The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-08-13

/ exceeding Y DuS1elS per acre, tnOuSn
future conditions may increase or de-
crease the ultimate yield.
The average OF spring rye is So.
There has been no material decline in
oats, the average being 81. Barley has
maintained its condition, and nearly
average crop is assured.
The condition of buckwheat averages
94; of tobacco, SO; of potatoes, So.
Our agent in London cables that the
! European harvest will be 10 per cent
less. than last year; France below 100,-
O00, 600 hectolitres; Italy, 81; England,
10 per cent reduction i'll rate OF yield
on reduced area.
The cotton crop has suffered from
wet weather in all states east of the
Mississippi and in Louisiana. The
average of condition has been reduced
from S6 to S2, Virginia IS, North Caro-
lima a. South Carolina 67. Georgia 81,
Florida SO. Alabama II, Mississippi 70.
Louisiana 70, Texas SO, Arkansas 98
Tennessee 95. There has been slight
advance in Arkansas and Texas. The
decline is heavy III the Carolinas.
WASHINGTON, ID. c.. Aug. 5.-The
first session of the XLIXth congress
ended to-day.
Among the measures Of general i'm
pOrtance that have been enacted into
laws during the session, in addition to
the regular appropriation bills, are as
follows:
The presidential succession bill; to
provide for the study OF the nature and
effect of alcoholic drinks and narcotics;
to remove the charge of desertion
against soldiers who re-enlisted with
out having received discharge from
the regiments in which they had prev
iously served; to legalize the incorpo-
ration of national trades unions; ac-
cepting the Grant medals and trophies;
to provide that surveyed lands granted
to railroads shall not be exempt from
local taxation on account of the lien of
the United States upon them for the
costs of surveying, selecting, or con-
veyirg them; the oleomargarine bill;
the bill for the increase of the navy; to
| provide that homestead settlers within
the railroad limits restricted to less
than 100 acres shall be entitled to have
their additional entries patented with
out any further cost or proof of settle
ment and cultivation; to reduce the
fees on domestic money orders for
sums not exceeding So from cents to
5 cents; to allow steam towing vessels
to carry, in addition to their crews as
many persons as the supervising in
spector may authorize; for the relief
of Fitz-John Porter; to enable nation
al banking associations to increase
their capital stock and to change their
names or locations; providing that aft
er July l, 1886, no fees shall be charged
to American vessels for measurement
Of tonnage, issuing of licenses, grant
ing certificate Of registry, ETC., and
amending the laws relative to the ship
ping and discharging of crews, the liza
bility of owners. the licensing of veS-
sells, ETC.; to forfeit the lands granted
to the Atlantic 81 Pacific railroad COM
pany; to increase to So month the
pensions of widows and dependent
relatives of deceased soldiers and sail
ors; to amend the revised statutes SO
as 10 require brewers commencing bus
mess to give bond in q sum equal to
three times the amount of tax which
they will be liable to pay during any
one month, and 10 execute new bond
whenever required; to direct the COM
missioner of labor to make an investi-
CATION as to convict labor; providing
that manufactured tobacco, snuff, and
cigars may beremoved for export with
out payment OF tax, and repeating the
law providing for inspectors Of tobacco.
Among the bills upon which the fur
ther action by congress is necessary
before they can become laws are the
following:
The Interstate commerce bill, the
Mexican pension bill, the bill to repeal
the timber culture, preemption and
desert land laws, the Morrison and
Randall tariff bills, the house bill to
prevent aliens from acquiring or own
ing land in any of the territories, the
bankruptcy bills, the anti-polygamy
bills, and the Chinese indemnity bills.
Eight bills and resolutions were in
the hands OF the president when con-
gresS adjourned. One was the surplus
resolution and the others were meas
ures of private interest. Col. Lamont
said, Immediately after adjournment.
that the president would sign none of
these. and that they would all fail to
become laws. The secretary of the
treasury, therefore, will be unhamper-
ed by any instructions to pay out the
surplus faster than his discretion sug
gests. The refusal of the president to
sign the private bills is not to be in
terpreted as evidence of hostility to
them, hut he did not have time to eX-
anime them before adjournment and
did not care to raise a legal question
as to the validity of signature after
adjournment. The surplus resolution
he would not have signed in any event.
Ell PAso, Tex, Aug. "a. X. Cut
ting has been condemned by the Mexi-
can Judge to serve the state of Chihua-
hua at hard labor on public works for
the period of one year, and. in addi- |
ton, pay into the treasury of the state
the sum of $500, and in the event of |
failure to pay this fine be held to serve
out an additional 100 days at hard la |
Dor on the public works of this state. |
In addition he is to be held responsible |
in a civil suit. AS soon as the verdict |
became known on the American side |
the excitement became intense, every |
one seeming to understand that q crisis
was rapidly approaching. The popu-
lar feeling was already high by reason
of an announcement in local paper
that war would be declared not later
than Monday. Places were opened for
the enrolment of minute-men, nearly
every able-bodied man in the commun-
ity volunteering.
On the Mexican side the excitement
is equally intense. The streets are filled
with excited people, all wildly gesticu-