Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-02-01

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been destroyed by fire.
THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY will ac-
company Mrs. Bayard's remains to Whining
ton.
THE SECRETARY of War and the Attorney
General called upon the President to-day.
POSTMASTER GENERAL Villas was at the de-
days, having been kept at home by a severe
cold.
Posi- CHAPLAIN NJ. N. Adams has been re-
lieved from duty in the department Of the
Platte and will proceed to st. Paul. Mimi, and
await retirement
THE NEW COMMANDER OF THE QUINNEBAUG.
commander George w. Coffin was to-day Or
dered to command the U. S. S. Quinnebaug, of
the european squadron, vice Commander Hay
ward, deceased. He will sail on the Cunard
steamer OF the 10th inst. for Liverpool. Com
mander Coffin commanded the Alert of the
Greely relief expedition.
BONDS RECEIVED FOR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
nine national banks hold about 5000 of
the S1O,OOO,OOO in three per cent bonds EN-,
Draced in the call issued on Friday last. About
S6,5OOOOO of the 100000 900 in three per
cents, included in the call which matured to-
day, have been received at the Treasury depart
meht lor redemption.
"A HUNDRED REsIGNATIoN.-The Baltimore
papers this morning state that "Post Office In
spector VIM. T. Henderson announces his in
tentiOn of handing his resignation to Postmas-
ter General Villas in May" Nothing is known
OF MIR. HendersOn's intentions at the depart
ment.
NAVAL CADETS EXAMINED.-The semian-
nual examination at the naval academy closed
Saturday. Between six and twelve second-class
men and like number of fOurth-class men will
probably be dropped from the rolls. The result
among the first-class men is not known, but it
Is not expected that more than one is below the
required twO-five mark, and not more than
three or four in the third class.
GOING TO ST. LoU1s.-Commissioner Colman,
OF the Agricultural department, will preside
over the conventions of the National Sugar as.
ISOLATION and the Mississippi Valley Dairymen's
ASSOCIATION, which are to be held this and next
week at st. Louis. Prof. Taylor, the microscope
ISL OF the Agricultural department, will also at
tend the convention and make an address upon
MS discoveries regarding the detection of coun-
terfeit butter.
QUEER CLASSIFICATION OF A CREMATED
BoDY.-Assistant Secretary: Fairchild: has in
structed the collector of customs at New York
to allow free entry of box containing the
ashes of a lady who died abroad and whose
BODY was cremated, and which box is described
In the consular invoice containing "sam-
PIES OF phosphate of lime" and also allow it to
De forwarded to the relatives in PHILADELPHIA
"ithout being opened for examination.
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Morrison, postmaster of Newton, Pa, was ar
rested Friday charged with hypothecating post
age stamps to the amount of $50. He gave the
stamps 10 secure note but afterwards re-
deemed them. United States commissioner
bound him over in $500 bail for trial in the
United States district court at Pittsburg
PRESIDENTIAL Posi- OFFICEs.-The Postmas-
ter General has decided not to consider changes
in the presidential post offices for the present
,,v,ff ha boo
masters whose commissions have expired.
These have accumulated since the 1st of JULY
and include those where the commissions ex-
month of February the commissions of fifty-one
presidential postmasters will expire.
A DECISION IN THE VIRGINIA COUPON
CASES. The Supreme Court of the United
States to-day, in the case OF VIM. L. Royal agt.
the state of Virginia; Robert P. Barry agt e.
Va; r. B. Chaffin agt. VIM Taylor, and VIM
II. Sands agt. E. G. Edmunds (the Virginia
coupon cases: reversed the decision of the court
tender OF coupons in payment of taxes is legal.
THE LIBERIAN BOUNDARY QUESTION
SErTLED-The U. s. consul at Sierra Leone has
informed the Department of State that the
commission appointed to settle the northwest
boundary of Liberia, signed on the IL tn instant
final convention fixing the northwest bound
airy at the southeast bank OF the Maunah river
In the territory of Sierra Leone It appears
however that the British government by this
extension of British Jurisdiction from the Sher-
bro to the Maunah river, a distance of seventy
miles, controls only the seaboard, one mile in
ward, while the interior is left free to Liberia,
APPEALING TO THE Law OF MosEs-One of
the pOstmasters who had greater supply of
pen and paper than he had of common sense.
recently wrote to the department here in evil
IDENTIFY great perturbation OF mind about the
appointment OF clerk who was hard of hear
ing: ne mad been IMPRESSED that such an ap-
to know if he had really violated law. This
communication was referred more as q ioke
point settled, and one of the officials, in the
same spirit, replied by referring to the law of
Moses, which provided that no man with a
blemish should stand before the Lord, He
added that he understood that this law had
been repealed by subsequent legislation.