The National tribune., 1882-09-09
OUR GROWING COUNTRY

Edison's New Electric Light COMPANY bepar
| operations in New York last Monday NIGHT
Six engines will be employed, and each will
run 500 globes or lights
SYNDICATE consisting of Mr.. Jaw Gould
hlr. Russell Sage, Mr. Sidney Dillon, Mr. Wash,
| lhgton b. ConHor, and Mr. F. L. Ames, has mr.
chased the Hannibal and ST. Joseph Railroad
and will add it to the Wabash system.
IHE President has appointed Arthur
Johnson, OF New York; John p Sanborp. of
hhode Island; and Henry w. Scott, of Oregon
commission to examine twenty-five miles Of
railroad constructed by the Northern Paeifs
railroad Company in the Yellowstone Valley.
Montana Territory.
New Orleans is at last waking up to the i'm
portance OF spinning her own cotton. The new
maginnlss mill, costing $5OOOOO, will work
1@ooo spindles, nearly 500 looms, and
l'ooo hands. The total capital enlba
manufacturing daring the past year
mated at ss,00O,000
Inc area OF meadows in Illinois, rs r
| oy the assessors to the board of agricu
| the largest heretofore reported, viz.
acres. The hay crop generally is said la
good condition, but the quality is s-
best, being rather rank. The total ,.4
4,3s9,O00 tons, which is 335, 900 tons mo .aa
In 1878, which was the largest crop rec,
During the first six months of this Y,
buildings, Of an estimated cost of $27
were undertaken in New York Of Il s So
were fiat houses, 228 tenements, and
monts with stores. Nearly half of til
spent in building was laid out on thes
OF structures. OF irst-class dwellings
was only PIT, and of second-class 53. tt a
Der OF separate dwelling houses, theref
2'O merely, while of tenement houses -a.
sort and another the number was 500.
The officers of the Chicago, BurIingi
Quincy Road say the purchase of the H rI
and st. Joe Railroad by Dir. Gould wi
way affect their business, as they have
to Kansas City via the Kansas City st. -..
and Council Bluffs Road. The Burl
Company intends building a new lin,
Browning, on the Burlington and Sout
ern, TO Kansas City, los miles. This wi 20
the Burlington the shortest line betwee
cago and Kansas City, 4771 miles
Bradstreet places the wheat crop of T.
526, 100000 bushels distributei --=
Ohio, &C, 100000; Michigan, 20,0Ol 15aaa
100000; Kentucky, d6,000,000 .ea-
500,000 Wisconsin, %, 100000 ~ J51
A, 100000; Dakota, 1e,O00,000 1ets.ze. Is
100000; Kansas. 33,G000O0: To- e,s
Missouri, 100000; Californ a. 08ca.
Oregon and Washington Territ - .a aH4.
Southern States, 4s,5O0O00; tts
39,500,000; New England States utg, -o,.
orado and Territories, 100000.
The chief signal officer of the Las sere4
the following important notice
warnings for frosts which threat % r. e.....,,,n-
growing sections of the United States will be-
gin on September 1 and continue until Noyem-
Der 1, or until killing frost has occurred.
When a frost is anticipated in any district
notification of the fact will be telegraphed
from this Office, and, if possible forty-eight
hours in advance The telegram will define.
as clearly as practicable, the region where the
frost is anticipated, and state the time it may
be expected to occur"
The first passenger train on the Mexican Ma
tional Railroad entered Monterey on the 31st
ult. The road now extends from Corpus Christi,
Texas, to Monterey, Mexico, $50 miles The
opening of this line makes Monterey the great
gateway to Mexico from the United States The
track is being vigorously pushed toward Sal
tillo. seventy miles SOUTH also from the CITY OF
Mexico to Acambaro. The intervening gap
between Saltillo and Acambaro, 400 miles. is
provided for by London subscriptions Efforts
are being made TO complete it by next summer.
This will place through rail connection with
the City of Mexico from New York city.