Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-07-08
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL REvEsur.-The receipts from this
source to-day were 1922, 23o.5S.
THE REVENUE STEAMER JOHN A. DIX, which
| has been refitting at New York, sailed for New
Orleans last night, at which port she will be
| hereafter stationed.
TIE DIES for the trade dollar are to be CON-
pleted between the 9th and 10th insts. As vet
the Treasury department is without an Install
ment, but expects the same at an early date.
AN ORDER just issued from the War depart
ment directs that, in conformity with existing
law, hereafter the proceedings of all general
courts-martial convened by department COM
manders shall be transmitted by them direct to
the bureau of military justice as soon as the
same are completed.
GOV. DAVIS, of Texas, leaves Washington
| this week for New York, to make some efforts
to dispose of 100000 worth of Texas bonds,
bearing seven per cent. interest, payable in
| gold. The state debt now is about al Goo OO0 a
| greater part of which was incurred by main
tanning troops for the frontier defence.
THE REPORT of the Attorney General upon
| interrogations submitted to him by the Secre-
tary of War as to how the government should
| proceed to recover to claimants losses occa-
stoned by Irregularities In the Freedmen's.Sa.
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tomorrow. An abstract Of the opinion is being
prepared for publication.
| PKRsoYAL.-Hon. Glenni W. Schofeld, of
Pa, is in this city. FLAMES II. Saville, chief
clerk of the Treasury. left for New York last
| flight. During his absence Charles f. Conant
assumes the duties of chief clerk. Three
| members elect to the Forty-third Congress are
desd-James Brooks, William Whiting, and j.
G. Wilson, of Oregon.
| THE PoLARIs RELIEF ExPEDIT1oS.-The
repairs to the Tigress having baen completed,
| she is taking in stores and instruments at New
| York to-day, and will be ready to sail In few
| days. The New York correspondent of the Phil
| adelpbia Inquirer says;-She will take out As
| crew part of the survivors of the Polaris party
| and the rest will be shipped specially for the
cruise. A board of officers will be ordered from
| Washington to survey the Tgress before she
sails, and to officially report her condition 70
the Navy Department.
NEWS PROM THE YELLOWSTONE EXPEDITION.
| 4 dispatch received from SANKEY'S Yellowstone
| expedition, dated at camp, seventy miles west
| of Bismarck, Dakota, June so, states that the
| health of the whole command was good. The
| Indians were offering no serious resistance TO
the location of the railroad through their hunt
| ing grounds. Abundant coal, of good quality
was found twenty seven miles west of the Mis-
souri, river on the surveyed line of the road, and
the country thus far traversed by the expedi-
tonary force is an excellent one, well grassed
and watered.
| DEBARRRD PROM PRACTICE BEFORE THE ~
| DIAN BUREAU.-The Commissioner of Indian
| Affairs, has informed Douglas II. Cooper of
| the firm of Chas. f. Mix q Co., Indian claim
agents. of this city, that he is hereafter debarred
| from practcing as claim agent before the In
dian office and from visiting or comforting with
| its clerks. The order also includes the
| other members of the firm, viz, Chas. f. Mix
| late chief clerk of the Indian ONCE, and j. H.
b. Latrobe, of Baltimore. This order grows
| out OF charge preferred against Cooper in the
settlement Of his accounts as agents for the
put in a receipt dated May 4, 1896. for
Sl46, 32252, money alleged to have been paid 70
the representatives of the Choctaw nation, but
to receive the money: Their authority was re-
pudiated by that nation and remains claim
| against the government.
CLERICAL APPOINTMENTS AND PROMO
TloNs.-The following appointments and pro-
motions, based on civil service examination
have just been made in the Patent office :-B.
w Pond, VIM: A. Bartlett, s; w; Stocking and
VIM. b. Doolittle, appointed third assistant
examiners, and Worth OsgoOd promoted from
first assistant to principal examiner.
Abe Albert w: Bingham Il. Mich, has been pro
| finance Office Of the Post Office department
and Thomas H. Janvier from I'd to Sd class in
once for reign. mails, same department. Miss
ployed as q translator in the Post Office depart
me- mt, at salary of 81 400 der year.
i Deen promoted
Sd class clerkships in the Pension ofice:-D.
Birtwel, ID. /. Murphy, l.. G.. Black, A.w.
Fisher, 9. E. Beals, w: Davis, $: 2. Plat,
j: W. Morris, and Liftleton long. .
HOWARD UsIvERsIrY-Report Of a COMMITTEE
] to Investigate Gen. Hoacard.-The members of
1 the committee appointed by the trustees of
| Howard University to consider and report upon
l certain statements assailing the financial man
| agement Of Howard University, and more es-
pecially designed to reflect upon Its president,
i Gen. Howard, have submitted their report.
l They say that no single dollar Of the university
money was ever voted as gratuity to General
Howard; nor any money al any time, urler
l any preteXt, to which he was not Justly entitled
in consideration for valuable and Indispensable
services.
The report is signed by Frederick Douglass,
George E. Baker and Rev. Ebenezcr Whfpple,
the other member Of the committee being alb
sent from the city. There is appended to the
report a statement of the available resources
and total liabilities of the first of July instant
The total resources are S213 ,4l193; total liabil
tiles, s94 ,666 05-leavIng balance of available
l resources of Sis, 775.sS. In addition to this a
| statement shows the value of property perma-
| nently reserved, for university purposes, to be
| 1888 ,91669 The university possesses property
valued at 81 ,051 16f, some OF which is, however,
| not productive at present. statement is also
| submitted, showing Gen. Howard's receipts
from the university. and his disbursements
from his private funds for the university since
l his connection with it. He has received, in
| Guiding the 81 900 of back pay recently voted
| nun, SlI ,5S5, and has expended on account of
the university, in contributions TO destitute stu
dents, loans, subscriptions, endowments, &C.,
| S16,9O6.18. The latter statement is certified to
| be correct by two accountants who have ex-
| amined Gen. HOward's books and papers. o..
|
| RUSSIAN SUCCESS Es IN KHIvA.-Advices
| from London bring interesting news concerning
| the Khivan expedition. The town of Nangit,
which made desperate resistance, was fred
| and destroyed, and another one has surrendered
| without resistance. Ten thousand Persian
L repOrted q nd in
and have been taken under the protection of
| Russia.
MOTHERS DEvoTIoN.-Mrs. John Galley,
| Of 1ngraham, H., attempted to kinde o fire
with kerosene, and an explosion followed which
al enveloped her In flames. Her little boy was
standing near, and his clothing also caught fire.
The mother saved her boy by extinguishing the
/ flames upon him while she herself was being
i roasted alive. .1. - sI. 49,. =.
i SHOT WHILE XALKIua WITH Hrs WIxR-