The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-10-20

OF yusrIv-; no amvun. naineu. ....... .........
James Wilson, cooking, etc.,.;....... lSo u
Margaret Nugent, cook, three months
Fred Il. Moore, messenger service. It's %
And claim of employees OF executive
mansion for three months extra pay .........
No claim has been filed by Dr. Hamilton
or DIR. BOynton. The board Is waiting to
hear from them.
AGRICULTURAL.
The department of agriculturereports the
average yield Of oats to be somewhat high
er than last year or in 1879, and the product
nearly as large as that of wheat probably
about 4S0, 0O0. 600 bushels. Illinois, Iowa,
New York, Wisconsin, Missouri, Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, Indiana, and Kansas are the
states of highest rank in production. The
average yield OF rye. averaged from state
returns, Is IA lilo bushels, making crop of
20, OO0, 600 bushels, or nearly the same re
ported by the census. There is indicated
an average yield OF barley about %Sn % bushels
California. New York, and Wisconsin to-
gether produce more than half, or q, OOO, 600
bushels; product in 1873, A, 900, 600. The
prospect for buckwheat Is good for nearly
an leverage product. 11,o0O, 900 to 12,000,-
ly half the crop and reports 95 as the aver
age OF condition, 100 representing full
normal yield. New York makes the aver
age. rs. No other state produces 5O0OO0
bushels. The general average condition of
valley, and In Michigan, Wisconsin and Ne
braska, the average Is 100 to LOG. In the
northwest, and in the eastern and middle
states, the condition Is lower. 1t is 70 in
New York, IS in Maine, and "a in Vermont.
The returns indicate q probable yield of 80
6 D1shels per acre on an area of nearly 2,OOO,-
The. yield per acre of corn will be report
ed in November. The condition averages
81, being very high in the south and com
paratively low in the states of largest pro-
cTsten IN NTH per cent de-
Iowa 20, and in Ohio 81. Three states pro-
duced 40 per cent. of the crop of 1879. A
careful comparison of the changes in area
and condition indicates an average yield Of
% bushels per acre against % in 1879 and Is
last year. The average of a series of years
Is between 20 and 81 bushels. New Eng
land will produce, according to the October
returns, Zoo, 600 to 5000, 900, the southern
$40, 600, 900: Those north of Tennessee and
west OF Virginia and Pennsylvania 1885,
Later returns slightly reduce but can not
materially increase this estimate.
THE PENSION LIST.
Inc ANNUAL report OF W.. w. dudley,
commissioners OF pensions, shows that at
the close OF the fiscal year ended June 80,
1882, 2S5, sos pensioners had been classified,
as follows:
Army invalids. .173, 1873
Army widows minor children, and
dependent relatives. ............... GAS
Navy invalids. .....;.:........... 1851
Navy widows, minor children, and
dependent relatives. ............... 1853
Survivors of the war of 1912. ........ 7,134
Widows of those who served in the
The names of 27,6a new pensioners We're
added to the rolls during the year, and the
names of $40 whose pensions had previous
ly been dropped were restored, making an
aggregate increase to the rolls of Is, 313-
The names of II ,446 pensioners were drop
ped from the rolls for various causes, leav-
sioners. AT the close of the year the pen
sions paid to each pensiOner averaged S102.-
20, and the aggregate annual value of the
whole roll was 500, 342, l01.62. The report
says: 1.-THE annual payment of pensions
exceeds the annual value by several mil
lions of dollars-that Is to say, the total
amount paid for pensions during the year,
exclusive of the arrears due in such pen
sions as were allowed prior Jan. %, 1879,
was S5S, 924, 5000; the difference between
this sum and the annual value being the ar
rears due in new pensions computed from
the date OF discharge In the case of an in
valid soldier, and from the death of the sol
dier where pension was allowed to the wild
Ow or Others"
The amount paid during the year upon
first payments to new pensioners was 500
42l.669. This amount was paid to 27,703
pensioners.
The report gives in detail the operations
of the bureau covering the period since 1861
the tables being arranged by years for the
purpose of ready comparison. A table has
also been prepared which shows the number
of pension claims filed and allowed since
1861, and disbursements on account of pen
slons since 1862. This table shows that the
total number of claims filed during the perl
cd mentioned was S37, 361; the total number
allowed, 472, 776, and the aggregate dis
bursements made, $500, GA, 324.75. Includ-
ed in this amount Is the sum of S25, 2334 49,
IS paid to pensioners for and on account or
Another table shows that there 900, 966
claims for pensions now pending, and rs
26S on the rejected files OF the office. This
exhibit also shows that there were rs, 0S7
claims filed during the last fiscal year. The
special examination system substituted by
congress at the suggestion of the commits
sioner for the Especial SERVICE" is said to
be giving great satisfaction. On this sub
ject the commissioner says: "This new sys-
tenn does away with the ex parte evidence
formerly in use, so that the claimant is now
afforded the opportunity to face the wit
nesses,. and to appear in person or by coun-
sci In the examination of his case" The
expenses incurred in this service during the
year amounted to SSS, 275.2 while the gross
saving to the government resulting from
the adoption of this system was abont S645,
1873.