The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-01
MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.

J. r. Dodge, the Special Agent of the
statistics, issues report showing that the to-
bacco crop of 1880 was 80 per cent. greater than
the crop of 1870, the amount produced in 1880
being 49, 107, 573 pounds, as against 262, 1856 34I
pounds in 1870. The crop in 1870 was below the
average, while that of 1889 was fully I'D to III
average. Fifteen States now rrodu,e as much
as all the States produced in 1870. Only fou!
States-Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Mas
sachusetts-produce less than they produced
in 1870 Kentucky which ranks first as o tobacco
State, produced SO per cent. of the whole crop
Virginia ranks second, and Pennsylvania third
The average Well per acre has been 731 pounds
varying from 1889 pounds in Massachu 4etts to
AL pounds i'll North Carolina. Illinois pro-
duced 8, 1886, 700 pounds, an average of 500 to
the acre.
The Chinese Government having re-
quested the services of an experience ID naval
officer to organize marine corps on the same
plan as the marine corps of the American navy,
First Lieut.. D. Pratt Mann ng has been given
permission to enter the Chinese service for
that purpose
The Chicago and Rock Island Rail
way Company has declared the usual quarterly
dividend of IL per cent, payable Aug. 1.
The earnings of this company increased the
first fortnight in June $4,000 over last year.
The astronomers all over the world
E11o Nf
the brilliant comet of 1872" in the north
eastern heavens.
Henry Willard announced to a meet
ing of subscribers to his Northern Pacific and
Oregon Company pool that he had united the
two companies. He proposed now to form
new company to be called the Oregon Trans
continental with a capital of $50,0O0,0OO.
A great slaughter of soldiers on the
Moreles railway, in Mexico, occurred near the
village of Mailpois, on the river San Antonio
After the train had been plunged into the water
by the destruction of the bridge, consign-
ment OF alcohol i'll a froight-car took fire and
exploded. No less than thirteen officers and
1872 privates were killed by the fall or roasted
alive, while fifty others sustained serious iniu-
ries. The engineer and fireman were scalded
to death. The road is a narrow-gauge, was
built by native engineers, and had been opened
only week.
Out of $87, 900, 900 in foreign gold coin
received at New York from August to May, not
one piece was British. The arrivals were mainly
French 20-franc pieces and German 2O-mark
pieces, although japanese yens were well rep
resented.
The international pigeon race was
flown from different parts of the United States
and Canada the distance to their homes being
$50 miles the winners made that distance at
the rate of mile in two minutes.
Later particulars of the Mexican rail-
road accident add rather than detract from its
horrors. Nearly $50 persons were killed, and
forty dangerously wounded, only sixty es-
Gaping.
Americans are the largest consumers
Of Japan tea. Out of IA, 21O,O7s pounds ex-
ported from Hiogo alone in 1880, 1853; 533 were
invoiced to New York, 2,422, 295 to Chicago.
$50 TO San Francisco, and on 2,167, III tc
other countries.
Buffalo reports the arrival of the
largest tow of lumber from Michigan which
ever passed through the great lakes. 1t con-
tanned $780, 900 feet.
Russia thinks that if England can pro-
test against the action of Fenians in America,
something should be done by European powers
to limit the conspiracies of exiled Nihilists.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Booth and Mr..
J. II. McVicker arrived in New York on the
steamship Bothnia from Liverpool.