Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-28
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal
revenue, S2s1 ,571; customs, S541, $50.
THE WACHUsETT READY.-Commander Ma
han, of the United States steamer Wachusett,
telegraphed from Panama yesterday: affairs
quieted. Ready for sea-
No PENSION CASES MADE SPECfAL-Gen.
Black, the new commissioner Of pensions, has is
ssued an order directing that no claims be made
special; that is, taken out of their order-for
pedition unless such reasons are shown in writ
Ing as will, in the Judgment of the commissioner,
warrant such action. The mere statements of
claimants themselves, uncorroborated by those
OF disinterested persons, will not be deemed
sufhcient to warrant such special action"
THE ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM BUILDING
1t has been decided to begin the construction of
the new army medical museum building on
the Smithsonian reservation on the northwest
corner of 7th and south streets 1t will be two
asquare, with the view of completing the square
in the future. The upper rooms will be used
for the library of the medical museum, and the
ground floor will be occupied by the working
force on the medical re- cord of the surgeon gene
rails office.
For FIFTY-SEvEN YEARS.-Lindsey Muse,
the veteran door keeper for the Secretary of the
Navy, has served in that capacity for fifty-seven
years, instead of fifty-three. He was appointed
under President Adams administration.
WAR DEPARTMENT CHANGEs.-J.S s. Bolway,
formerly clerk in the Executive Mansion, has
been transferred to class one, adjutant generals
office under amended civil service rule No. %;
John 4. Smith, promoted to class one, A. g. O.;
Geo. w. Weed, promoted to class one, 8. G. O..
and Chas. NJ. Kalloch to class two, 8. 6. o.
AMONG THE PRESIDENTS CALLERS to-day
were Secretaries Whitney and Endicott, Minis
ters McLane and Pendleton, Senators Bowen,
Cockrell Harris, Voorhees, and ex-Secretary
thompson, Gibson, and ex-senator Jonas,
Maxey and friends, Kenna and friends, George,
and Judge Selden S. Wright, of CAL, and Eustis,
and Wheeler, L. Bradford Prince, late chief JUS
tice of New Mexico P. B. Reed, mayor of Louis
vile, and B; w. Jenkins and A. T. Smith, ex.-
wife, of kingston; Chas. VI. Dayton, New York.
and Judge E. L. Fursman and son, of Troy, NY.
The FoPRTH-CLAss Posi- OFF1CEs.-There
are about $1,000 fourth-class post offices in the
country, and the incumbents are appointed by
the Postmaster General, without confirmation
ne sena'e e0a Ine d It al olees number
In these offices as the commissions expire. If
the Postmaster General concludes TO consider
changes in the fOurth-clasS offices his time will
be pretty well occupied for the next few months.
There are about 5000 offices which either are
now vacant or there are applications on file for
the appointment OF new men.
HOW ARMY NEWS WILL BE GIVEN OUT
Secretary Endicott has directed that all news
War department shall be given out through his
chief clerk and private secretary.
SECRETARY ENDICoTT, accompanied by Mrs.
Endicott, left Washington this afternoon for
his home in Salem to arrange his private bus-
ness matters preparatory to taking up his resi-
dence in this city permanently. They will be
gone for week.
Mr.. KEENANs NEW EMPLoYMENT.-Mr
Henry F. keenan,, the supposed author of "The
Money Makers and at one time Washington
correspondent Of the Chicago Times is employed
by Secretary Whitney as an assistant in exam
lining and reporting upon naval matters needing
investigation.
SECRETARY WHITNEY went to New York this
afternoon, and will return on Monday. Mrs.
Whitney is in New York and will not come
here to reside until the fall.
WATcHMEN DOING CLERICAL DUTY-Secre-
tary Whitney has caused considerable conster-
nation in the Navy department by directing
that all employees shall perform the duties for
which they are carried on the rolls of the de-
partment: Heretofore it has been customary,
to clerical duty, and some employees who were
always known as clerks, but paid as watchmen,
will have to perform the more unpleasant duty
such instances, and the clerical force will be
but little weakened but the watch and labor
Ing force will be correspondingly increased.
THE "T1ME BALL" TO BE TRANsFERREp.-
Preparations are being made for the transfer of
the time ball from the naval observatory to the
the eo of 6s Ss and
much more central, and the point is the highest
in the city except the dome of the Capitol and
viii permit Of more general observation of the
drop of the noon ball. The connection with the
observatory will be by wire, and the drop viii
no a a ityy
THE Gow1Na COURT MART1A1-The follow
ing is the detail of the court martial appointed
to- try Passed Assistant Engineer B. C. Gowing
Kiersted, Commander VIM. Whitehead, Com.
Potts Chief Gee r. WIFE, en
Commander C. A. Schetky with Lieut. B. R.
Russell, N. c., judge advocate. The court will
convene At League Island navy yard April I'd.
COPIES OF The STAR Of February 2r and
March and 5, In wrappers, duly stamped,
containing the full reports of the monument
celebration and the Inauguration ceremonies
and the ball, can be had at the counting room
In any quantity. Price two cents-not inclu-
ding postage.
PERsoNAL.-Ex-Secreta Frelinghuysen has
been unwell since he returned to Newark-H.
w. Grady, of the Atlanta Constitution, is in
town, staying at the Metropolitan.-A com.
pAIAucAtdIy private TcCeptlOu is 10 De IoQQcreQ
70 John L. stoddard,. the lecturer, at Ford's
Opera House on Monday evening:-.Mrs Ole
Bull and ex-senator Paddock of Nebraska are
registered at the Riggs.-Mr. John Russell
Young, United States Minister to China has, at
his own request, been granted leave of alb
sence, and will reach home late in May or early
in June.-Ex-COmmander GOrringe, who has
been i'll for several months, in New York, is
slowly regainng his health, but 1t is feared that
it will be a long time before he fully recovers.
Muller, Of New York, who
has returned to the city from his visit to Flor
ida, is Sat. at Wslckefs|senators Aldrich Ey-
fornia and Henry Adams, OF Washington, were
registered in New York last evening. .--Repre-
sentative Eldridge, of Michigan, is seriously i'll
at his home in Adrian-Judge Prince, OF the
at the Ebbitt-Senator Cameron expects to
start next week for New Mexico, Arizona and
Southern California, to be gone some weeks
Ex.Gov. Jackson, Of West Virginia, is at the
National.-The Rev; g. Hutchinson Smyth,
now pastor of the old Reformed Dutch) church
Of New York city, formerly pastor Of the Sixth
Presbyterian church of this city, will be at viii
lard's this evening, for a day or two, on his re-
turn from Florida, where he has been for his
health.-Capt. A. H. Goodloe will return to
Detroit on the 3Oth instant