Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1897 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

English holders of Union Pacific reorganization certificates want to annul the sale of the road. The postmaster general of Ontario has decided to permit pictures, views, designs or other advertising matter to be printed on the face of postal cards, so long as sufficient space is left to allow the address being writfen or printed so that it can be easily deciphered. Miss Butler has written Frances E. Willard resigning the superintendency of the purity branch of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union unless the latter unequivocally pronounces against the six propositions of the vice-president, Lady Henry Somerset, relative to tbe Indian army, which Miss Butler describes as being an “extreme form of the regulation of vice.”

The managers of the Joint Traffic Association have disapproved the recommendation of the Central Passenger Association, looking toward the issuance by conductors of mileage exchange tickets on account of the Central Passenger Association’s interchangeable 1,000-mile tickets for sleeping car passengers passing westwardly through trunk line western territory. * The Hon. Theodore Davis, as chief justice of British Columbia, lias refused to confirm a divorce granted to Mrs. Matthews by the high court some six months ago. The chief justice holds, contrary to the views of several of his colleagues, that the British Columbian courts have no power to grant divorces under the English divorce act, but that applications for divorce in British Columbia, like those in other provinces iu Canada, must come before the dominion senate. It. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “The monthly report of failures shows defaulted liabilities of sll,G 10.195 in November, against $12,700,856 last year. Because of three large failures for $3,250,000, not due to present conditions, the aggregate in November was only $1,100,000 less than last year, and, except for these, would have been smnller than in August, September or October. Failures for the week have been 30G in the United States, against 379 last year, and 28 in Canada, against 55 last year.” Bradstreet’s says: “General trade throughout the country has presented rather more animation, owing to colder weather and the approaching holidays. W’hile clothing, dry goods, hats, shoes and notions,, hardware and fancy groceries, have been in a little better demand from both jobbers and at retail in the region tributary to Chicago, St. Louis, Omaha, St. Joseph, St. Pnul and Kansas City, the tendency of business has been to slacken. This is noticeable in iron and steel and in further depression in cotton goods, print cloths having made a new low record in price. The total exports of wheat (flour included as wheat) from both coasts of the United States and from Montreal this week aggregate G,699,960 bushels, 1,300,000 bushels larger than last week. Corn exports show a heavy gain over last week, aggregating 4,585,800 bushels, against 2,8G9,000 bushels last week. Exports of other cereals, such as oats, rye, barley and buckwheat, have also been very large, and the total value of our cereal exports during the week just closed promises to be fully $9,000,000.”