Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-06-14
TIL NEWS.
NORTHUMBERLAND.

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Washington and announces that he will be
ready for trial on the indictments against him
whenever the government may desire TO pro-
coed. II is understood that the case will prob
ably be called for trial very soon.
About Sl66,00 in standard silver dol
lvrs were issued from the United States mints
for the week ending June 2.
The civil service commissioners are
very much in doubt as TO whether the words
Zone family" In the clause Of the civil service
bill which provides that only two persons
from zone family" shall be eligible to appoint
ment. The commissioners do not know wheth
er one family means parents or children, or
brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces, aupts, cous-
ins, grandchildren and clear on through the
list.
The report has again been started
that Commissioner Marble of the patent office
Is about to resign. With this announcement
come damaging reports concerning Marble and
his management OF the Office.
The returns made to the treasury de-
partment for the first II months of the current
fiscal year, show that the receipts are less and
the disbursements greater than for thesame per-
iod last year. In the one item OF customs there
cepts are SIC, 1000, 900 less than for last year,
but owing to the increase of internal revenue
the net loss is only about 100000. Such
statements show that the customs receipts are
a very calculating quantity in the schedule Of
national revenue.
Representatives of colored people
living in Indian Territory have been In Wash
ington looking after their interests, under an
act of Congress appropriating 100000 for
Cherokee lands west of the Arkansas river.
The colored population claim that they have
been debarred from the benefits accruing from
this act of Congress, as the money has been di-
| vided only among pure blood Cherokees. The
Cherokees claim that they have exclusive right
to this appropriation, but the government says
| the negro must have share.
The total values of exports of pc
troleum and petroleum products for April,
1888 were 49, liz, 492; in April 1882, g. 1S6, 955
the 10 months ending April 80, 1888, $35, 195,
| $50: the corresponding period OF the preceding
| year $42, 1894, 3l2.
Some statistical fiend has figured
out that %, 600 pensioners will be benefited by
the act of March 3, 1885, granting an increase.
BY decision of the first comptroller
of the treasury the Pacific railroad company
| to their right TO receive payment In cash for
mail transportation services to the government
on leased or subsidized portions Of their respec-
| tive lines.
The commissioner of internal revenue
has decideded that dies, rolls and plates that
have been used by the government In printing
labels and wrappers bearing an internal revenue
stamp cannot be returned to the original own.
| ers.
1t is reported that the Government
printing Office has recently been furnished copy
for the immense pension list which is TO be pub
lished by order of the Senate. The work Is To
commence about July |, and is expected 70
| be finished by the time Congress convenes IN
December Orders have been given, IL is said,
| that the work Is TO be regarded as of a conf
| Dental character, and that all proofs must bt
/ sent IN the (inmmiS siOnpr nf Pensions
Acknowledgement Brewster has pre-.
dicted that the jury in the star route trials will
disagree, and in such an event he will ask for {
| new trial.
The clerks in the Pension Office
complain of the pressure of work that i,
being placed upon them In tn,
effort Of Commissioner Dudly TO clear
up all the claims for arrears of pension:
before the close Of the present fiscal year
Strict rules for working hours are observed
and the clerks are forced TO maintain certain
standard of efficiency unknown, perhaps, IL
private enterprises. They express no doubt
however, of the ability of the office TO perform
the work contemplated.
One of the Guiteau jurors has gone
crazy. He believed the assassin was insane
and the thought that an irresponsible man haC
been executed so proved upon his mind that h'
became raving maniac
The secretary of the interior will
shortly send an agent to the Zuni Indians II
New Mexico TO examine their land, and ascer
tain whether their water supply would be Gu
or II the land clalIn entered by Speculation
should be granted.
The color of the new two cent post
age stamp will be metallic red.
White Wolf, Big Bow and Sun Boy
representing the Kiowa and Comanche tribes
Of Indian Territory, have had a conferenc,
| with the secretary of the interior RESPECTING
the boundaries of their reser yations, the In
dams contending that in 1867, when they sign
ed treaty with the government they wer,
given to understand that all land lying west o
the Wachata and Red rivers belonged exclu
sively to them but now the land is held by tn,
state Of Texas as Grier county. The secretar,
told the Indians he was governed by law an(
could not make any alterations In the boun
dairy lines.
The fourth auditor of the treasury
has finished auditing the accounts of the sur
| viving members of the crew of the lost Arctic
exploring steamer Jeanette. He holds thai
they are not entitled to witness fees or 10 REIN
bursements Of the amount paid by them fol
board, etc, while In this city in attendance OF
the Jeanette court inquiry. He limits theil
allowance to their sea pay as seamen.
Secretary Teller has reversed his de.
cision in the case Of VIM. Chandler VS.. the
village of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, and now de
cides that Porterneld scrip is locatable upoI
the tract in question, evidence being produced
that Indians did not reside on the tract as wa,
supposed at the time of the first decision.
Bigalow, the limb of the law, who
sued the wife Of Mason, the man who attempt
ed to shoot Guiteua now offers to settle FOL
$500 of the money that was raised for "Bet.y
and the baby" Hho sued for $1,000.
Major Nickerson. of the regular army
who has become so notorious through hi.
fraudulent effoits to obtain divorce has dis
| appeared. His friends claim 10 know nothing
| about his whereabouts.
/ There is trouble among the women
in the government employ. 1t has been de
cided that women will he debarred from futur,
| appointment under the workings CT the new
| civil service law.
On the afternoon of June 9, the dus,
OF John Howard Payne, author Of "Home, Swee
Home" was laid away in a vault In Oak Hi
Cemetery In Washington. Above the vault has
| been erected an appro pirate monument, upor
the top Of which has been placed an excellent
\ marble bust of the poet. The spot where the
monument has been erected Is the most beauti
| full In the cemetary, and one which was the f.
vorite resort of the poet many years ago, before
the oak grove became Oak Hill Cemetery. Her,
he would frequently gather his friends about
him and lying beneath these splendid trees he
would break forth In praise OF the attractive
scenery surrounding him. The ceremonies oil
1 the day were beautiful and impressive, an6
were attended by many distinguished citizen:
of Washington, and nearly all the cabinet OH
| GERS President Arthur, Gems. Sherman anS
1 Hancock, and w. w. Corcoran, the gentleman
by whose generosity the remains of Payne were
brought from foreign land, were conspicuous
i figures In the procession.