Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-24
THE EVENING STAR.
DOUBLE SHEET.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal rev.
enue, s351 ,4s5.62: customs. s6I7.sI5.s
AMONG THE PRESIDENTS CALLERS to-day were
Senator Wallace and Representatives Monroe,
Valentine and Neal.
THE YORKTOWN MONUMENT AND CELEBRA-
TIoN.-The House select committee on the York
town celebration has agreed to report bill to
the House appropriatlng 500 900 Tor the erection
of monument at yorktown, and $4,000 to
meet the expenses OF the proposed Yorktown Gel
ebration
THERE WAS AN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE Of the
democratic members of the committee on ways
and means, yesterday. The object was to come
to some conclusion as to whether or no gen.
eral tariff bill should be reported at this session
The sentiment expressed was decdedy agalnst 81
make some changes in the existing law, but in
separate bills, and to let each change recon-
mended take its chances in the House on its
merits.
CONGRESSMAN ACKLEN, of Louisiana, gave a
very elegant entertainment to his colleagues in
Congress last night, at his residence on Capitol
Hill. Among those present were Senator Hill
and Representatives Calkins, Chalmers, Cobb.
CulbersOn, DeuSter, House, Jorgensen, Kelly,
Kenna, LIE Fevre, Lewis, Mills, OConnor, Pa
Senate; Clerk Adams and many others.
THE TOTAL national bank circulation out
standing to-day is ss42,775, ,OoO.5O, of which
81, ,426 12O is god and $341 ,34s, $3.50 currency.
CoLoRED RECRUITS. The superintendent
mounted recruiting service will forward all
available colored cavalry recruits to Santa Fe,
New Mexico, for assignment to the 9th cavalry.
instead of to Fort Union, New Mexico, as here
tofore directed.
PERsoNAL.-Wilmot A. Warren, editor of the
Springfield Republican, is at the Riggs House.
... Orvil Grant is now an employe in the Chi
cago post Office, according to the western
papers. Representative Warner Miller and
ex-Gov. Cooke, of this city. We're registered in
Daniel d. Lord, the distinguished New York
lawyer, died suddenly of pneumonia, in Florence
yesterday. She was the daughter of Hon. b. F.
Butler, Attorney General in Van Buren's cab-
people THE New York papers claim that
Congressman Bliss, Of Brooklyn, has the fastest
team in Washington rR9r mat ex
by the sale of a Utah mine is incorrect, and is
denied by his request.
THE TREASURY TO-DAY holds 1865, ,065, $50 in
U. S. bonds to secure national bank circulation.
L. S. bonds to secure circulation were deposited
by national banks during the week to the
amount of $3.50, 800: and 81 900 deposited for
PFEIFFER, OF ScHAGHTICoKE, New York. who
has been writing for some time past to Treas
urer Gilfillan about his wite's interest check,
has been found or rather the New York papers
having republished THE STARS item about
PfeifTer, he has found himself. The Treasurer
to-day received letter from him. in which he
says: II see now what caused the delay. Our
post Office is HartS Falls, formerly Schagn-
ticoke N. Y. Please direct the interest check
to this address," The Treasurer to-day for
warded the check to the proper address. The
publication of Pleiffers matter in THE STAR has
drawn forth quite correspondence. A number
of citizens of Washington have written to Mr..
Gilfillan, giving him information as to
where Schaghtfcoke is-none of the in
Thompson, general superintendent OF the
railway mail service, to-day sent the
treasurer letter giving Pfeiffer's proper post
Office address. One Of the members of the coast
and geodetic survey sent quite communication
about Schaghiticoke, but it is incorrect. Pfeif-
fer'S wife will get her interest check next Mon
day, and all will be serene again in Schaghti-
coke. The treasurer received postal card from
Baltimore in this afternoons mail to-day, saving:
Schaght1coke, N. Y, is known as Hart's Falls,
Rensselaer, county, n. Y. correspondent Of
The STAR sends us the same information.
FEMALE SUFFRAGE-The House Judiciary COM
mittee gave hearing to-day to the advocates
of constitutional amendment to provide for
female suffrage, and listened to arguments by
Mis-. i.liiu' Iuolio. VI
Jessie F. Waite, Of Illinois; Mrs. Catharine A.
F. Stebbins, OF Michigan; Mrs Elizabeth S.
Saxon, Of Louisiana; Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake.
OF New York; Mrs Matilda Joslyn Gage, of New
York; Miss Phoebe W. CouZins of Missouri;
Miss Susan B. Anthony, OF New York.
THE YALE ALUMNI BANQUET.-The seventh
annual dinner of the Yale Alumni Association
was attended last evening, at Wizards hotel, by
over fifty members and invited guests, Colonel
Garrick Mallery, us. army, the president of the
association, presiding. The toaStS, with mot
toes in Latin, Greek and ChoctaW, as well as
from the English classics, were responded to by
President Noah Porter, Of Yale College; Hon.
Chauncey Depew; Justice Strong of the U. S.
Supreme Court; Col. w. Hemphill Jones, OF the
class of 81; Prof. VIM. Preston johnson, Hon.
W. w. Crapo, Francis Miller, esq.,; Col. /. Ed
wards Clarke, of the bureau of education; Prof.
Simon Newcomb, U.SN.; Col F. A. Seely, chief
clerk OF the Patent Office; Rev. TheO. S. Wyn-
koOp. DR.. Steiner, Mr.. Walter Allen of the BoS-
ton Adre1tiSer: Mr.. II. x. Willard, of the class
of 1879; Mr.. John Proctor Clarke. of rs. The
speeches were divided between the eloquent
and the humorous, interspersed with College
songs, and diversified by the quaint notices an
nounced by the chairman in several languages
and his elastic translationS to suit persOnages
The notices for the toast to "The Bar" was
from Shakespeare's King Henry W., 1.-THE first
thing we do let's kill all the lawyers" That for
1.-The Press was from Twelfth Night, 'Read it,:
warrant there's vinegar and pepper int"
The News from Maine.
OPINIONS Of cONGRESSMEN OF THAT STATE