Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-03-24

ily) are to the effect that Postmaster General
Howe Is dangerously i'll with pneumonia at his
home In Madison, Wis.
JUDGE W. T. RILEY, OF Virginia, to-day filed an
application with the Attorney General, strongly
endorsed, for the chief Justiceship Of Montana
territory, Vice Conger. removed
COMMISSIONS were issued to the following post
masters to-day: John B. Corbin, Corbin, Md: W.
r. Harris, Warsaw, Va: James Sullivan, Harri.
Sonburg, Va.
BIDS have been opened at the Office OF Gen. NJ C.
Megs, supervising engineer and architect for terra
Gotta work for entrance to Pension building, as
A. Hall Terra Gotta company, $500; Burns, Russell
Co., 81 921.79 Boston Architectural Terra Gotta
company. S1,345; Boston Terra Gotta company,
$500. The United States to furnish models, &C.
LIEUT.. COMMANDER Thomas Nelson has been
ordered to duty In the photographic Office, April
THE JEANNETTE INQUIRY TO BH RESUMRD.-The
Jeanette court Of inquiry will be reconvened
about the first of April or upon the arrival of the
four members OF the Jeanette crew who are now
on Their way home, having sailed from Havre on
the 18th. The names OF these men are j. II. Bart
lett, II. w. Leach E. E. Manson and John Lauter-
bach; They viii be examined by the court after
which final report VIII be made. Lieut. Richard
Wa nwright. now on duty at the Navydepartment,
will probably be ordered as judge advocate Of the
and ordered to Japan: Capt Miller's place upon
the board Will not be filed as it is competent for
the remaining members 10 proceed without him.
SECRETARY LINCOLN AND THE EIGEz HOUR LAW.
Secretary Lincoln said to-day that as present he
IS not inclined to issue any order changing the
hours OF daily labor as regulated by the War de-
the matter very little consideration, but he did
not think it advisable for the War department to
pay ten hours wages for eight hours service. One
hn Rrcf ,to Of 1yfyarS aln
would be virtually to raise the wages Of
employees In the Springfield arms manu-
factory from SIS to go Per week The hour Of
work to be done. and the worKmen in the employ
of the commissioner of public buildings and
grounds are paid for ten hours labor, and he saw
no reason Tor changing the regulations as applied
to them.
GOLD, SILVER AND NOTES.-The statement of the
q. 8. Treasurer shows gold, silver and @. s. notes
In the Treasury to-day, as follows: Gold coin and
bullion, s1S2, ,6107 755; silver dollars and bullion,
$1O6 4S7, 1S2 fractional silver coin, ST. 519;
certcates OUTSTANDING Goid ao silver,
$69, $40; currency, 49, 900.
THE UNITED STATES TREASURER now holds in
United States bonds to secure national bank circu-
latlon s357, 400, as follows: Currency skies.
s. 000 five per cents, 900; four-and-
per cents, $3 400; four per CENTS $1O5 $50;
cents. s1s9 $4,000. United States bonds held by
the treasurer to secure public moneys In national
bank depositaries. $16,849, ,0O0:-Currency skies,
per cents, $6s71 coo; three-and-one-haf per cents
$566,5oO; three per cents, IS, ,4S1 COO!
WHAT Gov. BUTLER SAYS ABOUT THE SOLDIERS
HOME DRFIcIENCY.-In relation to the published
statement that deficiency OF s15 600 has been dis
covered in the accounts of the Soldiers National
Home for the period while Gov. Butler was pres
1dent the latter says that he once received cert
hiS re nd "a
had not been notified OF any change since; that
whenever any demand Is made upon him. II the
to se sneS paS 1 n61
that the nome has bond of $100, GOO to make any
deficiency good.
DEATH OF ADMIRAL TURNER.-Rear Admiral
Thomas Turner, U.s. navy, {retired,) died at Glen
Mills, Pa, on the 23d inst, at midnight, after a
brief illness.
his MAJESTY THE KING OF GREECE has, by
special order in council, conferred on Professor j.
Harry thompson. M. D.. formerly OF washington,
the decoration OF Knight OF the Royal Order OF ST.
Sauveur, "fOr professional services rendered under
most satisfactory circumstances"
MINISTER AsToRs RECEpr1oN.-rhe reception
which Minister Waldorf W. Astor gave at Rome,
In commemoration Of Washington's birthday, was
very grand affair." The italian Times (the only
English paper published In Rome) devotes several
Rospgliosi palace, which Is over three hundred
years old. Five spacious salons en- SUITE furnished
IN all the wealth OF refined taste and decorated in
object an eloquent theme of the past and an In.
spratlon OF the present,-received the national
and International guests. To contrast the sublime
magnificent Art on Tiber was q hitting thought
on this occasion. To view the priceless works of
~ HuVsns W,n Al0an9 Raphael, Micheangelo Leonardo
ia IInei, ferugno Correggio and Titan that grace
Cns palace and contemplate the isolated simple en-
era craving OF UanoVas last great statue OF Washing
the guests, who numbered several hundred and
TepIesented nearly all nations, where Mrs Hallet
Kilnourn n,a and Miss Kiloourn, Mra and Miss Ed
Thompson and Mrs. Thompson OF this city.
TIE WEEKLY STAR for this week Is now ready
for mailing; price, three cents per copy. It is a
large, eght-page paper, Of ffty six columns, cut,
pasted and folded, and Will be sent nywhere In
the, the United States and Canada, postpaid, for one
PERsoNAL-Gen. o. E Babcock and James A.
Williamson, wife and two daughters, OF Washing
ton, were registered at Jacksonville on Thursday.
Senator Harrison is at the Arlington.-Ex-
Representative Duen. OF New York Is OF the ST
James-Senator Hawley is to be the orator at
the semi.centennial anniversary OF the Psi Upsilon
May 23-2a-Editor Yost, OF The staafaton Ti,;ofn-
ian, Is at the National.-Mlnisfer Ba7ca and
senor Heredla OF the Spanish legation were regis
Kelley is at the Riggs.-Miss. Anna I. Dawes.
DAUGHTER OF the Senator, wil t Is said, occupy an
editorial p0SieSe en- the Epenfng Journal OF Pitts
field, Mass.-Prof G. Brown <5rela of the o. ST
Fish Commission, sails for Euroue to-day by tt.sa
steamer City OF BERTH. Sender Bayard Is In
Boston, visiting his daughler, MIS- s D. War
the POST ONCE department. have gone west Tor q
-" uass'
John =. BurriIl, ex-grand secretary Of the grand
lodge OF Masons Of Illinois, charged With the en-
bezzlemens Of $kSO0 Of the fufl1a. of the grand
lodge during tho year 1870 was YESTERDAY SEN
fenced TO I'VE yearstmpr1senIne11ls -
Col w. R Blair, q graduate &C sWe8f Point died
at Iexlnstone Va aged q yeaElT