Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-08-26


TON Is in session at Saratoga.
Mr. CANNON, controller of the currency, has
returned to Washington and resumed his du-
| ties at the Treasury department to-day. Deputy
controller Langworthy has been granted leave
| OF absence.
NAVAL ORDERs.-The leave of absence of Pay
master R B. Rodney (retired list) at present in
London, has been extended for six months
nom September 18th. The orders Of Lieut. b.
| L. Walling to the naval academy and to remain
| on duty on board the United States ship Yer.
| mont have been revoked.
| MOVEMENTS OF NAVAL vEssEIs.-The Ten
| nessee, Alliance, and Galena left Bar Harbor
to-day for Portland, Me. The Galena will
afterwards 60 to Portsmouth; admiral Jouett
informs the Secretary of the Navy that during
| the past week great numbers OF people have
visited the Tennessee.
REsIGNED.-Mr. Z. E. Clark, of Iowa, spe-
/ cial examiner Of the Pension Office, has re-
| signed.
EXPORTS OF BREADsTUFFs-Thec chief of the
bureau of statistics reports that the total values
of the exports of breadstuffs from the United
| states during the month of July, 1885, and dur
| ing the seven months ended July 31st, 1885, as
compared with similar exports during the cor
| responding months of the preceding year were
$12.371, 754; seven months ended July 31st,
1885, $50 ,55S $50; seven months ended July
31st, 1884, $sO,546,131.
GEN. HANcoCK's AIDEs-Capt. John s.
Wharton, who is among the officers required
| by the recent order of Secretary Endicott to
join their commands, has been relieved from
duty as q member of Gen. Hancocks staff. He
Is now on the sick list, but will proceed as soon
as allowed by the doctor to Fort Ringgold Tex,
stationed. Capt. Wharton has been on de-
| tached service over seventeen years: Capt. G:
| s. =. Ward, Gen. Hancock's other aide, has not
yet been relieved, nor has the successor of Capt.
Wharton been announced.
THE PRACTICE SHIP Constellation, with
naval cadets OF the first third and fourth classes
| aboard. returned from the summer cruise yes
terday and is anchored in Annapolis Roads.
The cadets will disembark Friday.
SURVEYING THE ROADS NEAR THE DISTRICT.
| The report Of the operations of the United
States geological survey for the month of
August states that 'the party engaged under
Mr.. Hoffman in making detailed survey Of
the area adjacent to the District of Columbia
| made fair progress during the month At its
close nearly all the principal roads OH the Vir-
ginia side of the Potomac had been traversed
and leveled, and most of the work was ready to
| be taken into the field for the cantoning."
PROMOTIONS IN THE P. o. DEPARTMENT.
| Miss Marie Musseaus, of Virginia, and Miss
| Caroline Childs. of Nebraska, have been pro-
NOTED from $72O to 5000 in the Office of the
Third Assistant Postmaster General.
Ex-CoMMIssIoNER OF AGRICULTURE LoR1NG
that he never intended to convey the idea that
purchases of machinery were included in the
disallOwances of his accounts. He says further
that the purchase OF beet sorghum seed was
part of the experiment in making sugar, and
disciaims any intention to misstate the case.
No LAW AGAINST PAUPER IMMIGRATION BY
LAND.-Mr. Lyman, chief OF the navigation
division, Treasury department, to whom was
referred the question concerning the entrance
of Arab gypsies into the United States over the
L Ordn n hah hnnV1 rnfII rood
permission to land from the steamer says that
nothing can be done, as the pauper immigrant
grants who may be brought to this country in a
ship or vessel, but is silent on the subject of
such as as may enter the country by land: The
| meeting, with a view of securing legislation to
meet such cases as the one in question.
THE U. S. TUG MAYgLowER, while going
down Elizabeth river from Norfolk yesterday
| on her trip to Washington to tow the monitor
WyandOtte to City Point, burst one of her con-
and had to return to the Norfolk navy yard for
repairs.
Miss ADA c. SWEET, pension agent at Chicago,
has received orders from the commissioner of
pensions to drop from the rolls OF the agency
the names of the five hundred and sixty PEN
sioners VINO nave oleo or IA case Oh widows, re-
CURED, but the clearing. of the names OF dead
pensioners promptly from the rolls is a saving
sible frauds on the government.
PERsoNAL.-Hon Lionel sackville West, the
British minister. Count sala, of the French le-
CATION, and Mr.. Henry Wise Garnett of Wash
| ington, are at Newport.-Among the guests at
the Frelinghuysen-t oates wedding at Newport
croft, the historian; Judge and Mrs. John Davis,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. j. Frelnshuysen and Henry
Wis, Wise Garnett: Two hundred invitations were
Chautauqua yesterday afternoon to an audi
| ence OF 5000 persons on Gen. Grant-James
Louis Monday.-Dr ii. THOMPSON Murray
and wife are ut Chapel Point Tor the month of
Angust~5as. !; Norris has gone to Greenbrier
Washington, was registered in Chicago on Mon
| day:-Gen. Sheridan was in Buffalo Yesterday
| the west to-day.-.Gulius Stahel, counsul-gene-
raj Of the United States at Shanghai, China, is
the city stoppng at the
so ahs to Ss n nave
Mr.: 1: Fenwick Young and his daughter Amy,
Monday for Berkeley Springs.-Miss Agnes
Young, of South Washington, is visiting reia-
t,ves in Bergen Point NJMM T.: George 4:
Is at the Greenbrier White sulphur Springs
Mr.. Francis L: smith is at the Red sulphur
/ left Saratoga Springs for Fremont, Ohio.-Mr
n. H. EggestOn, Of Washington will read
paper on the state OF Forest Legislation in the
Congress that meets in Boston September %.
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| Chief Clerk Meline's Marrow Escape.
| HOW HE WAS STUNNED BY LIGHTNING DURING
YESTERDAYS STORM.
| Mr.. James F. Meline, acting chief clerk of the
United States Treasurer's office, had most re-
markable escape from death by lightning dur
| ing the storm yesterday afternoon. After leav-
ing the Treasury, at four o'clock, he was on his
| way to his home, in Maryland, when he was
| caught by the storm and drenched through by
| the rain. He was completely envelOped with
| rubber excepting his hands and face, but 1T did
not protect him from the water. On reaching
the top Of a very high hill q heavy bolt Of light
| ming fell apparently between the horse and
dasher-bOard, and Mr. Meline, who was driving,
| was stunned. The servant. who was sitting be-
hind him, says that for few seconds the blue
l flames Of the electric fluid covered Mr.. Meline's
body, jumping from one shoulder to the other
| and playing about his arms and chest, ON the
| surface OF the rubber coat. He saw, also, the
| electricity come up like big blue bubbles from
| under the carriage. 1t was about two hours
after he got home before MIR. Meline was sufii-
GENTLY recovered from the shock to be able to
| stand, and he suffered greatly during the night,
his sensation being as IL thousands Of needles
were being stuck into his body. An attempt on
/ the part OF his wife to relieve him by bathing
his limbs in milk 80 intensified this sensation
that she had to desist and refrain from allowing
her hands to come in contact with his body.