The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-07-13

the ex-Marshal Of the District, who
with his wife, is a great favorite with
all who know them, made no attempt
to have the order changed. but he and
all his family tried to make the best OF
it, and left here the last day of May,
determined they said 10 enjoy all that
their new home could offer them.
Major ". J. Twining, of Indiana,
was APP. inted at the Cabinet meeting
yesterday to be District Commissioner
from the Engineer Corps of the Army.
as provided for by the new law for the
District of Columbia. Major Twinlng
graduated among the first five of his
class at West Point, and is one of the
best engineer officers in the army. He
has never participated in any manner
whatever in politics, and is very popu-
lar among his fellow officers and sub
Ordinates
The State DEPARTMENT has received q
communication from the American
Consul at Brunswick. Germany, in re-
lat!on TO the state of labor and wages
in that part of the German Empire.
He says that labor is divided into three
classes Mechanics and skilled artisans
of all kinds, who receive from IS to IS
cents day; ordinary laborers, inclu-
ding farm and field hands, receive from
90 to Ga cents a day, without board ;
and railway hands, laborers on public
works, and the like, get from A to 60
cents day. A laborer's family.
of husband. wife and three children, can
live very comfortably on 900 marks
(about S2l5 per annum) an0 if steady
work offers can make both ends meet.
In most cases the wife and elder chill
dren contribute TO the general support
by performing other work, which is
easily found in Brunswick. Trade is
especially dull in that district work
men are not content to take such work
as offers, or at offered prices. The Social
istic party is responsible for this state
of things. The rapid development of
German trade and the success of Ger
man arms in lS7O-72 led the laborer to
believe his position would thenceforth
be one of ease and atfiuence, and when
the commercial reaction came, the
working classes, now grown accustomed
to luxuries before unknown, became DIS
conteuted and indisposed to work.
1t is wrong to make disparaging re-
marks about the Potter committee
They no longer disturb the country to
any appreciable extent, and with the
heat and lack of success. they are al
ready sufficiently punished for what
they have done in that direction. Now
what could be more aggravating than
mere episode of yesterdays exan,in-
alton? \ witness belonging :" y tele-
graph company j. suUpUD"> pro-
duce important telegraphic dispatches
passing between jerks. Pitkins and
Anderson. He appears with the dispat-
ches, but says they are of privileged
character. and that he cannot produce
them except under eompulsion. The
Investigators are as excited as the heat
will permit. They sternly compel the
witness and order the dispatches to be
! produced. With dramatic reluctance
he delivers up the results of his re-
searches in the form of single dis
patch. addressed to Anderson in Phila-
Gelphia: Are you coming over to-mor-
row? Answer. \. ID. jerks" If the
Investigators did rot tear their hair it
was because they were bald, or ex-
hausted by their tussles with previous
| witnesses
A general order has been issued by
the War Department which directs that
the extra pay of two dollars per month,
i'll virtue of the certificates of merit,
granted in accordance with sections
1916 and 1885, revised statutes. will
commence at the date of the battle or
engagement in which the certificate
was won, and continue while the SOL
der remains continuously in the service
as an enlisted man. The certificates
conferred on soldiers who may die be-
fore receiving them will be deposited
with the Second Auditor of the
Treasury for the benefit of their heirs !;
and in case of discharge prior to issue,
they will be retained in the Adjutant-
Generals office until applied for, when
proof will be required that the appll-
cants are the persons entitled to them.
No certificate of merit will be granted
to any person not in the military service
of the United States at the date of ap-
plicstion for the same AUGUST.