Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-01-05

has been issued by Treasurer Hyatt, showing that
the total debt on December 81 was sec, ,6l2 45O a
reduction OF LAB, 200 in the principal and of
$107 1897 in interest
AN ABANDONED MISUNDERSTANDING whitney
has telegraphed the commander of the q. s. 8.
sci and blow up the abandoned schooner John
Hancock, loaded with lumber, water-lOgged on
Humboldt Bay, and reported asdangerous TO navi-
cation.
MINISTER SrALLo Nor IGNoRED.-State Depart
ment officials deny that Judge Stallo, the Ameri-
can minister to Italy, was ignored In any way by
the President as was reported, in availing him.
self OF the services Of Cardinal Gibbons to present
his gift to the pope. Mr. StallO, as minister to
Italy, is in no way brought into relations with the
pope.
ARMY ORDERs--The resignation Of Cadet JOS. E.
Adair, fourth class at West Point has been &C
cepted. Capt. JOS. T. Haskell, 23d infantry, ap-
pointed inspector of certain ordnance and ord
nance stores, &c, at Detroit Leave OF absence
granted Cadet Frank s. Long, fourth class West
Point, until June Is, when he will join the then
fourth class.
A NEW BUREAU CHIEF CLERK.-Secretary Whit
ney has rendered to julius J. Feeks at present
plOyed on Staten Island by the Agricultural De-
partment the position Of chief clerk OF the bureau
OF steam engineering. He has not yet accepted
the ofer, but 1t is thought that he will do So The
CHIEF en- G clerkshiP Of the equipment bureau, vacated
taryship, will not be filled FOR some time. The
work OF the bureau OF provisions aud clothing Is so
far behind that all available clerks are being placed
| in that bureau.
The MARE ISLAND DOCK Nor DAMAeED.-Com-
modore Harmony, chief OF the Bureau OF Yards
and Docks, has received a report from Commo-
dore G. E. Belknap, cOmmandant of the navy
yard, Mare Island, Cal, denying the newspaper
reports that the granite dock at that yard was
injured In December last by the docking Of the
French flagship DuQuesne, so as to result in the
settling of the waflS &C. Commodore BelKnap
says that the only foundation Tor the newspaper
there for the past six years, due to the expansion
and contraction OF the concrete and not 10 SETTLE
ment. He adds that the dock has been severely
tested recently and came forth without injury,
and this fact seemed TO have aroused no end OF
jealousy and malice on the part Of some people
who had predicted that the dock would be
wrecked and were sorry that such was not the
case.
BOUND OvER.-The Commissioner Of Pensions
has been notified that Wiley W. Boyett and DR..
Joel G. Gulledge were, on Dec. %. 1887, on pre-
lminary examination before U. s. Commissioner
Brian, at Alexandria, La, bound over each in the
OF United States Court, to answer TO charges OF
perjury, su0OrnatiOn OF perjury, forgery, con-
spiracy and the presentation of false claim for
pension.
PERsoNAL-Gov. E. G. Ross. Of New Mexico, is
at No. 1922 street-Geo b. Wells, of Boston,
L. y. danha anu ~ II. Cniuester, Vi new 1ork,
are at the SC. Jamea-Gen 8. 8. Carroll, accom-
panied by his son, left for Florida this morning
to be absent during the winter. Representa-
tive Butler, G. S. Wheaton, OF cedar Rapids, Jos.
,. Lincoln, OF Boston, NJ =. Webb, OF Paris, W. H.
Neal, jr., OF Havana. and Hon. A. j. whitman, OF
Duluth, are at the Ebbitt-Mr. RObt Ridgway,
OF the Smithsonian Institution, and JnO. L. Ridg-
way were cal ed home to-day by the death OF their
father, which occurred at Olney, Ills, January T.
Representatives Hunter and DeLano, and NJ
A. Raymond, OF New York, are at Willards.-
Senator Spooner, Representatives Cox, Grant,
Lance, HeInphill, Mcmillan and Guenther are at
the Riggs. p. Tuck, OF New York, and VIM.
r: Tyler and wife, OF Quincy, Mass. are at
and c. W. Artz, OF New York, are at WormleyA-
L. A. HarkneSs, or Cleveland, and 8. p. Nash, Of
New York, are at the Arlington.