American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-07-03
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.
WRIrTES FOR tbs CITIZEN BY "CHYRRu

Calicoes, made of paper, are now
sold III England.
New Hampshire has So savings
banks, with $l7 ,2GG,7 $50 on deposit.
The aggregate income Of seven
pork packers in st. Louis, last year,
was 5 ,02l, GOO.
The aggregate sales of thirteen Cry |
goods firms in New York, last year,
amounted to SAL, 10000.
Steinway & Sons employ over 700 !
men IN their piano mandatory in |
New York.
y factory for canning sweet corn
has just been erected at Farming
ton, Maine.
Subscriptions are being made to
establish a cotton factory at Quincy,
Florida.
A Loan aud Building Association
is being organized in Wilmington,
n. &.
The United States contain 3,57S,.
400 square miles of land, aud about
40, goo, 900 inhabitants.
a mine of rich silver ore has been
discovered lately near Fayetteville,
! From May 2Utn TO 'TUrTU TJrTr CrrT-
cago received daily l 800 bushels of
strawberries.
In 1868 there were 100000 bar
rels of beer brewed in the United
States.
Forsyth county, n. c., expects to
send 100000 worth of dried black
! berries to market this season.
In 1868, the Lake Superior dis.
trct produced ore and pig iron val
ued at 1902, 900.
The German Customs Ulion en-
ploy $4,000 steam engines in their
various manufactures.
The various Temperance Societies
of the United States have =, 100000
members.
Paris has 1000 goldsmiths and
Jewellers, who annually dispose of
goods worth 800, 100000 francs.
DR.. j. S. Hamilton, of Athens, Ga,
produced over 46 bushels of wheat
on an acre this season.
The New Jersey railroad carries
daily 240 tons of strawberries to
market.
There are spventy-One Masonic
lodges and 5000 Masons in MINES
ota.
Great Britain has 5000 steamships
running from England to foreign
countries.
\ colony of Poles have purchased
10000 acres OF land in North Caro-
lima, which they will occupy this year.
Europe consumes II goo, 600 pounds
of chocolate annually; the United
States only 1000, 900 pounds.
Austria has 5000, 900 ACRES of for
ests, produced by planting. They
are valued at several hundred mil
lions of flOrinS.
England imported 3,4GS, $50 gal.
Ions of red wines, and 1.276,jSl gal.
Ions OF white wines from France i'll
1868.
The Northern cities annually con
sumo ahout-2,0 1000, 600 lbs. of greer
turtle, New York city taking 800,
900 pounds.
OF 7,03G.00O cwts. of wheat i'm
ported by England during the frs
quarter of 1868, only 1,971 600 cwts
were from the United States.
: From June LIST, 1868, to April 10Th
1869, there were 40,1lS,000 pound,
of tea shipped from China and japan
2 to the United States.
+. Fourteen years ago the Boston
J Public Library contained only 2,00t
z volumes; now it has over 10000
volumes.
a whale was lately captured nea
the island of Madagascar, from whicl
was taken 2SJ pounds of pure am
T bergris, worth $4,000.
! In 1887 the penitentiaries in tn
United States contained 1896 con
!, victs, of whom 81 per cent had no
learned II trade.
A Washing writer estimates tina
~ DCl CNllis vi fIl lDC SdIdl ltS paul
I, department clerks in that city i
: paid out for liquors.
h The South American States hav
. over 40, 100000 sheep. and annual
f export to England and the Unite
States about 230,000,000 pounds c
wool.
t The st. Louis Industrial PlO,
IL Manufacturing Company" employ
$50 hands, and turns out annual
>. 81 ,500steel plows, andalarge amour
II of pillow fixtures, amounting in valu
+ to over 100000.
= The exports of domestic cotto
Il goods from New York and Boston
Il from LIST January to 18th June, 1SG
: was 1926 packages. Same time i
y 1860, 1860 packages.
n A member of Congress, Speakin
. of clerk life in Washington, says
- eff | were choosing u life for m
/. sons, | would start them ont in an
thrifty town as draymen, rather tina
V see them take clerkShips here"
" Eighty japanese families have en-
81 auu V,GoV,oSo E1.-,,.4e- hvin"iI,v VIII
~ During'the thirteen years endin
lie with December, 1868, more tina
:, 100000 immigrants arrived in I'll
United States. OF this numbt
Q: 1 ,2U0 900, came from Great Britain
d. and $50, 900 from Germany.
~ The average yield Of wheat pr
NC acre in Great Britain is % buShcl
W in Ireland "a, in Austria, Srain an
no Holland 2S. Belgium u France ID
lv California and Minnesota 20, low
su ~, and all the other States not MOI
>e than 10 bushels per acre.
pd Miss Virginia Penny, in her won
= on the Employments of Woman
Ir enumeratcs 80 professional cmplo
nj ments, 30 artistic, % mercantile, 4
- connected with articles or food, "a
aJ dcning and Horticulture, 80 brancht
of manufacture, and 90 miScclian
Gus occupation all open to wome
is and in many Of which they exc
10 men,"
lr. Mr.. COnger, of Patersonville, Ca
70, ada. has = mInkery, with 81 adu