Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-27


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In, properly authenticated. with the names OF
! such company as will receive with them any time
! during the week, bat ia all cases before noon OF
! SATURDAY. No charge is made for these notices.
| GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal reve-
! nue, sl,O4o 1855; customs, s59o,4i64s
SECRETARY LINCOLN is expected to return to
| Washington next Saturday.
| THE PRESIDENT AND THE NEW CHINESE MINISTER.
! The formal reception by President Arthur of the
new Chinese minister VIII take place next Sattr-
! day. The President will return to this city next
Friday. There will be present at the reception the
chinese minister and three or four of his chief as
SlstantS Secretary FrelinghuySen and several Off
Gals OF the State department.
| SECRETARY HUNT was not at the Navy DEPART
ment to-day. being confined to his house by a
| slight 1ndiSpOsitiOn.
| THE DAMAGE TO THE TENNEssEE.-The Navy de-
paltinent has received the official report OF the
| board OF survey on the recent collision between
| the Western Texas and the United States steamer
tennessee The report says that the Western
Iexas ran into the Tennessee and that all the
! blame rests with the former vessel. The board
SAYS that 1t will take five or six weeks to repair
!
! 1920
The HOUSE COMMITTEE ON THE DIsTRICT.-Mr
| Neal chairman of the House committee on the
| District of Columbia Will call meeting of the
! committee soon after the holiday recess. to ar
/ range the subcommittee for active work. Mr..
new municipal code for the District, and a bill to
| improve The harDOr OF Washington and George
| town.
IHE TREASURY INVESTIGA ATIOS-'The Senate
committee on appropriations continued to-day
tne investigation as to the expenditure OF the
treasury contingent fund. Mr.. Skeen, who is
In charge of the laborers at the Treasury depart
| nent, was witness, also Mr.. Leach, brass
founder OF this city, who did all the work in his
line lor the Treasury department.
The CLERK TO THE House COMMITTEE on ex-
penditures in the Treasury department is D. w.
Gee, not Lee, as enormously printed Mr.. Gee has
been private secretary to Judge Jas. B. Belford for
! the past three or four years. and was recently
| clerk to mines and mining committee in the
Senate.
HANGING Up GUIrEAU's STocK1NGs.-It having
been announced that Guiteau had said he would
hang up his stocking on Christmas eve, a lady re-
marked that if he would be patient he could hang
| pair OF them up, and one OF the medical experts
| reJolned: land they Will both be well filed
The MILITARY SCHOOL AT FORT LEAvENwoRTH.-
Gen. Sherman, who has just returned to WASH
ington from official visit to the military school
at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, praises its condition
ana management very highly. and says he is more
| Than ever convinced that il Will prove a great
oenent to the army In the future.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR remained at his home in
New York yesterday, and received large num-
| per OF callers. Among his visitors We're Gen.
| Grant, ex-senator Conkling. Hon. W. NJ Evarts.
Jay Gould, Jesse Seligman, Hugh Hastings and
| John Jacob AStor.
WAR VESSEL TO BE SENT TO TIE LIBERIAN
| CoAsT.-Serious troubles between the colonsts Of
| Liberia and the native tribes surrounding them
have for several months been reported to the gov
| erllneDt, ana application was made last summer
TO the Secretary Of the Navy for vessel to go to
| that coast. When the application was made
| Secretary Hunt had no vessel to send but repairs
| on the Essex were fastened and last week he in
| formed the secretary or the Colonization society
that she would be ready to sail within a few days
! She Is now at Norfolk navy yard and will prob
ably sail on Wednesday direct for the West
| African coast.
A DISABLED ARM-Acting Secretary OF the
| Treasury French was too lame in his arm to-day
to sign the official mail. Mr.. Upton. whose rcsig.
nation as assistant secretary, does not take effect
until the 3lst inst, was called in, and appended
his signature to the mail.
INTEREST ON DISTRICT BoSDs-The reouisition of
the L. s. Treasurer for $2l4, 17250, pay the in
terest due Jan. 1st next, upon the funded debt of
the District. has been honored by the Secretary of
| the Treasury.
| AN INDIAN SCHOOL BURNED BY AN ISCEND1ARY.
Commissioner Price this morning received a let
| ter from P. b. Hunt, Indian agent at the kiOwa
Comanche and Wichita agency, informing him of
the burning OF the Wichita school building on the
! 18TH inst. The fire was first discovered at 3 a. m
and was evidently the work OF an incendiary The
| flames had reached the roof when discovered and
school building, and the Industrial huildine ad- M
| joining were totally destroyed with all the con
tents, some OF the teachers and employees barely
escaping with their lives. The building and con
| tents were worth $4,000
| SMALLPOX AT THE NAvAJoE INDIAN AGENCY
| A telegram from the NavajOe agency in New
| Mexico received at the Indian bureau this MORN
| ing, asks for the immediate shipment of vaccine
points enough to vaccinate 500 persons The small
pox is spreading there. No further news of the
smallpox epidemic In the northwest has been re-
| ceiyed at the Indian bureau.
! THE BONDS OF POsTMAsTERs who were confirmed
by the Senate prior to the recess adjournment are
| beginning to come in to the Post Office depart
| ment In numbers, but nothing can be done In the
way OF their approval and the signing of the com
missions until the Postmaster General and PreSi-
dent return. About 100 postmasters were CON
! 1rmed by the Senate.
REPUBLICAN VICTORY IN PENsACoLA-A private
| dispatch was received in this city to-day from
| Pensacola, Fla, saying: "Col. j. NJ Tarbell, re-
publican mayor OF Pensacola, was yesterday re
| elected by majority OF 272. This is the first
purely republican victory in the south under the
present administration.
PERsONAL-HOn. David Davis, president prC
tenn. OF the Senate, went to New York last even
ing.-Gen. Sherman and Col. Bacon returned
from their western trip this morning.-Hon A.
II. stephens was the recipient Of many Christmas
souvenirs from friends in Washington and else
| where.--Mr. II. NJ. Hutchinson returned yester.
day from SiX-weekS' visit to the Pacific coast
Representative Anderson was registered in New
York last nght--W. s. Brock and wife have re-
turned to the city and are staying at 942 street
northwest-George Douglass, a well-known
newspaper man Of this city, has gone to New
| York to take charge OF the press arrangements OF
the Mary Anderson cOmpany.-JOhn Savage the
compatriOt OF Meagher and Mitchell, and for
many years brilliant writer In Journalism, is In
the city.-Mrs. Sully, youngest daughter of
Indian Commissioner Price, is dangerously i'll at
the residence of Judge Dillon, in New York city,
where she Is visiting.
Society Notes.
Mr.. W. W. Corcoran's friends intend calling upon
him this evening at the Louise Home, where, 1t be-
ing his birthday, he will, according to CUSTOM
hold an informal reception. which his friends have
insisted must on no account be omitted, as he had
| sod