The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-03
Washington.

ADDITIONAL presidential postmasters ap.
pointed: Benjamin T. Brown, at Franklin,
Ind; Frank NJ. Fields, at Spencer, Ind. !;
Adam Ferguson, at North Platte, Neb
Joseph II. Shelby, at Princeton, Mo. Howell
Tatum, at Bolton, Texas.
RICHARD T. MERRrCK. a prominent Demo
cratic member of the Washington bar, is
dead in his fifty-ninth year.
The President has appointed Edward H..
Strobel, of New York, to be secretary of the
legation of the United States to Spain; Posey
>. wilson, to be assayer of the United States
mint at Denver; w. w. Allen, of Alabama,
to be United States marshal for the middle
and southern districts of Alabama; William
II. benson, of Alabama, to be United
ern and Middle districts Of Alabama;
Mark d. WILDER, of New York, to be United
States attorney for the Eastern district of
New York. General w. II. II. Davis, of
Doylestown, Pa, pension agent at Philadel-
phla. +. ID, Bannister. of Iawrenceburg.
Ind, Indian inspector. General II. Heth, Of
Warrenton, Va, and William Parsons, OF
Connecticut, special Indian agents. A.. Ga
Haskell Institute, Kansas; Walter r. Bren-
nan, of the Indian Territory, superintendent
of the Chilocco Indian school.
THE President has suspended George W.
Dent, n brother-in- law of General Grant,
from his position of appraiser at the San
Francisco custom house.
a WASHINGTON dispatch says that Mr..
Burchard. director of the mint. had been re-
quested to resign, but had paid no attention
TO the request, claiming that he was appoint
ed for six years; that his term of office
is different from that of any other,
and that he has vet two wears
to serve. The dispatch stated further
that as soon as the President could fix upon
Mr.. Burchards successor he would be sus-
DendpI nGOn thp charOa of ina1fpioucu in tb.,
management of affairs in the mint.
The State department has received news
OF the death of 5. l.. Phelps, United States
minister to Peru, at Lima. Mr.. Phelps was
awaiting the arrival of his successor.
A MBE of New York importers have
had a hearing before Secretary Manning and
Iater before Assistant Secretary Fairchild
10 protest against certain changes recently
hiaue IN the custom house. Their comIlaints
nave reference to the appraisal of imports,
ana the reforms they do not like are those
winch have suddenly checked the undervalu-
ton or goods. The importers also called upon
the PRESIDENT and complained that the new
aPPralSehieht regulations were oppressive.
FURTHER appointments by the President:
Andrew j. Quindley, of Little Rock, Ark, to
be receiver of public moneys at Little Rock.
10 be postmasters; Edward Mullen, at Put
nam, Conn. James II. Moore, at Mononga-
hela City, Penn. Edward H.. Krier, at Plum
creek, Neb.; Samuel b. Evans, at OF
tumwa Iowa; NJ. Glennan, at Norfolk, Va (;
y; I. Brewer, at Portage, Wis; John f..
Medow, at Marine City, Mich. Edward
Duffy, at Ann Arbor, Mich; William +.
Roe, at Valleys, Cal; j. H. Thorne, at
Piqua, Ohio.
A COMMITTEE of prominent importers
waited upon Secretary Manning and stated
that they were not in accord with the views
OF another committee of importers, who had
expressed disapprobation in relation
To the new system of valuations and
ADVERTISEMENTS that has recently gone into
effect in the New York Custom house.
TINS committee stated in a memorial that
they earnestly advocate the present system
OF reappraisements and reforms so recently
adopted by the government, and most hearth
ly approve the efforts of the government in
IT'S attempt to protect honest importers in
their legitimate business"
The President has issued an executive
notice announcing a diplomatic agreement
between the United States and Great Britain
continuing the privileges granted by the
fisheries treaty throughout the season of