The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-11-01
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BUSINESS ITEMS.

BUSINESS ITEMS.
The revenues of the German Empire
for the last year fell short of its estimate
by 100000 marks-over $5,OO0,OOO.
1t costs the English Government $780,
600 year to repair the damage to insul-
ators and telegraph wires by stone throw
ing boys.
A Boston house has just received
100000 clothes-pin, 100000 broom-han-
die, and 5000 ream sandpaper order
from Great Britain.
There are about 10000 unsatisfied
mortgages on property in Philadelphia,
of which nearly two-thirds are held by
building and loan associations.
Out of the q, SOC, 100000 annually
earned by English workingmen, they
only save $2O,OO0,OOO instead of $75, OOO,-
600 which they could easily do; the bal
ance is mostly wasted in drink
The state department has received in
formation that nearly million dollars of
our subsidiary silver is circulated in
Hayti, and it is believed the standard dol
lar would find ready market there
During the last year the life insurance
companies in America have returned to
the insured for losses, endowments, sur
render values, dividends and other items.
larger amount than they have received
in premiums.
The official statistics of immigration
for the last thirty years show that Ger
many and Ireland have furnished us
more than 100000 immigrants each,
but that Germany is upward of 100000
ahead of Ireland.
The beet sugar industry, which did so
much to secure prosperity in France, is
showing signs of success in California,
Wisconsin and Illinois. Maine has APP
propriated $4,000 to test the culture of
the white beet for sugar.
The idea of insurance against storms is
of German origin, but it is also getting
foot-hold in this country at the west.
The St Paul hail insurance company
has just paid $4,000 in Carver county,
Mimi, for damage TO crops.
Cotton mills are becoming numerous
IN India, more particularly in Bombay,
and it seems probable that with improv
ed machinery, cheap labor, and the saw
ing on freight they will be able to CON-
pete successfully with English goods.
The Bank ofEngland was started in
1894 with capital of 81 100000. A cen
tury ago, in ITS, its notes in circulation
amounted to 100000; now they ex-
coed eS9, 900, OOO-and the bullion has
increased from $4,000 900 to e24, 900 900.
AT present there is complaint of the
great increase of suicide among insured
lives. Would it not be well to INQUIRE
into the religious status of these sui
cides? We believe that good orthodox
belief is powerful preventative against
this moral hazard.
There Is hail insurance company in
France-and only one-whose profit and
loss account for 1877, shows a profit of
S51, s99 francs, after writing off the loss
of 1876 of 720, 120 francs. Its premium
income for the year amounted toe3, 837,-
O97 francs in respect of 52,917 policies,
and its losses to i 200, 7S4 francs.
The growth of wooden manufacturing
in this country may be learned from the
fact that in 1910 the product of our wool.
en- factories amounted to $50, &C, 900,
while in 1870 they reached the enormous
aggregate of 1855, 496, goo, and this ex-
elusive of worsted carpets and hosiery,
which amounted to $43, 762, 900.
The cotton mills of Columbus, S. C,
consumed during the season of 1877-78
IL, 1872 bales of staple, a gain in five years
of 1884 bales. They expect to consume
$4,000 bales the coming season, which at
10 cents pound or $50 bale would
make this cotton worth $75OOOO. This
value, however, in passing through their
mills will be increased to some So, 2OO,-
600.
1t is said that several fire insurance
companies of New York and Hartford
are about to unite for the purpose of esA
tablishfng agencies in Europe It is
thought that if, in the course of the past
year, the European companies succeeded
in drawing from the states more than
so. 100000 francs fS10 coo, 600, the Amer
lean companies could operate with equal
success in Europe. lzl~f
A rich sugar refiner of San Francisco,
it is reported, has bought 10000 acres of
land in the Hawaiian Islands for the cul-
tivation of sugar cane. He will irrigate
the dry lands, drain the swamps, build
railways, and spare no money to make
the thing success. The same man,
when the reciprocity treaty making
island sugar free of duty appeared safe
of confirmation, slipped over and secur-
ed all the sugar for three years ahead.
We produce so bushels of grain per
head, estimating our population at 40
600, 600, while Europe with a population
of not quite SOC, coo, 600. produces only
16 bushels per head. 1t being estimated
that the average consumption of grain
per head is 10 bushels, we produce three
times as much as we require, Russia not
twice its wants, and Great Britain not
much over one-fourth her requirement.
The New York Times says of the
western towns which have been outstrip-
ped by Chicago that they are making
merry, as usual, over its bankruptcies
For several days before the bankrupt
law ceased to be operative, the registers
fees in Chicago amounted TO $15, 900 a
day, the fee for each petitioner being
$50. On the last day he received $2O,-
900, which represented 400 bankrupts |
st. Louis, as may be imagined; rejoices
over this, saying she is beaten by four to
one, and that the Chicagoan who is still
solvent must feel magnifcently solitary
The rapid development OF cotton SPIN
ming at the south is illustrated by the
fact that within radius of 20 miles of
Atlanta, Ga, there are enough spindles
to annually consume 10000 bales of cot |
ton, the one cotton factory of that
city employing coo hands. Atlanta also
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