River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-08-05
From the Capital.

THE post office department is overrun
with applications for new post offices to be
named Garfield" and Hancock"
GEN. HANCOCK in addition to present
duties has been assigned TO the command of
the department of the south during the
temporary absence of brigadier- general
Augur.
The post Office department has been adj
vised by the Swiss Federal council that the
republic of Santo Domingo has declared its
adherence to the rules of the Universal
Postal Union convention, to take effect on
the LIST of October, 1880.
SENATOR BRUCE, of Mississippi, is to
take an active part in the Maine CAM
paign, and will leave for Augusta in few
days. He will also make several speeches
in Ohio and Indiana.
Mrs. VAN LEW, who was formerly post
mistress at Richmond, Va, lis in this city,
making vigorous effort for reappointment
as soon as Forbes vacates the office. She
is persistent talker, and presents a
clean record as one of her chief merits for
the Office.
GEN. Mcdowell telegraphs from San
Francisco: II have long dispatch from
Mexican general Vale dated Corixiella,
Victoria with 320 cavalry, and $50 infan-
try, and has authority to cross the line,
sent him by president Hayes.
ONE of the American Consuls in Cuba is
in Washington, having left the island two
weeks ago He says that the Spaniards at
first denied the charge of having fired up
on American vessels, and then justified it.
They declare that they will make short
work of all fillibusters caught, and viii
have no more Virginia imbrogios.
An interesting book has Just been print
ed at the government printing office, being
description OF the methods and maehin-
cry used on the coast-survey steamer Blake
in making deep-sea soundings, work in
which she has been engaged for several
years. The volume is from the pen of
Lieutenant Commander Sigsbee, under
whose direction 1916 miles of sound
ing lines have been run in the gulf Of
Mexico.
In order to arrive at some general esi-
mate of the amount of outstanding silver
coin, bearing date prior to 1875, the date of
the nOn-silver law, the treasurer quite late
" caused $4,000 in silver coin to be sepa-
rated and examined. 1t was found that p
per cent of the amount bore date prior to
1873, and the treasurer now thinks there is
no doubt fully % per cent. of the silver
coin in circulation is of coinage prior to
1878. As there are about S25, 000,000 ofsub-
sidiary coin in circulation of the issue Of
1873, the total amount in circulation, in
Guiding old coinage, will not vary from
$3l 100000.
Chicago lawyer, by the name of
Harrison has proposed a question to
Comptroller Lawrence. He wants TO know
whether inasmuch as congress passed Il
law declaring patent trade marks uncon-
stitutional, he can go before the court of
claims and recover fee of S20 paid to OBJ
tain one Although $25 is Il small sum to
try 10 recover by each individual, vet, if
the government has to refund all such fees,
the aggregate will make a large draft on
the treasury. Judge Lawrence will inves-
tigate it and make decision ut no distant
day.
LOUIS SCHADE, a German citizen has
had an interview with Assistant Secretary
of State Hay, to lay before him the pecu-
liar action of the Prussian government in
publishing two German American citizens
as fugitives from an evaded military law.
The case as reported at the state depart
ment is as follows: A naturalized Amer
lean citizen, A. G. Bosseller. of st. Louis
returned some years ago, with his two ma
tive American sons, to Germany, and there
became again Prussian subject. His sons
native Americans, before they became
of age returned to the land of their birth
and are now living in st. Louis, were they
exercise all the rights of American citi-
zens In November, 1873, both were pub
lished by the provincial government OF
Eckeneforde. in Schleswig, as fugitives
from military duty. The provincial gov
eminent afterward requested the royal cir
cult court of Schleswig to proceed, under
paragraph $40 of the penal code, against
the alleged fugitives. THAT paragraph
confiscates the property coming to them as
heirs of the elder Bosselier). The circuit
court, however, decided that the American
Bosselicrs were not Prussian subjects, but
American citizens, and that ended the diff
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