The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-19
WASHINGTON NOTES.

THE Department of Agriculture reported
few days ago that the prices of products
in the home markets show a tendency to a
general decline of prices, which appears to
have depressed values somewhat aside
from the abundant supply. The average
price of corn is 361s cents, one cent lower
than the average for 1879, when supply in
proportion to population was quite as large.
1t has been lower but twice in ten years
in 1877 and 1878, after two previous
years of abundance. 1t is the highest in
Florida, 50 cents per bushel, and the lowest
price is IS cents in Nebraska: Kansas %:
Iowa, %; Missouri, &c; Illinois and Min
nesota, 81: Indiana and Wisconsin, "a;
Michigan. 40; Ohio, Al; Kentucky, 43. 1t
as 90 in Pennsylvania, 81 in New Jersey
and go in New York. Range values in the
South Atlantic States is from SO in Della
ware to - in South Carolina and 50 in
Florida, increasing in order of movement,
except that Georgia reports GO cents. In
more Western States it is, 45 in Tennessee;
"a in Arkansas; 81 in Alabama; 81 in Mis-
sissippi and Texas, and g. in Lou
isiana. The average farm price of
wheat is s. cents per bushel, against 81 last
December. The December price in IS years
has previously been below 81 per bushel
but five times, in 1874, 1878, 1880, 1882 and
1855. The average in Nebraska is A.: 40 in
Kansas: 46 in Dakota; so in Minnesota; 30
in Iowa; 60 in Missouri; So in Illinois; 81 in
Indiana; "A in Michigan, and 20 in Ohio.
The average of home grown wheat in New
England exceeds 81. In New York It is So
cents: Pennsylvania, Sc; 80 in Virginia,
and 50 in Maryland. The average value of
oats is 2S cents over last December: 31.5
in 1882. The present value is the lowest
ever reported by the department. The low
est State average is 10 cents, in Nebraska;
she highest GO cents, in Florida; Iowa and
Minnesota, 20; Kansas, %; Illinois, %; In
diana, -, and Ohio 80. The plantation
price of cotton, as reported, ranges from
go to SOh cents per pou-l. 1t is 90
in Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas; 8
cents l mill in louisiana; cents 3
mills in Georgia, 8 cents mills in the
Carolinas and Virginia. The average
fam price of entire crop of potatoes is 40
cents per bushel. The lowest price %
cents in Michigan. The average in New
York is SO cents; ~ in Ohio; -, Indiana;
"a, Illinois; Is, Iowa; %, Nebraska; As,
Kansas. The average price is cents lower
than last year, though the crop IS not so
large.
liz response to a recent request of Mr..
Springer, the Attorney General has sent to
the Committee on Expenditures of the De-
partment of Justice copies of the CORES
pocdence on file in the apartment relative
to the employment of United States Depu-
ty Marshals at the Congressional election
in Ohio last October, including the cores
Pondence with Lot Wright, United States
Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio.
The Lowell Bankrupt bill, which is to be
considered at this session of Congress, and
may possibly pass, provides for Commits
sioner of Bankruptcy in each Congressional
District in the United States, with salary
OF s2,0c9, which may, according to the vol
ume of business to be transacted, be in
creased to 5000 year. 1t does not ap-
pear that this salary is to come out of es-
tates; there may not case of bankruptcy
occur in the district in year.
The Secretary of the Treasury lately
prepared a circular, to take the place of all
previous circulars concerning the importa
ton of old rags, providing that no old rags
-cAAoAA NC AohNco III buc OHlUtU SI&tSS except
upon thorough disinfection.
The report of the Committee of the Ma
tional Academy of Science upon the organ
ization of the signal service geological sur
vey, coast and geodetic survey and hydro
graphic Office of the Navy Department has
just been made public and will be found of
interest. After describing the work of
the various bureaus and pointing
cut some existing defects the COM
fn,t.ee is of the opinion that the
functisas of the several organizations
that are under consideration could be most
adran.s geously divided among perhaps
Tour bureaus, namely: First-Coast and
Interior survey, to be concerned principally
with geodey and photography and to con-
sist of tie present coast and geodetic sur
vey- Secoud-Geographical survey, to
comprise the present geological sur
vey, with its organization unchanged.
Third-A Meteorological Bureau, to which
should be transferred so much of the pres
emit personal functions of the chief signal
Dffice as are not necessary to the military
suites of that Office. Fourth-A Physical
Observatory, to investigate the laws of