Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-10-13
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
THE NUMBER of distilleries in operation
on the LIST instant was Ia, with a daily ca
pacity of 1s9, $50 gallons of spirits.
SENATOR EDMUNDs, OF Vermont. has
been rendered the position of United States
circuit judge, maize vacant By the death of
Judge Woodruff
SUPERINTENDENT Melxer NJ jeffrey ire
Gently appOinteD has been ordered TO pro-
coed to aud assume charge of the national
cemetery at Grafton, w. Va.
THE ABSENCE of head to the Interior de-
partment will not interfere with the regular
semi-monthly payments Of salaries to en-
plOyes OF the department.
AMFMBER OF gHE CABINET, in converse
tion this morning, said: zone week ago l
knew who was To be Delano's successor, but
the President has changed ills mind, and
now do not know"
AUSTRIA AT THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ter Orth writes that the number of Austrian
exhibitors at the Centennial exhibition thus
far enrolled is TO and the impression pre-
walls that they will be increased 70 800.
PERSONAL. - Ex-Representative Negley,
of Pennsylvania is in town. .-.-Ex-Repre-
sentative Alex. T. White, lately appointed
Chief Justice of Utah Territory, is in town
for few days.
a GENTLEMAN who recently saw Sunset
Cox in New York represent him as saying
that his friend Randall Is altogether too san
guine in regard 10 the speakership. Being a
candidate himself Mr.. Cox may be slightly
prejudice4.
THE PRESIDENT and party arrived in Chi
cagO yesterday afternoon and were driven to
the Palmer House, where the President held
an informal reception. He stated to a friend
ment of Secretary of the Interior, but that
he should do so Immediately upon his ar
rival in Washington.
NAVAL ORDERS.-LieutenantC Commander
Chas. j. Train, detached from special duty
connected with the transit of Venus, and or
Gefed 10 the Tuscarora as executive officer
Lieutenant Chas- A. Schetky, detached from
the TnscarOra, and ordered to the Ports
mouth as executive officer. Lieutenant Com
mander VIM. s. Dana, ordered To duty as
executive officer on board the receiving ship
Colorado, at New York. Lieutenants Giles
h. Harper and John G. Wilson, ordered TO
the South Pacific station.
THE INTERIOR SECRrrARYsHIP.-Itw was
reported to-day, on what seemed to be COOL
authority, that Mr.. George Dawson Cole
man was in the city, and at once everybody
WHO heard the story concluded that he had
come TO I'LL the aching void created by the
retirement of Secretary DelanO. A letter
dated the 18th instant, from Mr.. Coleman's
business manager 10 gentleman in this
city, says: Il doubt If MFR. Coleman will ac-
cept the Secreiaryship OF the Interior depart
ment." but makes no reference to his depar-
ture fer Washington Another runor was
that German citizen OF Ilibois--au early
friend Of the President-was 10 be made Sec
rotary; but This report could not be traced to
an authentic source.
MOVEMENTS OF u. =. NAVAL VESSELS
The United States steamer Gettysburg will
leave Washington in q few day to continue
the work commenced last year by Lieuten-
hbt Commander Green. in the Fortune, of
determining telegrapnic differences % long,
iute with the West Indies aud verifying
previous deep sea sOurdiDgs and surveys a.
various points in the West Iudies. She will
visit Norfolk. Key West, Kingston, ia
maica, Porto Rico. Barbados, st. Thomas
and places on the San Domingo coast. The
United States steamer Swatara, now at
New York. will proceed to sea as soon as she
is ins pected. She will make a special cruise
10 Para, Demarsra, La Guayra, &C.. a nd
return TO Port Royal, s. c., in about three
months. A telegram, received at the Navy
deI artment this morning, from Lieutenant
Commander kells, announces the arrival OF
the United States steamer Rio Bravo. at
Brownsville, Texas, yesterday.