, 1869-12-04

The Rhode Island cotton mills
employ 10000 operatives, and run
1000, 900 spindles.
Cuba promises a crop Of 745,O00
tuus of sugar and 365 900 hogsheads
Of molasses this year.
The New England Pin company
at Wiusted, is now averaging at the
rate of 2.Ol6,OOO per day.
The amount of tobscco inspected
in Virginia during this year ending
October l, was 7,567 hogshesds.
A New York company is convert.
ing the salt works at Eastport, Maine
into an iron smelling furnace.
A Providence man has invented a
Imachine for sewing books. 1t has
been put in successful operation.
The three canning establishments
of BridgetOn; New Jersey, expect to
put up 100000 cans Of fruit this
season.
The liabilities of the First Ma
tional Bank OF Nevada, are estimated
at 100000. The creditors are
chiefly residents of Nevada.
The Hinkley Knitting Machine
Company, at Bath Me-, sold recent,
ly. 1000 Of its machines to one per-
son. a
At Arlington, Virginia, the manu>
facture Of stoneware on an extensive
scale has recently been started. Clay
Of the best quality for this purpose
abounds in the vicinity.
A factory has been started at
Norway. Maine, for The msnufacture
of pulp Tor paper from poplar wood
The pulp is to be sent 10 Massachu>
sets to be manufactured into book.
covers, etc
1t is believed that the corn crop
will be l50,000,OOO bushels short of
the average, which is not lar FROM
$4,000, 900 bushels but other fuud
crops more thun mako up for the
failure in corn.
The cotton commissioner of the
Berars and Central provinces Of Iu.
dia bas issued his report of exports
10 Bombay for the past season. He
estimates the amount at 273.OOO
balrs. compared with 100000 10
lS67-6S, aud 276 0O0 in 1860.
The famous beds of phosphate of
lime, near Charleston, South Coro.
lima. cover an area of SIX or seven
hunnred acres. They are eighteen
inches to Two feet thick the phos,
phaie is worth in Charleston six dol>
lars per tan for fertilzing purposes,
and the the value of the entire de-
post is estimated at six million dol.
lars.
The Basin mill, at Orono, Maine,
is said to be the largest w.mill in
the world. 1t is 440 by &c feet,
has four gang, FIVE single, 2 circular
saws, FIVE lath machines, one shingle
and one ella pbonrd machine, aud
turns out daily 200. 900 laths, 10, 900
shingles and 1000 clapboards. 1t
is owned by the heirs of the late
General Veazie and rents for S25,-
900 per year.
An industrious aritbmetician has
calculated that the 100000 900
worth of gold sold 10 Wall street Oh
The memorable Friday. September
24th, would, allowing sixteen dol.
lars to an ounce and sixteen ounces
TO the pound, and two thousand
pounds to the tun and one tun to
each cart, require a thousand carts
to move il 4; aud, allowing twenty feet
to each horse and cart, the string Of
carts would be eight miles long.
DOYEsTIC LIFE IN TURKEY.-A
disgraceful scene occurred a short
tune ago in a Pasha's harem at
SerajeVo, in Bosnia. The Pnsha.
though a Mussulmau, was known to
have a great foDdne-s for the bottle,
and in one of his drunken fits be
beat his wives SO numerically that
the whole town was roused by their
screams. and the police bad to inter>
fere. During the disturbance one
of the Pashas wives escaped 10 the
Russian consulate, but she was given
up the next day. and it is supposed
that she has been murdered, as nOth-