The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-15


farms instead of large plantations.
Cranberries have been selling ct $40 so to SIS
per barrel. ...
Patterson, N. j., has twenty.three manufac-
tering establishments.
Over 500 900 was paid for butter at St.
Albans, Vt, during the month of October.
The total produce of the Scottish iron works
last year (ls67) was ,o3l 600 tons Of pig iron.
Over one million syles day are manufactured
in one mill at Waterbury, Conn. tts5
Immense beds of chromium have been difcov-
cred in Maryland and Pennsylvania.
There are reported to be less than 300 pract-
cal shareholders in New York city. sr-w
A brig full Of peanuts, from Africa, arrived last
week in Boston. 3
The coffee production Of the world Is estimated
ct seven hundred millions of pounds.
The wheat crop OF Great Britain this season has
averaged 80 bushels per acre.
About 5000 saddle trees are annually made in
New BraHnsfels, Texas. ,...--.--
In 1866 there were nearly Is 900 900 pounds Of
grapes brought into Paris.
The stock Of Rio coffee In the United States on
LIST instant was 100 900.
Some enterprising men in Nashville have
started broom factory, two chair factories and
three soap factories, the largest in the South.
Samuel Edison, of vineland, New Jersey. has
raised this present season on his farm on Oak
road one tor of grapes ON one hundred vines. 1
The silk mills Of Paterson, N. j., have in the
aggregate about three thousand employees, the
most OF whom are children.
The corn crop of Louisiana, for the present
year, will exceed that of 1867 by 100000
bushels.
In Japan, paper is used in the manufacture Of
| fans, lanterns, umbrellas, pocket-books, coaks
| and even windows.
cotton batting factory which turns out about
four hundred pounds of batting per day, has just
| been started at Toledo Ohio.
French company has rented for sixty years
the right to plant fruit trees on the slopes of rail
| way embankments.
The sales of cotton goods by the mills at Lewis.
ton, Maine, in the quarter ending September So
amounted to $1.l42,679. 80
Two crops of currants, and two of strawberries
have been gathered this year in some parts OF
| Delaware.
The copper coinsge of 1867, in England. con-
sisted of 4s3 $40 pence, 250s 500 haifpence, and
5,Ol7 1000 farthings.
Hundreds of barrels of cranberries are being
shipped east from Minnesota. They readily COM
mand So to So rs per b1shel in that State.
| A, G. Tuttle, of Baraboo, Wisconsin, has
shipped this fall from his nursery. OF his own
trees 5000, and 10000 In all. r,s t.
The largest cattle owners in Texas are King q
Co., of Corpus Christi. Their focks and herds
nun Der 5000.
Franklin introduced broom corn into this
country. Previously brooms were made of ever
green boughs.
Mike Carney raised 24oo bushels of potatoes on
| ten acres of land, within four miles Of Maysyille
and sold them at sixty.fve cents per bushel.
A Tecumseh, Mich, correspondent of the West
| ern Rural gathered 4s5 cucumbers from single
hill of three plants.
The first coins of any metal issued by th'
| United States were three hundred tons OF copper
| cents coined at the New Haven mint 10 1857.
, | Messrs Wheeler q Jerome, of Albany. N. Y.
are now manufacturing paper boxes direct from
| the pulp, under two patents obtained last year.
A vein of manganese of superior quality hal
| been found on the farm Of Y. II. Psyton, neA
| Lynohburg..
, The Chicago Cutlery Company now employ 81
hands. and will soon enlarge their works to doubl
their present capacity.
The coffee plant is an evergreen shrub tina
| grows to the height of sixteen or eighteen feet
. | the berries growing in clusters like cherries.
9 A valuable vein of iron ore covering an area 0
: one hundred acres, has been discovered near Ps
tersburg, Va.
{ There are 233, 7l9 dealers in beer and spirits
Great Britain for the year ending March 81, 1861
+ They paid a. SIT 900 for licenses.
The Northwest produced in 1867, 100000 toni
}. of pg ircn, and 100000 tons of bars and plate
the total value being over s45 100000.
n The first horses introduced upon the wester
continent, were brought over by Columbus in b
| second voyage to America in l4sS.
o The territory between the Mississippi and II
:. Pacific Ocean yielded rs 900 900 bushels OF whe
in 1859, and in 1868 harvested 65,oOO,O(
!. bushels. 'tG t-t W t-
9 The imports of sugar from Cuba into the Unite
States for the first ten months of 1865 are 42i -
boxes and 543, 63S hogsheads, against 334,2
K boxes and 4s2, $3.50 hogsheads.
" During the three weeks ending the 4th ins
At there were 63,777 cases of boots and sho
sbipped from Boston, of which GAL cases NEAR
II ten per cent? were shipped to New Orleans.
1t In New York 1900 girls are employed in MAXI
Is paper boxes, and larger number in the man
Is facture of envelopes, for which they receive abo
Sc per week. trafl
10 The Arlington, Virginia, salt works have ID
Il. been leased for Ave years, by Nashville CO..
Id pany, at an annual rent Of s3l 200, the essees
IS, pay s45. 600 taxes now due. u.
There are thirteen steam thrashers now at wo
a. in Salinas Valley, Santa Cruz county, Californ
a threshipg out an average of 500 bushels per da
in and there is q demand for at least eight more.
OF Last winter the Legislature of Pennsylval
psssed q law infiicting Q fine of SIS for shoou
lie or killing insectverous birds at any season of
Oh year.
be A scientific paper published abroad decal
s. that until steel rails are adopted on all n
Id WAYS the liabilities of destruction to life will
perennial.
Dr. The San Francisco Bulletin says more far
le, have been cut up and sold in this State DUR
he the present year, probably, than in any TIL
m previous years."
Nv About dozen rabbits were let loose in Barw
park, belonging to gentleman in South Aust
:. Lie, some few years ago, and recently, in one ye
-. Is COO were killed on the estate.