American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-12
INDUSTRIAL.

A PAPER lining for flour barrels has
been invented by a Minnesota dealer. 1t
is adapted to -four, meal, buckwheat,
hominy, etc., and is intended to exclude
dampness, keep out insects, insure clean
illness and prevent loss in case the barrel
becomes impaired.
LUMBERMEN at Whitefield, N. H., ARE
working for So month and board. A
good teamster, with four horses, sled and
chains, all equipped for logging, gets
$2.25 per day, and has to pay for his own
repairs at that. WOOdmen get all the
way from So to $15 and board, with here
and there an extra hand at $50, or fore
man at $26.
THE Louisiana Sugar Bo,ol says that
numerous shipments of molasses have
been made from the Teche country direct
to New York and Charleston, and that
the prices realized are much higher than
in the New Orleans market, there being
as much as 81 per barrel in favor of the
New York market, while the freight is
only thirty cents per barrel more.
In its review of the lumber market for the
past year the Albany, N. Y. Journal says
predictions for the future are, in these
times, considered uncertain; but it is the
best judgment of the principal dealers in
Albany that the look ahead is more favor
able than for many years, and that sue
reason to hope for a brighter future"
IT is said that Fall River lost 81 200, 900
through the protracted strike OF mill-op-
eraiivcs last fall, and that the heavy fail
ure of Easton 81 Milne, private bankers,
was caused by their inability to negotiate
Fall River paper through the enormous
depreciation of mill stock and real estate,
precipitated by labor disputes. The NOM
inal share capital of the forty-two mills in
Fall River is $15 900 900, much of which
has shrunk in value fifty cents on the dol
lar.
THERE are SO many people in all the
large cities who are out of work that it is
worse than folly for country people who
have nothing to do to seek employment
in cities. There is one department of in
dustry in both city and country that is
not much overcrowded. Household help
of first quality is always in demand, and
efficient, capable nurses, cooks and maids
of-all-work do not long want occupation.
A good many American girls have sought
and found homes in American families,
where they have the privileges accorded
to members of the family, and receive be
sides liberal wages.-N. Y. Tribune.
THE pomegranate is one of the most
profitable fruits grown in this valley. The
trees bear fruit in three years from the
cuttings, and will grow on the most ordi-
nary SOIL WltlOub Nv PoiAiS-
granate is a delicious fruit and possessing
medicinal qualities of great value. 1t
will bear shipment better than any other
fruit. 1t may be barreled up and sent
around the globe in good order. The re-
tail price of the pomegranatc on the street
is ten cents apiece, and Gen. Stoneman in
forms us that he has standing offer from
San Francisco firm 10 take all the
pomegranates he can produce AT five cents
apiece.-Los Anglers (Cdl) He'"d.
A GENTLEMAN of Talbot County, Ga,
sent twelve bales of cotton To Savannah
nine years ago. He then refused forty
five cents pound for it. The other day
his merchants wrote they had another
offer for it and what to do, when they re-
ceived the reply to continue to hold it If
there was anything left. A simple cal
cuIation will show that the storage alone
has amounted to $64S, the insurance 10
1862, and loss in weight $37 .5O-employ-
ing present priccs-making total of
$S47 so, bringing the planter in debt
$l27 80; or, leaving insurance out, leaves
him ahead $50, with the loss of interest.
If he had accepted the first offer, nine
years ago, he would have had 81, 100 and
interest for nine years,