The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-10
RITSINESS ITEMS

The debt of England, in round numb
ers, is $4,000,O00,000.
Scotland is buying Russia" sheet iron
made in Pittsburg, Penn.
The pay OF the nailers at East Taun-
ton, Mass, has been voluntarily raised
10 per cent
There are five glass factories IN Balti-
more, which give employment to about
$50 men.
A special line of steamers is soon to
enter the coal carrying trade between
this country and Italy.
The estimated average yield of wheat
for the entire province of Manitoba ex-
ceeds thirty bushels per acre.
The wages of puddlers OF the Old Col
ony iron works, at Taunton, Mass, have
been raised fifty cents on the ton.
lea in log heaps, which cut into vencers
would sell for more net cash, than the
whole farm where it grew
There are ten petroleum refineries
within the limits of Pittsburg, which
have a combined capacity of from 10000
to $4,000 barrels of refined oil per week.
1t is thought the shipments of machin-
cry out of st. Louis for the present year
win considerably exceed the sales of any
year in the history of that city.
The fact has been brought out during
the state legislative railroad investiga-
ton that the through traffic in freight on
the New York Central is less by one fifth,
in point of earnings, than the local traffic.
The British trade journal states that
as an incident of American competition
that eggs imported from Chicago have,
the last summer, been eaten at Dublin
breakfast-tables, and good American but
ter been sold in that city at Sd. per lb.
The Philadelphia Trade Journal, as
another proof OF the improved condition
of the iron trade, gives the fact that no.
tices were lately posted in Kensington
mills announcing general increase of
wages equal to about six and half per
cent for all hands. This is the second
advance within three months, the first
being ten per cent. The most signifi-
cant feature of these advances lies in the
fact that both were granted without any
soliciting on the part of the workmen.
June Both, 1879, marked the end of the
first sixteen years operation of the home
stead law, during which period the num-
Der of entries was 384, 64S. The average
size of farms is about 120 acres, making
the aggregate area occupied 40, 1S1, 760
acres or 100000 more than New Eng
land contains. Last year emigration
was so active that titles to 10000
acres, representing the movement of 90
600 families to public lands, were issued
under the homestead law alone, and a
much larger quantity of new land was
also purchased from the government
and railroad companies.
1t appears that in Great Britain are
published 1885 newspapers and S1S
periodicals, which, with fifty-siX organs
of learned and other societies, make a
total of 2,759 publications, 496 news
papers and 59S periodicals being con-
tributed by London alone. OF the news
papers 542 are liberal, 331 conservative
or conservative liberal, and 941 neutral.
Three hundred and ninety-eight of the
periodicals deal exclusively with relIgi-
Gus questions. There are 287 illustrated
papers, of which thirty-three have color
ed illustrations. Questions relating to
labor treated of in fourteen newspapers,
while there are 104 prints representing
trades and trade societies.