The Plymouth weekly Democrat., 1869-01-07
FACTS AND FIGURES.


CANADA has 104,43S Sunday-school
scholars
EPIsCoPAL bishops now get $4,000 per
annum.
In Great Britain 80, 900 of the people are
blind.
No STONE marks the grave of Sam
Houston, at Huntsville, Texas.
Mr.. PEABoDY's donations to the poor of
London amount to e350,000.
A MAN in s.. Louis has been sued for
$4,000, for chastising amarried daughter.
RICHMOND, Va, supports ninety one
doctors, seventy-three lawyers and ons
pawnbroker.
A FACTORY in Pittsfield has three female
operatives who have been there over 80
years each.
A VEST made for one of the solid men OF
New Haven, CT, measured four feet four
inches around the breast.
OF 23,345 emigrants who arrived in
Canada during the past season, 1874
passed through to the Western States
On Christmas eve the General Council
Of Louisville donated 10000 bushels Of
coal to the suffering poor of the city.
THE English cruiser Nymph has cap
tured eight slavers off the African coast
during the past season.
COMMODORE VANDERBILT, with his
family, owns over $15,0O0,000 of the $685.
100000 stock of the New York Central
Railroad.
MERRITT SANFORD, who died at Beth
any, Conn, few days ago, at the age Of
II, had worn no hat or cap for forty
years.
A CRIMINAL in a New York court re-
sealed envelope full of notes, as bribe
The sentence as,doubled.
THE city of Liverpool has debt of
about S20,000,000, and it is on the increase
The interest now amounts to over 81 ,000,-
000per annum.
In his address to tie Fenians in this
| country, George Francis Train announces
that James Stephens has been restored to
| full control of the Fenian organization.
In 1886, Wisconsin Territory cast 2,462
votes; In 1868 the State Of Wisconsin
cast 1862. Milwaukee county cast 7S1
votes in 1886, and 10000 in 1868.
| lie DtJSlou IJUCttt6F says tnat, db dDDuJ
| 10 O'Clock the other evening, there was a
fall of light snow without cloud to be
seen in the sky, and the stars shining.
CALIFORNIA proper produces about half
a million dollars worth of gold a week,
but the total product of gold and silver
for the Pacific coast at the present time is
estimated to be about $60,000,000 per an
| mum.
| JOSH BILLINGS recently wrote to a lee
ture committe that the price of one OF
his lectures was S9040; that he had in
some instances been careless enough to
throw off the 500, but the 40 cents be
must have to maintain his reputation
A SINGLE firm at Boston, engaged in
the manufacture of clothing, employs 80
cutters and $500 sewers, and they are
sending out every week 800 huge cases oi
| cut garments to be made up in Maine,
New Hampshire and the interior of Mas
sachusetts.
DURING the last summer fox in Meri-
den, CT, killed 53 turkeys at one place.
He was driven away, and went to another
place and killed nine. He was again
driven away, but managed to kill IS more
at another place, making so in all. He
still lives.
| TIE full pardon and amnesty proclama.
ton issued by President Johnson includes
JEFF. Davis, Breckenridge, Jacob Thomp
| son, Mason, Slidell, and all others who
were directly or indirectly engaged in the
| late insurrection or rebellion. The par
ties named above are now in foreign coun-
| tries
CARL VOGT, the German Psychologist,
| who is soon to come to this country, and
to deliver course of lectures on his fa.
vorite subject, believes that the brain of
man is growing from generation to gene
ration. He fixes the rate at 200 cubic
| centimetres for the last seven hundred
years.