The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-12-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

Business failures: Henry Lund *
Co., English exporters, San Francisco, liabi-
tiles $40, 600: McManus, Ihline Il Eoolin,
Providence, Il. l., liabilities, Sli0,000 Hen
lein n Wolf, mems furnishing goods, New
York, liabilities SOS, 900: John Monroe, lum-
Der. South Arm Mich, liabilities heavy: En-
erson n Brccke, clothing, Chippewa Falls,
Wis, liabilities $4,000: John Rowland Il
Sons, hats, New York, liabilities, $50, 0C0; Stie-
per & Obcrholtzer, grain, Davenport, Iowa;
the Chicago Arms company, Chicago, labili-
ties about $4,000, assets about half that
sum; the Manufacturers Bank, Amsterdam,
n. Y; Edward Head, cotton and wooden
goods manufactured, Philadelphia, liabilities
S45, 600; the II. :. Fatlcr Manufacturing COM
pany, st. Louis, Mo, liabilities $4,000; the
Grant County bank, silver City, n. NJ;
Charles FoX's Sons n Co., New York, liabilities
$50 coo; Lesser n Woolzky, clothing, Ishpem-
ing, Mich, liabilities $4,000; j. II. Billups Il
Co., cotton, New York, liabilities, 500, 900; Will
lam Sullivan, gas-hXturcs, Bay City, Mich. :;
c. a. Damon, clothing, Madison, Wis.
The December report of the Agri-
cultural Department at Washington states
that the returns of corn production are more
conservative than in October ana November,
from injury TO soft corn by the warm, most
weather north of the 10th parallel. Corn
that has been cribbed is in Il worse condition
than for many years. The proportion of un-
mcrchantable corn is therefore large. The
final estimate OF the quantity pro-
duced will fall Il few millions
short of the indications of previous
returns, or twenty-thrCe bushels per acre.
This estimate relates only 10 quantity. and
makes no discount for inferior quality, which
seriously increases the practical shortage.
Losses from packing in masses or injury to
soft corn from mild and wet weather are
treated as aftcr-harvest considerations. An
investigation will bc made rs TO the extent of
such injury. Whcat-The aggregate slightly
exceeds 400, 000,0 600 bushels. Oats-The crop
is about per cent. larger than last year, and
exceeds zoo, 000,O 600 bushels. The yield of rye
and barley is little less than in 1852. Buck
wheat is reduced more than one-third. Re
turns from the South point to cotton crop
of about 100000 bales. IT is possible the
cotton movement Of the year may pass that
limit.
The Union Pacific, Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific and Chicago, Milwaukee
and 81. Paul railroads have formed an agree
ment for twenty-five. years to divide the
through business between Ogden and Chi
cago. 1t is considered one of the most inn
portant railroad contracts for many years.
BY it the Iowa pool is at IN end, and though
other Western roads, it i said, are at liberty
TO enter the alliance, the three roads chiefly
concerned plainly have the bulge so strong
that the rest cannot probably get in on salts
factory terms, and the result, as forecast,
will be n damaging war on nearly all sorts of
Western business, involving breaks in the
Colorado pool and possibly the Northwestern
and Southwestern traffic associations.
Mrs. John HOWE, of Homerville, New
Brunswick, gave birth 10 four boys, three OF
whom are still living.
Rich gold and copper discoveries are
reported in the Rockys near Podmorc, in the
British possessions.
Business failures in the United States
for the week numbered 2l9, against 2i6 the
preceding week, and 230 for the correspond
ing period in 1882.