Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-08-03

VoI: 5S-No:: 1887.
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS sTO-DAY.-Internal rev.
eenue, 1861 15O.2S; customs, s793, ,OO9S1.
INTERNAL REVENUE APPOINTMENTs.-O. B.
FOgle has been appointed internal revenue store
keeper for the first district of California and w.
w. Burton gauger for the first district of Cali
fOrnia.
HAS NOT REsIGNED.-Dr Randall Waite, chief
ofthe educational division of the Census Bureau
has not resigned his position in order to accept
a college prOfessOrship, as reported.
SECOND LIEUT.. CARROLL MERCER USING. is
detached from the marine barracks at this city,
on the 5th, and ordered to take charge of the
guard detailed for the Richmond while en- route
for Panama, and to report for duty on board
that vessel upon arrival there.
A NEW DIVISION in the Patent office. called
the abridgement division and to have charge of
the abridgement of patents, is just being organ
lzed under an appropriation made at the last
session of Congress.
THE ONLY COMMISSIONS sent from the p q.
department to-day were two to Michigan for
Frankenmuth and Winan's mills.
Portsmouth arrived at Portland Maine July
3lst. The Standish and Mayhower. with the
cadet engineers On board. left New York last
Monday for Newport Commander Meade. of the
Nandalia. reports to the Navy department from
ST. Johns. Halifax, that he would sail SATURDAY.
July Sd, for Halifax. No American fishermen
were at st. Johns. On the way to Halifax the
landalia will look in at some of the fishing set
Elements.
Groom 59' AND OTHER ROOMs.-Some of the
rooms in the p. o. department are being re-
paired, repainted and newly frescoed. Room SO
is no longer an object of curiosity. 1t is per-
mitted to retain its secrets without any efforts
being made to get at Them Its doors only open
to the initiated.
Rock AND RYE.-Mr Dow, a prominent law
yer of Chicago, is in the city in the interest OF
certain brand of ''rock and rye' which was put
on the market with the proprietary medicine
stamp. 1t was found after the internal revenue
bureau had passed favOrably upon the article
that 1T was being prepared on an entirely differ
ent formula than the one submitted to the Com
missioner OF Internal Revenue. and that it
should pay the regular tax levied upon whisky
NC. OIucTS W tulS cueCt were sent TO Cne IN
ternal revenue collectors throughout the eoun-
try. The manufacturers of the article are now
trying to secure again its manufacture as a pro-
prletary medicine.
CONTROLLER KNOX has accepted the invitation
of the American Bankers Association to deliver
an address during its convention, to be held at
Niagara Falls on the 10th, 18th and 18th of the
present month.
SECRETARY KIRKwOOD is better to-day and
expects to resume his duties in day or two
Assistant Secretary Bell returned to the city
yesterday. and was at his office to-day.
DECISION AGAINST EDIsON.-The Commissioner
OF Patents, to whom Mr.. Edison appealed, has
finally affirmed the decision given By the Exami-
ner of Interferences and Examners-n-C Chief in
favor OF Mr. Maxim, one of the electricians of the
United States Lighting company. in the case
against Mr.. Edison involving the Platinum
Lamp.
THE RIVER CHANNEL.-The National Dredg-
ing Machine Company, to whom was recently
awarded the contract for dredging the Potomac
below the Long bridge, are making
to 60 on with the work. which was
last year by Forbes & Co. They
are building a tramway and getting their
dredges ready. No work has been done yet in
the channel.
ARMY ORDERs.-MajOr D. w. Flagler. ord
nance department, will proceed from Rock
Island, ILL.,, to Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory.
and make an inspection of the ordnance depot
at that place; Second Lieut.. Albert Todd list
artillery, is detailed professor of military sci
ence and tactics at the Kansas State Agricul-
tural College, Manhattan, Kan.
UNITED STATES NAH. BAGS IN CANApA.-An
investigation by agents of the Post Office de-
partment has developed the fact that most of
the mail bags used in Canada are the property
of the United States. They have gone across
the border with the through mails, and have
then been devoted to the local mail service.
plan for the asserting and interchange of stray
mail bags has been proposed by Postmaster Cen
eral James and assented to by the Canadian arl-
thOrities.
CASUALTIES TO STEAM VESSELS THE LAST FIs-
CAL YEAR Gen. Dumont, supervising inspector
of steam vessels, is having prepared record of
casualties during the past fiscal year. The work
will be completed in about week. 1t will show
that emitting the Vera Cruz and Alpena dis
asters, there were fewer casualties from july 1st
1880. to June 3Oth, 1881, than for any 12 months
preceding since the introduction of steam into
navigation. The Vera Cruz was wrecked on the
Florida coast, and the Alpena on Lake Erie
They were both as far perfect in con-
struction and equipment as it is possible
W uuuu steamers, Out cOui0 not with
stand the furious storms in which they were
caught. No inspection nor anything else could
have saved them. Both of these disasters oc-
CURED in the first six months of I8SO-81. The
last six months of that fiscal year show by far
fewer casualties than for any preceding six
months.
PERsONAI.-Chief Engineer Shock, NJ. de
GOdefrOy and NJ. Berard. of the French legation
were registered in New York last night-Mr
Harry NJ ROhrer. one of our promising young
lawyers. who has gone to Colorado with the
view of permanently locating in that state, is
now at Colorado Springs Charles NJ Field is
at SaratOga--Mr. and Mrs. l.. j. Davis and
Mrs. F. II. Howe are at Block Island-Sen-
atOrs Blair and Camden are in New York.
Miss N. c. Douglas, of the Washington Collegiate
Institute. has gone by sea to New York whence
she will 60 to Pennsylvania for an extended
vacatOn.-I. Saks and family are at CapOn
Sprngs.-Mrs. JOS. Mcfarland has gone to
RalstOn. Pa.-Mr. and Mrs. Alison Nailor will
spend a month at SaratOga.-Mrs. NJ. NJ
Rohrer will spend August and part of September
at Ocean Groye.-Mss Minnie Rohrer is