The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-02-28

IT was rumored in Washington that
Judge McCrary, of the United States Su
preme Court, had resigned to accept the
position ofSolicitor of the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe Railroad. ad.----------------.----
Ar meeting of the House Committee or
Military Affairs recently, General Slocum
was auttoraedst to report to the House
favorabfy the Fitz John Porter bill, which
passed the Senate last Congress.
The total receipts of internal revenue for
the six months of the fiscal year ended De
cember 81, were SOL 126, POI receipts .fo1
December, g, ,S55, ,7O6. Issue of silver dol
lars for the week ended Decemberl29, 297,.
z9S, against 1,O41 900 for the samo time last
year. ... .-...,f .-... s..;.,fsrs
THE public debt statement for December
= showed: Cash in treasury, S375, ,274, 200;
debt less cash in treasury, 81 ,49s, ,o4 ,723;
decrease during December, 81, T4S, ,SS7; de-
crease since June 80, S53,049,4S3 . .-..
CONGRESSMAN HOLMAN, of the House
Appropriations Committee, said Recently
that the committeeman 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
90 next fiscal year. ag8 - i.t5Ia 3
THE total bullion production of the Pa
cific coast for 1885, is placed at S65, 600, 600.
Utah produced s., 1000, 900. Total for the
81 Territory since the opening of mines by
the Gentiles, $70, 00O0. 81 J.. gaIs.-.- .
In late case where duty had been col
lected upon a cossack imported from Cana
tia into Maine, the owner, 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 a priest
Imports vestments or any rega1ia or robe
as his private property he must pay a duty,
81 syen 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 viii be allowed to rome in. free. I0g { P
-, TIE Director of the Mint estimates that
between 100000 and $6,0O0,000 trade dol
lars are out, and IN the hands of tradesmen
land the people generally, instead of In the
possession of speculators. The remainder
of the $30,OOO,G0O originally coined is
thought to have been exported or remelted.
An importsnt decision was recently rem
dered by the Court of Claims at Washing
ton, in a 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
q Court had jurisdiction of the same previous
to the passage of the Bowman bill, whereof
the claimant failed to take advantage
within the six years limitation.
THE Treasury recently purchased AS, 900
ounces of silver for the Philadelphia and
New Orleans mints. Coinage at mints in
December, $5,4SO,041, Of which $3.50 ,17O
were standard dollars.
-'7 THE 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
a postmaster in order to be entitled to
receive the compensation provided'by the
revised statutes for issuing and paying
money orders must personally perform the
Bervices required in the money order bust
ness in his Office, in the sense that If the
'Sork is not physically executed by his
Land it must be executed under his imme-
'iate 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
!Enguished from the money fund. e-e vEi
The town talk in Washington the other
DAY was the discovery of the alleged for
f;eries and flight of Clarence NJ. Barton,
formerly managing editor of the National
q Ro,a3fhIi1o1 l.
bered as the party who attacked the pri-
vate character of the well-known journal
ist, A. NJ. Sateldo, in the columns of the
National Republicans, growing out of
Sateldo'S m defense of .u a m fallen
woman, who had been assaulted by
Jimmy Kegan, formerly a reporter
for the New York Herald. This resulted
in personal alteration, in which Sateldo
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
Mt an earlier moment, because of sympathy
Cor Barton's sick wife and helpless chill
dren. Among the names said to have been
forged are William N. Dickson, foreman
Of the first star-route jury, and Henry D.
~N~ASAs hdIuO
is on some paper, but it is not escertained
whether forged or not. The amount of
fraudulent paper was unknown.
The Postmaster General has issued an
order changing the rate of postage on a
number of articles heretofore. rated third
class or printed matter, paying postage at
the rate Of one cent for every two ounces.
Under this order these articles are here
after classified as merchandise, or fourtb-
class matter, upon which the postage is
one cent per ounce. He rules that labels,
patterns, photographs, letter heads, envel-
'opes cad other matter of the same character
are mans articles of merchandise, and will
be rated As fourth-cla matter. ...-a.ri, ".
81. TEE dwelling of J.. V. Garvey, at Duke
Center, Pa, burned recently while the
parents were absent. Four little children,
aged FROM 'csie to six years, who had been
Eeft in the hs0se, pershed in the fames.a =
DEPREsSlGN in trade caused the Copley
Iron Works at Allentown, Pal to shut
down. 'i '"t I'D VIZ t!Iiil 1ut DO
THE EAST. s'~.i+1i''ii.i q
Mr. CHuRcH, Cashier and Superiten-
dent of John Bvie ht & COPS soda factory
an New York, w4s assailed the other day
as he was leaving the depot at the Second
svenue elevated stat ion, One Hundred and