Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-08-08


johnson, district attorney for the territory of
Wyoming, and a counter effort is making to
put out Judge Peck, of that territory. Mr..
johnson is the author of the bill which passed
the wyoming legislature depriving Judge
Peck of the territorial judiciary, of any jurls-
this bill was passed by the Senate at its las
session, but through the influence of Deegat
COrlett was killed in the House. This leave
matters. 1t has three judges and a suprem
court for appeals from their decisions. Thi
court consists of the three judges themselves
tiOn is now on leave of absence, and Wyoming
can rave no supreme court. The objections
that the people out there have to him are
vocate, a staunch Presbyterian and somewhat
of stickler for the modes and requirements
OF polite life. He is also fond OF pushing his
occasions. He will not, for instance, eat at
the same table of his hotel with tho ordinary
Wyoming CITES, they say, and turns up his nose
at S6d in country where almost every
popular. with the hardy fr0ntiersmen, and
they often often get up antiPeck meetings
artles and as knowing no law, while at the
latter the favorite pastime is to burn him in
effigy. The folks out there say they will do
Will not have him for judge. The fight
against him is growing very warm, but he is
supposed to have the President on his side,
tiersmen on his. The affair will have to be
settled soon, as Wyoming must have judici-
airy. A story of how the Judge runs things on
ousted. An individual before his honor gave
the name of Shidrick. That's not your
ns name" yelled the Judge. But it is, persist
e. ed t the man; II ought to know" II tell you
purple. Yours is Biblical name. 1t is
Shadrach-Shad ad-r-a ch. l guess / know
something about the Bible.''
COMMODORE ScHUFELDT, chief of the bu
reau OF equipment and repair, has returned
from California.
THE ALABAMA TIMBER PIRATES-Timber
Commissioner G. H. Hunter, of Alabama, sends
word to the Interior department from Mont
gonery that a timber depredatOr, Green ID.
franklin, who has recently been committed
to lall on plea OF guilty, informed him that
of Agent Mccormack and heard the shot when
the latter was fired upon some four months
since. Franklin says he found McCOrmack'S
SaddlebagS in the woods containing official
papers, &C.. When arrested he had in his pos
session fine pistol, which the commissioner
Is satisfied belongs to Mccormack. Commits
would return he could not only recover his pis.
tol but find out who attempted to kill him, and
other facts which might throw light on the
timber depredators in that vicinity The letter
concludes: II have bound over Several par
ties, and the district attorney is about to seize
lands"
NAVAL ORDERS.-Master Charles E. Fox is
ordered to duty on the coast survey, 25th inst.
Midshipman Clifford j. BOuSh to the receiving
ship Franklin, at Norfolk. Ensign John W.
stewart to duty on the coast survey. Ensign
FRANK +. Sawyer from the receiving ship
Franklin, and ordered to duty: on the coast
survey.
A SELF-SACRIFICING PATRIOT DIsAPPoINT-
ED.-A New Yorker writes to the Postmaster
General: According to our papers here there
are but few applicants for the minor positions
in your department, therefore / trust you will
applicant, to fill any position in any palt of
the Union, for 81, 200 to 81 500 per a1inum /
have but little, if any, political influence, but
my mercantile references cannot be surpassed.
trusting that may hear from you at no dis
tant PERIOD" &c. An answer to this self-sacri-
ficing proposition was sent this afternoon 1t
is to the effect that the minor positions which
the Postmaster General finds a difficulty in
IS Sl2 year, with no chance to speculate in
stamps. Where the salary is as high as $25 pc
annum, there is no lack of applicants.
CONGRESSIONAL NoM1NAT1oNs.-Gen. R. L.
1. Beale was yesterday nominated for Con-
gresS by the democrats of the first Virginia
district. Among his opponents was the Hon.
Beverly B. Douglass, the present incumb ant.
A. Clark for Congress in the fourth New Jer-
sey district. The second Louisiana dis
trict democrats have nominated E. John Ellis
for Congress. -. The republicans Of the sixth
Ohio district have nominated j. L. Price for
Congress. 1.-The republicans OF the ninth
Illinois district have renOminated Thomas A.
Boyd for Congress.
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