The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1882-06-09
CLIPPED AND CONDENSED.

shipped about 90. 600, 600 oranges This
season.
The cost Of Il recent foggy day il
London was SEQ. 600, tor $4,000. .0W
feet of extra gas.
The Iowa counties Of Linn, Jones
and Delaware exported over 1900
600 worth Of butter and cheese last
year.
+. J. Moses, whiInm carpet baa
governor Of South Carolina. was sent
to to the New. York peniteutiary iAst
Wednesday for larceny.
The deepest coal mine shat, IA Eng
land is at Ashton Coiiicry. near Man
chester. which has pierced th" carth
To the dep:h of : $50 feet.
Fer I block Of land comprising L.
0l7 square miles in the north Of Aus.
tralia only S4.75 a mile WAS lately
Offered; for an other # 5,058 sauar,
miles only 1878.
The receiving teller Of the Bank oi
California shot himself shrought the
head in San Francisco last Wcdnes-
day morning. Stocks and disorder.
o1 livar. nouco1 !:
Two large parties Of Italian colo
nicsts have arrived in Vera Cruz.
The Mexican government is trying 10
make contracts for the introduction oi
Irish and Welsh colonIsts.
Liverpool is to be supplied with wa
Ter from the mountains Of Wales, :,
distance of six$-seven miles. Al an
expense of about Sll.000,O00 the
supply IRON this source viii bc 100,
COO. 900 gallons daily.
Estimated cost Of huiiding railroads
in different countries, per mile: Eng
land, 100000; France 800, 900;
Russia, @l35, 900; Austria. SlO9, 1903
Germany, sl05, 900; Italy, sl00.O0O
United States, So, 900.
More than two million II pounds of
freight were received at ;hc kcitcn
warehouse, Idaho. in the month Of
April, aud pilgrim from Wood River
declares there is more freight at the
station than thousand teams conld
haul.
Switzerland has l.J94 miles of rail
road, representing over 500, 900, ,00t
of capital, These railroads do not
pay well; some have paid no interes
for years, even the debenture holders
Over $1,000 persons are employed
Accidents are few.
Ii is believed tina; there are 500(
ciks ranging on the hcadwaters Of tn,
streams and tsibutaries heading up il
the Olympic range and putting int
Gray's harbor. Fish, both salt anC
fresh water, are abundant. 1t il
simply paradise for sp0rismen.
The exports Of whea: from San
Francisco for the month OF Apri
amounted to 2,3i0, 4GG bushels a.ains
l, ,397 1898 bushels from the port o
New York Baltimore shipped DO,
2S7 bushels during the same time be
ing the next largest por; Of export
Late mali adviccs from Chin stat
that the opfhm crop Of thn presen
season promises to be twice as large a
that of 1881, which vas larger an
better in quality than thar of the pre-
ccding year. In 1880 the yield o
Chmese-srown opium was placed Al
| -fppr''N i'iIh-H'
The mills Of eighty silk manufac
turing firms in New Jersey last yea
consumed l,570,G00 pounds oi IA.
silk. New Jersey exceeds in this in
dustry all others combined. The cap
ital invested Is 81, ,524 200, aud tn
value of the manufactures last yea
was sos, ,0a3, 800,
Frankfort-on-the Main, containin
a population Of abont 100000, is sal
to be the richest city Of its size in III
whole world. II It's wealth wcr
equally divided among its iahabi
tants every man, woman and chill
would have, it is said, 10000 mark.
or some 81, 900.
| Mutnolnah county gave Georg
| 2060 majority. That county al
Clatsop, Coos, Columbia, Ti'lamoob
Josephine, Polk, Yamhill, Wasct
Marion and Umatilla, gave Republ
can maiorIties. Columbia has bee
Democratic for twenty years hcfor,
and Wascn was always reckoned
Democratic stronghold. Lane count
gave its regular 800 Democratic m;
iority.