Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1877 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

The omnibuses of- Boston are hauled around by 8,000 horses. Bqme 800 dozen frogs’ limbs from Detroit reach New York daily. The total number of raiiroad employes in Great Britain is about 285,000. There were 18,892 deaths in Philadelphia last year, and 18,909 in 1875. There are in this country nineteen libraries containing each 50,000 or more volumes. The latest investigator g.ves Jerusalem 8,000 Christians, 13,U00 Jews and 15,000 Mohammedans. The total emigration from the United Kingdom during 1876 was 138,222, and the immigration, 91,647. This is a small excess of emigrants over immigrants than for aDy year since the Irish exodus began. The valuation of Boston is to be reduced, this year, $60,000,000, making a reduction of $100,000,000 within two years. It is claimed that the valuation for the purposes of taxation of real estate should be what it will bring at a forced sale, and that, for some years past, the land of Boston has been much above this. The following table, showing the number of lawyers in some of the States and cities of the Union, has been prepared, but we do not vouch for its accuracy: State of New Y0rk.5,913 All the Territories. 66 Missouri 3,462 New York City.... 1,283 Pennsylvania 3,253 Philadelphia 992 Illinois... n 1 .. 2, 683 New Orleans 310 Ohio 2,563 Newark 118 Indiana... 1,684 Jersey City 115 Massachusetts .... 1,270 Cincinnati 294 Connecticut 391 Chicago 629 New Jersey 888 St. Louiß 694 Virginia 1,075 San Francisco.... 433 California 1,116; Washington 370 Kentucky 1,552 Brooklyn 729 Rhode 151 and.:.... 163 Buffalo 176 Delaware 84 Boston 343 Vermont 72 Baltimore 342 —Albany Law Journal. The Bank of Commerce ol the City of New York has recently reduced its capital from $10,000,000 to $5,000,000. This action leaves the Bank of Nevada, in San Francisco, the wealthiest banking corporation in the United States. The" capital of the Bank of Nevada is now $10,000,000, held by five individuals. Messrs. Flood, O’Brien, Mackey and Fair each own 23,750 of the -shares, or $2,375,000 ot the stock, and Louis McLane, the President, 500 shares, or $500,000 of the stock. The only bank on the continent exceeding it is the Bank of Montreal, whose capital is $12,000,000. The Merchants’ Bank, of Montreal, ranks next to the Nevada Bank, with a capital of $9,000,000. The Centra! Railroad and Banking Company of Savannah, Ga., has a capital ot $7,500,000.