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10
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August
Year
1883
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Únele Sam has $404,876,728 in hit treasury. The treasury reserve at present is $161,826,615. The national debt was lessened $7,900,590 during the month of Jnly. ¦ It is proposed to coin 2,340,000 silrer dollars during the raonth ef August. The new four-cent stamp will bc oramented with a bust of Andrew Johnson. Coinago at the mint for July aniounted to $3,733,800, of which $2,425,000 was etaudard 8ilver dollars. Capt. S. S. Warner has been appointedto the command of the rcTenue steamer Fessenden stationed at Detroit. The issue of standard silver dollars for the week ending August 4, was $90,499; theeorrospondlng period last year, $277,000. Total internal revenue collections during July wag $9,378,535. The order coneolidating revenue distriets beeame operative on the flrst of August. Aocording to a recent ruling of the treasury department Canadian tugs cannot tow American veesels from American waters yona me nrst American port of entry. The Hill investigation is finished so ar as oral testlmony is concerned. The cammittee are now comparlng notes, to Snd out who told the biggrst story of "fraud aud mlsmanagement." July, usually the dulleat month im the year, wltnceeed a great inflnx of pension claima. The total nnmber of letters sent out dnring themonthon pension business was 115,, 168, a daily average of 4,607 per day. The aceuniulationof sil ver money has beeome so great that there is now quite a serlous qucsticm how to dispose of them. The tubject is being agitated, and it Is probable that a vault will be built in the basement of the treasury department. Gep, Robertson, father of Lieut. Roberteon, of the let cavalry, charged with duplicating his pay accounts, has requested that his son be given a court martial trial. He believes his sou is innocent of the crime with which he is charged, and is anxious to hare his honor vinaicated. i There has recently been transferred . from the war department to the ahandoned , property dívjslon oí the treasury department a lafge quantity of confedérate states bonds repreeenting several millloaB of dollars which it Is eaid is now be macerated and conTerted lnto 1 pulp by order of Secretary Folger. ' Three and a half per cent. bonds to ' the amount of $103,000 have been presented at the treasury departtnent for redcmption under tlie 121et cali. Thls cali will not mature until November 1 but provisión is made ior the redi mption of any bonds embraced in the cali prior to their matudty upon presentatlon,with interest to date of redemption. The cali is for over $32,000,000. Holders are not gencrally taking advantage of the privileges of the circular offering to redeem bonds bcfore maturity. Comruissioner of Patents Dudley, is doing good worï in prosecuting his search ior frauds iu his department. Three cases wero unearthed the other day, and the partios in plicatcd were arrestcd. One, Beall, of the printing department, learnedthat a pension was to be granted to a Mrs. Breamer, and before she had been apprised of the fact, went to her and offered to get the pension for her if ene would give him half. She consented, when Beall drew the en tire sum f rom the bank,about $1,458, and ga.ve Mrs. Brcamer $700. Beall was arrested, but subsequently released on $1,500 bail. The secretary of the treasury has received a letter from a prominent flrm in New York calllng attentlon to the fact that ?arge quantities of wool of low grades are exported from Egypt, Syria and countries in their rkinity to this country, whirh is the principal market for them, betides considerable quantities of bed wools extracted from old mattresses from Con6tantlnojle, etc. These wools are frequently tranfhipped at Marseillei and in England for this courtry In view of tho epidemie now raging in the eastern Medlterranean these wools may convey infection as wcll as rags. The Seoond Assistant Postmasteröeneral has reportcd to th Postmaster-General an amount is excees of $1,100,000, which it is proposed to recover by suits against the various combinations of Star Route eontractors. A part of the evidence npon which this act ion is based has been obtained within the last slx months. ThePostmaster-General hasrequested the Auditor of the treasury for the Post Office Department,- a is eustQJiary in euch casee, - to state aecorjnU to tae solieitor of the Treasury, the representativo of the Department of J nstice, for suit in accordance with the proviBione of ection 4,057, Reyieed Statutes. A report has been made to the Treaury department by the commissioncr of lmmigration at New Tork relat ive to "asisted immigrant," and their return to Ireland. From the affldavits submltted it appears that many of the women, with their illegitlraate ehildren wcre compelled to leave the workhouse and come to America upon pain of expulsión from the werkhouse, their only heme. Many of them had no reltives in America, and the only means they had of support when they came was the paltry pittance glven them when they were sent out. A few exoeptional cases werc reported where lmmlgrants had friendi here who pronrtsed them employment and a heme. Under the constructen oi a law made sC(metlme ago by Secxetary FolRer leare of ab eence to emploj es of the treasury department is llralted to 80 days in eaeh calendar year, with pay, ezcept in case of siekneas. It hafl heretofore been enstomary to allow employés 10 or 15 days' addltlonal leave that they migkt go home to vote. Now all absence on that aceount wtll be deduoted f rom the 80 day 's leave illowcd by law. In cae an employé has taken his fullleave before the time for voting has ar rlved, he can only go home to vote by losing hls pay ior the time he may be absent. No action has been taken in the matter by the heads of other departments, bnt It is thought thej will concur In the conclusión n.ade by Secretary Folger. GENERAL ITEJJ8. The lcgislaturo of Georgia has just passed a general local option law. Mexican telographers are on a strike. They demand an increase of $30 per mont.1). Fires are raging fearfully in Victoria, B. C. No rain there for nearly three monthe. Capt. Eads has thus far received $1,800,000 for his work at the mouth oí the Mississippl. Mrs. Mary VV. Blodgett, widely kno n during the late wai as a hospital nurse, died n Chicago the other day, aged 82 ycars. Aa accident oecurred on the railroad entering Newport, Vt., a few days ago, and 15 personsere seriously injured. The accident was caused by the spreading of the rails. Thirty-two gnns were fired at Syracuee, N. T., in the public square, celebrating the killine of the informer Carev, and twogunners were budly injared by a premature exploeion. The Vermont national bank and the St. Albane Trust cjmpany at St. Albans, Vt., have been obliged to suspend, becauee of the mismanagement of ex-Congressman Barloir, president of the first-named institutioE. The Western Union officials declare the 6trike to be practically over, and that threefourths of the accustomed business is being done, and that in a iew days at moet everything wlll be moving as smoothly as though no strike had oecurred. Nine inmates of the Soldier's Home at Dayton, O., have been expelled at the point of the bayonet by order of the governor acting under instructions of the board of managers. The charges against them wcra drunkenness and jumping the fence and ieaving without perruission. Monday Aug. 6, 20th dny of the telegraphers' strike, opened with no indication of eoucesston on the part oí the Western Union. The company declares it is gettlng along all rlght and wül never yleld; on the other hand, the 6trkers say they will never resume work at the oíd rates. George Kellogg, a convict in the Illinois state prison, eommitted suicide the other aaj. Derore commuung me aeua Uu uuuressed that he committed the tr.'ple murder at Atlanta, 111., in 1882. This murder has alway been shrouded in mystery.but is cleared by Kellogg's confession. Simón Cunningham, a farmer, ridiDg in a wagon with hls wife and four year oíd chlld near Essex Centre, Vermont, attempted to cross the railroad track, when thc vehicle was struck by a passing train. Mr. Cunningham was instantly killed, hls wife fatally injured and the chlld had a leg broken. Two Troy and Boston freight trains colllded at Pownal, Vermont, a fc.w days ago. Sis mcu wen-, instantly killed, aud the locomotivos aml trains were wrceked. The telegraph operator is held rospouslble for the accident. The operator is a youtu of 17 smnmers. He had had orders to (lag these traína, aud had forgotten lt. The Louisyille exposiüon was formally opened on the first of August with imposing ceremonies. President Artuur was present, and in a fitting 6peec.h declare d the exposition opeu. Fully 30,000 pople were ih the main building, and thc erowd vere wild with enthusiasm. The exposition promises to be a prand succe6S. A gang of Ku-Klux have for some time been molesting the Negroos, in the vicinity of Maysville, Ga., and the citizens have formed themselViS into vigilance commlttees to suppress their depredations. Nuiaerous c utrages have been committed, such as whipping the Negroes, tearing down their houses, destrojing their crops etc. The wreek of the colliding freight tr&lns on the Troy and Boston railroad ncar North Powual is cleared, and bodles believed to e those of Mark Sutheriand engineer, H. H. Bruce, operator, and Charles Marden, rugine :r, wcre found, burned f rtghtf ulij. The rcremaining three bodies are still missing, and art believed to have been reduccd to ashes. Lr ís $70,000. Gov. Blackburn of Kentuoky, has pardoned f rom the penitentiary, kClarence Rutherford 6ent there for murder committed in 1S81. Rutherford beeame converted several mo oths ago, through the Iabor6 of the celebratei .'vangelist, Barnes,jand has since gtven 6uch strong evidence of the sincerity of bis purpoee tolead a better Ufe, that the goTernor bas eranted his pardon. A mortgage for $lü,000,000 was reconled a few days ago at Springfield, 111. Cyrus C. Hinee, of the Indiana & Union Trust Company of New York, lends thc money to the Ohio AMississippi Railway. The object of the mortgage is to enable thc company to regaln the custody of its property which has been in possession of the courts under ioreclosure proceedings since '76. Five natives of the Flowery Kingdom were arrested in Patterson, N. J., the other day for the murder oí a f ellow country man who had reduced the price of laundry work. When they were takf n to pi ison the keeper proceeded to cut of their queues, whem the Celestials set up an unearthly howl of rage, and it was only after a desperate struggle that their queues- a Chinaman's honor - were scvercd. Tho city of Wyandotte, Kansas, has brought snit in the district court in the sum of 133,600 aeainst Christopher Btrnhard, ex-city treasurcr. The copp]alnant avers that du ring the defendant'g term in 1881 bouds wcre issued in tho sum of $38,090- to Iiqudate old bonds of like amoTint8. These were given to tbe treasurfr, who has since falled to account for thc caneeled bonds in retura for these. The complalnant alleges that the defendent reeeivod $5,000 on aeeount of scrip issued for street improvemente and whlch is also unarounted for. A dispatch from Victoria, B. C, brings news of a tradgedy at Dakan mine, near Harresburgh, Alaska. Two whisky sellcrs, Revine aud Martin, got drunk and unconsciously exchanged cabins. During the night the Indians broke into Martin's cabin where Revine was slecping and atole a bottle of whisky. Re! Tine and Martin Btarted after the Indians aDd in the fight Revine was killed. The citizens in force arrested three Indians, confininglhem in the guard house. During the temporary absence of the guard the Indiana procured a pistol and shooting the guard on his return they then fled. The ñring awokc Major Givens, formerly of the ITnited States army, who was shot down and the Indians hacked his head to pieces. The Indians then attenipted to escape but the miuers who had now arrtved ouutonenna arresten the second. The tbird escaped. The infuriated citizens cromptly hanged the captnred ludían on the Bpot. The next day Colonel Barry ordered the ehiefs to produce the third Indian. He was quickly delivered and promptly hangeci. The latest estímate of the ioss ofjlife by the Ischia earthquake plaees the number of deaths between 4,000 and 5,000. The buriaJ of Tlctims continned for eeveral davs, 380 bodicg bcing interred at Caamieciola, 90 at Laceo and 39 at Forlo. The impossibility of reooYcring and burying all the bodics being apparent the minister of pnblic works, in view of the polsonous exhalations from decomposing remains, ordered that unrecovered corpses be allowed to rema in where they lie, and that the ruïne be coyered wtth liquid lime, thus converting Casamicciola into a vast cemetery. Netwithstauding the use of 1,500 tons of chloride of lime at that place in one day fordeodoriiicL p-rposes the stenen in the upper town is til! unbearable. Water agaln gushed violently from the spring, and was almost boiling hot. The damiigp to property at the three lowns namcd will reach Ü,iX)0,000 lire. Vienna. Austria, has voted a large sum for relief. A seeond shock of earthquake was experienced, and seyeral of the gu&rds were killed by tumbling of the walls. Capt. J. D. Rhodes, of Salamanca, a swimmer of some noto, havlng a life-prcserying armor patented by himself, who in 1S77 dove írom a staging 100 feet high, near the ferry landing at Niágara river, proposes to aceomplish the feat of swimming the Whirlpool rapids of Niágara river, sometime before the 25th of September. Bebriel, of Londn Eng., the professional swimmer ana rival ot Capt. Webb, announceg his intention of attempting to ewim the Niágara Falls Whirlpool. He saye he believes he can saíely breast the pool, and believes Webb could have done it if he had gone about lt properly. lie is practicing in the Thames daüy, and intends to test the most dangerous yuuiu una ucurt una mu oirongesi nm dcujtb dcpartiag for the United States. Arriving at Niágara, Bebriel will lócate himself upon a shore of the rapids for the purpoee of studying ind testing them by daily plungcs. He will makc dummies of equal weight to his own and throw them into the rapids at all the dangerous pointe for the purpose of ascertair.ing the precise tendencies and actious of the waYes and currents. When he has completed his observations and practico he will 6et apart a day for his attempt to make the swim,in whieh Captain Webb lost his Ufe, and lie states bis firm belief that he will succeed. POLIT1CAL The election held in Kentucky on the 7th in6t, resuJted in the election of Knot for Governor, by a majority of 40,000. THE TOTE. Taken in the New flampshire Legislaturc on the let, rcsulttd in a gain of nine to Pike, and a loss of the same to Chaudler. PKXNSYLVAXIA DEMOCRATS. Met in coaveniion at Harrisburg on the lst inet and nominated Robert Taggert for Auditor-General and Joseph Powell for Tieasurer. A platform was adopted relative to taaation, labor interc6W, public economy, ete. The conveution was very harmonions. THE END AT LAST. Aíter a long and close stuggle, the senatorial contest in New Hampshirc has closcd, to the eatisfaction of all. On tbe fortyeecond ballot Austin F. Pike wae declared elected United States Senator for sii years from March 4, 1883. Pike is a dyed-in-the wood republican of worth and emloencï. MINNESOTA DEMOCBATS. assembled in conveution a few da}'8 ago, and nominated W. W. McNair for gorernor, Lieut-governor, R. L. Frazer; secretry of State, J. J. Green ; state treasurer, Job Ludwig; Attorny genera!, J. W. Wild. The platforrn(adopted(declar8 for e tarilt for revenue onlj, approveê river andharbor bilis, and eall for a revisión of the patent lawe. CRIME John Wall, a Chicago policeman, committed suicide for haring killed an innocent man while defending himsrif againít a gang of roughs. One Parker, of Pino Bluff, Ark , killed bis daughter becauie of her detcrinination to marry the man of her cholee. Indignant eighbors hung the faiher. L. L. Conrad, a law)-er prominent in professional and social Ufe, was shot and killed a few nights ago, by his wifc near Glydon in Baltimore county, Md. Mr. Conrad had been sufferiug froni illncss some time, accoinpaniecJ by cvidences of insanity. Conrad was a native of New Orleansand a son of the Hon. Wm. H. Conred, secretary of war during Fillmore's admlnistration. A dispatch from Wisconsin Junction, WÍ6., eays that Lorcnso Craudall, keeper of the farmers' co-operative store and postmaster of the village, was attackcd at his house the other night by three maskcd men, who rnebeá into the sitting room while be was sltting on the sofa talking to his wife. The men carried her out and ordered him to throw up hl hande. Crandall was lying on his back witb his hands in his poekete, in onc of which he carried his revolver. Throwing himself on the floor he whipped out his pistol and flred at ths leader, shot ting him through the right breaet. One of the assailants fired in return, the ball passing through tbe finger of Crandall'9 left hand. The light was put out by the robbers, who fired half a dozen shots. One ball imbeddediteelf in Crandall's right wrist. They fled but Crandall followed, and being joined bj four friends, he ran down the leader of the gang, who dled, as he seiaed him, Trom the effects of the wound he had received in the hense. The others escaped. Crandall was presented with a purse of money by the citizens, and resolutions applauding his brarery were passed at a mass meeting. Cranda'l had only $50 in hls posses6ion when attacked. The burglar shot is unknown.

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