The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23
WASHINGTON GLEANINSs.


postoilice department against Post
master Adreon, of Baltimore.
President Arthur has pardoned a
North Carolina postmaster who
was sentenced TO the penitentiary
for embezzlement.
The president has been notified
by Judge Samuel Blatchford, of
New York, of his acceptance of the
office OF associate justice of the SUI
preme court.
The accounts of the patent office
show an increase of receipts OF 1884,
1923 for January, February and
the nine days of March over the cor
responding period of of last year.
No official report has yet been re-
ceived at the treasury department
from the special agent investigating
the affairs of the twelfth light house
district, but it is already known tina.
the defalcation of JAS. L. Best, engi-
neer clerk. at San Francisco, is up
ward of $1,000.
Agent Armstrong has preferred q
request to the secretary of the in
terror that zone hundred Crow
children under his care.at the Crow
agency, Montana, be sent to Ohio to
certain farmers to be educated.
Secretary kirkwood has instructed
Agent Armstrong to send the chill
dren that may desire to go.
The senate, in executive session,
unanimously ratified the declaration
submitted to it by President Arthur
on the Sd instant, that the United
States accede to the Geneva con-
ventions of August %, 1864, and Oc-
tober 20, 1868, tor the amelioration
OF the wounded of the armies of the
field, commonly known as the Red
Cross Treaties.
The petition, so-called, of the
"young men and young ladies" of
the territory .ot Utah, asking con-
gress to send a commission of intel
ligent men and women to Utah ter
rltory to investigate and report upon
its social condition, is said to have
for signers "young men" aged eight
years and "yOung ladies' of the same
mature age.
Several employees of the treasury
department have gone to Pittsfield,
Massachusetts, to assist in settling
the accounts of the government and
the paper mills there. The appro-
priation for fiber paper of which
bank notes and legal tender is
made, hasrun out, and it is expected
the mills will close on the first OF
next month.
The National Board of Health has
addressed communication to the
president, asking that he call the
early attention of congress to GER
tain alleged defects in the act of
1879, to prevent the introduction of
infectious and contagious diseases
into the United States. The letter
speaks of the prevalence of small
pox throughout the country, and
urges the president to make it the
subject of special message, and
recommends that the National Board
OF Health be gwen greater control
over the different quarantine sta
tons than they now possess under
the law.
The amendments reported by Mr.
Brown, from the senate committee
on railroads, to the bill granting the
right of way through the Choctaw
and Cbickasaw Nations to the st.
Louis and San Francisco railway
company, requires that the company,
within 90 days from its passage, do
accept its provisions, and within one
year from the date of acceptance to
complete the road. If, however, it
fails TO construct the road within
the specified time, then all its rights
under the act are to cease, and the
Chicago, Texas and Mexican Gen.
trail railroad company is to succeed
to all the rights and privilege con-
ferred by the act upon the st. Louis
and San Francisco company. The
amended bill gives the Chicago,
Texas and Mexican road ninety days
after the period allowed to the St.
Louis and San Francisco company
within which to comply with the
provisions OF the act, and the same
time to complete Its road as is by the
bill given to the original grantees.