The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 6, 1890, Page 2

DEFICIT POSITIVE. Congressman Dockery Exposes Re- publican Extravagance. Washington, D. C., July 25.—Sec- retary Windom, Senator Allison, Representative Cannon and other prominent republicans have denied the recent statements of Congress- man Dockery of Missouri, whois a member of the appropriations com- mittee, regarding the probable de-; ficiencies at the end of the fiscal) year, he has prepared another state- ment on the subject which complete. | ly sustains all claims that have been | made by the democrats. . same time a strict account is taken | of every claim made by these repub- licans. In giving today the status of affairs Mr. Dockery said the esti- mated revenues for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891, which include customs dues, internal revenue taxes, postal receipts and all sources of government income amount to $450,414,337.34 Against this must be charged the annual and perma- nent appropriations and the defi- ciences on account of pensions under existing laws, for which the repub- lican majority refuse to provide un- til after the congressional elections. The annual appropriations as esti- mated by Senator Allison after de- ducting $29,000,000 appropriated for deficiencies, which were expend- ed prior to the beginning of the fiscal year, amount to $331,206,930.- 25, while the permandéht appropria- tions aggregate $101,628,453, or a total of $432,917,483.25. To this will be added as a charge against the receipts of the current fiscal year $45,088,146.35 of pension de- ficiencies which must be appropria- ted at the next session of congress. The items of this pension deficiency consist of $425,000 under the “total disability” bill, $8,623,146.35 under pension laws enacted prior to the passage of the dependent bill and $36,000,000 on’ account of the de- pendent bill. AN ACTUAL DEFICIT OF MILLIONS. The total charge,therefore,against the revenue for the fiscal year end- ing July 1 next will aggregate $447,965,629.60, thus leaving a de- ficit of $27,551,292. 26. The appropriations for the cur- rent year will be $82,628,113 greater than for the last fiscal year, the largest item of increase being for the postal service, rivers and har bors, new offices, increased salaries and pensions. The estimated deficit may possibly be reduced to the ex- tent of $5,000,000 by scaling down the river and harbor and fortifica- tion bills. The available cash assets of the treasury aside from the income re- ceiyed are $55,000,000 of the sur- plus on hand at the first of the pres- ent month and $55,000,000 of the national bank redemption fund cov ered into the treasury by one of the provisions of the silver bill. The ‘only charge against the suplus of $110,000,000 additional to the de- ficit $27,551,292.26 will be about $23,000,000, which sum is estimated to be necessary for the fiscal year to redeem national bank notes, thus making a total of 50,551,292.26 and leaving an estimated surplus on the first of July next of $59,448,107.74 DRAWING HEAVILY ON THE SURPLUS. The situation may be briefly sum- marized in the statement that there will be an excess of expenditure over receipts for the present fiscal year of $27,551,292.26 and that the only way to avoid a deficiency is by the use of the surplus now in the ’ treasury and the national bank re- demption fund. With the utilization of these rev- enues there will be a surplus at the ‘end of the fiscal year of about $60, 000,000 provided there be no fur- ther bond purchases. Kvery bond purchase hereafter will reduce the $60,000,000 surplus to the extent of the purchase. It will be noted that this exhibit of the fiscal affairs of the govern- ment is wholly exclusive of any es- timated reduction of the revenue that may be made by the McKinley bill. Neither is the cost of the sub- sidies, federal election or other pend. ing legislation that will deplete the treasury taken into consideration. At the| | Soreover when it is remembered jthat the pension expenditures are | fronted with a deficiency in the rev- | | enues of thecurrent year but are very | soon to be face to face with an actual | | treasury deficiency. When the pres- | ent surplus and the national bank re- |demption fund shall have been ex- | hausted will be no escape from finan- | mal dishonor save by ignoring the requirements of the sinking fund act by the sale of government bonds or | by increasing the rates of taxation. BURNING THEIR OWN TOWN. That Is what Is Charged Against the People of Bairdstown. I | Toledo, O., July 30.—Bairdstown, an oil village on the Baltimore & this city, has had five incendiary fires within a week, and every busi- ness house in the town has been dis troyed. Some time ago the authorities passed an ordinance forbidding the sinking of any gas or oil wells with- in the the town limits. Men who were holding town lots at big prices hoping to sell them to oil men, thus found their aspirations checked. Re- marks were made that “what is be-| low ground is more valuable than that which is above it.” The idea that a section of a community, as is intimated, would set deliberately to work and burn up a town with the view of converting the site into oil producing territory is something so singular that one can scarcely believe it to be possible. A Cincinnati de- tective named Burkett went to Bairdstown a few days agoand soon declared that certain people were | engaged in a conspiracy to burn the town. An indignation meeting was held, and the excitement became so intense that a scheme was started to lynch him. On Monday night he wastaken from the calboose to the woods were a rope was placed around his neck. Ii is claimed that the ob ject was simply to frighten the fel- low, but Mayor Nusbaum reached the scene of the lynching none too soon, as he was even then being “lift- ed.” Half dead with fright, he beg- ged piteously for mercy and promis- ed to leave town. The “Farmers Reyiew.” Chicago, Ill, July 29.—The fol- lowing will appear in this week's “Farmers Review:” The majority of our correspondents in Missouri, Kentucky and Minnesota report local showers that have in a measure revived parched _ fields. Except in a few scattering counties drought is general throughout Ili nois, Indianna, Iowa and the Dakotas The effect of this wide spread drought is most marked upon the potato crop, the present conidtion of which is 40 per cent. lower than last year at this season. From the present outlook, the Dakotas and Minnesota are the only States that promise anything like a fair crop. A great decline has taken place in the condition of vorn in the past two weeks. The Dakotas are the only states that apparently maintain a high average, and in these states | rapidly increasing it must be appar-/ Present Revenues Too Small. ee that the people arenot only con- ; A Story Without a Moral. There was an occurrence not long A Woman who Insisted on Earning | ®0 in the city of Minneapolis which | well illustrated the making of virtue) |a necessity and profiting thereby. | A lady, than whose name there is |none better known in the theatrical ret C. C. Steele, who died in Jersey | world, was playing an engagement | City yesterday, was employed in the| at the Grand. She stopped, of j custom house for over eighteeD| ourse, at the West. One day she years without a break. She was ap-| was engaged in looking over her pointed July 26, 1869, at the re-| wardrobe, or a portion of it, in her quest of her brother, now dead. | room. When it came noon her stage A SISTER OF CONKLING. | Her own Living. New York, July 29.—Mrs. Marga-} What is Roscoe Conkling, whose name is signed in the appointment book as her reference. Moses H. Grinnell, | ed under every collector since then | until the administration of Collector | | . . es | service, her resignation taking effect | October 1, 1887, making her period | 3 | : Ohio railroad, twenty miles south of | of active work for the government i “hock” it, but found that he could | eighteen years, two mouths and five | days. much property, her brother did not | like the idea and tried to ‘dissuade her from taking such a step. She, however, had the same independence |of character which so largely enter- in her intention until he finally came around to her way of thinking, and tained for her this appoiutment. As soon as the appointment was made she was assigned to duty as an in- spectress, examining women passen- | gers on ‘incoming ocean steamers, until she gave up the work. She was 76 years old. The cus- toms officers, in consideration of her age and her long period of faith!a1 work, made her duties as light as possible. As she lived in Jersey City she was assigned to ex- jaminc passengers on the Rotterdam, Red Star and Inman lines only. She was relieved of the necessity of re- porting at the custom house or barge office, and was notified by telegraph when vessels were on their way to their wharves. She would then go to the wharf, and after con- cluding her examination, would sign the report of the inspector who had been sent over in charge, her signa- ture being takeu as evidence that she had attended to her duty. For this work she was paid at the rate of $3 a day. Mrs. Steele had ail the dignity of character which her noted brother had. She dressed neatly, always in a plain old-fashioned way, and was scrupulously tidy. She was a read- er of books of the best class and wrote agreat deal, although not for publication except once or twice. over her signature, She was also ty. A Brave Woman. F. M. VanDyke; wife of the ticket agent of the Savaunah, Florida and Western railroad at this place, is the toast of the town. This morning she awoke and heard some one try- the condition is not uniform; the re- ports from a few counties are 50 to 75 per cent. below the average, while in the majority of instances the, re- ports range from 109 to 125 per cent. Since our last report the general averages have fallen off 15 points in Ohio; Kentuckey and Nebraska; in the decline amounts to 25 points; in Illinois, Indianna, Missouri. and Minnesota it ranges from 5 to 10 points. No marked change is ob- servable in Nebraska and Iowa re- ports relative to spring wheat, but in Minnesota and Dakota the avera- ges of condition have declined sev- eral points. All the late reports that we have received confirm our estimate of last week that the net marketable product will not excede 230,000,000 busheles of wheat. Washington, July 30.—The cen- ter of interest has been transferred from the house to the senate. The real work of legislation is being done by the senate while the house is killing time. All thatcan be hoped from the house for the rest of the year is the passage of appropriation bills, the disposal of the remaining election cases, and, possibly, the passage of a few other measures. ing to get into the house. She se- cured her pistol and slipped outa back way, getting between the would-be burgler and the outside world. She saw that he was a burly negro,and covering him with her gun ordered him to throw up his hands. Seeing the determined look in the lady’s face and the steadiness with which she held the weapon pointed toward him he obeyed. Mrs. VanDyke held him until an officer could be sent for, who took him in charge and landed him safely in jail. Judge Hopkins, mayor of the town, wrote a congratulatory letter to Mrs. VanDyke and sent it to her with a beautiful boquet of flowers as a tribute to her bravery. They All Failed. 2 The following letter trom Mr. W. A. Thompson, of Columbus, Wis., 18 pecu- liarly interesting: ‘“My wife,” says he, *thas been treated for her head, stomach and neryous prostration by three doc- tors in New York, two in Chicago, one in Phildelphia, one in Cincinnati, and at the large institute in Buffalo tor 16 months. They all failed. But one bot- tle ot Dr. Miles’ Restorative Nervine helped her wonderfully.” This should be used in all headaches, backaches, changes of life, nervous disturbances, rheumatism, etc, Ask atH L Tucxer’s drug store for a tree trial bottle and Dr. Liles’ new book cn the Nerves and Heart. | who is also now dead, was the col- | Magone, when she resigned from the ed into his make-up , and persisted using his influence in her behalf ob- | : = jand 2s an inspectress she remained | | horse for $80. a devoted student of art, and was a | painter of more than ordinary abili- | B ‘ | buggy, he only has the old one re- | paired and a uew top on it. |takes then: to Butler to-day. Thomasville; Ga., July 27.—Mrs. | diamonds, made of the purest paste were scattered about on the table, among them being a large cross, heavily set with sparkling diamonds. i lector of the port then and she serv- | It caught the eye of the waiter who brought up the tray, and by a little juggling with his napkin. he secured it. He rushed down town as soon as possible to, in vulgar parlance, ‘raise but fifty cents on it. He was ia “smoothy guy,” so he hastened | She wasa widow when she Was! hack to the hotel, only to find that appointed. It is said that when she | Soe adesire to earn her own jliving, her husband not having left the lady had departed for the mati- |nee performance. To the theater he went and, securing admission to to the stage entrance on “pressing business from Miss ——, hotel,” he found the lady and restored to her the diamond cross, which, he plausibly set forth, had become en- tangled in a napkin. She had never missed the ornament, but was so de- lighted with the fellow’s honesty that she bestowed on him a $5 bill. This is a true story, and one which j will not be incorporated among those in the Sunday school books under the title of “The Reward of Honesty.”—St. Paul Globe. Virginia Items. F. Jenkins has built a large ad- dition to his barn. Mrs. Garner has the lumber and rock hauled to build her new house. AJ Parks’ two carpenters have worked five weeks on his big house and not over half done. Mrs. Arbogast is quite sick, Dr. Mitchell is attending her. Monroe Staggs goes to Kansas City with John Hensley’s hogs Tues- day. Amos Curren will be in the neigh- borhood with his new ‘steam thresh- er the last of the week. Flax is turning out from 5 to 12 bushels to the acre, and is worth $1.11 per bushel. Corn looks like it had tasseled out befor- it’s time. The M. E. church is looking for the new organ every day. Mrs. H. H. Flesher of Butler, is visiting in our midst. John McFadden sold his black Farmers had better secure their |corn knives for I am afraid they will be compelled to feed stock all this winter. No, Dr. Mitcheil has not a new W. J. Bard has sold 9 mules. He Miss Lula Dudley had quite a serious runaway. the horses kicking her considerable, but she is out of danger. Rewim. Love and Hate. Berlin, July 29.—News of a terri- ble crime committed by a young girl named Rhoda Erfeld reaches here frcm Wesserling. It seems that the girl had been accepting the attentions of a young man to whom her mother objected. The lover was finally forbidden the house and the girl was told that she must have nothing more to do with him. This preyed on the girl’s mind and she became so crazed with grief that, creeping into the sleeping apartmert of her mother, who was asleep in bed, she killed her parent with a hammer and then set fire to the house. The body was cremated in the ruins of the building. The girl escaped and no trace of her has yet been found. A Terrible Death. Unionville, Mo., July 29.—Yester- day morning Mack Guffey, who was driving a span of mules to a mower, met with a fatal accident at his step- father’s, W. M. Louis, about three miles east of this city. The team became frightened and ran away, throwing the young man in front of the sickle bar, which cut off voth arms near the shoulders and bruised him so badly internally, thathe died after four hours’ suffering. ‘om ‘enn “SOUT ANVIUVAOW Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher’s prescription for Infants f and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil, It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years’ use by Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd, cures Diarrhcea and Wind Colic. 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