Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-09-16
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To -DAY.-Internai rev.
enue, $a4i, ,2S9.5S; customs. $3.50. 41s,S6.
ADJUTANr GENERAL DRUM returned yesterday
afternoon from Philadelphia. where he went to
atteDd the meeting of the Aztec Club. General
Drum is the youngest member OF the club.
SIGNAL SERVICE CHANGEs.-Adlutant General
Drum to-day made another change In the du-
ties of officers connected with the signal CORDS
Fhst Lieutenant Charles E. kiloOurne is trans
fered to duty In charge cf orders and corres-
poI dence, and First Lieutenant H. Fl. c. Dun
woody. now on that duty. succeeds Lieutenant
hLbourne as meteorological officer
NEW CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY.-The board
of arc, itects appointed to consider the practi-
cability Of erecting new Congressional Ii
brary, or whether it would be advisable to ex-
tend the quarters now occupied In the Capitol,
have reported in favor OF constructing sepa-
rate building.
THE INDIAN CENsUs.-The work of taking the
census OF the Indians of the United States will
commence october under the supervision Of
Major John W. Powell director of the bureau
OF ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution. as
sisted by Col. GaIr1ck Mallery, X. L. Packard. Ii.
w. HenShaw, S. ID. Hinman and Clay Macauley.
The country has been subdtvtded into four dlvi-
sIons aid special agent assigned TO superlntend
the work in each of them. Six months will
probably elapse before the work is completed.
FOR SEVERAL YEARS there has been no NIL
1tary attache at the French legation at WASH
iIgton. Now that the minister of war Is about
to Introduce some important reforms In the
French cavalry, he has appointed two cavalry
CHicerS, Lieut.. Col. FaverOt de Kerbrech and
Capt. de la Chere, who viii shortly leave for
Washington and pass several months in Amer
lea to study the organization OF the American
cavalry regiments.
WHAT SENATOR MCDONALD SAYs.-Senator
Mcdonald, of Indiana, to-day visited the demo-
cratic congressional committee rooms. The
Senator. in conversation. said he had no doubJ
but that Indiana would give a democratic ma
Jority in both october aud November, and the
result of the Maine election would have ten
dency TO augment that majority. The Senator
dened any DISSATISFACTION among the leading
democrats OF Indiana, but said perfect harmony
existed and aboundlng confidence.
COMMISSIONER RAUM returned last evening
from Maine and Connecticut, where he has
been making campaign speeches. He Will go
TO Fairfax Court House. Va, next Saturday to
make speech at the big republican meeting
and barbecue there on that day. The Commis,
s1oner does not see anything in the Maine
result that Is discouraging. he says.
PERsoNAI--Ex-Gov. Cooke is still critically
III at Fire Island. 1t is the intention to bring
him to Washington tomorrow. His son Pitt
Cooke. who Is engaged in mining In Colorado,
has reached this city TO be with his father
MIR. Dennis Murphy, the chief official steno-
grapher OF the Z. S. Senate, has returned to
the city.-Senator J. E. Mcdonald, of Indiana.
is at Manifestations Joseph JOrgensen OF
Virginia, and Jay A. Hubbell OF Michigan, are
at the Riggs.-N. L. Bates surgeon U. S. N,
Is at the EoDitt.-Mf. j. M. Hill, brother of
Senator Hill. died last week at his residence,
near West Point, Ga. He was over seventy
years OF age:-Senator Withers writes that he
will be In Washington in time to reach New
VIM. o. Avery, who was so i'll from bilious
attack last Tuesday, is much better-Miss
Becky washington is visiting friends at Roches-
ter City, n Y.
THE WEEKLY STAR for this week Is an excel
lent number II contains, as an eight-page
paper. fifty five solid columns OF reading mat
ter, including new story or 'The Runaway, or
TWO Sides TO the Same Story Washington
news and gossip agricultural matters, local
affairs, miscellaneous news, personals, political
noleS, late teiegrams, ETC., and marriages and
deaths for the week. Sent p0atnaid TOR rh:,