Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-26

1856 80 and the work was to have been exc
cuted by combination of steam and hand
work.
Samples of the steam work of the Ameri-
can Bank Note Company were found to Be
fully equal to the requirements of the de-
psrtment. The price paid for ordinary
stamps under the new contract will be
6 99-l00 cents per 1000, against 9 l9 100
cents under the present contract. Asnearly
four billion stamps are required to meet the
needs of the service the saving Of 3 cents per
1000 during the next four years will show
considerable of reduction 10 this item Of
expenditure.
No Great Danger From LOcusts.
WASHINGTON, May 25.-Prof. Riley says
the seyenteen-yesr locusts whose visit is
predicted, are harmless to growing
crops and do no injury except to the twigs
Of forest and fruit trees. Wherever young
orchards have been planted on land
which has been cleared during
the last seventeen years, trees
are liable to suffer, but it is probable that
kerosene spray upon the trees will protect
them. The ordinary locust which is so de-
structiVe to growing crops, hEs jaws which
cut, while the seventeen-yesr species, more
properly called the Cicado, has only beak
through which he sucks his nourishment
United States Note Paper.
The Treasury Committee. appointed to
open bids for furnishing Distinction paper
for printing United States notes and other
securities, met to-day. Two bids only were
received, one from the present contractors,
and the other from the ParSoNs Paper Com
pany, Of Holyoke. 1t is mott tSexpected that
the contract viii be awarded nntil after the
return OF Secretary Manning.
MaxweI's Custod ans.
The President has designated either
Frank o Neil or James Tracy, of St. Louis,
or both, to take custody of Maxwell, the
suspected murderer of Preller, upon their
arrival in New Zealand. In he extradition
papers which arrived here todsy these gen.
tlemen were named by the Governor OF Mis-
souri, for the purpose.
Exports.
The excess of the value Of exports over
imports Of merchandise was as follows
During the four months ended April 30th,
Sj2,T4TGlS; in ten months ended April
30th, $lG2,O96,35l.
Survey OF Arsenal Island.
Secretary Lamar has declined to review
the decision of his predecessor refusing to
issue an order for the survey Of Arsenal
Island, opposite ST. Louis.
Postmasters Appointed.
WASHINGTON, May 25.--The President
to-day appointed the following postmasters:
j, f. Eichholtz, at Sunbury Pa, vice
Jacob Rohrbach, commission expired.
Jacob 0Deal, at Tsrryton, n. Y, vice N
d. Raymor, commission expired
Samuel NJ. Smead, at Fond Du Lac, Wis,
wee Geo. Z. Lutherland, suspended.
John J. Dudley, at Newport, n. H., vice
Geo. W. Nourse, suspended.
The postmaster a Newport, n. H., was
suspended because he had sold money
orders on credit. The postmaster at Fond
Du Lac, Wis, was suspended on the report
of postofice inspector that he carried on
the payroll clerk in his law Office, whose
services were only nominal in the postoftice.
Troops to Fight the Apaches.
WASHINGTON, May 2j.-Secretary Endi.
colt to-day sent dispatches to Generals Scho-
field and Pope, commanding the divisions
of the Missouri snd Pacific respectively,
directing them to cooperate with General
Crook, who is in Arizona for the purpose OF
suppressing Indian outbreaks in Arizona
and New Mexico. The Secretary in his
kilograms saws These outrages must be
stopped in the shortest time possible, and
every precaution taken to prevent their re-
currence in the future"