Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-12-04
OF THE WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.
ERoM WASHINGTON.

THE exchanges at twenty leading
clearing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 22d aggregated
$500, 76s, 800, against $757 1862 ,3O4 the pre-
vious week. AS compared with the corre-
spending period of 1888, the clearings indi-
Gated decrease of 1915 per cent.
For the weeK ended November % the is
sue OF silver dollars was 4s1 ,497; for the
corresponding period of last year, 3O1, 1893.
THE annual report of Secretary Teller,
of the Department of the Interior, was SUBJ
mitted to the President on the 26th. He
urges the education and protection of
Indians, in order to prevent the recurrence
of hostilities between the red and the white
men. He deplores the waste of the public
domain, urges change in the laws for
railroad taxation, favors pensions for SOL
diers, and expresses confidence in the Civil
service act.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointed Cap
tain Fehrenbatch, of Cincinnati, Commits
sioner of the National Labor Bureau
The Comptroller of the Currency. in his
annual report issued on the Goth, shows
that during the fiscal year ended Novem-
Der 1, 191 National banks were organized,
with a capital of Sl6,042, 200; circulating
notes issued, 1885, $50. Since the estab-
lishment of the system on February 25,
1868, there have been organized 3,261 Ma
tional banks, of which 2,671 are now in ex-
istence.
In his annual report made on the 26th
the Chief Of the Bureau of Statistics stated
that during the first four months of the
present fisc year the exports of merchan-
disc were "a, ,249; Imports, $2Os,s1S,-
$50; excess of exports, 25,S99,6l9. For the
year the excess of exports was SS1 ,5S3, 6SS.
The excess of imports of gold and silver
for the four months was $3,346,510.
THE annual report of the General Super
intendent of the Saving Service, made
on the 26th, says the total number of disas-
tiers during the past year was 439; total
value of property saved, $9,161 1854; total
value of property lost, 81, $50; total
number of persons saved, ALP; total num-
Der of persons lost, 90; total number of
loersnns- snaaA.Aai at statisna.- hsas .as...Ai>-
of vessels totally lost, "a.
THERE were 2G2 business failures in the
United States and Canada during the seven
days ended on the 2Sth, against 2S3 the
previous seven days. The distribution
was as follows: Middle States, 30; New
England States, %; Western, 81; Southern,
55; Pacific States and Territories, %; Cam
ada, %.
In his annual report issued on the 2sth
ult. Robert T. Lincoln, Secretary of War,
says the total expenditures for the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1884, were SO, 1892
S76.21, the appropriations, $500, 551 SO.
The estimates for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1886, are $50 $3.50, 500.5S, being less
than the estimates for 1885.
TREASURER WYMAN, in his annual re-
port issued on the 18th ult., shows that the
net revenue of the Government for the fis-
cal year ended June 20, 1884, was less than
that of 1888 by $49,767.712, having been
$34S ,5I9, $50, while in 1888 it amounted to
$685., 2s7 ,5s1. The net expenditures aggre-
amount in 1883 of S21 ,2S1 1893. The Treasu-
ny reserve for the year ended November /,
1884, decreased 1882 ,255, or from $780,
S22;545 in 1883 to $14sO7O,2 90 November 1,
1884. The amount of standard silver dol
lars coined to September 20, 1854, was
$751;, SsO,s20.