The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-09
REvIvAI. OF BUSINESS.
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Forty Factories. That Have
VEIAely Followed Up The
Quaint Counsel OF
Horace.

Forty Factories. h0G EfnN
:. Wisely Followed Up The
Quaint Counsel OF
p Horace.
The ShenangO Ironworks, Newca.
tie, Pa. are running double turn.
Tie Monument Mills, at Housatoni,
Mass, are running sc tuil time.
The Forest Mills, at Wilton, v. II
are AearIy ready for machinery.
. The Tivcli Mill. at Cohoes. y. Y, i
!, being rebuilt by j. G. ROOt's sons.
A new cotton mill, it is said, will b,
erected in Fall River, near FreetOwn.
The new Hotchkiss hardware facto.
~, at Bridgeport, Conn.,, has started
up.
The canning business is in full blast
in Midway, Mass, the establishment
running night and day.
Business Is very prosperous in Man
chang, Mass, all the mills are running
till 8 O'Clock every other night.
The stockholders of the Bethlehem
Iron Company, Pa, on the 9th inst,
| NOIC0 q AOesl Va PAJSOOBVOOs
The Wheeling Window Glass Com
pany started up their works on Thurs
day last, and are running full force.
The Sheridan furnace, at Lebanon,
| Wis.,, which Was commenced in April
last, is nearly completed.
The Glendon furnace, Easton, Pa,
after extensive repairs and improve
| hoe o0aip hnQF1 in ht0af
The alpaca mill, at Holyoke, Mass,
has been lately running all night, and
Is now running until u O'Clock p. m.
The Dwight Company, of ChIcopee,
Mass, are running full force, while
their product is larger than ever be-
fore.
The Bessemer Steel Works, at Troy,
n. Y, resumed operations Monday.
Tho works have been idle since April
"a.
Ofthe 5000, 900 of stock in the Lock-
wood cotton factory at Waterville, Me,
all but $4,000 has been already SUBJ
scribed.
The blast furnace at Warren, Pa,
has been blown In, and the rolling
mill is running double turn, with or
ders plenty.
A movement has been inaugurated.
in Bellaire to organize smother compa-
ny for the manufacture of glass in that
town.
The keel of a ship, the largest ever
built in Msine, has been laid at Var
mouth. She will be about $500 tons
burden.
The Colebrookedale Iron Works,
Berks county, Pa, have not been so
busy as at present since the commence
ment of the panic last September.
The steel. department of the Nashua,
n. H., Iron and Steel company was
started Aug. 81, having been idle a
little more than four months.
Barber & Chaplin are getting ma
chinerytintO their. mill at Warehouse
Point, Conn.,, and will be ready to COM
mence silk manufacture in two or three
weeks.
Frank & Sons'iglass works. Pennsyl-
vania, which was destroyed by fire on
the l1th of June, has been rebuilt, and
first made glass on Saturday. The
product is. bottles.
The Baltimore, Nd, copper works
have now running Is furnaces and
refineries, besides blast furnaces and
sulPhuric acid works connected with
the copper smelling.
Hecla, furnace, near Ironton, Mo-,
has just completed new chimney,
and went into blast again on the LIST
inst, and is:making II tons per day of
cold blast charcoal iron.
The corn factory at Pennington, Me-,
has commenced operations 800 acres
of corn are planted this season, from
which the manufacturer expects to re-
alize 100000 cans.
The Enterprise manufacturing COM
pany of Philadelphia, whose works
were burned on the 1lth of August,
have rebuilt, and in about a week Will
be in operation as before the fire.
The wooden mill at Westerly, r. l.,
usually known as the Stillman Mill,
which has been idle nearly two years,
has just been started, running between
40 and 90 looms on meltons.
On Tuesday of last week eight car
loads of machinery were shipped from
Erie, Pa, to Florida, for the purpose
of establishing an extensive saw-mill
in the lumber regions of that State.
The Meier iron company are erect
ing, at Bassemer Station, on the east
St. Louis & Carondelet railroad, and
five miles from St. Louis, two blast
furnaces, each so feet high and II feet
across the boshes.
The corn factory at Minot, Me-, COM
menced operations recently. Some
sixty or seventy persons are employed;
200 acres are growing, which 1t is
thought, can be secured before the
heavy frosts injure it.
The rolling mills of J. Marshall &
Co., at Newport and MarshalltOwn, N.
J., are now making full time running
day and night, with enough orders
ahead to continue operations in this
manner un.n November.
The Ausable horse nail Co. are now
employing 800 hands, and manufacture
seven to eight tons of nails per day.
Their orders are behind, and they are
about to enlarge the capacity to nine
or ten tons per day.
Oshkosh, Wis, parties are to build
new saw-mill this fall upon the island
near the rivers mouth, at OntOnagon,
Mich. The capacity of the mill will
be about 25, 900 feet a day. The lum-
bermen say the trade is greatly de-
pressed. This looks like it.
The works of the Cumberland bone
company, at BOothbay, Me-, have been
erected at an expense, including ma
chinery, of &110, goo, for the manufac-
ture of phosphate manure from South
Carolina rock, porgy, cham, and qua
no. It will manufacture this season
10000 tons of commercial fertilizer,
valued at $4,000.
The Amoskeag company, of Man.
chester, n. h, has built nearly 500
steam fire engines since August, 1859.
The government has bought SO of them,
New York City, 40; Boston, 20; Brook
Ign, -; New Orleans, Is; Pittsburgh,
IA; San Francisco, Is; Philadelphia,
IL; Detroit, O.; Albany, g.; Cambridge,
s.; Manchester 4 /; besides large num-
Der of smaller places.
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A man who was about to be hang
ed in Alabama, sang, as he stood
with the moose about his neck
"Oh! the bright angels are wait
ing for me-" Whereupon the local
editor fiendishly wrote, "And the
angels stirred up the fire and
looked brighter than eve."
Here is tender poem, about a