Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-02-03
TEL EGRAPHIC.
Condensed for Convenient and
Ready Reading.
W WASHINGTON.

The president has appointed Beverly
tucker OF Virginia a commissioner Of
the worlds fair in New York, in 1888.
The bill for new public buildings in
Minneapolis, MIMI, and Jackson, Miss,
will be reported favorably.
No official information concerning the
reported surrender of Sitting Bull TO the
Canadian government has been received
at the war department.
TnTRTY-NINE clerks in the navy depart
lnent were discharged Jan %, to take eff
feet Feb. next. These clerks are on the
temporary roll and paid out of the appro-
prlation for contingent expenses. Their
| removal Is caused by exhaustion of that
appropriation.
! The contest for speaker of the next
/ house OF representatives., at Washington,
| grows very interesting. Under the new
| rules the position has gained greatly in
| personal power. Hiscock and Reed, who
are among the leading aspirants, are best
| known as Conkling'7 and Blaine candid
ates. Mr. ka-son, with national fame
as polished debater. returns to the house
almost a stranger.
| Or all the cabinet positions the treasury
is now the most absorbing topic of specu-
lation. The western men, Allison and
Wilson, of Iowa Morton, Of New York
and Senator Window, of Minnesota, are
the most frequently mentioned. The visit
of Allison to Mentor was announced yes
terday by Mr.. Wilson's friends to be in
his behalf, buC il is quite as confidently
stated in other quarters to-day that
General Garfield sent for him to confer
with him personally as to his wishes in re-
gard to the matters of his own appoint
ment. Mr.. Allison has, however, said TO
his intimate friends that he would like to
have Wilson appointed AS to Window
1t is known that this name has been very
favorably considered by the president elect,
and urged by mutual friends who would
like to see him in the cabinet.
! TIE House committee on census have
reported the apportlonment bill, with
amendments increasing the number of
representatives from 30l to 81, and
striking out the second and third sections
of the bill, which provide that the repre-
sentative or representatives from any new
state should be added to this number, and
also the mode of electing representatives.
The new basis of apportionment is az
follows: Alabama s, Arkansas ), Califor-
MIA ., Colorado |, Connecticut 4, Delaware
|. Florida =, Georgia 10, Illinois -, Indi-
ana Is, Iowa 10, Kansas 8, Kentucky 10,
Louisiana 6, Maine 4, Maryland g. Massa-
chusetts H., Michigan 10, Minnesota ),
Mississippi 7, Missouri II, Nebraska 8,
Nevada !, New Hampshire ., New Jersey
| Z, New York 30, North Carolina Q, Ohio
20, Oregon /, Pennsylvania ~, Rhode Is
land >, South Carolina &, Tennessee 10,
Texas 10, Vermont =, Virginia TO- West
| Virginia 4, Wisconsin 8.
The periodical visitation of locusts will
take place this year. Prof Riley, of the
chronological commission, in an inter
view published in the Post, says there are
two broods of locusts. One appears every
thirteen years and the other every seven
teen years. BY coincidence both broodS
are to appear together this year, but not
in the same places.
In what localities >" was asked
The seventeen-year locusts,' the pro-
fessor replied, will be particularly pIen-
tiiul in Marquette and Green Lake coun-
ties, Wisconsin, and may also appear in
the western part of North Carolina in
northeast Ohio, and few in Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania, and Westchester
county, New York. They will also be
abundant in the neighborhood of Wheel
ing, and will probably extend down into
Maryland, Virginia, and the District. OF
this, however, | am not quite sure. The
thirteen-year brood will in all probability
appear in southern Illinois, throughout
Missouri with the exception of the north
western corner, in Louisiana, Arkansas,
Indian Territory, Kentucky, Tennessee,
Alabama, Georgia, and North and South
Carolina