The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-24
MONEY AND THaSE NOTES,

There was coined at the United States
mint during the year ending June so, 1880, a
total of SS4, IA, OF which S27 1888, 100
was standard silver dollars. This exceeds
the coinage Of any previous year.
The Washington treasury now holds $780,
82,050 in United States bonds to secure the
national bank circulation. The bank circula-
ton outstanding at the present time amounts
TO S342, $685. ST. of currency, and Sl,336,9l6
of gold notes.
We are TO have two Nicaragua canals and
the Monroe doctrine on the Isthmus of Da-
rien. Meantime, if a few new volcanoes,
earthquakes and tidal waves can be gotten
up that country may shine something on the
order Of its pristine spendor.
After making all proper allowances, it is
asserted upon good authority that the census
of 1880 will show our national wealth to be
not less than S5O,OO000O, 900, against $42,-
000,000,000 for Great Britain, and S48, 900,
100000 for France.
A forthcoming railway manual will show
that the gross earnings of all railroads from
which reports have been received, covering
nearly $4,000 miles, reached, in 1879, the
enormous sum of 529,O0O,0OO, being the
largest earnings ever reported.
According to the Virginia City (Nevada)
Chronicle, the California rarcheros find il
difficult to procure harvesters, and the con-
sequence is that immense numbers of Chinese
will have to be employed. Chinese Consul
Bee has orders now for $1,000 more coolies
than he can furnish These harvesters are
offered $50 month and boa d in Csifor.
MA
How would 5000 or 10000 Chinese fit the
North Texas cotton patches about picking
time? The Chinaman is an active, wiry little
cuss, not much larger and just the average
heighth of Texas stalk Of cotton. He is
therefore just the jib to lightly skip along
the rows and fit between the hills with the
agility of the humming'bird. Let us fetch
out cargo as an experiment.
Taking the New York insurance reports
for the past twenty years, it is found that
during that period the life insurance compa-
MES doing business in that state have report
ed aggregate premium receipts of $l,096,-
60O,277, and have made total distribution
among policy holders of STE, $50, 548 These
payments come under the three heads
losses, endowments, and annuities-$322,-
22,543; paid for lapsed, surrendered, and
purchased policies, $18l, 1857 700; and divi-
de1ds paid policy-holders, S209,134,2l5
Some counterfeit bills are executed with
such mastery skill, with such faith fulness
to the smallest details of the original, with
such perfection in every line and feature,
that they stand out as marvels of initiative
genius. To produce such work, the highest
order of artistic skill is requisite. The bus
mess monopolizes some of the most fin
ished talent to be found in the angravers'
profession. Whether it is the incentive
found in large though unlawful gains, or the
fascination held out by business ever
attended by danger, the counterfeiter seems
IS soon as he gets launched into the work. to
be favored by some special genius which
quickens his skill and sharpens his percep'
lions to al extent that is almost miraculous
As population goes on increasing on thi;
side of the Atlantic, there is wonderful in
crease of different character in Europe. Il
is not in population, IN acreage of cHltiva &c
land, in the quantities of manufactures, MOI
yet in the multiplication of appliances fol
producing wealth. The increase is confined
to two items-e expenditure and debt. Tit
following were the annual budgets for thu
leading European states in the years named