The Iola register., 1883-01-12
WARRINGTON NOTES.

The public debt statement for December
shows total debt, 81, 920, 467, ,69331; total cash
In treasury, S3l2, 924, ,016.O0; debt less cash in
treasury January /, 1883, S1,607, ,543, ,676.00;
December 1, 1882 81, ,6222, 956, $4,000: decrease
of debt during the month, s15. .4l2, 223 90; de-
crease of debt since June 30, 1882, $S1 ,310,-
$780,
The Board of Managers of the National
Soldiers Home ask 81, 12l, ,0SS for next year.
Five hundred more inmates are expected than
last year. Six hundred and eighty were ad-
mitted last year. The managers recommend
they cannot trace their ills to origin in the SER
vice, should be admitted. The inmates of the
home number 1900.
Miss Josephine c. Meeker, daughter Of the
late n. C. Meeker, who was tortured and
killed by the Ute Indians in the massacre Of
1879, and who was herself captured, died in
Washington last week Of pneumonia. She
was clerk in the Treasury Department at the
time of her death.
Adyices from Cape Town, Africa, to the
National Board of Health state that during
the past two months 5000 people have been
stricken with smallpox, and that 2, 400 have
died. The negroes object 20 vaccination.
The Naval Advisory Board recommend
building the following vessels: One steel
cruiser to cost 81, 500, ,000 three steel cruisers
to cost 81, ,O4l, ,OO0, one iron dispatch boat to
cost $40, 900. and one cruising torpedo boat
to cost s3So, 900.
Tie profits of the Garfield fair are reported
to be nearly $4,000.
1t is stated, on apparently good authority,
that members OF the House Committee on EX-
penditures Of the Department of Justice con-
template inquiring into the details connected
with the Star Route prosecution.
The President has refused to grant pardon
to Dick Liddil convicted in Alabama Of OBJ
structing the United States mails while en-
gagged in one of his train robbing raids. A
petition for his pardon was signed by the Gov
ernor Of Missouri, the United States District
Attorney, Chief of Police and other officers
of jackson County, Mo. The reason assigned
for making the request was that by Liddil's
testimony the officers hoped to convict Frank
James. The Attorney General Of the United
States opposed the pardon, because, he said,
Liddil is guilty of crime and as deserving Of
punishment as the prisoner whom the officers
seek to convict.
Gen. Comstock, President of the Mississippi
River Commission, tells the special committee
appointed by Congress that of the q, ,0oo, 600
allotted from the improvement appropriation
last year, there would be about s, ,000, ,090 left
the first of fneIt July.
The House Committee on War Claims
agreed to report favorably the claims Of Capt.
Nicholas j. Bigley for $4,000, the alleged
value of the steamer Hercules and tow Of
coal destroyed on the Mississippi at Memphis
an 1853, and Of Mary j. Veasie, for 5000, for
property taken by United States troops at
Natchez during the war.
Gen. Comstock was before the Mississippi
River Commission, and estimated that the en-
tire navigation of the river could not be inn
proved for less than s66, ,0O0, 600. This estimate
had no regard to leyees.
The Committee appointed by the Tennessee
Legislature to investigate the office OF the
State Treasurer report deficit in the treasury
of s400, 900, and after consultation with the
bondsmen of the Treasurer, recommended a
suspension of the business Of the office for
me present. The announcement from the
State Capitol Of the deficit in the State
Tr>r s,rY produced genuine sensation The