Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-11-18
BIG SUMS OF MONEY.

A valuation OF $4OO O,OOO III rOuhu
numbers is reported on property in
Texas this year.
The sum of SIS, $50. 900 is now in
vested in the manufacture of iron in
the Birmingham. Ala, district.
During the last fiscal year the fed.
eral government received from i'll
spection of steam vessels and officers
Licenses $278. 1889.
For several weeks the banks at Gal
weston have been receiving aud ex-
pressing 10 the interior an average of
$500. 900 per wee
A union depot $50 feet long with
covered tracks extending 1000 feet
and costing about $500, 600, is to be
erected at Minneapolis.
1t is estimated lbs the total wool
clip of the United States this year.
will aggregate 800. 900, 900 pounds,
worth 500, oOO, 900.
In the ten years from 1870 to 1880
the value of the silk production OF the
United States rose from S12, 2l0. 662 to
1884. 40, 1863.
The enormous sum of 1902, 600, OO1
is invested in the submarine Gales
of the world, supposed to aggregate
$4,000 miles in length.
A 81, 000, 900 mortgage has beel re.
corded IN West Virginia by q Phila-
delphia trust company OH lands in the
rich camel coal formation.
Charleston. S. c., points with pride
to a Wholesale trade of nearly $751;
100000 last year, All increase Of about
$4,OOO,O 900 over the preceding year.
Hawaiian coins to the amount of
$4,000 and corresponding in value
aud denomination with u silver
coinage, are TO be struck at the San
francisco mint.
According to the Mississippi Hand
book, there are 1856 25l white and 251,-
4S8 colored children attending the
free schools in the state, at u cost Of
$3.50, 900.
For the year ending June 80 the
revenue of the Dominion of Canada
amounted to $S3. 1881, 1871, the expen-
dhures to $27, l55, 9O2. leaving a sur-
plus of sc, 2 ,479.
The trustees Of the Slater fund have
selec,ed the Rev. DR.. Haygood Of
Georgia. al agent to manage the gift
OF $4,000 600 for educating colorea
people in the south.
TIE late Catholic bishop of Vim
cennes, Ind, who died in France. was
q count. and during his life gave $780,
600 to the Catholic church. His body
is to be buried in Vincennes.
The German empire has now about
$4,000, 900 acres Of forest, valued at
$500. DOC. 1000, and appropriates $500,
600 every year to increase and main-
tain the growth Of trees.
II. III. Bancroft, historian Of this
Pacific coast, has spent over $500, O0C
in collecting his private library. He
10 an Ohio man and made his money
in mercantile business in San Fran
cisco.
1t will require an expenditure of q,
least SIS, 900 900 by the Italian govern
ment to make good the damage done
to roads, bridges and public building
by the inundation, to say nothing o.
aid to the sufferers.
About 1900 miles Of new railroad
were put into operation in tho south
ern states last year. The gross earn
ings of southern roads reached 963,
DOC, 900, and tho net earnings increased
from SIS, 000, 900 in 1880 to more thar
924, 600. 900.
In the production of coal. Illinois i
now second only to Pennsylvania
The state bureau Of labor reportstha
the output has increased from 5000,
600 tons iu 1880 to 100000 tons j.
1872. aud tha: the value at the mine
has been nearly $14, 0O0, 900. s
During the five years 1S76-1sS1, tn
average loss by fires in the Unite,
States aud Canada in the month O
September alone was s., 950,000. Thi
year, emitting the fires in which tn,
loss was less than $4,000, the recor,
shows 1913 in number, and the aggre
gate loss Sc, 2O5, 900.
Mining operations on the Menomi
nee aud Marquette iron ranges, II
Michigan, employ about $4,000 mel
aud $52,OO0,0 900 in capital. Addin.
this industry to the lumber interests
the result will show nearly, If no
quite, as large a business record II
the upper peninsula as the lower sec
ton, south OF Mackinac straits.
The commissioners in charge of tn
building Of the new Indiana state
house, report that work already don.
and contracted for will cost 81, 631,
COG. and other items of expense will
bring the anticipated outlay up t,
81 .762, 2O7. leaving $2s7, 1872 to expen,
without exceeding the limit 81. 900,
900. The walls OF the second sior,
will not be completed before winter
"A huge transaction in Mississippi
lands IS noticeable because there ha
been comparatively 50 little push re
ported III that state since the a 4
syndicate OF English capitalists hav,
agreed to purchase and improve l.
SOC. 900 acres. The sum of $500, 900 i
available tor the preliminary opera
ton, that Of cutting aud prepariD
for market the timber now stanui.a a,
after which the company will go es
tensively into cotton raising.
Work is progressing rapidly On III
library which NJ. Pratt ia buildin
for the city of Baltimore, aud VIII.
completed it will have a shulf canaci
ty Of 200. 900 Volumes TIE value {
the ground and library building
estimated at 1926. 600. This MIR. PA,
has given to the citizens, togethe
with the sum of 1888 1893, which wi
yield $4,000 per annum, in consids
alton that the city will adopt an o.
dinamce for creating and grsutip r.
perpetual annuity of $50, 900 for II
purchase and maintenance OF the
brary, with four branches in dj ffere,
sections OF the city. The cent raj pa,
Of the building is already uu der roo
and the whole is expected to be roofe
Oy the middle of December hn, ~