The Daily Tombstone., 1885-10-30

yate buildings alone was more than $4,O00.00o, and the number of build ings erected Was 3,G9i
 Some interesting facts concerning the wonderful growth of Dakota aye presented in the October report of MT Dodge, the statisticiau of the Depart ment of Agriculture. The increase in population from l35,l77 to 4l5,G6i within the five years that have passed since the census of 1880, has already been published; but it is only by con- parison between this ircipient com monwealth and some of her older sis ters. long since admitted into the family of States. that a just idea can be gained of her wonderful progress Such a comparison has been made by Mir. Dodge, and it appears that in the number of farms which increased from 27 ,435 in 1880 tU S2, ,467 in 1885, Da- kota outrankS seventeen ci the thirty citiLt States. Inc number at present exceeding that of any one of the New England States, or the number in California, Delaware or Maryland. It exceeds the combined number in Mas sachusetts, Rhode Island and Con- nccticut, and it also exceeds the num- Der in Oregon, Nevada and Colorado in the West, combined with that of Rhode Island, Delaware and Florida in the East. No State east of tho AL leghenics or south of the Ohio out ranks 1t as wheat producing State, and even Wisconsin holds a lower place.
 In pursuance of the policy early announced, of discharging all clerks who had been derelict in paying their debts, several dismissals have been made from the Treasury Department The idea is that fl the clerks are no. sufficiently business like 10 meet their own liabilities they are not capable of attending 10 the business of the coun- try, and, therefore, should be dis charged for inctiiciency
 Professor Baird will, at the earliest opportunity, ask Congress to investi- gate the affairs Of the Fish COmmis- sion, as he believes this to be the only way to present to Congress the work accomplished by the Commission and the reasons upon which expenditures have been based.
 Tine thirty-ninth anniversary Of col ored Odd Fellowship in Washington was celebrated by that order on Mon day last. Twenty local lodges partici- pated in the parade. It had been ar ranged that the procession should be reviewed by the President as it passed the White House. It appears that the President had been consulted several days previous and had agreed to re- view the parade The promise, how | ever, escaped his memory. and re- ! ception to the members of tkc Presby- | terian Synod Was afterward set for the ! same hour, and strangely enough inc same hour was set apart for the daily public reception. 1t can be readily 1 imagined that the result of this mis,
 take was amusing. The dignitied clergvnen had to wait in the corridor
 while the public reception went on
 and the twenty lodges of Odd Fellows
 waited in the grounds, the bands play.
 ing, while the Synod was paying it:
 respects.
 The shipment oi coin from tho vari
 ous sub-trcasuries in Washington since
 September 23d, amounts to S2G, ,OOO,OUC
 in silver coin and about g., ,000, 900 ir gold. All of the gold came from Cali
 iornia. It is estimated that 1t will take month to count tine coin already
 received at the Treasury. II.