Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1885 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

There were 156 failures in the United States reported during the week, against 170 in the preceding week, and 166, 219, and 149 in the corresponding weeks of 1884,1883 and 1882. Bradstreet’s Journal, in its weekly trade review, says: The general movement of dry goods has been light, and on the whole disappointing. At Boston there has been a smaller business during thß week than for a long time past. The reorders are not expected until settled cold weather appears. An encouraging feature is found in the Tact that, while the mills are producing in excess of one year ago, no complaints are heard, while early in November, 1884, there were pronounced demands for a further restriction of production. The demand fdf grocery staples has been only moderate, with sugar and Brazil coffee lower. Fancy grades of butter are higher. Cheese is dull, with light export demand, Iron, and steel, and coal present no new features as compared with last week. Hog products are higher on a better home and export demand, as well as in sympathy with the price of corn.

A WOMAN took her boy, who was suffering from small-pox, on board a train at Bonaventure, Canada, but becoming frightened at the mutterings of the otherpassengers she took the boy to the platform of the car and threw him from the train, which was running at the rate of sixteen miles an hour. President Cleveland issued a proclamation commanding the anti-Chinese rioters at Seattle, Washington Territory, to disperse. Ten companies of troops were sent to Seattle to maintain order. A revenue cutter and a battery of artillery will assist them. At Tacoma the Grand Jury returned thirty-two indictments against the rioters, including the Mayor, Police Judge, the city editors of two newspapers, and other prominent persons. At Passadena, a suburb of Los Angeles, an anti-Chinese meeting was held, and twenty-four hours given the Chinese in which to leave the city. The Knights of Labor of San Francisco have issued a call for a mass-meet-ing, November 28, to demand the removal of Chinese from the city. TfiE Canada Pacific Railroad, just completed, cost nearly $250,000,000. Vast revenues are derived from the sale of lands, town sites, etc., by the Company. The following table shows the distance traversed by the various sections of the roadi “ ___ __ Miles. Eastern Division, Montreal to Sturgeon River..... 389 Western Division, Thunder Bay to Winnipeg 435 Western Division, Winnipeg to Port Moody, British Columbial,472 Halifax to Winnipeg f 2,285 Portland to Winnipegl,73l Boston to Winnipeg New York to Winnipeg 1,817 Quebec to Winnipeg.....;' 1,591 Montreal to Winnipeg.. 1,434 The first spike in the Dubuque and Northwestern Road was driven on the 9th inst.... A New York special says: “It is well known that the manuscript of Gen. McClellan’s personal memoirs was burned, but it is not so generally known that he succeeded, in reproducing nearly the whole of the work before his death, the book is to be issued shortly, and it is said by those who had conversed with the General on the subject that the publication of the memoirs will arouse more controversy than Mr. Depew’s recent letter On the Grant-Johnson incident.”