The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-02-06
Washington.


THE total amount of the Legislative,
Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill as
reported from the House committee on the
2sth is SIS 155, ,565 which is $222, ,572 less than
was the appropriation last year, and $94l, ,636
less than the department estimates.
The Secretary of the Treasury, on
the 2Sth, called for the redemption Of another
go, ,000, 900 of $50 bonds.
THE House Committee on Public Ex-
penditures has concluded Its investigation in
to the management of the public printer. The
minority embrace within their report statis-
tics showing that under the old system Of
contracting as compared with the present
system, the latter, in seven years. with double
the work performed, was 1881, 149 less than
under the contract system.
The Senate Finance Committee have
decided, by q vote Of FIVE to four, to recon-
mend the reduction Of the tobacco tax from
twenty-four to twenty cents q pound.
The course of the Government in
dealing with Sitting Bull will be to require
him and his people to surrender as prisoners
of war or else go back into Canada
NorwIrHsrANDrNGt the Treasury De-
partment paid out over $25, ,000, 900 on coin
obligations presented during January, there
has been steady increase Of coin in the
Treasury.
The excess of exports over imports
for December, 1873, was SIS. Los, 900; for the
year 1878, s3O4, ,542, 900.
SENATOR CHRIsTIANcY, of Michigan,
was nominated as Minister to Peru by the
President on the 29th.
The third installment of the Mexican
indemnity, $500, 1000, has been paid at the
State Department.
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the four per cent.
loan for the month of January, $15s, ,s5l, $50;
calls for the same period, $50, 100000.
THE British Minister at Washington,
on the 3lst ult.. informed the Department of
State that pleuro-pneumonia having been
detected in q cargo of cattle on the ship On
tario, from Portland, Her MaJesty's Govern
ment are considering whether they can retain
the United States under the exemption of
part Of the fifth schedule Of the act Of 1878.
THE Post-office Department has re-
ceived nearly 10000 bids for carrying mails in
Missouri, Iowa. Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin
and Minnesota 1t win require about a month
to open the bids and award the contracts.
THE Secretary of the Treasury, on
the LIST, issued another call for the redemp-
tiou of $40, ooo, 900 $40 bonds, censols of 1867.
THE Treasury Department has paid
out but little gold on interest, nearly all the
persons presenting interest coupons prefer
ring greenbacks.
The total amount of cash in the
Treasury Jan. 81 was $3sa, 45O, ,695; total debt,
g, 3S5 322 1856; debt, less cash in treasury, 81,
025, ,S96, 100; decrease during January, $2,751.-
$50; decrease since June 80, 1878, SO, $50, I'll.
THE Interior Department has made
with Chief Joseph to transfer
six townships in the Indian Territory to the
Nez Perces in exchange for the lands held by
them In Idaho. In addition the Indians are
to receive $3.50, 900 which will be placed in the
Treasury and draw four per cent. interest.
INVESTIGATION by the Congressional
Committee of the doings Of John l. Daven-
port, United States Commissioner and Chief
Supervisor at the recent election in New York
City, was begun on the 2Sth.
ONE HUNDRED of the American en-
ployes Of Collins & Co., who are engaged in
building a railroad in Brazil, arrived at New
York City, on board the steamship City of
Para, on the 29th. They were found in Para
In q wretched condition, without money and
many Of them sick. About 125 yet remain,
but they will return as soon as they can get
A DEXTER, Me-, dispatch of the 30th
ult. says the Barron tragedy has come to a sac
conclusion. There is authority from the bank
officers for stating that the detectives who re-
Gently had charge of the matter have come to
the conclusion that Barron committed sui
eide, and In such manner as to leave the i'm
preston that the bank had been robbed. 1t
Is not known whether his accounts were cor
rect
THE steamship California which sail
ed from New York for England on the LIST,
took out seventy head of cattle. The agent of
one steamship line stated that they had re-
ceived positive information from England
that no order forbidding the importation of
live cattle from the United States had been
issued by the British Government, and there
fore the shipment Of cattle would be con-
tinued as formerly.
The veteran poet and essayist, Rich
ard Henry Dana, died at Boston on the I'd,
aged ninety-three.
GEN. GEORGE CADwALLADER, who
commanded the Second and Sixth Divisions of
the Army of West Tennessee during the Re
bellion, died at Philadelphia on the Sd. At
the close Of the war he became commandant
OF the Loyal League of the United States. He
was seventy-three years old.
West and South.