The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-12-03
From Washington

l. The annual report OF the comptroller of the
currency shows that there are 1850 national
banks in operation in the United States with
capital Of 1856, 244, AIS, and surplus OF
$ll4, 100000. During the past year thirty
eight national banks have been organized,
thirty eight have voluntarily discontinued
business, and eight have failed OF all classes
ot'banks other than national there are in the
United States 4,312, with q capital of 201,-
140 600, and deposits of 81 ,180, 000, 900. The
aggregate capital of all the various classes OF
banks has diminished from Sis, 400, 900 in
| 1876 to $3.50, $500, 900 in 1879, and the aggre-
gate deposits have fallen off from SS2,075, 300,-
| 600 in 1876 to 81 800, 50r 900 in 1874 re-
duction OF $62.9o0,000 in capital and $751;
| $40 900 in deposits during the last four years.
The national banking capital has diminished
| S45, l00, 900, but the deposits of the national
| banks are almost precisely the same that they
were in 1876. Savings banks with capital
| show reduction OF about one million in CAPT
| tai and tie same amount in deposits. The
capital and deposits of state banks end private
bankers are less by seventeen millions and
| eighty-three millions, respectively. The
| greatest reduction, however, is in the deposits
| of savings banks without capital which have
diminished 1897 ,000 --s-.
j. A. Bentley, commissioner OF pensions,
has completed his annual report to the secre-
tary OF the interior. 1t shows that on the
| Both of june last there were 242 755 persons
in the United States receiving pensions from
tie government. The pension list is now
I larger than at any previous time. The present
list is composed OF 125, $50 army invalid pen
sioners, 81, LA army widows, children and
dependent relatives, ,844 navy invalids, 1,772
navy widows, etc. IL ,621 surviving soldiers
OF the war OF 1872, and q, 1914 widows OF de-
ceased soldiers of that war. During the year
81 ,346 new names were added and 90S names
previously dropped were restored, and Ii, 457
were for various reasons dropped. The ag-
Ss25, 493, TAP. Is, but the actual annual payment
exceeds that sum by several million dollars
and is due to accrued pensions. During the
year the first payments 10 new pensioners
amounted to So, 1853, 1853, OF which Sd ,375, lat
was paid to army and navy invalids, widows
etc, and 81 1888 Gil to survivors ana widows
of the war of 1912. There will he deficiency
in the pension appropriation for the current
year, nearly as can now be estimated, as
follows $5,000010 army pensions and $780,
900 navy pensions
The commissioner OF internal revenue, in
his annual report, says that the receipts from
internal revenue taxes will, during the present
fiscal year, reach the sum OF S1l5,0t 1000.
Tables embodied in this report show that dur
ing the last three years and four months,
liz illicit distilleries have been seized, 1868
persons arrested for illicit distilling, and
twenty seven officers and employees killed
and forty-eight wounded while engaged in
ento1 cling the internal revenue laws. The
total amount realized by tho tax on the CAPT
tai and deposits OF banks and bankers during
the fiscal year ended June 80, 1878, was So
400, 9l3, and for the fiscal year of 1879 it was
S3, lS4 97S-showing q decrease of $305, 1874
A statement OF the capital and deposits OF
savings banks, and banks and bankers other
than national banks shows an aggregate OF
$685. 5l3 invested in government bonds
against Sl5S, S82, 800 reported last year.
james J. Brooks, chief of the Secret Service
division OF the Treasury, says, i'll his annua
report, that there have been 539 arrests made
during the last fiscal year. Counterfeit money
TO the amount OF 1913, 65l has been captured
together with large number of plates, die
and moulds used in counterfeting notes o.
coin.
James j. Brooks chief OF the secreI servic,
division OF tie treasury, says, in his annua
report, that there have been $50 arrests made
during the last fiscal year. Counterfeit money
to the amount oil 1888 ,651 has been captured
together with a large number of plates, die
and moulds used in counterfeiting notes o.
coin.