Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1883 — MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.

The total number of immigrants landed at Castle Garden last year was more than 473,000. The to tal number landed up to noon Dec. 31 is 473,642, an increase of 32,598 over the figures of last year, when 441,044 were landed. Germany furnishes the largest number of immigrants. The books of the department show that, for the first ten months of the year, the arrivals from that country were 176,685; from Ireland, 48,784; from Sweden, 39,581; from England, 30,080; from Italy, 23,819; and from Russia, 15,137.. Last year Germany supplied 196,584 immigrants; Ireland, 61,771; England, 31,963; and Italy, 16,053. In announcing an increase of 1,645 failures this year over the last, Bradstrcet's calls attention to the fact that they largely occurred since September, while trade was being readjusted to a lower range of prices. It is announced, from what is believed to be reliable quarters, that Vanderbilt has made another grand combination of railroads In opposition to Gould’s Wabash system. The scheme is said to involve the consolidation of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis, the Vafidalia, the Terre Haute, the “Nickel-Plate,” and the Central and Hudson roads in one great system, giving another controlling line from Hew York to St Louis. Baltimore reported seventy-six deaths from small-pox in one week. Neat Little Rideau, Canada, R. W. Cooke, his wife, eldest daughter and son George were'murdered by a hired man. The assassin seriously wounded two other childdren. The bark Star of the West, from New York for Bremen, was lost at sea, the officers and crew, fifteen in number, perishing 1 1 ; . ■ . V',:.