Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-09-03
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

| IL IAN LINZ O1 AN.
Washington News and Gossip.
INTERVAL REvKSuE-The receipts from this
source to-day were s2s4,559
SECRETARY BKLKNAP returned this morn
| ing.
GIN. BABCocK leaves for Long Branch to-
| morrow night
COMMISSIONER DOUGLASS returned to the CITY
this morning improved in health and strength.
LIEUT.. HARRY KNOX has been detach, d
from duty at the torpedo station, Newport, K.
l., and placed on waiting orders.
ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAMS returned
from Syracuse last night, and resumed his Off
cisl duties at the Del artmenr of Justice this
morning.
ANOTHER counterfeit $500 greenback was re
ceived at the sub-treasury in New York yester-
day. Three have been received there 30 far.
All are believed to come from the West.
THE WORCESTER, flagship of Rear Admiral
6. H. Scott, arrived at Bermuda August 2lst
and the Wyoming August 2sth. The Powhatan
arrived at New York September LIST, from Hall
fax.
ALL the Pottowatamies and $50 Kickapoos,
who have been some time resident in Mexico.
have left that country to return to the United
States and enter on the reservation offered them
in Kansas.
WORK on the new National theater is making
good Roadway this fine weather, and the enter
prising and popular Manager Saville is con-
fident of his ability to finish and furnish IL in
time for brilliant reopening in November. So
mote 1t be.
PKRsoNAL-Superintend McCartee, of
the bureau Of engraving and printing, left here
last night for New York to personally superin-
tend the arrangements for the early issue Of
new twenty, ten, and two dollar circulating ma
tonal bank notes, ii being the intention of the
department to prepare these notes as soon as
possible.
IN REPLY to question submitted to him, the
Acting Solicitor of the Treasury department
has decided that a Canadian steamer cannot
take excursion parties from an American port
to Canadian ports, even If she travel partly in
Canadian waters, or touch at American ports
with such an exclusion, without first complying
with the act of 1898.
THR PRESIDENT has been visited at Long
Branch during the last few days by Secretary
Belknap and Assistant Secretary Cowen. Sec
rotary Richardson is there now, and matters re-
latng to their respective departments are dis
posed OF as promptly as If the President were in
washington. MIR. Dent, the father of Mrs.
Grant, is still in very feeble condition though
not cOnnneu 10 his bed.
HARMON b. DELANo, eldest son of John q.
Delano, chief clerk Of the Interior department.
and grandson Of the Secretary of the Interior,
died at St. Paul, Minnesota, on the 10Th ult., of
typhoid fever, in the 18th year of his age after
an illness of twenty eight DAYS. The Secretarv
and Mrs. Delano were in attendance with the
parents at the bedside of the child during the
greater portion of his illness and at the time of
his death.
THE INDIANS ABOUT FoRr SILL ALL PEACE
ABLE-The Commissioner Of Indian Affairs
yesterday received letter from Fort Sill, writ
ten August 2lst, one day later than the reported
massacre, from j. NJ. Haworth, Indian agent at
that post. He states that the Indians are more
Peaceably disposed than ever, and have been
30 that they might be be delivered to their own
ers. He believes that IL the present peace mol
icy be persevered in the Indians will be thor
oughiy HARMONIC ed, the Texas border put in a
safe condition so far as the Indians in tn at quar-
ter are concerned, and millions of dollars and
many lives saved.
THE COUNTERPART $500 NOTES.-The Treas
ury department has received information that
one Of the new counterfeit $500 notes was pre-
sented at Des Mones, Iowa, last month to one
OF the banks in that CITY and was refused The
fact Of the existence Of the counterfeit was sent
TO the other banks in the city, but before re-
ceiving word one of them had taken the note
The person passing 1t was arrested and held to
bail In the sum Of So 900. which he deposited
with his attorney and absconded. 1t is believed
by the department that an organized gang are
operating In different sections Of the country
and that no large amounts OF the bogus NOT es
have been passed in any one place.
REJECTION OF 80 900 POSTAL CARps,-Postal
Card Agent Tyner writes Third Assistant Post
master General Barber from Springfield, saying
that on the 10Th ult. he rejected 900 sheets, or
about 1000 postal cards, on account Of the mis-
cradle printing and poor quality Of paper. Mr..
Morgan, OF the contracting firm, said he would
like TO save as many cards from the lot as pos
siole, whereupon the agent requested him to
show any cards in the whole lot that were equal
to the contract requirement. The contractor
cut from one sheet two cards, which he said
were good enough 10 issue. The cards are in
closed in the letter to Gen. Barber, and are very
poor specimens Of typography. Mr.. Tyner or
dered that the whole 81, 600 cards be DESTROYED
and the department has approved Of his action
About two million more postal cards will be ra-
CURED to complete the orders from all the post
offices.
AN INDIGNANT GUAGRR OF internal revenue,
Of Kenton, Ohio, who had his head (oflcially)
chopped of, writes thusly to the commissioner
Of internal revenue :-"Sometime in June, 1873,
1 seen notice in the Daily Gazette, Of Cincin-
natl, that w. s. Robinson had been appointed
as guager. inquired of the collector OF the
district If such was the fact, and received no
answer from the ID little jew. 1 was re-
moved without a cause, SIMPLY because 1 re-
quired the collector to do his duty as he could
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