Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-10-13

GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal reve-
nue., s495, 4.26; customs, s6T ,674.4.
SECRETARY WINDOW HAS DECIDED that in case
more than 900 600 Of called bonds be received for
redemption by the close Of business next Monday,
the total amount offered shat be distributed pro
rata M and paid Of II less thar s5,N0,oO comes in
amount will be accepted in the order OF their sub
sequent receipt at the department.
THAT MATRIMONIAL GOSSIP.-Last spring, at
one of President Garfelds receptions, the wife OF
justice of the Supreme Court jested with Gen.
Arthur about the rumor that he was to marry Mrs.
Marshall O. Roberts. He answered good humoredly
but emphatcally denied the report, saying: 81
have no more idea Of marrying Mrs Roberts than
OF marrying YOU" The report was first started as
by some Of the would-be wits of the New York
Union League Club, who at the same time started
the rumOr that Mrs. A. T. Stewart was to marry a
young Episcopal minister.
THE PRESIDENT AND CABINET GOING TO YORK
TOWN Notwithstanding to the present program
will leave here early next Monday morning for
yorktown on the TallapOOSa. The French guests,
Assistant Secretary HIT and others from the
State department, will leave on the same morning
aboard the Excelsior, which will stop at Mount
vernon. Col Corbin, master of ceremonies, will
also leave about the same hour on board the
revenue cutter Ewing for Yorktown.
TROUBLE AS TO THE HARBoR MASTER AT YORK
TOwN.-There Is some trouble hinging around the
position and powers of the harbor master at York
town. Rear Admiral Wyman, commanding the
North Atlantic squadron detailed, some time ago,
Commander White, of the navy, as harbor master
White has all the power and Jurisdiction Which jh
can be conveyed upon him by authority of the
United states 1t appears, however, that accord
to be appointed by the state district Judge in
whose circuit the port Of Yorktown is located. In
man0er IA chaCa ad
all over the state within the past few days in
order 70 sec secure the appointment by him of Com
him full control OF the port OF Yorktown They
have not succeeded in catching the judge yet, but
W aocompsh o Phs sne eat It Is st %ho9gh e9e the the
matter of harb0r master is the reason why Admi-
raj Porter will go to Yorktown before the day set
apart Tor the opening ceremonies
THE FOLLOWING CLERKS to Senate committees
were sworn in this afternoon: E. O. Foss, educa-
ton and labor; Frank II. Howe; several
branches Of the civil service; George B.
Clarke, jr., transportation routes to seaboard;
WEES II. johnson, public buildings and grounds;
Walter Alien, Indian affairs; George B. Edwards,
CIVIL service and retrenchment.
THE NAVAL RENDEZVOUS AT YoRKTowN-The
navy department is advised that the Flagship Ten
nessee, the Vandalia and the Yantic arrived Off
Yorktown on the afternoon of the 10th. The Tren-
ton arrived at Fortress Monroe from Europe via
Funchal to-day. All are well on board.
PERsoNAL-Mr. and MIS- Ferdinand Jones, of
Chicago, who have resided the past four years in
Europe, will spend the coming winter in Wash
ington. to the society OF which they will prove to
tsa be very attraetIye acquisition For the present
is visiting in New York, and will shortly go to st.
Gatharlne, Canada, for her health: :~aRepresenta-
at the National.-Mr. Bennett, proprietor of the
New York Herald, takes party OF friends to the
r Yorktown r celebration ON his own yacht, upon
which they will live While there.-R. j. Stephens.
OF Washington, was passenger by the overland
train to arrive in San Francisco last Thursday
Mr.. Adam Ostrela, formerly ticket agent OF the B.
& o. Railroad here, and now in charge of its New
@ York ticket office, is In toWn..-The mother of
Jersey.-Ben: Perley POore is to write a life of
the late Gen. Burnside. Major S. W. Saxton,
OF the first comptrollers Office, has returned from
extended trip northward.-Gov Cornell and Hon.
G. II. Sharpe, of New York, and ex-senator Bar
mum, OF Connecticut, are at the Arlington.-The
wife and children OF Assistant Secretary Hit are
visiting the mother Of Mrs. H. at Lafayette,
Ind.-Mr: Henry Garfield, Oldest son OF the
late President, has been chosen vice presi-
lege@Mrs. John Scott Laughton, S'il who has not not
lived in Washington for four years, purposes this
autumn to occupy her own house, in which Secre-
eral and Mrs Capron, and Mr.. and Mrs. S. X.
Hannegan, are now living at the Portland-Mr.
pee car i at enter
Times, at his palace home in Chicago.-Rev. Dr.
George B. Russell, formerly pastor of the Wash
United States, has accepted the call to the presi
dency of Palatinate College, Myerstown, Pa
Judge Scofeld, of the Court OF Claims, has re-
turned to the city. His wife and daughter Mary
will come in a few weeks to spend the winter.
Miss Ellie Scofeld and her brother have gone to
Europe and will not be here during the winter
-Adjutant General Drum was registered in st.
Louis on Tuesday.-Jesse r. Grant, of New
York, is at Willards.
GOssip-PersonaI and Otherwise.
Quite a number of politicians are now in the