AUentown, Pa., has thirty segar '
factories, which turn out monthly 300,
KH). She Is the third largest manufac
turer of segars in the United States,
New York being first and Detroit
second..
The temperance people of Buffalo
are about organizing a law observance
association for the purpose of prosecut
ing liquor dealer who violate the law.
A fund of 110,000 is to be raised for
this purpose.
The Minnesota Senate has passed a
bill to borrow $60,000 from the school
fund to pay the current expenses of the
Legislature. A protest was made that
it was a bad precedent, but there were
only six nays to 27 yeas.
The melon trade of Richmond.
county, Ga., reaoh-'d List summer the
enormous aggregate of 256,450 melons.
The Central railroad carried away 90,
ST0. Ten thousand melons were -taken
northward by the express companies.
General Priest, of the Xew York
Central road, has consented to send the
driving wheels of the first locomotive
run in America to the Centennial, pro- :
vidiug their return to the company is.
insured. The wheels are now at West
Albany.
Delmonlco, the Xew York restaur
teur, has leased for ten years the whole.
block in Twenty-sixth street, between
Fifth avenue and Broadway, aud will
convert the buildings into cafes, dining .t
halls, and a ladies restaurant. The
Fourteenth-street house Is to be con
tinued..
The bullion shipment 'of Denver
last ye? r wns $5,237,710, a considerable
increase over 1874, while the banking
capital was raised to $4100,000 and $2,
2110,000 of deposits were made. There
were also over $2,000,000 worth of real
estate changed hands.
