The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-08-24
WASHINGTON.

manner satisfactory to all parties.
Ii is reported that General Cortina, with
three hundred Mexican revolutiOnists, was
In Qneretaro last Tuesday. There are In
dicatiOns of revolt In the northern states
against what Is deemed usurpation of
of power by the general government.
Ex-senator Mcdonald, of Indiana, has
made his appearance in Washington on q
political mission. He has ascertained that
Mr.. Tilden Is determined to secure the
nomination for the presidency next year,
and that important conferences are daily
being held at GreystOne.
Don Manuel de Meza, q Mexican resident
or washington, gives the details OF an
agreement by Macmillan to abdicate the
throne and proclaim himself president of
the republic. General Santa Anna was to
have been placed in command of the army,
but his friends broke up the plot.
Colonel Seaton superintendent Of the
census bureau, found that the appropria-
ton was running so low that half his clerks
must be dismissed. Placing in a hat slips
containing the name of each employe, he
ordered a blndfolded boy to draw out
eighty-five names for vacation.
The printing and binding of public doc
uments Is still far behind. Last week
three carloads were sent to members of
OF the forty seventh congress one hundred
thousand volumes and other documents,
making in all about forty carloads.
There are five officers In the United States
navy who have been tried by court-martial
and who are, as 1t We're, trembling in the
balance lest their official heads be put on
the guillotine block and severed. These
officers are Ensign Vinton, Lieuts. Davis
and Freeman, and Commander Smith. A
court Of inquiry has also reported upon the
case of Commodore Mayo and Commander
McGlensy. 1t is generally believed that at
least three of the officers named will be dis
missed from the service.
A POSTMASTER PUZZLED.
How can man resign his position under
the government unless there Is some one
authorized to receive and accept the resig-
nation? is a question which Is puzzling
Postmaster Sherwood, Of the house OF rep
resentatives, just at the present time. Sher-
wood was appointed by the .forty..seventh
congress, but that congress is a thing of
the past, and wishing to engage in private
business he has found out that while he
can turn over his Office to his assistant, the
attorney generals office Is of opinion that
no vacancy will be created, as there Is no
that there is no law to compel the. post
master to act IL he Is not so disposed, and
the consequence is that Sherwood slides
out gracefully and without friction.
JUDGE FRENcH's THRIFT.
Assistant Secretary French is acting Sec
rotary of the treasury during the absence
of Messrs FOlger and New, and he is car
rying some things with high hand. Last
week Collector WorthingtOn, of Boston,
wrote to the department asking for funds
to build additional sheds for cattle Quaran-
tine at Boston, the present accommodations
being entirely inadequate. 1t has trans
pired that French has ordered him to take
Agricultural Society, of which he (French)
is member. The acting secretary owns a
farm adjacent to the sOciety's grounds, and
it is barely possible that his thrifty soul
saw in the establishment of government
cattle quarantine chance for a probable
demand for his property as the business of
quarantine increased.
GEN. BoYNToN ASSAULTED.
About 5 o'clock Monday afternoon n. w.
Fitzgerald entered the office of Gen. III. V.
Boynton, the correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Commercial Gazette, and struck him
in the face while he was seated at his
desk. BoyntOn Immediately grappled with
his assailant, and Mr.. VIM, his assistant,
struck Fitzgerald powerful blow between
the eyes, completely flooring him. Fitz-
gerald then ran out, pursued by Gen. B0yn-
TON for nearly block, and Went into drug
store. The general followed and struck
his antagonist two savage blows in the
face. At this point by-standers interfered
and the cOmbatant5 were separated. The
trouble originated in an article written by
Gen. BOynton, which stated that the firm
Of Y. w. Fitzgerald & Co., pension agents,
were pack of swindlers. Fitzgerald is a
man six feet high, weighing over two hun
dred pounds, while the plucky Boynton is
much smaller and does not weigh over 100
pounds. The police afterward arrested
Fitzgerald, and the whole affair will be
ventilated in the courts.
POSTAL NOTES.
Following up the postal reform naugu-
rated on the 1st of July by the reduction of
the fees charged for money-Orders, the post
Office department is about ready for the
next move, which is in the introduction of
what is to be known as the postal note,''
for the transmission of small sums under IS
through the mails. Corresponding advices,
as is the case with regular money-Orders,
will not be sent to the paying postoflices,
bearer, and after a postal note has been
paid to the bearer thereof the government
Is not liable for any further claim of the
amount of the mote" They will become
invalid and not payable upon the expira-
ton of three calendar months from the date
postoffice department officials. The fee for
the postal note will be cents, and 1t Is ex-
pected that they will at once become pOpu-
lar as medium for the transmission Of
small amounts OF money. The notes" will
De printed on bank-note paper from engray-
ing the date of issue or the amount of mon
ey involved, the figures will be punched.
The punches for the $500 money-order Of
fees throughout the country are now being
distributed from the money-Order division
OF the postofiice department. The notes
are bound into books" five hundred
notes" being in each book. Eight thous-
and Of these books" equivalent to four
million of the notes" are to be issued in
the first installment They will not be is
sued to the public until the Sd of Septem-
Der.
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
The employees of the capitol are busy I'M
packing the new desks which were ordered
for the house of representatives, because
OF the Increased membership allowed by the
new apportionment Thirty-two new dis
tricts were created by the law, but thirty
three desks were ordered. They will be
given place by crOwding the other ones
more closely together The aisles will nee
essarily be narrower, and one or more of
them done away with altogether, which
will make the movement of members about
the hall more difficult, and it may be that
the house will come to q realizing sense of
the nuisance of trying to convert each mem
ber's seat into an office where. he can read