Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-12
From Washington.

THE public debt statement for Feb
ruary makes the following exhibit: Total
debt (lncludlng interestJ, SSylal, ,4G3 S74. Cash
IN Treasury, sl96, ,653. Debt, less amount
In Treasury 81, ,005, 1l2,22l. Decrease during
the month, S5672,l2O. Decrease since June
30, 1879, 3ae,OD6OS5.
A FEW months ago a negro was con-
ylcted Of murder In West Virginia The
Judge pTesiding In accordance with the State
law excluded colured men from the jury,
aud the Court Of Appeals sustained the rul-
ing, On the lat the United States Supreme
Court reversed the ruling Of the courts be-
low, and pronounced the trial and conviction
Of the prisoner Illegal, because he was, by the
exclusion m his own race from the jury,
denied the equal protection OF the law
guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.
In the Virginia case, where negro muir
derer had been tried by a jury composed
entirely of white men, the State laws
containing no prohibition on colored citi-
zens from 40 serving, the Supreme Court
pronounces the action Of Judge Ryes, OF the
Federal bench, In removing tho ease 10 his
court for trial, wrong In the ease OF the
State Jadge who presided In the last-men-
toned trial, who was arralgned for persist
emily eXeluding o9lored men from lairles, the
law not requiring II, II was held that the
complaints against him were well founded.
In the case OF Dayis, Deputy Collector In q
Tennessee district who while on raid killed
a moOnshiner and was indicted for murder In
a State court, Il Vas decided that the killing
was done by him ~ an officer OF the United
States In the discharge OF his duty, and that,
II the proyOeation had not been sufficient, he
would have been amenahle 70 Federal and
not State Law. Justice Field dissented.
THE coinage during February AZ the
United States mints amounted 10 total OF
ts,l6a,9G9, Of which sum S2,SOO, 400 were In
standard silver dollars
The National Bank taxation cases
were decided by the United States Supreme
Court on the 2d, the Court holding that the
laws Of Now York and Ohio virtually dis
crlminate against bank stock In favor OF 9th
er moneyed capital and are Ia conflict with
Federal acts bearing on the subject
THE Commissioner Of Agriculture, In
3 recent letter TO Representative lie Fever,
says the wants OF the Agricultural Depart
ment are many and urgent. A suitable build
ing IA needed for the accommodation Of enl-
plqyes, for the storage aud handling Of seeds,
aud for the continuous exhibition OF the agrl-
cultural produce Of this great Nation. Com
missioner Le Due urgently recommends the
addition Of divisions Of forestry, meteorology
aud veterinary division, and, In summing uI
their ueeds in single phrase, says eth,
Department needs opportunity"
A CONFERENCE was held in Wash,
ipgtou on the sd between Secretary schun
and the Ute chiettalns. The Iadians vlrtu
silly agreed 10 accept the terms Of the Gov
ernment and eede their reservation. Il wal
thought the White River Utes would be re
moved 10 the uintah Reservation In Utah, an,
that Ouray and the UneOmpahgres would b,
settled Ia seyeralty on Grand RIVER Utah. A
previous interview the Southern Ute dele
CATION conse ated to give up their prrsen