The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-11-24
WASHINGTON BRIEFS.

CONGRESS- meets on the 9Th of December.
DURING October, 67, 929 immigrants arrived
in this country.
IT Is rumored that Frelinghuysen is to be
Secretary of State.
GEORGE C. GoRHAM expects to be Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury.
WAsu1SGToN is full of candidates for subor-
dinate positions in the House.
THERE are five indictments against Captain
Howgare, aggregating $3.50, 600.
No CABINET appointments will probably be
made until after Congress meets.
REPRESENTATIVE MANNING, OF Mississippi,
says there is no doubt of the reelection OF
Senator Lamar.
COMPTROLLER KNOX has ordered an assess
ment of 100 per cent. upon shareholders OF the
wrecked Mechanics National Bank. of Newark,
NJ.
SECRETARY WINDOW has placed the reins OF
the Treasury Department in Judge FolSers
hands. and is taking two-weeks' vacation IN
the Northwest.
GENERAL. j. WARREN kEIFEB, of Ohio. has
an eye on the Speakership. So has Mr.. Kasson,
of Iowa. So has Mr.. G. Orth, of Indiana, and
so have several others.
THE annual report of Postmaster General
J,mes promises to be very elaborate docu-
ment. 1t will contain detailed account OF
the Star Route thievery.
TOTAL values of exports of domestic prov1-
sions, tallow and dairy pr ducts during ten
months ended October 81 is Sill, ,72S, 221.
Same ten months i'll 1880, $145, ,931, ,919.
The postoffice at Shackelfords, King and
Qaeeu County, Va, has been discontinued be-
cause the people of that place refused to let the
Postmaster appointed have place for an
office.
PETITIONS have been received at the Postof-
fee Department from New York and San Fran
cisco asking for q more speedy and frequent
now consumed in the transmission is six days.
GEORGE BLISS says emphatically that there
is to be no lct-up in the Star Route prosecu-
tions. The cases are being made ready, he says,
by Messrs. Gibson, Woodward and Cook, and
will be submitted to the Grand Jury as soon as
possible.
The President has accepted Attorney Gem
eral MacVeagh's resignation. The employees OF
the department called upon him and made
their official farewells, and he turned the de-
partment over to the charge of Solicitor Gen.
eral Phillips, who will be acting Attorney Cen
eral until the new appointment is made.
DIR. BLISS considers the statements recently
published as coming from Drs. Hammond,
Boynton, ]. Marion Sims, and others, to the
effect that the PRESIDENT died from malpractice,
to be in accordance with the dictates of their
malicious hatred of him. He pronounces them
false, and says that the full medical and surgi-
cal history of the case will prove them so.
of Mr.. Scoville and Guiteau's brother. Mr.. J.
w. Guiteau, as to the defense in Guiteau's case.
Scovllle Is anxious prove Guiteau's insanity
hereditary, and is ready to prove all the Gui-
teau's to be lunatics, if by SO doing he can
land Guiteau in an insane asylum instead of
under the galows, whereas J. W. Guiteau is
anxious to have his brother proved insane but
declares that his father, whose name he re-
veres, was not lunatic aud his memory shall
not be thus assaulted.
FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL HAT
TON has decided that publishers of matter ad-
mitted to the mails second class may print
upon the side of postal card intended for
communications, bi Is, receipts, and orders for
subscriptions to their publication or publica-
tions and may also print the address of such
publisher upon the address side of the card,
and enclose the same in their second class mat
ter. Mr.. Hatton is proprietor of the Bu:ling-
ton Hdtckeye, and a practical printer, and
knows something of the needs of newspaper
publishers.
GU1TEAU visited by his sister, Mrs. SEQ
vile, the day before his trial begun. She
kissed him and seemed deeply affected. When
she broached the subject of insan ty as bis de-
fense, he said ''I am not insane, and there
is only one question to come before the Court {:
it is whether the Deity or am responsible for
the removal of the President whether Deity or
have his life reviewed in Court. 81 am going
into Court" he said, "to make my speech and
run the case, and the Judge and jury will fol-
low my rulings"
THE Mormon and polygamy problem will
occupy the attention of Congress at an carly
day. Cannon, who has several wives in Utah,
and who received certificate of his election to
Congress from the. Secretary of State, holds a
slim show Of taking his seat. Mr.. Campbell,
who received certificate from the Governor
(Murray) saying he had received larger
number of votes than any other citizen Of
Utah, has had the only legal Endorsement; and
besides, the Supreme Court, only few days
ago decided that Cannon was not citizen of
the United States However, the matter will
be contested in the House, and that will de-
velop the Mormon question.