The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1880-12-11

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Interior pensions, ............. 1905, las 90
Total SIS, SOL 229 IS
The annual report OF Secretary Schurz is
largely devoted to Indian affairs He says that
although at first accepting the reservation
policy as he found it, observation and study
gradually convinced him that it was a mis-
taken policy; that it would be vastly better for
the Indians to respect their home attachments;
to leave them upon the lands they occupied
and to introduce among them the habits and
occupations OF civilized life; to dissolve grad
ually their tribal cohesion and merge them in
the body polite as independent and selt-rely.
ing men, invested with all the rights which
other inhabitants OF the country possess The
civilized and uncivilized tribes together cult.
waited last year 49,, 73S acres OF land, or about
one and three-tourths acres to each man, wo-
man and child, estimating the total Indian
population at $50, COO Nearly two thousand
freight wagons have been in use by the In
dams this year, with the result of saving con-
siderable money to the government. The
number OF Indian youth learning trades at the
agencies has increased from l85 last autumn to
1853 this year. The aptitude shown for mechan-
ical work has in many cases been surprising.
The secretary speaks highly Of the progress OF
education and notes as important civilizing
factor the organization OF an Indian police
force at forty agencies consisting now of l62
officers and 653 privates. Secretary Schurz
says that in his opinion the management OF
T,lio ffo1r Oh H..
to the civil and not to the military branch OF
the service.
Secretary Thompson says in his annual
report that the amount available for the sup
port of the navy TOR the last fiscal year was
S14, 704, 644 %. The expenditures were Sl2,.
GIG, 639 IS. The number OF navy pensions on
tie rolls June 80, 1880, was $3.50, and the
amount paid during the year on account OF
pensions was S75277 81. The total amount
available for the operations of the navy tor the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1881, is S15,O95,
06l IS, and the total estimates for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1882, are SIS, 953. 76l 81.
The secretary favors the policy of govern
mental aid to steamship lines, and suggests
that vessels built tor carrying the United
States mails should be so constructed as to be
easily changed into war vessels, and says that
the number of vessels should be increased.
The following is a statement OF the COMA ge
executed at the United States minis during
November: Double eaeles-pieces, $4,000;
value, $40 900. Eagles pieces, 1913, $50;
value, 81 9SS, 800. Halt -eagles-pieces, $751;.
$780, value, Sl,936, 400. Quarter eagl-s,
1880; 81, 400. Dollars, 1900; LOGO. Total
gold - pieces, 622,720; value, S4,574, 200.
Silver dollars-pieces $500, 600; value, ST.
100000. Five cents-pieces, 200; value, $40.
Three cents-pieces, 200; value, So. Cents
pieces, 6,200,2 value, S62, 002. Total base
pieces, 5000, 800; value, S62, 0lS
Superintendent Kimball, of the life saving
service, has received report OF the British
Royal Lite Saving institution. 1t was organ
lied in 1924, and 26, $40 lives have been saved
by it. Ours was organized in 1872, and
10000 lives have been saved Last year there
were saved in Great Britain 637 lives: in the
United States, 1900. So excellent is our
service compared with theirs that they are
copying ours largely in methods and ma
chinery.
The following statement contained in the
report of the commissioner OF agriculture,
shows the value OF the most important OF our
agricultural products during the last two fiscal
years and the value OF expectations thereof
for the same period:
Value of agricultural exports for the fiscal
years ending June 80, 1879 and 1880:
1879. 1880.
Animal and AMI
NAL matter. -. SIG GAL 233 Sl66, 400, 42s
Breadstuifs. ETC.. 2l0,3 ,066 2SS, O5O, POI
Cotton, etc.,. 173 l5S 200 2l,5l7, 1928
Wool, etc.,. 20,l22 967 % 600, 900
Miscellaneous -. 81 S43,026 49, 100000
Total. ..... s6o4, l5e, 4s2 STAG, 967, s52
Total exports OF
all kinds, same
years ......... 7l7,093,777 1928 GAG, 1853
This exhibit, the commissioner says. shows
that ours is pre-eminently the agricultural
country of the world"
Rude Folk.
The Sicilians are rude folk, if judged
by their proverbs, some of which are
printed in the Debats as follows:
He who hasn't wife knows not the
devil"
GA woman who goes to every fete
and mule that drinks at every four.
tain is no good"
HE who gets married is contented
for a day; be who kills pig has
enough for a year"
"God keep thee from man who looks
on the ground and woman who looks
at the sky"
There is only one devil and he has q
hundred wives"
Women have devil for every hair"