Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1884 — CENERAL. [ARTICLE]

CENERAL.

There were 192 business failures in the United States and twenty-six in Canada during the week, against an aggregate of 220 the previous week. Failures were numerous in Texas and the South generally. Special dispatches to Bradstreet's from leading business centers confirm previous reports that general trade throughout the country is decidedly dull. At no point is much if any chance looked for prior to the election, and from New England a number of dealers are of the opinion that no revival need bo looked for until Febninry or March next.... N. E. Snyder & Son’s Bank, at Grenada, Miss,, is embarrassed, causing excitement in the town. W. L. Lind & Co., wholesale hats and furs, at London, Ontario, have failed for $50,000..The Provincial Government at Toronto has sent armed volunteers to the village of Michipicoton, on Lake Superior, to stop the outrages being perpetrated by liquorsellers and Canadian Pacific employes.... Three Detroit clergymen have been swindled by ex-Gov. Moses, of South Carolina, who represented himself as the Rev. Dr. Hicks, of Washington. The police of Cambiidge, Mass., also, want Moses The New York, Ontario and Western Railway has just executed a mortgage at New York to the Mercantile Trust Company for $4,0(10,000, and will use the funds to equip aud'bperate its lines. Christian Shirmeb, only 15 yeans so age, has within the past seven weeks walked from Houston, Tex., to Chicago. He reached his home in Milwaukee in a condition next to starvation. At one time he had nothing to eat for four days.... The failures are announced of George White & Co., whoisale clothing dealers, of St. Louis, and Grant, Barfoot & Co., lithographers, of Toronto,.. .Mrs. Boutel, has , been sentenced to be hanged at Quebec, Nov. 20, for poisoning her husband.