Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-06-02
From the Capital.

CHRIsTIANCY's divorce suit is one Of II,
sensations of the day in Washington
Mrs. GARFIELD is making slow but sa,.
isfactory progress toward recovery. Hs.
fever has abated, but she is very much
Frustrated.
MALONE voted with the Republicans lor
the confirmation of William +. Chandler
as Solicitor General of the department of
Justice.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD, accompanied by
his children and Secretary Window, took
trip to Mornt Vernon on the revenue
cutter Ewing.
A PAIR of blooded horses, worth 81 .0O0
has been presented to President Garfield
by Congressman Updegraff Horseback
exercise has therefore been relinqushed
| by the chief magistrate. who sports car.
rage and colored servant.
WASHINGTON is reported to have very
suddenly relapsed into sepulchral quietude.
1t is usually the dulest place in the
| United States when congress is not in ses-
sion.
CONGRESSMAN O'BRIEN, of New York,
who obtained divorce on Friday last,
will be married in Saratoga to Miss Abbe
+. Cook, and sail for Europe in June.
| DECORATION day in the National Gene
terry at Gettysburg will be honored by the
attendance of President Garfield and sew
eral members of the legislature have ac-
cepted invitations to be present.
| DIsREGARDING the advice of Senators
Mitchell and Cameron, the president
made his own selection for surveyor of the
port of Philadelphia. and the bosses are
highly indignant.
| Mrs. GARFIELD is progressing favora.
bly,. though her physician thinks the fever
viii! continue during the present week.
Her illness is attributed mainly to malaria
from the Potomac flats.
& SECRETARY HUNT has decided to send
the United States steamer Iantic, now in
| New York, to investigate the alleged I'M
lawful seizure at Merida, Mexico, of the
American bark Acacia, of Boston, by the
Mexican authorities.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD, with Secretaries
Blaine, Lincoln, and Hunt, will attend
the commencement exercises of William
college, at which the new president,
| Franklin Carter, will be inaugurated.
| JESSE MOORE, of Illinois, formerly pen
sion agent at Springfield, and recently a
candidate for the office of commissioner OF
pensions. has been appointed consul at
Calao. Peru.
GEN, }. A. WILLIAMSON, commissioned
of the general land office, has rendered his
resignation, and will become land commits
sioner of the Atlantic and Pacific Railway
company.
DORSEY and Brady are in Washington,
engaged in anxious consultation with their
clients. Attorney General Mach eagh
will soon commence criminal prosecution;
against them, and bring civil suits to re-
cover some of the money squandered.
THE friends Of the mi"istration in the
Empire state are holding meetings to de-
nounce as uniustitiable the resignation o.
Senators Conkling and Plat, and to pro
test against giving them new chance fol
mischief.
A SENATOR at Washington declares that
every appointment made in the New
YORK custom-house is submitted to the
secretary of the treasury for final ap
proval, and that Mr., Window is in sym
pathv with that wing of the republican
party which is now seeking harmony.
ONE of the latest developments of the
start route frauds was a contract let to John
Cross, friend of Dorsey's, to carry the
mail between Ozark and Eureka Springs
Ark. eighty miles six times a week for
$l4, 400, which was subsequently LET
for - 800.
THE custodian of the treasury depart
ment at Westinghouse .. l.. Pitney-
has been found to be guilty of serious
crookedness. Secretary Window, having
reason to suspect the fellows honesty, re-
moved him last week, and subsequent IN
vestigation convicts him of being criml-
/ nallu rnilty Of hatra wing his irnst