The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-12-28
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
EVENTS IN WASHINGTON.
The third assisfant nostm asfor General ra

The third assistant postmaster general re-
port, just issued, gives st. Paul the four
teenth place in the list Of cities sending Sec
ond-class mail matter for the year ending
June 80 last. St. Paul sent ISL ,243 pounds
of mail matter of this class in the time given,
and sold SID, O24 sc worth of postage stamps.
This is an increase of 198, GIL pounds and
$3,972.22 postage over the preceding year.
st. Paul leads Toledo and Baltimore by a
large majority.
The state department has been officially
notified that the Mexican government has
decided to appoint commissioner to meet
the commissioners of the United States for
the purpose of negotiating commercial
treaty between the two countries. As one
ofsuch commissioners the president Of Mex
leo has selected Romero, Mexican minis
ter to the United States. The commission
ers are expected to meet in Washington
early In January.
The new order OF the interior department
for the regulation Of Indian agencies pro-
hibits the barbaric dances and provides the
most effectual penalties =. that could have
been devised. Violators of this rule VIII
have their rations withheld. Some Of these
dances are harmless, and afferd the redskins
infinite amusement. But the sun dance is
brutalizing atrocity and is calculated to
make the aboriginal heart bad and ought to
be suppressed.
Gen. Crook, In dispatch to the war de.
partment, says that Lieut.. A. r. Jordon,
Third cavalry, while on hunt about twen-
ty miles from Camp Verde, Ariz., wan
dered from his tent on the night of the 18th
inst, in q temporary alteration of mind;
His commander missed him, and after a
search Of three days his dead body was
found.
Was introduced in the house Fri
day BY Mr.. Guenther Of Wisconsin to au-
thOriZe the sale of timber on the lands re-
served for the use of the Menominee tribe
of Indians IN Wisconsin. A similar bill Is
pending in the senate. having been favora-
bly, reported by Mr. Dawes from the COM
mittee on Indian affairs.
The president has sent to the senate the
nominations of Ferdinand Hersher, register
of the land Office at La Crosse, and Herman
W. Stone. receiver of public moneys at Ben.
son, MINI.
Looking over the whole field Of tariff leg
islation, the friends of tariff reform do not
regard the prospect for decisive action on
that question encouraging.
The nomination of George NJ. Lawson as
United States District attorney for Nebraska
has been withdrawn by the president.
Acklen Is loaded with charges against
Kellogg, and expects to fire him out Of his
seat.
NEWS OF THE RAILROADS.
Up to Dec. Is. 9,648 miles of new rail-
road have been constructed this year, against
7,6U1 miles reported for the corresponding
time last year: {, 1856 miles in 1880; 1854
miles In 1879; 2,A3 miles in 1877; and 1888
miles III 1879. This years mileage is more
than one-fourth greater than that OF 1881.
It is rnmored that Gen. J. w. Sprague,
general manager of the Western division of
the Northern Pacific railroad, will soon send
in his resignation, and ask TO be relieved
from the duties of his responsible position.
He has been prompted to take this step on
account of his hsalth.
The Northern Pacific company has just
secured 220 acres of land two miles ON the
St. Paul side of the Minnesota transfer, with
frontage Of one mile on the north side of
the Manitoba line, which will give the great
transcontinental ample room for terminal
facilities for its system.
It is stated that ex- President Porter of the
Omaha made 81, 800 900 out of his recent sale
Of stock to Vanderbilt.