The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-24
THE PlTH OF THE NEWS.
Washington GOSSIP.

The first controller of the treasury decides
that . liquor dealer who sells at one time diff
ferent kinds Of liquors to the amount of five
salons Jig 70 be considered = Wholesale dealer
Son mat of resentativs Ward, the house
committee on postof6c land post roade, by 4
voteof 10 toll, Adopted ,asresQ1ation deSlafing
it the sense.of the committee What it is expedF
ent to adopt central system of postal telc-
graph.
At a meeting of the house committee on for
eign affairs, Representative Curtin was di-
rected to report resolution ealing on the
ate-departmen for papers and correspond
ence relative to the proposed sale of the Amer
lean college at Rome.
The secretary of the navy issued, in accor-
dance with the resolution recently adopted by
both houses of congress; a proclamation offer
ing $25, GOO reward for the discovery and rescue
by any private person or vessel, of the Arctic
signal service party of Lieut. Greedy.
The president recommended to the senate the
removal of Collector Wickers of Key West be-
cause Of his alleged sympathy and collision
with the Cuban ilibnstsrs. who recently left
that point The question is now under. con-
sideration by the senate committee onGcom-
MERGE.
Congressman Tucker Beverly of Virginia is
writing his autobiography During the war he
was refugee in Canada and kept hotel at St
GATHERINGS, near Niagara Falls, and was also
in Mexico, where he supported Maximilian;
for his head
The state department has received no infor-
nation from Gen. Lew Wallace that he intends
to resign the Turkish mission. Wallace is COM
ing home on leave ofabsence, and that probably
gave rise to the story. He is understood to
have written novelof Turkish life and will
superintend it's publication while in this coun-
try:
A special meeting of the Washington 'monu-
ment commission was: held at the executive
mansion recently, at which:it was decided to
notify congress Of the anticipated completion
of the monument by the LIST Of November next,
or early in the summer of 1885 at the furthest,
and recommend that prompt action be taken
looking to fitting celebration of the event
Nominations: William H. Sears, California,
collector of customs, district of San Francisco
Postmasters- F. Barber, Rock Rapids,
Iowa; Rodolphus Hubbard McGregor, Iowa !;
Edward A. Burdick, Edgerton, Wis. Henry
Smith, Amigo, Wis. G. c. Dow, Portage, Wis
The senate confirmed Commodore Clark H.
Wells of Pennsylvania rear admiral of the navy.
Judge Advocate Holt is now living in abso-
lutte retirement i'll a large house near the CAPT
tol. He is q wealthy man, but a childless
widower, and lives alone in his house, sur
rounded only by servants. He has no heirs,
and what he will do with his money when he
dies nobody knows. Although over eighty
years Of age and physically feeble, he retains
all of his mental vigor and spends most of his
time in his library, surrounded by his books.
He seldom leaves his house, but was regular
attendant at the debates on the Fitz John Por-
ter bill, which he considers as much matter
of personal interest as Porter himself
Railroad Run1cl1ngs.
George C. Stone, vice president Of the Duluth
4 Iron Range railroad, and general manager of
the Minnesota Iron company, says a large force
of men are at work upon the Duluth 4 Iron
Range and that the road will be completed
from Two Harbors, in Lake county, to the
mines in St Louis county by the LIST of August.
1t is officially announced that the Northwest
ern has purchased all of the Blair railroad in
terests in Northwest Iowa, including the Iowa
Falls & Sioux City, the Sioux City and Pacific,
the Maple Valley and the Fremont, Elkhorn &
Missouri Valley. Possession is to be given July
Il. The sale does not include lots and lands.
By to terms of thepurchase the Northwestern
will issue over GOO stock in exchange
for the stock of the companies bought and as
sumes the bonded indebtedness of these COM
panies.