New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-11-25
From Washington,

Ex-Congressman Fraaklin of Kansas &C.
| cepts the Canton consulship.
majority of congressman favor the ear
| ~ passage OF a bill repeating the tenure OF
| office act.
George B. Hall OF Minneapolis is strongly
| Endorsed for an assistant superintendent
OF the railway mail service.
Hon. s. w. Langhorne, the newly an.
pointed register of the Helena Mon. land
office, has taken charge of the office.
Commissary Sergeant jeremiah Foley.
recently appointed from first sergeant,
Seventh cavalry, is ordered to Colu mi bus
| barrcks.
Lieut.. Col. Basil Norris will be relieved
as medical director at San Francisco by
Col. Bailey, and is ordered as medical d.
rector OF the Columbia.
The widest religious excitement attends
the meetings OF the Salvation Army at
Washington, Ohio. Women lay in frances
and Others have the Jerks
Babu Yopal Vinayak Josher, F. T. S.,
OF Bombay, a Brahminical pundit, is now
travelling in the United States in the inter-
est of Buddhism and Theosophy. He is
at present a guest of DR.. Elliot Coues in
Washington, D. G.
Papers have been received by the clerk
OF the house OF representatives. giving notice
! OF contest for four seats in the next con-
gress as follows: Campbell against Weaver
Tor the Sixth Iowa district; Kidd against
Steele, Eleventh Indiana; Page against
Pierce, Secqnd: Rhode Island, and Hurd
against Rosneis, Tenth Ohio.
It is not true that the navy department
has information OF an alarming character
from Panama, or that Admiral Jouett's
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mediate outbreaks are to be expected.
Secretary Whitney is authority for the
sta tement that naval force is ordered to
the lsthnsus because experience has shown
that it is better to have force on hand
than to wait for the symptoms OF trouble.
The chief OF the bureau of stastistics re-
ports the total value OF the exports of do
mestic cattle and hogs as follows: October,
1885, Sc, SOC, 00S; October, 1884, S., ATS
O3O; ten months. ended Oct. 81, 1885,
$7s, 826, 074; for 1884, ST., 1884, 551; beef
and pork products for twelve months,
ended Oct. 81, 1885, $50, 2.O86; for
months, ended Oct. 81, 1885, $75o7,427;
for 1884, $40, ,487.
Collector Hedden of N. Y. says that he
had decided to appoint J. NJ. O'Brien to the
weighership Of the Brooklyn district made
|
Sterling. Mr.. Hedden added that though
he had, by the resolution of the civil ser
vice commissioners, the rights to choose
from the whole list, he nevertheless pro-
posed to follow the civil service law strictly,
and therefore gave the preference to Mr..
O'Brien, because he passed the best ex-
| animation and was an old soldier.
The president has made the following ap-
pointments: Registers of land offices:
Ralph N. Marble, at Duluth Mimi; Will
lam T. Christensen, at Redwood Falls,
Mimi; Thomas F. Cowing, at Fergus Falls,
Mimi; Henry Phinehart. at La Grande,
Or; Winfield S. Austin, at Olympia, w.
T.; Emmett Horn, at Eau Claire, WIS; S.
e. Thayer, at Wausau. Wis. Receivers of
public moneys: Sylvester B. Kepler, at
Eau Claire, Wis; L. L. Aune, at Fergus
Falls, Mimi; J ohm T. Clubhouse of Oregon,
at La Grande, Or. Indian agents. Charles
E. McChesney Of Dakota, at the Chey-
enne River agency; Peter Renon OF Mon
tana, at the Flathead agency in Montana.