Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-11-11

ShSoND LIEUTENANT "A. b. JACKSON, 9th
cavalry, has been granted three months leave.
MAIL CLERKS AND THE CIv1LSERvICE-Gen.
eral superintendent Jamson, of the railway
mail service, strongly advocates the extension
of the benefits of the civil service law to the
clerical force of the railway mail service. and
with that object in view embodies in his annual
report the draft of bill to place the postal
clerk upon the same footing as those employed
In the departmental service.
MORMON Posi- OFFICE DIscoNTINUED.-First
Assistant Postmaster General Stevenson yester-
day discontinued a post office in Utah, because
the community the postmaster served was COM
posed entirely OF himself, four wives and seven
teen daughters. Besides, under the Edmunds
act, a man with four wives is incapable of hold
Ing public office.
THE MISSOURI COMMISSION in its annual
report to the Secretary of War recommends APP
preparations aggregating S1,31OOOO for con-
tinuing the improvement of the river.
SECRETARY WHITNEY continues to pass the
day at his residence in the preparation of his re-
port, and seldom puts in an appearance at the
Navy department. Meanwhile the reports of
the heads of the several bureaus of his depart
ment are withheld from the public for the rea-
son that the secretary has not read them all
Heretofore these reports have been given to the
public as they were prepared.
CIVIL ENGINEER MENoCAL, of the navy, who
recently made survey of the proposed route of
the Nicaragua canal, to-day submitted his re-
tary of the Navy.
THE DOLPHIN, the dispatch boat of many tri-
ais, has been formally turned over to the navy
under the recent agreement between the Secre-
tary of the Navy and the assignees of the con-
tractor. The next thing on the program will be
10 select an officer to command her.
REAR ADMIRAL CHAs. H. BALDWIN, retired
mas been granted leave of absence for eight
months, with permission to go abroad.
MILITARY PRIsoNERs.-A general army Or
der has been issued containing an additional
regulation to the rules governing the military
prison at Fort Leavenworth, which provides
that "no prisoner shall be detailed to perform
any labor outside the walls OF the prison that
Will require him TO enter the Office, residence
or out-buldings of any officer not connected
with the prison; nor shall any prisoner be de-
talied 10 perform any labor that would tend to
remove him from the constant observation of
the time."
PsRsoNAL.-Gen. Hasen returned from Bos.
ton yesterday.-Aaron j. Vanderpoel, of New
York, and John E. Morey, of Rochester, arrived
at the Arlington this morning-Mr Ralph
Jefferson formerly of this city, but since the ist
of June resident of Clarendon, Tex, has been
keever and Director of the Mint kimball are at
Wormley SENATOR Cameron, of Pennsyl-
vania; the wife and daughter Of Senator Ed,
mun0s, Admiral Porter and family and
Walter Evans, late comm .ssioner of ill.,
ternal revenue, were registered in New
York last night.-Oliver Drake Smith, of
EnglewoOd. N. j., is at Wormleys.-
Representatives Boyle and Osborn, of Pennsyl.
vania, are at Willard s.-Mr. Simon Newton,
chief clerk of the Washington aqueduct, has
moved into his new residence, 1923 18th
reet.-Representative Thomas, of Virginia.
Is at the Metropolitan.-Repre
Brown, Of Cincinnati, and A. q. Keasby OF
Newark, n. j., are at the Ebbitt.-Mr C. w
Coombs, the department messenger of the
post of duty.