Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-12-31

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assistant chief, and that the duties naturally
deV0lVed upon an assistant might be performed
by the chief clerk, and therefore the appoint
ment Of an assistant Will be discontinued. TO
avoid confusion this order will go into opera
ton Oh the 1St Of January next when commits
stoned operatives and clerks will receive their
appointments as herein provided.
JOHN SIBERIAN Secretary.
Society.
The ladies have already begun their New
Year calls. Yesterday great many called on
the families Of the Justices Of the Supreme
Court and others who receive on Monday. Mrs.
and Miss Waite, Mrs. SWayne and Mrs Field
were all found at nome. Some Of the other la
dies declined receiving Mrs. Swayne has had
her daughter and one Of her sons with her.
Mr.. COrc0ran seems even younger and StrOnr-
er since the celebration of his eighteth birth
day. He often makes calls on hisSpecial friends
on sunday he called on Mrs. Scott, daughter
of the late General Winfield Scott, and once
belle OF the national capital, and still most
agreeable woman, who is with her huSblnd nj
the Riggs House. They will remain several
weeks.
A daughter Of Thomas Jefferson Randolph.
and consequently a great-granddlug;lter o.
Jhomas Jefferson, is visiting at Mr. COrcoran's
residence.
Mrs. Meikleham, the granddaughter of Mr..
good health lately.
The family of the Secretary of War have some
young ladies from Keokuk, Iowa, as visitors
who Will assist Mrs. and Miss McCrary at their
reception tomorrow.
Tie eldest daughter Of Postmaster General
hey arrived at the Ebbitt House Sunday eve
ming and Will remain there with her parents.
Three rooms have been engaged at the Riggs
House by members of the family of e1-G0vern1 II
WaShburn, who will come here with the AttOr-
ney General and his niece. They were expected
last evening, but had not arrived this morning.
Secretary Thompson's family say they viii
not close their doors much before eight O'Clock
New Year. They Will spend the evening at
Captain DeKraft's residence at the navy yard
Misses Mckeen, Of TeIre Haute, daughters OF
an old friend of Secretary Thompson, the pres
ident of the Eandalia r. r., arrived at the Sec
retarys residence Sunday evening, and vii
visit his family during the season.
Mr.. HOratfO King is issuing cards to his lite
rary reunions, which Will begin next Saturday
evening and continue on Saturdays through the
season. Dr. Coues will deliver an address at
the first gathering.
Admiral and Mrs. Porter have invited their
friends to dance New Year evening.
There Will be no stimulating beverages pro-
vided at the Cabinet receptions.
Mrs. OSle Tayloe Is in such good health that
She has net yet found it necessary to 60 south
as she usually does early in the winter She
and her lovely niece, Miss Price, Will receive
New Year.
Mrs. Harriet Prescott SpofTord, who rarely
appears at social asselnblagcs. will forego her
ceiye calls at Gen. Buffers residence with his
neceS, Miss Heard and Miss Stevens and the
daughter OF Mr.. NorcrosS, of Massachusetts.
Parton has named his newborn son Victor
Hugo. MISS GRUMPY,
A DELEGATION consisting of Chief Charles
Thompson, Of the Cherokee nation, the Chero-
kee delegates Ross and Adair, and others called
at the Interior department to-day and saw Sec
retary Schufz and the Commissioner of Indian
Affairs. They merely paid their respects at
this visit. and any business they may have to
discuss VIII be brought up next year.
TEE WASHINGTON TERRITORY INDIANs-A dis
patch has been received at the Indian Office
from Agent Wilbur, at Yakima City, which says
that now is the time, while they have Moses at
the agency, to induce his people to move to the
reservation. Smoholla'S people, the dispatch
continues, are nearly all ON the reservation
now, and some of Moses people. No attempt
has been made, or viii be, to force the Indians
On tEe reservation, but Efforts Will be continued
TO induce them to move with view to remain
ing. The volunteers and Indian police have
returned, ana not gun has been fired.
LIEUT.. T. A. MILLER, L. S. N, is ordered TO
the Ticonderoga, per steamer Jan. I'd next.
AFFAIRS ON THE OTHER SIDE.-The Russian
police authorities on the frontier are taking ex-
ira precautions to prevent the entrance of revo-
iutlonary emfsSaries from Germany and the in
PRODUCTION OF socialist pamphlets.-It is sup
posed that tne fight of the Ameer was only to
prevent his being caught in a trap. He has
seventeen regiments with him, and may still
make stand against the British troops next
Sprlng."A duel with swords was fought on
saturday near Paris. Count Pairnett, a foreign
offlcer, received two wounds, one OF which is
serious, at the hands OF Baron Roguiat, a diplo-
matte attache.
EMBEZZLED FROh THE BANK COMPANY-ChaS
+. Stickney was arra1gned at Fall River. Mass
yesterday, and pleaded guilty to an Indictment
charging him with the embeZZlement Of twenty
thousand dollars from the Manufacturers Gas
Company OF that city. Sentence was reserved
ana Stickney returned to his residence, where
he Is permitted to abide for the present.
To OCCUR WHEN GRANT is IN CH1CAGo.-It is
UNDERSTOOD that General Sherman will call the
next reunion Of the Army Of the Tennessee in
Chicago, November 1879, and make it coincIdent
with the arrival OF General Grant In that city
MADAME ANDERsoNs WALK.-At 9:1s last
night Madame Anderson, the Brooklyn On. "
PedeStrlenne, had completed half Of her task
In the same number OF quarter hours. The New
YORK Herald says: 'iWill she hold out to the end?
Sne mas certainly stood the severe strain Won
keeping her from showing scarcely any of th
exhausted LOOK so CONSPICUOUS in Camoana, TO-
instance, throughout nearly all last week"
SEVERE ON Ex-Gov. GRovER.LThe investica. !.
ton into the state finances of Oregon has eiic
lted report showing that sa7 900 have been un-
accounted for or paid out without authority O.
Jaw. Ihe report Is very severe On ex-t3ov
grover Ior DIS loose, eXtravagant and corrupt
administration.
THE Loss OF THE STEAMER GEoRGIA.-The L.
). commissioners at San Francisco yesterday
completed the inquiry into the loss of the
steamer Georgia by taking the testimony of III.
u. Howa the captain. He said he had bee
deceived by the action OF the currents, and re-
pelled the charges OF drunkenness and inatten-
tion TO duty.
SCARLET FEVER EPIDEMIc.-There were one
hundred and eighty deaths from scarlet fever in
New lork the past week, an increase OF so over
me week previous The increase is so marked
that the board Of health win meet to-day to ia Se
action. W -A
Es-Capt johnson, an Old Pacific coast steam
snip commander. who was TO have gone East az
an early day to bring out the new steamer