Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-10-02
THE EVENING STAR.
DOUBLE SHEET.
Washington News and Gossip.

DOUDLE SdEEl.
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS sTo-DAY.-Internal rev.
enue, $470.771.S4; customs $626, ,513.40.
THE U. s. s. YANTIc, was put In commission
at the Navy Yard herethis morning.
TIE Z. S. S. ALLIANCE. left Portsmouth, N.
H.. yesterday at O'Clock for Hampton Roads.
THE PRICE OF THE DOUBLE SHEET STAR Is the
same as the single sheet-two cents
WHAT snAs sAYs.-sllas Patterson, the au-
burn haired and eIervescent son of the ex-
Senator from South Carolina, is in the city.
SiIas was asked to-day what he thought Of the
political outlook. II don't care -" said
he; neither does the old man. The national
ad se the e nu@p n da % c
them they didn't stand up to him when he was
in the Senate and be If he was going there
road in New York. and we don't care for poll
tics. The republican party has gone to the
devil, anyhow"
THE VERA CRUZ DISASTER. Dumont to-
day received the report Of the recent investiga-
ton into the wreck of the Vera Cruz. The re-
port says that the vessel was staunch and sea-
worthy, and was lost owing to the severity OF
the heavy sea. She was fully supplied with
life saving apparatus. The conduct OF the Cap
tain, o1flcers and crew was gallant, and in no
way to be found fault with Everything pos
s1ole was done to save the ship.
POSTMASTER GENERAL MAYNARD decided to-
day not to suspend the recent order of
the Post Office department forbIdding the de-
livery of registered letters and postal orders to
the Kentucky Lottery company. He declines
to-
least until the L. S. Supreme Court shall have
disposed Of the lottery question which is now
before it.
1T IS Not THOUGHT that a successor to Steam
boat Inspector Kirby. of New York, Will be ap-
pointed until Secretary Sherman returns.
Among the applicants for the position are ex-
Supervising Inspectors General Joseph Belknap
aid d. d. Smith.
ANOTHER CoMET.-The Smithsonian Institu-
ton has received the announcement of the dis
covery by HastiDg, at Strassburg, on the 29th
OF September, $780, of a comet with bright
tail, in fourteen hours eight minutes right
ascension, twenty-five degrees forty-five min
utes north declination with daily motion of
twenty five degrees In right ascension.
ASSISTANT ADJUTANT GENERAL G. ID. RUG.
GILES, from headquarters department OF Dako-
to, yester day reported at the War department
for duty In charge of the appointment and CON-
mission branch of the Adjutant Generals
office. Gen. Breck, whom he relieved, has gone
to his new duties at st. Paul, Mimi, Gen.
Terry's headquarters.
THE MooNsHINERs WAR IN GEoRGIA.-Acting
Commissioner of Internal Revenue Rogers to-
day received the following dispatch from Col
lector Clark, at Atlanta:''A body of thirty
armed men entered Dalton. Whitfield county.
last night and forcibly rescued property seized
swered as follows:-"Take immediate measures
TO identify the persons who forcibly released
seized property at Dalton; then obtain warrants
and call upon the marshal for their immediate
arrest. Employ whatever force may be neces-
sary for this purpose. Do not relax your efforts
In this direction till every one of this lawless
party Is In custody OF L. S. officers The acting
commissioner also sent telegram to Reven re
Agent Wagner, who Is at Atlanta, asking him
TO cooperate with Collector Clark.
DISPATCH FROM GEN. SHKRMAN-Adjutan
General Drum day received dispatch from
Gen. Sherman. In which he states that the
Presidents party will hardly return to Wash
iDgton before the Ith Of November The dis
patch also announced that the Secretary OF War
authorized the participation of the troops at
Fort McHenry In Baltimore's approaching cele.
bration.
PERsoNAL-Mr. and Mrs. John Russell Young
are at the Arlington.-ChiefC Clerk Whitney,
OF the Bureau of Statistics has returned from
his vacation tour. bringing home with him Mrs.
W.. who has been spending the last three
months among the lakes and mountains of
Maine ine-Representative Gibson of Louisiana,
is at the Rtggs.--Mr. O. L. Pruden has re-
House on duty yesterday.-Mr. Gladstone
walked eight miles the other night to reach
home after railway yjourney.-Senator Conk-
ling Is courtter as well as a statesman. In his
Cleveland speech he referred to Cincinnati,
Where he was to speak the next evening as
the Paris OF America. Admiral Porter NJ
de Bile. the new Danish minister to Washing
ron, and Hon. George Harrington were regis
tered In New York last eventng-Senator IN
gals OF Kansas, arrived in the city today
Senator George Fl. Pendleton's family will ar
rive at Newport In day or two and remain at
their cottage there until Christmaa-The Rt.
ReV. bishop Green, the venerable bishop of
Mississippi is expected to arrive In the city this
evening. He will be the guest of Mr.. r. Col
burn, No. 1915 Vermont avenue, and will leave
on Tuesday next for New York, to attend the
meeting of the general observation-disclosures
OrdWay, Of Dakota, Is in the city.-Chief
Clerk Hogg. OF the Navy Department, has
moved in from Mount Pleasant. and now oc-
cupleS as his residence No 1888 18th street.
Representative Ketcham is In town for brief
visit. -s