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Show INTELLIGENCE ITEMS. The population of New Orleans is 230,000. <br><br> Illicit distilling is decreasing in Tennessee. <br><br> The grape crop throughout Georgia is very fine. <br><br> Charleston's business last year amounted to $53,000,000. Over $12,630,000 has been paid on the arrearages of pensions. <br><br> There is a strong party in Spain opposed to the liberation of the slaves in Cuba. <br><br> For the year ending September 20th, 115,000 European immigrants arrived in New York. <br><br> Swedish servant girls are being carried to Albany, Ga., to supersede the colored help. <br><br> Gov. Drew, of Florida, is a farmer, and he raises corn to the extent of fifty bushels an acre. <br><br> Twelve years ago Texas shipped only 75,000 bales of cotton. Last year she shipped 1,000,000 bales. <br><br> The Norwegians have a college at Minneapolis, Minn., manned with professors imported from Norway. <br><br> In South Carolina a statute provides that all persons having no reasonable or lawful excuse shall attend some religious service every Sunday. <br><br> In the Eastern States remarkable activity prevails in every branch of industry. There is work for everybody and at living prices. The hard times have gone, not theoretically but actually. <br><br> One hundred and fifty negro emigrants from Tennessee arrived at St. Louis recently, bound for the happy land of Kansas. They are able to pay their way and buy land when they arrive at their destination. <br><br> The Louisville Courier Journal states that one-third of the voting population of Kentucky cannot read the ticket they vote, and 150,000 children in the State are growing up in ignorance of the mere elements of the English language. <br><br> There is a whisky war in South Carolina. The Moonshiners of Swain county are intrenched in the mountains, and defy the world. No matter what course other men may take, their motto is: "Give us free whisky or give us death." <br><br> Prior to August 7, 1879, there had been redeemed and destroyed by fire at the Treasury $2,651,187,014.47 in government notes that have been circulated as a legal tender, inclusive of the notes of national banks that have suspended or gone into liquidation. <br><br> The New York school system is the largest in the country. It has sittings for 124,353 pupils and an average attendance of 108,559. The yearly expenditure for teachers' salaries is $2,353,000; and the machine is run by a cracked brained spiritualist whom the authorities cannot make up their minds to dispense with.-Free Press. <br><br> Prussia has eighteen prisons for tramps and vagrants. In 1871 there were 1,600 commitments to these institutions, but the number has increased every year, and for 1878 was 9,000. Of these, 8,000 were men and 1,000 women. They cost the country $650,000, but earned while in durance $275,000. ???? salaries are very low in Germany compared with those in England. The entire salary of the Imperial Chancellor, Prince Bismark, from all sources, both as Prussian Minister and Chancellor of the Empire is only 54,000 marks ($13,500). The highest salary of a Prussian Cabinet Minister is 36,000 marks. Pensions are on the same moderate scale. |
