Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-05-30

were closed to-day.
PROHIBITION AT FORTRESS MoNRoE.-Gen-
eral Barry has prohibited the sale OF spirituous
or malt liquors at Fortress Monroe.
INSPECTOR GENERAL HARDRE, U. S. A., in
late dispatch announces his arrival at Portland
oregon, from the lava beds, where he has been
in the course of his tour of inspection.
MILITARY CADET NoMINArED.-Represen
tIve-elect p. s. Crooke has nominated Master
John Mitchell, a son of the well-known resi-
dent of the Fifteenth ward, Brooklyn, of that
name, for a cadetship at West Point, and the
youth has been ordered bS the Secretary of the
navy to report at Annapolis for examination.
PROGRAMME for the concert by the Marine
band at the Presidents grounds tomorrow at
ternoon
1. Inmar Line Quick March, as played at
Boston Jubilee; Warren. 3 Selections from
William Tell; Rossini. 3. Autograph Waltz
and Intr. (by request); Strauss. 4. POtpouri
from III Trovatore; Verdi. 5. Quadrille (Con-
cordial; Bogenhout. 6. Merry Birds; Gumbert
Z. Dream on the Ocean; Gungel. .. Finale.
The concert will commence at o'cl'k prompt.
A REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE GAINED
An elaborate opinion, signed by all the judges
of the supreme court OF New Hampshire, has
been sent TO Governor Straw, to the effect that
when the town clerks record and return of
votes for representative in Congress are accord
the governor and council are not authorized to
require the clerk to amend his record and cor
rect an error in the count. This opinion of the
Judges will elect Austin L. Pike, republican, to
Congress from the I'd district.
WON'T HAVE Ir.-Representative Roosevelt
recently rendered to the New York department
of education his 81 100 back pay, but the board
has rejected the profferei gift, passing unani-
mously ''under the loud and prolonged applause
OF everybody in the hall" a resolution "that
highly approving and commenting that nice
sense of honor which makes the Hon. Mr.
Roosevelt unwilling to appropriate to his per-
sonal use any portion of that sum of money
which was voted by the late Congress in cir
cumstances so peculiar, and approaching and
sharing the sentiments which have affected his
judgment in deciding not to retain the same, do
hereby most respectfully decline to accept the
sum thus offered. on account Of its origin: as
defined by the donor"
PERsoNAL.-Cards are out for the wedding OF
Mr.. Henry ID. Cooke, jr., and Hiss Howell
Dodge, TO take place in st. Johns church.
Georgetown, on Wednesday evening next, June
18th. MIR. James Wilton Brooks, who in
herits his fathers share of the New York Err
Press, is now at Yale, being educated to take
his fathers position. Mile. Provost Paradol
a daughter OF the French minister in this coun,
try, whose death by suicide In this city caused
so much sorrow, has taken the vail at a convent
In Paris Mr.. James Bellew, the we'll
known bookseller and stationer on Seventh
street, will leave on the 5th of June for soj0urn
of four months in his native land-Ireland-for
the benefit OF his health. ON his return in the
fall, he will bring great many souvenirs of the
old land which will gladden. the hearts of our
Irish American population. ...E. ID. Webster,
esq, we'll known here from his connection with
the state department and the internal revenue
service, has been unanimously appointed super
intendent of Castle Garden by the new board
or emigration commissioners Of New York
The President was yesterday Inform by
Ex-Governor Jewell Of his acceptance of the APP
pointment as minister of Russia. The St.
Louis Republican of the 2sth SAYS s.NIiss Anna
Dickinson, we learn from q reliable pair of
lips, is to be married to-day to Senator Allison
of Iowa.