Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-08-01
GENERAL. ITEMS.

tobacco.
1880 600 watches is the annual produc.
at Bcrne
Catskill has balance of s,4,6is.S7 in the
treasury.
Population of Texas State Pcni,entiary.
1900.
England has three thousand temperance
lodges.
Customs receipts in New York were one
day $3so,000.
4 recent census gives Japan q population
of 33 GOO 200.
Troy i, the fourth largest wool depot ia
the United States.
Over 900 vessel, cleared from New Sork
one day lately.
A N. j. captain caught $500 herring in
four tides lately.
One-half OF the polltux of Paiola county.
Miss, is delinquent
Sweden contains eighteen cotton mills,
running $50 900 -pndlc~.
Salt Lake City has population of q, 900,
and the Territory l25 900.
The Singer Company swear to the sale of
232 ,1H of their machines in 1873.
Lafayette College. EaSton. has graduated
80 Judges and Congic>-mcn.
\ Shell Rock mis- has aged 10 put
4, ,225 different blocks into bed quilt.
The total number of deaths in Chicago
for the year ending April !, 1874, was
1851.
An orange tree in vigorous growth yields
from 800 to 1000 oranges every year.
Vermont has in its population 92i negroes,
IA Indians, and 800 GA white persons.
The gold and silver coined at the Carson
Mint amount, to about $500 900 ii month.
Two million hushcl of peanuts arc every
year deyourcd in the United States.
More than S0.oO0 I.ondoncrS have in
Spccted Holman Hunt "SimIuw of Death"
The gross receipts of the British railways
have been more than doubled in II yenrs.
A halhut. weiyhin. $50 pounds, waa
caught in Ea>tlort llarbor, Me-, a few days
ago.
Sparks from locomotives did 81 200 900
damage to forests last year by setting fire.
The decrease of the public debt for the
month of April WAS nearly three millions.
Two hundred and ninety wild ducks in
one day. l. the bo'lSt Of M illinois sports
man.
Twenty thouSand persons hayo been drown
ed in Lake Erie during the present century.
The Midland Railroad Company of En-
gland found III O3J umbrellas left along itS
Only sGo, 600 young salmon arc to be put
in the head waters Of the Champlajn this
spring.
A Lake City hotel has hired girl who
killed 800 hed-bug~ in three and one quar-
ter minutes.
The State of Nebraska contains 20 900
square miles of tcrritory-ncary SO, 0,OOO, 900
acres of land.
The Pennsylvania Railroad annually
moves G,0OD, 900 of passengers and 10 ,00O,.
600 ton, of freight.
Virginia pays SO 900 900 per annum for
whisky, but clnnot meet the annual interest
on her debt.
A German proliS or has undertaken tho
task of counting the hairs ON buffalo robo
one by one.
The death rate on English railways during
1872 was equal To the slain in battle during
the Crmcan war
About 25O,0o0 pounds of cotton, the
growth of California last year, have been
marketed in San Francisco.
Out of the total population Of 36 ,OOO, 900,
the French census Sh"wSa total of Is ,OOO,-
600 who can neither read nor write.
The Barber match factory, at Akron,
Ohio. employs nearly two hundred men,
girls and boys, producing about $iOO, GOO
annually.
Philadelphia la,- four linssed oil establish
mcnlS, employing los men und producing
$1G0, 900 worth of oil and cake.
The funeral expenses Of men killed In tl,s
liooSac Tunnel, and paid by the contractoe..
have amounted to ssl0.00O in five years.
The number of cans of peaches packed
last year approxinatsd about 1900 900;
tomatoes Is 900 900, and corn from 6,OoO.
600 to S,oO0,o 600.
Russia is about to adopt general coo.
scription law which will bring the strength
Of the army up to 2,OOO, 900 within fifteen
years.
Last year four of the twenty cities mar.
ginning the great lakes shipped lG2 1862 ,Sy6
bushels of grain, and Montreal more than
$4,000 900.
The Sunbury and Lewiston railroad. rum
ming from Lewiston To Sclin>grnyc, Pa, ~
distance of iorty-two miles, WAS sold last
week for SOL 900.
Three hundred and fifty dolar> conscience
money WAS received at the Treasury from
Brooklyn and thirty-iivc dollars from New
York. one day last week.
\ telegraph operator at Cincinnati lately
received IL dispatch of iilty-onc words per
minute from Washington, for thirty minutes
--or | 300 words in half an hour.
The movement of letters in Belgium,
which WAS rs .S9l ,j3G in 1880. amnunted in
1860 To 23,960 SIG, whilst in 1872 it waS
53, l9l ,i7G OWN. to Il reduction Of the
postage 10 Zoe.
The total number of proposed new build
inES in New York for eleven months we're
over one thousand and the estimated total
cost more than sixteen millions of dollars,
During the year 1873, the aggregate II
rift by indi, i,lInlS flr educational purposes
in this country was Sll ,226.911, IN 1871
the amount given was 50 s,WA, 600, AMI IN
1872 it was 5000, 900,