American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-11-13
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The Booze Co;ton MAl Of Lowell, Mas'.,
has declared dyidc"d Of SIX per cent on iiS
capital and the Y" Manufacturing Compa- |
~ has divided twenty rcr cent. among it, |
shareholders this year.
The exports from the United Sac last year
were SI39 G00.G0O OF which SI53i, million
went out in Amcric N vessels, and S!s5' mi / /
ions in foregr vessels Tue British Empire
took about $40 900 600 or nearly three-afth
of tie whole.
La year over 100 tons of shipping was
but on the Pacific coast of the United states.
Il, Is est mated that there are so cotton M IL
in the United States, runnings.nearly 7G00eGt
spiudlcs. OF these mills 80 are in New En-
gland, running about 5,o0o 900 spindles
At kangaroo hunt recently, near Vel
borrne, Australia coo OF these animals were
killed.
A new wooden fact ry has usi Gtca started
At Geclong. y. 5 W.
The M"lbnurne Meat-prr.' rviug Con,par!
are turning l0GGO cans OF meat PEI week, AID
have a steady demand for much more.
The British Association for the Advancement
OF Science, snce it's organization, thirty-e;ght
years ago, has appropriated $lGS,SoJ Tor scien-
tifc purposes
The value of Goldfish exported from New
foundland, amounts to $40 600 coo =. aual!y.-
al,
live hands, is in successful operation at Ameri-
Gus, Ga.
gin the first six months of 1890, Francc i'm
ported who tvaluel at 10, J57 600 frarcs Against
229 Gys, 900 francs for the same time ill les.
In lSGS there were l3G, go bushels of onions
received in London, from Ororto.
A tack and shoc-knife factory in South Ham
over, Mass, employs 50 hands, and consumes
300 tons o. iron and $50 %ons Of s:elter annual
Ily.
~1n Germany, there arc 1900 cooperative 40
c;eties with all aggregate mcmbersh p of LEGO
40. Their business transactions last yeaI
amounted to 2ao roo, 900 thalers.
During the first six months of 1859, France
exported butter Of the value OF 3!,0i4, 2Ut
'rancs, and eggs 1905, 500 francs.
Three counties in New York,-renSalacr
Saratoga and washinston-produccd 1000, Coz
bushels Of potatoes rer annum.
The annual product of coffee, IN the variou
countries OF the world, is estimated at 7la,OGO-
600 pounds, Of which Brazil produces 4,0OO,G0
pounds
New York city c1perds annually. S2,OOO,Oc
for eggs.
The Richmond Va, tobacco factories. durn
the list twelve months, have turned out II
coo 900 pounds of chewing, and so 600 pound
# smoking tobacco, ON which the internal rev
cnue tax was nea'l y S000,GO0
The cotton exported from. fndn. in 1864
was valued at 1850 900 that of 1863, is e.
r imoted at over Sl0O,0C0,GO0
t. During the year ending 3I-t August, IS6!
II he receipts of peanuts in Nor.ortk, Va, WI
~, 800 bushels
a Tho past seas, n, Peter Magrus, OF Co!oraj
t, raised 65is bushels of wheat on ole acre
/: land.
D. A cranberry log in Was inGton Territor
e. produces 100 90 bushels OF crauberri,s annua
re ly.
As one Of the results of the slate un7leasan
Il ness it is said England is losing her cote
i, trade, and the United States their shippiI
l. trade.
The consumption Of beet-root sugar in L
rope, in the FIRST hall Of 1869, was G>O,0O0 ton
In England, pair of common s-pound blan
cts cos : $ "A gold. The U. 5. duty IN the
s.. on; being ffty-four cents more thou-t
orig nal cost
&c Dressed fresh beef has been shipped from
At Louis to New Tork, in refrigerator cars.
lie Within the last twenty years, over ITO
h, Chinese have arrived in our country of the:
~ more than 80 COO have gone back dead or ally
lc In the year 1868 there was b,o5ghi il
r. the markets OF Earope, i,39is76'T ound1 of II
- silk, and 10 80, 40 pounds Of thread silk.
A shoes ring factory a. Warren, RI. e.
III 1loys 100 braidtrs, aud turns out 1000 gross
It shoe strings daily. They are made of colt
Dd thread and tipped with brass.
9; Two boys, one IL, and the other } years 9
sons of a deceased Consedernte soldier. ha
this season culriv ttel thirty acres of land irt
which they have raised three bales of colt,
Ill 30 OF corn. and plenty potatoes and ve-etabl
e. OF the S345 millions of foreign merchf
vt disc imported into the United States last yc
IS. SI2o millions were articles Of necessity, s.
mr. m lions articles OF comfort, and SIS millic
articles Of luxury.
- The annual aggregate product OF the dom
~ tic industry of the United States, is estma
" At $1,000, 600, 900.
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