Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-11-10


ernment official can better his condition
by resigning and engaging in private
business that the Office goes begging.
Hon. Benjamin Bntterworth, OF Ohio, has
been duly installed as commissioner OF
patents vice e. NJ. Marble resigned. In
the course OF few years Mr.. Butter
worth will inblbe sufficiency OF patent
law and department practice to justify
him in bidding farewell to salary of
$4,000 per year and entering the lists as
9 patent attorney, It is only question
of time when he will swell ths-Iis of
graduates of one of Uncle Sans law
schools.
Judge j. G. Bancroft Davis retires
from the court Of claims to accept the
position of reporter of the supreme court
made vacant by the resignation of Judge
Otto. Judge Davis relinquishes salary
Of $4.5oo for one Of $500, but the prof.
it's on the sales of the supreme court de-
cisions make handsome income with q
psrmanency in it's value. Judge Kenneth
Rayner. solicitor OF the treasury, 1t is
thought, will be selected to fill the va
cancy in the court of claims. He is quite
old but in the full vigor OF his intellect.
His present residence 1s Mississippi,
though he formerly lived in North Caro-
lima, and in the days of the Wing party
was prominent politician in that organ.
ization. He is a native southern repub-
lican, which is urged in his favor. With
the exception of Chief Justice Drake,
who can hardly be called southern
man, as be comes from Missouri, there
has been no one from that section ON the
court of claims bench since William D.
Hunt, native of South Carolina, but a
resident of Louisiana when appointed,
was taken by Garfield for secretary of the
navy and sent as minister to Russia by
Arthur. Judge Rayper has made rep
utstion for honesty and ability as selici-
tor of the treasury and his experience in
that Office admirably qualities him for
the new position it is proposed to give
him.
Washington will hardly be Washing
ton without Gen. Sherman. No man
will be SO greatly missed as he. In
opera and public meetings for good OBJ.
iects Gen. Sherman was the distinguish
ed man of the occasion. On the street
he Was an object of interest to both citi-
zen and stranger. No one ever tired Of
seeing him and every body delighted to
NEE, with him ard talk with him. He
had soldiers blunt ways, but yet polite
and gentle and kind heart and good
word Tor sli His retirement from COM
,msnd of the army is the noblest action
Of his 'ife. The surrender was ss simple
snd unostentatious as the transfer OF pow.
el 'Sam one person to another could be.
In i:s real character it approached sub.
Unity aud has never been excelled even
by Washington in his resignation of com.
mand Of the continental army in 1888.
"Squaw winter, with its nipping frosts,
has come and gone. The trees are strip
ped of leaves and tons of them are gath.
cred from the streets for the gardeners
and florists use. "Indian summer" Is
now here in its genial temperature and
gorgeous beauty. There is no season OF
the year like unto it. In this latitude
of the Atlantic slope it sometimes ex.
tends to the holidays, but not without
some raw and clustering days. It is a
season for the indulgence of poetic senti.
ment, but wise people, if they have the
money, lay in stocks of coal and pro.
visions how when they can be bought
reasonably and thus reduce expenses fol
| winter. BARTON.