The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-10-20

lniCc Hiuctl-lHttc Ddtcnto
were issued Tuesday--fourteen to Edison
for improvements on dynamo-electric ma
chimes.
he had anything TO do with the arsenic Prof.
Tilden found in the bouquet presented to
Charles Guiteau.
An opium den In the central part of
Washington, ID. c., visited by fashionable
people, has been brought to light. 1t is
kept by q Chinaman, and is described as q
place of filth and squalor, yet 1t is crowded
nightly.
The Jeanette cosrt of inquiry is still oc-
cupied with documentary testimony, such
as acts of congress, and orders of the navy
department relative to the expedition; The
examination of the survivors Will probably
begin early next week.
1t is understood that the board of engin-
GERS has about completed its estimates for
the river and harbor appropriations for the
next year. The appropriations are as large
merce committee proposes to report q bill
as usual, notwithstanding. the fact that
considerable proportion OF the amount APP
propriated this year must remain uneXpend-
ed, as was the case last June.
About twenty-five of the plate-printers of
the bureau of engraving and printing have
had nearly all their salary for September
were Overpaid for work done during the
summer months. In order to effectually OPP
pose any resistance to this deduction the
plate printers were informed that IL they
refused to sign the payroll they would be
discharged. Great indignation prevails and
the Plate-Printers' union will take the mat
ter into consideration.
other arrearages bill if it chooses to this
winter. There is report that the employees
in all the navy-yardS are preparing to come
before congress with demand for pay for
two hours work a day for all the time that
they have worked ten hours since the. eight
resented to have the matter in hand, and to
have the promise of l per cent. commission
If he collects the money. There's millions
in it.
Some figures recently prepared at the
treasury department. regarding the public
the annual interest charge is now $l.09 per
head for all persons in the United States
If 1865 it was at its highest, being S4.29 per
person. In the following year 1t was 81. IL
and a year later 1884. From that time 1t
gradually lessened, till in 1871 it touched So
to $1.09 per capita, and soon must go below
that
A sudden demand for fractional currency
has sprung up, and the treasurer of the
United States is kept busy shoveling out
half-dollars, quarters and dimes. The de-
mand is said to grow out Of the increasing
prosperity Of the south. The colored. people
are said to like silver money, and planters,
manufacturers, and storekeepers are con-
stantly clamoring through the banks for
fresh supplies. There will be no difficulty
in supplying any possible demand in this
direction.
1t is reported here that whether elected
to the United States Senate from Illinois or
not Commissioner Raum will not remain
very long as chief of the Internal Revenue
Bureau. If defeated for the Senate he will
retire from the Treasury Department about
the 1st of January. Commissioner Raum is
tired of his present position and besides has
never gotten along well with the present
administration of the Treasury Depart
ment.
PETROLEUM EXPORTS.
The total values of exports of petroleum
and petroleum products during August,
1882, were So, 1893, $40; during August, 1881,
S., 962, $40. For the eight months ending
Aug. 81, 1882, they were $50, 946 $3.50, and for
the corresponding period of the previous
year $50, 100, $50.
THE CHINESE QUESTION.
The treasury department has decided to
act in accordance with the decision of the
circuit court at San Francisco, relative to
the rights of Chinese subjects to visit the
United States under the recent act of con-
gress. Their decision was substantially
that the statute must be made to harmonic
with the eXtradition treaty, and that the
law can not be construed as forbidding the
landing of merchants, travellers, students,
ETC., they not being laborers.
GUITEAU Is AFTER HIS BROTHERS. BONES.
John w. Guteau is here. His main bus
mess appears to be to avoid newspaper men.
He has been seen around the National Med
ical Museum and it Is whispered by those
who generally know what. they whisper
ascertain whether the'remains of his broth
er are intact. He was assured that the
skull is still in the possession of the muse
UNI and that the skin of the face retains the
expression which it had few hours after
death. Some litigation is expected, but
Guiteau keeps his whereabouts secret and
Is very circumspect in all his utterances re-
garding his business.
BAD INDIAN AGENT.
Commissioner Price, in commenting or
the dispatch which stated that the grand
jury had found an Indictment against lndi-
an Agent Tiffany charging him with bar
tering gOodslsupplied foriSsur TO the Indians
and allowing Indian murdcrers TO escape,
said that Tiffany had resigned q month ago,
when he was OH the point of being removed,
and that Wilcox had been appointed agent
in his place. His record was bad, the Com
missioner said, and while he was not in pos
session of any facts, the inspector not hav-
ing yet reported on the case, he did not
doubt that all charged against him was
true.
GUITEAU's SKULL.
The story is in circulation that Guiteau's
skull has been stolen from the Army Medi-
cal museum in Washington, and that there
are no hopes of its recovery. The story Is
that the remains were taken from the jail
the night of the execution and brought to
the museum, where they were turned over
to DR.. Schafhirt, the anatomist of the insti-
tuition, who was to prepare the skeleton for
In the process which was a
long one, the skull separated from other
portions of the remains, was placed for
few moments on windOw-sill overlooking
an alley, and, while the doctor was eating
his lunch was stolen.
GARFIELD MEMORIALS.
The statement has been published that
the new Christian church would have a
debt of $4,000 when completed, and that as
both the hospital and monument organiza-
tiOns had failed to raise sufficient funds,
the best thing was for the latter to turn over
their funds to the church, so as to make
success of at least one Garfield memorial
scheme. A reporter called the attention of
a prominent official of the Garfield Hospital
association to this statement He said: