Morning journal and courier., 1882-09-19

The President Back Axatn-A Cabinet Meeting In Prospect for To-Day-The Return of Members of Iis Cabinst- General News Notes From the Capitol.
 WASHINGTON, Sept. 1s.-President Arthur, accompanied by his private secretary, MT. Phillips, arrived tonight on the limited ex- press at 11:15. The train was half houA late. He was driven to Secretary Freling huysen's residence where he remains during his stay He expects to return to New York. Cabinet meeting will probably be held to- morrow.
 The Civil suit against Captain Howgate, the signal service defaulter under which his prop erty was seized, is still on tho docket. It now transpires that Nellie Burrell, with whom Howgate was intimate, left her rooms four months ago and is known to have left the city.
 Secretaries Teller and Frelinghuysen will be here to morrow and probably Attorney General Brewster and Secretary Lincoln, so that there is possibility of Cabinet meet ing, although no absolute necessity for one is apparent.
 The Critic publishes a letter to Postmas- Ger General Howe iron, California, w. P. Wood, in which he calls attention to mission of $9 1000 fines on John A. Walsh's route from Prescott to Albuquerque, Ari- zona, and states that this remission was made on the recommendation of Assistant Attor- ney General Freeman and Detectives Gibs Jn ! and Woodward with no valid reason for the ! same and with no papers in the department ! on which to make it. Colonel Wood offers \ to assist in any investigation of the matter, ! and will guarantee to return $1O, 900 which he says he got himself. The Critic charac- ! terizes the whole affair scheme between ! Gibson, Woodward and Walsh, by means of ! which Walshs story, which formed the basis | Of a obtained i At meeting to night the project of erect I ing large building for the Garfield memo rial fair was abandoned and it was decided to hold the fair in tho Capitol and con6ne the exhibit to articles which are to be do
 mated. The space allotted ts each State is 27 x1o feet and objects to be placed on exhibi- ! tion must necessarily be small.
 The appointment officer of tho Treasury l department characterizes untrue the pub 1 lished account of the recent appointment and ployes in that department within the past ! three weeks. There has been only one ap- pointment and one promotion among this
 class of employees.
 Seven employees in the patent office were
 removed last week upon the demand of Ma ! hone, and an eighth succeeded in securing 1 an extension of official existence until Jan 1 uary, while ninth strong enough with { the Secretary of the Interior to secure his re
 tention by giving Malone another appoint | ment.
 Twenty-Five new cases of yellow fever are
 reported at Brownsville and fourteen al Point Isabella.
 Superintendent Kimball of the Life Say
 ing service, has just returned to this city | from an official visit to Massachusetts, where l he went for the purpose of selecting sites
 for two new life saving stations to be estab
 lished on that coast in accordance with the
 act of May 1, 1882. The sites finally select
 ed were at Woods End, Cape Cod, and a
 point between Cohasset and Scituate aarbor
 Owing to necessary delay caused in perfectine
 titles it is not possible that actual building
 operations will be begun before next season
 All the remaining Atlantic coast stations
 were opened September 18th and will not
 close till May l, 1883. Superintendent Kim
 ball reports the service in excellent condition
 and says the beneficial effects of the favor
 able legislation of the last Congress is plainly
 visible in the increased chesrfulness and
 esprit du corps prevailing among the men,
 They also express gratitude for the personal
 efforts of Secretary Folger in their behalf. A fine dollar note of the Evansville, Ind.
 Business College currency was received by
 Chief Brooks, of the secret service. which
 had been successfully passed as genuine cur l rency. Chief Brooks says that some of this
 same stuff had been circulated until it had torn to tatters without detection. Diligent efforts to suppress such advertising notes arc
 being made by the division. counterfeit
 silver half dollar made of Babbtt metal anG
 g lass is also being circulated. It has goo6
 ring and is good imitation.