Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-11-07
Science and Industry.

The Ravenna, Ohio, lamp chimney
factory is in operation, and the window
glass factory will be started at once.
The California grape crop this season
is the largest ever gathered, and pre-
paratiOns have been made to cure a
million pounds of raisins.
The loss by the yellow fever, through
the destruction of crops by neglect,
stoppaee of trade and minor causes, is
estimated at 5000, 100000.
A second dividend to the creditors
of Jay Cook, about per cent, was paid
at Philadelphia, last week.
Turkey is suffering from an unsound
and inflated currency. 347 piastres in
paper are required to buy one in gold.
About so per cent of the looms and
spindles in the Lancashire and Chesh-
ire cotton districts in England have
stopped, or are working on short time.
The agricultural laborers in Kent
and Sussex, England, threaten gen
eral strike, because of the announced
intention to reduce wages. One thou
sand are already on strike The Ia
bOrers declare the course OF the farm
ers is oppressive, and threaten to emi-
crate to the colonies.
A new textile manufacture has been
added to British resources the making
of new cloth which has been christ
ened "K Kalameit," from the fibre o! the
bark of jute. Jute is a native OF India.
and succeeds in all semi'trOpical eli
mates.
The scheme for an observatory on
IL Il = IN
pushed in the English scientific jour
nails. The atmosphere there Is peruli'
ary clear, and it is thought some iri''
pOrtant results might be arrived at by
a series of daily observations.
a French engineer named MOnchot
has contrived an apparatus in which =
system off mirrors is used TO Functn'
trate the rays of the sun in such Innu'
ner as to generate steam in a boiler "a
be applied as a motive power, thus
doing away with the necessity OF fu' 5.
But how about cloudy days?
A remarkable specimen of meteOr;c
iron has been received at Yuma, Cali
fornia, from MOhave Desert. 1t weighs
about pound, contains gold, Is n''s
magnetic, and has successfully resist,
simple and compound baths 70 acid, d,aId
has defied the best Coal chisels in th'
blacksmith's shop, and has not broken
nor Clipped under heavy blows.
The st. Paul Press says there are 2S,-
900 acres of amber sugar cane planted III
Minnesota this year. Last year there
were q, 900 acres and the yield OF sv-
rup was about 9, 10000 gallons. 1t is
expected this wear will be proportion
Tho rinIn nf
iss from 40 to go gallons per acr'.
The Press thinks the time is not dis
tant when Minnesota will not only
produce all the sugar, syrup and vine
gar that is needed Tor home cOnSump-
ton, but will have immense quantities
for export.
Robert Nixon, conductor of the first
railroad ever run in the United States,
was in Truckee, New, the other day.
This one was the one between Albany
and Schenectady, distance OF sixteen
miles. The first trip was made IN
March, 1881. Nixon is now %, ana
has a daughter in Nevada, Mrs. j. I.
Foulkes, of Verdi.
Jefferson Davis has been singularly
afflicted in the death Of his sons. Jos.
IT, Davis fell from the piazza of the
Executive Mansion in Richmond, dd-
ring the war, and was killed; William
Davis died of diphtheria in Memphis,
in 1873, and Jefferson, the only survi-
wing son, has, Us already announced,
Just died in Memphis of the yellow
fever.
From President Hayes Cumberland,
Nd, speech, we get briefly some idea
Of our increasing export trade. lie
said: What have we sent abroad? Take
the article of corn. Six years ago we
exported 34,OO0,O00 bushels, now So
DOC, 900 bushels; wheat 26, ,0O0, Goo bush
als, now y, 900, 600 bushels; -four 2,5OO.-
200 barrels, now 100000 barrels; cot
ION 9SS, ,OOO, 900 pounds, now 1.60I, ,OOO,-
100 pounds; bacon 246, 600 pounds,
aow 592, 600, 900 pounds; fresh beef 70
700, 900 pounds, now 92,OO0,OOO; pork
i. .OOO, 900. now IL ,OOO, 900 pounds. The
otal increase in six years Il about
sl40, ,0O0,OO