Connecticut western news., 1879-11-26

navy invalids, 1,772 navy widows, &c.,, Il, ,621 surviving soldiers of the war of 1872, and 1,194 widows of deceased soldiers of that war. During the year 31, ,346 new names were added and 908 names previously dropped were restored and 13, 498 for various reasons dropped. The aggregate amount of one years pension to all is $25, 493, TAP. 15, but the actual annual payment exceeds that sum by several million dollars and is due to accrued pensions. There will be de- ficiency in the pension appropriation for the current year, as nearly as can now be estimated, as follows: $5, ,000, ,O0O army pensions and $30,O navy pensions. A very large portion of the new claims cannot be proceeded with until the soldiers military and hospital record can be obtained from the offices of the Adjutant General and Surgeon General, and the large number of calls which will soon be sent to them will doubtless cause greater delay in those offices than have heretofore been ex- perienced.
 The Chief of the Bureau of
 Statistics reports that the exports of petroleum and petroleum products from Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Portland, Me-, San Francisco and all other customs districts of the United States during the month of September, 1879, amounted to 46, 6,076,- $40 gallons, valued at $3, 4I9, 180, and during the same period in 1878, 46, 763,- SAY gallons, valued at $5, ,262, 905.
 -The Commissioner of Pensions has ss ue circular to pension claimants to notify them that all applications for pensions for services after March, 1861, to receive attention must state the name of the soldier, his State, company and
 regiment, as we'll as the number of the claim.
 The estimates for 1880 of the amounts required for the War Depart ment aggregate $29, 319, 794 for the mil itary establishment and $7, 557, O34 for
 public works, including about $5, ,OOO,-
 900 for river and harbor improvements,
 $1, ,OOO, GOO for seacoast Notifications,
 STA, 900 for buildings in and aronnd
 Washington and $657 1000 for arsensals'
 The cost of the naval establishment is
 estimated at $14 ,509, 148. The estimates for the Indian service foot up $4, 992, .
 846; for foreign intercourse, $1, 1855, 135 !;
 for salaries and expenses of collectors of
 internal revenue, $4.O75,OOO; for ex-
 penses of hints and assay offices, $1,-
 209, ,810 for salaries and expenses of the
 Treasury Department proper, $2, 661,
 672 for the Interior Department prop
 CT, $2, 146, TIA; for deficit in the postal
 revenues, $7.712, GOO; for the construc-
 tion of new light houses, beacons and
 signals, $674, ,0OO; for new Government
 buildings throughout the country, $2,- | SoV o1o
 penses of courts, $3, 250,O0O; for pen sions, $32, ,4O4, ,OOO; for salaries and ex- , penses of the two Houses of Congress, g., 800, 900; for salaries of President
 and Vice President and expenses Of the
 Executive office, $97, ASA for expenses of the tenth census, $2, 75O,00O. The aggregate of the estimates is $136, ,347,.
 129. The total amount appropriated by Congress for the current fiscal year was $162, ,4O4, ,648, which included $25, ,000, 900 for arrears of pensions and about
 $3, 900, 900 for the District of Colum bia No estimates for either of these pur poses are submitted in the book of es
 inmates this year.
 The United States Treasurer in hil annual report says that the aggregate O.
 gold coin and bullion, including stand ard silver dollars, which, being coined under the act of February 28, 1878, dt not appear in the statement prior to tha year, is shown to have increased iron $61. .452, 426 in 1876 to $114. ASA, ,982 il 1877, to $163, ,969, ,444 in 1878 and tt $222. SOY, ,368 in 1879. The annual re ceipts of the Treasury from all source are $274, 100000.
 The Postmaster General in his an nual report says that while the cost o
 railway service on the 30th of June 1879, was at the rate of $9, 692, ,59O pc , annum, an increase over the cost of tn
 service during the preceding fiscal yea
 of $125, ,995, the general increase o { business all over the country and tn . reasonable certainty that the presen { prosperity will continue for some year
 will require the appropriation for rail
 way service for the next fiscal year to b ! increased to at least $10,OOO,OOO an
 the estimate is accordingly placed g that sum.
 t During the two years ended Jun
 30, 1878, the receipts at all post. office from sales of stamps amounted to S56 : 8O9, ,lG2, and the aggregate sum pal e into the hands of postmasters for none : orders was $158, ,154, ,625, and that a r. the money thus received was accounte
 for to the department except S3, CA "bad debts," and $96, ,286 now in su: 8 against postmasters and their bonds . men.
 Under the provisions of the Feders & trademark law which the Suprem
 Court of the United States has just pro e nounced unconstitutional, about eigt | fhNnSon6 %ro do g tered at the Patent Office, and about tw g hundred applications for registry a1 s now pending. Under the decision the 8 are of course valueless.
 The National Committee of the NJ 3 tional party will meet at Wash1ngto 2 January 8, 1880, and a Congress1onf ? committee of the National Greenbac Labor party has invited the Unio
 Greenback National Committee and th 1 various State committees to meet at tn D same time to discuss plans for nations t Presidential convention.
 j. The returns of the Agriculturs I Bureau of Move ember show an increas
 in the wheat crop of 26,000,OOO bushel e over that of last year. The indicate 8 produce of tobacco for the entire cou1 d try IS 99 per cent. of that Of 1878. Tn d corn crop promises an increase of ove 1t 200, ,0OO,000 bushels, or nearly 15 pt e cent. over last year.
 The Presidents message is now u t course of preparation. It will be shor ,5 CT than usual and contain very fe e ~ recommendations other than those con 'l prised in the reports os his Cabinet o 10 ticers. It is believed that the only ir J portant topic under the head of foreie
 affairs will be the re-opening of u ,e fishery question with Great Britain. n ,o is understood that attention will l