The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-12-13
WORK, WAGES AND WEALTH.

WYNN, WAUEo AND NEALlHs
The lumber trade of Flint Mich. is,
dying out.
Texas loses heavily by ravages o,
the caterpillar.
A lnseed oil factory is to be started
at Dubuque.
La Crosse has laid two miles of water
mains this season.
Wages for lumbermen will be $15 to
$25 per month this winter.
A Pittsburgh dairy turns out five
thousand pounds of butter daily.
Monro county, Iowa, in one year
mined 3,73l, ,737 bushels of coal.
In October New Orleans exactly treb-
led its usual grain shipments.
A good many cattle are being ship
ped from Boulder City to Kansas City.
Large quantities of cotton are being
shipped from Charleston to Germany
Beef in refrigerator cars is to be ship
ped from Dallas, Tex, to Cincinnati.
Large shipments of barley from Euro
pean markets are being made at Oswcgo.
The michigan Beekeepers association
holds its annual meeting at Adrian, Dec.
15.
Newdiscoveries of rich gold and silver
ore have been made recently, in Central
America.
A new bank has been organized in
Oskaloosa, Iowa, with Hon, William
Loughridge as president.
Seventeen million shingles have been
sawed at one mill at Kewaunee, Wis,
during the past season.
The beer-brewers of Davenport, Buf-
falo, and Rock Island have now fixed
the price of beer at IS per barrel.
The military telegraph line, around
the Texas frontier to FL Paso and up to
Misula, New Mexico, has been completed.
A machine which will have capacity
of sixty horse-shoes per minute is being
erecteded in an Allegheny manufactory.
The st. Panl and Sault St. Marie
railroad, when built, will pass across the
northern potrton of Wisconsin and open
up II valuble tract of country.
Some Of the Northampton, Pa, slate
quarrymen are on Il strike again, and,
as the company have stock enough to
last six months, they will not com
promise with the men.
Work in the woods will commence as
soon as the weather permits. Crews
are now nearly all engaged, and lumber
men are anxiously waiting for the frosts
and isnow that seems to be indefinitely |
postponed.
There are rumors that the Providence
Tool company will stop making rifles
for Turkey, because of the difficulty of
getting pay, and that vessel loaded |
and ready to sail from New York is
being kept back by the company on that
account.
The total loss by fire in the United
States and Canada during the year up
to Nov. We're over SS4,000,000, with
insurance amounting to over 100000,
600. The increased loss over the figures
of 1876 is not far from $25,OO0,0OO and
100000 respectively.
The September purchase of wheat by
the Millers' association of Minneapolis
959,250 bushels. Besides
the twenty mills in Minneapolis there
are seven Touring mills in Hennepin
county which are entirely dependent
on the local production for theirsupplies.
The Cooper's union of Minneapolis,
MINI, have resolved to strike, ON ac-
count of Il proposed reduction of two
cents per barrel. All the cooper shops
are closed, and unless 'some plan of adj
justment is promptly agreed upon, the
Touring mills will soon have to shut
down.
Thirty-fve memorials containing,oveI
five thousand names of persons residing
in the valleys between Cairo, ILL.,, and
Vicksburgh, Miss, a distance of six
hundred miles, have been forwarded to
congress, invoking government and to
rebuild the river shore levees to protect
alluvial lands.
The competition between the Ameri-
can manufacturers of gold watch-cases
has been so sharp that these articles are
sold for the bare value of the gold
and the cost of manufacture. The only
profit is the spring that throws the face
of the watch open. This is weighed
with the case, and the makers get its
value in gold.
An Indiana farmer lost two of his
fattening hogs by the cholera. As soon
as he found that the cholera was among
his hogs he began to give to all of them
that seemed sick strong garden-pepper
tea, and to every gill of tea he added
two tablespoonfuls of coal oil. All his
sick hogs have recovered and are now
doing well.
In n recent scandal case in Kansas a
lady witness declined to answer ques-
ton, and the attorney demanded her
reason. Because it is not fit to tell
decent people," "Oh, well," said the
lawyer, "just walk up here and whisper
it to the judge"
Cause and effect? A 16 year-old girl
out on Robey street has button string
four yards long, containing 1878 but
tons. And that girls father fastens his
suspenders on his trowsers, with n shawl
pin, piece of twine, and a sharp
stick.