Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1883 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The coinage of the United States mints during the past month aggregate s,(«a.000 pieces, valued at #1,228,800. This includes 1,200,000 silver dollara Commissioner of Internal Revenue Evans, has decided that bitters and various alcholic compounds of alleged medicinal worth were beverages, dud should be taxed as such under the law. Hereafter all persons selling any of these alcoholic tonics without special payment therefor will be subject to arrest and fine. In addition to this these tonics will be tested the same as whisky and other liquors In the abandoned-property division of the Treasury Department are stored #50,000,000 in Confederate money. In view of the purchase of bonds for shipment to England, an effort will be made in the next Congress to secure authority to destroy the financial relics in the hands of the Government Following is tbe regular monthly statement of the public debt issued the Ist Inst: t Interest hearing debt— Three and one-halt per cents # 320.450,500 Four and one-half per cent 5......... 250,000.000 Four per cents - 737, 607.350 Three per cents . 804,241.900 Refunding certificates 337.700 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total Interest-bearing debt $1,338^32,000 Matured debt 7,267,765 Legal-tender notes 346,73j,92G Certificates of deposit .» I2,:d0,000 Gold and silver certificates 172,723,461 Fractional currency 6,999,241 Total without interest $539,372,618 Total debt (principal).. $i,884,87?,»83 Totalinterest 9,854,57 f( Total cash In treasury 351,536,345 Debt, less cash in treasury 1,543,190,61>> Decrease during July 7,900,5C0 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1883. 7,900,580 Current liabilitiesinterest due and unpaid $ 2,556,C21 Debt on which interest has oeased.. 7,267,765 Interest thereon 361,311 Gold and silver certificates ~.. 172,723,461 U. 8. notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit. 12,910,000 Cash balance available Aug. 1 165,717,145 Total $351,536,345 Available assets— Cash in treasury. 851,536,346 Bonds issued to Pacificrailway.companles, interest payable by U nited States— 3 Principal outstanding $ 64,6'3,512 Interest accrued, not yet paid. 323,117 Interest paid by United States 69,222,093 Interest repaid by companies— By transport;.* ion service $ 1«,777,380 By cash payments, 5 per cent, net earnings $55,198 Balance of interest* paid by United States 41,789,514 The total collections from internal revenue during July were #9,278,535, which is #3,000,900 less than the total collections in July, 18821 A Washington paper publishes a stoi y that Mexico has secretly made an offensive and defensive alliance with Germany, by which the latter country receives more advantages than are conceded in the convention with the United Statea