The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-13
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INDUSTRIAL IrEns. Ere.

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peach orchard of 20 acres near Dover, Della
ware, yields an annual income Of SIC, 900.
The Royal University at Berlin has this yea'
$500 students.
1t is estimated that there are 10000 blind per
sons 10 the United States.
The Scriptures have been translated into I4s
languages and dialects.
Ibe New York Herald claims to have cleared
100000 during the first half Of this year.
Chicago IL receiving 100000 bushels Of grain
per day.
The value Of the present grape croD In Chata.
qua county, N. Y, is estimated at $780, 900.
North river steamer took 10 New York on q
recent trip 5000 boxes of cheese.
st. Louis has 1864 licensed dram shops and beer
saloons.
The peach crop in the heighborhood of st.
Joseph Michigan, is estimated al 100000 baskets.
factory In Lancaster, ~. H., turns out 100
bushels Of shoe pegs daily.
The propnetors Of the white Sulphur Springs,
Vs.. will clear 800 900 this tesson.
Cincinnati is receiving ls, O.O bushels of peaches
per week.
The wheat crop of WISCONSIN this year aver.
ages 20 bushels per acre.
In Canada six bushels Of peas are considered
equal TO ten bushels Of cornf0r fsttening pork
The octroi duties In Paris last year amounted to
s20, $50 900.
Sir Robert Napier is TO have q salary of sI25-
600 per annum as governor general Of India.
Cleveland, Ohio, received twenty two tons OF
peaches by q single train on ihe 2Sth ult.
Newton, Md, has l63 sngls ladies', and only l6
single gentlemen.
III estimated that there are 2s,l45 900 neat
cattle In the United States, worth $3.50 900, 600.
1t Is said that New York city has German
population Of $50 600.
The United Kingdom Temperance and General
Provident Society has cap5al Of $3.50. 900.
During 1867 the British 5reweries consumed
Al ,ll3 900 pounds Of sugar.
One firm in Mnscatne, Iowa, has bought and
sold 10000 melons this season.
The silk weavers Of Lyons, France, number
about 100, 600 out Of pop Iaton Of 100000.
Lake county, Ohio, exported last spring, 40, 900
bushels Of potatoes.
The annual value of the sugar beet crop of France
ia about l 100 600 900 francs,
The Harpers employ more than 100 women In
their publishing establishment.
PARIS has 2,543 cafes and restaurants, In which
are 80 900 billiard tables.
Last year the United States exported Il, 65l ,2l2
bushels wheat.
France annually imports 100000 tons of
coal.
Forge village, Mass, makes daily 1900 pounds Of
horse shoe nails.
Paper made from tobacco stems for cigar wrap.
pers, is q late Hamburg invention.
Switzerland makes zJ3 600 cwts. Of cheese annu-
ally.
there was 8 stock of 54.O6s barrels of pork on
hand in New York, september lat, ls6s.
Itis stated that Memphis had 490 vacant stores a
short time ago.
There is said to be 1000 seeds of red clover in
pound.
LafOite & Co., glove manufacturers of Paris,
|employ IL 600 operatives, mostly women.
More than $50 000, 900 are invested in the mana
facture of cotton fabrics in the United States.
The crash mills, at Rockford. Ills, are turning
out 500 yards Of crash per day.
A company at Kennebunkport Me-, have put
up $50, 900 cans of Holsters this season.
California has 235 newspapers and periodicals.
Of which seven are in foreign languages.
The Atlantic cable is earning at the rate Of
~ 900 900 per annum in gold.
The Protestant population of France is said to
& be about 100000.
The cranberry crop Of New Jersey is estimated
at 40. goo barrels.
n The freedmen's bureau employs III officials,
hose salaries annually aIlount ~ $3.50, 459.
There are 1000 jourIsymen printers in Ger
many.
The Cotton map establishment, in New York
city, employs go hands.
There are liz wooden. mills in the State of
Ohio.
1t is estimated that $4,000 worth of camelias
sre sold in New York city during the season.
Last year the Hawaiiaa Islands exported 50-
zoo 900 pounds Of sugar.
II Hawleyville, Conn.,, Is 20 have q condensed milk
Factory Of 400 COW power.
During the year ending 3lst ult., Galveston ex.
ported 6400 bales wool and 20l 900 hides.
Last year Delaware sent 70 market lS5S 900
baskets of peaches.
British India has s9l3 miles Of railway in opera
|fion, and 1865 miles In coarse of construction.
The public school board of ST. Louis has pur-
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$3.50 900.
There are So glass making establishments in
Italy, which annually produce articles of the
value Of 10, 276,00O francs.
The peach crop Of southwestern Michigan this
season is estimated at from 100000 20 100000
baskets.
II is estimated that in hot day $50 900 glasses
Of soda water are drank in New York city, costing
the drinkers $4,000.
In Prussia the number of students is one out Of
every six Of the population; in Austria, only one
out of every ten.
Scotland has, on an average. one assassination
to every 270,000 Of population; Spain one to
every 1000; the Roman States one 70 every $50.
The editor of the Charlotte IN. Democrat
Mas received 81 pounds Of -four made from 80
.euDds of Lancaster red chah wheat.
! More than $4,000 messages are annually trans
lifted per telegraph between London and BON.
The total annual newspaper circulation in the
sited States is estimated ut 10000 900; in
aat Britain il il only 500 600, 900.
urng the last week Of August over 245 tons of
hes were shipped through Columbus, Ohio,
ne East.
re than 1000 steamers are employed on the
yn rivers and more than 1900 vessels are
yed on the lakes.
authorities Of Cincinnati have purchased
Handy Opera House, TO ht 1t up for a public
iry, paying sS3 900 for il.
he consumption of cotton in England Is said TO
'e increased 80 per cent. during the last ten
During the two weeks ending ID instant, 1875
ses Of boots and shoes were shipped from Bos-
for New Orleans.
During the first eight months of this year Chi.
go received 659,3l7 600 feet Of lumber, and
| .7TS 900 shingles.
During the last six months the Augusta FactorI
Augusta, Ca, has paid its stockholders a div
nd Of Nten per cent
This season gentleman IN Terry, Miss. gath.
from one peach tree seven bushel boxes of |
i, whfvh sold at 50 per box.
llegba.Ny, Pa has foving well OF salt water
me of It's streets, irons which 100 barrels Of
are msde daily.
re are in the United States about 30 manu-
les III paper collars. One In Springfield, |
made l6, 900 900 collars last year.
English company has extensive iron works |
lspab Mexico, in which they employ 600 |
labtbrers.
urtden years Franco has increased her ex- |
~ fmAnufactured articles from $4,000, 900 TO |
~ lOOt per annumE
tenI principal cities Of China, soon to be |
~ ted by telegraph have an annual foreign |
~ ce VI $500 900 ,000.
II ,tnAsted that the yield of wheat in Eng.
mid, yesir will exceed that Of 1867 by 4.67l,.