Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-07-28
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL REvENUE.-The receipts from this
source to-day were s465,15S.Ol.
THE SUBSCRIPTIONS to the new loan to-day
were only 81 600.
GRACE GREENWOOD will go from Chicago to
the Pacific coast next week.
MRS. PRESIDENT GRANT will soon issue cards
for full-dress reception at Long Branch, it is
| said.
Gov. COOKE did not arrive here this morning
as was expected, but has telegraphed that he
will be here by the evening train.
Gov. RANDOLPH (of New Jersey and family
passed through here this morning en- route to the
Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs.
WE UNDERSTAND that the counsel for the
District in the injunction suit of tomorrow will
be VIM. A. Cook, Caleb Gushing, Nathaniel
Wilson, and Samuel l.. Philips.
SPEAKER BLAINE is at his home in Augusta,
Maine, and will remain there during the Sum
mer, Notwithstanding the newspaper reports
which sent him to Europe and elsewhere.
GEN. JOSEPH MESSENGER, of Athens, Ohio, is
in town, accompanied by his son Charles, who is
en- route to West Point to be examined for adj
mission to the Military Academy.
THE NEW FRENCH MISIsTRR.-The govern
ment has official notice of the appointment OF
Jules Ferry as the Minister of the government
of France to this capital.
president GRANT was in PHILADELPHIA YES
terday to see his son Frederick OFF for the West,
the latter having resigned his position in the
army and accepted an appointment as civil
engineer on the Pacific railroad.
GEN. n. MIcHLER, late Commissioner of
Public Buildings and Grounds, left here last
evening for San Francisco, to enter upon the
discharge of his duties there. His family remain
here until the Fall.
MORE MONEY ORDER OFFIcEs.-Arranpe-
ments have been perfected at the Post Office
Department to establish several hundred addi-
tonal money order offices in the States and Ter
ritorles, and they will be put into operation on
Monday next. O-
MIR. JOHN GENNADIUs, a Greek gentleman
long resident in London, has been appointed
secretary of the Greek Legation here. Mr.. Gen
nadius is himself a man of unusual ability and
accomplishments, and his father was the
founder OF public instruction in Greece.
r. r. COMMISSIONERS APPoINTED.-The Sec
rotary OF the Interior to-day nominated Robert
Lee, of GAINESVILLE, Ohio, George Outton, of San
Francisco, and Mr. Wilson, of Minnesota.
examine a section of twenty miles lately com
pleted on the Southern Pacific Railroad of Cali
fornia. ~
MORE JAPs CoMING.-Prince Schemidzo ,Ju-
CAD and party Of twenty nine japanese young
men arrived in New York yesterday from San
Francisco. having recently arrived in this coun-
try for the purpose of completing their educa-
ION and becoming acquainted with our mechan-
ical inventions. The party, portion of them
at least expected 70 arrive here in the course
OF few days.
THE latest matrimonial engagement an
nounced is that of Miss Chandler, only daughter
OF the millionaire Senator from Michigan to
MIR, Eugene Hale, the young, handsome and
eloquent representative in Congress from the
Fifth Maine district. 1t is said that the lady's
parents only consent to the engagement upon
condition that the young couple shall reside with
them after the marriage, as they are unwilling
to separate from their only child.
THE FOLLOWING APPOINTMENTS have been
made in the Post Office Department ID. E.
Miller, John G.. Burritt and Rev. ID. SimOns to
frst-class clerkships, and John s. Bryan
laborer.
The following changes have been made in the
clerical force Of the General Land Office: James
Office of the Secretary of the Interior and
Eugene A. Fiske, of Massachusetts promoted
70 eerkship OF class three, vice Redington
transferred.
POSTMASTER GENERAL CREswELL has re-
turned from Long Branch, where he went to
obtain the signatures of the President TO the
treaty for the interchange of money orders be-
tween the United States and the United King
dom OF Great Britain; also, TO a postal conven-
ton between the United States and the Argen-
tine Confederation, which latter treaty estab-
fishes direct exchange between the United
States and the Argentine Republic, by means of
a line OF mail steamships plying between New
YORK and Rio Janeiro, and between the latter
point and Buenos Ayres. The single rate OF
postage established by this convention, (which
takes effect on day to be designated by the re-
spect1ve postal departments of the two countries
nxes the postage on the single letter of half ounce
or under at Is cents.
THE INJUNcT1oN.-EditOr of The Star Are
you not too hard on the gentlemen "a. Grant,
Plant, Riggs & Coz who have gotten out the
injunction to stop improvements in this District?
Every man has right to protect his own inter
est, either by injunction or otherwise. This, |
think, you Will cOncede. Now, have not the men
who have been living 30 long by buying ''corpo-
ration scrip at 50 cents on the dollar right to
complain when proposition is made to borrow
money and pay cash to the contractor and laborer
Tor public work? For, if this is done, is not the
occupation of the money shaver gone, so far as
the scrip order business is concerned? 1t is well
known that there are gentlemen, prominent i'm
this matter OF injunction, who have grown rich
on shaving corporation scrip and orders. They
Oh course, do not want their business ruined by |
any cdsh system In our community, hence they |
can anord 10 spend few thousands to delay the /
introduction of such a rainous thing to their
business, as our District authorities PROPOSE
namely: To pay one hundred cents on the dollar
i hn PUBIC work. Don't, 1 beg of you, be too /
haru on these disinterested gentlemen.
iHE WEEKLY STAR for this week, just out, is 1
a capital number, containing a full account of /
the Arsenal disaster; the Center Market Inyesti-