American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-12-25
INDUSTRIAL.

, LACK of hands has caused the stoppag
of the Wilmington IN. c. cotton fac
tory.
BURLINGTON, VT, is growing in i'm
pOrtance as lumber center. A shipmen
of 5000, 600 feet of pine lumber was re
Gently made to South America.
ONE of the attractive features of our for
eign trade is that American photograph
find large sale in London on account q
their superiority over English photo
graphs.
1 The whip trade at Westfeld Mass, i
very dull, and nearly all the large facto
ries are running on reduced time, an(
have large quantities of manufactured
goods on hand.
| IN Gioversville, n. Y, the glove trade
has steadily increased until the sales las
year footed up some s. 100000. Their,
are 211 manufactures and the hands en-
ployed number 1000 persons.
THE threatened lock out among the
| iron-workers of Pittsburgh, Pa, has beer
| averted by mutual concession The price
| for pudding has been fixed upon at a.
per ton, to continue in force until Feb. IA
THE shoe-mauufacturers of Rochester
N. y, at a recent meeting, formally re
solved to sustain the 20 per cert. reduc-
! ton in wages. The new rule went iAto
full. operation in all the shops on Dec.
10. re.,5es-ss, 7fs. e.. -Fsstf-
New HAVEN boasts of monster cheese
which is believed to be the biggest thing
+ in the cheese line ever brought to that
State It. was billed by the railroad at
! $50 pounds. and the net weight by
actual test on the scales is 1850 pounds.
A woRKINGMEN's excursion from En-
gland to America next year is proposed,
leaving Liverpool early in, June, visiting
New York. Washington, Baltimore, Phil
adelphia, Chicago. Niagara Falls and the
chief cities of Canada, and embarking at
Quebec for Europe about the middle of
SHR-BUnDINa is looking up again in
Maine. Bath reports thai. there have been
built in that district since Jan. 1, 1875,
eleven ships, three barks, one barkentine,
sixteen sciioDners, two steamers and two
sloops, aggregating %. zoo tons, and there
are now on the stocks five ships, six
'schooncrs and one bark, with an estimated
aggregate Of g, 900 tons. se4 b-ts. - -
: In a work describing the present con-
dition of the domestic industries OF Rus
STA, M. Weshpiakof states that not less
than 30 ,0OO, GOO of wooden spoons are an
inually made in that country, the Industry
having its great center in the district of
Semenow. Poplar, aspen, maple and box
are the woods used for this purpose, and
the cost of the spoons varies from about
IS to $50 per thousand. The first opera
ton consists in cutting the wood into the
proper lengths and making these up into
bundles; the latter are sold in the mar
kets and are often procured from. long
distances. The second stage is that Of
forming the bowl of the spoon the third |
shaping the handle; and the fourth and |
last. dYeing them of yellow color.
THE varied and extending use of paper |
pulp at the present time is illustrated in |
the manufacture of such articles as water
pals, which are being made in large quaa-
titles of that material, and are found to
answer an excellent purpose. In the or
binary way of making paris the separate \
parts or slaves are cut one al time from
the log of wood, and in this process all
The chips and smaller pieces are wholly
is, SO far as the real object
Of the manufacturing operation is con-
,erned. In producing paper pail, how
ever, the fibrous material is of course
wholly utilized, and if the original stock
10 woods as in part it may be-then the
arge proportion that would be wasted in
:hips and debris is entirely saved.-N. Y.
Sun.