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Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-24
The Manufacture OF Pins.

In writing about the manufacture of
pins by the American Pin Company at
Waterbury, Conn, q correspondent of
the Hartford Times says:
They employ about sixty hands, which
is less than half the number employed
in a driving season. Last week they
turned out two and half tons of pins.
They have capacity for eating up twenty
tons of wire in week Each machine
is complete in itself. All that is neces-
sary to do is to place one end of the coil
of wire into its greedy nav, and it will
bite off the wire the right length, point it.,
swedge up the head, and spit out the pins
at the rate of 175 minute. Now slight
knowledge of arithmetic will enable us
to get at the capacity of the concern,
srpposing they were driven to the ut
most, with two sets of hands, day and
night. They have seventy-two machines,
each machine capable of turning out 175
pins a minute. What do we see? For
one machine 10000 pins an hour; for ten
hours ten times as many, or 10000.
Now the night hands come along, and
before daylight the never-tiring brass
eater has made the number 100000.
Then let us see what the seventy-five
machines have been doing in the same
time Seyenty-five times 100000 is
15, 10000 Now this is the sum total
for single day. Multiply it by six,
the number of days in the week, and
you have $4,000, 600 week. If you
have any curiosity to follow farther,
you can multiply 1t by the number of
weeks in year, and the grand total will
be 4,9l4OO0 900. Whewi Enough to
take ones breath away. That beats the
national debt. They actually have the
capacity to make more pins in q year
than the United States owes dollars
The principal manufactures for making
pins In this country are at Waterbury
Birmingham and Winsted, of this State
No wonder the question Is asked
Where do all the pins 60 tor" For
sticking them in paper the pins are fed
in a hollow revolving cylinder, and are
taken up in the compartments of longi
tudinal ribs which extend along the in
ner surface of the cylinder and drop
open upon an inclined plane, down which
they slide and are caught in the links OF
an endless chain. Each link is notched
for as many pins as make row, and
each notch receives its pin hanging in by
the head. The whole is then left
together in the paper. The only atten-
ton the machine requires is to supply it
with paper and pins. The first attempt
to manufacture pins in this country was
made soon after the war of 1918, when
nins were sold for one dollar paper.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-24
The East.

Ezra Cornell, thefounder Of Cornell College,
died on the 9th at ithaca, N Y.
The trial of Jesse pomeroy, the boy-mur-
dcrer, was concluded In Boston on the 10th.
The jury brought In a verdict Of murder In
the frat degree, with recommendation that
he be imprisoned for life.
An earthquake shock was distinctly felt In
the upper part OF New York city, along the
Hudson River, and in Connecticut on the night
of the 10th.
The trial OF the suit Of Tilton against
Beecher has been postponed until the first
Monday In January
The attorneys for Tilton have appealed
from an order OF Judge McCue granting n
bill Of particulars In the Tilton.B eechcr case.
The appeal is to the General Term, and Is on
the ground that the Brooklyn City Court shah
not limit the prosecution on the trial to proof
of any particular day.
John Neville, aged eight years, residing
with his parents In West Hoboken, N. j., was
kidnapped ON the evening Of the 10th while
playing with a companion. They were met
by man driving buggy, who asked them
to take ride. Neville consented.
The Ave children OF John Datterich, rang
Ing In age from six to sixteen years, were
drowned on the 18th while amusing them
selves with sled on pond near their parents
residence at Preakness, N. j.
The new Republic newspaper, New York
city, has suspended publication.
A little before midnight on the 14th a fire
broke out in Plympton street, Boston, which
was not subdued until several large ware
houses and their contents were burned
About four o'clock on the morning OF the
18th three other alarms were sounded In the
immediate neIghborhood, In Wareham street,
where sparks from the previous fire had
lodged unperceived by the firemcn. Owing
TO the combustible nature Of the building in
which this last fire started the flames spread.
In all directions, and In short time
Wareham street was almost entirely
devastated, everything being swept away that
lay In the path Of the fire between the point
of starting and the wharf, except large
piano factory. The loss from both fires Is
yariously estimated from $6O0, 900 to $3.50 900.
Duringsthe progress Of the Boston fire, on
the morning Of the 18th, the neighboring
city OF Charlcstown suffered q loss OF $4,000
from fire.
Two men, named Mosher and Douglass,
were shot on the 18th at Bay Ridge, on Long
Island, while committing a burglary atJudgs
Van Brunt's residence. Mosher was instantly
killed. Before he died Douglass made a state
ment that Mosher was concerned In the alb
duction OF little Charlie Ross The two burg
lars have since been identified, and there
seems no doubt that they knew OF the where
abouts Of the stolen child, who was believed,
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-24

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road rom uae-wa.sr 70 ~. i.va.s ana Lh,Sago'
making sppropriauohe ior ngnihohscs 10 Mlchi.
gan; ior res oanRing ann .ne .enmpuon o.
specie payments. - reroiutloh WI ine appoinf
menf OF sciect committee 70 inquire wnethef
any omcini or otner psrsohs nass songhI 70 90.
strust the aaminlrtsa i19 W ~ - ans
OF COLUMBIA. especially IN Ine ease u tne so-
called "safe-bnrgiary conspiracy, was iost Tor
want OF awo'hir VS.. lao so'e o.
the vote peing ieas d''' nays
..-.A resolnioh was auop.eo. aI.cI co1sio-
ersbie deoste, Tor .he appolha'm M M, o
and investigate and report all the facts relative
me tn recent moapes W. n,,B ~
Coz were .nnointed a. the House Committee on
the reception of King Kalakaua. Adjourned.
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introduced and referred, limiting the time In
whfch .nnl,r.tions for bounty land shall he re-
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,ia e.r ,t ai,ef ~ neysnr snfserina tom
the rayages Of grasshoppers Adjourned.
In the House, on the 18th, the follow
inc hills were introduced: For narrow gauge
road from Lake Erie 10 the Missouri River; reg.
a,,no tho ,ro.ecntion Of libel in the District Of
G@innshia. ~ snthorize the Secretary of the
Interior 10 settle and paw certain accounts
hat,geen tho Tinted states and yarjous Stares
a5sIng from the anpropriation of certain public
lands In sncb Sfates fos permanent indian
e. ..yvations. etc The following select com
mittaes were announced by the Speaker. To
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-24

Incidents and Accidents.

While John Thompson was hunting
on Brush Mountain, near Altoona, Pa,
a few mornings ago, he was shot dead by
Joseph Fl. Brown, who mistook him for a
deer.
Andrew Brownell. of Westport,
Mass, was trying to kill hog the other
day, when the beast showed light and
threw him up against stone wal, badly
cutting AMI. bruising his face, and break.
ing his leg in two places below the knee.
The Union Pacific depot at Lone Tree,
Neb, was recently burned with all OF Its
contents, consisting of the company
property, and considerable quantity OF
supplies sent for the relief OF the grass
hopper sufferers. The loss was about
$4,000.
George Dingler, a Little Falls On. ~
lad, upon going into the cellar, short
time since, was SO severely frightened by
a cat which he saw sitting upon abarrel
that he lost his speech, and had not at
last accounts regained it. He makes
known his wants by signs and gestures.
William Guyon, a Springfield Mass
drunkard tried to reform until he be-
came convinced that his appetite was
stronger than his will. Then he bought
quart of poor whisky, drank it all with
the avowcd intention of dying intoxi-
Gated, and was dead within an hour.
MOT long ago, while feeding horse.
power hay-cutter, Michael Linsky, a
hostler in a Boston livery stable, had his
left arm drawn into the machine to the
elbow and terribly mangled and lacerat.
ed. The machine had to be destroyed
before the arm could be released from
it's terrible grasp.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-24
Foreign Gossip.

4 AT the explosion in Paris priest
Showed great heroism, going into the fire
to help wounded persons out. He was
badly burned, and when asked for his
name he said: "Write only-a priest"
In the Cafe Mulhouse, Paris, on the
10Th of November, man played game
Of billiards with his nose. He bet that
he would not miss more than twenty-five
points in count of 200; but he ran $50
without miss.
United States Minister Washburne
has restored Lafayette's watch to his
grandson. The watch, which was pre-
sented to Lafayette by Washington, was
stolen from him in 1925, but was lately
recovered and by Congress ordered to be
presented to his descendants.
Copper is plenty in Italy, but gold is
scarce, and the copper money OF Italy
and France are of the same value, so a
traffic was organized of carrying copper
money into France on pretty large
scale, and getting gold to return to Italy.
One dealer was arrested with $500 in
copper in his possession.
An inventor has submitted to the
French Minister of War boat to con-
tain four soldiers fully equipped. The
boat folds up like an umbrella, and can
be carried under the arm almost equally
as well, and with very trifing additional
incumbrance on the back of a knapsack.
1t is composed of fine ribs of whalebone
and steel and canvas.
"A letter from the Department of the
Aube, in France, states that Nine.
Guinot, meeting with large wolf, i'm
mediately assumed the offensive, and
after driving the animal into thicket
with stones, pursued her advantage with
pitchfork, and very shortly after, COM
ing to close quarters, slew her redoubta-
BILE enemy and carried the body in tri-
umph into the village of Villars-en-
Azois.
Holloway, of Holloway's Pills noto-
riety, is spending his money in benefi-
cence, both he and his wife being now
well stricken in years and having no
children. He has built an asylum for
the insane at Virginia Water, near
Windsor, at cost Of 100000, and he is
now about to erect at Egham univer-
sity for ladies, on an estate which he has
Just bought for G25,000. The best pro-
fessors will be engaged to give the high
est education possible to women, and the
scheme will cost e150,000.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-24
Personal and Literary.

There is man in Stowe, VT, who,
when born, weighed but twelve ounces,
and now, at seventy years of age, he
weighs only ninety-three and a half
pounds.
Mrs. Woodruff is in trouble, her pa
per is failure, and she is so broken down
in health that she must suspend labor for
several months. She pleads with the
public for sympathy and support.
"A late New Orleans paper tells us
that the family of the late Capt. Fry,
of Virginius fate, are reported IN a pitia-
BILE condition and In danger of starving.
The mother and seven children are des-
titute."
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe in new lect-
ure ON politeness says it is "to fill ones
own place and function, and TO exercise
ones own right in the world, without
prejudice to the places or rights of other
people"
Senator Ferry, of Connecticut, at
one time supposed to be hopelessly i'll,
is now in so much better health than he
has been in for years that he can at
tend to his law business and walk about
with ease.
1t is announced in the Washington
Chronicle that Daniel Ames has recently
obtained a divorce in Virginia court
from his wife, Mary Clemmer Ames, the
well known authoress and Washington
correspondent.
Brigham Young's poor health is thus
pleasantly alluded to by the Salt Lake
Tribune: age and disease, aggravated
by the reflections of an ill-spent life,
have notified this old, bad man that his
sands have run the course Of wicked
ness"
They have communicated Ann
Eliza, as will be seen from tins notice
published in the Deseret Neps. "To
whom 1t may concern-This is to certify
that Ann Eliza Webb Young was cut of
from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints by the High Council, Oct 10,
1874"
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-24

Ontario and Manitoba for the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1873, ,366, III bushels were
exported from the ports Of Chicago. Detroit,
Toledo and Port Huron to the Provinces
named. 1t also appears from the Canadian
statistical reports that during this period
there were exported from the Dominion 81
Canada To foreign countries 8, 242, 976 bushels
OF Indian corn not the product Of the Domip-
ion: hence 1t Is fair to presume that 1t was the
product OF the United States.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-24
Miscellaneous.

Easy Shaving-Taking the beard off
an oyster.
1T is the nee tar of youth which sticks
young lips so closely together.
1T takes live man to pull up stream,
although dead one can drift down.
Free hand-drawing has been intro.
duced into the Brooklyn public schools.
1T is not generally known that " corn
in England means wheat. Over here it
means maize, and the difference is amaz-
ing.
The planet Jupiter is now beauti.
full object in the eastern sky for an hour
before sunrise. Get up and see it, why
don't your
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-24
Foreign Intelligence.

A Hendaye dispatch Of the 9th says Gen
Iona had issued proclamation summoning
the Carlists 10 surrender within eight days,
and threatening to devastate the country oc-
cupied by them In case OF further resistance.
In the trial OF Count Won Arnim at Berlin
the fact was developed on the 18th that his
secretary had been instructed by Bismarck to
act as spy upon his conduct
The steamship Pelican, from Cardiff for
Cork, was recently lost with all on board. The
passengers ard crew numbered forty-six.
kilograms received In London on the 10th
say that observations In regard to the transit
of Venus failed IN Ormsk, Orenburg, Kasan,
Uralsk, Astrachan, Kertch and Tinis, but were
entirely successful at Yokohama.
Another cremation ceremony has been
successfully performed In Dresden, In the
same oven in which the body OF the wife OF
Sir Charles Dixie was lately consumed. No
clergyman could be found to perform the
burial ceremony, and a REF and impressive
speech was delivered by layman. The ere
nation is said 10 have been perfectly success
full, with nothing TO offend the senses.
The instruction In the Argentine Republic
Is over, and the Government has issued q
proclamation granting amnestyto all political
offenders.
The German Commission for the Centen
NAL Exhibition at Philadelphia has already
been appointed. DR.. jacob is made Presi
dent.
A special TO the London Times Of the It'll
says storm had been raging In the Bay o.
Biscay for eight days, and showed no signs
Of abatement The loss OF vessel property
and human life had been immense. From
the port Of Santander aloneseyeral boats and
seventy persons were known to have beer
lost.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-24

DIR. Hall in his Journal Of Health says
that il is a careless habit to walk along
the streets with the point of an umbrella
sticking out beyond, under the arm or
over the shoulder: BY suddenly stopping
to speak to fffend, or other cause. a
person walking in the rear had his brain
through the eye and died in a
few days.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-24

WAsnINaToN, Dec. IA.

The report Of the Chief Of the Bureau o
Statistics has the following table, containing
a comparative statement OF immigration by
countries ethnologically grouped for the four
fiscal years from July 1, 1870, to June 30, 1874;
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-24
General News Summary,


Washington dispatch OF the 18th says the
Administration approves Of the course OF Gov.
Ames, OF Mississippi, in cndeavoring TO sup
press the disorders existing in that State with
out calling for the assistance Of the Federal
Government, although the opinion 10 ex-
pressed that, had he acted more promptly
and gone In person to the scene Of acuon,
much bloodshed would have been averted.
The Southern Claims Commission has Ia
yorably passed upon about 600 claims, ana
q total amount awarded Of about S7Jo,oO.
King KaIakaua reached Washington on the
10Th, and his arrival was the occasion Of con-
siderable informal display. He was suffering
much from a severe cold on the 18th.
Among the nominations confirmed by the
Senate on the 18th was that Of Marshall
Jewell as Postmaster-Gcnerai.
King Kalakaua was formally presented 10
President Grant on the 18th. The members
OF the Cabinet Col. Grant, Gen. Babcock and
Mr.. Lucky, private secretary, were assem-
bIed in full dress for the purpose OF receiving
the King.
The Pacific Mall Steamship Company's al
fairs were being investigated by the House
WAYS and Means Committee on the 10th. The
testimony Of Irwin, In the employ OF said COM
pany, was TO the effect that In the winter Oh
1872 he was employed as agent OF the com
pany for the purpose Of procuring subsidy
for the China mail. The contract was most OF
Il in letters from the company TO him, by
which he was to receive certain sums OF
money In full Of all expenses in obtaining the
subsidy. The amount TO be paid was not to
be finally liquidatcd until the entire service
was performed, as the expenses could not be
ascertained until that time.
The President and Cabinet Ministers re-
turned the visit Of King Kalakaua on the 10th.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-24

on the 18th, to be In the vicinity Of New York
city.
Mayor Cobb, Of Boston, was reelected on
the 18th by $1,000 majority.
A large silk factory at Hartford, Conn, was
DESTROYED by fire on the 10TH Loss &200,DO.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-24
Year ended June 30.


Fear ended June 30.
Countrtes ethnok0gt l
eatty grouped lsn.i 1917. 1879 1874.
----------------,-----l- F. - l----- ----
England, Scotland
and Wales. ....... 49,, 455 $685. s9,452 81 1893
Ireland .......... 81, 439 So 1891 1894 81, 707
Teutonic: Germany,l
Austria and Meth
erlands. ......... SS,43f il47 200 159,347 ", 623
scandinavian: Swe-
den, Norway and
Denmark. ........l ~, 1922 Nb7bl 35,4S1I 1878
Latin: Belgium,
Switzerland, ltaly,l
France, Spain and
Portugal. ..,.... 1888 1850 8,36l 2l,64
Sclavonic: Russia,
and Poland. ...... 1,20Sl 2641l 4,S8S 5,755
China. ...........,... 7135 7,7sSI 20,292 1a,f1s
British North Amer
lean Provinces. 4,0S2l 1910 37,31 32,960
Spanish and Portn-
guese ColOnes:
Cuba Mexico, Por-
to Rico and South
America. .......... 1918 Loo 1,76O 1,538
All other countries. 14i7l 4,a40 5,067 BILL
Total immiprants a31 a50I 400 ~ Is 40 BOB 81 33g
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-24

Out OF 7,4lS,71t bushels Of Indian corn or
maize exported TO the Provinces Of Quebec,
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-10
Gold rritl silver.

Ediior Rutland G,oJc Allow me to
make few remarks upon that portion of
Dir. Lords lecture which relates TO gold
and silver Dr. Lord says that god and
silver arc not wealth but simply opponents
of wealth, and that the discovery Of gold
and silver mines in America has not added
to the wealth of the world only so far fs
they have tended 10 dcyelopc other indus
the first principles Of political economy, l
trust it will not be amiss to make a few
comments upon them.
In the first place, man las wealth when
he has objects of value, and things hayc
value when they are objects Of mans desire
and can be obtained only Ivy his efforts.
Food and clothing have value because they
are objects of mans desire and can be OBJ
tanned only by his efforts or labor. All
men desire gold fud silver and can obtain
them only by labor, therefore they have
value the same az food and clothing.
Because gold and silver are used as mediums
of exchange they are not TO be considered
as having no value in themselves. They
are used as medium for want of better.
In different periods of the worlds history,
iron horses and sheep have been used as
mediums of exchange. Did that deprive
them of value? In order to measure any
thing We must use unit of the same kind
as a standard We cannot measure feet by
pounds nor pounds by feet. 10 measure
length the unit must have length, to meas
ure weight the unit must have weight SO
to measure value the unit must have value.
Therefore gold and silver have value and
constitute part of the wealth of the world
the same as any other commodity.
Secondly, Gold and silver are subject to
the same laws of supply and demand as any
other commodity. BY the discovery OF the
American mines gold and silver were made
more plenty, therefore relatively cheaper.
| The price of other commodities did not rise
as Dr. Lord expressed it. hut gold and sill
yer went down. as the iluctuatiOn in gold
and silver are very rare they are well adapt
| ed for medium of exchange, where as other
commodities are liable to iluctuate greatly
| from year to year though there is nothing
| in the nature of each which would prevent
them from being used as a medium of cx-
change. provided all could agree upon
some one commodity. Those who labor in
the gold mines of California are adding as
much wealth to the world as if they were
engaged in raising cotton or wheat, because
from the fruits of their labor they can pur-
chase these commodities. The laborer will
dig for gold as long rs he can make a living
that way easier than in any other pursuit.
When the supply is greater than the de-
mand he will turn to the other occupations.
In both cases he is adding to the wealth of
the world because he Is producing the OBJ
jects of mems leisure IT. $.
Rutland, Dec. 8, 1874
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-10

had collected around the Livingstones as
soon as their story was told, and full OF Gu
riosity to hear about the Indians and the
buffalo, and the plains, piled them with
questions and rewarded them with
PLENTIFUL SUPPLY OF FOOD.
The youthful adventures were the guests
of the little Arabs for three days, nm then
they went to Philadelphia. They reached
New York last Monday night, and an Off
Ger finding them wandering homeless In the
streets took them TO the Franklin street po-
lice station There they were kept until
morning. On leaving the station they got
separated IN crowd and lost each other.
Fred wandered about the city all day In
search of bis 'littlc brother" az he calls
him, and was inconsolable. At the Grand
Central depot he told his story to police
men John II. Kershaw. a kind-heartcd man,
who not only went to the central office to
help him find his brother, but at his own
expense, had the lad respectfully clad from
head to foot and took him under his pre-
lection. The clerks in the central police
office also took much interest in the little
fellow, and not few dimes found their
way into his pockets. Fred thinks his
brother has gone to Whitehall.