Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-07-30
VERY LATEST NEWS.
A Record of Important Events,
Domestic and Foreign.
WASHINGTON.

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| Phillips postmaster at Obcrlin, o., vice
VIM. 8. Allen, deceased
TIE 1876 battaIions of Turkish regular
troops in Europe have been increased q
500 men in each battalion.
THE president has appointed General
! Henry s. Huidopker, Of Germantown
postmaster nj Philadelphia. General
1Iuidopker commanded the "Bucktaif
regiment at Gettysburg, where he lost
his right arm.
! PROBABLY the highest elevator in the
world is that just completed in the Wash
ington monument, the first trial Of which
was made on 9th inst 1t ~ l76 feet high i
capable of bearing ten tons, and war erect
ed at cost of 900.
SENATOR BnucE, Of Mississippi il to
take an active part in the Maine cam
pajgn, and will leave for Augusta in few
days lie will also make several speeches
in Ohio and Indiana.
THE president has decided 10 remove
Postmaster Forbes, at Richmond, Va, A
number Of applications have been filled
for the portion, among which was one
from Miss Van Lew, who formerly held
the office.
THE post Office department has been adj
vised bv the Swiss Federal council that the
republic of Santo Domingo has declared It's
adherence To the rules If the Universal
Postal Union convention, 10 take effect on
the LIST Of October, 1880.
Up to this time the secret service agents
Of the treasury are o. much in the dark a.
ever with respect to the capture Of the
plate from which dangerous colnterfeits
Of 800 national bank notes have been
male, and no clue has been discovered
which is likely to lead to the early arrest
of the countcrleiicrs of these notes.
Ar cabinet meeting the interior de-
parmcnt submitted information that Spot
ted Tail, becoming dissatisfied, had re
moved his children from the training
school, where with scycn hundred others,
they had been sent To be educated, and
that his course had led to serious disnp-
proyal, on the part Of the rest Of the tribe,
who are anxious 10 be educated, and they
have appealed To the president to dcposc
Spotted Tail, aud appoint II new chief
over them
TmE silver gorge IL causing officers ofthc
treasury good deal of pcrplcxity. Under
the act of Feb. 70, 1873, coinage must go
on until congress otherwise enacts The
law has been in force now nearly twenty
nine months, and over 10000 GOO standard
silver dollars have been coined. But only
$4,000, 600 of this IN in circulation, the re-
mandcr being locked up in the 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,
TINS internal revenue department re-
ports M II rather curious thing the wonder
fu 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. II il 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 he,
M the generation grows up, they will be-
come consumers of tobacco in other forms,
so that n vnst increase in the revenue will
result and will mark Americans before
long ~ the most invctcrntc smokers and
chcwcrs in the world, The chcapness of
tobacco now Is encouraging itS consump-
ton, nlso, il IL thought.
IN INliAHIs, a NitIIiUH tIllS'Il, ilNN
had nm interview with Assistant Secretary
Of State Hay, to lay before him the pecu-
liar action Of the hrussian government in
publishing two t'crman-Amcrican citizens
M lugitivcs from an cvuded military law.
The case M reported NJ the state depart
mcnt IL ~ follows; \ nnturalizcd Amer
lean citizen, A. &, Bossclcr, Of st. Louis,
returned some years ngo with his two ma
tive American sons, ~ Germany, and
there became again rrussan subject. llis
SONS, native Americans, before they became
of age returned TO the land of their hi nth,
and IRE now living in st. Louis, whore
they exercise all the rights Of American
citizens. In November, 1873, both were
published by the provincial government of
lckcnofordc, IN Schlcswig, rs fugitivcs
from military duty. The provincial gov
ernmcnt aitcrward requested the royal cir
cult court Of Sehcswig to proceed, under
paragraph lao Of the penal code, against
the alleged fugityes. THAT paragraph
coniiscatcs the property coming 10 them M
heirs Of the elder lossclicrl. The circuit
court, however, decided that the American
Bosclcrs were not RUSSIAN subjects, but
American citizens, aud that ended the dit.
hcultv.