The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-09-09

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The Baltimore sugar refnerie
at present turn out $500 barrels pc
day.
An Illinois farmer Furnishes hi
refractory sons by making them ho
corn at night, each one carrying
lantern.
The lobster canning factory a
Southwest Harbor, Maine, when run
ming at full capacity, puts up abou
$4,000 cans day, employing about
fifty hands.
st. Louis pays the liberal sum O.
$4,000 per year for music in the
public schools. Other cities m a
learn something from their Western
sister.
Three hundred and seventy-five
female employees in the United States
Treasury Department at Washing,
ton City were dismissed on the 3Oth
of July.
Since January 1st we have ex-
ported $l70,605, 103 worth of domes-
tic produce against $l63, 855, S96 for
the same time last year and against
1924, 277,797 in 1872.
From summary of expenses of
Congress, it appears that each mem
Der of that body is credited with 81
pounds of toilet soap during each
cession.
About 10000 bushels of fax seed
were loaned out to farmers by the
Des Moines (Iowa) oil mill last
spring, and it is estimated that the
return will be 100000 bushels.
-"Kate, | understand you have &C.
copied o situation as governess.-
Rather than that, I would marry
widower with six children" eyes,
Sophie, and so would l, but where is
the widower?'
A man in New York rural set
tiement, who has been an inveterate
smoker for twenty years, has sudden
ly and permanently given up the
practice. He knocked the ashes of
his pipe into small key of blasted
powder.
The Superintendent of tree
planting for the St. Paul and Pacific
Railway company, reports over A.
100000 trees planted along the lines
of that company since he commenced |
work in the spring oflast year. Less
than three per cent. have failed, and
the rest are doing well.
Last spring two young men of
Eufaula, Ala, rented the Harrison
flat, on the Georgia side of the river,
opposite the bluff, going to work in
April. At least eight hundred bush
els of corn and about ten bales of cot
ton will be gathered by the first of
November, and they will have five
months to clerk in the city, if their
services are needed. This is laud-
able example.
"A recent amendment to the bull
ding laws of New York city provides
tnat every dwelling occupied by more
than one family above the first floor,
including hotels and lodging and
ooarding-houses, shall be provided
with tlre-escapes, doors and alarms.
Stores, warehouses, schools and
churches, shall be provided above
the first story with fre-proof shut
tiers, capable of being closed and open /
ed from the outside.
II he planters Of the United
States receive in the aggregate annu-
ally for their tobacco about$I5, OOO.-
600. One-half of the crop is export
ed to Europe and other foreign coun-
tries, and the other half consumed in
America-or in the United States
Upon the $7,5O0,Ooo shipped abroad,
foreign governments derive q reve- : !,
nue. by taxation of 100000 annu-
ally, while in the United States the y
government by taxation upon like =
value OF $7,5O0,00O derives, accord
ing to the Secretary of the Treasury, :
a revenue of $34, 100000, thus max q
my the joint revenue derived here u
anu abroad on our tobacco $4,000, .
'oo' and this sum is collected from a "
crop Tor which the producers get only % %
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