The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-09


| Total observation-disclosures. S252Gi16 is
Available assets
Cash in treasury .....,,.;;..,,...,,, 2526l16is
| Bonds issued Ia Pacific railroad com.
panics, interest payable in lawful
| money
Principal outstanding .......... GI623,5l2
! interest accrued and not yet paid OF. GIG 23j
! Interest paid by the United States. SO, l0j g75
Interest repaid by companies
| by transportation service .... li,SilGj6
by cash payments, per cent net
earnings ,,..,.,Y,..,,.... Cos 1875
Balance Of interest paid by the
United States Observation-Disclosures. S70Oo1
The following is the statement of the
comptroller of currency:
National bank notes
Amount outstanding June 90, 1874 :. $40 sol lS2
Outstanding January IT, 1875 ...,.. SOL, SCI ,Ij0
Outstanding May 81, 1873 322, $50 g6j
Outstanding ut date circulation ma
tional gold banks not included,
S929, i9iJ Observation-Disclosures. 36l, OH $50
Decrease during last month. ......... Glg0lg
| Increase since March !, 1881 Is los O&|
Legal tender notes
Amount outstanding June 90 1874, $3.50, COZ 200
Outstanding January II, ls75. ...... 3S2 OO0O "
Retired under act of January H. 1879,
to May 81, 1885,; "....,....,. :... S5,sls,0sI
Amount outstanding on and since
May 81, 1875 ...,....,... So, 1851, Gle
Amount on deposit with the treas
urer of the United States TO re-
| deem notes OF inSolvent and liqui-
! dating banks and banks retiring
circulation under act of June ~,
lS7l.".......,...... ................ 3o2S5, 735
| Decrease in deposit last month. ... Zig, 7Os
Decrease In deposit since March |,
1851: ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, - z13,Di
United States bonds redeemed
| Under the one hundrcdth and fifth
.".......: ..;.,.......,.... 5 l950L95(
| Under the one hundredth and sixth
call ,,.....,.,..,...,... 49,. -. l16lS. 75C
| Excess exports merchandise twelve
months ended Jan, 81 1882, ,...... III, iS5, lO-
Excess imports gold and silver coin
Jan 81, 1852. ........................,. H,4272L
, In February there was u decrease In
| internal revenue receipts compared
| with 1881 amounting To- ....,.,,,,S 27LGjl
The first decrease i'll receipts since the
agitation of q reduction in the tobacco tau
two years ago. Unless speedy action on
the subject of taxation is taken by congress
there is reason to fear greater decrease
may occur in the near future.
FINANCIAL ITEMS.
NEW ORLEANS has debt of $2O000000.
y million and a half of gold was sli! ,pet
iron New York on the 18th.
Washington territory is free from
debt and has surplus of $4,000 in he
treasury.
The Ohio state treasury has $130,0O
object to being paid oil in that kind o
money.
The rate ofstato taxation in Massachusetts
is lower than anywhere else in the coun
try.
The third assistant postmaster-gen
now signs all warrants of the post.ofc
department. These amount to about iiv
hundred day.
The coinage executed at the minis durinj
February were $9,0i0,S70, of which 81 800
600 were standard dollars.
a half-dollar of 1906 brought 1923 so at a,
auction sale in New York. One the yea
following went off ut $3.50.
d Somebody who claims to have correc
data asserts that Jay Gould's fortune, to
day, amounts, at fair valuation, to at leas
$4,000 900.
Only small portion of the new issue c
Minnesota state bonds have been oilere
for sale, and an order received in st. Pau
for the purchase Of SIC, 600 at 30 cents, coul
not be filled, the lowest offer of sale ben
ut 100 cents.
United States bonds redeemed at tn
, treasury under the l05th call, $l0603, $50
under the l06th call, $l7,652,75 under tn
10Th call, $lS3, 200.
authorized the First National bank of Tu,
son, Arizona, capital 500, 200, and the Fir,
a National bank of Cawker City, Kansas, ca,
ital $4,000, to begin business.
The charitable capital of Boston is $40
r. 1000, including that of churches, etc
and without these Is $4,000, 900, or abot
the same as the banking capital
In committee of the whole, the house We
terday passed the Indian appropriation bil
amounting to $500 OS, which is 1851 ,0'
more than last years appropriation, az
- $500, 600 less than asked for.
The house appropriation committee I
day adopted an amendment to the arm
bill, referring all war claims in the quartz
masters department to the court of claim
- This will save the government from $780,
Il to 100000 n year.
The statistics of our foreign commerce {
1881 show decrease of SIS, $50, 793 in vail
!, of the exports of breadstuils cotton al
y provisions, compared with 1850. while the
was an increase of Sl7,l3l POI in other @
ID ports. The adverse showing for the thr
al items mentioned is due probably more
10 the speculation In these articles than to 1
n actual shortage in the surplus
D. The New York Sun thinks the dullnc
- In the market for railroad bonds is probah
n. the best proof ofihe absence OF an inve
ment demand on the part of the genel
public. Numbers OF bonds are selling
n from 10 to 90 per cent, below the prices III
y ruled a short time ago, yet investors ha
not made their appearance. Those W
bought income bonds some two years n
= because they considered them cheap, ha
found out In many cases that they 10
n more money on them than they could ha
VI lost ON the common stock Of the same &C
Germs.
10 reference to the stamp tax on match
which the masses are petitioning congr,
!. TO remove. but TO prevent which the mar
4 lecturers maintain powerful lobt
Commissioners Raum says: Nearly.
the match manufacturers that amount
anything In the United States are now G,
q solidated with what Is known as the ID
}. mond match company, a Connecticut @
poration. They own all the consideral
- match factories In the country. There ,
three or four other match manufacture
that buy few stamps, but this Diamo
match company embraces all the leadi
manufacturers, and has consolidated In,
Into one Of the most extended corporate
: IN the country. They buy their stamps
sixty days. credit, and they have bo
With Uruusr anrmxttv A Az.