Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1884 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The clearing-house exchanges for last week ($650,169,105) were $50,082 less than the preceding week, and when compared with the corresponding period in 1883 show a decrease 24.7 per cent. The Hotel Newport at Asbury Park, N. J., was burned. All the guests, 125 in number, escaped. Some had to abandon their trunks Over 20,000 persons participated in the annual labor demonstration in New York, the procession filling Broadway from the City Hall to Union Square. Each body of workmen wore a distinctive badge, and many of the trades unions illustrated their vocation by practical work on the wagons. The printers carried a banner urging the boycotting of the New York Tribune. A call has been issued for a State convention of the People’s (Butler’s) party for Massachusetts, to be held at Worcester the 24th inst. Since Jan. 1 the Lynchburg Tobacco Association has sold 20,000,000 pounds of tobacco, and during August the sales reached 1.225. OOdpounds. The leaves of the plant are unusually small this year, thus changing the type of Virginia tobacco. China is not yet disposed to submit to French dictation. An order has been issued encouraging the Chinese troops to fight bravely, and warning the local authorities to protect French non-combatants.... The German ship Marco Polo, from Bremen for New York, struck a rock off the Scottish coast and was wrecked. Part of her crew were rescued, but in a very exhausted condition. Arkansas voted for State and county officers and members of the Legislature on Monday, Sept 1. The returns indicate the election of Simon P. Hughes, the Democratic candidate for Governor, by a majority of 40,000 or more. The Legislature will be largely Democratic. The constitutional amendment repudiating the disputed State debt is believed to have been carried. Notwithstanding a very large vote was polled, the election was a peaceable and quiet one... .The National Executive Committee of the National Lsfbor party decided at New York to hold no convention, but issued a “declaration” indorsing the principles of the People’s party and its candidate, General Butler. Following is the official statement of the public debt for August: Interest-bearing debt— Four and one-half per cents $250,000,000 Four per cents. 737,683,150 Three per cents.. 214,571,350 Refunding certificate 5............... 271,900 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt...... $1,216,526,490 Matured debt $14,188,585 Debt bearing no interest— Legal-tender notes 846,739.376 Certificates of deposit..... ',... 14,420,000 Gold and silver certificates 242,851,841 Fractional currency 6,978,001 Total without interest. $610,989,218 Total debt (principa1)...............51,841,704,203 Total interest 10,351,844 Total cash in Debt less cash in Treasury. $1,437,514,094 Decrease during August 8,542,852 Decrease since June 30, 1881 12,536,141 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaid $1,686,574 Debt on which interest has ceased, 14,188,585 Interest thereon 322,410 Gold and silver certificates 242,851,841 United States notes held for redemption certificates 14,420,000 Casq balance avai1ab1e.............. 141,072,511 Total $114,541,952 Available assets— Cash in Treasury . $414,541,952 Bonds issued to Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable by United States — Principal outstanding $64,623,512 Interest accrued, not yet paid....... 646,235 Interest paid by United States 63,099,504 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service. $ 18,148,923 By cash payments, 5 per cent, net earnings. 665,198 Balance of interest paid by United States 44.295,381 When a woman becomes flurried she feels for a fan; when a man becomes flurried he feels for a cigar.