The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-06-06

PROF, II. Il. PALMER and wife sailed
for America Nav 1eth =; ~ Ok.

PRoF, II. Il. PALMER and wife sailed
tor America May 18th, in the Scvthia.
The Philadelphia Press prints
calculation to show that the electric
light IS twenty-onc times cheaper than
gas.
IHE best da:rymen contend that the
milk product Of COW can be made
worth $7j per annum. This would
make the annual product from our
s,OOO,OOO COWS yield 5000, 900. OOO.-
Iona State Register.
ONE of the wards Of New York, the
Sixth, is frightfully unhealthy. The
death-rate is forty in every 1000 in
habitants, whereas seventeen To the
thousand is the usual rate. The people
in that ward arc poor persons crowded
into the vilest tcnements.
The report of the Connecticut Insur-
ance Commissioner shows that the
seven leading fire insurance companies
of Hartford have paid $95, 300, 562. 50
losses, S16,OO3, 715 cash dividends, and
81, O45, 900 stock dividends. The total
cash capital of the companies to-day is
81, 5000
DURING 1867, there were manufact-
ured in the United States ass, 558 tons
of iron rails and $3.50 tons of Bessemcr
stscl rails-total, 462, 1O8. From that
time to the end of 1877 the production
of steel rails steadily increased, 50 that
at the end of the latter year, of the
764, 700 tons rolled in this country,
432, 179 tons were of Bessemer steel to
s32, 45O of iron.
For ten years past a contractor of
Bradford, Eng, has paid $500 for am
moniacal liquor produced at the gas
works. The contract has now been re-
let for seven years, at f1O, $50 per an
mum. The holder of the present con-
tract put in a tender at $4,000. The
vast increase in the value of the liquor
is due to the discovery in it of a chem
ical substance used in an line dyes.
THE latest estimate of the total force
OF the Russian armies available for
service in Bulgaria, Armenia, or tho
Euxine, is 100000 infantry and co. 600
cavalry. it's believed that their losses
in the recent war in killed. wounded
missing and sick will not fall far short
of the almost incredible total of $780,
600. One correspondent estimates the
army in Bulgaria and Roumelia at
25O, 1000.
THE New York Daily Bulletin pub
fishes table showing that the exports
from the Port of New York for the ten
months ending April 80, including
$13,642,771 of specie, amounted to
1924, 423,5 54, against $258, 1879, 1856 for
the same portion of the previous fiscal
year. The imports. on the contrary,
show decrease, being, including $685.
581 1888 specie, but 1888, 715, GIL, against
$264, $50, 1868 for the same portion of the
previous fiscal year. The customs
duties collected ut New York during
the past ten months aggregated $751;
35O,311.
The colored waiter business ut the
summer watering places is not incon-
siderable, and no class of people feel
the hard times more keenly. The
season" rarely extends over six
weeks. Theirwages have been reduced
from $25 to SO per month, and the
same cause that has effected this re-
duction has also led to a falling off In
the fees and gratuities given by guests.
Formerly these fees amounted to even
$50 and $75 q month, but now $50 or
$50 a season is considered fair. The
colored walters, who are exclusively
employed at Saratoga, spend the rest
IF the year South, as the expense of
living is less there. At Saratoga the
Grand Union employs 800 walters; Con-
gress Hall, 12O; United States, 49,;
Clarendon, 35; Windsor, 80.