The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-09

ARRANGEMENTS have recently been COM
pleted by the State Department, at WASH
ineton, for a consular convention IN farls,
France, next August
THE President has approved the Census
Deficiency Appropriation bill, the act pro,
viding for the expectation or fermen1en
liquor in bond without payment OF lnternal
revenue tax, and tho act amending sectlon
1854, Revised Statues.
THE President has allowed to become
law without his signature the act authorlz-
ing him to take measures to obtain lndem-
nity from the Venezuelan Government for
damages suffered by the Venezuelan Trans
portation Company, of New York, by reason
of the seizure Of some Of its vessels.
THE President has vetoed the bill "to
change the boundaries of the Uncompahgre
Reservation"
THE President has approved the act grant
ing pension to Mrs Parnell, mother OF
Charles S. Parnell
PRESIDENT HARRISON has vetoed the bill
Ito authorize the Board of Supervisors of
Maricopa County, Arizonia, to issue certain
bonds in aid of the construction of certain
railroad"
THE President has nominated Thomas E.
Milchrist as United States Attorney for the
Northern District Of Illinois, and James A:
mlQeT, OIL mlcnlSdli, d5 aSsoSioVo ouoViSo Va
the Supreme Court of Utah.
INDIAN BUREAU officials have notified the
cattle men occupying under lease the grazing
lands of the Iowas that If further damage to
Oklahoma settlers is done by their cattle they
will be summarily removed from the Indian
Territory.
EDWARD GREELY LoRING, who was Judge
of the Court of Claims at Washington for a
quarter Of O century, is dead. He was the
United States Commissioner who in 1854 re-
manded the famous fugitive slave, Burns to
slavery.
The President has approved the Military
Academy Appropriation bill, and the act
authorizing the President to cause certain
lands, heretofore withdrawn from market for
reservoir purposes to be restored to the pub
lie domain, subject to entry under the Home
stead law.
THE President has appointed the following
Large to the Worlds Fair
at Chicago: Gorton W. Allen, OF New York,
in place of Edwin H. Amidown, declined,
with Louis Fitzgerald, Of New York, as al
ternate, and William NJ. Lindsey, Of Ken
tucky, in place of Samuel W. 1nman, OF
Georgia, declined, with Patrick j. Walsh, OF
Jeorgia, as alternate.
THE Senate confirmed the nomination OF
George J. Collins as Postmaster Of Brook
lyn, N. Y, and also the following Consuls:
Edward D. Roper Jr., of Massachusetts, at
Zanzibar, and William Newell, Of Washing
ton, at Managua.
A CABLE message was received at the
Navy Department in Washington from Con-
sui Garesche, at Martinique West Indies, as
follows: "Half of Fort de France burned:
Martinique demands aid. Five thousand
homeless people need lumber, bsef, PORK,
-four and other provisions. Cable quickly
what the States will do"
THE flag on the War Department was at
half-mast on account Of the death OF ex-Ssc'
retary McCreary. The Department was
closed on the day of his funeral.
The President approved Of the alotments
made by Secretary Proctor fo- the distribu-
ton of the stOO, OO0 appropriated by Congress
for farming AMI equipping thu militia for
the coming fiscal year.
The Census Oiflce will tabulats the re-
turns from large cities bsfore commencing
work on the smaller cities and towns.
The first estimate Of the population of the
District of Columbia, as made by SuperIn-
tendent Porter, is 2s3, l60. Tho population
in 1880 was III, ,624.