Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-05-27
NEWS.
Uncle Sans Annual Order f0I
Postage Stamps.
THE PREsBYTERIAEs' COUNCIL
AT CINCINNATI.
Poundmaker Offers to SurTen.
der Internationally.
A BIC HAUL MADE By THIEVES
IN PHILADELPHIA.
A Toledo Newspaper Man Tared
and Festhered.
CALIFORNIA NOT TO GET THE CHINESE
MISSION.
A Toledo Newspaper Man Tared
and Festhered.
CALIFORNIA NOT TO GET THE CHINESE
MISSION.
ESPECIAL TO TIE sxsTESKL-I
The Printing of Postage Stamps

ESPECIAL 10 TIE sEsxZxEL-I
The Printing of Postage Stamps.
WASHINGTON. May 26.-The Postmaster
General has awarded 10 the American
Bank-Sots Company, Of New York. the
contract for furnishing postage stamps for
the next four years 3. SOL. SIC 81 per Az
nun for ordinary stamps, which viii Be
printed entirely BY steam, and 50, Az 79
for postage due and other issues Of stamps,
making q total Of siO3, $50 81 per annum.
The gross bid Of the Bureau OF Printing and
Engraving. which was the mex. lowest bid,
was SLABS 80. and the work was to have
been done by a combination Of steam and
hand-work. Samples Of the steAn-vork
Of the American Bsnk-Note Company were
found TO be fully equal to the requirements
Of the Department. The price paid for the
ordinary stamps, under the new contract,
will be SIX and ninesy-nine onehundredths
cents per 1000. As against nine and nine
teen one-hundredths cents under the pres
ent contract. Nearly 1900, Co., 900 are
required TO meet the demands Of the
Service. The saving Of three cents per
1000 during the next four years viii show
Q considerable reduction in this item Of
expenditure.
The Presby f~erfans.
C~IycISsATI, May 26.-At the Presbyte-
rian General Assembly this morning it
was found necessary TO restrict the attend
ance in order TO keep the Aisles clear. OF
the seven over.ures acted on by the Pres
| byterians during the past year all but one
was answered in the Affirmative. The
action on the latter gives the church the
privilege Of dropping the name from its
| rolls Of members who request il, because
| Of the change Of views, but who is not
chsrgeable with any immoral conduct.
Overtures pertaining TO book discipline,
from the Presbyteries of Los Angeles,
Washington City, Westchesssr and Hud-
son we're answered in the negative. A
resolution Of sympathy with General
Grant was unanimously adopted. The
Standing Committee on Home Missions
reported that the board is S110,0O0 in
debt, although il has received in contri-
buttons more than ever before. The de-
iciency comes from the decrease in lega-
4 C8c1. 4uc tOk14 ECCctpA8 8Ec $tS9yVOOs 1nc
ministers who are supported wholly or in
part by this board number 1,435. In the
past year 1875 new churches and $50 new
Sunday Schools have been organized.
Seven thousand members have been re.
ceived into these churches.
Poundmaker Offers 10 Surrender.
B~ATTLEFoED, May 26.-A priest ID jus,
in with accumulation from Poundma.
ker to Gen. Middleton. who arrived here
last night. Poundmaker offers to surren.
der Internationally. His followers to the
number Of 1900 are now coming in TO talk
with Middleton. Forty half breeds are
with them. Dumont, Riel's Lieutenant, il
still in the birch hills with q few sdherents
The priest brought with him the letter
from Middleton. demanding q surrender
and promising q fair trial. Being told who
the letter was from Dumont refused &c
take it and said the General could go to the
devil. But few weapons Of any kind have
been as yet surrendered.
Alarming reports are current regarding
Big Bear. There has been so much delay
in proceeding against him that he has had
time to recruit from every tribe in the dis.
trict.
Mexico's Day NJ the Exposition.
NEW ORLEANS. May ga special dis
patch to the P~icayune from Baton Rouge
says that the Governor has issued 9 procla-
nation concerning the designation of Fri.
day, May 20. as the Mexican Day for the
Worlds Exposition, in which he says this
special dedication OF q separate day in
honor Of the Mexican Republic, lite Presi-
dent, Congress. army and people, Ia Q due
and fitting tribute, which deserves to be
seconded by the citizens Of Louisiana and
all Mexicans who happen to be in New
Orleans On that day, 30 thai they may
show their intelligent and grateful appre-
citation Of the generous and m~agnanimous
share which Mexico has taken in this un-
paralleled enterprise.
Tarred and Feathered.
CLEVELAND. o., May 26.-Ray s. Haths-
way. city editor of the Toledo Democrat.
visited Norwalk yesterday and put up ct q
hotel. Several days ago he published an
obscene article, coupling the names OF sew
eral prominent young business men with
that of respectable married ladies. This
morning the slandered men took Hatha-
way back Of the hotel and treated him 10 q
coat OF tar and feathers. He took the next
train for Toledo.
A Big Haul.
PHILADELPHIA, May 26.-It has become
known that on Sunday, May 8, during the
temporary absence of a servant, who left
open the back door Of the residence Of the
Misses Carpenter at 26 Vine street, was
entered in broad daylight and robbed of
bonds, mortgages, insurance and other
valuable papers. representing SIS, 900. most
OF them negotiable, together with $500 in
bank notes n silver and $50 in gold. In
his haste the robber overlooked . small
box OF jewels worth several thousand dol
lars. There is DO clue to the thief.
Probable Mob Law.
NASHVILLE. Tenn, May ga special to
the American from Franklin. Ky, says
that at IN ntNloaE 20 p;.lk -