Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-08-17

uue' $ooi,os~; customs, $S16,22S.
To-DAYs BOND OFFERINGS amounted to SAT-, 500,
In lots as follows: per cents registered, SIS OOO
at 12S. AZ per cents, registered, $500, ,000 at
los; s276.0O0 at 107H.
GRATEFUL TO THE CoNsUL-The State Depart
ment has received letter from prominent citi-
zen OF New York expressing gratitude for the as
s1stance and service rendered him under circum-
stances OF great distress by Mr.. H. A. johnson the
U. ). consul at Venice.
COL W. F. SwIrzLER, Chief OF the Bureau of
statistics, has been elected member Of the Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement Of Science,
now In session at Cleveland.
The RESIGNATION Nor acknowledgement
Inspector-General Dumont said to-day that no off,
cial or unoff1cial Information had reached him
concerning the rumored resignation OF Mr. John
quinn, the clerk to the steamboat inspectors at
Baltimore.
ToFUNraArE THE ENEwsPAPERs.-The Postmaster.
General directs that all newspaper mail origtnat-
ing at Jacksonville, Fla, be fumigated at that
point as a precaution against transmitting yellow
iever IL has hitherto been sent TO Way Cross for
fumigation.
To CLOSE AT ON SATuRpAY.-During the remain
ger OF the summer the Post-Office Department will
De closed at 3 O'Clock on saturday.
Two YEARS AHEAD OF PAsrEUR.-Dr. D. 3. Sal
mon, chief OF the Bureau OF Animal Industry, left
tnlS morning Tor Cleveland, Oh1O to be present at
the meeting OF the Society for the Promotion OF
Agricultural Science, before which body he will
read paper on the progress OF the eradication Of
pleuro- pneumonia, and also paper on the con-
nrnatlon or The discoveries OF the Bureau OF AMI
maj INDUSTRY upon hog cholera and swine plague
Dy european scientists. He will also attend The
meeting or the American Association for the Ad-
Vancement OF Sciences, now being held at the
same city, and read paper showing that the dis
covery or the production OF immunity from con-
taSlOuS diseases by chemical substances claimed
oy PaSteurS laboratory OF Paris was made two
years previously at the laboratory OF the Bureau
OF Animal Industry Of the Department OF Agricul-
ture.
PERSONAL---VERY. Admiral WOrden, ]. w. Albaugh,
Representatives Campbell OF Ohio and Mason of
Illinois, ex-Representative Wise and James D..
Brady OF Virginia, were registered In New York
last nlght--EX-RepreSentati Wiltshire OF Ar
kansas Is seriously Ill at bis residence, S12 12th
sIreet northweSt-P. c. jackson OF New York,
G. II. Pope OF London, England, h. +. Creue Of New
YORK, A MauthewSon Parsons OF Kansas, are at
the NatlonaL--Mr. j. n. Whitney, chief clerk OF
tne bureau OF Statistics Is taking MS annual leave
at scarborough, New. E hughes and e. g.
Smallhouse OIL Bowling Green, KY, and W. T..
Flint OF Boston, are at the ST. James.-Hon.
Smedley Darlington Of Pennsylvania, John Glenn
0i New YORK, John K. Reynolds or Dayton, Ohio,
EnOcn Cnase OF Milwaukee, and A. l. Tanning OF
New YORK, are at the EDbtt.-J. Nj. Huppard OF
ST. LOUIS, T. i. Long OF Eufaula, Ala, w. II. Bron-
ner OF New York, 4. k Pepper or Winston, N. c.,
and j. &. Holt or GOldSDorO n. c., are at the Me-
tropoltan.-Ross w. Weir and G. Artsman OF
New YORK, NJ. Schihor or Vienna, Hon. j. W. Stew
art OF Vermont, ana W. C.-stephenson OF Men,
nett OF Houston, Tex, and NJ. Z. Menzis OF New
YORK, are at Willard's.-Eugene +. Arnold, A. A..
hoel1ng, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Herman, j. Ludlow
morgan and Miss Bessie Lackey are at Cape May.