Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-04-10
WHOLE NO. $50.


HE AMERICAN CLooK BusISKss.-Ani
article ON lhe manufacture OF clocks,
which we find in the last number OF tbs
Merchants Magazine. contains some ve-
\ ry interesting fscts
There were 81 manufactories. II seerus.
no Years sgoi since then. nine have stop
ped nom failure, and four from dosiruc-
tion by fre. while ave have suspended
their mannlaetures on account of small
psotits. There are now only thirteen fac-
tories, six OF which are only running
portion of the time. These is Will prob
ably produce. slle present year. as. 600
clocks. Z s.
IS. :a ID 1858 s4 the Jerome Comps.
ny-.w hich swanped Barnuna pro.
daced $4,000 clocks. or an average
of. more than one. per minute. Daring
t85 ls52, the factory OF j c. Brown turn
ed out from 90. 900 10 loo. 900 clocks:
SO. shat this concern. and Jerome ). during.
the periods specified. got.out about 5oo.-
600 clocks each year The lis compa-
MES. now ranning. will make hardly one,
fourth OF w4at was produced by three
factoriss now Standing silt & There iaj i
large amount OF fancy clocks ON hand.
but The wooden frame "o ogee,, aud Shsrp
Top Gothic are getting very scarce: they
cannot be made at prices at which they
have been sold Indeed. ii ia estimated
that near q half million OF dollars have
been lost within the gpast thfce years
BY selling clocks under eos.. 8 it
u, seems. according 60 the same authe,
rltys from which We gather the above
facts. that clocks for exportAsion HAYS
amounted .t 70 hard upon one million sof
dollars annaally,, and ihns exchanges
with the old country have bsen aided.
An instance Is cited Of one honse ,thasim. ;
ported shawls, linen, collars, and lace
goods from Scotland. and made lie OF,
change In clocks II they had sent
bill OF exchange, It would have cost tham
from 2 TO per cent: but sending out
clocks at 8 per cent. ptoit or more. ID
made for them, az least, I3, per, cent. on
clocks, whick is . paying buptnsss.
The business must sIumber for, awhile;
it is doubtful, indeed whether the .busi-
ness will ever again be carried on 20
largely; as it has been. ,,s,s b5e 60
a GREAr suppLY OF ARnorEss rs ,st,it ,u.s ~
HAND The New York Coprier. and
Ehqirer farhishes The. following picture, Of
the juvenile ysgsbendism OF ihas city.
at the present time e 4 gs.a ar,s, S9,s5sa
The .:shors boys, are upon us.ss Every
day police reports announce some new
Rad Of the sdelescsnt. rascais. They
were never SO daring No place ialsesurs
from them. They r range &c through me
shnS5rosig gfate as web as the lanes. No time
il exempt from them ihr y pIunticr bT
day as well as By night. Disk Turpin.
on Blackheath, = %alss as less Al home in M.
Operations than his youthful folio wers of
his on Manhattan Island. Dick masked !;
these these scssnps do nqt, Disguise y no, OBJ.
Jesests,tos ss! them. . Wbsthef slipping a,lady,of
qaissllty' Of garottng a gentleman of
leisure, ire, wheathet Pprglariously entering
=, store, Tor, or althily> climbing q ships
sIdes they wear no Grape on tho face
They serye, the devil with open yisage.
They are ,as bold as brass. There issne
end 10 their ,fofaS They keep society IA
perpetual state 81 siege. Great numbers
OF men are 4etailsd, With triitghttui clubs.
to guard agatnst, theti. Gieat sufns az
motley are spent TO Visit punishment upon lps,fl
them when taken prfS33srs.u But vi
they pass, oh!. They are fecrnised no. fnl
a.ttibe whose numbers do not ali. l.slf:'.i 2,
a report has been recently submftted
TO the Board of Education IA this sily9.
which estimates on satisfactory eronnds.
that there are between thirty and fofy
thorSand childten, between Die aees 81
Eve and sixteen. who are growing fup IA iI
Ignorance and yagkbonfsta. And 6ttibo
themselves "a, be The efu.1re M a audsfs
uto36fi E6ciatY b5fIttsS pa fisfar
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the. e.lest eksfe nit {, J, B q 9.
4 y ~ .1ftsis 317tI.ff RI fss5a5lI - "a
i sIsIEgEsTtseiuTo see ihe divinity
whom you have spent the evening in ele-
yating among The ngmplls, nAiads. Hebes
and 81 other celestial and angelic crsa-
lures. stsnding II ihc lsrder alter YOU
hare ieft. sigcsously plyiug her ruby lips
and Pssrly issth sPon ham sandwich.