Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-19

geon in charge. Final action on burroughs
to soldiers under treatment in DIVISION
hospitals will be taken by division COM
manders.--Decision Secretary OF war,
October Is, 1881
by command OF NaJor-General Miles.
III. c. CORBIN,
"Adtutant- General"
by direction OF the Secretary OF War,
so much OF Paragraph Al. Special orders,
No. 157, July 6, 1898. from this office. as
directs Acting Assistant Surgeon John W.
Wright. United States army, to proceed
from Fort Monroe, Va, TO Santiago de
Cuba. is amended so as to direct him TO
proceed TO Ponce. Porto Rico, and upon
arrival 10 report TO the commanding gem
eral OF the United States troops at that
place for assignment to duty.
Charles ". Edgar, Rufus b. Riddle
and Harry c. Smith. Josiah Simpson
general hospital Fort Monroe, Va, are
discharged, and are entitled to travel pay
by direction of the Assistant Secretary
OF War, Private Anthony Hanlon Bat
terry f, Sixth Artillery now at Fort Mon
roe. Va. will be discharged from The
service Of the United States by the conf
handing officer Of his station.
by direction OF the Secretary OF war,
the leave Of absence granted Acting As
sistant Surgeon b. b. Lanier. United
States army, in Special Orders, No. 40
October 6, 1898, United States general hos
| pital. Fort Monroe, Va, is extended seven
days"
THE ANDERSEN APPEAL
Mr.. p. j. Morris, of Norfolk. attorney
for John Andersen convicted of the muir
, der Of the captain and mate Of the
schooner Olive Pecker, appeared before
J the Supreme Court OF the United states
to-day and submitted his argument In
answer to the governments motion TO dis
. miss the appeal from the decision OF
Judge Waddill, Of the United States Court
} for the Eastern District. Judge Waddill
refused to grant writ OF habeas corpus
TO Andersen several months ago. The
|. decision on the motion 10 dismiss will be
rendered next Monday. If the motion Is
D sustained the appeal will be dismissed
II denied. the question Will then come w
J on it's merits for further argument. An
! dersen was sentenced TO be hanged on th'
= 18th OF August last, but a stay or exc
D cution was granted him. pending the ap
peal until October 18th Should the ap
, peal be dismissed. it Is thought other et
! forts will be made 10 save Andersen
life. The Solicitor General Of the United
, States and District-Attoruey White ap
! peared for the government.
FOURTH IMMUNES o. X.
D Information was received at the quar-
! termaster-generars office tonight tina
the steamship Roumania, with the Fouru
n United States Infantry QmmuneS o.
7 board. which had been reported as over
o due. has arrived in safe at Manzanlhc
| Cuba There are a large number o
y Virginia soldiers in this regiment whlc
4 was organized at Fredericksburg.
7 NEW PATENTS.
= Patents were issued to-day as toiiow.
a Mat Blackwell, assignor Of one halt |
7 w. F.. and o. s. Burns. Lebanon va
O nine wrench: Charles ComstocK' hlCi
| / rnond atmospheric railway system; I'd
y rnund NJ. Sheaffer, assignor of one ma
4 IN A. II. Wilson, Harrisonburg, va
= knoclS-down barrel; Decatur II. Nandf
4 verter Waterford, va, ventilated au>
| , uiarv seat for chairs; Samuel IrueDloo'
y Richmond, grain-car door
d TAX ON CIGARS, ETC.
| Among the revised regulations concern
y ing the rates of tax on cigars and cigar
4 cites are the following: ,ooe
7 section OF the act OF June H. 1879
. levies the following rates OF tax upo'
l cigars and cigarettes
y u. on cigars OF all descriptions mau
d OF tobacco or any substitute therefor an
: weighing more than three pouhus pc
. thousand. $3.50 per thousand
any substitute therefor, weighing no
~ more than three pounds per thousand
,er per pound. $1,000
'eI "a on cigarettes made of tobacco c
Jus orv substitute therefor and weighin
vi more than three pounds per thousand
- 800 per thousand.
Oh "a ON cigarettes made Of tobacco G
Isl any substitute therefor. weighing nc
LLss, more than three pounds per Thousand
$50 per thousand.
an SMALL CIGARS.
ynl "Cigars Weighing not more than thrt
lis mounds per thousand are made suDJect
ion the laws and regulations governing u
Mt hacking and removal for sale or cisal
bic cites. and to that extent are classed VIII
the cigarettes; the stamps prescribed Tor sue
tes cigars must be used, and they VIII be
IRE the same denomination as for cigarette
as but Of different designs. and should
M ,nixed and cancelled in the same mann
re- as required in the case OF cigaret
ur- stamps.
len COUPON PROVISION.
be Section 10 Of the act Of July q. 1S'
on prohibits packages OF smoking toOaCC
led fine-cut chewing tobacco, ana clgaretu
tie from having packed In or attached TO
led connected with them any article OF UNI
iet- whatsoever of a foreign nature, ana pI
VideS that there Shdll NOT We @Hi>N"
not ar branded, stamped, marked, written
mt nrinted upon said packages or their co
nay tents any promise or offer thereon or al
nee order or certificate for any gitt' priz
10 premium. payment, or reward.
rd- This provision of law does not app
ist- IN nackages of plug, cayendish. or twi
tobacco; neither does it apply 10 cisa
les. weighing more than three pounds p
thousand. but IL does apply TO SIM
." cigars Weighing not more than thr
mounds per thousand and 20 cigarettes
ANOTHER NEGRO POSTMASTER.
90. II is stated now, on what seems TO
-ary excellent authority, that another nel
ton postmaster had been appointed IN one
the Southside counties previous TO
GERS annointment OF TwymaD at Junta,
-ond Franklin county. | could not ascert
the either the name OF the post-oificc or q
will OF the cOlored appointee, but my lnIoi
ates ant who was sure that such an -~s-)ol
,eIv ment had been made, believed the Oh
i've vas I'm surry county, the excuse 81
20 az the time being that there was no WI
. - man I'm the locality who would accept
llted office.
d 10 POSTAL.
Among the fourth-class postmaSt
lies: commissioned to-day were Ihonlas
L. Woodbridge, at French Hay, va; pen
NJ, min o. II. Blalock, at Jonathan, ~
city and Frank r. Yopp, Verona, y. =,
regi- New offices have been es'apilsneu