The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-03-16
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.
= Business certainly Is improving little.

business certainly Is improving little.
-F6geLSuiHe Messenger.
The Reading Hardware Company, says
the Tamaqud Courier, employ 800 men at
their works.
--Over $2,OO0,OO0 are invested in the
| oleomargarine business in this country, and
the proprietors are making fat thing out Of
it.
matchmaking in Switzerland is declin-
ing very gradually but very surely. Amer
lean watches are taking the market all over
the world.
The art of cutting and polishing dia-
monds, which had so long been monopolized
by Amsterdam experts, has been brought to
the New World, and is now successfully
practised by young women in Boston.
"A machine that will knit stockings in
one piece, at the rate of one a minute, is tho
invention of a Swcde, of Rockford, Illinois.
Twelve machines can be operated by one
boy, whose wages, $3.50 per week, make tho
cost of knitting one cent for sixty stockings.
Abraham Axehorne, brick manufac-
turee at Ironton, recently made a sale Of
100000 bricks to the Thomas Iron Com
pany, this being his surplus stock of last
season. He has many orders ahead for
next Summer, and intends to prosecute his
business on a larger scale than ever.
AT the Bridgeport (Connecticu) Cart
ridge Factory recently 100000 cartridges
were finished by ten men and seventeen
machines in one day, being; it is said, the
largest days work in this department ever
accomplished at the factory. The cartridges
turned out were for the Turkish government.
The managers of the South Mountain
Railroad Company are making vigorous eff
forts to place the road in running order by
the month of April, by which time it is ex-
pected that the sound of the locomotive
whistle will be heard between Jamestown
and Fredericksburg, so that excursion trains
can be run to Fredericksburg upon the un-
yelling of the Lick monument in that place
in April. The road will then be pushed
forward as rapidly as possible to Millers-
burg, Berlls County, opening the entire
northwestern portion OF Berks to railroad
communication.
The Commissioners Of Victoria were
pleased with the machines of the Pennsyl-
vania Diamohd Drill Company, of Potts
vile, exhibited at the Centennial Exhibi-
ton, and, on their return home, made such
favorable report that the government Of
Victoria has sent an order for three ma
chimes. Two of these are to be of two-inch
gauge, and the other of four-inch gauge.
All of them are to be furnished with pipe
for boring to the depth Of fifteen feet, and
all of them are to be complete, even to boil
ers and engines. These machines will DO
finished and shipped by the end of this
month.
A contract has been made by an Ameri-
can firm with the Russian government for
the construction of canal from st. Peters
burg to Cronstadt, distance of 10 miles.
The canal will be $50 feet in width and 20
feet in depth, and will admit of the passage
of war vessels to within q short distance of
the Muscovite capital. The firm have
staked $4,000 as a forfeit in case the con-
tract is not carried out. The superintendent
of the firm is now on his way to Russia, to
make preparations for the enterprise, work
on which is to begin on the lst of next 0cto-
Der, The company are allowed until 1883
to complete the canal.