Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-04-14
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

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GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS sTo-DAY.-Internal rev.
cnue, 1856, 1886; customs. ss12, ,osa.s2.
REVENUE APPOINTaENTs.-W.A A. johnson has
been appointed storekeeper and gauger for the
second District of North Carolina. and ]. j.
Black gauger or the fifth district of Illinois.
AEofHER NoTARy.-The President has ap-
pointed Ferdinand Schmidt notary public for
the District Of Columbia.
ATTORNEY GENERAL DEyENs left the city this
morning for New York and New England to be
gone week or ten days.
WHITE House CALLERs.-Senators Baldwin
and Burnside and Representatives Updegraff,
Pound, Mckinley. Shallenberger, Butterworth
Bachman, keifer and Heilman were among the
Presidents callers to-day.
TIE EXODUS INvESTIGATION.-R. l.. Faulkner
colored man, aged 63, of Natchitoches, La,
testified before the exodus committee Yesterday
that he had been prosecuted by the republicans
for afflliating with the democrats and on one
occasion they had taken valuable mule from
him and drowned it.
A CONFIRMATION AND A REJECTION.-The Sen
ate in executive session yesterday confirmed
the nomination of Chas. c. Dow to be postmas-
ter at Portage, Mich, and rejected that of l.. B.
Sturteyant as supervisor OF census for 9Th dis
triCt Penna.
FIRST LIEUTENANT j. L. SHERMAN, 1st artil-
lely. is transferred from battery G to battery +,
OF that regiment; vice 1st Lieutenant L. A.
Chamberlain transferred from battery F to
battery G, to take effect May 1St, 1850.
MARINE CORPS ORDERs.-First Lieutenant A.
c. Kelton Will remain on duty at the League
Island barracks, his orders to Brooklyn being
suspended for the present. Second Lieutenant
cl t0 tpn
Brooklyn barracks for temporary duty.
THE TALLAPoosA CoLLISIoN.-The following
dispatch from Lieutenant Rftchfe was received
at the Navy department last evening. 1t is sent
from Vineyard Haven. Massachusetts,: Italia
pOoSa cOlded with schooner Dreadnaught last
night. VIII be detained two days in making
temporary repairs, as stem is split and wood
ends started"
MAJOR MCKINLEY, OF the 18th Ohio district.
has returned to Washington. He Is assured OF
his denomination to Congress- as all opposition
against him has been withdrawn.
THE PRESIDENT this afternoon sent to the
Senate the nomination OF VIM. H. Gibbs to be
supervisor OF the census for the third district of
Mississippi.
c. NJ. T. BALL, L. S. collector at Alaska, ad-
dressed the House committee on public lands
to-day upon the bill ''tO extend the land laws OF
Hiteu states 10 ine territory or Alaska.
The committee will take vote upon the bill on
Friday.
THE ONLY NOMINATION sent to the Senate
to-day. was that of VIM. II Gibbs OF Miss to be
supervisor of census for the Sd census district
OF Mississippi
CONGRESSMAN ACRLEN DEFEATED.-A private
dispatch received at the Capitol to-day an
nounces that Congressman Acklen has been
tafr,nf
Louisiana.
NAVAL ORDERS.-Lieutenant j. A. Rodgers.
TO instruction in ordnance at the Washington
navy yard on 10th; Assistant Surgeon H. G.
Boyer to examination for promotion: Captain
Henry Wilson has reported his return home
from The Trenton, and has been placed on
waiting orders: Cadet MidShipman A. n Wood
has reported his return home from the Pacific
station, and has been placed on waiting orders.
THE CHIPPEWA INDIANS, accompanied by
commissioner Trowbridge and Dr. J. l.. Mahan.
their agent. were received at the White House
Yesterday afternoon by their Great Father
Inc PRESIDENT talked with them pleasantly and
showed them around the house. They leave TO-
morrow for Wisconsin, their business having
Deen settled on the basis heretofore given in
THE STAR. They agree to settle in seypraltv
upon l60 acres Of land each and to have the hal
ance OF their reservation sOld the proceeds to
oe neld as a trust fund for them. They leave
10 visit the Indian school.
SENATOR GROWERS CONDITION.-The renort of
Senator Growers dangerous Illness turns out to
be unfOunded. Senator Slater OF Oregon. saws
letters have been received here within a dav or
TWO past from Senator Grover and Instead OF
pelng III dying condition. he is improved in
health.
SENATOR HILL. OF Georgia says there is no
Whatever hat no ho5
threatened 10 resign from the Senate committee
on elections because of its action In the kellogg
case. He said further, None OF the news.
papers have published anything like true
report OF what occurred In the caucus. All the
reports were erroneous"
The PURSUIT OF NICTORIA.-Gen Sherman
to-day received dispatch from Gen. Sheridan
at Chicago stating tnat there was nothing new
rom nom New Mexico In regard to the pursuit of
victoria. Gen. Hatch. who Is after NctOria'S
Dand. Is prepared to follow the Indians I'D Wig
olously ana TO the end. He Is just the kind of
man That VIII do this 1t is expected that the
pursuit OF Victoria will close at an early day
with his capture. Gen. Hatch has the most i'm
pefatlVe orders on the subject and will carry
them cut.
IHE SENATE PoNcA COMMITTEE to-day re-
sumed the examination OF Rev. $. D. Hinman.
His examination to-day was mainly in regard
10 the proceedings OF the council OF January u.
lie stated that he believed the Poncas misun-
derstoOd the tenor or the proposition which
lhey agreed to at this council, for the reason
That by their Interpretation of it they were 10
go and inspect the Indian territory lands and
not 10 remain there. He did not believe any in
tentonal fraud was perpetrated on the Indians.
certainly not by Mr.. Kimble, the government
inspector appointed TO remove them whom the
witness described as man of 'immovable in
legrlty so straight that he sometimes leans
backward" He also stated that he considered
Inc removal OF the P0ncaS TO the Indian terri
tory an error OF Judgment more easily to be seen
now than then.
PERsONAL.-GeneraI j. c. Fremont and wife
Arizona Murat HalStead, OF the Cincinnati COM
"tTc'dl, and Richard Henry Stoddard. of New
YORK. are at the Arlington.--Two members OF
the diplomatic corps here are now matrimonialIy
engaged TO New York ladieS.-Walt Whitman
is 10 deliver commemorative address on Abra-
nam Lincoln at Philadelphia to morrow, the
nfteenth anniversary OF the Presidents death.
--Gen. Stewart l.. Woodford and Gen. R. F.
Tracy, OF New York. arrived at Wizards this
morn1ng.-Hart, the pedestrian. is said to in
tend studying law in BOSton.-Mr Nicolas
Shlshkin. the Russian minister, sails for Europe
To-Day On leave OF absence His family viii
accompany him. Representative Leonard
Myers, OF Philadelphia is In town. stopping at