Evening star., 1886-10-19
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY.-lnternal
revenue. $15O,6O6.s "a; customs, $500, ,O42. .13.

GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-lnternal
revenue, s150,6o6.s4; customs, s59o,o42.13.
SUBJECT TO DUTY.-In regard to the question
r ra1sed as to the classification Of certain IRON
sand or dust imported from New Brunswick and
used In Maine for saving nd polishing marble.
Acting Secretary Farchild has decided that
as 1t Is made by melting pig-iron and running
II out Of the furnace into salt wafer it is subject
10 DUTY at the rate 45 per cent OF advalorum.
NAVY ORDERs.-Lieut. w. P. Conway has
oeen ordered to take charge OF the photographic
Office at Philadelphia. Ensign w. 8. symes
nas been ordered to the Yantic. Lieut.. G. c.
Rogers has been detached from the Yantic
and an ordered to the Galena. Assistant Engineer
W. II. Piatt, retired, has been granted six
months leave to go abroad.
No CoMMANDANT Of the ordnance works of
the Washington navy yard has yet been Sc
lected. 1t is possible that there will be no COM
| mandant, the yard being made an immense
workshop under the immediate supervision OF
the chief OF the ordnance bureau.
PATENTS IssUED.-Patents have been issued
to citizens of the District as follows: Josef Kas-
par, finger exercising device; VIM. c. McGill.
cash register Francis 8 ,sse, assignor of one
elevator cars; John A. Tobin, compound steel
armor and constructing the same
ARMY ORDERs.-Leaves of absence for six
months have been granted Captain Charles E
Hargroves, 9Th infantry, and First Lieut.. Chas.
r. Churchill, 5th infantry. First Lieut.. Louis
A. Craigg has been relieved from duty In the
recruiting service and ordered to his regiment.
HER LAST CRUIsE-The U. S. S. Shenandoah,
which recently returned from the China station
to San Francisco, has made her last cruise
The board OF survey has reported to the Secre-
tary OF the Navy that it will require over
Sl3o,OOO TO repair her. which is fully 26 per
cent of what she could now be built for. The
ItW llmlfS repairs to 20 per cent of the cost OF
| the vessel, SO that the Shenandoah will be put
in ordinary and probably be sold at public sale.
She Is third rate screw of ,, 100 tons dispace-
ment and carries nine guns.
THE PRESIDENT, accompanied by several
members of his cabinet, will leave here early
Thursday morning to attend the state agricul-
tural fair at Richmand, Va, and return the
same night. On Wednesday of next week the
PRESIDENT and his cabinet will go to New York
tholdi statue
COMPLETION OFTHE ATLANTA AND BOSTON,
The ort Of the advisory board, instructed to
estii. ethe cost Of completing the cruisers Bos-
ton and Atlanta, states that O complete the At
lanta will require an expenditure by the gov
eminent of S9,O67 and by the contractor of
$1,000. In the case of the Boston the fitting
out OF the vessel will cost the government
Sl4,046 and the contractor 80 ,2S4.
THE HEOLEoMARGARINE SrAMPs.-The internal
revenue bureau yesterday began shipping the
will continue shipping supplies until the de-
mand Is met
THE PRESIDENTS CoNrR1BUr1oN,-AB Buffalo
dispatch says: The fund in aid of the storm
sufferers now exceeds 1,5OO. President Cleve-
land contributed 500. There are 1O5 persons
now being cared for by the relief committee.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONERS OBRRLY and
Lyman have finished their labors in New York
and will next visit Philadelphia.
How THE COUNTRY IS BEING FILLED Up
The commissioners of immigration of the
state OF New York have reported to the Treas
ury department that during the year ended
June 30, 1886, there arrived at the port OF
New York 334,615 passengers from foreign
ports of which number 265, los came as steer
n passengers and were landed at Castle Oar
den. The number of immigrant passengers re-
turned through the agency of the board to the
which 81 Were insane, 80 were imbeciles,
We're bind, 70 were enciente, 81 were crpples,
were convlcts and the remainder were other
wise incapacitated for work.
PREFERENCE To EX-UNIoN SoLDIERs.-As-
sistant Adjutant General Clarke has sent from
g. A. r. headquarters at Rome, N. Y, a letter
TO President Cleveland asking him. when he
sees mt 10 discharge republican ex.soldiers, to
Ill their places with democratic ex-soldlers and
not with eX-confederates or with civilians.
The TENNESSEE leaves Newport Thursday
for New York to participate in the ceremonies
CohuOStCu Will OF Jne Bar
tholdl statue on the 2Sth, when she will lead
the river parade.
STUDYING THE EARTHQUAKE.-The SYSTEM
attic study of the earthquake returns gathered
by correspondents of the geological survey from
all portions Of the area affected by the recent
convulslons Is about to be undertaken by Off
cials OF the survey under the supervision OF
Capt. Clarence E. button, q. S. ordnance corps
Two maps Of the affected region now being pre-
pared leave no doubt that Charleston and Sum
merville were at the locus Of the disturbance
From this center the impulses spread in ali
directions, but much faster up the Atlantic
coast than toward the west,