Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1884 — MISCELLANEOUS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Agricultural Department at Washington reports farm products as tending lower in values. The average price of corn is 36J4 cents, being highest in Florida (80 cents), and lowest In Nebraska (18 cents). Wheat averages 66 cents, against 91 cents a year ago; while the range for oats is 28 cents, the lowest ever reported by the department. The cotton average is between 9 and 9)g cents, and for potatoes the farm price is 40 cents per bushel. The various glass workers’ unions throughout the country have subscribed $50,000 to aid the proscription glass-blowers now on a strike at Pittsburgh. Commander S. Dana Greene, of the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, committed suicide last week. His mind Is supposed to have been unbalanced by literary work upon which he was engaged. H. J. Goodwin, a New York dealer In woolens, has ma le an assignment. The liabilities are about $300,000, with SIOO,OOO preferences. John C. Fares, a hatter at Evansville, lnd., has failed, with liabilities estimated at $40,000. Business failures for the week numbered 316, against 296 for the previous week, and 249 in the corresponding period of 1883. Special dispatches to liradstreel’B (New York) from leading trado centers report ‘‘the holiday purchases are exhibiting a contrast with the Inactivity previously noted, yet the volume of such sales is almost uniformly below the total for 1883. A6ide from the continued firmness in the New England cotton goods markets, due to the recent firmness in the price of raw cotton, and with the exception of a slightly improved distribution of goods at Boston, Memphis, Wilmington, and Savannah, general trade at all points is at as low an ebb as ever. A more conspicuous feature Is found in the long-continued and pronounced dullness of mercantile collections. This is reported in almost all directions. Rates of exchange on New York at interior points have declined in most instances. There is no gain in the industrial situation. In all lines of manufacturing wages continue to go lower, in 6to 10 per cent, drops. Actual stoppages of factories and mills are less frequent, but conspicuous.” George Cook was executed at Laramie City, AVyoming, for killing his brother-in-law; and Warren Price was hanged at Wrightsville, Ga., lor taking the life of his son-in-law. Boston capitalists have contracted for 8,000 tons of steel rails for the Arizona Mineral Belt Railroad. Lieut. Greely will be appointed Assistant Signal Officer, with the rank of Colonel. A leakage in a gas-pipe in a Montreal mansion was followed by an explosion which injured three servants almost fatally and nearly wrecked the building. The recent suicide of Commander S. Dana Green, of the United States navy, was caused by his anxiety to combat the statements put forth by an officer of the Confederate iron-clad Merrlmac, which was destroyed by one of the earliest monitors, at Hampton roads, Green being second in command of the latter. The Calumet sewer-pipe works, near Toronto, Ohio, valued at SIOO,OOO, were destroyed by fire. The principal blo?k at Brookville, lnd., was burned, the loss being SBO,OOO. Twelve buildings at Belvidere, Ill.; the Barrey Opera House and hotel at Corning, N. Y., and the opera-house and several other buildings at Chippewa Falls, Wis., fell a prey to flames.