The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-01-03

WRECKS on British coasts last year,
3,757.
WASHINGTON will be the next Terri
tory to knock for admission into the
family OF States. Its population now is
6O,lOO.
DURING the last ten years the Italian
Government has confiscated and sold
at public auction $1O6, O00, 900 worth of
church property.
The sugar production of Cuba is said
to be in danger of ruin. Statistics
show that the Spanish Colonial rule has
80 burdened the industry as to make it
unremunerative.
THE population of Georgia is 1884,
24O. and the number of hogs is 1864,
40, or one hog for everv person in the
State, and 200 hogs left over with
which to regale the strangers that may
happen within their gates.
THE Annuaire a. Economic IolitiQMe
states that the Russian debt was, in
1881, 22O, 900, 900 roublcs; in 1847, 315,-
OOO, 900; in 1860, $4,000, 900; in 1875,
zoe, 900, 900. In 1873 it will have
reached l ,193, 8O9, $50 roubles, equal to
1901 ,557, 200.
TWELVE MILLION ACRES of forest, it
is estimated. have been cut down or
burned in the United States, within the
last ten years. Much of the timber is
used for fuel, twenty-five cities being
on record as consuming from 5000 to
10000 acres each. Fences and rail-
way sleepers require 10000 acres per
annum. The timber industry employs
200, 900 men, and $l44,OOO,O00 capital.
The returns to the Secretary of Mas
sachusets show an increase in the num-
Der of dwelling houses in the State of
4,4O4, against Sail as last year re-
ported; 66 towns report decrease and
80 towns the same number as last year.
An increase of 89l horses, against a de-
crease of 2,673 last year, is reported.
An increase Of 1913 cows, against 355
last year, and decrease of 1851 sheep,
against ], AGO last year. A decrease in
the number of acres of land taxed of
1901 last year is reported; and an in
crease of ATS polls, against SOL last
year.
Or the cotton crop the New Orleans
Democrat says: Coming now to the
crop of 1851, we find that New Or
leans has fallen to 1914 per cent. Ala
bama to 8O4 per cent, florida to 81
cent, Georgia to 1896 per cent, while
Texas has risen to 1929 per cent,
South Carolina to 1913 per cent, Vr-
ginia to 1888 per cent, and North
Carolina to 3.07 per cent. New Or
leans, which handled $50, S75 bales as
far back as in 1852, and 2, 139, 425 bales
in 1860, is credited with but 1,195, O35
bales, out of crop of 4,485, 1923 bales
in 1877, while Texas, with but 81, o52
bales in 1852, and Virginia, with but
2O,82O bales in the same year, have adj
vanced to $685. 34 and SIS, 941 bales re-
spectivcly in 1877.
THE diminutiOn of live stock in Great
Britain and Ireland within the last few
, years is causing considerable anxiety
in agricultural circles in those cOun-
tries. There has been a decrease in
the number of cattle and sheep in Great
Britain since 1874 of Z per cent. There
/ was a steady increase per annum of
cattle in the United Kingdom from
1866 to 1874, and henceforward there
has been a gradual falling of. The
cattle census this year shows only s.
sos, 900 cattle in Great Britain, which
is a loss of 42S, 900 in three years. AT
this rate of diminution the head of cat
tie would be reduced to one-half in
about twenty-one years. In Ireland the
. decrease has been more than 3per cent.
Sheep in Great Britain have decreased
to the number of 2.753,OOO, or per
, cent. while in Ireland there has been a
falling of of 1O4 per cent. and yet
there is now in Great Britain more
: land under grass or crops for feeding
animals than there was in 1874. The
, decrease in the number of live stock
: kept is due to one or both of two causes
: either the farmers are short OF
, money for buying cattle and sheep TO,
: keeping up the yield of their green
crops, or disease has visited live stock
, with such excessive mortality as to dis
: suade the farmers from herling.