The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-21

Prepared for the New Orleans crsscsnt.l

Hampstead, Texas.
smelling works. covering seven acres. are now
being put up ct the Potos zinc mines in Missouri.
Pennsylvanis has 1880 common schools, at.
tended by zoo, 900 children.
The iron moulders Of Brooklyn. N. Y. propose
forming q cooperative association.
The order known as the knights OF st. Crispin
has over 100 goo members in the United States.
Indiana produced 50, 332 900 bushels Of corn in
1863 =.
The commerce between the great West aud the
West Indies ia estimated ct $50 900 900 per annum.
The washerwomen Of the United States are said
to earn $40, 100000 per annum.
The cost Of the Boston postoffice building and
lot win be 81. s72 600.
San Francisco has l7s cigar manufactures,
turning out so 900, 600 cigars annually.
Middle Granville, Conn.,, shipped 1900 tons OF
slate last year. .,s...5t
Forty tons of California mustard seed were late
~ shipped from San Francisco to New York.
A drove of 400 fat hogs from Texas lately ar
rived at Kansas City, Mo.
The United States Dspensatory, issued by Wood
& Bache, has circulated 100000 copies.
In 1867 America made 2l5,000ooo pounds OF
cheese, and Great Britain LIS. 00o,O 900 pounds.
The Apprentices Library In Philadelphia con-
tains 10 400 volumes.
There are in the Southern states 1o4 colleges,
with $40 instructors and II, 49s students.
The annual product of maple sugar in the
United States is estimated at 100000 pounds.
In 1860 Georgia made 700,o 600 bsles of cotton,
valued at $50, 100000.
in 1866 New York made butter valued ct seo,.
100000.
Last week a manufacturer in New York city
made contract for 5000 velocipedes.
The wood used for fuel by locomotives in the
United States costs $50 100000 per snnum.
The Meriden Brittania Ware Company turn out
81 ,O00,O 600 worth Of ware annually.
A ton and quarter of cow.tails were sold in our
market lately, at twenty cents per pound.
A short time ago an invoice Of sugar.cured hams
was shipped from this port to Havre.
Canada exports annually 100000 worth of
mink skins.
The sole-esther tanners of Baltimore turn out
$4,000 to 100000 sides annually.
Paramount Park, Philadelphia, contains 2240
| acres.
The crop of Valencia rasins of the past year
exceeded Is, 900 tons.
The present crop of wheat in Australia, is est.
mated at 100000 bushels, 000 900 bushels
more than will be needed for home consumption.
In England opium is admitted free of duty; in
France the duty is Is cents q pound, and in the
United States the duty is 50 so, gold, per pound.
The Pacific mills, Lawrence, Mass, with CAPT.
tai of $3.50 900, paid twsnty.four per cent. divi
dend in 1868.
A vessel from Turks Island, loaded with salt in
bulk, was discharged by the elevator at the rate
of ten bushels per minute.
The Hadley Thread Company. of Holyoke,
Mass, employs $50 operatives, and turns out 5000
dozen spools six-cord enamelled thread per day.
1t ia estimated by competent engineers that the
distractions to the navigation Of Bayou Teche can
be removed at q cost not exceeding $50 900.
The Rhode Island Locomotive Works, at Provi-
dence. have 600 men employed on engines for the
Pacific railroad.
mandatory of hubs, spokes, rims for car
riages, wagons, etc., and agricultural implements
generally, Is to be established in Grsrd, Ala.
Houston, Texas, has lard and bacon factory.
They expect to pack 100000 hogs next season.
One more step in the right direction.
Melbourne, Australia, In 1853 imported goods
valued at fl2. 406 600, and exported produce to
| the amount of Ella ,l7<,000. .f
| furniture manufactory has been established at
Pensacola, Florida, and is now in successful
| operation.
Northerner has rented a large farm near
Petersburg to plant in sorghum, and try the ex-
pertinent of manufacturing sugar from it.
| 1t IL estimated that since 1870 about 6,500,000
immigrants have arrived In the United States,
bringing on average 500 each.
II is estimated that more corn is annually turned
into whisky in the sixth district of Kentucky than
would be required to fstten 100000 hogs.
In England the annual consumption of iron is
about 10 pounds for each person in Belgium Ito
pounds, and in the United States l0l pounds.
There are forty-four railroads In Massachusetts,.
Their aggregate net income last year was IS 1885,
600.
A copper mine "of very superior richness'' in
Rowan county, N. G., is now worked by North
ern company.
In 1883 the exports from st. Domingo were
valued at s27, SIS 900. The annual exports now
do not exceed S. 100000
| The New York Association for improving the
condition of the poor have under their care 5ll7
families, comprising q. 600 persons.
| In the United Kingdom the annual average acre.
age in wheat is s.922 900, and the average pro-
duct Isl bushels per acre.
A farmer in Dooly county, Ga, last season,
made 272 gallons of good thick syrup" from half
| an acre of sugar cane.
The Philadelphia Salt Fish Desiccsting Company
employ 600 operatives at their new factory in that
| city.
The Houston Direct Navigation Company wiz
have six briggs built to ply between Galveston and
| New York.
The Gonzales (Texas) Inquirer predicts
crop Of 900 bales of cotton in that county this
| year.
| The editor of the Jimplecute has been pre-
scented by farmer of Harrison county two tur.
nips weighing twelve pounds each.
1t is estimated that the annual consumption Of
intoxicating liquors in Great Britain is LOIS 0o0,-
600 gallons, upon which tax Of $l20, 900, 900 Is
| paid.
4 Dy->.s f.I1s Oofun1buss Co., sud uofghborhood
will have 900 spindles running, and daily work
up ss bales Of cotton, besides many thousand
pounds of wool.
The Philadelphia U. S. Gazette says: "Beef Ia
now prepared in this city SO highly concentrated
that man can carry weeks board in his spec.