Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-02-13

DrdSka, Kansas. ArkanSdS AMI IOl0rdQO. IL
stead of Minnesota. Iowa and Missouri. a
at present. and to make the latter states
comprise the Ninth district.
First Comptroller Durham has just hniShed
an investigation of the accounts OF the court
OF commissioners of Alabama claims, cover.
ing the period from April l 70 August 81,
1885. and including what We're rejected by
the state department has dsallowed ifemS
amounting to s2s, $50 for the same reason
that he stopped the payment of warrants for
items of a similar character in August last,
to wit: That they were not warranted by
law.
Ensign George c. Faulk, y. ;. y, at pres
ent charge d'affairs ad internim of the
United States to COrea, in dispatch to the
Secretary of State If November -, 1885. an
nounces the cola, ,le,ioc of a teIegraphic line
from Seoul Cdrea. to Pekin, China. and
thus with the outer world. He also reports
negotiations looking to the early establish
ment OF a similar line from Seoul TO FeuSan
50 as to connect Corea and Japan.
The Secretary of the Interior has requested
the AttOrney-General to institute writ To
cancel the patents of the Burr Burr and
VisitariOn land grants in NateO county,
California. he holding that the survey OF
said grants were so manipulated as TO en-
brace large body of public lands over
which public surveys had extended in prr-
suance of a decision of the United States
supreme court in the matter of the Deharo
grant. The utle TO several thousand acres
is affected.
Mr.. II. Conquest Clark, recently appoint
Ell clerk of the House committee on foreign
affairs. rendered his resignation To Mr.. Bel
mont, chairman of the committee. immedi-
ately on the publication of attacks on his
political record. In the letter of resignation
Mr.. Clark SAYS: II deem it due to you a.
well as to myself. to say that in all the
thousands of pages of testimony called forth
by the Presidential muddle OF 1878, there Is
not one line of proof to sustain any charge
against my personal integrity.
The attorney general has given his opinion
to the Secretary of the Treasury touching
the case of a package imported at San Fran
cisco and alleged to contain only household
goods, but the contents of which were, in
fact. mainly goods which we're subject to
duty. II has been the custom of the treasury
department. in such cases, % conhscate all
the goods, those exempt from duty as well
as those on which duty is imposed. but the
attorney-generalh holds that only the dutiable
goods can be confscated, and that the
household effects must be returned to the
importer.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued
a call for redemption of bonds of the 3 pei
cent. loan of 1852. The principal AID &C
crued interest will be paid at the Treasury
Of the United States, in Washington, on the
first of March, 1886, and the interest viii
cease on that day. Following is descrip
ton of bonds: Three per cent. bonds issued
under the act of congress approved July l2
1882, and numbered as follows: S50-Orlgina
number 29S: slOO-Original number 9, l49 tC
original nun Der 2. .165, both inclusive; $500
original number 1,O63 TO original number /,
O75, both inclusive; $40 00O-original mum
Der 9,lS9 to original number 9,7s6, both in
elusive; $40, ,O00-original number 16, 4is tc
original number Il, 400 both inclusive. TOta
$40, 900, 900.