The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-03-01
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FACTS AND FIGURES.


Boston employs abo 20, 600 work
ing women and the average pay Of each
is 81 n week. Board rarely costs these
women less than So. 30 week.
In 1882 Miunesota's wheat yield
was -, ,577, ,Q67 bushels. from 2,52l,2
acres being an average of twelve bush
els per acre. I his is n better yield by
third of bushel than in 1881 CHI
cdgO journal.
1t is stated in Montreal that $50
bodies are stolen from grave yards in
the vicinity of the city each winter and
| taken either to the medical colleges in
that city or are shipped to the United
States for medical colleges.
In the United States during 1882
there was manu- a1tured l,62|, ,a2j tons
OF ig-iuon, and at the close of the year
3S9, 600 tons remained unsold The
wears product exceeded by 100, 900
tons the greatest of any one year.
Tho British possessions in Austria
| liza cover 80 5,C0l square miles. The
population, white and colorcd, numbers
| 2,835, 954. by far the greater part beng
concentrated in few cities. The debt
of the co,onies is nearly 500, 100000,
The statistics Of the census show
that 35, 600 persons in New ork earn
thier living by working between sun
down and sunrise. Those engaged ou
morning newspapers from consldcra-
| bic percentage of the whole.-A. J.
| Herald.
The cigar industries of York and
! | ancaster Counties, Pennsylvania, is
something rema kable ancestor
County manufacturers produce %. OOO,-
| GOO and York 12O, 900. 900 cgar an
nuallv. The revenue from cigars alone
in these two counties amounts to about
/ 81, 800, 600 ann ally.
With 10. 900 square miles OF almost
unbroken forests, it is est mated that IN
ten years the timber in North Carol ms
VIII exceed in value the present total
valuati Of all the pro. crty and land
in that State. This region will be rapidly
opened to the NOrthe and Eastern
! lumber markets when new railroads are
constructed.
During the year Of 1882 the Chi
cago d Northwestern Railroad trans
ported %, Gas emigrants to Central
| Dakota. Emigrant moveables to the
amount of SO, $40 tons passed over tho
line for Central Dakota. Estimating
the number of emigrants per car ut
foctv, the Northwestern carried 7l9 car
loads of emigrants m average OF about
two carloads per day.
The number of works in the United
States engaged in the manufacture of
cut nails, spikes and acks is g, employ
inc altogether (, 323 machines, and the
works are divided among = States, AS
| follows Maine / establishments Mas
sachusetts, Il; New York, = New
Jersey, 2; Pennsylvania, Z8; Virginia
4; West Virgin II, Is; Kentucky, l.
| Tennessee, 2; Ohio, Q; indiana, A
Illinois, T. Nebra ska, ]; COLORADO, /.
Accord ny to a census bulletin,
more than b, 0OJ, 600 of our people,
say three -ffths of our whole popula-
ton, still use wood for domestic fuel,
consuming annually over 10000, 90
cords. valued at S3O7, COO 600 and
nearly 1000, 900 cords moro are al
sorbed by railroads, steam boats and
factories, making the aggregate Yalue
OF the wood burned mp per amman
nearly 1922 600, 900 Wood is stated 10
be practically the only fuel used in the
Southern States Except of course, ~
their larger cities), and also in Michi-
gan, Wisconsin, considerable portions
of several other States, and on the
whole Pacific coast ChicagO Times.