The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-10-06

sipng aunng once hours, Irom . a. III. 10
$3.50 p. m. So much time Is usually spent
SIP that four soar werK ape aro SWa To
long day. and the present management has
decided to slightly shorten winter Office
hours and strictly enforce the rules.
McCammon, assistant attorney general of
the interior department, has negotiated an
agreement with the F1athead Indians of
northwestern Montana to allow the North
ern racine Railroad company to build their
road through the reservation, distance OF
nfty-three miles. The Indians at the first
fxed upon 81 900 900 as the price of a strip
of land two hundred feet wide across the
reservation, but finally accepted S23, 600
$4,000 for the land and 81, 600 compensa-
ton for the destruction of buildings and
crops on the line of the proposed roadway.
The rooms OH the upper floor of the state
department building have just been cleaned
out and possession given TO the war depart
ment, the intention being to fill the rooms
with clerks from the adjutant generals Of
flee working on the pensi0n-rOlls. Upon
examination, however, it was found that
the rooms were not in fit condition to be
occupied. The expensive copper roof,
which has been In use but few years. was
found to leak badly, while the plastering,
done ut an enormous expense, was cracked
down. Extensive and expensive repairs
are now I'm progress and will occupy fort
night.
Gen. Eppa Hunton believes the democrats
will carry all the Virginia districts except
those of Norfolk and Petersburg, now rep
resented by republicans. The general says
that Malone is making many enemies
will be apparent when the votes are count
ed. A government official, who has been
travelling III Virginia, confirms this predic-
ton OF disaster to Malone. If Malone is
beaten, 1t will be because he didn't know
when to stop. His circular to the chairmen
of the coalition county committees, asking
them to recommend each two negroes as la
b0rerS, and one mechanic, regardless of
color, for employment In the Norfolk navy
yard was all right as q piece of political
management, but In his effort to renOmi-
nate by his own decree every coalition can
didate for congress he has aroused much
hostility.
THE TOBACCO CROP.
The indications regarding the tobacco
crop OF the country are more favorable now
than they were month or more ago. The
reports from Connecticut and other New
from the tobacco regions of Pennsylvania,
were not favorable. Now, however, it is
learned that the Virginia and North Caro-
lima crops are likely to be very valuable,
and the North Carolina bright tobacco is
reported the finest crop ever grown In the
state.
sTEEL-wIRE GUNS.
The annual report of General Benet and
Commodore Sicard, chiefs respectively of
the army and navy ordnance bureaus, will
both speak in very high terms of the system
of steel-wire winding in the construction of
heavy ordnance. There Is no reason why
we can not make i'm this country as good
guns as Armstrong, Whitworth, or Krupp,
and, when once, our government enables
the work to begin, our manufacturers will
in all probability, outstrip all the factories
of Europe in the strength, lightness, and
cheapness or their heavy ordnance.
NEW ARTILLERY sABER.
Artillery officers on light duty i'm the west
and south will be pleased to hear that the
war department has devised regulation
saber for their use, which will hereafter be
made and sold to them at the national arm
DRY. The new saber Is not so long as the
cavalry saber, and weighs only about thir.
ty-five ounces, against the fifty ounces OF
that weapon. 1t has well-rounded and
sharply-pointed blade, and Is altogether q
very handsome saber, with q character OF
its own. The first suggestion of IL came
from Lieut.. Alexander -. Schenck, OF the
I'd artillery, nephew of Gen. r. &. Sclenck,
of Ohio.
THE GREELEY RELIEF EXPEDITION.
Great regret is felt here over the failure
of the effort to reach Lieut.. Greeley at his
signal station at Lady Franklin bay. He
has been there. nearly a year already, and
the record of observations made during that
time would not only be very valuable in it
self, but is desired to be used In connection
with those from the other stations In the i'll
ternational circumpolar chain, There are
twelve of these stations, which have been
opened by the various nations, on the sew
enty-first parallel, or as nearly SO as posi-
BILE. Two Of them are occupied by the
United States, two by Russia, ione by Eng
land and Canada, and one each by Ger
many, Austria, Holland Sweden, Norway,
Finland and Denmark,
GUITEAu's POISONED BOUQUET.
Prof. Tilden has submitted to Dist. Atty.
Corkhill report of a chemical examination
just concluded of the poisoned bouquet CIV
EN- Guiteau by his sister, Mrs. Scoville, the
day before the execution. The report says
the large bud or half--opened flower contain
ed over five grains of white arsenic, not on
ly sufficient to cause death had 1t been swal-
lowed, but so largely in excess of a fatal
dose that the intent of the person who pre-
pared the flowers would have been defeat
ed by emetcs. The original amount of ar
senic was greater than found, as the petals
failed to retain in a dry state some which
adhered when moist. C0rxhill says he is
trying to discover who poisoned the flow
ers, and If found, will be held to answer.
POsTMAsTERs CLAIMS.
Congress at the late session passed bill
providing for the transfer of claims of post
masters for money and stamps stolen from
pOstOffices to the court of claims, and au-
thorizing the presentation of such claims
to the postoffice department before being
passed upon judfcially. Already about fif-
teen hundred such claims, mostly for small
amounts, have been filed with the postof-
flee department, and these, after being ex-
amined, will be carried to the court or
claims for decision. The effect Of this law
will be to relieve congress from an annoy
ing class of claims, and to send them where
they properly belong-to legal tribunal
for settlement. -
THE TARIFF COMMISSION.
The Washington Tariff Commission ar
rived In full pomp at Baltimore Friday.
Hereafter the commissioners will travel as
private gentlemen, availing themselves of
ordinary railway accommodation. A little
uneasness is said to exist In regard to the
presentation Of their report which, accord
ing to the statute creating the commission,
Is due to congress on the first Monday In