Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-07-20
CURRENT EVENTS.


A POUND OF pennies IS worth sli2. A pound
Of five cent pieces Is worth si5j.5O
planter at Brooskvle Fla, cleared
so, 600, OF cabbage patch OF 100 acres.
Three steamships brought 2))1 immigrants
To Castle Garden, New York, on SATURDAY
last
Since 1861 the Government has paid &C
retired army officers the total sum OF sl6
$50, 0OO
New York city has a storage capacity OF
1000. 900 barrels OF -four and dock room equal
10 ., 600 900 barrels.
During the month OF Nav 22,6ij emlgrants
went out from the United Kingdom. OF this
total 4i43 we're from Ireland
The new Matching house at Plymouth, y.
H., will be twice as large as the other with
a capacity Of 1000. 900 eggs.
In Cuba the long expected rains have a.
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. TO June 2 were "a, s75 boxes,
against 80, l75 in 1857, 80 54i In 1885, 5000 In
1885, and S. 80 In 1884
Included In the total shipments from New
York city during the week ending June p
were 40 live cattle. 7,445 quarters Of beef
and ten live sheep
The first shipment OF water melons reached
New York on Tuesday There were two car.
loads. They were quickly sold 10 the lead
ing hotels at 81 5 to sl.75 per melon.
During last August, September and up 10
the middle OF October, between 5000 and
$1,000 lambs and sheep were slaughtered By
one company in Aroostook, county. Me.
The average acreage OF productive vine
yards In France for the past ten years was
5,3l5, 435 acres, while la 1887 II was only
4, sO4, 262 acres, deficit OF Sill, l67 acres.
Maryland's oyster output comes from abou:
200 miles OF isherea The annual production
is over 10, 0oo, 900 oysters, worth about s. o00,-
600. OF which about s., 90, 900 is made by the
So, 900 employees.
There was such glut OF Southern vegeta-
bes 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
demand for the next arrivals.
The harvesting of the honey crop In CALI
forna Is now in progress, and will be con-
tinued through June and July, sellers want
SIX cents, tut dealers think the yield 50
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
ereasing embarrassments which now weigh
upon pyoprietors 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 AMI cheese, foreign sup
plies increasing ct much greater ratio than
the population.
The four-year Shorthorn bull Crown
Prince bred In England, has teen sold 10
New York parties for breeding purposes. lie
was got by Sha inshay, and out Of a member
of the Lovely family and has done excellent
service In the Beaufort herd.
Advices from Newfoundland state that the
outlook for the fisheries this season is any
thing but favorable. The whole cost has
been bockaded 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 2l5 coo, against is, 900 the
preceding week, and Pos % for the cores
ponding week last year, the total since March
| Icing approximately l0.O)O hogs in excess OF
a year ago
The English sparrow makes enemies where
ever he goes. lie has become domcied in
Mobile, and his tribe is increasing so fast
there that note Of warning is raised that
unless the birds are EXTERN mated they will
soon create havoc In the gardens and farmi
OF that section.
The little cluster of Islands IN the Pacific,
just of the Patagonian coast, furnish forag.
for 400, 90 sheep. There are no bushes o.
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 thick growth of short but very nu
tritious grass, on which the sheep thrive
wonderfully.
\ savannah lady went to another lady TO
leave some flowers to be placed on the grave
of a 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 10 pasi
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 will do much 10
improve the condition of the crops, and will
give Us larger yield of spring wheat that will
90 toward counteractiDg the falling of In the
winter wheat crop 10 some extent, but the
season is backward throughout the west, and
the general situation 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 and a few from Dakota
Most of the southern States, principally
Virginia aud South Carolina aud Kentucky,
ship TO New York, but this quality OF eggs is
not SO fine as those which come from the
more northerlv climates, aud hence do no.
find as ready sale nor bring as good prices.
or the old stock left In California at this
date there Is fhr supply of evaporated ap-
pies snd plums. Aprlcots, both sun-drled
and e7aporated, are practically exhausted.
Sun dried peaches unpealed, aud evaporated
peaches, both peeled and unpeeled, are prac,
tlcally exhausted. The drying Of apricots Will
commence about the middle 10 the last OF
lima auH Of "a