The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1877-10-13
PASSING EVENTS.


k.es for 1876 was @11, 147 500.
Seven hundred casks Of arsenic wer
recently brought in an English weasel.
4 Minnesota has thirty-one hundred an
nineteen school-houses. Total value, il
eluding sites, 81, 1853, 46S.
I The emigration to this country froI
Russia last year amounted 70 8, 959 indi
viduals nearly 5000 more than the pre-
vious year,
The king Of Abyssinia accepted tn
conditions proposed by Gordon Pasha
/ anA peace has been concluded betweer
| X. pt and Abyssinia.
Krupp's 30 ton gun, exhibited at IN,
Centennial, was purchased by Russia 70
the forti6catiOns at Cronstadt, and ID nov
being placed in position.
Woolen manufacturers in Rhode Isanc
report more encouraging prospects thar
Ia 4nny time in the last three years. Nearl,
w h Dzss EsEksn@ ep advanced or
Only fifteen years ago China held t6'
monopoly of tea production; now India il
proving a formidable rival. From 1, 800,
600 pounds in 1861, the export from Cal
cutta advanced to %, coo, 900 in 1876.
Trains on different roads in Canads
have been much delayed recently by cater
pillars on the track. On the Port Stanley
road it was found necessary to shorten
trains.
The ship Star Of the West recently
sailed from NeS York for New South
Wales with lSl emigrants, among whom
are ten single women, ninety-one single
men, fifty two married people and twenty
eight children.
An express tram in Russia CARRYING
100000 Of roubles, not only failed a
short time since to reach its destination,
but has altogether disappeared, without
leaving the slightest traces affording a
clue as to what has become Of it.
Ten States will hold elections before
Congress meets, namely Oregon in June;
North Carolina and Alabama in August
Arkansas, California. Vermont ani Maine
in September; and West Virginia, Ohio
and Indiana III October.
The highest point yet attained BY any
railroad la this country-9, $40 feet-has
been reached on the summit Of Laveta
Pass, in the Ssngre de Christie Mountains.
by the southwestern extension Of the Den
yer and Rio Grande Railroad.
The iron which covered the confederate
ironclads destroyed in Charleston harbor
in 1850 is still being recovered, and the
other day large section Of the bow oI
gun boat, with 40 pieces Of bar iron plat
ing weighing several tons, was fished up.
Tha aavantaaD ,-aar Ioo,,.4. 49, - -
their appearance on Staten Island, n. ",
IN great numbers, the forests and fats
throughout the island being almost COW
cred with them. The high lands about
StapletOn swarm with young insects Just
coming out Of the ground.
Cooked snails are said to possess the
power Of restoring tone to the coating Of
the stomach when badly injured by the
use Of strong drink. The sale OF snails
Is source of much profit 10 the peasants
- = ss;5 s;5- - ',HT 80 Rsns Italy aud tha aaHaE
oysters.
There are hve hundred and sixty lodges
of Odd Fellows in Illinois, with a mem
bership Of 26S Sl2
The chief engineer uf the government
railways in Australia recently reported
that the locomotives made in Australia
were not only poor ones, but an injury to
the roads. He recommended hereafter
that all engines be bought in the United
States. He is right. The American in
vention runs smoother, pulls stronger
lasts longer and costs less to run IN an any
III the world
A sewing woman has been discovered at
Rawleigh, North Carolina who works hard
at making heavy pants at tive and two
thirds cents day. That Is nearly down
to the hardpan Of civilized brutality.
Rhode Island has 2.0l9 manufacturing
establishments, with an invested capital Of
nearly 500, 900 900, and employing 90, 45O
hands Who are paid in wages yearly an av-
erage Of about $500 each The raw mate
rial used is valued at S76, 7l5, $40. and the
value Of products yearly is Sl26, 659, ,S75
There has been large increase during the
past year in the number Of establishments
engaged IN manufacturing, and in the re-
suits of their bu~ mess. There are l35
cotton factories. with capital Of S24, O34, :
200, employing p, 574 hands, and yielding
goods worth S;i8, 927 $50 The manufac
turers who speculate in the labor of the
operatives realize millions; the operatives
who do the work are barely able to live
This is freedom.
Nj. Redier. barometer maker to the
French association for the advancement Of
science. has devised barometer for warn
ing miners when the atmospheric pressure
is undergoing a sudden depression, 80 that
they may guard against fire damp explo.
siOns.
At Pascagoula, L. !, there are extern
sive works for creosoting timber, which is
done by hrst expelling the sap by steam,
and then giving the wood bath III dead
oil, strongly Impregnated with creosOte.
Besides doubling the durability of the
timber, il protects it from ship worms.
The municipal clocks Of Vienna are
moved in accord, by means Of pneumatic
tubes. with a central clock. Every minute
a wave ~ compressed air is sent through
the tubes, cansIng the hands to move.
A method Of burning petroleum under
/ steam builrrs has been successfully tried
IN Italy. IL consists simply in pouring oil
over thin layer of abestos, which, being
IncambTstIble, serves to retain the oil and
provide a large wick. Sheets OF paper
placed beneath the surface were not in.
| jured by the intense heat.
Mr.. Fairbanks, the scale inventor, ID
now over eighty years Of age, and still in
/ active business. The scales which have
carried worldwide reputation we're in.
vented in 1880, and the various improve
nents since made in them are covered BY
some thirty patents. During the past forty
years the growth of the firm has been SC
rapid that were the various patents to eK
pre- to-day. its manufacturing facilities
and immense business would still enabl,
il to defy competition not only at home bu
abroad.
The streets in front Of employment Of
ices In San Francisco are 50 obstructe,
with men seeking work that business firm
lately petitioned the chief Of police to keel