Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-03-16
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Alabama has 1, e19 miles of railroad,
and the railroads furnish eleven per
cent. of all the taxable property in the
State.
-Brevard County. Fla, is the largest
OF the 2.559 counties in the United
States. 1t has IN area of over 5000
square miles.
The first appearance of cotton as
an article of commerce was shipment
of seven bales from Charlestown in 1857.
In 1SS0-S1 the crop was 6, 600, 0aa bales.
The stock-raisers of California esti-
mate the aggregate value of their fiocks
and herds at $50, 100000 The number
of horned cattle is estimated at 1885,
600.
The finest plantation in Alabama
the Oswichee Bend place-of 4, 600 acres,
was sold the other day to Mr.. Hatcher,
of Columbus. for $50, 200. This is less
than eight dollars an acre, and Mr..
Hatcher was offered sic, 600 advance on
his purchase the week after he made il
In North Georgia lands command readily
from So to $50 an acre along the rail-
roads. The average value OF lands in
Georgia, as returned for taxes. is IS. II
an acre.-ChtcGgo Times.
According TO comprehensive sta
tistical return lately published in Ger
many, there are in Europe ninety-two
cities with more than 100, 900 inhabit-
ants, out of which four capitals show
each over million population, as fol-
lows: London, 1882, 440; Paris, 2. 225,-
go; Berlin, l, 122, 500: Vienna, l, 10S, ITO.
Out of the ninety-two cities and towns
referred to, England claims 26. Germany
16, Italy II, France 10. and Russia s.
The others are divided among the
smaller States. There were in the Unit
ed States in 1850 twenty cites having
each 100, 600 inhabitants and upward.
The first annual report of the State
Commissioner of Railroad Taxation in
New jersey contains the following par
agraph: New Jersey has in all some
1880 miles of road. standing second in
the list of States in the matter of rail-
way facilities. The only State which
claims to have more miles of road than
our own is Massachusetts,. New Jersey
has nearly mile of track for every four
square miles of area, which is considered
the maximum. The total capital in
vested in railroad property in this State
10 TA1t.OOC, OtJ. nc COSO VI
and their equipments has been S16S, 61S,-
$780,"
The industrial census of Philadel-
phia, as taken by the Police Department
under the direction of Lorin Blodgett.
is substantially complete, and the re-
turns are so fully compiled as to show
a large increase as compared with the
census of 1880. From the figures al
ready compiled over 10000 establish
ments are shown, with 222, 652 opera
tives, showing an increase of 1000
establishments and of $4,000 persons
employed, and it is believed that the
entire completion of the revision will
show 1900 Establishments, with 24o,-
900 persons Employed. - Philadelphia
Press.
Various signs of the unsatisfactory
state of Russian finances are constantly
appearing in the St. Petersburg press.
Although the general taxes collected in
1881 exceeded those of the present year
by 1871, 1853 rubles, nevertheless the
general amount of arrears in 1881 was
very largely increased. For 1881 they
were calculated at 81, 263, 629 rubles, and
for the year 1882 these figures rose
to IS, 547, 707 ruhles, or 4, 284. 07S rubles
more, Independently of 1878, 321 rubles
of arrears excluded from the general
sum on account of Irregularities, and of
the hopelessness of any attempt at get
ting them paid.