The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-11-03
WASHINGTON BRIEFS.

GENERAL JUDsoS KILPATRIcK, Minister to
Chill, is reported to be seriously i'll.
GENERAL T1NER has handed in his resigna-
ton as First Assistant Postmaster General.
The Senate confirmed Henry Highland Gar
net Minister Resident and Consul General to
Liberia.
JUDGE PORTER, Of New York, will assist
Government counsel in the prosecution Of
Guiteau.
Witnesses for Guiteau, living within ra-
dius of one hundred miles from Washington,
will be paid by the Government.
GENERAL FRANCIS A. WALKER, Superinten-
dent of the Census, has resigned, and Charles
W. Seaton, of New York, nominated as his
successor.
Walter G.. Davidge Assistant Prosecuting Attor-
ney to assist District Attorney Corkhill in the
Guiteau case.
1t is probable that a successful attempt will
be made this winter to secure the passage of
law giving the great Territory Of Alaska
Government.
GENERAL GRANT positively disclaims any
effort to shape the Cabinet by advice or solicita
tion. nor is it true. he says, that he has urged
the resignation OF Tyner.
REPRESENTATIVE JOHN B. CLARK. of Missouri
has caused papers to be served on his wife
notifying her he has instituted proceedings for
divorce in the Circuit Court of Howard County,
Missouri.
The grand jury has returned an indictmen
against Captain Howgate for forging the name
of r. Fl. Rochester, Treasurer of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, to receipts to the
amount of $4,000
The President notified Postmaster General
James that he would accept his resignation.
and at the same time renominate him as an ex-
preston of his confidence 10 the work he has
performed in the Star Route matters.
THE following nominations were confirmed
by the Senate Hans Mattson, of Minnesota
Consul General to Calcutta William B. Wells
of Michigan, Consul to Dundee; John f.
Winter, of Illinois, Consul to Rotterdam.
CAPTAIN HowGATE, indicted the past week
for the embezzlement of $4,000 from the
Government, was arraigned in the District of
Columbia Criminal Court, and in default of
$4,000 bail was commi; ted to Jail.
Ex-senator PLArT, of New York, has purt
chased the residence of Secretary Window, on
Vermont avenue, for his wife, aud it becomes
her property on the 10th of November. $50, 600
was the amount paid for the property.
:: The whisky distillers of the United States
have determined to make an effort next winter
to get Congress to reduce the tax on whisky
from ninety to fifty cents per gallon. They
will have powerful lobby.
M. r. LEvERsoN, Ct San Francisco, has in
vented an infammable fluid which he thinks
would be of incalculable benefit to the army in
military operations against an enemy. A board
of officers has been appointed to examine it aud
report upon the advisability of purchasing it
for use in the army.
The report of the Secretary Of the Mint, re-
lative to the production of the precious metals
for the fiscal year 1880, shows the estimated
production of $36, 000, 900 in gold has been
sustained and that the value produced during
1880, namely $39. 2OO, 900, exceeds the estimate
of the Director by 81, 100000. The silver bull
lion purchased during the fiscal year amounted
to "a, ,262, ,571 standard ounces, worth at its
coming value $2s, ,232, $40, and that the deposit
of silver coin and bullion not of domestic pro-
duction was 50. 507,766 OF which, probably,
$4,000, 900 was purchased and used.
THE Senate has confirmed the following ap-
pointments-W. W. Dudley, Of Indiana, Com
missioner of Pensions. Robert Crowell, of
Minnesota, Deputy Sixth Auditor. John
Cromb, of Minnesota. Register of Land Office
at Crookstown, Minnesota. George W. Wilk-
inson, Of Nebraska, Indian Agent at Omaha
and Winnebago Agency, Nebraska. Frank NJ.
Tracy, Postmaster at st. Joseph, Missouri.
Captain Montgomery Sicard, Chief of Bureau
of Ordnance Navy Department.. Captain John
. G. Walker, Chief of Bureau of Navigation.
Commodore James H Spots and James W. A.
Nicholson Rear Admira1s. Capts Samuel r.
Franklin, Edward Y. McCauley, and John G.
2. Dekrafft. Commodores.