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MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
UP to June 80, 1888, the total num-
Der of pension claims of all kinds pending
in the Pension Office was 244,505; and of
this number 1883 involved arrears.
THE Patent Office receipts for the
fiscal year were $1,095,ss4, being $3O5,sS9
more than last year.
ASIDE from what will be claimed for
the loss of the Proteus, the Greeley relief
expedition has already cost the Govern
ment 100000.
ACCORDING to recent advices from
Hayti the towns of Bainct and Maringot
had been recovered from the insurgents.
The city of Pensacola still remained
healthy. There were three new cases and
one death at the Navy Yard on the 14th.
THREE Englishmen and nine Ger
mans made fight to protect their property
against the mob at Canton. One of the
buildings burned belonged to an American
firm.
A RESOLUTION was adopted by the
Congress of Commerce and Industry at
Amsterdam, recommending the adoption
of a bi-metalic monetary standard through
out Europe and America.
A SECRET society called the White
Lily is fomenting revolution against the
Chinese government on the Yang Use Kiang
River, much after the fashion of the Black
Flags in Anam.
On the 18th the Dakota Constitutional
Convention voted, GA to SO, against in
sorting prohibitory clause in the consti-
tuition.
AN order was issued by Postmaster
General Gresham on the 14th extending
and confirming that issued by his predeces-
sor, prohibiting the postmasters of New
York City and New Orleans from paying
money orders and delivering registered let
tiers to the managers of the New Orleans
Lottery Company.
The pilots of Pensacola Bar recently
joined in publishing denial of the charge
that the introduction of yellow fever to
Pensacola was due to their negligence.
On the 14th the American Pomolog-
zeal Society closed its session at Philadel-
phia. Michigan was chosen for the Con-
ventiou in 1885.
A COMPANY at Fort Worth, Tex, is
crematory there, with the object of having
the bodies of those who die from diseases
that are contagious moderated, and say
that if this is done they can eradicate ma
larial fevers, cholera and smallpox.
AT the closing session of the Great
Council of Red Men at Atlantic City, N. j.,
on the 14th, the revision of the constitution
was made the special order for the first day
of next years Great Council Some changes
were made in the beneficiary fund. The
requirements for the establishment of State
Councils were modified consi lerably. Adj
journed to meet at Springfield, ILL.,, the sec
ond Tuesday in September, 1884.
THERE were four new cases of yellow
fever at the Pensacola Navy Yard on the
10th.
A NEW comet was discovered on the
night of the 10th by Professor Swift, of the
Warner Observatory.
In several counties of Massachusetts
pleuro-pneumonia was reported among the
cattle on the 10Th.
The st. Petersburg Journal recently
intimated that the peace of Europe was
threatened by Bulgarian politics.
THE Vienna Electrical Convention is
said to be far superior to those held at Lon
don, Paris and Munich.
The Boston Board of Health is giving
especial attention to measles. 1t insists on
the same regulations for isolation of cases,
disinfection of apartments, etc, that are
ordinarily enforced in cases of .small-po
In the year ended June 30th, more
than $4,000 immigrants landed at New
York.
MEXICO celebrated the seyenty-third
anniversary of her independence on the
10th. A gorgeous pageant was one of
the features in the City of Mexico.
SINCE January LIST the total imports
were 1927 ,9l6,500, against $780,, 1865, 245 for
the same period last year.
The New Hampshire Legislature re-
Gently closed session 100 working days In
length, and it took 100000 to pay the bills.
The Post-office Department has or
dered 81 $4,000 two-cent stamps and $751;
600 stamped envelopes for delivery--the
largest order ever made.