The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-02
COMMERCIAL MATTERS, Etc.

A company has been formed in London tu
send Irish emigrants to Mexico.
Switzerland possesses l6s cotton mills, run
ming 2,059 $50 spindles.
In the neighoorhood of 500 tons of Goa!
were engaged for shipment from Philadelphia
to San Francisco last week at Sl5 Pr ton.
Bangor, Ne, lumbermen are paying from
IS to SIC per month for workmer, and get
more help at these figures than they can USE.
In spite Of dull times, Hartford, Conn, has
done 1922 $50 more building the past year
than in 1874, the aggregate valuation being
81. SS6, $50
The Grocers' Association of Atlanta, GA !,
has adopted resolutions against the proposed
tax on coffee in the shape OF an impost duty
by Congress-
The rice production of the Cape Fear dis
trict of North Carolina, which was about
200, 600 bushels before the war, is now barely
10000 bushels, and diminishing. The to-
blcco crop In the northern belt of the State
is the largest since the war.
The wonderful expansive force of growing
vegetable tissue is shown by the fact that u
young squash, whose sides and bottom were
imprisoned in iron bands. and across the top
of which lever, with weights attached, was
placed for purposes OF experiment, at SIX
weeks old had lifted 60 pounds, at two
months HOO pounds, and at three months the
extraordinary weight OF 5000 pounds.
Newspaper Enierpri e.
The Chicago Times publishes statement OF
its daily expenditures for telegraph tolls on
special messages during period of four
weeks, showing total OF Sc, S47 "A paid to the
Western Union Telegraph Co., ia addition to
which $50 90 vas paid to the Atlantic and
Pacific Co., making an aggregate of S6,929 "a
for the four weeks This is at the rate of
more than ninety thousand dollars per year
for tolls on special dispatches-which is
claimed to be more than any other newspaper
in the word pays in the same direction
At the same time the Times pays S94 60
per week, or nearly five thousand dollars a
year, tor associated press dispatches. Another
large element in the cost of these special dis
patches is the pay Of correspondents by whom
the news contained in them is gathered
These correspondents are located In every
important city in the East and South, and be-
yond the Rocky Mountains, and in every con-
siderable city and town in the West. No i'm
portant event can occur in any part OF the
United States that will not be reported by
special dispatch to the Times OF the mex.
morning.
Duncan, sherman & Co.'s Affairs
IN. Y Brlletn.l
MeSsrs. Barring Brothers Il Co.. the EnGlish
bankers, and more than two hundred other
creditors OF Duncan. Sherman d Co., repre-
senting upwards of S2,2OOOOO, petitioned
Judge Bla,chford on Saturday to have the firm
adjudged bankrupts, on the ground that they
hat suspended payment OF their commercial
paper for forty days, and had failed for the
same length Cf time TO. pay depositor on de-
mand.
There being no question about the facts,
the Judge granted the application at once and
referred the matter to Register Ketchum, be.
fore whom the creditors will choose one or
more assignees in February. The object OF
the proceedings We understand, is to restrain
large number of suits that have been insti-
tuted against the sus pended firm in the State
courts, which have untavorably affected the
settlement of the estate. The effect of this
adjudication in bankruptcy will be to leave
the property Of the bankrupts in the hands Of
ex-Judge Shipman, the present assignee, for
the benefit of the creditors.
Sales Of D0mest Cotton Fabrics in England.
The Boston -Adcerttser OF recent date gives
the real facts relative to the lately reported
sales OF Fail River (Mass.) made fabrics in
English markets. According to the statement
of mat journal the Fall River mills have not
sold any goods to go to Manchester England
Their agent who went there reported what he
thought they could net for some goods should