Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-10-20
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To DAY.-Internal rev.
enue, s3O7, ,923. O5; customs. s5GO529.74.

INTERNAL REvENUE APPoINrMENTs-Store.
keepers, c. II. L.Graffmal. lst Missouri district,
and j. j. Ferry, stn Kentucky district. Store
Keepers and gaugers, A. l. Stanley, 5th North
Caronna District; NJ: ID. L. Burris, 1th Kentucky
district and b. P. Simpson, sth Kentucky dis
trtct.
THE SIGNAL OFFICER.-The officer who Is to
be made chief signal officer of the army has been
decided upon. and the appointment will be
made public upon the return of President
Hayes from the west.
TIE FOLLOWING APPOINTMENTS AND PROMO
TIoNs have been made In the Census ofice:-
Appointments-ssOO class: Charles s. Knodle,
Maryland; L. A. Gobright District of Colum-
bia, ard John Cockle New York. S720 class: W.
F. House, Maryland; Miss Ida F. Fenner, Ohio;
Miss Jennie F. K1nkle, Iowa, and Otto C. L.
Mrs. Lucy R. Payne. Massachusetts,; Thomas J.
Walker, Maryland, and Miss Alice McMtchael,
Maryland. Promotions-H. A. Case, District
OF Columbia, from $1,000 to s. 200; Mrs. Mary F.
Mary c. Havenner, MARYLAND, and Mrs. Sarah
V. Browneil, Vermont, 5000 to $40. All to take
effect from October 16. 1850.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Master c. T. Rees and En-
sign A. T. Freeman to examination for promo
ton. Paymaster J. B. Redfield to the receiving
ship Franklin November 1st. Passed Assistant
Engineer G. :. Gates to duty with the expert
mental board at New York. Paymaster D. A.
Smith from the Franklin and ordered to settle
accounts.
ARMY ORDERs-The leave OF 1st Lieutenant
Frank Heath. ordnance department. is extende
three months. The superintendent mounte1
recruiting service will forward 80 recruits to
Fort Smelling, Minnesota, where they Will be
reported On arrival to the commanding general
department OF Dakota for assignment to the 21
cavalry. The resignation OF 2d Lieut. r.
Waters. 18th infantry, has been accepted by
the president TO take effect October ls5h, 1881.
The leave granted Major John A. Wilcox, Sth
cavalry, is extended four months.
LEAVES OF ABSENCE TO VOTING EMPLOYEES
Registration OF voters closed in Brooklyn last
Tuesday. Government employees who vote
there were given leave so as to be able to
register, which leave extends until after the
elt ctions The New York registration closes
Saturday. Voting employees will be allowed Co
go home from Thursday till after November "a
Five days Will be given TO clerks from states
adjacent to the District and ten days to tho 80
from other states.
TEE NAVAL REVIEW PosTpoNED.-Secretary
Thompson to- day decided to postpone the re-
view, as there IS doubt whether all The shios
intended for participation can be put in com
mission by the Goth. The exact date OF the
demonstration Will be announced In sufficient
time TO enable all persons to attend who desire
to 90 SO. The probable postponement will be
President and all the Cabinet will be here aud
can attend. 1t Is desired that the review be
given national character instead of merely
naval affair.
PERsoNAL--John Boyle O'Reilly. the poet
editor OF the Boston Pilot, is registered at the
Riggs.-Hon. E. B. Waslburne sailed for home
from Liverpool yesterday.-Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe Is confined TO her cottage at Portsmouth,
r. l., seriously fll.-Mr NJ. D. Conway and
family have gone to Fredericksburg, which was
Mr.. c. IS birthplace, and where number of his
relatives still live. M. Berard OF the Frenca
legation. is registered at WOrmleys.-Mr
Wendell Phillips will lot this season be able to
begin his lectures before January. Mrs. Pail
upSS health Is so precarfOuS that her husband
is OFTEN forced to cancel his lecturirg engage
ments.-Charles Fl. Boynton, th western
agent OF the Associated Press, stationed In New
York, is In the city. Tonight he leaves with
his brother, Gen. 81. V. Boynton, OF the Cincin-
natl Gazette, for Cincinnati, both being sum-
moned to the seathbed Of their venerable and
esteemed mother.
ARMY OFFICERS SoNs INELIGIBLE.-Judge
Advocate Dunn has rendered decision to the
effect that no sons Of officers Of the regular
army can be admitted to West Point. The law
governing appointments to the academy pro-
V1des that no youth shall be appointed who Is
not the son OF bona tide resident Of the dis
trict from which he Is appointed. General
Dunn holds that army officers cannot acquire a
coma fide residence, as required by law.