Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-10-30
Washington News and Gossip.

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GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS .To-DAY.-Internal rev
enue, s134,3i1; customs, s592,SSe.
NAVAL CADET JOSEPH L. WooD has been pro-
NOTED to be assistant engineer from the 10th OF
June, 1882.
THE TALLAPoosA left Boston to-day for Ports
mouth.
NAVAL PRoMoTIoNs.-Commodore A. c. Rhind
was examined to-day and promoted to be a rear
admiral. He will be retired tomorrow. Capt.
John H. Russell was to-day promoted to the rank
of commodore and ordered to command the navy
yard, Mare Island, Cal Commander +. Y. McNaiT
was to-day promoted to the rank OF captain and
ordered to duty as captain OF the Mare Island navy
yard.
NAVAL ORDERs-Lieut VIM. NJ. c. Little, ordered
to the training ship Minnesota. Medical Inspector
Somerset Robinson. to duty at the Mare Island
naval hospital. IeutS. VIM. Little, Geo. II. WOrceS-
ter and Lucien Young, detached from the MinneSO-
ia and ordered to duty in the Pacific station, per
steamer first of November. Nate Hugh Kuhl. from
the TallapOoSa, and ordered to the Portsmouth (N.
H. navy yard The orders of Medical Inspector A.
g. Gorgas TO the naval hospital, Mare Island, have
been revoked. and he will remain ON duty at the
naval hospital at Chelsea, Mass.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY NEW called upon the
President at the White House yesterday afternoon,
and was subsequently asked by a STAR reporter If
he had rendered his resignation during the call.
''No; have not resigned" said Mr. New 81 called
upon the President on matter OF business accom-
panied by gent eman from Indiana: did not ten
der my resignation, and do not intend uO-there,
you can print that II you want to-"
ANOTHER PENSION OFFICE SUsPENsIoN.-Mr. A. B.
Webb, of this city, has been suspended from prac-
tice as an attorney before the Pension Office.
For THE NATIONAL MUsEUM.-Dr. Leonard Steg-
meier, who was commissioned by the Smithsonian
Institution to go to Behring's Island to find skele
ton OF the Northern Manatte. or COW, arrived in
San Francisco yesterday from the Arctic with an
excellent specimen.
THE REMAINS OF CAPT. f. NJ COBB, 2d O. S.
infantry, who died at LimrOck, Alabama, october
2Sth, wnl be brought to this city for interment
FLIGHT OF MONTERO-The Chilian minister has
received an official dispatch from Lima, dated yes
terday, announcing that Arequipa has surren-
dered without battle being fought, and that
MonterO fed. The dispatch also says that
IglesiaS has been proclaimed president In that
city.
GEN SCHOFIELD, who succeeds Gen. Sheridan In
command OF the department OF the Missouri, Is eX-
pected at Chicago to-day. He will have as his per-
sonal staff Colonel Whery and Lieutenant Scho-
field, his brother.
VIOLATIONS OF POSTAL LAws.-The chief of post
Office inspectors Col d. b. Parker, in his annual
report states that there 500 arrests during the
past year. and of the growing out of these 562
state courts. OF the former 26O convicted and
"a acquitted, escaped, died. abandoned their
Dali, ana there are 162 cases Still pending. There
were ,s36 cases reported for investigation during
the year.
PATENTS were issued to-day as follows: JAS A.
Maloney, Washington, telephone repeater and re-
lay; John W. Osborne, Washington, assignor to w.
Fl: Forbes, Boston, three patents-pulley. roller or
wheel, and linking apparatus for printing presses;
Harvey L. Page, Washington, blind and shutter;
10 Cai0. Chnfnr
Washington. medicated efferveScent salts; George
r. F1ckers. stock for firearms Geo. w. Evans. Bal
tlmore. spigot: Augustine Cook, Salisbury, Md,
dredging machine.
Young CARP FOR KENTUCKY.-A shipment of
5000 young carp was made to-day by the United
States fish commission in one of its special cars
The fish will be sent to Kentucky, for distribution
In that state. These carp were obtained from the
ponds In this city, the water being drawn off for
that purpose. paragraph In a Baltimore paper
states that when the water was drawn off from the
pond Of j. d. Ahalts lat Burkittsv1lle Fedfck coun-
Weighing three bounds sh We're receSee
from washington in December last, when they were
not more than one and half inches In length.
Major o. Ferguson, the assistant commissioner has
gone, on the steamer Lookout. to pay visit Of in
spection to the oyster breeding station at ST Je-
rOme creek, and also to the Shad Matching station
at the head OF Chesapeake bay.
MORE ATTORNEYS DIsBARRED.-The Secretary Of
the Interior to-day disbarred VIM. and Alexander
terror department..
WAR DEPARTMENT CHANGEs-Charles Newell,
agent for the investigation OF claims In the quar-
termaster's department, has rendered his resgna-
tiOn, to take effect on the 8lst october, and O. D.
k1nsman. a clerk OF class one in the Office Of the
quarterm%aster mast general, has been appointed In his
stead. This leaves vacancy In the 81 200 grade in
the quartermaSter generals Office, which will prob
ably be filled by promotion from the grade below
and requisit1On made upon the civil service COM
mission for clerk OF 81 600 class Beckford Mackey
has resigned clerksbip in the 81 600 class OF the
surgeon generals office, War department.
THE COMING CHANGE OF COMMANDER OF THE
ARMY.-There will be no ceremony attending the
transfer of the command OF the army from Gen.
sherman to Lieut. Gen; Sheridan on Thursday
Gen. Sherman upon relinquiShing command and
one by Gen: Sheridan upon assuming It, Gen.
will remain here probably for several days looking
after his private matters. Gen. Sheridan is not ex.
pected to arrive from Chicago until tomorrow.
Hon. E. NJ. MARBLE, the commissioner of patents
will take formal leave of his office tomorrow. and
MS successor, Hon Ben. Butterworth, will assume
charge on the first day OF the month.
PERE HYACINTH L0YsON will remain quietly In
Washington for week or ten days for the purpose
of securing some much needed rest. After that
time he expects to commence a series of lectures
He has given the matter no thought as yet. and has
not decided whether his first lecture will be given
mere OF eISeWneTe. nor mas ne QeclQeQ how many
lectures he will deliver nor the subjects he viii
speak upon.
NEW RULES AT THE STATE, WAR AND NAVY DE-
PARTMENT BUILDING-Ch1ef Engineer Snyder, the
superintendent Of the State, War and Navy depart
ment building, has prepared set of rules govern
Ing the employees and visitors to the departments
The rules have been submitted to the three Secre-
tar1es, and will be shortly adopted by them. Here
tOfore there have been no particular rules fixing
the hours Of admission to these departments, but
the building before O'Clock or after O'Clock
pm, except In special cases. as is the case in the
other departments. The Secretaries have found
of their duties by persons who call upon them late
have been on hand during the customary hours for
receiving visitors There Will be but one entrance
to the building that be used by visitors having
the privilege OF entering after OclOck-the en-
trance to the basement at the northeast corner OF
the building. The new rules will contain some
other changes and regulations, but it is said there
are none OF great importance.
PERsoNAL--Admiral Porter and Senator Morrill,
were registered in New York last evening.-Post-
master Huidenkoper, of Philadelphia, and Col B.
Keogh, OF North Carolina, are at the Arlington.-
Mr.. Crosby S. NOyeS and Mr.. Theodore W. Moves of
washington, were at Helena, Montana last week
en- route to Portland, Oregon, over the Northern
Pacific railrOad-Mr. j. s. Grinnell who has
finally consented to run for lieutenant governor of
Massachusetts, on the Butler ticket, was formerly