Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-12-28
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

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Washington News and Gossip.
New Year Calls.
THE STAR of Friday next will contain q
list of those receiving on New Year day who
may request or authorize the publication o.
their names in such list. Matter intended
| for these announcements, for which no charge
is made, may be sent in at any time before
Friday neon.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Inter-
nal revenue, Sl7S,252.9O; customs, SIS, l1s49
THE AMOUNT of national bank notes re-
ceived at the Treasury to-day for redemp-
tion aggregated SOL 800.
Mr.. THEODORE NJ. VALE will. 1t is said,
be appointed superintendent of railway mail
service, vice Geo. S. Bangs, who will shortly
resign.
APPROPRIATION BILLs.-Ft is announced
that the subcommittee OF the House Com
mittee on Appropriations will have the
Pension, the West Point Academy, and the
Consular and Diplomatic appropriation bills
ready To report at the reaSsembling of the
House.
A STATEMENT having been published in
New York TO the effect that General Cowen,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior, hal is
sued agricultural college scrip to the state Of
ARKANSAS In violation of the expressed will
OF congress, he publishes a card stating that
the transaction was perfectly regular, and
was so regarded at the time.
MIs-sENT LErTERs.-Railrosd post Off ce
clerks and route agents will in future be re-
quired to stamp the word "mis-sent" on all
letters or newspapers that may come into
their hands enormously, the practice having
been found beneficial in some OF the large
post oIhces. Two thousand stamps have
been prepared for the purpose, and Will be at
once distributed.
RAILROAD COMM SsToNERs.-The Presi-
dent has appointed Edgar Mills and Christi
pher Green, of Sacramento, and Jacob Neff
of Auburn, Colorado, commissioners TO ex-
anime and repor: upon twenty additional
miles of the California and Oregon railroad
beginning near Nina, Tehama county, Call
fOrnia, and making total OF 1lfk miles re-
Ported completed up to date.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Enslgn NJ A. Shufel 1t
ordered to the Marion, I'd January; Ensign
Alfred Reynolds TO the Saugus; Passed As
sistaDt Surgeon Homer l.. Law to the
receiving ship Sabine; Passed Assistant Sur
geon John f. Bransford detached from
special duty and ordered to the Naval Hos
pital, Chelsea. Mass, 9Th January; Passed
Assistant Surgeon VIM. b. Davis, from the
receiving ship Sabine and placed on waiting
orders; Chief Engineer Riersted as president
of the board OF examining engineers, and
ordered TO the Vandalia.
THE GENERAL POSTAL UNION TREATY,
going into operation in France on the list of
January next, the postal union rate of cents
per one half ounce one letter. cents for DOS
tai cards, cents for newspapers, each, If not
exceeding ounces, and cents per ounce
for other printed matter and patterns of mer-
no loft
for correspondence addressed to Spain, in
Guiding the Balearic Isles the Canary Is
Iahos, the Spanish possessions on the north
ern coast of Africa, and the postal establish
ments of Spain upon the western coast of
Morocco.
SIAN AT THE CENTENNIAL.-The King of
Siam has signified to the proper authorities
his intention of representing that kingdom
AT the centennial, and will expend a sum not
less than $4,000 in making full preparations
JOIN ID Chandler, an American who has re
slueu IN siam Tor some time past, has been
appointed commissioner, and will leave
Bankok some time in December with gOOIs
Tor the exposition. 1t was intended that
Irlnce and several nOblemen should be pres
ent at the centennial, but il has finally been
decided that no mobiles will accompany Mr.
Chandler, into whose hands all the arrange
ments have been placed.
SANBoRN's CLAIM FOR PAY AS AN In
FoEMER.-General Butler, as Sanborn's at
torney, has presente a claim to the Inter
nal Revenue Bureau for nine thousand dol
lars, demanded as payment for Information
on which about ninety thousand dollars of
taxes Withheld were collected by the govern
ment. When the Sanborn contracts were
under Investigation the attention of Mr.
Douglass, then Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, was called TO a statute authorizing
him to pay informers a sum not exceeding
ten per cent. of the amount saved to the gov
eminent by the information. The Commits
sioner issued a circular making q general of
fei OF payment, in accordance it'll the terms
OF tIis law, for information which would lead
10 The recovery OF taxes due and withheld
Under the circular Sanborn began Operations
anew. The claim which has been presented
covers one case only, and he has reserved
other cases to be brought up when this has
been decided.
A WILD HUNT FOR MISSING LETTERS
Quite recently Postmaster General Jewell
received a complaint from western man to
the effect that he had sent out a large num-
Ter of letters, many OF them quite important.
and that in no instance had any one of them
been received at their destination. The
writer, assuming that screw was loose
somewhere, requested Mr.. Jewell to make
search among the dead letters, with the view
10 get clue as 10 how the IA IRE TO reach
those addressed occurred: At the same time
t1e writer furnished the Postmaster General
with list OF two hundred names, which In
Guided those to whom the missing letters
were said TO have been directed. A careful
search was made, and strange to say not one
OF The names given was found superscrIbei
on any dead letter. The writer was notified
when he supplemented the first list with an
additional one covering four hundred names
Not one of these could be found. He was So
apprised, when, still undismaye ed, he sent a
third list, with some eight hundred names
Mr.. Jewell gave orders 10 have the search
nrooress: but in the meantime aufressed let
ter 10 the postmaster nearest the residence .:
the complainant, and in due course OF mail
received the information that his pest ferrous
correspondent was confirmed lunatic and
was lndulging in one of his freaks at the ex-
pense of the Post Office department.
THE SUGG FORT AND WITowsKI HIVES
T1GATfoN.-The report of the commission to
investigate the system of transacting public
business in the Second Controllers and the
Office of the Third Auditor of the Treasury.
was agreed upon day, but IL will not be
sent TO Secretary Bristow until tomorrow.
The members of the commission are unite