Milford chronicle., 1885-11-27


Colonel W. F. SWitzler, Chief of the Bu-
reau of Statistics, in his annual report says;
The duty collected on merchandise IeH from
$3.50. COO 900 in 1884 to Sl7S, OOO IN 1880,
but the equivalent ad valorem rate rose from
Al per cent. to 46 per cent. This increase
in the ad valorem rate is due to the d'cllhe III
Driees of goods subject to specific duty upon
which are imposed high rates OF duty. 1he
value Of our foreign trade conducted IN yes
sells bearing our national flag, shows STEADY
decline. During the fiscal year 1885, the value
of merchandise carried in our foreign trade
was 81 38S 000, 900, Of which only l4.6 per
cent was carried in American bottoms and
only seven per cent in American steam YES
sells, but of the 79.5 per cent. OF tins com
merce conducted by foreign vessels, 6Ao per
cent was carried in foreign steamers. VI the
total tonnage entered at our seaporls IN the
foreign trade last year, amounting 10 lS,UUu'-
600 tons. only $500 600 was American tonnage
and 100000 foreign tonnage. There was
also a large falling off in immigration. Inc
number arrived during the year was $50 $40
as against 5lS592 during the preceding year,
and a falling off Of fifty per cent. since 1857,
the year of the largest immigration, When the
arrivals were 7SS.9O2.
The annual report Of Lieutenant-G General
Sheridan says the army consists Of 2, l54 OIL
GERS and "a 705 men. Many of our large cities
are still at the mercy of the ironclads OF tor-
ecn nations in case of rupture OF our rela-
tiOns. but it is hoped that public sentiment
will before long prevail OH Congress for liberal
appropriations in this respect. Gen. S. says,
relative to the Indian question: would re-
commend that each family be given and lo-
Gated on the 320 acres now provided for them
by law in case of actual settlement. The Gov
erument should then condemn all the balance
Of each reservation, buy it in at Sl.25 per
acre and with the proceeds purchase Govern
ment bonds to be held in tru-t by the Interior
n IN no Indians
year the interest on the bonds for their sup
port ] only propose that the Government
should buy lands for simplicity and safety.
Settlers and spectators would bny them ana
take them at the average of Sl.25 per acre
Some of them are now worth SO to SlO per
acre In this way the Indians would have
perpetual security in the principal until Con-
gress chooses to give il to them, to be used az
they NAV see fit. The Government would lose
nothing, and the Indians would only be getting
the value Of their property safely invested.
Chief Naval Constructor Thomas D. Will
son in his annual report, submits estimates
for completing the four double-turreted monl-
tors, amounting to 81, 923, g, OF which ~ D.
$40 is for the Puritan, S627, ,2S8 for the Terror,
$3.50 584 for the Amphitrite, and S70l442 for
the Monadnock. He also asks for S5,OOO,OO0
for building the hulls Of new steel vessels, ana
SI50 600 for extra tools required IN navy
yards for building iron and steel vessels
The Secretary Of the Treasury appointed
John w. O'Brien to be Weigher No. 3D. Glass
4. in the New York Custom House, vice George
B B4coD, suspended.
For the Brooklyn yard, estimates are sub
mitted and strongly urged for new dry DOCK
300 600: to lengthen the present stone dry
dock shop. S95 600, and the extension ot the
yard wall, S2l, I'll.
FOBKIGR EENR
1t is reported at Calcutta that the Chi
nese government has given orders to prevent
King ThebaW from seeking an asylum IN
China.
"A German-American named Thielman, a
locksmith, has been expelled from Prussia BY
the authorities He went to America IN 1877
and returned to Germany in 1888.
The County Irfrmary, near sandusky,
Ohio was partially destroyed by fire. FIVE
women were burned to death, and the superin-
tendent was badly injured internally.
Anderson, the steward of Honorable Ga
thorne Hardy, who eloped from London with
Miss Ridgeway, a ward in chancery, has been
sentenced to a months imprisonment.
Gen. Prendergast and the British expedi-
tionary force have captured the Burmese fort
ress OF Minhla. No serious obstacle interyenes
to stop their advance on Mandalay.
Prince HOhenlohe at banquet at Metz
spoke Of the advantages gained by the people
OF Alsace-LorIaine since their annexation by
Germany.
The Socialist Lieske, who was convicted
on July Of the murder of Police Counselor
Rumpif. at Frankfort, on the night Of January
i3 last, was beheaded. He protested to the
last that he was innocent, and behaved in a
composed manner.