Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-19
FILLING THE OFFICES.
Another Batch of Appointments
 Sent to the Senate.
NEW UNITED STATES MINISTERS.

den and Norway and Samuel R. Thaye, for the Nctherlands-The Riots in China Ex-President Cleveland's Trip. WASHINGTON, March 19-The presiden sent to the senate the following nominations: William w. Thomas, Jr, of Maine, to be minister to Sweden and Norway Samuel R Thayer, of Minnesota, to be | minister to the Netherlands w. Budd Daicon, of New Jersey, to be marshal of the United States for the district of New Jersey.
 John $. Burton, of Mississippi, to be mar shal of the United States for the northern dis. trict of Mississippi.
 Edwin l. Kursheedt, of Louisiana, to be marshal of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana
 Brad D. Slaughter, of Nebraska, to be mar. shal of the United States for the district of Nebraska
 William H. Whiteman, of New Mexico, to be associate justice of the supreme court of the territory of New Mexico.
 Charles E. Mitchell, of Connecticut, to be commissioner of patents.
 Nathan o. Murphy, of Arizona, to be sec retary of Arizona
 Smith A. Whitfield, of Ohio, to be second assistant postmaster general
 Abraham D. Hagen, of PennsyIvania, to pe tnird assistant postmaster general.
 John w. Mason, of West Virginia. to he commissioner of internal revenue
 J. Granville Leach, of PennsyIvania. to bs, appraiser of merchandise in the district of Philadelphia.
 David M. Lines, of Louisiana, to be special examiner Of drugs, medicines and chemicals in the district of New Orleans.
 John r. Ward, of Oregon, to be appraiser or merchandise ill the district of Willamette Ill the state of Oregon and territory of Wash ington.
 J. Lewis Bell has been appointed by Post master General Wanamaker, general super- intendent of the railway mail service post office department. Mir. Bell was for q num- Der of years connected with the passenger de- partment of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad.
 Charles E. Mitchell, the new commissioner of patents, is a patent attorney, living in new Britain, Conn. He is about 45 years old, and Is well known throughout New England He was backed by the Conaecticut delegation and by a large number of patent lawyers in New York and N. W England
 MT Thomas of Maine, who is namei for the Swedish mission, gets his old office again. He was minister of the United States to Sweden and Norway when Mr. Cleveland be- camc pi esident.
 Brad D. Slaughter, who has been nomina ted for United States marshal for the District of Nebraska, is we'll known i'll that state. For more than fourteen years past he has been clerk to the Nebraska legislature. He is secretary of the state Republican league of " Inhy M TI,,,,S, ,e ohos,
 Postmaster General Wanamaker has ap- pointed Gen. James M. Tyner, of Indiana, assistant attorney general for the postoffice department, vice E. E. Bryant, of Wisconsin, resigned. Gen. Tyner has been postmaster general, first assistant postmaster general and member of congress from Indiana.
 THE REGENT CHINESE RIOTS
 The secretary of state has received from Mir. Kennedy, United States consul at Shang- hai, report of the recent riot at Chin Kiang China. It appears that on February the consul received from Consul Jones at Chin kiang telegraphic news of the riot and threat ened attack on the consulate and a request for protection. As there was no American immediately available the British consul general was communicated with, and a British man-of-w war was started from Shang- hal on February for Chin Kiang On that day the British consulate and four other houses at Chin Kiang were burned and the office of the American consul gutt ed and footed by mob of about 5000 Mir. Jones and family escaped injury. These facts were to our minister at Picking. The consul general at Shanghai has also re- ported that there was a late rumor that more buildings had been destroyed, among them the residence of some American missionaries
 ON THE WAY TO CUBA
 Ex-President Cleveland and ex-Secretaries Bayard, Villas and Dickinson arrived here at 3:1O i'll the afternoon and left at $40 for Tampa, Fla, whence they will sail for Cuba, In response to applause from Q small crowd gathered at the station the ex-president ap- peared on the platform of his special car and bowed his acknowledgements.
 The Post ill commenting editorially upon the fact that the day was ex-President Cleve- lands 52d birthday, says that he is so we'll preserved that it is likely he has a quarter of B century before him. The Post does not be- lieve the ex- president has given up his politi- cal ambition, and it says that the fact that his administration was in some respects dis to his party, and that he failed of reelection, carries with it no proof that bis retirement from politics is permanent The other and greater fact that whatever may have been the faults of his administra- tlon, 1t Is destined to occupy creditable rank In the history of the country, and is growing into the confidence of the people rather than out of it, as their second sober thought gives weight to the opinion that he is destined to become more of political force out of office than ill it.
 NOTES.
 Sam Kwong On, a Chinese merchant, has made successful appeal to the treasury de- partment from the assessment of duty by the collector of customs of New York on certain 1eer horns imported from Canada The Chi nese use deer horns as a medicine, and the collector assessed them at 10 per cont. ad the medicine schedule. Sam Kwong On held, however, that the articles should be admitted free, as "horns or parts of horns," and the secretary of the treasury sustained his appeal
 All the papers prepared at the interior de partment looking to the opening up of Okla homa territory are now before President and it is expected that within this week he will issue proclamation opening the country to settlement At this time only about Z, 900 900 acres of land will be thrown open to settlement
 The secretary of the navy has received in- formation from Cramp Brothers, the con