The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1848-12-14

trensurer another chase Tor an admission
ticket, tho very next time 60 TO the "clty
Of notionsm
This one Company have invested the
sum OF enc aud half million of dollars 10
drive 1000 cotton spindlcs and half that
number Of wool spindles. They now man
uiac'urc annually tive million yards Of cot
ton, three hundred and fifty thousand vnrds
OF carpeting and two thousand rugs. When
they get all their carpet looms in opera
.icn. they will annually produce about one
million and half yures Ut carpe,inc alone.
sand that's the way the dollars Gomez
have not space 10 speak Of the other
grent Companies in detail. The making
OF machinery Of course is vast business,
and the Lowell Machine Company has a
capital Of S600,O00, md employs from
elgh: hundred to one thousand men. The
Mcrrimac Manufacturing Company has n
capital OF two millions. They have H.
600 spindlcs, and produce annually u.s.
OOO,OOO Yards III cotton. md print Tor cnl.
icoes no less than l6,OOO,OOO yards. The
Hamilton Company have u capital Of l..
200, 900 dollars. They drive 81 900 spin
dies and produce annually 10000, 900 yards
aud print 4,OOO,OOO for caIicoes. Aud
there nre the Appleton Company with JOO.-
600 dollars; the Middlcscx, with ,ODO. 900
dollars; the Suffolk, with 100000 dollars.
The fremont Mills, with COG. COG dollars
the Lawrence. with l,:,OO.OOO dollars; the
Boot, with .2OO.OOO dollars; tho Massa-
chusctts, with 100000. &c. &c.
II is perfectly astonishing to pass through
these Manufactures and see tho work nc
complishcd through machinery. applied to
the best advantage. Taking the more i'm.
portant Mills, the most ii which | have
named, and VIC have in this town mn nggrc-
gate manufacturing capital Of IL. OO0. 900
dollars. They employ nhout 5000 female
operatives and abou, 1 100 male. They
drive about 100000 spindles, and about
5000 looms. They consume about &c..
O0O,OOO pounds Of raw cotton, md nbol,
two and halfmillions OF wool. They pro.
ducc about $4,000, 900 yards cotton cloths
81, 000, goo prints. and G.00O. 600 ynrds ri
WOODEN goods. WHY. Mr Dickens. / should
hive supposed YOU had dealt in fiction long
enough to know tina, here was something
stranger than my your brain ever hatcl,ed
The idea of Lowell WINS conceived in $50;
II WINS born in 1926, and here in 1918. we
hasc the giant, largo enough to be a nation
Of BrobdignaE.
PuNcTuarIoN.--Ac country schoo!mastcr
who found il rather difficult to make hls
pupils observe the difference in reading hc-
tween comma and fall point adopted a
plan Ut his own, wbica he ilat,cred himself!
would mshe them proiicients in the art Of
punctuation; thus. in reading, when they
came 10 comm. they were To sny tick.
and read on 10 a colon or semi-colon. tick
tics, and when fall point, tick, fica. t.ck
Now j, so happened that the worthy Doni-
me received notice that the parish minister
WINS te pa visit Of examntion 10 his
school. and ~ be was DESTROYS that his pn.
pills should show 10 the best advantage. he
give them an extra drill the dav before the
examination. "Sow," said he, addressing
his pupils, "wncn YOU read before the min
ister Tomorrow, You are In leave out the
ficks. though YOU must think of them MS
you 20 nlong, Tor the sake vi elocu,oD.' -
80 far so god. Next day came, and with
1t the minister. ushered into tic schoolroom
BY the dominic. who, with smiles and bows,
hoped that the training Of his scholars
would NEE, lis approval Now j, So hap
pcned TINT the first boy called up by the
minister had heennbscnt the preceding day
and. in the hurry, the master had forgotten
to give him instructions how TO act. The
minister asked the boy 10 read chapter in
the Did Testament, which lie pointed out
The boy complied, and in his best nccen,
began to rend--.And tie Lord spakc unto
Moses saying, tick, speak unto the chill.
dren OF Israel saving; tick. tick. and thus
shall thou say unto them, tick, tick, tick
This unfortunate sally, in his own style,
acted like shower bath on the poor Dom.
inic. whilst the minister and his friends
almost died Of laughter.
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/ SHoEING IIORsEs.-Ata meeting Of the
Royal Agricultural Society Of England,
some time since, Prof, Sewull remarked
that he frequently found old horses shod
with layer Of leather forming an artificial
sole between the shoe and the hoof, recover
from the severe affections causing injury
to the hoof-sucl', for instance, rs contrac-
tons, brittleness, and cracks, or even dis.
ease Of the foot itself, a. thrushes, csnker,
corns, &c.. md perfectly regain i,s origin
al elasticity and firmaess. Paper.
LncIsLArrvE SSEEzING.-The:Savannal,
Republican, Of the Sd inst, pcrpctra.es
the following:
II will be seen bv reference 10 our teIe-
graphic head, that Mr.. Calhoun took snufl
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