The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-09
ISDUsTRIAL ITEMS, ETC.

Prepared for the New Orleans Crescent
The cost Of hghting the streets of Boston last
year was S237,272. -
California produced last year 600, 900 pounds
Of butter and 900 900 pounds Of cheese.
In the years 1866 and 1867 there were 5000
houses built in Pittsburg, Pa.
Iceland has 6OO,0 600 sheep, 10000 houses, and
"a, 900 horned cattle.
Isinglsss has been discovered in large quanti-
ties in Catawba county, N. @.
Boston uses daily 1880, 900 gallons Of Cochitu-
ate water.
Sixty five counties in Ohio have 547O,s97
sheep.
Northern Minnesota has a ridge of slate over
twenty miles long and six miles wide.
The crop of sugar in Cuba for 1865 is estimated
al about 900 900 boxes of 400 pounds each.
In 1866 there we're 1888 marriages and l55
divorces in Vermont.
The library attached to the Scientific School of
Yale College Contains 10 900 volumes.
Ii Ia said that $40, 900, 900 worth of blooded
horses are owned in New York city.
One half Of the land under cultivation in Utah
Kenosha county, Wisconsin, last year made
81 ,032,O0O pounds Of cheese.
Denton county. Texas, has already exported
$40 coo Of wool and bacon this year. ..
There are 10000 mowers and respers annually
made in the United States. 5000.
The slate pencil facto.y near Heaths Ferry,
Vermont, turns out 100, 900 pencils per day.
There are AZ 29l farms in Texas, averaging 59l
acres. $3.50. 1000, -.
The total length of European telegraphs is
So $40 miles.
The coal produced in the world 10 1866 was
III 900 900 tons.
London has one baker for every 12O6 persons
one butcher for every 553; one grocer for every
1900; and one publican for every 66S.
Plant pecans, and in ten years you will have
a magnificent grove, and an annual income not to
In England and the United States there have
been 81 patents issued for improvements in type
setting and distributing machines since 1921.
The zinc works at PotOsi, Washington county,
No., are turning out 1900 to l40O pounds of zinc
Late improvements have so perfected type
setting and distributing machines, that young
lady sets 1000 ems per hour with ease:
The annual fabrication of calico In Europe Is
estimated at 1900, 600 pieces, and 10 valued at
II is stated that 81 $50 900 900 are annually
expended upon military ornaments by $50 cslled)
Christian nations.
A National Agricultural Exposition will be
opened at Santiago, in Chill, south Amercs, on
the first day OF April, 1869.
Letter envelopes were first made by Brewer, a
bookseller in Brighton, England, abJut forty
The farmers at Tampa and Clear Water Hsrbor,
Florida, have already engaged their present crop
of oranges at $40 per thousand.
The number of immigrants to the United States
from 1890 to LIST January last. has amounted to
6,70l 4Sl persons.
pleted on Wards Island, N. Y, that will accom-
nOdste 400 patients.
In San Msteo county, California eighty acres
of chicory are growing, which is already engaged
by a company 10 San Francisco, at $40 per ton
The aggregate annual revenue collected IN
Great Britain from tobacco, spirits, wine and
beer, is f32, 6S3 900.
IN h said the annual average loss to the farmers
of the United States by hog cholera ID not less
Than SIS, 900 600.
A gentleman at Montsouri in France. proposes
,plsn for a menagere to contain 10000 live
Insects for public inspection.
1t estimated that the gold product of North
Carolina between the years 1885 aud 1857
amounted to more than S25 100000.
The Newfoundland seal fishery is quite proita
ble this season. Already ass 900 seals, wortt
upwards Of 81 900 900, have been taken.
The entire product of the Lake SUPERIOR copper
mines from lS45 10 the end of 1857 was 1000
tons. The product Of 1867 was IL ,73j tons.
fruit grower in Wood county, Ohio, sell
$4,000 worth of apples annually, from youni
orchard Of fifty acres
weather the retail sale of cigars fell of 20 pc
cent. at various places in Pennsylvania.
There are s5S oil refneries in Pittsburg an
neighborhood, which employ 200 operatives
whose wages amount to $500 600 per annum.
Among the Southern products sent North
steamship from Savannah took 400 terrspins
short time ago. They were valued at 50 so pc
The price of wheat in England for some tim
past has been "a shillings per quarter, which, a
the present rate Of exchange, Is equal to aoou
So per bUshel in greenbseks
The ST. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Al
sociation will open their eighth fair on the 9Th q
October next, with schedule OF premium
amounting TO $25 000
Philadelphia has eleven molasses redneriei
nsng annually 10000 hogsheads molasses an
six sugar refneries, which take about lOO,OU
hogsheads of raw sugar.
The legislature of New York has made an al
preparation Of 81 600 to the heirs OF the Re-
Ghauncey Goodrich, IN consideration OF mis- Sc
vices, in producing the Goodrich seeding potatoe
The Female College, at Salem, N. O., had ~
scholars during the scholastic year ending Ma
1865 IL is the Oldest institution OF the Kind
the South having been in successful operation L
nearly hundred years
TIE Manassas Cotton Mills, at Carrollton, Miss
are now running 1900 spludes, IS looms, and I"
sets OK wooden cards. When their machinery
all up, they expect to furnish employment 4
800 operatives.
Thirteen years ago two men owned and work.
q slate quarry at Chapman, Northampton count
Pa. but with such moor success that one OF tne
sold out his interest for quart OF whisky. Nc
the quarry yields an income OF sSO'OOO p