Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-09

tnat lne bSst pied between fniaQeipnld
aud points up the river (Bsrlingsan, B9stol
etc. IN 1zsS and l790; bat the Wilmington
voyage is nofso well knoxn." "A
rather expensive one. Prom london 70
Holyhead the London add Northwestern
railway charge for the use of the s.limited
mAip train e40, 1000 year, and from Holy
head to Dublin, about sixty miles, the City
of Dublin Steam Packet Company thinks il
n! not excessive - charge f sao1,ysar iot
The extra expense to which -thsy are
while, while il a is $50 : sda $Iitsstisx ofisn:
times to the herchants, is not a very profit
able businsssto the farmer. Because a man
happens to have credit Is no reason why he
should resort to profgacy and sxtrAyagahce.
That eztfa expense otehk to BE very beheE
fcially applied to. the Lands that have been
absolutely worn out by continuously culti-
vsting them with cotsou.i1n l.
H. THE total number of farms in 1880 was
zoos, 907. OF these 2,20S ,374 were under
100 acres; 1856, 1888 oyer 100 ,and HpdsE,500,
scres; IS 972 over 500 and under 1000 acres,
and Is. 57S, loco acres sid6vsr Geotgfsh has
so2 farms OF 1000 aerss and syss; Alabama,
696; Virginia, 64f;A Sonlh Csrolina, ASP;
Mississippi, 4S1; Louisiana, 81; North
Oarolius, 3l1; California;, 262; Illinois, IVA;
New York, 81. The acreage in farms was
$780, sLSS5 thsyalae Of which vas sf0ae7s-l
menis and aaehinsfy s466, 52o,b55.
THE statistics of occupations show 4Sl2
actors; 9104 artists; 113l authors; A, SOL bar
oers; 64.69S clergyman; 1884 dentists;
1,075 655 domestic servants; ,30S ioprpal,.
lists; 64.13T 'lswy ers;si sc, AT musicians; 49,,
GIL physicians and surgeons,, 227 2 10 teico-l
ers and scientists; ,2S,l 58 commercial
travellers; 5ll3 undertakes; III, 726 black.
smiths; 1913, l43 carpenters and joiners;
milliners, dressmakers and seamstresses;
Ia, 556v painters aid vaxnisters; l9, 1888
plumbers and gas.6tters; % 1875 rrintery,
photographers and etefeotypers; 22g6 rag
pickers, and 1896 itsilors.
IbnTHE compendium Of the census of 1880
shows that three years ago the number of
1I46. OF the, roads owned BY these otgsn-
izitious 81 ,S9l miles were com Melted, o.el6
were being built, anu the construction of
/ Al 020 miles was contemplated. The cost of
constructing the different roads was 81, IT,
| 367, 176; coat of equipment, s4lS,045, 45S;
total permanent Investments, Ssh 81 445; S07 ;
icapi. al stock paid ip, S2,61S, s06, 264; fund.
l ed debt, s. 800, 915 ,402; unfunded debt $42l
| 200. 1894? total cspita 7psid and borrowed,
S., 425, as, $50; total income, 1851 ,2s5 391
Iatotal expenditures, SAL $50, 795; met income
q profit, sll9 s44 5s6; dividends declared
II NJ ~ v.-.-adi tia aIYKp sis ~ %
| The city Of Portland, Ot., which ten ye ars
ago had a population Of less than 1900,
| las to-day nearly three times that number
! Washington Territory is also advancing with
strides. Thirty years ago Puget Sound'i
first ssw-milI was built To-day there are
numerous towns in which Understanding il
/ the main industry. 10 1881, 175,000, 00l
cpbitl feet of lumber were exported. The
aniount sawed in 1882 lis estimated at ovei
0.O0o, 900 feet. The amills are nearly all
1igAted BY electricity. and Are the ycens
of Industry have arisen out q the abundsnc
I Of tim Der, including 7ucooperage and slip
building. a. Among recent settlers D in ithil
! favored region are some Of the Rpssian.Jey
ish immigrants, and reports received from
their isettlemente give good ground Tor be.
iieving ina successful issue totheir sstiehl
tural experiments . IA ,,roi4 s'enoIsA
The Augusta mills, az Aug6sts, q a., lsSaSy
the 7Enes,D emeeraf, h - paid eat dariugEth'
I last seventeen years an aYersgs of fourtesr
and one. half per cent, in dividends. besides
laying sside a surplus Of, sS50, 900. Th,
Langley Mill, of the same city, has Tor, sey
ersl years paid from fifteen TO twenty pc.
tcent, andiIaid aside $206D00, while othel
city mills make an equally fayorable show
/ jug. The5 Wesson Mills, of Mississippi
have paid twentyasix per cent, and Pa
lski, Tenn mill actually divided fHy pei
cent. last year among its stocFholders Mr.
4 Russell, ioti Massa chusettp, recently showet
in Congress- that the New sEugland mill
have maid an average dividend Of seven pei
cent during the past Eve yesrs Fifty mil
lion dollars invested in them, therefore, viii
retera the investors only Sl7,50Q060 III fiv,
years, whereas the same amount Invested IL
the South willPay between $4,000, 900 snt