Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-24


for the concert of the Marine band at the White
House grounds at $50 this afternoon is as fol-
lows: l. Awakening of the Lion" Kontski. q.
Selection from Delibes' opera, .Fleur de Lys. I"
.. Song-''In the Cleaning" Harrison. T.
Collocation-"The Old Guard Planquette. 8.
Clarionet solo-Transcription on III Trova-
tore" MIR. Felix Iardella, Cavalni. s. Over
tnre-''Semiramde," Rossini. Z. Fantasie on
themes from mariana" Wallace.
Nor ASSISTED IMMIGRANrs.-Th, collector Of
customs at Baltimore has under his detention
Bohemian woman and her crippled daughter,
who are held as assisted immigrants on the
ground that the girl is unable to do work of
any kind. The woman had $50 and was on her
way to join her husband at Caldwell, Kan,
Yesterday the acting secretary of the treasury
directed the collector to allow the woman and
girl to proceed, as it is obvious they are not
assisted immigrants.
USELESS ExPENsE.-W. C. Jones, the dis
trict attorney near Colville Indian reservation.
Washington territory, who was asked to prose-
cute one Indian for having murdered another,
has replied to the Indian bureau that he did not
think the legal expense would be justified by
the result as no jury would bring in a true bill
against one Indian for killing another Indian.
Posr OFFICE DsPREDATIoNs.-Chief Post
Office Inspector Rathbone is informed of the
arrest at Bentonville, Ark, of Jonathan r.
Cunningham, the absconding postmaster of
Coffeesburg. No.; also of an unsuccessful at
tempt last night to rob the post office at Way
Cross, Ga. One negro has been arrested as
engaged In the attempt to rob the post Office.
To ATTEND PRESBYTERIAN CELEBRATION
1t is announced that the President has accepted
an invitation to be present at the celebration at
Neshaming, Bucks county, Pa, September s, to
inc aF he 4
College, the first institution in this country
wherein young men were given an opportunity
to study for the Presbyterian ministry. Post
master General Wanamaker, Gov. Beaver and
Others are to deliver addresses.
To TAKE PART IN THE TEsr.-The naval
bureau of steam engineering has been in
formed that Charles Ward Of Charleston, w.
Va, and the Cowles company of New York
will be ready to take part in the competitive
test Of coil boilers directed by the Navy de-
partment within the specified time. The test
Is to be made to determine the relative value
OF various coil boilers.
THEY WERE WILLING TO BID.-Severai Of the
representatives of ship building firms who were
present yesterday at the opening of bids for
five new cruisers at the Navy department saw
they would have offered proposals had thew
known that this was allowable when bids were
nous in the belief that naval vessels cannot be
built at the prices fixed by Congress, The fact
that the bids offered yesterdayswer greatly in
excess OF the appropriations will be used as an
argument toward securing additional naval ap-
preparations next year.
A CoMBrNATIoN OF PoMoLooY AND SHORTHAND
WANTED.-There will be an examination at the
rooms of the civil service commission on Fri
day the 30th instant, commencing at Gam. of
applicants for the position of pomological clerk
IN the Agricultural department.. In addition
TO good knowledge Of pomology the appli-
cants must be competent stenographers and
typewriters. The subjects Of the basis examine
tion will be photography. penmanship, copy
ing, letter-writing. arithmetic and pomology.
Pomoiogy, being the important subject will be
SO weighted as to make it constitute IS per cent
of the basis examination. Typewriting and
stenography will be given as supplementary
examinations.
ARMY ORDERs.-Cspt. Geo. b. Russell, ninth
infantry, ordered to conduct a detachment of
recruits from New York to the department. of
Arizona Capt. Henry B. Freeman, seventh
infantry, ordered to repair to St. Paul, Mimi,
and report by letter to the superintendent OF
the recruiting service for duty under him.
First Lieuts. Geo. I. 7. Patterson, fourteenth
try, ordered to duty at Dsvid's Island, NY, on
recruiting service.
Mn. CHAs. J. ELDRrpoE is acting chief clerk
Of the commissary generals office during the
vacation Of Chief Clerk D. Q. Caindry.
The EUROPEAN Dock YARDS REpoRr.-The
second edition Of the report on European dock
yards by Naval Constructor Philip Hichborn,
United States navy. has been delivered and is
now ready for distribution at the Navy depart
ment The demand for the report induced the
government to place Q more seryiceable bind