The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-01

road.
Three dealers monopolizs the oyster trade in
Paris.
Paper boats have won eleven out of fourteen
races this season. = A
Pittsburg sends three tons Of grapes to Phila-
delphis daily. a ti-QTt2 t al
France produces about 275 900 900 gallons of
cider annually.
Chestnuts and hickory nuts will be very abund-
ant this fall.
Paris absorbs 1000. GOO pounds of grapes snnu-
ally. sa
Large worsted manufactures are being put up
at Pawtucket. r. /.
There are 1900 licensed cab drivers In Lon
don.
Hans Christian Anderson will be the prominent
literary celebrity in this country next year.
The American Tract Society of Boston has
again seeded from the New York society.
Prussia teaches seven languages in her primary
schools.
The French army eats more than 100 900 oxen
year. .sIOcATaZ
Naturalists have described more than 100000
| insects belonging to the order of coleoptera.
The Oakland Cotton Factory, at San Francisco
runs 80 looms and employs 40 hands.
A fruit growers association was formed at Stone
Mountain, Ca, on the goth October.
A merchant at Cincinnati has just filed an order
| for 10000 bushels of walnuts.
There is to be Q new wooden factory erected at
Sycamore, DeKAlb county, Ill.
| Much of the butter sent to Constantinople is
made from the milk Of sheep. 7rap
Cider is selling 10 Berkshire, Mass, at from 81
so to IS barrel.
Nearly nineteen millions of pieces of money
were issued from the English mint in 1867.
Amoney order system is to be established be-
tween Germany and the United States.
The bones of another msstodon have been found
in Canada.
The National Watch Company at Elgin, ILL.,, is
now turning out $500 watches menth.
The Massachusetts board, of agriculture has a
permanent fund of Soaps Al.
Iinseed oil cake is worth $50 per ton in Eng
land. f-f-r qsa U
It is estimated that so 200 persons in Switzer.
land are employed in making watches.
The salt trade of Chinatown monopolized by
Chinamen-employ lsOO junks and $4,000 sailors
The aggregate annual value Of watches made
in Switzerland is estimated at 60 900 900 francs.
Vermont village makes half million dollars
worth Of wooden ware year.
Cultivating our soil one inch deeper would ado
$3.50 900, 600 to the wealth of the country.
The fur trade of Alaska is valued at 81, 900, 00(
annually, in gold.
The value of the annual commerce Of the Mis-
sissippi is estimated at 81. 600, 100000.
England has three thousand steam piows, Egyp
two hundred, the United States two.
Mr.. j. G. Stroud, of Lockhart, Texas, has beef
granted patent for cultivator. a1
Naturalists tell us that there are GO dferen
species of oysters known, but " il would be diff
cult to describe them, even if it were necessary.
There are ffty-eight glass works In Italy, whicl
produce, annually, articles Of the value of 1927
725 francs. s..r ID
farmer at Clockville N. Y, has received thi
season, from thirty. six stocks of bees, thirty-fou
new swarms and $3.50 pounds Of honey.
A farmer in Vermont had to pay 1902 so TO
seven sheep and one lamb killed by his dog
Rather expensive dog.
! Large associations of wine growers from South
ern France are coming to the United States
grow grapes. rle -.l.a ....t.
ETlwanger & Barry of Rochester, N. Y, from
half an acre in the Wilson's, Albany, gathered TIL
season 6400 quarts of strawberries.
The silk mandatory at Manchester, Conn.,,
| turning out a large quantity of very fine blac
silk goods.
In 1859 Philadelphia consumed 7os260O0 fe'
of gas !; in 1867 the consumption was III ,265 on
| feet
; The losses inflicted on French Agriculture
beetles have been estimated at ,lO0, 900 900 franz
4 per anDum.
. The Pioneer Wooden Mills at San Francisco RI
7 1000 spipdles and " looms, and employ from 8
to 400 hands.
4 The Marysville Wooden Mills, owned by joi
' stock company with $4,000 capital, are turnir
i out about $40, 900 worth of goods per month.
y The Marietta (Ga.) Journal says more than $50
|. 600 pounds of dried peaches have been shipps
: from that place this season.
d Sam Kinkle, an industrious freedman of Ma
Is shall county, Texas, expects to make thousal
n | brooms next year. --
!. crop of corn, raised within two miles Of De
d YER. gave sos and BIG bushels to the acre. 1t W
n | not irrigated once.
A. 1T is claimed that sweet potatoes dried 81
It ground make the best imitation of coffee that
1 known. -
: farmer in eastern Massachusetts, has made
Is net profit Of four thousand dollars on his oni
IS crop this year.
% The Manchester mill near Richmond, Va,
confined to the manufacture Of straw paper, al
or Geneva, with population of 1000 persons, pl
le duces annually 100000 watches valued at IL OO
lie 0O0frsncs.
Is, The peanut crop in Tennessee this season, /
a. been large. Merchants in Nashville are psyi
81 so per bushel for them.
The English trade returns for the first eie
:, months of 1868 show exports to be fll6,T7,O
against ELL O56, 900 for the same time in 1867.
ma There were IS 900 bushels of ice sold in Lyn
" burg, Va, during the last season. at the AYERS
nd price of IS cents per bushel. making In all $40 6
M company in Buenos Ayres proposes to ca
,rs living cattle and sheep to Europe, at the rate
bis 5000 of each monthly.
,u- Detroit is great market for onions, and b
as fair to supersede wethers6ed and other old G
nd necticut onion fields.
in. Mr.. Maddox, of Chsttoogs county, Ca,
Ir. shown the editor of the Rome Commercial seve
tly pecan nuts grown on q tree in his yard.
Is; In Alaska, wslrus ivory is found to the amo
If | H. bv;p cold