Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-17

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te gone for the summer.
THE PRESIDENT, Mrs. Hayes and Mr.. Webb c.
Hayes will leave the city to o-morrow or ne It day
for columbus, Ohio. where they will spend san
day. From Columbus they go to attend the CON-
mencement exercises at Kenyon College mex
Thursday. The President graduated from Kea-
yOn in 1912. After the commencement he viii
return TO Washington.
THE WORK OF REMOVING the Bureau OF En-
craving and Printing into its new quarters
from the Treasury department building was
practically completed to-day. Col. Irish. the
che1 OF the bureau, to-day removed his Office
over. The rooms vacated by the bureau Will be
converted into offices and file rooms
AN ORDER issued by the Navy department
directs that hereafter mates will be allowed to
wear the uniform servce-coat.
ANOTHER INSPECTION OF CAPTAIN Howe AIRS
VEssEL.-Secretary Thompson today had con-
sultation with the heads OF the different bu-
reaus OF the Navy department in regard to the
visit the Gulnare to-day and make another in
sspection OF her as to her safety aud practtca
o1lity for the proposed Arctic voyage.
BANQUET TO GEN. GARFIELD.-At the conn.,
piimehtary banquet to be given Gen. Garfield
thls evening. at O'Clock. In the large dining
room at the Riggs House, at least one hundred
gentlemen are expected to be present. The
Col. JOHN G. THoNPsoN's Son RECOVERING
Col. John G. Thompson Sergeant-at-Arms OF
the HouEe, said this morning that his son, re-
Gently cen shot at West Point, is recovering slowly
out surely. and Is now considered quite out OF
Danger. He regards the happy out come of the
aHdlr as quite surprising to him. as the phySi
oian Ia cnarge gave him little ground for hope
at the time Oh tie shooting.
THE FOLLOWING ARE THE AGES which some OF
the officers of the army will have attained july
i, 1880, as shown by the West Point register.
General X. B. Marcy, Is years and months.
colonel Edmund Schriver, g. years and months:
Colonel Dolores Sacket IS years and months:
General NJ. g. Neigs, "a years and month; Col
0nel Laughton Easton, 64 years and 10 months.
Colonel Stewart Van Vliet, 6f years and 10
months; Colonel Rufus Ingalls, 60 years and II
months; Lieutenant Colonel James A. Ekin. 81
years: General Irwin Mcdowell, 81 years and 3
months; General E. .. C. ord, 81 years and
months; Colonel Isreal Vodges, 63 years and II
months.
| A MISSING G0yERNMENT CLERK.-Dr Billings
L. s. A, who Is on duty In the Surgeon Gene
rals Office, In this city, has charge of Issuing
artificial limbs to soldiers and of disbursements
uhder the act granting such limbs to mutllated
SOlolerS. he had clerk named A. BiSchof
| VINO had charge OF his accounts and check
| DOCKS. This clerk had been in the Surgeons
GeheTals ONCE twenty years, and had been
| With DR.. Billings fifteen years. Five days ago
| ne disappeared, without leave, and has not
| since returned. He has the key OF the safe with
MN. Dr; Billings has had the safe opened and
examined. He finds the check book and papers
| an r1ght Blschon never handled any money
ihe checks were all drawn payable to order,
and the only way that he could have raised
money by his connection with DR.. Billings ONCE
| was by forgery. No evidence that forgery has
| been committed has been deduced. An eXamina-
Ton Is now IN progress to discover If anything
| Is wrong. 1t Is generally believed that Bischoff
| went on on prolonged spree, and Will turn uD
soon. HIS Wife has heard nothing from him.
| He was not dlsDurs1ng clerk OF The Surgeon
GpneralS ofilce, being merely clerk TO DIR,
| Billings.
NAVAL INSPECTION BoARD.-Surgeon Gen
eral Wales, Medical Director Cowes. Medical
Director Gihon, Medical Director Dean, and Sur
| geon Leach. OF the navy, have been appointed by
secretary thompson board to Inspect the
marine hospital at Chelsea. Massachusetts,. Mr..
marry thompson, or the SecretaryS Office has
| been detailed as recorder of the board The
party LETT this morning On the limited express
| Tor chelsea.
EXHIBITION AT LEIPSIC.-In addition to the
customary spring fair, the Z. S. consul at
Leipsic says there will be an exhibition at that
| place this year Of all classes OF woolen goods
OF GeIInan manufacture, large building for
which is now being erected. This fair will
| commence July lst and continue until Oct 18TH,
ana Will doubtless attract a large number OF
| visitors.
TRADE OF JAPAN.-Mr. Bingham, our minister
at Toxic, Japan, has furnished the Department
OF State with custom report of Japan for the
month Of March, 1850. The exports amounted
TO 81 Al $3.50 and The imports to 81 6O7 Sl9 II
being an excess in favor OF the latter 81 1856
O3O.12 The average duty upon these imports
wastes was less than M i've per centum. There was an
excess IN the export OF specie and bullion over
the import amounting to $500, 1868.
AMERICAN TRADE WITH AFRIcA.-The consul
of the United States at Sierra Leone, In a recent
m fhQ nov, arf,
ing upon the trade with the west coast OF Africa
ana the various ways In which 1t might be i'm
proved, remarks that advertisements In illus.
trated American export journals have proved
valuable agents In introducing and extending
trade In American goods to the extent OF thou
sands upon thousands Of dollars. The presence
and iaborS OF Commodore Shu1eldt and his OIL
GERS In those regions have also had salutary
enect In promoting American commerce. The
greatest obstacle TO the development of flour
lshlng trade Is experienced I'm the lack of direct
ria, the Canary Islands, the Gambia, Sierra
Leone, Liberia and other localities along the
coast. such a line would be profitable invest
ment. If capitalists also would allow larger
discounts upon sample goods he thinks they
would find 1t greatly to their advantage.
How IT STRIKES DENoCRArs.-Tne absence of
Messrs. Blaine, Sherman, Conkling, and other
leading republicans In the city, from the Gar
neld demonstration last night Is commented on
to-day by democrats as an evidence of the dis
ld'OT IN WHICH tney mold the ticket nominated
at chicago. They say that Logan, who was
oug out or the crowd just before the meeting
broke up, created more enthusiasm than all the
otner orators put together which shows they
say, now strong the ''old man. was,
THE MINES AND MINING OF JApAN.-Mr. Blug.
ham, our minister, has supplied the Department
OF state with copy OF volume OF the Memoirs
OF the Science Department, University of Toxic
Japan, which treats of mines and mining in
Japan. The publication is very Interest," NO
one Among other things it is noted thai
foreigners are not permitted to acquire any
pecun1ary interest In the working OF a mine
ana that no owner or a mine Is allowed to
mortgage his mining lease or its prospectiye
produce TO foreigner. The total export of
gold from the empire from 1879 TO 1S7S is esti-
mated at $50, 'l6,5Sl an excess over the import
OF sSS, ,64S; and the total export of silver
during the same period is given at S261I2 32I
an excess over the import or the same article OF
9,652 i9S.
The TE COMMIsSION.-The board of commits
m1ssfoners recently appointed by the President
TO take into consideration the settlement of the
Ute question will be convened by Secretary
Schulz and The whole subject will be thor
Oughly overhauled. The names OF the Commits
sioners, as already given In THE STAR are:
George w. Manypenny, OF Ohio; A. b. Meacham.
o: Washington, d. c.; John B. Bowman OF
Kentucky; John j. Russell, OF Iowa. and Otto
Mears, of Colorado. All the members of the
beard except Mears win be present at the con.
terence. Mr.. SchurZ thinks all the preliminarfes
can be adjusted In few DAYS