Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1885 — POINITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POINITICAL.

The President has made- the following appointments: Harlan Pefley, of Boise City, Idaho, to be Register of the Land Office at Boise City. Idaho, vice Edward L. Curtis, resigned; William H. Welsh, of Maryland, to be Deputy Third Auditor of the Treasury, vice A, M. Grangewer, of Ohio, resigned by request. Collectors of Customs —Charles H. Robinson for the- District of Wilmington, N. C.; John C. Byxbee for the District of New Haven, Conn. Receiver of Public Moneys—Sully Scott at

Oberlin? Kan. Colonel Ferdinand D. Stephenson, of Illinois, Chief of the middle division of the Pension Office, has been discharged. He was Colonel of an Illinois regiment during the war, and is a personal friend of Gen. Logan The President has commissioned the following Postmasters: Colorado—JDavjd F. Rakes, Ouray, vice Albert Moore, resigned. : Illinois—Joseph F. Henderson, Aledo, vice John McKinney, commitrston expired. Indiana—David J. Eastburn, Fowler, vice George W. Meilis, resigned. lowa—John Letzel, Clear Lake, vice A. D. EW-. ridge, resigned , . ( . Kansas—Justinian Mayberry, Burlingame,: vice George M. Doty, commission expired; John K. Brant, Osage Mission, vice J. 8. Curtis, resigned. ' , w Kentucky—C. N. Respress, Maysville, vlco M. C. Hutchins, resigned. Michigan—MartinW. Meredith at East' Saginaw, vice William G. Gage, suspended because he had been found guilty of fraudulently appropriating to his own use part of his allowance for office rent by means of false .vouchers, and of subletting a portion of the premises without accounting for the rent received for the same. Nebraska —John Kittle at; Seward, vice C. E. Van Pelt, commission expired. Pennsylvania—A. H. Simpson at North Clarendon, vice H. E. Norris, resigned; Alex. Wertz at Mechanicsburg, vice Miss Catherine Singer, commission expired. South Carolina—W. H. Gibbons, Columbia, vice C. M. Wilder, commission expired; Texas-0. A. Gildea, Brackettsville, vice W. • Lambert, commission expired. The lowa Republican State Central Committee has decided to hold the n,ext State Convention on August 26, and 27, at Des Moines. ; Ex-Speaker Randall says that the Democrats will do something with the tariff next winter, though the extreme views taken by the free-traders of the party can not, he thinks, be adopted... .President Cleveland has appointed Gen. W. S. Rosecrans Register of the Treasury, to succeed B. K. Bruce, colored; Herbert F. Beecher, a son of the Brooklyn divine, Collector of Customs for the district of Puget Sound;. Archibald Skillman, Collector of Internal Revenue for the district of Nevada; and Baker P. Lee, to be Collector of Customs for the district of Yorktown, Va.