The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-01-31
FACTS AND FIGURES.


dredging for oysters in Maryland
waters Of the Chesapeake Bay and its
tributaries.
THERE were $50 failures in Boston in
the last three months of 1877. The ag-
gregate liabilities were 1927, 74O; the
assets, $735, $40.
THERE are now 851 manufacturing
establishments in San Francisco, whose
aggregate products amount to &c.,
33S,OOO They employ over &c, 900 per-
sons.
In Philadelphia, last year, 16, OO3 per-
sons died, decrease of 1889 as COM
pared with the previous year. The
heaviest mortality was in July in both
years-that in 1876 reaching nearly
1928, and in 1877, 2,O97. Of those
who died, 1Ol were from 9OtO 100 years
old, seven from 100 to 40, and one
over 10.
THE Glasgow Herald gives the fol-
lowing as the number and tonnage of
vessels launched on the Clyde during
the last five years: In 1877, 219 YES
sells of 1863, 40 tons; in 1876, 229 vessels
of 1888, 1928 tons; in 1875, 252 vessels of
22S.O tons; in 1874, 1875 vessels of
1872, 3O9 tons; in 1873, l43 vessels OF
224,792 tons.
THE Paris Bus Company employ 10,
1877 horses, of which 6,l28 are stations
and 1852 mares. Half of them are
Percherous, 20 per cent. come from
mandy. The daily rations of each
horse is IL pounds of oats and corn, 20
pounds of hay and 24i of straw, with Il
pounds of bran.
DURING the year 1876, the total pro-
duction of amber in Prussia amounted
to 1856 tons. The mine of Palmmcken
yielded eighty-five tons. The amber
was exported principally to Austria,
France, America, Russia, China and
Japan. The number of men employed
in Prussia by this industry is nearly
1.4OO.
THE New York Sun prints a list OF
the embellishments and defalcations in
this country for the past four years,
beginning at period just prior to the
panic of 1873. The money stolen dur.
ing that time, by means of defalcations
embellishments and breaches of trust or
the part of city and county officials
trustees of estates, etc., fOots up at over
$3.50, 100000.
THE peach crop on the Delaware
Peninsula last year is estimated to have
amounted to 3, 1872, 900 baskets of fruit
of which 2,124,lO2 were shipped t.
market by rail. The water transporta
ton lines carried away 948.518 baskets
to market, and enough fruit was canned
and dried (319,675 baskets) to make
the total amount utilized and marketed
3, 1896, 900 baskets. 1t is estimated tina,
100000 more were lost from the trees
by the storm in September. The Erer,
Evemi',g, of Wilmington, estimates thai
the quantity of fruit utilized has ncttct
the raisers at least fifty cents per bias
ket, thus giving to the Peninsula 81,
700, 900 for its years surplus. This i.
thought to have been the larges
amount ever realized for crop between
the two bays.
FROM trustworthy figures just com
piled regarding the liquor traffic, i
appears that there are nearly twic.
as many drinking saloons in New Yorl
as in any other State. The exac
number is 23,854. Illinois follows will
1858, Pennsylvania with Is, los, Ohio
With 1928 and California with 8,4O8
In Massachusetts there are only $685.
saloons, while in the comparatively in
significant District of Columbia, the
seat of National Government, there are
no less than 1,105. North Carolins
heads the list with 1905 distilleries
while New York has only Ill distiller
les. In addition to these, however
there are $40 beer breweries in tn.
State. On an average there is in thu
Union one drinking saloon for ever,
$50 inhabitants. Considering the pro
portion of the population, most Of thu
whisky is consumed by our brethren
in the South, while nearly all the beef
is drank by the people of the West ane
North.-N. y Times.