The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-07-29
VERY LATEST NEWS.
A Record of Important Events,
Domestic and Foreign.
WASHINGTON.

| j. -. }. LOPEZ, postmaster ut Anton
Chico, New Mexico has been arrested for
rifing registered letters.
PROBABLY the highest elevator III the
world is that just completed in the WASH
| ineton monument, the first trial of which
was made on 9th inst. 1t is l76 feet high, is
capable of bearing ten tons, and was erect
ed at aost of $50 900.
| THE secretary Of state has addressed a
| letter to the commissioner and alternates,
stating that on the 10th of August he will
call together, at New York city, the inter-
national commission, for the purpose of et-
fecting permanent organization for hold
ing an international exhibition in 1883.
TIE state department is in receipt of no
additional information from Peru regard
ing the progress of the war between that
country and Chill. The department still
hopes that the offer of meditation by the
United States will be accepted by the con-
tending Powers, or at least that a recon-
citation will be effected between them.
TIE old complaint is being revived
among manufacturers of tobacco that state
prisons are allowed to manufacture tobac-
co for their convicts without complying
with any of the requirements of the in
ternal revenue laws. The latest complaints
come from western manufacturers and the
penitentiarics complained of are those at
Joliet, ILL.,. and Waupun, Wis.
AT cabinet meeting the interior de-
partment submitted information that Spot
ted Tail, becoming satisfied, had re-
moved his children from the training
school, where, with seven hundred Others
they had been sent to be educated, and
that his course had led to serious disap-
proval, on the part of the rest of the tribe,
who are anxious to be educated, and they
have appealed to the p esident to depose
Spotted Tale, and appoint new chief
over them.
The silver gorge is causing officers of the
treasury good deal of perplexity. Under
the act of Feb. %, 1878, coinage must go
on until congress otherwise enacts The
law has been in force now nearly twenty
nine months, and over 63, 900, 600 standard
silver dollars have been coined. But only
$4,000, 900 of this is in circulation, the re-
mainder being locked up in the treasury
vaults. All efforts to force this money in
to circulation have failed, and no sooner
does the government pay out silver than it
comes back into the treasury for duties or
in exchange for silver certificates.
The annual report of Colonel Worthing-
ton, the statistician of the Agricultural
department, just made public, some inter-
esting facts concerning farm labor and
wages. In the Pacific and mining states
and Territories the range of wages for farm
laborers, without board: is between $50, IS
in Montana and $3.50 in Washington
Territory. OF the states east of the Mis-
sour, Minnesota pays her farm laborers
better than any other Northern state
monthly wages with board being SlG.33,
while Vermont pays only 1920. In the
Southern states the prices paid range from
1926 in Louisiana to 81 80 in South Car
olina, the average being $500. The cost
| of subsisting the laborer for the average of
the whole country in 1880 is 81. II a month,
against S7.14 in 1870. The demand for la
borers is good in all sections of the coun
try.