The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-09-08
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Illinois lost 2s,3fs soldiers ana -ailon
during the war.
One house in every twenty-one in Bos,
ton is unoccupied.
The Centennial Committee of Iowa arc
making thorough scientific survey Of the state
This is the season when the speculative
souihernor makes up his bets the cotton crop
The latest estimates make the South,rG
cotton crop this year nearly $500 90 bales less lst
year.
-Tennessecs now school law piovdet
that for Ike services OF male ana female tea-horsAt
salaries shah he paid.
The whole number of failures in tha
United states this year, far, Is 3357 -ad hc au.
Of liabilities s7Lgi1sd0.
Ground has been broken for tho
stoncwal Jackson monument by Foley, on nora
side Of the Capitol at Richmond
The Georgia Commissioner OF AErfuL
ture snys the lose annually more than g. "a
by the inJuticious purchase and use OF fertilizers.
Bass, the English ale brewer, employ
10000 commercial travellers and pays the Midagdlai
road average Of $4,000 per annum for frc sase
The barnacles on the bottom of Tia
steamship Great Eastern form LAYER six inclcs iaci
IN places, aud are estimated to weigh three hundred
tons.
Mr.. Rllskin is about 10 establish q pub
lie picture exhibition in London whore he W. ruu
artists to send pictures TO be shown under hs own ~
peryision
The famous Gold Hill mine in Rowan
county, y. c. was sold under second morf..c tot
$4,000 and the work OF development VII. O., irno
date ) tegun.
The taxable property of Georgia has
more than doub cd since the war. Cotton ana v's a
mills show an investment OF e., $4,000 iron u-rts
t73jlOO; ana tonnage, tG,OOo,OOO.
-Wlnf Drnm iSps IN hp nm immense e. al
mine near RusselIyille, Ark, Is now being t,y'.ard
II contains SO to 50 per cent Of nved carb aga
10 30 per cent. IN the Pennsylvania anthracite
Cotton receipts nj all United Siatd
ports for the year ending Aug ~. amounted ~
GA bales, and estimating Overland and s-uti, ricH
sumption at $4,000 bales. the total crop Of IL, ~
| be ret down Hs 3 S2J.i3l bales.
The Committee on Foreign Tral'fc'
port to tn National Cotton Exchange In favor of .iH
lishmg at Liverpool a head tribunal where SOD .- 4
difficulties shall be arranged until an Internal opal -
| change cen Zoe Instituted.
Judge Mackoy is hearing argument
tbs week upon The proposition 100 place th, aH.l'd
Columbia, s. c. In hands OF receiver nae ,. prb
ican organ astr's tAat tc cti De- l"pDl'fJ .n went,
| aud me most rotton portion oi thc STATE.
a Singular lawsuit is before the CIR
emit Court of So Louis County, NO. John MoClr' Y
shipped % head OF clttlt, worth 5000, from f.
LOUIS TO Cincinnati on the Oiio AMI MISSISSIPPI E-
roli, the freight contract specifying ths tIUH Il
transit The tram was delayed twenty hours, ',c "a
o. cattle fll hfy cents per hundred In the .af ,a,
anal Mr. Mccarthy claims loss ofti5o, and suc. f.
1t is said to be an old prophecy wh h
IS auimatiug the Insurgents IN Bosnia and tlo D %
',ua. The prophecy, which Is to be found Zoo N.gi
on Bosnia published httecu years ago, state. 't nc
nth century after the taking Of the Last D. aa tta
by the Turks the rising OF the Christian S'r. f M
key would be victorious. stephen Thomas, 4
| " eN led On tt ult al <