Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-11-30
Washington News and Gossip.


Washington News and Gossip
The SUPPLEMENT OF THE EVENING STAR
to-day contains q report OF the meeting IN
favor OF the Irish cause in this city Saturday
night, the annual report of the commissioner
o agriculture, the commissioner OF patents
and Third Assistant Postmaster General
Hazen, the remains of the late Vice President
lying In state, the firing Of Lieut. Zabrinski's
great air gun, Geographic and local news, etc.
Inc advertisements are classified as follows:
AUCTION Sales, HOusefurnishings, Pianos ana
organs, Ladies' Goods, Dry Goods, Books, Gen.
tiemens Goods, Sewing Machines, Wood and
Coal, Proposals, Specialties, Attorneys, Family
supplies, Steamers, Financial, Medical, The
Trades, Dentistry, Professional, Potomac River
Boats, Railroads. Undertakes.
GovERNMENr RECEIPTS TODAY Internal
revenue, s6ss,627 customs. S575,95O.
CALLED ON THE PREs1DENT.-secretaryL La
mar, Postmaster General Villas, Commissioner
Colman, Representative Carleton and Mr. John
Russell Young called upon the President to-day.
INTEREST CHECKs.-The q. S. treasurer
to-day mailed IL 1854 checks, aggregating 3d..
24O6i2. in payment OF the interest due De-
cember LIST, 1885, on registered Al per cent
bonds Of the funded loan OF 1891.
SENATOR INGALLS,, of Kansas, has started for
Washington, and will arrive tomorrow and
join his family at No. B street northwest.
senator Spooner, OF Wisconsin, has arrived and
taken up his residence at No. street north
west.
THE HOURS OF LABOR QUEsT1oN.-Repre.
sentative Cole Of Maryland, on Saturday even.
ing, by invitation addressed the Federation Of
Labor. at Rechabite hall, on questions relating
to national labor legislation. Taking ground in
favor OF legislation for a reduction in the hours
OF labor and for compulsory education.
INCREASE OF THE PUBLIC DEBT-It is said at
the Treasury department that there has been
an increase instead Of the usual decrease in the
public debt during the month Of November
The receipts during the month have been light
nav,n nnT @ oa IS unusually neavy. me
10 ABOUT S11 900, 900. The debt statement will
not be issued until Wednesday.
INSPECTION SERVICE DIsCoNTINUED.-Passed
Assistant Surgeon w. A. Wheeler, of the ma
rine hospital service has been instructed to
discontinue the quarantine inspection service
at Buffalo, TOnawanda and Charlotte. n. Y,
from December 1. on account of the close of
navigation on Lake Ontario.
HOwGATE's DEFICIT.-The amount of the
Judgment in the case of tbt United States
against Howgate, in the suit at law to recover
the amount of his defalcaton, was S1Ol ,257.
II. II.
the case TO sell the property attached. has paid
over $2S,391 "a, leaving deficit of 81, S59.3 SO.
VALUABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MUSEUM.
Prof Spencer F. Baird, in his report of the op-
erations of the Smithsonian institution to be
presented to Congress next month, refers to the
valuable contributions to the museum made
ny one OF our former citizens as follows: 'Mr
THOMAS Wilson, late consul at Nice, France
has been busy during the greater part of his
official term as consul, first al Nantes and then
q France in n no
mains OF prehistoric man, and has presented
very large collection. the unpacking of which
lieved that this collection, filling large num-
Der of boxes, will prove to be one of the richest
ana most complete of its kind ever sent to the
United States
GOVERNMENT SUIT AGAINST Ex-PAYMAsrER
HODGE FOR SAL 200. 75.-A suit was entered
to-day by District Attorney Worthngton for
the United States against John Ledy yard Hodge
to recover SAL ,2OO.15 with & per cent interest
from May 21st, 1875. The action is based on
an account stated with Mr.. Hodge as u former
paymaster OF the U. s. army.
OWING TO THE DECREASE OF CHOLERA in
Europe, instructions have been issued to dis
continue the sanitary inspection SERVICE at all
Of the United States consulates except those At
Mediterranean and Cuban ports. r..
LEAVES ExrENDED.-Capt. NJ. Cooney, 9th
cavalry, granted two months and q half leave:
First Lieut. ]. C. Ord, 25th infantry three
months, second Lieut.. ~. L.. Tate, LIST cavalry.
three months; Major j. NJ. Bacon. eth cavalry,
two months extension; First Lieut.. VIM HW
James, Oath Infantry, two months extension.
NAVAL ORDERs-Surgeon Hampton Aulick,
ordered to the Alliance; Lieut.. Vim. p Day.
detached from the Yantic and placed on sick
leave; Lieut.. Geo. w. Mentz, detached from the
Portsmouth and ordered to the Yantc; Surgeon
Geo. +. Bradley. detached from the Alliance
and ordered to the Philadelphia naval hospitals:
Assistant Surgeon Joseph Shafer from the
4 nd nydnr rod Nt
Minnesota.
The PRESIDENT AND THE SIOUX REsERvA-
TION.-O. =. Clifford, Dakota delegate to Con.
gress, who was in this city recently to confer
with the President on Dakota matters. said on
his return to Bismarck, that the President in
ing of tho vast Sioux reservation, which has so
long been an insurmOuntable barrier between
the Black Hills and development.
MUST WORK FROM Q a. NJ. To4PM Chief
Clerk Youmans has issued additional rules. re-
quirng Treasury employees to be not only in
remove their wraps, and be at their desks and
at work by that hour; also that they shall not
leave their desks to perform their additions or
don their wraps until the clock strikes four.
TwoTHousAND FOUR HUNDRED ANDTwExrY.
EIGHT LIVES sAvED-The report of the general
Superintendent of the life-saving service shows
that in the 81 disasters within the scope of the
service, involving 2,439 persons, 2,42S lives
were saved, 56S shipwrecked persons being
succored at the 2O3 stations
The PRESIDENT and Miss Cleveland attended
the First Presbyterian church yesterday. Dr.
Sunderland in his sermon made feeling allu-
sion to the death Qt the Vice President.
Will NOT ACCEPT CONTRACTORS; ON Posi-
MASTERS BONDS-The First Assistant Postmas-
ter General, having informed Postmaster Gen.
eral Villas that certain mail contractors had be-
come bOndsmcn for pOstmasters on the line of
their routes, has issued the following order:
Mail contractors, mail carriers, and their
agents. who have contracts or are interested in
transporting the mails, will not be accepted as
sureties on the bonds Of pOstnasters at post
offices located on any mail route on which any
mails are transported under such contracts"
COLONEL SwITZLER, chief of the bureau of
statistics, returned yesterday from his official
visit to Georgia. South Carolina and Virginia
He made the address at the opening of the in.
dustrial exhibit ut Charleston. He also at
tended the harbor convention at Savannah,
and by request made an address to the students
Of the university OF South Carolina at Columbia,
and was present at o session OF the legislature
| of the state.
CAPT. JOHN b. PARKE, 10th infantry, has
been appointed to act rs inspector on camp and
garrison equipage at the cavalry recruiting rem