The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-21

Prepared for the New orlssn, Crescent

L Europe procucoo olV,oUO tons Va Deoefoos
| sugar last year.
During the last eleven years over $4,000 Ger
j mans arrived st New York.
l The stock of sugar in the principal European
markets January LIST, 1869, was 3l6.446 tons.
| San Francisco exported sec, 35s, O97 in treasure
during the year 1868.
The fifteen late slsveholding States produced
4l0432 900 bushels of corn last year.
! During 1868 there was slGO 100000 worth of
shoes made in Massachusetts,.
| Maine has s4O,O00,OO0 capital employed in man.
ufacturing.
1t takes 400. 900 900 pounds of rags to supply
the paper mills of the world year.
| Last year I'll 1853 immigrants arrived at New
York, OF whom lO4, SIS were from Germany.
l The petroleum trade of Pittsburg amounted to
| $4,000 900 last year.
| The Antiquarian Society library of Worcester,
| Mass, contains $4,000 volumes.
The Bodleian library, at Oxford, England, con-
tains $50 900 volumes.
In Berlin, Prussia, 1000 horses were slaughtered
| and sold for human food last year.
1t takes Il, 900 900 yards of sacking annually, to
bag the California grain crop.
II is said that an acre Of peoples will yield fifty
pouuus or opium, worth us 70 $50 pound.
The sugar crop of Cuba amounts to about 60O-
900 tons per annum.
The railroads of Massachusetts, last year carried
6.537,000 tons of freight.
The Tennessee river is being improved at an ex.
pense Of s4,050,O00.
II is estimated that the residents Of New York
city consume 81, COO oranges daily.
The citizens Of Milwaukee are said to drink
s4,O6s, 900 worth of liquors annually.
Massachusetts expended over 81 200, 900 last
year building schoolhouses.i
The pork dealers of Cincinnati are said 10 have
made s., 900, 900 the past season.
In 1858 there were $4,000 bales of cotton
shipped from Norfolk, Va.
Cotton grown in 1889 was sold in Augusta. Ca,
last year. How long will cotton keep
The James river and Kanawha Canal and
branches, 22l miles long, cost $40, 437 900.
Between 1880 snd 1861 the tolls of the Erie
Canal were reduced from SO % to 81 40 per ton.
England has "A ,00o.0 600 acres of land, of which
only ls,O0O0 900 acres are under tillage.
factory in Greensboro, N. c., turns out daily
HOO ak and pick handles.
A bakery in Chicago consumed 80 ,l69 barrels of
-four last year.
San Francisco has ten daily papers, embracing
two in German and one in the French language.
Ipswich, Mass. makes annually $4,000 Goldfish
lines, worth fifty cents each.
The tanners of Chicago turn out annually about
100000 sides of leather. and 100000 sheep skins.
1t takes p, 4SO 900 clover seeds to make bushel,
and 81 $4,000 timothy seeds make bushel.
The Wando Company of Charleston, S. c., is
turning out daily 10 tons of their prepared phos-
phate, and the demand is daily increasing.
The intarnaI ravauua NJ thu TTo;ta5 c.atoa g.
1868 was slsl ,ls0,564, being $74, $4,000 below
that of 1867.
The railroads of the United States are repre-
scented by nominal capital of nearly 81, 600 OO0-
600.
scythe factory at East Wilton. Me-, employs |
twenty operatives, and turns out 1000 dozens |
scythes annually.
The annual yield of the maple sugar in the |
United States is 10 O000O0 pounds, and ,597, 900
gallons of syrup.
About 200 900 valentines were sold in New
York city week before last, and 10000 sent \
from the manufacturers there to other cities.
The shoemakers of Chicago propose organizing |
q cooperative association, with 100000 capital.
to manufacture shoes.
New York city has IS ice houses, with capacity |
for ssS4.00o tons. capital Of s3OOOOOO is in
vested in the business.
There has been 100000 worth of mules sent
South this season from the Kentucky "bue grass
region"
The Boston and Albany Railroad Company has
established railway library Of 1000 volumes for |
the use Of its officers and employees.
During the season Just closed Cincinnati has
slaughtered $50. $50 hogs, about 10000 less than
last season.
The Chickasabogue paper mill, near Mobile,
makes an excellent article of paper from the
stalks of the okra plant.
The exports of tea from China and Japan for
The season, up to Sd January 1869, was 100 900 900
pounds.
The importation of sugar into the principal
markets of Europe during 1868, was l,O5O,eOO
ions.
During the week ending 30th January, more
han 100000 pounds of tea arrived at London
rom China and the East Indies.
The total receipts of wool at New York in 1868. |
we're 47,Os7.o 900 pounds, and the stock on hand
january lat. 1869. was 1882, 900 pounds.
The Massachusetts, society for promoting aeri
culture will. LIST March, 1872, award prizes Of
300 and $500 for the two best establishments in !
hat State for the culture of fish.
The Georgia White Oak Lumber Companv. |
organized year ago, now have in operation on
he Ocmulgee river, floating steam factory turn.
ng out 1900 finished pipe slaves per day.
recent estimate makes the total quantity of |
'od. in all shapes, in the hands of man, equal to
100 0O00 900 ounces and of silver about 400 600 600
in value to g zoo, 600 600 sterling.
The debt of the State of New York is s44. s43..
90; the debt Of New York city and county ia
52190,0OO and the debt of the city of BROOKLYN
) SIS, sos, 600.
The aggregate wealth of Great Britain is est.
lsted at $4,000, 900 900, and its annual ne. in.
rease at $50 600 600, or about eighty three hun.
redths of one per cent. per annum.
The United States annually exports to Brazil
omestic products valued at 81, 055, 600, and i'm.
crts from there sls,l32.OOO in return, of which
yer sl5, 600, 900 is in coffee.
A canal has been proposed to pass steamboats,
ON Gadsden, on the Coosa river, to Guuter,s
anding, on the Tennessee, the distance being /.
bout rs miles.
Seven companies are engaged in working the L
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