Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-12-28

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GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY.-Internal
revenue, s265,3ll.92; customs, 1916, 522.Ss.
THE TALLAPoOsA left the New York navy
yard, bound east. yesterday.
SECRETARY THOMPSON has returned from
his visit TO his home in Indiana, and was at the
Cabinet meeting to-day.
ATTORNEY GENERAL DEvENs, who is visit
ing his home in Worcester, Mass, is expected
To return on Monday.
AMONG THE CALLERS at the White House to-
day were senators Cameron OF Wisconsin,
Teller and Window. and Mr.. Defrees.
SENATOR PATTERsON's CONDITION has inn
proved somewhat. He passed restless night
but his strength has increased, and his ply
Sicians think he is on the way TO ultimate
recovery.
PARDONED BY THE PBEsIDENT.-The Presi-
dent today issued pardon for Frank 5.
Hinkle. sentenced in Missouri last November
TO three months imprisonment aud II fine, for
forgery.
THE ATTACHES OF THE RAILWAY MAIL SER
VICE have been placed in blue uniforms, orna-
mented with brass buttons, bearing on their
outer circumference the words. =. Railway
Mail Service, and in the center letters. p.
q. d.
NAVAL ORDERS.-PassedA Assistant Engineer
j. A. b. Smith, TO duty on board the L. :. iron
clad Wyandotte Passed Assistant Engineer
Absaiom Kirby, from the WyandOtte and
ordered to duty. at the navy yard, Washing
ton: Passed Assistant Engineer Richard Inch
from The navy yard, Washington, and ordered
TO the Wyoming.
THE CABINET MEETING ODAY.-Secretary
Sherman and Attorney General DeYens were
the only members OF the Cabinet absent from
the Cabinet meeting today. The Treasury
department was represented by Assistant Sec
Ieiary Hawley. The session lasted about an
hOur and hall, and the difficulties in r. PaSo
county were talked over. Dispatches received
on the subject at the State and War depart
mentS were read and discussed, but no plan
Tor action on the part OF the government was
determined upon. it being decided 10 await
more definite information.
\ MANDAMUs On THE SECRETARY OF THE
INTERIOR To-day Messrs. Carpenter aud
Coleman. FOR James G.. Blunt, filed an applica.
ton for a rule on the Secretary of the Interior
Ia show cause why a writ of mandamuS should
not issue compelling him To approve deed
apart for the Shawnee Indian tribe. which
was conveyed by ''Chc-la-ne'' to petitioner
Tie rule 10 show cause was granted by Chief
Justice Cartier. and made retuTnable on Jan
uary th, at ii o'clock.
THE WIDOW OLIVER AND SIMON G aNERON.
II appears that the venerable Simon Cameron
and the widow Oliver settled their differences
almost year dgo. Mrs. Belva A. lockwood
says that in January or February last. some
time Immediately following the holding OF the
Woman Convention in this city that the
widow Oliver introduced herself Ia her in a
street car. and beSOught her To take charge at
her breach Ui promise sui. gainSt Simon Cam
eron. OF Harrisburg Pa. Mrs. Lockwood con
Schted 10 act rs her attorney. subsequently
flrS. Oliver appeared in Mrs. LOckWo DDS
office. and proceeded to state her ease. Sh"
informed Ter attorney that the preliminary
suit had been entered by \. g.. Riddle. Mrs
l.. Therefore advised with Mr.. Riddle. where
upon he produced a receipt for 81 .G01. bearing
The widow ollyerS signature. duly atteSted,
Tor and IN consideration Of which She waived
all further proceedings in the matter OF relief
for Il heart that had been wounded through
The venerable SlmonS refusal TO marry Mr..
Oliver. Upon being thus advised Mrs Lock
wood sought Mrs Oliver and told her that She
had abandoned her ease :that for her (Mrs. IL
10 again open il would look like blackmail
and she refused to act as an attorney i'm The
matter. Mis- Oliver admitted To Mrs Lock
wood that She mad received the $1,000 in lawful
money.
The REPORTED CABINET UNPLEASANTNESS
NO-SUCHA-THING.-The senSeleSs report of
an inter-Cabinet war between Secretaries
EvartS and ScburZ is still banded about by
the gOssips. 1t has absolutely no foundation
i'll fact. Secretary Eyarts stated this morning
that he had declined and must still decline to
speak with newspaper men concerning what
he deemed To be the connection of their own
fertile imagination in attributing to Secretary
SchuiZ and himself any GOODNESS, arising out
of the conduct OF either of them toward Presi-
dent Hayes, OF the policy OF the admnistra-
lion. He likewise declined To affirm or dis
credit the report of an interview between
himself and a reporter OF Chicago newspa-
per. This interview sets forth that Secretary
Evar1s has had no personal difficulty with Sen
a1Or COnkilhg that there could he no political
differences between them To quote the
words attributed to Secretary Evarts: We
both belong TO the same party, though it is
claimed by Ben Butler and others that am n
democrat. Now my republicanism is as good
rs Buffers, and is older than Conkling's 1
nave certainly been as consistent as Butler.and
as certainly ante date COnkling. My rigid adj
herence is due To the republican party, and I
am republican in the full sense OF the term
Mr. Eyarts is reported also to have said that
he had made no oyertureS whatever To Mr..
COnkliDg, said he: "lneyer vet have seen the
necessity Tor reconciliation or for overtures
III that direction. Nothing has yet arisen 10
make any such thing as Il reconciliation neceS-
Sary.' He also is reported as having said that
he had nothing TO cOnciliate: that the Cabinet
was harmonious and perfectly united that he
saw no reason Tor reSlgning, and did not con
template that any contingency had arisen
which required his resignation that the rela-
tons between the President and the Cabinet
The President and the republican party. and
: the Cabinet, the President. the republican
party and the country, We're as pleasant as
they were when the Cabinet was formed
There j. no misunderstanding. Everything is
perfectly harmonious. As TO the relation ey-
isting between himself and his colleagues i'm
the Cabinet Mr. EyartS is reported to have
said, The relations between all the Cabinet
officers are OF the pleasanteSt. The Cabinet is
at peace. The republican party is really at
peace and the country is ut peace. 1t is only
the politicians who are at war, and they will
soon see that when they see that the country
take no interest in it,"
Cot INTERPRETERS ARRESrED.-The Brook
Iyn (N.N.) police last night arrested VIM
Springstine, halter. and his daughter. aged
sixteen, the former for manufacturing and the
Latter for passing counterfeit coin. MouldS
Tor making five and ten cent pieces. some
metal and a ladle Were found in Springstine'S