Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-06-09
TE1EGRAPHlC.
Condensed for Convenient and
Ready Reading.
WASHINGTON.

Ex-senator DORSEY is seriously i'll al
his Washington home.
COMMISSIONER RAUM estimates receipts
from internal revenue for the fiscal year
will be about $135, 100000.
THE postofice department estimates that
the sum of 81, ,250,000 will be saved in the
next four years by the new contract for
postal cards.
IN the case of the Pacific Mail Stlam-
ship Company VS.. the United States, the
Court OF Claims awarded the company
damages amounting to 1921 III. The suit
was for money due for mail service.
BY reducing and disseminating a mum.
Der of superfuous star-route and steam
boat mail service lines the country was
saved last month the handsome sum OF
$445, ,537.
A DRAFT on London for $4,000 was
given to Secretary Blaine by Sir Edward
Thornton, to distribute among the Ameri.
can fisherman who suffered by the Fortune
bay outrage.
CARMICHAEL's s postal card, in which he
made an abusive remark regarding General
Malone, is to be boomerang against the
postal clerks who ventured to read the
card, and they will be tried for that
Offense.
SIXTH AUDITOR MCGREw will be sue
ceeded by j. H. Ella, of New Hampshire.
at present fifth auditor The latter bu-
reau will be filled by d. S. Alexander, OF
indianapolis. Deputy Auditor Lilly's
place will be given to Robert F. Crowell
WAR ROBERT T. LINCOLN
returned from his trip to Fort Leaven-
worth in company with Col. Ba~. They
report the result of their inspection as
satisfactory in every respect. the prison
with its 500 prisoners being in excellent
condition.
THE citizens of Yankton, D. T., have
sent petition to General Terry request
ing him to use his influence with the war
department for the retention of Captain
ID. ID. Wheeler as Quartermaster at Yank-
ton. The services of Captain Wheeler
during the recent floods have been appre-
ciated by the people.
THE appointment of the Hon. Charles
Kahlo, of Logansport, Ind, to the posi-
tion of United States Consul General al
Berlin, is one which occasions great salts.
faction among the large constituency in
the Hoosier state who know the worth and
ability of Mr.. Kahio. 1t is generally al
lowed that he will be the right man in the
right place.
THE maddest man in the United States
for about twenty-four hours was John @
Thompson, sergeant-at-arms of the house
whom some malicious person reported as
short in his official accounts. There
wasn't word of truth in it, bat it wouldn't
have been much out of the way to have
characterized Thompsons swear words for
the time being as something terrific and
unprecedented.
THE sentiment in favor of law making
retirement in the army compulsory at q
certain age or period of service is GER
tainly growing. and it is believed will
continue to increase until the enactment
of such a law is secured. The officers ot
the Eighth Infantry have taken the lead
in circulating petition for signatures al
all the posts of the army, which will be
presented to congress next winter.
THE tree which Charles Sumner immor-
talized in some of his speeches, and which
he prevailed upon the authorities to spare
when the capitol grounds at Washington
were remodeled, now looks as if it was
about to die. 1t was first preserved by
leaving a mound about it when the grounds
were cut down. This caused the roots te
become dry, and later the tree was care
fully lowered, but it did not seem to have
vitality enough to take root again.
JUDGE HUNT, the new secretary of the
navy, finds recreation in the reading oI
fiction, and he over and over again reads
Dickens, Thackeray and Scott. He
speaks French, but does not care
much for French literature. He
reads for three or four hours after he re-
! i oorIxT rfcor l.
well and with dark complexion has white
hair. He has a handsome summer resi-
dence at Tivoli, on the Hudson.