River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-04-24
THE PITH 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
gallons is to be considered a wholesale dealer
Onmotion of Representative Ward, the house
committee ON postoffices and post roads, by a
vote of 10 to /, adopted resolution declaring
1t the sense of the committee that it is expedi-
ent TO adopt central system of postal tele
graph.
At meeting of the house committee on for
eign affairs, Representative Curtin was di-
rected TO report resolution calling on the
state department 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, proclamation offer
ing $3.50 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 filibusters who recently left
that point. The question is now under con
sideration by the senate committee on com
merce
Congressman Tucker Beverly of Virginia is
writing his autobiography During the war he
was a refugee in Canada and kept hotel at st
GATHERINGS near Niagara Falls, and was also
in Mexico, where he supported Macmillan.
President johnson offered reward of s25, 900
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 of absence and that probably
gave rise to the story. He is understood TO
have written novelof Turkish life and will
superintend its publication while in this coun-
try.
A special meeting of the Washington monu-
ment commission was held at the executive
mansion recently, at which il was decided to
notify congress of the anticipated completion
of the monument by the LIST Of November next,
or early in the summer of 1888 at the furthest,
and recommend that prompt action be taken
looking to a fitting celebration of the event.
Nominations: William H. Sears, California,
collector of customs district of San Francisco.
Observation-Disclosures F. Barber, Rock Rapids,
Iowa: Rodolphus Hubbard, McGregor, Iowa
Edward A. Burdick, Edgerton, Wis; Henry
Smith, Amigo Wis. G. G. Dow, Portage, Wis.
The senate confirmed Commodore Clark ii.
Wells of Pennsylvania rear admiral of the navy.
Judge Advocate Holt is now living in abso-
lutte retirement la a large house near the capt.
toll. He is a wealthy man, but childless
widOwer and lives alone in his house, sur
rounded only by servants He has no heirs,
and what he viii 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