Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-07-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
WASHINGTON.


country exceeds that planted last year. Nortl
Carolina, Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee
show the largest gain in the South. Obi,
and Indiana show some decrease. The State
west of the Mississippi River make the larges
gains as a section, Nebraska, Kansas, low
and Missouri all ranging from 1O4 to 11S. Tn,
Northern States show fair condition. Tht
acreage of tobacco for the whole countr,
shows a decrease. The average condition o.
spring wheat is 81 against 106 last July. Tn,
Northern New England states range nearly
up TO the average. In the Northwest tn,
range is from " to 96. The crop in Kansas
Will average but g. The condition Of the
crop in the Southwest and Northwest wa.
largely affected by droughts. Local storms
were more or less destructive in the North
west The average condition Of winter wheat
Is placed at 81 against 101, July, 1873. The
crop In California averaged 10S, Oregon, 112
The Navy Department is enlisting boys for
the naval service, and has two vessels for this
purpose on the Atlantic coast, one at New
Orleans and another on the lakes.
memorandum of the financial opera
tions of the Government has been issued
from the Treasury showing that the reduc.
tion In the interest-bearing debt from the
highest point, Aug. 81, 1865, to July 1, 1879,
amounted to S5S3, SS6, ,594 and the reduction
In the annual interest charge, when the
present funding operations are completed
(Aug. l, 1879, viii be S61, 203, ,gIg. The
total debt has been reduced S729,224. .3l5.
aud the reduction since March 1, 1877, is
SOl,553,SS6 The bonds refunded since the
acts OF July IA, 1870, and January 20, 1871,
amount to 81 1896, ,022, 900, on which the annual
interest charge was Sl,673, 4S7. In the place
OF these bonds there will be issued, when the
present refunding operations are completed,
which VIII not be later than August l, 1879,
bonds on which the annual interest charge
VIII be sol, 165, $50, making an annual saving
hereafter In the interest charge on account Of
the refunding operations, of Sl9,907, ,6O7, of
which amount Sl4,297, III arises from transac-
tlons since March /, 1877.
The sale of S1200O,O 900 new four per cents
has been effected by the First National Bank
of New York City to j. S. Morgan Il Co., of
London. This closes out the amount taken
by the syndicate in April.
President Hayes intends spending the
month of September at his home in Fremont,
Ohio.
Six cadets have been expelled from West
Point for hazing.
OF the total amount appropriated 25,OOO.-
COO to pay arrears of pensions $40, 2l9, goo had
been said up to July IL.
Judge Stephen j. w. IT, Dor, Fourth Audi
TOR OF the Treasury, has resigned.
Washington dispatch says there is no
doubt of the correctness of the assertion here
tofore published in regard to the successor of
secretary McCrary. Ex-senator Ramsey, of
Minnesota, has been rendered the Office of
Secretary of War, and has accepted. The
change Will not occur, however, until the
present Secretary retires.
The number of applications from civil life
Tor thirty-six vacancies in the grade of Sec
ond-Lleutenant in the regular army numbered
more than 1900.
An army officer of high rank now in the
west writes that he apprehends trouble from
sitting Bull on account of the preparations
made by General Miles to patrol the border
and prevent his bands from crossing the line
ON hunting expeditions
General Walker, Superintendent OF the
census, expresses the opinion that the next
enumeration will show a population of As
OOO,OOO, an increase of 1O,OOO, COO since 1870.
THE EAST.
The breaker in Prevost's colliery, Centralia,
Pa, was destroyed by fire on the 18th. The
breaker cost Sl5O,OOO. A vein OF coal in the
mine caught fire and was burning fiercely. and
VIII probably cause much more damage. Three
hundred and fifty men are thrown out of work.
A single scull race, two miles and return.
between Courtney and Riley, took Mace at
Silver Lake, N. Y, on the 18th. Courtney
he hu half hNo
27s{ sec.
Ihe National Greenback Labor party of
pennsylvania met in convention at Altoona
on the 10Th. Henry Carey Baird, of Phila-
delphia, was nominated for State Treasurer
by acclamation, but he positively declined
the nomination, and the convention then
nominated Peter Sultan, wealthy farm
or, and ex-Judge of Indiana County. The
platform declares in favor of the payment of
the National debt strictly in accordance with
the stipulations of the contract under which
/: was created, and that no more interest,"
bearing bonds of the Federal Government be
Issued; that the Federal Government only
snail issue money; that such money shall be
full legal tender, and that full legal tender
grecnbacks shall be substituted for National
bank notes; that the trade dollar and frac-
tional silver coin be replaced by fractional
paper currency; demands the repeal of all
the laws that foster inequality in condition
ana opportunity, as they are In violation of
universal justice; the enactment of an income
TAX that all debts due for labor performed
snail take precedence of all other claims; the
passage and enforcement of such laws as will
prevent all combination determinations, or
granting of rebates by transportation com
panles, and compelling common carriers to
furnish service for the same price to all men /;
that no more public lands be voted to cor
porations, but that they be held for actual
settlers; that education shall be free and in
dustrial, and that no child shall be allowed TO
grow up In ignorance; that there shall be a
SPECIFIC tariff placed on all raw materials pro-
duced here for the protection of American
INDUSTRY; that the hours Of labor shall be re-
duced to eight hours per day, and that the
contract system of labor in prisons and re-
formatory institutions shall be abolished.
The Pennsylvania Democratic Convention
Tor the nomination of State Treasurer met at
Harrisburg on the 10th. ID. o. Barr, Of Ale
gheny, was nominated by acclamation. A
platform was adopted declaring that the Just
powers of the Federal Union, the right of the
States and the liberties of the people, are the
vital parts OF one harmonious system, and
to save each part in its whole
constitutional Vlgor is to save the life Of the
Nation that the Democratic party maintains,
as 1t ever has maintained, that the military
are aud ought to be in all things subordinate
to the civil authorities; that the right to a
free ballot is the right preservative of all
right the only means OF peacefully redressing
grievances and reforming abuses that Ruther-
ford b. Hayes, having been placed in power
against the we'll known and legally
expressed will of the people, Is the
representative OF conspiracy only, and
his claim Of right to surround
the ballot boxes with troops and deputy mar
shals to intimldate electors, and his unpre-
cedented use of the veto to maintain his un-
constitutional aud despotic power, are an In,