The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-02-17
The population cf Chicago, according II
the latest statistics, is about $50, 900.

At a sale in vlcksburg, Miss, recently, q
plantation containing 1909 acres brought
j only s., 225.
General Grant pays 81 900 year for his
1 pew in Parson Newman's new church In
New York.
t Northern Texas newspapers complain
that the towns and cities of that section ara.
! overrun by tramps.
Complaint is made along the line of the.
, Texas and Pacific Railway of the employ
ment of convict labor.
Governor Gear spent $4,000 more than
his salary while an occupant of the Iowa,
Executive Mansion.
w. H. Vanderbilt, paid $2Ol.O for
State taxes to the Comptroller of New York
one day last week.
It is said that the $4,000 girls employed
at various trades in Chicago average in
wages only 50 u week.
The Fate Ami Loring of North Yarmouth,
Me-, left 50, $50 to his children and $751;
100 to missionary societies.
The guavatrees around Tampa, Fla, have.
at this time ripe fruit, green fruit, and
blooms upon them.
Sixteen thousand acres of white pine tim
ber land was recently sold in Clinton county.
Pa, for $4,000.
New York's savings banks hold S424, 2C4.
S06. The increase in a year is but . trifle un
der s4s,OOO,OOO.
Old clocks of the forefathers' days, cleaned
and repaired, are sometimes heard from in.
Boston as selling for S75.
Aletter was mailed recently at Pensacola.
Fla; for Glasgow, Scotland, upon which Slf
postage had to be prepaid.
| The war of 1912 ended sixty-sevsn years
| ago, and yet over 10000 widows are draw
ing pensions on account oft
| One curiosity of this winter is the recent
flight of the largest lot of pigeons ever seem
in the vicinity of Platteville, Wis.
The present population of Cleveland is
| lS5, SAL The police census shows an in
crease of 49, 43s during the year just closed.
| The war footing of the German army has
been established by the budget of 1882 at
500, 900 men. In the event of war, the
number could be doubled at twenty four
hours notice by telegraph.
At Glasgow, this month, two telegraph
| messengers, fourteen years old, were sen-
fenced to five years. penal servitude for
having stolen or destroyed Letters.
| The English revenue receipts are already
! Sll, ,OO0, 900 above what they were at the:
same period of the fiscal year in 1881, and
considerable surplus is expected.
Princess Elizabeth of Hesse-Darmstadt-
the plain but good hearted daughter Of the
clever Princess Alice of England, is going
to marry the brother OF the Princess OF
Wales, Waldemar of Denmark.
Francis Wise, distlller, and the richest
man in Ireland has just died. He left no
will to dispose of his wealth, which amounts
to SIS, OOO, 900. A reasonable share of this
is in American securities.
The contributions FOR the victims Of the
Vienna catastrophe have reached the sum
of /, ,OOO, 900 fiorins ts4S5, ,O0O). and as not
more than 200 families will ask for help
there will be substantial sum for each.
Clerks in the French Government officex
only get an average salary of about $500.
and conseq uently there is not such 3 dis
graceful scramble for office as in the United
States.
France and Italy have hitherto produceE
sugar only from the beet root. The sugar
cane has lately been introduced in bpth
countries, and it's rapid growth threatens,
the beet root industry.
1t is interesting to note that the Dut,h
are at present engaged in reclaiming halt a.
million acres from the Zuyder Zee. E
tween 1910 and 1857, Al, 600 acres were lo-
cued from the sea at Harlem.
81 have divided my subject" begai the
parson, "into two heads. Two ea'i.
with but single thought" whispered Fo
to Mrs F., and then he closed bis eyes f.,
his usual nap.-Boston Transcript.
1t is said that all the mines of Sout.,
America and Mexico, in the palmy d.ya
of Potosi, Cerro, de Pasco, Cartorce, FL
Doctor, and Pachuca, never furnished 80
much silver annually as was produced last
year by the mines within the United States.
Throughout Virginia City the Wate
Company has about two hundred men at
work. Most Of these men are engaged in
digging up frozen water pipes, and doing
other work made necessary by the lase
cold weather.
The Carson and Colorado Railroad is now
within three miles of Candelaria. At this
point is being put in long trestle-wor'
which is fifty feet high. This is being rap
idly constructed, and soon the cars will be-
running into the town.
Business men in Baltimore popose to or
zanize Manufacturers Aid Association, with
. capital of 81, ,0oO, 900. the prime object Of
which shall be to erect and equip buildings
with motive power for the purpose of rent
ng the same to manufactures who cannot
lford to own their own works. It is be-
ieved that such an association viii attract
Important manufacturing interests Of thu.
.ity.