River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-31
TELEGRAPH TICKS.
Important and Interesting Items
from the Wires During the Week.
WASHINGTON.

ACTING Postmaster General Hatton has
Issued an order establishing the free de-
livery system at Oshkosh. Wis, and Rock
ford, Ill.
THE postofice department las ordered
a daily exchange of international mails
between St. Paul and Breckenridge, Min
nesota, and Emerson and Winnipeg, Man
itoba.
JosLYN, acting secretary, has decided
the celebrated contest for the Dean Rich
mond lode situated at Tucson. Arizona, in
favor of the Dean Richmond Company.
GEN. MAkTIN D. HARDIN has been de-
tailed TO relieve Col. Samuel ID. Sturgis
az governor of the soldiers home in the
District of Columbia.
The postn asters at Doodle and Ramsey,
Ill. have been directed to decline pay
ment for money orders to B. d. Ply. who
it has been ascertained, been advertising
extensively with view Of deceiving the
public.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made at Wash
ington for the transfer from Detroit to
San Francisco of the personal effects OF
the marquis of Lorne and Princess Louise
who are to visit British Columbia.
THE government printing office, pension
Office, and postoffi ce department have
been thoroughly worked by collector for
the congressional campaign committee,
who found no one TO protest.
HENRY H. GRANT, telegraph operator
who had charge of the summer office at
Elberon during the illness and death OF
President Garfield, has written long let
ter to the comptroller of the treasury,
asking an appropriation of 500 for valu-
able services.
THE American schooner Dauntless. iy-
ing in the harbor of Havana, was re-
Gently subjected to a search foI delin-
quent Spanish sailor by party of armed
and uniformed men, and the matter Will
be investigated by the authorities at
Washington.
DR.. BLISS called upon the first comp
troller of the treasury to learn II claims
presented by Surgeons Barnes and Wood
ward would be allowed. While the law
provides that each bill shall be accom-
panit by releas of the estate of Prell-
dent Garfield, none of the claimants have
thus far complied with it.
THE report of the commissioner Of the
general land Office last year showed the
disposal of land by cash sales TO amount
to l ,5S7, 617 acres. This years report Will
show under the same head 3,699, S99 acres
of agricultural lands alone, to which
should be added sales of 81 GOA acres under
the mineral land act, and 1861 acres
under the desert land act, and 1874 acres
of coal lands. The homestead entry last
year covered 5,02S, 100 acres, while for the
fiscal year Just closed there were taken
nder this act the enormous area OF 1871
729 acres.
A REPORT is current to the effect that
Assistant Secretary John &. New, of the
Treasury Department, contemplates re-
rigning his position and returning to In
dianaDolis in the near future. The re-
lations between Assistant Secretary New
and Secretary EolGer and Assistant Sec
rotary French are said to be personally
very pleasant, but it is stated that Assist
ant Secretary New does not find his po-
-ition to be what he thought it was. Hi
powers as Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury are very much more circumscribed
q nan it is aid to he supposed they would
be.