Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Attorney General Garland’s attention was called to the widely published statement that the President had asked for his resignation, to which he replied: “You may say that there is no truth in the report so far as I have been advised, and it occurs to me that I should know. You may further say that the reports that I have received gifts of the Fan-Electric stock or am u donee of that company are not correct. People seem to have forgotten my letter to the President dated Oct. 5, 1885.” Turning to that letter the Attorney General read this sentence: “About three years ago I, with six or seven other gentlemen, entered into an organization known as the Pan-Electric Telephone Company, based upon what was called the Rogers invention. We formed that company in good faith and started in its operations. You will see from this,” said the Attorney General, “that I was one of the original incorporators of this company, and as such entitled to stock.” The President has said recently to friends that a request for the resignation of Mr. Garland was not in contemplation. In consequence of the reception of au imposing protest signet by citizens of Dakota and Minnesota, who declare that the trade of the Northwest is being ruined, Secretary Lamar has directed Commissioner Sparks to show cause at once why his order of last April suspending the issue of land patents in a wide expanse of territory should not be revoked. Daniel J. Dalton, Clerk of the Hamilton County (Ohio) Court, was arrested at Columbus at the instance of the Committee on Privileges and Elections of the House and brought before that body for contempt in refusing to allow the committee to make a photographic copy of the tally-sheet of Precinct A, Fourth Ward, Cincinnati, and also in failing to produce the original returns before the committee at Columbus. A resolution was adopted in the House by a strict party vote directing that Dalton be placed in jail for thirty days unless he furnished the returns. The conduct of Lieutenant Greene, of the signal corps, and other members of the recent court-martial at Fort Myer, Virginia, was such as to draw from the Secretary of War an expression of the stern condemnation of the abuse of counsel for the accused and of enlisted men serving as witnesses. The Florida Press Association, at a meeting held in Gainesville, adopted resolutions stating that the larger part of the oranges remaining on the trees in that State were frozen during the recent cold weather, but no injury was done to healthy trees, which are already budding. A company has been organized in Arkansas, with a capital of $2,500,009, to build a railway 150 miles in length, from Fort Smith to the lied River, in Texas.