Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1887 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The following ia a recapitulation of the public debt statement issued on the 2d inst. by the United States Treasurer: INTF.HKHT.-B FADING DEBT. Bonds at 4'* percent. 8 250.000,000 Bonds at 4 per cent 737,707,510 Bonds at 3 per cent 28,079,950 Refunding certificates at 4 i>er cent. 177,750 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent.... 14,000,000 Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 percent. 04,023,512 Principal .*1,004,678,712 Interest ?.. v .. 8,780,652 Total.. .V '*1,103,450,308 Debt on wrich interest has ceased since . MATURITY. Principal *6,310,715 Interest 193,301 T0ta1..... *0,504,013 DEBT BEARINU NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes *340,738,183 Certificates of deposit. 6,350,039 Gold certificates..: 04,434,48) Silver certificates 137,74 i,430 Fractional currency (less 58,475,934 estimated as lost or destroyed)... 0,048,172 Principal *501,211,573 TOTAL DEBT, Principal....... ?1,693,201,0J0 Interest (■.O/a.OoO Total *1,704,174.057 Less cash items available for reduction of the debt S 204.118.450 Less reserve held for redemption of United States notes 103,000,000 Total 304,118,459 Total debt less available cdsli Items ..... .......1,340,050,498 Net cash in.the Treasury. 34,810,036 Debt leSicash in Treasury May i, IMS/..- V— ........81,325,179,459“ Debt less cash in Treasury'April 1, 188/ 1 1,318,223,/5i Decrease of debt during the inontn * 13,033,038 CASH IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOR REDUCTION OF PUBLIC DEBT. Gold held for gold certihcates actually outstanuing *04,434,485 Silver held forsilvor certificates actually outstanding 137,740,430 U. S. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 8,350,000 Cash hel l for matured debt and interest. unpaid [ 15,284,072 Cash held for bonds called not matured and balance of interest..,.. 8,305,950 Fractional currency y,922 Total available *264,118,459 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. S. notes, acts January 14, 187.3, and Julv 12,1882......' * 100,000,0J0 Unavailable for reduction of debt : Fractional silver coin... .*20,801,070 Minor coin 113.532 Total * 27,028,658 Certificates held as cash 34,072,743 Net cash balance on hand 3i, 880,038

■Total cash in Treasury as shown by the Treasurer s general account. .8 461,10 \896 Cholera is disappearing in Chili, and the blockade to commerce is about to be raised Chicago elevators aud vessels contain 14.0a9,9UJ bushelsof wheat, 9,012,645 bushels of com, 1,495,866 bushels of oats, 137,120 bushels of rye, and 51,141 bushels of barley; total, 24,786,(384 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 16,026,609 bushels a veaT ago. .. .The supply of all kinds of grain in sight in this country was decreased lasi week 2,517,703 bushels. In wheat the decrease amounted to 1,364.147 bushels, and in corn to 566,147 bushels. The visible supply of wheat is 47,313,476 bushels, aud of corn 18,650,550 bushels. The explosion of a steam-pipe on a towboat at Pittsburgh caused the loss of one life and the fatal injury of two other persons. .. .The burn ng of a breaker of the Lehigh and Wilkesbane Coal Company, at Sugar Notch, Pa., caused a loss of $60,000.

Three eases of genuine leprosy and three “suspicious” cases exist in St. Martin's Parish, Louisiana. Two suspicious cases are reported at New Orleans... .Fire at Louisville burned elevators, warehouses, freight care, and other property, the total loss being $250,000. A general strike of New York cigarmakers was inaugurated last week....A lockout has been inaugurated in the Cincinnati shoe factories. A strike of Chicago hodenrriers also took place. Fire totally destroyed the immenseplant of the Chicago Bridge Company, at Chicago. Th&ioss is $400,000. Two firemen were seriously injured by a falling crane. Four hundred men were thrown out of employment. ®