The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-16
COMMERCIAL MATTERS, Etc.

Crawford county, Pa, has in operation 90
factories, producing 6,3I0. 600 pounds OF
cheese; Erie county, % factories, producing
2.61O, 600 pounds of cheese; Mercer and w.
mango counties, II factories, producing 647,-
700 pounds of cheese; the aggregate In the
four northwest counties of Pennsylvania Is
1Ol factories, producing 1857, 700 pounds OF
cheese.
Cord wood is selling in Eareka Nevada, at
$40 cord, an increase of about 2O . % upon
/ the price at this time last year.
An old apple tree has just been cut down at
York, Me-, which was brought from England
in tub in 1929, and has borne fruit every
year since.
] The Weld from the Newfoundland fisheries
] Is reported small, and distress among the fish
ing population is looked for during the
coming winter
A French scientist has invented q new fish
4 bait. bottle is lowered into the water ana
lighted by'electricity and the fish are to fol-
low it into the net.
/. The number of street lamps broken in Bos-
ton during 1869 amounted to 5000; in 1870,
S94O; in 1871, 1850; in 1872, $3.50. in 1873,
$3.50; in 1874, 7260-making total OF Az, 9iO
in six years.
tits posed in France, by the telegraph
ic administration, to encourage the lntroduc-
ton of private wires, and to offer such IN
ducements that no great factory and no rich
mans house in the country will be without
its wire
II is reported that in one of the large Lon
don hotels they have intro duced steam ma
chinery for washing dishes, and also for clean
ing boots, knives and forks.
There is on exhibition at the Oregon State
fair mammoth OK weighing 5000 pounds
He is nineteen hands high, and is probably
the largest animal OF the kind in the world.
Missouri farming lands are selling at 50 to
SIS per acre. The former price was for par
tally improved and the latter for improved
and with fences, etc.
A lump of coal measuring eight feet in
length, three feet square. and weighing two
TONS intended for the Philadelphia Exhibl-
ton, has Just been landed at Campbells
wharf, Dartmouth, Cape Breton. 1t was
taken from the Ontario (or Diamond) lead at
the CALEDONIA mines
There are now on the upper Wichita and
Brazos rivers, in Northwestern Texas, over
10000 head of cattle, about three -fourths OF
them recently driven up from the southwest
part OF the State on account Of depredations.
They.are being held for Market and are IN
good order, grazing there being very fine.
The withdrawal Of United States bonds de-
posted in the Treasury to secure national
bank circulation for fifteen months ending
September amounted to SIS, 100000.
Receipts Of Domestic Whisky and Imported
Wines and Liquors.
From Boufmfs Vine and Liquor Circular it
Ia learned that the receipts of domestic
whisky at New York, from the LIST OF last
January up to the LIST inst were ia, l96 bar
rels, an increase of 4474 barrels in compare
son with the receipts during the same period
last year.
The receivers in this city were F. 0. Boyd
& Co., w. s. Miller & Co., David Dows Co.,
s. Ely & Co., Webb & Co., A. Fiegelstock,
: Bryce Smyth, ]. NJ O'Donnell, Ives, Beech
er & Co., j. Smons. Friedlander, NJ. ]. Har-
dy & Co., Sutton & Co., New York Rsctifying
Company, Gaf, Fieischman 4 Co.. A. P.
Hotaling, George W. Kidd & Co., and few
others.
The total importation Of wines and liquors
at the port Of New York during the month Of
September were as follows: Ale and porter,
1880 cases; brandies, 2S5 casks and 205 cases;
Champagne, 5725 dozen bottles; cordials, l
cask, 1886 cases; gin, 5O7 barrels, 1920 cases;
rum, Is puncheons, 271 barrels; whisky, 443
barrels, 70 cases; wines, 1887 cases.
During the nine months ending September
so, there was imported here 39,063 packages
of ale and porter, 10,721 casks and rs, 425
cases of brandy, 6966 barrels and 5000 cases
of gin, 60, 273 casks and S0839 cases of wine
and u, ITO dozen bottles.
Bu,iness Failures.
Messrs. Murrell & Co., cotto merchants. OF
Pearl street, and George Reichenberg. cotton
broker, having his Office in the basement Of
the Exchange, notified Superintendent Pow
ers on Saturday of their inability to meet their
mercantile engagements. Messrs. Murrell
Go. state that their embarrassment is only
trifing, and that they will resume operations
in day or two
William P. Roberts, of the firm of John S.
Roberts Son, grain merchant, of No. 10 Front
street, suspended on Saturday, and made ar
N assignment to Mr. Thorndyke Saunders, o.
Z 12O Broadway. Mr.. Roberts says that his
failure was caused by losses sustained in max
ing advances on grain. Subsequently he was
arrested by the sheriff on an order of arrest
granted by, Judge Layned, of the Supreme
Court at the instance of Messrs. Reed u Co.
merchants, also belonging to the Produce Elk
change.
Reed & Co. allege that Roberts bought Q
cargo of grain from them, valued at $6000
representing that he wanted it tor a customer
in the South; and further, that upon obtain
ing possession ofthe property he sold it to w
G. Adams, cf Pearl street, and retained thu
money. MIR. Robert was released upon bail
Mr.. A. S. Herman, cloth merchant, of i
White street, suspended payment on Satur
day, and made an assignment for the bench
of his creditors. 1t was impossible to Obtain
any statement as to his liabilities.
Bouforts Wine and Liquor Circular report
the following failures and bankruptcies il
that trade: j. N. Martin Il Co, Santa Bar
bara Cal; A, Lipp. Spillville, Ia; r. Dem
ing, Great Darlington. Mass, com promised q
400; r. Corrigan & Co., Toronto, Ont, settled
at 40c on the dollar; Eli Small, Jr.. Albany
n Y; Taylor & Son, Albany, N. Y, ask 81
extension, VIM. Corrigan, Boston, Mass. G
Fleming, Brantford, Ont, assigned; Edwin
Hough, Toronto, Ont, assigned.-M z. Bul
leti,a, 11H inst.
Wonde full Telegraphic Inventions.
One of the most remarkable Inventions il
the way Of biography was recently exhibited
at the Office of the Dominion Telegraph Com
pany, at Bradford, Ont 1t consists of ar
apparatus by which musical sounds can b
transmitted over telegraphic wires, and ever.
word and note be as distinctly heard at tn
end of the wires as at the place where tn
music originates. In short, when the in
yention is in working order, it is held that
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