Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-16

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Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal
revenue, 1902 $40; customs, s425,473.
THE POSTMASTER GENERAL has issued an
order directing that the papers filed in the
department in regard to postmasters shall not
oe shown to outsiders except on his order.
Posi- OFFICE RoBBER1Es-Philip Hill, the
postmaster at Chattanooga, Ohio, has been ar
rested by post Office inspectors for stealing regis
tered letters. The post office at Mount Pleas
ant 3; e., was entered by burglars last night
and robbed.
1T IS SAID that the friends of General Mo
Clellan are urging him for the Chinese mis-
sion.
AN INTERSTATE DIsPUTE.-Attorney Gen.
eral Stockton, of New Jersey, is in the city for
the purpose Of conferring with Attorney Gen.
eral Garland as to whether an old Injunction
restraining the authorities of Delaware from
interfering with New Jersey fishermen is still
In force.
OFFICIAL SoC1ETY.-Mrs. Hendricks has dis
continued her receptions temporarily. Mrs.
and Miss Bayard, Mrs. and Miss Endicott, and
received yesterday. Mrs. Villas is still in Wis
consin, and Mrs. Manning is in New York.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Capt. 81. l. Howison has
been detached from duty as president of the
board to recommend a uniform for the enlisted
men of the navy. and placed on waiting orders.
Lieut.. Commander Edwin White detached
from the same board and placed on waiting
orders Asst Paymaster Jno. @. Lowell de-
tached from duty at the New York navy yard
and placed on waiting orders.
THE BOARD OF OFFICERS appointed by Secre-
tary Whitney to examine the Dolphin left
Washington to-day for New York, to make an
inspection of the vessel.
OPINION ON MINISTER LAwToN's CAsE.-The
Attorney General has given an opinion to the
President sustaining the eligibility of Mr.. Law
ton, of Georgia, for appointment as minister to
Russia.
CAPT. GEORGE w. DAVIS assistant engineer
of the Washington monument, was yesterday
officially announced as aide-de-camp to the
lieutenant general vice Major William ]. Volk-
mar.
BOTH PARTIES To BE REPRESENTED ON THE
BOARDS.-Pension Commissioner Black said to-
day that in the appointment of boards Of exam
lining surgeons in the various cities of the coun-
try, to examine applicants for pensions, his
policy will be to select from both political
parties. Three surgeons constitute a board, and
the custom has been to select entirely from
have each board of his selection composed Of
two democrats and one republican.
Col. BOUDINoT TO MARRY.-A dispatch from
Washington to the New York World says that
Col. E. c. Boudinot the wel-known half-breed
Cherokee, is to be married this evening to Miss
Minear, the daughter of a former Califor rnia
millionaire. Col. Boudinot in nearly fifty years
old. Miss Minear is about twenty, and has
spent the winter here with her mother and
sister. She is good looking and well educated.
q har will civ W
the bride.
AMONG THE PRESIDENTS CALLERS to-day
were Senators Van Wyck, Gibson, Vance,
Hampton and Butler, with delegation from
South Carolina; Ransom, Mcpherson and dele
gatlon ex-senator Slater; Representatives
L1awler, with George a: II. Baker, Chicago At
rick, Mark L. Mcdonald, California; Mrs.
Buchanan, James Morgan, Milwaukee; Mrs NJ.
ovd s0s aes N1y p faek Heere eeS Color
ado; E. ]. Fox ,Easton, Penn, and w. +. Jordan,
Bradford, Pennsylvania.
PosTMAsTERs APPOINTED.-The President
yesterday appointed Carlos Stout to be post
master at Mclean, Tompkins county, N. Y,
and j. X. Coffroth, son Of ex-Representative
COffrOth Postmaster at Somerset, Pa, vice Au-
gustus q. Davis, resigned.
THE IUNIATA IN A TRAP.-Private informa-
ton has been received here that the U. 8. S. Ju-
in the river a few miles below Foo Chow China,
She could not reach the city because of shallow
water, and could not return on account of tor
pedoes, placed in the river by the Chinese, No
information on the subject has been received at
the Navy department. but it is understood that
Secretary Whitney will investigate the matter.
A COACH TEAM FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL tel.
egram from Poughkeepsie, N. Y, says that A.
3. Lewis, of that city, sold a handsome seal
brow brown coach team m to- to President mt, Cevelands
to Washington in day Or two.
THE SOUTH AMERICAN PEACE TREATY
SIGNED.-Senor De Perata, the Costa Rican
minister, received last night the following tele-
gram from President Zaidivar, of Salvador:
"Peace of Central America signed; new triumph
doing great honor to Salvador
SECRETARY BAYARD DENIES. - Secretary
Bayard denies the story that he has been en-
deavoring to force George w. Williams to re-
sign the office of minister to Hayti, to which
he was appointed by President Arthur on the
Sd of March. He says Mr.. Williams nomina-
tion to the office is in the hands of the Senate
committee, and that he has nothing whatever
to do with Ii. He also denies that Williams was
discourteously treated at the State department.
PERsoNAL.-MinisterM McLane and family will
sail for Europe on the 29th ,and Minister Phelps
on the 3Oth.-The portrait of the late Senator
Anthony is being executed at the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing to illustrate the volume of
congressional eulogies now in press, and i'm
pressons from it will also be used for the Obit-
uary volume to be published by the state of
Rhode Isand.-Mr. Blaine will give up the
Window house in June, and will go to his home
in Augusta.-MiniStcr Phelps will be the guest
of the st. BotOlph Club in Boston on Friday
evening of next week.-Dr. w. Lee White. who
has been seriously i'll, with pneumonia, at his
residence near this city, is convalescing rapidly
and hopes shortly to be about his usual avoca-
tions.-Gen. Walker, ,eN,superintendent OF the
census, accompanied by his daughter, will sail
for Europe, May 9th, for a short vacation
Mrs. Admiral Davis and daughter, Mr. Robert
Thompson and Miss Matte Thompson, of
Washington, were registered in Jacksonville on
Tuesday-Charles Emory Smith, editor Of the
President Arthur was not sufficiently recov-
cred from his recent illness to resume his place
in his old law office in New York yesterday
according to announcement.-Repres
Heard, of Missouri, lett for his home last night
but will return to Washington in about ten
days.
Examinations for Post Office inspectors
Postmaster General Villas, as stated in yes
terday's STAR, has determined to appoint post
office inspectors after an examination into the
character and attainments of the candidates,
which is, perhaps, more rigid than that of the
be furnished with a list of questions which will
furnish complete particulars OF the life and
character, and in addition the candidate will
be required to pass an examination. He will
then receive temporary appointment only,
and after the expiration Of the probationary
partment, he will receive permanent appoint
ment. AS one of the officials of the department
remarked: 1.-THE appointments will be made by
this plan for other reasons than that the man Is