Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-03-31
Washington News and Gossip.

GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Interna1 reve-
enue, $3lo,5ao.6 6s; customs ss46.665.6a.
NATIONAL BANK NOTES received to-day for re-
demptOn, $223, 600.
THE SOLDIERS HOME INvEsTIGATIoN-The sub
military committee OF the Senate investigating the
Soldiers Home had before them at their meeting
yesterday the steward and several former inmates
of the institution. At the meeting next week
number OF the present inmates will be examined.
THERE were five cases of smallpox In Milford
Michigan, last week.
~ THINK THIS Is THE LAST INDIAN Pow-wow we
shall have here while / am COMMISSIONER said
Commissioner Price to-day, in talking about the
Sac delegation. 'It is perfect nonsense their COM
they start and the longer they stay here the less
they know; and it is only a waste OF time and
money"
Ex-SHERIFF ALBERT DAGGET, of Brooklyn, who Is
chairman of the Kings county republican campaign
committee, is said to be authority for the state
ment that it is the desire of President Arthur that
Secretary FOiger shall be a candidate for the New
York state gubernational nomination.
SELLING LIQUOR TO INDIANS" Do you intend to
prosecute the men who sold liquor to the In
dians?" STAR reporter asked Commissioner
Price to-day. 81 have given orders that it should
be dOne," was the response; and If 1t is possible
70 get the evidence the guilty parties VIII 9e pros
a prominent temperance man, and he has this
motive If no other, to press the Investigation. The
interpreter, who Is the principal witness, expects
10 leave on Monday.
JUDGE BLATCHFoRD, according to the New York
papers, was to leave that city this morning for
Washington to take the oath of Office, and will
probably take his seat on the Supreme Court
bench next Monday.
THE MoREY-LINDsAY LETTER. Washington
cOrrpSnOndpncp A9flp
"John l. Davenport, who has been nosing around
Hagerstown and vicinity some days, telegraphs q
friend In this city that he has def1nately ascer-
tained who the author is of the celebrated Robert
Lindsey letter, and Will makes the facts known In
few days"
The TOTAL INTEREST on the four per cent loan
due tomorrow is ST. COO. Treasurer Gilan to-
day mailed fifty-two thousand checks in payment
or the registered interest on that loan. amounting
to f5.535, 600 There has been paid this month out
OF the Treasury, s17,OCO,OOO for called bonds and
3,0O0,0OO OF bond interest, which was due on the
lst OF March or prior to that date.
THE 10sTH BOND CALL.-The interest on the con-
tinued skies, lOsth CALL amounting to $4,000 ,0C0
will be due on the Sth OF April. 1t is probable,
anticipate this call few days upon his return
early next week. 1t is customary to anticipate
bond calls simply because the vaults OF the treas
ury become Overburdened with surplus OF gold +,
and by It's circulation trade interests are benefited
War has ordered $50 hospital tents to be sent to
New Orleans to be used by the Louisiana flood
sufferers, under direction OF the governor.
AMONG THE CALLERS at the White House to-day
were Senators Lapham, Plumb and Sawyer, and
Representatives Aldrich, Van Voorlhs, Ryan,
Dawes, Hubbeil, Strait, Smith, n Y, Pound, An
derSon, Van Horn, and Col. Dyer, OF st. Louis.
CONTRACTS AwARDED.-The Secretary OF War
has awarded the contracts for water transporta-
tion on the Missouri river as follows: For the
service from YanktOn to BSmdrk to S. b. COulSOn;
between Fort Abraham Lincoln and Fort Benton
TO L. G. Power. In accordance with the recon-
mendatOn OF Col. Myer contract for the service
on the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers COM
b1ned " Ill be made.
THE GUILLoTINE will soon begin work in the
Treasury department, and the air is full OF rumors
as to whose heads will fall. The Secretary has for
some time had under consideration the removal of
number OF officials whose decapitation will ere
ate quite stir. The orders have not yet been
issued but shortly after the Secretary returns to
washington some will have to go.
LIEUT. EDWARD A. FIELD has been detached from
the receiving ship Passaic and ordered to the hy-
geographic Office.
PERsoNAL-Mr. and Mrs. A. Graham Bell, OF
Washington, were registered at the Office of the
New York Herald in Paris yesterday.-Ex-Secre-
tary Gof is at the NATIONAL Representative
Walter A. Wood and Commodore UnShur OF Wash
ington, were registered In New York last night
Commander A. G. Kellogg, who has been very
Ill, is able to be Out-CO Mcdonald. deputy
c. S. fish commissioner, leaves for New York to-
night, to be absent a few days on business con-
nected with the commission.
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