Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-10-13

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Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal reve-
nue. s5Os, 1873 So; customs, s765,S1.49.
national BANK NOTES received to-day for re-
demptfon, $4,000.
THE LIGHT HOUSE BOARD met to-day Congress,
at It's last session, made liberal appropriation for
the erection OF additional light houses along the
Atlantic coast and its more important tributaries
Included in the number was light near Annapo-
lis, and one in the Chesapeake bay, at Sandy
Point. To-day's meeting was merely to consider
the plans for the houses to be erected, Congress
having designated the points at which they are to
be placed
SPEAKER KE1FER was at the Post Ofrice depart
ment to-day, where he was warmly congratulated
THE FOLLOWING PosTMAsTERs were commits
stoned to-day: R. c. M. Thurman. Flint, Va: F.
Hawks Lambsburgh, Va; N. r. Hobson, Repub-
llcan Grove, Va.
DR. MCDONALD, the chief OF the Money Order
Office, to-day paid to the Post Office department
SSGOOOO the net revenue OF his Office for the year.
THERE were 6OS land patents issued from the
Interior department. to-day
THE STEAMER PROVIDENCE, reported missing yes
stormy trip.
MORE DISCHARGES AT THE GOVERNMENT PRINT
ING OFF1oE.-Last evening there was another dis
charge OF thirteen printers in the specification
room at the government printing Office There
have now been about one hundred and fifty dis
charges in all.
THE CASE OF SERGEANT MAsoN.-Mr. Bigelow
the counsel of Sergeant Mason. who is imprisoned
in the Albany penitentiary under sentence Of
court-martial for having shot at Guiteau in Sep
tember, 1881, has not dropped the case by any
means and does not regard the action of the
q. S. circuit court Of New York in refusing the
writ OF habeas corpus as conclusive. Mr.. Bigelow
says he is confident OF eventual success, and will
to the Supreme Court of the United States for its
action. He believes that when the case is fully
presented that the court will coincide with the
Judge Advocate General that the prisoner was i'm
properly convicted.
THE HowaATE CAsE.-District Attorney Corkhil
said to-day that it was not improbable that How
gate would reappear in the city rather than per-
init all his property to go by default, as it would
under the recent motion made by the government
In the civil case against Howgate If the defendant
fails to appear. II HOwgate should turn up the
criminal case against him would be taken UP.
otherwise it will probably rest undisturbed on the
docket OF the Criminal Court together with others
in which the defendants have escaped from con-
hnement
THREE LIVES LOST BY SHIPwRECK. II Signal
corps station, Sandy Hook, n j.. reports: At nine
p. m. yesterday schooner Manantico, from New
York to Philadelphia, cargo pig iron, struck on the
and sunk in six fathOmS OF water. Vessel and
cargo total loss. Captain reports three men miss
Ing, supposed to be drowned. Saved from schooner,
Capt d. Cullen and seaman Adolph johnson.
CHIEF o. H. IRISH. Of the Treasury Bureau Of
Engraving and Printing, and other witnesses In
the case OF w. II. Ward and W. F. Salter, charged
with an attempt to bribe an employe OF the bureau
to purloin sheet of distinctive paper or stamps
were before the grand jury to-day.
SECRETARY FoLGER arrived at the Hoffman
House, New York city, last night. The Herald of
to-day says: SIT is said that his presence in the
city Is due to summons from the republican
state committee, the members Of which desire him
to make more active efforts to further his can
vaSs."
NAVAL LORDERs.-Midshipmen Ftz A. Huntoon, P.
W. Hourigan, Augustus N Mayer and Thomas
Worthington have been ordered to the U. s. S.
Dewey, to the receiving shipWabash, 18th instant;
Lieut. Eugene f. C. Ieutze has been detached
Junata; Mtdshlpman stokely Morgan, from the the
training ship Minnesota and ordered to the
Juniata; Midshipman James s. Brown, from the
receiving ship Wabash and ordered to the Juniata-
THE Army ana Many Register publishing COM
pany has purchased the Capital The two papers
will be wholly Independent of each other, but will
be published under the same general M management
and ownership. The transfer will not be made for
some days to come.
THE WATER WORKS REPoRr-Gen Wright,
chief engineer U.S.A.. yesterday approved Major
Lydecker's plan for the work of Increasing the
Secretary Of f wa reeeed at the war
department. to-day, but Will not be made public
until the return of the Secretary OF War, which
Will hardly be before Monday next
TRAVELLING ExPENsEs.-The Acting Secretary of
the Treasury has addressed circular letter to all
ooJ1n
all travelling expenses incurred In that service will
be paid direct from the Treasury department by
check instead OF allowing the collector to estimate
for such expenses.
THE MATRIMONIAL ASSOCIATIONS - The head
postal clerk on the Chattanooga railroad informs
the Post Office department that the attorney gen.
eral OF Tennessee has instructed the grand juries
throughout the state to indict the matrimonial
sOciatfonS as frauds. Chief Inspector Parker will
investigate the business to ascertain If it is con-
trary to the postal laws.
Posr OFFICE Observation-Disclosures General
Howe expects to return tomorrow or next day.
The first assistant, Mr.. Hatton, will return on
Monday.-Jutge Freeman, the assistant attorney
general, was at his desk to-day, having returned
from trip through Texas.--Mr. Nathan Smith
returned yesterday from a tour through the north
west
REPRESENTATIVE LOWE. who died at Huntsville,
Ala, yesterday, as announced in THE STAR last
evening, had been suffering for some months from
affection OF the bronchial tubes, which finally
caused his death. Col. Lowe was the greenback
candidate for Congress in his district IN 1880 and
contested the election Of Hon. Joseph Wheeler the
democratic candidate. He was awarded the seat
June 2, 1882. Speaker Kefer, who is In the city,
last evening appointed the following committee to
attend the funeral: Thomas H. Herndon, H. A.
HerDert, William Oates. Thomas Williams, G. w.
Hewitt and William B. Forney. OF Alabama; Emory
Speer, or Georgia. Charles E. Hooker, Mississippi;
and George G. Dibrell. Benton McMillin, Charles
B. Simonton and William R. Moore, OF Tennessee.
PERsoNAI--Secretary Folger, Inspector General
Sacket, and Pay Director Cunningham were
registered in New York last night-Ex-Judge
Advocate General Dunn has returned from the
Warm Springs OF Virginia, where he has been spend
ing some time, with marked advantage.
ana Mrs: Grant are visiting Mr. and Mrs. George
w: Childs at their country seat near Phila-
delphia.-,Mr. G. W: Gray has returned to the
city from the west, where he has been for the last
three months.-General and Mrs. WV. Belknap,
OF Washington were registered at the Office OF the
New York Herald in Paris yesterday.-Dr. Mac
Leod, curator Of the Corcoran Gallery OF Art, has
returned from his visit to the north, and is again
on on duty improved by his trlp.Marshal Henry
mas returned to the city from Ohio-First Con-
troller Lawrence returned this morning from
ONO, and resumed his duties at the Treasury
department.