National Republican., 1883-01-19
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Fir3t Assistant Postmaster General Hatton was
out Of town on business yesterday.
Mai Thomas d. Kirby of the PostoGicc Bulletin,
is lying seriously i'll with erysipeas.
Nearly three thousand new volumes were added
to the scientific library of the patent office last
year
The Treasury department to-day purchased
100000 ounces OF silver for delivery at the several
mints
Judge Freeman, assistant attorney general for
the Postoice department, is sick at his home, Oh
Mount Pleasant,
The receipts from internal revenue yesterday
were S302, ,g620l and from customs Sj0O0g6 81. The
national bank notes received for redemption
amount TO Sl73,OJO.
Tho secretary Of the interior yesterday directed
that the office of the surveyor general Of Dakota
territory should be removed from IGukton to
Huron, the order To take effect April /, 1883,
The court of claims held short and unimport.
ant session yesterday, and adjourned I'LL Monday
next, when IL is expected the case Of Campbell
and l.sln against the District Of Columbia will be
heard.
DR.. Joseph, disbursng clork of the Interior do.
partmeni, is suffering from yalvular dsenso Of the
heart, anu ID liable To go Oft ut any moment. lie
has been In great distress from this disease, not
being nule for over six weeks to lie down. His
general health outside Of this special trouble, is
slowly improving,
Secretary Folger has referred the case OF Col
lector llalnes ~ brownsville, Texas, to Special
Agent Bamey with instructions to make Il thorough
llNeslRuNop OF lhe chafgts against Mr., llnlnes,
tho most serious of which is collusiOn with
smugglers. Special Agent BRmey was Mr. Ilaines s
predecessor as collector NJ Brownsville
aiThe State department has received information
that the following steamship lines Will transport
nt reduced rates, exhibits TO and from the utter
national exhibition of animals connected with
agriculture, which Is TO be held az Hamburg,
Germany, IN July next, viz; Tho Hamburg and
American steam pucket company, the North
German, LlOyGs, Bremen, and Edward Carr's line
ofsteAuurs, Hamburg.
The commisslonerOfIn affairs has addressed
the secretary of the interior again. urging tho re-
moval Of the Sac and Fox Indians from Osage
county, Kansas TO the Indian territory, and
giving reasons for the request These Indians
claim they never sold their reservation in Kansas,
and so NIOug Is their attachment n IL that thev
have resisted every lnduCpment the government
could oner them to leave Kansas. They must be
put of by force.
meeting Of the Light House board was held
at the Treasury department yesterday afternoon
All the members were present. as follows: Secre-
tary Folger, who is president of the board ex
OnciO; Gen. Poe Gen, Wright, and Col Ludlow
Of TIE engineer corps Of thG army; Vice Admiral
Rowan, con. Baldwin, and Capt, Picking, Of the
navy Prof Norton lresldentn of the institute (
technology, Hob ,knu n. j.; ana Prof. Hiipurd Of
the coast survey. Vice Admiral Rowan nnd Gen
Poe were put In nomination for the chairmanship
Ofthe board. vice Rear Admiral Wymuu, decreased
and the iOrmer was elected by u yOtH OF 20 T. The
secretary OF the treasury cast thes dCcdlng vote in
favor Of Admiral Ruwuu The hoard considered
the question OF establishing light house II 'at-
teas sn IRls NJ u poiut nine miles from aud, and
Il was decided thut mn examination bu made us to
the pIpcIieabilty ana cost Of such n structure. II
was also decided TO place whi,tliug buoy at that
point for the present and 10 defer the question Of
establishing light ship there for further cOnside.
ration. Considerable routine business was trans
acted by the board.