The New Orleans crescent., 1868-12-06
INDUsT RIAL ITEMS, ETC.

Corinth, Miss, is to have shoe mandatory.
One million sacks of wheat are stored in the
warehouses of San Francisco.
Chicago will sell this year about one thousand
millionssfeet Of lumber.
A society has been formed in Paris for the pro-
pagation of useful insects.
man near Macon, Ca, has made IS 900 clear
money in the last two years market gardening.
The slaughter-house gulch in Colorado recently
produced 5000 ounces in one week.
Philadelphia has $50 900 900 invested in various
manufacturing enterprises.
The Pennsylvania railroad last year carried
1850. .733 tons of bitumnous coal.
About q, 900 tons of mari were marketed from
the West Jersey pits last year.
The citizens of Port Gibson, Miss, propose or.
gspizing joint stock company with q capital Of
ESQ 600 for the manufacture of cotton fabrics.
The citizens of Marshall county, Miss, have held
meeting for the purpose of organizing manu-
featuring company.
Dalton. Ca, boasts of first class tsnnery that
turns out leather equal to that of Northern manu-.
fscture.
More than three millions of dollars, it is est.
mated, have been expended in Baltimore the past
Messrs. J. A. Leach & Co. have commenced. on
large scale, the manufacture of shoes in Thom-
asvie, N. G.
Charles W. Tuttle, of Collinsville, Ct has an old
copper coin, britannia Rex" dated l7S6, very
distinct, and another dated 1888.
The iron interest of Chicago employs some 49,
oCO men, to whom is paid the yearly sum of sl2,'
0OO, ,O00 for their labor.
Acertain Yale professor II is said, always studies
his lesson before hearing class recite, even when
he is the author Of the text book.
Maine this year produced L. 900, 900 tons of hay.
the same number Of bushels of corn and 100000
bushels of wheat.
A new process in New Hampshire, called the
Robbins process" produced dry lumber out Of
green in nine hours.
The citizens of Pontotoc are discussing the
early binding of cotton and wool factory in their
town.
A new method of converting reciprocating into
rotary motion by means of treadle, has recently
been exhibited in Boston.
The United States has been invited to partci
pate in the German industrial exhibition at Leip-
sic, in Nay next.
David Dickson, of Hancock county, Ca, will
make this year 500 bales of cotton on 500 acres
of land
machine company Of Paterson, New Jersey,
employs 200 hands and turns ont 20 locomotives
and $500. 900 worth of cotton machinery yearly.
Chas. A. Clark, of Psscsgoula, Mississippi, has
invented wonderful apparatus for catching
fish"
It is said that the cranberry crops in South
Jersey the present season were never so great and
profitable.
During the week ending November 18th, there
were Is, ,l54 cases boots and shoes shipped from
Boston, of which 1906 cases were shipped to New
Orleans.
The Hartford Eyelet Company runs twenty-one
machines, each capable of turning out 100000
eyelets daily. Fourteen machines make shoe eye
lets.
In 1867, the United States imported s., 900 900
worth of eyelets. but we now export as many. A
Providence company turns out 500. 900 eyelets per
day.
A large yield of upland cotton, from the Dixon
seed, is reported in the, neighbOrhood of Wood
vile, Miss, where thirteen bales were picked
from field of six acres.
The secretary of the Georgia Fruit Growers
convention, hopes soon to perfect "Green-Line"
system between Atlanta and New York for the
shipment of fruits and vegetables.
Baltimore has about fifty establishments for put
ting up fruits, vegetables and oysters in hermeti-
caly sealed vessels, and about S. 900 900 capital
invested in the business.
The aggregate supply to Chicago since the be-
ginning of the present season of feathered game
has been: quail 30 600, prairie chickens rs ,OOO
wild ducks 5000.
The manufactures of Philadelphia have more
than doubled in amount, capital, productiveness
and importance since the census of 1850 was
taken.
The number of iron establishments in Chicago
amount to 100, in which about SIS, 900 900 is in
vested, and which does business of about $751;
OO0,OO0 per snnum.
Rockingham county, N. c., produced one-third
more tobacco this year than last while the quanti
ty planted was about one.fourth less. The quality
is twenty-five per cent. better. The corn is at
least double that of last year.
French Photographic artist has discovered the
means Of taking pictures, by Photographic pro-
cess, upon silk. They are very durable. A gen.
temsn can have his wife's portrait upon the end
of his cravat.
To encourage investments in manufacturing,
the municipal authorities of Macon, Ca, have
passed an act to exempt manufacturing estab-
lishments driven by steam power from taxation
for thirty years, and those driven by water power
are exempt for sixty years.
The Tampa True Southerner learns from reliable
sources, that Massachusetts company have pur
chased the lots in the rear Of the courthouse, for
the erection of an establishment for the manufac-
ture of wooden ware. That is move in the right
direction.
The patent Office has received from Boston an
application for patent on an improved machine
~ ~.--S~ss.-s paper coiiars, which
will emboss and cut 100000 collars every ten
hours, with the assistance Of q single laborer to
feed the machine.
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Perhaps, when years have passed away,
Mid scenes of times zone nv.