Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-04-09
EVENING STAR.
W. shingtOD News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL REvENUE.-Ther receipts from this
source to-day were sl46,O3s.
REPRESENTATIVES, MCCRAEY, of the LIST Iowa
district, announces that he will not be a cand-
date for reelection, giving as As a reason tha-
his riSate affairs demand his undivided Ten
ton.
CHARLOTTE CUsHMAN Will appear at Ford's
Opera House Tonight as "Lady Macbeth, !" in
which role her great dramatic power is shown
TO even better advantage than in her i'm persona
ton of Meg MerTilles." Miss CushmEn in Ia q
sleep-waikibg scene IL bistrionic pic ure which
once seen Is never forgotten.
MRS. BRLTA A. LOCKWOOD, who is in New
York, this morning forwarded to the Court OF
Claims a brief of the grounds on which she
holds that the motion to admit her to the bar of
that court should be granted. The friend who
brought il arrived at the court room a few
moments before l. O'clock, while the judges
we're still in the conference room. The brief
was handed in TO them there. They received il
respectfully, aud expressed the intention to give
its suggestions due consideration.
IN THE HOWARD COURT OF INQUIRY yestsr-
day, the direct testimony of General b alloch
was completed. The testimony has referred
generally to the manner of conducting the
business OF the bureau, of which General Bal
loch was the chief disbursing officer. The Off &c
dlsbursed twenty nine millions of dollars, Gen
eral Balloch arranging for the payment of
bounties and the disbursement of the various
funds appropriated by Congress. This witness
is being cross-examined to-day.
THE CHAIN BRIDGE has been finished aud
turned over by the contractors, Messrs Clark,
Reeves & Co, to General Babcock Engineer
in chsrge of Public Buildings and Grounds. and
the bridge will be opened for travel to- morrow
This will be good news TO hundreds of business
men here. as well as TO our neighbors ON the
Virginia side of the Potomac. The br idge is OF
a truss pattern, and is substantially built of
wrought iron. 1t is l. $50 feet long Tin ssyen
SPANS and is &c feet high and 20 feet wide.
CONFERENCE.-The Senate in executive
session yesterday confirmed the following nomi-
nations:-Henry c. johnson, to be commissioner
of customs, vice VIM. G.. Haines, removed: Geo.
5. Fisher, of Georgia, consul at Beirut; Benja-
min T. Bell, postmaster at Americas, Georgia:
Commodore Fibius Stanley. TO be rear admiral
in the navy, vice Sands, retired; VIM. E. LIE
Roy, rear admiral in the navy, vice Parrott re
navy, to fill a vacancy; VIM. z. Kilburn ensiyn
IN the navy, at foot Of class of 1870.
REAR ADMIRAL JOHN j. ALMEY, who was
at CallaO early in March, has been ordered t.
proceed in his flagship, the Pensacola, to San
Francisco, and resume com mand of the Nor n
Pacific station, in place or Rear Admiral Pen
mock, transferred TO the Asistic station. The
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land, and Rear Admiral Almey will transfer his
flag TO the Richmond. The Pensacola NAV be
expected at San Francisco about June LIST to
18th. Rear Admiral Cook will probably leave
Key West to-day with his feet for the European
station. The Shenandoah sailed from Kew
West April 4th, for New York.
THE MISSING DoDGB-The House Commit.
mittee on Indian Affairs, who have been invss-
tigsting Indian contracts for some time past
have thus far found no frauds. They desire.
however, before closing the Investigation, to
secure the attendance of Gen. Dodge as a wit
ress, but that gentleman cannot be found
although several messengers have been sent
after him. This 10 the same Gen. Dodge who
vestigating committee last winter but who
could never be found. A summons was sent for
him to Texas, but he managed to evade tn q
'fheer sent to serve 1t. and never appeared.
ANOTHER JIBa OF FATE attending the funeral
OF Mr.. Sumner. Recently his divorced wife
changed her residence in Boston from the stree t
where she had lived for years to the more aris-
socratic quarter Of Beacon street. The lony
funeral procession had to pass through thIs
>treet on its way to Mount Auburn. Som ,
enlargement occurred, and the hesrse cou-
tanning the cssket was stopped for two hours in
mont of Mrs. Summers door, thus forcing he II
20 attend the funeral. II she remained fndif
ferent through this trial, her strength Is beyon l
mat OF an ordinary woman" Fay" in Louis
Cille Journal.
1T Hot FOR THs WAYS AND MEANS Con-
NITTEE. - Yesterday afternoon, about ten
minutes before the adjour ment OF the WAYS
ana Means Committee, Mr.. Albert j. Parish,
canning 70 represent paper OF this city, sent
note TO Mr.. Dawes, chairman, through the
Sanborn investig alton, at the same time stat
ing TO the doorkeeper that IL the committee de-
pied him admission he would make 1t hot for
them. As the committee WAS about TO adjourn
Mr.. Dawes sent word TO Parish that he woul 4
see him after the adjournment. This morning
when the committee met, Mr.. Dawes related
&C N they would take in the matter. Several
members EXPRESSED themselves a. decidedly
opposed to admitting any one under q threat
and one went 20 far as to sigmatize this re
porter as scalawag. Finally, on motion OF
MI Roberts, of New York, IL was resolved to ask
tie members Of the press who have been In at
tendance during the invests CATION to inform tn g
paper In question that ii is entitled to represep-
tation before the committee the same as other
papers, bit that the committee would decided
~ object to admitting any person who had
made threat against them. Mr. Parish was
not admitted.
ArHE DISTRICT INvEsrIGArIoN.-AsS Senator
Stewart has been charged with beng a specu
iator in real estate in Washington by various
journals, which have asserted that for that rea-
son he should not be allowed to serve on the
investigating Committee, IL is proper that the
real estate transactions of the Senator should be
hem were brought out At his own request II
sppe ara, from the testimony OF Mr. Latta and
rom The statement made to the committee by
MI. 81 wart, that property to an aggregate
amount or s361 ,49l was purchased by Mr. Lttts
on the Joint account of Senator Stewart, @. Il
hlilyer and Thos Sunderland, in the year IS7l q,
ard that Mr.. Stewart disposed of his interest in
March, 1873, at an advance of $1,000 IL an
pers that none of this speculative property WAS
neid oy him during the session of Congress or
AT any time when he was called upon TO vote
upon bills affecting the District. The gentle
men with whom he was interes ted. Sunderland
and Hillyer, no one had accused of having anv
connection with the Board of Public Works
Mr.. stewart made q statement of various per-
sonal reasons which induced him to build sub
seQuently, and said that before building he di
not know what improvements were to be mads
on the streets around his property, and that be
bad never consulted with the Board of Public
Works.-Nerddd Enterprise.
THE OPERA very large and fashionable
audience assembled ut the National Thester
last evening to enjoy the music q Meyerbeer'.
great opera, The Huguenots," a. rendered by
me ouakosch company. The first three act
passed on rather tamoiy, coasidor what wa
expected from . notably strong CAT, and the
nge number Of musical critics and amateurs
present were oorrespondingly Disappointed. One
Isdeemns feature was the acting and sinsing