Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1885-06-20

The New Hampshire legislature has re
elected Senator Blair. VIM. E. Chandler
| was his chief competitor.
Chauncey NJ. Depew has been elected
president of the N. Y. Central road vice
Rutter deceased.
Dorsey of political and star route fame
has been quite i'll at Chicago but is now
better.
j. Il. Rutter, president Of the New Yorl
! Centralroad, is dead. He was 81 years old
Seventeen year locusts are doing a good
deal of damage in Indiana and Michigan.
Gen. Grants doctors bill, up to July 1st
amounted to $4,000.
RECENT APPOINTMENTS.
The president made the following ap-
pointments: John w. Twiggs of California
to be assayer of the mint of the United
States at San Francisco, CAL; Thomas
Beck to be appraiser. Of merchandise of the
District of San Francisco; Joseph F. Sha-
fer, to be an assistant surgeon in the navy
A. Il. Kuhelemeier Of Burlington, Iowa, col
lector of internal revenue for the 4th Iowa
district. The following postmasters were
appointed: c. E. Cameron at Alta Iowa,
vice W. P. Williams; J ohm Finn at DEBORAH,
Iowa, vice A. K. Bailey, suspended; Val
entine Ringde~ at Wausau, Wis, vice Rob
ert Fl. Johnson suspended; ohm Warner at
Peoria, ILL.,, vice W. Cookie suspended.
The following appointments were made
on the 18th:
John B. Stallo of Ohio, to be envoy ex-
traordinary and ministerp lenipotentiar to
Italy; Bayless W. Hanna of Indiana, min
lister resident and consul general to the Ar
genuine Republic; Charles A. Dougherty of
pennsylvania, secretary Of the legation of
the United States at Rome. Consuls Gener-
al-William L. Alden of New York at
Rome: Pierce NJ. Young of Georgia, at St.
Petersburg.
Alex. G. Jones, formerly of st. Paul,
Minnesota, consul atNagasaki, Japan, was
supposed to have been suspended several
weeks ago bnt the new appointee proved to
be disreputable fellow, having pulled a
naval officers nose in Washington hotel, his
wife having divorce proceedings pending for
cruelty, etc., and the commission was motifs
now been appointedand unless he proves to
beitoo much of s.bricl1'' the official days of
Nh Jones are numbered.
w. j. Whipple, of Winona, Mimi, pub
Usher of the Herald has been appointed
postmaster of that city in place of D.
Sinclair, editor of the Republican who was
removed. The salary of the Office is $4,000
per annum.
Robert P. Menefee has been appointed
postmaster at Bozeman, Montana, vice
E. q. Anderson, suspended. Anderson was
careless in the management of the office
and delinquent in making his reports
Among a large, batch of postmasters
appointed on the 10Th were John L. Etzel
at Clear Lake, Iowa; Alfred T. Tinsley
at Sibley, Iowa, and Albert L. Donnard at
Marengo, Iowa.
Geo. W. Paysley, of Hillsboro, ILL.,, has
been appointed Inspector of surveyor gem
eral and local land offices,
THE OLD WORLD.
When the Irish members threw their
votes with the Tories, and wrought the
ruin OF the ministry that gave Ireland dis
establishment and the land act they were
then certain that the Tories, lifted into
power by Irish help, would at once
"Parnellize'' the government. But the
Tories appear to attribute Gladstone's
defeat, not to his harshness toward Ireland.
but to the loss of Liberal votes driven from
him by disgust at his submission to Irish
bulldozing. This Disguised liberal vote is
larger than the home rule vote. The Tories
are playing for this larger vote, and the
Irish are "going to get left.'' Leading
Tory clubs favor the theory advocated by
Earl Spencer, that there is an absolute ne
cessity for continuante Of the coercion
policy in Ireland. On this point the Tories
and majority of the Liberals will agree.
and may combine against the Radicals
and Parnellites, putting the home rulers
in pitiable minority and securing a long
lease OF life to the present mode of English
rule in Ireland. It is not believed that
Salisbury will seek assistance from any
of the Gladstone ministers in forming his
policy toward Ireland. His plan will be to
split the Liberal party completely by
proposing measure of coercion based on
Earl spencer's report. This policy would
be almost certain to lead to coalition
between the moderate Liberals and the
| Tories against the Radicals and Parnellites
and give thenew government tremendous
majority.
Queen Victoria is said to be delighted
with the resignation Of Gladstone and on
that account accepted it by telegraph
instead OF delaying a few hours for mai
communication. Mr., Gladstone never was