Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-15
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL REvESUE.-The receipts from this
source to-day were Ss,0.074.s5.
SEE Thanksgiving Proclamation elsewhere by
Mayor Bowen.
Mrs. YELvERToN, Of London divorce notori-
city, is in this city, and proposes to give readings
this winter.
PRESIDENT GRANT will spend Thanksgiving
at the Executive Mansion, and has invited the
officers of his old stat, with their wives, to dine
with him on that day.
SEVERAL NAVY OFFICERS are now at Fort
Wlipple, on the Virginia side Of the Potomac.
learning the army code of signals. A regular
navy signal corps is to be organized.
Hon. GEORGE HARRINGTON, formerly Assis-
tant Secretary OF the Treasury, and late minister
to Switzerland, reached this city yesterday with
his family, from Europe.
THERE are many excellent suggestions in the
address of Superintendent Richards to the
teachers upon school government, and We Invite
attention to it.
PERsoNAL.-HOn. Reverdy johnson, of Mary
land, and Cornelius Stagg, of California, are at
Wizards. ''''General Marcy is at the Metro
pOlitan.
A SUPERVISOR ARREsrED.-Informatio ha.
been received at the Internal Revenue Office
that the Sheriff Of Philadelphia has arrested
Supervisor Sutton of that city for seizing dis
tillery.
HIS LAST WORK.-It is said that the last
work on which Hon. Robert j. Walker was en-
gagged was statistical article showing that New
York in time would surpass London as a COM
mercial centre.
HON. JAMES F. WILSON, Of Iowa, who has
been i'll this city since Friday last left here to-
day for Boston, to attend a meeting of the Gov
ernment Directors Of the Union Pacific Railroad
Company.
1HE PRESIDENT this afternoon received a
large number of visitors. During this forenoon
he had interviews with Judge Wilson, of Iowa.
Mr.. Bowles, of Paris; Secretaries Fish an !
Robeson, Postmaster General CressweIl, and
General Sherman.
The POSTMASTER GENERAL will soon issue N
order prohibiting the carriage through the
mails OF circulars gotten up by swindling firms
Tor the purpose Of defraudng tho public. Some
twenty OF these firms are on the place list of
Government detectives.
EX-SECRETARY STANTON is in town. We ra-
gret 10 say that his health is but little imnroveJ
and he is still very feeble. He and Mrs. Stanton
called at the Executive Mansion TODAY TO see
MIS-. Grant, but as she was not in, they did not
leave the carriage.
MISS EssIE HovEY, daughter of Gen. Hoyey
I. ). Minister to Peru, was married i'm New
York last Thursday to Lieutenant G. ". Mem
zies, of the u. s. Navy. During her residence
in Lima. Miss II. was much respected and adj
mired bs the foreign residents of that city.
The MAINE SRNAToRsHIP.-The Republican
papers of Maine seem to be quite unanimous in
their Endorsement of the appointment of Lot NJ.
Morriil to the United States Senate in place of
the late Senator Fessenden, and think he will
be the best representative of the State at Wash
ingtOn.
BARON GEABOw, formerly Secretary of the
Russian Legation i'm this city, but now repre-
senting that Government at Venezuela, was re-
Gently on his way to Caracas, when the serious
illness of his wife, an American lady, forced the
party to stop at Laguayra, and thence to proceed
W
JHESENATE SECRETARYsHIP.-Senat Coles
friends emphatically deny the truth of the pub
lished statements that the Senator has any i'll
feeling against MIR. GOrham, the present Secre-
tary, OF that the Senator will endeavor to secure
the appointment of his brother, General Cole. of
the Hiscock tragedy, in SIr. Gorman's place.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PREsIDENT-The
President to-day appointed James K Wheeler.
OF Massachusetts, to be U. s. Consul at Kings
ton, Jamaica, vice Aaron Gregg, suspended
Orrin j. Rose, Of Illinois, TO be U. s. Consul
at AncOna, Italy.
JnO. T. Robson, of Tennessee, to be U. s
Consul at Tangier, Morocco, vice 4. A. Mat
thews, suspended.
GEN. l.. G. ESTES, late Collector second North
Carolina district, publishes 4 card in answer to
the published statements that he was defaulter
TO the Government in the sum of $4,000, DENY
ing their truth, and saying =" There is deficit
in my account as collector of internal reyenne
OF about that sum, caused by two OF nv depu-
ties The Government being informed of the
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