Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-07-15
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-pAY.-Internal
revenue. S1s9,1s7; customs, S4s2, ,292.
PLANS FOR NEW NAVAL. VEssELs-The date
for submitting plans for the four new naval
vessels authorized by Congress expired to-day.
a hamDer OF naval officers and a few civilians
nave submitted plans. Secretary Whitney has
not yet considered them, nor has he appointed
BOARD OF naval officers to make a report upon
this afternoon or Tomorrow, 1t is thought
likely that Chief Engineer sherwood (retired)
Will be placed at the head of it.
PATENTS IssUED.-Patents have been issued
10 citizens OF this District as follows: Geo. g.
schroeder, detachable horse shoe; Charles
Henige, hose coupling; Robert B. Donaldson,
dental instrument.
DIR. CHARLES F. SCHMIDT, clerk in the fifth
auditors Office Of the Treasury, died yesterday
| at the age of 80. He had been in the depart
| ment between twenty and thirty years, and
was personal friend of Secretary Chase.
CoLoRED DEMOCRATS FOR OFFICE.-A prom
| fnent southern politician told a STAR reporter
to-day that while there was a disposition to re-
cogniZe the colored men who had acted with
the democratic party in the south by appoint
Ing them to offices, yet the southern people
were opposed to man to their appointment as
presidential postmasters. He said that when
such a nomination.
AMONG THE PRESIDENTS CALLERS to-day
were ex-senator Mcdonald, Senators Kenna,
Logan, Morgan, and Pugh, commissioner of
internal revenue. Gen. Rosecranz. Representa-
tive Morrison and friends. Lawer, Autwaite,
son, Foran, Hanback,, and Maj. w. {. Jones
KANSAS, Geddes and Warner; ex-Representa-
t. I've byas spsdns N a M H hder
wood. Boston; a. H. Walcott, Mass; II. ID.
Woodman, Portland:W w. w. Russell. Maryland;
I. Baxter T. A. Lambert. Gen. c. A. Hovey and
a. NJ. Gibson, of Washington.
ORNITHQLOGY.-Comms Colman has
| established, as part of Prof. Riley's division,
branch of investigation relating to economic
ornithology, and has appointed Dr. O'Hare
Merriam, well-known ornithologist and secre-
tary OF the American OrnithOlOgSts' Union, a
special agent to take charge of this part of the
work. Dr. Merriam will make his headquar-
after that at Washington. The scope of the in
vestgation will cover the entire field of the in
terreiatiOn of birds and agriculture. The in-
guiry will relate primarily to the food habits of
birds, but will include also the collection of
data bearing on the migration and geographical
distribution OF North American species.
THE SECOND CONTROLLER of the Treasury de-
cides that naval officers who travel at govern
ment expense are not entitled to mileage.
NAVAL OEDERs.-Assistant Paymaster John
Q. Lowell has been ordered to duty at torpedo
station Newport, r. l. The leave OF Lieut.. G.
.. Allibone has been extended until 1st No
Vember next
DEATH OF DOoRKEEPEE WINTEHSMITH-Mr.
James G. Wintersmith, doorkeeper of the ma
uonal House OF Representatives, died in Louis
vile, KY, yesterday. He had been in failing
health for several mouths, and during the last
few weeks his maady assumed y threatening
form. In fact, even before the adjournment of
Congress he began to feel the effect of his severe
official duties. After adjournment he took
trip to Texas and Kentucky, but the change
did no. benefit him. y few weeks ago he went
to the Virginia mountains in the hope that the
pure air would restore his health. But he con-
tinued to f;ul, and some days ago was taken to
Kentucky, his native state, to die. "Jim" Win
tersmith. as he was ianiliarly called on every
hand. was exceedingly popular. This was de-
ago as Goorkeeper of the House. 1t
marked at the time that friends arose for him
by the host on every side. He was still young
man, not having reached the age OF thirty-six.
DECREASE OF POSTAL REvENUE.-The reve-
nues of the Post Office department during the
quarter ended March 81 last were $40. 763, 169
and the expenditures S12,42s,722 leaving a
deficit OF $ ,66J, ,553. During the correspond
ing quarter last year the expenditures were but
T;iuS it appears that the deficit for the March
quarter OF Tie present year Is $3.50 1G3 In eX-
cess OF the deficit during the corresponding
quarter of 1854. The financial officers of the
department had estimated the deficiency at the
end of the present fiscal year would be between
$4,000, 900 and S1,OUO,OOO, but they are now
OF the opinion that the deficit will aggregate
about S6,OOO,OOO.
OWING to the prevalence Of cholera in Spain
the cruise Of the Z. S. S. jamestown to Cadiz
and Gibraltar has been abandoned. The
Jamestown will sail from Funchal, Madeira,
July 25th for Newport, Il. J., expecting TO
reach the latter place about September 1st.
THE OHIO CLERKS IN THE CAMPAIGN.-Rep-
resentative Butterworth was recently repre-
sented in one of the New York papers as max
ing one Of a party of gentlemen engaged in
conversation at the Riggs house in the course of
which some remark was made about the con-
tribution> of the department clerks credited TO
Ohio to the campaign fund. MIR. Butterworth
contribute anything, and that the Ohio work
ers had been carrying them along all these
such conversation occurred, and that he could
not have made a statement of this character,
because he knew it to be false.
THE JULY CROP REpoRT.-The July wheat
report of the department of agriculture says the
whea: harvests of the world for $50 will not be
an average. but prices will eventually advance.
The rise, however Is far of as & the present large
perhaps until next year. Farmers must not,
the report says, be deiuded by the present bull
AIRY prices. After briefly defending the accu-
racy OF the department Of agriculture statistics.
and explaining the divergence between its
forecasts and different periods, the report con-
tinues: "The June returns showed a promise of
207 900 900 bushels, a reduction of 56.0O0OO0
bushels from the April prospect which was
fully justified by the fuller revelation Of winter
injuries, the bad weather of April and Mays sand
the substitution of other crops on an immense
area of injured wheat. 1t is reduction of
149.OOO,OOO bushels from the winter wheat
record of 1884, or almost ID per cent of which
over 26 per cent was reported on the first of
April"
Observation-Disclosures Jonas, of Louisiana
recently appointed collector of customs at New
Orleans, is in the city.-Ex-Representat
Slemmons, Of Arkansas, is in the city.-Gen.
MacAdaras gave Il dinner in st. Louis on Sat
urday night In honor of MIR. Richard H. Sylves-
Ahern, of st. Matthews church, is registered at
August 1st.-Mris. L. C. Canfield and her Ter
daughter, Miss May, are at the Carrollton,
Ocean Grove, N. J.-Mr. Frank S. Presbrey,
son OF DIR. O. +. Presbrey, of this city, and for
signed the position OF manager of the Youngs-
town, Ohio, Necs- Register, to accept the posi-
ton OF manager and treasurer OF the Springfield,
Ohio. Globe Republic, of which paper he has
become a part Owner.-SenatOr James Il.
Jones, of Arkansas Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms
Miles, We're registered in Chicago on Mon
day.-Justice BlatchfOrd and wife have left
Newport tor Il visit to Jackson, n. H.-Rep-
resentative Randall and wife, Mr.. Alexander
Greger, of the Russian legation, and Mr.. George
Z: Gorham, were registered in New York last
night.-The citizens of Evansville, Ind, last
night rendered a banquet to COi. Charles DENLY,
the new minister to China.-Mr. TheO. Mills
left last night for Philadcphia to execute q bust
Of the late Bishop Matthew Simpson in that
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