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GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS TopAY-Intsrnal
| revenue, s574, 4,612; customs. &72S, S,4ls.
CADETS HAVE BEEN APPOINTED to the Mill
tary Academy as follows: Edwin Williams
Berwick. 18th district of Pennsylvania; Frank
David Ely. Rock Falls 7th Illinois: Arnold
Akester, Washington, Cd Indiana, with E. +.
Dixon OF Mitchell as alternate.
BIDS WERE OPENED To-Day in the Bureau of
Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department, for
repairs and additions to the steam heating ap-
paratus at the Brooklyn Naval Hospital, The
Y. n. Evans Company Of New York we're the
lowest bidders at S6347
PENSIONS FOR DISTRICT PEopLE.-pensions
have been granted to residents Of the District
of Columbia as follows: Original invalid
Carl Mogensen, John Backer Of Soldiers
Home; reissue-Jerome T. Daudelet: widows
&c.-Robert, father of John A. Berry.
RELIEF OF FLOOD SUFFERERs.-Secretary
Proctor has received several dispatches from
Capt. Weston at New Orleans about his work
among the food sufferers. He says that it will
require ,0O0. 600 rations for Tie relief of the
people of Mississippi and several hundred
thousand for the sufferers in Louisiana.
ENTERED UPON Hrs DUrIEs.-!dr. A. F. Nc
MILAN, the new deputy first auditor of the
Treasury took the oath of Office this morning
and entered upon his new duties He was the
recipient OF many beautiful floral offerings
from the clerks of the office
DELAY IN GETTING THE PETRFr. READY FOR
SEA.-Orders have been received at the Norfolk
navy yard to have the Petrol ready for sea
within a week, as stated in The STAR but it is
doubtful il this can be done. The piece to re-
place the machinery broken on her trial trip
was found to be defective and that had to be
replaced by still another piece.
SPECIAL INDIAN AGENT AppoISrEp-The
President has appointed George P. Litchfeld
OF Salem. Ore, to be special agent to make
allotments OF lands to Indians in severalty un.
| der the provisions of the act approved Feb
ruary 3. 1887, with compensation at the rate OF
expenses, exclusive of subsistence.
The L. S. S. IRooUoIs. now undergoing re-
pairs at the Mare Island navy yard. CAL will
in about two weeks make her second start for
Samoa to relieve the Mohican at Apia. The
Mohican will, upon the arrival of the Iroquois
go first to Auckland for supplies and will then
so to the west coast of South America. The
Iroquois will sail by way of Honolulu.
THk PRESIDENTS CALLERS this morning in
cluded Senators Casey Sherman and Faulkner
Representatives Gear, Henderson Brookshire,
O'Donnell, Kelley, Wade, Wilson, Smith, At
kinson, Bingham, Commissioner Mason, Su-
perintendent Weber of the barge Office and a
delegation from New Mexico. headed by Gov.
| Prince aud Representative Joseph
TEE ORDERS OF THE CRUISER BALTIMORE have
| been issued by Acting Secretary Ramsay She
| will coal at Norfolk and be in Baltimore not
later than May 10 and leave there May IA for
Haytian waters, where she will report to Rear
Admiral Gherardi. commanding the North At
lantic squadron, as his flagship. The board of
inspection, of which Admiral Kimberly is pres
ident has reported that the vessel behaved
admirably on her recent sea cruise, making l6
knots under natural draught and knots with
one boiler and one propeller and the other pro-
peller dragging
The CURRENT NUMBER OF The WEEKLY STAR,
| issued today, is an attractive and comprehen-
sive one, containing great deal OF general and
local news. The contents are compiled and
arranged SO that those interested can find the
subjects in which their interest lies divided
| into departments 80 that reference to the in
deX will inform them at once where what they
want is located. Every department this week
is mp TO the standard and the entire paper can
not bus prove interesting to every class Of
readers Single copies can be had for cents
each wrapped ready for mailing. Price per
annum Sl.OO-with the Home Magazine $1l0.
NAVAL ORDERS. - Assistant Surgeon L. w.
Spratling ordered to duty at the army and
navy hospital at Hot Springs. Ark. En-
| signs Walter S. Burke and Creighton Church.
hill detached from the Ranger and ordered to
the Charleston. Ensigns ]. L. Jaynes and A.
NJ. Beecher detached from the Charleston and
ordered to the Iroquois Ensigns A. T. Long
| and Francis Boughter detached from the
Portsmo outh and ordered to duty in the Asiatic
| station per steamer Of the 2lst Of May. En-
| sign Fitz A. Huntoon detached from thu coast
| survey steamer Macarthur. Lieut. A. n. Wood
detached from duty on the receiving ship In
| dependence and ordered to the Nipsic. Sur
| ge9n ]. II. Cams detached from duty at the
| army and navy hospital, Hot Springs, Ark,
and granted six months sick leave.
PERsoNAL.-Ex-Preside Grover Cleveland
of New York, Mr.. George h. Hull OF Louisville
NJ. +. Mott of Texas and H E. Montgomery Of
Buffalo are at the Arlington -Foxhall Keene
and Mr.. Arthur Amory, wife and daughters of
New York are at the Arno.-Roger Foster Of
New York is at Chamberlins.-W. NJ Saw
yer and H. ]. Moulton of Lowell, Arthur VIII
liams and Frank L. Ripley of Boston, c. NJ
| Thurnauer of Cincinnati, Hon. Charles Foster
OF Fostoria, Ohio, and I'M. Bailey, jr.. Of Sioux
Falls. S. Dak., are at the Riggs.-