The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-09-21
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restored it.
DURING the last fiscal year s2t6, $50, 500
were collected in the customs districts at an
expense of So, 422, 1877, the average cost of col
lecting one dollar in all the districts being
.029.
THERE has been an unusual number of
deaths in the Forty-eighth Congress. Four
members have died already before this Con-
gress has assembled. They are Updegraf, of
Ohio Herndon, of Alabama Pool, of North
Carolina, and Cults, of Iowa. The two latter
were Republicans.
SECRETARY FoLGER has notified the col
lector of the port of New York that American
vessels going to AMMAN with arms and muni-
tons of war will be seized by the French au-
thorities at Tonquin.
SEPTEMBER returns to the department OF
agriculture show that the crops are late and
much reduced, and that considerable damage
was done by the late frosts. There will proba-
bly, be a falling off of Sc, 900, 900 bushels of wheat
over last year. The corn crop will also be
smaller than that of last year. The crop of
oats will be large, the general average being
SO. The promise for potastes is good, the
average being 10 per cent.
A COMMITTEE appointed by Secretary
Folger to investigate the management of the
supervising architects office in its report
severely condemns the existing system of
transacting public business. Reformatory
measures are recommended.
THE President has issued a proclamation de
claring that the Worlds Industrial and Cot
ton Centennial exposition will be opened on
the first Monday in December, 1884, at the
city of New Orleans, and continued until May
81, 1885.
NOTWITHSTANDING the adverse reports, Mr.
Dodge, of the United States agricultural de-
partment, says that in his opinion, the injury
to the corn crop by the late frosts will not re-
duce the total much below last years harvest
of .625, 600, 900 bushels. He says there were
100000 more acres planted in corn this
year than last, so that the loss will be nearly
or quite made up from the increased acreage
A RECENT United States treasury statement
says the amount of money in circulation is as
follows: National bank notes, 353,S34,5 i2;
legal tender notes, $780, S1 ole; silver certifi
Gates, SO, 9G9,071; gold certificates, S55,272
40: total paper circulation, 1881, 157, 069'
total coin, s143,347,5,3; grand total, S1,575,-
104,6 $40.
FROM actual count of the files, made in the
United States pension office between July l
and Is, 1888, it appears that there were PA, sos
claims pending. In 204, 300 cases the delay
was caused by the claimants themselves,
9,935 were delayed in the adjutant-generars
office, 1902 in the surgeon-generals office and
90 5o3 in tba mansion offca
Much apprehension exists in government
circles for the safety of the Greedy exploring
expedition of observation in the Arctic re-
gions. The failure of Lieutenant Darlington,
commander of the lost relief ship Proteus, to
land his stores on or near Smith Sound, is
considered to have been a mistake, and
a court of inquiry is talked about.
1t is positively asserted that Lieutenant
Greeley has provisions enough at the Lady
Franklin Bay station to last him until the
summer of 1884, if he remain there until that
time. If, however, he should have abandoned
his station and retreated down the coast of
Grinnell Land to the mouth of Smiths Sound
expecting to find there a relief party and a
depot of stores, his situation may shortly be-
come critical.