The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-01-14
during the year 74,s72 p-ssons, against
TO. 243 in 1854.

| during the year 14,372 persons, agAines
10, 243 in 1854:
Massac husetts' bin for caring iof tho III:
sane during tho past year was something
| over 81 ,0OU, 900:
| The Maine Baptists number 8; 744, with
251 churches, 149 clergymen and 10 the
! illogical students. ~ 80,
| The Wholesale busin Sc in Detroit in 1883
amounted to $1O3, 500, 600, an increase OF
! $31 900, 900 over 1884.
| One man in New Jersey; during the peach
/ season, averages $4,000 q week receipts
on shipments OF the fruit.
Colorado's mineral output IN 1855 was
silver and S., O0O, 600, gold:
The value OF Pittsburs property for tax
able purposes at the close OF 1885 was
i 1921, 174,714. The tax rate is Is mills.
There we're 1900 fires in New York city
| in 1885, and the total loss $3, 500, 900, na
| against 2, 4O6 fires with d total lose OF
i $3,471, SAT in 1854.
| Argentine Republic statistics for the past
| year show that the country has foreign
trade OF $14o 600, 600 and domestic
traffic OF $3.50, 100000.
The New York Dry Goods Chronicle says
| there are over $2Oo, 0O0, 900 invested in
| tbs drygoOds business in that city as
against $14, 900. 600 in Chicago.
During 1855 the Milwaukee fire depart
(. ment responded to BAT alarms, the total
loss ustained at the fires being 1850
| 639 upon which there was an insurance OF
| 81, 319,450
| The ship building interests ofMaine have
! hecn in Il depressed condition the last
| year. the amount OF net tonnage having de-
| creased from 46, 40l 81 in 1884 to 23,-
| O53.9S in 1885.
| Report of building improvements at La
| Crosse for 1885. prepared by the secretary
| OF the board of trade, shows an aggregate
of S779, lis, an increase over the previous
year OF over 100000.
During 1885 there arrived at Boston
from all ports 11.473 vessels against II, :
| OBJ, for 1884. and 10, 800 for 1888. The
| total clearances for all ports were 4, 122,
| against 14,O42 in 1884, and 4,6S1 Ill
| 1883.
During 1885 the 685 manufacturing es-
Establishments OF Richmond, Va, employed
16, $50 hands and n capital OF SIC 1852 800.
The sales OF their products amounted to
| $24. $50, 954, an increase over the preced-
ing year OF $252.5S7.
South Carolina is justly to be congratu.
lated otur the TACT that during the p:ist five
y-ears there has been an increase Of $685.
liz, QUO Ill Tue VALUE Vi utT TctLi huu pci~
sonal property, q decrease Of half d million
dollars in her public debt, and an increase
OF $40, us, 1913, in the value Of the pro-
auctions OF the state and OF agricultural
machinery.
COL C. 3. Lamborn, land commissioners
OF the Northern Pacific, reports sales OF
land made by his department during the
month of December Of 49, S9 acres Tor
500. 973, against 29,3 acres sold during
December, 1884. The total sales for the
six nj mt hs ending Dec. 81 were 225, 1S2
acres for SS70, $40. against 159, 40 acres
for S791. 4S4 sold during the corresponding
time OF the year before.
At the close oil the fiscal year, ending June
80, 1856, POSTMASTER General Villas had to
face deficit in his department OF $S,381,-
571. At the end OF the fiscal year of 1884,
under Arthur's administratio there was
deficit OF S5,246,9o1 while for the ptevi-
Gus year, ending Jure SO, 1888, there was
d net surplus OF s;l.G31,233: The largely
increased deficit which occurred last year
is due to the reduction in postage from
three to two cents.