Delaware journal., 1827-11-23
DOlsxxss SIC INDUSTRY.
EXTRACTED FROM NILES REPORT.


beautiful employment Of uur own worthy and in.
dustrlous females who. in the ingenious and deli
cate operations OF this manufacture. will soon rival.
il not exceed, all others. Six hundred young ladies
ate employed in this business at Newport II. /.
only. There are several other large establishments
in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, 81.
Leather gloves, for men or womens wear, should
all be made at home, as being neat family employ
meht for femaes--and our manufacturers Of leather
would supply the material we'll and as cheap as
the British, was there demand for it,
These three branches of industry might employ
100000 otherwise helpless and destitute females
glad to make 50 cents or less per day and subsist
themselves, any fitting employment for them. III
the midst OF their children, Or at the fire se Of the,
mothers--wd0wed and in want, and ii ding consu-
lation chiefly in the hope that their daughters NAV
| earn an honorable subsistence for themselves, when
the parent stock is removed 10 ' another and bet-
ter world"
! large proportion of the artificial HnVers now
used. are the work Of the hands OF fair country
women and we hope that pruclam, ,tion of tins
fact will not prevent the sale of .y-lmcause they
are not imported from France. but sub,ist widows
and orphans at home.
| The manufacture Of combs III the United States
amounts to two or more millions of dollars wear
-lOO.0OO collars worth annually made at Leo
minister, Mass. and 4U, 600 dollars worth West
brock. Maine. and together employing 200 PERSONS
Ii is supposed that when the Ohio caliais ar, lin
shed the state will export 100000 barrels Of bee f
and pork and 100000 barrels OF Hour. and have
10000 sheep--but what foreign demand . there
for these things, and what good will the surplus
production render to the people, il hnme.marka,
s not created Nay-t will chiefly tend 10 d.
trcss the farmers Of lhe old states OHIO will ais,
suon raise lO,0 600 hhds. Of tobacco. The weight Z
the beet and pork, -four. ron wool and tubiren
which they will be able to send to market nu, of the
state. in two or three years. if there is good de
mand. Will exceed 100000 toms. for the inian,
trade, by canals and roads or river navigation.
Il has been estimated that upwards Ut 80 mlun-
of bushels of grain raised in Ohio last seasUn
, OF more than SO bushels for each nhabtant
Ohio forwarded iH hnds. of tobacco to the
Baltimore market last ye .r-chieHy b. Transports
ton over the mountalns--sOne by way vi The Erie
canal and New York
Two large schooners intended for llie West In
da or coastlng trade, building AZ CINCINNATI
! with several steam boats. Orders had been receiv
, ed there from South America Tor twenty printing
: presses, and the necessary type.
. There were 286 arrivals at the port Of Sandusky
: :. on Lake Erie, during the last year Twelve years
ago this place was part of the original wilderness.
LIN twelve more, it viii be large city.
There are many manufacturing establishments II
North Carolina, such as furnaces and forges. her
is much water power i'll this state. aud it produce
cotton and rice, and mas abundance OF iron ore AM
70 no part of the union better fitted for rearing shee
j. than the 'supper country" or ricn western part
N it. North Carolina will become great maouiactul
l. ing aud wool growing state, and increase her populf
~ ton and wealth AS she advances IN these things
=. She unes, in herse perhaps, greater natural al
vantages than any other state. The returns
1910. gave to her production in manufacture
amounting to S6,655, l5S, and in 1890. the lnpe
feet returns Showed that / ,s44 persons were Ell
: played in them, and probably subeistns $4,000 Pc
sons.
The whole export of naval stores in 1926, W.
46,357 barrels OF tar and pitch, and 96,l57 OF n
sin and turpentne--together lag, AGA barrels
&C. naval stores are worked up annually in the dIst
u ries of Boston. only, besides the tar and pitch use
in the cordage factories and ship yards. The hon
ef consumption Of these stores is several times great
, than the amount of the foreign export.
~ A late Rutland (Vermont) Herald. says--An e
tensive bed Of manganese OF the purest kind. ha
recently been discovered in Chitenlen, in this cou
as try, on the farm Of Wolcott I'll. Keeler, esq
are informed that about so tons have already bet
dug 1t is said to be wnrtll about $50 per ton.
Sc Providence has considerable share of foreign cor
ire merce-From the lst OF January to the 27th Au
to of the present year. there arrived that port
vessels from Havana. 8 from Matanzas. ! | fro
= other West India ports, | from Canton, and
from different parts of Europe.
The manufacturing town OF Reading, Pa. HI
as only n, dwelling houses, large and small-b
on. the assessed value Of property in the borough
81. sos. .8s5-equaI to s,2OO dollars for every he;
et- of a family. surprising one to each house. The a
sessabe property is in lots and houses. VIII
=, other than manufacturing town can compare wi
nst this
ast Tyo hundred and fifty stages. hacks, gigs
'"e wagons passed certain inn the road betwet
II Albany and Troy in one day of June ls26--al
ate appears not to have been considered more than Il
Z average number. These cities are great cities