, 1880-02-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

llOur ldSL year, ueiuR GA HhNA>"SS Va -"0'-
900 barrels over 1878.
To cover polyga my with the protecting
shield Of state sovereignty is what the
MOrmons are aiming at.
Brigham Young's estate finally sim
mers down to $4,000, which is to be di-
vided among sevea heirs.
ONE hundred thousand needles are
bored in day of10 hours by a. new ma
chine just perfected in Westphalia, Conn.
The Indian appropriation bill, as
agreed upon by the committee on appro-
priations, is $4,692, ,0OO-$3O0,000 less
than last year.
The American demand for British iron
has diminished recently. One year ago
251 furnaces in America were in opera
ticn; now 337 are running.
II is said the Union Pacific, Kansas Pa
cific and Denver Pacific Railroads. have
been consolidated Under the name OF the
Union Pacific Railway Company.
THE population Of Great Britain and
ireland is estimated at 35,00O,0OO, aud Of
the Canadian, Australian, African aud
West Indian colonies at 10,000,000.
THE second highest bridge in the coun-
try is about to be built across the Missis-
sippi at Minneapolis. 1t will be 115O
long, with two spans of 325 each, the
whole to cost 100000.
PARTIES at Snohomish City will open
the old Cady Pass trail, which passes over
the Cascades, and near the gold fields and
the Smilkameen quartz lodges, to Fort
Colyitle, early Ia the spring.
ACCORDING to McCormick's Directory.
just out, the population OF Portland, ex-
elusive, of Chinese Is 1s.19S. including
1856 colored and IA Indians. The Chinese
are set down a, 24S3, making grand to-
tai OF 20,671. d
Statistics show that the gold influx from
Europe is steadily subsiding. 1t attained
Its highest In September, when the amount
received was over $27,OOO,OOO. In No
vemher it fell to 1000, 900, and In De-
cenber to still lower figure.
THE United States is making more than
one-third Of all the paper in the world.
The product is about 1900 tons daily, or
610. 800 tons q year. There are 927 mills.
representing a capital Of 100000. 600 en-
ploying $4,000 persons, who receive in
salaries 80, 100000. |g
ACCORDING to the report of the govern
ment directors Of the Union Pacific road,
the gross earnings last year were over
$l3,000,000, and the operating expenses
were reduced to about AZ per cent. Out
of the net earnings it can, in the opinion
Of the board, pay Its bond holders their IN
terest and comply with the directions Of
the funding bill, and still leave the stock
holders TX per cent.
The commissioner OF pensions makes
the statement that 25O, 900 applications for
pensions are still pending. He estimates
that during the next ten years, II the same
rate of increase Is kept up. .and he sees no
reason to doubt that it will, the pension
roll will be doubled and the annual dis
burscments will exceed $1,000. 600. At
present it takes Is per cent. of the whole
revenue Of the government to pay pen
sions. The sum required is about equal
to the aggregate amount paid by Great
Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Aus
tria and Hungary. Great Britain is al
ways at war, but her annual dsburse-
ments tor pensions to soldiers amount
only to sl2, ,765,6s5.
GONG TO WASHINGTON. - Col. M. D.
Ball, Collector Of customs for the District
Of Alaska, passed through here on Satur-
day night, in the steamer California, from
Sitka, en- route direct to Washington
having been so authorized to do, by tele-
graph from Secretary Sherman. A pub
ic meeting was lately held az, sitks, pre-
sided over by Major NJ, P. Berry, late
Collector, at which resolutions were
passed, requesting Col. Ball to repair to
the Capitol Of the Nation and urge upon
Congress the appropriate legislation for
Alaska. We have every confidence In
Col. Balls mission. and earnestly trust
our Northern neighbors may soon rejoice
in Territorial form Of government.
The japanese government has let to
Mr. Crawford, civil engineer OF Ameri-
Ca the contract to build railroad fifty
three miles in length extending from the