The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1884-05-23
NEWS N BRIEF.

are the same signs OF decay and decline
as may be observed in the hillside
towns Of New England. There are
hundreds Of thousands of facres Of pretty
good farming lands which can DO hired
at So per acre.
A year ago steel rails sold at $40 .
ton at present, prices are $33 per ton.
During the past winter large pro-
portion of young pigs in Kansas were
lost, the cause being attributed 10 the
extreme cold. Soft corn has universal.
ly bsen reported as giving poor pigs.
Last year there were 1917 murders in
the United States, ninety-three legal
executions and lls men were lynchcd
The great mass Of the people of
Mexico are Indians. The ruling class
es are mainly Spanish.
Italy has 4,s00,00O lemon trees
which produce 100000, 900 lemons
per annnm.
Great Britain has 10000 acres In
apple orchards.
The Liebig factory at Fray Bentos.
South America, makes one pound beef
extract from thirty y-four pounds Of
meat
About $4,000 trout and 1000 sal
mon were put into a Hartford. CT,
reservoir soms years ago. When the
water was drawn off recently few trout
and no salmon were found but there
were thirty large. fat eels that had
probably livod on trout until they
were tired Of the diet.
In the town Of York, Me-, is birch
tree only about forty feet high, two
rods of which have been ablo to life
some twelve inches block Of granite
computed TO weigh twenty tons. Tho
tree is still growing. and tho rock con-
tinues to be raised and pushed side
wise at the rate of nearly an inch a
year.
Oysters are worth eighty-6ve cents
a dozen in England.
An autopsy upon a valuable horse at
Bridgeport, CT, showed that death had
been caused by pieces Of zinc which he
bad gnawei from tho lining Of the
manger and swallowed.
The authorities OF France and Spain
have signel a convention for laying a
cable from the Canary Islands TO Ssne-
gal.
The total number of separate farms
in the United States is 1000. 900. val
ued at go, 600, ,000, 600
A hack driver in Washington was
fined go for running ever lady.
4 Chinsman is susing for divorce in
the New York courts. His wits, a
young English girl b whom he was
married in Eagland, has dossrtel him
for another Chinaman.
Las. year over $4,000 crossed the
Atlantic to Europe.
A general exodus Of Gsn;iles from
Utah il contemplated ualess Congress
takes steps for their immediate relief.
New JERSEY railroads own one.tourth
of the taxable property in the State, and
pay one-twelfth of the taxes.
Before the Jeaunette investigation
committee Chief Engineer Melville ad-
mitted that certain of the officers had
decided to take poison in the event Of
the expedition being brought face to
face with cannibalism.
One thousand pounds of strictly
"gilt-edge' butter arc sold evary week
in the Boston market ut from sixty to
eighty cents per pound. New York
takes from 5000 to 1000 pounds at the
same price, and in both cities the de-
msnd is not equalled by the supply.
Four hundred and seventy thousand
dollars worth of eggs were imported
from Canada in three months of 1888.
1t cost 500, ,22G per mile to build the
Pacific railroads. The New Mexico
Central has been built at cost of $24-
900 per miie. The latter was fully az
difficult to construct and as expensive
Stanley, the African explorer, is on
his way back to Europe.
The United States raise nearly half
Of the number of hog. produced in the
world. Iowa takes the lead, with 5,
107,445.
The liability of the American pso-
pie for the public debt is $2S.4o per
capita at the end of the war it was
$7S.25 the interest liability is ninety
five cents, as against $4.29 In 1860.
A city of mummies, 6000 in number,
has been discovered at Ekhmim, Egypt.
It is reported that English capitalists
will build the Tehuantepec Ship Rail
way. 1t will be l30 miles, and cost all
the way from $50, ,ooo,O to $75, ,oOo,.
900. Five years iE the time for eom'
pleting the work.
| Old tomato cans sell for fifteen cents
hundred in Newark, n. j., where
they are put into furnace and rolled
! ~ +o ha uoad hv trnnk makers.