River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-03-23

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WASHINGTON.


REPRESENTATIVE BLACK, of Georgia, is
reported as dying.
COLONEL CooK. special attorney in the
prosecution of the star route cases has
resigned.
TIE president has authorized the use of
troops to aid the governor of Nebraska to
suppress disturbances at Omaha.
THE speaker has announced that the
special committee on woman suffrage Will
be composed of Messrs. White, Sherwin,
Stone, Hepburn, Springer, Muldrow and
Shackelford.
A WASHINGTON special says that an in
innate friend OF Cor ling IS authority for
the statement that he will certainly ac-
cept the justiceshiF.
THE sub committee of the ways and
means committee at Washington will rec
ommend reductions in taxes on liz uors,
tobacco, banking and prophet ary stamps,
which will cut off $6S 900 00) of internal
revenue annually.
THE tobacco manufacturers. in session
at Washington. adopted memorial to
congress protesting against the passage of
the leaf-tobacco bill, and asking that no
change be made unless the entire tax be
abolished.
THE counsel for Sergeant Mason declares
his determination to investigate the hasty
shipment of the prisoner to the Albany
penitentiary while petition for writ of
habeas corpus was pending. Secretary
Lincoln has promised to give the case due
consideration.
john RUSSELL YOUNG has been nomi-
mated envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of the United States to
China, and G.. Watts U. S. marshal for
the western district of Virginia. and
Judge Blatchford, of New York, for as
sociate justice of the supreme court.
THE president has nominated Samuel
Blatchford, of New York, to be an ASSOC
ciate Justice of the supreme court, Senator
Edmdnds having at last decided to decline
the position. At the request of General
Grant, John Russell Young was appointed
minister to China.
THE six months of mourning which the
president fixed for observance of Garfield's
death has nearly expired and in few
days the heavy black bordered paper upon
which all official communications have
been written at the white house, and the
other public tokens OF the mourning, will
disappear from public view.
HE RONbFDmeHt StcdLuSI AMY iClt Ct'
Louis, loaded with rations for the sufferers
near Friar's Point, Miss. A passenger
from New Orleans, desiring to give inter-
viewers something worth while, says the
Mississippi is one hundred miles wide at
Terrene; that back of Riverton there is
an acre of unfooded land literally covered
with snakes; that starving cattle are feed
ing on each other, and that five mules are
given for a skitf.
THE attorney for Sergeant Mason is
moving for writ OF habeas corpus, on
the ground that the court-martial had no
jurisdiction in time of peace, and that 1t
imposed an excessive punishment. Over
so 0C0 signatures have been attached to
petitions circulating in Chicago for the
pardon of the accused, and similar efforts
are being made in every town of impor-
lance. The beneficiary is not likely to
inspire respect by such letters IS he is
sending 10 the Washington papers, saying
he will not be pardoned by a Guiteau
president. Mason was sent to the Albany
penitentiary yesterday under guard of
four soldiers.