The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-06
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
Gathered From ALI Quarters.
WASHINGTON.

The military department at West Point, N.
Y, was discontinued on the LIST by order of
the President. The United States Military
Academy will now be under the supervision OF
the General OF the army.
The decrease of the public debt for the
month of August is estimated at $4,000, 900.
THE coinage executed at the minis during
the month of August is valued at s., ,3l0, ,672,
of which s., $4,000 was in standard dollars.
THE debt statement for August shows de-
crease in the public debt of SIG, lbs, ,26l; cash
in Treasury, ,S242, 96O SIS; gold certificates out
standing, Si,093,04 silver certificates, s69,-
44o210; certificates on deposit, $12, ,OO0, 900; re-
funding certificates, S442, 100; legal tenders,
S34G, ,6Sl ,016; fractional currency, 81, 032 066;
cash balance available, S141, ,429, oil.
The Acting Secretary of the Interior has
requested that the military authorities turn
the invading Payne and his companions over
to the civil authorities, and that the trial take
place at Fort Smith, Ark.
SECRETARY LINCOLN has Withdrawn the
order removing General Sturgfs, of the Sew
enth Cavalry from the Governorship of the
Soldiers Home at Washington. Secretary
Lincoln said that when he received the petit
tion from the Board of Commissioners of the
Home asking General Sturgis' removal he
thought it was his duty under the law to
remove him without inquiring beyond the rec
ommendation of the Board, but Attorney
General Brewster's opinion was that 1t was
discretionary with the Secretary aud the order
was revoked.
EDWIN SMITH, of the United States Coast
Survey, and who is also chief of the ,geodetic
survey party for observing the transit of Venus,
left Washington on the ID for New Zealand.
He was joined at Omaha by Prof. Pritchett,
his principal assistant, and. after reaching
New Zealand and completing observations
there, he will proceed to some pointin Japan
for the purpose OF making pendulum OBJ
servations.
ATthe close of business at the Treasury at
Washington on the ID, United States call
bonds had been redeemed as follows: Under
the 10Sth call, sI9 $50 $50; 1O9th call, 81, 7sS, =
800; 11Oh call, a, $50 o5O; 1Ilth call, 81, 62S,-
COO; 1l2th call, S13, ,2S3, so; 11Sth call, s1O,-
416, $50; 114th call, Sl2, S59, go.
Mn. BIGELow, Sergeant Mason's counsel,
intends soon to apply for a writ of habeas
corpus in the United States District Court for
the Northern District of New York, II his
client is not released upon Judge Advocate
General Swaim's opinion, recently submitted
to the Secretary of War. General Swain, in
his opinion, holds in brief that the court mar
tisl had no Jurisdiction to try Mason, and that
there is no evidence in the case tending to
show that Mason committed the ofTense
charged against him. One of the points in
Bigelow's petition for a writ will be that the
Secretary of War has no judicial authority to
overrule the opinion Of the Judge Advocate
General.
THE Chief Signal Office of the Army at
Washington issued the following important
notice on the I'd: "a sys'em of warnings for
frosts which threaten tobacco growing sec.
tions of the United States will begin Septem-
Der l, and dcontinue until November1 /, or until a
killing frost has occurred. When afrost is antic.
ipated in any district, notification of the fact
VIII be telegraphed from this Office, and Il
possible, forty eight hours in advance. The
telegram will define as clearly as practicable
the region where frost is anticipa' ed, and state
the time that it may be expected to occur.
The kilograms will be sent to the different
centers, according to schedules deposited in
the telegraph division and the indications
room and addressed to eenters where there are
stations of the signal service to the observer in
charge, and at other centers to the manager
of the Western Union Telegraph Company.
The list of stations viii be modified as occasion
renders it necessary. Officers charged with
special duties will take the necessary action -