Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-08-13
THE WEEKS WORK
Selected From Every Source and
Boiled Down.
WASHINGTON.

CONsUL-GENERAL BRADFORD at Shang-
hal has resi- gned, says dispatch of Aug.
9Th.
A Washington telegram of Aug. 4th
says: John @. Drafts Uowa) has been
appointed Indian agent at the Union
Agency in the Indian Territory.
w. B. MOORE, deputy fourth auditor,
will be promoted to the fourth auditor
ship made vacant by the resignation of
Judge Taber, says dispatch OF Aug. 7th.
A DISPATCH of Aug. 9Th says, Speaker
Randall has appointed John H. White,
of Alabama, one of the official steno-
graphers of the house of representatives,
to fill the vacancy occasiOned by the
death of Mr. Hincks, of Massachusetts.
DISPATCHES received in the war de-
partment, August 18th, from Gen. Miles
put at rest all fears of an Indian war,
and the authorities no longer believe
that Sitting Bull will even cross the line,
much less make hostile demonstrations.
A DISPATCH of Aug 18th says: Treas
urer Gilfllan has decided to require
all the employees of the government in
Washington to take 10 per cent. of their
salaries in silver. The payroll amounts
to about 81, 100000 month, and by this
means 100000 month will be forced
in circulation.
THERE has been marked increase,
says dispatch of Aug. 18th, in the de-
mand for the standard silver dollars
since Secretary Sherman issued his order
to the disbursing officers requiring them
not to discriminate against the standard
dollar in making payments. The order
low 1 RI
that date $43S.S90 were disposed Of.
Since then the demand has risen to $7O3,-
go, showing a large increase in conse-
quence of this order.
IT was reported from Washington Aug.
9th, that owing to the grave complaints
of American fishermen, the Kearsage
now cruising in the Gulf of ST. Law
renee, has been instructed to stop at some
port of New Brunswick or Nova Scotia,
for special agent of the State Depart
ment to visit the fishing grounds and re-
port as to the condition of the in-shore
fisheries by our fishing fleet and their
treatment by the local authorities and
population.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of Aug. 9th
saws reports from United States consuls
in Europe show that wages in the United
States are double those OF Belgium,
Denmark, France, and England, and
three times those of Germany, Italy, and
Spain, and four times those of the Neither
lands, and that the prices of the nee
essaries of life are lower in the United
States than in Europe; that more misery
results from strikes, drinking, socialism,
and communism in England and Ger
many than from all other causes COM
bined, hard times included.
A SPECIAL dispatch to the Inter Ocean
dated Aug. Sth says: The records of the
pension bureau show curious fact in re-
ference to pensions, not easily explained.
Kentucky furnished the Union army 49,,
OPS white soldiers during the war. There
are now on the pension rolls 2,1O6 in.
valids in Kentucky, OR an average OF one
to every thirty two soldiers sent to the
field Maine, New Hampshire, and Yer
mont furnished 144,005 soldiers to the
army, and now have $3.50 invalids on the
pension rolls, or an average of one to
every Is, just double the ratio in Ken
lucky.