Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-13
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY.-Interna
revenue, $354, ,l1S; customs, $425,953.

revenue, S3o4, 4,1lS; customs, $42o, ,9o3.
Col. denny, the newly appointed minister to
China, arrived in Washington to-day. He had
previously taken the oath OF office.
THE CIVIL SERVICE BOARD meets at the
| rooms of the commission on Monday to look
over the papers of the two hundred persons
examined this week. large proportion of
these applicants are from the south. During the
past year, up to May, about thousand appli-
cants have been examined here, and sixty per
cent of them have passed.
FUEL CoNTRAcTs.-The contract for furnish.
ing fuel to the Government Insane Asylum was
! awarded as follows: Geo. L. Sheriff. Cumber-
land coal, $2.74 per ton; V. Baldwin Johnson.
white ash stove coal, S5.40; T. B. Middleton, of
contracts for furnishing lumber were awarded
70 u b. Cross, Jr., Geo. A. Shehan and Jas. +.
Barbour.
NOT A PROPER WAY TO TEST THE Law
The Secretary of the Treasury has informed
Mr. Ramsey, guardian OF the poor, at Pitts
burg who sent an emigrant family from Pitts
burg to Washington for the purpose as he said,
OF testing the efficacy of the pauper emigrant
act, that the department does not consider the
sending of u pauper family from one city to be
Ing the law % in sS fMIet He is ALSO TO ae
that the health authorities at Boston, at which
port port II the assisted emigrants in question are
report of the facts in the case.
DEATH OF CONSUL WH1rE-Col Edward c.
White, United States consul at Puerto Cabello
Venezuela, died at his residence in Phiadel-
phia yesterday. He had been home on q brief
furlOuSh by reason of i'll health He leaves a
family.
GEN. SHELLEY, the fourth auditor of the
Treasury, left for his home in Alabama to-day.
He will be gone about two weeks, and will
bring his family with him on his return.
GEN. CARMAN TO BE HEARD.-The first con.
troller of the Treasury will give hearing next
week to Gen. Carman, late chief clerk of the de-
partment OF agriculture, in defense of the eX-
Penditures for Seeds. under Commissioners
Lor1ng, the accounts for which were recently
rejected by the first auditor.
Mr.. VAN BoKKLLEN RELEAsED.-The State
department mas been notified of the release of
Mr.. Charles Van Bokkelen, a citizen of the
United States, and eX-consul of Hayti in
New York, from the st. Domingo prison, in
which he has been confined for about eighteen
months for debt.
ASSISTANT PAYMAsTER JAS. H. CHAPMAN,U.
s. N, has been granted three months leave of
| absence.
LIEUT. CHAs. o. ALLIBoNE, who assisted
Commander McCalla at the Navy department
upon the preparation OF his report of the recent
Panama expedition, has been granted leave of
absence, and left for New York to-day.
WHY He REsIGNED-The postmaster at
Slingesland, n. Y, has resigned, because he is
an offensive republican PARTISAN"
A NAVAL RETIRING BOARD has been ordered
to meet at the Navy department on Monday for
the examination of Assistant Engineer Bailie,
Lieut.. Dabney and several warrant officers. The
board will consist of Rear Admiral Worden,
Medical Directors Turner and Hord, Capt. How
1son and Lieut. Commander Traine
THE FOREIGN MAIL SERv1cE.-with the ap-
proval of the President and cabinet the Post
master General has decided not to advertise tor
bids for contracts for the transportation of the
foreign mails upon mileage basis of fifty cents
per mile under the permissive authority con-
1erred by the act of Congress OF March Sd, 1SS5.
The Postmaster General holds that the act was
not designed to provide Il subsidy for American
steamships, and that al the rate of so cents
mile it would require 81, 151 ,615 to pay the
American vessels employed during 1854 He
says that 1T is not necessary to make the con-
tracts allowed in the act OF 1855 in order to
provide for the transportation OF these mails,
as in case American steamers should refuse to
carry them at the rate now paid which he
thinks are fully adequate foreign vessels would
be glad to secure the contracts.
THE EXAMINATION in medical science and
microscopy for the surgeon generals Office will
be held June 25tl, In the civil service rooms.
PERsONAL.-Prof. John NJ. Gregory, of the
the civil service commission, is to deliver the