The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-22
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.

Inc youngstown tO.) Hoop-lron MIL is
running double time.
St Louis packed 629, 26l hogs from No
yember ist to March 1st.
Rowell, the pedestrian, formerly worked
in boat yard in Cambridge, England.
The Wooster (Ohio) Agricultural Works
are in full blast, with about twenty y-five
men employed.
There were said to be in use ia the North
west, last season, $4,000 wire-binding har-
vesting machines.
The Harrisburg Car Works have received
contract to build 200 box cars for the New
York Central Railroad
1t is claimed that Mexican artisan has
discovered substance which contains ton
times more explosive power than dyna-
mite.
The Wisconsin bounty law for wolves,
lynxes and wild cats has been repealed,
thus destroying very profitable branch of
industry
A valuable bed OF kaolin has been discov-
cred two miles from Bloomsbury, n j, The
earth is OF the finest quality, and the deposit
is large.
The editor of the Hawkinsvlle (Georgla)
Dispatch has named his four children
BREWER" Long Primer" Small Plea"
and "Pica."
1t is expected that not less than twelve
thousand miles of railroads will be laid in
the South and West during the approach
ing summer.
The mining companies OF the Comstock
have effected satisfactory compromise
with the Sutro Tunnel Company, and the
t,n a1 will ha 10 Il
The Massllon (Ohio) Bridge Company are
about building a new and larger shop, their
present works having become too small to
accommodate their rapidly increasing trade.
The Ohio Falls Car Company, of Jefferson
vile, Ind, has a contract to furnish the
new Fort Madison & Northwestern Narrow
gauge Road with full line of all kinds of
cars.
The Ohio Glass Works, at Bellaire, which
have stood idle for more than two years
are now in full blast, working fifty hands
and turning out over seven thousand gob-
lets per day.
The Missouri Glass Company at st. Louis
receive their stock of glass and queensware
from Pittsburgh and Wheeling They have
not manufactured their own ware for some
years.
1t is thought that the improvements and
engagements OF the East Liverpool (Ohio)
potteries, this season, will increase the Dop-
ulation at least 1000. Some of the potterips
will require double the number of hands
employed at present.
German tanners are clamoring for protec-
ton because this country is outsclling them
in their own markets. In 1868 the German
importation of American leather was only
%, 1873 hundred weight, but in 1875 it
reached 1871 hundred weight.
The steamship Great Eastern is some
thing of an elephant on the hands of the
company that owns it. She is lying idle,
and, MS her engines arc out of date, there
is little chance of finding employment for
her. 1t would cost S350000 to fit her with
proper enginery.
France raised only 21G,S8S 900 bushels of
wheat last year against 274, 800 600 bushels
for 1877, and 256, 16S, 600 bushels for 1876.
This will necessitate the importation of
over $4,000, 600 bushels the present wear.
and contribute no little towards preventing
a fall in price.
The late Elihu Burritt was called on
some years ago to decipher blindly writ
ten Danish will from the West Indies after
it had been the round of several leading
colleges. He accomplished the task in two
weeks, however and charged only what he
would have earned in the same time at his
forge.
In the last fiscal year we imported from
Brazil coffee to the value of S36, 369, $50, and
sugar, rubber and hides to the value of
$42, 972, ,036. The ships that brought this
had abundance of room for freight to carry
back, and yet they only took in all S., ,6l0,-
646 worth, and more than half of this was
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Wyandotte Rolling Mill, Detroit one of
the most extensive iron establishments in
the Northwest was sold Thursday in bank
ruptcy, for $75, 600, to s. P. Burt, of Mil
waukee The works will be started up by
the Milwaukee Iron Company. They are
B. Ward.