The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1885-04-26

cause Of the insufieiency Of the apprO-
priaGons for the present fiscal year, and
more men have been employed than
necessary for the work to be done.
The Secretary of State has received n
dispatch from the U. $. CUusul at Mad
nd saying he is informed 10y the Doctor
General Of Health that there is no chol-
era in Spain. and that the Cases recently
reported iu the province Of Valencia are
not cholera.
The President made the follJwing APP
Pointmenls TO lie Ministers, Resident
and Consuls-General: Vim ID. Bloxom
of Florida, to Bolivia; Walker Fearn of
Louisiana. to Koumania, Servia and
Greece; Bayless W. Hanna q: Indiana,
to Persia.
Mn. Mary Ireland, whose husband
was, AS alleged, inveigled into Canada
by English officials and thence trans
ported to England for thai on the charge
Of desertion from the British army, has
received word from her husband from
Sterling Castle, Scotland dated the 9Th
Instant. stating hat he has been re-
leased. ms no evidence conld be found
against him. Ireland said he was left
without money, and he had to walk to
Edinburgh.
The Rev Mountebauk Talmage ~refcrr-
ing to the greatly improved condition Of
General Grant, with upturned eyes and
Il twung of the nose, cXclaims: What II
~change!' and asking the question::
What has brought it about" answers
by sayln:: II was God who had done
it, III answer TO the earnest prayers Of
His people. 1t was prayer that had
dom it. The ungodly might laugh, but
he knew half "a dozen earnest men who,
if allowed, could 90 into the q ncrul's
sick room and bring him forth hale AMI
hearty ~ lac came forth from the battle
OF Shiloh.
Secretary Manning has appointed b.
Frank Abbot; Of New jersey thief Of Iii
vision ia the Office of the Auditor Of the
Treasury for the Postofice Department,
vice Widdicombe, resigned by request.
The u~pppintee is n brother OF Governor
Abbott Of New Jersey.
II is rumorcd again hat the New
York Times is for sale; That George
Jones has been trying for some time to
dispose of it. The price he asks is
S7jO,O00. Efforts have been made to
form II syudicate to purchase it.
The President has made the following
appointments; w. A. Brinker Of War
r n>.urs, Mo, to be Associate Justice
# the supreme Court Of the Territory Of
New Mexico; Henry Hobeon OF Denver,
Cot, t" he u. S. District Attorney for
the District of Colorado, vice A. W.
Brace. removed. Jacob Mueller, who
w. appointed Consul-GeneraI at Frank
fort, uu the Main, is IA resident of Cleye-
land. OI,u, and editor Of the Wachter
AnIcrir. : Ol. james VI. Morgan, Con-
sui GcucgaI at Melbourne, is IL native Of
Louisiana, and after the civil wal was a
planter i'll South Carolina. He also
served.Rt one time on the staff of the
Khedive OF Egypt, with Stone, Loring
and Long.
The Secretary Of the Treasury APP
pointed Hon. John q. Brown, Christie
pher Green and Vim. +. Knox, IL COM
mission to sci. ct II site for IL public
building at Sacramento, California.
The words Of the Austrian paper, 1.-THE
last dnys Of England's power would also
be tine last days of European liberty"
convey n truth, says the Salt Lake
Tribune, which, in the possible struggle,
which now seems near ia the East, car
iies the symplthies Of the thoughtful to
TIA side 4 England, for while England
is rude and harsh in her ways; while
to the poor and week she Is p%itilcss in
her rule, aud while tho indictment
against her for past cTaclties and OPP
prcssiOns is long, and filed with start
ling counts, nevertheless. she has been
the anchor Of constitutional government
um the Eastern Continent for hundreds
of years. She has bcru The one power
that has steadily maintained mans in
"iicnnble rights; she has made a r,pub.
lie in France possible; she has compcll-
cd even r%yrannical governments to bc
less harsh than they would have been.