Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-07-03
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.


INTERNAL RErENUE.-The receipts from thi
source to day were $40 ,256.17.
GOVERNOR COOKE returned to the city last
evening.
MARTIN B. KETEs has been appointed post
master at Conneaut, Ohio, vice VIM. b. Chap
man, resigned.
GEN. FRANCIS A. WALKER, commissioner of
Indian affairs, returned from New York this
morning.
How Is THIS FOR HIGB?-The United States
Signal Service will shortly place an observer
upon the summit Of Pixies Peak, II, 900 feet
above the sea level, and more than twice the
altitude of Mount Washington. A Geographic
line to the summit is in contemplation.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PREsIDENr.-The
President made the following appointments to-
day: VIM. Birney, receiver of public monies,
and Henry S. Hartman, register of the land
Office for the eastern section of Florida James
L. Palmer, of this city, visitor to the govern
ment hospital for the insane; NJ. P. Berry, agent
for the Flat Heads and other confederated
Indian tribes in Montana Territory.
NAVAL SURGEONS Observation-Disclosures
A. L. Gibson ordered to the marine rendezvous
at Philadelphia. Assistant Surgeon Charles A.
Siegfried ordered to the Philadelphia navy
yard. Surgeon Samuel (. Shaw detached from
the naval hospital at New York and ordered to
duty at the torpedo station, Newport, r; L;
Passed Assistant Surgeon 4. Kershner detached
from the Philadelphia navy-yard and ordered
to temporary duty at New York navy hospital.
DEATH OF REAR ADMIRAL CRABBE-Thomas
Crabbe, rear admiral U. s. N, died at his resi-
dence, in Princeton, N. j., on Saturday night,
aged eighty-fOur years. Admiral Crabbe has
been connected with the navy for over sixty
years, and was well-known during the war
especially the earlier part. He was born in
Maryland in 1IsS, and afterwards removed to
De-, L.,
naval academy in 1909. He was made captain
in 1871, and from 1850 to 1855 had charge of
various Of the foreign squadrons. In 1862 he was
made commodore, and in 1866 rear admiral.
ARMY OFFICERS TRANsFERREp.-Captain G.
G. Smith, Q. NJ, has been directed to relieve
Major G. G. Sawtele temporarily of his duties
as chief quartermaster, department of Cali
fornia, and depot quartermaster at San Fran
cisco. Captain Sawtele has been ordered to
Philadelphia 10 report 10 the commanding gen.
eral, military division of the Atlantic, to relieve
Major A. K. Eddy, q. NJ, who will proceed to
San Francisco as chief quartermaster of the
department. of California. Military Store
keeper G. A. Alligood has been relieved from
ordered to Philadelphia for assignment to duty
at the Schuylkil. Arsenal, relieving Military
Storekeeper Y. Van Antwerp. who has been
ordered to Baltimore as acting assistant quar-
termaster.
"TRUNpLING THEIR WAR wHooPsn AS
Camp Supply, informs the War Department,
through General Pope, that the Kiowas are
again on the war path in the direction of Fort
Sill. General Pope, in forwarding the commu.
not fear general hostses Coone M hs SS1s
zie, commanding the 4th cavalry, in let
ter dated Fort Richardson, Texas, June 4, says
Indian depredations are becoming alarmingly
frequent, and that the depredators are Kiowas
and Cemanches, who are fed daily BY the Indian
agent on the Canadian river. In endorsing this
Communication, Lieut. Gen. Sheridan says all
the Indians on the reservation are engaged in
this "bad work" and that he sees no
way to stop their outrages except by
the action of the military at Fort Sill and Camp
permission to 60 in and wipe out the hostile In
dians, and says the idea of trying to protect the
long line of northern Texas from Indians WHO
are supplied with food, arms and ammunition
at the reservation, seems to him ridiculous.
REFORM AT MOUNT VKRNoN.-Col. MICH. Hol-
lingsworth, of Georgetown, recently appointed
superintendent OF the Mount Vernon estate, is
an intelligent and energetic gentleman, Of strict
business habits and unquestioned integrity, and
under his supervision the public may expect
speedy and thorough reform OF the alleged
abuses under the recent management, which
gave rise to so much scandal and bad feeling. He
has taken hold with vigor and as an earnest OF
what may be expected from him. has already
we understand, dispensed with the services of
the three female secretaries AS the accounts
might very well be kept in small sized memo
randum book, and the correspondence is not
large it is not believed the interests OF the estate
will suffer greatly from this reduction of force.
other reductions in the pay roll, by looping Oft
sinecures, have been made, we hear, effecting a
very considerable saving in that direction. AS
1t has been currently reported that some of the
female officers who lived with their families on
the estate had the names of members of said
families on the pay rolls, whose duties were not
very strictly defined and were certainly not very
arduOus it is to be presumed that Tire new super.
lntendent will look into the matter if he has not
already done so, as he has the requisite nerve to
apply the pruning knife where required. Colonel
HOllingsworth is a Marylander, but well known
in this District, having resided in Georgetown
for long time. He was for many years collector
OF the Chesapeake and Ohio canal at the
i Georgetown office.