Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Gen. W. B. Kazen was reprimanded by the President, in accordance with the sentence of the court-martial, for captious criticism of his superior officer, and was then restored to duty as Chief Signal Officer.

The Attorney General has given an opinion that the late appropriation of $335,000 for the New Orleans Exposition can only bo used in paying the claims of persons living outside of Louisiana, or in meeting premiums awarded.

President Cleveland issued a proclamation declaring President Arthur’s order opening tne Winnebago reservation in Dakota to settlement inoperative and void, and notifying all persons on such lands to remove their effects within sixty days, settlers failing to do so to be removed by force. Dispatches from St. Paul state that indignation meetings will probably result when the order is generally promulgated. Settlers have been seeding, and have all they have invested in improvements, and to be evicted will bankrupt many. Trouble is feared, for force may be required to dispossess them. Troops will undoubtedly be necessary to enforce the provisions of the proclamation.

Mr. Burchard, Director of the Mint, in his report on the production of gold and silver in the United States for 1884 makes an ostimato as follows: Gold, $30,800,000; silver, $48,800,000; total, $79,630,000. This shows an Increase over the previous year of SBOO,OOO in gold and $2,400,000 in silver. Fifty-three incorporated companies working gold and silver mines paid dividends during the twelve months of $7,507,798.

The President has made the following appointments: To Be American Ministers Resident and Consuls General—William D. Bloxham of Florida, to Bolivia; Bayliss W. Hanna of Indiana, to Persia; Walker Fearn of Louisiana, to Roumanla, Servia, and Greece. To Be Consuls of the United

States—James Murray of New York, at St. John, N. Bi; Boyd Winchester of Kentucky, at Nice, France; Charles P. Kimball of Hlinoia, at Stuttgart, Germany,