, 1879-04-05

The currency disbursements by tile eub-Treas'
ury yesterday amounted to 5000 i
Three hundred md fifty barrels Of alcohol
were exported from this city yesterday.
Tho A.per cent subscriptions Mt Assistant
Treasurer Gfbezt's otllco yesterday amounted
to 81 500.
Thirt5-ctght hundred dollars worth Of the
new rcfunlnG certificates were issued yesterday
at tho 5ub-Treasury.
The interna1-rcvenuo receipts Yesterday footed
up $40, 100, of which amount tax-pafl spirits
contributed S., ,7o5; tobacco mud cigars, $3151;
beer, 81 ,40l; aasA exports, S35.
special-Aecnt Douglass, of the Treasury De-
parncnt, who has bcen to Aiinncsota an Da-
lsota on Government ,serVicc, returned yester-
day. Hc reports snow blockadcs on the North
crn Pacific lsalroad, aud says that Sitting Bull
IL we'll and will return across tho border ID tho
spring.
About twenty -gvc Of tho extra 1aborcss on tho
rust- -Ofllce portion Of tho new Custom. tlousa
Wero pnid off mud discharged yesterday morn
Ing. The finishing work 8 Is nov @ being done upon
next week. The fence around the Custom
House block fs being torn awny. the ground lev"
cled: n,ll t!lc steps leading to the basement be-
Ing finished.
Deputy.Marshat Gilman set out yesterday
afternoon Oh q mission to Rock Island to obtain
u
armed with halfIlozon haltcrs. two or three
lassocs un tic usual weapons OF attack md de-
fcnse, ind will lay violent hands on that stecd
and bring bin, iuto THO proper subicctton, or
oi repleyln suit, III the cass Of Gilman ", Tho
Sheriff OF Rock Island, md Col. Gttmn1,-tllp
Deputy and not the plaintiff In tho suit--has gone
down to serve the writ.
An important Treasury order, signed by sccrc-
tary Sherman. was yesterday received at tho Gus
SnIb
| INF regulations Tor the stnno.ng, examination,
ns inspection OF imported liquors md cigars Tho
circular says that NIL imported spirits, wine. and
matt liaqora must remain Ia storo until they are
| VINO shall mcasurpyi Inspect, md examine tho
packuge and alx the result OF sald examination
III plain characters on tho oung ataye Of tic bar
| cd package bo removed from tho United statcs
| bonded warehouse until 1t Inns been go certified
to- The circular states that stamps Will here
after have to 10 affixed 10 such packages, which
crn,nent officers. a searching examination Of
| cigars mid cigarettes fiji imported packages ia
alsa decrccd, md all packages found to fall
klort Of what they arc represented to be are ill.,
blu 10 forfeiture and 1ne.
There woro no further developments yestcr-
! day in the matter Ut Tildcn & Co.'s cynsfon OF
tl,snfcctants, md, IN fact it Is nardIy expected
that there WI be ANYTHING new y the matter ct
this end Ct the line unless tlc Collector Of IN.
ternnl RbvcnUo dfsroyess another lot OF 1l.l-
atampea Goods. 1fldcn 1: Co.'s remedy lies In
m application to Commissioner Kaum lor set.
t!en'urt. Tile explanation Of alr. Smith,
ssn thsaT agent ssoi n this b,ss ety. ,a tn"t .t s
BY tho boSs In tile packtng-rooui Of thu
laboratory, uf,pears to bG more reasonable than
rns at first supposed, lnasDuch as the stamp Is
not proprietary one, bearing tile FIRMS name,
but an ordinary foarcent rnyenuc stamp. There
would therefore, be BDH1G reason for steA {Hr them