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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1879
Page
4
Secretary Hayes outlines 1879 to 1880 fiscal projections with receipts and expenditures, sinking fund status, and proposed reforms. He covers war department needs, navy improvements, postal service finances, and Indian policy including allotments, education, and Carlisle Hampton school expansions.
Paris hosts leading Russian royalty and a parade of elegant figures, including Princess Olga de Novikoff whose book Is Russia Wrong? drew attention in England. Empress of Russia travels incognito to Cannes, with a large bodyguard and an extensive household.
The Bonanza mines paymaster Mr Taylor, after a week of illness, paid out twenty thousand dollars, deferring pay yesterday. He claims to have disbursed over sixty million dollars during six years, able to weigh piles of twenties by feel and sort coins by weight to speed payments. Meanwhile New York immigration in October totaled 21,624 arrivals with 17,250 immigrants, compared to 8,039 last year, and 124,618 arrivals for the year ending October, 44,270 more than the prior year.
Summary of receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30 1879 including ordinary revenues by source customs internal revenue land sales and more. Details on expenditures by department district of Columbia pensions naval and military costs and notes on future revenues and surpluses.
A New York Herald critique of English press errors about U S affairs cites an Examiner claim that Victoria Woodhull could win the presidency and a fake tale of a million American votes. The piece argues the hoax shows English ignorance and misrepresents Woodhull and her finances and health.
A colored man named Sam, years overdue on a debt to a local merchant, came to town and asked for the promised allowance upon settlement. The merchant agreed to a good allowance if Sam could pay now, but he lacked the cash, saying his wife wanted a show instead.
The London secretary of the National Association of Iron-Workers warns iron workers not to emigrate to the United States until jobs are guaranteed, noting hundreds of iron workers in America are unemployed.
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