Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-02-08
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-1nternal reve-
hue, $14s, ,5ss Is; customs. $685., ,O61.27.

GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY.-1nternal reye-
nue., $14s 5ss 76; customs, s69s ,O61.27.
ALL the members of the Cabinet were present
at the regular Cabinet meeting to-day.
TEARING Down THE OLD NAVY DEpARrxEsr
BuILDING.-Bids were opened at the of1ce OF T. L.
Casey to-day for tearing down and removing the
oid Navy department building. There was but one
oiader, John Creveling, OF Washington, who
onered $500. The contract will be awarded to him.
COTTON EXPOSITION CoMMIssIoNERs.-The Presi-
dent has appointed the following commissioners to
the Worlds Industrial and Cotton Centennial Ex-
position at New orleans, upon the recommendation
OF the governors OF the respective states: ChaS J.
Barrow and w. j. HOdgson, (alternate), Louisiana,
ana " IN. +. Guiding and II. s. Howe, (alternate),
Maine.
ARMY ORDERs-Capt Malcolm Macarthur, 18th
Infantry, having been found by an army retiring
board incapacitated for active service his leave Of
absence is extended until further orders account
OF disability. The resignation by Capt George Z.
Pond, assistant quartermaster, OF his commission
as nrst lieutenant sth cavalry only, has been ac-
cepted by the President. Capt. Henry G. Sharpe,
commfssary OF subsistence, is relieved from tempo
rary duty at New York city, and will report in per-
son TO the superintendent OF the U. S. military
academy, West Point, N. Y, for duty as post CON-
mlssary OF subsistence.
MAILS STOPPED BY THE FLoops-In consequence
OF the continuance of the floods in the western riv
ers no mails from the west have been received to-
day at the city post Office except those which
reached this city via the Northern Central and
other northern routes.
SURGEON w. K VAN REYPEN, U.SN., has been
designated as assistant chief Of the bureau OF med
cine and surgery and not DR.. Hudson. Surgeon
Van Reypen assumed the duties OF acting surgeon
general OF the navy yesterday.
MAIL ROBBERS SENTENCED FOR LIFE.-The chief
OF the Post Office inspectors has received q tee-
Qram from TpYaS RQrkprS
who were arrested for robbing a mail stage on
January 3, have been convicted in the United
states court and sentenced to imprisonment for
life: As 1t was discovered that they were already
under ten years sentence for horse stealing, they
were surrendered to the state authorities and when
they have served that sentence the government
will claim their persons.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Surgeon A. A. Hoehling, de-
tached from the Washington navy yard, and
ordered to the Powhatan; Assistant Engineer
Charles A. E. King, from the Alliance, and ordered
to special duty at Worcester, Mass; Lieutenant
Charles A. Bradbury, from the nautical School
ship ST. MaryS and ordered to duty In the bureau OF
ordnance, Washington; Lieutenant NJ. K Schwenk,
from the TallapOOsa and ordered to the st. MaryS;
Lieutenant j. Nj. Grimes grantedlea for one year.
THE WEEKLY STAR for this week is now ready
for mailing; price, three cents per copy. 1t is a
large, eight-page paper, OF hfty-Six columns, cut
pasted ana folded, and will be sent anywhere in
the United States and Canada, postpaid, for one
dollar year.
PERsoNAI--Commissione Loring has returned
from MasSachusetts.-E. B. Fairbanks, OF Yer
mont of "Fairbanks scale" renown, is at the Ameri-
can.-W. II. Armor, OF Montana, is at Willard's.
Ebbitt.-MajOr John NJ Carson, the Washington
correspondent OF the Philadelphia Ledger, is to
take the editorship OF the Denver Tribune at s. GOO
a ayear.-Kobert Garrett, OF Baltimore, has rented
the Newport villa Of f. w. Stevens for the summer
Mr.. George c. GOrham is in New YOrk.-De-
spite his denials, 1t is said that Thomas Harrison,
the middle-aged "boy preacher" is engaged and
Will soon be married to Miss Griffith, wealthy
young lady In Indiana--EdwardJ J. MOfratt, us.
deputy cOnsul-general at London, sailed yesterday
for LiverpoOl-Ex-GOv. Foster, OF Ohio, threatens
to quit politics and go into the B. & o. Telegraph
Co. business