The National tribune., 1882-08-05

arising from customs. The ordinary eSpehd-
lures were less than $20O0O,O00 for July, and
about 100000 less than for July, 1851.
DURING the present month elections will be
held in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama.
The Tennessee election was held on Thursday
the 81 inst, the day on which THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE goes to press. and besides electlng
county officers a vote was taken upon the
question whether convention to amend OF
alter the present constitution of the State snail
! be held. If the convention is carried, the
delegates will be chosen at the State election
on Tuesday, November 7, and they viii meet
in Nashville on the second Tuesday in April
1888 The Democrats generally oppose the
convention, while the Republicans favor IT,
Kentucky will elect Il clerk Of the Court OF
Appeals on the 7th of August Capt Thos ).
Henry is the Democratic nominee, and Col. L.
T. Jacobs, Independent, adopted by the RepupH-
cans, is his opponent Alexander Lusk Is also
IN the field as a Prohibition candidate. In
Alabama, on the same day, full board OF state
officers, one half the members of the Senate
and full House of Representatives will be
/ chosen. Gen. Ed. A. O'Ncal heads the Demo-
cratic ticket rs the nominee for Governor
whilst the Republican -Grecnback opposition
| oppose him with Col James i, Sheffield. The
Legislature to be chosen viii select a successor
| to United States Senator John T. Morgan, whose
| term expires March 4, 1883. Mr.. Morgan IS a
candidate for reelection, and will have no
Democratic opposition should that party carry
the Legislature.
confirmed the following nominations: James
! Riley Weaver, of West Virginia, to be secretary
Of legation and cousul-gcneral of the United
/ States at Vienna; John T. Robson, of Tennes-
see to be consul of the United States at Beirut.
/ VIM. G. Henderson, to be collector Of customs
| for the district of Pearl River, Miss; Geo A.
/ Johnson, for the district of Santiago, Cal; Ed
ward Higgins, for the district of St Johns, Fla
/ Collectors OF Internal Revenue-Jas. w. Bent
! ley, at fourteenth district of New York; Jas.
/ Armstrong, at twenty-frst district of New
! York. Jas. c. Tolman, to be surveyor general
| at Oregon; Jas. Dumars, to be receiver of pub
! lie moneys at Springfield, No; E. P. Allen OF
! Michigan, to be Indian agent at Mackinack
| Agency, Michigan; VIM. II. Swan, of Pennsyl-
vauia, to be Indian agent at Cheyenne River
| Agency, Dakota. Revenue Service Second
/ Lieutenant T. J. Simmond, to be first lieuton-
/ ant: Third Lieutenants John +. Wilde and Il.
/ F. Wade to be second liCutenants. Postmas-
| ters-Daniel Lanning, at Pen Van, n. Y; +.
c. Zollman, at De Soto, Mo; Rufus Ogden, at
Key Port, n. J.; S. w. Rathburn, at Mitchell,
! Oak. Robert NJ Smith, Cherokee, Iowa.
IN ANSWER to a communication from the
! Secretary of War; the Attorney General has de-
| cided, in the matter of Army retiremcnts, that
! the act Of June 80, 1852, does not repeal the
! limit of the act of 1873, which places the num-
Der on the retired list at four hundred. Con
gress has evinced no purpose to make perma-
nent increase of the retired list. 1t is true the
list is subject to temporary augmentation be-
yond that limit by retirements under the act
of 1882. But this excess is exposed to constant
diminution and destruction by the occurrence
of vacancies" He concludes that q similar de-
cison was rendered by Att0rncy-General De-
vens under the old law, fixing the limit of the
retired list at three hundred He held THAI
three officers who had been placed on c re-
tired list in obedience to rs many special -c,s
of Congress must be included in any enumcrd-
tion to ascertain the number ON their list Lot
withstauding their cases were exceptional ap9
they would have been entitled to retirement ii
the list had been full when Congress directo
them to be placed there. The effect of the d.
cision is, that under the new act an officer "a
be retired even though the number limiFcd Is
already on the list if the officer has served
forty years, or is over 64 years of age.
a DISPATCH from Boston says: Leon Bar
nard, the Belgian canon who absconded with
Sl,7O0,O0O belonging to the church funds, and
who was recently captured in Havana, had
some time before while in this city leased a
vault from the Union Safe Deposit Company.
1t is understood that he deposited there about
/ $40 900 of the stolen funds In order to get al
them it became necessary to appeal to the
courts, and Leopold II, King of Belgium, is d
plaintiff in equity in the Supreme Court Of
Massachusetts against Barnard and the pro-
prictors of the safe deposit. An injunction has
been obtained against the defendants restrain
ing them from allowing the said Barnard, or
any one in his behalf admittancc to said vault
or from removing or interfering in any way
with its contents.
WHILE excavations were being made Satur-
day last in Il ballast pit at Smiths Falls Ont.
on the line Of the Canadian Pacific Railway a
perfect vertebra and a portion of a rib Of an
immense whale were found 81 feet below the
surface of the earth and q miles inland from
the ST. Lawrence River
A CURIOUS case has been brought before q
United States court at Louisville, Kentucky.
Ben. Holton, coIorcd, brought suit against
John Duncan and Alexander Duncan, of Ola
ham county Kentucky, for $4,000 damages.
The fact is thereby brought to light that in
March last a barn belonging to the Duncans,
who are wealthy distillcrs, was burned one
night Holton was the only man in the ill
mediate ncighborhood who did not offer to
help extinguish the flames, and the Duncans
charged Holton with starting the fire. 4 de-
tcctiye from Cincinnati was employed, but he
gave up the case, satisfied that Holton was
innocent, but the Duncans persisted that be
was not. One cold night they aroused him at
his home, while sleeping with his family, and
took him to the sbill-house, where they at
tempted to make him confess to burning the
barn Upon his denial Of the crime and all
knowledge of the perpetrators, they tied a
strong rope about his neck and drew him up
until he was unconcious When let down and
allowed to regain his breath, he still denied
burning the barn, when he was swung III a
second time; he still refused to confess, and
was hung third time. lie only missed death
bv a hairs breadth this time, but was let down
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