The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-10-31

postoffce department, has been designated
TO act as hrst assistant postmaster general
pending q, permanent appointment. Mr.:
walker, who Is ut present chief clerk of
the department, is spoken of as the proba-
bic successor Of Mr.. Hatton.
Consmissary General Merely has sub
United his annual report for the fiscal year.
The aggregate resources OF the year were
Si,2S,4Sl; expenditures, $3,2l7, "a; leaving
balance OF 81, Oil, PSF. There was on hand
So, 237 of the amount appropriated for the
relief of the sufferers from the overflow of
the Ohio river and So, Isl of the appropria-
ton for the sufferers from the overflow of
the Mississippi river.
The director of the mint has prepared a
statement In regard to the present money
circulation in thirty-nine of the principal
countries OF the world, as compared with
the circulation OF year ago, which shows
decrease in gold circulation of about $52,-
600, an increase In silver circulation of
$42, 0OO, 0o0, and an increase of paper circula-
ton Of $1l2. 900, 900. He attributes the loss of
gold circulation to reduced production and
to the increased use of that metal In Orna-
mentation and the arts.
The International Meridian Conference
has adopted the following resolutions: Re
sotued, That this universal day is to be q
mean solar day, is to begin for all the world
initial meridian coinciding with the begin
ming of the civil day and date of that me
ridian, and Is to be counted from zero ND to
twenty-fOur hours. Resolved, That the
conference express the hope that as soon as
may be practical the astronomical and nau
tical days will be arranged everywhere to
begin at the mean midnight.
United States Minister Foster, prior to
signing the commercial treaty on tho part
of the United States with Spain, demanded
that the reciprocal advantage recorded in
the treaty be confined solely to Spain and
ANN 10 nlni, nod l.es
BILE to conclude a convention between Cuba,
Porto Rico, and the United States upon the
same conditions as obtain in the general
treaty, and, If forced to cOnciliate upon in
ternational requirements, negotiations be-
tween the two countries would have to be
continued.
The democratic congressional committee
in Washington have practically closed their
part of the campaign work. Their last
wagon load OF documents was sent off last
Tuesday night. During the campaign they
have sent out about two million documents,
all but Mr.. Posts speech upon frauds in the
departments being parts OF the congression-
al record. But few tariff speeches were
sent out. The republican campaign COM
mittee there have closed up. the doc
umentary part OF their work also, ex-
cept that state associations still come to
their rooms to send off some documents
they have on hand, and this will probably
not last more than day or two longer.
Quartermaster General Holibird, in his
annual report, recommends that authority
be given to pay $40 a month to all line Off
GERS properly detailed to service in the
qnartermasters department, who are actu-
ally under consecutive service not less than
thirty days at one time, provided such pay
ments do not exceed S25, 900 per year. He
says the necessity of assembling the troops
in larger and more permanent posts near
the Indian reservations and I'm proximity to
CT nfnf lin
adjacent to its valuable public reservations,
harbOrs and forts, becomes daily more and
more apparent Oh considerations of ecOno-
my, efficiency and wise government. The
report states that there are cighty-twO ma
ti0nal cemeteries containing 32l ,623 inter-
mentS.
Paymaster General Rochester, in his an
1ual report, says the amount available for
the fiscal year was SIS, $50, 1Gl; total amount
discussed, S13, $50, $50; leaving balance of
Isl. 929, Al. He commends the present sys-
TEN of repositories for public funds. He
regrets the discOntinuance of the depOstO-
ries at Santa Fe and San Antonio and rec
Ommends their re-oStablishment. He also
recommends an appropriation of 1900 to
be made for the mileage OF officers for the
fiscal year of 1885, and says there will UNI
doubleday be deficiency in the appropria-
ton for the present fiscal year unless great
restrictions are imposed in the issuing OF Or
age. 1t Is again recommended that the law
fOrbidding the payment of mileage to army
officers over land-grant roads should be re-
pealed. 1t is urged that the paragraph in
the army regulations forbidding an officer
from hypothecating or transferring his pay
account not actually due at the time should
be enforced, and no longer treated as q
dead letter.
MoRTUARY STATISTICS.
From the annual report of the surgeon
general of the army it appears that during
the past year the total deaths among the
white troops. was $50, or IL per 1000 Of the
mean strength, an increase of 2 per 1000
over the rate Of the previous year. The
number of white soldiers discharged for dis
ability was S3S. The total number Of deaths
among the colOred troops was %, or 10 per
LOCO OF their mean strength, which is l per
1000 lower than the rate for the previous
year. lie notes the fact that this is not only
the lowest death rate yet reached among
the colored troops, since their organization,
but Is the first time the rate has fallen be-
low that of white troops, the usual average
difference being 80 per ZOO of the mean
strength in favor of the latter class. The
medical and surgical history of the war will
bo ready for iSSue in abouta year.
VIOLATING wuE INDIAN TREATIES.
Tho Senate Indian committee, of which
Alr. Dawes Is chairman, has returned from
its visit to the Indians of California, all-
thorized under the senate resolution, and
after the election will continue the investi-
cation in the Indian Territory. Some inter-
esting facts were discovered in the Round
Valley reservation in Northern California.
This reservation consists of 103, 000 acres.
Of this the Indians themselves only occupy
about 8, COO acres. The rest of the reserva-
ton, which is a fine grazing country, is oc-
cupied by herders, apparently without the
consent of the Indians, who pay nothing for
the use OF the lands. Herders are required
to pay so cents an acre for herding privi-
leges Immediately outside OF the reserva-
ton. A democratic congressman from Cal
ifOrnia has several thousand head of cattle
thus grazing free OH the reservation. AS to
the Mission Indians III Southern California,
1t was found that the treaty with them had
been constantly violated.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR TO MARRY.
The marriage of the president with Miss
FrelinghuySen has been arranged and will
take place at Washington during January.
Miss Tille Is the eldest child of Secretary
Frelinghuyscn, and is about thrty-nine
years old She is q tall and slender blonde
with clear-cut features and a shapely low
forehead, brown hair, gray eyes, and
somewhat pallid face, and, although not
what is called a handsome woman, has a
stately and commanding presence. She Is
of polished manners, exceedingly viyaclous,
an excellent conversationalist, and has rem
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