The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-05-04

FINANCIAL ITEMS.
Madison is in debt over S25O,OOC-s25 for every
man woman and child in the city.
The Georgia Railroad and Banking company
has paid in dividends since the war the immense
sum of 81, 626576. A.,
ogden has flood of mutilated silver coin as
no general effort has been made TO suppress IT,
tits being rushed in there, ,,,,,,o,,
Tha Eureka district, Nevada, mas pIOuuccu
ores to the value of 100000 during the past
During March, the real estate transactions in
San Francisco figured up ol2'i,Uo-, REPRESENTING
A firm in Atlanta, Georgia. recently bought
$4,000 face value of Confederate bonus lhht
had been doing service as wal! paper, ,,, -
II is said India cost England 81 000,COl more
than she brought into the imperial treasur! last
year. o,oo ro,,
bles to the st Petersburg GeOgraphical society
toward meeting the expense OF ahOIheF PoI"i
station at Nova Lemhla. 40
A Jacksonville firm, doing a business of sou. =
900 annually have made an examination OF their
books and find that the bad debts during hVe
years amount to SIP 90. -
The state taxes collected in Texas last year
amounted to s2,5i2OlO, The years expenditures
were 81. 276OO leaving over million dollars
from the years receipts in the treasury.
On December 81 1881, there were in force IN
thS state OF New York III, 1888 life insurance pol
icfes, insuring 1924. 43t755. The premiums re-
ceived during the year aggregated sl0, sud-
and the losses paid S6546.237. The new business
of the year was the issue OF ll,Uoo poHcles, III
surfing s33 1857. ~,
will redeem all the continued per cents of July
and August, 1861. Work will then begin on SiS,
600 900 in continued 6s of 1868
Agriculture gets s4l4, $50 for this years allow
ance. The agricultural department of the gov.
ernment is likely to remain pure for the want OF
a corruption fund If for no other reason.
The exports of domestic produce from New
York during the past week were below the csual
average, the total being but S. III, against
1882 500 for the same week last year. The
shipments of petroleum were fair, but the move
ment of the other principal articles such as
breadstuffs, provisions, etc, was light since
January Isl the exports aggregate 500, 100, i9l,
compared with Sl2O. l99,O67 for the corresponding
period of 1851
senate finance committee, Commissioner Raum
prepared n statement of the amount of spirits
now in bond on which (under the requirements
of the existing law revenue must be paid gu
ring the next twelve months. The commits
sioner places the number of gallons at 5, 43o 2i3
The present annual consumption of distilled
spirits in the United States of all kinds Is about
Dispatches from Washington state that the
amou It of 3H per cent government bonds on de-
post for circulation diminished s9I& GOO lastWeeR
though there was an increase in the per cents on
dep cit Since April no less than 81 $4,000 OF me
\ 3K per cents. has been withdrawn from deposit
sl43,sOO OF the IL per cents whlie o. 49, .
Sdeposited The net decrease in bonds de
In Washington was, therefore, g, 15d, o5O
Lrst Massachusetts,, has been passing
N mining stock craze, which the faculty
st college 'ided in producing The
kpitants of the old town imbibed the
ey were going TO become suddenly
\eting their surplus funds In certain
mines. The personal property of
eased in one year from S7G2OOO to
is was the inflated value given TO
tificates. Blu llc bubble Hir
burst' Ynall cease to pa Fl.ena' thCi'
stock sells at nohrr>l price aug .nef5 !, ~
ing among those who M. D ~ -,'' 30 WOW
fully 10 their own pecuniary loss q
The foreign commerce sthusucs ~ thc port "i
New York for the week Ell ug with saturday
last showed a light export movement oi dCmcs
tic products and heavy imT M. OF merchNnaist.
As compared with the Coz. 'uuh,ug week iu
1881 the figures make an uniayU:!n.. moving
The specie movement continued light The eN-
ports (exclusve OF specie) were S. 296 3e against
&C. 500 ISL last year; imports of merchandise Sl1,
275S77 against s., $40 39l last year; exports oil
specie sl69 OO against sl2l 200 last year and i'm
ports of specie $4,000, against S3,2l3,4Ss last
year. The total exports from New York lex
elusive of spece) since January LIST are s9i, ISL
year; Imports of general merchandise SlG0, 5s6..
l49, against si23, GA. last year exports OF
specie sl43j9354, against s3,sGI,169 last year
and imports Of specie sl,lis,9j5 against s27, 49,
40 last year.
DALLAS EXCHANGE AND COIN.
Buying Selling. Buying Selling.
MY. Fx. KSxParaR ST. Louis. fax ParaA
Chicago :. k@LParaZ N. 0....H9zPar@l4
Galveston X Par@k Houston.h Par@A
Exchange, all points TON discount. Sterling
sight % - Francs, sos 10. Marks, %.
Trade dollars. scots, Mexican dollars. scots
Mexican halves. .4octs. Mexican quarters l5cts