Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-10-19
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY-Internal rev.
enue. 1928 44G.O4; customs s53l. .s99.1s.
THE PRESIDENT will return to Fremont, Ohio,
in time to vote at the November election.
WHAT SARvIs SAYS THE GEORGETOWN PARROT
SAID.-There is Georgetown parrot story told
about the elections last Tuesday. One OF the
dyed iD-the-woOl democrats who resides across
the creek has very smart parrot. He taught
1t to say 'Hurrah for Hancock. The bird yelled
OF the owner were greeted with it whenever
they dropped in. Frequently republican
would attempt-but unsucceSsfuliy make
the bird scream for Garfield. 1t was always
Hancock day or two after the election two
republicans were In chatting with their demo-
erae SC febd OF course they tWtted him about
does look as If we might as well give it up" The
parrot yelled out: ':You bet! Hurrah for Gac-
field Jesse Sarvis vouches for the truth of
this story.
REVENUE APPoINTMENTs.-W. H. Tainter and
j. Fl. c. Wilson have been appointed gauger5
for the 9th district of Missouri and ID district OF
Iowa, respectively; and I. C. King has been
appointed storekeeper for the 9th district of
Kentucky.
NATIONAL BOARD OF TRADE.-The board OF
trade Of Philadelphia last night elected the fol-
which meets In this city December Is: Hon
John Welsh. ex- United States minister to Eng
land; Frederick Fraley, president OF the
national board OF trade; Geo. L. Busby Henry
Ninsor and John Price Wetheril.
THE PRESIDENT and party left San Francisco
yesterday afternoon fer the Yosemite They
will to Les Angeles on Saturday next, AMI
tGence come east, via Arizona, Santa Fe and
Kansas City.
The RAILWAY MAIL neutrality-suspicious.
Thompson, OF the United States railway mail
service, has submitted his annual report to
Second Assistant Postmaster General Brady
For the next fiscal year he estimates as follows:
For railway post Office clerks, 81, $50 600: route
agents. s, ,2I5. .0G0; mail route messengers s235.-
o0t local mail agents. S150,000. superintendent
J thompson recommends the reclassification OF
salaries ard designations OF railway mail clerks
Tito five classes, the first class to receive $3.50
ger annum; the second 5000: third, ST. 900; fourth
81 ,2Cc fifth. 81 AGO. The first second and third
classes he recommends for duty on the lighter
or shorter lines, and the fourth and tifth for
duty where railway post Office cars are re-
22O pieces OF mail, Of which but 1851 pieces
were misseDt, OR one In each 3.4S2 pieces There
has been no mortality among the employt5 for
the year ended In June last.
SECRETARY SHERMAN to-day received dis
patch signed by Representative ButterWorth
and other Ohio friends congratulating him
upon his reply to Wade Hampton. The dispatch
closed: Our address is OhiO.'
A SUCCESSFUL DRAMATIsT.-Bartley Camp
bell, the author Of THE Galley Slave" (now
being performed at FOrd's opera House,, is In
town. In face and figure he bears remark
has good deal OF the solemn-faced humor of
the lamented "a. W." Mr. Campbell is the
most succe ssful playwright of the times not
excepting the prolific Boucicault, having no less
SUCCESSFUL
A VERY INTERESTING COLLECTION OF PHOTO
GRAPES is being made by direction of the adju-
tant general MIR. THAN, Chief clerk, has been
at work on 1t for several months. He now has
a collection OF 1863 good pictures of general Of
hcers during the war carefully and neatly ar
ranged In Large albums. Under each photo
graph Is the signature OF the officer II alive
The Photographs are obtained by writing for
them. Many are In citizens dress, being taken
recently. The idea is to form collection Of
stoned by the President OF the United States
dDciCding brigade commanders not actually
commission ed) during the eventful peri}d
which. beginning early In 1861, terminated In
April, 1865 by the surrender OF all the forces or
the late confederate states The collection it
Is proposed to arrange, eventually, for preSer-
vatlon In the archives OF the War department.
1n an album which will exhibit the leaders OF
the several brigades, divisions army corps and
armies OF the United States In the great Contest
for the supremacy OF the union.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Rear Admiral T. II. Patterson
and Lieuts. Richard Wainwright and G. E. Col
ahan have been reported home from the Asiatic
station and are placed on waiting orders; Sur
geon W. *. Van Raypen to the Norfolk navy
yard.
The NAVAL REvIRw.-Secretary Thompson
to-day officially designated next Tuesday as the
date for the naval review at Hampton Road,
The various exercises and drills Will last two or
three days
THE HOTEL MEN In Washington are making
great preparations for the coming winter 1t is
expected great many visitors will be here dur
ing the winter, and that there win be quite d
Iush or strangers to the Inauguration Of the
President.
Loss OF THE LAKE STEAMER ALPENA.-Signal
corps station, Grand Haven, Mich, reports to
the chief signal officer as follows: '.Side- wheel
steamer Alpena, Of Goodrich Line, Capt. Nelson
Napier, running between this place and Chi
wrecked of Holland. No doubt that she has
gone TO pieces. Her entire upper works and
cargo have been identified viii send particu-
lars by mat. Impossible to get correct list OF
passengers Or make any estimate OF number"
THE HOUSE POsTMASTERsHIP.-Among those
who seek to attain the Office of Postmaster Of
the House Of Representatives under the re-
organization to follow the Inauguration OF the
next President, the name OF Mr. William T.
Dove is announced. Mr.. Dove is native OF
Washington, where he lived many years,
and was engaged In active business pur-
suits. He was for a long time
prominent local politician, and served
the citizens Of the first ward as councilman
aud alderman during q number of terms and
was twice elected presiding officer of the latter
body. Shortly after the close of the late war,
he removed to Montgomery county, Maryland
where he has since resided. and has been iden.
tilted prominently with the politics Of the sixth
congressional district OF that state.
NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SDCCESS-The circu.
lar recently issued by the Republican Congress.
slonal Committee asking the employees of the
departments for an additional one per cent of
their salaries is meeting with a hearty and
almost unanimous response. Indeed it is paid
with more alacrity than any of the preceding
assessments Up to this morning over one half Of
the public employees had either paid this assess
ment or served notice they would do so within
Gay or two.
PBRsONAI.-Mr Moncure ID. Conway, of Lon.
don, arrived with his family at Willard's this
morning. This Is Mr.. COnway's first visit to
Washington In many years. and he is sure to be
warmly greeted by many old friends.
L. p. Jouett, L. s. N. OF this city, was among
the overland passengers to arrive In San Fran
cisco last Fi1day.-Rev. DR.. and Mrs. Forrest,
o1 washington, were registered in Paris On the
ttE lnSt.-The late M. Jules JacQuemart, the