Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-06-14
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL REvENUE-The receipts from this
source to-day were s427 ,z5o2i.
amounted TO $4,000.
GENERALS SHERMAN and Sheridan left Fort
Leavenworth yesterday for Omaha
SECRETARY FrsH is soon to start ON a tour
across the continent.
Gov. LINDSAY, of Alabama, who came here 10
testify before the Southern Reconstruction Com
mittee, is quite sick.
THE RESULT of the recent examination at the
Naval Academy has been to put back and drop
between thirty and forty cadets.
LIEUT.. GEN SHERIDAN win preside at the
third annual reunion of the army and navy OF
the Gulf, to be held at Newport, Il. L., July 1th
BAKoS GERoIr will sail for Germany judy I.
The silver service, for which $1,000 have been
subscribed by some Of his friends, will be
presented to him before his departure.
THBU. s. STEAMER KANSAS, which conveyed
the iron-clads from Key West to Philadelphia,
will shortly be ordered back to her station in the
West Indies.
" VICE ADMIRAL Rowan left here this morning
for the summer, to endeavor 30 recover his
health, seriously impaired while he was in COM
mand OF the Asiatic squadron. EsFs "a =
q THEODORE W. DIXON has been appointed
discussing clerk in the State Department in
place Of Geo. L. Baker, appointed Comptroller
of this city.
OK DIT that the Postmaster General has de-
cided that the Honorable members OF the Terri
torial Legislature are not entitled TO the Thanking
privilege.
The SOUTHERN CLAIMS COMMISSION are to-
day examining the cases Of David and George
Aud, Georgetown; Leonard Bowman, Joel
Mann and Richard L. Patterson, Of Culpeper,
Va, and Zaimon Richards, Of this city. s.
Mr.. CoLpAxs physicians Csays an Indianspo-
lis paper now insist on his giving up public
speaking and letter-writing, with rare eIeep-
tons and confine himself to oficial labors alone
during the two remaining years OF bis term.
AN IMMENSE EDITION OF Senator Carpenters
speech in behalf OF the privileges OF the Senate
has been printed, and bulky packages are being
distributed to the different Senators subscribing
forit.
Mr.. HENRY ULKE has just finished life-size
portrait, in oil, Of DIR. A. r. Shepherd, which
he will be glad to exhibit for few days 20 his
friends who NAV visit his studio. The likeness
i pronounced success by those who have eI-
AHMED it.
Hon. l.. b. WAsHBURNE, Minister to France
has received permission TO make short visit at
home this summer, and will avail himself OF it
should affairs in France become sufficiently
settled TO make it practicable for him to be
absent from his posi-.
81 l. a
circular instructing revenue officers that no
encouragement should be given to the COM
mencement of prosecutions for merely technical,
slight and unintentional offences, and that all
complaint presented by professional informers
should receive careful scrutiny before the COM
mencC ment Of prosecutions thereupOn'
THE MARRIAGE of Lieut.. Commander Jewell,
Of the navy, to Miss Lizzie PoOre, daughter of
Rear Admiral Poore, will take place at st.
Johns (EpiscopaD church, tomorrow afternoon
at lf-nast O'Clock. The hour first fixed was
o'block. but as the evening service is held at
that time the wedding will be half an hour
sooner.
HARK FROM THE TOMBs The publication
in the New York Herald of an interview between
Robert Toombs, OF Georgia, and reporter for
that paper will probably result in the summon
ing OF Mr.. TOombs before the Southern Recon
struction Committee To see II he will testify TO
the remarkable statements purpOrting to be
made by him in that interview.
PERsoNAL.-Sidney Andrews, journalist, is
in town in greatly improved health we are glad
to say. ......G. W. Smalley, the well-known
London correspondent of the New York TIbune
is coming TO Washington as the guest Of Senator
Sumner FOR few days 1900. Mrs. Howard, OF
Georgetown, Massachusetts,, a writer for the
press Of considerable note, Is in town.
BAD FOR ALABAMA.-Rev. A. S. Lakin, who
at the close of the war was sent to Alabama by
Bishop Clark to organize the Methodist Episco-
pal Church in that State, was yesterday
examined before the Ku-KluX committee and
gave accounts Of several ministers either muir
dered required to leave their circuits, and
said affairs in Alabama are as bad as ever.
Union men were prescribed, insulted and
maltreated, and frequent murders were commit
ted.
EX-SENATOR CATTRLL is here and will proba-
bly, accept the appointment recently rendered
him of commissioner under the civil service
section of the last miscellaneous appropriation
bin. Mr.. Cattell does not cOnstrue the law as
devOlving any duty upon the commission except
to mature and present plan for the remodeling
of the civil service. The work of bringing the
service up to the plan which may be adopted will
be a subsequent work for the several departments
and their executive officers.
PROMOTION AND APPoINTMESTs-John A.
Smith, assistant clerk on the cars between
anu NC" 1Oihg pIOulOJSu De
clerk on that route at 81 200 per annum, vice,
G.. z. Pennington resigned. W. NJ. Martin is
appointed assistant clerk on the Washington and
New York route vice Smith promoted William
A. Bearman, of Maryland, has been appointed
to FIRST class clerkship in the general land
office. DIR. j. o. Stanton, of Washington, l.
appointed an examining surgeon of the patent
office.
THE COTTON CRoP.-A careful estimate Of
the yield of the cotton crop this year places the
total number OF bales as low 300 900. Another
estimate places the decrease Of the number OF
acres in cotton at 900 900. Texas, however, is
not included In the above estimates In North
Carolina the falling of I'm cotton planting is esti
mated at 10 per cent, and, as the weather has
been unfavorsble, the cotton IL poor. South
Carolina has one-flfth less cotton under cultiya-
ton this year than last. Georgia shows a De-
crease of about is per cent, Mississippi u per
cent, and Louisiana 10 per cent The weather
IN the latter State has been more favor able than
in the other Southern States.
XnnK OK THE " AsHINarox Aorrnrrcn A..