Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The Postmaster General has made a ruling to the effect that in cases where railroad companies carrying the mail are obliged to deliver it into and receive it from postofflees (which requirement applies to stations where the postoffice is within eighty rods of the stopping-place of the train) the employes carrying the mails between the station and office are not employes in the postal service, and need not be sworn in. The department, however, requires tho railroad company to employ for this purpose persons over the age of 16 years and of suitable intelligence and character, and postmasters are directed to report any violations of this requirement. Payment of tbe claim of the State of Colorado for one-half the cost of taking the semi-decennial census has been withheld by the first comptroller of the Treasury on the ground that the State is indebted to the United States in a larger amount on account of the direct tax of August 5, 1861. In auditing tho claim of Dakota Territory a deduction has been made on similar grounds. Over $600,000 has been pledged for tfie establishment of a Catholic university at Washington City, and the projectors expect to have $1,000,000 secured by Jan. 1. Work on the buildings will begin within a few weeks. Eepresentatives of the dairy interest in the East and West are in consultation with the Commissioner of Agriculture regarding measures to prevent the sale of adulterated butter and oheese.