The Dickinson press., 1884-03-08
THE PITH OF THE NEWS.
Washington aosxip.

AAA0 SAnV0 1AACu SOlllCAu5 q. IhlulcE AS
associate Justice of the supreme court of d.
kota.
The widow of Gen. Fitzpatrick is in Washington
in reduced circumstances, and congress will be
asked to grant her a pension.
Postofices established: Wisconsin-Bryant.
Langlade county. Postmasters commissioned
Edmund X. Cavileer, Pembina, Oak.
The following postofices were recently es-
tablished: Bondurant, Sawyer county, Iowa:
Manwarlng, Sawyer county, Wisconsin.
The nominations of B. G. Tiffany, register,
and W.. J.. Anderson, receiver at Grand Forks,
have been favorably reported to the senate.
The name of Hon. James NJ Tyner is being
mentioned in connection with the governorship
of Dakota, after Gov. Ordway's term expires.
The controller of the currency has author
lied the st. Paul National bank of st. Paul,
Neb.. to commence business with q capital OF
$4,000.
Louis Tasistro, the ex-translator of the state
department, is prostrated with paralysis a.
Washington. He is eighty years old and starry
ing poor.
Col. Royal of the Forty-Eighth United States
cavalry is in the city. He is detailed a. presi-
dent of the board of officers to consider cavalry
equipments.
Iii said the proposed news copyright will
have no chance of going through the house, IS
enough members are already pledged against
it to defeat it.
Ex-prcsident Gowen, of the Reading road, is
succeeding in his law practice. Hell has a yearly
retainer of $4,000 from Vanderbilt and the
Reading road
Special mail service was recently discontm-
ued to Darlington, Dakota; Mingo, Jasper
county, Iowa; Hillsdale Gallatin county and
Lewis, Meagher county, Montana.
The secretary of the treasury has given no.
tee that the department will redeem bonds en-
braced in the 126th call prior to maturity May
l, with interest to date of presentation.
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 Wheelock's name.
]. B. Butler, formerly of New York, appoint
ment clerk of the treasury department, recent
ly mentioned as successor to Assistant Secre-
tary New, has resigned his present position.
The movement to secure the appointment of
Postmaster General Gresham to the circuit
~judgeship in the Seventh judicial district is a
serious one, and is undoubtedly made with his
I consent.
IL AulClICdl SOSC1 ulc udS 1cCSlSCN u1
invitation through the Imperial German lega-
ton at Washington to participate in the exhi-
bition of dairy products at Munich, from I'd to
18th October, 1854.
The house committee oninvalid pensions has
sons bill increasiog the pension of widows and
dependant parents of deceased soldiers and
sailors from $Sto $12 per month
Senator Sabin introduced Wednesday the
Nelson bill as it was reported from the house
committee Oh 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 receivedat the post
office department for the appointment of Miss
Lizzie Mutt as postmistress of Uniontown, Pa.
She is the sister of young Mutt, recently acquit-
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. H.
I. Reed from Company b to Company I; First
Lieut.. NJ. T. Mans from company I to Com
pany E.
Acting Assistant Surgeon W. H. Faulkner,
o. s. A., has boon ordered to proceed from
Washington to Fort Smelling, Mimi, and re-
port in person to the commanding generc.. of
the department of Dakota for assignment to
duty in that department.
Representative Brewer was directed by the
house committee on manufactures to reportfa IA
vorably his bill to impose a fine of not more
than BOO or imprisonment of three months, on
any person interfering in any way with q COM
mercial traveller selling goods by sample.
Gen. Longstreet, United States Marshal Of
Georgia, testified before the Springer commit
I kaa ronoOtlv He 1opial fhof ho p-no n Jnfn,,1k
or to the government, and said, on the contra
", a proper footing Of his account would show
The government was indebted to him $1,000.
The senate committee on public lands report
I'd the bill for allotment Of lands in severalty
to Auckaro, Grosventres and Mandan Indians
on Fort Bertholdi reservation, Dakota, giving
zach head of q family 100 acres, each single
male above twenty-one, eighty acres of land,
to be held in trust for them twenty-five years.
The postofice appropriations bill, as pre-
pared by the subcommittee, which was con-
sidered Wednesday by the full committee, APP
propriates $45, OIL 500. The estimated reven-
ues of the next fiscal year are $47,1M 600;
amount asked for by the department, $50,O 62, :
!S9; appropriation for the current fiscal year,
Postoffces established: Wisconsin-Birch,
Chippewa county. Postmasters commissioned
Daniel F. Roger, Alpena, Oak. Robert Camp
bell, Buffalo Grove, Iowa; William s. Sevanson.
Crescent, Iowa; Jane Van Antwerp, Dennis,
iowa; Alfred Frazier, Honey c eek, Iowa; Hen
~ Halter, Selection, Iowa, Enos G. Kayton,
Strahan, Iowa.
The house committee on accounts is investi-
eating the practice which has long beena scan
dol, of spending enormous amounts of money
1t congressional funerals. 1t usually costs
from $1,000 to $4,000 to bury q congressman,
and it very seldom costs less. More than half,
IN many cases two-thirds, of the money is
wasted in useless extravaganza.
The bill repeating the test oath, which re-
eently passed the house, has been passed by
the senate, after being modified by an amend
ment proposed by the senate Judiciary commit
tee. providing that no 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 be appointed to
my positioni in the United States.
Department of state has received information
hom the United States consul at Birmingham
England, that the foot and mouth disease il
among cattle in almost every county in Eng.
land. The secretary of the treasury has re-
4uested the secretary of state to notify United
States consuls in Great Britain not to certify
invoices of cattle unless after an examination
Of tho animals by a veterinary surgeon they
Are satisfied that the animals are free from
disease.
Senator Sabin gave a dinner party Friday
evening to some Minnesota friends. 1t was so,
sial gathering of old acquaintance, and was ex.
tremely enjoyable. There were present
Sclator Mcmillan, Gen. John B. Sanborn, Gen
Z: N; McLaren Dr. David Day, Judge Grcenlea al
CLARK, Judge II. II. Brill, Charles T.. Otis, w. D.
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