Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-09-23
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
There are 156 new advertisements in THE STAR
to-day.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY-Internal reve-
nue.. s552, 9.06; customs s76O, ,36317
NATIONAL BANK NOTES outstanding, 1862, SIG, ,29a
NATIONAL BANK NorEs received for redemption
during the week. 81. .25s 900; for the corresponding
period last year, ss 600; received to-day, 1885, Goo
THE Q. s. BONDS withdrawn from securities of ma
tonal banks by Treasurer Gllfllan to-day and sur
rendered TO the Secretary of the Treasury for ex-
change into three per cents, amounted to 81, ,4O3-
ooo Total to date, S17S, ,335 800.
THE AMOUNT OF lawful money on deposit in the
Treasury for the redemption of notes OF banks re-
ducfng circulation is $25 023 1885, banks In liquid
alton, s12,fS34i740; failed banks, s1,Oaa s0S %,
making total fund Of s3S, ,779, 41S.10.
MAJOR HAMS, while absent from the city, will
visit Boston for the purpose Of making an exam
nation OF the flushing gates Of the water works
OF that city.
HON. MONTGOMERY BLAIR AND THE 9TH MARY
LAND DIsTRIcT.-There seems now to be proba-
bility that Hon. Montgomery Blair will re-enter
political life as the democratic Congressional
candidate in the 9th district of Maryland. The
district is close one, and although now repre-
decade been carried by a democrat Mr. Walsh
democrat, having been twice elected by meaere
majority The democrats think owing to some dis
agreements among the leaders, because of the NOM
lnaton OF Mr.. McComaS by the republicans, that
MT; Blalr could pe elected by fair majority. The
Is nominated with unanimity. ~ lza:t9s-
BOND CALL.-The Secretary Of the Treasury
this afternoon issued the 117th bond call for con-
tlnued flves, amounting to s25 OcO to mature on
the 23d OF December, 1882.
FIVE POST OFFICE department inspectors, whose
probationary term of Office has expired, were to-
day re-appointed by the acting Postmaster Gen.
eral.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Midshipman VIM. c. Garfield
has been detached from the jamestown and or
dered to the coast survey Midshipman Wm j.
ordered to the jamestown. Lieutenant c. w.
Christopher and B0atswaln Henry P. Grace have
been placed On the retired list of the navy.
LOCATIONS FOR INDIAN SCHOOLS SELECTED
Inspector Haworth, of the Indian department, has
returned from the west, where he was sent to
select locations for Indian industrial schools,
authorized by the last Congress. He selected sites
for Two schools only, one In the Indian Territory,
south OF Arkansas City, and near the Kansas line,
and the other in Nance county, Nebraska, on the
Old Pawnee reservation. The work in these local.
tiles will be advanced so far this fall that the
schools can be put in operation next spring. They
are TO be modelled after the schools at Carlisle and
Hampton.
PosTMAsTERs APPo1NTED.-The following Presi-
dental postmasters were appointed to-day:
Thomas E. Clapp, White Pigeon, Mich, reap
pointed; j. A. Myers, Bryan, Texas; Benz. F. Bry-
ant, La Crosse, Wis. Nathan Cole, Sheboygan,
Wis
SECURITIES OF NATIONAL BANKs.-United States
bonds held by the Treasurer to secure national
bank circulation, $685., CSC 500 United States bonds
neld by the Treasurer to secure public moneys in
national bank repositories, S16,4160o0. United
states bonds deposited to secure circulation dur
ing the week. S35, ,3i2, 300 United States bonds to
secure circulation withdrawn during the week,
s34, 7,150.
APPoTNrED.-The Secretary of War has appoint
ed John L. Ripple (Pa.) to be watchnan in the
Adjutant Generals Office, and VIM. j. Lieb Oily
10 De 81, 600 clerk in the Surgeon Generals Of
fee.
SIGNAL CORPS CHANGEs.-The following changes
In the stations and duties Of enlisted men Of the
signal corps will be made: 1st class Private Ed
win c. Knowles, on duty at Narragansett
Pr,. Pler, Rhode ODE Island, to relieve 1st class
Point Judith station Private Ashton will re-
port to the signal officer; 1st class Private John
mccoy, On dnty In the Office OF the chief signal
officer, to st. Louis, Missouri; 1st class Private
David Fisher, from St Louis, Missouri, to the
chlef signal officer; 1st class Private VIM. Nor
'rlngton. ON duty at Albany, New York, to Chi
cago, Illinois
PERsoNAL--Itis is announced at Bloomington, Ill,
that Senator David Davis will lead to the altar In
November Miss Annie Green, daughter of a
wealthy and prominent citizen of Fayetteville N.
G., who Is the democratic candidate for Congress
from that district.-Hon. John B. Alley of Mass
Is at the R1ggs.-Senor Romero, the Mexican
minister, is in New YOrk,-Gen. A. A. Humphrey
mas gone northward.-Frank H. Fall, esq., and
family are home at Mount Pleasant from the coast
OF Maine:-Miss Mamie Hough has gone to the
Blue Rtdge.-POStmaster General Howe is at
Manitou Springs. Colorado, to regain hts health,
and win not come back to Washington before the
ISL OF October,-Lord Tenterden, who died yes
terday IN England, was a member Of the Joint
high commission in Washington in 1S7.-Gen.
Hancock entertained to-day at New York Sir
Henry HalfOrd, OF the British rifle team-Mr.
Frank Hatton, the First Assistant Postmaster
General. went to New York this morning, and
Will return On MOnday.-Mr. E. L. Stevens the
chief clerk OF the Indian bureau, returned last
evening from Ocean City, where he was called by
the sickness OF his daughter, who is now much
better.
Indiana Politics.
VIEWS OF JUDGE NIBLACK AND sERGEANr-AT-ARus
BRIGHT.
Judge Niblack. who for MANY wears rnnrosontad