Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-04-30

been appointed postmaster at Daysville, Lou
doun county, Va.
REVENUE APPoISTMESTs.-Enoc Dey has
been appointed gauger in the fifth district of
New JERSEY and n. c. Spradling, storekeeper
and gauger IN Arkansas.
The U.S.S. PENsA COLA arrived at Barbados
Yesterday on her way home from st. Paul de
Loando.
The CRUISER BALTIMoRE has returned to Nor
folk from short sea cruise and will at once
prepare for her trip to Baltimore.
Col. RICHARD HINTON has been appointed
superintendent of artesian irrigation, Depart
ment OF Agriculture, and has appropriation
Of 800, 600 to expend before July proximo. in
ascertainiug whether the agriculture of the
Dakotas and adjacent states can be benefited
by the artesian system.
TREASURER HUsroN is ill at his home in Mt.
Pleasant, being afflicted with rheumatism.
He expects to get back to work on Monday.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Lieut. Allan G. Paul, de-
tached from duty with the North Atlantic
squadron and ordered to special duty in the
Navy Department Lieut.. John C. Fremont,
detached from duty ut the Washington navy
yard and placed on waiting orders.
LIEUT.. A. G. PAUL has been ordered home
from the North Atlantic squadron and will be
Secretary Tracy's naval secretary, taking the
place of Lieut.. Mason.
SECRETARY NOBLE leaves this evening for st.
Louis, where he will attend the celebration to
be held ON Saturday of the completion Of the
new merchants iron and steel bridge across
the Mississippi at the point known as the
Chain OF Rocks at st. Louis.
NAME OF Posr OFFICE CHANdED-The name
OF the post Office at Brookland, on the Metro
politan branch Of the b. and o. railroad. has
been changed to University The new Cath
Olic University is located there.
SPECIAL INsrRUcTIoN IN TORPEDO SERVICE
BY direction of the Secretary of War gem
eral order has been issued from the headquar-
tiers of the army to the effect that hereafter de-
tails of officers for special instruction in tor
pedo service at Willet's Point. n. ", shall be
for ten months instead Of seven. as heretofore
beginning on the ist of December and ending
ON the 1st of October. The detail will be made
| OH the 1st of September.
CHEF ENGINEER SMITHS WIFE DEAp-The
wife of Chief Engineer VIM. S. Smith Cthe en-
gineer lately detached from the U.S.S.,
Charleston) died yesterday at Cheyenne, Wyo.
on her way with her husband to this
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operation recently in San Francisco and 1t
was thought that she was improving. They
had started east in the hope that the trip
would benefit her. The remains will be brought
| on and the funeral will take place on Saturday
| from Ascension Church.
As TO GEN. CLARKsoN's SUCcessoR.-It is not
| thought that there is any foundation for the
| statement telegraphed from Pittsburg that
Jas. 5. Mexican, the postmaster in that city, is
| to succeed First Assistant Postmaster Gem
eral Clarkson. Mr. Mexican has proved to be
an efficient postmaster and he is regarded
as the right man in the right place 1t
is said that the interests Of the admin
| istration would be advanced by his
remaining where he is. prominent
Pennsylvanian said today that if any one was to
| be selected for the western part of the state
that Chris. Magee would be more likely to be
chosen than MIR. Mexican.
MAJ. GEN. FREMoNT.--There was quite an in
teresting scene in the Office of Chief Clerk
Tweedale at the War Department yesterday aft
ernoon. An old, white-haired man, with every
indication OF age except rather sprightly
movement as he walked appeared and
sald that he wanted to take the oath
| that would make him major general Of the
| United States army and place him on the re-
| tired list. He was Gen. John c. Fremont, the
famous veteran whom Congress has Just hon
| ored by the passage OF n bill placing him on
the retired list with the highest possible rank.
His features, despite the lines of age, have not
changed in the least. and, barring his white
hair, he looks just as he did during the war.
PERsoNAI--Col. r. f. Hamilton of the New
York Press Club, who is advancing the interests
of Barnum's show, was in town today-D NJ.
Long OF Pittsburg and F. Kingsbury Curtis of
New York are at the Arno.--A. w. Taft of
Boston is at the Johnson.---The Boston Sym
phony Orchestra Of sixty members is at Will
| lard s.--Henry l.. Abbott, U.S.A., and L. C.
Loehr Of Noblesville, Ind, are at the Ebbitt
j. G. Perry OF Boston is at the ST. James -
A party of ffty-three business men OF West
Chester, Pa, looking at our electric railways,
| are at the Riggs.-Dennison Flode OF Chest
nut Hill, Pa. is at Wormley's.-J. s. Ker-
nochan OF New York is at Chamberlin's.-
Arthur Blight and family Of Philadelphia, b. B.
Iuttle Of Portland, Ore, and NJ. J. Hirsch OF
New York are at the eArlington.--James Went
worth Brown of Boston, DR.. G. H. Billings of
Cohoes and George Il. Jewett of Salem, Mass,
are at the Normandie.
The Case Of Charles T. Ball.