Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-05-09
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip,

Washington News and Gossip.
GovERSAENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Inter-
nal revenue, s397 9O5 81; customs, s3Ii ,9O665
COUNT C. LEwENHAUPT, the newly ap-
pointed Swedish Minister, yesterday pre-
scented his credentials to President Grant.
G. W. HoLcoMB, recorder of the General
Land office, yesterday rendered his resIgna-
ton, which has been accepted.
Mr.. j. q. SMITH, Commissioner OF Indian
Affairs, has gone to his home, In Ohio, to be
absent week or ten days.
TIE government OF Luxembourg has at
the eleventh hour accepted an invitation to
participate in the Centennial.
Mr.. A. E. WILSON, chief clerk OF the
Treasury department. has returned from
Kentucky, where he has been for the past
TWO wee ks.
NAVAL DEMONSTRATING Carpenter John
g. Tilden ordered to the Adams, 1st June;
Midshipnan George F. Emmons TO the
Alert.
FROM E. NJ. Whitaker, Vernon Row, we
have the admirable April number of the
Brush Quarterly Rerie'c; also, the "Guide TO
Whitaker.
CAPT. II. T. BRIAN. of Baltimore, who has
for some time been foreman of the govern
ment printing office, has been appointed one
OF the judges on printing for the internation-
al exposition at Philadelphia.
MCKEE-Attorney General >Pierrepont
yesterday sent the papers In the case of Nc
KEGS application for pardon to the district
attorney at st. Louis, with orders to send a
full report on the matter by mail.
a BILL introduced yesterday in the House
OF Representatives provides for the coustruc
ton OF levees by the government In the
states of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi
missouri, Tennessee, and Illinois, and ap.
proprIates for that purpose the sum OF
81 1T2, 600.
THE U. s. SUPREME COURT yesterday adj
journed until October next. Two hundred
and six opinions have been delivered during
the term just closed, and three hundred and
thirty cases bave been disposed of. There re-
main on the docket nine hundred and severn
Jy- three cases.
THE CLERKS OF the Pension Office expect
10 spend all their salary this month for
pocket haudkerchiefs, so great is their grief
that Miss Sweets testimony should cast
any suspicion on Truthful James the sur
veyor general OF Minnesota, and the FORMER
provost marshal of that bureau.
THE AVENUE PAVEMENT BrLL.-Judge
Buckner's bill TO provide for the pavement
Of Pennsylvania avenue, in addition to
naming as commissioners Edward Clark,
Architect OF the Capitol; Adolf Cluss and
Cnarits L. Mason, % announced in yeSter-
days STAR, also names as additional COM
missiOners Generals Gilmore and Wright.
U. s. A.
SECRETARY BRIsTow is again the target
Of the Islander circulators. 1t is now charged
upon him that he suspended proceedings
against John Buckner, who was collector OF
internal revenue at Louisville and defaulted
u the extent Of 100000, because NJ. Miles,
tie foster father Of Mrs. Bristow, who diei
.ecently, leaving Mrs. Bristow a handsome
legacy, is on the bond of the defaulter and
TO proceed against him would involve the
estate. II is further said that the M 4tter
has been quietly Investigated by the WAYS
aud Means Committee.
THE WINsL ow ExTRADITroN CAsE-The
letter OF Secretary Fish to the United States
legation at London for submission to Lord
Derby, in regard TO the Winslow extradition
case, takes the decided ground that the
United states cannot recognize any efficacy
in British statute TO alter a treaty, and
should Great Britain adhere to the position
that the United States must guarantee that
criminals must not be tried except for OF
Hs whisn sney were e1tradted this
action of Great Britain as an infraction and
termination OF the extradition provision of
the treaty OF lSi2. NO response has been
made as yet 10 this letter.
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS TO THE CEN
TENNIAL.-The limited express train on the
Baltimore and Potomac railroad this morn.
ing was one of the finest ever run In this
country, consisting OF eight elegant Pullman
palace cars-the Pomona, Python, Saratoga ,
Sidonla, Java, Ocean, Rarttan, and Fair.
mount; on this train was the President,
and on the same car-the Pomona-were Sec
retaries Fish, Bristow, Chandler, Taft, Post
master General Jewell and Attorney General
their families. The diplomatic corps was
represented on the train by Sir Edward
Thornton; the Japanese, German, Portuguese,
sentatives of other governments. There were
besides the officials some two hundred and
twenty-five persons.
THE FUNERAL OF JOSEPH MACFARLANp,
the well known and respected Washington
correspondent, took place from his late resi-
dence, No. 1IN street, this morning, and
Of the deceased. including the representa-
tives OF the leading newspapers OF the east
and west. The expressions OF sorrow among
5ata sho o now much they esteemed their
In handsome burial casket, with heavy
trimmings OF silver, upon the lid of which
TSe f,ner pIo.I rSin Oh Ine choicest flowers
was pronounced by Rev. DR.. Mitchell, of the
New York avenue Presbyterian church. who
spoke IN feeling terms of the departed. the
remains were buried at Oak Hill cemetery
The following acted as pail bearers:-George
w. Adams, of the ". y. World; III. j. Rams
dell, " Y. Tribune; ID. c. FOrney. Fhney's
Chronicle; b. ID. Klein, Philadelphia Press;
Dom P1att. Capital; IL. l.. White. ~ Y. Trio-
l0le: II. v. Boynton, Cincinnati Gazette; and
i. ". BuIritt, OF the Sunday Herald.
EX-SECRETARY BELKNAP INDICTED
The grand jury of the Criminal Court OF the
District OF Columbia to-day found true bill
OF Indictment against w. w. Belknap, late
Secretary of War. The indictment sets forth
that he was Secretary of War on June 18TH
1873. at which time certain question, mat
relation to the appointment and retention in
office of the trader at the post OF Fort Sill, in
the Indian territory; that he did unlawfully,