Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-09-03
VERY LATEST NEWS.
4 Record IT Important Events,
Domestic and Foreign.
WASHINGTON.

The president has recognized i. c.
Clark Ms consul from the republic uf Hayti
at Boston,
The cads jctties are giving satisfaction
to the engineers appointed TO watch them,
and Captain Eads has received another
quarter payment of $4,000.
SECRETARY SHERMAN has left for hia
home in Mansfield. Ohio. lie will devote
his time to campaigning from thlstil cleo
ton and will make his first speech at Co
lumbus.
JonN M. LASasroN, United States min
colorcd man of great attainments, and has
come home to spend two weeks in making
speeches in aid Of his race and the prin-
eiples Of republican government
GES. Mcdowell telegraphs the follow
ing from Fort Moure, Arizona: Furious
storm. Company quarters blown down,
wounded Officers quarters destroyed, and
the hospital and storchousc much damaged.
The storm is still raging"
Tux employees Of the postoflicc depart
mcnt adopted appropriate complimentary
resolutions upon the retirement of Judge
Key. The resolutions were presented by
Judge Tyncr, in brief speech, and re
spondcd 10 by Judge Key. Postmaster
General Maynard, who was present, made
n few appropriate remarks.
THE president. on the 26th inst, signed
the commission ol Judge -. VI Key, TO
be- district Judge for the eastern district OF
Tennessee. lie also signed the commits
sion Of Gen. Longstrcct, as United States
minister to Turkey. Judge Key will re-
main in the city several DAYS before lcnv-
ing for Tennessee.
lloRAcE MAYNARD, cX-ministcr 10 Tur
KEY, in company with General
Key visited the white house To pay his re
sperts to President Hayes. While there
the president signed Mnynard'- commits
aion as postnlnster-gcneral and handed II
To- him, Later in the day Maynard ap-
peurcd nj the postoIlice department and
took the oath Of office ~ postmaster gem
cral.
THE quarterly interest on the A per
cent. loan falls due at the treasury on the
lst of September next The interest will
amount 10 S2,S0O,0OU. Checks for the
amount represented in that sum by regis
tered bonds are being prepared by the
treasurer and will he sent ont in few
days, The interest on thcec "a per cent.
~ lHo OnIy H''fulHR lnlpTch ~ no Hlcl ~
the government in September,
SOME time will clapsc before n successor
to Cen Mycr, the late Chief of the signal
service, will he appointed owing to the
controversy as 10 the exact status of the
bureau over which he had charge. The
great development of the science Of me-
tcrology has introduced into the once
strictly military duties of the army signal
corps vast amount of work purely of q
civil and commercial character An effort
will be made 10 separate the army signal
n separate bureau for the meteorological
portion ofthc business.
Library room il now vexing the
authorities at Washington. Al the pres
cnt rate Of increase the library will require
- .;idiuv the arc ol thc lh'iohhl chl"'ol
within 4 pciIod of fifty years. The pro-
posed erection Of such gigantic structure
IL even now being discussed. At the past
rate of increase of the library, in sixteen
years il would require, IN addition 10 its
present space, nll now occupied by the
senate chamber, the hall Of the house, and
the old hall of representatives, and that IN
thirty-two years the library would fill the
entire space on the main floor of the capt.
tol. The annual increase of the library il
such that il is now impossible to average
the additions Many thousand volumes
have bcenpled in rooms, whore they aim
ply receive storage and even room for this
purpose IL nearly exhausted. The annual
increase from the copyright law has risen
from b,OOO volumes the first year to $4,000
Ihr ha mat Npur