Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-07-03
TEADE AND COMMERCE.

The Pacific Railroad bridge al
Omaha will cost 1000, 600.
Last week -she fishing boats froxa
ProVincetown secured, on All aasr
age, Io.oeo mackerel pee day.
\ Vermont paper estimates the
annual maple sugar production oI
the United States at goo pounds.
TheEmperor OF China has isste.ian
edict prohibiting the cultivation 81
the poppy iii his dominions.
There Is a beet sugar company IN
Sacramento with Il capital of $780,
600.
The Pacific Road expects to realize
sixty millions year from through
traffic.
The largest ship afloat, the Charles
ii. Marshall, was recently launched
at New York.
Land that sold in Virginia four
years ago for six dollars an acre will
now bring thirty.
The next Southern Commercial
Convention is to be held Oct. 18Th. al
Louisville, Ky.
Two hundred and fifty thousand
pounds OF chickoTy have been i'm
ported into San Francisco within six
months.
The Mobile Register suggests that
the South sell her cotton in Europe,
so as To get the gold ii brings for her
self.
The internal revenue receipts TO
the 9th of May are S16, z62, ,395 ; Gus
tom receipts To the 22d, inclusive,
S2, 673. .451.
One hundred and fifty millions of
dollars, it is stated, are paid annual
ly in the United states for the Iuxu-
ry of tobacco.
The grain elevator now in course
of erection in Boston Will have ca
pac1ty of 800, 900 bushels and can
handle Il, 600 bushels an hour.
They are talking in the South
about using cotton stalks, hitherto
considered worse than useless, for
the purpose of making printing pa
per.
The pig-iron product of Great Bri-
tain in 1868 was 4,600, 600 tons; of
the United States, sos, ,000-Penn-
sylyania furnishing so, ,555 Of this
amount.
In 1868 the United Kingdom de-
voted million and half acres TO
potatoes, Great Britain more than
half million and ireland more than
Il million.
A Manchester, England, company
has acquired from the Emperor OF
Morocco large tract Of land for the
purpose OF raising cotton on an extern
SiYe scale.
u Kentucky tobacco manufacturer
recently threw two tons of tobacco,
slightly damaged, into the Ohio
River rather than pay the Govern
ment tax upon it.
1t Is estimated that the expense of
getting up Il depot for the Tennessee
and Pacific railroad for Nashville
will amount to about seventy-fve
thousand dollars.
1t is stated that there are already
three thousand steam pIows at work
IN England, some of them with sta
tlonary engines, capable Of driving
from three to six plOWS each.
The earliest society for the promo
ton of agriculture in the United
States was established in PhiIadel-
phia i'll 1856. The Massachusetts So
ciety was the second institution OF
the kind, and was Incorporated in
1892.
On one truck farm of little less
than ninety acres, in Monmouth
county, New Jersey, there were rea-
lized last year profit of nearly $50
per acre, So, 7S6 81 in all. There was
paid labor 81 ,640.50, and for manure,
81, 294.50.
Since Sept. 30th, 1867, one hundred
a,,I CT 4, L
our Western rivers, forty-nine have
been destroyed by fire, and four have
exploded, making a total loss Of 154
steamers, representing a total loss of
lo4 steamers, representing a tonnage
of "a, ,719.78.
Fifty years ago the Connecticut
valley, with less cultivated land than
at present exported grain. Now with
an area open to cultivation larger in
proportion than the increase in her
population, imports it by the thous-
ands, and with it thousands of tons
of fuel.
The bank of Upper Canada which
failed some time ago had only $50, =
coo IN specie to redeem $500, 600 of cir
culation. 1t is said of one Of the
banks now in good standing that il
only has $50, ,0O0 in specie, 70 meet q
circulation Of Sl5l,OGO, and $107 600
in deposits.
The Texas grape crop Will be one
Of the largest known for wears. The
vineyards in and around Gonzales
will amply repay the owners for their
trouble, both in quality and quanti-
ty, whilst the native mustang will
furnish thousands Of bushels for wine
and other purposes.
Two thousand head of beef cattle
crossed the Brazos at Waco, Texas. on
the 20th, and 1000 on the day before.
en- route for market. Mr.. Barney
Monroe, who owns the pen where
they crossed, informs the Examiner
that there have been nearly 40, 900
cattle crossed there this season.
a vine disease of a new character
Is reported to have attacked the wine.
growing districts Of the south of
France. The disease is attributed
to minute insects found on the leaves
of the plants, and appears to follow
the course of the Rhone, having ex-
tended a distance of ninety miles
fror, the mouth of that river.
The following points constitute the
basis of the union of the Old and New
School Presbyterian churches Ist.
The Old and New Testament. 2d.
The Westminster catechism. Sd.
Presbyterian form Of church govern
ment. Al. Psalmody. tits under
stood that final action viii be taken
by an Assembly in Pittsburgh.
The difficulty offixlng n permanent
blue upon wool has been successfully
overcome in England, and fugitive