The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-03
VERY LATEST NEWS
a Record of Important Event:
Domestic and Foreign.
WASHINGTON.

SENATOR BAYARD has returned, and
contradicts the rumor of his bad health
and intention to retire from politics.
The treasury department purchased
AZ, 900 ounces of fine silver for delivery
! at the Philadelphia and San Francisco
mints.
The president sent in the name Of j.
O. Putnam, of New York, to be minister
to belgium, vice Goodloe, resigned.
There has been much inquiry to learn
who Putnam is, but up to late hour the
mystery has not been solved.
THE preside mt has nominated Hor-
ace Maynard, of Tennessee, for post
master General; James Longstreet, of
Georgia. minister to Turkey, and David
NJ. Key, to be United States district
Judge for the Eastern and middle dis
| tricts of Tennessee.
A TELEGRAM has been received at the
war department from General Pope stat
ing that he succeeded in arresting Capt.
Payne and his followers for violating the
presidents recent proclamation against
invasion of Indian Territory for mining
purposes, etc. The prisoners will be held
until instr ucticns are forwarded from
| Washington.
SPEAKER RANDALL received o tele-
gram last week announcing the very
serious illness of his mother, who is
over 80 years of age, and has been in
failing health for some time. The speak
er left Immediately for Philadelphia.
GEN GoRDoJ has accepted the posi-
ton of associate consulting counsel for
the new railroad combination, of which
ME.Newcomb is the head, which includes
a continuous line under Que manage
ment from st. Louis to Savannah. The
salary will probably not be less than
$15, 900 per annum.
CONGRESS is as much at sea as ever
about adjournment. The senate appro.
priation committee made careful can
vass of the business on hand, and decid-
ed that probably it would be about June
10th before they could get through. No
resolution was introduced to that effect,
however, in the hope that if the senate
would vote soon on the electoral bill,
and ifthe house would hurry up on the
sundry bill, they might get through by
day passed, however, with but little
headway in either, June 10 is perhaps as
early date as adjournment can be
reached.
THE British minister here, under tele.
graphic orders conveyed to the govern
ment of the United States, the sincere
and cordial thanks Of her majesty's COY.
ernment, for the generous and friendly
conduct in having dispatched the United
States ship Constellation, loaded with
provisions, which were so much needed
for the relief of the distressed subjects in
Ireland, and which, besides being sub
stantial aid to them had been accepted
by all her maissty's subjects as proof of
the friendly feeling entertained towards
them by the government and citizens of
the United States.
GEN. GORDON has resigned his seat as
senator from Georgia. He has been in
the service of the public since his goth
year, and is now little more than 48.
Few men have stood so high in the esti-
nation of their people, and none have
more deserved the honors bestowed upon
them. The legislature of Georgia have
but just reelected him to the senate, his
term not expiring until 1886. In the
senate his influence has always Been con.
servative and healthy. Ex-Governor Jo-
seph E. Brown, received a dispatch an
nouncing his appointment to the United
States senate from Georgia vice Senator
Gordon, resigned. Brown accepts.