Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — DOMESTIC EXPORTS IMCREASE. [ARTICLE]

DOMESTIC EXPORTS IMCREASE.

Gain Also in Imports for the Lost Ten Months. The exports of domestic merchandise during April, as stated by the bureau of statistics, was $09,313,0211, as compared with $03,1)08.I>41 durlhg April. 1895. For the tetr monrtiß ending April 30; I&Jfr, there Was a gain over the same period in 1895 of $50,073,000. The imports of merchandise during April were $58,705,299, as against $08,740,958 during April. 1895. Of the total imports a little less than 50 fs-r cent was free of duty. For the ten months there was a gain in imports over the same months last year of about so2,<too,o<>o. During April the exports of gold amounted to $3,782,200, ns compared with $2,893,010 for April, 1895The confirmation by the Senate of Frank W. Joplin to be postmaster at Elizabethtown. Ky„ terminated a contest that hnd been itj progress for two or three years.