Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-03-24
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPrs.-Internalr eye-
Due to-ysy, s296 1894: customs, 1856, O2hiS.


GENERAL SHExaAN Is in the city, aud
this morning called upon the President.
ALL the members were present at the Cab
met meeting to-day.
MISS KITE Cook, of Milwaukee, has
been appointed TO a clerkship in the office of
the Auditor OF the Treasury for the Post
Office department, in place of Mrs. II. c. Rex
Smith, resigned.
THE DIRECTOR OF THE MINT authorizes
the contradiction of report, which has ap-
peaTed in some of the eastern papers, OF a
defalcation at the San Francisco mint, aud
states that there is no def6lcatiOn or dedctt
in any department of that mint.
NOMINATIONs.-The President sent the
following nominations to the Senate to-day:
Hoffman Atkinson, OF West Virginia, to be
81 cretary of legation of the United States in
ST. Petersburg. POstnlastcrs-A.D ID. Loom
T. HOISthesHS, New lOIk; ID =. French,
Mortified, MINI; ii. NJ. Thatcher, Salem,
Oregon.
ALLEYS IN WAsHINCToS.-In the Senate,
TO day, Mr.. Morton introduced bill, which
was referred to the District Committee, to
provide for changes in alleys i'm they city Of
washington by assent Of parties interested.
The bill is the same as the one introduced in
The House by Mr. CaSO1 on the 2lst uittmO.
LIS provisions have already been printed IN
THE STAR.
TIE L. s. STEAMER TALLAPOoSA will
sail from the Washington navy yard next
Monday with about five hundred tons OF
freight for distribution at the various navy
yards, touching at Norfolk, Annapolis and
oTthern ports ON her return trip she will
carry a full load of public contributions OF
every description for the Centennial at Pail
adelphia.
THE SOUTH WASHINGTON RAILROAD
GRIKVANCE.-Dr. j. +. Morgan, Edward
Temple, Rev. Father Fortune, DR.. Allen and
NJ & +. Culver, the sub com mittee sp-
pointed by the residents OF South Washing
ton. in regarI TO the railroad question:, cail-d
upon Il humber of Senators aud K 9presenIa-
t,,cS this afternoon. They Will have a
p. srin" hefOre the House COmmi ttee on Dis
trict Oh Wednesday morning next.
THE CHARGES AGAINST MINISTER SEW
ARD The President has sent q message ID
the House IN reply to an inquiry in relation
TO the charges against George +. Seward
! low Minister TO China. A letter from Secre-
tary Fish was enclosed, stating that the de-
pertinent had TO knowledge of any proof ID
support the charges against Mr.. Seward
while acting a consul general at Shanghai.
| Mr.. Seward wrote a letter in 1871 vindicating
bic official course, which was perfectly sat
isfacIoTy to Mr.. Davis, then Assistant Secre-
!ary OF state.
THE Posi- OFFICE INVESTiG ALTON The
Housc Committee on Post Offices and Post
Beads to-day finished the examination OF s.
:. Huutley, of the firm of c. G.. HuutIey &
TO-, mail contractors, who testified as to the
large profits on northwestern contracts. He
laid that the cost OF the stock on the route
I ON Helena TO MissOula was wholly paid
| 'rT nv five months profits, and that tho route
| from Redding, California, to R0seburg, Ore
| sOI. was let To j. Z. Goddard for S2i 0D9, who
! failed in few months, and by buying OF
| Intermediate bidders his (HUutley's) firm got
nd still hold The contract az So 900 per year.
! NAVAL ORDERs-l.teutenant Charles Fe-
| beIton ordered to the receiving ship Colo
| TadO, at New York; Boatswain John y.
| Frisco, Gunner william T.. Web5er and
| Acting SALTWATER II. s. Boutwell, TO the re-
| ceiviDg ship Worcester, at Norfolk, Va;
| Lieutenant Willie Swift detached from the
! receiving ship Colorado and ordered to the
! Iavy yard, New York; Master Charle1 +.
| EmmeTIck from the Dictator and ordered TO
| the Shawmut. on her arrival AT Port ROYAL,
| = c: Master W. f.. Delahay from the Saaw-
nut Oh the reporting OF his relief, and ordered
| TO return and await orders.
CALEB p. MARSH was again before the
| subcommittee Of the Judiciary Committee
| yesterday. His attention was called to the
/ article in the New York Tribune OF March
| 1872, in relation to the post leadership al
| Fort Sill, stating that Evans had paid Marsh
1 $4,000 year for the place, etc. Marsh testi-
| fed he called General Belknaps attention tC
1 the article and asked who could have writ.
ten or inspired 1t. when General Beiknar
| replied he supposed it was the work of Gen.
eral HaZen. Marsh explained the reason
| why he went to Montreal after giving his
| testimony before the Committee on Expendi-
| lures in the War Department. He appre-
| hended when he read the debate in the House
| which appeared on the morning of the day he
4 left New York, that he might be indicted for
criminal ofiense, and hence his anxiety 10
| get out of the way of arrest.
SALE OF ICE.-The Augusta Journal saws
| that there were several large sales OF ice
| made al Gardiner, Me-, on Saturday, aud It
1 good prices. The Oakland Ice Company
sold q. 100 tons to VIM. Monteomery q Co 81
| New York; the Kennebec Mutual, 900 tons
/ 10 the same parties, to be shipped between
| ne Isl oil June and the LIST OF October; l. ID
| Sturgis, 5000 tons To the same parties. All
/ the above ice was sold for the round sum of
4 $3.50 a ton. LOnfellow & Sanboru have sold
| 2,OOO tons of old ice, stored on Nahumkea
| island TO the same parties for a less sum
| The Centennial Ice Company, of Gardiner
| have sold 10 the kniCkerbOc ker Company O
New York, some 10000 tons, at 8 30 per ton
| AMERICA Two THOUSAND YEARS AGO
| The noted scientist, Professor w. II. q un'
| ming, OF Boston, aided by party OF anna
! teuIs, on Wednesday visited the ancient
| burial mounds at SpoOnville, Ottawa cOuD,
| ", Mlc6. Only two mounds were opened
nom which were taken 1--we skulls large
| quantities OF human bones, copper. hatchets
AL needles; also. fine specimens of pottery
| IS concluded that the race To which tines,
! relies belong inhabited this section of Mich
Igan Lot less than COO years ago.
! An ISNoCENT Man SHOr 81 MAN
| TRAP Elmer Cole. a nilatGau at Passlic
N. j, has been losing a number OF chicken.
! nom his hen house by thieves. and thinkinI
10 stop tueIr depTedations, he fixed a gun
he why loaded so that any one opening TIT
| door would be shot. a friend called to lOol
al his poultry, pulled open the door incau
tiOusly, AID received the contents OF TIT
barrel IN his breast. He is not expected u
! live.
The MAsONS AND THE THIRD TERM
| p 7aker James w. Hustled is a candidate fol
Grand Master of The Masons in this state L
succeed ElwOod r. Thorne. The fact tina
the latter declared himself for Grant and
third term, In letter to the Grant centra
club, excited much feeling am ong M4sons
and MIR. Thorne will probably be compellel
10 take back seat--tM y. SluI, sd.
| REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS ~ LIrTIl
RBoDY.-The Rhode Island republican con
ntion yesterday nominated for re election
the following for governor, Henry Lppitt
for lieutenant governor, Henry II. Sisson
for secretary OF state, Joshua NJ. Addem an
for attorney general, Willard Sayles; 70
general treasurer, Samuel Clark. Delegates
were also chosen TO the Cincinnati conven
Z ton.
FRIGHTFUL ESr..os,oS.-Tne boiler IL