American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-09-18
INDUSTRIAL. ITEMS.
WRITTEN FOR The CITIZEN BY "CHYRRl

st. Louis, it is said, has 5000 opl-
UNI eaters. 7
Maine has 1850 lakes, with an ag- i
gregate area of 2.40O square miles.
San Francisco has received IS ear
loads Of butter and cheese from Chi.
cago. :
The apple crop of Winona County, p,
Minnesota, is estimated at 10000
bushels.
The indigo product of Northern
India this year is estimated GAO,
600 pounds.
The retail clothing trade of BOs-
ton amounts to S30,000,00O per an
mum.
Massachusetts manufactures boots
ard shoes this year to tire value of
S95, 100000.
Five flannel mills at Newport, N.
H., employ 1G0 hands and turn out
145, 900 yards per month.
| Last week 3S0,SSO baskets of
peaches were shipped from Delaware
20 New York and other markets.
A company has been organized at
Nashville, Tenn, with capital of
100000, all subscribed, to erect a
cotton mill in that city.
New York City annually consumes
S32 10000 worth of meat. $4,000. |
600 worth of butter, and IA 900, 900
worth of butter.
Revenue officers say there is now
in bond 1927 900 gallons of wills
key. Look out for first-rate fires &C.
casionally. - -
A plate glass factory has COM
menced operations at Lenox, Mass.
1t is the second factory of the kind
in the country.
The recent photographed survey
of Maine shows the aggregate water
power of that State to be equal to
2,656, 900 horse power.
1t is said q mass of copper has
been discovered in one of the Snpe-
rior mines G5 feet long, 80 feet high
and 2 feet thick, estimated at S32
: tons.
J. NJ Crawford, near Columbia,
s. G., has q brag acre of cotton
which it is estimated will yield 10,
,, 920 pounds of seed cotton-equal to
seven $50 pound bales.
!; In 1868 the brewers of Great Brit
$ ain used 17,5SS tons of sugar, and
:. the distillers AT tons of sugar and
r 1866 tons of molasses.
, The Ivy House, at Hawkinsville,
| Ga, is being fitted up as cotton
: and wooden factory, and will be in
: operation by the first of December.
Bennington, Vermont, has five
knitting mills, employing three hun
3. dred hands. The largest mill turns
out annually 900 dozen shirts and
Z drawers.
q The Government has received
T. $3.50, 00O,0 900 revenue from tobacco
J. last year If it could not be grown
# in the Southern States, would there
Il be any tax on it!
d Yankee fishermen get salt to cure
J. their fish free of duty, while pork
and beef packers in the West aud
II South pay a heavy gold duty on ev-
lie cry pound of salt they use. Why
t. this difference
u. Baltimore has thirteen manufacto-
il ries of fertilizers, producing about
II 900 tons per annrm There are
' also twenty agencies of Northern
u manufacturers in the city, who sup
- ply about 1000 tons per annum.
H. A correspondent of the London
e Times says. sit would be folly TO,
le the American planters to grow five
h. million bales of cotton, at double ex
e pense of land and labor, when the
ID same profit will be derived from hall
d that amount"
J The fat men of Connecticut-117
III in number, weighing altogether 81
94S pounds-ha1 a clam bake "a
!. Norwalk n short time since. They
consumed for dinner 80 bushels o
Te oysters, II bushels of CLANS, s bar
is. IClS vi S"CCU poudcoCS ftIii CVll
II, ponding quantities of other articles
II. Col. Il. STAFFORD, editor of TIL
u jackson Pilot = everywhere recoe
bo nized as one of the most courteou
he and high toned of those in the cor
he troll of Radical journals in this Stat
1le was in attendance at the Pies
Convention in Canton. AS an ev
), dence of his estimate of the gentle
=, men composing that body, we max
va the following extract from an articl
We of his in the Pilot of the 14th inst:
oft "Thus agreeably ended our frs
ng appearance i'll the Press AsSociatio
we of Mississippi. To say that, thong
'er we were the only Radical editc
it present, we were treated with mari
-er ed kindness and equal courtesy wit
IRE any there, is but telling the trutl
es. Whatever the gentlemen of the Mi
at sissippi Press may say of each Othe
IN through their papers, i'll their assoc
he atiOnS there is not Il more gentl'
Die manly, genial, kinder hearted set {
IN men OH earth. And these associ;
IN tions, and even more frequent NEE
ais ings together, will go very far
lessen the bitterness and soften til
ar asperities which grow out of MOI
to intercourse and partisan exclusi0
mt nesS.0
ty.