The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-02-04
New York now claims a population of

New York now claims a population of
l 800, 900.
The State debt Of Virginia is estimated to
be s2l, 100000
New Years day, Georgia had $97l, Ass 25
in her treasury.
:. It is claimed that 10000 persons settled
in Missouri last year.
During the past year 1882 persons died
in London of the small pox.
Iowa has forty-nine employees in the in--
terror department at Washington.
In one hundred pounds of potatoes there
are seventy-five pounds of water.
The United States owes less than one
half the amount of Great Britain's debt.
There are .l5O cases on the docket of the
Supreme Court of the United States
Enigrants who landed in New York city
last year brought sll ,00o, 600 with them.
The total number of liquor licenses issued
in New York city during 1881 was 1851.
In 1881 there We're ALL, ,554 acres of
bushels.
There were 5, $50 business failures in 1881,
not including the thousands of firms who
failed to fail.
The United States in 1881 consumed three
times as much canned salmon as they did in
1880.
The increase OF dwellings in New York in
ten years has been $50 ,0G0; and of popula-
ton, S250, 600.
Daguerraotypes cost s. apiece in 1s4o
when Draper and Horse introduced the in
invention at New York.
Georgia is the State suffering most from
iliiteracy. It has a population of | ,542, $50,
and of this number 967,o00 persons either
cannot read or cannot write.
Illinois thinks that it possess the largest
COW in the world. She is seven years old
weighs three thousands poun ls, and is
seventeen and half hands high.
| The United States begins the new year
with a public debt of $l,762, 49l,7l7, or
about 81 900, 900 less than the r'aximum
amount reached by the debt in 1865.
Tt is estimated that the railroads took in
So, 900, 900 last year for transporting to their
various destinations the 440, 900 immigrants
! who landed at Castle Garden.
The earnings of Union Pacific Railroad in
1881 are stated at S29,6l7, 900, gain over
1880 of one per cent.
Mole than 1000 bills are already pending
in the Forty-sventh Congress, and the num-
Der is constantly increasing.
Wisconsin has 3,433 miles of completed
railroads, and an inleinite number of mile
in process of construction.
The 8, ,4S9 licensed liquor saloons of Chica-
go pay weekly license of 81 each, or $751;
42S in the aggregate for the year.
Iowa spent 81, ,S43, ,O9S for common schools
last year, and $50, 100000 for liquor says
the Cedar Rapids Amendment.
1t is said that $4,000 steerage tickets
have already been sold in Germany to be
used by emigrants to the Unitei States in
the early spring
In the ten years ending i'll March, 1884,,
London, England, increased its population
by S7S, 900 persons-.hat is, it alde'l to its
dimensions city about the size of Phila--
delphia.
Four thousand barrels of petroleum a
year was too much for the worlds consump
tion twenty-five years ago. They are using
it up now at the rate of about $1,000 bur-
rels d day!
During 1881 one hundred and eightY-tw'
Congregational ministers were ordaine | or
installed, seventy were dismissed, a't
seventy four died. Eishty-nine churchss
were organized.
Iowa has ninety-nine counties, and of
this number fifty-two have no bonded deht,
seventy no floating debt, and forty -one tla'
not owe dollar.
| There are about 1000 secret Gqunr
saloons in Maine but it is said that they
90 not sell an average of 81 worth Of lila'r
annually to an inhabitant.
Only nine survivors of the war of 1872
can be found in New York city, but the
pensioned widows of that war in the UI-
ted States number $4,000.
The State of Texas set up in business
with a capital in reserved lands of 2o3, 0h,-
900 acres. 1t has been making land gran
SO lavishly that ther, is now a deficiency oi
over 100000 acres.
The British bark Napier, from Po.tl nd
Or. Nov. 18th, for Queenstown, has be n
damaged in series of gales. Part of her
cargo was iettisoned She will be obligsl
to repair and renew at Valparaiso.
A tribe occupying the region near the dia
| mond fields of South Africa, and which is
allied to Great Britain, has suffered the 'oss
of $50 men from an attack made by another
tribe which was led by Boer mercenaries.
Massachusetts,, with population of litt q
over /. 700, 600, by the State Assessors r =
port for 1881, just issued, shows a wealth OF
| over 81 900, 0O0, ,0o9. an average Of near
| 81 900 for each inhabitant, which s,istainsf
the reputation of the Bay State for thrift.
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| The Falls, City says: The first
skating OF the season in this part
of the country was INDUCED in att