Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-06-27
THE EVENING STAR.

THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Ints,rnA
revenue, ss55.462 Co. customs, s6Is,sss e5.
THE PRESIDENT Will reach washington this
afternoon on the limited Express Secretary
Hunt and Postmaster General James VIII ac-
company him.
j. W. BLACksBKAR has been appointed later.
nal revenue stortkeeper and gauger for the
second district OF Georgia.
ARGUMENTS In the case OF Paymasser Steven
SOD, U.SN, Will Ia conducted before the COR
IL ct SSOu at the Navv deDarrment to morrow.
SECRETARY WINDoM went to Deer Park
Saturd ~ evening. He will retura this ev IN
lug.
CHANGEs IN THE HOUSE POsr 0FFICe.-H. c.
Acton, OF Maryland, mess enger In the Off q of
the postmaster Of the House OF Representative,
has been removed. son of Mr. M1rch, the
greeDback Representative from Matae, has
been appointed in his place.
VILE NOT ANTICIPATE.-The Secretary OF the
Treasury this morning decided that as 1t was
so near the lat OF July he would not issue a
notice anticipating the payment of the
$4,000, 600 six per cents which are due July LIST
next
TIE BLUE BOOK Secretary Kirkw0od has
commenced preparing the new editi,n of the
Blue Book. 1t Will be issued about Decemoer
/ next.
Mr. CHAs. COLNK. chief of the Pension divi-
sion In the % Comptrollers Office, Treasury
department. and for the last twenty years
clerk In tha office has just resigned his position
to go to New York
SENATOR CoNkLING left the city last evening.
An Albany dispatch says: mo significance, as
connected with the contest here, is attached to
ex-senator ConkliDg's visit to Washington"
THE TRENTON, flagship OF the European sta.
ton. arrived at Marseilles on the 18th.
THE STAR ROUTE CAsEs--It IS reported to day
that Colonel r. G. Ingersoll, as counsel for
Senator Dorsey, will to morrow appear In the
Criminal Court and make q similar notice to
that made last week In behalf OF General
Brady.
JUDGE TYNRR, first assistant postma aster gen.
eral, says the newspaper men retire him from
Office every day or So probably because they
have nothing else to write about.
Mr.. CoNKLING GIVES Up HIS ROOMS IN WASH
NG1oN.-Before leaving Washington on his
return to New York, ex-senator Conkllng
time. Some persons cOnstrue this as An indica-
ton that Mr.. Conkling does not expect to have
use for rooms In Washington In future.
THE AWARDS OF CONTRACTS for painting,
plaster1ng and frescoing tie halls OF the In
terror department and for miscellaneous SUD-
plies:will not be made for day or Two yet.
COL. W. w. DUDLEY, the new commissioner
OF pensions. subscribed to the oath Of Off &c to-
day, and this afternoon formally took charge
of the Pension Of1ce. Mr.. Bentley, the retiring
commissioner, will practice his profession, the
law.
THE NBw ELEVATOR for the House CT Repre-
sent atives will be completed in the early fall
1t will cost s. 600. 1t Is being placed to run
from the House post Office to the room used
last winter as ladies' reception room.
CANADA WILLING TO LEARN The favorable
prices at wi lea the Post Office department has
awarded recent contracts has attracted the at
tent1on OF the Canadian post Off ;ialS.. To-day
TL11 d Assistant PoStmaS: er General HaZ N re-
ceived letter from the assistant postmasre
genera! OF Canada, In which he asked for Ia
formation touching the contracts In the let
ter he said: 1 ask for this Information be ,auss
your prices and qua tiles for these articles
are In come measure stand srd TO which we
10 II, Canada can appeal in regulating the prices
Dished the ihforntt ~ "g"t
POSTMASTER GENERAL JAMss will return to
washington this arr"rnoon with the President.
TIE CONTRACT FOR MAIL MESSENGER SIR
VICE between the Washington City Post Office
and the Baltimore and Potomac depot was
Sss2 st per annum. The following were the
i1 bidders: rs j. J: j; 4; unswortb. g 900: A. Ar
nast, 80; 81. ". smith. 1r:,. s. 5so; E: Burg
dr e0m; 81 $50; eod 4. ~ BrI~pef s. 525 J. Uns
Stephenson, 81 800; G. w. Knox, ST.. .3Os 50:
AItnur Flynn, sl.2ss; Henry A. Drury. 81 29O;
Frederick Springman, sss2 Sc. The last named
vice. The former price paid was s2.OsO per an.
mum, to Mr.. Geo. ". Knox. OF this city.
PERsoNAL.-Senator Camden and Col. NC.
Cawley, OF Washington. were registered In New
York last evening.-Saxe. the poet, is q con-
fiTmed hypocondriac, and the victim of dis
uesSiDg mental illustons.-Gen. o. E. BaO-
COCK and family go to Old Point Comfort to.
the esummer.-Henry Watterson, of the Louis.
Sllie Couier-Joufndl, is to deliver an address
%hS GaIore tne assembled editors OF Indiana on
ppnTrsday pa,in Ia neAt.-M. w: Scott and Mrs b. w.
Overland train to arrive at San Francisco last
w. nM,eanesoay y.-EX.AttorLey General EDWARDS
pierre pont ard wife are at Nantucker.-The
engsgement OF Mr. Victor A. w. Dfummond
secretary OF the British legation here and Miss
Elizabeth Marshall Lamson, OF New Yors. is
formally announced.-Hon. NJ. !. Southardis
visiting Vi n1,a GAINESVILLE Ohio his old hone-Mr.
III.
who Is In town for few days to repair his cen
teDmial work, will hold an Informal recaption
at the Kindergarten Normal Institute on s.h
street TOMORROW evening.-Dr. Harvey
Lindsly i5 at Lake MohoDk N.Y.-Ir is now
said that VIM. Keyser is TO be made LIST vice
president OF the B. & o. railroad company, rice
John King, jr., resigned.-W. M. Gait and
family have gone to Asbury Park for a stay of
some tine.-Dr. j. NJ. Toner. of this city, viii
sail ior Europe on the 14th OF July, to attend,
as delegate from the American Medical Asso-
cai1on. the International Medical Congress,
which meets In London on the I'd OF August.
ne VIII also attend the sessions OF the British
Me0lcal Association, which meets on the Isle
OF wight Immediately after the adjournment OF
the nrst- body.-Rudolph keichmann,
the we'll known crayon artist Is in town from
a ten day fishing and sketching visit In the
biackWatGr tGrIeSion.-Hon. Henry Stanbery so
vel remembered In Washington as ATTORNEY
general under President johnson, died In New
1ork on saturday night, IN the 77Gh year OF his
age.-Mr. Charles e. Dyke, editor OF the Tai.
lahassee Ftortdtan: Hon. Ed. Ruiz. state treas
uIer OF Illinois; Hon. Benz. Wilson, MIC. OF
west virginia; and ex- Repre- sentative Phillips,
OF Kansas arrived IN the city to- day-Rep
resentative Harrison, of Tennessee. is In the
city.-Hon, Eugene Hale is 10 the city.
Mr.. VennOr's Second Guess at Julv.
Mr.. Henry G. vennor, In letter to q news
paper In Ottswa. Canada, of the 23d instant.
says: II believe that the present summer is one
In triad OF similar summers, probably the
mlddie one Ii Is likely to resemble that of 1880,