Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-19

lst Of December.
The following prices Of stock in San
AutOnio. Texas, are based on actual sales:
Good unbroken mules, from twelve to
fourteen hands high, at an average of $50
Der head; rood stock ponies, broken to
the saddle, In good order and condition,
IS to $50; and good American three
quarter bred mares, three to four years
old, SIS.
Grasshoppers are appearing in greet
numbers in San joaquin Valley, Cal.
Coal has been found in large quantities
at Lyndon, Kansas
Il Is proposed to build a railroad from
Centrslia, H., to Fort Scott, via Farm
ington and Iron Mountain, Mo.
The Montgomery and Eufals Railroad
viii connect with the Mobile and Girard
road a. Union Springs, within three
weeks.
The Montgomery papers say 1900 la
bOrers are at work on the railroads in Al
ALBANIA.
The Lake Superior and Mississippi
Railroad will PROBABLY not be completed
till the lst Of August.
The contract for building the entire
line Of the V~ieksburg and Brunswick
Railway through the State of Alabama has
been closed.
Two English gentlemen, Messrs. Fogg
and Caunts, propose to establish an ex-
tensive hosiery factory near Opelika, Ala.
The manufacture of cigars in Key West
has greatly increased since the Cuban war
has driven so many people from the is
land. The import tax on the tobacco
used this year, it is estimated, will
amount to $4,000. Last year it was only
5000.
The Industrial Exhibition at st. Peters
burg is a fine affair. Among its curiosi
ties is a pyramid OF gilt pastebOard repre-
senting the volume OF all the gold found
in Russia from 1854 until January /, 1870.
The quantity was 1885 pounds. worth
6I5, 09O.000 rubles, or nearly $500, 600 ,OOOin
u money.
Officers Of the workingmen's organize
ton are calling the attention of Congress
men to the contracts for Chinese labor
lust made in Louisiana and Massachu-
sets, and asking for legislation to prevent
them. A bill Is now before the Senate
judiciary Committee, with the title, "A
DILL to prohibit contracts for servile la
bor.u II provides that every contract tor
labor, any part of the consideration Of
which shall be the money for Transporter
ton advanced or secured for any alien
from any foreign country, which provides
for a longer period of service than six
months, shall be declared 10 be a contract
for seryile labor, and contrary to public
policy. ANY person who shall enter into
any such contract shall be punished by 3
fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than
5000.
since 1870 the FIRE and marine insurance
companies of Massachusetts,, according to
the report of the Insurance Commissioners,
shOw a ratio OF failure, including those
that gave up in despair without COM
pIetiug their organization, OF more than
IS per cent. Their existing numbe has
actually diminished IA per cent. within
nine years, while the companies of other
States have come in to do business in that
state. increasing their own numbers
within the same period by nearly $50 per
cent, The progress Of outside life insur-
ance companies is in even a greater ratio.
Against B Massachusetts life companies,
there are now doing business in that State
the representatives OF "a companies OF
this State, 5 of Connecticut and 10 or
other States. Although the total fire and
marine losses exceeded those Of thG pre-
vious year by II per cent, the mutual ARE
companies Of Massachusetts, had 90 Ter
cent. and the mutual IRE and mari e
COMPANIES p per cent remaining for re-
turn prsmigms, while the joint stock
companies made 8 profit OF nearly y per
cent on their capital. The companies
from other states meanwhile Feaped net
profits of upward Of 81, 100, ODO. 50 that
aAbDHDtA1As - L@ -ON
underwriters.
Mere has been missing from the
Treasury Of the United States at Wash
ington, since Saturday last, supposed TO
have been stolen, a bundle Of two thou
sand new legal tender United StSIss LGtes
OF the denomination Of SO, new series OF
1863, having the head Of Daniel Webster,
and numbered as follows: II. 2,5SeiABl, >,
lasterisk,J to ii. 3,532,0O0, ., las erisk,
L=a s-.T.~s-a .Z-@anffnn To Sp0 ONn II
is supposed that all g9o1 citizens Wlll
keep q sharp look out for all notes q the
above numbers, and the numbers be-
tween them. 4.
me Philadelphia Record estimates the
valua of the Southern crops last year, ia
the aggregate, at $3.50, 600 ,OO0 in h follow
ing proportions: Cotton, 100000 bales,
5000 G,OOG; corn, 2S5,OOO,0OO bushe 5,
500, OOO, 900; sugar, wheat, tobacco, etc,
$3.50, 900, 600. Total, 49, 9Op, II
with a population OF II ,000, 900, is an aver
z Of nearly $50 per head for the entire
population.
New Orleans papers tell US that the
other day q lot of 100000 Confederate
bonds was odsred for sale in that city,
and brought four dollars 2 thousand, or
foul hundred dollars for the lot. Il seems
still TO be a question IN New Orleans
whether the buyer was -four hundred
dollars OIbs STU bnb sbAlbL AOuA ANAALoN
dollars better on than before, or wha in
trinsic value, If any, does attach 10 these
evidences of Indebtedness.
According 20 official report, the emf
grants landed in this country last year
from Europe, up to the list of the present
month. numbered 3l6, 900! They brought
with them over $4,000. Out of nifty
thousand who arrived last month ne
Southern States got only 100! All the
others went West, just think Of it.
Some very interesting figures have been
prepared at the Office OF tho Comptroller
Of Currency, showing various things rels-
tive to the present condition OF n ma
tional bank circulation. The following
table shows how the twenty-five millions
provided Tor in the pending bill would be
distributed cE the bases of population as
under existing lswsf Virginia would get
Sl.s45732; West Virginia s5Ts,6l2i Jill
nois S2.O36, 1876; Michigan 1894, 4s6l VIA
consin 81, O6S, 37S; Iowa sos, 262; Kansas
Sill, 1875; Missouri Sl,6lS,692 Kentucky
SI,SO6, 900; Tennessee S2,5O7, 752; Louis
lana sI,Sl9,9 32; Mississippi $50 $50; Ne
braska S3l, us; Georgia $3.50, 1896 North
Carolina 81, 2g7, 99S; South Carolina ~ ,SOl,-
S52; Alabama Sl,277. 100; Oregon sos, 728;
Texas 1851, 292; Arkapsas $685. 2S; Utah
S40,784; California SOLO, 5l6j FLORIDA $780,
O33; DakatO S4644; New MEXICO EsS,592;
Washington Territory Sl4,lS0; Delagare
SO,44I; Ohio s2,240,S5 Indiana S25l,l55
total $50, 900, 900.