Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-10-03
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal rev.
enue, $272, 500; customs, s772,211.-

/ HE udtlOnal DaQk nOCeS received Tor re0emD-
tlon to-day amounted to sos, 900.
IT Is PROBABLE that Supervising Inspector
General OF Steam Vessels Dumont will go to
Buffalo on Saturday to be present at the inveSt-
CATION Into the Colorado disaster.
| NAVAL ORDERs.-Commander F. v. McNair de-
tached from the examining board and placed on
waiting orders Assistant Engineer Benj c.
| Bryan from the Washington navy yard and
ordered to special duty at Phoenxvtlle. Pa. Boat
| swain Xavier Perrimond from the Speedwell and
ordered TO duty at the washington navy yard.
FROM PENsAcoLA-The Acting Secretary of the
Navy last evening received the following tele-
gram from Commandant Welch at Pensacola:
mo new cases Of fever and no deaths"
SECRETARY LINCOLN is expected to return to
Washington on Saturday.
THE q. s. g. PrNrA left Portsmouth, N. H., yes
terday, for New York II her trial trip shall have
proved successful she will be ordered to proceed
| to Alaska.
COMMODORE WALKER, chief OF the bureau OF navi-
| Cation, has gone to New York to join Secretary
Chandler in an inspection OF the u. 8. s. Trenton,
now being fitted out for the Asiatlc station.
"THIs WILL CLOSE the taking of tes timony
orally In this city, for the present at least" said
Senator Blair at the end of yesterdays session OF
| Che Senate subcommittee on education and labor
| IN New York city. The committee will take a
trip to the east and pursue its IND uirteS in the
south before Congress assemblies.
PosTMAsTERs APPoINTED-The President has ap-
pointed the following postmasters: JOS H. Wag-
oner, Rochester, Mimi. Solomon j. Frigett, Blue
Springs, Neb.; D. Deyecmon, Milan, Mo. !; Thos. NJ.
Pancoast, Moorestown, N. j.; r. G. c. Knight.
Mason, Mich A. G.. Lackey, Marshall, Mo. Chal-
mer ingerson Beloit, Wis, and w. A. Walker,
ExcHAGE OF sTAMps.-The Treasury Department
TO- I1xy
amounting to $45S19. for new two cent stamps.
These are mainly used for the transmission of
foreign correspondence.
THE SPEAKERsH1P.-Mr. watterson, Of the
Co1rierJourna finds as the result of poll OF Rep
resentattves-elect that they stand as follows on
the question of the Speakershlp, so far as heard
from: For Carlisle, first, and no second choice 81;
Tor s. s. Cox, 49, for 8. j. Randall, II; for W. NJ.
Springer, q non-comm1tta, IS. For Carlisle. Sec
ond choice, 1S; for Cox. second choice. 4 OF the
revision OF the tariff, are against it, and 70 are
non-cOmmttal.
COLONEL MosBY has written another letter to
Virginia friend, pouring hot shot into Senator
Malone. He says that the republican party ought
to reorganze, and ''as one OF its new principles
eschew Mahoneism"
THE CoREAN EMBASSY. accompanied by Lieut.
Mason and Ensign Foulk, visited the Treasury de-
partment this morning, and were presented to
Secretary Folger, after which they were shown
through the building by the captain OF the watch
and committee OF chiefs OF divisions. They vls-
ited the treasurer's Office, and were shown through
the vaults, the cash room and the redemption bu-
reau, and were then taken to the bureau OF en-
craving and printing.
THE PRESIDENT, who had made preparations to
leave West Island last evening, was detained
there by the storm The telegraph wire was not
working yesterday. and there was no communica-
tOn with the island.
DEATH OF REAR ADMIRAL j. R. SANDs-Rear
Admiral Joshua r. Sands, retired list, U.SN., died
yesterday at the residence of Pay Director James
H. Watmough, in Baltimore, In the seth year Of
his age. Rear Admiral Sands was appointed an
acting mtdSh1pman In the navy June 16, 1872 He
served In the war against England on Lake On
tario and was present at the capture OF Alveraoo,
TobdSc0, LagOna, Tampic0 and TuSDan during the
Mexican war. He commanded the US. frigate st.
Lawrence. and was present in her at the Worlds
Fair, London. in 1851. AS commander OF the Sus.
quehanna he was engaged in laying the cable in
1851. He also participated In the late war. In
| 1866 he was commissioned rear admiral, with
which rank he was retired the same year. He was
we'll known in Baltimore, where he resided for
some time.
THE CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION Room pre-
sented busy scene to-day. Fifty candidates for
appointments in the city post Office presented
| themselves for examination OF this number but
four were ladies. Eighteen OF the gentlemen ex-
amfned were applicants for letter carriers Places
and the others aspired to appointments as clerks.
The class was regarded by the examiners as an
unusually fine one. The examination was con-
Quoted by Messrs. Horace P. Springer and James
E Bell, OF the local examining committee.
| THE NEwBURG CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION-Iti Is
expected that the following naval vessels will
| participate in the Newburg centennial celebra-
tion on the 18th instant,vz: Flagship Tennessee,
Alliance, Vandalia, Yant1c and Swatara, OF the
the above named vessels are now at New York.
The others are on their way to that port
THE CHARGES AGAINST MAJOR EvANs-Secre-
| Jary Folger will act in day or two upon the re-
port OF Sixth Auditor Ella, who investigated the
charges preferred against Major Evans. chief OF
the collection division Of the sixth auditors Office
OF disgraceful actions and scandalous conduct In
| company with woman at Alexandria some time
| ago. Auditor Ella makes no recommendations in
his report but simply details the result OF the in
yestigation: 1t appears from the report that Maj.
Evans resided In Alexandria and that the woman
down the Potomac, but stopped over at Alexandria.
| Evans at their request showed them a saloon
where they could get a bite to eat. as also drop
OF wine. He accepted their invitation and lunched
with them. During the lunch the woman and
| Rogers quarreled and separated. Evans was about
| showing her place where She could spend the
| night, when tile police, noticing that they had
been imbibing too freely, took them In charge 1t
| is not known what action the Secretary will take
! In the matter, but the fact that severe punish
| ment would affect the family Of the accused more
than himself may cause the matter to be over
4 lOOheQ W SOule tAtcuk
| PKRs0,,AL-John Helms, M. p, is at Wormley's.
| Mrs Senator Warner Miller and daughter are
| at the Arlington.--Hon. 'Thos. M. Bayhe, OF
| Pittsburg, is at the Riggs-Dr II. Springer, OF
| New York, ls at the st. Marc.-Mrs c. L. Tomp-
kins, OF Ellsworth Kansas, is visiting at Hyatts-
ville.-SenatOr Edmunds is in New York.
Admiral Porter and family are at Cazenovia, New
| YOrk.-The Marquis Dalla Valle secretary OF
the Italian legation, is in New York.-Mr.
George Bancroft celebrated his SD birthday at
| Newport to-day. He will return at once to Wash
ington.-General Rufus Ingalls,, United States
army. Is in Chicago-Mr West, the British
minister, spent the summer in Washington and
left only when he joined the recent Willard expe-
dition.-Ex-Senator T. NJ. Norwood, OF Georgia;
Mr.. Alexander H. II. stuart. OF Virginia; Rear Ad-
mirsl Alfred Taylor. United States navy; Mr.. Co.
lumbus Delano, Ex-Governor William Aiken, of
South Carolina; Charles X. Tuckerman, ex- United
states minister to Greece; Rear Admiral William
Hayes and Mrs. Hayes, Senior Don Joaquin Godoy
| Chilean minister at Washington. are In New York.
Mrs A. r. Shepherd and family will leave
New York on the 9th instant for Batopilas, Mexico
I-ME Edwin Smith, OF the United States coast
and geodetlc survey, Is at the Ebbitt house
Col Geo. w. Hooker was registered at the Fifth
avenue hotel, New York. yesterday.-Mrs. ThoS
7. Simonds, OF Charleston, 8. c., and Mrs. VIM
Gammell, OF Savannah, Ga, both great grand.
daughters Of Colonel VIM. Washington, Of revolu.
ttonary fame, the hero OF Cowpens and EutaW
Springs, are In the city visiting Mrs Ringgold