THE RAILROADS OF THE WORLD IN 1877-78. [From the New York Commercial and Financial Chronicle, Feb. 2, 1878, with variations.]

[From the Annual Report of the Secretary of the American Iron and Steel Association, for 1878, with additions from The Coal Trade, by F. E. Saward, 1878, etc.]

Other estimates make the coal fields of the United States, reckoning the Permian and tertiary coals, to embrace an area of over 600,000 square mile.. But all estimates of their extent are as yet conjectural, and a very large portion of their actual area contains no workable coal.

Summary of Electors, or Those having the Right of Suffrage in Great Britain.

Voters.

Voters.

Voters

Voters..

Voters.

2,211,470 21,495,531 129,293 1,217,135 295,420 3,360,018 230,773 5,411,016] 2,866,956 31,483,700

NOTE. The political complexion of the present House of Commons stands as follows: Conservative, 350; Liberal, 299. Conservative majority, 51.

THE TELEGRAPHS OF THE UNITED STATES.

Statement showing the Mileage of Lines and Wires, Number of Offices and Traffic of the Western Union Telegraph Company for each Year, from June 30, 1866, to June 30, 1879. [From the Journal of the Telegraph, Oct. 16, 1879.]

1867..

1868. 1869..

1870

1871

1872

$

$

Cts.

Cts. Cts.

63.4 41.3

54.7 34.6

51.2 24.8

45.7 23.8

22.4

19.1

15.4

18.8

75.5

46,270 85,291 2,565 5,879,282 6,568,925 3,944,006 2,624,920 50,183 97,594 3,219 6,404,595 7,004,560 4,362,849 2.641,711 104.7 52,099 104,584 3,607 7,934,933 7,316,918 4,568,117 2,748,801 89.3 54,109 112,191 3.972 9,157,646 7,138,738 4,910,772 2,227,966 56,032 121,151 4,606 10,646,077 7,637,449 5,104,787 2,532,662 69.5 62,033 137,190 5,237 12,444,499 8,457,096 5,666,863 2,790,233 66.2 43.8 65,757 154,472 5,740 14,456,832 9,333,018 6,575,056 2,757,963 62.5 43.4 71,585 175.735 6,188 16,329,256 9,262,657 6,755,734 2,506,920 54.9 39.5 72,833 179,496 6.565 17,153,710 9,564,575 6,335,415 3,229,158 54.0 35.2 73,532 183,832 7,072 18,729,567 10,034,986 6,635,474 3,399,510 50.9 33.5 17.4 1877. 76,955 194,323 7,500 21,158,941 9,812,353 6,672,225 3,140,128 43.6 29.8 81,002 206,202 8,014 23,918,894 9,861,355 6,309,813 8,551,543 38.9 25.0 82,987 211,566 8,534 25,070,106 10,960,640 6,160,200 4,800,440

1873. 1874.

1875

1876

1878.

1879....

13.8

13 9

NOTE.-There is to be added to the above the lines of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company, including in its system several Railway telegraph connections within the United States, as follows, Jan. 1, 1879:

The Dominion Telegraph Co, operating almost wholly in Canada, had 8,656 miles of line
owned and operated by the Atlantic and Pacific Co (not included in above mileage)
Besides the above, there are many new lines of Telegraph which have complied with the
Telegraph Act of 1866, and are operating wires with or without connection with Railway
Companies. The following embraces a few only of these, with their mileage

American Rapid Telegraph Company, New York to Boston.

American Union Telegraph Company of Indiana..

Baltimore and Ohio RR. Telegraph Company..

Northwestern Telegraph Company of Kenosha, Wisconsin..

International Ocean Telegraph Company, New York (Inland line)..

TELEGRAPHS OF THE WORLD IN 1877.

Length

No. of of

Offices. Lines,
Miles.

No. of of
Offices. Lines,

Miles.

*This does not include the railway lines of telegraph, of which no statement is published.

Uruguay..

.....

NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS IN THE UNITED

STATES, 1850-1879.

[From the Official Returns of the U. S. Census for 1850, 1860, and 1870, from Rowell's Newspaper Directory for 1879. and from Pettengill's Newspaper Directory for 1878.]

RELIGIOUS DIVISIONS OF THE WORLD.

[Estimate from Schem's Statistics of the World.]