River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-10
TELEGRAPH TICKS.
Important and Interesting Items
from the Wires During the Week.
WASHINGTON.

The appropriations made by congress at
this session exceed those of last year near
ly $80,000,000.
The president has sent to the senate the
name of Henry K. Mccoy to be United
States judge for the northern district of
Iowa.
Both houses of congress, Aug. 3, passed
the river and harbor bill over the presi-
dents veto. So the bill becomes law.
QUITE number of orders have been re-
ceiyed from various parts of the country
for the new per cent. bonds.
A BILL has passed the house authoriz
ing the transfer of the property of Ma
tional Soldiers and Sailors Orphans
Home TO the Garfield Memorial Hospital.
SECRETARY FoLGER will begin to award
the per cents in exchange for surren-
dered bonds the goth of August. All APP
plications received will be opened and filed
away in regular order.
A COLLISION occurred Aug. 3 between
the business manager OF the Republican
and the proprietor of the Sunday ChT0ra-
iGle. No blood was shed. but both COM
batants were deluged with writing-huid
from the inkstands used as weapons.
THE house committee on judiciary have
voted to declare the lands granted TO the
| Texas Pacific railroad, which are now
claimed by the Southern Pacific, forfeited,
and TO restore them to the public domain.
THE senate has confirmed the nominal
| ton Of VIM. Hale, of Iowa, to be governor
of Wyoming, Andrew w. Smytbe to be
| superintendent of the mint at New Or
| leans, and Chris Barner to be surveyor of
customs at Galena, Ill.
COMPTROLLER KNOX reports that forty
nine national banks reorganized by liqui-
dation in advance of the passage of the
law to extend their charters. A IS note
of the new design, Ornamented with a
portrait of President Garfield, is about
ready to be issued.
A WARRANT was forwarded to Washing
ton for the arrest of Colonel Popham, Of
Virginia, who seconded Captain John S.
Wise in the recent duell with Crockett.
Popham is superintendent of the folding
room of the house of representatives, and
was given warning by Wise in time to
escape.
The acting consul general in Egypt tel
egraphs Secretary Frelinghuysen from
Alexandria that the archives of the con-
sulate, which it was feared were destroyed,
have been found at Cairo, and that he is
OF the way to Port Said, 10 attend Gen.
Stones family, who have been saved by a
faithful friend, and supposed to be at Is
MALTA.
A PORTLAND newspaper of last Wednes-
day stated that an assessment circular
from Washington was received by iede-
raj employee at Portland in government
envelope without the payment of postage.
A resolution is to be introduced in the
house of representatives for an investiga-
ton of the matter by the committee on
reform in the civil service.
A. o. BUELL. was the principal witness
for the defense in the star-route trials
| Aug. 5. He controverted Walsh's evil
dence in some respects. and was subjected
to searching cross-examination, during
which his articles in Washington jour
mails condemnatory of Judge Wylie and
the prosecution were read. He admitted
that Brady and Dorsey paid him money
for writing them and also for his articles
condemning Postmaster General James
and Attorney General MacVeigh. The
court told him he was disgraceful Ii
beler