Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-11-10
torney General MacVeagh boarded 5the
train and had short interview.

tfain ana had short interview
A DEMAND viii be made upon congress
Tor an investigation of the accoua.s of the
commissioners of the District of Columbia.
II was recently discovered that their cash.
Ter was short 5000 in his accounts. but
his friends readily paid it in.
THE public debt, deductinp the e,sh in
the treasury vaults, is $1,7S5. 534 AZ, The
decrease during October was Sl3, :o1. 45s.
The annual interest burden on the bonds
outstanding is $69,962 245.
DR.. RICE, of Mention, Wis. has been sub.
p9naed as witness in the trial of Guiteau
10 testify that he examined him three
years ago, and found him suffering from
softening of the brain.
| LORENZO MoNTUFoR, secretary of state
of Guatemala, made the Journey to Wash
lngtor TO carry the coincidence of his gov
eminent on the death of Garfield. and was
received by President Arthur in admirable
style.
ON the morning of the assassination
President Garfield removed Colonel Amos
Webster from the registership Of wills at
| ashington, and appointed Mr.. Rams
| dell TO succeed him.
| ATTORNEY GENERAL MAcVEAGH pro-
tests that he cannot be justly charged with
| abandoning the star-route cases as he long
ago gave notice that he would only take
them to the grand jury, and employ emf
nent counsel to prosecute them.
SECRETARY BLAINE will retire from the
| cabinet al the end of November. His
elegant residence III Washington, costing
sSo,uOo Is nearly completed, and will
doubtless become one of the social centers
of the capital. His wealth is estimated
at 81 100000.
JOHN WALLING, Iunatic from Collie
vile, Pa, who was once arrested in Wash
lngton and sent home, reappeared at the
white house the other day, fully armed
with the intention of killing President
| Arthur and seating Dr. John MODELLING in
the executive chair. 1t required several
men to take a revolver from the mailman.
when he became as meek as lamb and
was sent to the government ASYLUM. He
had been living quietly q: the capital, and
1T is strange that he had not attacked the
president on enc of his daily drives
Guiteau is still very nervous, and he is
furnishing his counsel daily with evidence
against himself on the subject of insanity.
For Instance. he wrote sote to George
Scoville the other night. in which he said:
DO not waste any effort on trying to
prove my actual insanity. 1t would dis
gust the court and jury. Legal insanity
is all claim, and that is just as real as
actual. | want to see the leading stall
warts | met in New York last fall in my
defense. This and my own testimony is
about all the defense have. as the law is
with us--the law of insanity and the law
of jurisdiction"
LARGE purchases of confederate bonds
are being made in Philadelphia for English
customers. The treasury department has
information that interest on the fund in
the bank of England to the credit of
the confederate states is annually collect
ed by jeff Davis and Judah p. Benjamin.
London capitalists have retained Mr. Ben
jamin to recover the money in payment of
confederate bonds, which acc ANTS for the
speculation in the article. 1t is announc-
ed that Solicitor Raynor will endeavor to
have the deposit turned over to the United
States.