Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-12-09

every part from beginning to end, and that
no one having connection with or guilty
knowledge Of its operations shall be per-
mitted to escape. So far as this department
is concerned, ask that every allegation
against any officer Of 1t, from its head TO Its
humblest employe, be thorough investi-
gated and vigorously prosecuted, any
ground exists therefor. l have read this to
the President who repeats his injunction:
Let no guilty man escspe."
A Washington telegram OF the 10Th ult.
states that there will be no sales OF Treasury
gold ordered for December, the currency bal
ance being large enough. The Secretary Vt
the Treasury says the sales are ordered only
to replenish t. The Secretary had directed
the retirement OF $764,472 Of outstanding
legal tenders, that amount being 50 per cent.
OF the Nation al Bank circulation issued dur
ing the month.
The United States Supreme Court
delivered unanimous decision on the
10Th in favor of the Union Pacific
Railroad in It's suit against the Gov
eminent, involving the retention or non-reten-
ton by the Government of half the compcn-
sation due the road for the transportation Of
mails and military and Indian supplies as
reimbursement for interest paid on bonds Is
sued to the corporation to aid the construc-
ton of the railroad.
The house OF Albert Wood, at Pony Hollow,
near Elmra, n. Y, was burned on the Goth
ult and his wife and three children per-
ished in the flames.
The Erie Canal and the Hudson River were
frozen up on the 30th ult., and navigation be-
tween Lake Erie and New York was virtually
closed for the season.
The rubber-shoe factory at Maiden, Mass,
and all the adjoining buildings have been de-
stroyed by fire. Losses estimated at over
$4,000.
Information received in Washington on
the 30th ult from the Rio Grande was to the
effect that the troubles along that river grow
ing out of the cattle raids by Mcxicans were
as bad as ever.
The Office hours in the several depart
ments of the Government at Washington
have been fixed at from nine a. IN. to four p.
m, making seven working hours instead Of
six as formerly
Gen. Myers, Chief Signal. officer of the
number of cautionary signals displayed
during the year Is per cent. were afterward
reported as verified. No great storm pre-
vailed at any Of the ports which was not pre-
announced. Gen. Myers claims that the
property saved during the year by means Of
these signals would more than pay the entire
cost of the service since its Inauguration.
The Postmaster Generals annual report
shows the receipts of the department for the
last fiscal year to lave been s27, Al, 800 and
the expenditures S33 Gil 800 The receipts
exceed those OF 1874 l 1890 per cent. and
the expenditures 81 100 per cent. The act
ual amount drawn from the Treasury was
si7l6, 800, or s5i3, SOC less than the previous
year. The recorded complaints OF missing
letters number 5,6i5, of which 2,677
were registered letters containing bonds,
drafts, etc, amounting TO s16,2l6 while
unregistered letters contained valuable
contents amounting TO S75,997. OF
the former loss were satisfactorily
accounted for, 81 actually lost and 6s3 re-
main under investigation. Estimates are
submitted which show an expected deficiency
OF S., Isl ,G03 for the ensuing year, but ii is
believed the deficiency will be much less than
the estimates.
The report OF the Superintendent of Public
Printing shows that the total cost of printing,
binding, lithographing, etc, for the Govern
ment for the year ending Sept. 80 last was
81 500, 425. The Congressional Record cost
SIS, $50 ad ditional. Nearly all the printing
ordered by the last Congress is completed.
There are now 200 employees in all the de-
partments, with pay roll Of 500, 900 month.
The compositors get sixty cents per 1000
ems, or $500 day for eight hours work.
On the 3Oth ult., in the New England States,
the cold was very intense, the thermometer
ranging from so to a. degrees below zero. At
Mount Washington the velocity OF the wind
was 10 miles an hour-the fastest ever re-
corded-and the mercury sunk out of sight
In Boston one woman froZe TO death.
The steamer Sunnysid from Albany for
New York, was cut in two by the ice near
West Point n. Y, on the morning of the LIST,
and sank In deep water. Eleven person were
drowned, six of whom were walters and
chambermaids on the boat and the remainder
passengers.
Great activity was reported in the navy
yards at Portsmouth, y. H., aud Brooklyn,
" T., on the LIST A Philadelphia dispatch of
that date says the iron clads at League Island
were ready for sea, The fleet consists Of niue
or ten vessels, among them the Powhsttau, ,
rallapoosa, Alliance, Alert, Huron, Dispatch,
Passaic, Nantucket and Wyandotte.
A collision occurred on the LIST between a
passenger and freight train, near Buffalo, y.
Y, by which four persons we're Killed and a
number of Others seriously injured,
Patrick Toney, OF New York city, on the
.t.l, ,f "a, l., ,a,ura,ad tho rlp-bint, ~ his