Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1885 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

When the Supreme Court met on the 9th inst, says a Washington dispatch, there was a large crowd in attend ince to witness the presentation to tho court of the new Attorney General by the retiring head of the Department of Justice. When the Justices had taken their seats,Mr. Brewster arose and asked permission of the court to present his successor, the Hon. A. H. Garland. Mr. Brewster then said he desired to make a grateful acknowledgment of the court’s unceasing kindness to him. Attorney General Garland acknowledged the kindness of Mr. Brewster in presenting him, and, addressing the court, said: “I shall attempt, with every possible exertion of my power, to discharge my duties before this court, and So to demean myself, as to merit your respect and entire confidence.” The Chief Justice then directed the Clerk of the court to enter the commission of the Attorney General upon the record, and. turning to Mr. Brewster, said: “The court will be glad to see the ex-Altorney General before its bar.” This ended the ceremony and the court proceeded to routine business. ~ .The position of Senior Impedor General of the army, made va ant by the death of Gen. Delos B. Sicket, will faU 'o Col. Nelson H. Davis, now on duty in Chicago.... Gen. J. W. Singleton, of Illinois, is a candidate for Commissioner of Agriculture. There are reasons to believe that Dr. Miller, of Omaha, will be First Assistant Postmaster General.

Near Bond’s Mills, Wise County, Va., Mary Reynolds, a rustic beauty, eloped with and married James Henton, greatly to the chagrin of one Mitchel, who was Henton’s rival for the girl’s hand. The young couple attended a spelling-bee a few nights later, but"never returned to theii - home, and after a search both their dead bodies were found. Both had been shot, after which the assassin disfigured their faces by tearing off the flesh. Mitchell has disappeared. Chicago elevators contain 15,473.367 bushels of wheat, 1,914,727 bushels of com, 570,685 bushels of oats, 135,615 bushels of rye, and 113,458 bushels of barley. Total 18,207,852 bushels of all kinds of grain, agrinst 22,687,973 bushels a year ago... Gov, Pierce has vetoed the bill for the removal of the capital of Dakota from Bismarck to Pierre, holding that it impairs the obligations of a contract. On charge of bribery in connection with the bill, three mend ers of the Territorial Legislature were arrested and held to bail... .Jack Burke has deposited SSOO to cover the challe-'g- 1 issued by Paddy Rvau, but insists that the fight must be outside of Chicago. Ryan says he will meet Sullivan for $5,000 after he is through with Burke. Mossgrove’s United States Hotel and the adjoining block at Steubenville, Ohio, were burned, creating a loss of $135,000. A fireman was killed by falling walls.

Communications from the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Attorney General, conveying notification of their acceptance of Cabinet positions and requesting the President of the Senate to so notify the Legislatures of their respective States, were read to the Senate on the 9th inst. The President sent to the Senate the following nominations: C. S. Fairchild, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; John C. Black, of Illinois, to be Commissioner of Pensions. Mr. Van Wyck’s resolution making inquiry of the Secretary of the Interior regarding the issue of patents to the “Backbone" Railroad was taken up. Mr. Van Wyck detailed the “mysterious record" of the Backbone Road. He said that Gould and Huntington were at the bottom of a sch ;me to get possession of the land-grant. It was claimed that there was a special meeting of the Cabinet to legalize the fraud; but the settlers did not have any advocate there. The Cabinet did not protect them. On the contrary, it turned them over to the tender mercies of the corporation. The' whole history of the land bureau of the Interior Department was a record of demands by land grant corporations and decrees of the department in obedience thereto. When the demand was too exacting, as in this case, the opinion of the Attorney General was songht behind which to hide. By what mvst Tious power, Mr. Von Wyck asked, could this compary coerce the Government into an extra session of its Cabinet and compel ttje Interior Department to work nifhfs wad Sundays in order to secure action foreclosing Congress and the people from rending the spoiler from his prey? Mr. Van A yek gave notice that the patents issued would be contested. Ex-Secre-tary Teller in his r< ply Baid that Mr. Van Wyek was a professional anti-monopolist, and that his object was to pose before the public and to gain notoriety. Mr. Teller’s speech was an elaborate legal argument to show that the “Backbone" Company was entitled to the grant