Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1885 — POINTICAL. [ARTICLE]

POINTICAL.

First Assistant Postmaster General Stevenson declares that he is in full sympathy with the policy* of the President and Postmaster General as to. removals and appointments, and will conform '(toil The Virginia Bepublicans have nominated the Hon. John S. Wise for Governor!and H. C. Wood for Lieutenant Governor. The President has appointed William T. Carrington to be Collator of Customs for the District of Teche, Louisiana; Francis H. Underwood, of Massachusetts, to be Consul of the United States at Glas- - gow; Chin i Coy Woo, to be Interpreter of the United States Consulate at Canton; C. W. Fields, to be Superintendent of the Hot Springs, Ark.; L. D. Sale, of Michigan, to be Librarian of (he Patent Office, vice Weston Flint, reduced; aud the followingnamed Postmasters: James H. Dobbins, at BettefeatOr Pa.EAugustus Owen, at Canton, Pa.; William A- Lewis, at Evart, Mich.; Eugene L. Brown, at Eufaula, Ala.; Theodore W. Ivory, at' Glenwood, Iowa; Henry; C. Stark; at Hvde Park, Mass.; George F. A. Kimball, at Veigennes, Vt; Gardner A. Wilder, at Circleville, Ohio,’ vice H. E. Lutz, suspended; Lyman W,

■ Rodington, at Rutland, Yt, vice A. H. Tut- ! tie, suspended. The President has issued a special civilservice rule, applicable to the Pension Department. providing that appointments shall bo apportioned among (he States and Territories according to population, as shown by the last census. W. B. Webb was offered ,the position of Comn is -ioner of the District of Columbia, which has brought out the fact that exSenator Pomeroy had been anxious for the place, and was not unwilling to turn the prohibition vote of the country over to the Democrats in order to get it. Webb is a Republican, an old resident of the District, but never had anything to do with politics. .... The Georgia House of Representatives has passed a general local-option bill to apply to the counties in that State which have not adopted prohibition. The bill now goes to tho Senate.