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NEWS CONDENSER. 
FI It ST ISSUE 
1874. 
The Aldine Almanac 
PUBLISHED THIS WEEK 
— A now census of Baltimore gives a popula¬ 
tion of 308,(100. 
— The pig-iron trade is extremely dull in the 
Lehigh Valley. 
— Greening apples sell in Augusta, Me., for 
six dollars per barrel. 
• — The First National Bank of Kansas City 
lias gone into liquidation. 
The Hudson River is reported frozen for a 
distance of 00 miles from Albany. 
A county poor-house Is to be built at Ball- 
stou Spa at an expense of $35,OIK). 
— The New Hampshire Democratic State Con¬ 
vention will be hold in Concord on the 8th of 
January. 
— The Cost-Office Department is now more 
nearly self-sustaining than any other branch of 
the Government. 
— The Atlantic works, at East Boston, are to 
have a contract for $600,000 worth of revenue 
cutter machinery. 
— Toe lumbering season in Davenport, Iowa, 
htis closed. The amount of lumber sawed 
reaches 30,DUO,000 feet. 
— The total taxable property in Philadelphia 
this year is reported at $548,243,535—a gain over 
last year of $31,078,307. 
— The German expedition for the exploration 
of tiie Libyan desert is expected to set out from 
Europe about the end of November. 
— Three women, who have passed a civil 
service examinat ion, have been appointed Cus¬ 
tom House inspectors in Now York. 
— The proposed increase of revenue from tea, 
coffee, distilled spirits, and tobacco would 
amount to about $30,000,000 annually. 
— The entire crop of cranberries raised last, 
year in the United States was nearly 300,000 
bushels, of which New Jersey produced about 
one-third. 
— The monument to Gen. Hubert E. Lee, now 
in proeess of construction in Virginia, will bo 
surmounted by a reclining figure of the General 
enveloped In his miltary cloak. 
— The California Silk Company makes a very 
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mostly girls, and manufacture machine and 
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