Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-10-14


Florida and Cuban mails are delayed, but it is
hoped that arrangements can be made to-day
to get the mails through.
THE COMMISSIONER OF NAVIGATION has is
sued circular to customs officers requesting q
more rigid observance Of the legislation relating
70 the changes of masters OF vessels.
AGAINST THE SMALLpox.-A circular will be
issued through the marine hospital service this
afternoon establishing thorough quarantine
along the Canadian border to guard against the
smallpox, and the health officers will be given
the authority of quarantine officers. The Secre-
cation from the governor of New York asking
for the appointment of sanitary inspectors,
nnder tne marine hospital service, TO assist tne
duction of smallpox into the state Surgeon
Austin will be sent to-day to consult With the
state authorities for the purpose Of establishing
the inspection.
THE SENATE REsTAURANT-No MORE "CoLD
TEA."-Mr. Theodore L. Page, a hotel keeper of
Maine, has been given control of the Senate
restaurant. The amended rules of the Senate
make II the duty of the committee on rules, in
stead Of the Vice President, as formerly, to look
after the Senate wing of the Capitol. Senator
Frye, chairman of the committee, selected Mf.
Page as a suitable person to have the restaurant;
Mr.. II. Page arrived here several days ago, and
after thorough survey of the restaurant and
its attachments, concluded to take hold OF 1t.
1t is understood that under his management no
'cold tea" will be sold.
AShlNG "A MANDAMUS ON THE SECRETARY
OF THE INTERIoR.-Robert Carrick has renewed
his petition in the Supreme Court of the Dis
trict for a mandamus on the Secretary of the
Interior to compel him to have Arsenal Island,
near st. Louis, surveyed, that 1t may be sold as
public lands.
AMONG THE PRESIDENTS CALLERS to-day
were Chief Justice Waite and Bishop Whipple,
of MIMI; Secretary Lamar, Attorney General
Garland, Senators Morgan, Beck and friends,
Ransom and Gibson, First Assistant Postmas-
ter General Stevenson, Representative Low
1en' NJ Hedges Havsrs ira n " and Jas
Union, g. A. r.; j. NJ. Vale, Washington; q. J.
Tucker, n; Y; A: g. Hatch, Buffalo; Or: Col;
Kansas: Rev. VIM. H. Chapman, Washington;
r. S. Dement,, OF Chicago the new surveyor
Of BENZ Sf otsa Ia
Me-; John HALEY, OF Idaho; Henry Jink, Buff
faio, and F. ]. Parker, of Walla WalIa.
THE BOARD OF NAVAL OFFICERS, consisting
of Captains Matthews and Howison, Naval
Constructors Webb and Much, and Chief Engi-
| neer Baker, which recently made the appraise-
meut of the unfinished cruisers and reported to
the Secretary of the Navy, reassembled at the
Navy department to-day. The meeting was of
formal nature to show that the contractors
and their sureties had received proper notice of
the action OF the board.
DEATH OF A NAVAL oFF1cER.-The secre-
tary of the Navy was informed to-day that En-
sign T. A. Parke died at his home in Union, w.
Va, yesterday.
Observation-Disclosures Colman, accom-
panied by his wife, returned to the city yester-
day from tie west-Whie on tour through
the North Carolina mountains recently, the
wife of Senator Ransom was thrown from her
carriage and slightly injured.-The wife of
Gen. sherman was on the Baltimore and Ohio
| train which struck a rock near Pittsburg yes
terday morning, but escaped unhurt.-MrS.
Laughton, of this city, is now entertaining
Canon Farrar at her country residence near
Philadelphia. T. S. Phelps sailed
| from New York for Europe yesterday.-Mr.
| Walter NJ. Brodie, of the engineer staff OF the
mines under Ex.Gov. shepherd $ management,
| arrived in this city from Batopilas this morn.
| ing.-There is renewed gossip regarding an
engagement between Ex-President Arthur and
Miss Tiliie Frelinghuysen.-For the first time
on Monday night.--Miss Annie Longiellow,
the elder of the poets daughters, is to be mar
5dsy g TMrps the brother
| ington, was in Chicago Monday.-The Right
Rev. IL. Is. Whipple, bishop of Minnesota, is in
DeSales acknowledgements Sowden of
| Pennsylvania, is at Willard s-Col Switzler,
chief Of the bureau of statistics, returned to-day
| from Missouri, accompanied by Col. c. w. Bell.
OF brunswick, Mo-, who was recently appointed
| a special attorney in the Interior department
The President Besiege.l.
TWO PERSISTENT LADIES AFTER AN OFFICE
HOLDERS SCALP.
Two ladies, said TO be from the south, have
been for some time past among the most fire.
quent visitors at the White House. They dress
| elegantly and wear handsome diamonds and
are apparently mother and daughter. The per-
sistency with which they sought and secured
| audiences with the President during business
hours stamped them as lobbyists. It was said
| that they were working hard to secure the re-
| mOval OF a southern official and the appoint
ment of a successor whom it was rumored was
| the husband OF one OF the ladies and the father
OF the other. Why, they did SO is not
| known (perhapS they couldn't receive
time enough TO present their claims),
bnt the visits to the President during the morn
| ing hours when he receives business calls were
discontinued, and attention was turned to the
public receptions in the east room, which the
President holds three times u week. More than
| once these ladies have fingered behind the
| Misunderstanding crowd and then surrounded
the President. He was obliged to listen. They
didn't appear to carry their point, however, but
| still persevered. The other day when they cap
turcd the President in the east room, he said:
| "Mrs. -, that case Is settled. I have
decided not to make any removal in that
| Office"
This was considered a settler, but the ladies
have proved fighters, and still be seen at the
| White House on the lookout for senatorial intiu.
ence to help their cause.
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