The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-08-11
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WASHINGTON,

The fund for Mrs. Garfield now amount
to $l55, 5,O8G95. John Jacob Astor, throug
his son, subscribed $1,000.
ALBERT II. CLAYTON and Richard Smith
Jr., have been appointed internal revenu
storekeepers for the first district of Ohio
SECRETARY HUNT has issueG an orde
directing Admiral Porter to take com
mand Of naval vessels which will assembl
at Yorktown.
9 The treasury officials at Washington an
ticipate heavy drain on the national COT
fers between now and the middle of Oc
tober. . nt4t.tl lt.
FoRTY-THREE postmasters at presiden
tial offices have thus far failed to rende
their quarterly reports in time, and ar
liable to punishment of pecuniary ma
ture.
1T is believed that if the president pro
crosses as well during the next thre'
weeks as at present, he will be able to b.
moved from the white house. All hi
symptoms continue to be favorable.
THE national board of trade has bee,
persuaded by Register Bruce to re-estab
lish the quarantine station at Vicksburg
II will be placed mile lower down tn,
river. on an Island free from malaria.
GENERAL FRANCIS A. WALKER, the Su
perntendent of the census, intends t.
leave the government service in October
to become President of the Massachusett
Institute of Theology. =
Col. THOMPSON, superintendent OF tn,
railway mail-service, asserts that th
United States postal authorities do moi
use Canadian pouches instransporting do
mestic mails, but that the Canadians US
ours for that purpose.
A STATE Department official at Wash
ington, in a recent interview, said that i
the Nihilist. Leo Hartmann. now in New
York, wanted by the Russian Govern
ment for assassination. he will be surren
dered by the United States authorities.
ANOTHER surgical operation has beel
performed on the president by DR.. Agnew
which was necessitated by the closing O
the wound and the stoppage of the flow o
pus. The physicians claim to be wei
pleased with the operation, as it afforded
immediate relief TO the patient, who i
now doing well.
IT appears now that the forty.thre'
post-masters who were reported as no
having complied with the instructions o
the postmaster general in not sending il
their reports for the last quarter of the fis
cal year did really send in their reports
but, not having pasted the label directe.
by the post Office department on the envel
ope, the reports were mislaid.
COMMISSIONER RAUM has written hi
annual letter to the Secretary of the Treas
ury, reviewing the condition of. the reve
nue. service. 1t shows that in the last fsca
year $135, ,225, ,902 were collected and pai'
into the treasury. The amount collecte,
during FIVE years of Commissioner Raum'
administration aggregates $6G2, $40, ,787
the entire amount of which has been pal,
into the treasury.
THE allotment for the coinage of stand
ard silver dollars for the month of Angus
has been made by the acting director O
the mint. The coinage of $1,OOO,O0O
ordered at San Francisco, 5000, 600 at Phil
adelphia, and 100000 at New Orleans
aggregating 81, 900, which at the aver
age for July amounts to a trife owe
$2,OO0,0QO in bullion, the minimum
amount required by law to be coine'
monthly.