The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-11-15
THE WEEK In WASHINGTON.
Minor Matters of Interest in the Capita
(ity.

Minor Matters of Interest in the Capita
City.
SUNDAY, Nov. 4-Claude NJ johnson. Chief o
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, IN
his annual report to the Secretary OF tine
Treasury states that during the year The
aggregate number OF sheets delivered o.
United States notes, Treasury notes, gold and
silver certificates, Internal Revenue and Gus
toms stamps, etc, was %, 5l6,96l the cost OF
which was s., BIZ $50, the cost per LOU sheets
being S2317 This is the lowest rate al
which the work has been done during the
last 10 years.
MONDAY, Nov. 5.-There was an outpour Of
Salvation Army soldiers at the depot to-day
to greet Gen. Booth, the Commander-in-Chie
of the Army. Members o! the District Aux
Hilary League and others extended welcome
10 him on behalf Of the people OF the District
Gen. Booth was accompanied by his son,
Ballington Booth, and several other officers
= of the Army. There was AN Army parade on
Pennsy lyania avenue TO the local barracks,
and Ger. Booth was escorted 10 the residence
of NJ. T. Wood ward where he Is being enter
taine3 This afternoon Gen. Booth met the
clergynen OF the city al the First Congrega-
tional Church. and tonight he addressed an
immense audience in Convention Hall, the
largest assembly place in the city."The
District Court of Appeals to-day set Nov. %
Company. of Louisiana, whose petition for a
mandamus against Secretary Carlisle has been
denied. This was the case where the sugar
company demanded that importers be ap-
pointed under the Mckinley law with view
to the collection of the sugar bounty.
TUESDAY, Nov. cit is announced that the
work of Agricultural Experiment Stations in
this country will be thoroughly reviewed
and plans discussed at the forthcoming eighth
annual Convention of the Association of
American Colleges and Experiment Stations
to begin in this city next Tuesday and close
Friday. Reports to-day indicate that while
the facilities for instruction in agricultural
courses have been increased the result of
the act of 1890 the number of students IN the
regular college courses in agriculture still
continues to be relatively small. The short
courses, however, are shown to be increas-
ingly popular.
WEDNESDAY. Nov. 1.-THE nut grass, or coca,
is proving TO be almost much of an infic-
ton the South as the Russian thistle is to
the Northwest. For that reason the Agri-
cultural Department has just issued special
bulletin urging general campaign against
this grass before it gets too firm bold.
This plant is not grass, as It's common name
and appearance indicate, but sedge. 1t has
many local names in the different regions in
which it has been introduced. The species
is of subtrOpicsl origin. aud is said to have
reached the United States first at New
Orleans among garden plants brought from
Cuba. The plan o. campaign to extirpate
nut grass is simply to prevent it maturing
seed above ground. Nearly everybody thinks
that the nuisance reproduces itself from the
nut alone, whereas it propagates thousand
times more from the seed.
THURSDAY, Nov. 6.-The announcement that
the German authorities may conclude to de-
terDine he possibilities of the introduction of
Texas fever into that Empire from expert
opinions of American veterinarians which
are now being translated, was received with
great interest by Secretary Morton. The Sec
rotary to-day investigated the question, and
finds that authority to entirely exclude Ger
man products in retaliation for discrimina-
ton against American goods is invested in
the President by existing law, law which
has been heretofore overlooked in the discus
sion of the question.
FRIDAY, Nov 9.-Secrefary Carlisle sent to Col
Iectors al Customs copy OF recent decision
by Judge Larcombe, OF New York, to the
effect that the Circuit Court of New York
had 20 jurisdiction in cases involving the
rights of Cinnamon TO return to the United
States. Under this decision no writs Of
hSbeas corpus can be granted by United
States courts to Cinnamon, the decision of
the Secretary of the Treasury in cases of
Cinnamon or other aliens being final
5ATURDAY. Nov. 10.-James z. WilIett was
formally installed as City Postmaster this
evening Ia the morning he enters upon
the duties Of his new position, and Henry
Sherwood, the outgoing Postmaster, assumes
At Miilcits request the Office of Assistant
Postmaster