Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-08-24
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS sTo-pAY.-Internal rev.
erue. se7l, ,s49.29; customs. s6I7, 294.16
REVENUE ArPoINTMENTs.-J0hn Mullen and
W. T. Wilson have been appointed internal
revenue gaugers for the sixth district Of Ten
nessee and second district OF Georgia respect
lively.
CABINET MEETING To DAY.-Only routine busi
ness was transacted at the Cabinet meeting
this afternoon. AS the President leaves next
Thursday evening for San Francisco there will
not be another Cabinet meeting for about two
months.
THE NEW p. NJ. G.-Eon. Horace Maynard
arrived in the city this afternoon at 4:1O. He
VIII relieve Judge Key tomorrow as Postmaster
General.
THE NAME OF GEN. THOs. Fl. RUGER is prom
inently mentioned in connection with the va
cancy caused by Gen. Myers death.
COMMISSIONER TRowBR1DGE, who is still very
III, will leave tonight for Michigan.
a RAID on MooNsHINERs.-ColIect Brayton
telegraphS to-day as follows from Columbia S.
G., 10 the Internal Revenue bureau: II am in
receipt OF telegram that the revenue officers
destroyed Monday night. about 25 miles from
Gree nyile. s. c. al Illicit d1stillery containing
an eighty gallon still. cap and worm, and 800
gallons mash and beer. While engaged In the
work the officers were fired at from ambush.
Fortunately no one was shot,
SIGNS OF AN INDIAN OUTBREAK.-Col. Miles,
commanding the department OF Dakota, tele-
graphs from Fort Buford that the Indications
do not look so favorable; that the Uncapapas
or Sitting Bulls tribe prevented o large num-
Der OF hoStileS from Surreniering: that the
number actually en route to surrender Is much
less than at first reported: that Rain the
Face and Rat are still at the agency silent and
snlien; and that the warriors are moving south
and the women ard children north, which does
OF lock well.
SENTENCE APPRovED.-The President to-day
approved the findings and sentence OF the courl
martial in the case OF I'd Lieut.. Theodore
De cker, oath infantry. The sentence Is dismissal
from the service. Orders Will be issued carrying
Out the sentence OF the court.
MOVEMENTS OF L. S. NAVAL VESSELS - The
Despatch left Charlestown, Mass, this morn
Ing. The Tallapoosa left New York yesterday
for League Island.
NAVAL ORDERS.--Lieutenant Richard Mitchell
to the receiving ship Wabash. Cadet midshlp.
men II. G. Dresel, j. S. Walter, j. c. Drake S.
Morgan, E. Brinley, Il. Phelphs, C. A. Acker-
man, ?. q. Haskell. l.. S. Norton, T. A. Parke
and c. Fl. P. Belmont to duty in the European
station per steamer Illinois, which leaves Pnila-
delphia september 11th. Surgeon E. C. Yer
Menleu. from the naval hospital at Philadelphia
and placed on waiting orders.
Amy ORDERS.-Second Lieut.. D. j. Rum
bough, Sd artillery, is transferred from battery
G to Battery OF that regiment, and will join
his proper station at the expiration of his grad
uating leave or absence. The leave of Capt.
S. McConihe, 14th infantry, is extended two
months.
MEETING N ho of5a off fbo
Post Office department was held this afternoon
Judge Tyner was made chairman, and a COM
m1ttee was appointed to adopt suitable reSoiu-
ions regrett;ng postmaster General Keys re-
tirernenU. There Will be another meeting to-
morrow.
OFFICIAL YELLOW FEVER REPoRrs.-The L. S.
Nhe-eonsul at Nassau, n. P, reports to the
a'ional board OF health the following statistics
concerning yellow fever For week ending
July 18th, Is cases and deaths; for week ending
July oath, 20 cases and deaths; for week ending
July 6lst, II cases and deaths; for week ending
Aug. 18th. cas- and l death. Official advice
rom Erie, Penna-. Aug. 23d, states there is no
ASat1c cholera existing there
CHANGES IN THE ADJUTANT GENERALS DEPART
MENT.-The following changes in the stations
and duties OF officers of the Adjutant Generals
dal a, tment are Officially announced: Lieut.,
Col Chauncey McKeever IS relieved from duty
at headquarters military division OF the Atlantic
person TO the Adjutant General of the Army for
assignment TO Cuty In his office. Lieut.. Col.
George u. Ruggles Is relieved from duty at
neadguarteTs department OF Dakota, and Will
report III person TO the Adjutant General OF the
Army for assignment 10 duty in his Office.
Major samuel Breck is relieved from duty In tha
Adjutant Generals Office. and will report in
person TO the commanding general department
of Dakota for duty IS adlutant general OF that
department. Major II. Clay Wood when re.
heved from the duties assigned him under
OVn NJ nr1n will
after the 1st Of September next as practicable,
TO tie superintendent general recruiting SER
vice, New York city, for duty as adiutant gen.
eral at headquarters general recruiting service
Major James 2. Martin Is relieved from duty at
headquarters department OF Arizona, and will
report to the Lieutenant General commanding
military division OF the Missouri. for duty at the
headquarters or that division. Major S. n
Benjamin is relieved from duty in the Adju,ant
GeleIalS office and viii report in person TO the
commanding OFFICER department or Arizona for
The changes OF station Indicated In this order,
except III the case OF Major Wood will be made
the lst OF Oct0ter next, o. as soon thereafter as
pra6 6ucable.
PERsOSA1--Mr. Harvey Roberts, OF the gov
ernnent printing Office, left yesterday fer trip
10 COlorado.-Major l. p Williams. deputy
marshal, and W: E. Williams, one OF the clerks
az the Cny Hall, have returned from ;ean
Charles Albert, OF Montgomery coun-
", Md, Seaton Monroe, John Sherman and ii.
E. Davis, OF this city, are at Berkley springs.
"a: F. Win5on, oxsord, England, Is at the
Arlington.-The following Washingtonians
were al Fortress Monroe Sunday: Col j. o. p.
Burnside and wife. Dr. Aaron Baldwin. Mrs II.
a. Kuhn, Miss Virginia Long, Thos Land 9rs,
wife and child; d. K. Mccartney, Samuel F.
WINS, George Norris, Mrs McGowan, w. r.
McGowan. v. NJ. Ireland, Milton Davis, E. B.
Clark, j: ID. Hendley and wife, II. W. Wheeler
Mrs B. Bryan. III. Herring y. z. Davis. A. G.
Hall; w ". Burke ID. b. MackalI, j. F. Paul
and Il. I. " Na1te.--SenatOr PendletOn, OF Ohio
Is In New York.-Gen. 5. 5. Henkle and wife,
Wee Emeryl have returned from their bridal
toU-Coi- j. 5. Thompson and Paul Schultz
OF ashington, were registered In Philadelphia
ytesltIday.-Gen. Grant proved himself
tEorough frontiersman While In Colorado
DRIVING mule team one day and riding mule
al a., aIother tlme.--'Bill Arp" who Inoralhes
IN humorous sort Of vein for the Atlanta 0(ia1
cg,<tt.IDa Is about 10 lecture In the south on
Dixie Now and Dixie Then" ARDS real name
Is ChafleS Ii. Smith, and he is an elder in fbe
IIeSos ttilah church.-Col. w. W. Blacktor1
oi thls city, has recently been elected TO the
chair OF applied mathematics and drawing In
,ne , NnsInla state Agricultural College. at
biachsbufg, ana leaves to-day for his new home
having resigned MS position In the mineral bu,