The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1883-06-29

Large iron companies have reduce'l
the prices for f,onlry zig iron from s92
TO $40 per ton.
The Waabington & Moen Manufac.
turing Csmpany's monopoly in harbetl
wire has been broken down by United
States Circuit Court decision at 50.
Lonis last Monday. Nearly 10000
tons Of harbed wire, or length Of 5D0,.
000 miles, were manufactured in the
United States In 1892.
Fifty Texss Legislators have been In.
'lieied for gambling
The Hst funded debt Of New York
City is sos, ,2l6,63J.
| The Boston 4 Albany and Fitch.
burg railtoads after July lat will not
receive any single piece &c baggage
weighing over $50 pounds Cor transpor.
tation in baggage ears
/. is reported that owing In the
atoppaes by the GovsrnmeIt of the
importation nf ,dnltersted teas there ID
an advance Uf from i've to eight cents
per pound on the better grades, an l
that fine coffoes aTe three cents per
pound higher than last Sumner pt this
time.
Wooden mills established ia New
Zealand have proved highly successful,
and already consumed over 5000 bale.
. year. The most important are with
in ten miles of Dunedin, the capital Of
otago province. Much Of the machin.
cry employed is American.
All great men appear 70 have . weak
ness for fish. Prince Bismarck Is an
euthusiaatic fish farmer, aud he makes
great deal OF money out Of his hatch
aries.
The natives of northern India have
! foand light woollen clothing In be Ear
more healthy aud comfortable than the
cotton which has been worn from time
immemorial. In consequence, the
manufacture Of light, cheap woollen
goods has greatly increased there.
One letter out Of every 900 sent ID
unclaimed In the Office TO which IL goes.
One letter in 2s3 sent turns mp at the
dead letter ottice. oas letter out OF
300 sent il beld Cor postage at the
oaice of mailing, and this amounts 20
nearly 100000.
Wheat growing 10 central India
ssems TO be .lowly suPplantiag the cul-
tare Of cotton, tho production Of which
h.s sensibly diminished.
The spread OF the opium habit in
this country fills the melical tacnliy y
and social economist with alarm. The
arrival Of 96G cases Of the drug at Sar
Francisco, paying daty al nearly
S23s, 900, would appear to indicate
that the evil Is strsdily on the increase.
The 6est general censns ever taken
in ladia, which has inst hesn compls'-
sl, shows a population &c 2J3, ,s9l.sl0,
or nearly i've times that Of the United
States. The numt,@r of males exceeds
that Of females by 5000 900.
| OF The 81 500, 900 worth of hosiery
t5at annually cpmes into the United
sta.es si,500.000 comes frlm Ger.
many.
Tie Anglo. American Packing Com
pany EMPLOYS several thousand men i,
its Chicago and Kansas City packin,
houses, and kin about 1000. 900 hogs 4
year.
Itis marvellous bow sheep and woo
growing have increased in this country
within the past fifteen or twenty years
In 1880 there we're only about $4,000,
900 sheep in the United States. w,
now have nearly $4,000, 900. In 1861
the wosl clip amounted to only co.
0G0, 600 pounds to-day IL IL nearl,
800, 600, 900 pounds--an increase with
in this period Of over twofold OF sheer
and dvefold in the production Of wool
giving unmistaksble evidence of on
advance in this industry
i A factory in Maine uses up in
year 1000 cords of poplar and birch il
in The manufacture Of toothpioks.
! A St. Augustine (Fla.,) newspape
notes the appearance in the town o
rutahagos two and a halffeet in circum
ference and Marechal Mel roses fon
inches in diameter.
The restless stream has worn ava,
the once famous '1sland No. TO-,
which in Mar times held SO important
place in the strategic calculations o
generals operating on and abont th
mississippi.
u The best recorded time in pigsoI
matches, this season, was made fe'
weeks ago by the CIevelsnd pigeons :
1897 and 1893 yards minute.
Reports from Lynchburg, Ys., stat
that the drought in that section has re
suited in incalculable damage, and in
!. formation from the southwest repre-
sents an alarming state OF alfAirl