LOWEST AND HIGHEST PRICES OF COMMODITIES FOR (Compiled from the Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury for 1863 aud 1878, the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, Reports of the N. Y. Chamber of Commerce, and the N. Y. Shipping List and Price Current.) NOTE. In the American Alinanac and Treasury of Facts for 1878, pp. 278-9, appeared a table of prices compiled on the basis of the average price of each article in New York, the 1st of January of each year. Such a table, however useful, fails to give the data which are importa it in for ning a judginent of the whole range of prices for each year. The following table, carefully compiled from the sources indicated, takes the prices of the twelve months in each year, selecting the highest and lowest quotation fr each article. It is to be understood, where no mention of quality is made, that the price quoted is for the cheapest grade of each commodity. 1846. 9 62 13 37 2 87 1847.. 10 25 16 00 8 25 1848. 9.00 13 00 7 75 1849. 987 14 252 25 1850.. 10 60 11 87 2 25 1851..12 06 15 50 2 75 1852. 14 62 19 752 75 1853..13 0) 19 75 3 37 1854.12 12 16.00 4 12 1855. 12 50 23 00 2 50 1856.. 16 25 21 00 3 62 1857..16 50 25 70 3 25 1858. 15 35 19 00 2 75 1859. 14 60 18 12 3 00 1860.. 1 12 19 75 3 00 1861..12 25 18 00 300 1862..11 00 14 50 6 62 1 15 6 8 3 13 1 35 1 70 16 1 20 1 60 1 55 16 2.30 3 40 2 10 2 32 15 2 05 13 1 45 3 25 9 10 7 3 25 7 2 03 75 110 2 25 1 05 1 19 1 10 30 1 561 05 1 17 1 59,1 10 1 15 25 45 33 50 Comparative Rates of Weekly Wages Paid in Europe and in the United States in 1878. [Condensed from the Report of the Secretary of State on the State of Labor in Europe, derived from facts reported by the United States Consuls, Washington, 1879.] Comparative Retail Prices of the Necessaries of Life in Europe and the United States in 1878. [Condensed from the Report of the Secretary of State on the State of Labor in Europe, derived from facts reported by the United States Consuls, Washington, 1879.] Arkansas... California... Colorado Connecticut. Delaware.... Florida Georgia Illinois... Indiana. Iowa..... Kansas. Kentucky Louisianat. Maine Augusta Alabama........... Montgomery.. Rufus W. Cobb, D..... Little Rock..... Thos. J. Churchill, D Maryland Annapolis.. Wm. T. Hamilton. D. 4 Jan. 14. '80 Jan. 7, '84 4,500 Massachusetts.. Boston John D. Long, R..... 1 Jan. 4, '82 Jan. 3, '83 4,000 David H. Jerome, R.. Mississippi Missouri.... Nebraska Jefferson City Thos. T.Crittenden, D 4 Albinus Nance, R...... 2 Jan. 4, '81 Jan. 2, '83 2,500 Nevada New Hampshire Concord Carson City ..John H. Kinkead, R.. 4 Jan. 6, '79 Jan. New Jersey. Trenton ........ George C. Ludlow, D. 3 Jan. 18, '81 Jan. 2, $83 6,000 6, '83 1,000 21, '84 5,000 New York......... Albany Jan. 1, '80 Jan. 1, '83 10,000 North Carolina Raleigh Jan. 1, '81 Jan. 1, '85 3,000 2 2 2 Oct. 4 Jan. 4 2 Republican Governors, 20. Republican Legislatures, 19. Democratic Governors, 18. *Elected by a fuston of the Democratic and Greenback parties. †By the new Constitution of Louisiana, adopted Dec. 2. 1879, the State capital is removed from New Orleans to Baton Rouge after 1880. Colorado. Bien. Jan. 2, '82.60 days. Bien. Jan. 3, '83. Connecticut... Ann. Jan. 5, '82. 4 40 days. 4 None. Delaware Bien. Jan. 2, '83. None. Bien. May 8, '82. 90 days. 4 None. 90 days. 4 None. 1 222 2222 22222422212 2 222222 2 1222222 $4 a day & 15c. mile Louisiana.. None. 4 4 2 60 days. 4 None. 2 None. 3 None. 2 N. Carolina... Bien. Jan. 3, '83.60 days. 2 Texas. Bien. Jan. 9, '83.6) days.. W. Virginia... Bien. Jan. 10, '83.45 days. 4 Ann. Jan. 11, '82. Wisconsin 4 Montan....... Bien. Jan. 8, '83.60 days. ... $3 a day & 10c. mile Bien. Nov. 7, '82 $5 a day & 15c. mile Bien. Nov. 7, '82 $400 a year. ($5 a day& mile age, & $30. Bien. Nov. 7, '82 Bien. Nov. 7, '82 $3 a day & 10c. mile Bien. Nov. 7, 82 days & 5c. mile Ann. Nov. 8, '82 $1 a day & 8c. mile. Ann April 5, '82 $5 a day & 10c. mile Bien. Nov. 7, '82 $4 a day & 16c. mile Bien. Nov. 7, '82 $5 a day & mile. 1 In Indiana, a constitutional amendment, changing election day from October to November, was adopted, March, 1881, by popular majority. 2 In Ohio and a few other States, where the Legislative sessions are biennial, the Legis lature holds "Adjourned Sessions," practically amounting to annual meetings. The Rhode Island Legislature is required to meet annually the last Tuesday in May, at Newport, and an adjourned session to be holden annually in Providence. 4 Wisconsin has changed the sessions of the Legislature from annual to biennial, to commence after the session of 1882. By Act of Congress, March 1, 1792, amended in 1845, a uniform day of election for Electors of President and Vice-President is fixed for all the States-being the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, every fourth year after a President has been elected. $4 a day & 10c. mile Bien. Sep. 5, '82 & $75. Ann. Nov. 7, '82 Bien. Nov. 7, '82 Bien. Nov. 7, '82 Bien. Nov. 7, '82 $4 a day & 20c. Bien. Nov. 7, '82 Bien. Nov. 7, '82 Ann. Aug. 7, '82 STATE DEBTS, VALUATION AND TAXES. The following statistics of the finances of the thirty-eight States in the Union have been derived in most cases from the officers of the States themselves. 1. The State of Maryland held $4,235,713 in interest paying securities of corporations, besides $23,360,682 in unproductive securities. 2. Massachusetts held $13,050,192 in sinking fund, January 1, 1881. 3. Mississippi's debt was due the school fund to the amount of $1,818,145, on which interest only is payable, leaving net debt, less cash in treasury, $386,253. 4. New York held in sinking fund, October 1, 1881, $2,054,480. 5. Pennsylvania held, December 1, 1880, 8845,705 in sinking fund; in stocks of incorporated companies, interest paying, $7,300,000; net debt, $14,297,003. 6. California holds in trust for her own school and university funds, $2,790,000 of her bonded debt, on which interest only is payable, reducing the net debt to $606,500. 7. Delaware has no State tax on property, and therefore no State valuation of taxable property. |