, 1881-01-14


lion dollars into the senatorial contest In
Nevada and will beat Fair Mfter all.
The democrats propose to pass the APP
portioument bill this session Of congress
They interpret the constitution as man
datory in the matter.
rhe distribution Of standard dollars
! from the L. ;. mins during the month oI
December amounted to Sl,SO14Sl. In
December ~ it reached 81 ,035,92l.
The National Republican commences
its new year. by announcing Geo. Z. Cor
ham rs its editot-in-chief with Hallett
| kibourne as general manager, and AS
sistant Postmaster General Geo. A, shan
don and Henry ID. Cooke as board OF
trustees.
The beliefs gaining ground at Wash
| ington that the McCOOK bill to place Gen.
Grant upon the retired list of the army
eral, will after ali be favOrably reported
| and passed. Speaker Randall EXPIRE 'ses
himself very decidedly in its favor and a
number Of prominent southern members,
including Alex. II. Stephens and Gen.
Joseph Johnson, of Virginia, have also
committed themselves to its support. \
similar feeling prevails among southern
senators, and as it will in no way interfere
with the rank ofGen. Sherman, he and his
| friends are also satisfied to have 1t enacted.
1t is generally believed that the vaaanl
seCretaryship Of the navy has been offered
to Representative Morton, of New York,
and declined by that gentleman, although
accompanied with an assurance that Gar
| tie d would retain him. No requstlons
have been signed and no money, on aC-
count of naval expenses, has been drawn
| from the treasury since last Friday, when
Secretary Ramseys temporary inCum-
bency terminated, nor can there be until
q new head tor the navy department is
nominated, confirmed and sworn in. 1t
is now considered somewhat probable
that Chief Clerk Hogg will be nominated
to fill the uneXpired term.
An Albany New York dispatch of Janu.
airy I'd says: \ majority of the legislature
is now in the city, and the hotels are quite
lively with Canvassing for the speaker
ship. 1t is conceded that Sharp will re-
ceive the nomination of the caucus to-
night, though Skinner will receive quite
fiattering vote. In the canvass the U.
S. senatorship crops out quite frequently.
The anti-COnkling section, though they
would like to elect Skinner speaker, and
feel that they cannot do it, are positive
that they will elect an anti. Conkling can
didate for U. S. senator. They say that
they have the votes of assenblymen
enough pledged to secure this result in
Joint ballot, when the votes of anti Conk-
ling senators will be cast.
The public debt statement shows the
decrease of the public debt during Deem
Der, 1880, to be S5,699, ,430; cash in treas
ury, 1920, ,299, ,739; gold certificates S45, ,5S2,-
1870; certificates of deposits outstanding,
S7,005,000 rejunding certificates, 1927 400;
legal tenders outstanding, S346,3Sl ,0l6;
fractional currency outstanding, 81 l41,-
$50; skies of 81 outstanding, IS, 900;
payments made from the treasury by
warrants during December, 1880, were on
account of civic and miscellaneous eX-
penses. $5470,959; war, S3,i9i ,9ll; navy,
81 ,719, l04; interior, Indians, $643, ,0lS; pen
sions, $4,750,070; total, $l5075,06 The
above does not include payments make
on account of interests or principal of the
public debt of the United States.
Nearly million dollars has been raised
in st. Louis to aid in the construction oI
the st. Louis and Texas narrow guage
railroad, line which is now being built
from Texarkana to Waco, Texas, which
it is designed to extend from the former
point 10 Cairo, ILL.,, there to connect with
a narrow guage road to st. Louis. 1t il
also intended to push the road to Waco
to the Rio Grande, to connect with the
Palmel-Suliv system, which is to be
constructed to the City of Mexico under
concessions lately obtained by General
Palmer, of the Denver and Rio Grande
road from the Mexican government. II
is also in contemplation to ultimately
| build narrow guage road from st. Louis
or Cairo to New York, and thus have q
continuous narrow Luage line to the City
of Mexico
The New York Tribune of January Sd
prints over two pages ola tabular state.
| ment of mining industry in the United
| States. 1t says: 1t will be seen from
the statistics we present, that the pre-.
vIous year has not been favorable one
| for speculative mining operations. Stocks
have as a rule gone down and distrust
has taken the place of buoyant and exag-
gerated confidence. At the same time
the business, regarded as productive in.
dlslry has more than held its own. The
number of dividend paying companies
has nearly doubled The total yeild of
ore is remarkably steady and an exceed
ingly good percentage has been earned
on capitol actually invested in land, ma
chinery and working expenses, while the
industry Is constantly expanding, con-
querng almost every month new fields
and drawing to itself additional forces in
the way Of capital and men.
Christmas day was marked by an un-
usual number OF crimes in different parts
of the country: A. NJ. Conkling was shot
and killed at Socorro New Mexico by q
Mexican. Henry Ostrander shot his
brother George near Camden, New York
on account OF family quarrel At New
Alexandria, Ohio, DR. Henry attacked Dr.
Schooley wounding him fatally, but not
before Schooley HAD mortally shot far
mer, named Buckingham who had taken
| Henry's part in the row. At Napoleon