The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-04-06
NEWS NOTES.

S. Settle has been appointed postmaster at
Leeds, Md
The President has recognized L. E. Holloway
consul of Peru at San Francisco, Cal.
-Four per cent. bonds purchased by the Treas
ury yesterday at l22 for S25,5OO
The Ways and Means Committee has decided to
increase the duties proposed in the Tariff bill on
the finer grades of cotton hosiery
Construction of a hotel on the Government
reservation at Fortress Monroe is authorized by
a bill passed by the House yesterday.
B. L. Bowes. at Erin Shades: W. E. Moore at
Mineral, aud e. D. Cox, at Profit. Va, were
among the postmasters appointed yesterday.
The number of final land entries pending in
the General Land Office has decreased over 600
in sx months despite heavy increase in new
filings.
Congress has passed JOINT resolution for re-
moval of powder magazine from Ellis Island,
N. Y. Harbor. and for location of the immigrant
station at that point.
The section of the Revised Statutes Q754 re-
latng TO preferences Of honprably discharged
by the bill passed by the Senate yesterday.
Anoyel system, of pa banking hh by the United
the medium of Senator ingalls,, yesterday.
Distribution of interest on the Virglnius in
demnity fund an, among n the persons who have
tho fund is provided for in the bill passed yester
day by the Senate.
For estabishment of light-ships, with, steam
g-BignalS. at winter Quarter ShOal ana Fen
wick Island Shoal, Md; Frying Pan Shoal, n.
c., and Martins Industry, 5. c., bill was in
troduced in Senate yesterday.
The appointment of an assistant general super
intendent and chief clerk of the Railway Mail
Service with salaries of $1,000 and $1,000 re-
spectivelyl s authorized by bill which has
passed both Houses of Congress.
The bill directing the Secretary of War to
! place on file the names of the orphans and men,
| bers of the Frontier Guards (under James II.
Lanc) mustered into the volunteer military serv-
nj IInlfan States
1861, and issue discharges TO the same, passed the
Senate yesterday.
After 3 O'Clock yesterday euloGies were de-
| llyered In the House in memory of Newton w
! Nutting, of New York After eulogistic ad-
| dresses by Messrs. Payne, blanchard, Baker.
| GroBvenor, Peters, sherman, ana Henderson, OF
! Illinois, the House, as a mark OF respect to the
memory of the deceased, adjourned.
Tho Oklahoma Town-site bill has been passed
| by both Houses of Congress; but conference
committees will simply have to settle the point
| grows out cf the proviso inserted by the Senate
that the certificates mentioned in the bill shall
net loo taken as evidence in favor of any person
claiTaing lots who entered them in violation Of
law and of the Presidents proclamation.
Books containing Cancelled postage and in
ternal revenue stamps forwarded by the Ma
tional Philatelic Society of New York to its
foreign members for exchange OF duplicates
and afterward returned to that society on
circuit, are entitled to admission free of duty
under the tariff provision for articles, the
growth produce and manufacture of the United
States when returned in the same conditions as
exported"
New Dynamite Shell 10 be Tested.
UTICA, n Y, April Sit has been decided
TO give public test to Professor Justin's new
dynamite shell in the rayine near Perryyilie