The Portland daily press., 1883-10-09
WASHINGTON.


Gen. sherman Preparing TO Retire.
WAsHINeToN, Oct S-General Sherman
and General Tidball, who have been on a tour
OF inspection of military posts in the far west,
returned this morning Gen. Sherman will
attend reunion of the Society of the Army of
Tennessee at Cleveland the 18th and 18th,
after which he will return and close up the
affairs Of his Office SO that Lieutenant General
Sheridan may be fully installed before the
meeting of Congress-
The Incandescent Lamp Patent.
The commissioner of patents has overruled
the board of examiner-in-ehief and reversed
decision in the case of Sawyer and Mann VS..
Edison, involving the propriety of invention
of incandescent conduction for the electric
lamp formed of carbonized paper. Priority of
invention is awarded to Sawyer and Mann,
who, it is held in the decision, completed their
invention at least one year in advance of Edi-
son.
Consul Seymour Not Dead.
A cable message was received at the depart
ment of state to-day from Consul General
Denny stating that quiet prevails in Canton
and that there was no truth in the reported as
sassination of United States Consul Seymour
The United states Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court of the United States
convened at noon to-day, but without trans
acting any business of consequence adjourned
until tomorrow. All the justices were pres
eDt.
Facilitating Delivery of Mail Matter.
With -iew to facilitating aud fastening
the delivery of mail matter in large cities, the
postotfice department is gradually extending
the system of sorting city mails in postal cars
which was tried on small scale with very
satisfactory results sometime since. The plan
is to classify city mails as far as possible while
in transit by distributing the mail matter in
the postal cars under the heads: "For post
masters" sFor the general post office" 'sFor
lnQR Vac he and har bar
for the several metropolitan postal stations, so
that it may be handled with greater quickness
and facility when it reaches its destination.
The system was recently tried on several trains
running into Philadelphia, and the service was
SO satisfactory that the postmaster of that city
asked to have his mails sorted ON all trains.
The Postal Notes.
DR.. Mcdonald, chief of the money order
system, does not think that there need be any
fear that the postal notes will be raised, and
does not believe that they have been. He
considers that it would be impossible for any
extensive frauds to be commmitted in this
way. He anticipates that fonr millions of the
notes will be used the present year, transmit
ting from ten to twelve millions of dollars.
War ON Liquor sellers.
The Good Templars have comm enced a
formidable raid against the saloon keepers, and
have obtained ruling from District Commits
sioners that no new licenses shall be given to
any WulCu nave Doou uu6u LOr S6IIlUR
liquor on Sunday, or without license. The
list of saloons which have been so fined in
cludes most of the principal hotels and the
other noted bar-rooms of the city.
Alabama Claims Court.
In the court of commissioners of Alabama
claims to-day the following judgments were
announced.
No 143O-Geo P. Douglass $67.
No 143S-Leir s. Beal $10S
No. 1443-Cornelius 7. Willis S7S.
No. 1445-Almon Work, administrator of
Selden Work, deceased, 1872.
No. 1435-Chandler M. Jewett $1O3 with in
terest from 10Th of August, 1864.
No. 1308-Warren r. Lewis $125.
No. 1307--Vinal r. Lewis $125, with interest
from oath of June, 1864.
No M4- Charles Durrogh VS.. United States
and No. 245 VIM. Ward VS.. same were argued
and submitted by james Towns for claimants
and Walker Blaine for respondents.
No. GOWN. Webster VS.. United States
argued by j. T. Manning for claimant and J.
A. Creswell for respondents.
Isaac Henry Ford, Esq, OF Washington, D.
c., was admitted to practice as an attorney OF
this court.
Adjourned until tomorrow.
Investigating MIR. Dezendorf's Charges.
Mr. A. G. Sharpe, chief of the Postotfce
inspectors, who has been investigating Mr..
Dezendort's charge that Senator Mahone's
agents have levied political assessments upon
the employees of the post office at Norfolk, Va,
reports: "Aiter making a thorough enquiry
failed to discover single man in the Office
who had been invited TO contribute per cent
of his salary or any other sum for Campaign
purposes, and that the statement OF Mr. Dez-
eDdorff so far as it relates to the employees of
the Postofice Department at Norfolk, Va, is
untrue.
Miscellaneous.
The Post Office Department is making ar
rsngement to admit Australia to the Postal
Union.
The War Department authorities have in
formation that Gen. Hancock is rapidly i'm
proving and will be about in few days.
An agent of the secret service division at
Duluth Mimi, has captured a set of counter
feiters plates of $5 on bank in Montreal.
Secretary Lincoln returned to Washington
| yesterday afternoon.
The Department of State is informed that
the opening of the royal agricultural exposl-
ton at Lisbon is deferred until May next
Property of exhibitors intended for exhibition
| now in government custody here will be care
| iully preserved from Injury until the date
named or will be held subject to the order OF
its owners.