Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1884 — The August Fire Record. [ARTICLE]

The August Fire Record.

[New York dispatch.] The Daily Commercial Bulletin reports the loss by fire in August at $10,500,000, exceeding any previous known fire record of that month, and making a total of $74,000,000 as the destftiction wrought by fire this year so fat, and about $11,000,000 in excess of the same eight months in 1883, the total of which year was in excess of any previous year except 1871 and 1872, when the great Chicago and Boston fires occurred. During August there were eighteen fires, the destructiveness of which aggregated $3,700,000. more than one-third of the entire fire loss of the North. Pooß Teck, technically called a duke, and even a prince, is wahdering about with ■ his equally impoverished wife, and the two tramps are a continuous source of worriment to that very worthy old woman, Queen Victoria. ■■ ■ ■' - II ■ THE oyster in New York employs $20,000,000 capital and about 16,000 men in the wholesale trade alone. Gotham's average dailyiconsumption of the bivalve is 35,000 bushels. ■ i r Blaine work any mor* on his book until after election.