The Red Cloud chief., 1876-04-20
ITEMS OF

q year.
Last year the Sacramento, California
beet sugar factory turned GU. 3,0OO,O 900
pounds Of white sugar.
The General Assembly of the United
Presbyterian Church will meet at Phila-
delphia, May "a.
Postal cards are still growing in pop
ularity. This years sales show thus far
an lpcrease OF 40 per cent over those
Of last.
The State of Massachusetts is in debt
&15,O00,000 on account Of the Hoosac
Tunnel, and is now adding to this debt
$1,000 a year on the same account
The annual tobacco crop of the United
States is about 900, 900, 900 pounds,
worth to the producers at least $40, OOO,-
600.
For the week ending March II, there
we're no deaths in Boston from accident
or violence, a circumstance that has not
happened before i'll that city for eighteen
years or more.
The Republicans of Stratham, New
Hampshire, conveyed a man ninety years
old to the polls, and elected their ticket
by a majority of one.
The N~orwegians are rigging up a new
expedition for the Arctic seas, which
will soon be ready for a summers ex-
plorIng campaign in the land of per.
petua! ice crops.
All evangelical missionaries in China
are to meet in convention at Shanghai,
May 10. One of the important questions
to be considered is that regarding the
translation of the Scriptures.
ACalifornia paper says that the larges,
number of Chinese arriving in that State
in any oDc year was 1S,50S in 1875
More are expected in 1876. The Cali
~fornians are becoming alarmed.
When a French army officer is con.
victed of a felony his epaulets are torn
of, his sword is broken, and a private
steps from the ranks and kicks him.
After that the civil authorities take care
of him.
The DiariO, of Havana, estimates the
Cuban sugar crop at 1000, 900 boxes,
and saws it is valued at $4,000, 900 less
than last years crop.
In st. Lawrence county, New York
State, where dairying is carried on ex-
tensively, there are some 81 5000 cows
and estimating the amount sold from
each cow to be $50 above home IN.
sumption, which is a low estimate, an
income of 81. 600 is realized.
Forest planting is thriving in Min
nesota. The st. Paul and Pacific Rail.
road has set out over 100000 young
trees, and altogether it is estimated that
20,000,00O have been planted on the
prairie lands.
A bill has passed the Pennsylvania
Legislature forbiddiug any person under
penalty, unless already in practice, for
five years at the date Of the act, to prac.
tice medicine, surgery, or obstetrics
without a diploma from a chartered
medical school.
During 1875 there were received in
New York, 452,371 beeves, 5,OS6 COWS,
1880 calves, 1,233,9s4 sheep, 1885,
514 swine. Beef averaged for the year
$11.13 per 100 pounds dressed; sheep,
So 81, live weight; corn-fed hogs, fat,
$7.76 per 100 pounds, live weight.
The old powder magazine, or horn, as
it is generally called, a circular build
ing with a pyramidal roof, from which
Lord Dunmore removed the powder in
ITS to King Georges war ship, which
arbitrary act fired the whole colonial
heart, is still standing at Williamsburg.
Virginia.
Trinity Parish, New York, is the rich.
est In this country. In 1873 if received
income from property valued at s. $780,
600. 1t contains seven churches and
sixteen clergymen, and contributes
yearly in Is other churches. There are
5000 pupils in the Sunday schools, loco
In the industrial schools, and LOCO in
she day schools.
iar thls year Baltimore has shipped
,,vOO'Ov. bushels of corr more than
,ort in Jsnutotal shipments from
bushels, againe, ,ore t6iaasshing 100000
last year. The %carnGseeoO same
solely to the fact that the Ba,,imor.due
onio Railroad is run in the interest -,
me CITY OF Bsl;imore and not in the in.
'erest solely of the stockholders.
The New York World has been srm
ming up the debts of our cities. Since
1867 the debt of Allegheny citv has in.
creased 500 per cent: Albany, ESQ Der
cent; Baltimore. SO per cent: Boston
$lS'Ooo,oOo to s4s, 600, OOo-taxes in nro'
portion. Chicago has multiplied her
aeot oy three and taxes two. Cleveland
las 9uadrupled; Detroit and Louisville
oouoied; Milwaukee multiplied by two
and two-thirds. Newark owes IS
ooo; New Orleans, see, 900, 900. New
Iofk has quadrupled; Philadelphia has
doubled. Portland has has increased hv
rnaee, and Providence by seven. Rich