The National tribune., 1883-10-25
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r. G. Dun & Co., of the mercantile agency,
report that the business does not improve.
There is a manifest shrinkage in the volume
Of trade, indicated by very marked decline
in the exchanges at this point which is shared
In bv the returns from seven of the largest COM
melcial ccnters. Eleven cities show slight
gain IN business, while at nine leading points
there is large loss. Locally the demand for
merchandise shows decline In volume as the
season approaches a close, but there has been
fair amount Of profit in the transactions of
the week, as prices have been pretty steadily
maintained. Collections have been good, and,
notwithstanding a large increase in the num-
her Of failures the losses as yet by bad debts do
NOT impair the expectation Of fairly profitable
season.
The annual meeting of the board Of trustees
OF the John IT, Slater fund was held in New
York October 75th, r. =. Hayes in the chair.
Among the other members present were Sena-
tor C0lqGitt of Georgia. and Daniel c. Gilman,
OF Baltimore. The Rev. D. A. q. haygood, gen
eral agent OF the fund, submitted has report. 1t
shows chat more than half the colored children
in the Southern States who are st the proper
age to attend school and are not enrolled. and
that the great majority of colored teachers are
ignorant and unskillful. The income of the
fund for the current year is about 100000. from
which an appropriation Of $4,000 has already
been made, aud the sum Of SlG,250 has been
allotted to twelve institutions in seven of the
Southern States. All these institutions have
undertaken to provide industrial training.
Governor Tritle, Of Arizona. in a report TO
the Secretary Of the Interior, states that the
Territory now has population Of $1,000 and
possesses over S20-000-000 of taxable property.
The value Of the gold and silver product for
1es2 was Sc 29S 267, against s.. los, ,765 for 1881.
The yield OF copper in 1882 was 15.00o,099
pounds The combined value Of the silver and
copper for 1883 viii be between fifteen and six
teen millions of dollars The country is well
adapted to grazing purposes, and its 300.0o0
sheep produce :, 100000 pounds of wool yearly.
Mr. Alra II. Doan, clerk in the Pension
Office, has suggested a system Of weather sig
mails IN the country for the benefit OF farmers.
III consists of signal flags TO be known as far
Iners' signal haEs," to be displayed from the
sides of United States mail cars. The flags viii
signal Information as follows: 4 white flag
meaning clear weather; blue flag fair weather;
red. doubtful weather, and black stormy
weather or high winds
The Postal Telegraph Cable Company was
incorporated in New York October 18th The
lines are to extend throughout the United
States, Canada and Mexico. and from Green
point Long Island, TO London, Liverpool and
Paris The corp0rators are Henry c. Gardner,
Luther R. Marsh, T. H. Dupuy, Andrew w.
Kent and Dumont Clark
A board OF engineer officers composed Of
IieutcnaDtlColoneIs Cignus p. Constock, God
frey Neitzel, and Nm. E. Merrill, has been ap-
pointed to meet in New York to consider and
report upon a plan and location of the bridge
across the Ohio River at Wheeling, West fir-
Einia, 10 be constructed by the Wheeling and
Harrisburg Railroad Company.
Messrs- J. w. MacIay and James Gordon
Bennett are said TO have signed q contract in
September last with siemens Bros. for two
transatlantic cables. They are now in process
Of construction near London. and one of them
will be open to the public about the LIST of June,
1SsA, the second a few weeks later.
The first annual exhibition Of the National
Eorse-Show Association OF America wasssopened
on tine 2Zd inst, at the Madison Square Garden,
". II. Nearly all the entries were complete
and numbered in al. including those horses
entered for special premiums, 400 animals
Shinnecock Hills, which embrace about 40
O0e acres of upland, meadow, and land under
water in the town OF southampton, Suffolk
county, Long Island, was Saturday sold at pub
lie auction for sl0l,0oG to r. II. Hinsdale, Of
Garden City, l. J.
The assessment rolls Of 155 counties OF Texas
show an increase il taxable values of over
s., coo above last year, with fifteen coun-
ties to hear from, which viii doubtless make
total increase Of 500 100000
Judge Gary, in the Chicago superior court,
October 29th, decided that the ordinance By
which the city Of Chicago sought 70 collect
$3.50 annually from the wholesale liquor deal
ers was void, because it partook Of the nature
OF Tax.
The eleventh annual Congress Of the Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Women began at
Chicago Ill. on the 18th inst, a large number
of distinguished women from ali parts Of the
country were in attendance.
The committee Of creditors Of F. Shaw &
Bros tanners. of Boston, who recently failed,
reported az a meeting of creditors October 18th,
that the assets Of the firm were worth s. 856,-
600, and the liabilities S5344, 600.
The Pittsburg Bessener steel works at Home
stead, Pa were sold October 10Th TO Carnegie
Bros. & Co., Of the Edgar Thompson Steel Com
pany. The basis Of the sale is said to be 81 2G9,-
O09
The White River has risen rapidly during
the last two days, inundating 1900 acres Of
corn aud cotton in the White River Valley,
AK.