Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-07-10
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal rev.
enue, sS63,3S1.7O; customs. s76O,s32.77.
DECLINED, WITH THANKS. - Information was
received at the Treasury to-day that ex-Repre-
sentative Lawrence. Of Ohio, declines the ap-
pOintment Of First Comptroller of the Treas
ury, rendered him by the President on the 2Sth
ult. Mr.. Lawrence Is again entertaining Con-
gressional aspirations.
THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.-The republi-
can and democratic Congressional campaign
committee have not yet set actively at work
and 1t will be about month before the hurly
burly begins in dead earnest. Thus far the
Presidential campaign is in the hands of the
newspapers and The people are not expected to
be convulsed politically until after the farmers
have harvested and housed their crops. At the
republican committee rooms on street, Sec
retary Mcpherson is in charge. and at COM
mittee room In the Capitol building Gen, Dun
can Walker looks after the democratic interests.
just now both committees are collecting avail
able campaign material, and later all this will
be printed and circulated broadcast AS yet
no assignments have been made of stump
orators. This will be arranged by The two ma
uonal committees Secretary Schurz is to open
the ball for the republicans in Indiana with
speech TO be delivered at Indianapolis on the
18th inst.
The PROPOSED NEW NATIONAL LIBRARY
The committee of architectural experts ap-
pointed by the joint Congressional committee
on the library has decided that the national
library cannot well be accommodated In the
capitol building, and has recommended the
erection OF new building. Should the joint
committee accept the report, they will also re-
commend that the main body OF the old library,
which holds 600 books be used for library for
parliamentary reference, and the two wings for
the documentary libraries OF the two houses.
SECRETARY SCHURZ win make number of
SnppchpC olo
tion time. He has accepted an invitation from
the republican state central committee of In
diana to take an active part in the campaign in
that state, and will make his first speech on the
18th. His subject will be the general issues of
the campaign and the importance OF republican
success to maintain the aScendancy of the
loyal sentiment of the country.
The TREASURY to-day holds 1851 .4S2, $50 In U.
S. bonds to secure national bank circulation; U.
S. bonds deposited on this account during week
ended to-day S39s, 1eO, and withdrawn 1863, 100.
DURING THE WEEK ended to-day there was
received at the Treasury on redemption s94s, 900
In national bank notes against 25l1, 900 for the
corresponding week of last year.
ARMY ORDERS.-Leave of absence for two
months, to take effect upon being relieved from
duty as chief ordnance officer military division
OF the Missouri, is granted Capt. Jas. w. Reilly,
ordnance department The order designating
Yuma, Arizona territory, as the station OF Capt.
j. W; Sc9lly, assistant quartermaster is re.
voked, and he will report for duty at such sta
ton as the commanding general military divi-
sion OF the Pacific may designate. First Lieut..
70 the commanding general department OF West
Point for duty at the L. S. Military Academy.
THE TRAINING SHIP MINNESOTA has returned
to New York city from up the Hudson She did
not have great success In enl1sting boys for the
navy.
The PRESIDENT APPOINTED to-day C. w. Slagle,
OF Iowa; L. B. Sturgus. Indiana, and A. B.
Nichols, Pennsylvania, commissioners to ex-
anime and report upon 100 miles of railroad
constructed by the Northern Pacific railroad
west OF Bismarck. Dakota. This examination is
made In pursuance OF law before the road Is
accepted by the government and land patents
Issued.
PERsoNAL--AmOng the passengers who sailed
from New York for Europe to-day was Mrs. B.
Fr1ebus, Of this city.-Senator Vance is at the
National MAJ with bis wife and sonMr Cross
the novelist, Is Ill OF typhoid fever az Venice
MI f. K. johnson, OF the well known firm
OF johnson Brothers, has gone north on vaca-
the Canadian provinces and stay Of week or
two at Saratoga--H. A Whitney, assistant
cashier T. s TIeasury is At Oakland with his
Court. is In Chicago. c. j. Hillyer is at
Fortress Monroe with her family. Judge H. has
returned to Nevada. Major Thomas Il. Brad
ley. of the War department, takes his family to
Berkeley Springs this evening. At.
torney Corkhtll, John c. Burch, Secretary OF
the Senate, and j. Hubley Ashton are in New
York.-H. NJ. Hutchinson and Miss Hutchin-
son We're at Brighton Beach at last accounts
Mrs. Col Audenreid is at Sharon Springs.
Mrs. Capt. Ross Browne has gone to her
summer home at Vineyard dHaven.-Prof. COr-
I'm is spending the heated term at New London
&C. 1o d: Cragin, lr, has gone 10 Mountain
Ocean Grove, the latter still far from well.-
Among the guests at Mountedgecumbe, Va,
near the Blue Ridge, are the following from
Washington: G. E. Nyman and family; A. B.
johnson and family; r. G. Blaine and family,
and MI. De COux, Of the French legation and
fim1ly.---AugusttneS S. Lane and wife and John
Ii. Barr, OF Washington, are among the late ar
rivals at the Seaside Hotel, Ocean City, Md
ID. +. Murphy and family, and Jas. r. Young
and family are at Cape May.-Private Secre.
tary Rogers and family have gone to Br1gan-
tine Beach, where they expect to spend some
time.
TRADE WITH COLOMBIA. - The commercial
agent OF the United States at Carthagena. Co
lombia, in a dispatch to the Department OF
States, states that Colombia presents fine field
for the sale OF agricultural implements, rice