The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-18
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Goings On In and About Wash
ington.
Work on the Great Monument Re
sumed-The C0lOred National
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
-Persnnal. Etc.

The Commissioner of the General Land
Office has received complaints from the
Postoffice Department that cattle-breeders
in Nebraska have recently inclosed with
fence, for grazing purposes, large tract OF
public land, and thereby cut of an fmpor-
tant mail route. The case is being investi-
gated, and 1t Is thought at the Interior De
partment that measures about to be taken
will Jesuit in breaking mp this unlawful
practice of fencing up public lands, prac-
lice which has lately grown To he serious
evil.
Secretary Teller has rendered decision
in which he holds that the act of June 3,
1873, which permits the sale at the minimum
price OF g.. 81 per acre OF lands valued prln-
cpally for their timber and unfit for Guilt
walton, does not apply to timber lands which
may be rendered susceptible of cultivation
by ordinary farming processe Sucn
lands" the Secretary says, "are not within
the purpose of this act, which is intended
to embrace within its provisions timbered
tracts only in broken, rugged or noun
famous districts, with soil untt for ordinary
agricultural purposes when cleared of tim
Der"
Fred Douglass defends the motives Of
himself and associates in calling colored
convention in Washington, and says that 1T
has no secret purpose; that its only object
Is to advance the interests or the coiored
II
there should not be colored convention
than that the conventions of Irishmen,
women, temperance people, workingmen
and relig Gus societies should be abandoned
The colored men of the District are much
excited over the removal by tue Marshal of
the District of Perry Carson, who for many
years has been one OF the leading deputies
of that office
Work has commenced again upon the
Washington monument A cargo Of MAJ Bile
from the Lee quarrles in Mas sachuselts
arrived the other day and Will az once be
put into condition to be laid The total
pressure now borne by the bed Of the
foundations is 74,o1 tons, which is about
92-l00 of the total pressure TO be finally
placed uponit When completed the shaft
will be the loftiest structure in the world.
The total settlement OF the shaft thus far
has been one and one-quarter inches.
The Comptroller OF theCurrency has author
lied the follow ng banks to begin business
The National Gorman-American Bank, st.
Paul, Mum. capital, 5000 90 Big Rapids
National Bank, Big Rapids, Mich. capital,
S105,0U0 Aurora National Bank, Aurora,
Ill. ; capital, Size, GOO
Secretary Folger has rented the estate in
the suburbs OF Washingto formerly occu-
ped by Commodore PaJter:on, Of the Coas:
Survey, and III his health permits Will en-
deavor to enan near 20 Washington most
of the summer. His physicians do not
think he will lie succe 'sful
1t is very evident that the defendants in
the star-Ioute case had no serious intention
of resting their case without argument
The counsel for all the defendants Will
speak, and it is not certain that the trial
Will not last several weeks longer
The President has appointed George Gift
ford Of Maine, United States Consul at
Cognac. France; and John W. Burdette, Jr.
Collector of Internal Revenue for the
Fourth district of Iowa
The President has accepted another fifty
miles of the Northern Pacific railroad in
Montana. This section, recently completed,
extends from the 5t0th TO the G00th mile of
road west of the Missouri river.
The President desig mated John J. Knox,
Comptroller OF the Currency, to t as Com
missioner Of Internal Revenue tor ton days
from May 10
Tho Hon. Geo &c Stoneman, Of California,
has rendered his resignation as a member of
the Board of Indian Commissioners