Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-05-20
Washington News and Gossip.

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| GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal
| revenue, S3o3,06S; customs, S61S,332.
| Col. LAMONT, the President private secre-
tary, has returned from New York, and was at
! the White House to-day. His health is some
| what improved.
GEN. SHERIDAN.-A dispatch has been re.
| ceived at the War department from General
1 Sheridan at Ell Paso, stating that he would
/ start for Chicago this morning. lie expected to
reach santa Fe this evening. No reference is
lhide In the telegram to the reported outbreak
/ Oh the Indians in Arizona.
| INDIANS ON THE WAR PATII-The Indian
| agent ut San Carlos agency, Arizona, informs
! the commissioner of Indian affairs to-day that
four Chiracachua chiefs, with about fifty bucks.
lett the reservation on Sunday night, presJlma-
! bly, for Old Mexico, and that the troops have
] been sent i'll pursuit.
REsIGNATIoNs.-Hiram l.. Childs, land re-
ceivcr at Bodie, Cal; Jerome Knox, at Lake
view, Oregon. and John Ulrich, at La Crosse.
! Wis. have resigned. Laban J. Miles, Indian
agent at Usage agency, Indian Territory, has re-
signed.
ANOTHER NAVAL INVESTIGATION IN VIEW.
Secretary Whitney will probably appoint a
board of naval officers shortly to investigate the
expenditures upon the L. s. s. Mohican which
was recently repaired extensively at the Mare
Island navy yard, Cal. where She is of
hcered and ready for sea. 1t is said that far
greater sum than advisable was spent in repair
Ing her. and rumor places the amount at
| 100000.
AMONG THE PRESIDENTS CALLERS to-day
Were Senators Jones and Pugh. Representatives
| O'Neil, Ermentrout and McAdoo Hon. Frank
Hurd, the commissioner of pensions, Col. John
| q. Thompson Horatio King and :. c. Hum
| phreyS, Chas Is. Hamilton, y. v; Jerome Is.
Tyler, y. {. Bradford. Cal; &. Alexander, n. Y,
and +. l.. Leupp, Syracuse.
PROTECTION OF THE IsTHMUS. - Admiral
Jouett has informed the Navy department that
an additional force of 800 Colombian men had
arrived at Panama to protect the 1sthmus from
the insurgents.
LUDWIG ERNEST DE LovERNoR, the new min
lister resident and consul general to the United
States from Denmark. arrived in Washington
to-day ana nied his credentials at the State de-
| partment.
THE PHYSICAL EXAMINATION for cadetships
IN the revenue marine service is in progress at
the Treasury department. There are seven va
cancles and forty candidates.
| IT Is SAID at the Navy department that
Lieut.. T. B. NJ. Mason contem plates resignng
from the navy. Lieut.. Mason was for a long
time at the head of the office of naval intelli-
gence at the Navy department.. He accompa-
nled the recent expedition to the Isthmus of
Panama, and upon his return few days ago
was placed on waiting orders He owns a
handsome residence in Washington and has
been for long time n prominent figure i'll
official and social circles.
ACCORDING TO HIS INsrRU CTIoNs = 1t is
learned at the State department that the pres
ence of Minister Phelps at the conclusion of
the trial OF the Irish-Americans. Burton and
cunningham. in London Monday, in pur-
suance OF special instructions received by MIN
prior To his departure for England, looking to
the protection of the legal rights of the pris-
oners. Mr. Phelps reached London Friday
night and was received as minister only last
saturday.
THE ECoURT-MARTIAL in session at the Wash
ington barracks for the trial OF enlisted men is
composed of the following officers: Major
Charles b. Throckmorton, 2d artillery presi-
dent; Capts. Frank i. Hamilton and James r..
Wilson. ID artillery Capt. i. +. Wilcox, assist
ant surgeon. and Lieuts. John c. Scantlng
James f. Eastman, Robert NJ. Rogers l. n
Lewis and III. l.. Hawthorne, ID artillery men,
bers. and Lieut.. Hamilton Rowan, I'd artillery,
judge advocate.
NAVAL ACADEMY YEXAMINATIONS.-Six cam
dfdates were examined physically yesterday at
the naval academy, having passed successfully
in mental studies. Three OF these, Clay Sexton,
Ol indiana: W. W. Phelps, OF Baltimore, and III.
I. W oOd. of Nebraska, passed. and will be adj
mitted as cadets. Three Others failed. About
twenty-three candidates have passed mentally,
and will receive their physical examination to-
day.
ARMY ORDERs.-Leave OF absence for three
months, to take effect about June 15 1885 is
granted Captaini Moses Harris, first cavalry.
Leave of absence for four months is granted
First Lieutenant Charles a. Vernon, nineteenth
infantry.
PERsoNAL.-C. NJ Ogden, of the Philadelphia
Press, has returned from trip to the Pacific
coast over the Southern and Northern Pacific
railroads.-A. Bourgeois. representing the Paris
house OF Marinoni the famous builders of print
ing presses, witnessed, yesterday, THE STARS
two presses print and fOld nine hundred papers
per minute.-Hon. Ben Le Fevre, OF Ohio,
arrived here last night on the %. IN. train.
After remaining in the city several days he will
go to Annapolis, Md, to be present at the clos
ing exercises of the naval academy, as one of
the board of yisitOrS.-MisS Maud Stlley. of
300 Sd street northwest, is now out of danger,
and slowly recovering from the severe attack OF
rheumatism and heart disease with which she
has been Frustrated since February laSt.-Mr.
| w. Pierce Bell left last night for Chicago
Prot. e. V. Riley and Gen. j. Williamson, OF
this city, are III New Gork.-EX-CiOV. VIM.
| Pitt Kellogg has gone to New Orleans to take
steps to contest the seat OF Hon. T.. j. Gay, Con
gresham of the third district.-EX-Presde
Hayes and Chief Justice Waite are in New
York, where they are to attend the meeting to-
day of the trustees OF the Slater education Iund
Among the passengers who sailed from New
| York for Europe yesterday were III. \. +. Carter,
Hawaiian mini .er: Baron Fava, Italian min
| ister and Mr.. F. I;aine, United States consul
general to Berlin.
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