Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-07-14
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

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GOVERNMENT RECEIPTs To-pAY'-lnternair rev.
enue, 56.3I95I; customs. s'33, So6. %.
NAVAL ORDERs.-COmmander G. s. Cotton TO
command the Monocaey, Aslatic station, per
steamer August 18th, from San Francisco, re-
leyinp Commander G. w. summer who will
r. turn home. Commander A. V. Reid is granted
leave for one month from the 18th, and on les
expiration detached from the photographic
Office. Lieut. j. II. Rodgers from ordnance in
structfon, and ordered to ordnance duty at the
Washington navy yard.
POSTAGE on ADVERTISING CARDs.-The Post.
master General has issued an order prohibiting
the existing practice OF certain classes Of mer-
chants manufacturers, Inventors and agents
who send through the mstls printed advertising
cards OF various shapes and sizes with q one-cent
stamp affixed. The postal card furnished by
the department Is declared the only card that
viii be allowed for the purpose, whether printed
or Wlitten upon.
TAX ON NATIONAL BANKs.-The controller OF
the currency has issued a circular to the ma
tional banks requesting them to furnish on a
olank form the amount OF all taxes paid to
state, county, city, town or other municipal
authorities for the year 1879.
MINISTER MAYNARD.-The State department
has received a cable telegram from Minister
Maynard, at Constantinople, In which he states
that he is ready to return TO the United States,
and had been waiting without success for ten
days for an audience with the Sultan to bid him
the Gust omary diplomatic farewell. In his dis
patch he asks whether he shall delay his de-
parture any longer TO obtain an audience with
the Sultan or return at once. The President
directed that reply should be sent TO Minister
Maynard inStructfng him TO use his own diScre-
ton about waiting for an interview with the
Sultan, but at the same time urging him to
make reasonable haste 10 return home.
toll INtf fhlI INcr n IA,,n
ment from Minister Maynard announces that
he viii not reach Washington until the middle
OF August. Mr.. Maynard was still In ConS5an-
tinOple Yesterday.
THE CITY OF LIMA TO BE BOMBARDED.-A tele-
gram received by the Chilian legation Ia this
city from Panama states that the Chilian fleet
has notified the Peruvian authorities that the
city OF Lima Will be bOmbarded Ii peace is not
soon made. The Inhabitants were leaving the
city. The Chilian minister here expresses the
opinion that the PeruvtanS will be unable to
make apy efectuai defense of the city, and that
in few days news OF the capitulatiOn, and
with It the close OF the war, Will be received.
TIE JAPANESE MINISTER called on the Pre5i-
dent to-day, With some half dozen OF his coun-
trymen. who are visiting Washington.
SECRETARY RAMSEY, Adjutant General Drum,
and Col Barr, judge advocate. returned to the
city last evening from Fort Leavenwortn
and the west. The Secretary saw General Pope
at Fort LeavenWorth, who told him that there
was no truth in the reported invasion of Indian
territory, and also General Sheridan, at Chicago
who gave the same report. The only cool place
that the Secretary struck while away was st.
Paul. 1t was hotter at Fort LeavenWorth. ard
very hot at Chicago. The heat increased all
the way to Washington, which he thinks is The
hottest.
POSTMASTER JAMES, OF New York, is in the
City. He called on the President to-day In
company with Postmaster General Key.
PERsoNAI--Ex-SenatOr Cameron is at the
Arlington.-Mrs. Knox. wife OF the Comptrol-
Ter OF the Currency, takes her little folks to-
morrow to knoxboro, N. Y, the Old home of
her husband, where they spend a portion of
every Summer.-Mr. T. A. Lowe, of this CITY,
assayist Of the Lake Superior Silver Islet Mine,
wife OF the ex-Secret&ry OF War, is at Sea Girt,
few miles from Long Branch, with her little
girL-George 6. Brown and wife were at
COney Island yesterday Whitney, wife
OF Chief Clerk Whitney, of the Bureau of Statis-
tics, has gone to Maine until cooler weather.
Associate Justice Miller and Hon. NJ. l. SoIth-
ard, Of washington. were registered in New
York last tnight.-Among the late arrivals at
Cape May were the following Washingto onlans:
NC. Achsron, c. knode, j. d. OConnell, John
Riley and J. II. Semmes.-Rev. David Wills.
Chaplain L. s. A, is in town On brief Visit,
staying at I23 18th street.
THE PRESIDENT viii leave Washington the lat
ter part Of August next for Ohio. He will attend
the reunion OF his old regiment, the 23d Ohio
volunteers, at Canton early In September From
there he will go on his California and Pacific
coast trip. Until he leaves for Ohio the Presi-
dent viii not be out OF the city for more tnan a
day or TWO at time.
REPREsENTIvE YOUNG, OF Ohio, is In the city.
lie says that Garfield will carry Ohio by rous-
ing majority, and that there is no doubt OF his
election.
THE GEORGIA HABEAs CORPUS CAsE.-Com-
missioner Raum last evening received the fol-
lowing dispatch from Assistant District Attor-
ney DaTnen, at Atlanta: ''Have succeeded in
taking the arrested deputy collectors out of
the hands of the state authorities Habeas cor
pls cum cansa was granted to-day. Other cases
viii be heard tomorrow. / am confident they
Will Ge discharged"
TAKES THE STEMP. - Secretary SchurZ Will
leave the city on Saturday evening, and will
make his first campaign speech of the season
before the republicans OF Indianapolis on Tues
day evening OF next week.
REV. E. w. HAGER, d. d.. chaplain q. s.. NJ.
died at Chicago on the 7th inst. The remains
We're taken TO Skanaeteles, N. Y, for inter-
ment.
THE PRESIDENT APPOINTED to day +. A. Hinck-
ley, OF Eureka, Nevada, to be register OF the
land Office at that place vice James McMartin
who has abandoned his Office.
BETTER HOURs.-From and after to-day, until
the 1st OF September, the Department OF the
Interior Will be closed at O'CLOCK, and all the
employees OF the Treasury department who Can
ne spared Will be allowed 10 quit work at three
o'clock. All the other departments except the
departments OF Justice and State, now quit
Work at three o'clock.
CHAsT1NE Cox AND HIS BRorHER.-Chastine
COX, the negro murderer, yesterday was anX-
lously awaiting a reply TO the dispatch his
counsel had sent TO Gov. Cornell, asking a
further respite, as the condemned man was
wholly unprepared to die Friday. About noon
colored man entered the TOmbS prison and
asked Warden Finn II he could see Cox. II am
his brother" he said. He was taken inside and
the murderer shown TO him. ChaStine started
70 his feet excitedly. The two men then en-
braced, kissing each other While the tears
trckled down the faces OF both. They stood
some time, their hands claSped together aud
their tongues tied Minutes elapsed before they
could speak. When their excitement had sub
sided they sat down, and after the brother had
expressed the poignant grief he felt at Chas-
tines fate they began to talk Of their Virginia
lone. They lad been separated thirteen yeafT.
They talked OF their aged. S0rrowing mother;
OF their brothers, and OF the scenes OF their
childhood. They recalled TO mind how they
had played together as boys, and the people
they knew. These recOllectiOnS took up half
an hour, at the expiration OF which ChastineS
brother baGe him farewell. 1t was as Affecting
as their meeting. Both men embraced again