Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1896 — DOMESTIC EXPORTS IMCREASE. [ARTICLE]

DOMESTIC EXPORTS IMCREASE.

Gain Also in Imports for the Last Ten Months. The exports of domestic merchandise during April, as stated by the bureau of statistics, was $09,313,623, as compared with $03,958,041 during April, 1895. For the ten months ending April 30, 1896, there was a gain over the same period in 1890 of $50,0 i 3,000. The imports of merchandise during April were $58,705,299. as against $08,749,958 during April, 1895. Of the total imports a little less than 50 per cent was free of duty. For the ten months there was a gain in imports over the same months last year of about $02,000,000. During April the exports of gold amounted to $3,782,260 as compared with $2,893,010 for April, 1895. The confirmatioh by the Senate of f rank IV. Joplin to be postmaster at Elizabethtown, Ky., terminated a contest that had been in progress for two or three year*.