The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-08-05
VOL. v.
VERY LATEST NEWS.
A Record of Important Events,
Domestic and Foreign.
WASHINGTON.

THE president has appointed E. J
Phillips postmaster at Oberlln, o., wee
VIM. o. Allen, deceased.
THE 135 battalions of Turkish regular
troops in Europe have been increased tc
800 men in each battalion.
TIE 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.
TIE post office department has been ad-
yised 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 1st of October, 1880.
BIDS were opened at the post-ofice de-
partment on 29th 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.
MK NIMMos chief of the bureau of
statistics, has issued paper showing that
the value of exports of merchandise during
the year ending June 80, 1880, exceeded
the value Of exports of merchandise during
the preceding year about S125 100000, or
Is per cent. and that the value of imports
Of merchandise during the year ending
June 30, 1880, exceed the value of such
imports during the preceding year about
1922 SS2222 100000, or 80 per cent.
The silver gorge is causing officers ofthe
treasury good deal of pcrplexity. Under
the act of Feb. 2S, 1878, coinage must go
on until congress otherwise enacts. The
law has been in force now nearly twenty
nine months, and over 63,0O0,0OO standard
silver dollars have been coined. But only
100000 Of this is in circulation, the re-
mainder being locked up inthe treasury
vaults. All efforts to force this money in
to circulation have failed, and no sooner
does the government pay out silver than it
comes back into the treasury for duties or
in exchange for silver certificates.
THE mint and sub-treasury of San Fran
cisco are overhowing with siver coin, and
an application is made for the transfer to
the east of two million dollars. The cost
of transporting this sum at the rate charged
by the express company and railroads,
would be $4,000 or one per cent. The
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 20,OOO appropriated for vault
room, is being considered by the treasury
department.
THE internal revenue department re-
ports as 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 inyeterate smokers and
chewers in the world. The cheapness of
tobacco now is encouraging its consump-
ton, also, it is thought.
LOUIS SCHABE, 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. c. 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 bi rth,
and are now living in St. Louis, where
they exercise all the rights of American
citizens. In November, 1873, both were
published by the provincial government of
Eckeneforde, in Schleswig, as fugitives
from military duty. The provincial gov
ernment afterward requested the royal cir
cult court of Schleswig to proceed, under
paragraph l40 of the penal code, against
the alleged fugitives. (That paragraph
confscates 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.