Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-06-14
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-pAY.-Internal
revenue, S649, 200: customs, s51O,s7s. =
THOSE who leave the city during the summer
can have THE STAR mailed to them for any
length of time and the address changed as often
as desired. The subscription must be invariably
paid in advance.
THE PRESIDENTS PLANS FOR A VACATION
Not DECIDED UPoN.-When asked to-day by q
STAR reporter as to the correctness ofthe various
published programs disposing of the Presidents
said that the President had made no plans
whatever for the summer and knew nothing Of
these various proposed pleasure trips until he
read them In the newspapers.
GETTING ACCUSTOMED TO CAMP L1rE-The
members of the signal corps class at Fort Myer
have started on an Expedition for practice up
the Potomac. Saturday they ran a field tele-
graph to their first camping station at Fort
Myer. They will be away from the fort ten or
twelve days. and use their time In signal and
telegraph practic and in accustoming them
selves to camp life.
A BOARD OF NAVAL OFFICERS, consisting of
Vice Admiral Rowan and Rear Admirals War
den and Luce, has been appointed to meet at
the Navy department, June 18th, for the ex-
animation for promotion of Commodore
u.
Capt: J. A: Greer. Commodore Russell has ar
rived in Washington from San Francisco, and
after his examination will leave for the South
Atlantic station TO take command. He has Sc
mand the flag ship Lancaster and
W relieve Gspt poter wSass term
expired. He has been ordered home. The
Lancaster was heard from last couple of
weeks ago at Cape Town. S. A.. on her way to
Rio de Janeiro
OUR AUXILIARY NAvY.-The Secretary of
the Navy has written to the president of the
board of inspection of foreign vessels at New
York, saying that the department is anxious to
obtain a list and description of those steamers
OF our mercantile marine which in time of need
might be called upon at once for special pur.
poses. He also says that the department pro.
poses to extend the functions OF the inspection
board by directing it to examine carefully the
steamers OF all classes OF Our.mercantile marine
to ascertain and report upon their adaptability
tor the above mentioned service. He also re-
to enlist the interest of the ship owners in this
scheme, and adds that the department will
cause the names OF such vessels as may fill the
necessary requirements to be entered on the
list, which will be known as the auxiliary naval
list, with the object of employing them in case
the government desires the support OF our
merchant fleet.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONERS LYMAN DIS
sENTs.-The question of allowing q confidential
clerk to the third auditor, without examine
tAOus OcluS OclOT0 JUc CIVIL service com MISSION
1t on May 20 adopted an order holding "that
such clerks may be selected without passing
civil service examination" Commissioner
LYMAN voted against the order. He holds that
the third auditor is not the ''head of an Office
within the meaning of the law, and that he is
not entitled to confidential clerk.
AT THE MILITARY AcADEMY.-The gradu-
ating exercises at West Point Saturday were
held in the open asi. The cadets were briefly
addressed by Secretary Endicott. Gen. Sheridan
t1n 1ntf SnxySr1
tribute to Gen. Fitz John Porter.
To OPEN THE LONDON EXHIBITION BY
CABLE.-President Cleveland has accepted the
honorary presidency of the American Exhibit
ton to take place in London in May 1887, and
will open the exhibition from the White House
ana start the machinery by the telegraph land
lines and cables.
GEN. MEIGs' PLAN FOR CITY Posi- OFFICE
AND CITY HALL-Gen. M. G. Meigs has de-
vised plan for providing for a city post Office
and a municipal building, which proposes the
erection OF wings to the present city hall build
Ing extending eastwardiy :and westwardly to
lively, with :large interior courts in each for
handling the mails in one case and for tax
offices In the other. The cost, he says, will not
be over 100000.
COMING DIsMIssALs IN THE SIXTH AUD1ToR's
OFFICE.-In regard to the published statement
that there will be sixty employees in the Sixth
auditors auditor office discharged on the LIST Of July,
morning that owing to the reduction of the ap-
preparation 1t will be necessary to dispense
with the services of some twenty-five clerks.
He added that the dismissals would be gov
erned as far as possible by the efficiency of the
clerks, and that no good clerk would be dis
Charged II 1t is possible to avoid it.
TRUSTEES OF THE REFORM SCHooL-The
President to-day appointed Messrs. George w.
Adams and James E. Fitch to be trustees of
fhn Dofp
for the term OF three years from this date.
ARMY ORDERs.-The leave of Capt. Henry C.
Cook, I'd infantry, is extended one month; Capt.
Robert ID. Montgomery, 9Th cavalry, Is ap-
pointed to act as inspector on certain ordnance
and ordnance stores at jefferson barracks, Mo.
The Brazilian Prince.
DOM PEDRO's GRANDSON To ARRIVE IN THIS
OITY TONIGHT.
Prince Leopoldo Auguste, the grandson of
Emperor Dom Pedro, of Brazil, who is now
making cruise in his character OF midship-
man in the Brazilian navy, is expected to ar
rive in this city at ten o'clock tonight. His
party will comprise six persons. They win go
directly to the Arlington hotel The President
will receive the Prince at halfpast IL o'clock
tomorrow. The Prince will also attend the
state reception at the White House tomorrow
evening. He Will remain In this city three or
four days.
Prince Auguste Leopoldo, who is grandson OF
OOIu 1cOTO, Cue emperor OF Brazil, ana O mid.
shipman on the Brazilian training-ship AL.
mirante Barrozo, Is nineteen years Of age
above medium height, of fine physique and
with light hair and complexion and blue eyes,
which are In marked contrast with the dark
complex ions and black hair of his companions
His title is LIE Prince Auguste SAKE Coburg
Gotha. His father, from whom he gets his
Saxon hair and complexion, was the Duke of
SAKE Coburg Gotha, and married Dona Leo
poldina. daughter of Dom Pedro His mother
is dead and his father is in Germany. All who
meet the prince are pleasantly impressed. His
manner is quiet and gentle and manly He
speaks several languages fuently, but English
with difficulty: The cadets accompanying
Brazil.
A POliceman's Pistol.
SHOT AT AN ESCAPING PRISONER TAKES Er.
Feet IN THE LEG OF A CoLoRED MAN.
About o'clock last evening VIM. holland. q
young man, had been placed under arrest in the
Deighborhood Of I'd and d streets southwest,
and attempting to escape he was twice fired at
by Officer Huntington. One of the shots took ei-
feet in the leg OF John Battle, a colored man.
who lives at 12S street and is employed by
Strang & Tucker. holland was recaptured on Sd
street. Mr.. McKim probed for the ball In No
lan's leg, but failed to find it.
William holland, the man whom the officer
shot at, with Andrew Brooks, who was also ar.
rested at the time, was taken to the Police