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Unpaid District Claimants.

JUDGMENTS OF THE COURT OF CLAIMS FOR
WHICH CONGRESS FAILED TO MAKE AN AP-
PRoPRIATION.
To the numerous "errors of engrossmen; and
enrolment of bills in the two houses Oh Con-
gresS during last session may be added the
omission from the Sundry civil bill of the usual
provision for the payment of judgments of tue
Court of Claims. The letter of the clerl, of the
court, transmitting the list of Judgment. was
lalu before the Senate on the 2d OF December
and referred to the committee on claims In
stead OF the appropriation committee. 1t VS.
laid before the House On the Sth OF December
ana referred to the proper committee, but the
public printer failed to print it Il Houss. doc
unent, and ii WAS consequently overlooked by
the house approbrl;t.i"u committee. Quite Il
large number of :nese Judgments are in favor OF
people III -tllc District OF Columbia, and the
amounts range from > 400 to $3.50, t:.c first
amount being in favor of Gallagher. Loane l.
Co, on account OF 4 Contract with the Dist; let.
The list shows also that quite IL number of
claims were dismissed. 1t is probable that a
special deficiency bill W.. be presented in the
House at the commencement ot the next scs-
sion for tie purpose of meeting ;i.eSe judg-
mcntS: This occasion will be taken advantage
OF To give the appropriation committee a scor-
i]g for Withholding tn .ir bills until near the
Close of the session OF Congress-
The list shows the following judgments in
favor OF District people: For Isaac > Lyons
claimant, Si3G.66, for sewer certificates; for
Catherine Winfield, S24; on account OF lille
on account OF contract with the District OF Co
lrmba J. c. Miller, $7.3i, sewer certificates; A.
q; Claxton. S3l 81, sewer certificates NICHOLAS
y. Shea, S1.S1, sewef certificates; Ebenczer
Morrison, SB2, FcAte OF Indebtedness from
board Of pn.aSces1is;s Charles Stewart and I.
Nth hls ta bsirisi Geo sa, 3 t.
account CT contract; ". II. Brainafu. 81, go 95,
on account of contract with board of public
works (for d. CT Samuel Gallagher,
S1O4.33, sewer cert titicsltes; Il. Camrbcll and X.
Enlhwcl, s ,6OS.lO, contract with board of
pnb'ic WORKS: j. +. Luy, $780, contract with
beard Of public wo,k ks; Dennis Looney, 5000.
contract with board OF public works; George T.
bearing, Sl9i, labor performed; Samuel G.
board of public works; Peter =. Little. admin
lsrator. Slo3.cO, The ,.lne: George ". Goodall.
Sl,323.ii, the same; Il. q. Campbell, $500,
contraSt with the District Of Columbia tclaiulcd
Sl3S,- Io9.o5E Ioiin Lyons, S:Gy.53. contract:
!: = Lyons. S3S.6O, sewer certificates. ana
iatrich Brennan, > 1885, contract with the
board OF public works icIailled S1O.OOO.l
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The PrOtrncted Hot Spell.

UP AMONG THE NINETIES TO ST.AY-NO INDI-
CATIONS OF A COOL WAVE.
"Iake the arm chair, said an officer a
STAR reporter ltnyuidly entered the signal
Office this morning. "You look warm he con-
tinued in a tone OF voice that implied, II told
You So" The reporter did not reply for a
moment. Thcn raising his perspiration bedim-
med eyes, he said: "It's a good thing you didn't
ASK is 1t warm enough for your have been
asked that ten times on my way up here. Two
qnestloners got hurt; all the others were big
fellows
But say" continued the reporter appeal
lnSiy, when Is this Roasting going to stOp?'
Inc officer glanced over the weather maps
Whlch he had been studying carefully all the
morning. NO signs of IL change, he replied,
Sleelnily-tliat ls change of any conseq uence.
Inc neat isn't quite SO unbrarabie to-day,
simply because We have refreshing northeast
eriy breeze. 1t will probably be a little cooler
thls evening, but it's hardly worth while rails
ing the hopes Of the readers OF THE STAR, for
me change will be hardly perceptible: There
IS no cool wave business in this, re-
member. There is slight depression
on the Atlantic coast, a high further south
and 1t is hot all around, and will continue SO
US iar as can see. Something may develop oe.
lore q great while to give us some relief.
"Ihere is a report down town that all your
tnermometrical instruments are meited. said
the reporter. mo, that's not so, butt! -
Ana the reporter successfully lodged bound
volume OF weather reports as he passed through
the door,
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Affairs I'm West Washington.

FUNERALs.-The funerals of Mrs. Michael 7.
ke1iher and of Mrs. Rebecca Connolly TOOK
church. A large concourse of the relatives and
friends of both the deceased ladies followed
their remains to Holy Rood cemetery.
OVERCOME BY THE HEAT.-Peter Chaney, u
colored man, seventy-eight years of age, while
atwork yesterday afternoon on 32d street, near
waters warehouse, was overcome Dy the neiit'
He was carried to the station and treated: ~ Su2 D
SeQuently he was removed 10 his hoHe oh ~
.ACCIDENT-John H. Turner, n colored man,
employed in unloading sand from Il cahai.ooat,
accidentally fell from u lanS-Piank Will q
wheelbarrow across Il beam anu broke MS rlsu. =.
leg between the hip and knee. Dr. kleinscnnilut
rendered surgical aid. The woundeo man ,M;ss Mas
removed 10 Freedman's hospital in the ponce
ambulance. NIL.
WASTING PoToMAc AcWATER.-Elizabeth WOLF;
of 3O57 NJ street, WAS fined SO by JUDGE Sneil u
Muelick and William Brace, forfeited 20 col
lateral each on the same charge. .,.,,,
FIRE ALARM BELL WANTED.-A Petl.ionn ~
is being nhmerously signed here to be sent 10 10
the District Commissioners, asking that a nre Z,
alarm bell be put i'm the tower OF the new M L
street school building. The cost Of The tower
dents propose to subscribe the necessary money
to purchase the bell. Some years ago the
alarms were struck on st; Johns church n, oeii,
and afterwards on Christ church bell, but that
building.
lOr ocean City to remain during the heated
term:-The steam packet II. @. Wagner car
ried The Good Tcmplars to Cabin John Bridge
this morning.--The pump doctor is needed all
TEMPERATURES AND CoNDrTroN OF WATER
At AM.-Great Falls, temperature, 81: con-
astion, 38. Receiving reservoir, temperature
fChnection, so. Distributing reservoir, tenn
pffnture, 85; condition Mt inifuent gatehouse,
agi conul1on at enluent gatehouse, SO. High
= tl1es IA tne river to-day at $3.50 q. M. and 4:24
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The Smith Court Martial.

TESTIMONY IN THE CASE TODAY.
The court martial for the trial OF Pay master
General Smith, of the navy, reconycned al
1880 a. m. to-day, with Chief Clerk benson, OF
the bureau of provisions and clothing, on the
stand. The prosecution called in detail for ali
the letters and documents on file I'm the bureau
bearing upon the contracts i'm connection with
which Gen. smith II charged with dereliction
of duty. Several letters from Gen. smith tfs
Mr. Austin L. Brown, accepting proposals
OF his TO furnish supplies at stated
prices were produced. and In connection with
these the witness stated i'm response Ia quesf
tons that there We're no bids advertised for
also, that there was no competition.
Mr.. Chandler, for the defense, objected To the
prosecution making inquiries OF the witness as
Ia advertisements for proposals. He insisted
that the advertisements would show for them
selves what proposals were called for
Assistant Attorney General Maury stated
that IL was proposed by the evidence To show
that the accused had made contracts withouf
asking for bids.
Some controversy followed, when Judge Ads
vocate Lemley interposed and explained the
object of the prosecution.
Mr.. Chandler said: III my friend Maury had
been as polite i'm his explanations as the last
gentleman Mr. LemleyD would not have TAX ~
up the time oi the court in objecting. But therv
l. an ausierity about the Department OF Justics
that opposes question, aud suppose have e.
suffer from il.
The regular order then resumed and thu
witness went On producing the letters and doc
Gilcnts relating TO contracts, all OF which weu
brought out by the court OF inquiry in thh
case.
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The Troubles in the wild West,

THE CHEYENNE EPISODE ABOUT CONCLUDED-
GEN. SHERIDAN COMING HOME-TIIE CATTLE
PROBLEM DIFFICULT ONE TO SOLVE.
1t is learned at the War department that Gen.
Sheridan was to start home to-day from the
Indian country. The Cheycnfe troubles are
considered to have been settled satisfactorily.
At the War department great credit Is given to
Inspector Armstrong for his positive course in
settling the difficulties. He was an army OFF,
Ger before the war and served Is general Off
Ger on the other side of the rebellion He took in
the Indian situation nj II glance. and Is
said to have acted with excellent Judgment
War department officials say that there was
though the Interior department recommended
suc!, course. \ general uprising o. the In
dians would have followed. The reports that
the Indians hid their arms. f.,;trIl. that they
were 10 be disarncd. are not doubted. But ii is
now thought that there will be no more trOu-
bic, and that the prompt action o! the Secretary
III War, in concentrating troops, with Gen.
Sheridan i'll charge, prevented Il serious out
break.
The other western trouble, the pasSage of cat
tie from Texas, is not regarded ;,> settled, not
withstanGing the orders from the Interior and
War departments. The Secretary Of the Inte-
public lands, but beyond tia, he has no au-
thOrity. When the Texas herds rc;ch the boz
dcrs of Kansas and Colorado there Is apt to i,e
trouble. The land there is private property,
and Iii" owners fearing that some II the cattle
are diseased will likely refuse thejr entrance
II is asserted that Secretary l.a4lar cannot
compel them to do otherwise. nor cdn the troops
be used to force passage. The result will be
awaited with considerable interest
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CHANGES IN THE OFFICES.

Appointments by the President, &c.
Inc PRESIDENT to-day made the following mn.
po'n'lhents: VIM. H. Moffett, of New Jersey, to
ue cohsui Oh the United States at Athens. John
S... VI Micnigan, to be consul Of the United
states at Windsor, Ontario.
ihe PRESIDENT to-day appointed the fo,lou,no
Postmasters: j. A. Taylor at Oxford. n. G. vice
NJ D. Jones, suspended; T. B. Douthit At Salem.
~. 1I ~ wee .. bieckenderfer, suspended: Samuel
n Sm1th at Winston, N. c.. vice w. A. Walker.
euspehoeo' ., George II. Gregory at Greensbo'
~ wee J. d. White, suspended: ]. A. Ben.
hett al Reidsville, n. c., vice R. H. Wrav. sus.
pehoeo; WIN. }. Fleming at Fort Smith. Ark.
W .. N. barnes, suspended; David G. Hack.
". ror' rain, N. Y, vice A. Hoffman. sus.
f,;ao henry COOK, at Michigan City, Ind,
Huron n n,i refers. suspended; George ]. Love at
tiIurEn i,'In LAX vice John Cain, suspended: r. r
sns,,a snaey at Talladega. Ala. vice r. A. Mosely,
VIM d Baggs, suspended. '' ''0e
me resident yesterday afternoon appointed
nmhie ares Spaiding, of Kansas, to be receiver OF
houser at Garden City, Kan: Edward 4 Dawne
.. oregon TO be United States judge for the dis
tr,et OF Alaska; NJ. d. Ball, of Alaska. to be
ka; Barton Atkins, of New York. to be Iynitad
states marshal for the district of Alaska. r
marsa h he.ier re, OF Alabama to be United State,
; ;Mr. Davis Is one of the most prominenI
lawyers OF Oregon, and is the author o
~ srNe vi icSai procedure OF that state
MI Atkins is Il native and resident of Elmira
n. L. he is lawyer by profession and ha.
never been active in politics. Mr.. Ball was ;
Judge in Montgomery county, Col, and was ap
pointed collector Of the port of Sitka Alaska. l.,
President Hayes, and retained that office unde
President Arthur. 1t is said that his appoint
ment as United states attorney was made OF
the recommendation of George William Curtis
and Carl SchurZ. MIR. Keller is the editor of thu
North <1tabamidn. He was u captain i'm tn,
confederate army during the war. He was in
dorsed by the entire delegation in Congress
from Alabama, and by prominent citizens o
that state.
The following fourth.class postmasters wer
appointed yesterday in Virginia: SnOwville
fulaski county, J. w. Babcock; Penola, Caro-
llne county, l.. l.. COghill Lafayette Montgnm
cry county, John l.. Henderson: Pound, Wis,
county, Adam G. Robertson. In West Virginia
Union, Monroe county, $. II. Watts; Harper.
ferry, Jefferson county, G. Il. WendZall; Milton
label! county, 4. u. Neal.
The following promotions have been made in
ane scientific force of the geological survey
lhos sAChamberlin, Wisconsin, geologist, from
$4,000 10 $1,000: Il. ID. Irving. of Wisconsin
Enollslst, from $2.7OU to $1,000: Ch:ts a
White, OF Iowa. paleontolOgist from S2lUO Il
S2.7UO. -
Indian agent Dyer has rendered his rcsic
nation, claiming that he has NOT had proper
support from the department in enforcing In y
and order among refractory Indians.
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NEW YORK, July 22.-The stock market
opened Irregular this morning, but generalIy
strong, Union Pacific and Jersey Central being
from last evenings Tirst quotations. Lacka
wanna and New York Central, however were
q lower. Immediately after the opening there
was general decline of u TO "a per cent but
Union Pacific and Lackawanna were especially
weak, the former declining ia and Lackawan.
ma ar The decline was checked i'm the course
OF fifteen minutes, and was followed by a gene.
raj upward movement throughout the list, tie
advance ranging from IL TO . per cent from the
lowest prices Lackawanna and Union Pacific
were prominent for their strength, advancing
8 per cent from the opening. Jersey Central
was exceptionally strong, advancing from 4Oi.
mentary check In the upward movement but
a. that hour the market is active and stron9
Total sales first hour q, 900 shares.
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THEIR OCCUPATIONS GONE.
Chicago Gambling House Proprietor,
Discharge Their Help and Close I'm.

CHICAGO, July 22.-There was practically no
gambling I'm Chicago ata little alter midnight
last night The chief of police had ordered all
the houses closed, and there is no doubt that
there came nearer being no gambling at the
time mentioned than ut any former period for
years. We'll known gamblers said that Super
intendent Doyle sent for one of the pr,prietors
OF each OF the gambling houses in the city TO
meet him during the evening. He told them
that they must close up their houses that night
and keep them closed. He had no wish 10 de-
stroy their furniture, but the places that failed
mand. would be raided and despoiled of every
vestige of property they contained. The gam
blers, returning to their places, gave orders 10
close the rooms. and, telling their employees
what had transpired, paid them their salaries
and discharged them. This is the first time that
the proprietors Of gambling houses I'm Chicago
ever discharged their help.
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District Government Affairs.

THE RETIRING COMMISSIONER,
A meeting OF officers and employees in the
District government buildings was held in the
assessors office This morning, with Mr.. Ros A.
Fish us chairman and DR.. VIM. findall secre-
tary, to give expression to their sentiments re.
gartling the retiring COMMISSIONER, Mr.. West
a committee on resolutions. cOnEistin. of Col
Tichenor, auditor of the District; Dr. Vim. Tin
dali, secretary oil the District, and Mr.. T. Rock
chief clerk to Engineer COmih issioner re.
ported a series setting forth thatby Mr.. Vests
retirement the District is deprived of the SER
vices of a faithful and pains-takiHg az administrY-
tor whose efforts We're always eXertcd in behalf
of the Districts interest in general. and whose
zeal and ability greatly Increased the ctficicncy
OF those branches of the District government
which were under his special supervision; that
siderate superior, who ever manifested asy,nDa.
thetic interest in their welfare, and with whom
their relations were uniformly OF the most pleas
adopted.
PROMOTIONS
promotions were made in the office of the Dis
win, clerk, from 5000 to ST 200: B!C. King as
sistant inspector of buildings 81 900 , SI 3SC.
senI uis rI rbInnseaa' messenger to cicfk with pay
sooo; EDWARD Ncrvis, messenger To clerk, 5000
MIsCELLANEOUs
Mr. {. L. Nutze, 1921 9Th street northwest
asks the repair Of the pump on Sth street near
~ street northwest Mr.. j. c. Hangs asks the
streets northwest. .
Mr.. David Fitzgerald complains of the non.
collection OF garbage in his locality, 2232 18th
:, Nh. 7. L. Holbrook, president Washington
brick Machine company, In a note to the Com.
nlissioners, urges the ;.pprov;,fof the applica-
tioh Tor lamps corner 18TH and 9Th and Wylie
streets. and Wylie street, between 18TH aud
13tl streets northeast 80
Aicssis IL. Il. Bcstor, VIM. Saunders ct al re-
quest the commissioners to cause the Balti.
more and Potomac railroad to plank the Ben.
hlilgs crossing of said railroad ili the same
ing
BUILDING PERMITS
have been issued by Inspector Entwisle to C.
I. Mades, erect twO-story carpenter shop on
Sth, between and streets southeast; 500
Mrs. Sultzer, repair brick 1910 II street north
west; 81 500. Mrs. Casey, repair brick dwell.
ing 1896 Massachusetts avenue northwest;
500. Jackson Armstrong, erect two small
dwellings on MERIDIAN Hill; $7OO. Mrs. Ben
Finger, repair brick Cos + street southwest;
$500.
AN ALLEGED RoBBERY.-Wm. J. Brown
cOlored waiter at the st. James hotel, was
arrested yesterday on o chnrge preferred by
Mr.. and Mrs. I. w. Sproul, Of Santa RhndOlph
county, ILL.,, guests OF the hotel, that he had
taken a hand satchel containing $G5 from q
small table In the dining room near where they
were eating. Brown cluim0d that he was iti-
nocent, and the police aftet q carcftA search
were unable to lind the money. In Tie Police
Court to-day, Judge Snell after hearing tho tes-
timony OF VIM. j. Brown, Mr.. aud MIS-. r. w.
Sproui and Lieut.. Kelly and Detective Carter,
said there was probable cause which was for
jury to determine, and sent the cake 70 the
grand jury; bonds $500.
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Fire this morning destroyed the iron foundry
OF James Bates, al President and Pratt streets.
Eaitilnore Damage 5000. The flames ex1
tended TO the upper part of the four story wines
gar factory OF Lewis Elmer a Son, adjoininss
damage, 81 300.
Governor Martin has issued a proclamation
for the prevention of the importation OF iniectss
Gus cattle into Kansas.
BenJainin Morgan was choked to death AT din.
nef AT MI carmel Pa, yesterday, by piece ol
beet which he failed To properly masticate.
Jennie Irving, aged 4 l. Was choked TO death
\. J., Monday.
Tne cholera is spreading alarmingly In Spain.
and has broken out i'm Portugal.
Iwenty-three cases OF sunstroke were reported
In New York city after three O'Clock yesterday
A romantic incident associated with the yisis
of The Mexican editors to baltimore the
OF said editors and Miss Tiiiy Handy sis,.p ~
Mrs. otto SuIro.
The ship builders of Baltimore have decided
cauIkers from So IS a day 10 $3.50 a daS' w ano
IL is understood that "A strike is impending
Olivier Pain, the French adviser Of the mahdl
is alive ANA well at Bcfber.
Twelve shocks of earthquake, one of which
was very severe, were felt in Cashmere on the
The United States naval training vessels.
jamestown, portsmouth and Saratoga arrived
at Madeira ON the sth instant
Ii is announced that the emperors of Austrf.
and Germany Will meet at Gastein ON Augusl
Prince Hohenlohe has been appointed govssS
Annie +. Fox has been granted an absoluts
divorce from Richard X Fox of the EaI,cc 80
z,ttc, on the ground OF his uniaithfulness
Russia has at last assenIed To the proposed
Egyptian loan, which the British go,ernmenI
has Instructed the Rothschilds u issue in Aus
gust.
Leo Taxil, the notorious French athestic aus
tnor, mas recanted all the statements made ia
ms writings, and has entered a Catholic con-
vent.
The Mexican editors are being entertained In
Baltimore to-day
Genuine pleuropneumonia has been found iE
.he nero OF Ilmberlake q Martin, at Middle
town, near Winchester, Va
Inc RUSSIAN harvest prospects continue dis
couraging. Winter wheat i'm the southern pros
vinces will be barely middling.
Daniel u. Ward, said TO be OF a good sout beru
family, who was convicted in New York OF
sswinoling, was ON Monday sent to the penitep1
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A Strange Case Of Paralysis.

FROM the New York sun, July D.
Young Thomas r. Scgur of 80 Henry street,
Brooklyn, clerk for Dillon & Swayne was
seized with a sudden pain i'm his right leg lasi
Tuesday morning while he was crossing ths
Brooklyn bridge. When he got TO the Wcstern
Union building, where the firms offices are. hs
was unable To go up the steps. An ambulance
took him to the New York hospital, where his
ease was pronounced to be paralysis. At the
New York hospital IL was found examinas
uon that "A clot al blood had choked one OF the
arteries OF the lower leg, and that gangrene had
set IN below the point OF stoppage. Mr.. Seguf
VIII lose his leg. The surgeons waiting Tor y
more distinct demarcation of the eangrene be-
lore iiilpulatlng the leg. Similar cases rare
Doctors are not agreed about the manner Ia
which such clot forms or the cause of it.
Secretary EndicOtt's Old college Mate.
New \ ork Correspondence Chicago Inter-Ocean.
When William Z. Endicott, Secretary OF War,
wrote his name in the registry of a New Yors
hotel one day last week, and turned To follow
the bell-boy TO the elevator. there stood i'm his
way man whose face had been handsome be-
fore rum blearei IL, and whose clothes tn.
WORKOUT remnants OF a fashionable suit, but
whose big ngure retained port which made
him still imposing He extended his hand and
said: How are you, judge" with an assurances
and hcar.iness which made repulse all but Irns
possible. The detective on duty i'm the corridor
stepped hastily forward, took the hummer by
the arm, and told him that he must not annoy
WHAT the chap exclaimed, Indignantly II
annoy Judge Endicotr? Why, lac and I were
college chums.'
Secretary Endicott chatted n minute with his
old aclHainlance, rvt ny lhi.a- srishout
resorting 10 a rough process, aud afterward said
Il on are right i'm -urmising that he wanted aI
appointment To office, and that he based his res
quest on the ground of our college relationship.
fe was nearly foremost IN my class; his family
had wealth and respectabilty with which a.
help him forward, and there seemed la be no
reason why he shouldn't distinguish himself iss
lie. For ten years L have not seen or heard of
nlm. lie seems To have wrecked himself
suppose now that he had sent to me "A writes
petition, signed by numerous reputable pep
sons. arid reminding me of my iormer knowta
edge concerning his abiiities-isnt II easily con-
ceivablc thai might innocently and properly
nave placed him In government employ? Ali
good character at the beginning OF a decade 10
too often all zone at the end
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Hon. James @. Blaine has written a letter to
John 5. Wiee, cOngratNlafing him on his nomi.
nation for governor of Virginia.
Judge T. Lyle Dickey, Of the Illinois supreme
courts Is canRerOusly "a at Atlantic CITY,
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The PAIL MALL GAZETTE SCANDAL AXE
ROLLER SkATING.-"An Old Roue" writes o.
the f'tH Mat Gazetfe: ''The evil You have exs
posed Is "a warning against roller skating The
SHil came with roller skating at the Prince c ub
Ihen Tor the first time men about town were
brought into daily tact with beautiful chits
dren net members Of their own families The
little things, as In their innocence, were to-
prodigal Of their smiles and glances A passion
dren themselves WAS not the question, but pro
curesses 1ound little East Enders % bear the
curse vicariously. since then the trade be.
tween the East and West Ends has grown enos.
mously"