American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-12-11
INDUSTRIAL,

THE brick mill at Taunton, Mass, is
closed, as the weavers and spinners would
not accept reduction of wages.
THE operatives in the lately started iron
mills of Pittsburgh have been notified that
their wages must be reduced 90 per cent.
or the mills stop again.
THE Lewiston (Me.) Journal says that
there have been made about 5000, 900 of
bricks in that city the past year-about
half rs many as usual. There are from
8, 0O0, 600 to 900 900 now on hand.
THE amount of business doing in the
glass trade annually in this country is
by the manufacturers and merchants is
$12 ,OOO, 600. The production of the en-
tire United States is set down at $22 900, :
600.
WHEN the question of reducing the
wages OF the men employed by the Boston
81 Providence Railroad was brought up at
recent meeting of its Directors, the
President, Mr.. Clifford, declared that
their pay was not too large, and that he
would prefer to give up half his own sal
ary r1kher than vote for such u reduction.
located in Hartford, or owned exclusively
by Hartford people, between 5000 and
IL, 600 men, women, boys and girls. The
wages taken right through for all classes,
and in all trades, average from $500 TO
$2.25 per day, and these prices, from
present indications, promise to hold good
throughout the season.
OWING to the falling off in the prices of
print cloths, nearly one cent per yard
since Sept. 5, the manufacturers of Fall
River have appointed commission to
visit England to make arrangements for
the expectation of Fall River fabrics.
At meeting lately another reduction of
10 PER cent. in wages was voted, to take
effect early in December, reaching all
classes, from SuperinteEdents to opera
tives.
THE feather in Rhode Islands cap at
the Centennial will be the 1 ,40O-horse-
power engine which is being manufact-
ured to run the fourteen acres of wheels
and shafts in " Machinery Hall'' at Phil
adelphia. The plan followed is to have
two large beam engines, with fy-wheel
between them, and the cranks of both will
connect with the same crank shaft, it be-
ing thus double engine. The main
shaft will be 252 feet long, and the cylin-
ders have a ten-foot stroke.
THERE are now either in full blast or in
contemplation in the States of North Car
DINA, South Carolina, Georgia, Ten
nessee and Alabama fifty-four fur
naces for the manufacture of iron.
georgia ana Alabama are the CnleI
seats of the production of hot blast char
coal iron, which is shipped directly to
England from Selma, Dalton and Rome
In addition to native whites and blacks
there are large numbers of English,
Scotch and Swedish wofkmen employed at
the business.
SOMEBODY has made the calculation
that each acre of coal seam four feet in
thickness and yielding one yard net of
pure fuel is equivalent to about 1000 tons,
and possesses, therefore, reserve of me-
chanical strength in its fuel equal to the
life-labor of more than 1, 600 men. Each
square mile of one such single coal bed
contains 5000, 900 tons of fuel, equivalent
to 1,O00 600 of men laboring through
twenty years of their ripe strength. As
Stunning, for calculation, that 10, 600, 900
tons out of the present annual products of
the British coal -mines-namely, 65 ,000,-
0O0-are applied to the production of me-
chanical power, England may be said to
annually summon to her aid between 3,
OOO, 600 and 4 ,OOO, 600 fresh men, pledged
to exert their fullest strength for twenty
years. Her actual annual expenditure of
power, then, is represented by &C, DOC, 900
of able bodied laborers.-N. Y. Sun.