The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-01-10

Month. year.
National bank notes disposed
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Notes fit for circulation, as
sorted and returned to the
banks OF issue ,b2S,UW SH,Uoo,oVO
Notes unfit for circulation,
assorted and delivered to
Controller OF Currency for
for destruction and replace
ment with notes ..-.---.. S~,10S,4Oo 23,s22,2OO
Notes Of failed. lquidating,
aud reducing banks de-
posted in Treasury.-- 729,7cO 6,7TS,4oO
Totals for 1877 ..-"...-...s 81, 1865, 100 SlO6,I4,se9
Totals for S7s....-........ 15,s7S,7OO 1o9,365,6oO
Increase for month. 1,5s2,4o o ..-.....
Decrease for half year.-.--. ---.- 2,6ll,ZOV
A subcommittee of the House Com
mittee on Territories recently, heard Col.
Briarly in reply to the argument recently
made by Delegate Corlett, of Wyoming,
against the organization Of the proposed
new territory of Lincoln. Col. Briarly
presented statistics and other information,
by which he claimed to demonstrate that
the Black Hills country is occupied by a
large and permanent population of ener-
getie men, and that the mines are proving to
be among the most productive in the world;
that people need territorial government to
protect them in their rights and property,
and especially in view of their isolated con-
dition proposed organization is imperatively
demanded. Judge Whitehead, another del
egate from the Hills, followed in an argu-
ment sustaining the position of his col
league.
The silver wedding of President and
lfru uorae rroo oalahraAaI ~ Ako nuapin,
of December 81. The preparations for the
occasion at the White House were not es-
pecially elaborate. The handsome Red and
Blue Parlors were adorned with most ap-
propriate taste, with flowers from the large
lighthouses pertaining to the Mansion, and
the air was redolent with odors of flowers
arranged in wreaths, bouquets and pretty
symbolic shapes, and " about the halls and
to and fro the doors" the fragrance bore a
festal Specification. The party invited in
honor of this anniversary were in all essen
tial considerations received en- tdmue and 6
major part of the guests were guests at the
original wedding twenty-five years (.
Mr.. Bissell, acting law officer Of Post
Office Department, says that the publishers
of newspapers nave no right to send dead.
head copies to the President or any other
person at pound rates Of postage, and thai
all such copies must be prepaid at transient
rates, or the sending of them would, accord
ing to the letter of the law, subject pub
fishers to prosecution. The opinion would
also apply to all papers sent free to insti
tuition of charity or learning, or to any cor
poration or person.
The General Superintendent of the United
States Life Saving Service has submitted tn.
annual report of the operations of tina
service during the last fiscal year. The re
port shows that there have been during thu
year one hundred and thirtyfour disaster.
to vessels within the limits of the operations
of the service. On board these vessels there
were just 1900 persons. The estimated
value of the vessels was 81 1856, 744, and O
the cargoes t$1,306, 5SS. The number O.
lives saved was $,461 lost, t%hirty-nine. TIL,
amount of property saved is valued a
$1,71S,647; amount lost, $1,579,6S5. TIL,
report says on the great lakes additiona
stations should be established as follows
On Lake Michigan-complete life savinj
stations at Sleeping Bear Point and a
Bayley's Harbor, and lifeboat stations a
Kenosha and Muskegon. On Lake Huron
complete life saving stations at OIL,
Point, Aux Barques, near Port Austin, an,
Middle Island, and a lifeboat station at San,
Beach.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenu
intends increasing his force of deputy CO.
lectors in North and South Carolina an,
Georgia, SO that they will be able to enforc
the internal revenue laws in that region an,
prevent the recurrence of the defying of tn
government officers.