The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1880-12-02

The taxes paid the government by the ma.
J tional banks for last year were O. SOL, 30.
Pre.ident-elect Garfield declines to express
himself upon the Ohio Senatorial contest
further than to say he shall hold himself aloof
from IL.
The Indian Bureau last year cost the gov
eminent ss,i47,9ee; the War Department
81, .4O,a37.
The defeat Of that one Hancock elector in
California would have given Garfield the nee
essary ls5 votes, even il the Democrats had
carried New York
The total banking capital Of the United
States is, in round numbers, six hundred aud
| fifty millions the bank deposits aggregate
| TWENTY-FIVE hundred millions.
| The President last week received from the
Queen of England present Of \ handsome
desk made out of the British .hip Resolute.
lost in the Attic seas, and rescued by the
American expedition.
| The establishment OF postal savings bank
system, something like that in operation In
Great Britain, Is recommended In his report
by the Postmaster General.
Judge Hawkins, the newly elected Govern
or of Tennessee, besides being Republican,
| is member of the Methodist church. He is
about fifty years old, and accounted hand
some.
Brick Pomeroy's former partner in the
publication Of the Lacrosse Democrat was
yesterday, at that city. sentenced to five
years imprisonment in the Penitentiary Tor
forgery.
Secretary Sherman prefers the Senate to
the Cabinet, and his friends at Washington
declare they will see the Ohio Senatorial
cont, st throul III.
Two hundred passengers are known 20 be
drowned by the sinking of the French steam
err Onkle st. Joseph, near spezzia, by col
lission with another steamer. There was n
glaring negligence in providing means to es-
cape in emergencies.
Ex-senator Stanley Matthews. OF Ohio,
who has lately returned from 4 visit to Men
tor, gives it As his opinion that President
elect Garfield will make an entire change in
the Cabinet, retaining none of Che present
members.
Even the Emperor OF Germany is recognize
ing the force of public opinion, as expressed
through the press. He has ordered that the
views of the European journals, outside
Germany, on the Jewith question, be sub
Mitted to him by his secretaries.
Mr.. Cassius NJ. Clay, Of Kentucky, sends
the Louisville Courier-Journdt his reason for
the defeat. They are in brief ~ Dem
(2) the .'fraud' cry against Hayes; and (3)
the failure of renominating Mr.. Tilden.
Nearly per cent. Of the greenback ma
tional bank notes outstanding consists OF one
and two dollar bills more than 81 per cent.
of ones, twos and fives; over SO per cent Of
+ less denominations than $50; and so per
ctnt of less denominations than $50.
Sir Alexander COckburn, lord chief justice
of England. died suddenly Saturday night.
He was "a Judge of the old school, the
brusqueness of which bordered on brutality,
and. as on the Tichborne trial, at times was
so..grossly unbecoming and partisan.
The number of Indians in America, eXclu-
siye Of Alaska. is 255,93O, all of whom, ex-
cept about 1900, are, more or less, under
the control of Government agencies. There
are upwards OF 5000 Indians in New York
State, about 10000 in Michigan.
The most terrible ocean horror of the year
is the collision near Spezzia, reported by ca-
BILE, between the Italian steamship Ortigia
: and The French steamer Oncle Joseph. The
! latter had on board three hundred people,
and sunk so quickly that but fifty out of the
whole number were saved
According to the report OF the comptroller
OF currency, there is about s7,0)0,000 more
national bank and lcgal-tender notes in cir
culation than one year ago. He says that 1t
will be impossible to keep in circulation any
, large amount of small gold coin Of silver dol
lars unless the coinage of the latter is re-
stricted and small notes withdrawn.
The total amount of gold coin and bullion
in the Treasury. as shown by the Comptrol-
lcr's report, on the lst inst, was $40, 725,
953; silver. S77.,.7. 1916, Of which 81, 1854. 459
was in standard dollars. The bullion gold
in the Bank Of England at about the same
date. reduced 10 our currency. was Sl4l ,G51,
OOo; by the Bank OF France, ZIG, l4o,so0.
The report of Commissioner Raum shows
that the largest collections Of internal reye-
nues are made in the First Ohio (C;ncinat)
District. where the receipts for the last ifs
cal year were sll .556.s7o. Next in magni.
ttde is the Peoria district. the collections in
which amounted TO $l0,324,516. Then comes
the first Illinois (Chicagol District in which
the internal revenue receipts were $3.50.
cal.
The Postmaster General, in his report,
very forcb,y suggests that il is time the
adoption of system Of postal telegraph
was taken into consideration by Congress.
The important correspondence conducted
oyor the wires, he says. should be placed un-
der charge of the government. which would
result in reduction Of tolls and an increase
OF the teegraphc service.
The blunder which may lead TO the return
Of a HANCOCK elcctor from Indiana was not
in the returns. but in the printed blank poll.
books used. These contained the name Of
Thomas W Bennett. who was not a candi-
date as one of the Republican electors. In
the haste and carelessness OF the count,
votes east for d. G. Parker, the Republican
lat. tx.sl, At,e~s
were counted for Bennett. The result is, on
the face of the returns. the election Of
Democrat for the Sixth District.
When Gen. Grant was President, an Irish
woman named Murphy kept an apple and
peanut stand in front of the war department
building. While on his trip around the
world the General met = woman on the
streets of Milan who smilingly addressed him
and extending her hand asked him If he re.
membered her. He replied that he did, and
told her where he had known her. He then
asked her what she was doing there. She re-
piled that she had i son with good voice
AID decided musical talent. and she had
saved her money and was with him there
giving him Il musical education. The son is
now the basso of the Strakoscls Hess opera
company. and MARBLES under the name of
Sgnor Montegrifro. lie is an Italian from
Cork.
Hon. Thos. Ryan has sold his property on |
the corner of Topeka Avenue and seventh |
days. Mrs. Ryan designing TO spend the win