Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-07-19
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
| GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY-Internal
revenue, S637 ,316: customs, SssO,6s4.
| PROPOSALS were opened to-day at the city
post once for the purchase of condemned ma
terial during the coming quarter. The success
! Iui bidders for various articles were E. G.
and waste paper, 77ia cents; Hopfenmaier d
Co, scrap leather, SO cents, and waste twine,
s1s.qp
orass hooks, 30 per pound.
The PRESIDENT Will be accompanied to Al.
oany oy Secretaries Bayard and Whitney and
| frlVate Secretary Lamont. The party will
| leaVe mere Wednesday afternoon, and will!
| 99fSnu thursday in Albany as the guests Uf Gov.
| mn, leaving in time to reach Washington Fri
oay forenoon.
| Col. LAMONT SAID to-day that there was no
foundation for the published story that there
| was misunderstanding between the President
auu ninself regarding the issuing of the recent
| executive order forbidding government officials
| iioi'i taxing an active part i'll politics.
The ORDER relieving First Lient. L. A. Craig,
| Sth cavalry. from duty on recruiting service,
.tas . Seeh amended to take effect October /, liz
| stead Oh July 81.
! at the signal Office recently for supplying a
large amount of stationery for the use of the
| slsnai service. Alter they had been scheduled
anu tne contracts awarded, it was discovered
| looked. He was the lowest bidder on some of
the items, and was very indignant. The care
!essness nece>sitated readvertising and doing
Tue whole thing over again.
THE DANIEL MANNING CLUB. One of the
members of the Daniel Manning club which.
was organized by some democratic officials OF
the Treasury department. has stated that the
club was organized for social purposes exclu-
siVeiy. No formal meetings were held before
an lntlmat1on was received from the White
mouse that the movement should not proceed
IurCher, as the objects OF the club might be mis-
understood. 1t is said, however, that the order
issue issued by the President q few days ago did not
grow out OF the organization OF this club as the
presidential order was in contemplation before
the organization Of the Daniel Manning club
was thought of.
REsIGNED.-Louis E. Church, associate jus
tice OF the supreme court OF Dakota, has ten
oered his resignation to the President.
PARDONED BY THE PRESIDENT. Harry G.
Alleger, convicted in the Criminal Court of the
District, of tampering with the mails has been
pardOned by the President, because his health
had broken down.
PAYMAsTER WATKINS SENrENCEp.-Georee
X. Watkins, paymaster of the United States
steamer Ossipee, has been tried and convicted
oy court-martial on board the Ossipee at Yoko-
hama on charges OF embezzlement aud deser-
years imprisonment at hard labor in United
states prison to be designated by the Secretary
OF the Navy, to receive half furlough pay dur
Ing that period, and to be dismissed from the
service on the expiration of the term of impris-
Onment.
LIEUT.. MCBLAIN's DIVORCE TRoUBLEs-The
general court-martial for the trial of Lieut. j.
r. McblalD, 9th cavalry, convened at Cheyenne
last week The accused was arraigned on the
charge OF conduct unbecOming an officer and a
gentleman, the specification setting forth the
obtaining OF fraudulent decree Of divorce
from his wife. who claims to have had no
guilty. The record of the superior court of San
Francisco in the divorce case was introduced in
evidence Owing to the non-arrival OF impor-
tant witnesses for the prosecution from Phila-
oelphia the court adjourned until to-day.
THE DEATH OF DEL CAMPo.-News has been
received here Of the death at Panama Of SEM
Del Campo. the former secretary OF the Chilian
legation. In this connection the story Is told
that he never fell into the dissipated habits
which made him notorious here until he was
informed OF the marriage of his sweetheart in
Culli, Tor whom he was endeavOrinK to win
lame ana name, 10 wealthy man.
SMUGGLING AT BIsMARcK.-Special Agent
Crowley. of the Treasury department. has re-
turned to Chicago from Bismarck, where he
went last week to investigate and report on the
advisability OF establishing custom house
point where 1t Is crossed by the Northern Pacific
railroad, and 1t is suspected that a considerable
portion of the turs and other goods brought
lnto BISMARCK from the north are smuggled
across the line.
naval cadets, who were graduated after a six
years term at the naval academy in May, have
been recommended to the Navy department for
retention In the navy: Messrs Hewes Capps.
derfiil, piunke!t Ike & and H W. James as assistant
gait, Beecher. Maseley, Hall, Weles, Hutine,
Loomis, Parmenter, II. P. Jones, Shoemaker.
Seymour, FANS, Whittlesey, Macpherson, Hayes
and WertZ.
INCREASED Posi- OFFICE Bus1NEss.-There
was an increase in the value of postage stamps
sold during the past year as compared with the
previous year of 81, OF ). .2535O, in the stamped
envelopes and newspaper wrappers an increase
was S163, ,OO5. The decrease in the cost of
manufacture OF postage stamps and postal cards
was sixteen and eight per cent respectively.
The elect OF the reduction OF postage from
three to two cents and the increase in the unit
of weight from half ounce TO an ounce is
shown by figures prepared at the department
from reports of a special count received from
twenty OF the leading post offices throughout
the country tor the last week OF June in 1885
| and 1886. This shows that the increase in the
number OF letters mailed was 21.7 per cent OF
sealed parcels 59.3 per cent, unsealed parcels
4O.6 per cent and OF circulars 81 per cent.
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.
PERsoNAL.-Adjutant General Drum returned
from a trip to the northwest Saturday evening
and was at his desk at the War Department to-
day.-A. de Castro, of Venezuela, r. E. Hun
ter, of Memphis, w. NJ: Slough, of New Mexico,
Thos. Push of New Orleans, II. II. Marshall, OF
Miller, OF New York, are at Willard's-Mr:
VIM. Fenimore Cooper. formerly OF this city,
Warren and F. Ewing Dent left this morning
for the mountains of Maryland and West Vir-
ginla, TO be absent until September.-J D.
ter Speei, Hon; VIM. Mckinley. jr OF Ohio, s.
X. Hudd and j. II. Chandler, OF Michigan, are
at the Ebbtt-COl. Fred. Grant denies that
his motner recently underwenta a surgical opera