Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-11-16
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip,

INTERNAL REvESUE.-The receipts from this
source to-day were s579,75o1C.
The PRESIDENT Is not at home to-day 10 vIs-
itors excepting members ofhIs cabinet.
SECRETARY BELkEAP had an interview
with the Presid mt 20 day.
CENTENNIAL CoNMIssIoNRR-The Presi-
nthss appointed Stephen B. Elkins, OF New
Mexico, centennial commissioner.
THE AMOUNT of national bank otes received
a. the Treasury to-day for redemption tooys up
S272575.
TnE EXTENSION of leave Of absence granted
Captain Robert p. Wilson, 9TH cavalry. from
headquarters military division of the Pa:idc,
has been extended four months.
The RESIGNATION Of Second Lieuteusne
Quincy ON. Gilmore, 10th cavalry, has been
accepted by the President, 10 take effect No
vember 18Th, last.
Mrs. A. W. RANDALL, widow of the late
Postmaster General, who will be pleasantly
rent mbeTed in Washington society, has made
her a'JW as public reader with gratifying
success.
PCFTMAsTER GENERAL JEWELL orders that
hereafter certified checks deposited "a securitv
with the department by stage line bidders for
mail contracts shall be returned to the deposi-
tors oy mail instead OF personally or by agent.
TIE ARKANSAS MUDDLE,-Senator Dorsey
OF All ansas, called on Attorney General vii
hsms this morning in connection with the Ar
kansas mudfle. The Attorney General has as
yet taken DO action in the matter.
VISNIE RRAM's STATUE "The Westn WAS
exhibited in the st. Louis fair aud is now at the
Mercantile Library in that city. The St. Louis
pspers praise it warmly, and q project ia on
I
SATAKTA AND BIG TREE have been SAINT
under strong guard to Texas, to be turned
over to tie civil authorities of that state. Unless
the general government again interfares to save
them, II If Iretty certain that they will be hung
tor tleiI crimes.
IHR NAVAL COURT-MARTIAL appointed to
try Captain Truxton on the charge of careless
ness in allowing his ship, the B-oo klyn, to run
sgTound in Key West harbor, ret urned yer
dlct OF "not guilty" The udings OF the court
nave been approved by Secretary R1beSol.
and The court dissolved.
PROF. SERLYE, OF Amherst College, will be
the only clergyman in the Forty-fourth Con-
gTess- Hs is a doctor OF divinity, and was pas
tor of the First Reformed Church OF Scbenec-
5a1y when he accepted the pTOfessOTship. As
rule "cIristian statesmen" haven't 6One very
vel IN congress, but we hope tor better things
IB this instance.
principal creditors OF Mr.. Geo. II. Reay, whose
assignment is said to be due to the fact that he
tailed to get the post Office envelope contract,
are arsOus * Co., paper makers of Springfield
who furnished paper for the envelope contract
and the MessTs. PIere, OF Paris. The remain.
ing accounts are believed to be small.
The FRERDMEN's BANK.-Mr. Cressvsu. ona
the commissioners Of the Freemen's Bank, saws
It will require 100000 to enable the commits
-.Ouprc "a a uff a %.
rs Yet they have collected but $4,000 With
careful husbandry Of the resources Mr. Cras-
~ell estimates tnat the bank will eventually
pay a per cent.
TEE SECOND NATIONAL BANK OF Lawrence.
Kansas, having failed To meet the call of the
redemption Agency to reimburse the Treasury
tOf It's notes redeemed, and its depOsit of five
per cent. being ext 4usted. the Treasurer giyas
notice that fTUU and after to-day its nores viii
o. rejected when presented for REDEMPTION at
the agency.
JHE UNsIGHTLT PARTITION, which was made
Of rough pine boards, in the rear OF the Senate
ladies' gallery, and which was converted into ar
zxteInpore room last winter for the uss Of the
JOINT Special Committee inyestg eating District
affairs, has been removed. On the walls which
this PARTITION formerly enclosed are placed the
two paintings by Moran Of the Grand Canon OK
the Yellowstone.
PERsoEAL.-DOrmaB b. Eaton, of the civil
s0lNiOe CCnAlssioni lett Tor New York last
night. Mr. Eaton has been entrusted by the
joint special committee Of Congress to preusre
q bill Ter the fu uTe government of the District
OF Columbia. senator Mitchell of Oregon
Is IN town. Secretary Delano was to-day
engaged in preparing his annual report and
refused TO see visitors.
TIE DRATH OF HON. RUMsRY L. WING
a private letter, dated Quito, Octobeo :, states
that Hon. E. Rumssy Wing, United States min
lister to Ecuador, died at Quito on the Monday
preceding. This makes the date Of his dsceass
the 9th OF October ins cad Of the Ilth as at fret
rel orted. The death was sudden, and, as a
post mortem exami nation showed, was caused
10y cerebral congestion.
THR AMOUNT covered into the treasury arising
from cotton and other captured and abandoned
property was S2G,61s,9 ,923. Deducting the
awards TO claimants there remains sl0.41fOOo
There we're about 500 claimants, and awards
were made Ia s22 cases. The various classes of
claims remaining aggregate four or FIVE times