Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-08
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 D. IN.
Mrs. Grants Saturday afternoon recep-
tiOns viii begin next Saturday, January Sth,
from 10 =. NJ, and continue until Lent.
Ex-CoSGREssNrAN JAMES PACKARD, OF
Indiana, has been appointed an Internal
Revenue agent.
TREASURY SHIPMENTS of legal tenders
ANA fractional currency for the week ending
to-day amounted to sI,723i5-.
GEN. EATO,5, Commissioner OF Eiuc2tion,
was suddenly called TO Boston last evening
by the dangerous Illness Of a relative.
COMPULSORY .-Reprasentati-e
Hale's bill in regard tOpilo.s now before the
Committee on Commerce, does away with
compulsory Pilotsge.
LIEUT.. GENERAL SHERIDAN, with a par
ty of Chicago civilians, left that city yester-
day for the Indian territory, on aU ''inspec-
tion tour OF the several military posts.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTs.-Internal rev.
enue, TO day, s47O,'2i9i month to date,
$3.50 ,5l2-9S. Customs to-day, SJSl ,01T %;
month TO date, S3,25I PHO; fiscal year to
date, SIS, 81 ,CgJGj.
THE REDUCTION from the estimates made
by the House Committee on appropriations
in the Military Academy biz, is as follows:
Amount estimated, Si3I 40; recommended
by the committee, SZ}i POI. This is a reiUc-
ton over last years bill of >liS529.
MAILS FOR EURoPE.-Tne Post Office de-
partment has been notified that no mail
steamer of the Williams & Guion line will
leave for Europe on Tuesday next. The
steamer Montana, OF that line, was TO leave
on tlat day, carving the mails,
Mr.. j. NJ. MARCH, for a long time steno-
gTapher 10 the chief clerk of the Treasury
department, has been appointed stenOgrapl-
er ard private secretary TO Judge Burnham.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, a well
merited promotion.
NOTROUBLE AT THE RED CLOUD AGENCY.
Tue Commissioner of Indian Affairs does not
appreheTd any trouble at the Rel Cloud
agency on account of the failure of supplies.
Congress Will be asked for an appropriation
TO bridge over the time Intervening between
this and the end OF the fiscal year, but tenn
p0rarily the commissioner thinks he Will De
able 10 issue rations as usual.
NATIONAL BANKs.-The Treasury now
holds S363, O02 1862 in bonds 10 secure bank cir
culatiOn, and S13, 626, 800 TO secure public de-
pos1ts; L. :. bonds deposited for circulation
week 1ding to-day, Sl3i, 900; u. =. bonds held
for circulation withdrawn week ending to-
outstanding, SS43, 1913 .09i, OF which amount
S2,150 SEQ are gold notes.
y RECENT DECISION OF the Secretary OF
the Interior peremptOrily closes all mining
operations in the Choctaw Nation, Indian
territory, for the present. The principal suf-
fererS are the Usage Coal, and HOuSt ton, Dali
las and Texas Coal companies, employing
zoo hands, vino are thrown out Of employ
Inent, and must seek the states for work, as
there is 10 labor for them in the Indian ter
ritOry at present.
House REsTAURATEUR ELFCTED.-TLe
question of who shall run the restaurant
under the House OF Representatives was dis
posed OF to-day by the Committee on Public
BcildiHgS and Grounds. 1t took fOrty-five
ballots 10 settle the matter among the four
teen candidates. In thirty of these b lllots
''Mitt' Jones and Charles McShane, of Phil
adelphia, ruled highest. Ballot number for
ty- five settled IL, seven votes having been
cast for F. Freund, of this city, whereupOn
he wa declared duly elected.
RECEIPTS OF NATIONAL BANK NOTES
for redemption for week ending January :,
les, rs compared with receipts for same
week CT 1875: