River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-09
TE1EG RAPfflC.
Condensed for Convenient and
Ready Reading.
WARRINGTON.

Ex-senator DORSEY is seriously i'll at
his Washington home.
COMMISSIONER RAUM estimates receipts
from internal revenue for the fiscal year
will be about s135, 100000.
A CLERK in the pension Office at Wash
ington has been sent to prison for five
years. His effense was swindling straHg
ers at three-card monte.
THE postoffice department estimates that
the sum of 81 ,250,000 will be saved in the
next four years by the new contract for
postal cards.
IE the case of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company VS.. the United States, the
Court of Claims awarded the company
damages amounting to 1921 ,117. The suit
was for money due for mail service.
BY reducing and disseminating a num-
Der of superfuous star-route and steam
boat mail service lines the country was
saved last month the handsome sum of
s445,537.
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.
CARsIICHAELs postal card, in which he
made an abusive remark regarding General
Malone, is tC be boomerang against the
postal clerks who ventured to read the
card, and they will be tried for that
offense.
SIXTH AUDITOR MCGRsw will be sue
ceeded by J. III. 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 +. Crowell.
SECRETARY 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 800 prisoners being in excellent
condition.
THE citizens o. Yankton, D. r., have
sent petition TO General Terry request
ing him to use his influence with the war
department for the retention of CAPTAIN
ID. d. 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 Logo nsport, Ind, TO the posi-
ZION OF United States Consul General at
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. II is generally al
lowed that he will be the right man in the
right place.
IN filling the vacancies in the federal
offices IN New YORK, the president selected
Stewart L. Woodford as attorney for the
Southern district, Tenney to be attorney
for the Eastern district, Henry A. Knox
to be marshal of the Southern district,
McDougall to be marshal of the Northern
district, and Charles A. Gould TO be col
iector of customs at Buffalo.
THE maddest man in the United States
for about twenty-four hours was John g.
Thompson, sergeant-al-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 oct of the way to have
characterized Thompson's swear words for
the time being as something terrific and
unprecedented.
THE sentiment in favor of law making
retirement in the army compulsory at
certain age or period of service is GER
tainly growing. and it is believed will
continue to increase until the enactment
of such law is secured. The officer. of
the Eighth Infantry have taken tue lead
in circulating petition for signatures at
all the posts of the army, which will be
presented TO congress next winter.
THE senate has confirmed B. K. Bruce,
of Mississippi, as register of the treasury;
G. B. Loring, of Massachusetts,, as COM
missioner of agriculture; jeremiah NJ.
Rusk, of Wisconsin. as charge d'atfa;res
for Paraguay; Thomas A. Osborn, of Kan
sas. as minister to Brazil; Lewis Wallace,
of Indiana, as minister to Turkey; Steph-
en- A. Hurlbut, of Illinois, as minister to
Peru, and Judson Fitzpatrick, of New Jer-
sey, as minister to Chill.
The tree which Charles Sumner immor-
tailed 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 mound about it when the grounds
were cut down. This caused the roots TO
become dry, and later the tree was care
fully lowered, but it did not seem TO hare
vitality enough to take root again.
JUDGE Hunt, the new secretary of the
navy, finds recreation in the reading of
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-
tires, and is not an early riser. He dresses
well and with dark complexion has white
hair. He has a handsome summer resi-
dence at Tivoli, on the Hudson.