The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-02-21
A WEEKS NEWS.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
II was rumored in Washington that
Judge McCrary, of the United States Su-
preune Court, had resigned to accept the
position ofSolicitor of the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa re Railroad.
Ara meeting of the House Committee on
Military Affairs recently, General Slocum
was authorized to report to the House
fayorably the Fitz John Porter bill, which
passed yhe Senate last Congress
THE tetsI receipts of internal revenue for
the six months of the fiscal year ended De-
ceniBer 81, were SCI, ,126,201 !; receipts for
December, 1855, 200. Issue of silver dol
lars for the week ended December %, 297,-
49s, against 1,O41 900 for the same time last
year.
THE public debt statement for December
showed: Cash in treasury, 1915, ,374, 200;
debt less cash in treasury, s, ,49S, ,O41, 723;
decrease during December, S11, IA, ,S31; de-
crease since June 80, S53, 3,049, ,4S3.
CONGRESSMAN HOLMAN, of the House
APPROXIMATIONS Committee, said recently
that the committee would probably request
Commissioner Dudley to revise his pension
estimates for the reason that there was no
probability that the amount of money
asked for could be expended during the
next fiscal year.
THE total bullion production of the Pa
cifc coast for 1888, is placed at S65, ,OOo, 900.
Utah produced $S,O00,000. Total for the
Territory since the opening of mines by
the Gentiles, S7O,OOO,0OO.
In late case where duty had been col
Iected upon a cossack imported from Cana
da into Maine, the owner, a Catholic priest,
made application to have the amount re-
funded, on the ground that the article was
used for religious purposes. The Depart
ment in reply stated that where priest
Imports vestments or any regalia or robe
as his private property he must pay duty,
even though the articles imported are after
ward used in religious ceremonies; but
where such articles are imported by a
church or society for religious purposes
they will be allowed to come in free.
THE Director of the Mint estimates that
between s., ,OO0, 600 and S6,000,OC0 trade dol
lars are out, and in the hands of tradesmen
and the people generally, instead of in the
possession of speculators. The remainder
of the SG0,OO0,00O originally coined is
thought to have been exported or remelted.
AN important decision was recently rem
dered by the Court of Claims at Washing
ton, in test case, fixing the status of
litigants under the Bowman bill, passed by
the last Congress. The opinion was care
fully drawn by Judge Richardson, who
decided substantially that no claim under
the Bowman bill can be considered if the
Court had jurisdiction of the same previous
- h. oF fIo
the claimant failed to take advantage
within the six years limitation.
THE Treasury recently purchased 1000
ounces of silver for the Philadelphia and
New Orleans mints. Coinage at mints in
December, S5,4S0,041, of which S2,354, ,170
were standard dollars.
TIE National Board of Health has infor-
nation, communicated by the State De-
partment, of the continuance of cholera il
Alexandria.
THE Attorney General has decided that
q postmaster in order to be entitled tC
receive the compensation provided by the
revised statutes for issuing and paying
money orders must personally perform the
services required in the money order bust
ness in his office, in the sense that if the
NsOAA 40 AAOO PAySASoAAS OACSOSOo DJ AAS
land it must be executed under his imme
slate supervision by clerk employed by
I'm for that purpose, and who is in no way
employed by the Post-office Department
iroper, or paid from the postal fund as dis
!snguished from the money fund.
THE town talk in Washington the Other
DAY was the discovery of the alleged for
Geries and flight of Clarence NJ. Barton
formerly managing editor of the NatiORa
Republican. Mr.. Barton will be remem
bered as the party who attacked the pri
yate character of the well-known journal
ist, A. NJ. Sateldo, in the columns of th'
National Republican, growing out o
Sateldo's defense of falleI
woman, who had been assaulted by
Jimmy Kegan, formerly a reporter
for the New York Herald. This resulted
in a personal alteration, in which Sateld,
was killed in the editorial rooms of the Re
publican Office. 1t seems that these for
geries had been known to various parties
for some days, but were not made public
at an earlier moment, because of sympathy
for Bartcn's sick wife and helpless chill
dren- Among the names said to have beer
forged are William NJ. Dickson, foreman
of the first star-route jury, and Henry d
Battler, merchant General Brady's mann
is on some paper, but it is not ascertaineC
whether forged or not. The amount O.
fraudulent paper was unknown.
THE Postmaster General has issued al
order changing the rate of postage on
number of articles heretofore rated third
class or printed matter, paying postage a
the rate of one cent for every two ounces
Under this order these articles are here
after classified as merchandise, or fourth
class matter, upon which the postage i
one cent per ounce He rules that labels
patterns, photographs, letter heads, envel
opes and other matter of the same characte
are mere articles Of merchandise, and vii
be rated as foRrth-class matter.
THE dwelling of J. V. Garwey, at Buk
Center, Pa, burned recently while tn
yparents were absent Four little children
aged from ene to six years, who had bee
EIeft in the house, perisked in the flames.
DEPRESSION in trade caused the Cople.
-1roa Works at Allentown, Pa, to shu
down.
THE EAST.
Mk- CHURCH, Cashier and SHperiten
dent.sf John Dwight & Co.'S soda factory
in New York, was aSsailed the other da,
as he WAS leaving the depot at the Eecon,