The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-09-30
VERY LATEST NEWS.
a Record 1T Important Events,
Domestic and Foreign.
WASHINGTON.

lr is thought that Assistant Secretary
French's decision, favoring the owners OF
Canadian craft in the American lake ports,
will be reversed.
WE1GHTY influence is to be brought to
bear upon the president to secure the APP
po1ntment as successor to General Myer,
late chief of the signal service, of Mai. w.
3. Wetmore, of New York.
AN order has been issued on the 23rd
inst, by the postoffice department forbid
ding the delivery of money orders or regis
tered packages to W. F. Hubbell, No. so
Bond street, New York.
The board of architects appointed to
consider the practicability of erecting
new congressional library, or whether it
would be advisable to extent the quarters
now occupied in the capitol, have reported
in favor of constructing a separate build
ing.
PATENTS are issued to cover a period of
twenty years. Every year large numbers
expire. This year the number expiring
amounts to between six and seven thous-
and. Applications for renewals make
lively business before the congressional
patent committees. The policy of con-
gress of late years has been wholly against
renewals.
THE district commissioners have finally
taken steps to have the flats of the upper
Potomac dredged out and permanently
improved. These flats consist of several
thousand acres just above the Washington
monument. The flats have been great
breeders of malaria. When they are
once improved Washington will be as
healthy as any city in the country.
GEN. WALKER, superintendent of the
census, has replied to the letter of the con-
federate Gen. Anderson, who returned to
Gen. Walker his sword captured from him
during the war, at Ream's Station. Gen.
Walker cordially thanked Gen. Anderson
for his generosity and the thougthfulness.
and said he would prize the weapon all
the more because of its history since the
war.
A DISPATCH from Fort Leavenworth has
been received by Paymaster Brown,
stating that Paymaster Nelson was arrest
ed in Kansas City, on the 23rd inst, and
taken on train bound for New York in
the evening He will be tried by court
martial in New York upon his arrival. 1t
is not thought by the paymastcr general
that he was attempting to escape.
THE records of the pension bureau show
material decrease in the number of
claims filed since July l from that for the
same length of time Immediately prior to
that date. In July the number of claims
received was 1858, in August, 2,l76, in
September to date, 1914, making a total of
7,42S. During the latter part of March
and the months of April and June there
were filed in the neighborhood of 25, 100
claims. This great decrease in the number
of new claims filed monthly is owing
largely to the fact that the receipt of
claims under the Arrears act was limited to
July l.
RETURNS of Sept, l, regarding the con-
dition of the wheat crop at harvest, gives
a preliminary estimate of the crop, but
there are two Investigations yet to be made
before formal estimate will be issued.
The September estimate, this year, gives
the condition of 90, against 80 in 1870, and
81 in 1878. This estimate relates to guam
tity and quality, and does not take into
consideration increase of acreage. The
condition of potatoes, as reported Sept. l.,
shows decline with the month of per
cent. compared with the report of Sept. l.,
1879. There is loss of 5 per cent. in
buckwheat. The average Of the whole
country isl per cent. less than last year at
the same date.