The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-28

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The heirs of Noah Webster receive s75 900 per
annum, from sales of the unabridged dictionary.
The English government collected last year
IS, 739. 800 revenue from duties on sugar.
Twelve factories in Lowell. Mass, employ
2.s42 hands, an average of l.O70 to each mill.
In London acorns are worth "a per ton. for feed.
ing pigs.
A ish farm has been started near San Antonio,
Texas.
cotton factory Is to be started at vaucluse. 8.
c.. with capital of 100000.
Lisbon, N. H., manufactures annually over co..
900 mackerel kits and SOC, 900 bobbins.
Near Godsboro, N. O., q sassafrss oil distillery
is in successful operations.
The Imperial Mills, of Oregon city, ship their
-four almost wholly to Boston.
There have been 2le improvements on skates
patented since 1s49.
The total annual crop of human hair now sold to
dealers is about 100000 pounds.
The Hoosae Valley Mills, at Pownal. Vermont,
made IS. 900 yards of cassmers during February.
mine of chalk has been discovered near Nil.
ton, N. O. f.t
The entire annual wool production of the world
is estimated at l,6l0. 900 pounds.
A Philadelphia firm runs seventy-fve looms, and
turns ont 600 900 900 yards of ribbons annually.
New York city consumes 100000 eggs per
week.
1t is estimated that the Southern States consume
100000 tons of salt annually. nA
The quantity Of coffee annually supplied by
Arabia Is estimated at Is 600, 900 pounds. IA
The coffee plant was first taken to Jamaica in
1872. a
Before the revolution st. Domingo exported
more than 10000, 900 pounds of coffee per annum.
Cornell University has q collection of shells
numbering 100000, representing II. 900 species.
The annual consumption of maple sugar in the
United States and Canada is estimated at 10000
| tons. l1 a.
One establishment in Connecticut makes annu.
ally 100000 worth of selves, cheese safes and
| coal. sifters.
The yield of copper by the Lake Superior mines,
since their first development in ls45, has been
80 237 tons, valued at s5l, 293,O0O.
Good farms in Germany rent for 500 per acre.
Good farms in Louisiana can be purchased for
$40 to $50 per acre.
DR.. John Bull, the sarsaparilla man, returns his
income for last year at sl40,225. Another proof
| of the value of advertising.
There are 70 mills for the production of cotton
and wooden goods now in progress of erection In
Georgia. a 8ss.e
| During the last three months of 1868 about
10000 sheep per week were slaughtered in New
York.
The annual revenues of Oxford College, Eng
land, are estimated at s6,0O0.000, and those of
Cambridge at 100000.
There are about $500, 100000 Of United States
bonds now held 10 Europe, and $500, 900, 900 of
| other American securities.
Southern writer says: The mainstay Of
Northern credit at all times its sole reliance at
| this moment-s Southern cotton"
During February, 1869. New York imported
goods to the amount Of $50 900 900, and exported
only 100000.
In Northern New Hampshire there are about
forty starch factories each turning out so tons Of
starch q year. worth $3.50 per ton.
Ellis & Co., of whitevilIe, N. c., have shipped
10000 scuppernong vines this season, to all parts
Of the States from New York to Texas.
A New York company propose erecting q man
ufsctory at Nashua, N. H., which will employ one
thousand men making steel rails.
The people of the United States annually pay
100000 for preaching and $500 900. 900 for
intoxicating beverages.
Four hundred joint stock companies are now in
process of liquidation in London. The total losses
by these companies was about $40, 000, 900.
London annually consumes 43 geo 900 gallons of
spirits and $1,000 pipes of wine, and gives con
slant employment to 2400 doctors.
A farmer in Lowndes county, Ala, last season,
made IS gallons of syrup from three.fourths of an
acre of sorghum.
The Augusta (Gs.) Cotton Factory has in oper-
alton 500 looms and 1900 spIndles, turning out
operatives and using los bales cotton per week.
Since the war. one firm in this city has made
and sold over 800 two, four. and six-seat Beaure-
gard rocksways. at $40 to $50 less than the same
articles of Northern make are furnished.
At the Falls of st. Anthony $2,563 900 are in.
vested in factories, which give employment to
over 1000 operatives, and annually turn out over
81, 0c0, 900 worth of products.
A Cooperative Foundry Association in Troy
N. Y, commenced operations in 1866 with q CAPT
tai of $4,000, which they have increased to
100000 and divided among themselves SIS, l54.
The number of sheep In South America is esti-
mated at 10000 600; and the exports of wool to
this country and Europe are 1900 900 pounds
annually.
In 1867 Michigan produced ,37S, us 900 feet of
lumber. 1t is estimated that the pine forests of
that State will be entirely cut down in seventeen
years.
A cotton mill in Macon, Ga, which cost $780,
600, paid sixteen per cent dividend last year. II
employs 125 hands and turns out 5000 yards of
cloth per day.
The museum of the Michigan State University
contains geological cabinet of IS 900 specimens;
over COCO specimens of minerals, and collection
of all the birds and mammals of the State.
The government Of Spain proposes to recover
the sl4,000,0o0 which was sunk in one of the
Spanish gslleons in the harbor Of Vigo by the
Epglish squadron, more than Us years ago.
The foreman Of frst-class piano mandatory
in New York says pianos which are sold for $3.50,
cost only about $40, and those sold for $1,000
cost but t475.
When the Erie canal was built II was designed
for vessels of 60 tons. 1t has since been enlarged
for those of $50 tons. 1t is now proposed TO make
IL large enough for ships of 1000 TONS
The Erie canal carried 1876 600 bushels of
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