Morris tribune., 1882-09-28
THEaDAYS D0INGS.
wsSHJNGTON NEWS.


August, 1865 the debt has been reduced as
follows: The interest-hearing debt has been
reduced from So, 3Sl, $50 294 So to 81 4S7 $3.50
$50, a reduction of 1913 $50, 544.96, or 40 per
cent The total debt, less cash in the treas
ury, has en reduced from 81, ST., CO. 80,
estimating the interest due and accrued
to 3lSt of August at $56 2S0.6OT 49, which
was the amount due and accrued on the LIST
of July, 1862 when the interest was stated
as part of the public debt to 81, COS 926,-
1916, a reduction OF 81, l53, 1855 ,O06.95, or
Al per cent The annual saving OF interest,
PAYABLE on that portion of the public debt
bearing interest, is represented by the re-
duction from $3.50, 977, 697.S7 to SOC, 446,
ass 80, a total of $94, 53l 209.37, or about 63
per cent. -- ~ ID
Two hundred appointments We're made
Friday by the secretary of the interior for
the pension Office. The following We're
from the states Of Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Iowa and the Territory of Dakota.
To Class 1-William Miller, Iowa; Mich
ael Shie, Wisconsin,; Edward Tiede, Iowa;
RogerNW Cooley, Iowa. -.-.r. 20
To Glass 81 ,OOO-M. o. Hall, Minnesota.
CopyiSts at S9O0-E. X. Temple, Wiscon-
sir; Miss E. Saunders Wisconsin.
Watchman at $72e--C. L. Kershaw, Da-
kota.
For two weeks the postoffice department
has been in receipt of letters from western
postmasters stating that farmers have been
victimized by man advertising new amber
wheat for sale for planting purposes. The
advertisers having disappeared before the
pestoffice auth critics could isSueNan order in
the premises the various .postmaS-erS have
been directed to return the senders any reg
istered letters directed to,the advertisers.
Secretary Teller has decided that In dian
police may be furnished with revolvers for
the enforcement of their official authority,
but the custom ofsupplying them with the
best improved breech loading rifles must be
discontinued No rifles and no fixed ANU
milton for breech leaders will hereafter be
furnished any Indians by the department.
The officers of the signal bureau ;discredit
the report that Capt. Howsate is in Europe,
and say that they think they could place
their hands on him if they were given the
necessary authority and money for a search.
1t is understood that his whereabouts is
known to detectives who are in commnuica-
ton with the signal office.
, The bureau of 'diau affairs. at Washing
ton is surprised at the refusal of the Leech
Lake Indians to take the money awarded
| them by the co umSSiOnerS, but does not
anticipate any trouble at the ageny. The
department has not decided what it will do
| i'll the matter. t,E !f!r',N
President Arthur in answer to an inquiry
as to the truth of the statement that he had
| gone IiShing on a recent Sunday replied that
| he had never done such a thing in his-.Gte.
The president has appointed. son Of ex-
Collector Smythe of Albany major paymas-
ter of the United States army.
Howgates stealings amounted to $3.50, 900.
It is expected that his Washington real es-
tate will yield 100000.
RAILROAD NEVIS.
At the annual meeting of the Northern
Pacific stockholders in New York, the fol-
| lowing named were reelected directors:
Frederick G. Billings, A. H. Barney, John
W. Ellis. r. g. Ralston, Robert Harris,
Thomas F. Cakes, H. Willard, J. L. Stack
pole and Benjamin P. Cheney, Boston. ].
| c. Built. Henry L Johnston, J. Pierrepont
| Morgan and August Belmont were added to
| the board. The officers Oh last year Were re-
elected They are Henry Willard, pres
ident Thomas F. Cakes and AthOny j.
/ Thomas vice PRESIDENTS; Samuel Wilkeson,
secretary; r. l.. Belknap, treasurer; George
| Gray, gene al COUNSEL; A. Anderson, en-
| gneer in chief; j. A. Barker, general auditor;
Herman Haupt OF st. Paul, general manager
Eastern divisions, and J. w. Sprague Of New
| Tacoma, Wyoming, general manager of the
" estern divisions.
1t is stated positively in Chicago that
Vanderbilt can secure control of the New
Nickel Plate, or New York, Chicago & St.
Louis road, thus giving the Lake Shore
system four tracks between Chicago and
Buffalo. The Vanderbilt power will be APP
parent as soon as the Nickel Plate has Sc
cured the valuable terminal advantages in
Chicago. Business will commence on the
new road Oct. Is.
Gen. Rosser was interviewed at Emerson
relative to the Hudson Bay route, with
which the general has lately connected him
self as a stakeholder and as chief engineer of
the road. Gen. ROsser has great faith in the
Hudson Bay route, and relietes that the
time is not far distant when the grain of the
whole Northwest country, including Mime
sofa and Dakota, will find its way to Liver
pool by way OF this route.