The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-12-21
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
EVENTS IN WASHINGTON.

-
EVENTS IN WASHINGTON. 8,
The government method in vogue for
cleaning the brass parts of different
articles found in ordnance, &C., is
claimed to be the most effective known.
A mixture of one part common nitric acid and
one half part sulphuric acid is made in
stone jar, pail of fresh water and box Of
sawdust being also provided ready at hand.
The ARTICLES to be cleaned are dipped in the
acid, then Eremoved into the water, after
which they are rubbed with the sawdust.
This operation Immediately changes them
to brilliant color. If the brass is greasy,
it is first dipped in a strong solution Of
potash and soda in warm water, this appli-
cation tenuirg to cut the grease 50 that the
acid has power to act This method has
the advantage of a greater degree of per-
manency than Others.
The origin of the fire last Saturday even
ing in the office of Mr.. Merrick, the leading
counsel for the government In the prosecu-
ton of the star ;route conspiracies, is still
Of conversation in all quarters here to-day.
Mr.. Merrick says he has no theo.y to adj
vance on the subject, but that rigid inves-
tigation would he instituted. Although he,
as we'll as his associate counsel has received
warning letters, he never entertained an idea
of being attacked by fire.
Postoffice discontinued: Ayers drove,
Polk county, Iowa; mail to Towner Lake.
Postoftice name changed: Godfrey, Polk
county, Mimi, to Maple Bay. Postof6ce
site changed: Lake Harold, Meeker county,
Mimi, one and one-haf miles south. Post
masters commissioners Alex s. Stewart
Minnekata, OAK, Aaron Y. Cupp. Eureka,
Iowa.
With view to guarding as far as possible
against such land frauds as those recently
reported from Dakota and other parts of
the west, the commissioner of the general
land office, with the approx, of secretary
tiers and receivers of United States land Of
fees with regard to declaratory statements
of homestead and applicants
Col. Corbin, in addition to his failure in
his monumental fraud, the Garfield fair, a
threatened court martial for insulting lady
and his responsibility for running two ex-
pensive historical paintings, has the Lancas-
ter, Pa, Waterman after him for the alleged
embezzlement of several watch movements
donated by the Lancaster Manufacturing
company.
Rev. j. Hyatt Smith, NJ c., believes in
the prayer test, as he prayed for the absence
of Director Holman from the house to Sc.
cure the passage Of a pet bill, and the Indi-
ana member was provldentially (for Smith)
sick one day.
The heirs of the officers and crew of the
brig, General Armstrong, who last win ter
were paid $40 600, are preparing to ask con-
gress for the interest on the above amount
for the sixty-eight years in which the claim
was pending.
The senate committee on appropriations
have agreed to amend the Indian bill by in
serting $4,000 for the DEVILS Lake Sioux,
$40, 900 for the Turtle Mountain Chippewas,
and SIS, 900 for the Sioux at Lake Traverse
The Indian appropriation bill reported to
the senate since its passage by the house is
increased in amount of $154, 200. The ag-
gregate amount appropriated by the bill
as reported yesterday is SIS, 366, 1856.
It is understood in the inner political cir
cles that if Dorsey does not send in his res
ignation when the national committee meets,
motion will be made to proceed to the
election of new secretary,
Post masters commissioned: J. j. Githrie,
Aurora, Mimi: Mrs. Anna M. Waflerius.
New Trier, Mimi, F. M. Charles Worth,
Ledyard, Wis; A. Jackson, Megoun, Wis.
Discussion among members of the house
committee on coinage indicates that there
is no disposition to change the existing law
relative to the coinage of silver dollars.
It has been ascertained that the chairman
ofthe senate judiciary committee will call
on the president for a statement giving the
cause for Marshal Henry's removal.
@. P. Huntington is in Washington with
a strong lobby to save to the Union Pacific
the land grant of the old Texas Pacific, origi-
nally granted to Tom Scott
The commissioner of internal revenue has
gone to Illinois, where he expects to remain
until the latter part of January.
The amount Of the agricultural appro-
priation bill is $114, $50, 100000 less than the
appropriation last year.
The Washington monument has reached
a height of 1856 feet inches
NEWS OF THE RAILKO4 DS.
GeorgeJ. Rice, president of the Utica,
Ithaca & Elmira railroad, was arrested in
New York on charge of an overissue ofstock
and embezzlement tt is said there is a
discrepancy in his accounts of from $50, 900
to $500, 900. The prisoner lives near Elmira.
Rice de MES all charges and says he will
prove his entire innocence when given an
opportunity.
St. Paul & Omaha earnings decreased ST.,
600 the first week in December. The gross
earnings OF the Northern Pacific for the
first week in December were $153, 518; in
crease, $74, 548.