The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-06-07
WARRINGTON.

THE remains of ex-President Jefferson Will
be taken to Washington as soon as practica-
bic and buried In Glenwood Cemetery.
IT is estimated that the decrease In the pub
lie debt for May viii be about SO, 00o, 900, being
less than usual on account of heavy pension
payments during the month.
THE bank charter bill was reported In the
Senate on the LIST from the Finance Commit
tee considerably amended. All of Mr.. Beck's
amendments relating to silver certificates
were voted down, as also an amendment offer
ed by Mr.. Allison to issue gold notes based on
deposits of gold coin.
PosTMAsTER-GESERALH HOWE returned to
Washington on the 1st from his western trip.
He thinks that his visit Will result in such a
decrease OF railroad time between Chicago and
Omaha as to lessen the time of mails between
New York and San Francisco by forty eight
hours, and between New York and Omaha
twenty-four hours.
The printed army bin shows that the re-
tirement clause is somewhat different from the
printed statement The bill, as amended,
allows voluntary retirement upon forty years
service, compulsory retirement at the age of
sixty-two and providing for fun pay for GEN
eral Sherman. The law is not to 70 into effect
until next December, SO as to give general
The Senate Committee on Postoffices and
Post Reads agreed on the LIST to report sena-
tor Ferry's bill providing for the manufacture
and issue Of postal card with a flexible cover
to conceal the message written thereon.
THE Garfield Monumental Committee re-
eeived at Washington on Decoration Day
s4OO. The subscription lists include over
1000 names.
The coinage during May amounted to
$9,s7s, 400, including s., $50 double eagles,
469, 900 eagles, IS 600 half eagles, and 262 900
standard silver dollars.
THE Treasury Department purchased 295,-
900 ounces of silver for delivery at New
Orleans and San Francisco mints; offers for
275, 200 ounces more were rejected, being above
market price.
TIE Secretary Of War holds that service in
the volunteer service does not hold good in
computing the length cf service-in the case
Of medical officers-unless they have served
the full three years. Heretofore It was held
that all service should count equally.
THE House Committee on War Claims
agreed on the 2d to q bill giving 81, 900 to
Mrs. E. A. Carr, for rations furnished troops
going South through New York during the
rebellion.
HERR SCHMIDT, the Imperial Chief Post
Director for the city of Bremen, Germany, was
in Washington on the I'd seeking to make
arrangements with Postmaster-General Howe
concerning the establishment OF a parcel post
between the United States and Germany.
THE investigation Of the rate OF wages for
farm labor, made by the statistician Of the
Department of Agriculture, shows an increase
OF twenty-four per cent since 1879, in the
Eastern States From 1875 to 1879 the decline
was heaviest in the manufacturing sections,
when artisans thrown out of work competed
to depress the rate of farm wages. The
advance since 1879 has been fourteen per cent
in the Western States and thirteen In the
Southern.
THE special agent appointed BY Secretary
Folger to make an examination of the whisky
bonds and ascertain whether they were good
or straw bonds, completed his work on the LIST,
80 far as the Louisville, KY, distillers were
concerned, and his report shows a very bad
condition of affairs. One man, he says, has
been accepted as bondsman for IS, SOC, ,OcO
Another, worth about $3.50, ,0O0 is on bonds to
the extent OF $4,000, ,0)0, and some twenty
other persons, none OF whom are worth over
$4,000, have been accepted as satisfactory
bondsmen for amounts ranging from q, ,OOO,-
900 10 s., 000, 900.
LIEUTENANT DANENHAUER, accompanied
by his father and Long Sing, the Chinese
steward, paid an official visit to the Navy De
partment at Washington on the ID, reporting
his return home, and presenting q detailed
account OF his expenditures. He also brought
q log book of the Jeanette, Captain Belongs
broken rife, another gun belong ng to bis
party Supposed to belong to Collins) and
certain other articles in caches by Engineer
Melville in his search for DeT.ong. These
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