New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-01-13
Failures IN Winnipeg have decreased
from 242 in 1889 ia. Sc in 1a85. Is. I.

Failures in Winnipeg hawe decpeased
from 242 in 1883 TO Sc in 1885.
During 1885 there were 2,475 alapms Of
fire and l,47l fires in New York City:
California last year produced s, 900, 900
gallons OF vine, valued at Sd ,ooo, 900.
The net indebtedness of Pittsburg has
been brought down to about ST. ,DOO,GO0
The cost OF 1, 843 buildings projected in
New York city during the year is S54 OOO,-
900.
The value OF Ireland crops is estimated
at SS,OOG,O0O more for 1885 than for
1884.
The cost OF the government OF the city
OF New York was, last year, $3S,124,-
654.6
The police of New York City arrested
during the year 74,372 persons, against
7O,243 in 1881.
Massachusetts, bill for caring for the in
sane during the past year was something
over 81 100000.
The Maine Baptists, number 9, IA, with
Gal churches, l49 clergymen and 19 the
illogical students.
The wholesale business in Detroitin 1885
amounted to SOB 800, 900, an increase Of
$3l 299, 600 over 1884.
One man in New Jersey, during the peach
season, averages $4,000 a week receipts
on shipments OF the fruit.
Colorado's mineral output in 1885 was
S22,5O0,OOO, OF which $13 100000 was
silver and SIS, 600, 900, gold.
The value OF Pittsburg property for tax
able purposes at the close OF 1855 was
$121, 174,7 ia The tax rate is Ii mills.
There were 1900 fires in New York city
in 1885, and the total loss So, 500, 900, as
against 2,4OG fires with total loss of
$3,474, 547 in 1854.
Argentine Republic statistics for the past
year show that the country has foreign
trade OF $40, 900, 900. and a. domestic
traffic Of $3.50 100000.
The New York Dry Goods Chronicle says
there are over 5000, 900, 600 invested in
the drysoods business in that city as
against $14,OoO.O0O in, Chicago.
During 1885 the Milwaukee fire depart.
ment responded to 347 alarms, the total
loss sustained at the fires being $780,
639. upon which there was an insurance, OF
81 ,919, $50.
The ship building interests OF Maine have
been in q depressed condition the last
year, the amount OF net tonnage havingde-
creased from 46,40l 81 in 1854 to23,-
Report OF building improvements at La
Crosse for 1885. prepared by the secretary
OF the board of trade, shows an aggregate
OF $779, 115, :en increase over the previous
year OF over 500, ONo.
During 1885 there arrived at Boston
from all ports II, 473 vessels against H.
total clearancse for aH ports were 4,122,
against l49'o42 in 1854, and 1851 Ii
1888
During 1885 the 6s5 manufacturing es-
Establishments Of Richmond, Va, employed
1920 hands and a capital Of $ 10, 1852 $50
The sales OF their products amounted to.
1880 54, an increase over the preced-
ing year OF $252,5s7. q
South Carolina is justly to be congratu-
lated over the fact that during the past five
yvars there has been an increase OF $685.
142, S65 in the value OF her real and per-
sonal property, decrease OF half million
dollars in her public debt, and an increase
of $40, 49, 1913, in the value OF the pro-
auctions OF the state and Of agricultural
machinery.
Col. c. B. Lamborn, land commissioner
OF the Northern Pacific, reports sales Of
land made by his department during the
month Of December sof 20, 1S9 acres for
500, 1913, against 20, 376 acres sold during
December, 1884. The total sales for the
six months ending Dec. 81 were 225, 1872
acres for SS70,5 $40, against 1894 acres
for $791, 484 SOLD during the corresponding
time OF the year before.
1.-THE close OF the fiscal year, ending j une
80, 1885, POSTMASTER General Villas had to
face de6cit'i in his department OF So, 3Sl,-
81. At the end OF the fiscal year OF 1884,
under Arthur's administration, there was
deficit OF $5,246,951 while for the previ-
Gus year, ending June 80, 1888, there was
net surplus OF $1.031, 1913. The largely
increased deficit which occurred last year
is due to the reduction in postage from
three to two cents.