Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The total collections of internal revenue from the time the present system was organized, July 1, 1862, up to June 30, 1886, were $ 1,43N,2‘.Mi,4-V>. The States in which the ag_ r-gnte collections reached over $100,000,000 were: New York, s(>olk--700,4)00; Illinois, $426,600,0(H); Ohio. $372.600,000; Pennsylvania, $288^)00,600; Kentucky, $201,400,000; Massachusetts. $193,700,0(H); Missouri, $127,500,000; Indiana, $118,600,000; Virginia, $105,700,000, and New Jersey, $104,700,000; A statement prepared at the Treasury Department in regard to the status of the 3 per cent, loan nt the close of business Nov. 6 shows that of the $305,581,250 bonds issued $52,250 wns redeemed iu 1883, leaving subject to call $305,529,000, of which amount there has siuce been called $238,621,600. In addition to this uncalled bonds to the amount of $2,770,050 have be.en suiTendered for redemption,'so that tliere now rem .ins subject to call but $:>4,137,350. There are now outstanding $21,082,959 of called 3's, of which bonds $11,270,600 have matured but have not been presented for redemption. The money for their redemption has, however, been taken from the Treasury cash, mul-thal fund Ji ns been reduced accordingly. The remainder ot iffiv dUNtiunttinr bonds are embraced in the 144th call, winch does not mature till Dec. 1. Tin: claim of Editor Cutting against the Mexican Government for $50,000 damages, on account of false imprisonment and persoual indignities suffered by him, has been for some time on tile iu the State Department, but it has not yet been examined by the Secretary, and there has been therefore no decision v\ ith regard to the disposition to be made of it. The Tension Bureau has allowed $12,444 to John T. Moncrief, a member of the Eleventh Illinois Volunteers, now insane, and $11,917 to Josiah Brinard. formerly of the Eighty-eighth Pennsylvania Regiment These are the largest tirst pay-

Wiley, chemist ofTiie~*grrF cultural Department, telegraphs from Fort Scott that he obtained ‘by the diffusion process 124 pounds of sugar of fine quality from each ton of Louisiana cane treated. ....According to- Lieutenant General Sheridan's annual report the United army consists of 2,102 officers And 2!,946 men Charles Francis Adams, Jr.,President of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, had interviews with Secretary Lamar relative to the adjustment of difficulties between the Government and the railroad company on current accounts. A sttelement entirely satisfactory to both parties is in a fair way of beiug reached, and the amount determined on will be immediately liquidated by the company and the accounts closed. ’ The annual report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue is out. The total ceipts from all sources of internal revenue for the year ended June 30, 1886, were $116,902,869, as compared with $112,421.121 in 1885. The principal increase was in cigars, cigarettes, and spirits distilled from grain. The cost of collection during the \ ear was $4,299,485.