Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1874 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

—’Dio hop crop <>f theyl’uyallup Valley, W. T:, torArprewnv yetiT is pounds. There are 120 acres <if now planting not in full bearing. The estfrii ited yield for next, ■ year is 250,000 ' p.iund-. ‘—The time for the beating of swords : into plowshares is still in the future. ! Last year Christcrploin paid, for the sup- ! port of the war system, $2,000,000,000,J and for missions’, during the same time, j i only $5,000,000. —The deposits in sayings banks of the New . England .Stales- < and New i York alone amount, to over $700,-’ .. 000,000, wbile the wlid e amount, in al 1-. the savings banks of the United States ' ; is over $1.000:000,060, b<?in-g about Onelialf more than the entire amount*m the national banks. —The total taxable values in Maine,: ! exclusive of railroad franchises, are reported at S?;SO,<MMt,OOfI. an snerettse of $7,II(M),0t10 during the piut.year. Of the . large towns showing the principal part .of this increase. Lewiston seems to take the leadheiatively, although the greater size of Portland gives it the first place nominally. I —The Assessors of I’rovidenee, It. I, i have completed their labors, and find that the city's valuation includes $Bl,-MW3m~-rv-d 1 i sonal, making an aggregate valuation of i $123,682,800. Tlie list of individuals ami corporation.- taxed for $56,000 Worth of" property and upward foots up 4<>o. Three are taxed for more than $1,000,000 ; each, and ten . others for $500,000 and ! over. I —Official returns to the Bureau, of 1 Statistics show, that during the three : months ended Sept. 3i). 1874, there arrived at the port of New York 47,654 i emigrants, and 12,748 passengers not emi- ! grants. Of the total number of emigrants 26,164 were males, and 21,490 ■ females. Under fifteen years of age, 11,9113;.fifteen and under forty, 28,831; forty • and over, 6,830. From England,l2,ls3;Ireland, 9,072; Germany, 11,859; Russia, I 4,044; born at sea, 16; died on the voyage, I 26, of whom T 8 were under forty years iof age. These emigrants represented over 340 different occupations.