Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-05-26
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal
revenue, S24S,454; customs, s62O,96O.
THE CHINESE MISSION - 1t is understood
that the President has decided not to appoint q
minister to China from California on account of
the feeling of the people Of that state towards
the Chinese. Col Denby, of Evansville, Ind, is
mentioned as likely to secure the office.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Passed Assistant Engineer
III. H. Cline, detached from the Hartford and
ordered to the Mohican; Passed Assistant Engi-
neer A. B. Willis, from the Mohican and Or
dered to the Hartford.
SENTENCE OF DIsMIssAL.-Ensign VIM. L.
Todd, of the Alliance, has been sentenced to dis
missal by court-martial on charges of drunken
ness. The sentence has not yet been acted upon
by the Navy department.
THE WALES CoURr-MARTIAL adjourned over
to-day until tomorrow, as DIR. Wales had been
summoned as a witness in the Drew trial in the
Criminal Court.
DECORATION DAY.-Adjutant General Drum
has issued a circular on behalf of ]. II. Jochum,
of the Grand Army of the Republic in charge of
decoration day exercises, extending an invita-
ton to all army officers in the District of Co
lumbia to attend and participate in the cere-
monies at the cemetery of Soldiers Home.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has returned from
his trip to New York, where he inspected the
us. $. Omaha. His inquiry into the matter of
the alleged unnecessarily large expenditures
on the vessel was informal, and he says he has
not decided what action he will take in the
matter.
AMONG THE PRESIDENTS CALLERS to-day
We're Senators Call and Gibson, Representatives
LeFevre, Cabell, Henley, Ellsberry, Green, Mat
son, ButterwOrth and Foran, Judge Thoman
and Consul Hughes, at Birmingham.
PAPER FOR REVENUE STAMPs.-The commits
sioner of internal revenue, with the approval of
Acting Secretary Fairchild, has advertised for
proposals for the manufacture of paper for in
teinal revenue stamps, and bids will be re-
ceived until II M, Thursday, June 25, proximO
Inc bureau VIII use about 100000 pounds of
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MIR. RUFUS MAGEE, of Indiana, the newly
appointed minister to Norway and Sweden,
arrived In Washington to-day. He expects to
sail for his new post the latter part of this
For THE ExTRADITIoN OF MAxwELL.-The
extradition papers for Maxwell, the suspected
murderer of Preller, were issued yesterday.
Upon the suggestion of the governor of Missouri,
the President designated Frank O'Neill, a re-
porter OF ST Louis, or Jos. Tracy, a detective of
that city, or both, to proceed to New Zealand
'" '''he NiaAMeit ihlo cusoouy.
POSTMASTER PEARSON AND THE BROOKLYN
MAILs.-Postmaster Pearson, of New York has
had to send explanations recently to the Post
master General in regard to the complaints
from Brooklyn about delay of the mails be-
tween that city and New York. Mr.. Pearson
declares that the trouble is due to the lack of
clerical force. At the Post Office department.,
however, there is report on file from an in
spector stating that the Brooklyn mail is de-
tained in the New York office several hours
each d4y. the nllrDnSp bpinp n brjnu he Rrppk-
lyn office into disfavor, which will lead to its
being closed up and Brooklyn made one of the
probable result will De that instructions will be
issued to Mr.. Pearson directing him to have the
brooklyn mails handled promptly and not de-
layed in his office.
LIEUT. JOHN l.. SCHoCK, U. s. n, who COM
mitted suicide in London on Saturday is said
to have been engaged to young lady in this
country, who was recently married, and some
of his friends attribute the suicide to this. \
dispatch from London attributes the suicide to
OVerWOrk.
For "OFFENsIvE PARTIsANsHIP"-Ed. W.
Doherty, a fOurth-class clerk in the Agriculs
tural department., has been discharged for
offensive partsanship."
SEvENTEEN-YEAR LoCUsTs.-Prof Riley, chief
of the chronological division, Agricultural de-
partment, says the seventeen-year locusts are
harmless to growing crops, and do no injury
cept to the twigs OF forest and fruit trees.
THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY has
been requested by the board Of health Of Cali
1ornia to appoint sanitary inspector on the
Arizona frontier, on account Of the alleged 9;..
request will probably be granted.
AN APPLICANT FOR A Posi- OFFICE in South
Carolina sent his card by mail to the Postmas-
ter General with nothing on it save the Scrip
tural reference, Philippians iv., II. That verse
reads: "Not because desire gift. but desire
fruit that may abound to your account
PHILADELPHIA APPOINTMENTS-It is under
stood upon pretty good authority that among
the appointments to be made next month will
be ex-senator BuckaEew, of Pennsylvania, for
collector of customs at Philadelphia; eX-Mayor
Daniel NJ. Fox, of Philadelphia. for director of
the mint; and Mr.. Samuel Josephs, of that city,
for Z. $. marshal: These gentlemen may be APP
pointed in June, but they will not take charge
of their respective offices before the new fiscal
year, July 1st.
CHoLERA.-The marine hospital bureau is in
formed that during the two weeks ended April
4th there were 1873 deaths from cholera in Cal
cutta.
THE COUNT NOT FINIsHED.-The committee
engaged in counting the securities at the bureau
of engraving and printing will not finish their
work until tomorrow. Therefore the enfblOyes
will not report tor work until Thursday.
COUNT DE LovENoRN, the new Danish minis
the Secretary OF State.
APPOINTED BY THE Postmaster GENERAL
The Postmaster General has appointed L. l..
Anderson, vice ]. NJ. Holland, resigned, post
master at Orlean, Fauquler county Va. He
also removed fifteen poStmasters in Indiana and
appointed new men i'll their places.
WHY CERTAIN PosTMAsTERS WERE SUs-
PENDED.-The Postmaster General to-day said
that the postmasters at jamestown, New York
and Nincennes Indiana, We're suspended upon
proofs OF active and extreme partisan partici-
patton in the business of elections. The post
master at MarengO, Iowa, was suspended be-
cause he had moved out of the state, and was
reported to have offered his resignation for q
price.
MINISTER THOMPSON OFF FOR HAYTI.-Dr
Jno. E. w. Thompson, the new minister to
Hayti, left Washington to-day with his in
structions. He will sail June 9th He is in
structed to investigate the circumstances con-
nected with the imprisonment of Van BlOkklen
by the Haytien government.
PERsoNAL.-Senator Edmunds, who has been
unexpectedly called to testify on points in
American law before the British house of lords
will start for London next STANDARDIZATION ].
c. B. Davis, reporter OF the U. $. Supreme Court