Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1883 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The Supreme Court of the United States has rendered a decision in the oase against the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad, known as the Buggies suit, the gist of the decision being that the State of Illinois has a right to fix maximum charges for the conveyance of freight and passengers. The millers won two notable victories in the Supreme Court, the Deuchfield and Downton patent suits having been decided in favor of the defendants; The royalty sought to be recovered under the Deuchfield patent for cooling and drying meal amounted to $1,000,000, while the Downton patent for manufacturing middling flour was estimated to be worth The Supreme Court denied thp petition for a rehearing of the Louisiana and Virginia bond cases. An attachment taken by the Government upon property of Capt Howgate, the embezzling officer of the signal service, has been adjudged void because of the negligence of the Government attorneys in fail. Ing to have the attachment recorded. Rear Admiral Edmund B. Calhoun has been placed on the retired list The Department of State has advices from United States Consuls in Ireland that no exceptional distress exists in that country, although in many agricultural districts the peasantry are in a state of abject poverty, which has come to be regarded as their normal condition. The Consuls report that they have no knowledge of plans for the deportation of paupers to the United States. Charles Lyman, Chief Clerk of the Treasurer’s office, has been selected Chief Examiner of the Civil Service Commission, vice Keim, whose name was withdrawn at the request of the Commissioners.