Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1883 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The President has approved the sentence of the court-martial of CiStnmaMer Horace V. Mullen, of the lost Ashuelot, wrecked on the Chinese coast, and he has been dismissed the service from the 6th of July. Gen. Crook, says a Washington telegram, has been entirely successful. The Administration has decided to follow his advice. The captured Apaches are to be kept on the Sen Carlos reservation; the War Department will have charge of them, will maintain them from its own funds, and will be responsible for the preservation of peace Special Treasury Agent Howell, at Plattsburg, N. Y, informs the authorities at Washington that numerous Irish pauper immigrants are entering the United States from Canada, some beipg “State aided,” and ticketed to the Western States The

The Attorney GeS° hi ™ e „ »o OTlluiOXl till#* /k# Pik-e.—■ w .jLi'i The Department of Agriculture at J w y rep ° rt ’ Plaoeß ** of spring wheat at 98 to 100, and*Tf at 88. f Thirty special agents of the General Land Office have furnished information which caused the prompt cancellation of fraudulent entries covering. JiftOOO acres, much of which was located In rich valleys. During the third quarter of. the last fiscal year the receipts at the postoffice Department were 111,912,376; expenditures, •10,792,499; surplus, •1,119,877. For the nine months of the'fiscal year ended March 31, 1883, the receipts were 133,946,356; expenditures, 131,4&W; surplus, |2,509,44?. Secretary Teller, in a letter to fie Commissioner of the General Land Office, says the indemnity lands of the Northern Pacific railway must net be closed to settfement any longer than necessary enable W company to make its relecCq tion of lands in lieu <4, thqse I lost within . tike granted ifadta, and directs the Commissioner to notfify* thMffi- I pany that all selections in Wisconsin and Minnesota must be made within tfWjjM' months, when the orders withdrawing the I indemnity lands will be revoked, and* the lands opened to settlement The company, | in selecting, will not be permitted to take the beat, land and leave the poorest