Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-05-24
EVENING STAR.

EVENING STAR
Washington News and Gossip.
THE RECEIPTS TODAY were, from internal
revenue 1854 ,66635; from customs, sliO, s5912
THE AMOUNT of national bank note cur
rency received at the Treasury to-day for re-
demption aggregated ss53,695.
THE DECISION of the Court of Claims In
the Union Pacific railroad case has been
further postponed until Monday next.
THE telegram is the name of neat little
evening paper that made its appearance on
Saturday. 1t is democratic in politics.
COLLECTOR APPoINTED.-The President
to-day appoil ted John III. Lightner to be
collector of internal revenue for the LIST dis
trict of Missouri.
Mr.. HENRY T. MUNSoN, an examiner in
the Patent Office, has been appointed by the
commissioner to take charge of the exhibit
ton of models at the Centennial exhibition.
ASA c. MATTHEWS, whose appointment
as revenue supervisor was mentioned in Sat
urday's STAR, succeeds Supervisor Mum, of
the Illinois district, who resigned.
PosTMAsTERs APPoINTED-The Presi-
dent has appointed the following post
masters: Miss Eunice Z. Colburn. Franklin
N. H; Alfred P. Bone, shelbyville, Ind.
Down in Tennessee
Our Vice President, he
Took strawberries and tea
With Mrs. JEFF ID.
SAD ACCIDENT.-The many friends of
Commodore +. \. Parker, U. s. N, will
regret TO learn that his tweIve-year old son
fell from a second-story window of the IA mily
residence in Annapolis, Nd, yesterday, and
suffered fracture OF the skull, which, il is
feared, Will prove fatal.
SENATOR CAMERON had an interview
with the President and Attorney General
PierrepOnt to-day. In view OF the fact that
Mr.. PierrepOnt declines TO appoint his assist
ant from the state OF New York, ii is said
that Mr.. Cameron desires that Pen9syIva-
MAN be appointed.
NAVAL ORDERS.-COmmandeT +. c. Mer
riman, to temporary duty as lighthouse in-
spector of the 5th district; Lieut.. John c.
kennett, to coast survey duty. Detached
Commander Francis II. Barker from duty
a. inspector of the 9Th lighthouse district,
and placed on sick leave.
\ CORK HELMET FOR UNITED STATES
SOLDIERS. - The Quartermaster's depart
ment Of the army has received sample of
the new cork helmet lately adopted for Brit
ism troops in hot climates. 1t has been sub
mitted To the Secretary of War, with the re-
commentator that ii be referred To the Med
ical department for examination, and also
that 500 of them be ordered for issue to the
troops in Texas and Arizona.
THE POSITION of First Assistant Attor-
ney General, recently made vacant by the
resignation of Mr.. Hill, has not yet been
filled, and 10 person has as yet been desig-
mated for the position. There are large
har Of linat for fI,a,
ton from New York state, but the state
ment is made by authority that the appoint
ment will not be given to New York.
MILITARY INDIAN AGENT IN ALASKA.
By direction of the President-under direc-
ton of section 2,063, and subject o the limi-
tation in section PA, of the revised stat
uteS-the commanding officer of the United
States troops i'll Alaska, stationed at Sitka,
is appointed TO execute the duties of Indian
agent, in controlling the Intercourse with
the Indians in Alaska. including the Aleu-
tian Islands, and to act eX-oificio as Indian
agent over the tribes in said territory.
JOHN GoFORTH, Esq, OF Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, assistant attorney general in
charge of the bureau of the court of claims
in the department Of justice, has rendered his
resignation TO take effect on the iSt prOXimo,
and Thomas SimOnS, esq, of New York, has
been appointed to the vacancy. Mr.. SimoIs
vas appointed assistant district attorney at
New York under Judge Pierrepuiut at the
commencement of President Grants admin
istratiOn, and has served creditably in that
position UP TO the present time.
SPOTTED TAIL AS ADRIvER.-Asa driver
Spotted Tail is not success. The other day
when the Sioux delegation visited the navy
yard Spotted Tail rode in the carriage of the
Commissioner of Indian A fairs, and the lat
ter desiring to test his deXterity as driver,
handed him the reins. Spotted Tail took
Them, one in each hand, and urging the horse
hyra Snnia IS
soon had him under full run. Commits
siOner Smith not caring TO unnecessarily i'm
peril the limbs and lives of the persons in
the vehicle, and concluding that old Spot was
a better rider than driver, relieved him of
the reins, and the horse was soJl red uced to
a decent rate OF speed.
ARMY GAZETTE.-Capt. f. b. Atwood.
A. q. NJ, has been ordered to report 10 the
commanding general, Department of the
Platte, for duty. list Lieut.. Joseph Keefe
TO the 18th infantry. lst Lieut.. A. w. Wedges
from the 18th infantry to the 9Th artillery.
list Lieut.. Henry II. Pierce, 2lst infantry,
has been relieved from duty as professor of
military science and tactics at West Vir-
ginia University, Morgantown, to take
effect June nth, 1915. Capt. j. III. Lord,
assistant quartermaSter, has been assigned
toduty as chief quartermaster of the district
of Tuscan, Arizona Territory. by direc-
ton OF the President Capt. Joseph Z. Sanger,
LIST artillery, has been relieved as professor
of military science and tactics at Bowdoin
College, Maine, to take effect July 10th, 1873.
THE MEXICAN BORDER RAIDs.-Reports
received at the War department go to show
that every obstruction possible is thrown in
the way OF the troops Stationed along the
Rio Grande in Texas, by persons llvIus IN
that vicini ty who are in COLLISION with the
Mexican raiders and aid them in their dep
rotations. A dispatch from Colonel Hatch
states that sergeant and four privates who
had been sent out recently to watch the
raiders were ambushed, and two of the pri-
Yates killed and robbed. In this affair
Mexican was killed by one of his own party,
as was proven at the cOroner's inquest, but
on the trial of the party charged with the
murder the sergeant and two soldiers who
escaped, and who were present as witnesses