The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-08-30
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WAS HI N TON,
WASHINGTON, August %.
Pension Day.


Pension Day.
On Thursday next week the quarter
ly payment of pensions begins, at all
the agencies throughout tue country, by
which eight millions OF dollars will be
disbursed. The biennial examination
of all pensioners to determine their
rating will also begin on the same day
and Commissioner Baker is distributing
to examining surgeons instruc tions
designed to make the examination
the most thorough and effective ever
held.
New Desks.
New desks for the hall OF the House
OF Representatives are being put in po-
sition and new carpet for the hall will
soon follow. The desks are slightly
smaller than those which they replace,
and are free from all carved or orna-
mental work By more judicious ar.
fragments the desks for three hundred
and two members and delegates COM
prising the next House will be placed in
the same space heretofore occupied by
two hundred and fifty. No change in
the walls or galleries OF the hall, as
suggested By General Butler. will be
made this vacation The new desks
were manufactured by firm in Balti-
more, and will be near y half paid for
by the proceeds OF the sale OF the o!d
ones.
The Fort sill Sell.
The War Department has received
nothing relative to the sensational re-
port OF the Indian attack of Fort Sill,
and totally discredits it. The report
caused great uneasiness here among
the kindred and friends OF the officers
and men connected with the fourth
cavalry. In one instance, the vile OF
an officer OF the fourth cavalry, on the
publication OF the report was taken se-
riously i'll, aud now lies in critical
condition.
Commander Weaver of the United
States navy has been ordered on duty,
10 the naval department at Maiden,
Massachusetts,, relieving commander
Tifit who is placed on the waiting or
iers list.
Important Order.
The following order has been Issued
by the Secretary of the Treasury for
the information and guidance OF col.
lectors ofcutsoms, in orler to do away
with some irregularities which have in
some ways been connected with the en-.
try Of imported merchandise, and pro-
poses fixing the responsibility OF the
entry on the proper person:
1t is hereby presented that agents and
others unless they are consignees and
as such mentioned in the bill OF ladlnG
shall not be permitted TO make entry
OF merchandise in the name OF their
principal unless their principal ls away
from the limits OF the collectors dis.
trict, and then only on their filing an
affidavit at the Custom House. to the
effect that their principal is absent from
the district, or is so sick as to be unable
10 be personally present at the
Custom House when entry is allowed
upon affidavit, the affidavit shall be at
tached to the bond for the production
of the required oaths, and for part OF
the records OF the case. No entry OF
imported merchandise 10y agent or a.
torney will he permitted, ex-
cept under the conditions
above stated, unless in cases where the
officer receiving the entry has pepsonal
knowledge OF the absence from port or
sickness Of such owner or cons'gnee, in
which case an endorsement 10 that et-
feet shall be made on the entry by the
officer. which shall take the place Of
the affidavit referred 70.
In regard TO the application for Ii
Cense to sell liquor, tobacco, cigars, &c,
at public shows, iair5, &c, the acting
Commissioner o! Internal Revenue has
decided TO authorize collectors Of Inter
nal Revenue TO issue special tax stamps
to sell liquors, tobacco, ard cigars ~
a public show, to be held in the Coilec-
xor's district, provided that q single and
permanent show alone is used during
the continuance OF any such show or
iair, and provided also that a special tax
stamp lie pasted upon itin conspicuous
place as the law requires such special
tax. The stamp will give author'ty 10
sell outside OF the district, and the only
stamps originally used, especially 70!
business to he carried on al a public
stand as before named, in 6 given dis
trict, and this fact so designated on the
.ace 0: the stamp will authorize such
sales of liquors, tobacco, cigars, DC.
A liquor dealer or manufacturer OF
OF tobacco wishing to sell at a public
show, &c, will be required either 10
provide himseli with special tax stamp
for that particular purpose or else to
close sales at his usual place OF busi-
ness or register transfer to any place
where be proposes to do business tempo
rarily.
NEW YORK STATE.