Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-11-09
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

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Washington News and Gossip.
Cow RNMENr Receipts Internal reve-
nue, slNJ,oIJ-09; customs. S409 s3l20a.
SECRETARY robson left this morning
for baltimore. He is expected to return tn
morrow evening.
THE AMOUNT OF National Bank note cur
rency received at the Treasury department
to-day for redemption aggregated si75.3lO.
VIM f. TRASH. OF Verm mt. has been pro-
NOTED 10 a second class clerksaip In the PEN
sion Office.
ELLIOTT KELLY has been appointed p1s'-
master at Paris, Kentucky, SALARY - 1917
vice VIM. III. Polk, sus pended under the tea.
ure of office.
THE IMPRESSION is general that Judge
Edmunds, Secretary of the Union Republ-
can CongressioLa al Committee, is responsible
for the appointments OF chief clerk and ap-
pointment clerk OF the Interior departm emit
since he and Secretary Chandler are known
10 be warm personal and political friends,
and as each of the appOiutees has done ser
vice in assisting Judge Els committee.
THE MAIN COMPETITION for the position
OF examiner in chief of the Patent Office,
made vacant by the resignation of Mr.. Hop
kins, is between Principal Examiners Wilk-
ensOn and WoOdwa and Mr.. Blanchard
formerly an examiner in the Patent Office
1t is believed that Mr.. Wood wards chances
are impaired by the fact that he has son in
The Office occupying the position Of second
assistant examiner.
A DELEGATION of newspaper men, con-
sisting OF VIM. b. Shaw, the Nestor of the
Press, Mr.. j. +. Foley, Mr.. VIM. j.
Murtagh, of the Republican, and Mr..
Arthur Shepherd were at the Interior
department to-day to urge the appoint
ment of the latter to the position Of
Secretary Chandler informed them that as
yet there was no vacancy in the position,
bit that when there was he would give their
Recommendation careful consideration.
PERsONAL.-Senator Cameron, Patterson, ,
Morrill,, of Vt, Hitchcock, Paddock, Sar-
gent, and Robertson are in town. ....Ex-
Senator FentOn is at the Arlington. Mrs.
Pierrepont, the wife of the Attorney Gene
raj, is expected TO arrive in the city this
evening from New York. ..-.SenatOrs Ca M
erOn, Morrill,, OF VI, and Patterson called
mon Secretary Chandler this morning.
Vice President Henry Wilson dined with
Mr.. A. r. stewart, at the latter's residence,
on 5ih avenue, New York, on Sun lay even
ing.
THE DISTRICT BoNDs.-A meeting of the
governing committee OF the Washington
stock Exchange was held at their rooms in
LIE ITDlt DulIul0g, IuiS aiJPrFOOn, at which
the following resolution was adopted:
whereas, in the opinion OF The Attorney
General of the United States relative to the
3-G5 District bonds the United States thern
selves authorized the issue of these bonds to
secure their own debt therefore. be IL
ReSOlred, That these bonds shall heYea fter he
recognized and ciaSsed I'm all transactions of
the Exchange as bonds OF the United States"
NAVAL OsDERs.-Chief Engineer Robert
Potts has reported his return home, having
been detached from the Alaska on the 18th of
October last, and has been placed on waiting
orders; Gunner VIM. Garter detached from
duty on board the Powhatan, and placed GA
waiting orders; Gunner john G. Ritter or
Cered Ia duty on board the POwhatan. Tue
Canai daigua Was placed out or commission
Al Norfolk, Va. yesterday. Tne Gettysburg
sailed from Norfolk Oh the Ith NOyenn hap
The Tuscaror& LETT san Francisco on the 5ist
OF October.
Two VICTIMS OF IHE PAC FIG DIsAsTER
J. D-Howeil, master of the lost ship Pacii',
was married 10 the sister Of JEFF. Davis, and
was marine captain a. the outbreak of the
war He went south and was the marine
officer OF the Alabama. He was very well
known and Is favorably and regre.ftliy
spoken OF by naval officers. .Oae OF the pas
sengers Of tire III fated Pacific was Mr.. Fret
ID. Hard, widely known in Washington. lie
was young man of bTi!liaHt taledt, highly
respected and esteenle al. and q graduate n
the Columbia Law School He formerly he'd
clerk, hip in the Post Office department,
and afterward was post office agent on the
Pacific coast.
WALT WHITMAN, i'm pJOprid persona, aud
about as natural as ever, appeared again on
Pennsylvania avenue this forenoon, after an
absence OF nearly three years. Though yet
i'll from paralysis and other ailments, and
very lame and slow in gait, his large figure,
clothed In gray, with the regular old open
neck, white collar, red face, and copiOus
beard OF yore looked much the same, AID not
amiss amid the bright sunlight and crispy
and mellow atmosphere of. this magnificent
autumn. WV. is on a visit TO Washington,
stopping ut the house OF his old friend, Mr..
Michael Nash, slj l. street southeast, navy
yard.
AN INDEPENDENT OPINION ABOUT THE
PRESIDENT AND THE WHISKY RING-It is
quite conceivable that this attitude of the
President is an astounding and demoralizing
surprise to the cOrruptiOnists; that they have
been counting, IL worst came TO worst upf
his projections; and that this '.gOing back,
ON them has filled them with equal cOnster-
that the threat 10 implicate his nearest rela-
tives is at once strategic and vindicltive-an
attempt TO force compromise, or, that fall
ing, To "get even" There have been intima,
tons Of some such move almost from the
first. We have comfortable impression
that " Is not going 10 wOrk.-SPriaqtjeld Re-
! nbtcd1i.
APPOINTMENT OF NEW CHIEF CLERK
OF THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT-Mr
AlonzO Bell, of New York, for eleven years
third class clerk in the Second Auditors
office. and last June transferred to the Office
OF the Seci etary of the Treasury, was to-day
appointed chief clerk of the De partment OF
the Interior, vice Mr.. Stanley Plummer, of
Maine. resigned. Mr.. Bell, who is a gentle
man about forty years of age, was formerly
PRESIDENT of the New York republican associ-
alton, and for several years past has been an
active worker in the republican cause, hay-
ing been coadjutor Of Judge Eimunds, of
the republican Congressional committee, in
The preparation and circulation of paign
documents. He has also contributed num-
her of able articles to the Republic ma yazine,
published under the auspices Of the commit
tee referred 10.
ARMY ORDERs-Assistant Surgeons K. A.
kOerper, department of the Platte, and j. II.
T. King, department OF Texas, are relieved
from duty in the military division of the
Atlantic, and will report in person to the
president or the army medical board. New
York city, for examination for promotion,
after which they will report in person te the
commanding generals OF their departments
for duty. r. NJ. O'Riely, relieved from tenn.
porary duty at Fort McHenry, Md. G. l..
Hickman and j. d. Hall will report in per-
Ion 10 the commanding general. military
division OF the Atlantic, for duty. X. H.
White. dpDQrtmant IF Hall