Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-10-08
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY-Inter-
nal revenue, sll3,65O.11; customs, ssh 400 6.
ATFoRNI GENERAL PIERREPoST is ex-
pc :ted TO re turn here tonight.
THE AMOUNT Of national bank note cur
rency received at the Treasury to-day for
redemption aggregated st3S.0s5.97.
SECRETARY BRIsTOw returned to Wash
ingtOn this morning and resumed his official
duties.
POSTMASTER & sSERAL JEWELL returned
from Hartford this morning and resumed his
duties.
"GoOD TINES CONE Administrator
Cameron this morning had an interview with
Secretary BristOw.
NJ MISTER CUSHING has presented the
Madrid government a note relating to the
jurisdiction of courts martial over citizens
OF the United States in Cuba.
INTERNAL REVENUE APPOINTMENTS
Samuel j. Mills, 4th Kentucky, and Bania-
min Furness, 9TH Ohio, have baen appointed
storekeepers of internal revenue.
THE PRESIDENT and party returned from
Southern Colorado, Denver, yesterday after
noon, and will visit Central City, Black
Hawk and Georgetown to day, and leave for
Washington Sunday.
A COMPLIMENTARY DINNER was given To
Captain c. C. Adams, of the Treasury depart
ment, last evening, by his numerous friends
In this city, in honor of his return from
Europe.
CONTRACT AwARDED.-The chief OF engi-
neers has awarded the contract for building
the lCcB on the Great Kanawha river near
the foot of Cabin Creek shOal, to C. McCafar-
ty, OF BellefOnte, Pennsyl vania, for S75.l22
The highest bid was over two hundred thou
sand dollars.
THE PROGRAMME OF MUSIC by the Marine
Band at the Presidents grounds to-morrow
afternoon will be as follows IL. National
Air. ?. Quickstep, TeuterIa; Schacht. 3
Overture, Semiramide; ROsini. 4. Polka
Die Bichieri; Georgia. s. Selection, opera
"Ginsamenta;" Mercsdante. 6. Waltz. La
Perla; IabitZki. I. Fantasia. Barber of Sa-
vile; Rossini. s. National Air.
THE NEW POSTAL CARDS, being printed
without a border, offer temptation to the
printing OF business advertisements aud
Illustrations on their face. but the public
should take care not tn yield To -. as any
thing except the address written or printed
on he face OF "a postal card renders it nm
Uailahle ard cO1GemnS IL TO the limbo OF
'held Tor poStag'' letters.
Gov. HENDRICKS on THE OHIO ELFc-
TIoN.-A letter has been received by a gen
tleman in this city from Gov. Hendricks. of
Indiana. iii which he says:-.sI have inst
returned from Ohio. VIII make two more
speeches. Both sides claim the victory |
think Allen will be elected, but am not
confident. Every personal effort possible Il
being made by the republicans, aided with
money
nF al
bids fair TO bring poor Senator Chandler to a
miserable end. The Senator, since his state
relieved him of all other EMPLOYMENT has
made IL the business of his life to pursue the
candid correspondent who once ventured to
say OF him that he was drunk. The CORES
IondCnt has just given him the SLID again in
the st Louis court, and the venerable Sen
ator with unsteady gait must pOaierolsly
oegiE again.-N. y. Tribq1le.
INV YORK VOTERS IN WAsHINGrox-
Toe New York Republican Assoc alton has
published an address TO the New York state
voters residing in Washingt IN in which at
Ion rs called To The Important election
November next, and to the questions "of
ire maintenance OF our free school system
a2ainst sectarian assaults, OF canal reform,
OF tt'e honest payment OF all the nations ia ~
obligations, and OF honest money which will
me- Gear a iie upon its face" All New York
repnbIIcans are urgently requested to so ar
their respective homes and cast their ballots
al The November election.
THERE WAS MAN OF OUR TowN.-A
gentleman who has been in business in
washington Tor some years, and he's grown
suSpicl9dsly affiuent, as others have lost
every thing deposited to his safe keeping,
was guilty. the other day, OF piece OF ro-
nance, Notwithstanding his unprinc ipled
career and thoroughly unsentimental APP
pearance. little while before nOOn two
carriages were observed to draw quietly up
before certain Catholic fathers, who had
evidently been expecting some such arrival
from his watchful survey OF the street, and
his immediate withdrawal from the window
upon the approach of the carriages aforesaid.
From the first vehicle alighted a gentleman
and very handsomely dressed lady; from the
second stout, aforementioned man of some
thirty five years and a slender girlish figure
whose pretty face seemed hardly to reject
the light of sixteen summers. These latter
iwO sued from the house man aud wife.
Why they were elandeStinely married has
rot yet appeared, unless the mother, sup
PORTING herself and daughter under the pro
teCting shadow OF Crcle Sans favor should
have deemed her child too young 10 assume
the cares and responsibilities incident TO the
marriage state Cleaner ia Cincinnati
Gazette.
TIE MARRIAGE OF Miss JEwELL.-A
telegram TO the New York Herald from
Hartford, Ct, October 9Th, says:-T1e wei
ding of Miss Josie Marshall Jewell, eldest
daughter OF Postmaster General Jewell and
Mr.. Arthur Murray Do ge, youngest son OF
The Hon. W. f. Dodge, of New York, took
place at the Asylum and Congregational
church this evening, at quarter past seven
clock, in the presence OF "a large and very
select audience. The ceremony was per
formed by the Rev. j. III. Twitchell. Among
the persons present, aside from the families
of the contracting parties, were Secretary Of
the Treasury BristOw, Attorney General
Pierrepont. Mr.. John Jay, ex-Minister to
Austria; Governor Ingersoll and lady and
Lieutenant Governor sin and lady, Colonel
j.. W. knOwlton, Dr. Mcdonald aud Mr.
Woodward, of the United States Post Office
deI ariment; Henry Waiterson. OF the Louis
Vile Courier Journals; Samuel Bowles OF
the Sprin gfield Republican,; General Haw-
ley, William Walter Phelps, OF New Jersey;
Judge Harvey Jewell, of the court of claims
Boston; 4. NJ. Reed, c. s. Davidson and c.
NJ. Ford, OF the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad; Samuel L. Clemens
Mark Twsin), Colonel Joseph Selden, OF
Norwich, and other men OF note I'm the state
PERSONAL friends OF the bridal party =
ABOUT one hundred persons-came up wi tn
the Hon. W. T.. Dodge on a special train.
The ceremony, thOrgh in a Congregational
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