The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-07
Ghe &fu Orleans Grssr.nl.
SUNDAY MORNING. MARCH Z, 1869.
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS, ETC.
Prepared for the Nsr Orleans cresc.ptl

PREPARED for the New Orleans Crescentl
New York city uses so 900 meat skewers daily
| The stock Of coffee in the United States at the
end Of February was LOG, 900 bags.
The quicksilver mines of Almsden. in Spain
yield annually $4,000 cwts. of quicksilver.
In 1868 the average yield of hay per acre In
Massachusetts was l.S7 tons.
New maple sugar is for sale in the northern
market at 40 cents per pound.
California annually produces 4.OOO,Oo pounds
of quicksilver.
Cork trees are being raised in Florida from
seed procured from Portugal.
The rat population of Chicago is estimated al
| 10000 to the acre.
| There were 637l marriages, II ,259 births and
1893 deaths in Philadelphia last year.
The famous salt mine of Weliezka brings O net
annual revenue to Austria of f6O0, 600.
In surry county, Va, peanuts are the market
crop, for which they get 81 per bushel average.
The Danvers, Mass. carpet factory has paid II
| per cent. dividend in the past four years.
cooperative mandatory, with a capital OF
! $4,000, is to be started at st. Joseph, Mo.
Last year $3.50. Ole postage stamps were for the
| London Times.
French vineyards give employment to 900 900
people, and yielded 50, coo last year.
The brewers of Vienna produced and sold 24O,.
600 COO gallons of beer in 1868.
Silk-worm eggs sell at $40 per ounce in Cali.
fornia.
The crop of coffee in Java growing in 1865,
amounts to only 56s, 900 bags.
The stock of Manila sugar in London at the enc
of January exceeded 100000 bags.
In East Friesland, Holland, 1000 hives of bees
are maintained to the square mile.
German chemist has discovered the art Of
making artificial stone equal to marble.
1t is stated that Illinois manufactures more
whisky than any ten States in the Union.
Last yesr $3.50, 900 bushels of salt we're made at
Syracuse, N. Y.
A mandatory in st. Louis turns out l25 cook.
ing stoves per day.
A small district in the Mohawk valley sent
10000 pounds of honey to market last year.
Afarmer near Henderson, N. c., has planted out
5000 peach and apple trees.
In 1865 New York city received Is Az ,000 bush.
els of wheat. against 652 600 10 1867.
Chicago had 4, lss, 900 bushels of grain in store
on the 22d ult.
Davidson College, N. c., closed during the war,
now has over 100 students.
Fruits and vegetables shipped from Norfolk to
Northern cities last season Melted over 81 900 OOO
Last year st. Louis purchased 5000 bushels of
castor beans at 50 % to 81 so per bushel.
]. Il. Hendrick, of Port Gibson Miss, last year
raised SO bushels Of peanuts on half an acre.
South Carolina has three paper mills with q
capacity of 1900 pounds of paper per day.
1t is estimated that it will take Is 900 men TWEEN
ty years to dig the Darien ship canal.
O. roo
year.
The island of Crete produces 1000, 600 gallons
Of olive oil annually.
The United States consumes annually more than
400,eC0 tons Of sugar.
Columbus, Ca, claims. without reservation, to
have the best water power in the world.
The untimbered surface between the Mississippi
and the Pacific amounts to l 400, 900 square miles,
The annual trade of Venice, since her annexa-
ton to Italy, has been raised from $32, 400 900 TO
s45. 100000.
The exports of iron and steel, and manufactures
thereof from the United States in 1868 were valued
at s., l14,740.
During the four weeks ending February oath
there were ii .445 ceases boots and shoes shipped
from Boston 10 New Orleans.
In 1870 only 365 tons Of coal were marketed in
Pennsylvania. In 1868 there we're Il, sls 4lO tons
shipped from the mines of that State.
At the Nscoochee mine, Hall county, Ca, three
nuggets of pure gold were recently found, weigh
ing respectively $40, 249 and los dwts.
Mr.. Hills, of Vernon Center, Iowa, sold 300
pounds Of honey last season from 100 hives of
bees.
The North Carolina Land Company have sold
10000 acres in the eastern part of the State for
the purpose of establishing a colony of Germans
1t is said that threefourhs of the original forest
growth from the Atlantic to the Mississippi has
been consumed.
There are Sc cotton mills in the Southern States,
which run 225,OeO spindles and spin LAS 900
pounds of cotton annually.
In Boston women are taxed on $2S, 900 900 Of
real estate, $l3 900 600 of personal property, and
are not allowed to vote.
There are fifteen cotton factories in North Caro-.
lima. running 81 600 spindles and turning out OOe
600 pounds of yarn annually.
The " Mutual Aid and Improvement Society,"
an organization of pilots is in operation is st.
Louis.
The largest cargo of Italian marble ever sent I'D
the Mississippi river, was recently shipped from
here to st. Louis.
n ioONOiy hb OhiSOpoCy Mdcssg mdhtS over 40
different styles of locks, varying from % cents to
to 81 in price.
Last season, Mr.. ]. B. statham. of Kinds county,
Miss, sold $1,000 worth of peaches from an orchard
Of five acres, which came into bearing in 1863
The stock of sugar, LIST January 1869, in the
principal European and North American markets,
was .O0O tons 10 excess of that of 1868.
The Austrian Lloyds now possess q commercial
marine of seventy steamers, with an aggregate of
II 900 horse power and sc, 900 tons.
The average rate OF freight on wheat and corn
from Chicago to New York for the twelve years
ending in 1868, was IS OF per ton of 1000 lbs.
James A. Joyner, of LaGrange. Ca, has been
granted patent by the British government for
non vibrating propeller.
A number of northern manufacturers are look.
ing about Weldon, N c.. with view of estsb.
fishing factories there.
Efforts are being made in New York city to
establish an Architectural Library" which shall
he f,aa 70 al etndanfa ard