Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-09-20
COMMERCE. AND INDUSTRY.

MIR. John G. Gault, at present Assistant
General Manager of the Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul Railroad, has been appointed
General Manager of the consolidated Wabash
and st. Louis, Kansas City and Northern
Railway, with headquarters at st. Louis. The
consolidation of the two lines will be con-
summated, 1t is thought, about the 1st of No
vember, after which it will be designated rs
the Wabash, st. Louis and Pacific.
The revenue officers captured an illicit dis
tillery in operation in Cincinnati on the 9th.
1t is owned by Frank Address and located at
No. % Sycamore Street.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail-
road has begun the surveys for an extension
of its line from Pueblo to Denver.
The National Bank of Peru has failed.
There were one million bushels of wheat
in the st. Louis elevators on the 10th, but
with only four and half feet of water i'm the
river Mt Cairo its movement was greatly re-
tarded, barges not being able to carry over
half cargo. Vessels are waiting at New
Orleans, meanwhile, for freights for Europe
1t is estimated that 10000 persons are still
out OF work in Glasgow, Scotland. The iron
trade is the only industry that shows signs
OF reviving. Great suffering is inevitable the
coming winter.
Spring wheat in Ontario has been a signal
failure-iniured by midge, weevil and rust
The Northwestern National Bank Of Minne-
apolis, MIMI, has been robbed of S135, 900 by
w. w. keene, Assistant Cashier, during the
absence ofthe Cashier i'm Europe. The money
was lost in stock speculations, and the Bank
officers attention was first directed to the
deficit by the National Bank Examiner. The
Bank is considered strong one, and il is eX-
pected will pull through all right. 1t is al
most needless TO add that Keene was a man
OF good habits and irreproachable character.
The monthly crop report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture shows heavy decline
i'm cotton during August, the general average
being 80 against 81 for the month previous.
Corn-05 against % for August. Tobacco is
put at 81, an advance of 10 per cent. from the
August condition and an increase Of 6 per
cent. over the condition at the same time last
year.
Lieut.. Smith S. Leach has been made dis
bursting officer of the Mississippi River Com
mission, by the direction of Secretary of
War McCrary.
The British Government has appointed a
commission to investigate the condition of
agriculture i'm Great Britain, Continental
Europe and America. The commission num-
bers 20 members, and includes the Duke of
Bucelcuch, who is said to be the weathiest
landed proprietor in the world. The sub
committee appointed to visit America con-
sists of Clare Sewell Read, member
for Norfolk, and Albert Pell, mem-
Der for South Leicestershire, both
large farmers. They have already arrived
at New York. The English farmers have
steadily lost money for the last four years.
Ii was recently stated in Parliament that the
bad yield and low prices of last year involved
loss to the country of 5000, 900, and that
IL present prices are maintained agriculture
in England must be given up. Meanwhile
America is profiting by England's misfor-
tunes.