Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1888 — THE WORLD AT LARGE. [ARTICLE]

THE WORLD AT LARGE.

United States Consul Ellwing, at Stockholm, has informed the State Department at Washington that the Swedish Government has declared against the importation of pork from the United States unless it is well salted. The consill says the order is founded on a report that a hog pestilence is raging in the United States. A QUARTERLY dividend of 2 per cent., payable March 1, has been declared by the Chicago and Alton Rea l. The Belgic, the fourth successive steamer from China with small-pox on board, has been quarantined at San Francisco. Complaints have been made to the Internal Revenue Bureau that banks along the bordor are circulating Canadian notes as currency. R. G. Eun & Co., in their last weekly review of trad?, si y: Quiet has been the prevailing feature in business during the past week at nearly every interior point reporting and at tho chief Eastern cities. Yet it is generally estimated that the volume of business transacted comuares favorably with that of last week. With little speculation in any direction to swell transactions, the returns are a safe indication at this season of a moderate increase in legitimate trade. Prices refuse to rise, and though meats anct vegetables are a shade higher on the whole, there is a little larger decrease in other articles. Money is easier and in good supply at all interior points reporting, and accumulates in New York banks so rapidly that some six months loans at 4 per cent, have been made. A resident of Fitchburg, Mass., signing as “Loyal Citizen,” has sent 25 emts to the National Treasury to be placed to the credit of the conscience fund. The writer alleges that thirty years ago ho canceled the marks on a 5-ceut stamp, which he had nsed upon another letter, and that he now makes restitution to the Government.