Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-25
Commercial and Industrial Items.

Z A company has been formed to
work up the immense timber resOur-
ees of lower Virginia.
The st. Paul and Sioux City Rail-
road has been completed, total length
272 miles, so that there is now an ua-
broken line from St. Paul and Lake
Superior TO San Francisco.
A ship has arrived in the Thames
freighted with manure from Austria
liza for trial in England.
Texas is 10 send samples of coal,
lead, slate, iron, marble, copper, sill
Yer and gold to the Vienna EXPOSE
ton. sa
The value of the manufactured
products of the State of New Hamp-
shire ten years ago was S37, ,COOs0OO
Now it is 81 600, 600.
The Meriden (Conn..) Britannia
works are run highland day, which
indicates a great demand for the
goods manufactured there.
/ One million six hundred thousand
feet of window glass, $4,000 boxes,
Were manufactured at Ottawa, Ills,
in the last twelve months
Well-posted judges estimate the
tobacco crop of Missouri last year ut
$4,000 hogsheads. The previous year
it reached Is, coo hogsheads.
The farmers will hold a State Con-
vention at Bloomington, Illinois,
January 18th and 10th, to discuss
railroad tariff, sales on commissions,
etc.
A company is to be organized at
Streator, Illinois, for the purpose of
putting into operation glass works
and rolling mills, $50, 900 having al
ready been pledged.
The quantity of lumber surveyed
at Bangor between January | and
December Z, 1872, was 246, ,453, $40 feet,
against 227, ,49l, ,675 feet in 1871, and
202, ,0l4, 1872 feet in 1870.
Colonel Hurlburt estimates that
10000 people have left Georgia in the
last two years. The railroad agent
at Dalton reports that 400 emigrants
had left that place in six months.
Seioto County, Ohio, has voted to
raise S200.000 for the River
Railroad; Ironton, $l39, 900; Gallipo-
lis, $4,000; New Richmond, $50, 900;
and $50, 900 has been voted in WASH
ton county.
Mr.. Robert Bruner, of Fawn Creek,
Montgomery County, Kansas, plant
ed cotton in June last, picked it three
times, and had it out of the way fif
teen days before frost came. He spent
four years in the South, and says he
never saw better cotton there, or a
better yield.
BY act of Parliament, an English
bankeris free from all responsibility as
to the payer of a sight draft. He may
pay the check to whoever presen Is
it-asking no questions, requiring no
Identification, taking no risk. But,
if the draft is drawn at one day sight.
or for any time, he must fully identi-
fy the indorser. For this reason
many English drafts on bankers are
drawn at one day sight.
The American Fork Railway mar
row gauge) has probably the heaviest
grade of any in this country. The
road is constructed sixteen miles from
the terminus, at American Fork, to
Deer Creek, and within six miles of
the smelling works, and within one
and three-fOurths miles of the fa-
nous Miller mine. The elevation of
the smelling works above tine juno
ton of the road with U. s. r. is
2,6S3 feet, which is to be attained in
nineteen miles. The heaviest grade,
within the first four miles, reaches
297 feet to tho miles.
Orders were issued from the head
quarters of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, directing that after the 1st in
stant all passengers and freight
agents on the different divisions
shall give bonds for the faithful per-
foTmance of their duties. The
amount of the bond will depend on
the business done by each agent, but
it will not be less than 5000 nor more
than 5000. Conductors on railroad
trains have been obliged togive bonds
for some time, and report says all
employees through whose hands the
money of the company passes will
have to do likewise.