The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-07-07

nearly SS,000,000.
THE secretary of the treasury has allowed
the claim of the centennial board of finances
for 500 which they had .aidyanced tos pay
salaries of special custom officers in early
days of the exhibition. Some other trifilng
matters were settled and the balance of $780,
600 was paid over and John Nelch, presl-
den, received receipt III full from the Sec
rotary of the treasury for the 81, 100000.
TIE President. has rendered John NJ
Langston the Haytien mission.
AN insane man called at the White House
on the 18th inst, to obtain an order Tor the
payment of the Geneva award. lie had a
large bundle of paper supporting his claim.
THE President, on the I'D inst, addressed
the following circular letter to all prominent
federal officers throughout the country:
'--'-...'-.. --'- EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON, ID. c., June %, 1877 3
4 &r:1 desire to call your attention to the
following paragraph in letter addressed by
EIne to the. secretary of the treasury on the
Conduct to be observed by officers of the gen.
beral government i'll relation to elections,
No officers should be required or permitted
to. AXE part in the management OF pollucn
organizations, caucuses, conventions or
election campaigns. Their right to vote and
TO express their views on public questions,
either orally or through the press, is not de-
MED provided it does not interfere with the
discharge of their official duties. No assess
ment for political purposes ON officers or sub
erdinates should be allowed This rule is
Applicable to every department. of the civil
service. 1t should be understood by every
officer of the general government that he is
expected to conform to its requirements
|. Very respectfully, Il. ID. HAYES.
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.
A PoTATo-FIEID at Mulheim, on which
the Colorado beetle made its appearance,
has been covered with petroleum and tan
bark, and set on fire, the government in
Identifying the proprietor.
THE Paris Temps announces its intention
to take legal steps to remove the obstacles to
its sale in the provinces.
e THE Moadtear, Paris, declares that the Be-
napartists do not exercise ,preponderating
influence in the cabinet.
|; CAPT. EDWARD HARDING, of the royal
navy, has been appointed commissioner of
fisheries, and is about proceeding to Halifax
to undertake the duties of the Office
poned till the 18th of October. M
AFTER a bombardment of Acapulco, Mex
leo, for nearly ten days by the Diaz gun
boats, Alvarez capitulated He surrendered
the fort, with 250 men, to the naval forces,
who thereupon entered the town.
ADVICES from Massowah contradict the
conclusion of peace between the King of
Abyssinia and the Khediye of Egypt. The
former demands the Abyssinan territory
now occupied by the Egyptians.
Ex-PREsIDENT GRANT and wife were the
guests of Queen Victoria at Windsor, on the
Goth of June.
THE English cabinet has, after due consid-
Grafton, disapproyed Gortschakoff's declara-
ton as to Russia's policy in the Eastern war
and the English government has resolved
not to allow even temporary occupation of
Constantinople by the Russians.
THE international African Commission
has concluded its labors 1t has decided
upon the organization of stations in Africa
for the suppression of the slave trade. 1t
also decided that an expedition shall leave
Zanzibar in the direction OF Lake Tangan-
jika. The king of Belgium was elected pres
ident.
THE French chamber of deputies passed
the supplementary naval vote OF nearly six
million francs for the ornaments necessi-
tated by events III the east.