Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1883 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Attorney General Brewster issued an opinion that the United States Government was an institution too dignified to tail in on the change in the standard of time. Congress alone must decide. After delivering himself of this proclamation, which put the departments at Washington a little behind the world at large, the great man rode to the depot and walked out on the platform only to find that the train had been gone just eight minutes and twelve seconds. The Hon. John Tanner has been appointed United States Marshal of the Springfield (Ill.) district. • John R. Tanner has been appointed United States Marshal for the Southern District of Illinois. So big has been the pension plum that the whole retail trade of the city of Washington seems to have gone into the business ot securing claims for applicants. Col. Dudley testified before the grand jury the other day that among the townsmen who had been found to have pension attachments to their shops were one shoemaker, two editors, one publisher, one photographer, one dealer in hardware, two grdeers, one pressman, one banker, one bank cashier, one tailoress and one oopyist. President Arthur appointed Surgeon Robert Murray, now on duty at Governor’s island, to be Surgeon General. The new chief is said to be a Democrat. Dr. Baxter, the Chief Medical Purveyor, with the rank of Cqfonel, whose first commission is dated 1861, expected to get the place, and was highly recommended. His friends consider he has been “jumped.” Joseph H. Blackpan, Superintendent of Foreign Mails, died last week at Washington. Sergt. Mason, who was sent to prison for an attempt to kill Guiteau, has been pardoned by President Arthur. Lawrence Weldon, of Bloomington, 111., has been appointed Judge of the Court of Claims at Washington, to succeed J. C. Bancroft Davis.