Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-11-08
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY-Internal rev
nue., 1924 .494; customs. s3lS, $50.


SECRETARY McCULLoCu has gone to his country
seat for few days. and Assistant Secretary Coon
Is acting as Secretary of the Treasury.
MRS. MARY C. HARKNEss, OF Connecticut has
been appointed to 5000 clerKship in the Treasury
department.
AN EXCELLENT PORTRAIT of ex-Secretary Folger
by Eastman johnson, was received at the Treasury
department to-day. 1t IS companion to the pOr-
trait painted by that artist for the court of appeals
OF New York.
THANKSGIVING DAY.-President Arthur has issued
PROCLAMATION, designating Thursday, November
2fth, as a day Of general THANKSGIVING In ac-
cordance with the annual custom.
THE PRESIDENT was to leave New York for Wash.
ington at $40 this afternoon. AT Philadelphia he
Will be joined by Attorney General Brewster.
To BE RETIRED.-Col Henry F. Clark OF the
subsistence department. will be retired on the 9th
of November, and he will be succeeded by Gen. W.
w. Burns as colonel and assistant commissary
general of subsistence.
NAVAL ORDERs-Lieut. Commander Jacob E.
Noel has been ordered to the navy yard at League
Island, Pa; Lieut.. Chauncey Thomas has been Or
dered to duty in the Nautical Almanac Office the
18th instant; Chief Engineer B. +. Wood has been
ordered TO temporary duty as Inspector of the new
cruisers at Chester Pa; Passed Assistant Engineer
Robert w. Gait has been detached from the coast
survey steamer Gedney and ordered to temporary
duty at the navy yard at Norfolk; Assistant Engi-
neer VIM. N. Little has been detached from the
navy yard at New York and ordered to the coast
survey steamer Gedney.
SECRETARY LINCOLN returned to the city today
from the west
CONSCIENCE -sTRIcKEN-Jay Stone, chief of the
correspondence division Of the War department,
received letter from New York city to-day inclos-
Ing 81, which the writer said he obtained unlaw-
1u!iy while member OF the army during the war
MARRIAGE OF SENATOR HARRIsON's DAUGHTER
Miss Mary, eldest daughter of Senator Harrison,
was married Thursday night in Indianapolis, to
James Robert Mckee. The wedding was the most
notable society event in that city for years. Five
hundred guests were present from various parts of
the country. The brides attendants were Miss
Kate Davis, daughter of Senator Davis of West
Virginia, and Miss Butterworth, daughter Of Con-
gresham Butterworth, OF Cincinnati.
PERsoNAL.-Senators Beck and Garland are In
town.-Ex-Land Commissioner Williamson, Gen.
j. +. Farnsworth and q. Moses, of Washington,
were registered in Chicago on Thursday.-Rev.
DR.. Paret, BishOpelect OF the diocese OF Maryland
has been suffering lately with inf1amed eyes, which
are still so much affected as to incapacitate him
for Intellectual labors.-Mrs. and Miss Wander
were visiting relativeS.-Rev DR.. HUBBARD, for
merly rector OF the Church OF the Incarnation, is
In town, on short viSit.--Fifth Auditor AleXan-
der has returned from Indiana.
The Swain Court Martial.
GEN. SWAIN SAID TO OBJECT TO SEVERAL MEMBERS
OF THE COURT.
1t is understood that Judge Advocate General
Swain, who is to be tried by court martial on the
18th instant, will make objection to several men,
bers Of the court-Gens. Schof1eld, Terry, Murray,
Rochester and probably one other-claiming that
they are prejudice1. His counsel will explain in
letter to the War department. 1t is more than
probable that such course Will necessitate fur
ther delay.