Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-07-26
CURRENT EVENTS.


city Of New York.
Exporters claim that shipments OF IndiaI
wheat are increasing.
A pound OF pennies is worth s142 A pound
OF fye'cen pieces Is worth S455,50.
A planter at Brooskvlle Fla, cleare,
$4,000, of a cabbage patch of 100 acres.
Three steamships brought 2O17 immigrants
to Castle Garden, New York, on Saturday
last.
Since 1851 the Government has paid u
retired army officers the total sum Of Sl6,
$50, 600.
New York city has a storage capacity OF
| 100000 barrels OF -four and dock room equal
to 2, OOo. 900 barrels
During the month OF Nav %. 645 emigrants
went out from the United Kingdom. or this
total 4443 were from Ireland.
The new Matching house at Plymouth, n.
H., will be twice as large as the other, with
a capacity OF 1000. 900 eggs.
In Cuba the long.expected rains have at
last become general. aud will do much to-
wards fastening the termination of the sugar
crop.
From Montreal the total exports OF cheese
since Jan. l to June 2 were 24,s75 boxes,
against IS, l75 In 1887, 49, 544 In 1886 5000 in
1885, and $3.50 In 1884.
Included In the total shipments from New
York city during the week ending June ?,
were ZIG live cattle, 7445 quarters of beef
aud ten live sheep
The first shipment OF watermelons reached
New Iork on Tuesday. There were two car
loads They were quickly sold to the lead.
ing hotels at l.25 to S1.75 per melon.
During last August, September aud up to
the middle Of October, between 75,OO0 and
$1,000 lambs and sheep were slaughtered by
one company In Aroostook, county. Ne.
The average acreage OF productive vine.
yards In France for the past ten years was
5,3l5,435 acres, while in 1887 It was only
1904, 262 acres, deficit OF 5ll, 1877 acres.
Marylands oyster output comes from about
200 miles Of fisheries. The annual production
is over 10 100000 oysters, worth about IS, 00o,-
coo, Of which about s., 900, 900 is made by the
IS, 600 employees.
There WAS such glut Of Southern vegeta-
bles in the New York market on last week
Tuesday, that thousands OF crates we're emp
tied into the harbor This was done to secure
n demand for the next arrivals.
The harvesting Of the hcney crop in Cali
fornia is now in progress, aud will be con-
tlnued through June and July, sellers want
six cents, but dealers think the yield SO
large that so cents should be the price.
The question OF the hour in France Is the
extreme depression which has fallen upon
agricultural interests, and the steadily in.
creasIng endorsements which now weigh
upon proprietors and cultivators Of the soil.
At one time Great Britain, besides supply
Ing her own wants, exported butter to France.
bat during the last fifty years she has i'm
ported both butter and cheese, foreign sup
plies increasing at much greater ratio than
tie population.
The four-year-old Shorthorn bull Crown
Prince, bred In England, has been sold to
New York parties for breeding purposes. lie
was got by Sha pin shay, and out OF a member
Of the Lovely family, and has done excellent
service In the Beauford herd.
Advices from Newfoundland state that the
outlook for the fisheries this season is any
thing but favorable. The whole cost has
been blockaded with ice, which has remained
longer than the oldest resident remembers
1t to have ever done before.
The movement of hogs the past week has
been somewhat enlarged, the total packing In
the West reaching 215, 600, against ls5. 900 the
preceding week, aud 2O5, 100 for the cores
ponding week last year, the total since March
Icing approximately 10, 600 hogs in excess Of
a'year ago.
The English sparrow makes enemies where
ever he goes lie has become domiciled In
Mobile, and his tribe is increasing so fast
there that note Of warning is raised that
unless the birds are exterminated they wiz
soon create havoc Il! The gardens and farms
OF that section.
The little cluster OF Islands In the Pacific,
Just of the Patagonian coast, furnish forage
for 400, 600 sheep There are no bushes or
trees Of any kind on the islands, and the en-.
tire surface is covered with bed OF peat
which would supply the world. Over the
peat is u thick grow tn OF short but very nu.
trtious grass, on which the sheep thrive
wonderfully.
A Savannah lady went to another lady to
leave some flowers TO be placed on the grave
of q friend who died few days before.
While returning home she was frightened by
a severe shock OF lightning, and was stepping
into store TO wait for the storm to pass
when she fell dead. The flowers which she
carried to place on the grave of her friend
were placed upon her own.
A correspondent In the west writes that fine
weather from this time on viii do much to
improve the condition OF the crops, and will
give us a larger yield OF spring wheat that will
go toward couuteracting the falling of In the
winter wheat crop TO some extent, but the
season is backward throughout the west, and
the general situstlon of supplies points to
higher rather than lower prices.
The bulk of eggs that find their way into
the New York market are shipped from Iowa,
Nebraska, Canada aud few from Dakota
Most of the Southern States, principally
Virginia aud South Carolina and Kentucky,
ship to New York, but this quality OF eggs lie
not so fine as those which come from the
moro northcrly climates, and hence do not
find as ready sale nor bring rs good prices.
or the old stock left in California at this
date there is o fair supply Of evaporated APP
Piles and plums. Apricots, both sun-dried
and evsporated, are practically exhausted.
Sun dried peaches, unpeacd, and cvsporated
| peaches, both peeled aud unpeeled, are prsc