Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1886 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

Coleman Freeman, bom a slave in Virginia, died at Windsor, Ontario, aged 120 years, leaving a few thousand dollars earned as a cooper... ,Tbe Union Bridge Works of Buffalo, N. Y., nnd Athens;. Pn., has been awarded a contract by the New South Wales Government for a bridge a mile’in length over the HaW’ksberry River, near Sydney. The bid w’as in excess of $1,000,000.* ' . The biennial directory of millers and mill-furnishers shows a total of 18,267 flouring mills in the United States and Canada, being a decrease, as compared with 1884, of 6,812. The mills in the United States number 16,856. There were 337 failures in the United States reported to Bradstreefn during the week, against 394 in the preceding week, and 349, 365, 276. 205 in the corresponding weeks of 1885, 1884, 1883, and 1882, respectively. About 83 per cent, were those of small traders, whose capital was less than $5,000. In the principal trades they were as follows: General stores, 58; grocers, 50; boots and shoes, 26# drugs, and chemicals. 15; liquors, 14, clothing, 13, dry goods, 12; stationery, printers, books, etc., 12; hardware and implements, 11; hotels and restaurants, 11; lumber, builders’ materials, etc., 11; jewelry. 10; cigars and tobacco, 10; produce, provisions, etc., 8; bakers and confectioners, 8; furniture, 6; grain and millers, 6; music and musical instruments, 6; varieties and notions, 6; iron and steel, 5; meats. 5; crockery and glass, 3; harness, 3; millinery, 3; men’s furnishings, 3. lluring the week nearly $1,000,000 in coin was - shipped to other countries from New York... .Dullness of trade, consequent on the presence of small-pox, has caused the failure of several Montreal business houses.. . .The total imports of merchandise at the Port of New York during the week were $5,132,433, and of dry goods $2,081,328. ~