Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-07-14
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

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Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL REvRNUB-The receipts from this
source to-day were s5e9, l27.16.
PRESIDENT GRANT is not expected to return
to Washington this week.
ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAMS is suffering
with the catarrh.
SECRETARY robson is expected to return
to Washington to- night.
COMMISSIONER DOUGLASS is suffering from
residence to-day.
CHIEF ENGINEER CHARLES E. DEvALIN has
been ordered to duty as inspector of machinery
afioat at the navy yard, Portsmouth, N. II.
THE ACCOUNTS of the late Paymaster Hodge
have been settled at the second auditors office,
and show an actual deficit of sf43, ll6.21, which
will be lost to the government.
WIN. d. O'CoNNoR was to-day appointed chief
clerk of the lighthouse board, to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation of A. b. John
son.
A PROPOSITION to interchange postal cards
has been made by the Postmaster General to
the representatives of Great Britain in this
country, but no response has yet been received.
THR REVENUE CUTTER ADVANCE, having
been repaired in Pugitt's sound, has been
ordered to return to Sitka, Alaska, and resume
her cruising in those waters.
THE FREE-DELIvERY SYSTEM has just been
established by the Post Office department in
Wheeling, West Virginia; Springfield and Fall
River, Massachusetts; and Fort Wayne, In
diana.
EARL c. FAIR, whose arrest on the charge OF
bigamy was noticed in THE STAR of Saturday,
was to-day removed from his position as first
class clerk in the Post Office department, to
take effect Tomorrow.
CHANGE OF RoUrE-From and after this
date the mails from Washington and Baltimore
fcr Pittsburg, will be forwarded by the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad via Cumberland in
stead of by the Northern Central and Pennsyl-
vania railroads as heretofore, thereby gaining
several hours in transit.
THE FOLLOWING APPOINTMENTS were re-
ceived from the President to-day for record
Mrs. s. S. Farrell, postmistress at Covington,
KY; j. W. &. Bryant collector of internal
revenue, 4th Tennessee; John G.. Saville, In
dian agent for the Red Cloud agency, Wyoming;
James McLeer, pension agent, Brooklyn, n Y.
COMMISSIONER SMITH, of the Indian bureau,
He goes first to Wisconsin, then to Minnesota,
and thence to Dakota. He will visit many
tribes OF Indians during his tour, and will re-
turn to Washington about the latter part of
August. In October he will leave for Texas
for the purpose of holding a council with the
kiowas and Comanches.
THE PoLARrs ExPEDIrIoN.-The departure
of the Tigress from the Brooklyn navy yard on
her trial trip was delayed till late hour Satur-
day afternoon, in consequence of the discovery
of another leak. 1t Is said that an anger hole
had been left unplugged and the outside plank
ing mad not been eaulked. She NAV not COM
mence her long voyage northward until to-
morrow.
THE BR1TIsH-ANRRIcAN CLAIMS CoMMIs-
SION, by a recent ruling, declared that claims
against the United States government were
barred which had their origin subsequent to the
day fixed by the Treaty of Washington as the
date of the close of the rebellion. This ruling
ing to several million of dollars, which had been
prepared for presentation to the commission.
The owners OF these claims have called meet
ing as announced in cable dispatches.
PARIS PERsoNAL.-Hon. j. NJ. and Mrs
Brodbead and Mr.. and Mrs. A. Morrell have left
Paris for Vienna by the way of Trieste and
Venice. IA, S. Abel, proprietor of the Bal
tlmore Sun, is now in Lo:.dCn, and is daily ex-
pected in Paris. '".Mrs. FillebIown, wife OF
Captain Fillebrown, commanding the United
States ship Wachusett, European station, has
arrived out, and is at present at Dresden. Mrs.
f. is accompanied by her two sons and her sis
ter, Miss Paths, OF Observation-Disclosures
Register, June 2s.
WANT FREE DELIvRRY.-A large number
Of applications are pouring into the Post Office
department from different small cities asking
for the establishment of the free delivery sys-
tenn, and, in all cases, where the last census
shows the population of q town to be %, 900 or
more the requests are favoraby considered.
1t may be safely said that almost every city in
the United States except Georgetown, ID. c.,
desires the advantages of the free delivery sys-
tenn: AS heretofore stated in THE STAR, towns
having less than 20 900 inhabitants adjoining
large cities may have the free delivery by coI--
ssentng to the substitution Of postal station
the jurisdiction Of larger office in the immedi-
ate vicinity.
SOCIETY CHAT.-Among the Washingtonians
in Newport are Miss Beckwith, Miss Jennie
Lowry, DIR. Harry Lindsay, Thomas L. Wise,
General f. W. Rice and representatives of the
French, italian and Prussian legations.
Mrs: Admiral Rodgers and Mrs j. v. Niles are
and sisters have taken cottage at Cape May.
Mrs. Franklin Steele and daughters will
leave shortly for Europe. ''.'General and
Mrs. Chapman were in Vienna the latter part
of June. ....COioneI Mack and family will
spend the summer at Squan Beach, n. j.
Rev. Father Keane, of St. Patrick's church.
lcdVes LOT Europe on the 18TH inst ''''T The
family of Surgeon General Barnes are at Long
Branch.
PERsoNAL.-Donn Piatt must have been pretty
sea-sick on his voyage out. ....Gen. Francis
A. Walker, head of the Census bureau and
professor in the Yale scientific school, was
chosen vice president Of the Amhurst Alumni
association at the recent commencement.
Senator Anthony's portrait, done in crayon by
Mr.. Thorp, of this city, at the expense of the
officers and clerks of the Senate, who took the
necessary action in May last, has just been pre-
sented by them to the Redwood library, Of
Newport, X. L. Rear Admiral JAS Alden,
late In command of the European station, ar
rived in this city on Saturday, and is the guest
OF Commander VIM. Reynolds, chief Of the
bureau Of equipment and repair. ....Mr. A.
Schucking has been appointed Consular Agent
of the German Empire at Washington.
A sTATxMBNr having been circulated through
the country to the effect that Hon. 8. H. Syph-
er's name had been placed officially upon the
rolls of the 43d Congress as representative from
Louisiana, his contestant, Mr.. Lawrence pub
fishes the following in contradiction Of tho