The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-28
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Australia shipped $40, 900 600 worth OF gold to
England in 1868.
Over 10000 toy drums are annually made in
France.
New Ybrk imported last year $50 casks and l3,
600 cases olive oil.
Burlington, VT, received $4,000 900 reet Of
lumber ID 1868.
San Fiancsco exported 1900 hides, 77,OOC
horns snd - ,225,O00 pounds of wool last year.
Tie iddian wars during the las. twenty years
have cost the UEited States $3.50 100000.
Broom corn is selling in ST. Louis at 1925 per
ton.
About eco coo bushels Of oyster shells are an.
nuslly cdnver!ed into lime in Baltimore.
Georgt has 30 600 acres OF land, valued at
ss7,lI7ObO.
Chicsgp has 2COO drinking saloons, which re.
ceive sld,OO0, COO per snnum for drinks.
pin factory in Connecticut turns out nearly
1900 ,00dpins per day.
ciizl OF Warren county, Miss, ia culvstIng
sparrOwd to help destroy the cotton worms
Female laoorers on farms in Massachusetts, earn
from 81 70 81 so per day.
Extensive glass works are 10 be erected at New
Albany, by.
1t is \ mated that 1000 900 tons OF meat arc
annually consumed in the United States.
The United States Patent Office has received
40 sppl fations for patents upon vslocipedes.
New York city has Is public markets and about
500 private ones.
The Average yield of cotton per acre in Egypt
is from eco to 800 pounds
There pre- eight wooden factories on the Pacific
cosst-fdur in California and four in Oregon.
The Naumkeag Steam Mills, in Salem. Mass,
produeeJ II 900 900 yards Of cloth in 1868.
There hre 100000 acres ia Florida subject to
location under the homestead act.
A Cincinnati firm is said to be making 1000
yelocipeses per week.
AnAnl emeDts are being made to erect large
cotton fictory in Camden county, n. ].
Acoberatve boarding house is IL successful
operation in Boston.
The NJ Nv York ferries carried 50. s2l .274 per,ons
in lsGs.
scotlaid has LAG cooperative associations. The
profits rdalized in ls6s amounted TO 1895 900
Califoiia produced 1917 pounds Of raw silk last
year.
yi1Tard Of five acres in Calcssieu parish
La, yieSed 5000 gallons of wine last season.
Alaska sent 225,0 600 seal skins to market last
year.
Great Britain and Ireland had 224 900 acres ia
FAX last ear.
The q rmsnia Beet Sugar Company, Of Illinois,
work ups tons of beets daily.
May" lie, KY. shipped $500 pounds of ginseng
TO Chino last week.
Chafld ton, S. c., paid s4s 600 for her orphans,
and $40 bO for her psupers last year.
Last lar New York imported 30 400 packages
OF smoHts, 1900 packages Of Wslnuts aud 5000
PACKAGE of flberts.
There las s2S 100000 in gold in the San Fran.
cisco "a ngs Bank in December, 1868, belonging
to n ,UOy depostors.
The ericsn steamers from San Francisco to
Hong h Pc made ten voyages last year, carrying
4OOo past ngers, and Sc 743 600 in treasure.
Thouse de OF bushels Of good sound corn can be |
mao In Il county, Va, at twenty to thirty cents |
per BUSH y.
DuTinaihe seven years from 1861 to 1867 IncIu.
sive, BrsYl exported diamonds valued at FL $780,
900.
The s1rsge daily production of petroleum in
Ponnsy MIA during January was over ten thous.
and barr 8.
The lchburg, Va, papers are advising the
citizens II that place to establish manufactures of
various. DOS.
A coz ferative printing company has been or.
gained New York city with q capital of $40, 900,
in 1000 ares.
Cliy hhDuhly consumes 81 OOO.O0O |
pounds butter, " 900 eco pounds Of cheese, aud
70, 600 gallons OF milk, valued at $50 900 OOO
II is nlated that $50 COO 600 are annually ex.
pended the United States in public and private
charities
fenneIsee and Georgia, it is said, will have
10, eOO,OGs bushels of corn for export hi.
season.
Oil bo&ars in Calcasieu parish, La, have stru,k
! min .irr |
Get.
The waol crop Of California for 1853 exceeds
lS,ooOOT pounds, of which $500, 900 pounds ia
'onsumef by their own manufacturers.
Giouct 3ter Mass, has 200 fishing vessels
low on r. banks. Fish are abundant. One yes.
el recerIly brought ia l0G 270 Goldfish.
About 70 GOO, goo pounds of ultramarne are pro.
uced anSuslly, principally 10 France aud Ger.
many.
Duringsls6s Cuba exported 549,74l hogsheads
nd l,74ES22 boxes Of sugar, and 25s. 900 tons Of
lolssses
During the six years ending January Il,
500, h tre was 1898 200 600 in cold sold on .o
cunt of sbe United States.
The superintendent of lands and inm;oro,;or, =,
'lsbamj has received from Europe an order for '
Gao O05 cres Of land. q
potatoes | "
ear was; Louisiana l62 bushels, Minnesota III Il
ermont lS5, Alabama and Texas but 81.
Of sorghum molssses the yield DER acre vas
Ioroa t66 gallons, Nebraska l26. Connecticut :,
o. Wisconsin l2i, and Texas lO7. n,
The agricultural department at Washington 81
ca distributed s92 COO packages OF seeds LAST It
ar. ''1' 10
in Houston county, Texas, the MARYLAND
ammoth F" corn produces one-thrd more than ST
y other corn planted In that section-sixty ear. Al
aking bushel. az
In 1865 the British government collected revs. iu
of $4,000, ooc from tes ccfee, sugar. and mo. en-
SEES, and fl2. 100000 on spirits, wines and 10. m,
eco. th,
produced last year lao 900 900 GAL pa
Oh petroleum. S5,Ooo,ooo tons Of coal, and Of