The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-11-14

Total receipts 10 date since sept l.... AS. 40
Total same date last year ............... 6is,6S
Exports for the week ....... 81, ~
Exports for the same time last year. 3D. 81
Total exports TO date. ......... $50, HS
Total for the same time last year. ..... 2i5, Os
Stock AT all United states ports ........ ~, beb
Stock for the same time last year ...... 2gi ,f21
stock at all interior towns. ...-.......... 30, lsI
Same time last year. inconvenience. a., ic3
stock AT Liverpool. .......-............. 532,WO
Same time last We r.................. ~, t00
Stock American afioat for Great Britain. 5000
Same time last year ................ $3.50
Five hundred hands were discharged
from the Danforth Locomotive Works at
Paterson, y. j.. on the last of October.
Nearly the entire force was also discharged
from the Grant Locomotive Works. in the
same city. The salaries of the men at
Rogers Works were reduced fifty-eight
cents day, so as to make il an equivalent
to the proposed reduction. The Paterson
manufacturers consider that there Is little
prospect of an Improvement during the
winter. Some three hundred of the Eng
lish mechanics formerly employed there,
il Is stated have purchased tickets to return
home.
One of the Stokes jurors has been ar
rested charged with violation Of his oath.
Stokes was taken to Sing Sing Nov. /.
Theodore Tilton's name has been erased
from the books of Beecher's church.
The well-known manufacturing firm Of
A. Il w. Sprague. Providence. II. l.. owing
TO temporary embarrassment on account
of the stringency of the money market,
have proposed to deed their property TO
trustees IN trust for their creditors. Their
assets far exceed their liabilities.
The dry-goods house Of II. b. Claflin q
Co.. New York City, have been compelled
to ask short extension from some Of
their creditors. which was promptly
granted.
The failure Of the Chesapeake Il Ohio
Railroad Company is announced.
A Philadelphia telegram of Nov. says
that the California and Texas Construc-
ton Company. engaged IN building by
contract the Texas Pacific Railway. was
unable 70 meet all it, paper maturing on
that day, the present financial condition Of
the country rendering il impossible for
the company 10 realize ready cash on il,
assets. although they are largely in cX-
cess of IT, liabilities. Over $4,000 of its
paper. most OF it indorscd by prominent
stockholders. went To protest.
Returns from the Massachusetts, election
give Gov. Washburn from 5000 to 10000
plurality. General Banks. independent
candidate for State Senator. was elected
over the regular Republican candidate.
Scattering returns from the election in
New York indicate the success ofthe DEM
ocratic State ticket. The Democratic ma
iority in New York City on the State
ticket is about $4,000. and on tie county
ticket about $4,000. ;. ;. Cox has been
elected to Congress from the Sixth Dis
trict. Hunter. Democrat. is elected Mayor
of Brooklyn.
The Moosic Powder Mill. al Hyde Park,
Pa. exploded NOV. 4. killing three men-
Martin. IIanofly and Abbott. The cause
Of the explosion i unknown.
The estimated Democratic majority in
New York on the State ticket. NOV. >. was
I from 10000 To 1900. The Legislature j.
Republican by small majority in both
houses.
The Democratic majority in Maryland is
estimated at 10000.
The Republicans will have a majority on
joint ballot in the New Jersey Legislature.
The trial Of VIM. vi. Tweed was called
in the New York Court of oyer and Ter
miner. Judge Davis presiding. on Oct. ..
Twecd's counsel put in z protest against
Judge Davis presiding at the trial. on the
ground that he was prejudiccd against
their clients, and was personally hostile to
him. Judge Davis announced that he
should take no action on the untruthful
and extraordinary paper" presented by
Tweed's counsel, and ordered the case to
proceed.
The State printing office at Harrisburg
I Pa. together with the State Journal Office
both owned by b. +. Singerly, were de-
stroyed by fire on Nov. ). The operatives
barely escaped with their lives.