Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-03

furniture for the custom house, court house
and postofice at Albany, N. Y, has been
awarded to A. Fl. Andrews & Co., of Chi
cago.
THE COUNT IN PROGRESS.
Treasurer Wyman and Assistant Treas
urer Graves formally entered upon
their new duties this morning. The ex-
animation of the cash in the treasury is
progressing satisfactorily. There are sixty
persons, including female counters, en-
gagged in this work, under the supervision
of the general committee. The count, SO
far, has shown deficit of five cents in one
bag of silver, and an excess of six cents in
accounts of interest. The teller supposes
this discrepancy will be explained as the
count progresses. The cash Is being count
ed twice, the first time by the committee,
and again by the representatives of the
treasurer. 1t will require two or three
weeks to complete the examination.
SUPREME COURT.
In the supreme court to-day, a decision
was rendered in the bond case of the may
or and aldermen of the city of Savannah,
Ga, against Eugene Kelly, which was
suit to enforce guarantee of the city en-
dorsed upon series of bonds of the Sa-
vannah, Albany & Gulf railroad issued in
| 1859. The court holds that the act of the
state legislature of 1888 authorized the
| guarantee made by the city of Savannah
upon the bonds of the railroad company,
and that it constitutes valid and subsist-
ing liability. The Judgment OF the circuit
court is therefore affirmed. The chief JUS
tice announced to the bar this afternoon,
that the United States supreme court
would discontinue the hearing of argu-
ments on April 81, and would adjourn to
| its term, May z.
A BATCH OF APPOINTMENTS.
The president to-day appointed Martin
S. Chandler, of Minnesota, to be surveyor
general of Minnesota, vice Jacob Il. Stew
art, whose term has expired; j. J. Gass-
mann, of Nebraska, to be agent of Crow
creek and the Lower Brule agency in Da-
kota, vice w. 81. Parkhurst, suspended;
Adam E. Bloom, of Michigan, to be re-
ceiver at the land Office at Detroit, Michi-
gan, vice Jos. B. Bloss, deceased; Warren
G. Willis, of Colorado, receiver of public
moneys at Denver, Colorado, vice Samuel
L. Thompson, whose term has expired;
John Kelly, of Oregon, William
B. Dean, of Minnesota, and Issac Brandt,
of Iowa, as commissioners to examine
twenty-five miles of railroad constructed
by the Northern Pacific Railroad company
in Montana territory. He also appointed
Aaron H. Cragin, of New York, Albert Ord
way, of Washington, d. c., and G. Pome-
roy Reese, of New York, for
another section of the same road in Mon
tana.
DENIES HE WAS AGAINST.
DR.. Loring, commissioner of agriculture,
says the statement made in many North
western papers that he opposed the bill
for the protection of cattle against con-
tagious diseases before the last congress
is entirely unfounded. He strongly advo-
Gated the Hatch bill, making ample pro-
visions for this work, by establishing q
veterinary division in the agricultural de-
partment, and was greatly disappointed at
its failure.
MoRB OPINIONS.
The opinion of the attorney general up
on the question whether the president can
fiji vacancy caUsed By the death of the
postmaster general, by temporary appoint
ment for a longer period than tan days, is
said at the White house to be substantially
identical with the opinion of Attorney
General Devens i'll case where the Office
of secretary of the navy became vacant in
1880. In that opinion Mr.. Devens held that
the period for which vacancy can be filled
by designation is limited to ten days.
''It would not, therefore" he said, "be in
the power of the president after such ten
days to designate another officer, or the
some officer to act for an additional period
oc4 ho Sfo tnfn hai1
exhausted the president is remitted to his
constitutional power of appointment.
SUPREME COURT DECISION.
A decision was rendered by the United
States supreme court to-day in the inter
esting criminal case of Chas. F. Kring, the
plaintiff in error vs.. the State of Missouri,
brought here upon writ of error frem the
supreme court of that state. Kring, the
plaintiff in error, on Jan. 4, 1875, shot and
killed woman named Dora Broenser.
At the march term in the st. Louis GRIM
1nal court, the same year he was indicted
for murder in the first degree, tried, found
guilty and sentenced to be hanged. Upon
an appeal the Judgment of the criminal
court was reversed, and new trial Or
dered. Two more trials followed, in both
of which the jury failed to agree. Upon
the fourth trial the prisonerimade an agree
ment with the states attorney to plead
guilty of murder in the second degree,
upon the condition that his
sentence be imprisonment for a
! period not longer than ten
years. Under this plea, however, he was
sentenced to Imprisonment for twenty-five
years. He again appealed and the judg
ment of the lower courts was reversed by
the supreme court and the case was second
time remandei. Upon his next trial the
prisoner refused to withdraw his plea of
guilty of murder in the second degree, or
make another plea, whereupon the court
ordered plea of not guilty to be entered
for him and he was again tried for
murder in the second degree, found guilty
and sentenced to death. He appealed sue
cessively to the court of appeals and the
| supreme court of the state. In both of
these tribunals the judgment and sentence