The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-08-15
WASHINGTON.

Thirty-five thousand nine hundred and
dfty-twO immigrants arrived in this country
turing the month of July past.
John b. Dawson, clerk in the pension
bureau at Washington, who died Sunday,
weighed 4SS pounds. His body has been
placed in grape arbor until coffin can be
manufactured.
The total export of petroleum during the
fiscal year ended June 30, 1884, were 513,-
670.O92 gallons, valued at S47, 103, PAS, an in
crease of TBS, 476 gallons and 81, 100, 1859 as
compared with the preceding year.
An American railway company operating
In Mexico has received information that di,
plomatic relations between that country
and England, which were suspended on the
death OF Macmillan, have been fully re-
sumed.
General Trevano will accept the war port
folio in the Mexican cabinet, having reached
q satisfactory agreement with President
Diax before the election. It is believed that
Trevino will be the presidential candidate
in the next campaign.
Postmaster General Gresham. accompa-
MED by Third Assistant General Hazen and
several experts, left Washington Tuesday
evening for Hartford and Springfield, to in
yestigate the alleged frauds perpetrated. by
the contractors in furnishing envelopes OF an
inferior grade to the government
Reports received at the department OF ag-
riculture, at Washington, indicate that the
cotton crop will be larger than last year;
that the corn crop VIII be oJ more abundant
crop Is quite promising; and the wheat crop
will be larger than at any slime since 1877.
The acting Secretary of the Navy has ca
bled Rear Admiral Davis, In command Of
the Asiatic squadron, to be governed by the
at the outbreak Of the Franc0-C Chinese hos
tilities.
The employment OF large numbers of
Canadians on American vessels on the lakes
led to legislation In Congress. The acting
secretary of the treasury orders inspectors
neither to renew nor issue Licenses to officers
Of steam vessels who are not citizens Of the
United States.
Large quantities of American whisky were
recently shipped across the Canadian border
where the authorities refuse to receive II
because 1t does not conform to the law re-
CURING hundred-gallon packages. Secretary
Folger has ordered customs collectors TO
turn over returning liquor to the internal
revenue officers for the collection Of the tax.
The Now Orleans pOstoffice has received q
thorough inspection at the hands of q spec
ial commission, which reports that there Is
neither organization nor discipline; that
or sold to junk shops; that SON Of the post
master holds sinecure; that the porter Is
"a fraud, and that salaries should be read
justed at once.
Consul Mason, OF Marsellles sends an Of
hcial statement that medical science and
sanitary skill have made but little progress
In dealing with Asiatic cholera. The press
dispatches show that the epidemic Is slowly
spreading over France and Italy, while two
hundred people In Lancashire have been at
tackled by what Is known as English chol-,
era.
Prof. Stevens, of the Smithsonian Instl-
tute, has gone with party of explorers to
the region OF the cliff and cave jewellers to
make collection of relics and curiosities to
be taken to the New Orleans cotton centen-
NAL exposition. The explorations will be
made in Arizona and New Mexico, and con-
Quoted, In part, among villages never before
visited.
In order to avert as much as possible the
continued decrease In the gold reserve,
which now amounts TO little over Si17,-
0OO, 900, as compared with $40, 000, 600 on
the LIST of May, IL has been decided to re-