Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-19
CAPITAL CHATTER.
Agricultural Returns-The Treasury Swim
dIed-BiIls Approvcd-Provisinn Exports
miscellaneous.

Agricultural Returns-The Treasury Swim
dIed-BiIIs Approvcd-Provisinn Exports
Miscellaneous.
RETURNS TO THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
WASHINGTON, April 17.-Returns of April lst
to the department of agriculture show the in
crease in areas sown in wheat last fall to be Is
per cent. more than in the fall previous. In
the areas sown In rye there is decline of per
cent as compared with the year previous. The
condition is ninety-eight the same as last year.
There was large increase in fail sown wheat
in those States that heretofore have exclusive
ly soWn in the spring. The experiment was
unfortunate, and all, particularly Iowa and
Nebraska report great disaster from the winter.
On the whole the wheat crop thus far looks as
favorable rs in the spring of 1879. The con-
dition of live stock as represented is very favor
able, better than for several years. No disease
is reported other than cholera among swine,
and that is no worse if as bad as last year.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT swINDLED.
Some time ago man obtained the numbers
of some United States bonds held by an ac-
dGaintauce, and to raise money on them con-
certed story to the effect .hat the legal owner
was dead and previous to his death he gave his
bonds to his brother, who embarked for Europe
on board vessel which went down with all on
board. This story the man related to the
treasury office, where he appeared with letters
of administration. and the bonds were
therefore duplicated reissued and at once
redeemed. Nov the original bonds
have been presented for redemption, and ali
investigation showed the presumed admins
traitor to be an impostor, the signatures on his
papers forgeries and that the bonds had never
been on shipboard, having been held by an old
gentleman who did not need the money and
hence refrained from presenting them for re-
demption. The bonds will have to be redeem
ed again, and the treasury department is in
doubt if "a special appropriation will not be
needed.
HOOP IRON.
Secretary Sherman has issued a circular in
structing officers of customs that hoop iron
merely cut to lengths, and punched with more
or less holes, is not thereby removed from the
category of hoop iron, and the specifications of
the duty imposed on hoop iron in schedule e,
of the revised statutes, will hereafter be col
lected.
BILLS APPROVED.
The President has approved the bill making
appropriations for acquiring sites, and for the
erection of suitable posts for protection of the
Rio Grande frontier, and the bill donating
condemned bronze cannon to the Blair Monu-
ment association of st. Louis.
WILLING INDIANS.
The ShCshone and Bannock Indians now here
express willingness to settle in severalty aud
adopt civilized methods of procuring living.
EXPORTS OF PROVISIONS.
The exports of provisions and tallow for
March, 1880, were sl2, ,4s7 ,512; March, 1879,
| SIS, ,005, ,674; for the nine months ending March
S1st, 1850, $50, ,74l ,275, and for the period
of 1879, $S5, ,469,506.
LOTS OF BILL.
There are S5 bills of public character upon
the House calendar, over 500 upon the private
calendar and $50 upon the public calendar in
9vAe committee of the whole.