Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-11-30

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Washington News and Gossip.
NEW DEPARTuRE.-FOr several years past It
has been the custom OF the Post ONCE department
TO have all postmasters render the first week In
December an account OF all mail matter received
ana forwarded by them for the year. 1t has been
decided not to do this for the present year, and
poStmaSterS viii be so notified.
THE NAVAL ENSIGN AND HIS TAILoR's BILL
Ensign Braunrsreuther, U. s. navy, was recently
court martialed for contracting debts with tailor
In Annapolis and not paying them. The court
finds him guilty and sentences him to forfeiture OF
80 a month pay-the same to go to the tailor
until his obiig alton IS cancelled. Secretary Hunt
in general order just issued approves the proceed
tngs OF the court and in general terms cautions all
officers OF the navy from contracting debts, and
speaks very unmiStakably In Condemnation
thereof.
REV. s. DoMER, D. D., pastor of St Pauls English
Lutheran Church, Is q candidate for the chap
laincy of the House of Representatives. His
friends Will present his name at the meeting OF
the republican caucus.
THE MARINE CoRPs-The annual report OF
Col. C. G.. McCauley, commanding the marine
corps, states that on September 31st last there
were 1855 enlisted men in the corps, 9iS Of whom
were on board ships and 937 doing duty at the
eral shore stations. An Increased number OF OFF,
GERS and men for the corps is again recommended; !;
also, appropriations for new barracks and quar-
srs at Pensacola and Norfolk. The restoration OF
the grade OF brigadier general OF the corps and
legislation defining the manner Of appointments
and promotions are recommended. In the absence
OF naval prison 1t is recommended that offenders
sentenced by court martial be sent to the military
prison at Fort Leavenworth to serve out the SEN
tences OF courts martial.
GARFIELD MEMORIAL TABLEr.-This afternoon
very fine piece of work was set in place in the
ladies' room OF the Baltimore and Potomac depot.
IL IS memorial stone to mark the place where
President GARFIELD was shot, and is set in the wall
directly over the silver star in the floor, which
marks the place where the President fell. The
tablet Is OF white marble. about 8 by feet super
surmouDts the work, holding in its claws arrows
and laurels, and beneath it the American flag falls
nr,,ta graeerqly about tablet in gold letters In
Scrioed: flames Abram Garfield, President OF the
United States, shot July 9, 1884,"
THE FOLLOWING PROMOTIONS have been made in
the clerical force OF the India bureau: Samuel E.
Marshall, of Pennsylvania, from $1,000 to s., 200;
Miss Nellie Hamlet, Massachusetts,, $40 to $500:
MISS Josephine Meeker, Colorado, Mrs. Mary
Draper, washington. Mrs nj. Wakefield, Massa-
c@nldaettS, @ MIS-. Julia Henderson, New York, from
$72O to $40.
REPRESENTATIVE STEPHENS is recovering and
hopes to be able to be present when the
DAY, as 1t is a well-founded source of
pride with him that he is less frequently
absent from its sessions than most OF its members
whose health is better than his He has had his
race treated since his arrival for cutaneous dis
order, tnOt cancerouS wart, as has been pub
nshed), which required very painful local treat
ment
NAVAL ORDERs-Lieut G. L. Dyer and Master
g. II. Peters, to the Despatch. Midshipman p j.
"erich, 10 examination for promotion. Com
mander c. l. Huntington, from the New York
at at the Norfolk navy yard, relieving Commander
w. T. Wise, placed On waiting orders Chief En-
gineer F. G: McKeane to duty in the bureau of
Frick, from the Kearsage, and placed on sick
leave Acting Boatswan W. L. Hill to the Alaska.
Pacific station per steamer Of the Sd of December
next. The orders of BOatswain James Heron to
the Alaska are revoked.
THE HOUSE CLERKsHIP.-But five OF the eighteen
republican Representatives from Pennsylvania
are In the city. There Is the best authority for
saying that the statement that there has been a
caucus OF the delegation on the Speakersh1p or
Clerkship is incorrect None has been held nor
can one be till the delegation shall arrive. The
preference of those the Clerkship can be
learned from the members themselves.
THE PORTRAIT OF GARFIELD FOR QUEEN
FICToRIA.-Mrs- Garfield has sent through the
State department, to Queen Victoria, the photo
graph OF the late President for which Her Majesty
was forwarded this week. It is a cabinet size
picture. Many think Congress should send to the
queen life size portrait in oils, OF Gen. Garfield
as nttlng recognition OF the sympathy she
showed during his illness and after his DEATH
and OF the honors paid him by the British nation
THE REPORT OF GEN. RAUM, commissioner OF in
ternal revenue, shows that the receipts from ex-
else taxes during the first four months of the
present @ fiscal year have been $50s76,s70, being
q o6 .ss In excess OF the receipts for the corre
innr to-
maintained, the receipts for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1882, Will be fully s57OOO0OO During the
lected by the officers of the Internal revenue de-
partment and paid into the Treasury without loss
z, TO the government The whole expenditure of the
s2lT ,o02 being three and thirty hundredths
per cent OF the whole amount collected. The COM
missioner recommends that law be passed by
Congress giving the United States courts jurisdic-
ton in cases where revenue officers are assaulted or
Killed While In the discharge OF their duties, and
he d $50 recommends that the widows of revenue
ofhcers who have been killed while in the line OF
duty be pensiOned.
STEEL GUNS NEEDED FOR THE NAyY.-Commo-
lore Jeffers, chief OF the bureau OF ordnance,
Navy department, In his annual report says: "The
most important question OF armament now press
ing for attention Is the manufacture OF suitable
b1gh-pOwer Tfed cannon for the navy, and that
steel is the proper material to be employed In the
construction OF such guns Is admitted by most ma
gal men, II is also apparent that a compara-
larger one, and that In the endeavor to effect the
production OF cannon it would be best to attempt the
smaller calfbers first Beyond the conversion OF
certain number OF smOoth-bOre guns into rifles and
the Introduction OF an excellent form OF breech
closure. our guns are In the same state as they
were twenty years ago. The contest between gun
and armor having been determined In favor of the
gun, 1t Is recommended a preliminary to the
proper armament OF the navy that Congress makes
construction OF ten steel guns
for which estimates are submitted"
DIPLOMATIC NOTES.-The Russian Minister Mr.
Bartholomew, expects to return to Europe next
month. He has long leave OF absence and does
not expect to return here.-Mr. Pinto. Of the
Gillian legation, Is of the present President
OF Chill To perfect himself In English, he passed
some time at Georgetown College after his arrival
here--Mr. Edward Thornton. OF the British lera-
ton here, will leave in about two weeks for ST
Petersburg, where he will be attached 10 the
BRUSH embassy. over which his father, Sir Ed
ward thornton, now presideS
NATIONAL BANK NOTES.-The following is a state
ment Of the disposifior1>made by the u. s. Treas
urer OF national bank notes during the five months
ended to-day: Fit for circulation, assorted and re-
turned to the bank, OF ISSUE 81 100: unfit for
assorted and delivered to the Con-
troer OF the Currency for destruction and replace
Inent with new notes, $6 2C7 100; notes of failed
Irquldatlng and reducing banks deposited In the
Treasury, 81, ,ss2, 100.
IHE HowGATE ATTACHMENT CAsE.-To-day In
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