Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The retired list of the navy includes forty-nine Rear Admirals, fifteen Commodores, eleven Captains, eleven Commanders, nineteen Lieutenant Commanders, twenty-five Lieutenants, and nine Ensigns, besides others. Of this number enough were retired because of bad habits,' drunkenness, etc., to cost the country $300,009 annually. Commodore Truxton, on the 11th inst, attained the age of 62 years, and was retired under the compulsory law, although he had boon nominated to the Senate as Rear Admiral. The Senate Committee on Civil Service has directed an adverse report to be made to the Senate on Mr. Vance’s bill for the repeal of the civil-service law. Washington special: “It is said that there is some danger of a duel being fought by Representatives Wise and Brady of Virginia Each has called the other a liar almost a dozen times, and now, almost a month after the epithets have passed, it has occurred to them that their honor has been assailed. Friends of both men are endeavoring to bring about an amicable adjustment of their differences. Under the laws of Virginia duelists are disfranchised. ” A special committee of the House of Representatives has commenced an inquiry into the issuance of Pau-Electric Telephone stock to officers of the Government. The first witness was Joseph Pulitzer, who testified that his revelations in the New York World were made in the hope to serve the public. J. H. Rogers, the inventor, gave a history of the organization of the company, stating that stock was issued free to General Joseph E. Johnston, Senators Harris and Garland, and Governor Brown, of Missouri. General Pope has been placed on the retired list. General Terry will bo ordered to Governor’s Island, to command the Division of the Atlantic, and the next Major General is to bo sent to San Francisco. The obsequies of Senator Miller, held in the Capitol, were attended by the President and Cabinet, the Diplomatic Corps, and the Supreme Court A special train bearing the remains, the stricken taulj, and the Congressional committee left lor Caldornia in the evening. Gen. Benet, Chief of Ordnance of the army, is constructing twenty-five steel breech-loading field gnus, to supersede the artillery with which batteries have been equipped. He expects with the new weapon to obtain a range of six thousand yards.