Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-08-20
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal rcve-
nue., s515. 5.3i055; customs, s59i,24465.
APPoINrMENT.-The Acting Secretary OF the
Treasury has appointed Van Rensselaer, Morgan
tions on the coasts OF Delaware and Maryland.
CONSOLIDATION OF REVENUE DrsTRrcrs-The
executive order consolidating internal revenue
districts so far as 1t affects the following named
districts went into effect to-day: Second and
fourth districts OF Iowa, and the districts Of
Nevada ard Montana.
SANITARY INsPECToRs-The following is q list
OF the sanitary inspectors employed by the ma
rine hospital service, for the examination OF ves-
sells and cargoes bound for the United States:
Havana. Cuba, ID. NJ Burgess; Vera Cruz, Mexico,
T. j. Mamegra; London Eng. Joseph H. Hill;
Oliver. These inspectors act under the immedi ate
direction or the cOnSuS general at their respective
ports and under general regulations issued by the
surgeon general OF the marine hospital service.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Lieut. w. P. Elliott has been
detached from the coast survey steamer Macarthur
and placed on waiting orders. Ensign r. B.
Dashiell has been detached from the Washing ton
navy yard and ordered to duty in connection with
the experimental battery at Annapolis, Md.
Assistant Secretary OF State. Mr.. John Davis, and
an official, went to Westmoreland, Va, Saturday,
O., the Speedwell for the purpose of selecting
site for the memorial intended to mark the birth
on yd the od
homestead. Tie memorial will take the shape Of
brick house, faced and trimmed with stone, OF
the same size that in which Washington was
BORN: Mr. Davis will make report, and the work
Will be begun soon.
RIVER AND HARBoR IMPRovEMENTs-The re-
ports of the engineer officers In charge of river
and harbor improvements for the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1888, have nearly all been made. The
only exceptions are with respect to the improve
ments in the Cincinnati, O.. and Oswego N Y,
districts and the improvements which are subject
to the direction OF the Mississippi river commits
sion. The reports which are already In cover 29l
works OF Improvement, for which there was ap-
propriated in the last river and harbor bill
almost one-half Of the appropriation made by the
river and harbor bill OF Au gust, 1851, remained
unexpended July 1882, the aggregate OF the sums
remaining in the engineers hands on that date
being s5,45s,431
THE YELLOW FEVER AT PENSACOLA NAVY YARD
The acting Secretary Of the Navy department to-
day received the following telegram from Lieut..
WEIGH, commanding the Pensacola, Fla, navy
navy yard, dated yesterday :-'TOtal cases, naval.
to date, SIX, Including Ovens child One death
on the 18th. No new cases to-day. One case re-
ported to-day In WOolsey. Send marines to camp
tomorrow upon recommendation OF surgeons"
THE U. S. s. SARATOGA arrived at New London,
Conn.,, yesterday.
FROM AN INFECTED PoRT-The surgeon general
OF the marine hospital service has been Informed
that the steamship City of Washington left Vera
Cruz on the nth instant for New York.
CoMMIssIoNED.-John B. Rldgway was to-day
commissioned postmaster at Bowie, Prince George
county, Md
THE REPORT OF the commission, of which eX-
Secretary Kirkwood Was chairman, appointed to
examine the completed section Of the Oregon
at the Interior department. The report recon-
mends the acceptance OF the section.
THE STAR will be sent by mail, postpaid to those
leaving the city during the summer for any length
OF time, and the address changed as often as de-
sired. Subscription fifty cents per month, POSI-
TIyELY IN ADVANCE.
PERsoNAL-Assistant Secretary New returned
to the city NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Frye has pur-
chased house lot In Fryeburg, Me-, and will soon
erect summer cottage there.-Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis j. Davis have returned from the Warm
Springs, where they have been spending some
time. me.-Representat1ve TOwnshend OF Illinois Is
making a tour through New Mexlco.-Mr. and
Mrs. G. Butterfield and son Elmore have gone to
Mr. and Mrs R. D. Meston st ha1s lave r. retarned ea' to
! the city from their soJourn in the Blue Ridge
mountains-Mrs. Emily Thornton Charles edi-
Lawrence Barrett arrived at Boston from
| Europe on saturday.-Mr. A. H. Stamp, of the
| in the Shenandoah valley, accompanied by Mrs
stamp.-senator Malone joined his family at
soratoga adas1 last j. Barclay has
Mrs. Julia Ruger DOnOho, mother of Gaines R.
Donoho. the talented artist is visiting friends in
mer at Etaples, q picturesque fshermen's village,
| near Bouiogne, On the English Channel, where a
number OF French and American artists reside
temporarily;-Col James A.. TAFT left for Cape
. May Saturday night to remain a short time
Gen. II: Nelson OF Indiana is at the Riggs
n aSd rs with ner and
Saratoga fer Lake George for weeks stay there,
before Lieut. Scott reJolns his regiment at Fort
rived in New York from Europe yester-
day:-Mr Samuel Bacon has gone to Fau-
FopIer 81 sty as a
office OF the New York HERALD in London yester-
day;-Ex-R Representative Walls, the colored
from his vegetable crop THIS DR.. Thomas
McArdle has gone to Cape May for weeks stay.
-Mathew ,-- Arnold expects to sail for this eoun-
Fox & Brown, has left Asbury Park and gone to
the CatskilIs.~L F: Randolph OF the Post Office
beiland.-Robert Ball, vice president OF the sue
oessiul Washington Beneficial Endowment Life
insurance company, left the city this morning to
attend the eighth annual convention OF the mu-
tual benefit associations OF America, to be held at
Detroit, Mich on the last four days OF this month
Francis Tourney Of the Census offlce has gone
TO Cape May.-Mrs. F. j. Acker is spending the
month OF August in Fauquier county.-Dr. E. s.
Jones is guest at Congress hail. Cape May
Miss Belle S. Post has gone to Essex, Conn.,, for
stay OF a month.-Mrs H. NJ. Schooley, who has
been at Rehobeth Beach for some time, has gone
to Lou ion county for short vsit-Mr. VI. X
Mccoy has left Old Point Comfort and gone TO
Asbury Park for the remainder OF his vacation.
Prof. Chas w. Hoffman and Mr.. Martin F.
Morris left this morning for Saratoga, to attend
the meeting Of the American Bar Association:
They will be joined In Baltimore by Hon. R. I.
Merrick and Mrs Mcrrick. b ore returning they
will visit the CatskIll mountains and Long
Branch.-Henry c. Plke.of New York, and Lieut.
F. p Gilmore UsN: registered at the Eobitt this
the Norfolk navy yard, is in the cty.-Postmas-
ter Taft. OF Charleston, s. c., Is In the city.
District Government Affairs
PERSONAL TAX DELINQUENTS
To-day Major Dye, chief Of police placed in the
hands OF Detective RAN list OF deilnQuents for
personal tax, amounting to from 81, 600 to &SOOO
mostly business men, with instructions to serve
notice upon them. At the end OF twenty-four
hours, after notice, should the tax not be paid.
Collector Cook and Mr.. Ran win proceed to dis
train.
BUILDING PERMITS
have been issued by Inspector Entwsle as follows:
A. Loef1ler, erect three two story dwellings on