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Locally the financial situation remains the same, our banks taking care of their business without difficulty. The payment of quarterly pension checks which is now going on will add considerable cash circulation through out the county. U. S. Ramsey, a well-known merchant at Sunlight, in the southern part of this county on last Saturday filed voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the U.S. districtcourt of St. Louis. He gives his liabilities as $5,576.61 and his assets $5,955.56. He was generally supposed to be doing a good business and free from financial difficulties. We hope he may soon extricate himself from bis money troubles. Mr. R. P. Hall of near Hopewell, who has interested himself in securing a rural free mail delivery route from the Hopewell post-office for the peopie living west of there, was in town Saturday and reported that the Postoffice Department had recently sent an inspector to view the proposed route, who found it perfectly feasible, it is said. The probabilities are that the route will be established before long. The Lead Belt Bank in Bonne Terre of which H. D. Evaus, well-known in Potosi, is cashier, temporarily suspended payments and closed its doors 00 the 9th inst. to prevent a run on the bank that would SOOD have exhausted its cash. An investigation of the bank's affairs later by the state bank examiners proved its condition perfectly solvent. and it was opened again for business on Tuesday of last week. Mr. J. M. Alexander, of Company D, Twenty-second Illinois Infantry, was shot at Stone River, Tenn., in 1862, being forty-tive years ago, and has been carrying an ounce and a t quarter bullet in his side ever since. It occasionally gave him some pain, SO he decided th have it exactly located, a and he had Dr. Gaines, by means the X-Ray show him where it was and found it imbedded in the liver. e Salem Monitor. S It must afford travelers over the Iron Mountain system no small dee gree of satisfaction to note the work y that is going on in improving the road-bed of this railroad. The work is not being done in spasmodic at tacks, here and there, but seems to i be pretty general and thorough all along the line. New ties are being e placed whereever needed and the y road-bed reballasted. While giving due credit for this improvement we will say it comes none too soon, for g the tracks were in a poor condition as frequent wrecks on the road wen to testify. Newspaper publicity o W this state of affairs has been a large e factor in compelling this improve ment. or The Potosi Telephone Co. has begu be the work of improving its system. b new switch-board, with 200 drops wil is will be installed, which is double th capacity of the board now in use. Th new board will have self-restoring ng drops, which will be a great conven st ience and aid to the central operator of Where the wires concentrate near th central office they will be gathered a a cable, by which all annoyance from ds crossing wires will be overcome. A these improvements are for the bet ge terment of the service. The busines ie of this company has had a stead growth from the time it was first in ed stailed, some live or six years ago, an ek with the addition of the wires grural lines centering here, it becam al imperative to increase the facilitie le for handling the business.
