The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-10-05

According to published returns the mines OF
Montana paid SOL 600 in dividends during the
first six months of this year.
Ex-Governor Pennington, collector oil inland
revenues for Dakota, states that the receipts for
1852 will be nearly 100000 while four years ago
they were scarcely SSO,OOO
The silver output of the Ontario mine, of
Utah. will make brick about Is feet long, 9]s
feet wide and feet9h inches high IL repre-
sents silver valuation of over Sll, 100000. :,
The committee appointed to consider ne
bronze coinage now circulating in France, has
decided in favor of nickel, which has already
been adopted in Germany and Belgium.
Mexican government bonds have risen IN
London from ii r cent. last month to &c, with
unusual activity, upon the reported increase q
the country's revenue to $4,000 O0O OF when
S17, 500 0G0 was from customs receipts during the
fiscal year. These bonds fuctuated in 1881 be-
tween 151i and % q cent being at the close oil
that period about the average of those prices.
Berlin, the German capital, has grown with
extraordinary rapidly during the last forty
years. In 1850 it had TO- 600 Inhabitants; in 1881
$4,000, and in 1880. after the lapse of another
century, it numbered 100000. Fifty years ago
the population was 2i2OOi; IN lS6O II was 49J wv
and in 1875 it was $4,000. These figures are
fairly comparable with the records presented by
some of our American cities. The NUMBER OF
inhabitants is believed to be now not under l.
$50, 900. 1t takes vast expense to run such a
capital-the seat OF great empire The budget
of Berlin is larger than that of the grand duchy
of Hesse, and only short of that OF the grand
duchy OF Baden ana tne RlnSuOll VI NufteHi-
burg, including all the expenses OF the local ad-
ministration of whatever kind. Berlin costs
hardly less than the kingdom of Bavaria :,
Klingenberger-on-Main is in an exceptionally
prosperous condition financially. 1t derives so
large an income from its property in quarrles
that it is not only enabled TO dispense with
1evying any taxes upon its inhabitants, but to
present every one of its free burghers, at each
succeeding Christmas tide, with the equivalent
in German currency OF s25 apiece. This year
the Sedan festival was celebrated by distrip-
uting money gifts TO its householders and child
head of family received marks, every school
boy and girl 20 pfennige, or about cents. On
the occasion, moreover, n few months ago, oil
opening bridge across the Main, built by the
municipality at q cost OF S50OOD-not cent OF
which was contributed by the townsmen-a
bonus of $3.50 per head was handed to each
burgher, and all the school children got II cents
THE Philadelphia Record says: "The United
States mint OF this city has just received ovel
two tons of three-ceAt silver pieces which, by
actof congress, have been abolished from tht
national coinage. This is, however, only about
one-fifth of the quantity of these small coins
which are to be brought here from the various
sub-treasuries in the country, there having al
ready been redeemed more than ten TONS These
three-cent pieces now in the mint would I'LL
three large wagons. They are TO be recoined into
ten-cent pieces as the three-cent nickel pieces
are TO take the pace of the old silver three'cen
coins The treasury department is redeemlng
the small coins as fast as possible, and in a few
years they will entirely disappear, and only the
nickels will be in circulation. The coins have
lost very considerable per cent of their intrln
sic value by usage. in some cases amounting 10
as much as twenty per cent. IL TACT they are
rapidly wearing out. This is one reason why
they were abolished and the harder and more
convenient nickel substituted.