and until lutely managed to hold him
down in his official seat, feels exactly 1ubllnnt
over the chunged condition Of things, a4d
is made it will have to be made soon, for before
the 1st of March Miles will be warm In his seat
and Gun snap his fingers ut tho foeman's taunts'
A NEW COUNTERFEIT
Special Agent Hall, Of the Secret Service,
struck new counterfeit yesterday which it IS
gets into any further circulation. The nqw gss
the series of 1875 letter c. and tho most striking
feature about it is its color, which Is consider
ably darker than that Of tho gcnuine: The The
paper crumplcs with snap when handled, and
the tinr1z fibre lines, instead Of being worked
into the paper, as in genuine BY, are simply simply
printed on the tAce IN 1nteatlon OF inc corIcct
thing, There arc n number Of minor discrep-
ances which are readily detected on closer cx-
aminnton- The word ''series," for instance,
made up of letters fully third larger than those
in the genuine, while the letters III the words at
the top, Engraved and Printed ut Bureau En-
craving and Printing" tip over Until they NJ
most assume the italic char Iacter; whereas IN the
genuine they. arc very cleariy Roman: The
number, too, is even, when on the note with this
lamcnted d. Webster, In the lower left-hand cor
ncr, is SO decidedly and unanimously" of as to
culiarity Of the bill save its color. So fur as
known, the note has not appeared in any other
place, the Treasury Department, knows nothing
Of it, and the suppoSiu0n Is that
it has either broke out in Chicago
alone or In Chicago and other leading cities
simultaneously, without the news Of its9appcar-
nnce elsewhere having rs vet rcnched here.
-Four of the bills were grabbed yesterday, md
the quiet investigation going on may develop
the Interesting information us to who !" showed !"
them.