Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-03-05


homestead system to settlements upo
unsurveyed lands of all classes except min
eral and timber lands. Provision is made 10
Colony homesteads," whereby twenty o
more persons may dwell together in a vllag
aud acquire title TO a corresponding numbe
Of homestead claims by cultivating them with
out being required TO reside upon them sep
arately. The commission recommend a sweep
ing repeal of the existing mineral laws, witt
a reservation in favor Of all vested rights ant
an allowance of a sufficient period to be hxec
by Congress within which possessory right
must be perfected or be thereafter barred.
The Treasury Department. on the 26th, pur
chased 100000 ounces Of fine silver for th,
United States Mints at Philadelphia, New
Orleans and San Francisco. ~
The President has approved the joint reso
luton authorizing the Secretary Of the Nav
to transport contributions to ireland for tn,
relief Of the starving people in that country
Taking the month OF February as a basis
the Treasury. Department estimates that the
total receipts from customs, internal revenue
and miscellaneous sources for the fiscal year
ending June Both next, will be about $780,.
J 000, 900. Il Is calculated that the total expen
ditures for the same time, including the
sinking fund and interest on the public debt
will foot up between 1915 600, 900 and S27S,
100000. This will leave a profit of about
81, ,OO0, 900.
The President nominated P. B. s. Pinch
back, Of Louisiana, Naval Officer for the Dis.
trict OF New Orleans, on the 9th ult.
The United States Consul at Bradford, En-
| gland, has written to the State Department
that there seems no hope for the English
farmers, except in large reduction Of rents
while wheat can be carried from Chicago to
Liverpool for about fifty four cents per one
hundred pounds.
| The Postmaster General, on the 9th ult.,
suspended his order prohibiting payment OF
money orders to the lottery agent who has
appealed to the Supreme Court of the United
States, until the case is decided by that trl
bunal.
| The Treasury Department has revoked the
order of November 3, 1879, prohibiting the i'm
| portatlon OF reat cattle from Canada.
Representative Wright Chairman of the
Select Committee to inquire into the causes
OF the depression in labor, has prepared a re.
port upon the Chinese question which rec
ommends a modification of the Burlingame
Treaty and the adoption OF Joint resolution
limiting Chinese immigration to fifteen per
sons in any one vessel The necessity for i'm
mediate action on the part of Congress is
strongly urged.
By order of the Postmaster General mail
service on the Star routes is to be continued
until further orders, the House Of Representa-
tiVes having appropriated over 81, ,OOO, 900 for
the purpose.
The Secretary of the Navy received dis
patch from Montsvid on the 2Sth ult. stating
that the United States steamer Marion had
arrived there from Rio with the yellow fever
on toard. A lieutenant and an apprentice
died on the trip, and six officers and fifteen
men had been down with the fever, but we're
then convalescing.
During the year ending March l, 1880 the
National bank circulation increased Sl7,63l,-
6l7. The total amount of National bank
notes outstanding March LIST was S342 2l0, ,s67 !;
legal tender notes, all issues, s346, ,6Sl ,DI6.
A bill has been agreed upon by the Senate
Committee on Indian Affairs, providing for
permanent localization of Indians in several,
y with a provlso that the lands so
allotted shall be absolutely inaliena-
BILE during period of TWENTY-FIVE
years; the extension over the Indians of
the general, civil and criminal laws of the
United States or of the res pective States and
Territories within whose border they are To-
Gated, and the continuation of a certain de-
gree of assistance to them by the Government
in the line of progress toward civilization un-
til they become self-sustaining by means of
agricultural and pastoral occupations.
The total coinage of the various mints dur
ing February was IS, 1853, ,969, Of which S2,30O,-
400 were silver dollars.
The Committee on Coinage Weights and
Measures has ordered favorable report to be
made to the House on the bill for the retire
ment of the trade dollar.
The public debt statement for the month
ending February 80 is as follows: Total debt,
81, l14 341 ,CSl.OO; cash in Treasury, sl96.35I,-
$500; debt less cash In Treasury, ST. ,995, 1l2-
22l 90; decrease during February S5,672,
Dl9OO; decrease since June 30, 1879, S32, ,O95,-
O35.00.
The United States Supreme Court has de-
cided in a case sent up from West Vir-
gtnia, involving the constitut ionality OF the
act excluding colored citizens from jury serv-
ice In that State, that when colored citizen
Is tried for his life by jury from which citi-
Eens OF his own race are by State statute
excluded, he is denied the equal |
protection of law guaranteed by the third
clause of the fourteenth amendment to the |
Constitution, and that State statute denying |
him such right is repugnant to said Consti- |
.utional provision. The Judgment of tn e su-
preme Court of West Virginia was reversed. |
TEEE EAST.
One-third of the business portion of the
village of Brewsters, N. Y, was burned on the
night OF the 23d.
NJ. De Lesseps and some of his engineers