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THE MONEY MARKET.
SUNDAY, Dec. 26--P. ]

M.
The report Of the Bureau Of Statistics Of the exports
and imports in the month OF November makes
a favorable comparison with preceding mouths
and with the corresponding month OF 1888. The value OF
merchandise exports In November greater
than In October while the value OF the Imports was
100000 smaller hence the excess OF exports was
SO. 100000 greater than for the preceding month OF
October. Compared with November. 1888. the export
value OF merchandise last month was $5.200OOG
greater But the value Of imports also
was S34OOOOO greater hence the excess OF ex
ports Is SI,7OO,OOO greater than in November, 1855
November 1884, gave an excess OF exports SloOoOooo
greater MONTH but that principally wac due TO
the unusually small imports. they having been S9Oooooo
for last month. while the exports were $6po
900 greater. BY Of the importation OF $S.oOO-
600 more specie and bullion than exported in last
month The net exports Of merchandise and bull
ion is 81 600 600 less than In November 1882 AMI %lo
800 600 less In November 1884 The movements or
last month"; however exceedingly gratifying In that
they show larger volume of business In both directions
better demand abroad for products and an increased
capacity the part OF the United States to consume
foreign luxuries.
The following compares the gross movements and tho
net balances OF the month for three years
ONE MONTH
MERCHANDISE.
rs Month Of November s7ssoo
Imports spo 452IiGiS 5oeo2sI S'o4sslo
Excess of exports. ss3,509254 si0s5oio6 sls57O52s
SPECIE AND BULLION
sS SS s5 sscSsS
Excess of imi OTIS s72Gl,7io s3,77232s ss.5li,7i5
BALANCES.
Excess EXPORTS s. 6328535 sl3.0777sO sloO55.783
The movements of five months-Juy 10 November 30
show Of merchandise exports OF $2l 7sS446
which 81 100000 smaller than the for tue same
period OF 1885, and $9 900 less than for that period
Of 1884 The specie movement gives an excess OF I'M
ports the last five months OF $20.157l25 which IL
5000 than the for the same period OF
1885, and 80 600 than for that period OF 1854
But notwithstanding the large imports OF specie In No
vebcr the exports OF merchandise In that month were
sufficiently large to give for the first time In the five
months, n net balance Of merchandise and specie
movements combined in favor OF the exports For the
ell ven months ended November 80 the total exports OF
merchandise 1927 81 G,s25) $i4,0O0,0O0 greater
than the period OF 81 The imports OF merchandise
(y6O7 lO7 10 $7l 100000 greater than Tor tie
period OF 1885. Hence the excess or exports Tor me
eleven OF this year 900 less than tue
excess period OF 1888 Yet Notwithstanding the
oregnng facts. the specie movement OF the eleven
months shOwsan excess of exports tSl97Ollo4 when
Is only 81 900 greater than the excess for the same
period OF 1885 The following compares the gross move
and balances OF the four months or the three
years.
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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-12-16

The United States Circuit Court at
Memphis made the following impor-
tant decision last week. .
A creditor at Memphis telegraphed
to his lawyer as follows: "a B owes
me 81 900. If grounds attach" This
dispatch was not delivered. Subse.
quently similar dispatch was sent by
another creditor to the same lawyer
An attachment was laid and the mon
ey made, but only enough to pay sec.
ond creditor. The first creditor sued
the Western Union, and the court
held the company liable for the debt
Judge Jackson delivered the opinion,
saying that the dispatch disclosed on
the face of it its Importance.
We publish the above for the bene.
fit of the operators at this place. A
telegraph Office is an important add.
ton to any town, but unless the tele.
grams are Immediately delivered it be.
comes useless.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-12-16
The Duty of the House.

The Democratic House is urged not
to "waste time" in considering a bill
for the reduction of the war tariff, on
the plea that the Republican Senate
would not agree to such q measure il
the House should pass it.
The House cannot escape its res
possibilities upon any such plea. The
Treasury is in the receipt of q surplus
revenue of $100,000,000 a year. The
Democratic doctrine is that "unneces
sary taxation is unjust taxation
The Constitution confers upon the
House the power OF originating meas
ures relating to the revenue. The
people have intrusted the control o.
the House to the Democratic party
upon its pledge to prevent the sur
plus by reduction of the tariff taxes
upon the necessities OF the people
These are the linked facts that bin(
the majority of the House to the duty
Of passing a bill to reduce taxation.
Let the House do its duty and leav'
to the Senate the responsibility of re
jecting, if it dare, just measure de
manded by the best interests of tn,
country.-N Y World.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-12-16
The Iron Market.

There is not much change in the
iron markets. The markets are gen.
orally holding their own, Prices are
stiff or else are advancing. There are
no standings made, excepting in the
case, Of some OF the foreign pig held
in New York, and this is being done,
as shown in regular reports, to avoid
payment of charges, Contracts are
being made for the coming years de-
livery, but prices at which these are
being taken, are generally kept quiet.
The present month must determine
Uiese things and the iron trade will
have to show an open hand. The
Southern furnaces have been more
forward than those North in making
contracts, but many have shut down
upon anything further in this line, be-
lieving that there are better prices in
store for next year
In manufactured iron, prices are
firm, but once in while some one
wants particular order and to secure
it cuts away under in price. This is
sufficiently frequent to do away with
any present idea of further advance
in prices, although there is plenty of
business to be had, and all the mills
are full OF work for some time to come.
The feeling is said to be stronger at
interior points, but in this market
bars, skelp and, in some cases, angles
are barely steady at prices. Plants
are particularly firm, the difficulty is
to place orders, as the immediate de-
mand is in excess of the supply.
Rails are without notable change
The Trcr.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-12-16
AnecdOte ofGen. Grnnt.

General Grant, on his return to
this country, is said to have been Sc
verely afflicted with a cough, contract.
ed while crossing the ocean, and
which had stubbornly refused to yield
to any treatment. A friend procured
for him bottle OF Symphyx, and BY
its use he was in few hours entirely
relieved. He remarked to his friend
"Men look upon me as a great soldier
but this bottle of Symphyx is greater
than I. My calling has been to DIES.
troy mems lives, but this medicine is q
victorious savior OF men, / shall new.
er be without il again"
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-12-16
How TO xiii n Town.

The Herald OF Salisbury, North Car
olinas says that gentleman lately
went to that town to establish
machine shops, but, owing to
the extravagant prices demanded
for all real estate suitable for his pur-
pose, left and went to Statesville,
where site was obtained at q merely
nominal cost, SO anxious we're the
people to secure the location there OF
his works. Thus, Salisbury lost the
chance to add a fine manufacturing
enterprise to her industries, and many
other towns in the South are pursu-
ing the same course and, like Sal
isbury, losing enterprises that would
be of great benefit Birmingham can
probably afford to hold land at the
prices which it is now commanding
there, but even Birmingham, through
the Elyton Land company and others,
has dealt with great liberality with all
new enterprises that desired a location
there. In some cases land worth
thousands Of dollars has been donat-
ed to new industries, and in all cases
the most liberal inducements have
been offered to those who desired to
establish factory Of any kind.
Birmingham is now reaping the Just
reward OF this wise policy in degree
of prosperity probably never surpassed
in this country There are other
towns in the South having equally as
good natural advantages as Birmlng-
ham, and with the same energy and
liberality would doubtless soon be
equally as prosperous. If the citizens
OF any town want to kill their place
and see the grass cover their streets
while other towns are growing in
wealth and population, we do not
know OF much better way than by
holding real estate at extravagant
prices and offering no inducements
for the establishment OF new indus
tries. Baltimore Manufacturers, Re.
cord.
The above is particularly true Of
Johnson City. Only short time ago
company wanted to buy land here
and erect steel works. The property
owners held their land so high the
company went to Chattanooga and
AZ the Roam Iron Company, are doing
an immense business flour people
had been a little mere liberal IN their
views johnson City would to-day
have had steel works in process of
erection, OF not completed and in OPP
Grafton, The handle and spoke fac,
tory that is now in operation N Bris-
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-12-16

toll, Tenn, would have been here but
for this same reason. Their machin-
cry was all here ready to be unloaded
for several weeks before it was ship
ped to Bristol. We trust the people
have long ere this seen the folly Of
holding their land SO high and will
profit by past experience. 1t would
be wiser for large land owners to give
half their land away to such enter
prises, and thereby increase the value
of the remaining half tenf-old.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-12-16
The Columbia Bicycle Calendar for
1897.

The Columbia Bicycle Calendar for
81, just issued by the Pope Manufact-
uring Co., of Boston, is in many re-
spects more truly artistic and ele
CANT work in chromolithography and
the letterpress than Columbia Calen-
dar of '86, which calendar, it will be
remembered, was the most conven-
lent and artistic similar work of the
year. AS in the present calendar, each
day of the year appears upon a sepa-
rate slip, with quotation pertaining
to cycling from leading publications
and prominent writers on both sides
Of the ocean. The notable cycling
events are mentioned; and concise
opinions of the highest medical au-
thorities; words from practical wheel
men, including those of clergymen
and other professional gentlemen the
rights of 'cyclers upon the road gen
eral cycling statistics; records; the
benefits Of tricycling for ladies'; ex-
tracts from Cycling poems jnforma-
ton about costumes and much other
matter interesting to the public in gen.
eral and to the cycler in particular,
appear from day to day; and the mat
ter is new and fresh over that upon
the Columbia Calendar Of the present
year. In fact into \ little measure ia
crowded, in a highly attractive way,
the past, presentand future OF cycling
a virtual encyclopaedia upon this uni
versally utilized modern steed. The
calendar proper is mounted upon a
back of heavy board, upon which is
exquisitely executed in oil color effect
by G. HI. Buck, of New York, an ALE
gorical scene, representing the earth
resting among the clouds, and Thorn
as Stevens, the famous bicycler, il
seen in heroic size, astride his Column
'bia bicycle, circumbicycling the globe
The bright sunshine illumines one
side, while the pale moonlight gives a
contrasting aspect to the other, and
together make a remarkable atmos.
phcric effect, charmingly vivid, yet
artishcally toned and softened. A
smaller portioned OF the board is de-
voted to a picture of a mounted lady
trycycler, speeding along over pleas.
ant country road. The new calendar
as work Of convenient art, is worthy
of place in Office, library or people.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-12-16
steamer =. Nj. white burned

New ORLEANS, Dec. 14.-The steam
boat j. M. White, from Vicksburg,
Miss, to New Orleans, was burned at
10 o'clock last night at Blue Store,
Point Coupee, thirty miles above
Baton Rouge. She had quite num-
Der of passengers aboard 2,100 bales
cotton and 5000 sacks of seed Sixty
lives are reported to have been lost.
The boat and cargo are total loss
The j. M. White was built in 1873 at a
cost of 1925, 900, and was regarded by
many as the finest and fastest boat
ever run on the Mississippi river. The
boat was owned by Captain John w
Tobin. She was valued at 100000
the cargo at 100000. The insurance
on the boat is $4,000 and the cargo
is doubtless fully insured.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-12-16
$4,000 voted TO the Three C's

A mass meeting was held in the
City Hall last Fridvy night to adopt
some plan Of procedure to secure
the building Of the Charleston, Gin
cinnati and Chicago railroad through
Johnson City. A large majority Of
the taxpayers and business men were
represented. The meeting was called
to order by Mayor Dickinson. VIM.
Harr was made secretary, and Mayor
Dickinson was made permanent
chairman with authority to call a
meeting any time.
A motion was made by G. K Lide to
take the sense of the house in regard
to the corporation OF Johnson City is
suing bonds to the amount of fifty
thousand dollars, and taking that
amount of stock in the road, Speech
eswere made by several OF our leading
men, and the matter was thoroughly
discussed before the vote was taken.
When the question was put to the
house there WAS not dissenting
voice-the house voting to a man in
favor OF the motion.
A committee Of five was appointed
to solicit subscriptions from the citi-
zens Of johnson City, and the prop
erty owners along the proposed
route in Washington county.
1t is not thought improbable that an
amount equal to Johnson City's dona
ton may be raised from this source
A committee of three was appointed
to draft the proceedings OF the meet
ing and send copy TO the officers o
the Q. G. G, Company by Gen. Wilder
and Col. Matson.
johnson City is at last aroused, ant
the people are aliye to the advantages
to be derived from the building of thi
road, and will do all in their power t.
secure it through Johnson City. w,
trust there will be no abatement il
the interest already manifested.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-12-16

CharleElon Committee Reports.
CHARLESTON, s. G., Dec. 14.-At a
meeting Of the city council tonight,
Mayor Courtenay submitted a prelim-
mary report OF the executive relief
committee, saying that the total
amount Of $6S4,25S was received by
them for the sufferers by the earth
quake, and that the disbursements
amounted to $44s,119. The report
says: "The committee will have re-
paired in all about $50 houses out Of
total number Of over 1000 in the
city, at an average cost Of about $3.50
each (not including oyer 100 hundred
houses at Mount Pleasant and in the
vicinity Of the city, and not including
the contributions amounting to $780,
1888 sent to the Summerville commit
tee). OF the balance of 1S6,139, the
committee will reserve $86,139 as in
their opinion, an ample sum for plas-
tering and closing up of the unfnish-
ed business of house repairs and will
make several deposits with the city
treasurer OF the sum of 100000, to be
applied to the rebuilding Of the city
hospitals and alms-house, the repairs
of public school buildings, Orphans
Home, Old Folks Home and other
charity expenditures for the poor.
They would remark that this dispro-
portion OF q portion of the contribu-
tons sent to Charleston, is in conse-
quence with the wishes of donors, ex-
pressed by them to the mayor. Ger
tainly no better use could be made of
this sum OF money, none which would
be more satisfactory to the donors
everywhere, than to replace the wreck
ed buildings necessary for the comfort
and care of the needy, sick and poor,
and thus make permanent the memo
rial of the munifcent giving of the
American people in this, our year Of
great calamity"
With the committees report are ia
bles showing the receipts from differ
ent states and cities. These are how
ever, necessarily incomplete, and do
not include donations received by the
relief committee appointed immedi-
, ately after the earthquake, nor receipts
by individuals for relief purposes, and
by charitable organizations.
The News and Courier estimates
that the total subscription to the earth.
quake relief funds will amount to
to.about $S15,0OO, leaving a loss OF
over five and a half millions by the
: earthquake Of 1886, and the cyclone Of
} August, 1885, to be borne by individ.
uals, corporations and the govern.
/ ment.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-12-16
RAILROAD NEWS.

COMPANY ORGANIZED TO coNsTRUcr
ROAD FROM MEMPHIS TO BRISTOL,
NASHVILLE, Dec. lie. w, Cole,
A. S, CoIyar, J, M. Head, VIM. Nor
row and B. L. Wilson have formed a
company to be chartered as the Balti-
more, Nashville & Memphis Railroad
Company for the purpose of building
road from Bristol to Memphis. II
is understood that they will try to get
the use of the entire convict force to
build the road, paying the state back
by per capita assessments on passen'
gers for term Of years,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-12-16
Collision ON the N. 4 w.

LYNCHBURG, Va, Dec. 14.-A collis-
ion occurred on the Norfolk and West
ern railway, near Cripple Greek
Junction, this morning, whereby two
engines were wrecked and one explod-
ed. No lives were lost but one en-
gineer named S. j. Roberts was wound
ed. Six freight cars were burned.
The loss is $4,000.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-12-16
Republican Strategy.

The Republicans in the House will
probably determine on policy OF rev.
enue reduction before the Democratic
majority agree on anything. Promi-
nent Republicans have been for sew
eral days consulting together upon a
plan to be submitted to a caucus Of
the party, and at meeting held this
evening a general agreement of those
present was reached. There are, how
ever, to be further consultations be-
fore caucus is called, and the plan,
as will be seen, is by no means COM
plete.
The present plan of the Republican
side is to strike off the tobacco tax,
$2S,000,000; to strike off twenty PEI
cent of the sugar duty, $10Y000,000; to
make alcohol used in the arts and
manufactures tax free, which would
strike off $10000,o00 more. This
would strike off in all $4S,000,000 Of
revenue. For the rest they have still
to seek. OF course they want to pre-.
serve the wool duty. SO al to keep the
peoples blankets and WOODEN clothing
dear.
There have been some efforts to gel
leading Democrats to agree upon q
plan, but they have not yet met with
much success. But whatever may be
proposed by either side will be materi
ally changed in the course Of the de
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THE COMET.
Johnson City. Tenn. Dec. le. 1886.

Senator Hearst, of California, is pro-
prietor Of the San Francisco Examiner,
but is said TO have nothing to do with
the paper except to draw on his check
each month to make good its losses.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-12-16

Reporter Blaine will never appreci-
ate the true glory OF local journalism
until he is put to reporting society,
Then he'll wish he was cowboy away
out on the confines of New Mexico,
with job of rounding-up cattle, or
deep down in coal mine digging coal
at City cents Ton.