Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-28
FACTS AND FIGURES.


ObiN's
There are so, 1876 postoiliccs in the
United States.
Mail locks and keys cost Uncle Sam
S25,OOO ayear,
Onc-sevcnth of the population of
Kentucky is colored.
In the thirty-eight states there are
l,S1l,2l7 illitcrate voters.
The pay roll of the government
amounts to $50, 600, ,S36.95.
To improve orr rivers and harborS
this year costs Sl2, ,0Sj, 200.
, In 1880 there were eighteen clerks
in the general land office. Now there
are 367.
1t costs Uncle Sam this year S., 4j6, e
3S93l to take care of "Lo,' the Door
Indian.
The postal service Of the United
States costs the government this year
SAG, 225, 900.
There are eight senator's and thir-
teen members of the house Kcntuck.
ians by birth.
Tom Ochiltree is the only NATIVE.
born Texan that has ever been sent TO
congress from that state.
BY the census of 1880 there were in
the United States 36, 7Gl, SOY persons
10 years of age and upward.
1t is estimated that the wool clip of
tl,is t,ril1 20 nln nnn nln
pounds, and be worth SSj, 900.
Pennsylvania has more postolliccs
(S,S46) than any other state in the
union. New York comes next, having
3,l3l.
James G. Fair is the wcplthicSt
United States senator He is an Irish
mar, and is said to be worth more
than $40,
The actual yearly expenditures of
all moneys for public schools in the
whole country is at this time just
about $50, 100000.
There will be expended this year
Sli6, 600 for the manufacture of adhc-
Sive postage and OF newspaper and
periodical stamps.
The president appoints 1928 post
masters. The Others are at small of
fees apd are appointed by the post
office department
According to the census Of 1880 we
had published in this country 10000
periodicals., and we had an army of
27j,0OO school teachers
John A. Logan and Isham G. Harris
are the Onl Y two United States scna-
tors who do not give their age in the
Congressional Directory.
Senator Morrill,, of Vermont, is the
oldest of the senators, being II, while
Senator Kenna, of West Virginia, is
the youngest, being but 3G.
Nearly thicc-fourths Of the illteralc
voters ofthe country are in the sixteen
southern states. The same states con-
tain about one. third the entire popula-
ton.
In 1880 there were 6,230, ,9jS persons
over 10 years Of age who could not
write, or seventeen persons in 100
Now there are 100000 who can not
write.
In 1889 there were ll,3i3,O0j white
males over 81, of whom SSG, $50, or rs
per cent could not write. Now there
are 100000 white adults who can not
write.
The supply Of postal cards this year
will cost the government S232, 900, and
ii will require 81, 300 to pay for their
distribution and the expenses of the
agency.
OF the 336 in the electoral college in
1876, 23i, or more than two-thirdS,
could have been controlled by voters
who were unable to read the ballots
they cast
There are nine establishments in the
United States producing $500 watches
day, one establishment alone turning
out watch minute for ten hours
each day.
In proportion to population, not
withstanding the great cities within
her borders, New York has only ont
voter who can not write TO five II
South Carolina.
In 1880 there were colorcd males
over 20 years Of age, l,lS7, 3ii, Of whom
1,022, ljl could not write, or 6S.7 pc,
cent. Now there are l,lj0,0OO Ol
more, all voters.
In the states of Alabama, Florida
Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nortl
Carolina and Virginia, there is over iO
per cent of illiterates of all classes
white and black.
OF the so, l55,7SS people of tn
United States, there are 6y230, 95S owe
10 years of age, l2.44 per cent, o
nearly one.eighth of our entire populo
ton, who can not write.
Estimating one voter to every liv
persons our voting population in 1888
was 10000, 600. BY the same rule tn
colorcd voters in the south numbere
1,219,S50, or more than one-ninth {
, all.
There are 1,272,2 20S white person
over 10 years of age in the twenty-tw
northern states that are rated as
= litcratcs, and 1854 blacks in I'll
, twenty-five northern states and eigl
territories.
= The production of cheese advance
from 103, 1927 pounds in 1860
2i3, l57, $50 in 1880. Including a lit
7 unenumerated, the actual prOductic
would be about 130,000,0O0 and SOC
900, 600 respectively.
!, The United States has 1885, mill
:. :. of telegraph lines completed, while Il
! whole world has only $4,000 miles.
q In 1880 fifty-eight of our sevcnty-s
senator's, and 292 of our 1926 represent
d tives, nearly nine-tenths, were in stat
It and districts where illiterate vote
q hold the balance of power.
Q In North Carolina, in 1880, iifty-fol
o days constituted the school year;
l. Tennessee, sixty eight days. In 4
state of Texas the school year W
J. scventy-threo days, and the scho
period only six years-from s to IA.
(, The immigration, chiefly of laborel
has risen from 1906 in 1860 to so
n 600 in 1880. The value of farms h
:; risen from 1920, 900, 900 to $40, ,00
a 900. The annual value of the produt
49, has risen from 81 100000 to :
- 600, 100000.
~ In 1880 there were 2,937, ,2S5 color
y :, persons in the United States over
u vears of aue. of whom. 9. l47 900 cot