The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-12-11
Warrington Notes.
AN AMBITIOUS SURGEON.

| washington Notes.
AN AMBITIOUS SURGEON.
WASHINGTON, Dec. l0.-Upon the rec
ommendation of Surgeon General Ham
ilton, the secretary of the treasury ha
granted four months leave of absence I,
Surgeon Walter Wyman, of the marin,
hospital service, to enable him 10 pur
sue the investigation of the cholera germ
IN the laboratory of Prof. Koch, at Ber
lin. Owing to the law forbidding pa,
during leaves of absence for more thai
thirty days, DIR. Wyman goes at his owl
| expense.
! THEY CALL THIS PATRIOTISM,
The subcommittee of the house com
mittee on appropriations having ii
charge tho subject of pension appropri
ations, has agreed upon bill appropria
ting $50, ,0O0,O0O, the amount asked by the
commissioner of pensions for the nexi
llscal year. The bill is 10 be submitted
to the house tomorrow. 1t is short, and
contains no new legislation.
DEATH or \ JAPANESE PRINCE,
Prince Alexis Saigo, of Japan, who
has been q member of the household of
Baron De Struv, the Russian minister
in Washington, for several years, died
this morning of typhoid fever. The
prince, who was only IL years of age,
was the son of Gen. Saigo, of Japan,
and nephew of Col. Oyama, the
Japanese minister of war, now on n
visit to this country. Col. Oyama re-
manned at his bedside nearly all last
night. lie will take charge of the re-
mains and accompany them back to
Japan. The young prince had been a
member of Baron De Struy's household
ever since the latter represented the
Russian government at the japan court,
at which time strong attachment
sprang up between the prince and the
minister's children. He subsequently,
accompanied the minister TO Russia and
embraced the Christian religion, Al
his baptism the empress stood as his
God-mother, and the Grand Duke
Alexis as his Godfather. He accom-.
panied Baron De Struv TO this country
when the latter WAS accredited here.
THE PRICE OF PRODUCE.
The department OF agriculture report
to-day, on the prices of farm products,
on the home market says tho tendency
TO Fenerel prices appears to have de-
pressed he values somewhat.
Aside from ne abundant supply, The
average price of corn is 36lS
cents, l cent lower than the aver
age supply for 1879, when the supply
in proportion TO the population was
quite as large. 1t has been lower but
twice in ten years-in 1877 and 1878,
after two previous years abundance. IL
Is highest in Florida, 50 cents
per bushel, and the lowest
prco is Is cents, in Nebraska.
Kansas -, Iowa %, Missouri %, Illinois
aud Minnesota 81, Indiana and Wiscon.
sin 81, Michigan 40, Chic Al, kentucky
i3. tits 50 in Pennsylvania, "a in New
Jersey and 60 in New York. The
range of values In the southern
states Is from 90 in
Delaware to Y in South Carolina, and so
in Florida, increasing In order of move
ment, except that Georgia reports 6G,
In the moro western states IL is i5, i'm
Tennessee, 81, Arkansas, 81, Alabama,
62, Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana, G7.
The average farm price of wheat is 65
cents per bushel against 81 last Decem.
ber. The price in thirteen years has
previously been below 81 per bushel,
but i've umes-in 1874, 1878, 1880, 1882
and 1883. The average Is AZ In Nebraska,
40 in Kansas, 40 in Dakota, 90
in Minnesota, o. in Iowa, 81 in
Missouri, 63 In Illinois, 67 in In
diana, a in Michigan, and 75 in
ohio. The average of homo grown
wheat in New England exceeds 81. In
New York 1t Is 80 cents, Pennsylvania
~, 80 in Virginia, and 50 In Maryland.
The average value is % cents against
80 cents last December, and 81 cents In
lSS2. The present value IL TIE lowest
ever reported by the department.
Tho plantation prices of cotton, as re.
ported, range from 8 to 9is cents per
pound. II Is in Tennessee, Arkansas
and Texas, cents and mill in Louis
lana; cents and mills In Georgia, and
cents and mills in the Carolinas and
Virginia.
The average farm price of the entire
crop OF potatoes is 40 cents per bushel.
MIR. BuCKNER's SILVER VIEWS,
AT u meeting of the house committee
on coinage, weights and measures, to.
day, Mr.. Buckner gave his reasons
for introducing the bill to stop the coin.
ago of silver. Chairman Bland was alb
sent, having been detained at his home
in Missouri by the dangerous illness OF
his daughter. Mr.. Buckner said: "Tho
introduction of the bill was not a
matter Of sudden impulse.
talked with friends during the first ses
sion about the propriety of introducing
IL. They said something ought to be-
done. The present administration, il
hostile, Is careless about silver. There
seems TO be no hope of its doing any
thing. The now administration may take
moro earnest interest. Ii il evident the
time has como when this government
ought to act decisively, and the ques,
ton TO decide Is whether we are TO have
bi-metalism or mono-metalism. For.
| eign countries have taken ur
the question, In Holland d
| largo portion of tho silver
has gone into the market for gold. Italy
requires her banks 10 keep two-thirds
oftheir reserve in gold. Wo are inter.
ested in silver as n product. We are
still more interested in hav.
ing bi'motalism, which was os
tahlishad by the forefathers
This hill Is in the interest of bi-motal
ism. ] believe four.ffths of the peopl,
ot tho United States want bi-metalism
and tho only difference between us IL as
TO the means of bringing Il about Thor
iro only u few who arc mono-metaliSts
by tho.time this hill might pass We
will have S9OOOOO,OOO in silver. Under
tho terms of the Bland bill
The coming is 100000 month. ono
object of the Bland bill was to keep M
the market valuo of fsilver. In Englant
4 strong party of able men have sail
that himotalsm must be establishe,
nn0ng hll commercial nations or bad re-
-lllls viii follow. We ought To- regatl
| .hn opinion oi mon Will
Us on thla grogt question. ia,
have the economic phenomenon ~ 4 tai
and decline of all commoditlca withuu
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