September 19 Wednesday – The New York Times reported on the “Business Troubles” of Webster & Co., p.11.

— The schedules of Charles L. Webster & Co., book publishers at 67 Fifth Avenue, in which firm Samuel L. Clemens (“Mark Twain”) and Frederick J. Hall are the partners, were filed yesterday [Sept. 18]. They show liabilities of $94,191, nominal assets of $122,657, actual assets of $69,164, less $15,000 hypothecated to the United States National Bank, and net actual assets of $54,164. There are more than 200 creditors scattered all over the United States. Among the creditors are: Mount Morris Bank, $29,500; United States National Bank, $15,000; George Barrow, Skaneateles, N.Y., $15,420; S.D. Warren & Co., Boston, $6,332; Jenkins & McCowan, $5,363; Thomas Russell & Son, $4,623. There is due for royalties: Estate of U.S. Grant, $2,216; Col. F.D. Grant $727; estate of Gen. P.H. Sheridan, St. Paul, Minn., $374; Mrs. E.B. Custer, London $1,825.