Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-25
FROM Washington.

| Edward Camphausen. consul at NAMES,
is a leading lawyer Of Erie, Pa,
/ w. W. Carter, collector oIinternal revenue
for the South Indiana district, has resign
| ed.
| Postmaster General Villas says the presi-
dent wants 20 let the postmasters down
easy,
George w Savage % New Jersey, consul
20 Belfast is e resident and prominentlaw.
yer Of Rahwayn.
| IL is said that the naval board viii not
recommend either the acceptance or rejecz
ton Of the Dolphin.
Tho president will not 90 to the Soldiers
homo at all, but viii try 30 stand the
weather In the White House.
The ordnance bureau Of the navy depart
ment hns received nearly all the forgings
necessary for the completion Of the eight.
inch guns for the new cruisers,
The controller 81 the currency has ap.
pointed Benjamin s. w Clark and Samuel
! II. Taylor 70 be national bank examiners,
and has assigned the former to duty in New
York and the latter to duty in Indiana,
Judge Durham, first controlley a the
treasury, has approved the action 81 first
Auditors Chenowith In refusing to pass cer-
! tam accounts OF Mr. Ioring late commits
sioner % agriculture, for the purchase a
seed amounting TO $50, 500.
The Washington monument mas cost in
materials and labor 81 500, 900, and there
are not wanting engineers who say that
there " imminent danger that the iouui
dations will, within hali-eentury, be ground
| to powder under the tremendous weight OF
30, 900 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, uf both
sexes, aud ann lnced that there would re-
main no money 90 pay their salaries after
the gotta inst. They were all furleughed,
without pay, from the goth inst, until the
Let OF July,
The following is an extract from dis
patch received at thestate department from
United States Consul Haughwout, at Ma.
/ PIES in regard TO the importation OF old
rags: ! feel that such appropriations are not
| free from danger, and especially so when
that merchandise can be traced coming
from Naples, even indirectly. In this city
rags are stored in those quarters where the
cholera was most severe last year.
The president has appointed the follow.
ing, Collector OF customs--John A. Rich
ardsop, district Of Pamlico, N. c.; William
| FL Rowland, district OF Beaufort, n, C.;
William l., Bancroft, district Of Port Huron
| Mich. A, L. King, receiver ofpublic moneys
at Harrison, Ark; Israel Lawton. superin-
| tendcnt OF the San Francisco mint, succeed.
/ ing y. +. Burton. Lawton is native Of
| Albany, N. Y, and formerly surrogate Of
| Albany county. He went TO California
\ fourteen years ago. He was not candi.
date.
The president has appointed the following
named presidential postmastors: With.
II. McHgar, al Cambridge, Ohio, vice d. d.
Taylor, suspended; William j. whipple, Wi.
mona, Mimi, vice Daniel Sinclair, suspended;
| Charles o. McCreedy, at Ballston, N. ",
| vice r. I. Crosse, suspended, Daniel w Krui-
sher, at North Manchester Ind vice Shelby
Sexton, suspended ker Beyoe, az Augusta,
Ga, vice w. +. Holden, suspended; Robert
| r. Menefee, at Bozemau, Mont. vice Il. G.
| Anderson suspended, Barren s. Wassen, at
| Laporte, Iowa, vice j r. Stebbins suspend
! ed. The postmasters at Winona, Mimi,
| 0sceola, Iowa, and Laporte City, Iowa,
| North Manchester, Ind, Cambridge, Ohio,
/ Augusta, Ga, and Balstown, ~ ", were
suspended upon proofs OF acts OF PARTISAN
| ship while in office. Their acts we're Of va
rious kinds. Some we're editors as well as
| postmasters, and their newspapers, in some
| cases since as well as before the election
had contained scurrilous and indecent at.
| tacks upon the officers OF the government
as well az malignancy Of political feeling
toward their adversaries generally.