The Newtown bee., 1880-12-08
The payments made from tba treasnrv hr

10 4
 interior noians............... 67l,7l3 72 Interior pensions. ............. 4,205 l46 OO
 Total ....................$l5 $l5, ,8Ol, ,229 68
 The annual report of Secretary Schurz ie largely devoted to Indian affairs He says that
 although at first accepting the reservation
 policy as he found it, observation and study
 gradually convinced him that it was a mis-
 taken policy; that it would be vastly better for
 the Indians to respect their home attachments;
 to leave them upon the lands they occupied
 and to introduce among them the habits and
 occupations ot civilized life; to dissolve grad
 ually their tribal cohesion and merge them in
 the body polite as independent and self-rely-
 ing men, invested with all the rights which
 other inhabitants of the country possess The
 civilized and uncivilized tribes together culti.
 vated last year 482, ,738 acres of land, or about
 one and threefourths acres to each man. wo.
 man and child, estimating the total Indian
 population at 250, coo. Nearly two thousand
 freight wagons have been in use by the In-
 dians this year, with the result of saving con.
 siderable money to the government. The
 number ot Indian youth learning trades at the
 agencies has increased from 185 last autumn to
 36S this year. The aptitude shown for mechan-
 ical work has ln many cases been surprising.
 The secretary speaks highly of the progress of
 education and notes as an important civilizing
 factor the organization of an Indian police
 force at forty agencies, consisting now of 1892
 officers and 653 privates. Secretary Schurz
 says that in his opinion the management of
 Indian affairs should continue to be intrusted
 to the civil and not to the military branch ot
 the service.
 Secretary Thompson says in his annual
 report that the amount available for the SUD-
 port of tbe navy for the last fiscal year was
 $l4, ,704, ,644 22 The expenditures were $l2,-
 9l6, 639 45. The number of navy pensions on
 tie rolls June 30, 1880, was 3,93l, i'd the
 amount paid during the year on account of
 pensions was Ss752. I'll 97. The total amount
 available for the operations of the navy tor the
 fiscal year ending June 30, 1881, is $15,095,- O61 45, and the total estimates for the fiscal
 year ending June 30, 1882 are $l5, ,953 761 61. The secretary tavors the policy of govern
 mental aid to steamship lines, and suggests
 that vessels built for carrying the United States mails should be so constructed as to be easily changed into war vessels, and says that the number of vessels should be increased.
 The following IS statement of the coinage
 executed at the United States hints during
 November: Double eagles-pieces, 32,000;
 value, $l 9S8, 800. Half -eagles-pieces, 3S7,- 28O; value, $1,936 400. Quarter eaglos,
 2,960; S7, 7,400. Dollars, 1,6O0; Sl ,60o. Total
 gold - pieces, 622, 720; value, $4,574, 200.
 Silver dolars-pieocs, 2,300. 900; value, $2,-
 300, 900. Five cents-pieces, 200; value, $10.
 pleces, 6,2G0,2G0 value, S62,002 Total base
 pieces, 6,2O0, 500; value, $62 0l8. Foreign News.
 It is announced that Mrs. Langtry, the cele. brated English beauty, is coming to America. The Duke of Medina brother-in-law of Don Carlos the claimant of the Spanish throne, has been peremptorily ordered to leave Spain.
 There is general rev olt in Albania against l the Turks.
 A Stylian soda water manufacturer writes to | the Vienna (Austria) .Neao Free Press that he
 is ready to enter into competition with Dr. | Tanner with beer against water. He asserts that he can fast on beer forty -four days. | A rowing match the Thames between | Trickett, the Australian, and Wallace Ross, of | Canada, resulted in an easy victory for the former; but as a foul occurred, for which | neither man was to blame, the referee decided | that the race must be rowed over again. A
 match has also been arranged between Han | Ian, the champion, and Laycock, of Australia l to take place within few weeks.
 The people of St. PauPs Bay, Canada, have | been shaken up by an earth quake. At an immense land meeting held the other | day in Loughrea, Ireland, many agitators | carried naked swords.
 l A dispatch from Paris says the promotion of | M. De Lesseps' Panama canal scheme has | been resumed with extraordinary vigor. l A dispatch dated Owen Sound, Ontario, says | that the propeller Simcoe, from Chicago, laden with 19 900 bushels of corn and general freight, | toundered off Providence bay during a snow | storm, and that of the seventeen persons on | board only five succeeded in reaching land The English admiralty have received a tell egram confirming the report ot the murder of | the commander and six of the crew of the British schooner Sandfy at the Solomon | islands, in the South Pacific. The party was attacked while some ot the men were bathing | fl party from the schooner, under sub-lieu- l tenant, landed, recovered tho bodies and de- | stroyed the village, losing one seaman, who | was killed; another was wounded The com modore at the South Pacific station will send another man-ot-war to the islands. The volcano of Mauna Loa, in the Sandwich l islands, IS in 8 state ot eruption. The vol cano throws out two great streams of lava,
 one of which is thirty miles long and 100 to | 200 yards wide and about twenty feet deep. | At Tralee, Ireland, party of armed men | broke into a bailiffs house, seized the bailif | and slit his ears.
 | The people of Prescott, Ontario, are con- l siderably excited over the discovery that | number of bodies have been removed from | the cemetery. It is believ ed that tn ) work of | robbing graves has been carried on systemat- | ically tor some time, and that large number | of corpses have bsen removed after being in- | tered by sorrowing relatives.
 | An Austrian count has had a railway built | on his domain which is propelled by sails. | At Toronto, Ontario, the bodies ot Mrs. | Casey's children-one three years and the 1 other five months old were found burned to | death. Their bodies were discovered lying in | the middle of the floor, while the mother was | so intoxicated she could give no information | as to the cause oi the tragedy.
 The second treaty drawn up by the United | States commissioners and the Chinese gov. | ernment provides that Americans shall not import opium or carry the product coastwis,. or sell it.
 The London court of common council has resolved unanimously to present to General Sir Frederick Roberts the freedom of the city l of London and sword, in recognition of his services in Afghanistan. This honor has been conferred only upon few persons. Up to l845 the presidential elections
 were held at different times in the vari- ous States, extending through period