Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-25
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
lfsUBscR1PT1oNs to the four per cent. loan to.
day 100000.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal
Revenue, s9O2,Ol767; customs. $579. 9.s32S5.
SENATOR CONKLING has gone to New York
to attend the funeral of the late President Or
ton, OF the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany.
MONTICELLO, Jetfersons old home, will be
sold next week under deed of trust.
THE BILL by which $4,000 is appropriated
for printing for the Post Office department
has passed both houses, and now needs only
the Presidents signature. AS the President is
away from the city, the public printer has sig
nified his Willingness to commence work again
without waiting for his return, when the bill
VIII no doubt be signed.
BROOKLYN invites the President to attend
her annual Sunday school parade OH the 22d of
May next.
IT SEEMS TO BE DEFINITELY DECIDED that
Recorder Wolf will have to retire from his
Office, although he is making strenuous efforts
to be retained. Secretary Schurz is Mr.. VOLTS
friend i'll the cabinet. There does not seem to
be any ground for doubling that Gen. George
A. sheridan will be Mr.. VOLTS successor,
although there are number of applicants for
the position, among them MeSSrs. Parsons and
Rice.
COMMANDER l.. \. BEARDsLEE is to com.
mand the L. S. Fish commission vessel. the
Lookout. which is now at the WASHINGTON
navy yard undergoing certain repairs to her
boiler.
THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE on the Foster
deficiency bill met in the room of the Senate
committee on appropriations to-day. A report
agreed nf bn
committee and one member OF the Senate
committee refusing to sign it. The members
OF the committee decline to made the bill as
agreed upon public until it is reported to the
House.
THE CONSTELLATION AND WYOMING arrived
at Havre on the 23d, with goods for the Paris
exposition. This completes the arrivals of U.
5. vessels sent from this country with such
goods. A dispatch from Capt. d. C. Rogers,
dated Havre, April II. reports that the Consti-
H1non nnlshed S1 dIseharging her freight33s
finish the discharge of her freight
the next day: i is expected that ali
the vessels sent with goods to Paris by the
government VIII remain at Havre until the
close OF the exposition, except the COnStella-
tlOn. She will come back in the latter part of
June to take the first and third classes of cadet
midshipmen at the naval academy on the an.
nual summer cruise.
REPRESENTATIVES, CALDWELL and Watson,
tinued their examination today into the Ope-
rtilonS OF the tOpOgrapher's office of the p. o.
EXONERATED.-The House committee on
pIblic buildings and grounds before which
charges against Edward Clark architect of
the Capitol were made, have dismissed them
alter thorough investigation, as entirely I'M
founded.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMSON, of the Gen
eral Land office, has gone to New York, to be
absent for few days. Mr.. V. J. Baxter is
the Acting Commissioner
Mr.. A. d. HAzEN, Third Assistant p. NJ. G.,
has gone north on official business, and will
De away Tor about a week, In his absence
Mr.. w. N. Morton will be the Acting Third
Assistant.
Prominent SOUTHERN MEN GOING TO BOs-
TON.-SenatOrS Gordon, Lamar, Jones of Fla,
and Morgan have accepted an invitation eX-
tended to them by Representative Morse, of
MaSsachuSetts, in behalf of the Commercial
OF Louisiana. Chalmers of Mississippi, and
Whitthorne Of Tennessee, and several other
congressman from the south, have also been
invited and will probably accept the invita-
tion. Senator Gordon goes to New York TO-
night. The rest of the party will start with
direct for Boston. 1t is expected that Senator
Gordon and Representative Ellis will deliver
brief speeches at the banquet on Saturday
evening.
CoNFIRMATIONs.-TheS Senate in executive
session yesterday confirmed the following
nominations COnsulS-C. G. Ford, of Vir-
ginla, at La Union, Salvador; David Eckstein,
OF Ohio, at Amsterdam; Chas FL. Branscomb,
of Missouri, at Chin Kiang: Albert d. Shaw,
of New York, at Manchester: John n Way.
sSn SSo Of Toron TaS " Se HG;s M cassns Of
customs at st. Augustine, Fla. j.. Lightner, of
MARYLAND, Indian agent at Santee agency,
Nebraska.
TRADE DOLLARs.-Dr. Linderman, the di.
rector of the mint, has stated in an official
letter that there is no authority of law for
receiving trade dollars at the United States
treasury or mintS as coin in exchange for
other kinds Of money. The holders of such
com may, however, sell them to the mints as
bullion. At the present price of silver they
would realize about 93l4 cents each, payable
IN gold coins or standard silver dollars.
SENATOR WITHERs' EYES. - The Alexan-
andria Gazette says: DR.. MarmiOn, the
well known oculist of Washington, and
Dr. Lewis, of this city. have performed an ope-
ration on the eyes of Senator Il. Z. Withers. TO
remedy the trouble from which he has been
suffering f0r some time past. The many
friends of Senator Withers throughout the
state will be glad to learn that he is doing well
since the operation.
MRS. DAHLGRENs CLA1M.-The House com.
mittee on naval affairs has agreed to report
bin recommending that the claim of Mrs.
Dahlgren for the Dahlgren gun be referred to
the Court OF Claims, with limit Of $4,000.
SECRETARY r. W. THOMPSON has been i'm.
terViewed bya reporter of the Indianapolis
Neirs, and said i'm reference to the converse.
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