Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

A bill in equity has been filed in the Supreme Court-of the District of Columbia by G. C. Berriman, for Henry C. Strong of Chicago, against Robert B. Vance, Acting Patents Commissioner, and Elish Gray for an injunction to restrain the issuing of a telephone patent to the latter. The following is the statement of the public debt issued on the Ist of the month: INTEBEBT-BEABING DEBT. Bonds at 4J$ per cent 5250,000,000 Bonds at 4 per cent 737,763,500 Bonds at 8 per cent 134,422,150 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 199,950 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent.... 14,000,000 Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per cent. 64,623,513 Principalsl,2ol,ols,ll2 Interest.... 10,801,645 T0ta1....51,211,816,757 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal $4,773,225 Interest 194,922 Total $4,968,148 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes. $346,738,391 Certificates of deposit 19,195,000 Gold certificates.- 74,098,347 Silver certificates 89,021,760 Fractional currency (less $8,375,934 estimated as lost or destroyed)... 6,953,702 Principal 631,607,200 TOTAL DEBT. Principa151,737,395,537 Interest 10,996,568 T0ta1'. 51,748,392,106 Less cash items available for reduction of the debt 193,687,964 Less reserve held for redemption of U. S. notes 100,000,000 Total $291,637,964 Total debt less available cash item 551,454,704,141 Net cash in the 'Treasury 76,527,561 Debt less cash in Treasury Sept. 1, 188651,378,176,580 Debt less cash in Treasury Aug. 1, , 1886 1,380,087,279 Decrease of debt during the month. $1,910,699 CASH IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOB REDUCTION OF PUBLIC DEBT. Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding 877,698,347 Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding 89,021,760 U. 8. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 11,195,000 Cash held for matured debt and interest unpaid 5,769,793 Fractional currency 3,063 Total available for reduction of the debt. $193,687,964 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of IT. s. notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12, 1882.... 8100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of the debt— Fractions] silver coin $27,956,991 Minor coin 322,661 „ J otal 828,279,653 Certificates held as cash 7.j, 775,412 Net cash balance on hand. 76,527,531 Total cash in Treasury as shown by the Treasurer’s general account.. 8174.270.651 Judge Thomas C. Manning, of Louisiana, has been appointed Minister to Mexico, succeeding Gen. Jackson. Judge Manning has been on the Supreme bench in his State for six years. He is not a politician, but is an intimate friend of Secretary'Bayard. The receipts of the United States for the month of August were $32,195,326; expenditures, $28,908,887. It is alleged that the Washington Monument is sinking and has lost four inches in height.