The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-01-14
during the year 74,372 persons. against
7O,243 in 1854:

during the year 74,372 persons. against
10, 243 in 1884.
Massachusetts bill for caring for the in;
sane during tho past year was something
over 81 100000:
The Maine Baptists number 10, 744, with
251 churches, lao clergymen and 10 the
ological students.
The Wholesale busin IS in Detroit in 1885
amounted to S103 500, 900, an increase OF
$31 800, 900 over 1884.
One man in New Jersey during the peach
season. averages $4,000 week receipts
on shipments OF the fruit.
Colorados mineral output in 1855 was
S22, 500, 900, of which S13,OO0,O 600 was
silver and So, 900, 900, gold.
The value of Pittsburs property for tax
able purposes at the close OF 1883 was
$l21 TIA, 714. The tax rate is 13 mills.
There were $500 fires in New York city
in 1880, and the total loss $3, 800, 900, as
against 2, 4u6 fires with total lose of
$3,474, 547 in 1884.
Argentine Republic statistics for the past
year show that the country has a foreign
trade OF $40, 0O0,0o and domestic
traffic OF $3.50, 100000.
The New York Dry Goods Chronicle says
there are over 5000, o00,0 900 invested in
thu drygoods business in that city as
against $14, 100000 in Chicago.
During 1885 the Milwaukee fire depart
ment responded to 3i7 alarms the total
loss sustained at the fires being S2,3oO,-
$50, upon which there was an insurance oil
81 ,3l9,45O
The ship building interests OF Maine have
been in depressed condition the last
year, the amount OF net tonnage havinsde-
creased from 46, 40l .S7 i'll 1884 to 23,-
053. .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 1,473 vessels against H.
OBJ, for 1884. and 10, 800 for 1889. The
total clearances for all ports were 4, 4,122,
against 1902 in 1884, and 4,6S1 Ill
1888.
During 1885 the 6S5 manufacturing es-
Establishments OF Richmond Va, employed
16, 800 hands and n capital OF $40, ,S62 800.
The sales OF their products amounted to
S2A $50, ,954, an increase over the preced-
ing year of $252.5S7
South Carolina is Justly to he eongratu.
lated ot:tr the TACT that during the past five
..'vars there has been an increase OF S2o,-
l4Z, 600 Ill the value Oh lleT TeiLl anu per
snnal property, a decrease of half q million
dollars III her public debt, and an increase
OF $40, us. 1913, in the value OF the pro
ductions 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 of 90, 80 acres for
S93 973, against 90. .376 acres sold during
December, 1884. The total sales for the
six M mt hs ending Dec. 81 were 22o. 1S2
acres for SS7O, $40. against 159, 49, acres
for S791 ,4S4 sold during the corresponding
time OF the year before.
AT the close OF the fiscal year, ending j une
30, 1885, Postmaster General Villas had to
face deficit IN his department OF SS, S,3S1,-
571. At the end OF the fiscal year of SS4,
under Arthurs administration, there was a
deficit OF So, 246,95l while for the previ-
Gus year, ending Jutc so, 1888, there was
b net surplus Of .;i.G:51 ,233: The largely
increased deficit which occurred last year
is due to the red lietion in postage from
three to two cci'ta.