Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-11-28
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY-Internal
revenue, $139, SOP; customs, S739. 100.

revenue, S139, SOP; customs, S739, 76O.
to be launched at Chester next Thursday, A
| number of officials from the NAVY department
will be present.
| 10 BE RETIRED.-Chief Engineer Theodore
zeler, U. s. N, will be placed on the retired list
Oh the navy ON the 1st of December for age.
| GERMANY ASKS FOR SET OF U. 8. CAVALRY
AccoUTREMENTs-The German government
| has made application to the War department
lor complete set of the caval y Announcements
| adOpted Tor the U. 8. army last summer. A set
VIII De prepared at the Rock Island arsenal and
tLanSsmllted through the State department to
| 'ne Hernan military headquarters at Berlin.
SECRETARY WHITNEY's generosity is not con-
| fined to the Thanksgiving season. A story is
told OF MS readiness to give from his abundance
similar to that In last nights STAR. One day
while Grlvlng with a friend to his country seat,
near est Washington, he saw q ragged little
uTcnln staggering along under q load VI faggOts.
him about his father and his Condition, Learn.
ing that the family was poor and that there
were ten children, the Secretary handed the
boy ten dollar bill, dollar for each child,
and drove on.
GROWTH OF THE SPECIAL DELIVERY SER
v1cE.-The local letters delivered by special de-
livery messengers are increasing in number,
SASANSAS
the conveniences offered by the service for
quick communication in the city, There is no
increase, however, In letters from outside the
city. The increase in the local letters is attri-
buted in part to the fact that the boys are per-
mltted not only to deliver letters but to receive
ana deliver the answers. The question Of
WITH stamps to sell to person who desires to
send special delivery letter back to the Office
by the messenger who comes to his house has
been raised by the officials at the Washington
Office, and will, 1t is expected. be decided by
the Post Office department..
THE MONITOR PUR1rAN.-Engineer.in. Chief
Loring has reported to the Secretary Of the Navy
the completion Of the monitor Puritan, with the
recommendation that another trial be given
ner. A trial several months ago resulted salts
entirely satisfied with her machinery, and
ordered several changes made. The contract
requires that the trial be made within thirty
days after her machinery is reported complete
Having been reported once, it is a question
whether second trial will be ordered.
PAYMAsrER D. P. WRIGHT, U s. n, has been
ordered before the naval retiring board on
Monday. There have been no retirements In
the pay corps since June Both, 1875.
AMONG THE PRESIDENTS CALLERS to-day
were Secretaries Bayard and Whitney, Senator
voorhees, and Judge Woodbury..
THE ANNUAL REPORTS of the commissioner
Postmaster General will be printed on Monday
morning.
THE u. s. S. DESPATCH was ordered early
this week to proceed from New York to New
port to test her compasses. telegram has
been received at the Navy department an
nouncing her arrival at Newport. She passed
wreck which forms a dangerous obstruction to
navigation, the magnetic bearings of which,
from Whaleback light house, are n. n. e. " G.
and from Point Judith light house n. W. by ".
n orndn vt Nv &c., I,
Despatch to join the North Atlantic squadron.
A NUMBER OF Prominent DEMOCRATS
throughout Washington Territory have re-
Gently taken measures to secure for Hon. Jno
6. Thompson the position of secretary of the
territory. MIR. Thompson was formerly the
Weii-kn9wn sergeant-at-arms of the United
States House of Representatives and is at
present the timber agent in Washington Ter
ritory.
NAVAL STATIoNERY.-Bids were opened at
the Navy department yesterday Tor stationery
for all the navy yard stations ard the vessels
In the service for the seven months ending June
30 next. There were eleven bidders for fifty
one articles of supply, each bidder being lowest
in respect to several articles. Each bidder will,
therefore. be awarded contract. Among the
bidders R;dar were RE, Michael Rhodes and Thorne
will be made within two or three days.
PERsoNAL.-Senator sherman left for his
home in Ohio last evening, on an important
business engagement, which will, greatly to his
regret. prevent him from attending the funeral
of Nice-President Hendricks.-United States
Minister Stallo presented his credentials to
King Humbert, at Rome, yesterday.-Louis
j. Jennings, formerly editor of the New York
Times has been elected to the new parliament
editor OF the Cleveland Ptaindeater, arrived in
town last evening; and is staying at the
survey. was in San Francisco last satur-
the Senate is at the Ariington.-Senators
Cameron and Camden, ex-senator Hill, of
Colorado, and Commander To,ten, were
registered in New York last night
Frank Ha'ton late Postmaster General. Fritz
more of New York, are at the .Ebbitt.--Col.
George +. Parker. recently appointed assistant
postmaster ut Philadelphia by Postmaster Har-
rity, was In Washington acknowledgements
tive Pettibone of Tennessee is at the National.
Hon; 4; D. Manson, I. c. Hersey and wife,
and +. Z. Hersey, OF Maine, are at the Hamil.
ton.-Commander George w. Hayward. and
Lieut.. Col. II. NJ. Lazelle sailed from New York
for Europe to-day.
Swfndling the Pensioners.
ARREST OF AN ALLEGED BoGUS Special rx