The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-05
VERY LATEST NEWS.
A Record Of Important Events,
Domestic and Foreign.
WASHINGTON.


Phillips postmaster at Oberlin, O., vice
VIM O. Allen, deceased.
TIE 1876 battalions of Turkish regular
troops in Europe have been increased to
800 men in each battalion.
The president has appointed General
Henry S. Huidopker, Of Germantown,
postmaster at Philadelphia General
Huidopker commanded the 'Bucktaip'
regiment at Gettysburg, where he lost
his right arm:
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.
The president has decided to remove
Postmaster Forbes, at Richmond, Va. A
number of applications have been filled
for the position, among which was one
from Miss Van Lew, who formerly held
the office.
THE post Office department has been ad-
vised by the Swiss Federal council that the
republic Of Santo Domingo has declared it's
adherence to the rules of the Universal
Postal Union convention, to take effect on
the LIST of October, 1880.
BIDS were opened at the post-office de-
partment on Goth inst, for mail bags, and
tags, cord, clamps and fasteners. There
were many bids from Cincinnati, Cleve-
land, Nashville, Parkersburg and other
places The awards will be made on or
before August 10th.
UP to this time the secret srveice agents
of the treasury are as much in the dark as
ever with respect to the capture of the
plate from which dangerous counterfeits
of 800 national bank notes have been
made, and no clue has been discovered
which is likely to lead to the early arrest
of the counterfeiters of these notes.
Mr.. N1MMos chief of the bureau of
statistics, has issued a paper showing that
the value of exports of merchandise during
the year ending June 80, 1880, exceeded
the value Of exports of merchandise during
is per cent. and that the value of imports
of merchandise during the year ending
June so, 1880, exceed the value of such
imports during the preceding year about
1927, 100000, or 50 per cent.
TIE mint and sub-treasury of San Fran
cisco are oyertiowing with silver coin, and
an application is made for the transfer to
the east of two million dollars. The cost
VI transporting IH1o suIA itI tuc rue CIIAlbcu
by the express company and railroads,
question of the mode in which this silver
can be transported, and where it can be
most easily stored and not exceed the
amount Of $4,000 appropriated for vault
room, is being considered by the treasury
department.
CHARLES II. REED has arrived in Wash
Ia hoI f,,1c will, (Ho,,
missioner Raum, and then went to the de-
partment of Justice. He came in the in
tercst of old whisky cases pending yet in
the United States Court in Chicago for the
collection of back taxes and penalties.
No settlement has been arrived at, and it
is not likely that the status Of the cases
viii be materially changed by his visit, as
Attorney General Devens is away, and no
one hurries much in such matters. Mr..
Reed is anxious to secure pardon from
all further prosecution for his clients.
THE internal revenue department re-
ports as a rather curious thing the wonder
full increase in the use of cigarettes. A
few years ago this was considered small
matter, but now the smoking of cigarettes
is becoming one of the prevailing habits of
the American people. 1t is believed to
show another thing no less significant.
These cigarette smokers are mostly boys
who are thus early becoming addicted to
the use of tobacco, and the result will be,
as the generation grows up, they will be-
come consumers of tobacco in other FORMS
so that vast increase in the revenue will
result and will mark Americans before
long as the most inveterate smokers and
chewers in the world. The cheapness of
tobacco now is encouraging its consump-
ton, also, it is thought.
LOUIS SCHABE, 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: \ naturalized Amer
lean citizen, A. c. Bosscller, 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 hi nth,
and are now living in St. Louis, where
they exercise all the rights Of American
citizens. In November, 1878, both were
published 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 140 of the penal code, against
the alleged fugitives. (That paragraph
contiscates the property coming to them as
heirs of the elder Bosselier). The circuit
court, however, decided that the American
Boseliers were not Prussian subjects, but
American citizens, and that ended the diff.
ficulty.