The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-03-29
FINANCIAL ITEMS.

PAYMENT of interest due on government
bonds April LIST, will begin at sub-treas-
nries on the 26th instant, without rebate.
The total of the appropriation bills Tor
the next fiscal year is over $66, 100000 less
than the amount of all appropriations made
last summer.
There has been unprecedented demand
for nickels all over the country, which
would seem to show that the people OF the
United States are learning economy.
The internal revenue receipts from July
l, 1882, to March q, 1888, are S2,2Oo,OCo. IN
excess Of the receipts for the corresponding
period the preceding year.
The French government has negotiated
with the Bank of France a sexennial obllga-
ton of 100 600 francs, in preference to
issuing bonds.
The estimated expenditure of the Do
minion OF Canada for the fiscal year ending
the Both of June, 1884, is $45, 002, 145. The
amount voted the present year, ending the
30th of June next, was $54 ,S71 ,2s4:
The earnings of the Vanderbilt proper
ties continue enormous. For the first two
weeks in March the New York Central in
creased 1895, 600, Lake Shore $685. 600, and
Michigan Central $4,000 the first ten
DAYS.
The estimates laid before the Dominion
parliament for the ensuing year yea aggregait,e
$4,000 900, of which $13, 250,OOO is tor rail-
ways. The debt Of the Dominion govern
ment is $167 100000.
= The length of railroads in Tennessee
amounts to 1900 miles. The aggregate
stocks bonds and floating indebtedness
amount to over $115,000,UO,. or over S5O-
600 to every mile of railroad in the state.
All the railroad property, in the state is as
sessed for taxation for only S27 ,OOO,OOo:
The Mexican government has employed
a coipe- from the New Orleans mint to coin
100000 600 pieces of nickel money. The
French government will soon issue nickel
coins. The German empire has nickel
coins worth fifth of a cent each, Whlle
their 5.pfennig pieces--worth l cent-are
about the size of our nickels.
The increased business OF the trust COM
panies in New York has something to do
with the low state of the bank reserves.
Within the past two years these compa-
MES have nearly tripled in resources, and
more than doubled in the amount OF cur
rent deposits. On the tirst OF this year
they held deposits to the amount of $lO7,-
46, 453, or more than one-thlrd OF the de-
posts Of the associated banks: go
For tie fiscal year ending April 20, 1883,
special tax year. the total number OF manu-
facturers and dealers in smoking and manu-
featured tobacco and snuff, cigars, cheroots
and cigarettes, as estimated at the internal
revenue bureau, is 1856, 800. or these 42U, !,
600 are dealers, 435,0On manufacturers OF
cigars, and 900 manufacturers OF snuff and
tobacco.
The telegraph is working its way to China
in the face of lao inconsiderable difficulty.
Permission was recently given for the con-
struction of a line from Shanghai TO TENT
sin, and thence to Pekin, but. as the Chi
nese language, unfortunately, has no alpf /
bet, the officials were in fix. Now, how
ever, It has been arranged that messages
shall be translated into English or French
and transmitted to their destination in that
shape. On arrival they are TO be infinitely
examined by certain officials, who, with the
true red-tapc instinct, must be satisfied
that the messages contain nothing danger
Gus TO the state.