Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-07-06
Washington News and Gossip.
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washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-pAY.-lnternal
revenue, Ssl6.o66; customs, S619,013.
NAVAL NOTES.-The Marion arrived at Singa-
pore yesterday. The Lancaster was expected
70 sail from st. Helena June 9th, and to reach
hio de Janeiro about July 1st.
DEATH OF A NAVAL OFFIcER.-The Navy de-
partment Is informed that Chief Engineer j. @
"A. Zeigler died at Philadelphia last evening.
THE CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS have been
amended, so that all names now on the register
OF eilglbles shall be retained there until Janu-
airy 1, 1886, unless sooner disposed Of by ap-
pointment before that date.
THE PRESIDENT attended tue First Presby-
terian church yesterday morning accompanied
ny Miss Cleveland and Mrs. Lamont.
INDIANS AND CowBoYs.-Ex-D Delegate Ouray,
of Arizona, and Mr.. Hughs, of that territory,
called upon the commissioner of Indian affairs
70 urge the dtsarming of the Indians ON the San
Atkins met the request with a proposition that
the cowsboys also be disarmed.
THE FLAG WAS THERE-It has been pub
iished that the American flag was not floating
from the Interior department building on the
Fourth This, however, is a misstatement, as
building and the smaller ones.
We're Baron Schaffer, the Austrian minister;
Gen. Newton, chief Of engineers; Senator Hamp-
ton, Representatives Lefevre, Boyle, Matson,
Voorhees,. Herbert, Barbour, Cabell Cobb and
Butterworth; ex-Representatives Lamb and Pu-
Sey, Commissioner of Pensions u. B. Smith,
Toledo, O.; JAS S. Clark, Brooklyn; Thomas j.
kourk tss x Albany; Col D. X Wardweii Arizona;
but Toledo; j. i. Chapmans p s Fort W Scott, Kans.: ans
Mrs.: Lewis eis Washingt9n, w. Va; William liam Oh
werp, Mich; A. A. Purman. Penna.
BATTLE EXPECTED ON THE IsTHMUs.-
Admiral Jouett reports to the Navy depart
ment, under date of Colon, July 4th, the with
BarranQuilla, and the coast to position sixty
miles up the Magdalena river, where govern
ment forces are entrenched. A battle is ex-
present one good war vessel at Aspinwali The ne
revotutlOnlSts have abandoned their last
sea-going vessel. Admiral Jbuett will send
the SWatara north at once. He says the two
vessels still there can also be ordered home, as
there seems to be no necessity for them to re-
main.
THE REVOLUTION IN PERU.-Capt. Norton
reports to the Navy department that the Shen-
andoah was at CalIao, Peru June 13. The po-
litical condition of Peru Is reported as un-
changed. TruXillo was in the hands of the
revolutiOnists, but besieged by government
forces. COcereS the leader of the reVolutionists,
threatened an attack on Lima. The port Of
MallendO had been recaptured and declared
open. No inconvenience to American citizens
throughout Peru Is reported. The health Of
CallaO Is bad.
New QUARTERS NEEDED FOR THE CIVIL
SERVICE BOARD.-The civil service board has
ever since it began its existence been quartered
in a few rooms in the annex to the Agricultural
department. building. the space assigned the
board is so limited that It's business Is frequent
ly quite seriously embarrassed. The number OF
persons who can be examined on given day
is necessarily limited to the capacity OF the room
used for examination purposes. An effort is
being made to secure more cOmmodiOus quar-
ters for the board In the new Pension building.
LEASES OF INDIAN LANDs-A letter has
been received at the Interior department from
Gen. Edward McCook, ex-governor of Colorado,
urging that the leasing OF lands in the Indian
Territory to cattle men is illegal, and should no
longer be acQuiesced in by the government. He
gives the names OF the following lessees OF land
in the Cheyenne and Arrapahoe reservation:
Hampton II. Denman, of this city, formerly
member of Kansas state senate, $4,000 acres;
Edward Fenlon, of Leavenworth, Kan, and NJ.
e. Mallelly, of Caldwell, Kan, each 564, 500
acres: Robert 4; Hunton, of st. Louis, Mo,
SOC, 600 acres; Albert g.. Evans, of ST. Louis,
M Lewis sss NJ srss of Misco
Darlington, Indian Territory, 1882 acres;
unknow lessee, leasing October Is, 1888, ia
J, $50, ,52O acres. Cherokee Strip Live Stock
Association, a Kansas corporation, leased for
five years from October !, 1888, 100000
to the Pawnees, Poncas, Nez Perces, Otoes, and
Missourias, Osages and Kansas Indians.
OUR SQUADRON IN EUROPEAN WATERS
Rear Admiral Franklin, commanding the
European station, reports to the Navy depart
ment his arrival at Gibraltar in the Pensacola
on the 18th June. Officers and crew were all
well. After short stay at Gibraltar Admiral
Franklin intended proceeding to the northern
limits of the station. The kearsarge was in
port when the Pensacola arrived. She is in
nQaN n nnnSi6Qrahla ran.ltr nd
continuous service. AS her officers and crew
were feeling the effects of the climate on the
instructions from the department relative to
her return home. The Kearsarge had visited
Tangier, as instructed by Admiral English to
ascertain what had been done about the re-
lease OF the two Americans, commercial agents
from New York, who were illegally imprisoned
at Fee on suspicion Of being concerned in the
murder OF the Sheik of Ducala. The men
were released, but Admiral English demanded
the dismissal of the governor of Ducalla, but
the demand was Withdrawn as it could not be
complied with, the governor acting under in
structions from the sultan. The Quinnebaug
will continue to cruise along the coast of Asia
Minor, Syria and Egypt until further Instructed
by the department.
PERsoNAL.-Mr. Justice Field, of the IS. Su-
preme Court, arrived in San Francisco last
Tuesday.-Gen. Lewis Wallace, ex-United
States minister to Turkey, arrived in New York
from Europe on Friday.-Mr. John Mclean,
OF the Cincinnati Enquirer, has taken a resi-
ueuce at SaratOSit ior lue esuIHiieI--MIS. >. r.
Emmons, of this city, arrived in New York on
Saturday from Europe, where She has spent
nearly a year.-Mrs: Garter, L. L. Solomon
and Miss L. Thorne, of w ashington, were passen-
gers by the central overland train to arrive at
San Francisco on the 29th ult.-Gen. Geo. b.
Williams, of Indiana, ex-Deputy Gommissioner
Of Internal Revenue, is at the Riggs.--Miss
Victoria Emory, daughter OF Gen. ". H. En-
ory, Of this city, is at Richfeld Springs the
guest OF Miss Spriggs, of Utica-Mrs. G. B.
Foster, \. Jay and family, and Miss Kane, of
Washington, were registered in Paris on the
Goth ult.-Mr. Francis Wharton and Miss
Wharton, Of Washington, were registered at
Spring Lake Beach, n. j., Oh Saturday.-W.
+. Spence, of Washington, was passenger by
the southern overland train to arrive at San
Newcomb, Of this city, sailed for Europe on Sat
| urday OH the Red Star steamer Waesland.-
Among late arrivals at New London, are noted
| the following Washingtonians: Baron Won AL
vensaben the German minister; Count Sala, OF
| the French legation;. Mrs. Hiiyar, wife Of the
Miss E. de Woodbury., Mrs. Fox Judge Davis,
OF the Court OF Claims, and A. H. Lowery and
family.-F. 7. Chamberlin, G. s. Davis, J. d.
Morgan, B. T. Snyder and w. T. Snyder, Of
Washington, were registered in London on the
University have appointed Col. w. F. Switz.er
chief of the Bureau of Statistics, q delegate TO
the national agricultural college convention,
which meets here on Wcdnesday.-Mr.H H. III.
Wells and family leave ON Wednesday tor the
| spend the summer.-Dr. Lindsly and family
have gone to their summer quarters at Nara
gansett Pier.-Mrs. James A. Garfield, her
sons, Miss Mollie Garfield, Mrs. Mason and three
daughters and ]. Stanley Brown are at Stock
bridge, Mass--Mr. Harry b. Fitzhugh, Mr. w.
G. Henry and Archie Loomis, of Washington,
are at the Windsor Sulphur Springs, Md
Judge Wylie and family are Summering at Mar.