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TROUBLES OF BUSINESS MEN. Memphis, Jan. 25.-The Clarksdale Bank and Trust Company, of Clarksdale, Miss., made a partial assignment to Walter P. Holland this morning. The complete statement of assets and liabilities is not yet known, but it is thought all depositors will be paid. The liabilities to other banks amount to $42,000; Memphis National Bank, $20,000; Continental National Bank of Memphis, $10,000; Mercantile Bank, Memphis, $1,500; Louisville Banking Company, $5,700; Chemical National Bank, New-York, $5,000. It is probable that the amount due depositors will reach $50,000. Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 25.-W. H. Bedine, bank examiner, has discovered $129,000 overdrafts in the Farmers' National Bank of Portsmouth, Ohio, reported closed a few days ago. Chicago, Jan. 25.-The Hogg-Anderson Woollen Company, wholesale dealers in woollens, have confessed judgment for $50,000. Mendota, Ill., Jan. 25.-John Wade. a well-known stock dealer of Lamoille, has made an assignment. Estimated liabilities. $36,000; assets, $13,000. Metamora, III., Jan. 25.-The assignee of Peter Schertz, a banker and grain dealer, who recently failed, made a statement yesterday showing the liabilities to be $102,000 and the assets $80,000. Minneapolis, Jan. 25.-A statement of the assets and liabilities of the City Bank, filed yesterday, shows the assets to be $481,995 and the liabilities $437,313. The bank examiner has discovered that three days before the suspension many thousands of dollars were drawn out in the form of promissory notes. A total of $57,470 was loaned to directors and the total deposits of the stockholders were but $7,500.
