The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-22
WASHINGTON BRIEFS.

PRESIDENT ARTHUR has not yet decided
where he willspend the summer.
The Naval Appropriation bill. agreed upon
py the subcommittee, appropriateB $780, 600
less than last years bill.
CoNaREss will be called upon to provide for
the payment of the Utah Commission before
the commission is named.
NJ. BAHTHOIoMIE, the Russian Minister, and
family, have gone to Russia. NJ. Bartholomie
expects to return about December next.
THIRTY-THREE out of the thrty-eight States
ask for appropriations for the Improvement of
rivers and harbors, real and imaginary.
New indictments have been found by the
Grand Jury In the Star Route cases against
Thos. j. Brady, G. v. Meserole and J. B.
Price.
The creditors of the Freedman's Bank have
received the Is per cent. dividend realized from
the sale of the bank building. Payment was
begun on the 1st inst.
The estimated number of rersons needed in
the various departments in Washington for the
ensuing year is nearly 5000, an increase OF
about !. 800 clerks over last year.
A BUREAU of hygiene, for the purpose of
prosecuting microscopic experiments on diseas-
ed germs, has been established by the Naval
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
The name of J. J. Woodward. the head of
the National Grange, has been presented by
by Senator Conger to fill one of the vacant
places on the Tariff Commission.
QUEEN VICTORIA, through Minister Lowell.
expresses her pleasure at the reception of
copy of the international stamp bearing the
likeness of the late President Garfield.
PERSON calling himself Louis Blodgett,
laws claim to about 500 acres of land in the
central part of Washington, and has employed
st. Louis lawyer to prosecute his claim.
PLEDGE to abstain from the use of beef and
mutton for ten days, Is being circulated in the
government departments in the vain hope that
this action will reduce the present high price Of
meats.
Four hundred and twenty y-fvemillion dollars
will be required to pay pensions for the next
four years. The necessarily increased force in
, the Pension Office will cost 81, IA, 600 per
annum.
The friends of anti-liquor legislation are Or
ganizing for q move on Congress to obtain
prohibition laws In the District, or a law MAX
ing dealers responsible for damage done by
those to whom they sell liquor.
COMMISSIONER MACFARLAND, of the General
Land Office, says that a larger amount of pub-
lie lands will have been disposed of during the
year ending June 80, 1882, than during any
preceding year since the establishment of the
General Land Office.
! THE newly designed postal card with flap
which can be sealed like an envelope, is being
urged upon the attention q the House Com.
mittee on Postoffices and Post Roads. Mem
bers of the committee have expressed them
E. G. 1NaERsoIL, of counsel for the COM
plainant in the Christiancy divorce case, has
been removed to an insane asylum. Tho ply
! sicians believe his trouble is only temporary.
Mr.. Ingersoll acquiesces in this treatment of his
case. This Ingersoll is not the celebrated inf
! del lawyer "Bob."
: The new indictments in the Star Route cases
are understood to cover q good deal that is
sensational in their character in connection
with the Washington lobby and the bleeding
and blackmaiing of contractors. The case Of
Contractor James B. Price, in particular, is
! named as one likely to prove of general in
terest.
| The dispute at the Government Printing
| Office over the rate to be paid for extra work,
has been wisely ended by the printers, who
found that the law contained no provision for
their demand. They have, therefore, present.
ed petition, through Senator Hawley, asking
Congress for an advance of fifty per cent. on
! the regular price for all work performed ON
/ Sundays, legal holidays, or after midnight.
Or THE members Of the Utah Commission,
Mr.. Godfrey, of Iowa, served first in the war
from his State, and was afterward Lieutenant
| Colonel of Senator Spencers regiment of
! Alabama cavalry. He was Assistant United
States District Attorney for several years, and
is a lawyer of considerable prominence. Mr..
! Carlton, of Indiana, is a Democrat, and for
merly the law partner of Dan Voorhees,. MIR.
| Pettigrew, Of Arkansas, has been a member of
| the Legislature i'll that State, and is at present
the Journal Clerk of the United States Senate.
He was recommended by both the Arkansas
Senators, and is regarded as a good man for
the place. rr.