Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-07-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters.
WASHINGTON.


ACCORDING 10 the census reports the
frst fifteen cities Of the United States now
rank as follows: New York, 1,35O,OOO; Phila-
delphia, $4,000; Brooklyn, $50, 900; St. Louis
$4,000; Chicago, 477OOO; Baltimore, 800, 900;
Boston, $4,000; Cincinnati, $4,000; New Or
leans, 10000; San Francisco, 225, 900; Bufta-
10, 145,OOO; Washington, $4,000; Newark,
100000; Louisville, 10000; Cleveland, 159,-
600.
CHAIRMAN ATKINS, of the Committee
on Appropriations, In closing his annual sum
mary Of the years. work, says the total esti-
mates Of revenue for the fiscal year 1881
amount to s2Ss 600, 900, aud that the estimated
expenditures are within S9,9O2, ,635.81 of this
amount.
THERE were filed at the Pension Office
at Washington on the 2sth ult. 6,5U original
invalid pension applications, and ,494 widows
pension applications, or a total Of s,065 appl-
cations. DuriRg the week 14,494 applications
were fled. These figures are enormously in
excess Of anything which ever occurred be-
fore. The occasion for this unusual activity
Is found in the fact that, according to the
present laws, applicants whose papers are
filed after June 30 will not be entitled TO ar
rears Of pensions.
THE gross receipts from internal rev.
enue for the fiscal year ending June 30 we're,
in round numbers, s123 200, 900, an increase
Of Sl0,0O0,OO0 over the receipts Of last year,
and an increase Of 1900, 900 over the estimate
Of the Department.
SUPERINTENDENT WALKER says the
work Of taking the census has proceeded
smoothly, and he thlnlA It will be unusually
full and accurate. He says New York will
continue TO occupy the first place and Penn
sylvania the second, but the race between Ohio
and Illinois for the third place will be very
close.
SECRETARY SHERMAN says there is
noauthorlty for the published statements that
the weekly purchases Of bonds will be sus-
pended after July 1st
The Comptroller of the Currency re-
ports that the total number Of National
banks organized during the last fiscal year
was sixty-one, with a capital of 1882 070
total number Of banks which went into yoluu.
tary liquidation in the same period, twenty
with capital Of S2,6Ol 600, included among
which are three gold banks in California, with
capital Of 500, 900, which went into volun
tary liquidation and organized as currency
Bhuhb NO NhllOuhl uhnkh lulleu from JUL
23d until June 9th, 1880, since which tlmt
three banks failed, with a capital Of s7OO, 900
all Of which, it is believed, will pay thei
creditors In full.
The closing Of the accounts Of the
disbursements OF the Navy Department for tn,
fiscal year shows the expenditures to havl
been S426,67s less than for the previous year
and there remained on hand June 80, 1880, al
unexpended balance Of 2,461, 1888 Of th,
amount available for the year, exclusive o
balances I'm the hands Of pay officers of tn,
navy.
GENERAL WALKER has made an esti
mate of the population OF the United State
from the returns already received and HI
thinks there will be in the neighborhood o
4s,0OO,0O0 people.
The public debt statement for tn
month OF June shows the total debt to b
81, 120, AIS $40; cash in Treasury, S20l, ,0sS go
debt less cash in Treasury, 81, ,942, 172, ,295; de
crease during June, $40, ,2l4, 424; decrease sine
June 80, 1879, $50, ,96l.
THE coinage executed at the Unite,
States mlnts for the fiscal year ending Jun
30 was valued at Ss4,370, IA, Of which S27,
933,75O were standard silver dollars. Thi
exceeds the coinage OF any previous year.
The POSTMASTER GENERAL has com
pleted negotiations with the New York Ger
tral g. Hudson River and Lake Shore q Mich
igan Southern Railroads, whereby the benC
lts derived from the fast mail in operation
on those roads in 1875 and 1876 will be agai
given to almost the whole territory Of tn
West. The arrangement goes into efTeC
July5.