The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-05
InDUsTKIAL ITEMS. ETC.


York, rents for $4,000 per annuu1. ...--.....
The total exports from Honolulu in 1867
amounted to $67 800 900 in value.
the police station houses in New York city.
The Illinois Central Railroad expects to trans
port 40 900 head of Texas cattle during this year.
Hueces county, Texas, has 100000 head OF cat
tie. 10000 horses, loOOOO sheep and 81, OOO goats
Powers the sculptor, has made 500 busts since
1888.
II costs the government slO7 900 per annum to
light the public buildings in Washington.
The wool product OF Australia Is now Valued al
$50, 600 900 per annum.
Denton county, Texas, has already this season
sold cattle to the smount OF sl25 200.
II is estimated that the people of Paris snnu-
ally expend s., 600 900 for flowers.
It is said the Abyssinian expedition has cost
John Bull $25 900 600.
Texas sent lIO,OO cattle to New York last sea-
son.
from Detroit to New York this spring.
The average annual consumption OF foreign
wool in the United States, is 10000, 600 pounds.
Louisville consumed over 100000 barrels OF
| Pittsburg coal last year.
The tax of one cent per box on matches netted
| the government 81, 500, 900 last year.
Political strawberry festivals are quite popular
| in New York.
Bokhara, in Asia, just captured by the Russians,
! has population of 100000.
The new postofice to be built in New York is
| TO cost SO 100000.
II is said Sc 900 900 worth OF straw goods are
| annually manufactured in Philadelphia
MIR. Colt, of Cleveland, Ohio, grows l26 bush6ls
strawberries to the acre.
The public debt of Brazil is estimated at s247,.
| 600 600.
poultry dealer in Norfolk, England, fattened
| IL 600 geese for market last season.
Lowell has 43S,4 AIS spindles and $4,000 spin
| sters.
4 the revenue thieves.
/ Emigration from Germany to America IS ex-
pected to reach $50 900 this year.
1 The average yield of wheat in the United States
/ last year was less than II bushels per acre.
The average price of female labor in the English
/ coal mines is Is. I'd. per day.
Fine mutton sells in New South wales for one
| penny per pound.
| cultivation this year.
| In 1867 the United States had 80, IA miles OF
railroad costing, il is estimated, 81 600 900 600
| equal TO nearly two-thirds of our national debt.
This years clip Of wool in Australia is said to be
the heaviest ever known there by some twenty
per cent. 49,,
Toulumne rivers, California, there Is an almost
| unbroken grain field of 100000 acres.
At Windsor, Canada, paper mandatory has
been put up which annually turns out 1000 tons OF
paper, made chiefly from poplar wood.
A beet sugar company was formed 10 Saera.
mento California, with a capital of 100000, and
stock all taken up in four days.
/
Wyoming, N. Y. When ready for market they
bring from $40 to 5000 per acre.
| A sugar refinery in kaysville, n.y., makes
''superior quality of good grained, wel-haVored
SUGAR. from sorghum.
ioint stock Company has been formed in Gin.
einnati, with capital OF $4,000, to manufacture
The oyster product on the Maryland portion Of
Chesapeake bay is estimated at IL 100000 bushels
The bricklayers of New York, 5000 in number,
have adopted the eght-hour rule, and wages
| 81 so per day.
The Chicago postotiice received last year Ior
distribution So 1874 600 letters and 81 l47 900 were
| sent from the office during the same time.
Alabama, Pennsylvania and New York are OF
the same size, the area of each being 46OOO
square miles.
lation of 90 900 copies, the Telegraph about l4O,
OOO and the Standard 10000 copies.
The stock of pork on hand in New York on the
t LIST of June was $3.50 barrels, against 3,l5I
| barrels same time last year.
, A single stalk of the Canada thistle is said &c
| mature more than "a 900 seeds. This rapid re-
production should teach everyone to regard it Is
| an enemy and destroy 1t wherever found.
| The total value of imports into Louisville by
| al and river dnrin9 the yeas sASi-s u@soL OF
} fstsa W .sI ssa nnn and the exports for the
!, same time Amounted to sl6l $4,000
! | The public library in Stuttgart, Germany, has
il is said the largest collection OF Bibles IN tht
world, amounting to s544 volumes, in sixty DIFF
ferent languages. ...,o o,o
IN "Reminiscences of various kinds, and their ag
cregste products last year amounted to over slO,
= hiring the year ending March 81, 1868, Louis
vile imported 45O 900 barrels OF SAT-, osGOS pays
coffee, $500 hhds. and As, SOC barrels and boxes
sugar ard l56, 600 bales Of cotton.
In the rural districts of England many OF IN
p bee mattresses make comfortable living by sell
l. ing honey. Why may not many OF our souther
H.
y The American Watch Company at Walthau
IS Mass. manufacture $4,000 watches annual.
70 They employ $50 operatives one-third OIL Who
l. are women. =, 4,
re- REQUISITES for making every description OF pape
le from the common wrapping to the hnest DOCK
e, A firm in Middlebury, Summit county, Ohio, al
I'd making daily 1000 feet of stone drain tile, aVera
inc inches diameter. They employ 20 men, al
is use capital of over $4,000.
ch Alta Christmas party in Rome last winter
IN Americans were present, and similar numb
h. | attended the preaching OF New OK clergyn
Ii | in Dresden a few Sundays ago.
to | leather cement has been discovered III En-
be land, by which patches can be put upon the y
to pers and soles upon the bottoms OF Shoes so 10
to neither heat, cold, oil or water will operate agar
ir- a Gentleman at Annapolis has commenced {
ce cultivation of crabs. He fenced in cove ne
tie the mouth of the Severn, and stocked 1t WI
Ills 1000, which he feeds on coarse hsh or any n
)rs of refuse meat A.,
~ A farmer in Genessee county, New York,
m an apple orchard Of six acres, from which ne
Tal sold during the last six years 5000 barrels Oh
RS, pies netting 623, or over $500 per acre ca
nj wear.
rat In was said in the House Of Representatives
lot other day that "before the war the South G.
ch sumed 80 600 900 gallons of whisky annually ,wh
Die was distilled in the Northern and Western stat
Ter and now the South makes its own whisky {
ain does not pay any tax on it."
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