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Show BUSINESS ITEMS. The construction account of the P Brooklyn bridge now foots up $5 740,- V 071.73. 1 The average decline in tho price of cotton goods, since 1872, is more than 20 per cent. The annual product ion of gold has decreased one-third asc om pared with nine years ago. J France ha3 123,000 industrial es- J 'tablishments, giving work to about 1,800,000 men. The cost of work on the new Chicago Chi-cago custom house has been to date ; about $2,000,000. Tho retail trades in Boston are suffering very much, and a good many failures reported. Tho big hotels of the country are dropping to $3 per day; or to belore-Lhe-war price. It is about lime. The stamp duty on patent medi- r cincs manufactured in Great Britain t last year amounted to $571,6100. Deducting com certificates and silver there ia only about $10,000,000 of gold left in the United States treas-1 treas-1 ury. Is is estimated that about $12,000,-00 $12,000,-00 J o( insurance companies' assets aro now absorbed annually by incen- j j diarism. 1 , In some parta of Texas tho people 1 , are complaining because their cotton ' crops are so large that they cannot 1 igather them. I Kansas has raised 76,000,000 bush- els of corn and 15,000,000 bushels of j wheat this year, a largo portion of 1 which will be exported. ? The houses built this year in Phili-idelphia Phili-idelphia will mi rubor 7.000; in St. t A rxnn. : o : i rtfin. Ljuis, iuoliu j: ruuciswj, .i.uw, in Chicago, 900, and in New York, 500. Geo. Alfred Townsend gets $6,000 a year from the New York Graphic, and bis letters in othfr papers will add about $6,000 moro to his yearly income. Nash by thinks that when money can be made on arinting press it is very foolish exposo a man's life in a gold mine to get the material for hard money. The aggregate decrease of deposits in the banks of Now York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago since the latter part of August is stated at I about $20,000,000. j The treasury department has ceased buying silver on account of the high price, and it is thought Bilver coin resumption will not be undertaken tt once. Judging from the result of the sale of the president's horses at St. Louis, Grant stock don't rate very high on market. His best teams went off at about the price of crowbaits at forced sales. |