Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-29
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip,

Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY-Internal
revenue, s659,CSS. 40: customs s35lo33,77.
RETURN OF THE WAR AND NAVY SECRE-
Enthusiastically Thompson returnen from
Indiana last evening. Secretary McCrary,
| General Sherman and Colonel Bacon returned
| from fortress Monroe YESTERDAY.
THE MUSICAL AND LITERARY REUNION OF
Mrs. Imogene Robinson Morrell. at Willard S
Saturday evening, was an exceedingly brilliant
and enjoyable affair.
SECRETARY EvARTs' AFFLICTED FAMILY
A dispatch received at the State department
this afternoon announces that Mr.. Allen Ev-
arts, son of Secretary Evarts, and who is i'll
| in New York, is no worse to-day, but is still in
a critical condition. The funeral of the late
| William EvaTts, which was to have taken
| place at Windsor, Vt, today. has been post
pOned on account of the sickness of Allen un-
til tomorrow morning at 10 O'Clock.
| AN ELoPEMENT SENsATIoN.-The daughter
of Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, who is in her
fifteenth year, made runaway match last
night with daShing young eX-clerk OF the
Navy department, named Handy, of this city.
MARRIAGE LICENSES have been issued to
| Hobart A. SmOOt and Emma j. COWling, of
| Fairfax county, Va; Adams Hatfield and
| Amelia BeefuS: James II. Gulick and Mary
X. Miller; Thomas Parker and Lavinia Ford.
| SENATORS Matthews and Barnum returned
to this city from New York today. Senator
! Eaton Wore the first white Stovepipe hat of the
season to-day.
THE NEW KENTUCKY SENAToR.-Senator
McCreery today presented the credentials of
his successor to seat in the Senate from
Kentucky, ). 5: Williams, esq.,. Mi; Williams
will begin his six years term of public service
| on the 4th of March next
DISTRICT COMMISSIONER BRYAN returned to
the city last night from flying trip of about
one week through North and South Carolina
| in the interest of the Viticultural Society of
| this District. which society purposes to encOur
| age emigration to those states to start grape
| culture MIR. Bryan was at his Office this morn
! ing Tor few minutes, and Immediately left
| for the Capitol to urge the passage of some
| measure, to furnish means to keep our public
| schools running the full term
POST OFFICE EXPENDITUREs.-The House
| committee on the expenditures of the p. o.
department will not hold a meeting to eXanl-
| inc Witnesses tomorrow. 1t has drawn up
| several amendments to the bill pending in the
| House fixing the number of employees and the
| salaries i'll the p. o. d., and wish to be on
Eand when the bill comes up in order to make
an enOrt to have them passed. These amend
| ments are based on the information obtained
! in the Investigations of the committee, and are
| more favorable 10 the department than the
! FiOflniOhS vi tllt vi Slldt Dlll
| ORDERED TO WAsH1NGToN.-By direction of
the Secretary of War, Capt Chas A. Wood
| ruff, cOmmissary of subsistence, will report in
| person to CommiSSary General Macfeely, in
| this city.
! AMONG THE CALLERS at the White House
| to day were Attorney General DevenS; Sena-
| tors Allison, Plumb, Kellogg; Representa-
| tlVeS Humphreys, Mckinley, Holmes, Dunnell,
| Hayes, HartZell, Harris (Va.), Tucker, Cabcll,
| Scheicher, Cole Phillips, Eam Smith (Pa.),
Robinson CMass;l Campbell Pa.), Bayne,
! Foster, Clatiin, Willis: eX Senator Wright,
and Judge Meredith, of Richmond, Va.
GIVING THE UMNFLUENTIAL PRISONERS A
| CHANCE-A special agent of the Department
of Justice, who spends most of his time in Wis.,
| iting penitentiaries where United States pris-
Oners are confined, is under instructions to
| look for the cases of such prisoners who have
no friends to ask for Executive clemency i'm
their behalf, and report thereon to the depart
ment 1t is thought best to give them all a
chance.
The METRIC SYsTEM.-Secretary Sherman
has directed ali medical officers of the marine
hospital service to make use of the metric syS-
TENS of weights and measures for all official
medicinal and pharmaceutic purposes.
THE MEXICAN DOLLAR is rated only as bull
| lion by the Treasury department, its value be-
ing about 93 cents.
SENIOR MANTILLA, Spanish minister, will re-
turn to Europe this summer on visit home
| and to the Paris fair
A CHINESE MINISTER COMING.-The State
| department is informed that a minister from
China, duly commissioned by his government
as its accredited minister to the United States,
1 is en- route for Washington. He is accom-,
| panied by secretaries and other attaches, and
| will establish here legation similar to those
of other foreign countries China has fire.
| quently sent commissioners and embassies to
| the United States, but the coming will be her
| first envoy extraordinary and minister plenipO-
| tentiary to this country The agitation of the
| Chinee question is supposed to be China's
| chief reason for Wishing to have such an of.
| ticial at our seat OF government.
PRESIDENT HAYES AND PARTY returned to
Philadelphia via Phenixville. Saturday, and
| left on the ll:55 p. m. train for Washington
where they arrived early yesterday morning
well pleased with their trip.
REPRESENTATIVE Martin l. Townsend. from
| the 18th district of New York, has written to
| his constituents declining reelection. He was
| understood to be candidate. but he assigns
| no reason for his withdrawal.
THE COURT MARTIAL of First Lieut. E. P.
EckersOn, who commanded so gallantly the
7th cavalry battalion in Miles Joseph fight,
commenced last Friday at Fort Rice, Col. w.
with drunkenness while on duty and with re.
leasing prisoners from guard house.
To BE EPROSECUTED.-THE STAR some weeks
ago noted the fact that merchants, especially
in the south and west, are issuing advertise
ments in the form of legal tender notes, in yio-
latiOn OF the law which prohibits any person
from issuing any paper similar to the United
States or National bank notes bearing prom
ise 10 pay. This practice is growing instead
OF decreasing. In view of this fact The chief
OF the secret service has been directed to in
yeStlgate the matter and enforce the law. He
will first cause the prohibiting statute to be
published i'll the western and southern papers
and will then proceed to make arrests and
prosecute the parties guilty OF the violation.
TURTLES IN THE NATIONAL MUsEUM-The
National Museum received last week a con.
siderable addition to its stock of live turtles.
Two of the number came from Iowa. and the
remaining seventeen were collected at Mt.
Carmel, Illinois, and sent to this city by Mrs.
NJ. L. Turner and Mr.. Robert RidgWay, of the
Smithsonian Institution. The newcomers
will go, with about an equal number already
on hand, into the museums turtle pen." in
which there is small pool of water where
they may refresh themselves after their Jour.
ney. In their snug quarters in the pen the
turtles may be seen from above, through an
iron grating, outside of the Smithsonian build
ing but to feed them with beef or to tantaiZe
hon N1rith rNFN1n