Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1879 — GREAT IS CHICAGO. [ARTICLE]

GREAT IS CHICAGO.

Trade and Commerce of -the Garden City for 1878. [From the Chicago For thirty years, despite all meaner of calamities, war, pestilence, epidemics, fire, failure of crops, panics, crashing of banks, prostration of credits, and countless vicissitudes special and general, the city of Chicago has anifually added to-the quantity and value of the merchandise she’ has received ‘ and shipped, and the value and quantity of her manufactures; and also to the expansion of her population, the beauty and uumber of her buildings, the extent of her streets, the number of her railroads and their connections. An unbroken series annual increase in all her business for thirty years is an evidence of her stability, and offers reasonable grounds for the belief that the city is even now but in the infancy of the commercial.grCatness which is to be hers in the near future.. The story of the growth of Chicago reads like a tale of the imagination. Let no one fail to read the statement which in all its details this morning fills- such a large space in the Tribune.. From the totalities we take the following general results :

The greatest amount of breadstuff's (flour being reduced to grain) in any previous year was in 1873, when the aggregate was 98,935,413 bushels. The receipts during 1878 reached the enormous aggregate of 134,856,193 bushels, an increase 35,920,780 bushels, or of 36.3 per cent over that year. The number of hogs received during the year was 6,339,656, and the number killed here 5,128,000. The number killed in 1877 was 3,076,639. The weight of the hogs killed during 1878 was 648,200 tons. Their value was $44,810,000, and the value of the whole hog product was $55,500,000. The value of the live stock received ' in Chicago during 1878 w’as $98,400,000, being an increase of $5,200,000 over last year, and this notwithstanding the extraordinary reduction in prices. Despite the general decline in the value of all manner of productions, the increase in the value of the manufactures of the city over last year is $22,000,000. The reader can readily estimate the increase in the quantity necessary to warrant this increase in the value. The total of the wholesale sales in 1877 was $276,500,000, and of the like sales in *IB7B w r as $280,000,000; Remembering the decline in prices, the reader will understand how great was the increase in quantities. The values given are in currency; reduced to gold we have: Wholesale sales in gold, 1878. >277.900,000 Same in gold, 1877 265.100,000

Showing an increase.in coin value of $12,800,000. The capital invested in wholesale trade is about the same as last year, not including the increase in the value of the currency. There is an increase in value of sales of dry goods, $2,000,000; oysters, $1,000,000; and .tobacco, $1,000,000. There is a filling oft in value of dried fruits, coal, and oils. Under the comprehensive title of produce is included a large list of commodities which may be grouped as follows, with the values for the year of the receipts : Breadstuffss 71,620,00€ Live stock 978,300.000 Provisions, tallow, dressed h0g5..... 9,630.000 Butter, cheese, hides, w 00 1.... 27,960.000 Seeds, potatoes, salt, broom-corn ; 5,820,000 Hay. poultry, apples, eggs 1,880,'4)0 Alcohol 370,000 Miscellaneous 3,800,000 Total. 18785219,700,000 Total, 1877 212,1f:0,0t0 Value in coin, 18785218,000,000 Value in coin, 1877 203,150,000 Increase in value.s 14,850,000 Coal, lumber, and fish are not included in these figures. The total receipts of jnmber (not including shingle’s and lath) during the year were 1,171,364,000 feet. We have only indicated a few of the facts of which the full details are given in the general review, of which we earnestly invite a critical examination, satisfied that no person in this city will fail to be conipensated for the time given to such examination. The general summary of the year’s trade may be thus stated. Produces2l9,7oo,ooo Wholesale 280.000.000 Manufactures 230,000,000 T0ta1..5729,700,000 Deduct for manufactures included in wholesale 74,700,000

Grand total. 1878....?.. 56554)00,000 Grand total, 1877 621,500,000 Increase in the value, 1878$ 83,500,000 Total, 1878, in coin $650,000,000 Total, 1877, in coin 595,000,000 Increase in coin va1ue......$ 55,000,066 Exports of Provisions. The Bureau of Statistics at Washingkm has just issued a very intieresting statement showing the export of provisions from the United States during the month of October last, the totals of which are as follows: Articles. Value. Articles. Value. 8ac0n52,630,651 Butters 270,977 Hams 13.874 Cheese 959,619 Fresh beef 317.214 Lard., 1,624.164 Salted beef 156.994 Eggs "415 Pork 344,996 Tallow. 458,604 Tefa1.56,776,'898 It will be seen that of butter and cheese there was nearly a million and a quarter for the month. This is a growing industry in the Middle and Western States.

A Queer Grave Robbery. A novelty in grave robbing is reported from Cuba, Alleghany county, N. Y. Eighteen years ago a citizen of that place buried his mother, and, to prevent the body being stolen, he prepared the grave by building in mortar a brick receptacle for the coffin, which, when lowered, was covered crosswise with timber, then earth. Desirous of removing the remains, the other day, he found that the grave had been* disturbed. The remains were found untouched, but every brick in the grave *had been removed.

The Ameer has eight. marriageable daughters waiting for husbands, and the dower of each is the revenue, tjf. a oity. Ten other of $$ dflnghters