Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1877 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

Portland, Me... which has a population of only about 30,000, has a debt of about >6,000,000, chiefly Incurred in aiding two railroads, one of which is in the hands of a Receiver, and the other is not regarded as worth foreclosing upon. Eight of the Ohio railways earned less than their operating expenses last year, these expenses in several cases reaching over 120 per cent, of the earnings—in one case 127.76 and in an another 128.49 per cent. The New York Bulletin gives the gross receipts of nineteen railroads in January, amounting to >4,529,355, showing a falling off of about $300,000 from last year. The month of January this year, however, has been much harder upon railroads than the same month last year, by reason of obstruction of traffic from snow. The Department of Fish Culture in the Smithsonian Institution distributed, in 1874 and 1875, 18,689,550 young shad. 2.294,468 Penobscot salmon, and 4,581,340 California salmon—making a total of over 25,500,000. Adding the distribution, in the winter and spring of 1875-’76, of these and other fishes, and the Commission have, in three years, supplied 40,000,000 fish. In 1875 a mortgage of $35,000 was taken on property at Third avenue and Ninety-seventh street, that was then supposed to be worth $75,000. ."Yesterday, before Judge Barrett, several affidavits of real-estate dealers were read in regard to the present value of the property, and the highest figure reached was $37,500. This is a fair illustration of the depreciation in

age taxpayer.—JT. T. Oommwdal Adver. tIMT. Thb glamour surroanding a name ia well unoieratood the commercial world. So the makers of the product once known as oleomargarine, after invoicing huge quantities of it through the Custom-House to foreign lands, sometimes as “ grease,” sometimes as ‘‘suet,” and often aa ‘‘refined tallow,” have at last cut matter of fact and settled down on “butterine.” In January about 1,000,000 pounds of this article were sent, abroad from Philadelphia, 500,000 of it going to France, England ana Scotland, Germany and the Netherlands taking the principal portion of the remainder.