Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-07-07
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
GOvERNMEh TRECEIPTs sTO-DAY.-Internal rev.
enue, 81. 1876, 246.35: customs sos 1912.


GovERNMEh TREcEIPrs sTo-DAY.-Internal rev.
enue, sl,1s6 24e.a5; customs. ss25, 1912.
NUMEROUS APPLICATIONS have been received
at the Department OF Justice for copies Of the
act making appro prlations for the judicial ex-
penses of the government. some OF the judges
being unwilling to proceed with business until
they are officially acquainted with it's provi-
sions. The act has not yet been printed and
until that is done orders cannot be filled.
DEFECTIVE BONDS OF THE OLD CORPORATION
OF WASHINGTON The Treasurer of the United
States is now receiving certificates of the six
per cent registered stock of the corporations
at Washington and Georgetown, which will be
redeemed on the 18th Instant. The certificates
thus far received are all defective. The law
requires that the signature of the mayor, (then
Sayles j. Bowen,) shall be attached. and the
certificate. No certificate has been received
that fulflls both these requirements. Some Of
these lack the seal, some lack the signature
and some are devoid Of both. The Treasurer
cannot give receipts for defective certificates,
and before they are redeemable some correc-
ton OF the defects will have to be made 1t
VIII be remembered that when the redemption
OF the Bowen bonds was begun, they were also
found to have been issued incorrectly, accord
Ing to law.
DANGEROUSLY lila telegram was received
at the State department this morning, an
nouncing the dangerous illness Of the wife of
Hon. James Russell Lowell, U. S. minister at
Madrid.
GOVERNOR Tom YOUNG, OF Ohio, says that the
article published in last Saturdays STAR, con-
cernfng the next campaign in Ohio, and the
wedding out OF democratic material In the FED
eral service, is ' as near correct as the newspa-
pers ever get anything" The only objection
that he has to the publication of the matter is
That the special correspondents have laken it
ND ,,n1,1
than was CO. tained In THE STAR and therefore
much more than the truth.
PERSoNAL.-Senator Cockerill, of Missouri, is
still in the city, being detained here by private
business. James r. Young, of the Philadel-
Rna nsT a ~ WI take in about the
c., Of Cincinnati will leave for HON home % to.niSht NJ
-. Dr.. r. B. Bradford will summer at the
Mn15e Sulphur Springs in trgna
publican, lost an adopted daughter day or two
ago. 1t died OF cholera 1Dfantum at BerryyIlIe.
va; The family OF Mr.; R: G. Blaine, Of the
document room OF the U. s. Senate, left to -day
for Berryyille, Va, for the summer
SECRETARY SHERMAN will take the stump In
Maine and Ohio. His speeches will not be
political. They will be rather a review of the
operations Of the resumption law and the finan.
under President Hayes administration. The
secretary Will speak in Ohio in August.
PRESIDENTIAL GossIP-The latest gossip
anent the next Presidency is that Senator Win
dom, OF Minnesota, is to be coached as repub-
lican candidate In the event that Gen. Grant
1t is thought by Grants friends that he win de-
cline to run If there is scramble for the nom
nation, as the indications now are that there
Ry sa sag ga It is in
name is mentioned. The quill-drivers have 1t
that few days before Congress adjourned SEN
ator Conkl1ng entertained at dinner at Worm
Leaders. The New York Senator asked each OF
MS guests, who would be the strongest candI-
GATE ID case OF Gen. Grants declination that
and at the same time not incte the antayonisn
OF tne other aspiring candidates The story
goes InaC not one OF his guests could name any
person who could fill the bill, whereupon Sen.
william Window, OF Minnesota He could polI
tne fun vote OF the party, would not make enc
mics among the leaders il nominated. and
would come to the nominating convention with
the solid strength OF the northwest in his SUD-
port"
AS Senator Conkling aud Senator Blaine are
not yet on any too good terms, and as Senator
Blaine has always had his strongest following
In the northwest. this gossip, II true, would In.
dicate that the New York Senator proposed to
get In his work early to kill the Maine states
man Off.
HUBBELL's BLUHDER.-Tnere is now a new
phase Of the blunder made by Chairman Hub
bell, OF the republican Congressional commit
tee, In mistaking Congressman Oscar Turner.
OF Kentucky, for Chairman Robinson, Of the
him to aid the greenback organ, The National
piep. 1t is said that the other members of the
congressional committee, In order to throw the
onus OF the Dlunder on Hubbell and not on the
oYf nf nVS
Wnlcn II was proposed to issue, setting forth
that the aid solicited for the paper was solely
on Hubbell's responsibility, and that the % COM
that when Hubbell heard Of the circular he told
his colleagues on the committee that they could
issue the circular If they saw 1T, but that II
under his own signature; that he admitted he
had made blunder, but that the subject OF
81 sustaining the paper had been openly discussed
mended, and that he didn't propose to be made
take. '''' ''''>'-
NAVAL ORDERs.-Passed Assistant Engineer
G. j. Habighurst from the Powhatan, and or
dered as assistant to the coal inspector at
Philadelphia. Assistant Engineer j. s. X.
reeves from the Fortune and placed on waiting
oIders. orc Assistant Engineer Asa Mattice from
the Trenton, European station, and ordered tn
return home and report arrival.
ERRING POsTMAsTERs ExPLAIN.-The special
stamps for postage due, which went into prac-
tlcal operation the first OF this month, were is-
sued during June, and sent to postmasters ac-
cOmpanled Dy circular which charged them
WIN an the emphasis OF italics to "disttnctly
understand that these stamps are NOT to he
USED until July 1St, 1879" Nevertheless he
tween 600 and 700 OF the smaller nost
Offices did use them before that date
not, however, In the manner intended
but as ordinary or Official stamps. This disc,
bedience Of Instructions caused great annoy
ance at the p. o. department. and "bloWinp-
up letter was addressed to the erring post
masters. The explanations In most OF the cases
nave now been received. The excuses are
varied: few acknowledge the corn. and
hope that the "miStake' or oversight Will
be overlooked this time. Some make
scapegoats OF their wicked partners,
lhe deputles, for whose carelessness ana ignor.
ance they decline TO be held responsible. one
postmaster credits his mistake to the fact that
ne mas sore eyes. Another was fiurrled and
a.dn't know what he was doing, because train
nad just run over man In sight of the Office.
A large majority failed to read the circular.
mlst0ok the postage due stamps for official
stamps or artificial stamps" as one
Georgian postmaster expressed 1t. But
ths pc stmaster deserves to have at least one
sentence OF his explanation quoted literally.
lie says: 81 had saw srcular IA sort OF cir
cular. saw performance, apparently Showing
tnat tina was gowing to be some Artificial nos.
udg stamps and had not notist any such stamps
as the postidg due stamps" Most OF these