Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-07
GENERAL CAPITAL NEWS.
NOMINATIONS,

NOMINATIONS.
WASHINGTON April 6-The President nominated
K. S. Lovejoy, Nebraska, receiver of public money
at Niobrara Neb., and John W. Groesbeck, post
master at Harvard, Ills.
DUTIES RETURNED.
The House committee on claims agreed to-day to
report favorably the bill awarding the Notre Dame
university, Indiana, S2,334 as rebate of duties paid
upon articles imported for use and ornamentation Of
the university.
DECREASED RECEIPTS.
At meeting of the cabinet to-day Secretary Sher-
man submitted statement of the receipts from Gus
toms and internal revenue for six days of the present
month as compared with the like period during the
month of March. 1t showed falling of of about
So, 0O0 COO. The amount of revenue was about $780,
600 greater than the receipts for the first six days in
April, 1879. The spirits distilled from materials
other than apples, peaches and grapes from July 1
to Dec. 81 1879, were $2S 1928 against S2t645 199
CONFIRMED.
The Senate confirmed Charles A. Adams, of Colo
rado, minister resident and consul general of the
United States to Bolivia. Postmasters: P. F. Doty
Reading, Mich; Lewis Lamarger, AIiGdlestone, O.
GEN. TwIGes' SWORDS.
The Senate committee military affairs to-day re-
ported back to the Senate for reference to the judi
cary committee the joint resolution introduced by
Senator Jones last May, by which it is proposed to
return to Mr.. Rowen Guedala, now resident of
London, Eng, three very valuable swords formerly
belonging to Gen. Twiggs, that were contscated by
Gen. B. +. Butler at the surrender of New Orleans
and by him deposited in the United States treasury.
Mrs. Guedalla, formerly Miss Florence, from whom
the swords were taken and turned into the treasury
as legitimate object for capture and confscatlon
claims they were presented to her by Gen. TWiggs
and that they were therefore her private property
Miss Twiggs, the generals daughter, claims them,
however, as her fathers legal heir.
BEN AND JESSIE.
WASHINGTON, April 6.-The case of Jessie Ray
mond against Senator Hill came up in the circuit
court to-day, upon motion made by Senator Hill's
counsel that the be stricken from the docket on
the ground that the suit was instituted by plaintiffs
attorney and without the plaintiffs consent and
against her protest. The court took the papers.
Later in the day Mrs. Lockwood peared with Miss
Raymond and the latter swore to the affidavit that
she had authorized the institution OF the suit and
still authorized its prosecution, and that her claim
for damages was just and true one. The court
took the molten of Senator Hill 3 counsel under ad-
visement.
REJECTED.
The Senate in executive session mainly occu-
pied with u long and animated discussion over two
Mississippi nominations for supervisors of the cen
sus, which were finally rejected by strict party vote
in each instance John r. Lynch, nominee for su-
pervisorship of the third district, is well known
colored man who preceded Gen. Chalmers as the
representative in Congress. The majority of the
Senate census committee reported adversely on the
nomination and it likewise opposed to the Senate
on the ground that he is a politician and would be
likely to take Of the census supervisorships to
promote his election to Congress. John s Burton,
deputy collector of internal revenue was report
ed against on similar grounds it being charged that
he too, is professional politician and that he is
friend of one Buchanan, who was recently rejected
for the same position because of alleged inten-
ton to for Congress. and that he Butler, would
also make use of his Office for Republican political
purposes