Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1887 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

There is considerable apprehension at the Navy Department for the safety of the school ship St. Mary's with her large crew of apprentices. The St. Mary’s is one of the old ships. She left New York several weeks* ago with Commander Crowninshield as her skipper, and was due at Fayal, in the Azores, June 10. Nothing has been heard from the vessel. The conference of Civil Service Secretaries has raised the limit of age for becoming a letter-carrier from 35 to 40 years and the limit of age of custom-house clerks was wiped out entirely. Commissioner Sparks of the General Land Office has taken the necessary preliminary steps to concel fifty-five desert land entries in Wyoming Territory, aggregating an area of about 35,000 acres. The Commissioner, in his letter to the Register and Receiver at Cheyenne, states that the final proof in all of these cases is substantially the same, and is to the effect that by means of ditches already constructed an ample supply of water is at hand to properly irrigate .the land; that the claimants own the right to the water thus secured, and have never parted with their interest in the land thus reclaimed, and have never agreed to do so. Touching the flurry in Wall street, Secretary of the Treasury Fairchild stated Friday afternoon that, should it become necessary, he would offer to, redeem without rebate the $19,000,000 3 per cents maturing July 1. The President has appointed James Sheakley, of Greenville, Pa., to be Commissioner for the district of Alaska. First Assistant Postmaster-General Stevenson has left Washington for a month's vacation at his home at BloomiUgtOU, "Hl. . r~ -t ——-—- Mr. Trenho’.m. Comptroller of the CurICUCy, kill ashing lon, D. C.. states that the business of the conn'ry is inyaygeody condition, and people may look for good times. The UhitedStates Txeasury Department at Washington. D. C., has granted permission for the entry of foreign goods juf exhil'itiou iy tiie Mecban c-' institute at San Francisca ’ President Cleveland and wife have written that they will parHcipate in the centennial exercises at Clinton and the seventy-fifth nnTiiver<sry of Hamilton College,“at Utica, N. Y.Wednesday July The venerable W. W. Corcoran and Professor Baird, of the Smithsonian Institution, have both happily so far recovered from their severe illness, and that arrangements are being made to remove them from the heats of Washington. The President has appointed James H. Walker, of Raton, N. M m to be register of the land office at Santa Fe, vice Charles F. Easeley, resigned. The text of the postal convention between the United States and Mexico, recently ratified by the Mexican government, wae Tuesday approved by President

Cleveland, ilt makes a complete “new-de-parture'' in our postal relations with Mexico, changing, improving, and vastly extending the. facilities and scope of the ■service.