Evening star., 1886-12-10

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| Address
| THE EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER Co.,
| WASHINGTON, d. c.
| The SUPPLEMENT OF THE EVENING STAR to-day
contains: Old Yaro's Story, Visiting Grand Army
Men, An Accident to Senator Chas. w. Jones' The
| Coiumous Labor Convention, How Wabash was
| Plundered, Half Million for Harvard Tele-
graphic Dispatches, etc. The advertisements are
CLASSIFIED as follows: Auction Sales, Educational,
Ladies' Goods, House-furnishings, Books, Family
supplies, Wood and Coal, Professional. Attorneys,
flanos and Organs, Sewing Machines, Gentlemens
Goods, Financial, Medical, Railroads, Potomac
River Boats, Steamers Dentistry, Speclalties, The
| Trades, Undertakers
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-pAY.-Internal reye-
nue, $346 ,5S3: customs, s456,41O
POSTMASTER AT TAKONA-Isaac L. Thomas has
| peen appointed postmaster at Takoma Park, a
settlement of Washington people on the Metropol.
| Itan Dranch OF the b. and o. railroad.
| IHE INDIAN WAREHOUSE QUEsTIoN.-The COM
missioner OF Indian affairs, Mr. Atkins. to-day
neafu arguments by gentlemen representing st.
y0seph, Mo-, Leavenworth, Kansas, and Rock
lSand, ILL.,, In favor OF the removal OF the Indian
warehouse from New York city to these places.
CIVIL SERVICE ExAMINATION.-The civil service
commission will hold special technical examna-
tlon OF males on Wednesday, the 18th inst to fill
single vacancy in the Navy department and to
create register OF elgibles from which to fill any
,u.are vacancies OF the same character The fol-
M lowing VIII De among the subjects embraced In
| the examination: Naval routine: nautical nomen-
G1atare forms OF official correspondence; naval
ilaterlal ana naval evolutionS. An examination
| III photography will be held at an early date for
males only. '0'
NAVAL ORDERs.-Passed Assistant Paymaster
John N. Speed ordered to duty on the coast sur
vey 31st inst Passed Assistant Paymaster L. A.
1,sat 1orke TO examination for promotion. Pay In
SpecIpa 7.a1 Jonn IT, stevenson as member of the
detached from command of League Island navy
nao Hafd ~ inst, and placed on the retired list.
coast survey 31St inst, and ordered to settle
accounts and wait orders Assistant Paymaster
=. e. 3. Webster from duty at the National museum
ana ordered to the inspection departnent Mare
Island, Cal, January 31st. Lieut.. A. Dunlap Or
nered 10 10 duty at the Washington navy yard Jan
uaTy 81 Lieut.. VIM. p. Elliot to special duty
bureau OF navigation. Lieut. CON- f. McCurIey
detached from the Franklin 31st inst and placed
ON waiting orders.
A WONDERFUL DIsCovERY-'T see it stated that
an Official in the Post Office department has dis
covered law which fOrbids the advance Of public
fundS thus preventing the payment of salaries IN
department clerks, except for services rendered
SAID chief clerk OF one OF the uptown depart
ends n To-Day to STAR reporter 'It is too bad"
le continued, THAT the official did not make the
discovery sooner, for the law was passed in 1S23
and has been the guidance Of disbursing officers in
All 'he executive departments ever since"
ARMY ORDERs.-Surgeon B. F. Pope, relieved
from duty in the Office OF the surgeon-general and
ordered to duty as-recorder OF the medical exam
lining board in New York First Lieut. F. F Hobhs
ordnance department, oI7lered from Philadelphia
20 OJonnstoWn, Pa, on public business connected
WIN tne ordnance department. Assistant Sur
geon ChaS Z. BarroWS. granted two months leave
Capt. Jno. I. Morrison, 10th cavalry, granted six
months leave for disability. Leave of Second Lieut.
Chas L. Steele, 18th infantry, extended one month
for disability.
. FREDERICK HODGE, who resigned his clerksbip in
the geological survey, has been appointed private
secretary to Capt. Cushing, OF the Ethnological
bureau, and will accompany that official to
Arizona.
NAVAL EXAMINING BOARD consisting Of PAY
Director Richard Washington, Pay Inspector Jno.
h. Stevenson and Paymaster E. W. Whitehouse
with Passed Assistant Paymaster w. w. Gait re-
corder, has been ordered to meet at the NAVY de-
partment next Tuesday for the examination or
Passed Assistant Paynaster L. A. Yorke for pro-
motion. f
NAVAL COURT MARTIAL has been ordered to
meet at Norfolk December 18th, for the trial Of
certain enlisted men. The detail for the court is
as follows: Commander P. H. Cooper. Lieut. Com
I: 9. c. Sater, Ensign A. W. Grant and First
Lieut. Lieut. 1Rfh RfhaTd Wallach United States Marine
states Marine Corps, as judge advocate
A STATUTORY BOARD OF SURVEY has been ordered
on the U. s. S. kearsarge at Portsmouth, On. H.)
navy yard. The board consists of Capt. Robert r
Bradford, Naval Constructor Thomas E. Webh and
Naval Constructor w. l.. Mintonye. This board
Will report the condition OF the hull of the vessel
laws. N>'''i"s
The INTERIOR DEPARTMENT has received word of
the death OF Benjamin T.. Ledbetter, the surveyor
general OF louisiana.
TEEMER's SHELL-The collector OF customs at
New York has been instructed to admit the shell
OF John Teemer the Oarsman. free OF duty If salts
ned That 1t Is OF domestic manufacture.
The e. s. s. Dolphin, with Admiral Jouett and
the board OF naval inspection, arrived at Fort
Monroe from Norfolk last night She will make a
trial trip outside to-day, and test her new guns.
PERsoNAL.-SenatOr Fair is not likely to reach
Washington until after the holidays. His secre.
tary, Mr.. F. z. Mcguire, has returned to the CITY,
and is at the Senator's residence, 1116 virginia
afenae:-George az Place, OF New York, j. E. Crisp,
Wm. c: Strawbridge of Philadelphia, E. NJ Hard,
man, Of Harrisburg. W. P. Clough, OF st. Paul and
DIR. Thomas Taylor, OF the Agricultural Depart
ment, has been confined to his room for a week
'of Of SsM York. Sf
Consul General. Williams left washington
today to return to his post at Havana.-
John T. Simmons, John A. EnOs and washington
|. Bishop OF Boston, Louis Kwpsch William II. n.
Beebe, E. C.. Dent, Ambrose l. Ranney q
Churchill and Christian A. Herter of New YORK +
A j. McNutt OF Richmond Charles Bonhaling Of
Newark, and William II. Reynolds OF London are
at the Observation-Disclosures General Villas AS
sfstant Postmaster General Hazen Senators Sahin
and Mcpherson, and Representative Gilfllan.
Mr.. Walter Paris returned to Washington this
morning. after stay OF several months in Eng
land.-Representative Ballentine Chas r. WEB
Ster OF New York, Geo. W. Baxter of WyominCr
ex-Representatiye Pound OF Wisconsin Geo. Hunt
or Springfield, Ill., and Jos. II. Lange of Boston are
at the Ebbitt.-E. B. Ellinaker OF Lancaster pa
J. Webb Seaman OF London. r. E. Queen OF san
Francisco, W. ID. Curtis and Geo. c. Curtis OF
Lenox, d: 7. II: Doyle and C. A. Shoup OF st.
Stearns, II. j. Anderson and T. j. Early OF New
York, and w. j. Young, Of Sidney Australia are at
Willards.
Promotions i'm the Treasury Depart.
MleMls
c. j. Stoddard clerk of class in the office OF the
controller OF the currency, has been promoted to
be assistant bOokkeeper at a salary of $1,000 q
year, but VIII remain In charge Of insolvent and
nquidating banks. Other promotions in that
offce have been made as follows: John A. He
brew, from class TO class 4; Z. w. Denham, from
class , to class 4, and A. NJ Weeeier from class 2
to class 81 j. X. Miller, from class to class ., f.
WfidOwS, class 500 to class l. These promotions
the controller says were all made for specially
meritOrious service.