The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-07-02
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
scAL1Ws NEW NAVAL SCHOOLS
Commodore Lytard In iaVof-sss-i
Vessel soh.mes-senate subordi-
mates Let Out-The West
Point Graduates, lite,
A,ou, New S.y.I ye...l..

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WAsnIN0roN, June ga number
OF plans and specifications for tho ma
val assets provided Tor a. tho last ses-
sion Of Congress have been received at
the navy department In the circular
calling for the plano and proposals
Secretary Whitney preferred that they
should loo submitted by July Is. The
circular called for four vessels. Tho
bureau OF construction and the bureau
OF steam engineering OF the navy
department Will submit plans for them.
IL is not known that any other source
offer plans for the entire number.
Several plans Tor q single vessel Will
be submitted by naval officers and II
is expected that plans viii DO received
from shipbullders. Naval Constructor
Mintonge, Of tho Brooklyn Navy Yard,
will furnish plans for three vessels.
$50 by IS feet, and 10 run is knots per
hour. Her armament will con-
sist OF ~ guns, and she VIII
carry about 30 men and oihoers.
Tho second vessel will be 32j by 10 feet
and her battery will consist OF Is
guns. The third vessel will be 225 feet
by 80 feet, carrying an armament OF III
guns. The vessels are modelled after
tho English cruisers. Entorprising,
but imaginative individuals have also
submitted propositions. one offers a
plan for vessel chat will hoat ION top
OF water, beneath and in mitair. Its
sails will be wings and 1t Will make
geater speed than any bird or any
thing man has invented" Others are
submitting similar inpracticaleshemes
lou. a,-ta ~ SAnrltAfu
ney Is not DESTROYS OF experimenting
with new schemes. He rather fayors
the adoption OF the models OF tho best
cruisers built by foreign powers, with
such improvements as can be added
by American ship builders.
Moro Amendments by Mr.. Manning.
WASHINGTON, June 21.-Secretary
Manning has amended article l,35S OF
the general regulations of the treasury,
relating to customs and navigation, so
that it shall read as follows:
Candidates for minor appointments
in the customs service must not DO less
than q nor moro than 90 years OF age
and OF suitable physical condition and
morally qualified as required by the
rules and regulations OF the civil ser-
NlCG Vi tHc " hlttu ptdlSo' CStuooi AZ
spectors must be of robust frame and
Deputy collectors and
other employees whose duties ere per
formed exclusively in the customs
building and who are selected on ac-
count OF possessing qualifications OF
special value 10 the SER
vice, may, after satisfactory
physical certification, be eligible for
between q and 60 years
of age. A sufficient number of appli-
Giants not having attained the eligibil-
ity il the examination held in May
last, a supplementary examination for
admission to cadetship into the reVe-
nue. marine will be held about the end
OF August to provide TOR the filing OF
vacancies. Secretary Manning, o.day
appointed K. III. Henry, Patrick Gun
ningham and Charles L. Mitchell to
be chiefs of divisions of the sixth aud
itor's office, and l.. II. Msngum to
be chief CT division in the
first comptroller's office, vice Major
Saxton, reduced to the 81, 40) class. A.
was promoted to be as
sistant chief of the loan division, vice
Stewart, deceased, and Charles l..
Caron was promoted FROM fourth
class clerk to be book-keeper. 1t is
q change will be made in
the office of chief Of the loan division,
now held by William Fletcher, on the
LIST of Augustus
Superintendent Baker will appoint
four persons to Peabody scholarship
IN the Nashville, Tennessee, Normal
school for the term beginning in Sep
tember. Applicants must be IL years
Old OF either sex, and must promise to
teach in Texas public schools as long
as they attend the institute. Appli-
cations will be received now and tho
will have the appli-
,ants examined as near theirh ONES az
possible, the time and place to DO set
lied hereafter.