Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-11-30

A valuation of 800, 900, 100 in round
numbers is reported on property in
Texas this year.
H. II. Bancroft, historian of the Pa
cific coast, spent over S500,000 in col
lecting his private library.
The sum of S3,6j0,000 is now invest
ed in the manufacture of iron in the
Birmingham, Ala, district.
In the ten years from 1860 TO 1880
the value of the silk production of the
United States rose from 81, 2,2lO, 1852 to
S34,4l0,4G3.
1t is estimated that the total wool
clip of the Omitted States this year will
aggregate 3OOOOO,OoO pounds, worth
S100,0O0,000.
During the last fiscal year the federal
government received from inspection
of steam vessels and officers licenses
S27S,SS9.
For several weeks the banks at Gal
weston have been receiving ard express
ing to the interior an average of $780,
600 per week.
The enormous sum of 5000, 600, 900 is
invested in the submarine cables of the
world. supposed TO aggregate $1,000
miles in length.
1t will require an expenditure of at
least 5000, 900 by the Italian govern
mcnt to make good the damage done TO
roads, bridges, and public buildings by
the inundation, TO say nothing OF aid
to the sufferers.
A union depot $50 feet long, with
covered tracks extending 1000 feet
and costing about 100000, is to be
erected at Minneapolis.
A S2,O00,000 mortgage has been re-
corded in West Virginia by Il Philadcl-
phia trust company on lands in the
rich camel coal formation.
Charleston, S. c., points with pride
to wholesale trade Of nearly so, ,OOO,-
600 last year, an increase of about
SiOOO,OOO over the preceding year.
According to the Mississippi Hand
book there are l7j, 2jl white and 2jl,-
43S colorcd children attending the free
schools in the state, at Il cost of $780,
7Ol.
Hawaiian coin to the amount of 5000
GOO, and corresponding in value and
denomination with our silver coinage,
are to be struck at the San Francisco
mint.
The trustees of the Slater fund have
selected the Rev. DIR. IIaygoOd, Of Gcor-
gia. as agent to manage the gift of ST.
600, 900 for educating colorcd people in
the south.
For the year ending june 3Oth the
revenues of the Dominion of Canada
amounted TO s33. ISL, ,3Sl. the cXpcndi-
lures to S27,ljj,9O2, leaving arsurpIus
of Sc. 225, 40.
The German empire has now about
81. 900 600 acres of forest, valued at
800, 100000, and appropriatcs $500
600 every year TO increase and main
tain the growth of trees.
The new Iowa state capitol has thus
far cost -, 100000, and it will require
$4,000 TO finish it, 1t is 800 feet
long from north to south, and measures
q feet from the sidewalk to the top of
the central dome.
About 1,jOO miles of new railroad
were put iLto operation in the southern
states last year. The gross earnings
of southern roads reached S63, OOO, 600,
and the net earnings increased from
lS.OOO,0OOO in 1880 to more than S2l,-
100000.
In the production of coal, Illinois is
now second only to Pennsylvania. The
state bureau of labor reports that the
output has increased from 6,OOO,OOO
tons in 1850 to 9,O0O,0OO tons in 1882,
and that the value ut the mines has
been nearly Sli,OOO,OOO
During the five years, lS71-Sl, the
average loss by fire in the United States
and Canada in the month Of Scptcm-
Der alone was S5.9jO,0OO. This year,
omitting the fires in which the loss was
less than $4,000, the record shows l23
in number, and the aggregate loss So
205, 600.