The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-06-03
VERY LATEST NEWS
a Record of Important Events
Domestic and Foreign.
WASHINGTON.

SENATOR BAYARD has returned, aud
cOntradicts the rumOr of his bad health
and intention to retire from politics.
The treasury department purchased
AS, 900 ounces of fine silver for delivery
at the Philadelphia and San Francisco
minis.
The president sent in the name of J..
O.. Putnam, of New York, to be minister
to belgium, vice Goodloe, resigned.
who Putnam is, but up too late hour the
mystery has not been solved.
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 Instructions are forwarded from
Washington.
SPEAKER RANDALL received tele-
gram last week announcing the very
serious illness of his mother, who is
over 80 years of age, and has been in
falling health for some time. The speak
er left Immediately for Philadelphia
The senate committee on foreign re-.
lations has agreed to offer as an amend
ment to the sundry civil appropriation
bill the joint resolution introduced by
Senator Morgan, which proposes an ap-
preparation of $4,000 for publishing
more frequently commercial reports.
GEN. GORDON has accepted the posi-
ton of associate consulting counsel for
the new railroad combination, of which
Mr.Newcomb is the head, which includes
a continuous line under one manage
ment from st. Louis to Savannah. The
salary will probably not be less than
$4,000 per annum.
The house committee on foreign af-
fairs agreed TO report resolution re-.
questing the president to take such
measures as will secure indemnity to
Canadian fishermen for damages sus-
tanned by them from violence committed
by the inhabitants of Newfoundl and,
and protection from any repetition of
such violence, and to procure the early
abrogation or termination of the articles
of the treaty of Washington relating to
the fisheries.
CONGRESS is as much at sea as ever
about adjournment. The senate appro.
priation committee made careful can
vass of the business on hand, aud decid-
ed that probably it would be about j une
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
the end of the month after all. AS the
day passed, however, with but little
Roadway in either, June 10 is perhaps as
early a 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.
eminent, 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 a sub
stantial aid to them had been accepted
by all her maiesty'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 1856. In the
senate his influence las always been con.
sentative and healthy. Ex-Governor Jo-
seph E. Brown, received dispatch an.
nouncing his appointment to the United
States senate from Georgia vice Senator
Gordon. resipned Brown accents