The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-05
Current News.
OER SILNEE COITa.

grams, IA CRANE, and q grams. a bill
now before the senate adds to these dou-
BILE dime or twenty cent piece, weighing |
8 grams, and a dollar weighing 20 grams. |
Silver coins are now legal tender for |
any amount not exceeding five dollars. |
The bill referred to makes the silver dollar |
legal tender to the amount of twenty dol |
lars, the half dollar to the amount of ten
dollars, and the quarter dollar, double |
dime and dime TO the amount of Ave dol |
lars.
This measure is supplemental to that sec
ton of the act of 1875 which vainy en-
deavors to hasten the resumption of specie
payments by the substitution of silver for
tor fractional currency.
BOUND FOR THE EXPOSITION.
Col. George W. RIDDLE, state centennial
agent, and Moses Humphrey, president of
the New Hampshire Board of Agriculture,
start for Philadelphia nj X Tues day to per-
feet arrangements for the New Hampshire
department. Manager White Of the Noun.
tain railroad proposes to send the topmost
rock from the summit of Mount Washing
| ton to the centennial.
THE BLACK HILLS.
Tramp, tramp, tramp, the men are march
these are now waiting in Omaha for trans
portation The Union Pacific eends ou
extra trains to convey the crowd Of adven-
turers to points along the route nearest 10
the hills. The roads leading to tho region
of precious metals are lined with the white
covered wagon trains Of miners hurrying
| ,,,t hair IN l,a Of
and some them will miss the roots of their
hair by the operation.
THE NATIONAL CENTENNIAL.
The Connecticut Congreg ationsl churches
will celebrate the national centennial Sun
day, July Q, by special praise and thanks
giving services, and special contributions
will be made in behalf of the proposed
memorial hail al hartford. Rev. Joseph
Anderson of Waterville will issue to the
churches circular setting forth the OBJ
jec,s and the desirable features of tho ai-
fair. 1t will be suggested that the min
listers of each church deliver an appropriate
historical address, and that copy of each
address, with programme of the exercises,
be forwarded to the church annalist for
preservatioD; that each church make q
thank offering; and that, while each may
in general conduct the services according
to its own judgment, oil should incorporate
10 its programme Dr.. Bacon's well-kuown
hymn -
o God, beneath thy guiding hand
Our exiled fathers crossed the sea-
1t is especially urged that the occasion be
used to encourage the historical spirit, and
particularly to foster love for the Con.
gregational faith and order. It is suggest
| Cd tbat tl,a a,ol ,f
two historical discourses he delivered, The
proposed memorial building is already
picked out at Hartford, and would cost
about $50, 600.
THE DEBTS OF OLD AND NEW VIRGINIA.
The West Virginia people in Congress
and those around the city are as jublant rs
they can be, and make no concealment of
their good feeling. 1t appears that case
went up to the supreme court from the Ter
ritory of Wyoming involving a question
similar to the financial dispute between
Virginia and West Virginia. The county
of Laramie, Wyoming Territory, was four
hundred miles long and four hundred miles
wide or rather four hundred miles square,
which is very different from four hundred
square miles. By an act Of the legi.la-
ture of Wyoming the county was divided
into three counties, the two new ones be.
ing named Albany and Carbon, but the act
did not say anything about who should pay
the debt of Laramie, amounting to S4S,-
600 1t went through all the various courts
! to the supreme court, which decided last
Monday that Laramie must pay the entire
debt. The people of West Virginia take
: comfort, aid say that under that decision
it is utterly impossible for the supreme
&c A.
wise than that Virginia is liable for the in
, debtedness of the old state, and that West
Virginia has nothing to do with it.
MONETARY.
The Boston Journals weekly monetary
summary says; An active market is still O
, thing of the future, and the call for money
which usually springs up at this season
seems to have settled into dead calm.
Capital ia plenty, or rather more than
plenty, and this afiluence of funds at a
/ time when the demand usually overlaps the
supply renders an advance in rates impos.
sble. Holders are glad to employ it, even
at very low figures if they can only depend
upon the security Of the loan, but other
, wise they prefer letting it lie idle Bust.
ness men are apparently settling down to
D the new order OF things and accepting the
. situation with resolution and courage. The
: forced development OF material resources
is up to a certain point great element OF
success, but if pushed beyond Just limits
the tension becomes too great and the snap.
! ping of the cord leaves everything at loose
ends. There is undoubtedly change in
! private expenditure, which tells materially
: upon consumption, not 50 much at the two
! ends of the social line as in the great mid
} die class-always the most timid in incur.
ring risks aud the most conservative in their
daily habits. A spasmodic economy Is pro.
{ ductive of lapguor in trade, but as the ne.
cessity for it becomes less urgent bushes.
will spring up 10 meet the new demand.
that shall be made upon it, aud this will
bring us the long wished for and still Longer
delayed revival of trade.
INSURANCE.
, The annual report of the New Yor,
state insurance department IS Just issued
The business OF all fire and marine insur-
J ance companies doing business in that state
Is comprehensively stated, including, cap
, ital, risks, losses, expenditures, increases
etc. Total assets OF the companies Il
given as Sl70,902 O37 n, an increase OF
$4,000, 900 over the previous Year, The
income of the year was 1888 Gil, 304. OF, and
the expenditures $40, 63S l0-e decrease OF
$3,242 TIA in income and an increase OF
so, l37, 202 so in expenditure, as compared
with the previous year. The whole nun
, Der of companies reported as existing last
, year was 227, being four moro than report.
ed In 1874. The gross assets Of all the fire,