New Ulm weekly review., 1885-07-08
Washington News.

Washington News.
Prof. Huxley will retire from his govern
ment post in October on a yearly pension
of 81, 200.
pointed superintendent OF Mount Vernon,
to succeed Col. Halingsworth.
Gen. Don Carlos Buell. will probably be
appointed pension agent for Kentucky.
He has been twenty years in retirement.
Admiral Jouett announces his inability
to settle the Colombian dispute, and says
hostilities are liable to break out again.
OF the eighty-four collectors of internal
revenue under the last administration, six
ty have been relieved by Democratic sue
| cessOrs.
The president has ordered the electric
lights on the White House grounds and at
the gates and doors to be taken down until
next winter.
The Washington Republican, since it's
change OF ownership, has become an OBJ
sequious champion of Capt. Eads' Tehuan-
tepec ship railway scheme.
The announcements madein Washington
that Walker Blaine, the eldest son ofex-Secre-
tary Blaine, will be married this summer to
Miss Farnsworth, daughter OF ex-Gov.
Farnsworth OF West Virginia.
An oil painting OF Secretary Lincoln, by
Huntingdon has just been added to the col
lection OF portraits OF secretaries OF war in
the war department, and completes the Sec
retaries from the foundation OF the govern
ment.
The commissioner OF the general land Of
flee has directed registers and receivers
the district land Offices not to furnish blank
forms homestead
| upon. personal application by actual entry
men.
The postmaster general has received a
letter from an Ohio widow congratulating
him upon having refused to disburse the
S4OO, 900 fund among steamship companies
| for carrying the mails and asking him to
send 500 of it to build a widows home
in Ohio. Mr.. Villas was much bothered.
Secretary Manning appointed R. H. Sevey,
P. Cunningham and Charles c.. Mitchell
chiefs OF division OF the sixth auditors
office, and L. G. Mangham chief OF division
in the first controllers Office, vice Mai. Sax
ton, reduced to the 81 400 class. Hunt
lngton was promoted from bookkeeper to
assistant chief OF division, vice E. Stewart,
deceased.
| handsome cabriolet intended for Presi-
dent Cleveland was received from New Y York
recently. The vehicle closely resembles a
Victoria. The body is painted black with
green stripping; the running gear dark green,
striped with black. It is finished in dark
green morocco and cloth. The box is built
with raised seats for coachnan and foot
man. The seal brown bays will be driven
to it, and altogether it will make a hand
| some turnout.
The newly elected commander-in- chief of
the Grand Army OF the Republic, Gen. Sam
uel A. Burdett, is well knownin Washington.
At the close OF the war he was sent to con-
gress from Missouri for two terms. Sebse-
quently he became commissioner of the gen.
eral land Office. Since his retirement from
that office he has practiced law here, and is
now a member of the firm OF Curtis & Bur-
dett. He was the orator at Arlington on the
Both OF May last.
The recent graduates at the West Point
Military academy will be assigned to various
regiments shortly. There now exist ia
vacancies among the officers OF the army.
Sixteen are in the cavalry, si3ty-seven in
the artillery, twenty mine in the infantry
and two in the engineer corps. After the
assignment OF graduates the non-commis-
stoned officers who have passed the exami-
nations by the boards convened by the var
ious departments will be assigned.
The commissioner of the general land
office has declined to accede to the requests
OF the Oregon & California Railroad Com
pany for the issue Of patents on 3,2OO,OOO
acres OF land already selected by the COM
pany, and to allow selections to be made
for 100000 acres more under the land
grant to that company in Oregon. The
grant expired in 1880. Bills declaring a
forfeiture OF the grant were before congress
at the lastsession.
Lieut.. Scheutze Will take to the Lena
| So1< Il T.. 4. 81
/ from this government to the govern
or of Yakutsk. The blade is of
the finest steel. It's scabbard and hilt are
| OF gold. On the former are engravings of
| dog and reindeer sleds and the Jeannette
1t is inscribed: Presented by the President
OF the United States to Maj Gen. George
Fedoroyitch Tchernaireff governor of Yak
antscha, East Siberia, for eminent services
rendered the survivors OF the Arctic explor-
/ ing steamer Jeanette and the search par
| ties. 1t is valued at $500.
Congressman Hill of Ohio, in an inter
view says: Tie democrats of Ohio are op-
posed to the civil service law almost to
man. They regard it as a fraud on the
public, and believe in the rights of the peo-
pie to change every officer in the govern
ment in the time prescribed by the consti-
tuition. He did not know whether or not
an effort will be made to repeal the law at
the next session, but if there WAS he would
vote to repeal it. He had heard many
Democratic members of congress say they
would not vote a dollar to pay the e1-
penses OF the commission, and he felt that
way himself.
Record of Casualties.
B. w blanchard burns at Milwaukee at
a loss of $4,000.
A fisherman at North Bend, near cincin-