The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-11-20

THE annual report of Third Auditor VIII
lams, of the treasury department shows at
the beginning of the fiscal year there were
on file in that office 81 4S1 unsettled accounts,
amounting to $94 O67, Isl and during the
year 1j,I15 new accounts were received, az
Cregatlng ST9, GG2 0G9, the total number of
accounts on hand and received being 80, 262,
amounting to $l93, 20, 5j3. OF these l6,11l
We're disposed of, amounting to Sl22, 225,935,
leaving at the close of the year 31,OJl cover
ing the sum of 81 ,503,6l7
THE President has appointed the following
namel presidential plstmasters: G. X Yer
ington, at Girard, Ill; L. &. Bunnell, at
Newton, \. j.; $. G.. Bennett, at Pittston,
Penn. j. NJ. Higgs,at Conncrsville, Ind. John
b. Ruger al LAFAYETTE Ind Joseph Elder,
at Richmond. Ind. Rich Mooney, at Rondout,
y. y; john Abardon, at Superior, Wis:
Colonel Robert Nc Cinstry has been appointed
pension agent at Detroit, vice Samuel Post,
suspended.
DURING the past fiscal year the number Of
postotiices established was =, III and the
number discontinued SSG, making the total
number in the United States 81, 212. The
whole number of appointments during the
year was II POS. The total number of money
order Offices was G,9l2, an increase of 14J.
There are !,233 postofAces subject to appoint
ment 10y the President.
ADDITIONAL appointments by the Presi'
dent: Samuel L. Tilden. Jr., nep ew of the
revenue for the fifteenth New York district;
James Burls, to be surveyor of customs for
the port of Kansas City, No. Oscar Valeton,
TO lie assistant appraiser of merchandise in
the district of New Orleans, La. Postmas-
tiers: William HYDE editor of the st. Louis
Repubiicdn, at st. Louis; j. j, Casey, at
Weehawken, n. j.; H. b. Linney, at Cor
louisville, Va; George w. Bell, at Carding-
ton, Ohlo George Haumesser, at Wauseon,
Ohio.
FURTHER appointments by the President:
Leverett Satonstall, collector of customs at
Boston; Colonel Robert Mckinstrey, to be
pension agent at Detroit, Mich. Don Carlos
Buell., to be pension agent at Louisville Ky.
John B. McClane, of Oregon, to be Indian
agent; Dr. John &. Lee, of Philadelphia, to
be secretary of legation at Constantinople,
Turkey: General Joseph J. Bartlett, of New
York city, to be second deputy commissioner
of pensions William II. Morgan, of Nash
vile, Tenn, to be a member of the board of
Indian commissioners.
THE annual report of the commissioners of
customs SHOWS that during the past fiscal
year there was paid into the treasury from
various sources, the accounts of which were
settled i'll his Office, the sum of SlS3, POI, Jos.
The amount paid out was ST, l2j,913
DURING the past fiscal year the :, $50 money
order Offices of tho country issued orders
amounting to about $l20, 100000.
FURTHER appointments by the President
Fredericl; F Mansfield, of Texas, to be secre-
tary of tho legation to Japan George w.
Click to he pension agent at Topeka, Kansas
Erastus Redman to be collector of customs AT
Frenchman's Bay, Me- Presidential post
masters: }, C. Roney, at Americas, Ga; r.
J. HARRISON at Toledo, Iowa; l.. p. Ohliger
at Wooster, Ohio; Leonard Dozier, at Ocala
Fla.
THE court martial at Fort Myor, neal
Washington, which tried eighteen signal ser.
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all guilty and sentenced them to be publicly
reprimanded by the chief signal officer.