AMERICAN ITEMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 83, 6 April 1872, Page 4

AMERICAN ITEMS.

Twe emigrants to one immigrant is the ratio at Virginia. Mowing machines have killed seventy farmers iv Illinois last year. Michigan is cackling about a hen show, 2000 dols. in premiums. There are 76 hotels iv Boston, and 112x wet-goods stores. A Wisconsin church voted a girl a gold ring for being so pretty. A pea-nut butcher in New York has accumulated 10,000 dols. at 10 cents, a quart. An lowa girl has contracted to cut and clear 320 acres of timber land this winter. In Nebraska courtships are said to average three hours and a-half in length. There are 3500 persons fed daily at the CincinnatrSoup House in Chicago. The national cemeteries now contain 317,850 graves, and cover 1800 acres of land. Three hundred and five murders in New York city last year, and nobody hanged. A Kentucky farmer refused to buy a sewing machine — "he sowed his wheat out of a bucket." The Missouri Slate Prison now contains 918 inmates. It is gauged to accommodate 350 persons. Human hair stands, or hangs, third in value on the list of articles imported into this country. It is estimated that more than one- sixth of the inhabitants of the United States are owners of real estate. Maine kept down her surplus population last year with 113 fatal nccidents, 77 drownings, 52 suicides, and eight murders. It is now proposed to put nitroglycerine into trunks to warn baggage men against handling them roughly. The Leigh Valley Railroad, in the four months ending Nov. 30tb, carried 2,889,074 tons of coal over the road. It will interest smokers of " real Havanas" to learn that the Connecticut tobacco is of unusally good quality this year. Uncle Sara issued last year almost five hundred millions of postage stamps. Who says we are not a letter writing people ? A Fifth avenue belle boasts of having received twenty baskets of flowers and three hundred calls on New Year's Day, in New York. Wisconsin belles organise hunting parties, take their little shot-guns and stride off to the woods without any horrid men to bother them. Nearly six^y-six and a quarter million pounds of freight were shipped last year over the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad.. The politicians of Atlanta are clever. One party got up a ballot-box with a moveable bottom, and magnanimously allowed the other party to keep the key. The number of persons at New York who met a violent death in 1871 foots up 1314 agaiDst 1291 the year before, an average of 25 a week, almost 4 a day. No one expected Chicago would let New York beat her in rascality, and so we are not astonished to hear that eleven Chicago Aldermen have been indicted. 1 The Burlington and Missouri Road sold in December last over six thousand acres of Nebraska land, at an average of seven dollars and sixty-two cents per acre/ i A miniature steam-engine, hailt of gold, set with diamonds, and standing on a three-cent piece was one of, the attractions at the Schenectady Masonic bazaar. ,