Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Under the compromise effected between the Navy Department and the assignees of John Roach & Son, for the completion of three cruisers now building in the Roach ship-yards at New York and Chester, the work of preparation is rapidly pushing forward. The compromise has been put in writing and signed by the Secretary. It is said on good authority that it includes the acceptance of the Dolphin.

Secretary Manning has issued an order forbidding the reopening of accounts in the Treasury Department after they have been closed, except In cases where material evidence Is discovered after the settlement. The order is aimed at a flagrant abuse of long standing. C. P. Judd, special agent of the Labor Bureau, confined in the jail at Denver, Col., for horse-stealing, has had his commission revoked by Commissioner Wright. The following is a technical description of the new immediate-delivery stamp: A line engraved on steel,' oblong in form; dimensions, 13-16 by 1 7-16 inches; color, dark blue; design on the left, an arched panel bearing the figure of a mail messenger boy on a run, and surmounted by the words “United States;” on the right, an oblong tablet, ornamented with a wreath of oak and laurel surrounding the words, “Secures immediate delivery at a special delivery office.” Across the top of the tablet is the legend, “Special postal delivery,” and at the bottom the words “Ten cents,” separated by a small shield bearing the numeral “10.”

The Acting Commissioner of the. General Land Office has declined to Issue any more patents to the Northern Pacific Railroad until the legal status of the road shall have been fixed.

The Army and Navy Journal, in addition to thelistof army officers who will be ordered back to their regiments,having been on detached service more than four years, publishes the following list of officers who will be exempted from the operation of the order, having been put on detached service by the Secretary of War: Col. John C. Tidball, First Artillery, artillery school, eleven years and three months;. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott, Third Artillery, war record, seven years and eight months; Maj. Richard Loder, artillery school, six years; Capt. A. B. Blunt, military prison, eight years and three months; Capt. F. N. Greene, military academy, thirteen years and four months: Capt. Richard H. Pratt, Tenth Cavalry, Indian school, ten years and four months.

It is alleged that four distillers who it had been discovered were using the “thick-ened-staves” whisky barrels have compromised with the Government, the sum to be paid amounting to SBO,O >O. The Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims will expire by limitation Dec. 31 An enormous amount of business remains unsettled, and an effort will probably be made to induce Congress to prolong the court’s existence.