Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-09-25
VERY LATEST NEWS
A Record Of Important Events
Domestic and Foreign.
WASHINGTON,

A WASHINGTON special of the Goth
says Commissioner Raum to-day re.
ceived notification of the death last night
of Collector William B. Allen, at his
residence in Aurora, Ill Mr.. Allen
had been collector Of the second Illipa1
district since April, 1867. He WIS.,.
most efficient officer.
A SPECIAL of the Doth says the exports
pof petroleum for July, 1879, there were
exported from Boston, New York, Phila-
delphia, Baltimore, San FESssisco, and
other United States ports - 2SO gal
Ions of petroleum produces aggre-
gate value of which was f61
A WASHINGTON press dispatch of the
18th states that the indications at the
treasury department are that the number
of silver dollars which will be got into
circulation this month will, for the first
time, equal the monthly coinage. As far
as Washington is concerned, the standard
dollars are already much more plentiful
than bank notes.
A TELEGRAM Of the 18th ssys from
1873 to 1879 inclusive, the United States
mints coined 376, Gal $40 pieces of money,
aggregating in value $410,071, ,113. The
treasury department to-day purchased
100000 ounces of fine silver, deliverable
at the Philadelphia mint. Other offers
were made for Philadelphia and San
Francis %, but on account of their being
above the market price, as construed by
the department, were declined.
AN associated press telegram from
Washington, of Sept. 20, states that the
following dispatch is from Col. Hatch,
at Santa Fe New Mexico:
Just received the following from Nc
Evers, near Hillsboro: eve had five
hours fight with all of one hundred In
dians. We have ten killed and several
wounded. All our stock is gone" |
have sent every available soldier out with
Dawson and Day. | hear that Boyer,
Hugo and Lieut.. Rice are all in that vi
cinity, and they should be able shortly
TO Ovcrtake the Indlnns.
The OrdDence department has tele-
graphed to the cOmmandant of the arse
nal at Fort Union, New Mexico, to issue
arms and ammunition to Governor Wal
lace not to exceed three hundred rifles
and one million rounds of cartridges.
A WASHINGTON telegram of Sept goth
says that there are eight hundred and
twenty-one cases on the docket of the ST.
preme court for trial at the term which
begins on the 18th of October. On the
first day the court will meet and adjourn
and pay its respects to the president, if
he is in the city. On the second day the
Rives-Virginia case, involving the right
of negroes to be tried by juries OF
their own color, will come up. The
case involves the constitutionality of the
reconstruction legislation of congress
formidable array of legal luminaries
will argue the points of law on both
sides. Another case which will be
brought before the court at the next
term involves the constItutionality of the
election laws, which the democrats at the
last session Of congress vainly attempted
to modify.
A DISPATCH of the 18th says the treasu-
ry department has just received from
London copy of a document relating to
trade with the United States, made in re-
ply to a parliamentary inquiry of the
House of Lords, daeed 1st of April, 1879,
which called for a statement of the trade
Of the United Kingdom with the United
States. This parliamentary document
reveals in a very striking way the
fact of the constantly increasing
exports from the United States to
Great Britain, and of the rapidly de-
creasing exports from Great Britain to
the United States. Our statistics for the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1879, show
that our total exports ofmerchandise and
specie to Great Britain amounted to
$63,013,G GAG, while our total imports
for the same period amounted to
only Sill, OH, ,766, being an excess of
exports over imports Of $351 ,041 $780,
In other words, our exports to Great
Britain were more than three
times the amount Of the importations
from that country. The parliamentary
document presents a doleful account of
the decline of British expectations, and
shows that Great Britain year by year
appears to become more dependent upon
the United States. In the one article Of
arrivals, oxen and bulls, the imp portations
into the United Kingdom from the United
States had increased in values from about
100000 in 1878, to nearly $6,0OO,OO0 in
1878.