Show INTERNAL REVENUE through h courtesy of lion ilon green B hatim commissioner of internal a revenue wo we have received a copy of the reports on the collection internal revenue and the tile condition of the service the tile report printed primed k lit aitho alic Govern government mert printing pi inting office in washington makes a most favorable showing of the service which sinco since the flie civil war var has grown to enormous dimensions in view the that frequent charges cli arges of peculation and malversa tiou made against the public officials who handle the peoples funds it is encouraging to learn atrom gen daunis report that the tile entire collections of internal revenue taxes for the past fiscal year amounting to 71 have bave I 1 cen accounted for from the tile tax lax collectors scattered from froin puget sound to key west and from the penobscot to rio lew grandc it is a still greater source of gratification forthe taxpayers tax payers to leam learn that during the past sit six years the sum of 01 has been collected from internal revenue taxation and paid into the U S treasury without any any defalcation the Commies commissioner ioner is also happy to state stat e ali that at the revenue agents report a uniformly healthy condition Y of the service throughout the land and lie lays stress on the fact that the fraudulent combinations heretofore prevailing in certain districts for the illicit manufacture and sale of whiskey and tobacco have been broken up we aro are glad not to find one sad feature of former reports in the present one viz the enumeration the losses of life entailed on the revenue venue e collecting corps while in the discharge of their responsible cl and peril perilous fus in moon mooris shiners biners tinned or alluded to we ive presume I 1 ill that the suppression of the tho illicit 51 traffic has been effected without the former deplorable bloodshed entering into the statistical part we find that the most prolific source of national income is i oan of a spiritual nat urethe brits belding the snug amount of an increase in crease of 30 over the y yield beld of tuc the previous fiscal y year ear if to this we add the taxes realized from fermented liquor 16 an increase of over 1881 we ire have bave a total of paid on taxes alone on the consumption ian of liquor by V the united states equal to about 1 for every man woman and I 1 child if we ire look at tho the amount these figures represent in ill gallons we find that in the fiscal year ended june 30 1882 there thore were produced in uncle sams dominion 12 gallons of spirits from fruit a decrease of gal of spirits from grain etc an increase arc sc of and 1695 barrels of fermented liquors an increase of 2 the tile social philosopher draws from these 1 figures the lite deduction that although the manufacture of spirits is increasing with the growth of population and the development f industry the production of malt liquors is gaining at a rapid rate over 4 the ardent liquid in ill the rate of increase winch may be owing as much to the native population giving up their toddy for the less iti injurious jurious lager as to the swelling tide of german immigration ration the next most important tant resource of federal revenue is furnished by the weed of walter raleigh tile m malodorous al odorous out of the cigars cigarettes pounds of snuff and pounds of tobacco uncle sam realized 47 a band handsome some pocket money more than in in 1881 think of it almost 1 for every adult and infant in the united states gone up in taxed smoke alone one encouraging item in this array of stupendous figures is the fact that a decrease of J is shown in the number of manufactured cigarettes although we greatly apprehend that the de destructive homemade home made article is on the ascendant to the injury of tho ris rising generation of the republic the remainder of the revenue is la 15 made up by derived from taxation on bank deposits capital and circulation and 7 from miscellaneous source such as taken out of the poor mana pocket in tile shape of stamps on friction matches if wo we final finally y cast ft a cursory glance through gli tho the tabulation by revenue districts wo we find that tho the following poured the greatest great cst amounts of 1 l wealth wrung from wickedness into columbian Colum bias cornucopia fifth illinois 10 3 F first ir t ohio third new york the F fourth texas ranks the lowest lovest with utah te territory ri orlando J T hollister Hollist cr collector contributed to the ceness of tile country TUB ca press anys A B dark clark postmaster at 0 orange range will this season on son gather 1600 boxes of oranges about oranges from froin six aeres of oranges planted six years a ago 0 0 last summer to trees budded to the wilsons Wil sons nest this ns as far ar as we know is the best beat yield of fruit ever reported in ill this state age of trees considered 0 if tho tile fruit is sold at per box it will net mr vr clarko clarke about per acre which is certainly good enough although some people might grumble and say E an orange orchard eliard or dont 1 pay hiir TELEGRAPH today to day brought brou glit information of tho the doings of the national prohibition convention now in session at chicago the report was so bungled and j jumbled together that it was im impossible p possible to make I 1 much sense out of tile P platform platform as reported if there was any in it as adopted the only tiling thing halfway lucid was a plank calling for the tile abolition of polygamy whatever that meant to reverse the title of a shakespearean play we ire might call that action I hates lates labor lost P anfims MAKE makr a mistake each burning their straw nearly every farmer turns his stock into the tile stubblefields stubble fields or rents said fields to others and arid instead of burning so much feed why should it not bo be well to scatter it broadcast over the eo that the stock buiu pick up N jo lat they wanted and tread the balance into tho tile ground where it would do some good toward strengthening heni tir r another crop S F alia alta THE CONGRESS s just adjourned gets it right and left the dirtiest cona congress gress since the convention of the F forty ort thieves is what the hartford times timm calls it ROBINSONS so co constituents TS t the ile utica observer observes will welcome homo the prodigal and find kei fers the calf |