Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-12-22
Washington News and Gossip.

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| THE SUPPLEMENT OF The EVENING STAR
| to-day contains articles on the Christmas club,
| ana night lodging house, improvements at Le-
| Dro1t park, talk about Christmas turkeys,
| nature and art at the Capitol, the growing
| strength of Knights Labor in New Eng land,
| Geographic news, etc. The advertisements are
| CLASSIFIED as follows: Auction Sales, Ladies'
| Goods, Sewing Machines, Books, Educational.
| The Trades, Dentistry, Attorneys, House-tur-
nishings, Financial Wood and Coal, Specialties,
Professional, Medical, Steamers. Potomac
| hiver Boats, Railroads. Undertakers.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY.-Internal
| revenue, $780, 1884; customs. S4o6,137.
ARMY ORDERs.-Fifty recruits have been or
dered to be forwarded to the division of the
Missouri Tor the Sd cavalry. The leave of Capt.
waiter Reed, assistant surgeon, has been ex-
tended one month:
RETIRED WITH ONE YEARS PAY-Assistant
| Engineer Alberto De Ruiz found by the
| naval retiring board incapacitated for active
service, but his disability was not incurred in
the line of service. He has therefore been
wholly retired with one years pay.
l. AN 81, 800 ITEM IN COMMISSIONER CoLMAN's
ACCOUNTS DIsALLowED.-First Controller Dur
nam has disallowed item of 81 800 in the
accounts of Norman j. Colman, commissioner
OF agriculture, on the ground that that amount
Illegally charged to the appropriation tor "labo-
| ratory.' This case is exactly similar to that of
commissioners Loring MIR. Colman's immediate
predecessor in office, whose accounts for pur-
chases made In the same way were also disal-
lowed. The explanation given by Commits
| s1oner COiman is that the seeds were purchased
| IN his absence and without his knowledge by
Gen. Carmen then chief clerk OF the depart
ment. The controller, however, says the COM
| missioner alone is responsible under the law.
AMONG THE PRESIDENTS CALLERS to-day
Gam X<><u
aid, Senator Cullum, Representatives Ryan,
Hanback,, Peters, Viele with Joseph Francis, the
venerable inventor OF the life saving car; Le-
1 Hon hoTry Ward Ind Cox 9NeiI and
Springer and JAS B. Kicks, OF Chicago Thomp-
son, Scott. Ward and Jno. Henesy, Col. P. J.
and A. II. Jackman, of NyaK. n. Y, and Far.
quahar and S. A. Merritt, of Utah.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Lieut. Commander Geo. NJ
| Book, ordered to the receiving ship Vermont:
Lieut.. JnO. T. Newton, detached from the Yam
| tic and ordered to the Vermont; Ensign w. ].
sears, from the coast survey and granted three
| months leave.
MEMORIAL TO THE PRESIDENT is being
circulated in Carson, New, which sets forth that
| the closing of the mint in that city is illegal,
| and asks that it be ordered to resume opera
| tiOnS.
A PENSION DECISIoN.-In the case of an ap-
| plcation for pension on the part of man
who was regularly enlisted in the army during
| the late war, wounded in the service and
honorably discharged, then re-enlisted, but de-
serted and never rejoined his command, the
commissioner of pensions has decided that his
discharge from his first enlistment contract per-
fected his rights hereunder, which were not
forfeited by his failure to comply with the terms
Oh Il subsequent contract.
THE JOHN BULL" LOCOMOTIVE, the ances
| tor of all the locomotives now in use on Ameri-
| can railroads. was placed on exhibition in the
fat Mt Nprn tod
1t was made in England in 1885, by George
stephenson, and sent to this country. 1t is the
original copy set to American machinists, and
from which the present magnificent American
locomotive has been evOluted. 1t was presented
to the museum by the Pennsylvania railroad
company. The b. and o. road had an engine in
use before the arrival of the John Bull" but
| its species was not perpetuated.
THE LIGHTHOUSE TENDER Madrono arrived
| at Valparaiso this morning, so days from New
York, all well.
INSPECTING THE OREGON SToNE.-Senators
Dolph and Mitchell, of Oregon, and Hon. Hora-
ito King, will pay visit to the Washington
monument, at three O'Clock this afternoon, for
the purpose of inspecting the Oregon stone,
which has recently arrived. This stone has
been described in THE STAR.
PERsoNAL.-Gen. Franz Sigel, the new pen
sion agent at New York, and VIM. H. Cramp, of
Philadelphia, are at the Riggs. -Senator Mil
Ter, of California, has arrived in the city, but is
I,ok ~ aole W take MS seat, anu MS health Is
SO delicate as to give srave concern to his
friends.--C. H. Andersoil.ef Washington was
in st. Louis on Saturday--Mr. Blaine has
written That owing to a previous engagement
he will be unable to deliver the Grafton at the
next Dartmouth cOmmencenent.-J. B. Cole
grove, of Washington, was registered in Jack
sOnville on Sunday.-SenatOrs HOar and Hale
Representative Spriggs, and Mr.. Bell, superin-
tendent OF foreign mails, were registered in
New York last night.--Senator Voorhees, will
deliver his lecture on Jefferson in ten Indiana
cities in aid OF the Hendricks monument fund.
Mr.. and Mrs James Stevenson, of Washing
ton. We're in Chicago on Sundays-Lieut. Com
mander Reisinger, of the Yantic, is in the city
on leave.