The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-08-03
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The capacity of the ice-houses
along the Hudson River is more than
1000, 600 tons
1t is estimated that every year there
are from 1,200 to 1.500 railroad en-
p1oyes killed and from 5000 Co 10000
injured in this country.
The tonnage transported on all the
railroads in the United States in 1881
amounted to $4,000, 600 tons. which
Poor's Railroad Manual estimates, at
the too low average of $50 O ton, would
be worth SIS, 900, O00, 900.
1t is estimated that the South has
this season paid to the North S55, 00O,-
600 for wheat, so, 600, 900 for corn,
$4,000, COO for meats, and about $685.
600, 900 for hay, butter, cheese, oats, ap-
pies, potatoes, ETC. Chicago Times.
1t is pretty web settled that a
healthy man who lives to be 20 years of
age, in his life eats 1880 pounds of
meat, 72 barrels of flour. 1900 pounds
OF butter, 987 dozen eggs, 800 pounds
of cheese, 163 bushels of potatoes, and
LOO pounds of lard.
The annual interest on the public
debt is now about S1.O8 for every in
habitant In 1876 it was more than
twice this, being 50. 20 per capita, and
In. 1865 it was as high as S4.29 per
capita, or $3.50, 977, ,697, to be paid by
80, 469, 600 people.-N 7. Times.
Pennsylvania and New Y ork are the
only States in the Union containing
over a million males of the voting age,
twenty-one years and over. Two States,
Minnesota and Wisconsin, have more
foreigners than natives, twenty-one
years of age and over. CHICAGO Jour
nal
Since the first oil well was opened
in 1859 the product of the wells hasadded
ST. 500. 900. 900 to the wealth of the
United States in the value of the crude
oil and its products. To-day the prod
uct of these wells lights the cathedrals
of Europe, the mosques of Asia, the pa
godas of Japan, and even the huts ON
Africa's sunny soil Its exports are
over 100000 gallons a day.-BoSton
Post.
The great cattle range of Wyoming
under the military protection of Fort
Mckinney is about 800 miles square.
In this area are now grazing 800, 600
head of cattle, worth S27 per head,
amounting to $13, 500, 900, to which can
be added the value of the horses. and
ranches of the cattle-men and the
farmers, and the stock of the grangerS,
making at least S15. 900. 900 of property
under the protection of the post.--M
7. Herald.
In this country, with population
of so, 900, 900. there are 4,204, 1862 per-
sons above the age of twenty-one years
who cannot write. OF this number
2,O56, 463 are whites, ,747, 900 negroes,
about 100000 Indians and 100, 900 Ash
atics. It is estimated that in almost
every State in the Union, and in the
country as whole, the balance of po-
litical power, SO far as numbers are con-
cerned, is or can be in the hands of the
illiterate voters. y. Sun.
Arizona covers an area of Y, 000,
900 acres of land. four-tenths of which
is mineral-bearing. 1t is larger than
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey
and Delaware combined Since 1849
there has been extracted from seven
States and Territories the sum of S2,-
100. .OGO, 900, for which California is
credited 81, 148, 307, 731; Nevada, $780,
125, 943; Idaho, S71, ,543, ,901; Oregon
and Washington Territory, $48, 637, Psi !;
Utah. S55. .848, ,831, and Arizona, $17,-
$50, 175. - Chicago Times.