D. F. P., independence, W. Va.?The United States Secret Service is under the control of the Treasury Department. The postal inspectors belong to the Secret Service, but are under the control of the Post-Office Department. The Department of Justice has special investigating agents of its own, not connected with the Secret Service. These investigators are appointed by the Attorney General. They must have legal training, and a knowledge of one or more foreign languages is desirable. Applications for appointments in the Secret Service should be made to the Chief of the Secret Service. Treasury Department, Washington, D. C. Secret Service officials are not under the civil service. They pass a physical examination indicating their fitness for work, and, before appointment, must have had experience in criminal investigation.
News of Fifty Years Ago
(From the Richmond Dispatch, May 7, 1887.)
H. Rives Pollard has been forbidden by General Willcox, commandant at Richmond, to deliver his lecture, "Southern Chivalry," in Lynchburg. Mr. Pollard declares his intention to appeal to General Schofield, and if Schofield upholds Willcox, then to President Johnson. Mr. Kitzbugh Mayo, of Richmond, and Miss Helen Lop Alexander, of Lynchburg, were married in Brooklyn last Thursday.
Judge Kelly and Colonel John H. Taggart, prominent Republican politicians of Philadelphia, have started South on a proselyting tour. They will be cordially received, but  will make
few converts among the white people, although
it is said their appeal to join the Republican
party will be addressed to the whites rather
than to the blacks.
Severn distilleries on James River were seized
last Friday by United States internal revenue
officers, the owners being charged with violations of the revenue laws of the country. 