Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1884 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The following is the regular monthly statement of the public debt, issued on the Ist inst.: X interest-bearing debt— Four and one-half per cents $ 250,000,000 Four per cents 737.643,950 Three per cents 254,808,650 Refunding certificates 305.400 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt 11,256,758,000 Matured debt...,. $ 14,048,915 Debt bearing no interest — Legal-tender notes. 846,739.541 Certificates of deposit 15,475,000 Gold and silver certificates 24d.644.561 Fractional currency 6,984,317 Total without interest I 589,843,419 Total debt (principal) 11,860,645,334 Total interest... 11,492,685 Total cash in treasury.... 402,875,210 Debt, less cash in treasury 1,469,262,809 Decrease during March 14,238,324 Decrease of debt since June 80, 188 X 81,828,398 Current liabilitiesinterest due and unpaid $ 1,469,339 Debt on which interest has ceased.. 14,043,915 Interest thereon Gold and silver certificates 220,644,561 U. 8. notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit. 15,475,000 Casn balance available 150,915,315 T0ta1......... $ 402,875,210 Available assets— Cash in treasury $ 402.875,210 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable by United States— Prindnal outstanding | 64,623,512 Interest accrued, not yet paid. 969,352 Interest paid by United States 61,160,798 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service. .1 17,966,821 By cash payments, 5 per cent, net earnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by United States • 6?,538.778 Before the Springer committee at Washington, George Bliss testified that his charge as counsel in the star-route cases was >Sfi,53S, of which >48,442 was for expenses. A 10-year-old boy, ’who killed a farmer by hitting him with a stone, pleaded guilty to manslaughter at Washington, and

was sentenced to the Reform School for eleven years. The House Committee on Post-Roads adopted a resolution declaring it inexpedient for the Government either to construct a postal telegraph or purchase any existing line.