The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-22
FINANCIAL ITEMS.

The Canadian government is withdraw.
| ing its 20 cent pieces from circulation, they
being unpopular.
A dispatch from Berlin states that there
has been considerable withdrawal of gold
on foreign account from the Imperial bank
of Germany.
Secretary Lincoln urges an appropriation
of $SS ,2ll for new barracks and additional
quarters for officers at Fort Leaycnworth.
The deposits in the postal savings bank
of Great Britain ut the end OF 1879, which
were all invested in securities Endorsed by
the government, amounted TO G3l 49,
sol los.
The total amount of taxable property in
Missouri is over $500, 100000.
A half million of dollars has been paid
into the state treasury of Tennessee on the
taxes of 1851, for the payment of interest on
state bonds under the 1908 act, now de.
Clared unconstitutional.
At the present rate of decrease, II the pub
lie revenues keep up, the interost.bearing
debt Of the United States will be wiped out
in ten or twelve years.
The returns OF the Board of Trade show
that during the month of January British
imports increased, compared with that of
last year, by tS,30OO GOO, and the exports by
g, 10000.
The official brokers in Paris command n
surplus of l50,OO0,000 francs unemployed
capital.
The coinage at the mint in San Francisco
in January was $2,320,00O In gold and
$4,000 in standard dollars, making total
of $4,000, against total coinage in Jan.
uary, 1850, of S2,S700O0.
The cable reports large gains in the spe.
Ci: by the Banks OF England and France,
with an advance in American securities
The bank rate of Belgium has been reduced,
and reduction OF the rates for money to
The other leading financial centres is looked
for.
For the purpose of facilitating the with.
drawal of mutilatcd coin from circulation
the superintondents of coinage mints have
been authorized to purchase mutilatcd
United States silver coins of standard fine
ness, in sums Of 81 and upward, without
melting and assay, paying at the rate of 81
per ounce OF standard silver.
, OF the $2,000,0O0 In gold shipped from
| New York on the LIST, Sl,S00,0tO went &
, Italy under an engagement made long age
to help the. Italians to resume specie pay
ment that came by way of New York.
. The public debt OF Tennessee Is nov
nearly S2s,0o0,0oo, and the interest Is nc
cumulating at the rate Of about $1,000
day, the bonds now bearing six per cent.
The consular system of the United States
IS more than sellsustaining, the unnua
lees now received being from $4,000 {,
!. slVVOVo more than the cost of the service
Denver, Colorado. is situated about LOO
miles from tidc.watcr, and almost the SAM
distance nom the southern border of tn
]. republic, and yet II wants to be made a por
Of entry,
LONDON, February i0.-Thc bullion |,
the Bank OF England increased 81 400, 90
during the past week. The proportion q
the banks reserve TO It's liability Is 3sa pe
cent, as against S3i last week.
Paris, February i6.--The specie In tn
Bank OF France increased the past wee
S2oVo francs gold, and decreased $500 ~
, francs silver.
J. A member OF the ways and means con,
mittee said that he had no doubt that m
- committee will report In favor OF reducin
the tax on whisky and tobacco. but he az
not believe the reduction would be as niue
a as suggested. He thought, for instance, Tia
The whisky tax would be reduced to sbou
70 cents per gallon. His idea Is that th
committees viii first anrce to cut down N
D. ternsi taxation by certain figures, and tha