Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-22
TIE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip

Washington News and Gossip
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY.-Internal re-
venue, s1Sl, 1904; customs, sos 59l.l1.
THE PRESIDENT remained at Columbus, Ohio,
yesterday and went to Gambler to-day to attend
the exercises at Kenyon College.
SEVEN HUNDRED APPLICATIONS FOR SIX PLACES.
When the National Museum building is COM
pleted and the exhibits arranged and opened to
the public there wtlllnot be over half dozen
ATTENDANTS and watchmen to appoint. There
hayebeen already filed over 700 written appli-
cations, and there is no end to the verbal appi-
cations which have been made.
BOYS FOR THE NAvY.-Secretary Thompson
will not send a vessel up the Mississippi this
year to recruit boys for the training ships The
training ship Minnesota has gone up the Hud-
son Oh that duty.
THERE WERE Two GRoUNDLEss REPORTS on
the street to-day about the President, one that
he died last night and the other that he was
stricken with paralysis while in church last
Sunday and was not expected to live.
NAVAL ORDERS. s.- Lieut.. Commander John
Schouler, to duty at the Naval Academy 30th
instant; Lieut. E. d. Taussig, to the Naval
Academy; Assistant Engineer G. S. Willets, to
the Tallap0oSa; Lieut.. L. G. Logan, from the
Naval Academy 30th instant, and ordered to
the Powhatan July 1st: Lieut.. A. G. Paul, from
the Powhatan, and placed on waiting orders;
Lieut.. W. Ii. Reeder, from the POwhatan, and
placed on waiting orders: Lieut.. r. T. Jasper,
from the Naval Academy, and ordered to the
PoWhatan July lSt; Assistant PaymaSter c. w.
L1ttlepeld has reported his return home from
the PaloS, Asiatic station, and is ordered to
settle accounts. Lieut.. II. w. Schaefer to the
Naval Academy July lst, relieving Lieut.. a. o.
R1ttenhouSe. who is placed On waiting orders.
Passed Assistant Engineers L. w. Robinson and
C. H. Manning from the Naval Academy and
placed On waiting orders.
ARMY ORDERs.-2d Lieut.. S. A. Cherry, 5th
cavalry, is relieved from duty as member OF
the board of officers appointed to meet at the
Washington Arsenal, District OF Columbia, and
Lieut.. T. f. Hobbs. I'd artillery, is detailed In
his stead. ISt Lieut.. NJ. O'Brlen, 4th artillery,
will report TO the superintendent mounted re-
cruit1ng service to accompany detachment OF
recruits for the 4th cavalry to Fort Garland,
Colorado. Col. William H. French, 4th artillery,
being over siXty-twO years of age, is, at his own
request, by direction of the President, retired
from active service to take effect July /, 1850.
I'd Lieut.. Guy Howard 18th infantry, Is assign
ed to duty at the artillery school, Fortress Mon
roe, Va. The superintendent mounted recruit
Ing service Will cause fifty recruits to be pre-
pared and forwarded under proper charge to
Fort Garland. Colorado, for assignment to 4th
cavalry. The commanding officer Columbus
Barracks, ONO, Will cause fifty recruits to be
prepared and forwarded under proper charge to
Omaha, Nebraska, for assignment to the 9th
infantry. The superintendent mounted recruit
ing service will cause all available colored cav
airy recruits to be prepared and forwarded un-
Ger proper charge to San Antonio, Texas, for
assignment to the 10th cavalry. The enlisted
men low On detached service in this city who
expected to go on the Howgate expedition will
proceed, under charge of the senior nOn-cOm-
missioned officer of the party, to Fort Smelling,
Minnesota, thence to be sent to their compa-
MES by the commanding general department OF
Dakota.
AN EXCELLENT CHoICE.-Mr. Edward Clark,
n fol hac han, oLo
OF the trustees Of the Corcoran Gallery of Art,
to I'LL the vacancy In the board caused by the
death OF DR.. Hail. In every respect this Selec
ton must be regarded as one Of the very best
that could be maze, and the public and the Gal
lery are alike 10 be congratulated upon il.
Mr.. WM. S. STICKNEY, secretary and dlsburs-
ing officer OF the Ute commission, Will leave for
the west this evening, and will join the commits
siOners at Denver, Colorado, where the first
meeting will be held.
NUMBER OF PROMOTIONS will be made In
the sixth auditors Office at the beginning OF
the next fiscal year. The appointments are de-
termlned upon by the sixth auditor, but have
not yet been signed by the Secretary OF the
Treasury.
OVER THIRTY-TwO THOUSAND Congressional
letters were written by the Pension bureau In
answer to inquiries regarding pension claims
during the session just expired. Claims for
pcuSiOH pcuuluS DcIOTe Iu6 department nave
increased In the last fourteen months at the
rate OF at least five thousand month. These
unsettled claims are now more than double the
NUMBER at tne date OF the passage OF the ar
rearS or pension act In January, 1879. There are
now pending In the office at least $50 900 claims
During the six months preceding the passage of
January !, lsI9 the number OF claims filed per
month did lot exceed 1,75O invalid's and wild
oW's claims together. During the seventeen
months since the passage OF The act this aver
s M + ,f
possible With the present facilities of the pen
sion bureau to dispose of more than $500 or
,Iese Ins eases per mon6h; SO that these claims are
low accumulat1ng at the rate Of five or six
thousand, and it would take Commissioner
Bentley says, many years to dispose OF the
Claims now pending.
PERsoNAL--The President, Postmaster Cen
eral Key and Secretary Evarts are expected to
attend the commencement exercises at Yale
College on the 1st Of July.-Just1ce Field and
Gen. + a. Walker, superintendent OF the CEN
sus, are In New YOrk.-As lecturer John
Kelly is pronounced failure by the Cincinnati
papers.-,Among the Washingtonians lately
registered abroad were Mr.. and Mrs. F. L.
VIII at Rome, on the 9TH inst, and Rev. NJ. #.
JeHerls at Dresden. On the same date.
THE NEwLY-APPo1NrED MARINE OFFICERS
Second Leuts. Frank L. Denny and C. E. Mer
Ger, lately appointed to the marine corps, to-
day received their commissions, and have been
ordered to report to the marine barracks here
next Monday, where they will receive prelim-
mary instruction before being ordered to differ
ent stations. The other new appointees tn the
corps will also be instructed at the Washington
barracks.
THE LATE COLLECTOR FREELAND's ACCOUNTS
Revenue Agent Hale and District Attorney
Tenney yesterday made formal demand upon
ex-Chief Deputy Collector Boone, OF Brooklyn.
for all revenue stamps in his possession. He
turned over S9,457 ana promised to deliver the
balance this morning. Revenue Agent Hale
and District Attorney Tenney waited over an
hour at Boone'S house this morning, but he
Jailed TO put in an appearance. and his wife
could give no account OF him. The balance due
on late Collector Freelands account is Sl9. .OOS
commissioner Raum has directed warrant to
be procured for Boones arrest.
SENATOR CAMERON, at the request OF General
Garfield, is said to have reconsidered his deter
mination not to accept the chairmanship of the
new republican national committee, and it is
now probable that he will serve In that position
during the coming campaign.
THERE WAS NO EXCITEMENT and not much
interest exhibited In the city to-day over the
Cincinnati convention. There were no crowds
around the bulletin boards. Persons passing
by stopped moment to look at the dispatches
displayed and then passed on.
Mr.. C0LFAX EXPLAINS.-A recent reference tn
Hon. Schuyler COlfax In the New York Herald
In connection with the Credit MohIier h,, ,inoSC