Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-05-25
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

IHE EV ENING SIAk.
! Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To DAY.-Internal rev.
! enue. $295, 4Tl.76 customs S565, ,5S1. OF.
WHITE HOUSE CALLERa-S Senators Morrill,,
| Blair, Plumb Representatives Richardson aud
| Bingham, Gen. Hazen. Gen. Mills, Gen. F. A.
| Walker and Gen. Tyner we're among the Presi-
| dents callers to day.
| SECRETARY KIRKwooD. who left this morning
for Iowa, will be absent two weeks
| PAYING DISTRICT MISUNDERSTANDING Gil
| flllan to-day paid the first two Judgments
against the District OF Columbia given by the
Court OF Claims under the act permitting GER
tain claims to be sued for before that Court
| The judgments were paid to Peter A. Marley
| and Reginald Fencall as administrators, and
! were respectively for 81 9s767 and 81, ,SS4 II.
The Treasurer is authorized to pay these 1udg.
| mentS either in 8. 65 bonds or In money. Owing
| TO the premium on the bonds the Treasurer
| pays the money.
No INVESTIGATION Of the officers OF the Treas
| ury bureau OF engraving and printing has been
| ordered, as reported In morning paper.
THERE IS TRErlDATIoN among the employ es
OF the Census bureau, at the announcement
| that five or six hundred discharges will be
NaUS tAe UISt OK June.
MARSHAL DUDLEY, OF Indiana, does not want
| to be commissioner of pensions. 1t is under
stood that he wants and Will get the commls-
slOnership OF the General Land Ofice, made
vacant by the resignation of Gen. williamson
THE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS will be closed
| next Monday-Deeoration day.
Col. P. V. HAGNER, Ordnance department, e.
S. A.. has been placed on the retired list at his
own request. to date from June 1st next.
THE COURT MARTIAL SENTENCE of dismiss 81
| In the case Of 1st Lieut.. G. L. Rousseau 2otn
infantry, has been approved by the President.
A COMPLIMENTARY DINNER will be given by
| the Massachusetts Republican Association of
| this city at Harvey & Holden's, next Saturday
| evening, to their president, Hon. George B..
Lorfng, in honor OF his appointment as COM
missioner of agriculture.
THE NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH Will meet
in Washington next week. when full auten-
) dance of Its members Is expected.
STAR ROUTE SERVICE DISCONTINUE ED.-The
Postoffice Department announces the discon-
tinuation OF the 81 ar service On the route from
Scotland Neck to Killquick, North Carolina.
Steamboat service from New York TO Galveston,
Texas, will be discontinued from the 9th inst.
| REsIGNRD.-Commissone of the General
| Lard Office Williamson rendered his resignation
| yesterday afternoon to take charge of the
| affairs Of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad
Company, on the Pacific coast. Commissioner
Williamsons salary was $500, and the rail-
| road VIII pay him $1,000 per year.
BREAKING Down TIE STRAW BOND BUSINESS
The Postmaster General has issued an order
requiring every surety on bond to state uuder
oath, that the value OF his real estate over and
above all exemptions allowed by law and all
liens, mortgages or other eDcumbrances,
amounts eu Is TO 90 one haif the aggregate Of his La
existing bonds and obligations that he may
have executed.
APPLICANTS FOR OFFICE are numerous in
Washington yet. Wherever rumor points to a
possible vacancy there score or more Of office
seekers put in an appearance. each with plea
of superior claims. A rumOr that number OF
changes IN IN t the heads ne & OF department % bureals
the hope OF many an applicant for Office.
THE PRESIDENT AT WILLAMs.-It Is fntor
maliy announced by the Williams College
trustees that President Garfield will attend the
Inauguration OF the new president Franklin
Carter. at the coming commencement, and that
With him Will be Secretaries Blaine. Lincoln
ard Hunt. President Garfield will make an
address On behalf OF the trustees.
SECRETARY BLAINE AND TIE CONKLING- -PLATr
AFFAIR.-The situation at Albany continues to
be the principal topic OF discussion and specu-
lation about town, and every group has its
Conkling and anti. COnkllng side. 1t is stoutly
| of secretary Blaine's trip to New York that it
| had anything to do with the Albany fight 1t
Is maintained that the Secretary went to New
York on private business, and that he refuses
while there to have anything to say about the
Conkling. Platt affair.
Mr.. STEPHENS PRoPHBCY.-Hon. A. Il. Ste
| pheDs, who left for Georgia on Monday, though
much attached to his home and Old friends and
LeighbOrs there, always feels more or less de-
pressed In departing from Washington. An
incident is recalled OF his departure after Con-
gress adjourned In March. 1859. He had de.
fores aw win regret the trouble coming, aud
said he did not wish to be here when the crash
came AS he was going down the river those
about him noticed that he followed with his
eyes as long as possible the dome OF the Capt
tol. "You are looking at that, suppose" said
some one. thinking OF the time when you Will
swered Mr.. Stephens; 81 am taking farewell OF
IT, knowing shall not see It again until am
brought here state prisoner" This was liter
AMY h IN me amr part OF
oner On his way home after spending i've
months In Fort Warren.
WEAK ABUSE OF WAsHINGroN.-One OF the
New York dailies which severely animadvertea
upon Washington as an unhealthy city and
the White House as "a pest house." called at
tention to the fact In support Of the latter
theory that two Presidents had died there and
an eX.President Eat the other end of the Ave
nue." The latter refers to John Quincy Adams
whose age and infirmities fully accounted for
his death. It is passing strange that the jour-
nal to which reference is made did not In the
same line Of argument refer to Mr.. Lincoln
having received death wound in q theater
and advise no President to attend q theatrical
Performance. AS matter OF fact. in consider
alton Of nineteen Presidents, the majority of
whom have been over fifty years of age having
LIVED In the White House, and only tWo-Har-
rlson and TaylOr-having died there it might
be deduced that 1t is rather healthy place Tor
residence than otherwise: The nae of argu-
boy who wanted to be sailor whose compan-
your father and grandfather died at sea-"
THAT'S true" answered the youth. "but where
did yours dte?" "In their BEDS" was the trI-
umphant response. "Then don't you ever 20
| to bed, ret0rted the other.
PERsoEAL-Senator and Mrs. Mcpherson do
not expect to leave here until after the 1st of