The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-03-14
THE PITH OF THE NEWS.
washington Gossip.

6ota,
The widow of Gen. Fitzpatrick Isl Washington
In reduced circumstances, and congress VIII d
asked to grant her a pension.
postofiees established: Observation-Disclosures,
Langlade county. Postmasters commissioned:
Edmund X. Cavilecr, Pembina, Oak.
The following postofiees were recently es-
tsblished: Bondurant, Sawyer county, Iowa;
ManwarinG, Sawyer county, Wisconsin.
The nominations Of p. c Tiffany, register,
and w. J. Anderson. receiver st Grand FORKS,
have been favorably reported TO the senate.
The name of Hon. James NJ. Tyncr is being
mentioned in connection with the govcrnorshlp
Of Dakota, after Gov. Ordway's term expIros'
The controller Of tho currency has author
lied the st. Paul National bank OF St Iaul,
Ncb., to m business with a capital OF
$4,000
Louis Tasistro, the ex-translator of the state
iepartmcnt. is Frustrated with paralysis at
Washington. He is eighty years old and starY-
ing poor. .
Col ROYAL of the Forty-Eighth United States
cavalry is in the city. He is detailed as presl-
dent of the board of officers to consider cavalry
equipments.
tits said the proposed news copyright will
have no chance of going through'the house, as
enough members are already pledged against
it to defeat it.
Ex-president Gowen, of the Reading road, is
succeeding in his law practice. He has 3 yearly
retainer of $4,000 from Vanderbilt and the
Reading road.
Special mail service was recently discontin-
ued to Darlington. Dakota; Mingo, Jasper
county, Iowa; Hillsdale Gallatin county and
Lewis, Meagher county, Montana.
Hon. Milo White Of Minnesota asserted pos
lively that there would be no compromise in
the Owatonna postmastership matter, and that
he will not withdraw Judge Wheeloeks name,
J. B. Butler, formerly of New York, appoint
ment clerk OF the treasury department, recent
" mentioned as successor TO Assistant Secre-
tsry New, has resigned his present position.
The movement to secure the appointment of
Postmaster General Gresham to the circuit
judgoship in the Seventh judicial district isl
serious one, and is undoubtedly made with his
consent
The American government has received an
invitation through the Imperial German leSa-
ton at Washington to participate in the exhi-
bition OF dairy products at Munich, from I'd to
18th October, 1854.
The house committee on inyalid pensions has
agreed TO report favorably Representative Mat
sons bill increasiog the pension of widows and
dependant parents of deceased soldiers and
sailors from SSto Sl2 per month.
Senator Sabin introduced Wednesday tho
Nelson bill as it was reported from the house
committee on Indian affairs, to open up the Red
Lake Indian reservation. This will very ma
terially facilitate action on the bill by congress.
An application has been received at the post
Office department. for the appointment of Miss
Lizzie Mutt as postmistross of Uniontown, Pa.
She is the sister of young Mutt, recently scquit-
ted at Pittsburg on the charge of numbering
Dukes.
On the mutual application of the officers
concerned, the following transfers in the First
infantry have been ordered: First Lieut. III.
T. Reed from Company Il to Company | First
Lieut. NJ. P. Mans from company to Com,
panyB.
Acting Assistant Surgeon W. II. Faulkner,
q. s. A, has been ordered TO proceed from
Washington to Fort Smelling, Mimi, and re-
port in person TO the commanding general of
the department of Dakota for assignment to
duty In that department.
Representative Brewer was directed by the
house committee ON manufactures to reportfa-
yorably his bill to impose q fine Of not more
than S10Q or imprisonment of three months, on
any person interfering III any way with a COM
mercial traveller selling goods by sample.
Gen. Longstreet, United States Marshal Of
Georgia, testified before the Springer commit
tee recently. He denied that he was a default
or to the government, and said, on the contra
~, a proper footing Of his account would show
The government was indebted to him 81 900.
The senate committee on public lands report
ed the bill for allotment of lands in severalty
to Auckaro, GIosyentres and landau Indians
on Fort Bertholdi reservation, Dakota. giving
each head Of a family 100 acres, each single
male above twenty-one, eighty acres of land,
to be held ia trust for them twenty-five wears.
The postofice appropriations bin, az pre-
pared by the subcommittee, which was con-
sidered Wednesday by the fnll committee, APP
propriates $45.07I 900. The estimated reven-
ues OF the next fiscal wear are S41. 10000:
amount asked for BY the department, S50. CO,
lS9; appropriation for the current fiscal year,
$44, 4SA,520
Postoiices established: Wisconsin-Birch,
Chippewa county. Postmasters commissioned:
Daniel +. Roger, Alpena, Oak Robert Camp
he'll, Buffalo Grove, Iowa; William 8. Sevanson,
Crescent. Iowa; dane Van Antwerp, Dennis,
Iowa Alfred Frazier, Honey Creek Iowa Hen
y aAAN k5UA1ttAbB3 AVNds &~tAVo ~. hAttSAs
~Sirahan, Iowa.
The house committee D accounts is inyesti
eating the practice which has long been 4 scan
DIAL, of spending enormous amount of money
at congressional funerals. 1t usually costs
from S4,oW to $4,000 10 hurry h eofsgrcssmAn
and it very seldom costs lest More than half,
in many cases two-thirds. Of the money ii
wasted In useless extravaganza.
The bin repcaling the test cath, which re-
Gently passed the hotsa, has been passed. by
The senate, after being modified by an amcnd7
mcnt. proposed by the senate judiciary commit
tee, providing that 20 person who held q COM
mission in the United States army or navy be-
fore the war, and was afterward engaged In
the military. naval or civil service Of the So
called Confederate States, shall he appointed to
any position IN the United states
Department Of state has received information