The Red Cloud chief., 1884-01-11
A WEEKS NEWS.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
WASHINGTON NOTES.


In a late case where duty had been col
iected upon a cossack imported from Cana-
da into Maine, the owner, a Catholic priest,
made application to have the amount re-
funded, OF the ground that the article was
used for religious purposes. The Depart
ment in reply stated that where a priest
imports vestments or any regalia or robe
as his private property he must pay a duty,
even though the articles imported are after
ward used in religious ceremonies: but
where such articles are imported by a
church or society for religious purposes
they will be allowed to come in free.
THE Director of the Mint estimates that
between S5,0C0,0O0 and 10000 900 trade dol
lars are out, and in the hands of tradesmen
and the people generally, instead of in the
possession of spectators. The remainder
Of the $S0,000,G0O originally coined is
thought to lave been exported or remelted.
AN important decision was recently ren-
dered by the Court of Claims at Washing
ton, in a test case, fixing the status of
~iitigants under the Bowman bill, passed by
the last Congress. The opinion was care
fully drawn by Judge Richardson, who
decided substantially that no claim under
the Bowman bill al be- considered if the
Court had jurisdiction of the same previous
to the passage of the Bowman bill, whereof
the claimant failed to take advantage
within the six years Limitation.
The Treasury recently purchased $4,000
ounces of silver for the Philadelphia and
New Orleans minis. Coinage at minis in
December, So,4S0,041, of which $2,354,170
were standard dollars.
THE National Board OF Health has infor.
nation, communicated by the State De-
partment, of the continuance of cholera in
Alexandria.
THE Attorney General has decided that
q postmaster in order to be entitled to
receive the compensation provided by the
revised statutes for issuing and paying
money orders must personally perform the
services required in the money order bust.
ness in his office, in the sense that if the
work is not physically executed by his
hand it must be executed under his imme-
date supervision by a clerk employed by
him for that purpose, n who is in no way
employed by the Post-office Department
proper, or paid from the postal fund as dis
tinguiShed from the money fund.
The town talk in Washington the other
day was the discovery of the alleged for
geries and fight of Clarence u. Barton,
formerly managing editor of the National
Republican. Mr.. Barton will be remem.
bered as the party who attacked the pri.
vate character of the well-known journal
list, A. NJ. Sateldo, in the columns of the
National Republican, growing out of
Sateldo's defense of a fallen
woman, who had been assaulted by
Jimmy Kegan. formerly a reporter
for tine New York Herald. This resulted
in a personal alteration, in which Sateldo
was killed in the editorial rooms of the Re
publican Office. 1t seems that these for
geries had been known to various parties
for some days, but were not made public
at an earlier moment, because of sympathy
for Barton's sick wife and helpless chill
dren. Among the names said to have been
forged are William NJ. Dickson, foreman
of the first star-route jury, and Henry d.
Battler, merchant. General Brady's name
is on some paper, but it is not ascertained
whether forged or not. The amount of
fraudulent paper was unknown.