Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-07

VOL. 47-No. 7,I0S.
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
THE PRESIDENTS EVENING RECEPTIONS
| will be held on the second and fourth Tues
| days in January and the fourth Tuesday in
| February, from TO 10 p. m.
Mrs. Grants Saturday afternoon recep-
tons Will begin next Saturday, January Sth,
from 20 p. m, and continue until Lent.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Inter-
nal revenue, S7,200.42; customs, 500, Sf7.4j.
POSTMASTER GENERAL JEWELL was able
to attend 20 his official duties to day.
THE AMOUNT of national bank notes re-
ceived al the Treasury to-day for redemp,
tion aggregated SG50t3I.
THE SECRETARY OF WAR was the only
member absent from The Cabinet meeting
to-day.
Nm ORDER has been issued by the Speaker
of the House directing the DOorkeaper to
keep newspaper men out of the lobby.
Ex-Governor AUSTIN, of Minnesota,
was yesterday designated 70 be Tuird Audi-
tor of the Treasury, vice General Allan
Rutherford, resigned.
j. @. c. LAMAR was unanimously nomi-
mated for United States Senator by the
democratic caucus OF Mississippi Leglsla-
tuTe, at Jackson, last evening, the other
candidates withdrawing in his favor.
ONE MONTHS PAY FOR THE DIS
CHARGED ONEs.-The House Committee on
Accounts, this morning, agreed 30 recon-
mend that all employees OF the House who
nave been discharged under the new order
o; things be giySH one months pay.
NEWSPAPER PosTAGE.-The House Postal
Committee to-day agreed to vote on Tues
day next ON the question OF repeating the
law adopted at the last session increasing
rates on newspaper postage and third class
matter.
LETTER OF DIsTISCrION."-The Secre-
tary of War has received, through the State
department, and has sent to General Myer,
chief signal officer of the army, a Letter OF
Distinction" for the "Signal Service" de
creed by the International congress of geo.
graphical scenery at its recent session at
Paris.
IF Speaker pro tenn is needed this winter
a. Washir gton, the selection of Mr.. Lam lr
for the duty would give only less satisfac-
ton in this quarter of the country than at
the south. There is very much the same
kindly feeling toward him up here as there is
toward Gen. Bartlett, for instance, down
here-ISiTialdeId thdss.l Republican,
AMONG THOSE who hal interviews with
the President to day were Senators Sar-
gent, West and Frelinghuy sen, and Repre-
sentatives Pierce. O'Neil, Mills, Pratt and
Williams, also, the Committee of ForeigI
Affairs OF the House. The Committee of
Ways ard Means are expected to paw their
respects to the President 10 m1rrow.
THE COMMITTEES on Ways and Means
this morning, elected DR.. j. p. Hambletoa,
of Georgia, Clerk of that Committee. Geo.
L. Wool was reelected Clerk of the Com
mittee on Public Lands. Mr.. NOTthruD,
editor of the Syracuse IN. " Nclcs, has
been chosen Clerk OF the Banking ami Cur
I, nCy Committee.
THE REPcRT that II. II. Finley, of s..
Paul, MINI, has been appointed by the Sec
rotary OF the Interior TO investigate land
Office frauds in the northwest is utterly
has been made or contemplated, nor has any
application ever been male to Secretary
Chandler for the appointment OF Mr.. Finley
TO that duty or any other.
PTBsoNl Lion. jeremiah NJ. Wilson is
quite i'll from an attack OF gravel. MFR.
A. S. Gaylord, assistant attorney general
has returned from Michigan, where ne went
Augusta, Ca, states that Hon. A. II. Ste
phens continues in very feeble state from
disease in one of his lungs, and il is feared
lie will not be able 10 take bis seat III Con-
eress during the present session.
THE HOUSE REsTAURANT.-The House
Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds
have agreed TO elect restaurateur to-mor
row. Trere are fourteen applicants for the
place. The republicans will vote for Down
Ing. The democratic members are divided
hptwpGn r MP&hQna nj
Deshields, of this city. Mr.. Kerr has absO-
lutely refused 10 have anything to do with
the question. Mr.. McShane Is connected
with the American Hotel, of Philadelphia,
and has hotel at Cape May. Deshields is
now the proprietor of the Baltimore and Po-
tomac Railroad depot restaurant.
Mr.. O'BRIES IMPOSED UPON BY HoD.
NETT.-It is presumed that Mr.. O'Brien, of
Maryland, was imposed upon yesterday,
otherwise he never would have introduced
Ito the House the memorial OF John Pope
HOdr EFT, who claims TO be attorney for the
hU ndreds and thousands OF poor cOlOred
men who have been kept out of their wages
by contractors under the late Board OF Pub
lie Works. This memorial took up thirty
three columns in the Conversational Record of
to-day, the most of which is extracts from
iuflammatory speeches delivered by Hodnett
last summer, and which were printed at the
time in a paper called The People, published
By Eodnett. Hodnett was an agitator in Chi
cagO some years since Vdyt. Or. Bat.
StJ.
| BILL TO CHANGE THE PROBATE LAWS
OF THE DIsTRICT.-In the Senate 10 day,
| Mr.. EnglAh introduced a bill. wdich was
| referred TO the Committee on the Judiciary
| entitled IAN act TO amend the law with
| respect To wills, TO regulate the transaction
| OF probate business in the Supreme Court of
| the District of Columbia, and for other puT-
| poses" The bill abOlishes the office of regis
1 ter of wills and transfers his duties and
powers To the clerk OF the Supreme Court of
4 the District of COlum bia, who il authorized
| 10 appoint deputy, and TO delegate TO such
| deputy all the powers vested in himself by
| this act. The bill gives a sche iule OF fees TO
| be charged, and provides that within three
| months from the Passage OF this act the clerk
/ shall post sucn list OF fees prominently In his
office, which shall be kept open from a. m.
| TO p. IN. daily, except on Sundays and legal
1 holidays. y special term OF the Distric;
L Supreme CnlIrI shall he held every month