Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1880-02-11
THE BUSINESS REVIVAL.


The United States consumes every
year 80, 600 bushels Of canary seed.
THE total home clip Of wool last year
amounted to 232, SOC, 900 pounds.
SIXTEEN million bushels Of oysters are
annually packed at Baltimore.
CLEVELAND decreased her debt $693,
600 during 1879, and has Sc, ,591 900 left
to pay.
LEApvLLE, Col, has four banks of
deposit, and the Democrat says they are
overrun with deposits.
A CALIFORNIA paper says that it is now
considered well settled point that the
production of raisins in that state will be
made profitable.
THE west-bound Union Pacific train
from Omaha onthe 14th ult. took out 480
sacks of Australian mail for the next
steamer from San Francisco
The shipments of mules and horses to
the south 10 ON the increase. The trade
is now said to be better than since the
panic Of 1873.
THERE are now nearly one hundred
lumber and shingle mills ON the Saginaw
SOC, 900 feet, and giving employment to
over thousand men.
Iowa butter is carried from Davenport
to Boston for sixty cents per hundred
pounds, and frequently Vermont butter
goes into the Hub with the same train at
eighty cents per hundred pounds.
THERE is sudden cessation Of pros
perity at Virginia City, New. Mining
stocks are down, work in the mine has
stopped, and the poor are destitute in
the midst of an uncommon cold winter.
The assignee of the Stuyvesant bank
Of New York, which failed 10 years ago,
has just announced his readiness to pay
the stockholders q first and final dividend
Of three cents on the dollar.
THERE have been very large sales OF
hemp in New York, many OF which were
on account of Boston owners. The sales
foot up nearly 10000 bales "to arrive
in New York and Boston, ranging from
8 to 81 cents.
ACHcAao paper says that the culture
Of frogs is quite an important industry
in Illinois where one man has over an
acre and quarter of land, on which he
is breeding 20O, 900 dozen Of frogs Of al
ages for the Chicago and Cincinnati mar
kets.
ALTHOUGH glycerine was discovered by
Scheele in 1779, it is only within the Last
few years that it has been manufactured
commercially. It's value became known
simultaneously with easy and cheap man.
ufacture. France is now pre-eminent in
its production.
The aggregate steam power in the
world is ae present 3, SOC, 600 horse
power, employed in stationary engines,
and 10000, 600 horse power in looomo-
tive engines. The stearn power IL equal
to the working force Of q, ,600, 900 horses,
and one horse consumes three times ~
much food - one man. The steam
power, therefore, is equal to the savings
Of rs. .00O, 900 human beings.
THE sugar and India cergoes to Boston
this year viii be very large, - number
Of vessels are now loading or on the way
from Calcutta, Manila, Java, 6inga.
pore, etc. The West India trade on
sugars reached last pear 162, 900 hogs-
heads, or 500 cargoes. Probably thia
year from Cuba, Porto Rico, Barbados,
Martinique, St Croix and other ports coo
cargoes will be received.
GERMAN telegraphic engineers have
lately been experimenting with alumni.
MUM a. a material for telegraph wires.
This metal can easily be drawn out to q
much finer gauge than ID possible with
iron, and it, conductibility il twice q
great a. that Of iron wire. IL excessive
cost has hitherto prevented it, use fol