Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-09
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

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GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS TODAY Internal
revenue, .463, ,S26 81: customs. SS33, ,49SS 49,
THIRD ASSISTANT PosrMAsrER GENERAL
HAzEN has gone to New York on official busi-
ness.
A. NJ HARDY, of NArcHEz, Miss, Las been
appointed special agent of the Treasury.
THE INDIAN ASSASSINS OF SENATOR PUGh's
SGS--The Secretary Of War will cause to be
made an investigation into the facts of the kill
ing OF the sou of the late Senator PGgh of Ohio
by the Apache Indians. Every effort will be
made TO discover the murderers aud have them
punished.
NEARLY ALL OF THE furloughcd employees Of
the Government Printing Office Lave resumed
work.
TREASURY DEcIsIoN.-The Treasury depart
ment has decided that gold and silver may be
deposited for the redemption of circulating
notes, and that it may also be paid out by the
Us. Treasurer in the redemption of national
bank notes.
AN EXCEPTION TO THE RULE.-AccOrdin3 to q
correspondent. writing from Newport. the Sec
retary of the Navy has given special permission
to Mrs. Captain Chandler to retain her home on
the ship Minnesota. now at that place and that
she Will continue her Thursday receptions on
board as heretofore. Existing orders Of the
Navy department, it will be remembered. forbid
any woman living on government vessels but
Newport rather considers itself an exceptional
place always. and Mrs. Chandler is doubtless re-
garded as an exceptional woman; at any rate
the fashiOnableS there express themselves de-
lighted at the kindness of Secretary Hunt which
permits her to count herself ''settied in her at
tractive parlors on board for three years.
ESTIMATES OF COTTON AREA vERIFIED-FCr
dozen years Mr.. Dodge as statistician of the
Department of Agriculture made estimates of
acreage of cotton, closing in 1877 with 10 900 COO
acres. or nearly thirtynine hundredths of a bale
per acre. On this basis the crop of 1879 would
require about IA. 500 900 acres, which was un-
ofllclal estimate for that year. The census as
the figures now stand, returns 14,441 1893 acres.
producing 5, ,737, ,357 bales-between thirty-nine
and forty hundredthS of q bale per acre
This is a very close estimate-less than half of
one per cent difference. The department esti-
mate for 1879, as printed in the annual report is
12.5.&, 600 acres Mr.. d. thus explains the cause
OF this unfortunately wide discrepancy: THE
iatal discrepancy of nearly 2, 100000 acres be-
tween the department estimate of 1879 and the
census returns for the same year. demands eX-
pianatlon. In justice to the present statstcian,
Col. WOrthington, the facts should be stated
Inc report OF area OF 1873 was made by his pre-
decessor. indicating a breadth of i3. 600 600
acres. 1t was withheld by the Commissioner.
whether to discredt the statistician or bull the
cotton market. this deponent saith not and after
three days resistance of the newspaper camor for
puocatlon. the state averages of increase were
reduced. and so published becoming the basis
ior reduction of area of nearly million bales
However. the department record suffered by this
tampering with official returns. the cotton sta
tlsticians of the exchanges were not deceived as
several OF them wrote at once inQuiring whether
the truth of statistics had not been wantoplv
n 10 demo
saw at once the fa!sity of the figures and readily
suspected the source of the official falsehood.'
PERsoNAL.-The appointment of Hon. L. S. s.
"esa's British minister at Washington, to sue
ceed Sir Edward Thornton. is gazetted in Lon
don.-Mr. Elisha Riggs, the well-known New
York banker, brother of Mr.. George W. Riggs. of
this city. died at his residence in New York yes
terday, of apOplexy, in the seth year of his
age-Mrs. and Miss Snead, who have been at
Long Branch for two weeks past have gone to
Richfield Springs, N. Y.-Mr. Keene owner of
tOxhall, presented 80, 900 francs to the poor of
Paris out of his late winnings on the grand pri
Mr.. l.. L.CrOunse well-known i'm Washington
as correspondent here for long time of the
New, York Times. is lying very low Of cOnsump-
tion, at his residence in Kingston, n. Y.-Rep-
resentative JOrgensOn is at the Riggs House.
The rumor that Cardinal McCloskey is seriously
iii is entirely INSTRUMENTATION. Rev John
g. Ames and family have gone to Mont Vernon.
Ohio, the old home of Mrs. Ames, for a pro-
longed stay during hot weather ASSOCIATE
Justice Clifford has suffered a serious relapse
and is now thought to be lying at the point of
death at his old home, Cornish. Me-Mr. w.
W. COrcOran and Senator Allison were regis
tered in New York last evening -Ex-Repre-
sentative Mitchell, of Milwaukee, is about to be-
stow upon that city the generous gift of pub
lie park.-Among the late arrivals at Berkeley
Springs were the following Washingtonians:
Sergeant-at-Arms Bright and two sons. George
p. GOtf and family. Mrs. C. J. Hiyer and family.
Capt r. d. Evans and family Mrs. Amos Web,
ster and DR.. T. S. Verdi.-Lieut. j. S. Oyster.
Z. S. A., is in town.