The Portland daily press., 1886-09-18
FROM WASHINGTON.
outrages on Americans Reported
from China.
A Mob Attacks a Mission and
Destroys 1t.
The Plans ard Specifications of
the New Cruisers.

| WASHINGTON, Sept. I.-Minister DENLY.
| at Pekin, has reported to the Secretary Of
! State an outrage upon Rev. A. A. Fulton
and wife and Or. Mary Fulton, missionaries
| Kwai Ping, 400 miles southeast Of Canton,
| where May 9Th the mission property was
looted and.destroyed and the Fultons forced
| to flee for their lives. Consul Seymour is
| DENLY also tells of another outrage of more
recent date. On Sunday, June 9th, when all
| the gentlemen connected with the Methodist
| Episcopal mission hospital at Chung King
were absent and while only one lady was
| threw stones at the lady, one of which cut
| off her index finger. She was otherwise in
| jured about the head and arms. Complaint
| was made to the officials but the matter was
| treated lightly. This is serious case,
grew, as all our evils in China do, out
| of troubles in the United States. Still later
| (July 10TH mob attacked mission property
at Chung King and destroyed it. | have
| filed protest"
The Bond Call,
About $3.50, 900 of the bonds embraced in
the 122d call, issued the 10th inst, have al
ready been rec eemed at the Treasury de-
partment
The New Cruisers.
Plans and specifications for the new cruis-
ers and gunboats, including the S7-ton
gunbOat whose plans were changed by order
of the Secretary of the Navy, are now COM
pleted and ready for the insDec ton of in
tending bidders.
Postal Changes in Maine.
The following postal changes are furnished
by the Post Office Department:
Postnadsters Commissioned.
c. W. Jones, South Freeport.
Z. K. Rollins, North Belgrade.
L. F. Durrell, Dead River.
b. E. Pratt, Phillips
Post Offices Established.
Smalrs Mills, Hancock county, A. H. Dorr,
Star Service Changes.
Route 1856, Augusta to WaIdoboro, omit supply
of North Jefferson, without change of distance.
Special Service Established.
To North Jefferson, Lincoln county, from East
Jefferson, 11s miles.
Advice from the Treasury Depart
ment to Collectors.
The Treasury Department has made the
following ruling:
The department is unable to prescribe any
arbitrary rule for the government of collect
ors of customs in admitting to free entry fish
imported in fresh condition for consulnp-
tion. The officers of the customs, at the
time Of Importation, must be governed by
the evidence and circumstances attending
the same, and if they are satisfied that the
fish are intended for consumption as food in
a fresh condition, they should admit the
same to free entry, regardless of the guam
tity imported or of the intention of the inn
porter to ship the same to other ports or
places, to be sold and consumed in the fresh
condition.
Secretary Manning.
The Evening Star prints statement to
the effect that Secretary Manning will go to
Austria as United States Minister Instead
of returning to the Treasury Department.
1t says that hint to his appointment said
to have been made to Austria was received
with great favor.
The Seal interests in Alaska.
Special Agent Tingle of the treasury de-
partment has returned to the city from
Alaska. He left Alaska shortly after the
seizures of the foreign sealers had been made
by Captain Abbey. In case of the British
vessel "Onward,' Tingle says that the mas
ter of the vessel admitted having killed his
catch Of seals along the shores of the seal is
lands. These predatory sealers he says
make practice of stealing ashore under cover
of fogs and clubbing seals which are then
tossed into boats and conveyed on board the
ship to be skinned. Large numbers of seals
are also shot in the sea and this practice is
particularly destructive from the fact that
three out of every four animals shot sink
and cannot be recovered. Notwithstanding
these losses, however, the agent says that
seal life is increasing with great rapidity.
The agent is not inclined to discuss the le-
gality of the seizures already made, but
stated that law officer had been sent from
SanEFrancisco to as sist in the prosecution of
the cases before the Silka court.