Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1877 — Losses by the Strike. [ARTICLE]

Losses by the Strike.

A gentleman connected with a leading bank in New York city and a member of the clearing house, has made an estimate of the losses occasioned by the strike, which is perhaps as nearly accurate as any that can be obtained. These losses are estimated on thelatest returns of the different roads, and include perishable articles destroyed and contracts annulled, destruction of oil and other valuable freight, cattle and other live stock killed, for which the taxpayers will not be responsible. The losses, as given in the New York correspondence of the Boston Traveller, are as follows: Baltimore and Ohio, $3,250,000; Pennsylvania Central, $4,500,000; Chicago and Ft. Wayne, $1,200,000; New York Central, $2,600,000; Erie, $2,000,000; Lake Shore, $2,750,000; Michigan Central, $1,500,000; Canada Southern, $750,000; Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, $2,000,000; Delaware and Hudson. sl,200,000; Jersey Central, $900,000; Bock Island, $3,000,000. But, going beyond these items and looking at the loss caused by the suspension of traffic, we find the figures swelled enormously. The destruction of rolling-stock and other property which must be paid for by the taxpayers is estimated, all told, at $20,000,000. The entire estimated loss from all sources is placed at no less than $60,000,000. And, enormous as this sum seems, it has been reached by several highly competent authorities. The debate on the Burials bill in the English Parliament makes the statistics of parish churchyards very opportune. There are in England and Wales, now open, 13,177 burial-places in which only the state-church service can be used. There are 5,005 places in which a deceased person not a member of the state church can be buried by his own minister. There are in England 17,682 Dis-

senting places of worship, and in Wales 2,628, making a total of 20,490. Most of the unconsecrated cemeteries pertain to large towns.