Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-01

of 1 tbs Sonr, m 9mi meeting OF the bar
court room to-day to take action on the
occasion of the resignation, Hon. j. w. Doug
ing Of Messrs Geo anu Kina Robelt CHrisIy SEsiS
F:P; Cuppy, I. H. n Mcpherson and jeremiah
M. llson, was appointed to draft resolutions
| expressive of the sense of the bar on Mr.. ST.
mons. retirement, and the meeting adjourned
| to next Monday.
many years in the first assistants office,
POST Office department, has voluntarily re-
| signed, in order to take charge of his farm in
Nebraska. Mr.. smith was in position where
he came In contact with the public, and in con-
sequence he is widely and favorably known:
| The vacancy caused by his resignation will
probably be filled by promotion.
MIR. Ralph Jefferson, chief of the examin-
Ing division. in the money order bureau of
| the Post Office department., has resigned his
position with the view ofenterng into business
in Texas, and will leave for that state on Thurs
diy next. His resignation was peremptory to
| take place to-day.
FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL HAY
has issued q notice requesting callers at the de-
| partment who desire to see him in person to
come between 10 am. and II IN. The rush of
visitors is now so great in his office that this
| step was rendered necessary in order to allow
proper time for signing papers and the proper
| discharge of routine work.
| AMONG THE PRESIDENTS CALLERS TODAY
were Secretary Bayard, Secretary Lamar, At
torney General Garland, Senators Gibson, Col
| guilt, Call, and Col. A. W. Owens, Florida, and
Butler, REPRESENTATIVES. Ward, Neeee, Town
shend, Riggs, Bragg: kleiner. and P. I. Jones
| and +. h. Bland, of Indiana; King, Marshal,
Gibson, Louisiana Mutcher and Boyle, ex-Rep-
| Gen. II. j. Hunt, H. A. Hurlbut, Chicago; Mayor
| Courtenay, OF Charleston, S. c.; 4. F: Uhle,
| Michigan; Geo. Ross Pennsylvania: w: W..
Mckee Dunn, l.. B. Stahlman, vice president of
the Louisville and Nashville railroad; H. K.
Thurber and j. NJ. Lachlan.
| ARMY ORDERs.-Second Lient Frank L.
Dodds. 9th infantry, is relieved from duty at
Rutgers College, New Brunswick, Nj, to take
| pany: the leave granted First Lieut.. Reuben L.
| Robertson, assistant surgeon, L. $. army, ex-
tended one month; First Lieut.. Lansing ii.
Beach, corps of engineers, will be relieved from
| his present duties under Major Samuel NJ. Mans
field corps OF engineers, and will report in per-
! son to the superintendent U. S. Military Acad-
| clny, West Point, New York, for temporary
duty, with Company +, battalion of engineers.
! REMOVED FOR "OFFENsIvE vEPARTIsANsHIP.'-
Dr. Neil +. Graham, Of Minnesota, assistant
medical referee of the pension bureau and DrS.
William II. Gobrecht and John II. Ross, of In
| diana, medical examiners in the Pension office,
have been removed for offensive partisan
| ship"
| THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE Committee
The select committee of the Senate upon inter-
| state commerce held a meeting at the Capitol
this morning for the purpose OF hearing delega-
appeared, and the committee, after arranging a
program for the month of June, adjourned Its
next meeting will be held in Chicago on the
cago, two in ST Louis beginning on the 17th
| two in DesMoines, beginning on the 10Th; two
Paul and Minneapolis, beginning on the 24th.
| The committee will probably then take recess
| until October, when it is intended to devote
| some time to visiting southern cities.
TIE PRESIDENT returned to Washington at
| ten o'clock last night, accompanied by the
\
ana Marshall McMichael. After the parade in
| New York on saturday President Cleveland,
Secretaries Endicott and Whitney and Gen.
Hancock went to Governors Island, and
| passed the afternoon at Gen. Hancock's house
APPOINTMENT AND misunderstanding
Manning has appointed Thos. ]. Brennan, Of
| the Associated Press, to be his private secre-
| retary, vice V. z. Snyder, promoted to be
chief clerk OF the treasurer's Office.
WORK OF THE PENSION OFFICE.-During the
| last two weeks the number OF claims OF all kinds
| filed in the pension Office was 5,395, while the
| number Of certificates issued was 6.952, max.
| Ing u reduction OF ,577 in the number OF pend
| ing claims. The reorganization of boards of
| examining surgeons has been practically ac-
complshed in the states of Mane Massachu-
| setts, Vermont, Ohio and Indiana. in SO far
as changes have been recommended: Changes
| in the states of New York and Illinois are now
| being considered. The reorganization consists
| in giving TO each board of three surgeons DEM
ocratic in place OF republican majority, all
| things else being equal
NEW PosTMAsrERs.-First Assistant Post
master General Hay, on Saturday, appointed
| sixty fourth-class Postmasters.
THE NAVAL ACADEMY GRADuArEs-The
order of merit in which the naval academy
cadets Will graduate next Friday is as follows ::
David w. Taylor Va; Wm Mckay, Del; John
g: Tawresey, Del; Albert c. Die1ienbach, Pa;
Wan G. Mler a r. soca
| George w Kline, Nj; James W.kittrell, Miss;
Walter W.Joynes, Tenn; Alexander Thompson,
\. V; Charles $. stanworth, Va; Robert L.
| Russell, Ga; Joseph Strauss, Va; John p
McGuinness, Idaho; II. 4. Bisham, Pa; Benz
~ LOMBARD p iowa: T. Armistead n Rust VA David
| Slade, Ga; William W. GiImer, Va; James +.
| Shndel, Pa; Charles NJ Mccormick, Va Glen
George R. Evans, Mass: Charles C. Poe, Pa
| Benjamin Wright, Tenn; Albert Burhstine,
hsh chaIe M hrthnr
L. Pitner, Tcnn.; James I. Bootes, DEL; Preston
H. UberrOth, Pa.
PERsoNAL.-Moncure d. Conway, wife and
daughter, arrived in New York from Liverpool
yesterday by the Cunard dsteamer.-Capt.W.C
Church editor of the 4 Army and NaryJouynal and
John Kelly is at Clifton Springs. n Y, suffering
severely from Insomnia and meancholia, butts
sad o 9e has to
lana lottery, died in New York Yesterday
and Gen. William sooy smith, of Chicago, are
| at the Rggs.-Mr. ]. $. Curtis, Of the United
States geological survey, will leave for the west
| on Wednesday, accompanied by his wife
| Mr.William D.Cabell principal of the Norwood
institute has gone on d brief visit to his
| tate in Virginia.-Charles w. Buck, the new
United States minister to Peru sails from New
| York for his post of duty to-day.-Lieut.
Mason, who few days ago resigned from the
| Wednesday for an extended tOur.-Assistant
Secretary Coon, who went to Fortress Monroe
| for short season of rest and recuperation, has
returned to Washington, and resumed his
| duties at the Treasury department to-day
George II. TichenOr, son OF Auditor TichenOr,
of this city, and formerly clerk In the adju-
| tant generals office, who was deputy surveyor
| at Denver under President Arthur, has been ap-
pointed assistant commissioner Of the Colorado
| Denver-HOn. A. NJ. Craig, justice of the su-
preme court Of Illinois, was in the city yester-
! day on his way to Annapolis as visitor to the
Naval Academy, and spent the day with his
| old college associate, Hon. Francis Cotton, No.
| 1917 NJ street.
| Alleged Blaine Movement to Defeat
| Edmun0S.
dispatch from Burlington, VT, to the New
York Sun says:-The determination Of the
Blaine partisans to defeat Senator Edmunds in
the legislature of 1886 has already begun to
take shape. IT Is pretty generally understood
| that ex-Gov. Smyth, president OF the Central
Vermont railway; ex.Goy. Proctor, Of Rutland;
Of the supreme court and the venerable Luke
| p. Poland will be In the field. The ST. Albans
paper has already begun republiShing the re-
cord OF Smyth Us the war governor of the state.