The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1882-11-01
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LIE 1OllOH lHS oIloNo tliO AN ~
condition of the postofice at tho close of
tho fiscal year ending June so, 1882: Total
receipts, SAL, S7G,4 40. Is; total expenditures.
$40, OBS, G34. IS; excess of receipts, $780,
775.40. This is the first year since 1866 that
the receipts of the department exceed tho
expenditures.
The receipts Of the patent Office from all
sources during the last fiscal year were $780,
SGl.14; the expenditures mot including print
ing) were SG51, 1880; surplus, S279, 14i.G4.
Tho number of applications received for tho
fiscal year ending June 30, 1881, including
reissues, designs, trademarks and labels, was
2i,9O6; during tho last fiscal year 3O,OG2,
an increase of 5,15G: The receipts of the
Office for the fiscal year ending juno 30, 1851,
wero $3.50, S95.52; during the last fiscal year
$3.50, SCI. IA, III increase Of $14O,9Gs.62.
UPWARD of $50 presidential commissions
of postmastors will expire during the next
session of Congress.
SAMUEL J.. T1LDEN's income tax suit came
up the other day before the United States
supreme court ON defendants appeal from
tho Judgment of the New York circuit court
overriding his demurrer. Upon motion of
Solicitor General Phillips, who appeared for
tho government, the suit was discontinued
and dismissed.
ADVANCE sheets from the census Office
show that in the United States in 1850 there
were 2,GS6 wool establishments, employing
1G1. 4S9 hands, and turning out annually pr d
ucts to the value of $267, 1s2, 1914; 1,O05 cot
ton establishments employing lS5,472 hands,
and turning out products Of the value of
$500, CSC, 1888; 1,Oo5 iron and steel establish
ments employing 14o,97S hands, and turning
out products of the value of $500, 557,6s5.
The following is q list of the moro i'm
portant claims filed with tho board designated
by Congress to audit the claims arising from
the illness and death of tho late President,
james A. Garfield: DR.. D. W. Bliss, $780,
GOO; DR.. D. Hayes Agnew, $14,70; DR..
Robert Rcyburn, $1O,aOO; DR.. D. S. Lamb
(for examination of the body at Elberon, N.
J.), $1,000; Susan A. Edison, $4,000; Henry
S. Little, receiver of the Central railroad
company of New Jersey, for laying special
track at Elberon and running special trains,
S ,239.91
THOMAS A. EDISON, has now taken out in
all 2S7 patents, 1I of which have boon in
connection with electric lighting.
The cost of railroad mail transportation
for the last fiscal year was $10,373,5l5,
against 50, 793, 155 for the previous year. The
increase in mileage was 1904 miles, or 80
per cent. increase. This is the greatest in
crease in length of railroad routes over made
in any ono year, and is greater than the en-
tire railroad mileage in 1851. The appropria-
ton for the fiscal year ending juno go, 1883,
is S11, 5000, and the estimate for this item
for 1884 is $12,O00,000. There are now more
than 100000 miles of railroad service in ope-
ration, reaching every State and Territory of
the Union. The cost of the star route SER
vice during the fiscal year ended juno 30,
1882, was S5,5553, $40. !This was 81, 403, SOC less
than the cost of the service for the previous
year. The estimate for all Items o ftranspor-
tation for 1854 reaches the sum of S25,493,-
40; the appropriations for the same items
for 1883 amount to $2G,0i1,OO0, showing q
decrease of $5i7, $50 in favor of 1884, includ-
ing the additional expense resulting from
the growth and development of the postal
service.
TIE 11Sth call for the redemption Of $15,-
100000 of the five per cent bonds has been
issued by the secretary of the treasury.
The annual report of the second comptroller
of tho treasury for the last fiscal year shows
that the total number of claims cases settled
during tho year were 20,G99, representing
$1OG, 7G3, 074; number of claims received from
second, third and fourth auditors, II, 133,
representing $10G, 3o7 ,Oj2; number of mis-
cellancous claims, including soldiers pay
and bounty, 11,4G5, representing $3,31O,24G;
number of cases not involved in present ex-
penditures, $3.50, representing $500, O22; num-
Der of contracts filed, 1856; acquisitions re-
corded, 12,G59.