Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-23
THE WEEKS WORK.
Selected From Every Source.
WASHINGTON.

|. A WASHINGTON dispatch of Oct. 18th
says five thousand dollars worth of Z.
S. bonds, stolen from the Manhattan
bank, New York, were received at the
treasury department for redemption,
to-day.
A WASHINGTON telegram of Oct. 18th
says resumption began here yesterday in
earnest. 1t was mid-month payday when
IN the treasury department the clerks re-
ceived their semi-monthly salaries. Ev-
cry dollar Of these salaries were paid in
specie, 10 per cent in silver dollars and
80 per cent. in gold coin.
A WASHINGTON telegram of Oct. 18th
says the chief of the bureau statistics
reports the value of the exports from the
United States of live animals of all kinds,
has increased from 1874, ,653 during the
fi,cal year of rs to $114, ,077,75 during
'79. Of the total exports of live animals
last fiscal year II per cent. were sent to
Great Britain. The value of exports of
cattle increased from $3,S96,919 during
'76. to sS,399, 200 in 10.
A STATEMENT Of the operations OF the
patent office sent under date of the 10Th
shows that during the twelve months end
ing June 80, last, $4,000 applications for
patents were received, and 2,674 caveats
filed, 12,471 patents issued, 1.547 trade
marks and labels registered, and 26S pat
ents granted, but withheld for payment of
final fees. Total receipts of the office,
$7O3, ,143, being 1854 ,495 in excess of its
total expenditures.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 18th
says the estimates of the amounts that
will be erequired for all branches of the
postal service, during the next fiscal year,
have been completed. They aggregate
$39, 100000, against which it is estimated
the postal revenues will amount to $32,
100000, leaving deficit of $7,710,000 to
be met by congressional appropriations.
The appropriations for the current fiscal
year aggregated $5,45S,376.
A DIsPACH fron Washington under
date of Oct. Goth state that the the dem
ocratic members of the committee which
went to Kansas to investigate the charge
that Senator ingalls, procured his re-
election to the senate by improper means,
returned here TO day, having left Senator
Cameron and Logan, the republican
members, at their homes en- route. The
committee do not hesitate to say that the
investigation was failure, so far as any
attempt to show corruption on the part
of Senator ingalls, was concerned.
A DISPATCH of the 18th states that the
annual report of the directors of the
mint will show that during the fical year
just ended there were coined, in gold, of
double eagles, $37,234,3 $40; of eagles,
$1,Q31 ,440; of half-eagles, 81 ,442, 1870; of
quarter-eagles, $1,166,8O0; of three dol
lars, $109,182; and of dollars, 5000.
The silver coinage shows the following
result: Dollars, $27 ,227, 500; half dollars,
1926; quarter-dollars, $112.50; dimes,
$45. Prior to the beginning of the last
fiscal year there had been total coinage
of silver dollars OF only $16,619,-
338. During the fiscal year
alone, therefore, there were coinedi of
silver dollars some 100000 more than
had been coined in the entire history of
the government to that time. The total
number of silver dollars coined and in
circulation July 1 last was $43, ,S46,SS9
1t will be ssen that almost the entire time
of the Mint was devoted to the coinage
of the standard silver dollars, and of
dimes there were coined but $45 during
the year, and Of quarter-dollars, but
$15050. The total result of the opera
tions of the Mint for the last fiscal year
was as follows: Gold, $40,9S6,9 ,912; silver,
So, ,227, ,S82.5O; minor, $97,79S Total,
$6S,512, ,592.50.