The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-02-15
FACTS AND FIGURES.

"A block of buildings in Phila 'elphia
IS insured for $27, 800, 600, or at the rate
OF 70, zoo, 900 per acre.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
| pany runs go trains day through
| Newark, and 90. 600 pedestrians aud
| 8, 200 wagons cross the tracks in that
time.
in the Massachusetts Legislature
| there are 36 lawyers, p farmers, Is
| manufacturers, II merchants, l l real
estate agents, 8 grOcers, 6 boot and shoe
manufac Urers, Is physicians clerks,
| . builders, editors, 3 shOe-makers and
stable keepers.
The West Shore Railroad Company
have paid S564. Z62 Al for property in
! Syracuse, N. Y, and for damages to
adjacent property, Sl25, 900. The larg-
est fill on the line OF the road is in that
city, and the total cost of getting
through the three miles OF the city
limits is estimated at 1850, 262. Il.
Last year s39, 167 acres of Govern
! ment land We're sod in Alabama. Ar
kansas, Florida, Louisiana and Missis-
81 pi-the only Southern States where
there is Government land. The amount
received was 81 2gn, 900. OF the land
sod $40, 03Z. 26 acres are in ! ouisiana-
In 1877, the year of the discovery OF
carbOnates in Lake County, Colorado.
the output of the mines IF that State
was in round numbers s 900, coo, in
1873 it was $40 900, 900, in 1879 So
900, 600, in 1880 $22, 100, $50 in 1881
20 ,0J0, 600 and in 1882 about So, ,5OO,-
600
There were fewer railroads sold
under foreclosure in 1882 than for many
years in the past. Only sixteen. hav ng
mileage Of S67 miles and a capital
stock o. s g, ,Z6 900, and bonded and
other debts of like amount were sold
out last ear Fewer roads are being
built at pubic expense than formerly
N T. SuH.
The new city hall at Philadelphia is
the largest public building in America,
covering an area larger than that o. the
federal capitol bv 63, $50 super cial feet
1t is built of marble, has absorbed over
$4,000 900 bricks besides, and has thus
far cost but SS, 500. go, or 81, 500, 900
less than the un II sized capitol at AL
bany, n. -PEtIadeLphta Becord.
The work of the French postal SER
vice has been augmented in a striking
degree during the last four years. The
following figures are taken from the last
returns. The total transmissons in
creased from sos, 900, 600 in 1877 to
l, $50, 900, 900 in 1881; letters went from
374. 000,O9 to 563, 900, OOJ, and news
papers from 2l9, 900, 900 to 354, 900, OGO.
Postal cards, however, are becoming
less popular in France. There are now
6, 487 post-oflices open.
The City Government of New York
costs the people S23. 80 n head yearly,
dollar more than last year. Ct the
1881 persons in it's employ at q cost of
81, 81, ,Ol3.71 annually, the Mayor gets
so, 900. the Comptroller $40, 0OJ, the
corporation counsel $12, 900; but the
fattest pickings fall to the Sheriff who
gets S7A. 600, and the county clerk and
the register who get 500, 900 yearly,
each N T. Graphic.
In introducing his bill to prevent
the further sale of Adirondack lands by
the State of New York, Senator Ian
sing said that the number of acres now
held by the State in the counties to be
covered by the bill was as follows Clin- |
ton County, ,35, COG; Essex County, |
173,16l; Franklin County, 16$, o8l; |
Fulton County, Is. 428 Hamilton |
County. 100 01O; Herkimer County, |
Il, 1872; Lewis County, ;, 164; Montgom- |
cry County, 16: Saratoga County, 10,
430; St. Lawrence County, 42,O64; |
Warren County. u, 607; Washington
County, 737. Total, COS, 236. N. y.
Times.