The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-11-14
FACTS AND FIGURES.

IT costs the people of Great Britain
and Ireland $13, 500, 900 per wear to
support and maintain its Royal family.
The London Echo says that, accord
ing to a very careful computation, the
whole population of the world iesti-
mated at 1,44O,OOO,OOO could easily
stand on the Isle of Wight, 93,341
acres.
FORTY-SEVEN persons own two
thirds of the land of Nueces County.
Tex. William Kennedy owns 186, 2S6
acres, valued for taxation at 1854, 943.
and Richard King owns 188, 4S5, as.
sessed at $3.50, 127.
HE seven cotton and woollen mills
OF Lawrence, Mass, have a capital of
$7,85O,OOO, employ over 10000 hands
and run $500 spindles and 9,O57
looms, which produce every week
2,3O1, 654 yards of cloth.
The Railroad Gazette saws that a
few years ago 10000 pounds was the
maximum for a carload, but now
many companies permit &c, 1000 pounds
to be put upon a car, and very few acct
dents due to overlooking are on record.
THERE is q mill in Lawrence, Mass,
the Pacitic-which employs 5,SOi
hands, $685. of whom are women and
gllls, and 1,766 men and boys, vet in
this mill no strike has ever occurred
since twas organized, twenty-five years
ago.
In 1850, the total property valuation
OF the United States, according to the
census report of that year, was 81, 1885,
$50, 228; in 1860, it was SIG, 159, GIG, O68;
in 1870, it was $50, loss, 518,5O7. That
is to say, the aggregate wealth of the
country increased about 1875 per cent.
from 1850 to 1860, and about sc per
cent. from 1860 to 1870.
In Germany $4,000 acres of land are
devoted to raising tobacco. The Gov
eminent derives about $3.50, 900 revenue
a year from the product, the tax being
about 30 cents per 100 weight. The
duty of S3 per 100 weight on tobacco
imported in the leaf, 1925 on that inn
ported in otner forms, and S15 on inn
ported cigars yields about $4,000. 600
annually.
THE number of failures for the third
quarter of 1873 were {, 1853, as compared
with 1875 the same quarter last year.
Liabilities for the last quarter, $685.
600, 600, as compared with $4,000, 900
the same period of 1877. For the first
nine months of 1873 the failures num-
Der 8,768 as compared with 6,565 the
same period in 1877. The liabilities
for the first nine months of 1873 were
49,, 900, 600, against S141, 900, 900 for
the nine months of 1877.
AN official report made to the Bureau
of Statistics shows that, during the
month of September, 1873, there ar.
rived at the port of New York 1868
passengers, of whom 1886 were immi-
grants, 6,947 citizens of the United
States, and 776 sojourners. Of the
total number of immigrants, 5, 1876 were
males, and 3,819 females. There were
from Germany, 2,42S; England, 2,O77;
ireland, 1,4l5; Scotland, 375; Wales,
p; Sweden, 538; France, $50; Russia,
1898; Italy, 275; Denmark, 219; Switzer-
land, 1853; Norway, 1923; Hungary, As;
Holland, A; Poland, 81; Belgium, %;
Sicily, 20; Spain, 20; Portugal, 8;
Jamaica, 6; Cuba and China, 4 each;
New Brunswick, 5; Turkey, Finland,
Greece, Mexico, and born at sea, leach;
Nova Scotia, Brazil, Hayti, Malta,
Africa and Algeria, l each. During
the corresponding month of 1877 there
arrived at the same port IL FOG passen-
gers, of whom 6,773 were immig rants,
4, 1872 citizens of the United States, and
$40 sojourners. During the three
months ending Sept. 80, 1873, there
arrived at the same port 43,O88, of
whom 25,263 we're immigrants, 1858
citizens of the United States, and 2, 1872
sojourners. During the corresponding
period of 1877 there arrived at the same
port 32,O26, of whom 2O,1O9 were inn
migrants, 1902 citizens of the United
States, and 1905 soiourners.