Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-10-31
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Interna
revenue, $41s,613; customs, S494,74O.

NAVY DEPARTMENT AcCoUNrs.-The new
system or accounts and bookkeeping devised
a dor Inc Navy department, by Mr.. Calhoun, the
to to she eesn
VIII DC put In operation at once.
ARREST OF A CouNrERFE1rER.-Tbe secret
service agents at Jackson, Miss, have arrested
". ID. Iarrant for issuing q counterfeit 800 sill.
yer certlneate and have captured his plates and
al MS Kit The counterfeit note u very
rough and poor imitation.
NAVAL PRoMoT1oNs.-The death Of Rear Ad.
mlraI DE Kraft causes the following promo
uons: commodore John Lee Davis, to be rear
70 be commodore; Commander George q
Remey. to be captain; Lieut. Commander c. Il.
paws, TO De commander, and Lieut.. franklin
danIoro, 10 De lieutenant commander.
THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY MANNING.
Secretary Manning left Washington this morn.
Ing ior Albany, N. Y, for the purpose OF voting
tne democratic ticket He will probably make
a short stop In New York en- route, and expects
70 return TO Washington Thursday morning.
E E lamont says the President will leave
asnlngt0n Monday morning and proceed di.
rect to Buffalo and that after casting his vote be
Will return direct to Washington.
JUDGE VINCENT says there are no charges
MED against him with the President or the At
torney General, except the fact of his having
gwen ex-senator Dorsey an appointment
THE Secretary of the Interior, the Postmaster
general and the Attorney General saw the
PRESIDENT to-day.
REAR ADMIRAL DE KRAFFTs FUNERAL took
place at p. m. to-day from St. Johns church,
and the remains were inferred in Rock Creek
cemetery. The pall-bearers were Rear Ad.
mirals Crosby, Quackenbush and Rowe, Com
Slack. U. S. NJ. c.; Medical Inspector Bates and
Chief Engineer Inch, U. S. N.
AN ARMY RETIRING BOARD having found
First Lieut. William T. Howard, I'd artillery.
incapacitated for active service, the extension
OF leave Of absence on account of sickness
granted him is still further extended sly
months on account of disability.
THE Hot SPRINGS REpoRr-Gen. Charles w.
Field, the superintendent Of the Hot Springs.
IN his annual report to the Secretary Of the In
terror, states that the city authorities are now
CONSIDERING plan OF laying a line OF sewer
PIPE Pipes SO as to relieve the creek culvert He
moved or re-let. The receipts from water and
ground rents were $4,73625, and disburse-
ments were $5,7OS.
PERsoNAL.-secretary Manning has gone
home to vote.-W. v. Mexican, editor Of the
Philadelphia Ledger, is in town for short stay.
~ W. s. District Attorney Dorsheimer, OF New
m monk, Is tb at Inc ArlingtonMr Franklin Sim
tome, Is In the city, for a stay of week or ten
Gays, stopping at Wormley's. +. Mac
Donald, age forty-six, the founder of the Society
OF ,! Els, and weIl;known actor, died from
paralysis on Long Island on the Goth Inst
COL u. r. Brooks, formerly connected with the
press OF this city, but now editor Of the Peoria
transcript, is in town on short visit-Mrs.
Charlton and her daughters of st. Louis. are
spending few days with her sister, Mrs. ". p
Jameson. at Lower Cedar Point. Col. and
Mrs Murphy expect q reunion of their
children next week, soon after which Mrs.
Charlton will return to St. Louis.-Ren.
e csc Mckinley, of Ohio, arrived at
Inc t -, Ebbitt from Virginia last night
Few days at Columbus, Ohio.-Capt. r. T.
no Is In toWn--secretary Whitney had as
DIS pis guest at dinner last night Sir Nathaniel
ton OF Great Britain. and the heads of bureaus
In In the Navy departmenL-Ex-Gov. Thos c.
Ebb1st this mo. ning.-Edward 8. Isham. Of
WOrmley's, 80 ~ Nv