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Tie Hamilton Journal
HAMILTON. GBOBGIA.
FINANCIAL FIGURES.
INCREASE IN THE NATIONAL DEBT
EAST MONTH.
Statement Showing the governmental Kx
pendlture* nod Receipts.
^he following is a recapitulation of the na¬
tional debt statement during November:
Interest-bearing Debt.
Bonds at 4Jjj per cent.. • • • • .$250,000,000 737,742,850 00 00
Bonds at 4 per cent...... .
Bonds at 3 j>er cent...... . 104,190,500 00
Refunding certificates at 4 per
cent....................... 221,750 00
Navy pension fund at 3 per cent. 14,000,00 J 00
Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per
cent..................... 04,623,512 00
Principal $1,200,778,012 11,853,088 00
Interest.. 51
Total................... $1,272,631,700 51
Debt on which interest has
ceased since maturity:
Principal................ $3,569,105 217,035 20 76
Interest.................
Total $3,736,141 02
Debt Bearing no Interest .
Old demand and legal tender
Certificates notes................... $346,738,806 00
of deposit,....... 17,555,000 00
Gold certificates............. 105,554,09*3 00
Silver certificates............ 92,702,042 00
Fractional currency, loss
$8,375,934 estimated as lost
or destroyed.............. 6,959,574 92
Principal $509,510,114 92
Total Debt.
Principal Interest.. .....•*•*... $1,833,857,832 18
.......... 12,070,124 27
Total.............. $1,845,927,956 45
Less cash items avail¬
able for reduction of
“ the debt............. $231,452,594 55
Less reserve held for
redemption States of United
notes........$100,600,000.00
331,452,594 55
Total debt, less available
cash items............. $1,514,475,361 90
Net cash in the Treasury.... 61,930.595 34
FiaVit lcsH cask in th«
Debt less Treasury, cash in the [Dec. Treasury 1, 1885.$1,452,*44,760 56
Nov. 1, 1885................. 1,447,657,568 09
Increase of debt during the
month.......................... 4,887,198 47
Cash in the 'Treasury.
Available for reduction of the
C\ public, 1 hold debt, for gold certifi
Silver caiAto held o.eiuatiy for ovP silver tending, 8105,W54 092 09
certifi¬
United cates actually outstanding, 92,702,643 00
States notes held for
certificates of deposit actual¬
flash ly outstanding.............. 17,555,000 00
hold for matured debt and
interest unpaid.............. 15,639,229 53
Fractional currency.......... 1.631 02
Total available for reduc¬
tion of the debt $331,452,594 55
Reserve Fund.
Held for redemption of United
States notes, acts of Jan. 14,
Unavaila 1875, and July 13, 1882...... $109,000,000 00
b 1 e
for reduc¬
tion of the
debt: Frac¬
tional silver
Minor coin,.......$27,920,309 44
Certificates coin.......616,171 held 34— 28,536,480 78
Net cash balance as cash.........60,737,433 hand......61,930,595 00
on 84
Total cash in the treasury
as shown by the treas¬
urer’s general account. ..$488,657,102.67
The following is a comparative statement
of the receipts and expenditures of the United
Btates during November:
Receipts.
•Source. November. Since July 1.
Customs.... $13,056,651 $81,403,464
Int revenue 9,949,938 49,221,074
M iscellaneous.... 3,074,573 10,392,708
Total . .$25,381,163 141,017,2lS
Expenditures.
Ordinary Pensions. ...$10,501,688 59,361,148
Interest.. ... 11.037,061
.... 1,986,185 o «7 5 ~i ‘.
Total............ 28,584.*. 55 115,013,021
It is a deep working out of love to say
or do from true love that which l_ mav
cause the object of love to manifest hate j
to us and yet to love him in spite of his
hate. ! !
Let there bo ip even- man's life a time 1
for silence and for holding his tongue, !
of keeping it back, like David, even
from good words, even though it be pain ;
nad grief to him.
A philanthropic PitTsburger has opened
a tvpe-setting school for newsboys.
TIMELY TOPICS
A correspondent writing from Holland
says Mormonism is gaining ground ther*.
A meeting was held recently at Zwolle,
which consisted of Mormons from
Amsterdam, Groningne, Leenwarden,
Devente, Olst, and Zwolle. Women
and children were present. The exer¬
cises, consisting of speeches and relig¬
ious services, lasted from 10 o’clock in
the morning until late at night. A num¬
ber of converts were admitted. The
Dutch government does not interfere
with the sect.
Upward of 15,000 vessels and 600,000
men in Europe and America are engaged
in the fishing industry, and the total an¬
nual product of fish is not far short of
1,500,000 tons. Few people realize the
full meaning of these latter figures. A
ton of fish is equal in weight to about
twenty-eight sheep, and hence a year's
fish supply for ten European countries,
included in this estimate,and the United
States and Canada might be represented
by 42,000,000 sheep. Of this amount
the United Kingdom, Canada, Russia
and the United States alone aggregate
iheep. 1,000,000 tons, equivalent to 28,000,000
Sir Henry Thompson and English
physicians who understand such the thing say
that all enteric fevers, as typhus,
cholera and the Oriental pollution plague itself,
are due to positive in the air
and water. Historiographers of disease
tell us that the cholera comes from the
mouth of the Ganges, the yellow fever
from the mouth of the Mississippi, and
the plague from the mouth of the Nile.
Now the Mediterranean is an obvious
focus and hotbed of enteric poison, and
has been so ever since tho days of the
Athenian plague, which Thucydides
chronicled. Its tideless waters accumu¬
late unspeakable filth and garbage. The
present cholera commenced and found
its chief seat in Marseilles, which is, per¬
haps, the most pestilential port in the
world.
The public have long suffered from
the fiendish scream of the steam whistle,
but there is prospect of alleviation.
Lately attention has been turned to th’s
mutter, aud that great remedial agent,
the inventor, Luis perfected different
Btyles of what has been known as a gong
whistle. But some one with the love of
musical harmony in his soul has taken a
Btep further in the way of removing the
offensive noise, and produced a musical
chime whistle, the great merit of which
consists in producing a musical chord
composed of tho first, third and fifth
tones of the common musical scale. The
effect of this chord in the whistle is to
remove the piercing, hurtful effect upon
the ear, and at the same time very much
enhance the carrying qualities of the
Bound, from the fact that more tones or
vibrations of the air are produced.
Tho three largest industries of South
Australia are wool, wheat aud gold. The
number of sheep is betweeu 80,000,000
and 90,000,000. The average value of
the export of wool aloue is between $90,
000,000 and $100,000,000. This indus¬
try is like'.y to increase in the future.
The exportation of frozen meat, chiefly
mutton, to Great Britain, is a compara¬
tively new industry, which is growing
rapidly in importance. So important
has the business become that New Zea¬
land is building steamers especially for
the trade. Meat is frozen by means of
condensed air, and is kept frozen during
the voyage by the same means. The
complete carcass of the animal is frozen.
Last year there were exported from South
Australia alone between 400,000 and
500,000 tons of wheat. Their importa¬
tions from America are limited, ana con¬
sist chiefly of buggies, American tools
and mineral oils.
Statistics gathered agricultural by the forestry di¬
vision of the department,
for the use of the forestry congress held
iu Boston, show that the forest product
during the census board year(1880) was 18,000,
000,000 feet, measure. In 1SS4 it
greatly exceeded this figure, reaching in
that year 28,000,000,000 feet. A rather
alarming fact is incidentally stated in
the report, namely, that the forests are
disappearing at the rate of 25,000,000
acres each vear; and we can hardly ven
‘ ure 10 h ° pc that er ?" R 16 dilige nt cf ‘
forts of , the various forestry associations . ..
throughout the country are making
much headway in repairing this enor¬
mous annual waste. It appears that
there are in the United States 235,000,
000 acre3 of im P r °ved land, 445,000,000
acres of forest, and <30,000,000 acres ot
unimproved and waste untimbered land.
The forest area would be swept clean,
at the rate of consumption above stated,
in about eighteen years. The Boston
Cultivator declares that, this is one of the
staples in regard to which we may con¬
fidently say that no fears of overproduc¬
tion need be be entertained.”
The Washington correspondent of the
Cleveland Leader has been interviewing
Mr. Bingham, recently United States
minister to Japan. Mr. Bingham remarks: made
the following interesting rapidly civ¬
“Japan is advancing very in
ilization. The telephone and electric
light are being pushed forward. The
railroads have increased from eighteen
miles to 800 miles in ten years: the coun¬
try has 5,000 miles of inland telegraph
and two great ocean cables. The postal
service of Japan has been organized
within the past ten years, and now they
have nearly as many postolfices as the
United States. Their postal system is
as well organized and equipped as ours. five
Japan has a free press, and there are
dailv and weekly papers published in oi
English there, beside a large number
Japanese papers. As to schools, 3,000
Japanese children attend free schools,
and it is a crime to prevent children be¬
tween seven and thirteen years from at¬
tending school. English is taught in the
schools, too, and the Japanese are using
an alphabet to a great extent, and they
are gradually adopting the Roman letters
to their language. The mikado,” said
Minister Bingham, “is a marvel of in¬
telligence and liberality. He cornea
from a family which has ruled Japan
2,600 years, and has been seventeen years
emperor. He has great administrative
ability, and is one of the greatest men
of our time.”
How General Gordon Was Killed.
The war office has forwarded to us the
subjoined copy of the confidential report
made by Major H. II. Kitchener on thf
fall of Khartoum:
The only account by a pc r son claiming
to be an eye witness of the scene ol
General Gordon’s death, relates: “On
hearing the noise, I got my master’s
donkey and went with him to the palace.
We met Gordon Pasha at the outer dooi
of the palace. Muhammed Bey Mtistapha,
with my master, Ibrahim Bev Rushdi,
and about twenty canvasses, then went
with Gordon toward the bouse of the
Austrian Consul Hansel, near the church,
when we met some rebels near the outei
gate of the palace. Gordon Pasha was
xvalking in front leading the party. The
rebels fired a volley, and Gordon was
killed at once; nine of the canvasses.
Ibrahim Bey Rushdi, and Muhammed
Bey Musaapha were killed, the rest ran
away.” of witnesses
A large number state
Gordon was killed near the gate of the
palace, and various accunts have been
related from hearsay of the exact mannei
in which he met his end. Several re¬
liable witnesses saw and recognized
Gordon's body at the gate of the palace;
one describes it as being dressed behead¬ in light
clothes. The Soudan custom of
ing and exposing the bends of adversa¬
ries slain in battle was, apparently, caried
out, as was done by the Mudir of Dongo’a
after the battle at Korti.
The Bagara savages seem to have had
some doubt which was Gordon's body,
aud great confusion occurred in the
Mahdi’s camp at Omdurman, where the
heads were exposed, as to which was
Gordon’s head, some recognizing, others head.
denying the identity of Gordon’s
One apparently reliable witness relate*
that he saw the rebels cut off Gordon’*
head at the palace gate after the town
was in their hands .—London Telegraph.
Iceberg Echoes.
It is asserted in Science that experi¬
ments indicate the possibility of obtain¬
ing an echo from an iceberg when iu
dangerous proximity to a ship. It is be¬
lieved that surface even an object offering sc
small a as a floating wreck may ic
this way be detected during a fog ii;
time to prevent a collision. Experi¬
ments recently made have demonstrated
the feasibility of producing weli-markefl
echoes from sailing vessels and from
steamboats considerable distances away.
The apparatus employed consists of s
musket, to the muzzle of which a speak¬
ing trumpet had been attached. Thi*
gun was aimed at passing vessels, whih
blank-cartridges were tired, After s
longer or shorter time, according to th*
distance of the vessel, an echo was re¬
turned.
The Water bury watch company turm
out 300,000 tickers a tear.
GOING TO BEST.
In solemn silence down the West,
The glorious sun hath sank once more,
And to the honest toiling poor
Come with the gloaming peace and rest.
The butterfly hath ceased to roam,
The busy bee hath left the flower,
And high above the old chueh tower
The sable rooks go cawing home.
And age so grave, and youth so spry,
Turn from the task which brings the
bread,
To where the evening meal is spread,
And all their household treasures lie.
The young wife greets her constant swain.
Fresh from the field, with gleeful eyes,
The lonesome widow softly sighs,
And calls to mind her youth again—
That time when one as fair and hale,
For love of her, with ready hand
Scattered the seed-corn o’er the land
Or swung the scythe or plied the flail.
To where he dwells, supremely blest,
The gentle breezes waft a prayer
That soon her hour of toil and care
May yield to an eternal rest.
—John G. Watts, in the Quiver.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
Bronze is a very fashionable nowadays,
but brass has not entirely gone out.
The fellows who eat boiled onions can¬
not hope to be free from the breath of
suspicion.— Boston Post.
In the lottery of life the dentist is a
lucky fellow; he’s always drawing some¬
thing.— Boston Budget.
The coachman’s occupation is more
agreeable than that of the hostler, but
the latter is more stable.
The king of Italy spends most of his
time hunting mushrooms, and then he
doesn’t dare to eat them, for fear that
they are toadstools.— Puck.
A silk blanket for a respectable New it
York poodle costs $10. What a pity
is that the owner of a poodle cannot go
to a store and buy some brains.
Baseball is older than we thought, as
a squint at history has made apparent.
The Emperor Doinitian occupies his
leisure in catching flies. — Chicago Ledger.
“Oh, ma, don’t you think Ur. Slim
kins has most excellent tim ie of voice?”
“Timber? Is that it? I wondered what
gave it that sort ’o wooden-like sound.”
— Chicago News.
An old goat in MisU sippi recently ate
200 green cucumbers, teen broke into a
drug store, butted the top of a bottle
of castor-oil and swallowed the contents.
— The Banibler.
The man in the moon always sm”es,
and he ought to. He is the only fellow
who can stay out all night without ex¬
citing anything but favorable comment.
—Atlanta Constitution.
Did you ever notice that for about ten
minutes after a man has had h : s boots
blacked he always inspects with care
the boots of everybody he meets, that he
may reioice in his superiority to the nn
blacked?— Bosio?i Globe.
Sutherland Edwards has published a
novel called “What is a Girl to Do?”
This is very hard to answer. It depends
largely upoa w T hether the young man
has means of his own or intends to live
upon her father's money.— New York
Graphic.
A fashion item says: “None but
young ladies and brides should wear
hats.” All the same we shall continue to
wear them. A sensible man would rather
go bare-headed than to wear one of this
season’s ridiculous-looking bonnets.—
Norristown Herald.
Oh, the pumpkin pie is the pie for m3,
Its beauty I greatly belongs admire; the “land of the
’Tis a pie that to
free,” and sire.
It is good for the child its
Oh, the pumpkin pie is the freeman’s pie>
And in it we’ll put our trust;
No humbug, like mince, can in it lie,
And it beareth no “upper crust.”
If pumpkin pies but grew on trees.
And on the branches would sway,
They would fill the air with a perfumed
breeze,
And I’d shake the trees every day.
—Chicago Sun.
Since the twelfth century, nine
women have been professors in the Bo
logna university, and taught jurispru¬
dence, philosophy, mathematics and lan
guages.
A complete collection of America'
cents is worth $1,500.