The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-02-08
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Alabama has 1, 9l9 miles of railroad.
and the railroads furnish eleven per
cent. of al the taxable property in the
state.
Brevarl County, Fla. is the largest
)f the 2,o59 counties in the United
States. II has an area of over 5000
square miles.
The first appearance of cotton as
IN article of commerce was shipment
Of seven bales from CharlestoWn in 1901.
In l6S0-Sl the crop was 6, 600, 600 bales.
The stock-raisers of California esti-
mate the aggregate value OF their focks
and herds at $50, 900, OOO The number
of horned cattle is estimated at 2,2j0,-
DOO.
The finest plantation in Alabama
he Oswichee Bend place -ot 4, 900 acres.
was sold the other Gay 10 Mr.. Hatcher.
Of Columbus for $50, 200. This is less
han eight dollars an acre. and Mr..
Hatcher was offered $40, 900 advance on
his purchase the week after he made it.
In North Georgia lands command readily
from Sl5 to 500 an acre along the rail
roads. The average value of lands in
Georgia, as returned for taxes, is 81. IL
an acre Chicago Times.
According to comprehensive sta
tistical return lately published in Ger
many, there are IN Europe niuCty-tWO
cities with more than 100 600 iuhabit-
ants, out of which four capitals show
each over a million popu alton, as fol-
lows London. ,, S32, l4O; Paris, 2. 225,-
80; Berlin, 122, 5OO Vienna, ]. 1O3, 10
Out of the nnety-two cities and towns
referred TO, England laims 26, Germany
l6, Italy II, france 10, and Russia <.
The others are divided among the
smaller States. There were in the Unit
Cd States in 1880 twenty cites having
each 1O), 900 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
l,SOO miles of road, standing second in
the list of States in the matter of rail
way facil ties. The only State which
claims to have more miles of road than
our own is Massachusetts. New JCrsCy
has n arly n mile o. track for every four
square miles of area, which is considered
the maximum. The total capital in
vested in railroad property in this state
is S214, O6S, 349. The cost of railroads
and their III pments has been SIS,
3j5.'
The industrial census of Philadcl-
phia. as taken by the Police Department
under the direction of orin Blodgett.
is substantially complete, and the re-
turns are so fully compiled rs TO show
large increase rs compared with the
census OF 1880. From the figures al
ready compiled over 10000 establish
mcn,s are shown, with 222, co. opera
tives. showing IN increase of 1000
establishments and of 10000 persons
employed, and it is believed that the
entire completion of the revision will
show L, 900 establishments, with 2lC,-
600 persons employed. -R R5uaicLphi"
Press.
Various signs of the unsat sla"tory
state of II IS an finances are constantly
apI caring in the st. J ctcrsburg press.
Although the gene al IA cs collected in
1881 exceeded those of the present ye T
by 3,87I,4GS rubles, nevertheless the
general amount of arrears in 1881 was
very largely increased. For 1881 they
were Gale lated at -, 263, 60 rublcs, and
for the year lSS2 these figures rose
to 80, 547. 7O7 rubies, or 1881, O1S rublcs
more, independently Of 1913, 32l ru' les
of arrears excluded from the general
sum on account Of rregu arites and of
the hopelcssness of any attempt at get
ting them paid.