Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-03-14
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| Inc 'sStaGlSClcal AOSCfacU OF Un0 u MI
ted States" for 1897 has just appeared.
It is the record of the nations progress
as certified by the government.
According to the book the population
of the United States is now 72,S07 900.
| Thirty years ago, in 1867, the popula-
ton was 80, I'll 900, just about one half
what it is now. We are increasing at
the rate Of 100000 a year. The
money in the country is $34.25 per
capita. That is more than the per
capita of any but six years in the
thirty past. It is $1.37 more than it
was in 1896. The largest amount Of
money in the country for any year
since the war was S3621, in 1892. The
of the population. In 1867 it was
! $69.26. The pensions cost now $1.94
per capita yearly. That is slightly
less than the cost for any year since
1891. The pension list is growing, but
not quite so fast as the population.
The expenditures of the government
are now $5.02 per person. A rather
curious column of the sabstract'' is
that which shows the per capita con-
Summation of imported merchandise.
| Americans now take of the products
of other countries $10.84 worth in
year. In 1867 the consumption of for
eign goods was $10.44 per person.
There has been but little variation.
The per capita Of products of other
nations consumed has been below $40
only five times in thirty years, and "a
bove $15 per capita but once. The
duties now collected are only So 43
per capita. In 1867 they amounted to
$4.65. The progress of the country is
shown in its population and in it's ex-
porus. In 1867 the United States sold
Of its products $7.73 worth per capita,
and in 1897, $14.17. There have been
only six years in the thirty during
which the per capita of exports reach
eds 40 only in 1892 has the export per
capita been greater than that of 1897
since 1888. Things internationally are
going our way. We buy of other
nations $1O.17 worth. The average
resident of the United States consum
ed in 1897 these amounts: 1916
pounds of cotton, 1888 bushels of
wheat, 1881 bushels of corn, 64.5
pounds of sugar (the greatest in the
history of the country save one year,
9.95 pounds of coffee, 1.55 pounds Of
tea, 1.O1 gallons of whisky, 1859 gal
Ions Of hnnr Tho
sumption of whisky is less than it has
been for thirty years. Less beer is
consumed than for six years.
Weak men suffering from nervous debility,
weakened power and exhausted vigor, can
now take new hope. DR.. Greene. "a Temple
Place, Boston, Mass, who is without doubt
the most successful specialist in curing this
class of diseases, offers to give free consulta-
tion by mail to all weakened, vigorless and
nerve. exhausted men. You have the privi-
1ege OF consulting DR.. Greene by letter de-
scribing your complaint and he VIII, after
carefully considering your condition, send
you free a letter fully explaining all your
symptoms, telling you everything about your
complaint plainly that you will under
stand exactly what ails you. Write to him at
once and get back your strength and vigor.
The President and the Secretary of
the Navy believe that it would be
both fitting and patriotic for Congress
to authorize the building of a new
warship, to be as good as it can be
made, to be named Maine, but they
also regard as wise the opinion of the
men in Congress who have studied
this subject, that it will be best to
wait until full particulars of the loss
of the Maine can be carefully studied
before deciding whether it would be
advisable to build any more vessels of
the battleship type.
Representative Pearson, of North
Carolina, Indignantly resents the i'm
putation, made in some quarters, that
the fight made by the republicans Of
the civil service law and rules, in
which he has been CONSPICUOUS among
the leaders, is a sE am, and says he in
tends, if within his power, and he
thinks it is, to see that every member
of the House is put on record on this
question before the close of the pres
ent session. There is reason for the
belief that President Mckinley would
have issued an order materially mod
flying the civil service rules before
this, had not his attention been SO
fully taken up with matters following
upon the De LONE letter and the de-
struction of the Maine.
The failure to secure unanimous
consent for the House to take up the
bill, already passed by the Senate.