Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1885-11-13
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Fitzhugh Lees victory 10 Virginia
has blossomed already into presidential
sgggastiops. He has retired to his farm
Il 5EysfgFeen, near Alexandria, and il
busted daily in answering the hundreds
OF letters of copgratulation that ale
pouring IN upon him. His friends say
his success in defeating Malone must
be rewarded in the next national con
vention with the second place on the
ticket.
Additional information has been re-.
cGlved by the secretary OF state from the
United States minister at Paris, to the
effect that the monetary convention be-
tween the Latin powers, providing for
the suspension of the coinage OF silver,
permits each power to resume, provided
the. silver circulating IN the other states
rs redeemed in gold by the resuming
state. 1T also gives to these states the
right to exclude the silver coins of the
reBnming states.
Two or three of the presidents friends
have given out that there will be o large
number of changes in prominent officials
about the time congress meets, and q
long list OF new appointments is being
prepared at the white house which will
be sent to the senate early in the session,
and will be so mixed up with those that
have been made from time to time as to
escape general notice and the unfayor-
able comment they would cause were
they made singly. In. other words, the
president proposes to conceal his incon-
sistency.
Among the callers on the president
Wednesday were a party of English
tourists who arrived here yesterday
from San Francisco. They ara about
finishing a years tom around the world.
Their were eight in the party. all men.
They were very much pleased with what
they saw at the white house, and partic-
nlaliy with the entire absence of forma-
litg. One OF them said they had called
during the tour ON the rulers of twenty
one countries or powers, but that on no
previous occasion had their visit been q
pleasure, or account of the numerous
tiresome formalities that were required
10 go through before they had accom-
piished anything.
Mrs, General Custer was not q candi-
date for he pension agency at Detroit.
She might have had the office il she
you'd have accepted ii, but she reasoned
that she was engaged in work that was
moro agreeable to her than an official
responsibility would be, and she con
cluded to transfer the interest that had
been introduced in her behalf to the
sister of General Custer, Mrs. Calhoun,
whose husband was also killed in the
tight With Sitting Bull. Mrs. Custer
saw the president in behalf Of Ler sister.
in.law and urged her appointment very
strongly, but the president does moi
reese =: =s the riighttof enc person &c
another; and while he admired MIS-
Clusters generosity, declined to give
Mrs. Calhoun tho office.
The corps of surveyors of the Fremop,
and Elkhorn Valley line, from Chadrou
west. has located the line following the
old preliminary made in 1882, as far az
Fetterman, and from that point has be.
gun TO run a preliminary westward. III
is their intention to be engaged in the
work all winter. Mr.. CLARK, who has
had charge Of the corps this season an
to & lev days ago, has given the work
into shs.hands OF Mr.. Doty, The former
being unable to stand the cold weather
OF Wyoming during tie winter season.
che ground in that region is already
covered with snow, and the nights are
intensely cold. The fact that the com.
pany is pushing its survey even in the
Lao OF winter is almost conclusive that
j intends to do an immense amount of
building westward next season.