Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1884-07-02
FACTS AND FIGURES.

1t takes 9.OOO,OOO postal caruS 10
weigh one TOM T. Times.
Railroads in the United States have
made more money this year than they
did in 1852 Chicago Iribane
Out of population of 100000 in
New York City, only 61,052 persons
own real estate. ~ T. Iribuae.
In his report to the Secretary of the
Interior, Governor Tritle, OF Arizona,
claims for the Territory population OF
$4,000.
Texas organized sixty-eight new
counties last year, making 200 in the
State. The increase of her taxable
property in the year was $3.50, 100000.
Chicago Herald.
New York City has S30,000,0O0 in
vested in the oyster business, and last
year ate at home 100000 bushels of
the toothless fish. A Washington Mar
ket woman is getting rich selling 900
bowls of soup day at ton cents bowl.
N y. San.
The Surveyor of Customs at Green
port, L. L., reports that 81 $50, 900 men
haden were caught in the waters about
Long Island during the past three
months. The value of the fish was
100000 The fish made 274,650 bar
rels of oil. Brooklyn Eagle.
1t is unusual for Southern planter
to make $500, 900 by farming. MIR. L..
Nj. Hill, of Wilkes County, Ca, has re-
Gently died. He made 100000 by
farming, In the same county General
Toombs and his brother Gabriel arc
each worth S500,000, nearly all of
which has been made by farming
Louisville Couricr-Jowrndt.
When Horace Greeley visited Utah,
the saints told him that there were
more girls than boys in Mormondom,
which they argued was sign of God 5
approval of polygamy. The latest sta
tistics, however, show that of the births
in the church during the last six months
1,200 were male and LOO female
Moreover, the last census shows that
there were then in the Territory q, 93.
males under ten years of age and %, 76:
females. = Chicago Times.
Ono of the finest coffee estates in
Mexico is said to be that of San Anto
MO, northward from the city of Colima
the property of Messrs. Adolf Kefe
Arnold Vogcl, Enrique Stoldt, and
Arthur l'Arivcl. There are 500 trees
in fruit, which will produce abundantly
this year, $4,000 which will produce
their first crop, $4,000 planted in the
current year, after having been in the
nursery three years, and from 10000
to 100000 trees in the nurseries, max
ing total of $4,000 plants, of whicl
10000 are in bearing.
The great bulk of the horse-hail
used in the United States is imported
from the Argentine Republic anC
Uruguay The total amount imported
in 1882 was 4,0S2,00 pounds. In The
previous year the importation was 8,
643,972 pounds, and in 1880 nearly T.,
| 900, 900 pounds. Assuming an average
price of 2S cents per pound the amount
imported last year would reach n tota
| value of about 81, 10000. The bulk o.
this horse-hair is manufactured by fou
or five concerns, one of which is il
| Boston, one in New York, one in Phila
delphia and one in Baltimore.-N Y
! Herald
A leaxale has been organized il
New En- $hnd to inauguratc q wa
against the excessive granting of divorce
DEGREES. During last year 5S7 divorce
were granted in Maine-an increase o
nearly 30 per cent. in twenty years
New Hampshire divorces have increased
! from 107 in 1860 to 3l4 in 1882; Massa
! chusctts divorces from 243 to 600 in Tn
same length of time; Connecticut iii
vorces from If in 1919 to 445 in 1880
Rhode Island divorces from 162 in SO
to 261 in 1882. The New York court
granted 2lS divorces in 1880, 253 il
1881, 316 in 1882, and this year TN
number promises to swell TO 400.-BoS
| ton Post.