The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-02-08

! The Auburn and Canadian syndicates, which
| have recently made large purchases of lands in
/ the salt region ut Warsaw IN. " and near
| there are now making arrangements to build
/ thirty large blocks. to be in operation by Sep
/ TENDER ], with production of several thousand
! barrels daily. Gen. II. Smith. of Haverstraw, is
$50 building additional blocks at his wells in
| Wyoming: also a large refinery. A soda man
! ufactory j. TO be erected at Warsaw. The eX-
| element in the fields increases daily.
! The consumption mot manufacturer Of dis
titled spirits during the years 1S1S 1919, 1850,
! ISL and lS-2 was respectively 81 l11.9S2. o.
| 27S, 40, G3,526,694, 70,607, 0Sl and 13,556O36
! gallons. For the same years the consumption
of native and foreign wines was 19,Sl2615, 2l,-
| 532 0l5, 2f,4SI42S, 24,231, 106 and 25,62S07l
gallons. and that of malt liquors 310,6532 33,
3i5,076,11S, 4l4,17I $50, I4S06,313 and 3d.
05l,236 gallons. -
If we suppose that the populations of the
United States and of the various countries of
Europe are decimated by no wars or eXceptional
maladies, and still preserve their present from
tiers and 90 on increasing at the present rate
of increase, their numbers will by the year
1882. be as follows: United States, 190,000000;
Russia, 15S000,000; Germany, S5,000000; Great
Britain, $4,000, 900; Austria Hungary, H,O00,
600, and Italy, 100000.
A statement is published, as coming from
pIOlulBtui IdllIbsti man, tldU MI diuclbliGo
special train to San Francisco VIII be run on
new fast schedule, and that before next sum
mer a passenger express will run regularly
from New York to San Francisco, with a re-
duCtion from the present time of from thirty
TO thrtySiX hours.
The Union iron and steel works at Chicago
were closed last Friday. Two thousand men
are thrown out of employment. Judgments
have been entered up against the company
amounting to $1,066, 500. Judgments amount
ing 10 $S50,000 are in favor of Amasa Stone of
Cleveland.
The committee on agriculture Of the Massa-
chusettS Legislature has under consideration
the offering of bounty for the destruction of
the English sparrow. 1t is asserted that nearly
half of last years apple crop i'll Massachusetts
was destroyed by sparrows.
The Florida Legislature has accepted the in
vitation Of the New England Manufacturers
and Mechanics Institute to send represent
atvcs of the State to the Boston fair in Sep
tember 1854, and has appropriated $1,000 TO
that end.
The shoe-shops of the Goodyear Metallic
Rubber Company and the Goodyear India
Rubber Glove Company in Naugatuck, Mass,
to be shut down Indefinitely February 10,
throwing out nearly 1,500 hands.
The exports of petroleum from Philadelphia
have declined from over 100000 barrels in
1881 to 100000 barrels in 1882, while in the
same time the exports from New York have
increased 100000 barrels.
At the annual meeting of the Philadelphia
Association of Textile Fabrics it was stated
that $50 900 had been subscribed towards the
founding of a school for instruction in the tex
tile arts, but this sum is not deemed sufficient
American furniture is coming into use in
Scotland ''bnnonca iS ri bto nd
easily kept clean," says Consul Wells, of
Glasgow
Brddstreefs Journal reports 276 failures in the
United States the past week, l3 less than in the
preceding. week.
The decrease of the national debt during
the month of January was $l3,500000.