The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-14
THE PlTH OF THE news.
Washington Gossip.


Gordon E. Cole is mildly favored by Mime
! sofa congressman for the McCrary SHOES.
Senator Morgan introduced bill providing
Tor the judicial settlement Of land grant for
TEXTURE claims.
Pilkington 4 CO., St Paul agricultural i'm
plement dealers, unfurl the failure flag to the
tune ct ~, GOO, with ample assets.
Senator Sabin dined the Minnesota delegation
to the river convention and to congress at his
residence in Washington on the 9Th inst
The house elections committee finally consid-
cred tbs Forth Carolina contest of Pool vs..
Skinner, and by vote of against decided to
report Skinner entitled to retain the seat.
Democratic national executive committee will
meet at Washington on the ed inst, for the
purpose of calling a national convention. The
claims OF rival cities are already being dis
| cussed.
Inspector Thomas, Of tho postofice depart
ment has been ordered to place the postmast-
or At Abeline, Tex, under arrest A defalca-
ZION OF $l5,OOO has been discovered in his &C
counts
The commissioner Of tie general land office
during the past week Cancelled forty-six frad-
llent land entries in Colorado, forty one in
Dakota, seven in New Mexico, two in Michigan
and one in Minnesota
Rear Admiral Edward Simpson will be up
pointed president of the naval advisory board,
and Commodore 8. R. Franklin superintendent
OF tho naval observatory, upon the retirement
OF Rear Admiral Edward Shufeldt on the 2lst
inst
Speaker Carlisle recently made the first Sc
lection under the new system of appointing
stenographcrs, by appointing Andrew Devine
stenographer for the committee on expend-
lures Of the department of justice. Devine is
ono OF the efficient stcnOgraphers removed by
Speaker keifer.
The president has approved tho sentences of
dismissal in the cases of First Lieut. William
l. Clarke Of the Twenty-frst infantry, and
FIRST Lieut. Joseph +. Cummings of the Third
cavalry, tried and convicted of tho charge Of
duplicating pay accounts. An order will be is-
sued from the war department dismissing them
from the army.
"A committee of fifteen citizens of Dakota
appeared before the senate committee on terrific
RES to advocate the passage Of tho bill pro-
vldlng for =. constitutional convention for the
territory and to oppose the recognition of the
recent convention at Sioux Falls, on the ground
that 1t did not fairly represent the people of
the whole territory
Political gossips say that the refusal of the
senate to confirm the nomination of T. B. Keogh
for the marshal of Western North Carolina and
raul Strobach US marshal of Southern Alabama,
Is severe blow OF Senator Logan at the Arthur
work up an Arthur boom in that latitude with
an eye to results at the Chicago convention.
The subcommittee of the privileges and cleo
tons committee, appointed to investigate the
causes which led to the death of Matthews in
ka S,,S% hn1l
meeting and decided on their plan of action
lhey leave Washington on the 18th inst for
dazclhurst, the county seat of Copiah county,
ana Will DECIDE as to proceedings on arrival
son Miss.
The secretary of the treasury has approved
the recommendation of Surgeon General Ham,
llton, that an immediate inspection be made of
cities bordering on the Gulf of Mexico and the
CarriDean sea having commerce with the Uni
TED States, in order that their actual sanitary
condition many be known in advance of the
yellow FEVER season. medical officer of the
marine hospital service, and a revenue marine
officer will be detailed for the purpose
The name of Mr.: Green Of North Carolina is
evidently misnomer. Under the innocent IT,
tic of "a bill to encourage the cultivation of
fruits" he introduced aud induced Speaker
Carlisle to refer to the committee on agricul-
tufe the following bill: ''That it shall be law
full for any one to manufacture the apples,
peaches, grapes, plums, berries and other per-
ishable fruits, raised by himself or his tenants
INTO brandy free from any internal revenue or
restriction as now existing.
A bill was introduced in the senate by Hale
providing for the payment to Lincoln H. lib
bets of Portland, Me-, $4,000, in settlement of
his claim for loss sustained by him in bring
ing back to New York in December, 1860, the
cargo of the brig Tornado" of which vessel
he was the master, consisting of 5000 kegs
Of gunpowtler shipped from New York to New
Orleans, by which action said cargo was pre-
vented from falling into the hands Of the au-
thoritics Of the seeding states