Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1883 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Aatatenun 1 ; propat el by Ihe Sixth Auditor of the Treasury shows the receipts of the Tostoftice Department from July I to Dec. 31, 1882, being the Erst two quarters of the current fiscal year, to be $22,033,970; expenditures for the same period, $20,614,415leaving a surplus of $ 1,389,534. The Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department reports during the month of April, there arrived in the customs districts of Ba’tiinore. Boston, Detroit, Huron, Minn.. New urieane, New York, Fasa&ma> Philadelphia and ten Fraadsee, Tsi-

475 immigrants. The arrivals of immigrants in the same districts during the corresponding month of last year numbered 104,274, » decrease of 25,79 ft The arrivals in thezt districts for ten months ending April 30 were 417,689; for the same period last year, 514,. 601; a decrease of 126,91 ft The President has made the following appointments: United States Consuls. Francis Hough wont, New York, Kanban B. Odell Duncan, South Carolina, at Can* tania, and James Fletcher, lowa, at Genoa A treaty of peace has been signed between Chili and Peru, the latter country: ceding Tacna and Arica for ten years. iAM the end of that period the people of the twc provinces shall vote as to which country they desire to be attached. A final dividend of 7 pet cent, is to be paid to the creditors of the Freedman’* Bank of Washington, making the total payments 62 per cent' A decision by the Secretary of the Interior refuses the Northern Pacific Ballroad Company permission to withdraw from set tlement and entry the indemnity lands lying twenty miles or more beyond the original al ternate tections granted in the charter.