The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-06-26
From Washington.

Edward Camphauscn, consul at Naples,
Is leading lawyer Of Erie, Pa.
w. W. Carter, collector ofinternal revenue
for the South Indiana district, has resign.
ed.
Postmaster General Villas says the presi.
dent wants to let the postmasters down
easy.
George w. Savage of New Jersey, consul
to Belfast, is resident and prominentlaw
yer OF Rahwayn.
It is said that the naval board will not
recommend either the acceptance or rejec-
tion OF the Dolphin.
The president will not go to the Soldiers
home at oil, but will try to stand the
weather in the White House.
The ordnance bureau of the navy depart
ment has received nearly all the forgings
necessary for the completion OF the eight
inch guns for the new cruisers.
The controller of the currency has ap-
pointed Benjamin 8. w. Clark and Samuel
H. Taylor to be national bank examiners,
and has assigned the former to duty in New
York and the latter to duty in Indiana.
Judge Durham, first controller Of the
treasury, has approved the action of First
Auditor Chenowith in refusing to pass GER
tain accounts Of Mr.. Loring, late commits
sioner OF agriculture, for the purchase OF
seed amounting to $50, 800.
The Washington monument has cost in
materials and labor 81, 800, 900, and there
are not wanting engineers who say that
there is imminent danger that the foun-
dations will, within q ahalf-century, be ground
to powder under the tremendous weight oi
sc, 1000 tons OF stone they bear.
Commissioner Colman summoned to his
Office the entire force of the statistical
bureau Of the agricultural department,
numbering twenty-one persons, OF both
main no money to pay their salaries after
the goth inst. They were oil furloughed,
without pay, from the goth inst. until the
1st Of July. ,
The following is an extract from dis
patch received ut the state department from
United States Consul Haughwout, at Ma
pies, in regard to the importation OF old
rags: / feel that such inportations are not
free from danger, and especially so when
that merchandi>e can be traced coming
rags are stored in those quarters where the
cholera was most severe last year.
The president has appointed the following
named presidential postmasters: With.
H. McHgar, ut Cambridge, Ohio, vice ID. d.
Taylor, suspended; William j. Whipple, Wi
mona, Minn., vice Daniel Sinclair, suspended;
Charles o. McCreedy, at Ballston, n. y,
vice +. I. Grose, suspended; Daniel w. Krui-
sher, at North Manchester, Ind, vice Shelby
Sexton, suspended; Ker Beyce, at Augusta,
Ga, vice w. F. Holden, suspended; Robert
p. Menefee, at Bohemian, Mont, vice Z. G.
Anderson, suspended; Barren 8. 'Wassen, at
Laporte, Iowa, vice J. r. Stebbins suspend
ed. The postmasters at Winona, Mimi,
Osceola, Iowa, and Laporte CITY, Iowa,
North Manchester, Ind, Cambridge, Ohio,
Augusta, Ca, and Ballstown, N. Y, were
suspended upon proofs OF acts OF partisan
ship while in office. Their acts were OF va
ri0us kinds. Some were editors as well as
postmasters, and their newspapers, in some
cases since as vol as before the election,
had contained scurriious and indecent at
tacks upon the officers Of the government
as well as malignancy Of political feeling
toward their adversaries generally.