Savannah weekly echo., 1884-01-20

The United States consul at Cairo renorts
the number Of deaths from cholera in Egynt
last summer at between %, ,O00 and 1850 In
many parts of the interior entire communf
ties have disappeared
7 In the case Of the New Orleans National
bank against the New Orleans postmaster
Judge Pardee, of the Unite States circuit
court, has decided that the latter has no right
70 interfere with the deliverance of the
: former mail. 1t was charged that the bank
was acting as agent for, AMI receiving the
man Of the Louisiana Lottery company: and
me postmaster, acting under orders from
" aShlngton, refused to deliver the hank'S
mail, whereupon that institution got out an
injunction. The motion to dissolve this in
Junction was argued bv Acknowledgement
Brewster in person at New Orleans The
court decided in favor Of the bank, decreeing
that i was entitled to the full and free use of
the mails and further ordered that the mo-
ton to dissolve the injunction be denied.
LAST year the various United States mints
cuned l0i.6N,4S gold and silver pieces,
worth S60Oq2, 40.
lHE House csmmittee on pensions proposes
to reduce the number of agencies where
funds are disbursed from eighteen to ten or
twelve, at the most prominent commercial
centers.
AFTER serving eighteen years as clerk of
the House COMMITTEES on appropriations
Colonel Robert j Steven, has been nomina
ted by the President as United State, consul
at Paiermo. Other nominations hv the
PRESIDENT are: J. a. Leonard, consul-generaI
e. 2. Calcutta; Boliver J. Pridgen, consul at
Pledras Negras: Oscar Malmros. of Mime
sofa, consul at Leith: Frank H. Mason. CON
slll at Marseilles; John l.. Haine of Wiscon-
I'm; consul at Cognac; George Clifford, consul
at Rasle
TIE Senate confirmed the following nomi-
NATIONS: George r. Sage, Of Ohio, to be Uni
Ied states district Judge, southern district of
Ohio: William A. Woods of Indiana. to be
United States district Judge for the district
9I indiana; James r. Hallowell. of Kansas. |
United States district attorney for the dis
trlct Of Kansas William j. Gal |
bralth, Of Montana, to be asso /
C ate Tustlce Of the supreme court of /
Montana. a. W. Sheldo.., of MARYLAND. to
Pc aSsoclate Justice OF the supreme court Of
Arizona Andrew Mason Of New York. to
be Superintendent of the Unite Estates aSsav
office at New York; B. r. Martin. OF New
PIX, 70 be melter and refiner of the United
H,ateS as ay oflice at New York: Frank F.
! elanssen. Of Louisiana, to be nelter and re-
I iEer Of the United States mint at New Or
leans.
THE report Of the acting secretary Of the
nlted States Senate for the fiscal wear
e ded June 10 last, contains the following
4 a'lstlcs; For making paste 40 pounds Of
nour were consumed The packing boxes
for the transmission Of seeds etc, to Sena-
tcrs' constituents cost $40. The expenses
1f special and select committees, cover
ng the several investigations and Junk
ling parties amounted to $l5,99I.61.
lhlS Included the paw Of clerks and
teno9raphers for these committees The
ire Of carriages cost 'a91 80. There were
'ought during the year from the IndeDend- .
nt Ice company 5O6, 40 pounds of ice. which
ost $3.50. -. In July, 1882, the consumption ,
4 Ice was l34,sO0 pounds. while in August it
vas but Goo. For washing towels, S4}s. %
ras expended. Among the peculiar pur-
haSes Wa| bottle of arnica, three dozen .
hoe brush sets, at $50 per dozen; one dozen !
falian cosmetics, one half dozen Lubin's pow
er two dozen bottles of ginger. To one
I'm alone $}596f was paid for soap
Mr.. STEVENSON, of the United States Geo
'glcal survey, reports the discovery in Ari-
nna of several ancient cave and riiff cities =,
iffering i'll some respects from any he had
etore examined. =
a WASHINGTON dispatch SAYS that Mr. p
Iorrison chairman of the ways and means t.
has completed his tariff bill at :,
not, as has been supposed, a bill of three ,
lousand items No bill of three THOUSAND o.
ems will be presentel BY Mr.. Morrison to "
le ways and means committee, and that Il
,nlmittee will report no such bill to the >,
ouse There is reason to believe that the -
II will not he more than one hundred W
'inted lines in length 1t will PROPOSE in a
ort what is known as a horizontal reduc- -
on Of an average from twenty to twenty
re PER cent. in the whole tariff list 1t will IL
ntain beside, provisions t. correct some of hi
e crudities Of the existing tariff, and will n,
orose some additions to the free list :