Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-04-14
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

T. Y Elm lNO 81 AN.
Washington News and Gossip.
DURING the summer the President will
receive by card between the hours OF eleven
and two, except on Tuesdays and Fridays,
which being Cabinet days. no one will be
received except government officials.
THE RECEIPTS from customs to-day at the
Treasury department were S.jZs 400.
INTERNAL REvENUE.-The receipts from
this source to-day were 7is5 BILL.
CONSUL APPOINTED-The President has
appointed Leander C.. Dyer, of Tennessee. to
be ConsOl at Odessa, Russia.
THE AMOUNT of national bank notes re-
ceived at the Treasury to-day for reJemp-
ton was sJ5s,05O.
AT THE WHITE Enthusiastically Bris-
tow, Postmaster General Jewell and Secre-
tary Belknap had interviews with President
Grant to-day.
THE L. s. STEAMER TALLAPoOSA, which
has been sent to Boston with the Marine
band, will bring back the Presidential party
from Massachusetts next week.
Mr.. JANNEY, government seoIOgist, Will
leave Fort Laramie for the Black Hills, ac-
cOmpaDied by military escort, on the 18th
instant.
DIsHONORABLY DIsHISsED.-An of the
clerks in the Post Office department impli-
Gated in the recent mail contract frauls
have been dismissed by the Postmaster
General.
THEJANES VAN NLECK named in cOnnec-
ton with the fraudulent contracts OF the Post
Office department is not James w. Van
Week, of New York, now employed in the
blank agency OF the Post Office Department
COMMANDER LEROY FITCH, L. s. NJ, died
at his residence in LoganspOrt, Indiana, yes
terday, after a lingering illness. He took an
active part i'm the late war, and cOmmln lei
The vessel that captured the fillipuS!eT
walker on MS frsteXpedition To NIcaragla.
"GUyN'R" SAM BARD has chartered seat
"A, section ,, near the water cooler in the
ante room of the White House. The sea, will
not be vacant until he arrives at some an
,erstandlrg with 1.-The old man. as to what
he shall do in the future. He is still prGsi-
dent of the third-term club.
\ NAVAL CADET DRowNED.-A dis patch
was received at the Navy department this
morning from Rear Admiral Rodgers SUPER
intendent. reporting "that Cadet Midship-
man W. H. Cox, fOui tn class, was drowned at
SIX this morning in Grave Yard creek, by
The upsetting ofthe shell of his boat club
THE MARINE BAND TO BE ENLARGED
The Secretary of the Navy has decided to use
part of the appropriation of his department
for proper representation at the Centennial
celebration next year, to- increase the num-
Der OF the Marine band TO seVenty-five, asJ
make IL the best band in the country.
THE BLACK HILLS EXPLORING ExPEDI-
TIoN.-Captain Horace p. futile. late pay
| master u. S. N, has been appointed astro-
| homer and DR.. p. T. McGillycuddy, OF the
L. :. northern boundary commission. tOpo-
grapher OF the Black Hills exploring expedi-
ton.
NOT INPLICATED.-The Postmas ter Gen
| eral is authority for the statement that no
| evidence duplicating iii the slightest degree
Mr.. John l.. French, chief clerk of the con-
tract Office, with the mail contract frauds
hi.s been addGced i'll the pending inyestiga-
| on.
| PRESIDENT GRANT will leave here to-mOr-
row morning for New York, where he will
| remain until Friday morning, and there be
| Joined by all the members of MS Cabinet ex-
! cept Attorney General Williams. The party
| VIII then proceed To Boston. Secretary Fish
has decided TO accompany the President o a
| the trip.
CRAZY HORSE AND BLACA TWIN COMING.
| Commissioners Smith has received a telegram
| rom Indian Agent Sayille, of the Red Cloud
| agency, saying that messengers have been
dispatched for Crazy Horse and Black Twin
to induce them TO come to Washington with
| the Sioux delegation, which expects to reach
| Cheyenne, en- route, about May lSt.
| PERsONAL.-Speaker Blaine will leave
here on Friday morning for Massachusetts
| to attend the celebration at Lexington. 80.
| Senator Morrill,, of Vermont, had an inter
| view with the Secretary of the Treasury this
morning: Mr. j. w. Marshall, First As
1 slstant Postmaster General, has returned
\ from q brief visit to New JERSEY.
DIR. j. NJ. TONER, of this city, delivers the
address before the Maryland Medical and
Chirursical Society, which holds its annual
| meeting in Baltimore to-day. The subject
OF the discourse is the physical and climatic
conformatiOns of the state and their effect on
| the sanitary condition of the population,
| and is said by those who have had an oppOr-
tunity TO glance at the manuscript to be full
| OF interesting information ana valuable SUI
| geStiOnS.
| RECEPTION TO MINISTER ORTH-Tne cit
liens OF Indiana, temporarily resident here,
| gave complimentary reception to Hon. o.
;. Ortiz. the new American minister to Aus
| trla, at Odd Fellows hall last night. Among
| those present were the President, Postmaster
| Seneral Jewell, Secretary Fish, Baron Won
schwartz Senborn. the Austrian minister,
| Hon. VIM. Williams, Hon. T. j. Cason, and
| Rev. DR.. j. 2. Newman. The address of WEI
| come was delivered by Judge James NJ Ty-
ner, Second Assistant Postmaster General.
1
| his remarks the assembly filed by and shook
| him by the hand. A hop followed.
| THE BATTLE OF THE ATHOLS.-The Post
! master General to-day issued an order that
hereafter the post Office at Athol depot. in
| Massachusetts would be known simply as
| "Athol," and the office at what is now known
| as Athol, a little over q mile from AthOl
| depot, must add " Center" or some other
| word TO be agreed upon by the citizens, to its
| name, or become branch Office. a few
| years ago POSTMASTER General Creswell is
| SUED slmliar order, but subsequently, re-
| VOkeu IL. Lne question of the names of these
Two post Offices has been vexatieus one for
| the department Tor years past, and
ohly by the people OF these towns but by a
| number of members of Congress- Including
Gen. Butler and Senator Boutwell,. Recently
the depot Athol has grown far ahead of the
| town of Athoi in pOpula ton, and so bitter
| has the strife become that the Athol depot
| folks have voted themselves all the town
| offices and have left old AthOl without an