Connecticut western news., 1885-11-18

Sixth Auditor McConville, in his annual report upon the financial operations of the Post Oftice Department during the last fiscal year, says: From tho report 1t appears that the gross postal revenues were $42 66O, S43; expenditures, $40, ,317, 1S8; excess of expendi- lures over revenues, S6, 756, ,345. To this de- ticivncy, says tEe Auditor thould be added the amounts certified to Inc Pacific railroads for mail transportation (S1, $40, ,226) and the estimated unadjusted liabilities for 1885 ($2S5 000), making total deficiency of $S, ,3Sl, vi. The detciency last year was S4 967, ,425, or $S 4l4, l46 less than the present deficit.
 The revenues show falling of of $765,- 115, while the expenditures have increased $2, @ 232S. This result is attributed to Ihe reduction in letter postage and to general busi- ness depression. The principal items of ex- penditure were as follows: Railway transporta- tion, SIS 553, ,813; postmasters' salaries, $11,- PAS 845; salaries of post-ofice clerks, &4,673- S59 star route transportation, S5, 403, ,259; rail way postal clerks, S4 ,246, ,209; free delivery service, $S, 9S5, ,9o2; railway postal car service, $1, 7O9, ,236; transportation of foreign mails, $325, 462. The value of postage stamps sold was $40, 0,65O, ,226. The profits of the money order business were $408, 9S3; the amount of the balances paid by foreign countries for mail transportation was S66,955, and the amount paid by the United States to foreign countries for like service was S74, ,859.
 They began printing at the Bureau ot En-
 
 dollar notes. It is understood the Treasury intends 10 issue them within 6 few days. Mir. Jordan thinks he has reached the maximum of the output of sllvcr currency from tho Treasury stores.
 The United States Consul at Palermo, Italy, reports to the Department of Slate that there had been 3,e37 cases and 2,093 deaths fre m cholera in that city up to Oct. 12, and that from 60,0O0 to 10000 people had fled from the city.
 The November crop report of the Depart ment of Agriculture says: 'The present crop of corn is the first full average in the rate of yield since 1880, which was the last of series of six full crops of 26 to 2S bushels per acre. The present crop, grown on an area of 53, 000,- 900 to 54, ,000, 600 acres, is slightly above average for period of ten years, or 261 bushels per acre. The highest rate of yield is 3616 bushels, in Nebraska and Ohio. The three corn growing States, which produce four-tenths of the entire crop, Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri, each average several bushels per acre less than in the census year. The South ern States make an average yield. The quality of the corn is very good in the East and South, medium in the central parts of the West, and somewhat depreciated on the northern border from Michigan to Dakota"
 FOREIGN rTRMR
 -Desultory skirmishing continues between Bulgarian and Servian outposts. It is said that Bulgarian has been killed by the Ser vian fire.
 -Roughs stoned British rihemen on leave in Limerick streets. The soldiers fled.
 A dispatch from Rome gives 0 summary of Germany's claims to offset her recognition of Spanish sovereignity to the Caroline Islands
 It is announced by cable from Calcutta that the Viceroy of India has ordered the Brit ish invasion of Burmah to begin at once and to be pushed with all energy.
 Two hundred armed and disguised men reinstated widow who was evicted- in May from a farm at Latin, near Limerick, Ire land. The men pledged themselves to protect and support her Tue widow objected, but she was compelled to promise that she would leave the farm only at the point of tho bayo- net.
 A large crowd of factory girls at London derry, Ireland, mobbed Mir. Charles Edward Lewis, the conservative member of Parliament for u Q city, and ireate him in 8 most shame ful manner.
 MT. Gladstone made long speech at Ed inburgh on the separation of Church and State, and declared that disestabishment was ut present live question.
 MT. Stead, the Pdu Mda editor, has put on prison dress and has been set to picking oakum.
 Prince Bismarck has seen fit to expel sev- eral American citizens from Germany.
 -a letter received from Point Aux Esqui- naux, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, tells har- rowing tale of the misery and starvation at that place. Some sixty families there have no food, and will surely die of starvation unless aid is forthcoming. Some twenty-five men left the place to obtain work in the woods at Bsrsimis, but say the lumber merchants would not employ them.
 It is now known that at least forty-eight persons perished in the wreck of the steamer Agoma in Lake Superior.
 MT. Stead, the editor of the Pal Mall Gazette has been sentenced to three months imprisonment without labor. The other de- fendants. the two women, were sentenced to six months, one with hard labor.
 A report comes from Rangoon that a formal declaration of war between the Indian government and Burmah has been declared.
 -Advices from Melbourne say it is 1umored there that the natives of Fly River have mur- dered all the members of the Sydney Geo. graphical Association's Expedition in New Guinea,
 -Adyices from Massowah say that in the recent battle the rebels lost 6, 900 men and the Abyssinians 1,5OO. osman Digna was not killed.
 In London, Editor Stead, of the P0A Haa Gazette, was convicted. He was found guilty with Mrs. Jarrett, of sbducting Eliza Arm strong. The judge charged strongly against the prisoners, and the jury were out about three hours.
 Three children out of i've who were bitten by . mad dog in Algeria are now on their way to France for treatment by Dr. Pasteur by his new system. The other two have died.