Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-03-18
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Darby, Snow & Prentice's extensive
planning mill, is Jersey City, was des-
| troyed by fire on Wednesday night
Loss, $4,000. Insured. 4.... -
A paper company in South Lee, Mas
sachusetts, are ren.odeling part of their
grist mills to grind their wood dry. II
| successful, it will save the Transports
ton of fully sixty per cent. of water.
aApAMs' cotton mills, and Vanwinck-
les and Smith &c Sykes machine
shops, and Lewis cotton mills were
burned, Wednesday, at Patterson, New
Jersey. Loss on Adams mill $3.50, 900,
and two hundred hands are thrown out
of Employment. The other losses amount
to about 5000. .-cn4 e..
a SHOE dealer in Cleveland has IN
vented q novel apparatus for measuring
a lady's foot. With this machine a
correct measurement is taken of every
part that the shoe covers, so that mis-
fit is an impossibility, and the whole
shoe can be made the exact size and
shape desired. o. llha -Faii sGg'u1 Il
Snug fortunes have been made by en-
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two years from the culture of oranges in
Florida. Two brothers from New Eng
land, without funds, who rented a grove
| on shares, have realized. 81 900 during
the past season above all expenses
There is grove at Pilatkas of Eve hun
dred trees, which last year paid the
Northern purchasers $S, 900 clear profit.
| This is q branch of trade which will be
largely developed during the coming
few years, and furnish employmentzto to
many. Yankee water craft. .- .-aV /
T FLEXIBLE GLASs.-Dr. Brunfant, in
Paris, has recently exhibited articles
made of spun glass, such as head-dresses,
watch chains, curled and smooth ostrich
feathers, &C., differing from those in Or
dinary use only in being much finer and
more durable. The usual objection to
glass fabrics Of brittleness, &C., does not
apply here, as the thread is as fine as a
spiders web, and not inferior in strength
| to the best wool, while far exceeding it
in beauty. The flexibility of the thread
may be readily appreciated from the
fact that it may be worked in the sewing
rs well as in the netting machine.
THE Columbus (Ga.) Sun SAYS: SIN
and within two miles of Columbus there
are three cotton manufactures that run
Il, 600 cotton and wooden spindles, and
consume daily, on an average, ten bales
of cotton and several thousand pounds
of wool Within the raoius of twenty
five miles are six factories, running 20, :
600 spindles, and consuming fifteen
bales of cotton per day. A fourth facto-
ry is to be in operation by next fall. By
that time Columbus alone will have four
mills, Of a total capacity of $1,000 spin
dies and average daily consumption of
thirty bales of cotton, and in this imme-
diate neighborhood manufactures run
ming, in the total, $4,000 spindles, and
working up daily at least thirty-eight
bales of cotton, besides many thousand
pounds of wool. No place can claim
superior or equal water-power with CO.
lumbus. One factory only is run by
steam. By next winter the manufacto-
ries of Columbus and vicinity will be
enabled to consume some eleven or
twelve thousand bales of cotton per year
of three hundred working days. r~r
WELDING COPPER.-According to q
German writer, copper may be welded
perfectly by means of a powder, consist
ing either of pure salt of phosphorus, or
of a mixture of this with boracic acids.
The latter is cheaper, but does not give
quite so fluid slug as the former. The
welding powder is to be scattered over
the copper after being brought TO a red
heat, and then heated to a cherry red,
or to an incipient yellow glow. The
combination Of the parts, when ham
mered together, is at least as perfect as
that of iron. The theory of the action
consists in the dissolving away of the
thin layer of oxide of copper on the
surface of the metal by means of weld
ing powder, thus allowing the two met
ais to come directly in contact. Care
must be taken not to allew carbon in
any form, not even as sparks, to come in
contact with the metal, as it would pro-
duee very injurious effect upon the
result. For this reason it is best, if pos
sible, to heat the metal in gas flame,
rather than in a forge fire.
NEW ENGLAND MANuFACTUREs.--
A new era in New England man1fact-
ures seems new to have begun. Not one
leading house alone, but several, in diff
ferent branches, and various descriptions
problem. The Hampden ginghan1s,
made at Hadley, are acknowledged by
competent judges to be equal in style,
in beauty and in fineness, to the best
imported goods, whether Gordon's the
celebrated Earlssn's, or any other, and
the jobbing trade have found their GUS
TONERS of that opinion. 1ka success of
Cheney's gros-grain silks Is an establish
ed fact, and the lyons manufacturers
have been forced to acknowledge it.
Not long since the Otis Company inn
ported best English machinery, com
Eetent labor TO operate it, with skilled
and experienced men to superintend it, |
and engaged in the manufacture of
hosiery; and the products of their mill
have already taken place beside those
of the best English makers. r.-,l
The Arlington Mills have recently en-
gagged in q similar enterprise. Sending
abroad for worsted machinery of the
very best description, they engaged at
the same time competent and skillfulI
workmen to weave the fabrics they pro-
posed to make, and placed their goods |
upon the market ''under American coll |
ors." Believing in the truth of the say
ing that ''skill wins favor,nn they adopt
ed it as their motto, and have found the |
wisdom of their experiments demon
strated In the happiest manner. Ameri-
can ladies, who are the consumers of all
the geo ls mentioned above, are mani I
Testing their appreciation Of their efforts
by purchasing and wearing them, and I
their sales are rapidly increasing.-[Bos-
ton Traveller. -
caiifsrnia Rivaling the world In We'd
ding.
Sau Francisco has had wedding /