American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-07-10
INDUSTRIAL.

The observant Boston Post calls strikes
1.-THE suicide of labor"
! A NINE ofmanganese has recently been
discovered on a farm in Topsham, Me.
FULLY 100000 was expended by the
| Connecticut Valley tobacco cultivators for
manure last spring.
! GRAYsoN COUNTY, Texas, alone, will
have from 100000 to 100000 bushels of
surplus wheat this year.
COTTON MILLs, when well managed, are
| highly profitable in the Southern States,
and they are springing up on all sides.
| A THREE-FoURTH-INCH round belt run
ming in properly grooved pulleys will con
vey the same power as two-inch flat belt
THE potato-bug is said to lie threatening
! the crop in Maryland, New Jersey, Penn
sylvania, some parts of New York and
other States.
Two-THmDs of the American manufact-
urers of knit goods have agreed to gen
eral suspension of business for the next
two months and it is said that over four
fifths of the number will ultimately fall in
with the arrangement.
A SMALL industry for women and chill
/ dren has sprung up in Edinburgh, in the
| making of fire-lighters' from sawdust
! The refuse is collected, nodded together
into little cakes with clay, or some resin
Gus substance, and, packed in paper boxes
is hawked about the streets by the manu-
facturers.
THE Scientific american pronounces the
Kelly motor transparent deception; the
chief puposc of which appears to be the
wriggling of money out of silly people,
numbers of whom are found to invest in it
just as they do in lottery tickets-hoping
to win. This authority is inclined to
think the motor veritable perpetual-mo-
ton humbug. Meantime the advocates
of the motor continue to say: "Wait and
| see"
LARGE quantities of witch-hazel are be-
ing cut in the wooded country north of Lit
tie Falls, N. Y, which is drawn to
that village, where it passes through some
process before it is shipped to Europe and
elsewhere, to be used for medicinal pur-
poses. The hazel is worth SO per ordi-
nary wagon load, and those persons who
have for years regarded the saplings
worthless as it grew upon their premises
are now realizing handsome revenue in
rs sale.
! MANUFACTURES of all kinds exhibit
decided improvement in the artistic dec
Grafton of the goods produced, whether
they be stoves, machinery, furniture, tools
or carriages Hereafter ii, may be laid
down as a rule that the most highly fin
lSuCu anu the uOSJ DedullluI SOOuS Ill
every trade will command the best market
and the highest price, and that, other
things being equal, the measure of their
artistic value Will be the measure of their
commercial value.
THE Springfield Republican, in review
of business prospects, says: There are
some manufactures, however, which seem
to be in surplus, and in which there is
positive reproduction. Such will
either have to thin out or seek new mar
kets. We don't see how the boot and shoe
business can maintain its old importance
| in Massachusetts in view of the extent to
which it is becoming naturalized in the
West and all over the country There will
be forced therefore some changes of en-
| ployment, and in the woTst-pressed indus
tries these changes are daily taking
place.
AN illustration of the astonishing effects
on organic bodies of which high pressure
steam is capable is afforded in the process
of preparing peat as practiced in some
parts of Germany. 1t appears that in this
operation steam at sixty pounds pressure
is used and passed through hot pipes to
obtain at least GOO deg. of heat, and is
then thrown into compressed peat, where
it produces the effect of fiery sponge
as it is expressively termed-robbing the
peat of its water, carbonizing the material
and effecting the complete distillation of
many substances. The texture <of the
peat is 50 far changed and peculiar that it
takes fire by exposure to air, SO that it is
necessary to cool down the charcoal in an
atmosphere of steam.