The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-09-07
FAcrs AND FIGURES.

The cost of the bridge between New
York and Brooklyn has already exceed
ed $4,000, 000.-M T. Times.
There are at present $1,000 Penn
sylvanians living in Kansas, 10000
Suckers, 1900 Hoosiers and $4,000
Buckeyes.
-Guilford County, N. c.. has picked
and marketed $25. 900 worth of black
berries this year. The blackberry crop
Df the South has yielded several hundred
thousand dollars.
Free libraries are a great power in
the United States. FOrty-nine new
ones were opened in 1879, containing
B6. 779 volumes, making total of 3,Sl2
public libraries of all classes. s.- Chicago
Journal.
In the year 1916 wheat sold for
twenty-five cents per bushel, while
woolen blankets We're worth from $40
10 S25 per pair. Now wheat is worth
81. so, and blankets from S3 to SO. -
Detroit Post.
I'm 1862 Kansas planted 1886 acres
Of corn. and sent 90, S92 bushels to mar
ket. In 1882 the acreage of Che State
in corn il 522, 1876 acres, and estimates
of the best judges place the crop at 90
911. $40 bushels. N j. Sun.
"A gentleman of Jones County, N.
c., recently sold $50, 900 worth Of trees.
The only work he has to do is to count
the stumps after the trees are cnt ! his
is the largest sale of timber in the South
at one time recorded for many years. --
CleUeIand Herald.
In Germany. where there are no
restrictions upon the sale of Intoxicating
beverages on the Sabbath day, 80 per
cent. of murders and crimes Of violence
are committed on Sunday, and 53 per
cent. on Saturday and Sunday, the id o
| lays of the wOrkingman.
All the lands in the State Of Texas
owned and controlled by the Interna-
tional Railroad Company have been sold
TO an English syndicate, and the holders
Of international lands have been notified
that their leases will he auuulled at the
end of the contracts. The lands amount
to 100000 acres in all. Chicago
Times
The registration of medical practi-
TONERS in Pennsylvania shows that in
round numbers there are 9, 800 regis
tered physicians and 500 who have not
registered. OF those registered 500 are
graduates of colleges of the bogus kind,
and 838 are not graduates OF any insti-
buLOn, Dub are b6EMllttu 70 IeBlntHE W.
cause they have been in practice since
lS71.- Philadelphia Press.
John w. Shackelford, Of North
Carolina, in recent speech in Con
gress, gave the following items from
gleanings of the Census Bureau, etc.
Total working force Of the country esti-
mated at Is, 0O0. 900, divided thus: En-
gagged in agriculture, 1850. 600 az per
cent }; in profe sonal and personal SER
vice, $4,000 (22 per cent?: in man
ufacting, mining and mechanical work.
$500, 600 (22 PER cent? in trade and
transportation, 1,300, 900 @ per cent?
-AmeyIcGn Agricuiturtst.
The census reports show that there
are i'm the United States ] ,942 establish
ments for the production Of agricuit-
ural implements. OF these 22l are in
Illinois, 265 i'm New York. 220 in Penn
sylvania, 1855 in Ohio, l43 in Michigan.
| The total capital employed is S62, 3D.
96S; amount paid in wages, Sl5. .499, II q;
value OF timber used, 90, 79l, ,9l6; valT
Of iron and steel SfS. 424, ,05S value Of
other materials. 1879, 202; total, $32,-
Og4, 107. The largest number Of per
sons employed during the year was 49,
| 18O. The total value Of all products
was Sos, 373, ,OS6. In 1850 the total
product was $6,s42, GIL. In 1860 IL was
s17, 4s7, $50. In 1870 $52, ,066, S75. -
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