The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1877-05-05

AMERICAN car wheels are finding de-
maid 20. Europe. Several shipments have
been made recently, one Of them consisting
ni ipo, dssdued Tor Antwerp.
TINS roprsed to use the Great Eastern
steamship ,ur carrying cattle iron, this
cu4utry To- England. She will be fitted up
q. meet modern requirements at cost Of
500 ~.u. 81, Is now IA the Milford
docks
THt ogden Iron Company, Of Chicago,
, u,N .r-.uiltiluu. Is now erecting fur
.ages M err i,ton. Ohio. here its mines
trr s.tlat,d aud vii have It's first pro
auu.s uig uun n the market tins SUN
a.-r.
i.E tlr frst quarter of the coming year
f4e r.u.n.r ~ failures Ia the nIted States
l..ts }, t.,tai NJ 2 $50. the amount Of liza
u...i-- rrI.- SJ4 ,;'>. u14, and the average
G...l,I,> ~Iq.uIU FIR TIE same period
lHst N,Ar. There acre 500 failures, with
average liabilities If S23. u3s During the
-a,t quarter the number If failures in
chicago Was u.
LAST week cous,ables sale at Chatta-
nuuga. Ala. tNo Thousand acres Of good
.-iI Vtre -u.d at one cent an acre
in. Independents II Cincinnati polled
nearly 1900 ties at the recent mum icipa
e.rc-.ou lA that CITY.
IHf ISSUES of national bank notes for
the u.aujA were 81 ,97y 100 Of which eighty
psf cent, w 81 5o3, 80 IN greenbacks,
ser. destroyed, leaving The outstanding
legal tender circulation at 500 go 204
FE.H I>I5 % Dee 1876. :. 467, 09J per
..us ,inl2rs.ted from Great Britain and
Ireland ~ the I nited States, seventy four
pur CENT. were from Ireland
a striking illustration VI the hard times
la.n. ts. politicians as well as among
other fa..s is afforded w the fact that
among rhe special police sworn ii at the
Lapftri recently were two TX Governors
Nae ,A iut-e, ana oEe IN Congressman,
+-d several prominent Sale politicians
r lo har- been waiting AROUND Washington
tur -tNr.sl month past, waiting for some
ti,u- Z" turn uF.
IHEEi Arr uow published IN the United
II f-t .m Lose rcN,Faprrs, distributed as
'aAs England, London. go. Provinces,
}"i. Wales. 5u, :, otlsud IGI Ireland,
tl, isles 20. According To the edition
I. th.- u>.iu. dir,cctory for lS41 were then
pul.lstrj Iu tse iulttd kingdom J57
.Hruai- ct these 10 were issued daily
~ J." iH Ln-Iaud, J ia Scotland, and ,
L lr.isnu bat M 1871 there are now
established aid circulated |, G92 papers, Of
aalcn Dp less chan 40 are issued daily.
sa'AIi- tie press IF the country has very
greatly extended during the last thirty
years. ana especially 50 IN daily papers
-he aauy issues standing l4G against Ii in
loi7.
TIN Eo,hodd AZ, makes the startling
statement that during the year 1876, thirty
railroads operating 3 $40 miles Of railway
ana having 2l1 50, 900 If securities were
sold under foreclosure. FIfty-six other
roads, operating ~. BIB miles. and having
STOCK ana bonds ~ the nominal value Of
Siij4. uul 600, Nere ordered into charge Of
receivers or subjected to proceedings for
foreclosure GA default made prior to 1876,
or default during that year And even
these enormous ngures are supposed to
taIl below the truth. thousand million
dollars lost IA financial disaster TO railroads
IN single year.
Al the o,lhery explosion at Worcester,
swansea go Wales, twenty seven men lost
their lives.
The official statistics as to the number
Of KILLED aud wosudcd IA the German
army during the late war with France, has
just been iuh lshed at Berlin The whole
number 10 Ailied and wounded was 30, S97,
~ Hhpm 3 go sere officers
LAST year 81 paid to foreign manufac-
IN 81. .I-
manufactured ia this country with advan-
tA-e, the enormous sum Of S:}6l 232, lS8.
The Iuah y orid asks free traders to rise
sud rA Tain ~hy the expenditure Of this
n"rry ~ home would not have helped our
manufacturers and the country at large.
! NV amount IL fractional currency de-
sFroyed j. estimated by the Treasury to
IN ciuWo0uO. IL Is proposed by the
Treasury a. issue $1,000 100 silver for a
ilke amount Of legal tenders, which will
be Withdrawn from CT alton.
Since 1885, l70,74j patents have been
applied ios aud issued-an average of ten
per day.
There were "a, OO0, 900 (millions) postal
cards issued last year.
The triiest living man, according to q
spanish newspaper. is young man from
Aicccer, twenty SIX years of aga, and 2 80
meters @ feet = Inches) in height, named
Ausustin Luengo Capiila, who lately has
been presented to his Majesty the King Of |
Spain.
The population Of the British empire !
rom statistics recently compiled, is 234,
-, 90 lts territory contains 1850, 900 |
square miles, and its titled property owners
number l6S, 600
Gen. Butler is preparing greenback
speech, and intends to deliver il in the |
next Congress. We know it will be a |
good one
The following is the indianapolis indie.
pendent Grecnback City ticket for Mayor.
Robert Denny for Clerk, G. w. Phillips:
TER Treasurer Z j. Connor for Marshal /
Sl. Z. Nads; ter Assessor JAS Parker.
General sherman. indulging In the prob
Abilities Of war, says, 1T will keep our
people at WORK day and night to provide for
Europe II there should be general war,
aud that now seems inevitable to me.
believe all the greater powers will be d.
rectiy or Indirectly involved before the
rear Is oct. In the parts of the country
"a which the field fights will certainly take
'lace, half million men on either side can