River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-11-06
THE WEEKS WORK.
Selected From Every Source.
WARRINGTON.

w ASd1NJION.
A DISPATCH from Washington of the
29th says there were standard silver dol.
lars coined 20 date Al, 453.S50; OF this
number ~ 22i ,010 are in circulation, the
remainder in the treasury.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of Oct. 2Sth
says that Postmaster general Key has is
sued instructions to postmasters at New
York City, Louisville and New Orleans,
to refuse hereafter 10 rent boxes TO lot
terry companies or lottery agents.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the LIST
says the state department confirms the
truth of the cable dispatch that Minister
Kasson has been instructed TO proceed
shortly to Bucharest, to formally recog
nIze the ROumanian defense, and estab-
fish diplomatic relations between Rou-
mania and the United States.
A DISPATCH of the Goth says a tele-
gram was received ct the war depart
ment this morning from General Nc
Dowell, stating that the Hualpiese In
dams of Northern Arizona were starving
ant asking if they could be fed by the
war department There being no appro-
priation available for such purposes the
matter was referred to the department
of the interior.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 1st
says the secretary of state left here, this
forenoon, on the L. S. steamer Tallahas
S, ,, to visit the birthplace of Washington,
preliminary TO carrying out the provis
ions of the act of congress directing him
to place a suitable monument to mark
this historic spot. The secretary was
accompanied by General Sherman and
others.
Ara cabinet meeting on the 31st the
secretary of the treasury called attention
to the fact that the Dominion of Canada
has prohibited the importation of Amer
lean cattle on account of an apprehen-
/ sion OF pleuIo pneumonia, and as the
| same apprehensions are felt among
Americans in regard to Canadian cattle,
| il was agreed that an order shall be i'm
mediately issued prohibiting the intro
duction of Canadian cattle into this coun-
| try.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of Oct. Goth
| says Secretary Schurz is very earnest and
| enthusiastic in his commentator of the
/ intrepiditv with which Gen. Adams went
I among the hostiles to rescue the captives,
and the evident skill and good judg
nent he has displayed in the conduct of
! the whole business with which he has
/ been entrusted. From later information
| it now appears that all the women and
| children were delivered to special
agent Adams without condition. They
| had all been well treated by the Indians
| Secretary SchurZ, Immediately upon re-
| ceiving the welcome intelligence, con-
veyed it to the president and subsequent
| ly to Gen. Sherman. All three are in
/ earnest praise of Adams.
| A WASHINGTON dispatch under date of
! Oct. 9th to the Chicago Inter Ocean says
| the coming session of congress will see
| very serious attempt made to revise TIE
! customs laws, with view of reducing
the tariff, and the attention that has
| hitherto been devoted to the currency
! problem " i'll be directed to the tariff. 1t
will be made aparty question, too, and
/ the democrats will appear as the cham
| piOns of free trade, the only exceptions
| being the democratic members from
Pennsylvania and New England. The
republicans in congress are with one
or two exceptions strongly in favor of a
| protective tariff.
| THE forthcoming report of the super
| intendent of railway mail service will
| show, says dispatch of Oct. 28th, that
| during the last fiscal year tifty-niAe
lines of railway postoffices have been
| operated, and over II $40 miles of rail
way, performing about $4,000 miles daily
| service, and nearly 100000 miles of
service annually. The aggregate num-
| Der of miles of railroad mail service of
all kinds, including transportation, not
only of postal cards, but of inclosed
pouches, was over 100000 million
mills during the year. The number of
letters handled and distributed by en-
| piOyes of the railway mail service on
postal cars during the twelve months was
about 100000, besides which there were
nearly 9S0,000,000 newspapers, showing
an increase of about 90 per cent. in the
amount of work as compared with the
preceding year.
| A DISPATCH of the the 1st inst says the
comptroller of currency reports the
whole amount of additional currency is
sued since the publication of his annual
report i'll November, 1873, as SIS, 435, 315.
| Total average amount issued the past
twelve months has been at the rate about
one million three hundred thousand dol
lars per month. The increase of circu-
lation for the year ending Nov. 1, 1878,
was $4,216,5S4, and total decrease from
January IA, 1875, to the 18th of
November, 1877 was more than
$30,0O0,000. Total amount is
saed in the month of October, $3,503,
$50; and during the north of Septem-
Der and October, 1854, 10, or about
| one-half of the whole amount issued
during the year. The increase in legal
tender notes deposited for the purpose
of retiring circulation during the year
ending Nov. IS, 1879, was $3,279,001
leaving the net increase of national bond
circulation issued during the year SILL
4S4,5S2.