Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-08-25
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal
revenue, $14s,O 54; customs. 1891 ,e01.
THE CHOLERA IN FRANcE.-U. g. Consul
Mason today cabled Secretary of State Bayard
That In Marseilles there had been q daily ave-
rage OF ffty-three cholera deaths during the past
ne Gays. There were twenty-five deaths In
1ouion yesterday.
PATENTS IssUED.-Patents were issued to-day
70 Alonzo Bell of this city for car ventilation,
ana 70 Etienne Newman, for treating tobacco.
JUDGE THoMAN's NEW HoUsE.-Leroy D..
Ihoman, of the civil service commission, has
purchased from A. Richards for $14, 900, the
streets.
ARMY ORDERs-Leave of absence for three
months, from October LIST, 1885, has been
granted Second Lieut.. Thomas B. Dugan, Sd
cavalry: The leave of absence granted Second
Lieut.. BlantOn e. Welsh, 18th infantry. d1vl-
sion OF the Missouri. has been extended one
month. Leave of absence for three months on
surgeons certificate of disability has been
granted Capt. John s. Wharton, 10Th infantry.
tember LIST, 1885, has been granted Lieut.. Col.
william Winthrop, deputy Judge advocate
general, q. s. army.
ASIcK GOVERNMENT CLERK SUsPENDED.-J.
8. Garfield, q second-class clerk in the stamp
division of the Postoffice department, has been
suspended for absentlng himself from duty
week ago for a leave, but he had been absent so
much that 1t was not granted. He remained
from the office without permission, sending a
physicians certificate, signed by Herman Cam
field, M. D., saying that he was too sick to per-
form the duties of his office. This is the first
case under the new rules fixing leaves where a
clerk has been SCSDendoQ for 4OSentPeiDR him.
self.
Miss CLEVELAND AND VAssAR COLLEGE,
Prof F. L. Pitter, of Vassar college, says that 1t
Is possible that Miss Cleveland may be offered
the presidency of that institution, the election
for which takes place next month. .She is a
bright woman he says, land well fitted for
the position"
THERE WILL NOT BE ANY MORE govern
ment gold sent from San Francisco to New York
by mail for some time, owing to the publicity
given to the matter.
STARVING Observation-Disclosures General Drum
has received dispatch from New Mexico
Stating that the Southern Utes, who were tenn
porarily relieved some time since, are again in
starving condition.
THE ZUNI RESERVATION BoUNDARY.-The
commissioner of the general land office has de-
c1ded that the boundaries of the Zuni Indian
reservation, as defined by President Arthur in
correcting the errors of the boundary in a pre-
vlOus proclamation issued by President Hayes.
must stand. This decision throws out the
claims OF Tucker and LawtOn, ranchmen, (the
former sOn-in-law of Senator Logan, for lands
claimed by them within the reservation.
ARMY OFFICERS AND THE INDIANS-Gen.
Atkins, the commissioner of Indian affairs has
returned from visit to his home, in Tennessee.
When asked to-day about the statements tele-
graphed from the west that the Ute Indians in
southern Colorado were in a starving condition
the commissioner said that he received no in
formation to that effect, and did not believe
that there was any truth in such reports. He
expressed the opinion that the reports had
been started by the army officers who wished
to be appointed Indian agents and secure the
control OF the Indians
CAN'T the Philadelphia Press and Times afford
to credit THE STAR with the "Washington spe-
Gals they appropriate so literally from our
columns?
THE TUG MAYFLowER left Norfolk for this
city to-day to tow the monitor Wyandotte to
City Point.
PRESIDENT CARDENAS' INDIGNANT DENIAL.
Admiral Ammen has received a dispatch
from President Cardenas, of Nicaragua, deny
ing Indignantly the charge in the EstreHa di
Guatemala that President Cardenas had been
purchased by the Panama canal directors to
prevent the construction OF the Nicaragua
canal.
THE PRESIDENT Nor GOING TO OHIO.-A dis
patch from Toledo, Ohio, states that Mr. Bacon,
brother-in-law of President Cleveland, says
there is no foundation whatever for the an
nouncement that the President means to visit
Ohio during the campaign.
CAPT. PHELPS REMAINS.-The body of Hon.
Seth Ledyard Phelps, the late U. S. minister to
Peru, and formerly Commissioner of the Dis.
trict OF Columbia arrived in Washington at
$50 this morning from New York, where it
arrived yesterday afternoon on the Pacific mail
steamship City of Para. Assistant Secretary
Adee and Mr. =. A. Brown sOn-in-law of the
deceased, received the remains at the depot
and conveyed them to the Oak Hill cemetery,
where they were placed in the public vault.
The funeral services will not take place until
October. The remains were transferred by u
revenue cutter last evening from New York to
Jersey City, from whence they were shipped to
Washington.
TREES To BE REMovED.-By order of Col.
Wilson, commissioner of public buildings and
grounds, all the trees the site of the proposed
building for the army medical library are
being removed and will be planted elsewhere.
NAVAL ORDERs-Capt. John Irwin and Chief
Engineer Montgomery Fletcher have been Or
dered to continue on their present duty at San
Francisco until July LIST, 1886. Lieut.. Com
mander StOcton has been ordered to bureau of
yards and docks, Navy department.. Com
mander Mahan, detached from the command
of the Wachusett. Commanders Singsbee and
Baker, Lieut. Commander Craig, Lieutenants
Goodwin, Peck, Holmes. Culom and Parker,
detached from the naval academy and placed
waiting orders. Lieut.. Commander Veil,
Lieuts. Richards, Little, Roper, Chanty and Sur
geon Jones and Assistant Engineer Klechner,
detached from the Wachusett and ordered
home. Ensign Pond, detached from the Wachu-
sett and ordered to duty at the Mare ISLAND
navy yard. Ensign Ramsby, from the Wachu-
sett to receiving ship Independence. Chief En-
gineer Whitaker, from the Wachusett to Mare
Island navy yard. Passed Assistant Engineer
Lamden, from Wachusett to Mare Island navy
yard.
PERsoNAL.-Dr. o. F Presbrey and wife are in
Springfield, Ohio, with their son, F.S. Presbrey,
of the daily Globe Repubtc-Mr. H. Conquest
Clarke, of the Court of Alabama Claims, and
Mrs Clarke have returned TO the city from
Long Branch.-Judge James and Mr.and Mrs
NJ. Romero, of Washington, are at Newport