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llinols has twenty-four female notaries pun le. 
There are 1,101,197,183 acres of unsurveyed pub¬ 
lic land. 
The United States average a yearly loss of fifty 
millions by fire. 
Some of the Kansas farmers haul wheat one 
hundred miles to grist-mills. 
The finest of Florida oranges are retailing at 
Key West at three for a nickel. 
Berks county Pennsylvania, farmers propose to 
go largely Into sugar-beet raising. 
There are thirteen life Insurance companies In 
the hands of receiversm New York. 
An Otsego county, N. V., egg-dealer recently 
sold a stock of 30,000 dozen in New York. 
Horses In the city of Lowell, .Mass., are dying 
from a distemper which Is rapidly spreading. 
The Mayor or Jackson, Mississippi gives tramps 
situations on the chain gang cleaning the streets. 
The Erie railway carried nearly six million tons 
of freight and a little over five million passengers 
last year. 
The first greenback printed is kept under a 
glass case at Nashville, Tenn. It 13 dated March 
10, 1863. 
The rice crop of South Carolina for the year Is 
estimated at •u,ooo tierces, and that of Georgia at 
20,000 tierces. 
The value of agricultural implements and other 
machinery made In San Francisco last year Is 
Stated at *4,71.0,000, 
One Judgment against Tweed for nearly a mil¬ 
lion dollars has been obtained, defendant having 
entered confession. 
A sweet potato weighing seventeen pounds Is 
on exhibition at the counting room of the Little 
Hook Gazette olllee. 
The prices of hogs at this date In the last three 
years were as follows:—1675,$7.25<v$7.40; 1870, $6.66 
(6,5.80; 1877, fl.15Ml.40. 
Two millions and a half dollars' worth of Amer¬ 
ican dried fruits have been sold In Europo during 
the last twelve months. 
In Minnesota there Is an extensive manufac¬ 
tory of Llmburger cheese which uses the milk of 
one hundred and twenty cows. 
The first woman In this country who has ever 
studied architecture us a profession, has entered 
Syracuse (X. Y.) University. 
There are eight hundred and eleven roallroads 
In the United Stales, of which only one hundred 
and ninety-six pay dividends. 
During the single month of September, the 
Alabama Penitentiary Is said to have earned 
f35,ooo over and above all expenses. 
One Kentucky farmer appropriates the yearly 
product of one acre of Ills rarm to the purchase of 
reading matter for nimself and family. 
An organization lias been formed In Broome, 
Tompkins and Tioga counties, N. V., to contest 
the payment of the driven-well royalty. 
Oregon, with a population or but J35,ooo, tills 
year produces a surplus of eight million bushels 
of grain and four million pounds of wool. 
Sixty-five families from Pennsylvania and New 
Jersey have emigrated to Navarro county, Texas, 
and purchased t en thousand acres of land. 
Two townships In O3ceola county, Mich., have 
sold$600 worth of gluseng for shipment to Cnlua, 
where the root is highly prized as a medicine. 
In 1873, the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of 
America comprised 200 societies; now It has 
grown to a membership of nearly ooo societies. 
The crops of Kansas for the [present year are 
valued by the national board or agriculture at 
$70,000,000 and the live stock at $30,000,000 more. 
Coculus Indlcus, a virulent poison, Is largely 
Imported into this country, yet It Is not known to 
be used In any manufacture except that of lager. 
A colony of Texan emigrants is forming at llut- 
land, Vi., and an effort is making to have It the 
largest colony ever sent out from New England. 
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury McCor¬ 
mick retires about Dee. l, and Is likely to be suc¬ 
ceeded by McPherson, chief of the printing bu¬ 
reau. 
Nevada has a law authorizing the public whip¬ 
ping of wife beaters. A whipping past has been 
ceremoniously placed In front or the court House 
In Austin. 
Governor Vance of Norlli Carolina attributes 
the destruction of the pure agricultural fair 
system to horse-racing, three-card monte and 
prize candy. 
Toledo, Ohio, Is greatly alarmed at the spread 
of diphtheria and scarlet fever. The board of 
health is taking measures to arrest the spread of 
the diseases. 
The new system of restaurants, by which a 
man may get a cent plate of soup, a cent bit of 
pie or a cent cut of meat, will make many a man 
a penny-a-lnlner. 
Cherry Valley, N. Y. shipped In Octob r, 3,447 
barrels apples. i,ooo bushels apples In balk, and 
802 bales hops. Captain John Hetherlngton ships 
ten tons of honey to New York. 
It has been ascertained from statistical data 
that there are now over 2 , 800.000 men In the 
United States at work on farms, as rarm laborers, 
who do not own a foot of land. 
A citizen of Newburyport,, Mass., has now fat¬ 
tening for hts table 500 frogs. He keeps them In 
a barrel and feeds them upon Indian meal. 
in the course of a year It Is estimated that 
7 , 000,000 pounds of codfish, l.ooo.ooo pounds of 
blue fish, and the same amount of North Atlantic 
salmon reach New York City. 
Parties In Ogdensburgh are engaged lu import¬ 
ing poultry from Canada for the new York mark¬ 
et. Twelve thousand live turkeyB and geese were 
shipped from ogdensburgh lately. 
The Murphy fcerapemuce movement advances 
with Immense strides In Kentucky, and In some 
of the towns of that State more than half the 
population wear t he blue ribbon. 
Eighteen thousand tneu are now engaged In the 
express business. Express companies cover 50,000 
miles ot rail road, and It la estimated that their 
messengers dally travel 300,000 miles. 
Conrad Poppenhusen, late owner of the Long 
Island ltollroad, has failed, and applied for bank¬ 
ruptcy adjudication. Liabilities, $3,500,000; as¬ 
sets, railroad stock which cost over $5,000,000. 
somebody has ascertained that the 330 mem¬ 
bers of the two bouses of Congress Include 239 
lawyers, m bankers, 17 merchants, 15 editors, 12 
farmers and planters, 20 physicians, 7 manufac¬ 
turers, 5 officers of railroad-sand 5 school teachers. 
The pedigree commute of the Vermont Merino 
Sheep Breeders Association have accepted lists 
from 146 flocks In Vermont, and many other 
States, and have rejected quite a number of 
others. 
It is agreed between the two governments that 
all money Orders mailed at exchange offices In 
the United States addressed to payees In the Do¬ 
minion shall be transmlssable;in the malls free of 
postage. 
Wild turkeys have not for a long time been more 
numerous In Virginia than they are this year. A 
flock entered the city or Lynchburg last week. 
One killed lu Shenandoah County a few days ago, 
weighed 35 pounds. 
When a tramp applies to the overseer of the 
poor at Elmira, N. Y., for aid, he 1s sentenced to 
eight hours' work breaking stone. The tramp 
nuisance therefore, exists only In a modified 
form in that city. 
There is a peach tree growing In Bands street, 
Brooklyn, which bears two crops annually. At 
the meeting of the Horticultural society on the 
Cth las., a committee was appointed to investi¬ 
gate this novelty. 
The stock men of Ypsilantl, Mich., have organ¬ 
ized a society called the Farmer's sale Associa¬ 
tion. Auction sales of stock, carriages, etc., will 
be held, the first occurring on Thursday next at 
the fairgrounds. 
The Supreme Court of the United States has 
just decided that the bonds Issued by Clay County, 
Mo., which were sold in good faith, but subse¬ 
quently repudiated, are valid. Chief Justice 
Waite delivered the opinion. 
The practice of opium eating has Increased 
enormously la Maine, aud more morphine Is sold 
In that State than in any other In the Union In 
proportion to Its population. This is said to be 
owing to the enforcement, of the liquor law. 
of the 771 convicts in the State prison at 
Charlestown, Mass., 570 are employed and have 
earned $ 60 .<us during the past year, a gain of 
nearly $ 20,000 on the previous year. The total 
receipts were $80,643 and the expenditures $126,- 
978. 
California’s wool growth is becoming one of 
her grestest industries, the export, last year hav¬ 
ing been over fifty million pounds, worth f s.ooo,- 
000 . There are several wool-growers who own 
from thirty thousand to forty thousand sheep 
each. 
The Anil-Horse Thief Association lias three 
hundred and sixty-one lodges and eight thousand 
members In Missouri, Iowa and Illinois, in a 
recent convention la Augusta, ill., It was said 
that the order had secured the conviction of over 
one thousand thieves within a year. 
New York city has a “ penny restaurant,” where 
a small cup of coffee, bread and butter, pork and 
beaus, a slice of cora-beef, mush, oat-meal, aud 
boiled rice may be obtained at a cost of one cent 
for each Item. It Is a newspaper man's enterprise, 
was started on the 8th Inst., and Is proving a suc¬ 
cess. 
It Is computed that the grain used tor liquors In 
a year in the United States reaches 00 , 000,000 
bushels, which would make 1 , 050 , 000,000 four 
pound loaves of bread. Great Britain uses &o,- 
000,000 bushels of grain yearly for the same pur¬ 
pose, and nnnualty Imports food to the value of 
nearly $ 100 , 000 , 000 . 
The growth of winter wheat Is very rank In 
many parts of New York, and farmers are turn¬ 
ing sheep into the fields to pasture It off. Cattle 
and horses are too heavy, aud sheep are found to 
be the best animals for shortening the wheat, 
which would he likely to be smothered by Its 
rank growth and the snow. 
During the past year the consumption of cotton 
reached the highest point ever attained In this 
country, while the value of our cotton fabrics ex¬ 
ported has, despite low prices, Increased $7,090,- 
000 wltbin t wo years, or from $4,090,000 for the fis¬ 
cal year ending June 30,1875, to $ 10 , 180,000 for the 
fiscal year ending June 30 ,1877. 
some confederate bonds and notes, assets of 
the banlu upt Bank of North Carolina, were sold 
by auction In Raleigh on the 13th lust. One man 
paid $6.70 for $ 100,000 or treasury notes and .$3.40 
for $ 400,000 in bonds. Another bought $ 182,000 
worth of the notes for $ 2.60 and $ 628 ,ooo of North 
Carolina war bonds for $ 10 . 
The largest plough ever manufactured has Just 
been made at a factory in Stockton, Cal. It Is de¬ 
signed for work In the ttfles, and cuts a furrow 
thirty-five Inches wide. The mould board is eight 
feet long from the point to the end. The plough 
will be attached to a sulky, and will require a 
team of twelve stout animals to pull It. 
America annually Imports $ 00 , 000,000 of flax, 
hemp, jute and ramie—all being products that 
may be raised on our solL This Is an actual fact, 
as in 1870 America raised 27 t ooo,ooo pounds of flax, 
and from successful experiments that have been 
made. Jute and hemp may be produced In like 
quantities and of equally good quality. 
The Horseshoe at Niagara Is now on a right an¬ 
gle, rather than a curve. The rocks In the center 
have been eaten away from year to year, and now 
the sidewalls are crumbling, on Saturday morn¬ 
ing last a large section of rock toward the Cana¬ 
da shore fell with a tremendous crash, and during 
the night a still larger area went down. 
Kansas leads every state In the Union In the 
yield of corn per acre, being 43.5 bushels. Little 
New H e, strange to say, comes next, 
with a yield or 42. Vermont follows with 39 ; 
Ohio, 36.7; Wisconsin, 34; Indiana, Iowa, and 
Nebraska, so ; Michigan, 29 ; Missouri, 27.8; Min¬ 
nesota, 25.4 ; Texas and Illinois, 26 each. 
The farmers on the Big Wichita, Clay county, 
Kansas, have had In operation for the past two 
seasons a stock law of their own that Is working 
like a charm. Each man agrees to pay for all 
damages done by Ills stock to others' crops. In 
case they cannot agree as to the amount or dam¬ 
ages they refer the matter to a third citizen. 
A Cohoes (N. Y.) man to beat his cred ltors, trans¬ 
ferred his property to hts wife. By-and-by t he 
wife died and the property reverted to their 
daughter. Man took a new wife, with whom the 
daughter did not agree. ResulU—the daughter 
ejected father and step-mother, and now rules 
supremo lu the home of her ancestors, and the 
man who got ahead of Ms creditors has to work 
for Mb living. 
One man, working on the buffalo range, for a 
merchant of Griffin,Neb.,killed 9,352 buffaloes dim¬ 
ing the season. Think of It—suppose the average 
welghlof the merchantable portion of the carcass 
was only 360 pounds. Now the hunters kill the 
buffalo for the bides, not for tho meat; conse¬ 
quently, this one man throws away over two and 
ono-thlrd million pounds of as good meat as man 
ever eat. What better argumefit can be add need 
for the necessity of a law to prevent tho whole¬ 
sale slaughter of those animals, which are fast 
being exterminated ? 
Illinois has 41,000 square miles of coal bed, av¬ 
eraging moro than forty feet In thickness, she 
raised lost year 130 , 000,000 bushels of corn—one- 
sixth of all the corn raised in the United states, 
and harvested 2,747,ooo tons of hay—nearly one- 
tenth of all the hay In the country. Lastyear 
she has Imd 2,500.000 hogs, and packed 7 , 113 ,^ 447 — 
about one-half of all that were packed in the 
United States. She manufactures $ 205 , 000,000 
worth of goods annually, and has $ 22 , 300,000 in 
church property, with 4196 church organizations; 
lt,05o public schools, with one State University ; 
six colleges, ninety Instructors, over 1,000 stu¬ 
dents, and $ 1 , 000,000 endowments. 
Illinois also takes the lead lu the oat crop, grow¬ 
ing 43,789,581 out of the total 282,107,159 bushels. 
During the twelvemonths ending Oct, 31,1377, 
Chicago slaughtered about 3 , 093,000 hogs, the 
aggregate net weight ot which would be about 
645,000,000 pounds, aud producing about 561,000,- 
000 pounds of product—pork, meats, and lard— 
about equal to 308,000 ooo pounds or sides, 104,000,- 
000 pounds of hams, 40 , 000,000 pounds of shoul¬ 
ders, and 109,000,000 pounds ot lard. In addition 
thereto that city received from Interior points 
about 102 , 0 . 10 ,ooo pounds 01 pork, meats and lord- 
making a grand aggregate 01 about 563,000,000 
pounds ot nog product handled In the market dur- 
lug the past year, the aggregate value ot which 
may be estimated at $57,000,009. 'the number of 
packages required In preparing this enormous 
quantity ot product for market was 1 , 340 . 000 —in¬ 
cluding 390,000 barrels, 370,000 tierces, aud 580,ooo 
boxes—or an aggregate value of $ 1 , 200 , 000 . To 
move this product wore required 37,600 freight 
cars—carrying 2o,000 pounds each—or an average 
of about 121 care dally throughtout the year. 
TheBecar3 would make 1,500 trains of twenty-live 
cars each. The amount or freight paid to the 
railroad companies may be estimated at $3,000,- 
000 . 
Iowa produces the largest spring wheat crop of 
any State, tho production of the United States 
being 112 , 549,533 bushels, and that of Iowa 2S,707,- 
312 bushels, wMle Wisconsin ranks next, with 
24,375,435 bushels. 
Ohio raises the most winter wheat, 27,625,759 ot 
the 175,195,193 bushels produced lu the United 
States, and also more than half the flax produced 
In the country- Tho wool yield of the State Is 
one-fifth that ot the United States and double 
that of California. 
PennsylvaMa supplies one-ufth of the rye pro¬ 
duced lu this country, or 3,577,611 bushels out of 
16,918,795. 
California produces the largest barley crop, or 
8,783,496 out of a total of 29,761,305 bushels, and 
also nine-tenths or our native silk cocoons. 
New York is the largest cultivator of buck¬ 
wheat, raising 3,904,030 of a total of 9,821,721 bush¬ 
els. 
Mississippi takes the lead among the cotton 
growing States. 
Kentucky grows more than half the hemp crop- 
of our country. 
New York produces more than one-fifth of the 
hay crop, or nearly twice as much as Pennsylva¬ 
nia, which furnishes the next largest figure In 
that line. New York furnishes also, more than 
two-thirds of the hop crop of the country. 
South Carolina supplies nearly half the rice 
produced In the country. Georgia is next, or 
7,too ,000 pouuds ahead of Louisiana. Nearly all 
the rice comes from these three States. 
Of the 272,734,311 pounds of tobacco produced In 
the country, 105,305,828 pounds are grown In 
Kentucky. Virginia comes next, with 88,086,364 
pounds. 
Louisiana contributes nearly all the sugar and 
molasses from cane, and Vermont nearly one- 
third of the sugar of maple, while New York pro¬ 
duces one-fourth the sugar from maple. 
Ohio and Indiana produce each one-eighth of 
sorghum molasses. 
New York grows one-fifth of the whole potato 
crop. North Carolina produces more sweet pota¬ 
toes than any other State. 
New York raises one-fifth of the national supply 
of peas and beans. 
California produces more than one-half of the 
native wine. 
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FOBEIGN NOTES. 
The 5th of November, the anniversary of the 
Gunpowder Plot passed off very tamely In Lon¬ 
don this year. 
IIGreat Britain now cultivates near'y 1 , 000,000 
fewer acres of wheat than she did twenty years 
ago. Pastures and market gardens have suc¬ 
ceeded to wheat fields. 
It Is said that from 12,000 to 15,ooo chignons are 
annually Imported from Franco to England, be¬ 
sides sufficient additional hair to make 10,000 
more; the total value of the lialr being $ 440 , 000 . 
Tile British post-office authorities have con¬ 
cluded a contract whereby the Cunard, Inman 
and White Star steamship llneB have the sole car¬ 
riage of malls to the united States from Decem¬ 
ber l8t. 
A large amount of artificial butter Is sold to En¬ 
glish markets. A correspondent there states that 
If nothlugbut genuine butter were sold there, It 
could not be had for less than one dollar per 
pound. 
The debt of the Russian Treasury to the State 
Bank amounted, on the 24th of September, to in, 
259,105 roubles. A silver rouble Is Tour francs, or 
eighty cents; a paper rouble Is worth about fifty- 
two cents. 
Great Britain receives sixty per cent, of Its Im¬ 
ported cheese rrom tlie United States, twenty per 
cent, from Holland, fifteen percent, from Canada, 
and the balance from France, Germany, Sweden 
and Belgium. 
There are 939 journals of a political character 
published lu France, and the amount of cau¬ 
tion ” which they have had to deposit with the 
Government represents a total of 6,593,3111., very 
nearly $1,098,889. 
A London detective says that eighty per cent, 
of the people who goo to Police head-quarters to 
complain that they have been robbed by confi¬ 
dence men are Americans. S# much for the 
“ smartness” ot our traveling countrymen ! 
Though the Turks are Incurring heavy war ex¬ 
penses, and the holders ot their bonds whistle 
for the Interest on them, Sultan Abdul-Hamld 
seems to have plenty of money. At present he 
is having a marble staircase made at Carrara 
WMcll Will COSt about $1,250,000, 
The value of the wedding gifts of Mile, d’ Albe, 
niece of the ex-Empress Eugenie, Is said to be 
$1,600,000. One of these was a cameo ring which 
belonged to Charles V. Eleven necklaces of bril¬ 
liants adorned the collection. The duke of d’ Os- 
suna, whom she married, Ls said to bo one of the 
wealthiest personages In the Peninsula. 
The astronomer royal ol the Royal observatory 
of Scotland has mapped out. a very cold winter 
for Great Britain, and presumably tor this part 
of the world as well. Ho haB studied waves of 
heat and cold for a period of over thirty nine 
years, and tinds that the next cold wave ls due 
at the end of the present year, when very frigid 
weather may be looked for. 
The young ladles who were brldes-maids to 
Lady Flora Hastings, just married to the Duke of 
Norfolk, were presented with a bracelet composed 
of "massive gold flexible bands of arabesque de¬ 
sign, richly studded with pearls with a crystal 
eenter also set with pearls and bearing the bride’s 
monogram In diamonds, surmounted by a ducal 
coronet. The bracelets are so made that the cen¬ 
ter pleee of each may be removed and worn as a 
pendant. 
A woman named Marie Celvot was lately sen¬ 
tenced to twenty years hard labor tor the mur¬ 
der of her sister Julie, la Paris. WMle the trial 
was going on she constantly wore a long crape 
veil. * Why do you wear this veil ” asked one of 
the officials. To which she gently replied, “ 1 
am In mourning for my poor sister I” This 
matches the French parricide, who, on being 
asked what he had to say after his condemnation 
for killing Ms lather and mother, entreated the 
Court to “ have mercy on a poor orphan.” 
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