The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-09-04

PRESIDENT HARRISON has dennlGely DE-
! termined not to place the clerks OF the Census
| Bureau under the civil service rules.
THE Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
issued circular from Washington prohibit
ing the refilling at distilleries CT casks or
packages previously used at the same dlstll-
lery.
THE light offerings Of bonds have resulted
in q steady increase in the Treasury surplus
at Washington, which amounts to $40, $780,
600, being the highest point reached since
October last. The pension payments for the
present month are estimated at S1S, 600, OOO
THE Navy Department has ordered the
payment to Cramp & Sons, of Philadelphia,
Of $4,000 on account of the new gunboat
Yorktown. This is the last regular payment
on the vessel.
ACTING PosTMAsTER-GENER CLARKsoN
awarded the contract for furnishing postal
cards to the Postofice Department for four
years, beginning October next, to Albert
Daggett, of New York.
THE Department of State has been in
formed that the Nicaragua Government has
appointed Senior Don Horacio Guzman, the
present Minister to the United States, to rep
resent Nicaragua at the Congress of Ameri-
can Nations to be held in October.
THE President and Mrs. Harrison left
Washington for Deer Park, Nd, for brief
sojourn.
THE President has authorized Brigadier-
General MacFeely, Commissary-General of
Subsistence, to perform the duties of Secre-
tary Of War during Secretary Proctor's ab-
sence.
The President has made the following ap-
pointments: Robert B. Rentfro, To be Col
5a,Aor of C,,cforoc for tho nicfr-ipt Of RraZ0S
de Santiago, Texas; Daniel R. Collier, to be
Surveyor of Customs for the Port Of Louis
vile, KY; Robert A. Mosely, Jr., to be Col
lector of Internal Revenue for the District
of Alabama; Louis Weinstein, to be Collec-
tor of Internal Revenue for the Fourth Dis
trict of Iowa.
COLONEL JOHN NJ. WILSON, Engineer
Corps, late Superintendent of Public Build
ings and Grounds in the District of Colum-
the United States Military Academy at West
Point, to succeed General John G. Parke,
who was recently retired.
The Department of Agriculture was closed
for day on account of the death of ex-Com-
missioner of Agriculture Watts at Carlisle,
Penn. Mr.. Watts was Commissioner during
Grants administration.
THERE are seventeen contested seats in the
House of Representatives, the papers being
already in the custody Of w. II. Mobley,
clerk Of the Committee on Elections. The
cases are with one exception Qndiana) from
the Southern States.
The bond purchases by the Treasury De.
partment at Washington from August 3,
1857, to and including August II, 1889,
aggregated SLIT 1924, 800, at a cost Of s204, 514,-
81. These bonds would have cost s240, 543,-
277 at maturity, so that the saving has been
S36, ,G2S, 405.
THE Argentine Republic, through its
Charge dAffaires at Washington, Mr. En-
nesto Bosch, has addressed q formal invita-
ton to the United States Government to take
part in the second international cattle show
of the Argentine Agricultural Society, to be
held at Buenos Ayres. The show opens on
April 20 and closes on May II, 1890.
SUPERINTENDENT OF CENSUS PORTER has
appointed Charles E. Taft, of Little Rock,
Ark, special agent on ship building.