The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-12-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A mountain Of almost pure copper hAs
been found at Notre Dame Bay, New
l foundland.
The real and personal property in
Philadelphia subject to taxation, amounts
to S603, O78, 532
A society 70 help poor and worthy peo-
pie to settle IN Virginia aud Florida hAs
been started in Philadelphia.
In San Mates county, California.
farmers are digging potatoes in one field
and planting them Ia an adjoining one.
At Marseilles Just now experiments
are being made with new system of veS-
sells, propelled BY petroleum.
The steamship Dominion will take out
the largest cargo If cotton that was ever
taken BY steamer from Philadelphia.
The hotels erected specially for he
accommodation OF visitors in PhiladelrhiA
had 2, 664, OeO guests during the exhiLi-
tion.
The honey product Of San Diego
county, Cal, will be fully six hundred
t1ns. Two hundred thousand pouudA
reae New York city from there Une day
last wee
The corner stone Of Solomon's Tenn
pie, which has been discovered, lies ninety
feet below the present surface of the
ground. In niche of 1t is found Phoeni-
clan jar Of clay.
Two hundred and sixty-one miles of
new railway were opened IN India 1915,
making the total length az completed lines
., 497 miles, Of which 1916 miles are VI
the foot q inch guage.
Turkey has 140 postofices in Europe
aud l70 in Asia. OF these 25O have ,x-
isted only since 1868 Immediately around
COnstantinople there is an efficient subur-
ban postal service.
In less than % years India has been
covered with a network Of railways which
now reaches upward Of 6 800 miles, and r.
closer network Of telegraph wires extend.
ing to some 80, 600 miles.
The annual income Of the CHARITIES nf
London amounts to nearly $l2, 600, coo
OF this large amount nearly two-thiTds Is
derived from voluntary contributions, the
other third being derived from dividends,
property or trade.
"A very large proportion of the falling
of in the importations Of dry goods is said
to be due To the fae' that in many classes
Of goods our own manufacturers are sup-
plying the market with as good products
az their foreign competitors and at lover
prices.
Seven European steamships which
sailed from New York ON December q
took out some 10 600 barrels of apples,
IL, 900 boxes Of cheese, nearly 100 100
bushels Of grain, and large quantities u
other American Irodnce also TOO passen-
gers.
The present situation Of affairs in
Cuba is we'll nigh destructive Of slavery.
So many sugar plantations have been
burned, and hands consequently Al,h-
vfzwss sss,a=T Ia - shst -ls...:r Y
very cheap, aud a slave who was worth
81, 200 in 1878 viii nov hardly bring S40O.
A remarkable marriage recently touk
place in British India III the presence vt
large congregation. The BRIDE had no
arms, and the ring had to be placed oil the
third toe of her left foot At the cuncis-
sion of the marriage ceremony she signed
the register, holding the pen with Her toes,
in very decent hand
A boy in Manchester, England was
killed the other day by bullet which
dropped down from the air, having been
fired up by sorre careless militiamsn from
a Shlder rlhs. A bullet III its descent has
the same velocity On reaching the earth
that IL had on it, ascent, and IL, Of course,
equally destructive 70 life.
In kentucky there are 43 S2G white
voters who cannot write. In Georgia
there are 2l S99 IN Missouri, "a $50; IN
Virginia, 2 .646 il Tennt ssee. 37.7IS,
in Texas, II sos. i'll the whole country
there are 72G, ,275 white males of II ytAra
aud over who can not write.
The presses in the Springfield postal
card factory are kept running until ID M.
daily to supply a<ders. The September
orders aggregated 9 575 500 cards and
for the quarter just ended 81 534 goo,
near 1000, 600 more than during the cor
responding period Of last year.
During the last year or two the list Of
American products exported has been en-
larged in a very gratifying manner em-
bracing many products which bad never
gained a foothold abroad Recently two
vessels were chartered to carry fun ear
goes Of herring from Gloucester, Mass,
one to Gothenburg, and the other to Leith,
Scotland.
The total receipts Of the Centennial
Exposition foot up S4 3GS, 735. This
amount, without endeavor 70 return the
Government loan of one ands half millions,
will probably yield the private stockholders
at least 90 per cent. wv the money put in,
and, perchance, even 10.
There will he Eve eclipses I'D 1877,
viz A total eclipse Of the moon On Feb
ruaTy 27, visible IN the United States a
partial eclipse Of the sun on March IA.
visible in Western Asia partial eclipse
Of the sun on August s. visible wv Alaska,
Kamschatka, and the North pacit, Ocrsr ;
a total eclipse of the moon on Au-u-t %,
partly visible Ia the Eastern all South-rn
States and a partial eclipse " TIE SUI w
September z, visible ". South America.
Hon. S. F. Cary las yielded " TIE
solicitation Of large number VI wv friyuds
and ardent currency refurmers wv Iowa
and has consented ID deliver strI,s w ten
lectures in that State during the Nntrr.
Jesse Harper, ESQ, Of DanuIl4. Hi
nois, will lecture this winter on Curr-i ~
and financial reform, IN the west. Nh
Harper made ninety speeches dmrg the
recent campaign for the cause ~ ih, peo-
pie, and with marked effect n u wv. w
the most fluent and entertaining platiuiin
takers in the country
DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 1l-Thi1 morn
ing, when the thermometer stood seven
below zero, An old woman named Fur, ~a-
found dead in her desolatc shaniy ,ii Uai-
houn street, and her crippled husband NV
unconscious and almost dead Oh u ragged
pallet near by. The rookery was d,sututr
Of food, fuel, o. any other comfort Tins
afternoon the probate court was IeIItrI, 4
TO appoint an administrator Of the estate,
which consisted y $50 600 ia bank.
The richest Russian industrial 3 Mr.
Demidof He owns the town ~ Nlyetal.
isk, iu the Oural, aud his thirteen esiab-