Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1886 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Catherine Taswell (colored) aged 30, a married woman, was outraged and murdered near Haverford College Station, Pa. James Russell Lowell is engaged to the dowager Laoy Lyitieton, who, like Mr. Lowell, has been twice marr.ed, has three children, and is 40 yews old. Tbe will of Mrs. Cornelia Stewart was filed lor probate at New York She bequeathed the bulk of her estate to Charles J. Clinch, her nephew, of Paris, and Judge Henry Hdton, the latter in trust for several objejts named. Hans S. Beattie, Surveyor of the Port of New York, was fired at three times by a discharged inspector named Louis BaireL One bullet penetrated Beattie’s thigh, and another passed through the palm of his right hand. Bairei had been dismissed for exacting money from immigrants at Castle Garden. He was born in Brazil, and is seventy-two years old. The decrease in the public debt daring the month of October was $13,2j1,619. Following is the statement issued on the Ist inst: INTEREST-BEARING DEBT. Bonds at 4 '2 per cent <250,003,070 Bonds at 4 per cent 73i,7/0,400 Bonds at 3 per cent 80,848,700 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 191,500 Navy pension fund ut 3 per cent.... 14,003,000 Pacific Railroad bonds ato per cent. 04,623,512 Principal 51,153,443,112 Interest 8,933, .01 Total 81,102,430,073 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal *512,316,435 Interest J, 232,492 Total 812,548,927 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes. 5340,738,391 Certificates of deposit 7.140,000 Gold certificates 8 -,2 )4 909 Silver certificates 10J,300|80J Fractional currency (less 88,375,934 estimated as lost or destroyed)... 0,953,702 Principal 549,433,802 TOTAL DEBT. Principal 81,715,193,439 Interest 9,226, .53 Total. 81,724,419,403 Less cash items available for reduction of the debt 217,283,315 Less reserve held for redemption of U. S. notes 100,000,003 Total 8317,288,315 Total debt less available cash itemsS 1,407,131,147 Net cash in the Treasury 52,783,199 Debt less cash in Treasury Nov. 1 Debt less cash in Treasury Oct. 1, 1830 ; 1,3G7,549,507 Decreaso of debt during the month. 813,201,019 CASH IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOR REDUCTION OF PUBLIC DEBT. Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding....’ 888,294,939 Silver held for silver certificates rctuully outstanding. 100,306,800 U. S. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 7,110.003 Cash hold for matured debt and interest unpad 21,542,4 C 9 Fractional currency. 4^057 Total available for reduction of the debt 8217,288,315 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. S. notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12, 1882. 8100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of the debt— Fractional silver coin 828,<00,335 Minor coin 2 :.5, 121 70ta1520,53.5,757 Cl rtificates held as cash 54,469,700 Net cash balance on hand 52,783,199 Total cash in Treasury as shown by the Treasurer’s general account., 8451,008,033 Tho Government re :eipts during tlio first four months of the present fiscal year ended Oct. 30 were 8127,814 377, being 814,108,891 in excess of the receipts during the corresnondi g period of last year. The txpeditures during the same period of 1830 were 882,254,035, being 811,918,451 less than tho expenditures during the same period of las year. During last week the visible supply of grain in the U.nted States and Canada showed an increase of 883,181 bushels of wheat, 50,000 bushels of oats, 80,810 bushels of rye, and 71,540 bushels of barley, but corn diminished 837,3 0 bushels. The dwelling of the late L<"iis Liclileichner, at Steubenville, Ohio, was destroyed l y lire, Lichleicliner perishing in the slimes. His wife and children escaped by jumping from a window.