Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-07-10
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal reve-
nue., s7so. o.S9o5o; customs, s745,26476
THE NATIONAL BANK NOTES received to-day for
redemption amount to $4,000.
mints for the week ended July osh 1921 ,423.
For the corresponding period In 1881, S2i4, ,499
THE TARIFF COMMISSION held secret session to-
day.
BOND CALL To-DAY.-Lato Saturday afternoon
the Secretary OF the Treasury decided to issue a
bond call to-day, which was done. 1t is the 115th
ue at 39 per cent from July 1st, 1881. The prnci-
pal and accrued interest viii be paid at the Tre1s-
ury department On the 18th OF September, and the
Interest will cease on that day.
Col c. H. DEAHNA, who was on Saturday ap-
pointed to position in the customs service in Ari
zona, this morning declined the position on the
ground that it was not an honorable government
appointment, and would enable him to render
neither honorable service 70 the government nor
give him four dollars per day and expenses for
three months.
GIVING ALL AN EQUAL CHANCE.-The new ap-
preparation bill, for the executive departments,
reduces the number OF clerks at the Navy depart
ment about 81. The reductions are in clerk
ships CT the lower salaries now filled bv fourteen
ladies' and seven men. The places provided for by
the bill now filled by ladies' are only nine. There
are also left in the department about thirty sim-
lar c.crkShip which have been filled by clerks
Whose efficiency is not reported as up to the stand
ard OF number one or, who, for other reasons, are
not more meIitorious than those who are legIs-
llted out OF their places. The Navy department
has decided to give .ch OF the above sixty per-
sons fair chance for one OF the places A suitable
examining board viii be appointed, which will
consideration
merits OF the sixty applicants and will recon-
mend the thirty nine persons to whom the avail
able places ought, according to their best judg-
ment, to be given; and the persons recommended
Will be appointed II they subsequently pass the
further examination required by the statute. The
department IS moved to this course as the only
practicable method OF approaching justice toward
the fourteen ladies' who would otherwise be left
entirely without employment Widows OF SOL
diers and orphans OF men having large claims
upon the country are suffering great distress from
their diSmiSSalS.
"LEAvEs OF GRASS MAILABLE.-The Post Of1ce
department orders that Walt Whitman's "Leaves
OF Grass shall pass unmolested through the mails.
The pO,tn ister ut B)5ton II suppra 5sei 1T, and
applied to the Postmaster General to confirm b Is
action, which is now dislpproved and reversed.
INDIAN CHIEFS CoxrNG-Gen. William Meade
and C. Dunouznay, chiefs o, the Umatilla Indians,
are on their way from Oregon to Washington for
conference with the Secretary of the Interior re-
garding new land grants They left Portland, Sat-
urday.
GEN. BADEAU, the newly-appointed consul gen.
eral OF the United States for Havana, is residing
at Jamaica, l. l. 1t Is thought in New York city
that he will not go to Cuba before August 1st
BULLION AT THE ASSAY OFFIcK-The Treasury
department officials from Washington, who have
been examining the accounts and bullion at the
assay Office, in New York city, for the annual re-
port OF the department, completed their work
saturday They found in the Office s13,3a0, ,s39 81
in -flt hryiIin &
In fractional silver, AMI 2S,607 in silver dollars
There IS S. 32 S15 in gold coin to the credit OF the
assy as S o5cs on In the suatreasury making total OF
for two days While the accounting was making,
and, upon reopening Saturday, the receipts were
seven and half tons OF silver and 3 oo ounces Of
gold.
THE STEAMSHIP NEPTUNE. hired by the United
States government as supply ship to the Greey
Arctic exploration party LEFT St JOINS, N. F.. yes
terday for Discovery harbor, in Ltdy franklin
bay.
PROMOTED--MisSeS F. A. RidWell and Mary e.
PaHcoast, OF the Registers office. Treasury depart
ment, have been promoted TO tirst-claSS clerk
ships.
THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT on Saturday
reached height or 2SS reet On account OF the
scarcity OF granite al iron the work Will be suS-
pended until about the 10Th OF this moltn.
HEALTH INSPECTION SusPENDED.-The National
Board of Health have instructed all OF their In
spectOrs along the line OF travel between
west; also, along the southern Atlantic and gulf
coasts. and in the Mississippi valley, to b, pre-
the 18th Inst. This action is rendered necessary
by the failure OF suM lent appropriation TO cover
the expense OF keeping up that service.
THE SOUTH ATLANTIC FLEET.--Capt A. W. Wea-
yer, commanding the South Atlantic station, re-
ports that the Brooklyn sailed from 3Iontevideo
on the 24th OF May for Valparaiso. The Marion
and Essex We're bOtn at Montavldeo, and the health
of all on the three ship;was good. Capt. Weaver
directed that the Marion remain at Montevideo
until further orders. Commander Mccormick re-
expected TO sail for Valparaiso on the 10th OF June
On the 22'i Of May, X. ". Turner, apprentice boy
shore was caught under one OF the rollers ana had
his right thigh fractured. He was conveyed to the
English hospital for treatment. -
NAVAL ORDKRs.-Capt William P. McCann de-
tached from the flagship Pensacola and ordered
home. Midshipman c. n. Atwater from the James,
town and ordered to special duty In the bureau OF
navigation. Chief Engineer Charles +. De yalin
from the Enterprise. Passed Assistant Surgeon d.
NJ. Guiteras from the naval hospital, Pniladeiphla
ana ordered to the naval academy. r.,
HosTILITIEs BETWEEN THE ENGLISH AND THE
EGYPTIANS.-Secretary Chandler this morning re-
ceived cable message from Rear Admiral Mich
olson, commanding the American fleet now of
Alexandria, Egypt, stating that hoSIilites between
the English and Egyptians were expected to begin
to-day.
CHIEF ENGINEER Chas E. DeValin, who was at
tached to the Enterprise, has been sentenced by
court martial to one years suspension, on furlough
pay, Tor drunkenness, and the sentence has been
approved by Secretary Chandler.
LIEUT.. r. NJ. G. BROWN, attached to the Lam
caster, European station, met with an accident,
caused by the dropping Of the whale boat, at
Malta. and injured his breast bone. He was re-
moved to the hospital at Malta
PEEsoNAI--Justice Miller, wife and daughter,
and Col Corkhilrs daughter left on the limited
express this morning for Block Island where they
Will spend some weeks.-Gencral and Mrs Paul
and their two daughters are located for the sum-
Iner az she Summit Point Hotel, Gaithersburg-
DE-. j. Il. Ten Eyck and his bride have gone north
on their wedding tour, and Will not return to the
city until September.-SenatorK Kellogg and wife
will go to Saratoga after the adjournment OF Con-
gress-Rustum EnendI, secretary OF the Turkish
legation here, arrived In New York from Ellrope
yefterday.-Mrs A. L. Reed has gone to Sara
toga for q stay o. a few weekS-Col. Casey has
returned TO the city from trip to BostOn.-Mrs
surgeon General Crane IS at East HAMPTON I.
L-Gail Hamilton IS at her summer cottage in
Hamilton, Mass. :. Doak. the popular attache
CT WIZARDS, has gone to Saratoga to help take
care OF the guests or the Clarendon, at that place
Gen. Townsend has gone to Massachusetts m