Connecticut western news., 1885-01-14
A YEARS WORK.
Interesting Statistics from All Points for
 the Year 1884.

The shipments of petroleum from Philadel- phia in 1884 were 119, ,268, ,919 gallons. Philadelphia shipped 5,200, 125 bushels of wheat and 3, 26S, 769 bushels of corn last year.
 The Minneapolis lumber cut foi the past season was the heaviest on rec 'd-about 3I5,0O0, ,O00.
 During the centennial year the fire loss was only $64 680, 600, but it exceeded $1U0, ,0O0,010 in 1883 and was not less than that amount in 1884.
 The railway mileage of the United States in- creased only about 4,c00 miles during 1884, making the total, in round numbers, l2b, 500 miles.
 The number of feet of logs scaled the st year in Minnesota was 2S7 ,000, 900; total manu- facture, 169,0C0,000, leaving 118,0OO,OvO in oooms.
 At Buffalo the total receipts of grain for 1884 reached 70, ,0G0,00O bushels. The heaviest re- eipts on record were in 1880, when III, 799,- coo bushels were delivered.
 Over 8,00O,000 headi of stock were received u the Chicago stock yards in 1884. or these ',500,00 hI ad were shipped East alive. The value of the stock was -$1S7 ,387,6SO.
 In 1884, in all parts. of the country, 1855 legal executions took place.
 During the last year 180 persons were Iynched in the United States and Territories.
 During 1884 the imports of dry goods into the port of New York amounted to $1l3,- 9O6, ,176.
 The Commissioners of New York city cared for 5,463 widows, orphans, foundlings and destitute persons during 1884.
 In the New York City Charitable Hospitals 29, ,920 patients were receive in 1884. Of these 27969 were discharged; 3,678 died, and SITS were there Jan. 1st, 1885.
 The earnings of New York State prisons in 1884 were S4 l, 59.19-the expenses, $390,- 501 .22. Surplus, $10,657.97 Shipments from Montreal to Europe for the year 1884 were IS, 139 beeves, 62, 9S5 sheep, 75 pigs and about 16, SOD quarters of beef. Boston shipped to foreign ports in 1884 the following: 67,5A beeves, l9,270 sheep, 105,63 beef quarters and 3, 482 carcasses of mutton. The annual review of trade in Chicago shows an aggregate of S933, 1000, ,OOO for 1884, against | S1,0 O,0O0,000 for 1883, decline of Il per | cent.
 The total debt of the State of New York WAS reduced to $4. 399, ,0l8.02 in 1884. The tax rate will raise on the present State valuation of 3,0l4, 591 372 the sum of $7, ,762, STATS for the needs of government. | During his term of office Gov. Cleveland, of | New York, received 963 applications for par dons Of these 79 were granted, 491 were denied, 47 communications, and 1 respite were granted, le wing 345 cases to be passed with out prejudice to Gov. Hill.
 From all the United States and Canadian | ports in 1884 there were shipped to Europe 1892 live cattle, s6, 439 live sheep, 5S9, ,09l quarters of beef, 61, ,287 carcasses of mutton and | I269 pigs (alive aud dressed), equal to about 240, 969, 40O pounds of beef, 10, ,340, 330 pounds of mutton and 150, 2S0 pounds of fresh pork.
 Indiana had State debt of B4, 876, sos at the end of 1884
 Of the SAP suicides in this country in 1884, but 155 were women.
 Receivers received in 1884 thirty seven rail- roads; mileage, 11,O00; total bonds and stock, $1,714 755,GOO.
 Cleveland. Ohio, has 147 manufacturing es- tablishments. Iu 1884 they employed l4,037 hands and turned out goods valued at $2l, ,547 ,000
 In the last year 1865 new enterprises were established in the II Southern States, with an aggregate capital reaching the enormous sum oi $l05, ,269, 800.
 The Rdil,ody Age says that eighteen roads were sold under foreclosure in 1884, embracing 710 miles, with the total stock and debt oi $23, ,504, ,000, not including floating debt.
 In nine years 306 railroads, embracing 26, 900 miles, or one-iifth of the untry's total mileage, with bonds and stocks amounting tC $l, 500, ,000 GOO, have been sold at foreclosure The debt of the State of Mai e at the close of 1884 was S6, ,399, 720. The net debt of the State was reduced T267,27 during the year The savings bank deposits at the close of thu ? year were $32 913, 835. , The public debt uf the State of Massachu F setts, January l. 1885, was $31 432, ,6S0 90 3 being S4 900 less than year ago, while thu \ amount of $17, ,731 ,7z4 in the sinking fund i
 an incr, ase during the year of S999, ,055 Th
 depositors in the eayin;,s banks number 826,
 OOS, an increase If 19,999. The total deposit
 is $262, ,720, 146.97. an increase of $1I, ,296.
 23O. 53 The State militia consists of 336 off
 cers and 4.486 enlisted men.