American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-01
INDUSTRIAL.

GEORGIA is gradually filling up with
cotton factories, which continue to arise
on every hand The Memphis Audlanche,
in noticing the latest enterprise of this
kind, predicts that the time is not far dis
tant when a very large proportion of the
cotton grown in the South will be manu-
featured at home, not only for domestic
supply but for export.
THE sugar interest of Louisiana, which
was aforetime the basis of prosperity in
that State, is now giving promise of re-
newed vigor. The crop this year is esti-
mated at about 10000 hogsheads. This
is the largest crop produced during the
| past thirteen years, being fully one-third
| larger than last year, and equal to about
| half the average yield of the ten years i'm
mediately before the war.
THE scarcity of labor in our large cities,
and the eagerness with which men out OF
work grasp at every opportunity of earn
ing little money, were recently illus
trated in New York. The management
of Booths Theater advertised for some
men over six feet tall to act as auxiliaries
in forthcoming spectacular tragedy. In
giants presented themselves for engage
nlent at fifty cents night.
Mr.. BRADIsH JOHNSON, one of the
largest sugar planters in Louisiana, deter
mined to make an innovation upon the
old style q taking off his crops. He is
about to adopt the portable railway sys-
tenn, whereby it is estimated that one mule
will do the work of at least fifteen, and do
it better. Work will not Have to be sus-
pended during bad weather, as is the case
where mules and carts are used, and after
the crop is off the track the cars can be
utilized for building AID repairing levees,
hauling wood, coal, supplies, etc.
AN enterprising Louisiana rice planter,
Capt. Sypher, of St. Ma rvs Parish, has
bodily struck away all established rules,
and has placed rice upon the high lands,
where, instead of the uncertain sluice sup
ply, he has assured an abundance OF water
from powerful steam pumps, and where
the flooding of the fields is absolutely I'M
der his control. Capt. Sypher went still
further, putting in his crop with grain
drill and taking it off with a reapihg ma
chine, and actually threshing it by steam
power. The Louisiana papers admit that
the result of these innovations was 800
barrels of the cleanest and best grade of
white rice ever received in New Orleans.
MANY United States iron and hard
ware manufacturers are pushing their
products in Australia and New Zealand to
much advantage. The London Iron
monger says: "The worst of it is that not
q 1SW III tuc AucIlCdu SoOuS dIc ucCldIcu,
as to quality, to surpass our own" while
a Melbourne agent of firm of Birming-
ham merchants writes to his principals
that " American iron goods are far supe
rior to English made, and latterly they
have been much cheaper. When all sorts
of American made goods now in this
market are once seen and sold, the buyer
or seller will never again look at English
made articles of the same class"
A RAILROAD man recommends as
means of preventing the personal injury
and damage to property which result from
railway collisions, that passenger carriages
should be constructed of strong vulcanized
ndia-rubber, which, he says, can be
nodded up to any thickness and degree of
elasticity. The carriages would be
rounded at the ends instead of having
buffers attached; and these convex ends
would become concave in collision, but
would not jerk the carriages off the rails
like buffers. He proposes that the train
should be united by wire rope passed
through eyes underneath each carriage to
windlass on a brake behind, which
would tighten it up to any tensity.