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The principal imports in 1916 were: Cotton goods $1,721,534 Iron and steel manufactures, including sugar machinery 1,562,367 Rice 1,080,068 Wheat flour 621,900 Provisions, meat and dairy products 530,195 Oils 545,284 Bagging and other manufactures of vegetable fiber 508,644 Vehicles and boats 408,832 Manufactures of leather 385,518 Wood and manufactures of wood 317,421 Codfish and other preserved fish and fish products 309,204 Chemicals, drugs and dyes 293,072 Soap, and ingredients for the manufacture of soap 233,991 Paper and manufactures of paper 171,706 Beer 168,901 Agricultural implements 121,830
There Prince Rupert and the earl of Northampton joined him, with considerable bodies of cavalry. Manchester, who commanded, though his forces were much superior to those of the king, declined an engagement, and rejected Cromwell's advice, who earnestly pressed him not to neglect so favorable an opportunity of finishing the war. * Rush. vol. vi. p, 721, etc. Rush. vol. vii. p. 1.
The money spent on arterial drainage and land improvement, under the Labouchere letter and various drainage Acts, during the years 1846, 1847 and 1848, was, as given above, £1,191,187 19s. 5d., which being deducted from £10,723,908 19s>. 5d. leaves the sum of £9,532,721, of which there was finally charged to this country £4,845,062.
Polk's corps of three divisions....... 12,000 Martin's division of cavalry.......... 3,500 Jackson's division of cavalry......... 3,900 And at New Hope Church, May 26th Brigade of Quarles.................... 2,200 Grand-total.................. 64,456 Killed Wounded Total 721 4,672 5,393
The next year, B.C. 721, he was forced to march in person into Syria in order to meet and quell a dangerous revolt. Yahu-bid himself was taken and beheaded; and the chiefs of the revolt in the other towns were also put to death.
Under 9th Vict., cap. 1, 476,000 0 0 238,000 0 0 Under 9th and 10th Vict., cap. 107,"The Labour-rate Act," 4,766,789 0 0 2,231,000 0 0 Under 10th Vict., cap. 7, "The Temporary Relief Act," 1,724,631 0 0 953,355 0 0 Loans for building Workhouses, 1,420,780 0 0 122,707 0 0 Loans to pay debts of distressed Unions, 300,000 0 0 300,000 0 0 Grants by Parliament at various times: 1845, 1846, 1847, 1848, and 1849, 844,521 0 0 .... Total, £9,532,721 0 0 4,845,062 0 0
VI, Part 11, of Winsor's "Narrative and Critical History of America," p. 721. We gathered on the western skirts of the village to give Bowman's company a cheer, and every man, woman, and child in the place watched the little column as it wound snakelike over the prairie on the road to Fort Chartres, until it was lost in the cottonwoods to the westward. Things began to happen in Kaskaskia.
Subscriptions to the amount of $54,980 were paid in, and $22,721.53 distributed by the Trustees of the Riot Relief Fund, in sums from $50 to $1,000, each, through Isaac Bell, Treasurer, to 101 policemen, 16 militiamen, and 7 firemen. The balance was securely invested, to meet future emergencies, a portion of which was paid to sufferers by the Orange Riot of 1871.
Halley similarly deduced a value for modern times, and found it sensibly greater. He announced this in 1693, but it was not until 1749 that Dunthorne used modern lunar tables to compute a lunar eclipse observed in Babylon 721 B.C., another at Alexandria 201 B.C., a solar eclipse observed by Theon 360 A.D., and two later ones up to the tenth century.
How he raised the money it is impossible to guess, but on August 5th he paid 2,500 francs, and on September 1st 2,000 more, so that only 721 francs 85 centimes remained of his debt, and he made his preparations to start for Wierzchownia with his mind at rest. He heard from Emile de Girardin again, as we shall see later on, but he had seen Madame de Girardin for the last time.
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