The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-08-14
WASHINGTON NEWS.
GOSSIP oF THE CAPITAL m
PITHY PARAGRAPHS.
poings ofthe Chiefs aad Heads o. ths
Various Departments.

Various Departments.
Surgeon General Wymau. 81 The
marine hospital service. tas received
adyicea from Sanitary Inspector Co
minera giving the sanitary condition
Of Santiago de Cuba During one
week there we're ninety doaths-nino
from yellow fever, iorty.oue from
email pox, ten from dyasntery. ak
iEwn diarrhWa, Eve from rem ttent To-
vefand The rest from common diseases
not contagious.
Venezuela's brief, prepared by Coun-
sci Storrow and presented 20 the Veno.
2uelan commission, a. we'll as TO the
British minister, is tho most import
ant paper that has 80 far appeared In
the case. For the FIRST time a true
divisional line Ia accordance with the
evidence is laid down and Lord Sails
bury's contention as TO the settle
ment is shown TO be utterly un-
supported by law or fact, and
unworthy Of any consideration by the
commission. Mr.. Storrow demon
strates that there never has been any
British sovereignty IN the disputed
territory; that the Dutch never gained
the slightest foothold in the Orinoco
basin, and, therefore, never trans
ferred what did not exist to Great
Britain, and caps his strong arguments
by demonstrating that the Schomburg
line, as held by Lord Salisbury, was q
forgery by alteration, perpetrated by
the English government twenty years
after Sehomburg's death.
To Coin silver Dollars.
Owing to the fact that the amount
of silver dollars in the treasury avail
able for the redemption of treasury
notes has become reduced to $40, $780,
$50, and Will be further reduced by
redemption during the current month,
the coinage of silver dollars by the
minis will be increased from 81 $780,
600 TO So, 000,0 900 per month from the
LIST Of August, and will probably be
continued at that rate in order that the
treasury may have sufficient stock to
redeem treasury notes presented in ex-
change for silver dolISrs
On the LIST of March, 1898, the treas.
ury held 29,390, 46l silver dollars for
the redemption Of treasury notes is
sued under the act of July, 1890. To-
day the number Of silver dollars held
by the treasury for the redemption of
treasury notes is $40, $50, $50. Since
the LIST of March, 1898, the coinage Of
silver dollars has aggregated 81, 983,
056. OF this sum, however, $2,311,-
667 was profits, or seigniorage, which
leaves SO, 1911, $40 for the redemption
of treasury notes. The amount Of
treasury notes redeemed In silver dol
lars and cancelled from November l,
1898, to July IA, 1896, was $28, 400, 258.
Railway Deaths and Dollars.
The report of the interstate COM
merce commission for the year ending
June 20, 1895, shows the total railway
mileage in the country on that date to
have been 18O,657 miles, an increase
of 1,948. During the year fourteen
roads were abandoned, nine merged,
thirty-two reorganized and twenty
eight consolidated.
There appears from the report to
have been a deficiency in passenger
service and an increase in the number
of men employed by railways of 5, 426
as compared with the previous year.
There was an increase in the amount
of railway capital during the year ag-
gregating $188, 1892.
The gross earnings OF the railways
Tor the year ending June so, 1895, were
lob, 37l, 462, an increase of So, OO9,-
,88 Passenger revenue was $685.
'.766. fe' showing decrease of $685..
OO2549. Freight revenue increased
$,29et$91O53O
The number of railway employees
killed during the year was 1911, anC
the number injured 24,696, decreas,
OF IL killed and an increase OF 2,27l
injured, as compared with the previoul
year. The number of passengers kill
ed was 40, injured 1875, showing
decrease of 154 in the number killed
and 900 in those injured.
The statistician recommends tina
congress be requested to provide for I
bureau of statistics and accounts, which
shall have the right of inspection anC
control over the accounting depart
ments of the common carriers.