Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-07-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Gathered from All Quarters.
WASHINGTON.

The Postmaster General has issued
an order intended 70 break up the existing
practice Of sending through the mails adver-
tising cards Of veriOus shapes and sizes with
a one-cent postage stamp affixed. The order
declares the postal cards furnished by the
Postofiice Department the only card matter
that will, for purposes indicated, be transmit
ted in mails, whether Il be printed or written
upon, at less rate than three cents for each
half ounce or fraction thereof. The order
takes effect October ist, 1880.
GENERAL WALKER, Superintendent
Of the Census, has already received great
many applications for copies OF different por.
tions Of the census returns and few applica-
tions for the entire work The entire work
will not be completed for some months, as
come Of the specialists, who have comprehen-
sive subjects, do not expect 10 be able to com
plete their work for six months or even a
longer Periodi but owing TO the great demand
for information as 10 different classes Of top
les General Walker has decided to publish
from time 10 time certain portions in the
shape Of bulletins.
Hon. JoHN A. CAMPBELL, at one time
Governor Of Wyoming and later Third As
sistant Secretary Of State, died at Washing
ton on the lAth.
COLONEL WoRTHIEGroN, statistician
Of the Agricultural Department, has furnish.
ed his annual report on farm labor and
wages, from which the following facts are
gathered= The table giving average wages Of
farm laborers, with and without board, as
compared with the wages paid in the several
branches Of skilled mechanical labor, was
compiled from returns made to the
department last April From It It is learned
that in the Pacific mining States and Terri
tories the range OF wages for farm laborers
without board Is between S3O75, in Montana
TO $3.50 in Washington Territory. OF the
States east Of the Rocky Mountains, Mime
sofa pays her farm laborers better than any
other Northern State, the monthly wages with
board being 1893, while Vermont pays only
$12.75 In the Southern States the prices paid
range from sl2.26 in Louisiana to $7.62 in
South Carolina, the average being $500. The
demand forlabor is good In all sections Of the
country.
TIE War Department is in receipt
Of information that the sensational reports
aboutan invasion Of Indian Territory are with
out foundation.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL DEvEEs has
practically decided that he will not authorize
the appointment Of any special election depu-
ties in the South at the next election, except,
perhaps, In Virginia.
POSTMASTER GENERAL MAYNARD had
nOt sailed from CoDstantinople on the 18th
He had been waiting about ten days TO OBJ
tain an audience with the Sultan that he
might say farewell, and growing impatient ne
asked for instructions from Washington as to
whether he should leave his post without the
customary AmbassadOrial leave-tasing. He
was notified TO use HIS own discretion.
AT a meeting Of the Cabinet on the
18th It was resolved TO thoroughly investigate
the causes which led to the Narragansett dis
aster and determine where the responsibility
belongs.
The Department Of Agriculture re-
ports the following condition of corn and
wheat for July; The increase In area planted
In corn De one per cent over tnat planted last
year. The average condition of the crop for
the whole country is the highest for many
years and is 100, being seven per cent. more
than last yOar st the same time The average
Of winter wheat on the first OF the month was
ninety1hve, against ninety-one last year
JUDGE LAWRENCE, of Ohio, arrived
at Washington on the 15th and after consul
tation with the President decided to withdraw
his letter Of declinatlOn Of the appointment
OF First Comptroller OF the Treasury vice
Judge Porter, resigned. He took the oath Of
Ofiloe and entered at once upon his duties.
THEeOmmittee appointed by the Sec
rotary of the Treasury to visit the sugar plan
tatiOns d the West1ndles and lnvestigaterthe
PROCESSES In use among the planters with a
view 10 determinlngthe truth or falslty Of the
prevailing nepOrts that artificial means were
being used TO degrade the color of sugars in
tended for export TO the United States has
made a report showlng that the frauds which
have been attempted in the Introduction of
sugars into this country are oven greater than
hadgenerally bOens upposad, and that In Dem
erara among the sugar planters, no secret
whatever was made of the practice of artin-
cialy eoioringsugars intended for the United
States market. Sugars testing thirteen to
sixteen Dutch standard, which were exported
20 Great Britain nearly white, we're, when
prepared for expOrtto this country, artlhclally
colonel 10 grade apparently below No. Z,
Dutch standard.
THE total value of exports of domes-
tic provisions and tallow from the United
States during the twelve months ended June
30, were flsO,G7S, 500.