Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-09-25
CAPITAL NOTES.
Especial Correspondcnce.J

| SoeiociaDiy dpouI Tue ulSpOSltlOn OF Secre
tery Manning. Nearly all of the rumors re
lative to Mr.. Manning come from his depart
ment. As soon as a correspondent is caugh
ABOUT the Treasury building he is immediate,
cornered and pumped for the fastest GOSSIP
about the Secretary The first of the mex
month is the time set for the retirement o
MIR. Manning, according to the terms of hi
resignation last spring. The resignation wa
left in allegiance at the request of the Presi
dent. Nothing definite has been heard from
either the President or Mr.. Manning con
corning the situation. The latter's friend
inside the department have been tryinf
assiduously to cure him and return hin
to his financial duties by havin.
it printed in the newspapers that he is a
well as ever he was, while his friends outside
are providing a place for him in second
class diplomatic mission abroad. There is
another set Of fiSure.makers who are pre-
dieting a wholesale recast of the Cabinet.
There is no apparent reason for this excep
to shake up something for Joe Mcdonald
which seems 10 let the bottom cut of tbi
curious prediction. The truth is, there Is IL,
particular reason for MIR. Manning making
any personal sacrifices, or running any ply
| steal risks to remain at the head of tn,
Treasury Department., except, perhaps, t,
save the necks of several prominent official
and their retinues, who live by his persona
favor. There are some reasons why Mr.
Manning might wish to go abroad, but they
are not financial or business reasons. Tb,
| department is getting along very we'll with.
out Secretary Manning, and the Austrian
| Mission is getting along very well withou
anybody.
The Supreme Court OF the United States
will convene on Monday the l2h proximo.
The number of cases on The docket increases
steadily from year to year. On the 9th of
September, 1855, the cases docketed numbered
964. At the close of business in the Clerks
office there were on the docket 1,002 cases, an
increase of SO. Among the most important
oil the cases assigned for argument in the
early part of the term, are the Pacific Ma
tional Bank cases from Boston, which in
volve questions pending in 800 or 400 suits in
the courts bslow; and tine case of the Kansas
Company against Benjamn H.
Brewster, Attorney General. The lat,
ter is suit brought to test the
validity Of the title of the railroad company
TO certain lands in Kansas and to cancel the
patents issued for the same. The controver.
sy is between large number of the settlers
about 700-and the railroad company. The
settlers claim the land in question under the
Homestead laws. The dispute has existed for
years, and has been the cause of much dis
order and disturbance to the public peace in
the place where the lands are situated. The
Legislature of the State of Kansas has at
three different sessions memoraljzed the Fed,
eral authorities to cause some proceeding to
be instituted by which the title OF the rail,
road company to the lands in controversy
could be speedily determined. In view Of
these facts, the Supreme Court has decided
to advance the case on the docket and hear
argument upon it at once
Special Envoy Sedgwick arrived in the
city and was an early caller at the State De-
pertment, where he awaited the arrival of
Secretary Bayard. Mr.. Sedgwick declined
to be interviewed He said too much had
been said from the beginning. Having no
official or diplomatic commission, he was in
40 position to discuss public affairs His em>
ployment by the State Department was the
relation Of lawyer and client-adviscry and
unofficlal-and not subject for any discus
sion. AS to his private affairs, he did not
propose to have anything further to say. He
had from the first denied every injurious re-
port about himself as a lie out of the whole
cloth, AMI as he could add nothing to these
specific and emphatic denials, he saw no
reason to prolong the discussion of the mat
ter any further. He had completed the work
assigned him by Secretary Bayard four DAYS
ago and returned as promptly as possible to
lay the results of his labor before the Sec
letary.
Consul Dufais Of Havre, in a report to the
Secretary of State, describes an abortive at.
tempt on the part Of commercial and labor
organizations to secure repeal of the de ,ree
against American pork. He concludes:-
1T is so evident that nothing will be done
on the part Of the present Govern ment to do
away with the discrimination against the
commerce OF a friendly nation that all hopes
of favorable change have been abandonel
by those opposed to the prohibition. The
millions of il-fed and scantily-fe1 laboring
men of France will continue to pay tribute
to the French hog-raising farmer"
Officials at the Interior Department. deny
the rumor Of Secretary Lamar's intended
marriage to a wealthy widow. Captain
Hassler, the Appointment Clerk, who pro-
badly enjoys the Secretary's confidence more
closely than any one else in the department
said tonight that there was not word of
truth in the story. ut is probably started y
he said, because of the quiet way in which
the Secretary took his departure from the
city, but he always goes off in just that man
ner.
Arrangements are being made at the
Treasury Department for the early distribu>
ton Of the new silver certificates, which are
Iow being printed as RAPIDLY as possible
Virgins Earthquake.
Prof. f. Stone Virgins, of the Canadian
Meteorological Bureau; says the 20 h instant
will witness one Of the most terrific subter.
ranean upheavals ever known ON this conti>
nent. Being asked as to the parallel of lati-
tude on which the disturbance would take
place, DR.. Virgins replied that the activity