The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-07-09
Industrial.

There are 100000 sheep on a Fort
TETON, Cal, sheep ranch.
Tho real estate in Chattanooga is
assessed at 81 ,650,000.
"A GAINESVILLE, Wis, girl recently set
1900 m Of solid nonpareil In ten hours.
AT Eatonton, Georgia, a cabbage
head four feet across has been raised this
year.
An exhibition of wooden fabrics is to
be held at Indianapolis on the I'd of Au-
gust.
"A couple of Des Molnes girls have in.
vented and patented a washing and cook.
Ing boiler.
AS early as 1889, Philadelphia had a
"Society for the Promotion Of Agricul.
ture and Domestic Manufactures"
Ice, which has hitherto sold in New
York city for six dollars per ton, now
brings thirty dollars. Cause, monopoly.
"A railroad conductor in Maine has
been on the road twenty years, has tray
eled 700,00 miles, and has never met with
an accident.
The manufacturers and inventors of
the country will hold q delegate conven
ton at Cincinnati during the progress of
the exhibition in September.
"A young man who left Louisville,
Ky, q few years ago, almost penniless, re-
turned there the other day from Califor-
MIA with an income Of $4,000 per month,
all made by sheep raising.
There Is a movement In certain quar-.
tiers in New York to relieve the hardships
OF the female clerks in the retail stores of
that city, who are obliged to stand all day,
trade or NJ trade.
The Davenport (Iowa) Gasete says q
farmer in Humboldt county girdled some
limbs on his apple trees land these are
hanging full Of apples, while the ungirdled
limbs are fruitless.
"A barber in Portland has been ar
rested and fined for keeping open on
Sunday. A Massachusetts, Judge decided
that shaving was a work of necessity, and
hence was lawful Sabbath work.
in the Missouri bottoms, opposite
Cairo, Mr.. William Rodney raised a crop
Of corn that will do to talk about. On
eight acres he produced 1850 bushels.
This is equal TO 1914 bushels TO the acre.
Cairo Bulletin.
"A Florida man says he will have
about 5000 dozen pine-apples for market
this year, and that he expects to realize
from $3.50 to $500 per dozen for them.
He further says that he and his three lit
tie sons do all the labor necessary for
their cultivation.
Recent advices from Massachusetts,
say the shoe manufacturers have com.
bined to break up the organization of st.
Crispin. The manufacturers at North
Adams that they will hereafter
employ no men belonging to the Or
der, under any circumstances. Twenty
five Crispins have bought the shoe manu-.
factory Of A. II. Smith & Co., North
Adams, Mass. Another cooperative com
pany has been formed In that place, aud
will occupy a new factory to be built
within three months.
AT first, and for many centuries, the
plow wal the rudest implement of the
farm. BY degrees it was improved from
the crooked stick drawn by an OK q piece
Of iron attached 10 q piece of wood with
a tongue and handle was introduced, and
thus step by step the improvement ad.
vanced, until the light, well. balanced,
graceful instrument Of TO day was invent.
cd, and In the course Of the last few years
several hundred patents have been OBJ.
tanned In this country on improvements
In this utensil.